Top Books of 1981
The most significant literary works published this year.
The Eyes of Darkness
By Unknown Author
Tina Evans has spent a year suffering from incredible heartache since her son Danny's tragic death. But now, with her Vegas show about to premiere, Tina can think of no better time for a fresh start. Maybe she can finally move on and put her grief behind her. Only there is a message for Tina, scrawled on the chalkboard in Danny's room: NOT DEAD. Two words that send her on a terrifying journey from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the cold shadows of the High Sierras, where she uncovers a terrible secret..
Cujo
By Unknown Author
Cujo (/ˈkjuːdʒoʊ/) is a 1981 psychological horror novel by American writer Stephen King about a rabid Saint Bernard. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982 and was made into a film in 1983.
George's Marvelous Medicine
By Unknown Author
What's the only cure for the meanest grandmother in the world? George creates a fierce and fantastic bubbling brew, the perfect cure. In this popular Dahl story, George creates a very special medicine to cure his grandma of her nasty habits. Great new Quentin Blake cover as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.
Red Dragon
By Unknown Author
Red Dragon is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, first published in 1981. The plot follows former FBI profiler Will Graham, who comes out of retirement to find and apprehend an enigmatic serial-killer nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy". The novel introduced the character Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial-killer, whom Graham reluctantly turns to for advice and with whom he has a dark past. The title refers to the figure from William Blake's painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun.
Midnight's Children
By Unknown Author
Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie. It portrays India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and the partition of India. It is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literature. The story is told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical events. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive. Midnight's Children won both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981. It was awarded the "Booker of Bookers" Prize and the best all-time prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary.In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels". It was also added to the list of Great Books of the 20th Century, published by Penguin Books. ---------- Contains: [Midnight's Children (2/2)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24710315W)
Scary stories to tell in the dark
By Unknown Author
Stories of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories.
God Emperor of Dune
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1981.
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
By Unknown Author
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981) is a novel by Beverly Cleary in the Ramona series. Ramona Quimby is in the third grade, now at a new school, and making some new friends. With Beezus in Jr. High and Mr. Quimby going back to college, Ramona feels the pressure with everyone counting on her to manage at school by herself and get along with Willa Jean after school every day. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 was named a Newbery Honor book in 1982. ---------- Also contained in: [Unstoppable Ramona and Beezus](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL151945W)
Chemical information resources handbook
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1981.
Falcon's Prey
By Unknown Author
Desert Bride. Felicia accepted there would be hurdles to overcome when she agreed to accompany her fiance, Faisal, to his homeland: she was ordinary English girl, and he was an Arab from a immensely wealthy family. But there was one particular problem she hadn't bargained for- Faisal's uncle, Sheikh Raschid al Hamid al Sabah. It wasn't just Raschid's mistaken conviction that Felicia was an unprincipled gold digger that was causing her alarm. It was the slowly awakening realization that she might have become engaged to the wrong man....
Not Once But Twice
By Unknown Author
Dr. Duert ter Brandt disapproved of Christina's relationship with his brother Adam, and he made sure they both knew it. True, he didn't stop Chrissy from coming to Holland to work near Adam. Still, he made it clear that her infatuation was not in the best interest of his hospital. But maybe he had other --hidden-- reasons for hoping that Chrissy would give up her notion of love at first sight…..
If There Be Thorns
By Unknown Author
*If There Be Thorns* is a novel by Virginia Andrews which was published in 1981. It is the third book in the Dollanganger series. The story takes place in the year 1982. The book is narrated by two half-brothers, Jory and Bart Sheffield. Jory is a handsome, talented young man who wants to follow his mother Cathy in her career in the ballet, while Bart, who is unattractive and clumsy, feels he is outshone by Jory. By now, Cathy and Chris live together as common-law husband and wife. To hide their history, they tell the boys and other people they know that Chris was Paul's younger brother. Unable to have more children, Cathy secretly adopts Cindy, the daughter of one her former dance students, who was killed in an accident, because she longs to have a child that is hers and Chris's. Initially against it, Chris comes to accept the child. Lonely from all the attention Jory and Cindy are receiving, Bart befriends an elderly neighbor that moved in next door, who invites him over for cookies and ice cream and encourages him to call her "Grandmother." Jory also visits the old lady next door, and she reveals that she is actually his grandmother. Jory initially doesn't believe her, and avoids her at all costs. The old woman and Bart, on the other hand, soon develop an affectionate friendship, and the woman does her best to give Bart whatever he wants, provided that Bart promises to keep her gifts—-and their relationship-—a secret from his mother. ---------- Also contained in: [If There Be Thorns / Seeds of Yesterday](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16526063W)
A Light in the Attic
By Unknown Author
A collection of humorous poems and drawings.
Desire
By Unknown Author
Natasha was crushed when her engagement to Mike Porter was suddenly called off. And that was the only reason she allowed herself to have so much champagne at the party. But there was no excuse for finding herself in Lee Farrell's bed the next morning. That was something totally out of character for Natasha—and it cost her dearly. Rushed into marriage, expecting Lee’s baby, she thought the future seemed bleak indeed. For how could she ever love a man she hardly even knew?
Retribution
By Unknown Author
His intentions were definitely dangerous Laura didn’t know why Simon Hilliard had asked her sister, Annette, to go to Paris. Whatever the reason, it could only mean trouble if she accepted. Simon had a reputation – and it wasn’t a good one! So Laura jumped in to save her sophisticated but careless sister. And Simon lost no time in turning his charm on Laura herself. Soon she discovered that Simon bore a secret grudge against her whole family. She might save her sister – but she had no idea of how to save herself.
