Search Results: Titles starting with P from Petes Loved Books

London: MacMillan, 2001. Used. A Kinsey Millhone mystery.P" Is for Peril is the 16th novel in the "Alphabet" series of mystery novels by Sue Grafton. The novel focuses on the disappearance of Dr. Dowan Purcell, a nursing home administrator and doctor at Pacific Meadows Nursing Home, and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. The novel is set in 1986.

London.: Vintage, 1999. Used. The gripping story of Luke, an easy-going deep-sea diver who likes to please everyone, and the strong-willed, beautiful Charlotte with whom he falls in love. On their wedding night she picks a fight with Luke in their hotel room and he ends up with a black eye that lasts well into their honeymoon.The novel unfolds with flashbacks to that night, when Luke finds himself questioning whether he's just ruined his life, and forwards again to their honeymoon, where Charlotte's moods veer wildly from loving to livid.

ONE STORY OF A FOUR STORY SINGLE READERS DIGEST CONDENSED BOOK. Used. What happens when a young woman is accidentally caught up in a dangerous murder investigation, having merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time? Lacey Farrell, a rising star on the Manhattan real estate scene, is witness to a murder - and to the final words of the victim. The dying woman is convinced her attacker was after her dead daughter's journal, which Lacey gives to the police, but not before making a copy for herself. It's an impulse that later proves nearly fatal. Placed in the witness protection programme and sent to live in Minneapolis, Lacey must assume a fake identity, at least until the killer can be brought to trial. There she meets Tom Lynch, a radio talk-show host whom she tentatively begins to date - until the strain of her deception makes her break it off. Then she discovers the killer has traced her whereabouts. Armed with nothing more than her own courage and clues from the journal, Lacey heads back to… Read More

reading today,1964. Hardcover. Used.PRIOR OWNER HAS WRITTEN ON INSIDE PAGE. MARKS LEFT FOM TAPE1964. First Published. 195 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth. Well bound and clean pages, with mild tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns ...During 1945 H. E. Bates spent some time in Burma and India with the aim of writing about the Burmese war for American readers. The experience inspired three ?Asian novels?, one of which was ?The Purple Plain?. After returning to England he heard a story about a pilot who, having lost his wife to a German bomb while on honeymoon, as a consequence had become "a much-decorated hero by the dubious method of trying to get himself killed". It provided the spark that prompted Bates to start working on the novel (in any event, because of his experiences while over there, he was already keen to write about his time in Burma).

London: Secker & Warburg, 1993. Used. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves George Best, hates sardines and his little brother, but even an expert shoplifter with good eyes, big ears and a dictionary can be confused by adults. By the author of The commitments', and The van'.

Garden City, N.Y: Viking, 2000. Edgar Award. Used. Pagan Babies is classic crime fiction from the master of suspense, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. Father Terry Dunn thought he'd seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to evade a tax-fraud indictment. Now the whiskey-drinking, Nine Inch Nails T-shirt-wearing padre is back trying to hustle up a score to help the little orphans of Rwanda.But the fund-raising gets complicated when a former tattletale cohort pops up on Terry's tail. And then there's the lovely Debbie Dewey. A freshly sprung ex-con turned stand-up comic, Debbie needs some fast cash, too, to settle an old score. Now they're in together for a bigger payoff than either could finagle alone. After all, it makes sense...unless Father Terry is working a con of his own.

Lothian Books, 2002. Used. This book shows how manual therapy - massage, osteopathy, chiropractic, physiotherapy, manual medicine - can help relieve pain. Includes: 1. What Is Manual Therapy? 2. Body Mechanics 3. Methods of Treatment 4. General 'Mechanical' Disorders 5. The Spine 6. Head and Neck Pain 7. The Thoracic Spine and Chest 8. The Lower Back 9. Arm Pain 10. Leg Pain

USED PAPERBACK EDITION. WELL READ WITH CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERLondon: Random House, 2001. Used. The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a seven year old farm boy named Luke Chandler, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the… Read More

London: Random House, 2009. Used. Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages...First published to a storm of protest, The Painted Veil is a classic story of a woman's spiritual awakening.

London: W.H. Allen, 1984. Used.PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER.A group of hedonistic passengers enjoy nightly musical entertainments and their own impromptu activities on a Mediterranean cruise aboard a luxury yacht

London: Bloomsbury, 2012. Used. An intimate and devastating portrait of Romania during and after the Second World War, through the prism of a moving and utterly original friendship.Shortlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize.

