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By Frederic Wakeman. 2017
This is the story of two journeys. The first is the cruise of the sailing yacht Cybele. The second is…
the journey into a woman’s past. After ten years of marriage, Roger and Emily Stratton decide on a second honeymoon. He is a writer and has bought a tiny sailing yacht for a Caribbean cruise.A few days out of port they are anchored off an uninhabited island when the scheme begins to rumble around in Roger’s mind: Perhaps, even after ten years of marriage, there is a way, some way, to make his and Emily’s love what he has always dreamed it would be.Three days later they go ashore and Roger broaches his plan to Emily:“Suppose you and I pledge each other to tell the complete and utter truth, including all our past, good, bad or heretofore unspeakable,” he said. “Suppose we spend the rest of this cruise prying and probing into every past act no matter how reprehensible...no matter how hurtful or deadly or disgusting it seems at the time....If we really do a full job, in complete honesty with each other, I believe with all my heart that we can build ourselves the finest love any couple could want.”Emily agrees. She believes her behaviour has been no better or worse than that of any of the other women in her circle who pride themselves on their civilized sophistication. Nor does she have any idea of just how much she has to hide, or of what she will finally be driven to reveal. In her innocence, she adds to Roger’s plan with the suggestion that their confessions will be wonderful material for his next novel.In MANDRAKE ROOT, Frederic Wakeman tells a story which reaches to the heart of many, many marriages. His novel is a mature and painstaking consideration of what went wrong in a marriage and how two people tried to save their failure.“Why anyone would read the Kinsey Report when this is available passes understanding.”—Pasadena Star-NewsBy Frederic Wakeman. 2017
AN EXCITING, POWERFUL NOVEL ABOUT A DEDICATED UNDERCOVER MAN FOR WHOM THE COLD WAR IS A RED-HOT, EXPLOSIVE REALITY!From New…
Guinea to Athens to Africa, this sweeping, powerful novel traces the exciting and always dangerous career of a hero of our time.First as a dive-bomber pilot, then as an undercover agent, Mark Marklay daily risks his life for his country. And he freely accepts the blind obedience demanded of him even when it means blotting out private scruples or leaving his beautiful Greek wife in the middle of their honeymoon.But he is forced to re-evaluate his marriage, his life and the entire Cold War struggle when he is betrayed and captured while on a dangerous mission in Africa—and is confronted with evidence that the informer has been his own wife!“…impressive beyond anything Wakeman has done before. It fulfills an obligation to entertain without bypassing the mind or overlooking chances to kick sacred cows when they stray onto the path.”—The New York Times Book ReviewBy David Grayson. 2017
By Leonard Wibberley. 2017
A story of spiritual values, about a devoted young priest in an Irish fishing village who battles with the Celtic…
superstitions of the villagers…The Irish meaning of the name of the village—Killknock—is “the church on the mountain.” It is a little place, no more than two hundred souls and all but one of them Catholic. A poor and ancient fishing village, it is devoutly Christian while still believing in old Celtic myths, legends and superstitions. Who the stranger was, no one knew. But certainly he was a worker of miracles, or at least a great healer, for he made sixty-year-old Caitlin look like a girl again and gave Feeney back his hearing. Some of the villagers, noting that the stranger had scars on his hands and feet as though nails had once been driven through them, had unvoiced suspicions.“All the stranger said was:“I thought that my business here would take care of itself. But it did not. And so I have come to attend to it personally.”“A beautiful and lyrical story, blessed with the simplicity of truth and faith…If you have a heart, it will reach out to you, and give you the comfort of the seas and the mountains…”—The Associated Press“Let the stranger arrive in a primitive Irish fishing village where ancient nature-worship blends with revealed religion, and you have a situation calling not only for the gift of the word but for profound wisdom as well....It is evident that Leonard Wibberley has both.”—San Francisco Chronicle“It is easily the best fiction that Wibberley has yet written, a story which deserves that much-abused adjective—unforgettable.”—Los Angeles TimesBy Anne Miller Downes. 2017
The Pilgrim Soul, which was originally published in 1952, tells the legend of Dolly Copp of the White Mountains of…
New Hampshire. As a young bride she moved with her husband Hayes to their homestead in the virgin forests of 19th century New Hampshire. Together, they built a farm, raised a family, and warmly opened their home to many travelers who passed by their door.“Anne Miller Downes has re-created in novel form the New England historical legend of Hayes & Dolly Copp.”—Saturday Review.By Van Wyck Brooks. 2017
