Top Books of 1976
The most significant literary works published this year.
The Color Purple
By Unknown Author
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeenth because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence. In 2003, the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels." ---------- Also contained in: - [The Third Life of Grange Copeland / Meridian / The Color Purple][1] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18025207W/The_Third_Life_of_Grange_Copeland_Meridian_The_Color_Purple
The Gunslinger
By Unknown Author
[The Dark Tower][1] I The Gunslinger is a dark-fantasy by American author Stephen King. It is the first volume in the Dark Tower series. The Gunslinger was first published in 1982 as a fix-up novel, joining five short stories that had been published between 1978 and 1981. King substantially revised the novel in 2003; this version has remained in print ever since, with the subtitle RESUMPTION. The story centers upon Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, who has been chasing his adversary, "the man in black," for many years. The novel fuses Western fiction with fantasy, science fiction, and horror, following Roland's trek through a vast desert and beyond in search of the man in black. Roland meets several people along his journey, including a boy named Jake Chambers, who travels with him part of the way. "The Gunslinger" (October 1978) "The Way Station" (April 1980) "The Oracle and the Mountains" (February 1981) "The Slow Mutants" (July 1981) "The Gunslinger and the Dark Man" (November 1981) [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81600W/The_Dark_Tower_1-7
Interview With the Vampire
By Unknown Author
This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Orleans, defining crucial moments such as his discovery of the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her with the last breaths of humanity he has inside. Yet, he makes Claudia a vampire, trapping her womanly passion, will, and intelligence inside the body of a small child. Louis and Claudia form a seemingly unbreakable alliance and even "settle down" for a while in the opulent French Quarter. Louis remembers Claudia's struggle to understand herself and the hatred they both have for Lestat that sends them halfway across the world to seek others of their kind. Louis and Claudia are desperate to find somewhere they belong, to find others who understand, and someone who knows what and why they are. Louis and Claudia travel Europe, eventually coming to Paris and the ragingly successful Theatre des Vampires--a theatre of vampires pretending to be mortals pretending to be vampires. Here they meet the magnetic and ethereal Armand, who brings them into a whole society of vampires. But Louis and Claudia find that finding others like themselves provides no easy answers and in fact presents dangers they scarcely imagined. Originally begun as a short story, the book took off as Anne wrote it, spinning the tragic and triumphant life experiences of a soul. As well as the struggles of its characters, Interview captures the political and social changes of two continents. The novel also introduces Lestat, Anne's most enduring character, a heady mixture of attraction and revulsion. The book, full of lush description, centers on the themes of immortality, change, loss, sexuality, and power. ([source][1]) [1]: http://annerice.com/Bookshelf-Interview.html
The Selfish Gene
By Unknown Author
As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published. This 40th anniversary edition includes a new epilogue from the author discussing the continuing relevance of these ideas in evolutionary biology today, as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.
Children of Dune
By Unknown Author
The science fiction masterpiece continues in the "major event,"( Los Angeles Times) Children of Dune. With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert's Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination and one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction. The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared in the deserts of Arrakis. Like their father, they possess supernormal abilities—making them valuable to their aunt Alia, who rules the Empire. If Alia can obtain the secrets of the twins' prophetic visions, her rule will be absolute. But the twins have their own plans for their destiny.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
By Unknown Author
Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, it is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence. It is a story of physical survival, but more important, it is a story of the survival of the human spirit. And, too, it is Cassie's story -- Cassie Logan, an independent girl raised by a family for whom independence is primary, a family determined not to relinquish their humanity simply because they are Black. Cassie has grown up protected, grown up strong, and so far grown up unaware that any white person could force her to be untrue to herself, could consider her inferior and treat her accordingly. It took the events of one turbulent year -- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliated Cassie in public simply because she was Black -- to show Cassie why the land meant so much, why having a place of their own where they answered to no one permitted the Logans the luxuries of pride and courage their sharecropper neighbors couldn't afford and their white neighbors couldn't allow. Richly characterized, powerfully told, Mildred Taylor's novel is unforgettable. The Logans' story is at times warm and humorous, at times terrifying. It is a story of courage and love and pride, the story of one family's passionate determination not to be beaten down. -- Back cover. This is a moving story -- one you will not easily forget -- about growing up in the deep south.
Dragonsong
By Unknown Author
Menolly, a young fisher's daughter, had dreamed all her life of learning the Harper's craft. Her musical talent is not valued in her fishing hold, especially by her parents the holders, as women in general tend to be less valued and have fewer choices than men in Pernese society. When her father denies her what she regards to be her destiny, she flees Half Circle Hold just as Pern is struck by the deadly danger of Threadfall, a deathly rain that falls from the sky. Menolly takes shelter in a cave by the sea and there, she makes a miraculous discovery that will change her life.
