Search Results: Titles starting with A from Petes Loved Books

London: Penguin Adult, 1995. Used. A. E. Housman, being one of the most famous and widely read poets of the early twentieth century, is certainly worthy of praise. His 'Collected Poems' are therefore a valuable read because they allow readers to gain an impression of the author's mind, opinions and lifestyle. Furthermore, they simultaneously depict a man who was deeply pessimistic and obsessed with death, and, on the other hand, illustrate a man who was also very much concerned with love, youth, life and the fleetingness of the these concepts.It is easy to understand why Housman's sensitive and sympathetic depictions of heroic English soldiers influenced and affected his readers, as his poetry is often written in an uncomplicated, yet sensitive style, which allows readers to feel as if they are witnessing events almost as the poet writes them down. These poems are also intriguing to read if you are a Shakespeare fan, as it is possible to spot many Shakespeare references in Housman's writing. A… Read More

PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERLeon's fifth Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery, the beating of renowned art historian Dotoressa Brett Lynch draws the contemporary Venetian police detective out of his warm and loving home and into the yearly onslaught of acqua alta, the torrential winter rains. Brett, an American who spearheaded a recent exhibition of Chinese pottery in Venice, lives with her lover, Flavia Petrelli, the reigning diva of La Scala. With his open mind and good sense, Brunetti finds himself more fazed by Flavia's breathtaking talent than by the nontraditional relationship between the two women. Brunetti's deliberate and humane investigation to uncover a motive for Brett's beating takes him to dark, wet corners of Venice and into a sinister web of art theft, fakery and base human desires. While there may be a whiff of stereotype in Brunetti's assumptions about a character of Sicilian heritage, the action builds to a dramatic and deeply satisfying climax

Scholastic, Circa 1997. Used. PRICE PER BOOK BUT WILL BUNDLE DEAL AND COMBINE POSTAGE....MULTIPLE BOOKS AVAILABE BUT NOT THE COMPLETE 54 SET (30 titles in stock).TITLES NUMBERS ARE AS FOLLOWS...#1,#2,#3,#4,#8,#10,#14,#15,#16,#18,#19,#24,#29,#30,#34,PLEASE MESSAGE FOR ACTUAL BOOK TITLES..INDIVIDUAL BOOK COST LISTED BUT WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO REDUCE POSTAGE COST. MESSAGE TO DISCUSS FURTHERAnimorphs is a science fantasy series of children's books written by Katherine Applegate and her husband Michael Grant, writing together under the name K. A. Applegate, and published by Scholastic. It is told in first person, with all six main characters taking turns narrating the books through their own perspectives.Published between June 1996 and May 2001, the series consists of 54 books and includes ten companion books...The story revolves around five humans who obtain the ability to transform into any animal they touch. they use their ability to battle a secret alien infiltration of Earth

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. VINTAGE/SOFT COVER. Used.SMALLER SIZE SOFT COPYmovie - Paperback ? 1 Jan. 1970 studio vista. englandby Ian & Robin Wood. Cameron (Author)in excellent condition. no marks, tears or inscriptions

Not Listed: HarperCollins, Not recorded. Used.WELL READ USED PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER & MARKS ON FRONTAn election is held at the abbey of Crewe and the new lady abbess takes up her high office with implacable serenity. ?The short dirk in the hands of Muriel Spark has always been a deadly weapon,? said The New York Times, and ?never more so than in The Abbess of Crewe.? An elegant little fable about intrigue, corruption, and electronic surveillance, The Abbess of Crewe is set in an English Benedictine convent. Steely and silky Abbess Alexandra has bugged the convent, and rigged her election. But the cat gets out of the bag, and?plunged into scandal?the serene Abbess faces a Vatican inquiry.

London: National Film Theatre, 1965. Rare/Collectable. Used. Original program and publication in excellent condition. July-August 1965

London: Gainsborough, 1979. Used.WELL READ PAPERBACK ..CREASES ON SPINE AND COVER.. NO INSCRIPTION OR TEARSbest selling author Michael French graduated from Stanford University and Northwestern University. He is a businessman and author who divides his time between Santa Barbara, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is an avid high-altitude mountain trekker, as well as a collector of first editions of twentieth-century fiction.He has published twenty-four books, including fiction, young adult fiction, biographies, and art criticism. His novel, Abingdon?s, was a bestseller and a Literary Guild Alternate Selection.

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. large size paperback. Used. The Abode of Love is Kate Barlow's remarkable tale of growing up within a religious cult. Founded in the nineteenth century by a charismatic priest, the Agapemone (Greek for 'abode of love') later gained yet more notoriety when Kate's grandfather, who then led the community, claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

London: William Heinemann, 2009. Used. At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office. He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more sinister material - in his company's trucks. No stranger to mutual suspicion and competition between rival Italian police departments, Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man's behaviour. Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect, but by the time the photograph arrives, he himself is dead.… Read More

London: Fourth Estate, 2004. Used. Anthony Doerr is the author of the New York Times #1 Bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, named one of the best books of 2014 by the Washington Post, NPR's Fresh Air, and The New York Times Book Review, among others. The Los Angeles Times called his stories in The Shell Collector "as close to faultless as any writer?young or vastly experienced?could wish for." About Grace, his first novel, has been hailed as one of the most compelling and entrancing novels of recent times. David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happen?a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone. He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream. On a Caribbean island,… Read More

