Top Books of 1982
The most significant literary works published this year.
La casa de los espíritus
By Unknown Author
Primera novela de Isabel Allende. *La casa de los espíritus* narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes latinoamericanos. El despótico patriarca Esteban Trueba ha construido, con mano de hierro, un imperio privado que empieza a tambalearse a raíz del paso del tiempo y de un entorno social explosivo. Finalmente, la decadencia personal del patriarca arrastrará a los Trueba a una dolorosa desintegración. Atrapados en unas dramáticas relaciones familiares, los personajes de esta portentosa novela encarnan las tensiones sociales y espirituales de una época que abarca gran parte de este siglo. *La casa de los espíritus* ha sido adaptada al cine en una película protagonizada, entre otros, por Jerermy Irons, Meryl Streep y Antonio Banderas.Con ternura e impecable factura literaria, Isabel Allende perfila el destino de sus personajes como parte indisoluble del destino colectivo de un continente, marcado por el mestizaje, las injusticias sociales y la búsqueda de la propia identidad. Este logrado universo narrativo es el resultado de una lúcida conciencia histórica y social, así como de una propuesta estética que constituye una singular expresión de realismo mágico.
Different Seasons
By Unknown Author
Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four Stephen King novellas with a more dramatic bend, rather than the horror fiction for which King is famous. The four novellas are tied together via subtitles that relate to each of the four seasons. [Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption][1]--the most satisfying tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape since The Count of Monte Cristo. [Apt Pupil][2]--a golden California schoolboy and an old man whose hideous past he uncovers enter into a fateful and chilling mutual parasitism. [The Body][3]--four rambunctious young boys venture into the Maine woods and in sunlight and thunder find life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. [The Breathing Method][4]--a tale told in a strange club about a woman determined to give birth no matter what. ([source][5]) [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14917488W/Rita_Hayworth_and_Shawshank_Redemption [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149093W/Apt_Pupil [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149108W/The_Body [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19652127W/The_Breathing_Method [5]: https://www.stephenking.com/library/story_collection/different_seasons.html
The Running Man
By Unknown Author
The Running Man is a dystopian thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982 as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the omnibus The Bachman Books. The novel is set in a dystopian United States during the year 2025, in which the nation's economy is in ruins and world violence is rising. The story follows protagonist Ben Richards as he participates in the reality show The Running Man in which contestants, allowed to go anywhere in the world, are chased by the general public, who get a huge bounty if they kill him. The book has a total of 101 chapters, laid out in a "countdown" format. The first is titled "Minus 100 and Counting ..." with the numbers decreasing, ending with the last chapter called "Minus 000 and Counting" (or, in some versions, simply "000"). ---------- Also contained in: - [The Bachman Books][2] - [The Bachman Books](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24796729W) [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/bachman_novel/running_man_the.html [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81591W/The_Bachman_Books_(Rage_The_Long_Walk_Roadwork_The_Running_Man)
Pacific Vortex!
By Unknown Author
Fully armed and with all hands on board, the nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials - and vanished. No wreckage, no signals, no survivors: nothing ... until ace maritime troubleshooter, Dirk Pitt, finds a single, chilling clue in the shark-torn surf off Hawaii - the log of the Starbuck.'Do not search for us, it can only end in vain ...' A crazed journal of madness and death is all that remains. And the Captain's final, scrawled, fear-crazed note locates the Starbuck's grave hundreds of miles from her last known position! The search for the Starbuck plunges Dirk Pitt into his most shattering assignment to date - a whirlpool of deep-sea mystery and terror - the Pacific Vortex!
Sahara
By Unknown Author
1996, Egypt. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, DIRK PITT thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from environmental catastrophe, Pitt and his team, equipped with an extraordinary, state-of-the-art yacht, run a gauntlet between a billionaire industrialist and a bloodthirsty West African tyrant. In the scorching desert, Pitt finds a gold mine manned by slaves and uncovers the truth behind two enduring mysteries -- the fate of a Civil War ironclad and its secret connection with Lincoln's assassination, and the last flight of a long-lost female pilot....Now, amidst the blazing, shifting sands of the Sahara, DIRK PITT will make a desperate stand -- in a battle the world cannot afford to lose!
Pawn of Prophecy
By Unknown Author
The first book of the Belgariad.A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!THE BELGARIADLong ago, so the Storyteller claimed, the evil God Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the West. So long as it lay at Riva, the prophecy went, men would be safe.But that was only a story, and Garion did not believe in magic dooms, even though the dark man without a shadow had haunted him for years.Brought up on a quiet farm by his Aunt Pol, how could he know that the Apostate planned to wake dread Torak, or that he would be led on a quest of unparalleled magic and danger by those he loved - but did not know?For a while his dreams of innocence were safe, untroubled by knowledge of his strange heritage. For a little while...THUS BEGINS BOOK ONE OF THE BELGARIAD
"A" is for Alibi
By Unknown Author
A IS FOR AVENGER. A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. She's a twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments but with a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes. A IS FOR ACCUSED. That's why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. Eight years ago, she was convicted of killing her philandering husband. Now she's out on parole and needs Kinsey's help to find the real killer. But after all this time, clearing Nikki's bad name won't be easy. A IS FOR ALIBI. If there's one thing that makes Kinsey Millhone feel alive, it's playing on the edge. When her investigation turns up a second corpse, more suspects, and a new reason to kill, Kinsey discovers that the edge is closer--and sharper--than she imagined.