Frog and Toad All Year
By Unknown Author
Frog and Toad All Year is an American picture book written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel, published by Harper & Row in 1976. It is the third book in the Frog and Toad series, whose four books completed by Lobel comprise five easy-to-read short stories each. ---------- Also contained in: [The Frog and Toad Treasury](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1973505W)
The Sword of Shannara
By Unknown Author
A young man and his brother set out on a journey to find the magical "Sword of Shannara". Only the mystical sword can defeat the evil overlord and his minions.
Eaters of the Dead
By Unknown Author
Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922 (later republished as The 13th Warrior to correspond with the film adaptation of the novel) is a 1976 novel by Michael Crichton, the fourth novel under his own name and his 14th overall. The story is about a 10th-century Muslim Arab who travels with a group of Vikings to their settlement. Crichton explains in an appendix that the book was based on two sources. The first three chapters are a retelling of Ahmad ibn Fadlan's personal account of his actual journey north and his experiences with and observations of Varangians. The remainder is a retelling of Beowulf. ---------- Also contained in: - [Congo / Sphere / Eaters of the Dead][2] [1]: http://www.michaelcrichton.com/eaters-of-the-dead/ [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14950504W/Congo_Sphere_Eaters_of_the_Dead
Vixen 03
By Unknown Author
1954 Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the south Pacific and bearing several canisters of a particularly virulent organism, vanishes. Believed ditched at sea, Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988. Dirk Pitt, on holiday, discovers remnants of Vixen 03. The lethal canisters are raised—but they're not all accounted for. It turns out that two of them are in the hands of an African terrorist group. The group's mission: to attack nothing less than Washington, D.C. The catch is that the group is not aware that it will be firing anything but conventional missiles. But Pitt knows—and so does the president of the United States. To complicate matters further, the World War II ghost ship bearing the catastrophic warheads up the Potomac cannot be blown out of the water. Pitt's problems are compounded when he and his lady, a United States congresswoman, becomes the target of a vicious blackmail scheme.
On Writing Well
By Unknown Author
In addition to exploring the techniques of nonfiction writing, Zinsser discusses sexism in writing, jargon, and psychological writing blocks.
Raise the Titanic!
By Unknown Author
The Sicilian Project is the undercover plan of the decade. It is undoubtedly the best-kept secret since the atomic bomb. And it's the President's baby. If successful, it will create a defense network that will insure America's security from foreign attack for the foreseeable future. The sole hitch is that the project requires a quantity of Byzantium, an extremely rare element. In fact, it looks as though the only Byzantium in the world lies in the hold of R.M.S. Titanic, sunk in 1912 and still resting more than twelve thousand feet deep in the North Atlantic. The task is simple enough: Raise the Titanic! The man in charge of the mission is Dirk Pitt, jack-of-all-trades and master of-most. Using highly sophisticated submersible equipment, Pitt sets to work at his Herculean job. The presence of two Russian spies doesn't help, nor does the intervention of one very nasty lady, Hurricane Amanda. For balance, however, there is one very sweet lady who doesn't in the least resemble your average marine archaeologist.
Your Erroneous Zones
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Organic Chemistry
By Unknown Author
CD-ROM provides students with the "core" material essential to understanding the principles of general chemistry. Introduces cutting-edge research in a fresh, student-friendly way. This new edition incorporates the most current chemical research and new synthesis and green chemistry applications.
Sweet Promise
By Unknown Author
Would she ever be free of the past? Erica was starved for love. Daughter of a Texas millionaire who had time only for business, she thought up a desperate scheme to get her father's attention. Unfortunately, her plan backfired and she found herself seriously involved with Rafael de la Torres, a man she believed to be a worthless fortune hunter. That had been a year ago; the affair had almost ruined her life. Now she was in love with a wonderful man. But she wasn't free to marry him. First of all she must find Rafael...!
Sweet Sanctuary
By Unknown Author
Old Mrs. Butler didn't want her nephew Nicholas to marry his beautiful but selfish fiancee-and she unashamedly set about using her young companion, Kate Fox, to break up the romance. But someone was likely to get hurt in the process.
The Worst Years of My Life
By Unknown Author
Rafe Khatchadorian : héros tragique. Et avec l'entrée en 6e, ça ne s'est pas arrangé. Rafe collectionne gaffes, bévues et boulettes. Il a beau faire de son mieux, tout va mal. Mais Rafe n'est pas un dégonflé et décide que la 6e sera l'année de l'Opération R.A.F.E. Son plan ? Enfreindre un par un tous les articles du règlement intérieur : mâcher du chewing-gum en classe, courir dans les couloirs, activer l'alarme incendie. Rafe sait qu'il joue un jeu dangereux, pourtant il semble prêt à tout pour faire exploser le règlement ! Désespéré par ses nombreuses maladresses, Rafe Khatchadorian décide à l'occasion de son passage en classe de 6e de prendre les devants en enfreignant volontairement tous les points du règlement intérieur de son collège.
