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 It is 1982 and Estate Agent Joe Stratford's divorce is over, and he's ready for his life to begin again. And, as Marcus Burns, Joe's new friend from New York, says, the old rules are ready to be broken. Marcus should know: he's just quit his job with the tax man. But are his ideas about how to get rich - really rich via a local real estate development - too big and risky for Joe? And there's Felicity - the daughter of Joe's business partner. But, ... |  He is Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy Wasp family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law. She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe. They are opposites in nearly every way. But they fell in love. This is their story. ... |  At a small-town carnival two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne. Only they know Bourne's true identity and understand the telegram is really a message from Bourne's mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world's deadliest and most elusive terrorist. Reissue ... |  In the rain forests of Peru, an ancient manuscript has been discovered. Within its pages are the nine key insights into life itself - insights each human being is predicted to grasp sequentially, one insight then another, as we move towards a completely spiritual culture on Earth.
... |  Days before a massive exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being murdered. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human. The museum's directors decide to go ahead with the bash in spite of the murders. Now museum researcher Margo Green must find out who or what is doing the killing. Does she have time to stop a massacre? ... |  Curiosity just might be the death of Mrs. Murphy--and her human companion, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen. Small towns are like families: Everyone lives very close together. . .and everyone keeps secrets. Crozet, Virginia, is a typical small town-until its secrets explode into murder. Crozet's thirty-something post-mistress, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, has a tiger cat (Mrs. Murphy) and a Welsh Corgi (Tucker), a pending divorce, and a bad habit ... |  Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a lesbian in America--and living happily ever after. "A truly incredible book".--The Boston Globe. ... |  Trawling both on and off the Net, the nemesis of this story can follow your every move and every communication. He knows your secrets and can invade your life before taking it violently - and that's exactly what he does.
... |  The sequel to James Redfield's phenomenal bestseller )The Celestine Prophecy(. This inspirational book has sold over 5 million copies in over forty countries around the world. )The Tenth Insight( sees Charlene, the friend that first brought word that an ancient manuscript had been found in Peru, disappear while exploring old-growth forest in the Appalachian Mountains. It is here that the search for the Tenth Insight begins. *Also appeared in ... |  "Gulp it down; it beats getting drunk." - Salman Rushdie on "Water Music". "If Dickens were alive today he would be writing this sort of book.' - Rosie Boycott, "Books of the Year", "The Times", on "Tortilla Curtain." Boyle as the equal of Robertson Davies and John Irving. You only hope the Coen Brothers get the film rights, so that this most thrillingly visual of American storytellers is given the movie he deserves' "Guardian" on "Riven Rock". ... |
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