Social welfare and social work
By Unknown Author
A thorough exploration of diversity and social justice within the field of social work Multicultural Social Work Practice: A Competency-Based Approach to Diversity and Social Justice, 2nd Edition has been aligned with the Council on Social Work Education's 2015 Educational Policy and Standards and incorporates the National Association of Social Workers Standards of Cultural Competence. New chapters focus on theoretical perspectives of critical race theory, microaggressions and changing societal attitudes, and evidence-based practice on research-supported approaches for understanding the influence of cultural differences on the social work practice.
Confirmed bachelor
By Unknown Author
Her assignment was glamorous but tough. The man Robyn was sent to work with was the disreputable playboy author, Bradley Dexter--a man whose scandalous life-style and cynical attitude she despised. However, Robyn wasn't easily deterred. She ignored the noisy parties and exotic women at Brad's villa and set determinedly to work. Making Bradley concentrate on his manuscript required the most devious tactics--and Robyn pretended to be as jaded as he was. But falling in love with this outrageous man was never part of her plan!
The Hostage Bride
By Unknown Author
First edition.
Heartbreaker
By Unknown Author
For the sake of her little daughter, Caroline had had to run away from her violent and cruel husband Peter. Now he was dead, and his cousin Nick had come to take Caroline back – to the mother-in-law she had always loved, and who loved and now needed her. But how was she going to cope with Nick? Nick, who had believed every lie Peter had told him about her, and who now made it plain that he distrusted and despised her. Could Caroline ever make him see the truth? And why was she so anxious that he should?
Temple of Fire
By Unknown Author
Would love rise from the ashes of tragedy? Julian Standford had everything: looks, virility, intelligence and money. The perfect gentleman - if gentlemen were also heartless and ruthless! Unfortunately, Fleur's little stepbrother was a Standford, too, and the only way she could be with him was to live under the same roof as Julian. For the sake of her stepbrother, she'd try to forget how the Standfords had ruined her life. But Julian seemed determined to continue the destruction...
Roadwork
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1981.
Summer of the Weeping Rain
By Unknown Author
FEAR KEPT HER FROM STARTING A NEW LIFE. At home, Lisa would never forget the tragic consequences of her accident -- a scar and the loss of her fiance. A job on a distant Karoo farm offered a solution. Unfortunately, the job meant working for the devastating Adam Vandeleur. He was an impossible man to please. So when Lisa heard his mother say, "You need a wife, Adam, someone like Lisa," she didn't know whether to laugh -- or to run!
Getting to yes
By Unknown Author
Getting to Yes offers a concise, step-by-step, proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict—whether it involves parents and children, neighbors, bosses and employees, customers or corporations, tenants or diplomats. Based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals continually with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution from domestic to business to international, Getting to Yes tells you how to:Separate the people from the problem;Focus on interests, not positions;Work together to create options that will satisfy both parties; andNegotiate successfully with people who are more powerful, refuse to play by the rules, or resort to "dirty tricks."Since its original publication in 1981, Getting to Yes has been translated into 18 languages and has sold over 1 million copies in its various editions. This completely revised edition is a universal guide to the art of negotiating personal and professional disputes. It offers a concise strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict.
Hell is my heaven
By Unknown Author
Suddenly events shot out of her control. When her married sister, Shirley, and the new baby had to move in with her, Kate Forrest reluctantly gave up school teaching for a more lucrative career in modeling. But she hadn't counted on Shirley's tragic death, and having to raise her orphaned nephew. Yet Kate was determined to do it .... So was the child's uncle, the forceful Jerome Manfred. And he wanted Kate as much as he wanted the child--at any price, Kate furiously discovered. Even that of blackmailing her into marriage!
North of Capricorn
By Unknown Author
Would the sordid past haunt her forever? Caroline had been abandoned as a child, but when a house was left to her in her father's will, she went to north Queensland to claim her inheritance. She didn't even know she had a past, let alone a questionable one. But Kiall Stirling knew otherwise. In his eyes, Caroline had been tarred with the same brush as her mother, whose only crime it seemed, was in loving a man...
Jumanji
By Unknown Author
Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.
Where two ways meet
By Unknown Author
She was equal to almost any task As part of a skilled medical team, Margot Huntley was sensitive and alert to the needs of her job. She had to be especially since the arrival of Jordan Merrick, the new senior surgeon. Margot had never forgotten that Jordan once thought himself too good for her. Nor had she forgiven him for callously crushing all the tender feelings she'd nurtured for him. Now the knowledge that he wanted to be her lover only angered her ...until his rich, socially acceptable fiancee turned up.
Computer Networks
By Unknown Author
A contemporary, yet classic, introduction to today's key networking technologies Computer Networks, Fifth Edition, is the ideal introduction to the networking field. This bestseller reflects the latest networking technologies with a special emphasis on wireless networking, including 802.11, 802.16, Bluetooth™, and 3G cellular, paired with fixed-network coverage of ADSL, Internet over cable, gigabit Ethernet, MLPS, and peer-to-peer networks. Notably, this latest edition incorporates new coverage on 3G mobile phone networks, Fiber to the Home, RIFD, delay-tolerant networks, and 802.11 security, in addition to expanded material on Internet routing, multicasting, congestion control, quality of service, real-time transport, and content distribution. Authors Andrew Tanenbaum and Davis Wetherall describe the inner facets of the network, exploring its functionality from underlying hardware to applications, including: Physical layer (e.g., copper, fiber, wireless, satellites, and Internet over cable) Data link layer (e.g., protocol principles, protocol verification, HDLC, and PPP) MAC Sublayer (e.g., gigabit Ethernet, 802.11, broadband wireless, and switching) Network layer (e.g., routing algorithms, congestion control, QoS, IPv4, and IPv6) Transport layer (e.g., socket programming, UDP, TCP, RTP, and network performance) Application layer (e.g., e-mail, the Web, PHP, wireless Web, MP3, and streaming audio) Network security (e.g., AES, RSA, quantum cryptography, IPsec, and Web security) The book dissects and depicts the principles associated with each layer and then translates them through examples from the Internet and wireless networks.
