The Marvelous Land of Oz
David McKee
Second Oz book; Scarecrow and Tin Woodman are back with hero named Tip. 120 black-and-white, 16 full-color illustrations.
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Falling into Glory
Robert Westall
Seventeen-year-old Robbie has a brilliant exam results and a history of triumphs on the rugby field - until he develops a close relationship with a teacher, Emma Harris, who is almost twice his age. For Robbie, school, sport and his family begin to lose their importance - but what does Emma want? Is she prepared to risk her whole career for him?
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The Commodore
Patrick O'Brian
Command of a squadron calls for different skills from command of ship. It is the character of the captians and the fighting and sailing qualities they can deliver from the men and ships entrusted to them that an admiral or a commodore must reckon with.
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The Serpents of Harbledown
Edward Marston
An enthralling historical mystery. Volume V of the Domesday Books.
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The Hamilton Case
Michelle De Kretser
MURDER, A MOONLESS NIGHT, THE JUNGLE CROWDING CLOSE.477. The place is Ceylon, the time the 1930s. Set amid tea plantations and jungle, decay, corruption and the backwash of empire, this gripping nuanced novel has a pitch-perfect ear for the comedy and a sharp eye for the tragedy of a world at the end of its tether. Sam Obeysekere - 'obey' by name and by nature - is a Ceylonese lawyer, a perfect product of empire. His family once had wealth and influence but starts to crack open as political change comes to the island, and Sam's glamorous father dies leaving gambling debts. But the Obeysekeres' troubles reach back into the past, when a baby was found dead in his cot. And at the heart of the novel is the Hamilton Case, a murder scandal that shakes the upper echelons of island society. Sam's involvement in it makes his name but sets his life on course for disappointment. Full of irresistible characters - Sam himself, a triumph of ambivalence, resentment and pathos; his beautiful, unstable sister; his flamboyant mother Maud - this is a sinuous, constantly surprising tale. It paints a haunting picture of the end of an era, suffused with 'the unbearable thought that everything might have been different...'
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Public World of Parable Jones
Dominic Behan
"Parable Jones was incommoded. His wife incommoded him. His mistress incommoded him. He could put with it from his mistress. His wife could go and have a mass said for herself. Once again her bad temper had triumphed over the work. Once too often, once again."
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The Rival
Brenda Joyce
Amidst whispers of treachery and murder, the Stanhope heir vanishes without a trace... After Lionel De Vere's mysterious disappearance, Garrick De Vere becomes heir to an estate shrouded in scandal. Blackmailed by his powerful father into returning to England after a decade-long exile, Garrick finds himself forced into confronting the past and defending his innocence against those who wished to see him banished forever. She dared to love the man all of London hated... Lady Olivia Grey and her daughter both possess the shattering "gift" of sight, and it is this vision which drives Olivia from a loveless marriage directly into the heart of a bitter rivalry between two brothers, placing both herself and her daughter in jeopardy-as lies, secrets and ancient passions threaten to destroy everyone involved. The were strangers and outcasts, thrown together by a past that would not die. Together they fought to expose a legacy of deceit and claim the love that defied their entire world.
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City
Philip Boast
Fifteen years after the Crucifixion, John Fox, a man others instincitively fear, a barbarian wearing a prince\'s purple cloak, returns from the Holy Land to the city of Luan-dun on board the ship of the Arimathean trader who took him into exile. And he bears with him thirty pieces of silver... The epic novel of London over two thousand years.
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Scenes of Madness
Derek R. Davis
Derek Russell Davis argues that mental health professionals working in a hospital or clinic setting can learn much from playwrights about the psychological processes in mental illness. Looking at such diverse characters as Orestes, Hamlet, Lear, Ophelia, Peer Gynt, Oswald Alving and Blanche Dubois, Dr Davis shows how madness in plays is put into the context of the crucial experiences in an individual's history and current relationships, and demonstrates that these stories can be a new and exciting source of insight into mental illness.
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The Flight of the Sparrow
Fay Sampson
For half his life Edwin fled across the British Isles, hounded by assassins. Now he is the most powerful and admired king of Northumbria. But can he confess to his new wife the guilty secret from his past?...
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The Queen and I
Sue Townsend
'The most absorbing, entertaining and escapist, the funniest thing in print since Adrian Mole' Ruth Rendell
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Colony
Anne Rivers Siddons
When Maude Chambliss first arrives at Retreat, the seasonal home of her husband's aristocratic family, she is a nineteen-year-old bride fresh from South Carolina's Low Country. Among the patrician men and women who reside in the summer colony on the coast of Maine, her gypsy-like beauty and impulsive behavior immediately brand her an outsider. She, as well as everyone else, is certain she will never fit in. And of course, she doesn't ... at first. But over the many summers she spends there, Maude comes to cherish life in the colony, as she does the people who share it with her. There is her husband Peter, consumed with a darkness of spirit; her adored but dangerously fragile children; her domineering mother-in-law, who teaches her that it is the women who possess the strength to keep the colony intact; and Maine native Micah Willis, who is ultimately Maude's truest friend.