In this volume, first published in 1947, Pulitzer Prize winning author Van Wyck Brooks gives a superb recreation of a…
segment of American literary history, namely the period from approximately the 1840’s through to the 1890’s. Those were the days of Melville, Whitman, Mark Twain, Lanier, Bret Harte, Audubon, John Muir and a host of other major and minor writers.No other American critic quite possesses Brooks’ gift for making you see and feel and experience the life and times of these literary men and women. And the balanced critical evaluation that gives this book its statute is clothed in such vigorous and beautiful writing that the reader is unaware of the lifetime of research and study encompassed in this volume.Aside from the critical value, the narrative skill and the many beautiful prose passages, in The Times of Melville and Whitman Brooks gives the reader a vivid historical picture of what life was like in the last half of the nineteenth century. It is this ability to recreate the social background of the times that gives such richness to Brooks’ criticism.He has again made a major contribution to American letters with a book that is a real work of art—vigorous, balanced, erudite, and a pleasure to read.By Thomas Elliott Berry. 2017
This book analyzes the errors most commonly made in spoken and written English and presents them in a systematic, down-to-earth…
manner. It does not dictate grammar to the reader; rather, it presents the guidelines for English usage currently being observed by the most competent and careful speakers and writers.The most troublesome words and phrases—as well as grammatical terms—are listed alphabetically within 18 subject areas to enable the reader to check quickly on questions of usage. In each case, illustrative examples are given, and the guiding principle is stated for the reader to follow in avoiding the mistake and others similar to it. An extensive index for additional ease of reference helps make this book a handy tool for the modern reader who realizes that mere knowledge is no longer sufficient—that one must be able to express his knowledge clearly, forcefully, and correctly.By William Le Queux. 2017
What was Lady Inverlake’s secret that caused her to go to such extremes? Even the cleverest of rogues commit a…
fatal error, thereby causing their downfall. Author William Le Queux has exemplified this with cunning and skill, and leads the reader spellbound among those who worm their way into society, discover family secrets, and the vigorously blackmail their victims.The Golden Three go to work more cleverly than most of their kind, and suspicion is not directed toward them until—but read for yourself this thoroughly mystifying mystery in which there is one surprise after another, and wherein the characters seem actually to help unravel the various tangles.By Perry Burgess. 2017
In the courage and unselfish love this book describes there is an inspiration for the world today. It is the…
story of Ned Langford, an ordinary young mid-western American who learned that something had happened to him, so terrible that it sent him into lifelong exile on a distant tropical island.The thing began, probably, in the years when young Ned served as a soldier in the Philippines, but he did not find out what had happened until years later. By that time he was launched in a happy, successful life—engaged to be married, and with a real standing in his community. How he found out the meaning of the places on his arm where there was no feeling, how he destroyed his own identity and went to the leper colony of Culion, how he came to terms with himself and built a new life, makes tremendous, dramatic reading which is doubly effective because Mr. Burgess has let Ned tell it in his own words.Ned Langford’s story is as triumphant as it is memorable and dramatic. Here is the story of a man who faced one of the ultimate of human disasters, and yet managed to wring from it a rich, useful, undaunted life.At the time of its first publication in 1940, Perry Burgess had been a national director of the Leonard Wood Memorial (American Leprosy Foundation) for fifteen years, and the president and executive officer of that foundation for the last decade. His work has taken him to leprosaria all over the world. He presents the factual background of the disease in an authoritative appendix to this volume, a supplement that removes the misconceptions about leprosy which exist in the minds of many people.Richly illustrated throughout with photographs drawn from the files of the Memorial.“Told with amazing sincerity and restraint. It is a true story of gallantry, suffering, triumph, victory of the spirit. It is inspiring....”—Robert M. Green in the Boston Evening Transcript.“A gentle and profoundly affecting story.”—The New Yorker.By Ian Fleming. 2012
James Bond is about to be cashiered out of Her Majesty’s Secret Service. The British agent whose exploits have been…