Second-Best Bride
By Unknown Author
Angie didn't know all the facts! When her sister, Cilla, decided not to marry Terzan Helios after all, Angie was persuaded to go to his Greek island to break the news. Cilla had described Terzan as "sinfully wealthy and wickedly attractive. " But she had neglected to tell Angie one thing--Terzan was now blind. Angie's heart soon went out to the proud, enigmatic Greek. Yet she would never let him suspect that her feelings were stronger than compassion. For to Terzan, Angie would always he a mere substitute....
Season of shadows
By Unknown Author
"Can you think of a better solution?" Laura's mind searched frantically for alternatives. She simply could not marry this cold cynical man. But her newly orphaned niece, Sally, needed both Anton DeVere and her for a stable home I ife. Laura stared at Anton in helpless confusion and finally replied hoarsely, "No--" Totally immersed in her own feelings, she flinched in surprise at Anton's harsh reaction. "Do you think I want this marriage any more than you do?"
An Apple from Eve
By Unknown Author
Love wasn't part of their bargain Renting their house was the only way Euphemia could salvage her family's muddled finances. If only the tenant had been someone she liked--anyone but Dr. Tane van Diederijk, that disturbingly abrupt man .... Then Tane asked her to accompany his spoiled and demanding fiancee, who'd recently been ill, to Spain. Reluctantly Euphemia agreed and found everything seemed to change there. Especially the way she felt about the handsome doctor.
The Wave
By Unknown Author
A dramatization of an actual classroom experiment in establishing a fascist society. In this account, Laurie tries to persuade Mr. Ross to call off the experiment.
The Soul of a New Machine
By Unknown Author
"The Soul of a New Machine" is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chronicles the experiences of a computer engineering team racing to design a next-generation computer at a blistering pace under tremendous pressure. The machine was launched in 1980 as the Data General Eclipse MV/8000. The book won the 1982 National Book Award for Non-fiction and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
Bed of Roses
By Unknown Author
She was caught up in a dazzling world. Annis decided she had to sell her childhood home, an island jewel in the Caribbean. She needed the cash and resolutely called Drogo Wolfe. An attractive if eccentric millionaire, he'd once shown an interest in the property. Drogo's response, however, staggered her. He wasn't sure he wanted the island - but he definitely wanted Annis as his wife! Annis soon found he'd give her anything--anything, she realized painfully, except his love...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
By Unknown Author
In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.
Principles of corporate finance
By Unknown Author
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Valis
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1981.
Rain of Diamonds
By Unknown Author
A man doesn't want the love of a girl Although she was alone in the world and very young, Francesca's idolization of the man who became her protector was no puppy love. With Caspar Barrington she had sailed the golden Caribbean. Life had been idyllic--until the news arrived. Caspar was Lord Lanyon now. They went to England, where Francesca couldn't help comparing herself to the eligible women anxious to be his wife. She must leave before heartbreak destroyed her completely.
Works (Carrie / Night Shift / 'Salem's Lot / Shining)
By Unknown Author
Contains: - [Carrie][4] - [Night Shift][3] - ['Salem's Lot][2] - [Shining][1] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81633W [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81632W [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81608W [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81626W/Carrie
Untouched Wife
By Unknown Author
The photographs were explicit and damning Marcos Santana was right: no one would believe that he and Sharley had not been having an affair the pictures said it all. Sharley knew there was good reason for the blackmail. The labor disputes in Marcos's Portuguese vineyards and the merger with her Godfather's English Corp. would blow up if the pictures were released. There was no alternative but to destroy the photographs scandal value. They must get married-quickly! The marriage would be in name only, but would Marcos's girlfriend, Teresa understand that? Would Marcos...?
Innocent Abroad
By Unknown Author
"You've been well paid for the bargain." The deep voice over the phone made no sense at all until Reggie's sister Bella hastened to explain the immensity of the problem. It seemed that Bella had agreed to act as Severo Cardenosa's fiancee, but then had to run out on him. So, to help her sister, soft-hearted Reggie went to Uruguay to the despicable Severo. Once there, however, Reggie learned that Severo meant to carry the charade to its bitter conclusion--meaning marriage! How on earth would she get out of this mess?
Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
By Unknown Author
A fifth grade class, repelled by the overweight new student who has serious home problems, finally learns to accept her.
Say Hello to Yesterday
By Unknown Author
Holly Weston had done it all alone. She had raised her small son and worked her way up to features writer for a major newspaper. Still the bitterness of the past seven years lingered. She had been very young when she married Nick Falconer--but old enough to lose her heart completely when he left. Despite her success in her new life, her old one haunted her. But it was over and done with--until an assignment in Greece brought her face to face with Nick and all she was trying to forget...
Ain't I a Woman
By Unknown Author
A world renowned author, scholar, public intellectual, and activist, bell hooks was 19 years old when she wrote *Ain't I a Woman* (published ten years later). It was her first book, and one of the first published by South End Press, an independent, np, collectively-organized publisher dedicated to advancing movements for radical social change.
