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Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories
by Dylan Thomas21 short stories by Dylan Thomas, one of the major figures of 20th century literature.
Anthology of Japanese Literature, From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
by Donald KeeneA sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety and unusual beauty, every genre and style, from poems to plays to novels.
Black William
by Robert NeillA novel of love and intrigue in 18th century England, when George I has ascended the throne but many are determined that James Edward Stuart will rule.
Bring the Jubilee
by Harry Harrison Brian W. AldissSuppose the South had won the Civil War. The Northern states are poor, backward, and largely agrarian, an exploited colony of the prosperous South.
Inspector Maigret and the Burglar's Wife
by Georges Simenon J. Maclaren RossA CRIME CLUB SELECTION The police knew him as "Sad Freddie." The newspapers tagged him "the burglar on a bike." Once he had worked for a safe-manufacturing firm. Now he was in business for himself, cracking the safes he had once installed. Tuesday night's job was to be the last. Then he and his wife would buy that "house in the country." It was to have been a routine safe-cracking job, but Freddie stumbled across something that was quite out of his line-a corpse. When Sad Freddie's wife came to Inspector Maigret with the farfetched story, it took all of the famous Inspector's uncanny know-how to protect a man who, despite his taste for unearned money, was too smart to put his neck in a noose. Scene: France This novel has not appeared in any form prior to book publication.
Onions in the Stew
by Betty MacdonaldOnions in the Stew is a true story about an island, a house and a family. The island, Vashon, lies "plump, curvy and green" in the icy waters of Puget Sound, and the house (dream) is the one the MacDonald ,.: a"-. family found there, after long search, '~ _'~ : and has lived in ever since.
Star Bridge
by Jack Williamson James GunnThe golden-skinned merchant princes of Eron, mutants who were riding horse-sized hunting dogs, started to close in on them.
The Chocolate Cookbook
by Staff Home Economists at the Culinary Arts InstituteRecipes for chocolate cakes, frostings, fillings, cookies, pies, desserts, toppers, sauces, beverages and candies.
The Inheritors
by William GoldingIt is not so hard as you might think to sympathize with Neanderthal man, his spirit of fun, his appetites, satisfactions, griefs, and terror of the 'civilized' invaders.
The Painter's Eye
by Maurice GrosserA painter discusses the conventions and revolts, the psychology, techniques, and problems of painting from the Renaissance to the present day. An invaluable aid in the appreciation and understanding of art.
The Religions of Man
by Huston SmithNot a history or a critique, this is a unique study of all the world's great religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confuciansim, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolfsweeping, lyrical, novel that moves brilliantly among the thoughts and feelings of the Ramsey family and their summer house guests.
Unnatural Death
by Dorothy L. SayersThe wealthy old woman was dead, a trifle sooner than expected. The intricate trail of horror and senseless murder leads from a Hampshire village to London...
A Short History of Music (Fourth American Edition, Revised)
by Alfred EinsteinThis book covers considers such topics as: primitive music--what was it? how do we know anything about it? music of the middle ages, music of the renaissance, instrumental music through the ages, opera--Latin America is included in this discussion, chamber music--did you know it was popular in the 1920s? Though sometimes technical, this volume is easy to read.
A Treasury of Comfort
by Sidney GreenbergA source of consolation, hope, courage and guidance for thos who mourn, by Rabbi Greenberg
Christie Classics
by Agatha ChristieA collection of five stories by Agatha Christie, including The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, And Then There Were None, Three Blind Mice, Witness for the Prosecution, and Philomel Cottage.
Immortality: The Scientific Evidence
by Alson J. SmithThe astonishing case for life after death as revealed through the revolutionary science of parapsychology
Men, Women and Pianos: A Social History
by Arthur LoesserA piano's-eye view of the social and philosophical history of Western Europe and the United States from the 17th century to the 1950s, with glances forward and back.
No Love Lost
by Margery AllinghamTwo swift-moving mysteries: The Patient at Peacocks Hall,and Safer Than Love.
Riders of the Plains
by Max BrandMaimed by his injuries, Peter Hale battled the Westerner's scorn for a cripple, and brought new life and prosperity to the family ranch. Then he dropped out of sight.
Search the Sky
by Frederik Pohl C. M. KornbluthAn engrossing novel of a voyage that begins hundreds of light years away that presents a provocative satire of life in the future
Six Minutes a Day to Perfect Spelling
by Harry ShefterPeople make spelling mistakes simply because they have never formed the right spelling habits. Here is a proven method that will make you a master speller.
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris/Goodbye to Berlin
by Christopher IsherwoodA classic of 20th-century fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret. First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires—this is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am A Camera and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret; Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught between the Nazis and the Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce the scale of her Büste might relieve her heart palpitations; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.
The Cabala
by Thornton WilderThe story of a young American of Puritan background living in Rome in the 1920s, by the Pulitzer Prize winning author.
The Seminary Rule: An Explanation of the Purposes Behind It and How Best to Carry It Out
by Fr. Thomas Dubay Joseph Francis RummelAn explanation of the purposes behind the Seminary Rule and how best to carry it out