followed by millions of readers around the world, who has thwarted such arch-criminals as Dr. No and Goldfinger, now finds himself on a last-chance mission. Sick with grief over the death of Tracy, his beautiful wife of a day, Bond has bungled two important assignments. As You Only Live Twice opens, Bond faces an unspoken ultimatum. He must make good on a vital mission to Japan or his career in the service will be finished....In this latest adventure novel the inimitable Ian Fleming unfolds a spellbinding tale of the Orient—of sensuous pleasure and maniacal torture—of a suicide garden of sulphurous fumaroles and poisonous plants surrounding a pool of man-eating piranha—of a lissome beauty named Kissy Suzuki—and of James Bond’s appointment with destiny in a place of easy death.By Ian Fleming. 2004
Flamboyant red cropped hair, florid skin, eyes blazing with hate—THIS IS THE FACE OF HUGO DRAX,THE MYSTERY MAN BEHIND MOONRAKER.A…
stranger, he came out of nowhere to build England the deadliest weapon ever devised by a human brain.A maniacal genius, he now holds the life of secret agent JAMES BOND in his fiendishly clever hands!!JAMES BOND has less than four days to discover the secret motive that is driving the mysterious HUGO DRAX to build MOONRAKER, the new super rocket that can blow the world sky high!!Is he a national hero out to save the universe? Or a diabolical fiend bent on destruction? The answer must be found before the zero hour—an hour that is rapidly drawing closer and closer—when Moonraker will be finished and ready for use!By Ian Fleming. 2013
‘On November 2nd armed with a sheaf of visas…one suitcase…and my typewriter, I left humdrum London for the thrilling cities…
of the world…’In 1959, Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, was commissioned by the Sunday Times to explore fourteen of the world’s most exotic cities. Fleming saw it all with a thriller writer’s eye. From Hong Kong to Honolulu, New York to Naples, he left the bright main streets for the back alleys, abandoning tourist sites in favour of underground haunts, and mingling with celebrities, gangsters and geishas. The result is a series of vivid snapshots of a mysterious, vanished world.By Ian Fleming. 2008
JAMES BOND declares war on Le Chiffre, French Communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH.The battle begins for…
the ace secret agent in a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat...gains momentum in his fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy...and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist.The critics give a winning hand to Ian Fleming’s superlative thriller of espionage, adventure, intrigue and murder—CASINO ROYALE“Hums with tension...Author Fleming keeps his incidents and characters spinning through their paces like juggling balls.”—Time“A speed-breaker for thrills with a big dramatic scene set in a crowded casino.” Atlanta Journal Constitution“Excitement enough to intrigue the most hardened reader.”—Newark News“Mounting suspense on every page.”—Houston Chronicle“It’s superlative, everything such a story should be...One can only beg for more from Mr. Fleming.”—Pensacola News-JournalBy Ian Fleming. 2015
“Keep away from MR. AURIC GOLDFINGER. He is a most powerful man. If he wished to crush you, he would…
only have to roll over in his sleep to do so.”OPERATION GRAND SLAMSecret agent James Bond had been warned not to tangle with Goldfinger. But the super-criminal’s latest obsession was too strong, too dangerous. He had to be stopped.Goldfinger was determined to take possession of half the supply of mined gold in the world—to rob Fort Knox!For this incredible venture he had enlisted the aid of the top criminals in the U.S., including a bevy of beautiful thieves from the Bronx. And he had conceived so foolproof a plan that it would take all of Bond’s unique talents to make it fail—as fail it must.JAMES BOND challengesGOLDFINGER, THE MOST EVIL GENIUS HE HAS EVER FACED.He’s a phenomenal criminal who likes his women dressed only in gold paint. He’s a magnificent fiend who carries his cash in gold bars. He’s a powerful villain who plans to pull the biggest and boldest crime in history—the robbery of all the gold in Fort Knox.“It’s all marvellously intricate and polished storytelling, all absurdly impossible, all superlative fun.”—Cleveland News.“We recommend Goldfinger for just what it is: sophisticated, tongue-in-cheek entertainment par excellence.”—Playboy Magazine.“If you like heroes heroic, a woman who proves, finally, that she’s all woman, and a villain who is a dirty dog, then Goldfinger is for you.”—Detroit Sunday Times.By Anna Gregorevna Dostoevsky, S. S. Koteliansky. 2017
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821 - 9 February 1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and…