The Velvet Promise
By Unknown Author
All of England rejoiced on her wedding day. But Judith vowed that her husband would get only what he took from her! At the flower-bedecked altar, the first touch of their hands ignited an all-consuming passion. Gavin Montgomery looked deep into her golden eyes and burned with desire for her...but his heart had been pledged to another. Humiliated and alone in a strange castle, Judith resolved to hate this husband who took her body, but rejected her love...never admitting her fear of losing him. But destiny held another fate for Judith...a fate that would keep at last...The Velvet Promise. Montgomery/Taggert (in chronological order): The Black Lyon (Montgomery/Taggert, #1) The Maiden (Montgomery/Taggert, #2) The Velvet Promise (Velvet Montgomery Annuals Tetralogy #1) (Montgomery/Taggert, #3) Highland Velvet (Velvet Montgomery Annuals Tetralogy #2) (Montgomery/Taggert, #4) Velvet Song (Velvet Montgomery Annuals Tetralogy #3) (Montgomery/Taggert, #5) Velvet Angel (Velvet Montgomery Annuals Tetralogy #4) (Montgomery/Taggert, #6) The Velvet Quartet Velvet (Montgomery Annuals Tetralogy #1-4) The Heiress (Montgomery/Taggert, #7) The Raider (Montgomery/Taggert, #8) Mountain Laurel (Montgomery/Taggert, #9) Eternity (Montgomery/Taggert, #10) The Duchess (Montgomery/Taggert, #11) Twin of Ice (Chandler Twins, #1) (Montgomery/Taggert, #12) Twin of Fire (Chandler Twins, #2) (Montgomery/Taggert, #13) The Temptress (Montgomery/Taggert, #14) Wishes (Montgomery/Taggert, #15) The Awakening (Montgomery/Taggert, #16) The Invitation (Montgomery/Taggert, #17) The Princess (Montgomery/Taggert, #18) A Knight in Shining Armor (Montgomery/Taggert Family, #19) Sweet Liar (Montgomery/Taggert, #20) Just Curious (Montgomery/Taggert, #21) High Tide (Montgomery/Taggert, #22) Holly (Montgomery/Taggert, #23) Someone to Love (Montgomery/Taggert, #24) Forever... (Forever, #1) (Montgomery/Taggert, #25) Forever and Always (Forever, #2) (Montgomery/Taggert, #26) Always (Montgomery/Taggert, #27) A gift of Love (includes Montgomery/Taggert, #27) True Love (Nantucket Brides, #1)(Montgomery/Taggert, #28) For All Time (Nantucket Brides, #2)(Montgomery/Taggert, #29) Ever After (Nantucket Brides, #3)(Montgomery/Taggert, #30) Met Her Match(Montgomery/Taggert, #31) Simple Gifts: Just Curious / Miracles / Change of Heart / Double Exposure (Montgomery/Taggert)
Human Anatomy & Physiology
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1981.
No More Monsters for Me!
By Unknown Author
Minneapolis Simpkin is not allowed to have a pet, so she finds the most unusual replacement.
The minds of Billy Milligan
By Unknown Author
Subjected to horrific abuse at the hands of his stepfather, Billy Milligan "went to sleep" to protect himself from the pain. In his place other personalities rose: Ragan, the protector of children; Alan, the fast-talking con man; Christene, a cheerful innocent child; Adalana, a melancholy lesbian who yearned for love...twenty-four personalities in total. But when Billy is implicated in a series of rapes and abductions, it will take a devoted psychologist and a landmark trial to discover which personality is responsible, and uncover the dark past that created them.
Dance of the Snake
By Unknown Author
Dane had no wish for commitment. He regarded all women as potential bedmates. And Jessica, newly arrived doctor in the Transvaal town, resolved that she would never be one of them. Her relationship with Dane Trafford would be strictly professional; she admired him as a doctor. The problem was that he insisted on seeing her as a woman. Jessica prided herself on alwasy having firm control over her emotions, yet he swiftly pierced her armor. As never before, Jessica was made very much aware that she was a woman.
Devil Lover
By Unknown Author
Andreas had every reason to hate her. Regan’s father had run off with the wife of Andreas Vatis, and Andreas wasn’t the kind of man to take that lightly. He wanted revenge, and now that her father was dead, Regan was the only one who could appease Andreas’s wounded Greek pride. “I want what your father deprived me of,” he told her insolently. “A wife... and the sons I need to inherit the Vatis empire.” Regan knew how much he despised her, and she would never willingly give him what he so ruthlessly demanded.
The Lion of La Roche
By Unknown Author
**Her situation was desperate** Caroline Adams needed money; Gustav de Leeuw needed a wife. So he offered to settle her debt if she'd act as his wife. Their marriage was to be temporary. Caroline soon realized it wasn't entirely a businesslike relationship that Gustav had in mind. Yet he had told her that "love is an overrated emotion I have no time or desire for.” But she was unable to resist him or to stop herself from falling in love with him. And to Caroline's growing despair, she knew his deep cynicism was unshakable ....
Ronja rövardotter
By Unknown Author
This is the Story of a robber's daughter called Ronja who grows up amidst a whole band of robbers in a old castle deep in a big forrest.