London: Pocket Books, 2005. Used. Young Anna Travis has been assigned to her first murder case - a series of killings that has shocked even the most hardened of detectives. They started eight years ago - now the body count is up to six. The method of killing is identical, the backgrounds of the girls identical - all drug-users and prostitutes. Then a seventh body is found. The modus operandi is the same - but the victim is a young student with the 'face of an angel'. The profile of the murderer has changed dramatically. Determined to earn the respect of her male colleagues, Anna stumbles on a vital piece of information which links one man to the killings, a much-loved actor on the brink of international stardom. His arrest would create a media frenzy. But if he were found innocent, his wouldn't be the only career over - Anna's hard fought for reputation would be destroyed once and for all ...

London: Text Publishing, 2015. Used. In this poetic and haunting tale set in contemporary Appalachia, New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash illuminates lives shaped by violence and a powerful connection to the land. Les, a long-time sheriff just three weeks from retirement, contends with the ravages of crystal meth and his own duplicity in his small Appalachian town. Becky, a park ranger with a harrowing past, finds solace amid the lyrical beauty of this patch of North Carolina. Enduring the mistakes and tragedies that have indelibly marked them, they are drawn together by a reverence for the natural world. When an irascible elderly local is accused of poisoning a trout stream, Les and Becky are plunged into deep and dangerous waters, forced to navigate currents of disillusionment and betrayal that will force them to question themselves and test their tentative bond???and threaten to carry them over the edge. Echoing the heartbreaking beauty of William Faulkner and the spiritual isolation of… Read More

PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER.London: Penguin Books, 2009. Used. The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, the martyr-Lincoln's story is at the very heart of American history. But who was he, really? In this outstanding biography, award-winning author Thomas Keneally follows Lincoln from his impoverished birth through his education and presidency. From the development of his political philosophy to his troubled family life and his actions during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln is an incisive study of a turning point in our history and a revealing portrait of a pivotal figure.

London: Random House, 1995. Used. Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, children, his own troop to fight in the Civil War-but Sutpen returns from the conflict to find his estate in ruins and his family collapsing. Secrets from his own past threaten to ruin the lives of his children and destroy everything he has worked for.

London: Penguin, 1998. Used. From the author of THE TAKEOVER, THE VULTURE FUND and THE INNER SANCTUM, in which a struggling Wall Street trader is given the key to his late father's safety deposit box. In it he finds a videotape of Kennedy's assassination, one which proves that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone - if at all.

London: slight water marks on inside dust jacket and first few pagesHodder & Stoughton,2004 Hardcover. Used.Less morally ambiguous than many of le Carre's books, ABSOLUTE FRIENDS makes it very clear who is the enemy. Gripping, moving and as tightly written as all his novels, taking in a huge sweep of history. This is literature - not just spy fiction!

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. Used. It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside during the Great War.But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. He can no longer keep a secret and has finally found the courage to unburden himself of it. As Tristan recounts the horrific details of what to him became a senseless war, he also speaks of his friendship with Will - from their first meeting on the training grounds at Aldershot to their farewell in the trenches of northern France. The intensity of their bond brought Tristan happiness and self-discovery as well as confusion and unbearable pain.The Absolutist is a masterful tale of passion, jealousy, heroism, and betrayal set in one of the most gruesome trenches of France during World War I. This novel will keep readers on the edge of their seats until its most extraordinary and unexpected… Read More

London: Granta Books, 2007. Used. Meet Misha Vainberg, aka Snack Daddy, a 325-pound disaster of a human being, son of the 1,238th richest man in Russia and proud holder of a degree in multicultural studies from Accidental College, USA. Misha is an American impounded in a Russian's body and the only place he feels at home is New York; he just wants to live in the South Bronx with his Latina girlfriend, but after his gangster father murders an Oklahoma businessman in Russia, all hopes of a U.S. visa are lost.Salvation lies in the tiny, oil-rich nation of Absurdistan (a Fictional former Soviet republic), where a crooked consular officer will sell Misha a Belgian passport. But after a civil war breaks out between two competing ethnic groups and a local warlord installs hapless Misha as minister of Multicultural Affairs, our hero soon finds himself covered in oil, fighting for his life, falling in love and trying to figure out of a normal life is still possible in the twenty-first century.

London: Admiral, 1986. Hard Cover. Used. Academy award winners by Ronald Bergan ... This annual includes the latest Academy Awards and all the major movie events. It has thousands of entries, stunning stills, studio portraits, behind-the-scenes photographs, and classic posters. Also included are special sections on major developments in the world of cinema, the moviemakers, and the stars.

London, England: Penguin Books, 1986. National Critics Circle. Used.PAPERBACK EDITION. SMALL TEAR ON FRONT COVER & CREASES TO SPINEThe Accidental Tourist is a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1985 and the Ambassador Book Award for Fiction in 1986. The novel was adapted into a 1988 award-winning film.Set in Baltimore, Maryland, the plot revolves around Macon Leary, a writer of travel guides whose son has been killed in a shooting at a fast-food restaurant. He and his wife Sarah, separately lost in grief, find their marriage disintegrating until she eventually moves out.