Search Results: Titles starting with G from Petes Loved Books

Oceana, 2006. Used. "Dozens of healthy recipes based on the glycaemic index, with easy-to-follow instructions and expert nutritional advice"--

London: Knopf,, 2003. Used. Jane Smiley brings her extraordinary gifts--comic timing, empathy, emotional wisdom, an ability to deliver slyly on big themes and capture the American spirit--to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about what happens when the American Dream morphs into a seven-figure American Fantasy. Joe Stratford is someone you like at once. He makes an honest living helping nice people buy and sell nice houses. His not-very-amicable divorce is finally settled, and he's ready to begin again. It's 1982. He is pretty happy, pretty satisfied. But a different era has dawned; Joe's new friend, Marcus Burns from New York, seems to be suggesting that the old rules are ready to be repealed, that now is the time you can get rich quick. Really rich. And Marcus not only knows that everyone is going to get rich, he knows how. Because Marcus just quit a job with the IRS. But is Joe ready for the kind… Read More

WELL READ PAPERBACK ..CREASES ON SPINE AND COVER.. NO INSCRIPTION OR TEARSLondon: Penguin Books, 1998. Used. This novel interweaves the story of Sarah, a pregnant, out-of-work actress, with that of her ancestors in Germany at the time of World War I. For it is only now, as long-since confiscated estate of Gaglow is about to be returned, that the generations can be brought together across the decades.

London: Abacus, 1996. Used. Galatea 2.2 is a 1995 pseudo-autobiographical novel by American writer Richard Powers and a contemporary reworking of the Pygmalion myth. The book's narrator shares the same name as Powers, with the book referencing events and books in the author's life while mentioning other events that may or may not be based upon Powers' life.

WELL READ USED PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERLondon: Fourth Estate, 2000. Used. Galileo is seen as one of the greatest scientists ever, but little is known of his illegitimate daughter, Virginia. As a nun, she wrote 120 letters to her father from 1623 to her death from exposure and malnutrition ten years later. This text investigates the father-daughter relationship.

Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2001. Hardcover. Used. Examines the experiences of the soldiers of all nationalities who fought at the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, in 1915, during World War I, as well as the men who led them. Recounts the details of the Gallipoli campaign, from the grand military and political strategies to the squalid realities of the front line. Includes maps, illustrations, endnotes, select bibliography and index. Author has been editor of the 'Age', editor-in-chief of the Herald and Weekly Times group, and visiting lecturer in journalism at RMIT University. He received the 1971 Walkley Award and the 1993 Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award.

London: Penguin, 1993. Used.PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO COVER AND SPINE When Sandor snatched little Joe from the path of a London Tube train, he was quick to make clear the terms of the rescue. 'I saved your life,' he told the homeless youngster, 'so your life belongs to me now'. Sandor began to tell him a fairy-tale: an ageing prince, a kidnapped princess chained by one ankle, a missed rendezvous. But what did this mysterious story have to do with Sandor's preparations? Joe had only understood his own role: he was a gallowglass, the servant of a Chief...

London:WELL READ PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERKING PENGUIN, 1983. Vintage. Used. The Game is a lush and disturbing novel portraying a sibling rivalry which compels the reader to reconsider the uses and misuses of imagination. when they were little girls, Cassandra and Julia played a game in which they entered an alternate world modeled on the landscapes of Arthurian romance. Now the sisters are grown, and hostile strangers--until a figure from their past, a man they once both loved and suffered over, reenters their lives.

London: HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2008. Used. Classic Lionel Shriver ... The author of the bestselling WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN and THE POST-BIRTHDAY WORLD turns to Africa ... Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively in Eleanor's ear, if the poor are a responsibility they are also an imposition. Set against the vivid backdrop of shambolic modern-day Africa - a continent now primarily populated with wildlife of the two-legged sort - Lionel Shriver's GAME CONtROL is a wry, grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions. With a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights the hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would 'save' humanity but who don't like people. 'Deft, smart and very scary' NEW… Read More

Artarmon, NSW: Giramondo, 2005. Used. Brian Castro's novel is set in the Dandenong Ranges in the years between the Depression and the Second World War. The story revolves around Swan Hay, born Shuang He, daughter of a country schoolteacher, her marriage to the passionate and brutal Darcy Damon, and her love affair with the aviator and architect Jasper Zenlin. Fifty years after her disappearance, Norman Shih, a rare book librarian, pieces together Swan's chaotic life from clues found in guest house libraries, antiquarian bookshops and her own elusive writings. But what exactly is his relationship to her? The Garden Book is about loneliness, addiction, exploitation; it is about the precarious nature of Australian lives, when gripped by fear and racial prejudice. Yet underlying the story, and commanding it, there is the assured beat of Castro's prose, evoking an ideal world beyond these fears, full of richness and power.