Microbiology
By Unknown Author
This #1 selling non-majors microbiology textbook is praised for its straightforward presentation of complex topics, careful balance of concepts and applications, and proven art that teaches. In its Tenth Edition, Tortora/Funke/Case responds to the #1 challenge of the microbiology course: teaching a wide range of student levels, while still addressing student under-preparedness. The Tenth Edition meets students at their respective skill levels. First, the book signals core microbiology content to students with the new and highly visual Foundation Figures that students need to understand before moving forward in a chapter. Second, the book gives students frequent opportunities for self-assessment with the new Check Your Understanding questions that correspond by number to the chapter Learning Objectives. Then, a new "visual learning" orientation includes: an increased number of the popular Diseases in Focus boxes, newly illustrated end-of-chapter Study Outlines that provide students with visual cues to remind them of chapter content, and new end-of-chapter Draw It questions. The all-new art program is contemporary without compromising Tortora/Funke/Case's hallmark reputation for precision and clarity. Content revisions include substantially revised immunity chapters and an increased emphasis on antimicrobial resistance, bioterrorism, and biofilms. The new Get Ready for Microbiology workbook and online practice and assessment materials help students prepare for the course.
Women Who Run with the Wolves
By Unknown Author
Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. Without Wild Woman, we become over-domesticated, fearful, uncreative, trapped. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and cantadora storyteller, shows how woman's vitality can be restored through what she calls "psychic archeological digs" into the ruins of the female unconscious. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Estes uses multicultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories chosen from over twenty years of research that help women reconnect with the healthy, instinctual, visionary attributes of the Wild Woman archetype. Dr. Estes collects the bones of many stories, looking for the archetypal motifs that set a woman's inner life into motion. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Estes has created a lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it s a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.
Magician
By Unknown Author
At Crydee, a frontier outpost in the tranquil Kingdom of the Isles, an orphan boy, Pug, is apprenticed to a master Magician – and the destinies of two worlds are changed forever. Suddenly the peace of the Kingdom is destroyed as mysterious alien invaders swarm the land. Pug is swept up into the conflict but for him and his warrior friend, Tomas, an odyssey into the unknown has only just begun. Tomas will inherit a legacy of savage power from an ancient civilization. Pug’s destiny will lead him through a rift in the fabric of space and time to the mastery of the unimaginable powers of a strange new magic.
2010, odyssey two
By Unknown Author
When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on it. Yet, along with almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years: Who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What purpose lay behind the transformation? What would become of the Star-Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space? What could drive HAL, a stable, intelligent computer, to kill the crew? Was HAL really insane? What happened to HAL and the spaceship Discovery after Dave Bowman disappeared? Would there be a sequel? Now all those questions and many more have been answered. In this stunning sequel to his international bestseller, Clarke has written what will truly be one of the great books of the '80s. Cosmic in sweep, eloquent in its depiction of Man's place in the Universe, and filled with the romance of space, this novel is a monumental achievement.
羊をめぐる冒険
By Unknown Author
It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself.
The Tao of Pooh
By Unknown Author
The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!?! Yes, Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain Way about him, a way of doing things that has made him the world's most beloved bear. In these pages Benjamin Hoff shows that Pooh's Way is amazingly consistent with the principles of living envisioned long ago by the Chinese founders of Taoism. The author's explanation of Taoism is through Pooh, and Pooh through Taoism, shows that this is not simply an ancient and remote philosophy but something you can use, here and now. And what is Taoism? It's really very simple. It calls for living without preconceived ideas about how life should be lived--but it's not a preconception of how life--It's... Well, you'd do better to read this book, and listen to Pooh, if you really want to find out. --front flap
Bought with His Name
By Unknown Author
To discourage him, Genista had deliberately let the arrogantly handsome Luke Ferguson believe that she was a promiscuous adventuress. She knew from experience the hurt a man could carelessly inflict on an innocent heart, and she realized how vulnerable she was to his brand of magnetism. Luke's proposal of marriage was a shock, as was his method of asking. It sounded very much like blackmail, and in the circumstances she had no alternative but to accept.
The Complete Robot
By Unknown Author
The complete collection of Isaac Asimov’s classic Robot stories. In these stories, Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age – when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind. The Complete Robot is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot short stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – with surprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store… A Boy's Best Friend Sally Someday Some Immobile Robots Point of View Think! True Love Some Metallic Robots Robot AL-76 Goes Astray Victory Unintentional Stranger in Paradise Light Verse Segregationist [Robbie](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46260W) Some Humanoid Robots Let's Get Together Mirror Image The Tercentenary Incident Powell and Donovan First Law Runaround Reason Catch That Rabbit Susan Calvin Liar! Satisfaction Guaranteed Lenny Galley Slave Little Lost Robot Risk Escape! Evidence The Evitable Conflict Feminine Intuition Two Climaxes —That Thou Art Mindful of Him! The Bicentennial Man
Blackmail
By Unknown Author
His only desire was to use her That horrible damning letter! If Lee didn't become Gilles de Chauvigny's temporary wife he'd show it to her real fiance. That Gilles could disrupt her life so carelessly, so callously just to be rid of a too possessive mistress--outraged Lee, but she was powerless to stop him. Then, later, she didn't want to, for she had fallen hopelessly in love with him. Hopelessly because his spurned lover vowed to have him back. Hopelessly because Gilles felt nothing for her.