Forbidden
By Unknown Author
"I haven't come back into your life, James," Caroline said. She was shocked to discover that the position she had accepted as governess was the in the home of the man she had spent six years trying to forget. Aware that nothing had really changed, that he could still create havoc with her life, Caroline's first instinct was to flee. Then she found herself trapped - by his daughter's need of her and by the demands of his invalid wife. And by her own need of James!
Beware the Beast
By Unknown Author
Alex Faulkner was a complete stranger to Charlotte when he walked into her life and forced her – blackmailed her, in fact – into marrying him, and whisked her off to live with him on a lonely Greek island. And he made it quite clear that all he really wanted from her was a son, the sooner the better. It was, Charlotte thought desperately, a Beauty and the Beast situation, for she was powerless to escape him. Yet in the story, Beauty had fallen in love with the Beast, hadn’t she? Suppose that happened to Charlotte? Yet Alex had made it plain that he had only one use for her…
Swan's Reach
By Unknown Author
The bitter irony of fate, Rachel thought. She had resented Nick Retford for so long that it was hard to believe she could be in love with him. What was the use anyway? Loving Nick Retford was like reaching for the moon. He was just as magnetic and just as difficult to attain. Only one name dominated his world - Vanessa Maybury. The news of their proposed marriage hit Rachel like a thunderbolt!
Satan Took A Bride
By Unknown Author
Toni was an orphan who had spent her whole life in a Spanish convent and was destined to become a nun herself. But something told her that life held more than that for her, and she ran away — straight into the arms of Luque de Mayo. Nothing in her sheltered life had prepared her to deal with a man like this — dark, devilish, inscrutable, a man who used women as toys and cast them aside when he had had enough of them. Yet he treated Toni in a protective way, and indeed lost little time in calmly announcing that she had better marry him. But how could a marriage between two such totally different people hope to succeed — when it was not even going to be a real marriage?
Earth science
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
A Gem of a Girl
By Unknown Author
Gemma Prentice wasn't the most beautiful girl in the world; indeed, if anyone had described her as plain no one would have contradicted them! But she was a wonderful nurse, kind and conscientious to her patients - a real 'gem of a girl", in fact. Which was why, when she found herself temporarily out of a job, the distinguished Dutch Professor Ross Dieperink van Berhuys asked her to accompany him to Holland for a time to look after his invalid sister. Gemma was delighted to accept, and in no time had fallen in love with Holland. And there was an unexpected bonus too, in the person of the devastatingly attractive Leo de Vos.....
Star Wars - From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker
By Unknown Author
This is the novelization of the first "Star Wars" film, later retitled "Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope". The book was first published on November 12, 1976 several months before the film was released. It was ghost written by Alan Dean Foster, but first credited to the films writer/director George Lucas, then in later editions credited Alan Dean Foster. The book's original title "Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker", the cover was painted by Ralph McQuarrie. Later versions of the book from the 1970's thru the 1980's featured the movie poster with art by John Berkey. A hardcover version published in December 12, 1977 by the "Science Fiction Book Club" featured the movie poster, but with the image reversed. The book has several moments from the script that were later removed from the movie before it was released.
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The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories [12 works]
By Unknown Author
The Prime of Life [poem] Feminine Intuition Waterclap That Thou Art Mindful of Him Stranger in Paradise The Life and Times of Multivac The Winnowing The Bicentennial Man Marching In Old-Fashioned The Tercentenary Incident Birth of a Notion
Pila rumal ni gath
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Inquiry into Life
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
The Woman Warrior
By Unknown Author
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is Kingston's disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the America to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother's "talk stories." Her mother tells her traditional tales of strong, wily women warriors - tales that clash puzzlingly with the real oppression of women. Kingston learns to fill in the mystifying spaces in her mother's stories with stories of her own, engaging her family's past and her own present with anger, imagination, and dazzling passion.
Touch Not the Cat
By Unknown Author
Bryony Ashley knows that Ashley Court, the grand estate, is both hell and paradise -- once elegant and beautiful, yet shrouded in shadow. After the tragic death of her father, Bryony returns from abroad to find that his estate is to become the responsibility of her cousin Emory. Her family's estate with its load of debt is no longer her worry. Still, her father's final, dire warning about a terrible family curse haunts her days and her dreams. And there is something odd about her father's sudden death... Bryony has inherited the Ashley 'Sight' and so has one of the Ashleys. Since childhood the two have communicated through thought patterns, though Bryony has no idea of his identity. Devastated, she believes, that the mysterious stranger is her destiny... the lover-to-be who waits for her now at Ashley Court. Now she is determined to find him. But passion is not all that will greet Bryony upon her return -- for the crumbling walls of the old mansion guard dark secrets, tragic memories... and inescapable peril.
International business
By Unknown Author
Resource added for the Global Business program 101381.
