Search Results: Titles starting with J from Petes Loved Books

London: Piatkus, 2001. Used. If you love Lesley Pearse, you're sure to fall for Tamara McKinley. Jacaranda Vines was once the greatest vineyard in Australia, but the death of its owner, Jock Witney, leaves the business in shambles. As the Witney family fight over the future of the winery, Jock's young granddaughter Sophie makes a voyage of historical discovery through the Australian outback, hoping to learn more about her family's past. Set between the 1830s and the modern day, Jacaranda Vines is an exploration of ancestral ties, bitter rivalries and the importance of sharing family history.

Granta Books, 2004. Guggenheim Fellowship. Used. Jack is a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out in a rowboat on Lake Watchmayoyo and tells his son that he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again.

Readers Digest, Date of Publication. Used. Surveys Lemmon's film career through credits and synopses of and review excerpts for all his movies, from 1954's It Should Happen to You to Airport '77Publisher: -, 1987Used - Very Good. Jack Lemmon: His Films and Career

Chivers, 1985. Hard Cover. Used. Focusing on Jack Lemmon's career as well as his private life, Michael Freedland reveals Lemmon's turbulent relationship with his alcoholic mother, his broken first marriage, Jack's own alcoholism, his facelift and his tragic fight with cancer.

London: University of Queensland Press, 1998. Used. The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to London from Australia. Installing himself in the household of a genteel grocer, he attracts the attention of a cross-section of society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. Writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hypnosis. Maggs, a figure both frightening and mysteriously compelling, is so in thrall to the notion of a gentlemanly class that he's risked his life to come back to his torturers. His task is to shed his false consciousness and understand that his true destiny lies in Australia.

WELL READ OLDER PAPERBACK EDITION. MULTIPLE CREASES TO THE SPINE AND COVERIn the middle of the night, a controversial U.S. Senator is found murdered in bed in his Georgetown pied-a-terre. The police turn up only one clue: a mysterious rhyme signed 'Jack and Jill' promising that this is just the beginning. The two are out to get the rich and famous. They will stop at nothing until their fiendish plan is carried out.

London: MacMillan, 2001. Hardcover/First Edition/Collec. Used. D-Day is approaching. They don?t know where or when, but the Germans know it'll be soon, and for Felicity ?Flick? Clairet, the stakes have never been higher. A senior agent in the ranks of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) responsible for sabotage, Flick has survived to become one of Britain?s most effective operatives in Northern France. She knows that the Germans? ability to thwart the Allied attack depends upon their lines of communications, and in the days before the invasion no target is of greater strategic importance than the largest telephone exchange in Europe.But when Flick and her Resistance-leader husband try a direct, head-on assault that goes horribly wrong, her world turns upside down. Her group destroyed, her husband missing, her superiors unsure of her, her own confidence badly shaken, she has one last chance at the target, but the challenge, once daunting, is now near impossible. The new plan requires an all-woman… Read More

Penguin, 1996. Used.,VINTAGE PAPERBACK.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER PAGES DISCOLOURED DUE TO AGE.MARK ON FRONT PAGEJackson's Dilemma is a novel by Iris Murdoch, published in 1995. It was Murdoch's last novel; she died four years later, on 8 February 1999. In her final years, Murdoch suffered from the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, one of the symptoms of which is a reduced vocabulary and decreased word fluency. Researchers at University College London found in 2004 that the language used in Jackson's Dilemma is noticeably simpler than in her earlier works. They suggested that the novel - written in longhand, with few revisions and little room for editorial interference - offers a "unique opportunity" to study the effects of Alzheimer's on spontaneous writing, and hoped that their research could help to develop better diagnostic tests, capable of picking up on these subtle changes in cognitive ability.

London: Allen & Unwin, 2007. Used. Six friends head for Jamaica to take part in the Negociate Classic, a notoriously tough and dangerous deep-water swimming race. Beautiful, rich, and favored by fortune, they ooze confidence and success.Jeremy Hutchison doesn?t belong with these golden people, but his dogged admiration and enthusiasm?not to mention his money?have earned him a place. But beneath the surface this is a group on the edge of crisis?none more so than Jeremy, who is playing for the highest stakes of all. As the race approaches and the tension builds to an excruciating pitch, the friends turn from each other to face the doubts and secrets of their own lives.Taut and engrossing, this is a compulsive read from an unflinching observer of human folly. But even as Knox peels away the layers and exposes the brutal reality beneath the fa?ade of friendship, he hints at the possibility of human kindness and the redemptive power of love.