Season of Mists
By Unknown Author
"Our marriage was a farce," Piers said. Abby couldn't deny Piers's statement. Time had certainly proven that true, but the young Abby had loved him with all the passion within her. At that time she could not have foreseen the awful events that had led him to deny his own son. Abby had done the only thing possible, she'd fled. For twelve years she thought she hated Piers, and then he came back into her life. Try as she did to fight it, she realized hopelessly that she was as vulnerable as ever to his attraction.
Revolting rhymes
By Unknown Author
Presents humorous retellings of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.
War Horse
By Unknown Author
In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.
Forbidden Surrender
By Unknown Author
“It's not a situation. It’s a bloody mess!” Dominic was right, and Sara had to agree that for them there could be no solution. In England as a visitor, Sara had been embarrassed at being mistaken for someone else, even by that person’s fiancé—and it was then that she envied her own double. But the other girl was not the stranger she had supposed. And the thrill of discovering a family she never knew existed was lost in knowing that the only man she could ever love belonged irrevocably to her sister.
Counterfeit Bride
By Unknown Author
Nicola found he was a law unto himself She had agreed to masquerade as his prospective bride to help her young friend escape. She was appalled that arranged marriages still existed. But Luis Alvarado de Montalba was not a man to be crossed. "You forced your way into my life, " he informed her when he discovered the deception, "and now you will remain in it. " While she conceded he was entitled to his anger, it was her life and future he had taken under control. And he simply ignored her protests. Mills & Boon Because the last thing her young friend Teresita wanted was to be forced into a marriage of convenience with the guardian she had not seen for years, Nicola Tarrant agreed to pose as Teresita when the guardian, the formidable Don Luis Alvardo de Montalba, came to claim her. But the plot went sadly awry when Don Luis called her bluff - and to her horror Nicola found herself whisked off to a hacienda somewhere in the heart of Mexico, and forced to marry him. And there was no way she could escape...
Livro do Desassossego
By Unknown Author
The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or "diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. This existential masterpiece was first published in Portuguese in 1982, forty-seven years after Pessoa's death. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa's entire writing life. --
The Blue Sword
By Unknown Author
This is the story of Corlath, golden-eyed king of the Free Hillfolk, son of the sons of the Lady Aerin. And this is the story of Harry Crewe, the Homelander orphan girl who became Harimad-sol, King's Rider, and heir to the Blue Sword, Gonturan, that no woman had wielded since the Lady Aerin herself bore it into battle. And this is the song of the kelar of the Hillfolk, the magic of the blood, the weaver of destinies... --back cover
Software Engineering
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1982.
Bitter Revenge
By Unknown Author
She could not shake the tragic past... Carla Howard still had nightmares, even after three years. But tragic as her fiance, Crispin's, death had been, another face haunted her waking mind. For on that fateful night when Carla had broken her engagement to Crispin, she had also seen his older brother, Blaze Douglas, for the first time. It was sheer bad luck that, when Carla's life had just about reached rock bottom - she was jobless, homeless and penniless - she should find herself at the mercy of Blaze, a man she had described as "a piece of ice coated with frost". For Blaze held her entirely responsible for the tragic death of his young brother Crispin, and was determined to be revenged on her. Now, down on her luck and finding herself, ironically in Blaze’s care, Carla could no longer deny the love she felt for him. Instead, an unwilling attraction flared up between the two of them, and Blaze asked her to marry him. But neither could she know if it was plan to avenge his brother. But a few more surprises were in store for Carla....
A Man of Means
By Unknown Author
Mark had seemed far out of her reach. Dana had fallen in love with him, yet how could a seventeen year old hold the interest of such a mature successful man? Though his marriage proposal was a surprise, she eagerly accepted and asked no questions. But Mark let her know that theirs would not be a normal relationship. Bitterly she pondered why he had married her. Then one day he cruelly told her, "I was blackmailed." Her happiness and her pride were at stake, and Dana refused to remain a mere pawn in her own life.
Mansion for My Love
By Unknown Author
"He's not a good man to fall in love with!" Faine had not ignored the warning, but even without his wealth, charm and good looks, Burke Harding had a magnetism, His determined pursuit and assault on her heart soon overcame her wavering resistance. She agreed to marry him, but some deep instinct of self-preservation kept her from revealing her love--and in time her decision was vindicated. "I carefully avoided telling you that I love you," he told her when Faine discovered she was a stand-in for the woman he really loved--but could not have.
House of Mirrors
By Unknown Author
She never got over her crush on Grant. Liz had become a successful author, Grant a famous surgeon, in the years since she had worshipped him and he had called her "the horror." Now, his career ruined by an accident, deserted by his fiancee, Liz's handsome former neighbor was returning home. Passion grew as Liz helped Grant recover his zest for life. And when he proposed, even though he told her she'd never have his love, Liz accepted....
Island of the Dawn
By Unknown Author
Foolishly she'd never stopped loving him Leon had swept the young and innocent Chloe into marriage, but there was no happy ending for them, for there would always be Marisa. Marisa, obsessive and possessive about her stepbrother, implied a relationship between them that could never be. She claimed a wife was only needed to disguise their sin. So Chloe, disgusted and confused, ran away. But a Greek's pride could not accept a wife's desertion, and he tricked her into returning. She hated and despised him-but could not deny she still wanted him....
