I Married Adventure
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| Author | Upton Sinclair |
| ISBN | 1884365302 |
For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair's classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown.
When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial...
Lovely Vanessa March, two years married and very much in love, did not think it was a strange for her husband to take a business trip to Stockholm. What was strange was the silence that followed. She never thought to look for her missing husband in Vienna -- until she saw him in a newsreel shot there at the...
| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| ISBN | 0060809086 |
I'm sorry, Hercule Poirot. There's a new literary detective in my life, and while I will always cherish your silly Belgian antics, Lord Peter Wimsey just understands my needs better - he makes me laugh so much more than you do, and he has that sincerity that you lack.
Now don't cry, Hercule. It's...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0451200187 |
In utter disbelief, Jane Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel - an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. He had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem was, he had failed to tell her who was involved or where and...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 1579126936 |
Elspeth McGillicuddy is not given to hallucinations. Until she witnesses a murder at Paddington Station. But did she? No victim, no suspect, no other witnesses. In fact no one believes it really happened at all. Except her friend Miss Jane Marple, and she's returning to the scene of the crime to discover...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007120842 |
The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village's quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit suicide. The vicar, the doctor,...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0451199863 |
A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman! Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his 'counting house' when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals. Yet, it was the...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0451199928 |
Since I was a kid reading Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys, I have read mysteries in between other books as a palette cleanser. Rather than go into a reading slump, I read a fast paced crime or detective story to clear my head. There is no detective writer I enjoy more than the Queen of Crime herself, Dame Agatha...
| Author | James A. Michener |
| ISBN | 0449207331 |
Here, in the fresh, vivid prose that is James Michener's trademark, is the real Spain as he experiences it. He not only reveals the celebrated Spain of bullfights and warror kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards; he also shares the intimate, often hidden Spain he has come to...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0380820757 |
ONLY A MOMENT BEFORE
Camilla Haven is on holiday alone, and wishes for some excitement. She had been sitting quietly in a crowded Athens cafe writing to her friend Elizabeth in England, "Nothing ever happens to me..."
Then, without warning, a stranger approached, thrust a set of car...
| Author | Sinclair Lewis |
| ISBN | 0848814118 |
This book was written late in the career of Sinclair lewis.He had fun with it ,but it was not without serious undertones or piercing social commentary. That said much of it highlights how what from a distance seems like banal self absorption is in fact the workings of a heart or mind searching for meaning.The...
Clearly Joan Haslip knows her stuff, she proves it time and again throughout the book. It picks up with Marie Antoinette’s marriage and ends abruptly at her death. Through a vast collection of primary sources (sooo many letters were written in those days) Haslip is able to construct a very detailed...
Don't Look Now and Other Stories
| Author | Daphne du Maurier |
| ISBN | 0316253642 |
A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely schoolmaster is impelled to investigate a mysterious American couple. A young woman loses her cool when she confronts her father's old friend on a lonely island. A party of British pilgrims meet strange phenomena...
Twelve Extraordinary Women: How God Shaped Women of the Bible, and What He Wants to Do with You
| Author | John F. MacArthur Jr. |
| ISBN | 0785262563 |
Celebrated for their courage, vision, hospitality, and spiritual giftedness, it's no wonder women were so important to God's plan revealed in the Old and New Testaments. It wasn't their natural qualities that made these women extraordinary but the power of the one true God whom they worshipped and...
| Author | Michael Robotham |
| ISBN | 0733637930 |
Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been married for sixty years. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both have a strong sense of right and wrong.
This is what their son, Joe O'Loughlin, has always believed. But when Joe is summoned to the hospital with news that his father...
Snap Shot: An atmospheric historical thriller (Julia McAllister Victorian Mysteries Book 1)
A brilliant new Victorian mystery series you won’t want to miss! For fans of Sherlock Holmes, Anne Perry, Elizabeth Peters and Victoria Thompson.
Julia turns from murder suspect to England’s first crime scene photographer…
1895, London
Taking risqué photographs...
Clear Winter Nights: A Journey into Truth, Doubt, and What Comes After
| Author | Trevin K. Wax |
| ISBN | 1601424949 |
Searching for Real Faith - or No Faith at All
What happens when a young Christian dealing with disillusionment and doubt spends a weekend with an elderly, retired pastor? They talk. And no subject is off limits. Clear Winter Nights is a stirring story about faith, forgiveness, and the distinctiveness...
| Author | Philip Roth |
| ISBN | 0679764178 |
Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral...