Harmondsworth: Arrow Books, 1999. Used. Contains the stories:Jamaica InnThe Birds.WELL READ PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER

London: Pavilion, 1985. Hardcover. Used. SLIGHT WEAR ON TOP FRONT COVER OF DUST JACKETAlthough James Cagney was branded 'tough guy' almost from the moment he asserted his claim to stardom over half a century ago in Public Enemy, Richard Schickel argues in this analysis of the actor's screen characters and career that this label could not be more misleading."

GERMANY: Piatkus, 1989. Hardcopy. Used. James Byron Dean was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause, in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Eden and surly ranch hand Jett Rink in Giant.

London: Pan Macmillan, 1989. SOFT COVER. Used. Over two hundred stunning photographs - many rare or unpublished - illuminate this new study of James Dean. Marceau Devillers plots his brief and brilliant career - both on screen and off - with candor and perception

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. Hardcover. Used. James Mason was the star of many films, such as "The Wicked Lady", "Julius Caesar" and "A Star is Born", but saw his life as empty and a failure. The author has written this biography with the permission of Mason's widow, Clarissa, and has previously written "The Other Side of The Moon".

New York: Picador, 2000. Used. At the turn of the nineteenth century, ten-year-old James Miranda Barry enrolled as a medical student in Edinburgh, the start of a glorious career as a military surgeon. Across the Empire, Barry achieved fame not only as a brilliant physician, but also a legendary duellist and a celebrated social figure. But James Miranda Barry was also a woman. Her greatest achievement of all had been to 'pass' for a man for more than fifty years. Patricia Duncker's novel tells Barry's story for the first time, in a richly inventive and entertaining tale of dark family secrets, adultery, questioned paternity and colonial history. It confirms her rare talent as a writer of profound ideas and immense storytelling power. 'A miracle of a book that is richly atmospheric and gains the murky excitement of a Victorian thriller ' Sunday Times 'A marvellous work . . . superbly imagined and flamboyantly written' Beryl Bainbridge

London: Bloomsbury, 1994. Hardcover. Used. A biography of James Stewart. It embraces his childhood in Pennsylvania, his college years at Princeton, his beginnings in theatre, his distinguished war career in the US Air Force, his marriage, his film career and his retirement.

London: Bison Books, 1992. Hardcover/First Edition. Used. Helene McGowan does an excellent job in describing his life and has done extensive research in filmography as well as his connections to other actors, directors and people in general. ...

Text Publishing, 2011. Used. London, 1857- after surviving an encounter with an escaped tiger on the streets of Bermondsey, nine-year-old Jaffy stumbles into a job for its owner, the wild animal collector, Mr Jamrach. Commissioned by Jamrach to find and collect a sea dragon, Jaf soon joins a ship bound for the South Seas, and so begins a wonder-filled voyage of discovery. But when things start to go awry, Jaf's journey becomes a fight for survival which will push faith, love and friendship to their outermost limits. Brilliantly written and utterly compulsive, Carol Birch's novel evokes the smells, sights and flavours of the nineteenth century from the squalor of London to the islands of the South Seas. This historical adventure is a major literary accomplishment and will delight fans of Michel Faber and Sara Gruen.

New York: Phoenix Giant, 1997. Used. Honan combines intimacy with Austen as a child and a woman, insightful criticism of her work, and pertinent familial and historical background, to produce a thorough examination of the writer's life and character.

South Melbourne, VIC: Faber, 2006. Used. It is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just as the Sultan plans a series of radical reforms, a concubine is strangled in the palace harem and a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. These murders threaten the subtle balance of power in the Sultan's court. Who is behind them? Only one investigator can find out: Yashim Togalu, a man both gifted and near-invisible in this world. You see, Yashim is a eunuch." ---COVER.