Distrust Her Shadow
By Unknown Author
To Darcy it was just another job All she had to do was deliver a letter. But the assignment was not what it seemed - Darcy was the unwitting messenger in a dangerous blackmail plot! Neve Macalister believed she was involved and to prove it he kidnapped her. "I'm going to see you get all you deserve and more," he threatened. And even when the truth had set Darcy free, she knew she would never escape the haunting memory of her bittersweet captivity.
Fear Street - One Evil Summer
By Unknown Author
A horror story for children. A book in the Fear Street series. When Amanda Conklin has to go to summer school, her parents hire Chrissy to look after her little brother and sister. Amanda soon realizes that the pretty nanny has an evil heart and supernatural powers.
Ham on Rye
By Unknown Author
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D. H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.
Escape from Desire
By Unknown Author
"We have to escape or die," Zach told her Suddenly Tamara's holiday in the Caribbean had turned into a nightmare. On a guided tour of a rain forest she had been captured by guerrillas! Only through the strength and comfort of fellow hostage Zach Fletcher did she survive the ordeal. Not so easy to overcome were the passions and emotions Zach had imprinted on her heart and memory. Then Zach disappeared from her life--a ruthless departure that left Tamara despondent, wondering if she could survive alone....
Love's Duel
By Unknown Author
Four years ago, Leonie had gone through the worst experience of her life, when as a result of her innocent love affair with Jeremy Lindsay she had been confronted by the hateful John G Noble, who had done his best to wreck her. Since then Leonie had managed to rebuild her life, been married and widowed, and put the past behind her. But now, when she had least expected it, John Noble had reappeared, with no intention it seemed, of burying the past.
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
By Unknown Author
From book jacket: Adrian Mole is a worrier. The problems of existence hit him hard. Spots, bits of him that won't seem to keep still, the cracks in his parents' marriage, all prey heavily on his mind. There are some consolations. A 14 year old feminist, an 89 year old chain smoker and his spoilt best friend all help to lift the gloomy introspection of Mole's moods. Mole believes he is an intellectual. He is certainly a poet. He buys strikingly coloured stationery on which to write his poems and send them to the B.B.C. He is dogged by ill health as well as by an infuriatingly ever-present pet dog, and by a catalogue of misfortunes familiar to anyone over the age of 13. ... Sue Townsend's original creation .. [is] a hilarious delight.
My Sweet Audrina
By Unknown Author
My Sweet Audrina is a 1982 novel by V. C. Andrews. It was the only stand-alone novel published during Andrews' lifetime and was a number-one best-selling novel in North America. The story takes place in the Mid-Atlantic United States during the 1960s and 1970s. The story features diverse subjects, such as brittle bone disease, rape, posttraumatic stress disorder and diabetes, in the haunting setting of a Victorian-era mansion near the fictitious River Lyle.
A Girl to Love
By Unknown Author
She shared his life but not his love... What would she do? Sadie was suddenly alone in the world, and her cottage home would have to be sold. But luck was with her, for Oliver Trentham, the television screenwriter who had bought the cottage, required a housekeeper-and the job was hers! Unfortunately her heart was soon his--hopelessly so. Such a handsome man, with two small daughters, needed to remarry, but he certainly wouldn't choose his housekeeper!
The Man She Married
By Unknown Author
They had married for all the wrong reasons. They were two strangers fulfilling a commitment conceived for them years before. But Glenda was an impostor, and in spite of promises made to her dying mother, she sought to free herself from the web of deception. Malraux d'Arth had other ideas. "You must have expected I had more to gain from marrying you that the acquisition of a wife." he claimed, revealing the conditions of his grandfather's will. Then she knew there would be no escaping this dark domineering man - even if she really wanted to...
Friday
By Unknown Author
Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world, Friday operates over a near-future Earth, where chaos reigns. Working at Boss's whimsical behest she travels from far north to deep south, finding quick, expeditious solutions as one calamity after another threatens to explode in her face.... Fabulous Heinlein world of fascination and intrigue.
Physics for scientists and engineers
By Unknown Author
Book 2 - Chapters 15 to 22
Hunter's Moon
By Unknown Author
Hunter's Moon by Margaret Way The pain went straight to her heart Excluded from her father's will, Laura was banished from her home by her cold unfeeling stepmother. Fate offered a solution in the form of Blaise Hunter, but he accepted her as his young daughter's governess. The dynamic boss of the cattle station doubted Laura, a fragile beauty, could cope with the harsh outback. Laura, too, had doubts. Not of the land but of the man, who, instinct warned her, could cause her far greater suffering.
Reluctant Paragon
By Unknown Author
It was a great blow to Eleanor when he beloved employer Hector Ramsay announced theat he was retiring and that his son James would be taking over. So she was not kindly disposed towards the newcomer and even less so when he arrived, and promptly deliberately misunderstood the relationship between her and his father. And so, when James chose to assume she was a designing married woman, Eleanor decided it might be best to leave him with his wrong impression about her ...
Annie on My Mind
By Unknown Author
This groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings. This book is so truthful and honest, it has been banned from many school libraries and even publicly burned in Kansas City.
Hidden Love
By Unknown Author
Nick’s magnetism was overwhelming. Infatuated, Rachel offered no resistance to Nick’s seduction. Then he insisted she marry him, not because he loved her, but because of the result of his own unbridled passion. “No child of mine,” he claimed, “is going to suffer for my mistakes.” Their marriage, seeped in mistrust, was doomed from the start. Rachel refused to be a surrogate wife and fled before Nick could stop her, and before her hungry, foolish heart told her to stay and fight for his love.
