Search Results: Titles starting with D from Petes Loved Books

Dance of the Happy Shades is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by Ryerson Press in 1968.[1] It was her first collection of stories and won the 1968 Governor General's Award for English Fiction

San Mateo, Calif: IDG Books Worldwide, 1993. Used. Now you can have all the DOS commands and step-by-step instructions for common tasks right at your fingertips. With DOS For Dummies Quick Reference, 2nd Edition, you don't have to waste time looking for things the way you do with big reference books. Just turn to the command you need, and you find a complete description -- along with information on associated variables and options -- and even examples of the command in action. Plus, you are sure to appreciate the book's comb binding, which allows the book to lie flat, so that you don't have to try to hold it open while typing and moving your mouse

London: Random House, 2009. Used. Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As La

Garden City, N.Y: Simon and Schuster, 2011. Hardcover.. Used. Ellie Cavanaugh was only seven years old when her fifteen-year-old sister, Andrea was murdered. Ellie's testimony was vital to the conviction of Rob Westerfield, son of a wealthy, prominent family. Twenty-two years later Ellie remains convinced of Westerfield's guilt. When he is released on parole and attempts to prove himself the victim of a miscarriage of justice, Ellie begins work on a book she believes will prove Westerfield's guilt beyond doubt. As she delves deeper into her research, she uncovers horrifying facts that shed new light on her sister's murder. And with each new discovery she comes closer to a confrontation with a desperate killer. . .

Garden City, N.Y: Simon and Schuster, 2011. Used. Ellie Cavanaugh was only seven years old when her fifteen-year-old sister, Andrea was murdered. Ellie's testimony was vital to the conviction of Rob Westerfield, son of a wealthy, prominent family. Twenty-two years later Ellie remains convinced of Westerfield's guilt. When he is released on parole and attempts to prove himself the victim of a miscarriage of justice, Ellie begins work on a book she believes will prove Westerfield's guilt beyond doubt. As she delves deeper into her research, she uncovers horrifying facts that shed new light on her sister's murder. And with each new discovery she comes closer to a confrontation with a desperate killer. . .

Ellie Cavanaugh was only seven years old when her fifteen-year-old sister, Andrea was murdered. Ellie's testimony was vital to the conviction of Rob Westerfield, son of a wealthy, prominent family. Twenty-two years later Ellie remains convinced of Westerfield's guilt. When he is released on parole and attempts to prove himself the victim of a miscarriage of justice, Ellie begins work on a book she believes will prove Westerfield's guilt beyond doubt. As she delves deeper into her research, she uncovers horrifying facts that shed new light on her sister's murder. And with each new discovery she comes closer to a confrontation with a desperate killer. . .

HarperCollins, 1996. Used.PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVEREven as a young girl, Jill was a favorite of the magical, mysterious Wildfolk, who appeared to her from their invisible realm. Little did she know her extraordinary friends represented but a glimpse of a forgotten past and a fateful future. Four hundred years-and many lifetimes-ago, one selfish young lord caused the death of two innocent lovers. Then and there he vowed never to rest until he'd righted that wrong-and laid the foundation for the lives of Jill and all those whom she would hold dear: her father, the mercenary soldier Cullyn; the exiled berserker Rhodry Maelwaedd; and the ancient and powerful herbman Nevyn, all bound in a struggle against darkness. . . and a quest to fulfill the destinies determined centuries ago. Here in this newly revised edition comes the incredible novel that began one of the best-loved fantasy series in recent years--a tale of bold adventure and timeless love, perilous battle and pure magic. For… Read More

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. Used. Damage is a 1991 novel by Josephine Hart about a British politician who, in the prime of life, causes his own downfall through an inappropriate relationship.

Potts Point, NSW: Macmillan Education Australia, 1997. Australian Author. Used. The Damage Done is a book by Australian Warren Fellows. It portrays his time in the notorious Bangkwang prison, nicknamed "Big Tiger". Fellows was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1978, convicted of heroin trafficking between Bangkok, Thailand and Australia.

WELL READ PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERLondon: Warner, 2001. Used. Anna has just turned 30, secured a partnership at work, and is expecting her first baby. Her life should be complete, but it isn't. When she discovers her husband's affair, she takes her baby and escapes to Portugal where she meets Will. On her return, her baby is abducted???who can Anna trust?

London: Orion, 2007. Used. Randall Wilkes, his big-city journalism career in ruins, has returned after twenty years to Pilgrim's Rest, the Tennessee hill town where he grew up. He has taken on a lucrative but low-prestige writing job for Sonny McMahan, a former governor and Randall's boyhood friend, whose own career is under a shadow. Faye McMahan, Sonny's mother, is addled with age, imagining that her dead husband is alive and worrying that her son might be in danger. Amid a violent autumn storm, Randall finds Faye hideously murdered, hanged by the neck from a bridge over the town landmark called Damnation Falls. Within days, another person connected to the McMahan clan is murdered in an even more grisly fashion. And the bones of a third,long-buried murder victim - a young woman - have emerged from theearth. Before all the answers are in, more people will die, an oldscore will be settled, and the dead will finally tell their stories.