Come Running
By Unknown Author
Matthew Lawford was quite the most attractive man that Darrell Anderson had ever met. Fairly soon, too, it became clear that she attracted him as much as he did her - and all too soon the two of them were deeply and disturbingly in love. But Matthew was married - unhappily, but married none the less. And although he had no love for his wife Celine, he had a duty to her which could not be ignored or abandoned. Darrell knew that whatever terms he wanted her on, she would still come running - but was there any chance of happiness for either of them, even if she did?
Night Chills
By Unknown Author
Designed by top scientists and unleashed in a monstrous conspiracy, night chills are seizing the men and women of Black River--driving them to acts of rape and murder. The nightmare is real. And death is the only cure...
Darling infidel
By Unknown Author
Sparks had flown between young Cathy Colt and the inscrutable Dr. Woolf Maxwell from the moment lie arrived to look after her father's practice. He maddened her, with his insistence on treating her as an unruly youngster. So she didn't care in the least when her glamorous friend Tippy announced that she was going to make Woolf fall in love with her. She was welcome to him! For her part, Cathy would just go on hating him. But someone had warned her, `Beware of hate, it's first cousin to love.' Would she find out, too late, that that was perfectly true?
Sister to Meryl
By Unknown Author
Christine felt very strongly about Julian Galveston, who appeared to have nothing better to do with his time than break up her sister's marriage. So Christine decided to tackle him on the subject--and found herself getting into very deep waters.
Bear
By Unknown Author
Lou is a lonely librarian who spends her days in the dusty archives of the Historical Institute. When an unusual field assignment comes her way, she jumps at the chance to travel to a remote island in northern Ontario, where she will spend the summer cataloguing a library that belonged to an eccentric 19th-century colonel. Eager to investigate the estate's curious history, she is shocked to discover that the island has one other inhabitant: a bear. Lou's imagination is soon overtaken by the island's past occupants, whose deep fascination with bears gradually becomes her own. Irresistably, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-awakening, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature. What she discovers will change her life forever.
The Riddle-Master of Hed (Riddle-Master #1)
By Unknown Author
First in the Quest of the Riddle-Master trilogy. Long ago, the wizards had vanished from the world, and all knowledge was left hidden in riddles. Morgon, prince of the simple farmers of Hed, proved himself a master of such riddles when he staked his life to win a crown from the dead Lord of Aum. But now ancient, evil forces were threatening him. Shape changers began replacing friends until no man could be trusted. So Morgon was forced to flee to hostile kingdoms, seeking the High One who ruled from mysterious Erlenstar Mountain. Beside him went Deth, the High One's Harper. Ahead lay strange encounters and terrifying adventures. And with him always was the greatest of unsolved riddles; the nature of the three stars on his forehead that seemed to drive him toward his ultimate destiny.
The Man on Half-Moon
By Unknown Author
Katherine’s brother Darin has disappeared from the ranch where he had been working. She travels there to see if she can find out what happened to him, but seems to get in the way of his boss, autocratic Curt Dangerfield.
A Stranger in the Mirror
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
When God Was a Woman
By Unknown Author
Here, archaeologically documented is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Known by many names, she reigned supreme in the Near and Middle East. How did the change in women's roles come about? By documenting the wholesale rewriting of myth and religious dogmans, Stone details an ancient conspiracy that laid the foundation for one of culture's greatest shams--the legend of Adam and fallen Eve.
The Father Christmas letters
By Unknown Author
A collection of illustrated letters from Father Christmas recapping the activities of the preceding year at the North Pole. The letters were written by the author to his children.
Il formaggio e i vermi
By Unknown Author
Offers a study of culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. This book illustrates the confusing political and religious conditions of the time.
Rainbow For Megan
By Unknown Author
Megan had always looked on Alain as an older brother, so it was embarrassing for both of them when people began to link their names romantically. In an attempt to prove everyone wrong, Megan went to her good-looking boss for assistance -- but only succeeded in making matters considerably more complicated than ever!
The 12th Planet
By Unknown Author
Over the years, startling evidence has been uncovered, challenging established notions of the origins of life on Earth - evidence that suggests the evidence of an advanced group of extraterrestrials who once inhabited our world. The first book of the revolutionary Earth Chronicles series offers indisputable documentary evidence of the existence of the mysterious planet of Nibiru and tells why its astronauts came to Earth eons ago to fashion mankind in their image. The product of more than thirty years of meticulous research, The 12th Planet treats as fact, not myth, the tales of Creation, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, and the Nefilim who married the daughters of man.
How should we then live?
By Unknown Author
As one of the foremost evangelical thinkers of the twentieth century, Francis Schaeffer long pondered the fate of declining Western culture. In this brilliant book he analyzed the reasons for modern society's state of affairs and presented the only viable alternative: living by the Christian ethic, acceptance of God's revelation, and total affirmation of the Bible's morals, values, and meaning. - Publisher.
