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This collection brings together all the poems published by James Joyce in his lifetime, most notably "Chamber music" and "Pomes…
Penyeach". It also includes a large body of his satiric or humorous occasional verse, much of which is little known. 1991.
The second of Michael Palin's Great Twentieth Century Adventures. He and his team set out to travel from one end…
of the earth to another, following the 30 degree east line of longitude, using aircraft only as a last resort and enduring extremes of heat and cold as they crossed 17 countries on trains, trucks, ships, rafts, ski-doos, buses, barges, bicycles and balloons. 1992.
TV investigative journalist Jemima Shore is summoned to the dilapidated home of the eccentric Lady Imogen Swain, to hear what…
she knows about the 1964 disappearance of a man tried for selling British intelligence secrets. Lady Swain has a good memory and her diaries with all the details of a 30-year-old love affair with a prominent politician. 1997.
Strange things keep happening next door at the Kappa Theta Eta sorority house, but when someone is killed, Claire must…
reluctantly get involved. Little does she suspect that the secrets of the sorority girls are more blue than pink. Claire's investigation unearths some oddball characters and leads to a sleazy motel. 1993.
A story of three families, the Counts Lubonski, the petty nobles Bukowski and the peasants Buk through eight hundred years…
of Polish history - tragic, often violent, and ranging from extreme brutality to noble sacrifice. 1983.
Captured in "From Potter's Field", psychopath Carrie Grethen sends medical examiner Kay Scarpetta an unsettling note before escaping from a…
mental hospital. Fearful for herself, her niece, and others who helped bring down Grethen, Scarpetta still tries to concentrate on an unusual arson case. Strong language and descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 1998.
Jake Upshore has loved Skye Derucci since before he can remember. Volatile, complex and frustrated at the best of times,…
Jake's on a desperate quest to find Skye before she aborts the baby he believes is his. As he hurtles headlong toward certain tragedy, Jake relives the fatal choices he's made and the powerful forces that have led him to this to end. For senior high readers. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2010.
Welcome to the Dorothy Fish, a day hospital in North London. N has been a patient here for thirteen years;…
day after day N sits smoking in the common room, swapping medication and comparing MAD money rates. Like all the patients at the Dorothy Fish, N's chief ambition is never to be discharged, until Poppy Shakespeare turns up and things begin to change. Strong language. 2006.
Women from all over the world have contributed these stories of tragic dating, including the author, who's dated an overweight…
manic eater who picked fights and an older anaesthesiologist who really did put her to sleep. Each evening spent with Mr. Wrong teaches us to embrace our misadventures, share the pain, find the humour, and remember that no matter how awful a date was, there is always someone else with a worse story. Explicit descriptions of sex and explicit strong language. c2005.
The authors depict the personalities of three pontiffs - Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II - their…
relationships with their staffs, and the controversial aspects of their papacies. The emphasis is on John Paul II, who emerges as an unyielding enforcer of orthodoxy. 1983.
This companion to the Belgariad and Malloreon series is the culmination of the saga. Polgara, daughter of Belgarath the sorcerer,…
reminisces about her long life in an amazing world of magic. Bestseller. 1997.
Once the toast of Hollywood, 71-year-old Allegra Kent is widowed, ailing and estranged from her only son. Hospitalized for treatment…
of cancer, she meets a mysterious red-haired girl named Poppy. With songs of God's love and the power of human forgiveness, Poppy leads Allegra out of the despair of the present and into an accepting, forgiving future. 1987.
When Mandy meets stuck-up Susan Collins she quickly decides that the only good thing about her is her pony Prince!…
Then Mandy realises that Susan's determination to win at show-jumping threatens the life of the beautiful pony. Can she convince Susan before it's too late? Grades 3-6. 1994.
The time is just a few short years from now. But already the signs of global disaster are multiplying: freak…
storms, earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions are sweeping the earth. The last violent spasm of a dying planet. A series of ominous events occurs. Something terrible is about to begin. 1992.