Unwanted Bride
By Unknown Author
They married for a cattle station. The inheritance was a joint affair, and Caryn and Sharn had to be married to qualify. Caryn hadn't seen the stranger she married since their wedding day. Then when she found herself without a home or a job, Caryn had no option but to go to Australia, to her husband. For reasons of his own, however, Sharn had kept his marriage secret. No one knew he was her husband, least of all Harriet Watson, who planned to marry Sharn herself.
Deadly Angel
By Unknown Author
He could neither forgive nor forget. Nothing Olivia could say would diminish Nick Baretta's hatred for her. The woman who had cruelly rejected and deceived his brother Greg would suffer for her callousness. Now, though she was innocent, Olivia must deal with Nick's dangerous threats. "I make a point of getting what I want, " he informed her, and Olivia knew she must escape. For it was obvious that while he wanted to hurt her, he also wanted to make love to her ...and she doubted she could refuse him.
On top of spaghetti
By Unknown Author
A kid's classic book & song about what might happen to your meatball if it rolls off your plate of spaghetti! You can either read or sing along with the book.
Long Cold Winter
By Unknown Author
Freedom was all she wanted from him Autumn was desperately struggling to put behind her the bittersweet memories of her marriage to Yorke Laing. He'd nearly destroyed her once with his cold brand of loving, but time and a demanding job had given her a new strength. Now she needed only a divorce from him to break their last link. Then Yorke flew back into her life, dangling temptation in front of her. He'd give her a divorce--but at a price she was sure she could never pay . . . .
Unguarded Moment
By Unknown Author
"He's a hatchet man," Bianca had warned Alix was told to get rid of the man who wanted to write her famous aunt's biography. But Liam Brant was not so easily dismissed. His writer's instinct sensed a mystery surrounding the actress, and he was prepared to use anyone and everyone to unravel it. Alix, despising herself, succumbed to his attentions. But she knew the love could only be short-lived, for the beautiful Bianca had decided Liam was a prize she wanted. Fine, Alix thought, they suit each other perfectly! But deep down, her aching weary heart protested ...
Daughter of Hassan
By Unknown Author
She would not be told to marry anyone! Much as she loved and respected her Arab stepfather and wanted to please him, Danielle was horrified to learn he was arranging a marriage for her, Arab fashion, to his nephew, Jourdan. Danielle refused outright. And meeting Jourdan only confirmed her decision. He was dashing and bold and handsome, and she soon fell in love with him, but he was a man of the East, brought up to think of a woman's place as within palace walls. Marriage to such a man could only eventually destroy her....
Forgotten Lover
By Unknown Author
Her body had felt his caress before. Velvet balked at the thought; it frightened her. Jerard Daniels frightened her! He claimed to have known her - intimately - two years earlier, but her mind was a blank. Her husband's tragic death the day their son was born had triggered Velvet's amnesia; she remembered nothing. Yet why would this man lie? Velvet just couldn't believe she'd had an affair with a married man while engaged to Anthony. On the other hand, if she had loved Jerard as much then as she did now.
An Old Passion
By Unknown Author
A dream of love - lost and betrayed. Merrin Sinclair had vowed she would shed no more tears for Blase Stanhope or for the life they might have had together. Six years ago his distrust had driven her into an empty marriage on the rebound that had ended tragically. Since then, she had lived a widow's lonely life, burying herself in her job as assistant to a famous author. Now her work had made meeting Blase inevitable, and even though she thought she couldn't face the cruelty of his loveless eyes, Merrin knew she would never fully live again until she did...
Late Harvest
By Unknown Author
How could her father have made such a will? "Shall jointly inherit the entire estate on condition they are married within thirty days of my death." Kate was incredulous. She hated Rhyno van der Bijl, but by ignoring the conditions, she would lose her beloved home. "Think of it as a business arrangement, " suggested Rhyno, who also stood to lose his inheritance. It was only for a year, and Kate never dreamed she would one day wish it was forever, but when Rhyno spoke of plans that did not include her, her world fell apart.
Between Pride and Passion
By Unknown Author
"No strings" was what they both agreed to But a price had to be paid, and when events separated them, Karen bore their child alone. She had loved Val desperately and refused to trap him into a marriage he did not want. Then, seven years later, he discovered their son's existence and snatched Tony from under her nose. "If you want him, you'll have to come and get him," he told her. But it was not that simple, for memories and his still potent attraction undermined all her efforts to fight him.
Shadowed Stranger
By Unknown Author
More than infatuation...? Sweet, naive Robyn Castle knows that eminent doctor Rick Howarth is the wrong man for her! He's older, more sophisticated, experienced... and so sinfully delicious that he should be illegal! Despite their differences, enigmatic Rick seems just as infatuated with Robyn as she is with him... until Rick suddenly leaves. Heartbroken, Robyn assumes it's because he's married and refuses to be the other woman! Getting over him is her top priority. But when Rick comes unexpectedly back into her life, Robyn soon realises that moving on from the passion between them is easier said than done...
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By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1982.
Substitute Wife
By Unknown Author
He must never guess her true feelings As far as Adam was concerned, their marriage was a businesslike arrangement. Both had suffered the pain of rejection, and both had vowed to avoid any future emotional ties or commitment. "Our marriage stands a better chance of succeeding than one blinded by passion, " he had claimed, and his logic had convinced Julia. But somewhere along the way she fell in love with him and, knowing he could never return her feelings, was forced to act out a role that contradicted her loving nature.