Dear Villian
By Unknown Author
Liz was looking forward to her new job at the Queensbridge Civic Theatre until she learned that the director was to be Adam Carlyon. He was a man she had no wish to meet again. During their brief acquaintance, Adam had made it quite plain she had no place in his life. Liz remembered his words vividly. "Perhaps it's marriage or nothing with you, Elizabeth? Well, you're very young of course, and although youth is refreshing--I'm an old hand and not so easily caught!"
Wilt
By Unknown Author
Wilt is given to elaborate and vindictive fantasies about his wife, the massive, domineering Eva. But when Eva becomes a Missing Person, following an embarrassing incident at a party they both attend, the police want to question Wilt.
Show Me
By Unknown Author
Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by America’s First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a different state, researched by Janet and her husband, Bill. For the Daileys it was an odyssey of discovery. For you, it’s the journey of a lifetime. Your tour of desire begins with this story set in Missouri.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
By Unknown Author
The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all "bursting with dimples and hormones"--and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the legendary Sissy Hankshaw, a white-trash goddess literally born to hitchhike, and the freest female of them all.Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Tom Robbins's classic tale of eccentric adventure. As his robust characters attempt to turn the tables on fate, the reader is drawn along on a tragicomic joyride across the badlands of sexuality, wild rivers of language, and the frontiers of the mind.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Marge Piercy
By Unknown Author
Onetime college girl, loving mother, pickpocket, and unmarried mourning wife Consuelo Ramos, imprisoned in a New York mental hospital for assaulting a pimp, hovers between a future of life dominant and an endless present of neuroelectric experimentation
An Encyclopedia of Fairies
By Unknown Author
This book lists entries about fairies and other supernatural creatures, and terms, phrases and tales associated with them. Many fairy stories are related and then examined, though they are not necessarily in the format of traditional "fairy tales." Some are related as legends, while others are a recounting of personal experiences with the supernatural. The book also has an index to motifs and types, so the reader may compare similar kinds of stories or creatures. This large tome spans ten centuries. The creatures covered therein are mostly those associated with the British Isles, but a few "foreign fairies" are mentioned in passing, especially for comparison. For more expansive (though not complete) coverage of fairies throughout the world, the author made mention of Thomas Keightley's "[The Fairy Mythology][1]." [1]: https://openlibrary.org/search?q=fairy+mythology+keightley&mode=ebooks&m=edit&m=edit&has_fulltext=true
Stormy rapture
By Unknown Author
"I would just like to make it quite clear," Simon smiled grimly, "that I am not running a charity. I expect to be fully rewarded for what I do, and don't you forget it, my dear Liza." His words rang in Liza's ears. This man was devious. Her eyes sparkled with angry resentment but she couldn't afford to indulge in hurt pride. For the time being, Simon must be allowed to think what he would.
Red Cliffs of Malpara
By Unknown Author
For most of her life Sarie had been tormented by Blake Meredith. Now, she discovered with guilty fascination that she had never really seen him as a man. Once he had spelled out authority and restraint; now, incredibly, he was everything she wanted from the depths of her passionate nature. Blake had not changed. She was the one who had undergone the transformation from an undisciplined schoolgirl into a woman. But after that scene tonight, would Blake ever regard her seriously?
Music
By Unknown Author
Elements - Sound - Rhythm - Melody - Harmony - Key - Musical form - Style ; Middle Ages - Renaissance - Baroque period - Classical period - Romantic period - Twentieth century - Jazz - American musical - Rock - Nonwestern music.
Devil in Iron
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Slapstick
By Unknown Author
The book explores one of Vonnegut's favorite recurring themes, which is his belief in our need to belong extended families and how they would be an adequate, larger and more useful substitute for biological ones. The most endearing section of the novel, in my opinion, lies in its introduction, where Vonnegut candidly describes his beloved sister's death, which took place shortly after she had learnt of a train accident where her husband and children had been killed. As for the novel's plot, it follows the relationship of a boy and his sister who grow up together in isolation from the outside world because of their unsightliness. The boy turns out to be seen as more presentable and is separated from his sister, who grows to resent him for his seemingly desertion. Through some twists and turns they successively reunite and separate and after a major catastrophe, the boy becomes president of the United States, his campaign being centered on the formation of extended families on a grand scale.
Hematology
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
The Edge of Winter
By Unknown Author
Araminta went to Holland to nurse a sick relative--and, to her surprise, ran into the disconcerting Doctor Crispin van Sibbelt again. Unfortunately she found him even more difficult to understand in his own country than he had been in hers!
Histoire de la sexualité
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
A river runs through it
By Unknown Author
Collection of three Western stories, featuring the title piece about the relationship between a father and his two sons, bound together by love and fly fishing.
A world out of time
By Unknown Author
Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else\'s body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. <BR>But Corbell picked his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the Society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core, where the unimaginable energies of the Universe wrenched the fabric of time and space and promised final escape from his captors. <BR>Then he returned to an Earth eons older than the one he\'d left...a planet that had had 3,000,000 years to develop perils he had never dreamed of -- perils that became nightmares that he had to escape...somehow!.
