Search Results: Authors starting with S from Petes Loved Books

New York: Pan, PAPERBACK EDITION..WELL READ WITH CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER.MARK ON FRONT1996. Used. Elizabeth Goldman survives the horrors of wartime Amsterdam and escapes to find prosperity in America. But she can never forget the name of the Nazi officer who ordered the brutal murder of her family. Or her vow to seek revenge.

London: Random House, 2004. Used. Barnum and Fred are half- brothers, growing up in sixties Oslo. Barnum seems to have stopped growing, while his half- brother, frustrated by learning difficulties, is sent away to a special school. Theirs is an ordinary Norwegian family of the time, set apart by extraordinary family members. Their father is no better than a con man, giving the appearance of a travelling salesman; while the three women in the family (mother, grandmother and great- grandmother - the 'Old One') are all unwed mothers. Then the Old One is killed by a hit and run driver- and Fred becomes mute as a result. The two half- brothers embark on their separate courses, Fred becoming a boxer and Barnum a scriptwriter, hoping to create a new genre in film, 'the northern' (as opposed to 'western'). This literary marvel tells the story of an ordinary Norwegian family in the 1960s, set apart by extraordinary family members, and of two half- brothers leading very different and separate lives, until… Read More

St Lucia, Qld: Tom Doherty Associates, 1987. Used. WELL READ PAPERBACK WITH SOME CREASES ON THE FRONT COVER.MARK ON COVER
When Mike Gabrieli's neer'do'well brother Tom disappears shortly after discovering a fabulously valuable Aztec relic, Mike rightly suspects that this time the family's black sheep has got himself into the kind of trouble from which even Mike won't be able to extricate him. But still, Tim is -- or was -- his brother, and Mike must do what he can. For Mike this is the beginning of an adventure beyond imagining, an adventure that will put him in constant peril of his life as he shuttles between past, present and future of an alternate reality, fighting beside the descendants of the Incas as they battle to erase Pizarro's bloody footprints from the New World, and secure the reality of their own existence. But is the "alternate reality" really an alternate, or is Mike actually struggling to erase the very future that gave him birth? The answer lies in the source of all his troubles… Read More

Philadelphia: HarperCollins Australia, 2011. Used. Part haunting crime thriller, part love story, the novel on which the Oscar-winning film was based stands alone as an unforgettable story within a story, reminiscent of THE SHADOW OF OF THE WIND. Part haunting crime thriller, part love story, the gripping tale that inspired the Oscar-winning best foreign film makes its eagerly-awaited debut in English. Determined to put to rest his obsession with the decades-old brutal murder of a beautiful young woman, former detective Benjamin Chaparro sets out to write a book about it. As he reaches into the past and the lives of others who became entangled in the case, from the husband who never recovered from losing the love of his life to the brilliant intern who is now a respected judge, he recalls the beginning of his own private drama - a long unrequited love. Vividly evoking 1970s Buenos Aires and the dark underpinnings of Argentina's 'Dirty War', tHE SECREt IN tHEIR EYES takes on the question of justice -… Read More

Summit Books, 1985. Used. Using case studies, Sacks examines the effects of impairment and incapacity of neurological function such as loss of speech and loss of memory, and looks at the relationship between the brain and the mind.

Random House, 1977. Used. WELL READ PAPERBACK WITH CREASES ON FRONT COVEROnly one man could have written this book??a man with all the remarkable insight and behind-the-scenes knowledge of a former presidential aide and the style and tightly-packed prose of one of the best-known columnists on the New York Times. With Full Disclosure William Safire has produced the most breathtakingly exciting best-seller of the decade. In this totally absorbing and gripping novel, William Safire examines the exercise of power??power as an end in itself rather than as a means of carrying out policies; its uses and abuses; its pleasures and miseries; its acquisition and surrender, and above all the lengths to which men will go to keep it. In the world of international politics in the not too distant future, there is a new line-up of world powers. An alliance of China with Japan menaces the Western world, and there is imminent danger that Russia will join the Far East axis... A helicopter is ambushed in the Crimea.… Read More

Crows Nest, NSW: Hamish Hamilton, 2005. Used. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. The book's narrator is a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell. In the story, Oskar discovers a key in a vase that belonged to his father, a year after he is killed in the September 11 attacks.