Heaven Round the Corner (Best of Betty Neels)
By Unknown Author
Louisa didn’t want to marry the boring Frank, and she definitely didn’t want to live with her stepmother. Luckily, after completing her training, Louisa found what sounded like a pleasant and challenging nursing job—in Norway! She was delighted. She enjoyed her job, even though her patient, Claudia Savage, did cause some problems. Of course, the situation wasn’t helped by the cold, uncooperative attitude of Claudia’s brother Simon. She couldn’t understand why he was so disagreeable…
Night Over Water
By Unknown Author
On a bright September morning in 1939, two days after Britain declares war on Germany, a group of privileged but desperate people gather in Southhampton to board the largest, most luxurious airliner ever built, the Pan American Clipper bound for New York.
Works (Awakening / Beyond the Bayou / Desiree's Baby / Kiss / Locket / Ma'ame Pelagie / Pair of Silk Stockings / Reflection / Respectable Woman)
By Unknown Author
Contains: [The Awakening][1] [Beyond the Bayou][2] Ma'ame Pelagie [Desiree's Baby][3] A Respectable Woman The Kiss [A Pair of Silk Stockings][4] The Locket A Reflection [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15841605W/The_Awakening [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14943640W [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078777W [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078930W
Drama des begabten Kindes
By Unknown Author
Examines the cyclical patterns of parental exploitation and the resulting loss of self-esteem in their children.
Uncle Elephant
By Unknown Author
Uncle Elephant comes to the rescue when his nephew's parents are lost at sea and cares for him until they are found again.
Mujeres, Raza Y Clase (Cuestiones De Antagonismo)
By Unknown Author
Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's movement in the context of the fight for civil rights and working class issues. She uncovers a side of the fight for suffrage many of us have not heard: the intimate tie between the anti-slavery campaign and the struggle for women's suffrage. She shows how the racist and classist bias of some in the women's movement have divided its own membership. Davis' message is clear: If we ever want equality, we're gonna have to fight for it together.
Summer of the Raven (#440)
By Unknown Author
he was trapped into a lie! Rowan's stepmother, Antonia Winslow, was selfish and totally unscrupulous. It suited her purposes to pretend that Rowan was only sixteen years old. But it was nineteen-year-old Rowan who suffered the backlash of the lie. Forced by Antonia's conniving to live in the isolated household of famous painter Carne Maitland, Rowan was helplessly drawn by the force of his personality. But what was the use of falling in love with him when Carne assumed he was merely the object of Rowan's adolescent fantasies?
Downbelow station
By Unknown Author
From back cover Daw paperback February 1981: Pell's Star occupied the central spot in the coming conflict between Earth's tired stellar empire and the tough onslaught of its rebellious colonies. Whoever controlled Pell's Downbelow station held the key to Earth's defensive perimeter -- or the jumping off point for a Terrestrial offensive to regain the lost empire. But Pell had always been neutral and was determined to remain so. This is a powerful, complex, and enthralling novel of interstellar conflict and ambitions. In its pages you will meet and strive with many vivid persons, human and non-human, who futures would hang on the outcome of that titanic struggle.
Introduction to electrodynamics
By Unknown Author
This is an undergraduate-level text to introduce students to the basic concepts of electrodynamics.
The Phantom Prince
By Unknown Author
Elizabeth Kendall is not her real name, but she is a real person. Ted Bundy is on Death Row in a Florida prison, convicted of the murders of two young women and a twelve-year-old girl; stands convicted of an attempted kidnapping of a young woman in Utah; escaped from a Colorado prison where he was awaiting trail for murder; and is believed by some police authorities to be responsible for the death s of as many as forty young women in these and other states. Books and articles about Ted Bundy have described his charm and appeal to women, his intelligence and his promising career in politics. They have speculated about the hidden horror and the terrible mystery of what made this man a killer. No one has an answer.
Love's agony
By Unknown Author
Would he misconstrue her love as pity? Angela Hart's love for Enrique de Zaldo was only intensified by the tragedy of his blindness. She had loved him all her life. Called by his Spanish father to their Mediterranean island, Angie hoped to nurse Rique out of his despair. Patience and compassion would surely conquer his bitterness. But it wasn't enough. What Rique needed was to feel the passion of a woman. And Angie knew she had to be that woman, even though it meant Rique would despise her for it....
Promise to Pay
By Unknown Author
Could she trade sex for financial security? Why was Roxanne's father encouraging his business competitor's attraction for her? She saw no need to pander to the businessman's ego. Sebastian Blair's electronics firm was the largest in New Zealand, but her father's company surely was second? But it wasn't. It was near bankruptcy, and only a merger with Sebastian's company would save Roxanne's family from ruin. "He likes you--be nice to him," her father had pleaded. Roxanne shuddered, wondering just what the sensuously handsome Sebastian's idea of "nice" was... and then he proposed marriage!
Work stress and social support
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1981.
Freedom To Love
By Unknown Author
Women were just playmates to him. Adam Wild was a dynamic man—a talented photographer, exceptionally attractive, but cynical to the core. Women flocked to him, but his affairs never lasted long. In his own words, “Only freedom can give happiness.” So when Katy found herself with no alternative but to share her holiday in the Canadian Rockies with him, she was determined to resist his powerful charms. Much as she longed to be that special woman in his life, she knew it was impossible. She’d only end up getting deeply hurt.
The Hotel New Hampshire
By Unknown Author
The Hotel New Hampshire follows the Berry family across two continents and through three hotels. Family members attract friends who substitute lust, violence, laughter and tears for the standard bourgeois components.
My dear innocent
By Unknown Author
She just wished she could hate him Camira had grudgingly come to accept her new circumstances--strangers living in her family's Queensland home and working the horse-training stables. She could even accept Marc Riley as Camira Lodge's new owner. He was an excellent trainer, and she actually enjoyed working for him. But the man himself disturbed her. She was just beginning to understand her feelings for him when David Thorpe and Lisa Mackenzie turned up to spoil everything.