Rogues in the House
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
The Kilted Stranger (Harlequin Romance, #1973)
By Unknown Author
Obeying her mother's last request, Sue planned to go to Scotland and deliver a letter to a man she had never heard of. She felt she must go. But more than one surprise awaited her at the end of the journey: the father she had believed dead -- and his formidable partner, Meric Findlay.
A princess remembers
By Unknown Author
Memoirs of the maharani of Jaipur, an Indian princely state, encompassing her privileged childhood, her marriage as the maharajah's third wife, the events of Indian Independence and her political career in India after Independence
Kōmei
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Meditation and its methods according to Swami Vivekananda
By Unknown Author
A beautifull book with stories and good teachings regarding meditation. Suggested for all ages.
Digital circuits and logic design
By Unknown Author
basic and strong conceptual book for digital system and design. very good to muster up all the basics and excel in this wonderful subject
Bewildered Haven
By Unknown Author
Everyone in the office thought Zachary Benedict was the most attractive man for miles around - but to Jenny he was simply the most conceited man she had met for a long time, and she had no intention of adding herself to his long list of conquests. In any case, after the way Max had let her down she didn't want to get involved with any man again. But Zachary, for reasons of his own, pursued her relentlessly, and gradually Jenny found herself weakening. She still couldn't believe, however, that Zachary saw her as anything but another scalp on his belt - and then Max turned up again, to complicate things still further ...
The Face of Battle
By Unknown Author
*The Face of Battle* is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of maximum danger'. It examines the physical conditions of fighting, the particular emotions and behaviour generated by battle, as well as the motives that impel soldiers to stand and fight rather than run away. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles, John Keegan vividly conveys their reality for the participants, whether facing the arrow cloud of Agincourt, the levelled muskets of Waterloo or the steel rain of the Somme.
A book
By Unknown Author
Description ""Welcome to A Book, in which I try to explain how a kid from Cuba found a way to make a living in the United States. It's all here -- the good, the bad, the beautiful, the ugly, the unbelievably lucky breaks, and the heartbreaking failures. "Except for my first experience with sex, a major earthquake, and a revolution in which we managed to lose everything we had, life in Cuba was lovely. Exile in Miami was a time for survival, when I perfected many interesting trades such as mobile canary-cage cleaner and broken-mosaic-tile salesman. Father Barry and Al Capone, Jr., helped me finish high school. There I learned much about America and her people while carrying on my battle with her language. "While I was playing guitar and singing at the Roney Plaza in Miami Beach, Xavier Cugat offered me a job with his orchestra. I had to steal from the Waldorf-Astoria kitchen to live on what he paid me. What he taught me was worth a fortune. When I quit and went back to Miami, he sent me a small 'Latin' band. When they arrived, I knew I'd been had. In desperation I started beating the hell out of a big Afro-Cuban drum, and the conga was born in the U.S.A. It became a craze and got me all tangled up. Too Many Girls took me to Hollwood and Lucy. After that I decided to forget about too many girls. It was safer. "If you think those first two decades were a little crowded, wait until you read about the next two. I am sure you will understand about the milk girls and the Bingo girls, but Lucy didn't and filed to divorce Staff Sergeant Arnaz. "You will learn what Lucy and I had to do to convince people we could play husband and wife in I Love Lucy. Shortly afterward Lucie and Desi Jr. were born and our world was paradise. The irony of it all is how our undreamed-of success fame, and fortune turned it into hell. It wasn't easy to write about all of it, but as my son said, 'There's only one way to do it, Dad. Tell it like it was.'"
The Language of Medicine
By Unknown Author
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A Textbook of quantum mechanics
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Dr. Nikola Returns
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Trinity
By Unknown Author
From the acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, QB VII, Topaz, and other beloved classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure that captures the "terrible beauty" of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom. It is the electrifying story of an idealistic young Catholic rebel and the valiant and beautiful Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join his cause. It is a tale of love and danger, of triumph at an unthinkable cost -- a magnificent portrait of a people divided by class, faith, and prejudice -- an unforgettable saga of the fires that devastated a majestic land . . . and the unquenchable flames that burn in the human heart.
South of the Moon
By Unknown Author
She'd been jilted once, never again! No way would Clair again risk the embarrassment and humiliation of being left at the church on her wedding day. She had finished with men! The move to her girl friend's farm in South Africa was just the complete change the doctor had ordered. Their neighbor, Shane Neville, was a masterful bachelor, but Clair knew he would pose no threat. Besides, he was practically a woman hater! But as the memory of her old love receded, Clair unwillingly found herself thinking of Shane!
Educational research
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Marketing research
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Blood and guts
By Unknown Author
Discusses the elements of the human body. Includes suggestions for related experiments and projects.
The Silver Cage
By Unknown Author
Even after she and Kern McCabe were married Philippa felt she must be dreaming. Why should such an attractive man want to make her his wife? But she might have come to understand his love for her--if the glamorous Lilias Storr hadn't suddenly come back into Kern's life.
Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
By Unknown Author
Five children find entry tickets to Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory. The tour brings out the best and worst in them
A first course in probability
By Unknown Author
This title features clear and intuitive explanations of the mathematics of probability theory, outstanding problem sets, and a variety of diverse examples and applications.
To buy a bride
By Unknown Author
Jealousy stabbed Philippa as she thought of Rose and Luke together. Jealousy--and a deep sense of loss. Loss of what? Of Luke? Was she so possessive that she couldn't bear to think of him with another woman even though she didn't want him herself? But she did want him! The realization stunned her. It was an annihilating admission that destroyed the whole fabric of pretense she'd constructed from the day she had married Luke.
Managerial accounting
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Green Paddocks
By Unknown Author
Her home, Green Paddocks, meant more than anything in the world to Holly Drew. Unfortunately, the maddening Hayes Chester was the one who made it possible for her to live there, so she would just have to put up with him and his autocratic ways as best she could. But how Holly wished people wouldn't keep thinking she was romantically interested in him. She wasn't, she wasn't!
Summer of fear
By Unknown Author
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Planets in Transit
By Unknown Author
This book covers complete delineations of all the major transits - conjunction, sextile, square, trine and opposition - that occur between transiting Sun, Moon and all planets to each planet in the natal chart and the Ascendant and Midheaven, as well as complete delineations of each planet transiting each house of the natal chart. These 720 lucid delineations are full of insight for both the professional astrologer and the beginner.
Let Me Be a Woman
By Unknown Author
We are called to be women. The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman. For I have accepted God's idea of me, and my whole life is an offering back to him of all that I am and all that he wants me to be. In these days of conflicting demands and cultural pressures, what kind of woman do you wish to be? How should you respond? What should you think? Elisabeth Elliot is one of Christendom's most able and articulate writers. In this profound and moving book she presents her unique perspective. Now married a third time after losing two husbands through death, she offers golden insights which apply to the single, the married, and the widowed. These notes on womanhood, written to her daughter Valerie a few weeks before Val's marriage, are a gift of lasting worth for all Christian women. - Back cover.
The Eagle has Flown
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Beyond culture
By Unknown Author
TABLE OF CONTENTS: The paradox of culture -- Man as extension -- Consistency and life -- Hidden culture -- Rhythm and body movement -- Context and meaning -- Contexts, high and low -- Why context? -- Situation : culture’s building block -- Action chains -- Covert culture and action chains -- Imagery and memory -- Cultural and primate bases of education -- Culture as an irrational force -- Culture as identification.
Tintin et les Picaros
By Unknown Author
Tintin and the Picaros is the twenty-first tale in The Adventures of Tintin series, written and illustrated by Hergé. This was the last book Hergé was able to fully complete before his death. This story sees Tintin return to South America, this time with his friends to aid him in his plight.
The education of Little Tree
By Unknown Author
Beautiful book, very moving. However, the start of some chapters are missing, makes for very disjointed reading.
Dark pursuer
By Unknown Author
Connor Lammas allowed nothing to stand in his way -- and when his young brother Andrew fell in love with Kate Howard, Connor was determined to break up the affair. Kate hadn't wanted to marry Andrew in any case, but in the face of this interference, she decided to dig in her heels.
Toliver's Secret
By Unknown Author
During the Revolutionary War, a ten-year-old girl crosses enemy lines to deliver a loaf of bread containing a message for the patriots
The music kit
By Unknown Author
Various tasks, activities and learning experiences are presented to help students master the basic music fundamentals.
To the Far Blue Mountains
By Unknown Author
Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers. In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L'Amour weaves an unforgettable tale of a man who journeys to his homeland but discovers that finding his way back to America may be impossible.... Barnabas Sackett was leaving England forever to find his fortune in the New World. But as he settled his affairs, he learned that a warrant from Queen Elizabeth had been sworn against him and that men were searching for him in every port. At issue were some rare gold coins Sackett had found and sold coins believed to be part of a great treasure lost by King John years before. Believing that Sackett possesses the rest of the treasure, the Queen will stop at nothing to find him. And if he's caught, Sackett will face torture and even the gallows.... JG
Architecture
By Unknown Author
Architecture: Residential Drawing and Design provides the basic information necessary for planning various types of dwellings. It presents basic instruction in preparing architectural working drawings using traditional as well as computer-based methods. Further, the text is designed to serve as a reference for design and construction principles and methods. It is intended to help develop the necessary technical skills to communicate architectural ideas in an understandable, efficient, and accurate manner. - Introduction.
Ride a black horse
By Unknown Author
The advertisement for a Girl Friday seemed just the job Jane was looking for-with a chance to work in the wild border country of Northumberland and train for a riding school of her own. Without hesitation, she started off to apply for a position at High Litton; but the owner, Karl Grierson, was not quite what Jane had been looking for! HR1951
Laboratory diagnosis of mycoplasmosis
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Physical biochemistry
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Cognitive therapy and the emotional disorders
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
The painter of signs
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Reader's digest complete guide to sewing.