New York:PENGUIN,1962. Used.WELL READ PAPERBACK. NO TEARS OR INSPCRIPTIONS. THE FRONT COVER HAS CREASES AND PAGE DISCOLOURATION DUE TO AGEAimez-vous Brahms (Do you like Brahms?) is a novel by Franoise Sagan, first published in 1959. It was published in English in 1960, and was made into a film under the title Goodbye Again in 1961 starring Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Perkins.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956. Hardcover//Collec. Used. Francoise Sagan is best known for her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, which caused a scandal when she first published it at the age of eighteen in 1953. But her second novel, A Certain Smile, less shocking and more psychologically convincing, was preferred by many critics. Like Bonjour Tristesse, this story is set in Paris in the 1950s and told by a young student bored by her law books, restless and curious about love and sex. She is fond of her loyal boyfriend, but he, too, bores her. His worldly uncle strikes her as more exciting, appealingly risky and forbidden. Frank and spontaneous, vulnerable and cruel, thoughtless and insightful, Sagan's young narrator explores such perennial themes as unrequited love and the precarious balance of irrational emotions and self-restraint.

London: W.H. Allen, 1984. Used.PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER.A group of hedonistic passengers enjoy nightly musical entertainments and their own impromptu activities on a Mediterranean cruise aboard a luxury yacht

London: W.H. Allen, 1985. Used. 'Sagan's finest love story 'Elle From the moment he sets eyes on her, Nicholas Lomont is lost. The arrival of Florade Margelasse in the town of Angoulemeto reclaim her family estate marks for Nicholasthe birth of a hopeless passion and the beginning of a lifetime of jealousy, bitterness and despair. For Flora can never return his love. And when she falls in love with the son of a farm labourer, who shamelessly betrays her, the world of Nicholas Lomont and the provincial French bourgeoisie is shattered.And then the storm breaks... 'Serious, skilled and successful'The Guardian'Francoise Sagan is without equal in her ability to dissect the fibres of the human heart 'Le Point 'A literary event'Marie Claire

London: Picador, 2011. Used. OURS ARE THE STREETS by SUNJEEV SAHOTA, Picador Books, Wharf Road, London, UK, 2011, This is a story about a young man who decides to take his own life. A very dramatic tale. Imtiaz Raina, born in Sheffield, young Father, young Husband, son of loving parents, has decided to die. He has convinced himself that he believes in his cause. He wants his family to understand. Raw, Tender, and Furious, Funny, Vulnerable, Selfish, Desperate, Proud: This is his story! WOW! A Very Poignant Story!

London: Text Publishing, 2017. Used. Michaelis is four when they first move to Australia, leaving behind the cold and the snow and the mud, the flat grey landscape, his father, his mother???s family, and everything he has ever known. He is seven when they pack up again and go home, nine when they return to Australia. When you are used to it, leaving is the easiest thing in the world???and where the sea is warm and the days linger, it is easier to forget. But his stepfather is a bully, and the absence of his real father masks a painful truth. Before long, Michaelis learns that no matter how far you go, your past always follows you, trailing questions in its wake. Beginning with memory???s first fragments, The Last Thread traces a boy???s journey into adulthood against a backdrop of family secrets, betrayals and unhealed wounds. Michael Sala was born in the Netherlands in 1975 to a Greek father and a Dutch mother, and first came to Australia in the 1980s. He lives in Newcastle. His critically… Read More

London: Allen & Unwin, 2015. Used. LEAN, FAB, FAST... that's the best way to describe the green smoothie lifestyle.After battling and surviving a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer, Sally Obermeder decided to take back control of her health. By making one simple change???switching to the green smoothie lifestyle???she lost more than 15 kilograms. Her skin glowed, her energy levels soared and she felt light, lean, strong, healthy and happy. Best of all, it was easy.Sally and her sister Maha have created 60 healthy and delicious green smoothie recipes that are easy to make and packed full of benefits. Each one is a taste sensation - think leafy greens, fresh vegies and fruits as well as added superfoods that leave you feeling energetic, lean and strong as well as stop those cravings for sugar and unhealthy fatty foods and snacks.Kick-start your way to weight-loss, energy and all-round good health with Super Green Smoothies, and look and feel great, starting now. Let the transition begin!