Night probe!
By Unknown Author
In the midst of an international crisis, Heidi Milligan, a beautiful, brilliant American naval commander, accidentally discovers an obscure reference to the long-buried North American Treaty, a precedent-shattering secret pact between the United States and Great Britain. The President believes that the treaty offers the single shot at salvation for an energy-starved, economically devastated nation, but the only two copies plummeted into the watery depths of the Atlantic in twin disasters long ago. The original document must be found—and the one American who can do the job is Dirk Pitt. But in London, a daring counterplot is being orchestrated to see that the treaty is never implemented. Brian Shaw, a master spy who has often worked hand in hand with American agents, now confronts his most challenging command. Pitt’s mission: Raise the North American Treaty. Shaw’s mission: Stop Pitt. Dirk Pitt proved invincible in Raise the Titanic! Now, with the future of virtually every person in the world at stake, he is enlisted to spearhead his most daring mission yet—the rescue of a vital document for the United States. To an energy-starved, economically devastated America, possession of this document is worth billions. But to Great Britain, it’s worth a war. Pitt’s quest plunges him into a head-to-head confrontation with Britian’s most cunning secret agent—and into the throes of a torrid love triangle. As time runs out for a desperate America, Dirk Pitt races toward an underwater clash more terrifying than anything Clive Cussler has ever created—the breathtaking climax of Night Probe!
Duelling Fire
By Unknown Author
She couldn't bear the unexpected truth Sara gladly accepted the offer of acting as companion to her youthful Aunt Harriet. Her father had recently died, and she welcomed the solace the English countryside offered. But life in Harriet's household proved far from peaceful. Most disturbing to Sara was Jude, a blunt and darkly seductive man. Why had Harriet hired him? And what did he do? Then understanding dawned on her: Jude was her aunt's lover. Yet she couldn't deny the deep attraction she herself felt for him - an attraction he seemed to reciprocate! Hero: Jude (Rupert) Hadley Heroine: Sara Shelley
The one minute manager
By Unknown Author
Details a simple, yet effective management system based on three fundamental strategies for earning raises, promotions, and power in business.
Let The Circle be Unbroken
By Unknown Author
Let the Circle Be Unbroken is a story of a small Mississippi town in the 1930s, and the troubles that plague its black community. Picking up where its precursor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, leaves off, Mildred Taylor recounts the trials of this small community through the characters of the Logan family. More specifically, it focuses on the children of the family; Stacey, Cassie, Little Man and Christopher. This family struggles with the changing world around them, living the hard and poor life of farmers, and in the end, realizing what really matters in life. As seen through the eyes of Cassie, a preadolescent girl who is growing up in a turbulent time, the story opens with the impending trial of TJ Avery. TJ, a young black man and friend of Stacey, is accused of murder and must stand trial. He is found guilty and sentenced to death for a crime he clearly did not commit. Meanwhile, the Logan family is facing its own problems. As the only black landowners in town, Mama and Papa are chronically worried about the taxes they must pay. To earn extra money, Papa ventures south to work on the railroad. While he is gone, major events unfold, and the Logans face numerous challenges. The trouble begins in the schoolyard, when Cassie directly disobeys her father, and Stacey huddles in private conversations with boys who dream of more than they have. More is revealed about the life of the farmer here, and the entire community of sharecroppers almost always convenes here, as it is on the same grounds as the church. They discuss problems in the fields, and the struggles they must face. Mama's cousin, Bud, begins the unraveling of the Logans' values by announcing his marriage to a white woman. To boot, the couple has a daughter, and with a mixed background, she is struggling to find her own identity. She is sent to live on the Logan farm to learn about her heritage. It is there that she discovers the dangers that she faces. When a white boy shows an interest in her, she threatens her own safety by pretending to be white. And as the only other young female in the house, she is greeted by Cassie's feelings of jealousy and contempt. She is not the only teenager going through an identity crisis, though. Stacey, the eldest son, is struggling to become a man. He feels that in order to do so, he must take actions beyond growing a mustache and distancing himself from his younger siblings. He wants to get a job, but his own mother's reluctance to approve such an act leaves Stacey to devise a secret plan. He will put himself into unspeakable danger to make his living, and he will send his entire family into a tailspin of worry and distress.
Understanding and using English grammar
By Unknown Author
A classic developmental skills text for intermediate to advanced students of English, Understanding and Using English Grammar is a comprehensive reference grammar as well as a stimulating and teachable classroom text. While keeping the same basic approach and material as in earlier editions, the Fourth Edition more fully develops communicative and interactive language-learning activities. Some of the new features are: Innovative warm-up exercises that precede the grammar charts and introduce points to be taught; Structure-based listening exercises ranging from casual speech to academic content; Academic readings that highlight the targeted grammar structures; Greatly expanded speaking practice with extensive pair, group and class work; Corpus-informed syllabus that reflects the discourse patterns of spoken and written English; Audio CDs and listening script in the back of the Student Book. - Publisher.
Homecoming
By Unknown Author
The iconic start to the timeless, Newbery-winning series from Cynthia Voigt. “It’s still true.” That’s the first thing James Tillerman says to his older sister, Dicey, every morning. It’s still true that their mother has abandoned the four Tillermans in a mall parking lot somewhere in the middle of Connecticut. It’s still true that they have to find their own way to Great-aunt Cilla’s house in Bridgeport. It’s still true that they need to spend as little as possible on food and seek shelter anywhere that is out of view of the authorities. It’s still true that the only way they can hope to all stay together is to just keep moving forward. Deep down, Dicey hopes they can find someone to trust, someone who will take them in and love them. But she’s afraid it’s just too much to hope for....