London: Random House, 2012. Hardcover. Used. painters in the australian landscape. by. robert walker with foreword by david malouf. includes many of the great . arthur boyd charles blackman john olsen clifton pugh brett whiteley.

London: Corgi, 1990. Used. WELL READ PAPERBACK. SOME CREASES ON COVER AND SPINEOn a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home. When the creak of the garden gate heralds the arrival of an unexpected stranger, he is puzzled but not alarmed. He cannot know the destruction this man will wreak on all he holds most dear.The stranger announces himself as James Norton, but claims he is in reality Sir James Davenall, the man to whom Trenchard's wife Constance had been engaged, and who had committed suicide eleven years ago. Sir Hugo, James's younger brother, and his mother, Lady Catherine, refuse to recognise Norton and force Trenchard - who fears the loss of his wife's affections - into an uneasy alliance against him. But Trenchard must plumb the depths of his own despair before the dark secrets of the Davenall family can finally, shockingly, be revealed

London: Jonathan Cape, 2008. Used. Stephen Carter, best-selling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, returns with a riveting drama set within the turbulent era of the fifties and sixties - the violent Anti-war demonstrations, the Civil Rights Movement and the scandal of Watergate. In the summer of 1952, twenty prominent men gather at a secret meeting in Martha's Vineyard, and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, the body of one of these men is found by Eddie Wesley, Harlem's rising literary star. When Eddie's sister mysteriously disappears, Eddie and the woman he loves, Aurelia Treene, are pulled into a twenty-year search for the truth. As Eddie and Aurelia uncover layer upon layer of intrigue, their odyssey takes them from the wealthy drawing rooms of New York through the shady corners of radical politics, all the way to the Oval Office. Once again, Stephen Carter has crafted a novel with exponential momentum, this time upon an epic… Read More

SMALL MARK ON FRONT COVERLondon: University of Queensland Press, 1998. Used. Elizabeth Jolley's first novel is an unusual, haunting story of the deep relationship between two women, set against the solitude, beauty and harshness of the West Australian landscape.

POST IT NOTE PAPER ON INSIDE BLANK PAGE HOWEVER NO INSCRIPTIONS OR MARKINGSChatto & Windus, 1998. Hardcopy. Used. In this first of a series David Talbot, vampire survivor of Memnoch the Devil, calls forth Pandora, last seen in Queen of the Damned, to tell her own extraordinary tale. Once a mortal girl in ancient Rome, she was given immortality by Marius, her lover and the dark genius of the Lestat novels.

no dust jacket EDINBURGH: Canongate, 2008. Hardcover. Used. 'Pandora in the Congo' is a fast-paced adventure story and an exploration of the transformative power of the imagination. This novel also reminds you that there is always more than one version of events.

London, Great Britain: Mandarin, 1991. Used.PAPERBACK EDITION..WELL READ WITH CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERJohn Danby is an agri-consultant. His clients range from the FAO to governments around the world. When his grain silos in Iran are found to be polluted with poisonous fungi, a chase across Europe ensues. Julian Rathbone has also written The Crystal Contract.

Panthers, Passion and Politics. The Roger Cowan Years: (288pp).A controversial book outlining the history of Panthers... the book was written by Jennie Bentley in collaboration with former Panthers CEO Roger Cowan. The book covers events at Panthers in Roger's time from 1964 to his retirement. It tells how a small club with money problems and a second division football team became Australia's largest licensed club and home to a team that has won two rugby league Premierships. "There were a lot of twists and turns along the route from near-bankruptcy to the current state of affairs," says Roger. "Even though this book isn't really about rugby league, many of the major events in the club's history - both positive and negative - were born out of Rugby League. "These historical events include Super League, Panthers innovative amalgamations strategy, political in-fighting in what became known as 'The Board Wars', and the Temby Inquiry into Roger and the Club.Roger says there has has been a conscientous… Read More

PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERLondon: Pan, 1996. Used. A politician wakes with a beautiful girl; a criminal briefs his team; a tycoon breakfasts with a Bank official. Then three stories break: an attempted suicide, a hijack, and a takeover bid. They seem unrelated - until Evening Post reporters ask questions. Why is a Jamaican bank in trouble? Who drove the Rolls-Royce seen near the raid? Who was the man with gunshot wounds? As the day wears on, new questions arise - about paper money.