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Monsieur Pamplemousse Takes the Cure (Monsieur Pamplemousse #4)
by Michael BondA spa has a most unusual cure - people die from it! A gastronomic mystery from Monsieur Pamplemousse, France's most famous bon vivant turned detective.
Moon Tiger
by Penelope LivelyThe last thoughts of a dying writer are captured in this intelligent novel. The moving and poignant story of life as a writer, historian, and mother ends as a saga of unfulfilled love.<P><P> Man Booker Prize winner
Myths of Guam
by Cat MajorCollection of 20 stories Guam is an island rich in culture. One way to get an inside view of that richness is by listening to the myths and legends of Guam. In this book I have tried to make stories that seem alive without changing the legends as they have been handed down through the years. I hope that you will enjoy these myths as much as I have, and will read them to your children, who will read them to their children. --- Known around the island for her creative works, Cat Major makes the myths and legends of Guam come alive for youngsters, oldsters, and all those in between. Cat will enthrall you with her style and vivid portrayals of such legends as * Tale of two lovers * Sirena * Legend of the flame tree and 17 other stories
Odyssey (Isaac Asimov's Robot City, Book #1)
by Isaac Asimov Michael P. Kube-McDowellA man without memory, stranded on an icy asteroid. His only chance for survival is locked within a band of mining robots searching for a mysterious object called the Key to Perihelion.
Pirates of the Thunder (Book 2 of The Rings of the Master)
by Jack L. ChalkerThey were renegades now, running for their lives, and searching for the five gold rings that could win their freedom.
Rite of Spring
by Andrew M. GreeleyChicago attorney Brendan Ryan is a classic "Quiet Man" but passion can transform even the mildest man into a fierce fighter ready to ruthlessly defend the woman he loves.
Self Healing: My Life and Vision
by Meir SchneiderAutobiography of Meir Schneider who was born blind, but years later, through eye exercises and movement therapy, was able to read without glasses.
Show Me a Hero
by Alfred CoppelWhen a US Ambassador and his staff are kidnapped, 18 months pass before they are discovered being held at an oasis in the Libyan desert. Major K. C. Quary is told to rescue them.
Songmaster
by Orson Scott CardKidnapped at an early age, the young singer Ansset has been raised in isolation at the mystical retreat called the Songhouse.
Texas Triumphant
by Daniel Da CruzTwice the Soviet Union had attacked the young Republic of Texas, and twice the Soviets had their noses bloodied. The Russians had bought solutions to their problems, and now they were trying again.
That Night
by Alice McdermottSet on Long Island in the 60s, Rick and Sheryl are high school sweethearts who eventually became lovers. Then Sheryl discovers that she's pregnant...
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
by Margaret GeorgeMuch has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the Church because it would not grant him the divorce he wanted; who married six women and beheaded two of them; who executed his friend Thomas More; who sacked the monasteries; who longed for a son and neglected his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth; who finally grew fat, disease-ridden, dissolute. Now, in her magnificent work of storytelling and imagination Margaret George bring us Henry VIII's story as he himself might have told it, in memoirs interspersed with irreverent comments from his jester and confident, Will Somers. Brilliantly combining history, wit, dramatic narrative, and an extraordinary grasp of the pleasures and perils of power, this monumental novel shows us Henry the man more vividly than he has ever been seen before.
The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig
by P. J. O'Rourke"I always wanted to be a bachelor when I grew up. My friends may have had fantasies about raking the yard, seeing their loved ones in pin curlers and cleaning the garage on Sundays, but not me. I saw myself at thirty-eight lounging around a penthouse in a brocade smoking jacket. Vivaldi would be playing on the stereo. I'd sip brandy from a snifter the size of a fish tank and leaf through an address book full of R-rated phone numbers. ..." Always with tongue firmly in cheek, the author points out the trouble, for bachelors, with laundromats, cooking, shopping and everything else that goes along with managing a house. "Bachelor cooking is a matter of attitude. If you think of it as setting fire to things and making a mess, it's fun. It's not so much fun if you think of it as dinner. Fortunately, baloney, cheeseburgers, beer, and potato-chip dip provide all the daily nutrients bachelors are known to require. I mean, I hope they do."
The Crystal Memory
by Stephen LeighJemi has been used as a parn in a multi-world game, where losing could spell the slow death of mankind and winning could at long last give her race the stars and their resources.
The Fleecing of Fodder City
by Pierce MackenzieT. G. Horne was a gambling man who'd bet his bankroll on his poker hand and his life on his trigger finger. Fodder City looked like a sure bet to him, but nothing was quite what it seemed...
The Garden of the Shaped (Volume 1 of The Shaper Exile)
by Sheila FinchBanished to an uninhabited planet, a handful of genetic scientists prepare to live out eternity. Here, beyond the reach of their accusers, theory becomes reality. Experimenting with stolen human germ plasm, they shape mankind into races unlike anything Earth has ever seen: the whimsical Llani metamorphs, the inventive but rebellious Ganus, and the Rhodaru warriors with the truth sense. Once their great test has begun, the immortal geneticists agree never to interfere. But like the races they invent, the scientists are human. Still, nothing they do prepares the Llanis for the Ganu uprising 500 years later. Queen Sivell is young, but she possesses an unerring wisdom -- a trait rare in Llanis of any age. As she ascends to the throne, war has already begun. Sivell's own unique parentage and her newfound knowledge of her people's origins could bring peace to her world -- or death to her people!
The Growing-Up Feet
by Beverly ClearyFour-year-old twins Jimmy and Janet can't wait to grow up. So when they go off to get new shoes, they buy bright red boots that will s-t-r-e-t-c-h and grow along with them.
The Heart of the Country
by Fay WeldonNatalie Harris is suddenly without a husband or home, thrown on the mercy of bank managers and welfare officers, dependent on enlightenment from Sonia who has been abandoned before.
The Last Days of Horse-Shy Halloran
by Bill PronziniHorse-Shy Halloran is a bumbling con man whose major nemesis is horses. He and his partner plan to rob the Wells Fargo stagecoach and carry the gold to the nearest railhead using a buckboard instead of horses.
The Legacy of Heorot (Heorot #1)
by Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle Steven Barnes200 men and women carve out an idyllic colony on Tau Ceti Four. One man urges caution, but they ignore him until a monster threatens to destroy their world.
The Lords of Discipline
by Pat ConroyThis powerful and breathtaking novel is the story of four cadets who become blood brothers. Together they encounter the hell of hazing and the rabid, raunchy and dangerously secretive atmosphere of an arrogant and proud military institute. They experience the violence. The passion. The rage. The friendship. The loyalty. The betrayal. Together, they brace themselves for the brutal transition to manhood... and one will not survive. With all the dramatic brilliance he brought to The Great Santini, Pat Conroy sweeps you into the turbulent world of these four friends -- and draws you deep into the heart of his rebellious hero, Will McLean, an outsider forging his personal code of honor, who falls in love with a whimsical beauty and who undergoes a transition more remarkable then he ever imagined possible.