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Ceremony of the Innocent
by Taylor CaldwellEllen Watson was born into servitude. The humiliating life of hard toil was the only one she ever knew. Until Jeremy Porter. The eminently successful New York lawyer saw a ravishingly beautiful woman in the rough and tattered serving girl. He saw the woman he was going to marry. Thus Ellen was catapulted into a world she was not prepared for - the world of politics, wealth, and power. A world where her loving innocence was threatened by hypocrisy and ruthless ambition. And Jeremy was the only one who could save her ...
Cry Wolf
by Wilbur SmithGareth Swales was a dapper English gentleman on the face of it, but he was an unrepentant rogue at heart, with a shrewd eye for shady deals of every description...
Dolly and the Nanny Bird (Johnson Johnson #5)
by Dorothy DunnettThe intrepid and attractive bird is Joanna - a fully qualified, gold-medalled nanny, who is mysteriously snowbound on an ostensibly innocent skiing trip in Manitoba. This is only the beginning of a perilous journey from New York to Cape Cod to Yugoslavia, involving a fantastic array of characters - Eskimos, anthropologists, Beautiful People, and of course, portrait painter Johnson Johnson and his sailing yacht Dolly.
Dolores
by Jacqueline SusannThe world's most beautiful woman. She would do anything for love or money. Anything...
Doorways in the Sand
by Roger ZelaznyAliens have given a precious relic, the star-stone, to the people of Earth but the harmony of the galaxy is at stake when it goes missing.
Guns
by Ed McbainColley Donato, 29, has just been promoted. He used to be a small-time robber. Now he has killed a cop and all hell is about to break loose.
Inferno (Inferno #1)
by Larry Niven Jerry PournelleThe late great Allen Carpentier begins his one-way journey into the dim nether regions where demons wield pitchforks and vixens reign forever in a pond of sheer ice.
Jack Benny: An Intimate Biography
by Irving A. FeinFein joined Benny in 1947 as publicity and advertising director of his company, which was sold to CBS. Fein then became executive producer of Benny's programs, winning an Emmy in 1961.
Letters of E. B. White
by E. B. White Dorothy Lobrano GuthThe closest thing to an autobiography we will ever see from White.
Maigret and the Apparition
by Georges Simenon Eileen EllenbogenThe apparition leads Maigret to the highest echelons of the Parisian art world, and the depths of greed and cruelty.
Make It Ahead French Cooking
by Paul MayerThe author has taken a look at more traditional recipes and divided their preparation into several parts so that the busy homemaker can prepare them, if not in their entirety, at least to some point at which the dish can be set aside, and continued again closer to dinner time, without harming the final outcome of the recipe. In many cases, all parts of the dish can be completed entirely in advance.
Making Contact
by Virginia SatirThe path to better communication begins with learning about contact. Understanding techniques to make clear how habits and experiences affect you in subtle ways.
Murder on the Canadian (Tom and Liz Austen Mystery #1)
by Eric WilsonTeenage thriller about Tom Austen, who fell into an unhappy sleep aboard the Canadian train, and woke up to a horrifying scream.
Ox (Of Man and Manta #3)
by Piers AnthonyThe concluding volume of the extraordinary trilogy including 'ORN' and 'OMNIVORE'
Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
by Gail SheehyGail Sheehy identifies the predictable crises of adult life.
Secrets of Kundalini in Panchastavi
by Gopi KrishnaPanchastavi is a unique hymn of praise to Kundalini, the Cosmic Life-Force behind Yoga and all the marvelous paranormal phenomena associated with it.
Swords of the Horseclans (Horseclans #2)
by Robert AdamsFor 700 years, the Undying High Lord Milo has been building his Confederation, leading the Horseclans slowly across the lands once known as the United States, absorbing city-states and nomadic tribes alike, some by peaceful means, some by the sword. But now his enemies have banded together into an army far larger than Milo can muster. Led by an ancient and evil intelligence, this wave of destruction is thundering swiftly down upon the Confederation forces.
Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness
by Edward ButscherBiography of the famous, gifted poetess whose short life has become a legend
Terra Nostra
by Carlos Fuentes Margaret Sayers PedenFuentes's greatest novel is concerned with the history of Spain and South America, with the Indian Gods, with Christianity, with the birth, the passion and the death of civilizations.
The Adventures of Conan Doyle: The Life of the Creator of Sherlock Holmes
by Charles Higham"WHO, REALLY, was Dr. Watson? And who was Sherlock Holmes? Both, I discovered in exploring the background for this book, had their parallels in real life. There actually was a Dr. John Watson, who lived in London, had served in the war in India, and had been wounded. And it is well-known that Holmes was very much like Dr. Joseph Bell, a skillfully deductive surgeon who taught at Edinburgh University. But I determined, as I worked on, that in the last analysis, Dr. Watson and Mr. Holmes, like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, were really different aspects of the same person, in this instance Arthur Conan Doyle. ... He liked sport, and played Rugby and billiards expertly. He loved dogs, and kept a bull pup. He loved Turkish baths. He had a kind of wild courage, and tended to be romantic and gullible. He was loyal, a patriot, faithful to his friends and his wife. Self-effacing and considerate, though capable of being rash and headstrong, he was the perfect Boswell for Holmes. Conan Doyle's resemblances to Holmes are numerous. Holmes was descended from a family of squires, and he had some French blood. He had gray eyes. He had one brother. He suffered from conflicting moods of excitement and depression. He could be impatient and sharp. He had a bizarre sense of humor. He loved to make subtle literary references. He was inordinately excited by murder cases. He was familiar with an extraordinary IO . . . PREFACE range of subjects, including ciphers, medieval manuscripts, and the structure of warships. He went out in society but wi. ... He loved to reflect on philosophy and the course of history. Like Watson, he longed for the country while in London. Holmes had an almost clairvoyant grasp of events, beyond that of any other detective. He made up his own mind about crimes, deliberately acting as an accessory, when necessary, for the ultimate solution of a case, assuming the roles of judge and jury, and sometimes releasing the apparently guilty. He could deduce details of people's lives simply by glancing at them. Conan Doyle's son Adrian wrote of his father that he could sit in a cafe and determine from the hats, coats, shoes, umbrellas, and walking sticks of those who came in virtually their whole life stories."