Search Results: www.peteslovedbooks.com from Petes Loved Books

Ware, Herts.: Wordsworth Editions, 1995. Used. With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D.This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer.Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exuberantly entertaining panorama of social life, ranging from thieves to tycoons, from the streets of New York to the prairies of Texas.These stories are famed for their 'trick endings' or 'twists in the tail': repeatedly the plot twirls adroitly, compounding ironies. Indeed, O. Henry's cunning plots surpass those of the ingenious rogues he creates. His style is genial, lively and witty, displaying a virtuoso's command of language and allusion.This great collection offers delights for the mind, imagination and emotions.

WELL READ PAPERBACK EDITION...CREASES TO THE SPINE AND COVERNew Holland, 2003. Hardcover.. Used. A tribute to the servicemen and women of the past, and peacekeepers of the present, in the Australian Army, Navy and Air Force. Begins with the Boer War, goes on to cover the Boxers conflict in China, the First and Second World Wars, Malayan emergency, Korean War, Indonesia, Vietnam War, also the Gulf War, and East Timor.

London: Chapmans Publishers, 1993. Used. The 100 Best Films of the Century, ranks the best motion pictures from the four corners of the earth. For each film chose, the author provides details on the stars, the directors, the screenwriter, the director of photography, the musical director, and the behind the scenes production details

London: Published by Hinkley , 2005. Hardcopy. Used. 1000 Recipes - Baking - Large Format Hardback Book. Photo's and step by step instructions

Hinkler Books, 2013. Hardcopy. Used. 1000 Quick & Easy Recipes Cookbook. Sold Out. $12.99 for this fantastic cookbook! Packed full of quick and delicious ideas! A feast of quick and easy dishes awaits you in this fantastic book of culinary delights. For chefs on the go and perfect for those late night dinners, there's something for every set of taste buds.

Orbit, 1998. Used. The theory goes that humiliation, Total Humiliation, is the only state from which True Enlightenment can be achieved. An exponent of this dictum, author Fiona Bowron, shows us how we have been approaching the Enlightenment problem from entirely the wrong angle.

London: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2004. Used. PLEASE NOTE...This is a hardcover edition that will require a quote for postage due to the weight as it has 960 pages..1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die is a film reference book edited by Steven Jay Schneider with original essays on each film contributed by over 70 film critics. It is a part of a series designed and produced by Quintessence Editions, a London-based company, and published in English-language versions by Cassell Illustrated, ABC Books, and Barron's. The first edition was published in 2003; the most recent edition was published on 1 October 2020. Contributors include Adrian Martin, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Richard Pe?a, David Stratton, and Margaret Pomeranz.

.PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND FRONT COVER. MARK ON FRONT COVERHarmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986. Australian Author. Used. Each house, like each place, has its own topography, its own lore. A complex history comes down to us, through household jokes and anecdotes, odd family habits and irrational superstitutions, that forever shapes what we see and the way in which we see it. In his book, David Malouf, one of Australia's most prestigious writers, takes an unsentimental journey into his past. Beginning with his childhood home, he moves on to show other landmarks in his life, and the way places and things create our private worlds. Written with humour and uncompromising intelligence, 12 Edmondstone Street is an unforgettable portrait of one man's life.

Melbourne: Mira Books, 2008. large size paperback. Used. In the mid-1980s the Snow White Killer terrorized the streets of Nashville, Tennessee. Then suddenly the murders stopped. A letter from the killer to the police stated that his work was done. Now four more bodies are found, marked with his fatal signature. The residents of Nashville fear a madman has returned, decades later, to finish his sick fairy tale. Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson believes the killings are the work of a copycat killer who's even more terrifying. For this monster is meticulously honing his craft as he mimics famous serial murdersproving that the past is not to be forgotten.

London: Random House, 2016. Used.PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES TO COVER AND SPINEThe bestselling 15th novel in the Women?sMurder Club series_Detective Lindsay Boxer is on the case of a professional multiple murder in a luxury hotel ??? a man who checked in under a false name, two men in a room full of surveillance equipment, and a maid who saw too much are all dead.A CASE TOO CLOSE TO HOMEHer investigation takes her down unexpected paths ??? and when her husband Joe abruptly goes missing, Lindsay begins to fear that the elusive suspect might be the man she married.AN EXPLOSIVE TRAGEDY As Lindsay faces the worst case scenario, things get worse when an explosion rocks San Francisco to its core. Following new leads, Lindsay once again finds them pointing to her own front door ??? and starts to wonder if this case could end not only her marriage and career, but her life...THE EVIDENCE DOESN???T LIE...