philosopher. Dostoevsky’s literary works explored human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and engaged with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. He became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers. His writings were widely read both within and beyond his native Russia and influenced an equally great number of later writers, including Russians like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton Chekhov, as well as philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre.This book, first published in its present form in 1926, contains portions of the Diary of Dostoevsky’s second wife, Anna Dostoevsky, the rough notes of her Reminiscences, and copies of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s letters to her from 1866 to 1881. All of these, in her own handwriting, were found in August 1922 and delivered by the representative of the Commissar of Education in Georgia (in the Caucasus) to the directors of the Moscow Archives, and serve to provide a clear portrait of Dostoevsky’s wife during the last fourteen years of his life.“Mme. Dostoevsky, with her practical mind, abounding energy, indomitable will and capacity for seeing things through when once a decision was made, is here revealed as the true complement of Dostoevsky, who was rather incompetent in practical affairs.”—Prefatory NoteThe book is also beautifully illustrated with 4 full-page plates.By Bryher. 2017
In this remarkable novel, Bryher takes the reader into sixth century Britain—Cornwall, the Scillys, Ireland and Wales. Arthur is dead…
and the uneasy peace which he established is drawing to its close. Young Ruan, nephew of a high priest, is destined for the priesthood. Turbulent and restless for adventure, he feels caged and longs for the high seas. At last he breaks free and sets out on the quest for those islands which are to him both an image and reality. The sights, sounds, passions and ordeals of Celtic Britain filter through Bryher’s haunting prose. With Ruan’s eyes we see the throngs at the Cornish fair, the religious ritual, the burial of the king on the mysterious Scilly Isles. With him we experience the mariners’ winter camp in Ireland and with him we flee for life through an Irish bog.By Andrew Clare Geer. 2017
Against a colorful and violent background, Andrew Geer tells the story of Jeff Jordan, who, in addition to being a…
flying mercenary, was also a strangely reckless man in search of his own kind of personal security. It is also the story of an extraordinary group of adventurers, men and women of mixed morals and various (but always human) motives—the most important of these being a missionary doctor and a beautiful Eurasian girl, two individuals who understood Jordan a lot better than he did himself.The story moves through the cities of Peking, Nanking, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Canton and Macao. It does not dwell on politics except insofar as the China of 1949 (the Communists were sweeping south to Canton) provides a dramatic background and a test of human behavior. It is a story of a struggle for survival on one level, and for personal salvation on another. It includes tremendous scenes of panic and bravery during the retreat to the South, as well as the minutiae of the personal drama which grips Jordan and the individuals caught with him in this swift and dangerous stream of history.By Ian Fleming. 1989
THUNDERBALL presents the blueprint for a monstrous crime that could be just around the corner in history.James Bond is in…
disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off for a fortnight to a nature-cure clinic to be tuned-up to his former pitch of exceptional fitness. Furiously, Bond undergoes the shame of the carrot juice and nut-cutlet regime—and thereby minutely upsets the plans of SPECTRE, a new adversary, more deadly, more ruthless even than Smersh.Who is SPECTER? What are its plans? Alas, the organization is all too realistically described, its plans all too contemporary for comfort. Of all James Bond’s adversaries, the Chief of SPECTRE casts the darkest shadow.By Ian Fleming. 2013
HAILED BY THE PRESS AS: “THE GREATEST SPY STORY SINCE WORLD WAR II”The chilling, spy-studded story of a carefully organized,…
private intelligence army—and the master operative who ingeniously commanded it.IAN FLEMING AT THIS INTRIGUING BESTThe glitter of espionage, the lure of easy money, the fever of men and women trapped by the temptations of “hot ice”..all interwoven in a nerve-tightening web of intrigue and violence. A web that winds from the depths of an African diamond mine, right op to Moscow—and the Top!“A BREATHTAKING STORY”—The Evansville Press“ADVENTURE WITH A WALLOP”—Omaha World-Herald“TANTALIZING”—The New York Times“MAKES FOR FINE READING...SECOND TO NONE”—San Francisco Call Bulletin“INTRIGUING, FASCINATING”—Philadelphia InquirerBy Ian Fleming. 2006
“THE SPY WHO LOVED ME was called James Bond and the night on which he loved me was a night…
of screaming terror in The Dreamy Pines Motor Court, which is in the Adirondacks in the north of New York State.“This is the story of who I am and how I came through a nightmare of torture and the threat of rape and death to a dawn of ecstasy...”So writes Vivienne Michel—”the most attractive of Bond’s heroines to date.” (Sunday Times)“Ian Fleming keeps you riveted. His narrative pulls with the smooth power of Bond’s Thunderbird, and the way he gets inside the skin of his heroine is masterly.”—Sunday Telegraph“Muscularly brilliant…not for prudes”—Evening Standard