Leigh Books

Description from the book back cover:

She made a life for herself without her husband. Was there room enough in it for him? For most of her thirteen-year marriage, Erin Sinclair has lived apart from her husband, Danny, a bull rider on the rodeo circuit. Virtual strangers to each other, the two have only their young son in common. But during a rare visit home, Danny's tender moments with their son stir up long-forgotten feelings in Erin. Now, after years of hardening her heart to the one man whose dreams of being a champion made a life together impossible, does she even dare to dream again?

This book is great! Having no idea is was the last in a trilogy, I jumped right in. The story had a fabulous setting with suspense, romance, passion, violence and maternal instincts thrown in for good measure. And being a redhead, it had many good qoutes about being a redhead(the heroine was)in it! Definitely reccomend this book! Now I need to find the other 2 in the trilogy

This 220-page book is a light read, composed of about four dozen essays on mysteries in nature. Topics are grouped around mysteries of the self (the mind, human biology, health), the Earth (plants, animals, unexplained phenomena) and the universe (physical laws, planetary rings, gravity). Though authored by several (Leigh and Savold edited the works), these essays follow virtually identical setups: state the question to be answered, describe the event/phenomenon and a couple theories surrounding it, and conclude by hoping we find the answer someday.

No essay lasts more than 4 pages in a book of smallish dimensions and large print, so it's easy to digest several or all in one sitting. You'll flashback repeatedly to high school or college science courses, when obscure but familiar terms crop up. Subsequent research has partially resolved some of the items posed (Fermet's Last Theorem, the composition of Mars' surface). Yet overall, the mysteries as published in 1988 remain the same 18 years later. You'll have just as much fun, during or after this quick read, looking up the topics that piqued your interest. I found myself often jotting down words and phrases for further research, particularly among the natural phenomena (where the titular subject is placed).

Four stars for a readable composition on scientific mysteries great and small.

Gwendolyn Leigh has done it again! She has produced a second mystery novel well worth reading. Deceiving Secrets is well done with compelling plot and characters. Ms. Leigh has definitely become an author any avid
reader needs to add to her/his library. Buy it and Enjoy!

In 1938 Chicago, Eve Handel is engaged to marry Arthur Burdsey who she met four years ago as he was entering Northwestern. However, co-owners of Pad-Dar movie studio Peter Padron and John Darius invite Eve to come out to California to work for them. Though a difficult decision for a single young woman, Eve ends her engagement and journeys to Hollywood.

Over the next three plus decades, Eve evolves into a major player in the movie industry as her ability to find talent is uncanny. Many individuals from different walks of the Hollywood life turn to Eve with their worries and darkest confidences, knowing she will never reveal what she learned and will provide needed solace. However, in 1972 Eve lies in a Los Angeles hospital with what at first appears to be a heart attack. Many of the people she has assisted over the years wish for Eve's speedy recovery for different reasons. Some want it out of love and respect for someone who has always provided a safety net for the industry's workers. Others fear that the rumored journal that Eve allegedly maintained over the years will rock the community if it lands in the wrong hands and secrets are revealed.

This reviewer expected to invoke the fifty-page rule on THE DREAM FACTORY, but instead was pleasantly surprised by a well-written novel that provides entertaining insight into thirty plus years of Hollywood. The story line will remind readers of Jackie Collins' Hollywood Wives novels though much less spicy and titillating. Renowned actress Janet Leigh leaves the audience guessing who the characters are actually based on, but no exposes in this engaging bit of fluff.

Harriet Klausner

This is a wonderful,unique,fun book!It is that odd thing,an intellectual crossover.The publishers ,and probably the author,imagine that its primary readership will be those academics and others who are "into" postmodernism andphilosophy.But,gentle reader,it is a book for anyone who has ever tried to connect theory and practise.Instead of treating philosophy as something to be reverential about,Alison Leigh Brown takes it out into the real world,dancing.This is taking philosophy out into the "messy real world".Can it stand the pace?What is philosophy like when it wakes up bruised and hungover?Its beautifully written,and plays all kinds of nice games around subverting the academic genre.The footnotes start off as you would expect,but quite quickly begin to "take over" - to the point where I was reading the story in the "footnotes" and ,sometimes reluctantly,dipping back to the main(?) text.For one of the issues of the book is to seriously dispute the primacy between text and footnote;and thus between philosophy and the teeming ,messy,joyous world. This is intelligent literature based around a specialist academic insight into philosophy,by someone who is constantly engaging with the world of the 90s.Its funn - and I'd recommend it to anyone who doesn't take the world at face value.

I initially saw this book in the bookstore and was going to buy it for my boyfriend's mom & grandmother. I was hesitant about buying this for them so I ordered this book for his mom and another gardening organizer for his grandma. When I received this book I was quite happy with it.

The spiral bound is great because it will hold up through wear & tear. The journal is sectioned by season so it doesn't matter if the gardener is a beginner or a master. Each section is divided by a seed envelope which I really liked.

Overall I think this was a great gift.

I have been familiar with both the Robertson biography of Geroge Mallory and its contents since well before its first appearance a generation ago becasue I belong to the Mallory family. With respect and appreciation for all the risk-taking, adventuresomeness and care shown by the 1999 explorers, I think that the Mallory cannot be fully understood without knowing about the family and personal context of George Mallory's life, and this biography, wirtten within the family, provides that larger persepctive.

Too many words for my 2yr old. He wants to turn the pages before I'm done reading the pages.

This an excellent, concise volume that covers most of the major topics of transfusion medicine in the form of short, easily manageable chapters. It was especially helpful when consulting certain antibodies and differentials of abnormal values.
It seems like just the thing for a resident or a busy private practice pathologist who needs quick and easy-to-read answers.