Shadow Dance
By Unknown Author
Alix was much too smart for this job. Alix Conroy's journalistic talents were unquestioned, so her boss, Carl Danning, gave her difficult assignments, she usually welcomed the challenge. This time he went too far with his demands. He made it clear that he wanted the gorgeous Alix for his wife, to bear his children and be a good little social hostess. Alix laughed in his face. There was no way she was going to cooperate to make that assignment successful! clear
O Alienista
By Unknown Author
Who's crazy? This is the question proposed in this book. In this narrative, Machado de Assis tells the story of the eminent Dr. Simão Bacamarte. Dedicated scholar of the human mind, the doctor decides to build a ' Green House '-a mental hospital to treat the mentally ill in the small town of Itaguaí. Machado leads to its history and maintains that everything is relative and that normality is not always what the science and the facts attest to absolute form.
Dark Summer Dawn
By Unknown Author
The invitation held a pointed challenge. Lisa didn't have the heart to refuse her stepsister's request. Julie had never been very good at organizing matters, and she simply couldn't handle her wedding plans alone. But Lisa had no idea she was stepping into a viper's nest! Not only was Julie acting strange, but there was another problem: Dane Riderwood, Julie's brother. Two years before, Lisa had fled from Dane in shame and humiliation. Now he was even more handsome, more dangerous—and more determined than ever to have Lisa on his own terms.
Psychology principles in practice
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1981.
Windhaven
By Unknown Author
George R. R. Martin has thrilled a generation of readers with his epic works of the imagination, most recently the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling saga told in the novels A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, and A Storm of Swords. Lisa Tuttle has won acclaim from fans of science fiction, horror, and fantasy alike -- most recently for her haunting novel The Pillow Friend. Now together they gift readers with this classic tale of a brilliantly rendered world of ironbound tradition, where a rebellious soul seeks to prove the power of a dream.The planet of Windhaven was not originally a home to humans, but it became one following the crash of a colony starship. It is a world of small islands, harsh weather, and monster-infested seas. Communication among the scattered settlements was virtually impossible until the discovery that, thanks to light gravity and a dense atmosphere, humans were able to fly with the aid of metal wings made of bits of the cannibalized spaceship.Many generations later, among the scattered islands that make up the water world of Windhaven, no one holds more prestige than the silver-winged flyers, who bring news, gossip, songs, and stories. They are romantic figures crossing treacherous oceans, braving shifting winds and sudden storms that could easily dash them from the sky to instant death. They are also members of an increasingly elite caste, for the wings -- always in limited quantity -- are growing gradually rarer as their bearers perish.With such elitism comes arrogance and a rigid adherence to hidebound tradition. And for the flyers, allowing just anyone to join their cadre is an idea that borders on heresy. Wings are meant only for the offspring of flyers -- now the new nobility of Windhaven. Except that sometimes life is not quite so neat.Maris of Amberly, a fisherman's daughter, was raised by a flyer and wants nothing more than to soar on the currents high above Windhaven. By tradition, however, the wings must go to her stepbrother, Coll, the flyer's legitimate son. But Coll wants only to be a singer, traveling the world by sea. So Maris challenges tradition, demanding that flyers be chosen on the basis of merit rather than inheritance. And when she wins that bitter battle, she discovers that her troubles are only beginning.For not all flyers are willing to accept the world's new structure, and as Maris battles to teach those who yearn to fly, she finds herself likewise fighting to preserve the integrity of a society she so longed to join -- not to mention the very fabric that holds her culture together.From the Hardcover edition.
The loving slave
By Unknown Author
When did love turn to vengeful hate? Young Gina hero-worshipped Quentin Hurst, but to him she was just a child, a dirty tomboy who helped in his stables with the horses. His frequent snide remarks had been cruel, but she'd always forgiven him. Except for the cruelest cut of all—his smiling indulgence of the elegant Blanche Edgar. But Gina was older now, with beauty and status of her own. The wounded heart she bore was a woman's heart, and now, in turn, with a woman's wiles she wanted to hurt Quentin
Diksi dan gaya bahasa
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1981.
I Want to Go Home!
By Unknown Author
Rudy Miller has tons of ideas on how to escape the camp he's been sent to "for his own good." The problem is - none of them work. Rudy teams up with Mike Webster, a quiet guy who's almost as happy to be there as Rudy is, and many "great escapes" are carefully planned and hilariously attempted. Chip, their counselor and nemesis, is just as determined to keep them there as they are to leave.
Why we struck
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1981.
Stranger In The Night
By Unknown Author
She hadn't even known his name As an inexperienced drama student, Clare had been shocked and disgusted by the sudden and rough lovemaking of Luke, an older, handsome stranger. She had turned away from love — for good. Now, nine years later, Clare was a famous actress. She valued her friendship with Macey Janson, a leading playwright and producer, because Macey was willing to leave it at that — just friends. But when chance suddenly thrust Luke back into Clare's life she faced a strange situation that was a threat to all her relationships
The interloper
By Unknown Author
She would sacrifice everything for Mark Meredith had no choice after her mother's death but to turn to her estranged grandfather for help. To keep her two-year-old brother, Mark, from his tyrannical clutches, however, she pretended that Mark was her own illegitimate son. Meredith's life with her grandfather, even on his Fiji island paradise, wasn't easy; and his overbearing business manager, Dane Fowler, was a fascinating complication Meredith could well do without. Dane was a clever man, she guessed. She must never let herself forget that he was ruthless, too....