New York: Bantam Books, 1991. Hardcover/Rare. Used. Any fool can play tragedy", said the great eighteenth-century actor David Garrick, "but comedy, sir, is a damned serious business". Sir Rex Harrison addressed himself to the serious business of making other people laugh, and after gaining success in many plays and movies, he appeared in the role of Henry Higgins in one of the most popular plays ever, My Fair Lady. Here is his warm and humorous memoir.

North Ryde, NSW, Australia: Sinclair Stevenson, 2014. Used. Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem is a 1994 novel by the English author Peter Ackroyd. It is a murder mystery framed within a story featuring real historical characters, and set in a recreation of Victorian London.

London: HarperCollins, 2009. Used. Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zu??i. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig . . . and a steel hypodermic needle. And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zu??i people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn's already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, to kill again.

EDINBURGH: Random House, 2005. Used. The Peruvian guerilla leader Ezequiel is responsible for tens of thousands of fiendishly cruel murders, yet he consistently eludes capture. But in Agustn Rejas he has an indefatigable pursuer. From secluded city streets to the paths of a mountain village the policeman persists, tracking and anticipating Ezequiel's every move. Rejas' only reprieve is his love for his daughter's beautiful dance teacher--until he begins to pick up unmistakable signals that her circles--and Ezequiel's--intersect.Based on the extraordinary manhunt for the leader of Peru's notorious guerilla organization, The Shining Path, The Dancer Upstairs is a story reminiscent of Graham Greene and John LeCarr"--"tense, intricate, and heartbreaking.

London: HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2009. Used. Violet Hetherington is on a voyage across the Atlantic to meet Edwin, her estranged friend from the distant past. As she journeys across the sea she is carried back to the time when she and Edwin lived together as aspiring poets, until Edwin's oldest friend arrived on the scene, bringing discord and havoc, and for Violet a betrayal of her ideals and a flight to safety.

Melbourne: Text Pub., 2003. Hardcover. Used. Dancing with Strangersis the most important and compulsively readable book about Australian history and identity to appear for many years. Inga Clendinnen tells the story of what happened between the British settlers of New South Wales and the Australian inhabitants they found there. 'These people mixed with ours,' wrote James Bradley a few days after the First Fleet made landfall in 1788, 'and all hands danced together.' Clendinnen, the distinguished historian of early Spanish America and award-winning author of Tiger's Eyeand Reading the Holocaust,turns her incomparable eye to the extraordinary events attending the first British settlement in Australia. She offers a fresh reading of reports, letters and journals of British participants to reconstruct the difficult path to friendship and conciliation pursued by Arthur Phillip and the local leader Bennelong; and then traces the painful destruction of that hard-won friendship as profound cultural… Read More

London: Earthlight, 2001. Used. In the unusual world of Green Town, Illinois, a twelve-year-old boy discovers the wonders of reality and the power of imagination during the summer of 1928.

London:WELL READ PAPERBACK ..CREASES ON SPINE AND COVER.. NO INSCRIPTION OR TEARS Penguin UK, 2012. Used. A beautiful Italian girl driving home in an open top sports car, a little boy playing on a south Coast beach and the Senior Steward of the Jockey Club on his way to a press reception in Baltimore. One after the other they suffer the same nightmare ordeal - kidnapping. But there is one thing connecting these particular cases. For the Italian girl is a jockey and the little boy an only son of a race horse owner. A picture of the person behind this interanational chain of crime starts to emerge - a lover of Verdi, a man with a cool and calculating brain and an aficionado of the racing world. Andrew Doublas, brought in to advise and help the vicitms and their families, proceeds with all his customary diplomacy and courage. Only to find himeself playing a dangerous part: the role usually reserved for his clients...

London: Sleepers Publishing, 2009. Used. Alice and Louise are sisters united by a distant tragedy - the house fire their brother lit and burnt to death in, fourteen years ago. Alice teaches dirt-poor students at a state high school that the government wants to close, and she pursues an episodic, estranged relationship with a married man. Louise, a habitual liar and recovering heroin addict, has been playing 'the danger game' since she was a child, and she can't stop. But when Louise decides to unravel the truth about her twin brother's death, and seeks out the mother that abandoned her as a ten-year-old, everything changes. With preoccupations reminiscent of Elliot Perlman, The Danger Game is a work of literary realism, told through three voices in a pared-back style laced with black humour. The Danger Game is at once unsentimental account of deprivation and resistance, and a critique of the human cost of untrammelled economic rationalism. This is a novel about damage: the damage we do to each other… Read More