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Jubilee Trail
by Gwen BristowIn a moment of ecstasy, Garnet Cameron decides to leave New York and go with Oliver Hale to the far-off place called California. Historical romance set in the 1840s.
Last Ditch (Roderick Alleyn #29)
by Ngaio MarshInspector Alleyn's novelist son Ricky thought he had inherited none of his father's detecting powers. Writing was his forte.
Men of Mystery
by Colin Wilson9 articles about Rasputin, Gurdjieff, Blavatsky, Tesla, Crowley, Dashwood, Geller, Mesmer and Nostradamus
On Photography
by Susan Sontag6 essays on photography (In Plato's Cave; America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly; Melancholy Objects; The Heroism of Vision; Photographic Evangels; The Image-World), and a brief anthology of quotations.
Phobia Free: How to Fight Your Fears
by E. Ann Sutherland Zalman Amit Andrew WeinerHow a phobic sufferer can make himself completely phobia-free, without a therapist and with only the support of a friend, and stay that way for good.
Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
by Frances F. Piven Richard A. ClowardHave the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America: -- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great Depression that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America -- The industrial strikes that resulted in the formation of the CIO -- The Southern Civil Rights Movement -- The movement of welfare recipients led by the National Welfare Rights Organization.
Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister
by Evelyn KeyesThis story of a movie star by the star herself is vulgar, very real, very innocent by turns, with her views on Fredric March, Artie Shaw, John Huston, Kirk Douglas, Mike Todd and many more.
Secret Rendezvous
by Kobo AbeFrom the moment that an ambulance appears in the middle of the night to take his wife, who protests that she is perfectly healthy, her bewildered husband realizes that things are not as they should be. His covert explorations reveal that the enormous hospital she was taken to is home to a network of constant surveillance, outlandish sex experiments, and an array of very odd and even violent characters. Within a few days, though no closer to finding his wife, the unnamed narrator finds himself appointed the hospital’s chief of security, reporting to a man who thinks he’s a horse. With its nightmarish vision of modern medicine and modern life, Secret Rendezvous is another masterpiece from Japan’s most gifted and original writer of serious fiction.
Shyness: What It Is, What to Do About It
by Philip ZimbardoUsing hundreds of examples, this book is about the causes and consequences of shyness, along with techniques to use to overcome it.
Six Men
by Alistair CookeCooke looks at Charlie Chaplin, H. L. Mencken, Humphrey Bogart, Adlai Stevenson, Bertrand Russell, and Edward VIII.
The Age of Uncertainty
by John Kenneth GalbraithThe book traces how ideas of economists and social philosophers shape actions and events even when we are unaware of their sources.
The April Robin Murders
by Ed Mcbain Craig RiceTwo photographers buy the old April Robin mansion in Hollywood, home to movie stars and murderers.
The Best of Roald Dahl
by Roald DahlStories from: Over to You, Someone Like You, Kiss Kiss, and Switch Bitch
The Black Death
by Gwyneth Cravens John S. MarrTwice in history, the plague nearly wiped out human life. Now it's back and the horror has begun again...
The Haven
by G. R. DiamondThe boy's throat had been cut, his head nearly severed. The mother lay next to him, hands clutching at the blood-soaked blanket...
The Ice Age
by Margaret DrabbleTo the privileged generation that came of age in the Sixties, the era of easy money and easier sex was like a high-stakes gamble that might just roll on forever...
The Incandescent Ones
by Fred Hoyle Geoffrey HoyleWhen Earth encounters the Outlanders, the world no longer belongs to the human race...
The Jack Benny Show
by Milt JosefsbergThis is the story of a master entertainer. "Where do you start the story of a man you love? Of a man you mourn, and yet every time you think of him, a smile lights up your heart despite an occasional moistening of your eyes? Of a man who has enriched your memory with so many heartwarming moments that every anecdote you think of reminds you of another before you're half through telling it? You can't catalogue the over thirty years you've known him in precise chronological order. Something that caused you to laugh with him when you first met him, casually, in 1939, causes you to laugh at a related incident in 1974. So for the most part this book will not proceed in day-to-day chronology as a formal biography would. It will skip months and years and sometimes blend two anecdotes separated by a quarter of a century. Yet, like the hundreds of pieces of a complex jigsaw puzzle, they will all fit together, eventually giving you, I hope, a complete picture of a warm, humorous human being you will remember." Other books about Jack Benny are available from Bookshare.
The Lovers and Other Stories
by Pearl S. BuckStories include Answer to Life, The Two Women, Miranda, The Kiss, The Man Called Dead, Next Saturday and Forever, and The Lovers.
The Messenger
by Mona WilliamsThey came to the island looking for an unspoiled paradise. What they discovered was something terrifyingly different.
Time Storm
by Gordon R. DicksonThe lines of time change ravage the Earth. Where they pass, water and earth are transformed into the past and future, wreaking havoc.
To All Generations
by Clara Bernice MillerA story of the Amish and Mennonite communities in a southeastern Iowa town through the eyes of one of its oldtimers, 88-year-old Daniel Brenneman.
Tolkien: A Biography
by Humphrey CarpenterDrawing on many sources, including friends, children and grandchildren, writings both published and unpublished by Professor Tolkien, Carpenter gives a detailed picture of the life of J. R. R. Tolkien, distinguished scholar and author most widely known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He describes his childhood in South Africa, the years at King Edward's school in Birmingham, his meeting and romance with his future wife, Edith Bratt, his undergraduate years at Oxford, and experiences in World War I. In subsequent chapters, Carpenter describes Tolkien's work on the New English dictionary, his brief tenure at Leeds University and return to Oxford as Professor of Anglo-Saxon and later of English Language and Literature until his retirement in 1959. The author discusses his collaborations with various colleagues on academic works and his writing of many imaginative stories for his children and his own amusement, including The Hobbit. Carpenter describes Tolkien's close friendship with C. S. Lewis and the circumstances that later lead to its waning. He relates the lengthy history of the writing of The Lord of the rings and its complicated publishing history. Finally, he discusses the success of the book and how it affected Tolkien's life. The book ends with a chronology of events, a complete list of the published works of Tolkien up to 1977, a simplified genealogical chart and an index.
A Portrait of Jane Austen
by David CecilThis book is intended neither as a straightforward biographical narrative not as a critical study of Jane Austen's works, but rather as an attempt to reconstruct her life and character, drawing on her letters, her novels, and the recollections of her contemporaries. Often regarded as an obscure figure living in a small, dull world, Jane Austen is here revealed as a strong, unusually delightful personality, reflecting a lively and important cross-section of 18th century and Regency society.
A Weave of Women
by E. M. BronerWomen--some in love, others not; one giving birth, others awaiting death--their lives woven into one fabric as they come together in Jerusalem, a male-dominated land that tries to re-exile, scatter, even kill them.