Melbourne, Australia: Text Publishing Company, 1996. Used. Small stamp on R/H courner of cover.Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Botany Bay with the First Fleet in January 1788. He was in his late twenties, a captain of the marines, and on the adventure of his life. Insatiably curious, with a natural genius for storytelling, Tench wrote two enthralling accounts of the infant colony - A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bayand A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson. Tench brings to life the legendary figures of Bennelong, Arabanoo and Governor Phillip, and records the voices of convicts trying to make new lives in their new country.

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. Used.Detective Lindsay Boxer and her husband Joe Molinari team up to protect San Francisco from an international war criminal in the newest Women's Murder Club thriller.Three female schoolteachers go missing in San Francisco, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is on the case-which quickly escalates from missing person to murder.

London: National Film Theatre, Nov-74. Rare/Collectable. Used. National Film Theatre London Program. original in excellent condition 1974

VINTAGE & WELL READ & USED PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER.
UK : FONTANA, 1977. Vintage. Used. Norman Thomas di Giovanni (3 October 1933 ? 16 February 2017) was an American-born editor and translator known for his collaboration with Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges.

London: Good Press, 1919. Hardcover/Vintage. Used.HARDCOVER 1919 EDITION.IN GOOD CONDITION SOME CREASES TO SPINE. NO TEARS OR INSCRIPTIONS.NO DUST JACKETHARDCOVER 1919 EDITION...Some small marks and the last page is slightly torn. Pictures can be provided upon request..."1914, and Other Poems" by Rupert Brooke. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary Fiction and non-Fiction to forgotten???or yet undiscovered gems???of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

PAPERBACK-CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERLondon: Random House Australia, 2011. Used. The tragedy and violence of that event provide the climax to this very personal, moving and surprisingly romantic story. With remarkable skill and in achingly beautiful prose, Roger McDonald takes the reader on an archetypal Australian journey which parallels the nation's progress from its country childhood, through the adolescent exuberance of its young cities, to initiation on one of the world's ancient battlefields. It is a vital journey, haunted by menace and disillusionment, one embedded in our national mythology.This astonishing first novel, published to great critical acclaim in 1979 and since then selling over 100,000 copies, tells the story of two boys from the bush, the thoughtful and awkward Walter and his knowing friend Billy Mackenzie, and their girls Frances and Diana. Together they discover a future which seems full of promise, drawing them into the exciting turmoil of passion and war. But theirs is a… Read More

London: Pan Macmillan, 2005. Hardcopy/First Edition. Used. Scandals, disasters, shocks and crises: 1932 could truly be described as one of the most electrifying years in Australian history. Looking back, it's hard to believe how much happened in that fateful year to become the stuff of enduring national legend: the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened by surprise with the slashing sword of Captain Francis de Groot; the birth of the Australian Broadcasting Commission; the mysterious death of the beloved race horse Phar Lap; the controversial dismissal of NSW Premier Jack Lang; and the start of cricket's infamous Bodyline series. Acclaimed journalist and author Gerald Stone takes us on an exhilarating and fascinating journey through a year that quite literally changed a nation. Evocative and brilliantly researched, this is a book that turns history into compelling reading at its very best.

London: Allen & Unwin, 2005. Used. 'A lighthouse. A weather station, thousands of miles away. For six months. I drank steadily. With alcohol it all made sense.'It's the Bicentennial year and for Gordon - failed writer and bottleshop boy - it seems his life is going nowhere. It's time to escape. From his overcrowded house, from Brisbane, from Expo 88, from everything. He stumbles into Wayne who has connections in Darwin and the promise of work. So the two of them head north toward swamps and crocodiles, in search of inspiration, and of their rightful place in the culture of Australia.1988, McGahan's second novel, is a prequel to his best-selling debut, Praise.'A fiendish and eventful psychological novel... hugely satisfying.' - New York Times Book Review'The pre-eminent Australian road novel.' - The Australian

, Not recorded. Used. In The 19th Wife, David Ebershoff plays the role of historian, re-creating and unpacking the mysteries of Ann Eliza Young's tumultuous life as a sister wife to Brigham Young. Interwoven with this narrative is the story of an excommunicated young gay man, Jordan Scott, from a compound in Utah whose mother,

London: Century, 2020. Used. A young tech genius is offered the opportunity of a lifetime . . . one that could end hers. When Angela Hoot is kicked off her Masters degree course at MIT for hacking into the computer of a fellow student, she fears she's blown her chances of a glittering career. Angela is wrong. Instead, she's offered a dream internship with the FBI. She jumps at the chance, and is thrown straight into her first case at house in the Boston suburbs where a family of five have been brutally murdered. As Angela struggles to come to terms with the harsh reality of her new job, a phone is found that could hold the secrets of this mass murder -- if Angela is unable to uncover them.