Man with two faces
By Unknown Author
As an act of kindness, to help out her friend Barbara, Rebecca had agreed to work part-time in Barbara's secretarial bureau. But unfortunately for Rebecca, it was a gesture that misfired, since it led to her meeting with the maddening Janus Leon. He was a stern, not to say unreasonable, taskmaster, for a start. But, like the Roman god after who he was named, Janus had two faces -- and the other was that of a heartless playboy. Would he turn that face to Rebecca -- and could she survive if he did? (goodreads.com)
A treasure worth seeking
By Unknown Author
He was the most handsome man she had ever seen. Without warning, he strode across the room, took her in his arms, and kissed her as she had never been kissed before. Her own brother! Or was he? No, the man who assaulted her senses was not the man for whom she had spent four years searching, the brother she had never met.Ken Lyman was gone. In his place stood Lance Barrett, Treasury Agent. Within minutes he launched into his relentless interrogation. Who was she? Why had she come to San Francisco? What was her connection to her brother's crime? Stunned beyond belief Erin O'Shea found herself in the custody of a bullying stranger, a man who aroused her fury... and her most passionate desires
The Caged Tiger
By Unknown Author
Davina’s love had long since died. It had been killed the night she’d given birth to their son while Ruy, her husband, had been dallying with another woman. Only for her child’s sake was Davina now returning to Spain, to the aristocratic de Silvadores family, and to Ruy. But a Ruy who was changed beyond belief. What had once been a man of virile strength was now a devil of snarling bitterness confined to a wheelchair. And Davina was not prepared for this new assault on her emotions.
An Unbroken Marriage
By Unknown Author
Their antagonism was instant and mutual Simon Herries was dominating and arrogant, and he had readily jumped to the wrong conclusions about India. "You don't know me, " she stated, "yet you accuse me of trying to steal someone else's husband!" Evidence and appearance seemed to support his claim, and Simon had his own method of dealing with the problem. At the time it proved an effective solution, but when his scheme backfired, India was left to face a future of heartbreak and unhappiness.
Aghor Nagara Vage
By Unknown Author
this book describe the power of the true Indian sadhus.it is all about the type of sadhus their lifestyle and the stages of siddhi they achieve during their lifetime.
Ten, nine, eight
By Unknown Author
Count down to sleep!
The House of Thunder
By Unknown Author
She woke up in a hospital room, barely able to remember her own name. She didn't know what terrible accident brought her there--or the four shadowy strangers who hovered in the darkened corridors. Yet step by step, she unlocked the mysteries of her past--returning to a single night of violence waged by four young men...
Smokescreen
By Unknown Author
On the face of it, after her tycoon husband’s death, Olivia had the world as her oyster. She could not pretend to be brokenhearted – how could she, when the marriage had been strictly one of convenience, to put it at its mildest? - and as a result she was now an immensely rich and powerful widow. Nevertheless, she felt very concerned that her husband’s son Alex, who had been estranged from him for so long, had been left nothing, and she was determined to set matters right. But then she met Alex – and found that his love was the one thing in the world she could not have…
Judith
By Unknown Author
After the hurly-burly of the big London hospital where she had been working, Judith found it a very pleasant change to be offered a private job looking after a charming patient, Lady Cresswell, in the Lake District. Her patient gave her no trouble at all--which was more than could be said for her son, the disagreeable Professor Charles Cresswell. He seemed to have taken a dislike to Judith on sight--a dislike which, it must be confessed, Judith returned with interest. And now he was turning up to spoil their pleasant holiday in Portugal....
The Demon Lover (Chivers Sound Library)
By Unknown Author
When Kate Collison, to help her ailing father, completes his portrait of the powerful Baron de Centeville, her only thought is to be a dutiful daughter. But when the Baron presents her to Parisian society as the painter, Kate finds herself basking in the recognition . . . until she discovers that the Baron has plans for her -- shocking plans that will change her life unless she can fight the Baron with his own weapons . . .
Love Me Again
By Unknown Author
She had never loved anyone else Eva Smith almost fainted, so great was the shock of seeing Dr. Andrew Steward in the hospital. She hadn't seen him in seven years, not since he had broken her heart by becoming engaged to someone else. Would she be able to control her emotions sufficiently to work as a staff nurse with the new surgical consultant? For she couldn't deny it. She still loved him - even knowing she meant less than nothing to him now.
Dear Zoo
By Unknown Author
Each animal arriving from the zoo as a possible pet fails to suit its prospective owner, until just the right one is found. Movable flaps reveal the contents of each package.
Wildfire Encounter
By Unknown Author
How had she come to love such a devil? Her father was dead, her mother dispossessed and Sara's whole life had been turned disastrously upside down. The only person she could see to blame was Rafael Savalje, the real-estate mogul of Queensland's Gold Coast. Sara vowed to make him pay! Unfortunately, it was Rafael who had the whip hand, and he intended to make Sara pay. He wanted the entire balance of the loan he'd made her father--with interest. He wanted Sara--body and soul--and in marriage!