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Animal Farm
Malcolm Bradbury
What happens when the animals drive out Mr Jones and attempt to run their farm themselves?
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Ceremony of the Innocent
Taylor Caldwell
Ellen Watson is an impoverished waif still in her teens when she finds herself the prize in a contest of wills between two men: her employer's son, Francis, and Jeremy, his dashing eligible cousin.
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Shadow Syndromes
C. Johnson
"Millions of people who attribute their daily life problems to bad parents or low self-esteem or lack of will power are in fact struggling with a shadow syndrome. Chronic sadness, obsessiveness, outbursts of anger, the inability to finish tasks, disabling discomfort in social situations - these and other problems are all mild forms of serious mental disorders that can affect the very course of our lives. They are shadow syndromes." "Drs. John J. Ratey and Catherine Johnson explode the idea that these problems are brought on by aberrations in upbringing or relationships, and that they are prolonged by a willful refusal to change. They make it clear that, on the contrary, these patterns of behavior have their origins in the inherent structure and chemistry of the individual brain, that they are distinctly identifiable, and that for all of us, understanding our own unique biological makeup is the key to freeing ourselves from biology's bonds. Knowing who we are biologically as well as psychologically is the key to living a free and full life. Ratey and Johnson describe methods for tempering shadow syndromes and their traces."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Robin Pilcher Omnibus
Robin Pilcher
An Ocean Apart When his wife dies of cancer, David's life falls apart. He withdraws from everyone and then forced to go on an overseas trip for business his friendship with an unhappy young boy finds the strenght to recover. Starting Over When Liz Dewhurst marriage ends, her family has to be split up. Her ex husband has a new love and she is alone until...
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White Angel
Cross
The men she recruited to run her Amazon empire of drugs and death called her the White Angel. The ultrasecret U.S. agency known as the Committee called her the most dangerous woman in the world. The blonde had skin of peaches and cream, cornflower blue eyes, and legs that went all the way to heaven. She looked like an angel. But no man or woman ever killed more ruthlessly. Or enjoyed it more...
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Five Hours from Isfahan
William Copeland
Tehran, 1943. The turning point of the war. Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt are meeting in this exotic Eastern capital to decide on the opening of the second front. Protection of the Big Three is the number one priority yet their security lies in the inexperienced hands of Peter Harvis, an American intelligence officer more used to bedtime than wartime manoeuvers...
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To Serve Them All My Days
R. F. Delderfield
No longer the shell-shocked young man fresh from the front, David Powlett-Jones had now become a schoolmaster of rare talent - able to change with the times and understand their varying stresses. As the age of strikes and hunger gave way to the years of pre-war apprehension and wartime glory, so did David's life change. Marriage blissfully came and tragically went; headmastership came, bringing with it new responsibilities; and always changing were the faces and manners and attitudes of the people under his tutelage, drawing from him all understanding and compassion that he could muster.
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Bred to Win
Kinsolving W
Annie Grebauer is an astonishing woman with two overwhelming passions: one Sam Cumberland, son and heir of one of America's greatest racing families; the other the magnificent thoroughbreds that she breeds and races. Born into brutal poverty, Annie runs away from home at fifteen and makes her way to Belmont race track, where her education as a horsewoman begins, first as a 'hot walker' then as a groom. The Cumberlands also race their horses at Belmont, and despite the differences between them, Sam and Annie are drawn inexorably together....
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How Your Immune System Works
Jeff Baggish
Jeff Baggish MD unravels the mystery of the immune system and presents it in colorful, easy-to-understand illustrations that put the magic of the immune system within the reach of anyone who has ever wondered how it works.
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Cherry Red and Dangerous
Colin D Peel
Running contraband acreoss the Gulf of Oman is routine for John Farrell, until he takes Almira, the daughter of a wealthy businessman on board his boat, and discovers his cargo is a new form of devastating high explosive. For Almira it is the beginning of an obsessive attration that plunges her and Farrell into a nightmare world in which foreign governments are competing to acquire red mercury, a material that can equal the performance of nuclear weapons. After surviving the horror of an explosion in the Hajar mountains and fighting for Almira\'s life, Farrell is betrayed and left with only one choice - to embark on a mission to destroy a military installation in Iran where warheads are being readied for a deadly attack on Israel.
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