London: Picador, 2013. Used. An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II. From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. It was a time when publishing was still a private affair - a scattered family of small houses here and in Europe - a time of gatherings in fabled apartments, parties into the night. It is a world in which to immerse himself, a world of intimate connections and surprising triumphs. But the deal that Philip cannot seem to close is love: one marriage goes bad; another fails to happen; and, finally, he meets a woman who enthralls, then betrays him, setting him on a course he could never have imagined for himself. Written with Salter's signature economy of prose, All That Is fiercely, fluidly explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of… Read More

HarperCollins Australia, 2008. Used. Stunning debut from an enormously talented young writer with an entirely original voice. This masterful novel transports us to Malaysia circa 1980, as the prosperous Rajasekharan family of Big House, Ipoh, slowly peels away its closely guarded secrets.... Set in Malaysia, this spellbinding first novel introduces us to the prosperous Rajasekharan family as it slowly peels away its closely guarded secrets. When the family's rubber-plantation servant girl is dismissed for unnamed crimes, it is only the latest in a series of precipitous losses that have shaken six-year-old Aasha's life. In the space of several weeks her grandmother died under mysterious circumstances and her older sister, Uma, left for Columbia University, gone forever. Circling through years of family history to arrive at the moment of Uma's departure - stranding her worshipful younger sister in a family, and a country, slowly going to pieces - Evening is the Whole Day illuminates in heartbreaking… Read More

London: Bloomsbury, 2002. Hardcover/First Edition. Used. A tale of two cities, both called 'New York'. The first is a real city, an urban agglomeration of millions. The second is a mythic city, so rich in memory and association and sense of place that to people everywhere it has come to seem real- the New York of films such as '42nd Street', 'Rear Window', 'Annie Hall', 'Taxi Driver' and 'Do the Right Thing'. This fascinating book examines how the real and mythic cities reflected, changed and taught each other.

Milsons Point, NSW: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2007. Used. A thrilling biography of one of the most intriguing men in history, Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Caribbean pirates. This is the real story of the myths which spawned a million childhood fantasies.

London: Simon and Schuster, 2018. Used. WELL READ PAPERBACK. CREASING TO THE SPINE Lucas Davenport thriller by internationally bestselling novelist John Sandford Five men go hunting. Only four come back alive. It's up to Lucas Davenport to untangle the secrets that bind these men together and uncover his prey... The company chairman lay on the cold ground of the woods, his eyes unseeing, his orange hunting jacket punctured by a rifle bullet at close range. Around him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with his or her own complicated agenda, each with a reason not to be sorrowful about the man's death. If he read it in a book, Lucas Davenport thought, it would seem like one of those classic murder mysteries, the kind where the detective gathers everyone together at the end and solves the case with a little speech. But it wasn't going to be that easy, he knew. There were currents running through this group, hints and whispers of something much greater than the murder of a… Read More

New York:PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER. Simon and Schuster, 2020. Used. The ultimate con game thriller from the internationally bestselling master of suspense, John Sandford When Kidd???s colleague, the hacker Jack Morrison, is mysteriously killed, Morrison???s sister implores him to help her determine his fate. Kidd quickly realizes sinister forces are at work as other talented hackers meet their grisly ends. Will he and LuEllen be able to get to the bottom of this before they???re targeted as well?***Praise for John Sandford*** ???One of the great novelists of all time??? Stephen King ?? ???A series writer who reads like a breath of fresh air??? Daily Mirror ?? ???Delivers twists to the very last sentence??? Daily Mail ?? ???Crime writer John Sandford is one of the best around??? Sun ?? 'John Sandford knows all there is to know about detonating the gut-level shocks of a good thriller'??The New York Times Book Review??? 'Sandford is??consistently brilliant'??Cleveland??Plain Dealer… Read More