A Rose In Winter
By Unknown Author
Erienne Fleming despairs for her future. Her father, Avery, mayor of their small town in the north of England, is awash in gambling debts. Her brother has been maimed in a foolish duel for the family's honor. It is Avery's intent to pay his debts and secure his and his son's futures by marrying off Erienne to a wealthy suitor, to which end he brings home an endless stream of aged and infirm, albeit wealthy, gentlemen. But the proud and beautiful Erienne will have none of them. Finally, Avery simply decides to sell her to the highest bidder. The only man barred from the auction is Christopher Seton, the handsome Yankee captain who wounded her brother, and with whom Erienne, against her will, is falling in love. Erienne is sold to the mysterious Lord Saxton, a sinister figure who wears a black mask to cover the hideous scars left by a fire that burned down his family mansion. At first she is terrified of him, unable to give herself to him. Her terror of her has- band only sharpens her longing for Christopher, a passion she struggles fiercely to deny. But her private dilemma is pushed aside when panic sweeps the town as the Night Rider, a demonic figure with a silver saber, begins a murderous rampage to avenge the burning of Saxton Hall. When Christopher is seriously wounded, Erienne, tenderly ministering to him, discovers an astonishing ~ secret that will threaten the future of the Saxton line itself and will put her own life in grave danger.
Dishonest Woman
By Unknown Author
She wanted only his name, she thought Father! Kimberley's mind screamed. How could you do this to me? For Selwyn Adams's will stated that his daughter could not inherit unless she were married. But Kimberley would never marry. If she couldn't have David, she wanted no one! Yet after meeting the notorious Slade Darville, it struck her that she didn't have to stay married .... "Marriage or nothing," was what she told Slade, and married they were. Kimberley never suspected the poetic justice to come.
Ogre, Ogre
By Unknown Author
From the back cover: WHEN OGRE-HOOD WAS IN FLOWER Smash knew all about ogres. After all, despite his having a human mother, Smash was an ogre himself. Ogres were not only huge and horribly ugly, as Smash was; they were also so stupid they could hardly speak, and they spent most of their time fighting, destroying, and eating young girls. So what was he doing here with seven assorted females looking to him to guide them and save them? Even in Xanth, where magic made anything possible, why should Tandy the Nymph trust him and seem fond of him? And how could all that high-flown conversation be coming out of his mouth? But that, it seemed, was what he got for going to Good Magician Humphrey for an Answer -- before he even knew what the Question was!
Antigua Kiss
By Unknown Author
Christie's marriage to Caribbean island playboy Ash Lambard was to be for convenience only. Her orphaned nephew would have a real home and she and Ash would be friends, nothing more. That was fine by Christie, a young widow whose unhappy first marriage had thoroughly destroyed the passionate side of her nature. But it wasn't long before she discovered that Ash had no intention of keeping his word.
A Chair for My Mother
By Unknown Author
A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.
Ralph S. Mouse
By Unknown Author
Ralph S. Mouse is the third in a children's novel trilogy by Beverly Cleary. It features Ralph, a mouse with the ability to speak, but only with certain people, who tend to be loners. It was first published in 1982, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky.
Malgudi days
By Unknown Author
Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India “the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story.” Composed of powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories written over almost forty years, Malgudi Days presents Narayan’s imaginary city in full color, revealing the essence of India and of human experience. This edition includes an introduction by Pulitzer Prize- winning author Jhumpa Lahiri.
B is for Burglar (Kinsey Millhone, #2)
By Unknown Author
Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at the nervousness beneath her cool surface. It was a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone. Still business was slow, and even a private investigator has bills to pay. Millhone took the job. It looked routine. Elaine Boldt's wrappings were a good deal flashier than her sister's, but they signaled the same thing: The lady had money. According to the manager of her California building, the wealthy widow was last seen draped in her $12,000 lynx coat heading for Boca Raton. According to the manager of her Florida building, she never got there. But someone else had, and she was camping out illegally in Mrs. Boldt's apartment. The job was beginning to seem a bit less routine. It turned tricky when Beverly Danziger ordered Millhone to drop the case, and it took on an ominous quality when Aubrey Danziger surfaced, making all kinds of wild accusations about his wife. But it only became sinister when Millhone learned that just days before Elaine Boldt went missing, her next-door neighbor and bridge partner had been murdered, and the killer was still at large. As Millhone digs deeper into the case, she finds herself in a nightmarish hall of mirrors in which reality is distorted by illusion and nothing--except danger--is quite what it seems.
Flying High
By Unknown Author
She wasn't going to give up easily To compete in a man's world, Leigh knew she'd have to be twice as good at her job. For even though she was a qualified, experienced pilot, her new boss made it clear he'd get rid of her as soon as possible. Bryce Allerton, head of his own air-charter company, was prejudiced against women on his staff, and there were many rumors to explain why! Leigh was prepared to fight him--but she hadn't counted on having to fight her own feelings!
Golden Fever
By Unknown Author
For five years she tried to forget him. During that time Clare had become a confident, mature, engaged woman -- as well as an internationally famous film star. "Rourke Somerville is bad news for any girl," the young Clare had been told. If only she had listened she would have spared herself a lot of pain, for Rourke had made a mockery of her love. Yet seeing him again brought back memories as vivid as yesterday. And Clare was soon making a mockery of her engagement to another man.
The Man from St. Petersburg
By Unknown Author
Feliks came to London to commit a murder that would change history. He had many weapons at his command, but his most dangerous were the love of a innocent woman, and the passion of a lady demanding satisfaction. Against him were ranged the English police, a lord, and Winston Churchill himself.