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
The Kilternan legacy
By Unknown Author
Irene Teasey came to Ireland to claim an unexpected interitance from an aunt she had never met . . . a legacy of land, a sprawling house, cottages with tenants, and even a horse . . . more than she had dared hope for. Enough to make her independent of her former husband. Enough to start a new life. ...
Even the Rat Was White
By Unknown Author
xii, 224 p. : 24 cm
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
By Unknown Author
Before becoming one of today's most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test. Now one of her most famous novels returns to print, the spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning. Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Later the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and "hard" SF, and won SF's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication. It is as compelling today as it was then. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is the winner of the 1977 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
The strongest shall survive
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Storm Flower (Harlequin Presents 134)
By Unknown Author
"I want you to go away, Catherine." She would go away because Coyne Macmillan asked her to; she would have the grand adventure, round off her education. But Catherine Fitzgerald was sure, as she had never before been sure of anything, that six months would not change her mind--or her heart. "Whatever sky I see," Catherine told him firmly, "it will never look as good as this one. Whatever man I see I will never want or need him as I need you. And well you know it, Macmillan!"
The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind
By Unknown Author
At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion -- and indeed our future.
Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Tempestuous April / Damsel in Green / Tulips for Augusta
By Unknown Author
Tempestuous April: Harriet had met the man of her dreams, the one she'd always imagined herself marrying. But Dr Friso Eijsinck was very attractive, and he seemed to be surrounded by pretty girls. Harriet began to feel that, as far as Friso was concerned, she was only one of many.
Lady Oracle
By Unknown Author
A bored wife takes off on a journey of excitement and discovery.
Omega table
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Esmeralda
By Unknown Author
Esmeralda Jones feels invisible to the opposite sex, sensing the reason is her impaired foot. When surgeon Thimo Bamstra offers to cure her, Esmeralda is thrilled. Thimo also manages to mend her broken heart. Esmeralda has never imagined marriage as part of her future, but now she can dream of little else.
The hearing trumpet
By Unknown Author
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm. Exact Change launched a program of reprinting her fiction with what is perhaps her best loved book. The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the underworld is open. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpet is a classic of fantastic literature that has been translated and celebrated throughout the world.
Essentials of real estate economics
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Born on the Fourth of July
By Unknown Author
This New York Times best seller (more than one million copies sold) details the author's life story (portrayed by Tom Cruise in the Oliver Stone film version)—from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to his severe battlefield injury, to his role as the country's most outspoken anti-Vietnam War advocate, spreading his message from his wheelchair.
Contemporary business
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Valčík na rozloučenou
By Unknown Author
In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; and unillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country and his young woman ward. Perhaps the most brilliantly plotted and sheerly entertaining of Milan Kundera's novels, Farewell Waltz poses the most serious questions with a blasphemous lightness that makes us see that the modern world has deprived us even of the right to tragedy. Written in Bohemia in 1969-70, this book was first published (in 1976) in France under the title La valse aux adieux (Farewell Waltz), and later in thirty-four other countries. This beautiful new translation, made from the French text prepared by the novelist himself, fully reflects his own tone and intentions. As such it offers an opportunity for both the discovery and the rediscovery of one of the very best of a great writer's work.
Becoming orgasmic
By Unknown Author
Advises women how to reassess their sexual backgrounds, explore their sensual feelings, and improve their sexual relationships, and discusses how to recover from sexual traumas.
Good Work, Amelia Bedelia
By Unknown Author
Literal-minded Amelia Bedelia does household chores and gets dinner ready.
Pengantar hukum internasional
By Unknown Author
On international law and national security & defense in Indonesia.
Linear algebra and its applications
By Unknown Author
This text combines the underlying theory discussions with examples from electrical engineering, computer science, physics, biology, and economics.
Phép lạ của sự tỉnh thức
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Crime and criminology
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Persönlichkeitstest
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Modern clinical psychology
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
American government
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
Doorways in the Sand
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1976.
The Pride of the Peacock
By Unknown Author
Only the strongest love can combat the dangers attached to this fabled opal stone Victoria Holt takes readers on an exhilarating ride in this mesmerizing classic set in turn-of-the-century England. Raised in the shadow of her family's financial ruin, Jessica Clavering has never been understood or loved at the Dower House. But when a unique inheritance compels her to marry the owner of a fabled opal mine, she leaves her past behind in pursuit of a brighter future in Australia. It's only once they arrive on the far away continent that Jessica starts to uncover her family's dark past.
The Thomas Berryman number
By Unknown Author
Three terrifying murders in the South culminate in a relentless manhunt in the North that centers on a ruthless assassin, the woman he loves, and the beloved leader he is hired to kill with extreme prejudice.