Search Results: Titles starting with F from Petes Loved Books

London: Citadel Press, 1973. SOFT COVER. Used. The Complete Films of Marlene Dietrich Paperback ? August 1, 1992 by Homer Dickens (Author)

London: SIMON & SCHUSTER INC, 2003. Used. Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster is a book by Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro based on the 1984 Bhopal disaster. It was first published in 1997 and the English edition was published in 2001.

London: Faber, 2004. Used. Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. This volume is the first full-ranging anthology of the subject, bringing together Vikings and cosmonauts, conquistadors and botanists. There is no doubting Benedict Allen's voracious appetite for exploration, and as such he is our ideal guide across these extraordinary pages.

London: Curtis Books, 1973. Used.VINTAGE PAPERBACK.CREASES TO SPINE & COVERIn a revealing new biography, Tom Sturges looks back on the life of his writer-director father despite barely knowing him

PAPERBACK EDITION. WELL READ WITH CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERLondon: Virago, 1994. Used. Famous daughter of famous parents, Laura Weber, star of countless light comedies, is facing the most difficult role of her acting career: Hedda Gabler. There is no reason why Laura should not triumph. After all, she has survived greater challenges: the untimely death of her brillliant artist mother, Judith, and the world-embracing compassion of her father Leo, which left so little space for her. But from the past comes a stranger who challenges both her father's legendary reputation in international aid and the official version of her mother's death. Everything Laura has ever believed is suddenly in doubt. Could she, and the world, have been wrong about Leo? And if her beloved father is suspect, how much more so is her stepmother Margot, custodian of the family secrets? Locked in a battle for the truth, Laura is faced with the hardest task of all: she must strip away the star - lift the facade - and look within herself.

London: Random House, 2010. Hardcover.. Used.HARDCOVER WITH LIBRARY STAMPS ON INSIDEEX LIBRARY...Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived - you could hardly call it living - in a near derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the bored, rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. The affair was over. But the long slide into deception and violence had just begun. . .

WELL READ PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERJane Whitefield, legendary half-Indian shadow guide who spirits hunted people away from certain death, has never had a client like Dr. Richard Dahlman. A famous plastic surgeon who has dedicated his life to healing, the good doctor hasn't a clue why stalkers are out for his blood. But he knows Jane Whitefield's name--and that she is his only hope. Once again Jane performs her magic, leading Dahlman in a nightmare flight across America, only a heartbeat ahead of pursuers whose leader is a dead ringer for Jane: a raven-haired beauty who has stolen her name, reputation, and techniques--not to save lives, but to destroy them.

London: Random House, 2002. Used. One frozen January morning at 5 a.m., Inspector Wallander responds to what he expects is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside hs shattered body, victims of violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When this is leaked to the press, racial hatred is unleashed.Kurt Wallander is a senior police officer at Ystad, a small town in the wind-lashed Swedish province of Skane. His life is a shambles. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, even his ageing father barely tolerates him. He works tirelessly, eats badly and drinks the nights away in a lonely, neglected flat. But now winter closes its grip on Ystad, and Wallandar, his tenacious efforts closely monitored by the tough minded (and disarmingly attractive) district attorney Anette Brolin, must forget… Read More

London: Abacus, 2002. Used. At thirty-three one's direction in life should be clear, and mine was not. In search of some direction, or at least a new challenge, Jeffrey Tayler gave up his day job of opening rejection letters from publishers and went exploring. Having always been fascinated by Africa and the great age of Victorian exploration he went to Kinshasa in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) and found a boat to take him up-river to Kisangani, deep in the heart of the jungle. Not content with that, he then bought a pirogue (a kind of canoe), hired a guide and set out to paddle the 1000 miles back to Kinshasa.

London: Hachette UK, 2018. Used. Patrick Gale's THE FACTS OF LIFE is a mesmerising, epic yet intimate novel of love, music and the life events that stay with us forever - perfect for any reader of Armistead Maupin, or E M Forster'Absorbing . . . deftly characterised, deeply involving and relevant' The TimesGerman composer Edward Pepper escapes to England just before the war begins in earnest. Struck with TB, he is recuperating in hospital when he meets Sally, a young doctor who has battled her way through medical school, despite the opposition of her parents. They fall in love and marry, settling in the fenlands of East Anglia. Years later, Edward watches as his grandchildren trip up against life and death, and realises that patterns can repeat themselves, bringing both pain and unexpected discovery.

