Apartment in Athens

Author	Mary Renault
ISBN	0375714189

After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans’ hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. As they find solace and companionship together in the idyllic surroundings...

Author	Robert A. Heinlein
ISBN	0345330137

One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was — as usual — in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.

Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult...

Author	Diana G. Gallagher
ISBN	0671028189

Sabrina's Aunt Vesta drops by the Spellman household with a shocking announcement: After a whirlwind romance, Vesta has decided to try a life of marital bliss -- with a mortal! But Vesta hasn't told her fiance that his future wife is a licensed witch. If he finds out her supernatural secret, he might get...

Author	James Lovegrove
ISBN	1781165416

It's the autumn of 1890, and a spate of bombings has hit London. The newspapers are full of fevered speculation about anarchists, anti-monarchists and Fenians. But one man suspects an even more sinister hand behind the violence.  Sherlock Holmes believes Professor Moriarty is orchestrating a nationwide...

Author	Pier Vittorio Tondelli
ISBN	8807809796

Altri libertini ha avuto fin dagli inizi una vita avventurosa: pubblicato nel 1980, sequestrato per oscenità e poi assolto dal tribunale ('con formula ampia'), è stato contemporaneamente giudicato dalla critica una delle opere migliori degli ultimi anni e ha imposto Tondelli tra i nuovi autori...

Author	John Bowlby
ISBN	0465005438

This first volume of John Bowlby's Attachment and Loss series examines the nature of the child's ties to the mother. Beginning with a discussion of instinctive behavior, its causation, functioning, and ontogeny, Bowlby proceeds to a theoretical formulation of attachment behavior how it develops,...

Author	Carlo M. Cipolla
ISBN	8815019804

An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Un "divertissement", un guizzo anarchico dell'intelligenza. È così che si possono definire queste pagine nelle quali Cipolla abbandona gli austeri panni dello studioso e, giocando sul filo del paradosso e dell'assurdo, costruisce due brevi...

Author	Christopher Isherwood
ISBN	0586047956

Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not only buildings, streets, and people, but was also a state of mind which will never come around again.

In linked short stories, he says goodbye to Sally Bowles, to Fraulein Schroeder, to pranksters,...