London: Hodder & Stoughton Paperbacks, 2005. Used.WELL READ PAPERBACK.CREASES TO FRONT COVER AND SPINE.Paul Schumann, a German-American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hit man known equally for his brilliant tactics and for taking only ?righteous? jobs. But when a hit goes wrong and Schumann is nabbed, he?s offered a stark choice: kill Reinhard Ernst, the man behind Hitler?s rearmament scheme, and walk free forever?or be sent to Sing-Sing and the electric chair.The instant Paul sets foot in Berlin his mission becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse chase, with danger and betrayal lurking at every turn. For the next forty-eight hours, as the city prepares for the coming summer Olympics, Schumann stalks Ernst, while a dogged criminal police officer and the entire Third Reich security apparatus search frantically for the American. Packed with fascinating period detail and featuring a cast of perfectly realized local characters, Olympic athletes, and senior Nazi officials?some real, some… Read More

London: Quartet Books, 1978. Used. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is an Italian historical novel by Giorgio Bassani, published in 1962. It chronicles the relationships between the narrator and the children of the Finzi-Contini family from the rise of Benito Mussolini until the start of World War II.

London: Arrow,PAPERBACK EDITION.WELL READ WITH CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER1983. Vintage. Used. Once a model and now a mother of two, Emma has little life of her own. When her husband David is invited to star in two plays in Hereford, and Emma is obliged to leave her beloved London behind, the resentment begins to surface.

London: National Film Theatre, 1975. Rare/Collectable. Used. National Film Theatre. Original Program. 1975 in excellent condition

London: Orion, 2010. Used.COOK BOOK FOR GAS BBQKitchen & Cooking ; BBQ;

London: Harvill, 2003. large size paperback. Used. In 1971, on a routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young French scholar Fran ois Bizot was captured by the Khmer Rouge. Accused of being an agent of "American imperialism", he was chained and imprisoned. His captor, Douch, later responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, interviewed him at length; after three months of torturous deliberation, during which his every word was weighed and his life hung in the balance, he was released. No other Western prisoner survived. Four years later, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. Fran ois Bizot became the official intermediary between the ruthless conqueror and the terrified refugees behind the gate of the French embassy: a ringside seat to one of history's most appalling genocides.

Harmondsworth: :PAPERBACK EDITION.WELL READ WITH CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER Penguin Books, 1992. Used. In this sequel to The Radiant Way and A Natural Curiosity, the author extends her viewpoint to embrace the suffering of Cambodia and the moral nightmare of uncounted deaths. One day Liz receives a parcel from Cambodia which contains, together with a finger bone, scraps of writing by her friend.

Orbit, 2003. Used. As earthly and supernatural forces gather to overthrow all King Henry has fought for, Alain and Liath come to realise their twin destinies. Between them they hold the key to secrets which could yet save Henry's realm, but even they may be powerless should the Cursed Ones return.

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. large size paperback. Used. Set in an alternate Europe where bloody conflicts rage, the fifth book of the Crown of Stars epic fantasy series continues the world-shaking conflict for the survival of humanity The long-dreaded cataclysm is about to descend on the world as the lost land of the Aoi returns to the Earth from which it was cast forth millennia ago.

London: Chatto Bodley Head & Cape, 2007. Booker Prize.. Used. The Gathering is a 2007 novel by Irish women's fiction writer Anne Enright. It won the 2007 Booker Prize. Although it received mostly favourable reviews on its first publication, sales of The Gathering had been modest before it was named as one of the six books on the Booker Prize shortlist in September 2007. After winning the prize, sales more than doubled compared to sales before the announcement. Enright described the book as "...the intellectual equivalent of a Hollywood weepie."