Crows Nest, NSW: Canongate, 2005. Used. One of the most original and daring writers in English letters, Michel Faber shows his incredible mastery of wildly diverse literary forms with this, his longawaited second collection of stories. Faber?s characters in these 17 fictions are often dislocated?fragile beings confronting moments of fracture?in worlds that are both real and surreal. From the achingly sad lives of ?The Safehouse? to the moments of exquisite happiness in ?Vanilla- right Like Eminem? to the futuristic savagery of ?The Fahrenheit Twins,? these are fearless stories that crack our humanity wide open. With his brilliant characterization and pitch-perfect prose, Michel Faber has produced a short story collection that will seal his reputation as one of our most arresting and gifted writers.

London, England: Flamingo, 1993. Used. The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, 'Fahrenheit 451' stands alongside Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World' as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the… Read More

Random House, 2004. Used. The third Grant County novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller. Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus. The mutilated body provides little in the way of clues - and the college authorities are keen to avoid a scandal - but for Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, things don't add up. Two more suspicious suicides follow, and a young woman is brutally attacked. For Sara, the violence strikes far too close to home. And as Jeffrey pursues the sadistic killer, he discovers that ex-police detective Lena Adams, now a security guard on campus, may be in possession of crucial information. But, bruised and angered by her expulsion from the force, Lena seems to be barely capable of protecting herself, let alone saving the next victim...

HARDCOVER 1914 EDITION. BOOK HAS TAPE ON SPINE AND PAGES WITH TITLE WRITTEN ON SPINE BY HAND.INSCRIPTION ON INSIDE PAGES...Allison & Busby, 1914. Used. ???Are your twins normal???? Mrs Pullein-Thompson was asked. ???Good God, I hope not,??? she retorted.The twins were Diana and Christine who, with their elder sister, Josephine, wrote more than 150 books, which have sold in their millions around the world. Fifty years after the joint publication of their first book, It Began with Picotee, the siblings wrote about their extraordinary childhood with lovable, but often unreliable animals and unforgettable humans.Their charming, nostalgic memoir offers a glimpse into the lives of three remarkable sisters who went on to become household names to a generation of readers.

London: Granta, 2010. Used. Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when she's approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder. At first his interest in her seems harmless, even pleasant; like his name, a sort of gentle joke. His beautiful home, the children's books he's written, his classical music, the marvelous art in his study, his lavish presents to her -- Mr. Kidder's life couldn't be more different from Katya's drab working-class existence back home in South Jersey, or more enticing. But by degrees, almost imperceptibly, something changes, and posing for Mr. Kidder's new painting isn't the lighthearted endeavor it once was. What does he really want from her? And how far will he go to get it? In the tradition of Oates's classic story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" "A Fair Maiden "is an unsettling, ambiguous tale of desire and control.

London: Random House, 2008. Hardcover.. Used.NO DUST JACKETHardcover Red with Gold Embossing. Some slight wear on the side of the spine. Further pictures provided upon request...'I feel there are demons around.'Everyone is thinking about Julius King. For comfortable, long-married Hilda and Rupert, he is a mystery. For Morgan, Hilda's tormented sister, he is an obsession. For Morgan's abandoned husband, Tallis, he is the source of ruin. For Simon and Axel, deeply in love, he stirs up jealousy and unease. What is Julius thinking about? He's thinking about Hilda, Rupert, Morgan, Tallis, Simon and Axel, and they will not all survive his malevolent attention. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.

Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2013. Used. The final book by Sumner Locke Elliott, the award-winning author of Careful, He Might Hear You. Drawing heavily on Locke Elliott's own experiences, Fairyland charts the life of Seaton Daly, an aspiring writer coming to terms with his homosexuality in the repressive atmosphere of inner-city Sydney during the 1930s and '40s. Lonely and naive, Daly dreams of escaping to the 'promised land' of the United States. Fairyland is an intimate, affecting, sometimes harrowing portrayal of a lifelong search for love. Sumner Locke Elliott's 'coming out' novel, it was first published in 1990, the year before his death. This new edition comes with an introduction by Dennis Altman.

London: ORION MASS MARKET PAPERBACK, 2005. Used. But when his wife falls ill she turns her back on conventional medicine and her arid marriage to Ross and seeks help from the world of alternative medicine and a charismatic therapist who promises not just medical salvation.For Ransome this is the ultimate betrayal. It defies logic and Ross Ransome is a profoundly logical man and, logically, he can see no reason why any man should have his wife when he cant. Its all completely rational

London, England: A & A Book Publishing, 2007. Used. Faithful to Self is set in Australia and south East Asia. It commences with a murder and the plot involves tracking down the murderer, uncovering more murders and intrigue.But this book is not a detective novel.Its main protagonists are men who spent one year of training together in a theological seminary and how this heritage influences their later lives.The hero, Damian Langtry, is a journalist who rails against injustice in Australia.

London: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. Hardcover/Award Winner. Used. Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him back into childhood. Only John Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.