Spitfire (Harlequin Romance, #2443)
By Unknown Author
How could she bear to stay with him? Bobbie hadn't even really got over her parents' death and already she had to face losing Greentree Farm. When Rod Simpson offered not only to buy the farm but also to let her stay on, Bobbie wasn't grateful. In fact, she was furious. He might be the best horse breeder and harness racer in the country, but he was just a bit too high-handed for her. So she ran away from him. And she intended to keep on running....
Tar Baby
By Unknown Author
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Sharpe's Eagle
By Unknown Author
Bold, professional, ruthless - hero and man of action"Sharpe asked three things of his men. That they fought as he did with a ruthless professionalism.That they stole only from the enemy and the dead unless they were starving. And they never got drunk without his permission."Richard Sharpe is having a difficult war. Excluded from promotion because he is always on the battlefield, up against pompous, incompetent colonels, and worst, suddenly finding himself at the head of an inexperienced company who use all twenty five drill book approved movements to load and fire their muskets.A soldier like Sharpe can't be kept down though and his promotion to Captain, when it comes, makes a dangerous enemy in the upper ranks. As Sharpe approaches bloody battle in Talavera, he knows he is fighting for his own honour and that of his men.
Centaur Aisle
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1981.
Foreign tax planning, 1981
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1981.
Little, Big
By Unknown Author
Winner of the 1982 World Fantasy Award for best novel.
Tiger Eyes
By Unknown Author
Davey's father has been murdered - and the aftermath is causing her family to fall apart. Her heartbroken mum plucks them up and takes them to stay with her prim and proper aunt in Los Alamos. Davey escapes the claustrophobic house by cycling up to the canyon, where she meets a mysterious older boy called Wolf: intense, brooding and also about to lose someone close to him. But falling for someone won't make her dad come back - there are no easy answers when you need to stick your broken family back together . . . Tiger Eyes is bestselling author Judy Blume's most powerful, raw and emotional novel.
Bride For Sale
By Unknown Author
Money was exchanged instead of love... Rowena's father had coerced her into marrying the local squire, Sean Tancred. Both men profited by the arrangement—only Rowena gained nothing. Actually, her father believed he was doing her a favor. "I've seen the moony, flushed looks you used to send Sean's way." But 22 year old Rowena's youthful crush had long since died, and it would stay buried. Her 30 year old autocratic husband was cold and unfeeling—his name was all she'd ever share!
Collision
By Unknown Author
She wouldn't bend to his proud demands From the moment Selena literally bumped into brilliant film director Max Heger, she was drawn into a dangerous courtship--one she desperately tried to escape. She wanted no part of Max's glittering, artificial world--no matter how much she wanted the man himself. Undaunted, Max ruthlessly set out to prove he was a force to be reckoned with. But he hadn't counted on Selena's withering response. The resulting explosion of events left Selena filled with a thirst for revenge... and a heart that ached to love.
Abduction
By Unknown Author
Surely the most terrifying thing that could happen to any woman must be for her child to be snatched – and indeed it was without doubt the worst thing that had happened to Marisa; that moment when she came out of a shop to find baby Jamie vanished would always feel like the end of everything. For most women in that dreadful situation, though, it would at least be some comfort to be sustained by their husband’s love – but for Marisa it only meant that t had brought her estranged husband Gabriel back on the scene; the last thing she had wanted to happen. For nothing had changed in the two years since she had last seen him; the same gap still yawned between them. And meanwhile – where was Jamie?
Obasan
By Unknown Author
224 pages ; 21 cm
The Other Brother
By Unknown Author
Could love exist without trust? Kathryn had been joyously anticipating her wedding to Rex Kingersby...until she found him, one week before their wedding, in bed with his secretary! Horrified, she returned his ring. Kathryn couldn't have known then that Rex's injuries in an accident would prevent the truth from coming out-that she'd be accused of callously jilting Nate Kingersby, Rex's older brother, was another surprise. He regarded her action as an insult to his brother and family-for which Kathryn must suffer
The savage touch
By Unknown Author
Money was Lee's top priority! When her sister, Alicia, decided to play matchmaker, Lee found herself trapped in an uncomfortable situation with the infuriating Marc Leone. He was attractive, she had to admit, but also the most cynical, egotistical man she'd ever met. Besides, everyone had long known her openly stated plans for choosing a husband. "I refuse to settle for anything less than a millionaire. If one came along, I'd snap him up immediately." It wasn't too long before Lee deeply regretted those flippantly spoken words.
The Dark Abyss
By Unknown Author
Luce had awakened in hospital with no memory. And the New Zealand police, despite an extensive search, had found no trace of her former self. So for two years she had simply got on with living. Then she met Conn Ramsay ...and something stirred in her darkened mind. Every glance he gave her, every touch evoked a passionate response. Surely she must have known him intimately in the past! Luce couldn't help falling in love with Conn. But she feared him, too. He held the power to make her remember ....
The Storms of Spring
By Unknown Author
She was afraid she'd never become a woman. After her desperately unhappy marriage to Barry, the last thing Vicki Peters wanted was another involvement. Being an unloved widow was better than risking her heart again. But almost against her will, she found herself married to Garth Travis. Vicki was convinced she had done it mostly for the sake of Garth's little son. Then she discovered two things: that she was madly in love with Garth--and that he was no better than Barry had been....