Fevre Dream
By Unknown Author
When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something's amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. For York doesn't care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh's dilapidated fleet. Nor does he care that he won't earn back his investment in a decade. York has his own reasons for wanting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. And they are to be none of Marsh's concern--no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious his actions may prove. Marsh meant to turn down York's offer. It was too full of secrets that spelled danger. But the promise of both gold and a grand new boat that could make history crushed his resolve--coupled with the terrible force of York's mesmerizing gaze. Not until the maiden voyage of his new sidewheeler Fevre Dream would Marsh realize he had joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare...and mankind's most impossible dream. Here is the spellbinding tale of a vampire's quest to unite his race with humanity, of a garrulous riverman's dream of immortality, and of the undying legends of the steamboat era and a majestic, ancient river.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
By Unknown Author
Novel
The diagnosis & correction of vocal faults
By Unknown Author
Scientific examination of various vocal problems, how to identify them, and steps to correct them. Geared toward vocal pedagogy students, as well as voice teachers and choir directors.
The Family Comes On
By Unknown Author
1. List item
Bitter-sweet waters
By Unknown Author
Why was he different from all other men? Abbey was bewildered by the attraction she felt for Hammond Scott. Until she'd met him, her life had been well-ordered. She was to marry a man who loved her and was approved of by her parents. Then suddenly that was not enough. A penniless artist had taken her to emotional heights, and all she asked was to share his future. But his appearance in her life was transitory, and she discovered belatedly the depths to which the human spirit can sink.
Temporary Marriage (#491)
By Unknown Author
Regan had to find a husband! There were only five weeks before her twenty-fifth birthday, and by then she had to be married or she would lose the home she loved so dearly. So when Keir Anderson turned up out of the blue--and out of her past--Regan asked him to marry her, as a temporary business arrangement. He agreed, and they were married before Regan realized that Keir had no intention of sticking to the agreement. Six years earlier she had scornfully rejected him. Now the tables were turned, and he wanted his revenge!
Storm Cycle
By Unknown Author
They brought out the worst in each other Zoe had known Reece Macadam since she was a child. He had provided comfort and encouragement and taught her about the sea and sailing--but damned if he was going to run her life now! She considered his taste in women terrible--and it came as a shock to discover that her feelings for him stemmed from love. If Reece ever found out about that he'd be vastly amused, because Zoe was sure he would always regard her as the little brat in constant need of rescuing ....
Dark Enigma
By Unknown Author
Greece held disturbing surprises for her... Carey had been Niki's nanny for four years. Now that he was an orphan, she was taking him to Greece to his mother's family. Niki's uncle, Dimitri Karamalis, turned out to be stern and high-handed. Carey was anxious about leaving her young charge with the handsome Greek.... And she was anxious for herself. Dimitri seemed to have definite plans for her future as well--and somehow Carey found she couldn't refuse him!
Laleur Bodas
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1982.
Essentials of geology
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1982.
Highland Velvet Promotion
By Unknown Author
Bronwyn MacArran was a proud Scot. Stephen Montgomery was one of the hated English. He came to Scotland as a conqueror, saw her beauty and was vanquished. But still she would abhor him. She owned a temper hot enough to forge the armors of battle or inflame a valiant soldier's passion. Yet still she would resist him. She became his reason to live, his reason to love. And still she would deny him. But while clan fought clan, while brother took up sword against brother, and the highlands ran with blood -- their destiny was made...and this mighty warrior pledged himself to his woman's pride, her honor and her name -- and made of their love a torch to burn through the ages! 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)
When the Wind Blows
By Unknown Author
Raymond Briggs' now famous bestselling comic cartoon book depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly couple in his usual humorous yet macabre way.
The Earl and the Heiress
By Unknown Author
Noell Armstrong's father had been a delightful rake in his day, but when he died his only legacy was a mountain of debts and a houseful of puppies-the offspring of the exotic dog the Viscount had brought home to his wife during his days with the Foreign Office. Happily, when Noelle inherited her aunt's townhouse and a bit of money, a London debut was once again a possibility. What better way to attract the attention of the ton than by creating a new rage for delightful little Maltese dogs? Noelle's puppy ad in the London Gazette brings quick response… from one of London's most eligible bachelors, the Earl of Wrenthe. And amid a flurry of white fur, spirited sparring and secret capers, the lovely young Noelle quickly wins her entrée to Almacks and to the heart of the Earl as well!
Midnight Lover
By Unknown Author
Your father is alive... Those four words irrevocably changed Leonie Lincoln's whole conception of her past. She had to find him, talk to him--discover the hidden "whys" about herself. But however remote West Africa seemed in England, when she got there some things were surprisingly immediate--like the threat of tribal war and domineering foreign correspondents. "Take some advice, " Greg Thornton told her when he learned about her mission. "Fly back to England. There are all manner of dangers in the jungle.... "
Jamberry
By Unknown Author
A little boy walking in the forest meets a big lovable bear that takes him on a delicious berry-picking adventure in the magical world of Berryland
The Silver Veil
By Unknown Author
Her past was now part of a pitch-black abyss Roslynn couldn't recall why she had come to Australia, and she was fearful of whatever painful memory had made her mind demand oblivion in amnesia. Piecing together the puzzle of her past with the complex Dr. McNaughton, she fell in love ... only to be rejected. She might recover, but would she ever again look on life or love with a quiet heart?
Strategic marketing
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1982.
Witch Week
By Unknown Author
When a teacher at an English boarding school finds a note on his desk accusing someone in the class of being a witch, magical things begin to happen and an Inquisitor is summoned.
A Pale View of Hills
By Unknown Author
In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a disturbing cast.