Cat On A Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams
One hot summer night in the house of the Mississippi Delta s richest cotton planter, a family imprisoned by the past is torn apart by the revelations of feelings of lust, greed and envy.
Atlas of World Population History - Colin McEvedy
This is a book that will be welcomed by social scientist and economist as well as by historians and demographers. It's range is vast - the history of the world's population from early man to the twenty-first century AD (by projection). But it is so silfully and clearly organized that reading it is
No Way Out - Cara Hunter
DID YOU SEE ANYTHING ON THE NIGHT THE ESMOND FAMILY WERE MURDERED? From the author of CLOSE TO HOME and IN THE DARK comes the third pulse-pounding DI Fawley crime thriller. It's one of the most disturbing cases DI Fawley has ever worked. The Christmas holidays, and two children have just been
Cleared for Take-Off - Dirk Bogarde
With warmth and exceptional candour, Dirk Bogarde, in this last volume of his autobiography, gathers together a gallery of family and friends in war-ravaged Europe, in India and Java, in the grey London of the fifties, the golden light of Italy and the splendour of Provence, and ending,
Simply Suspense - Frank R. Stockton
Three stories... In a far country, a man must open one of two doors. One door will bring him love. The other door will kill him. In a French hotel a woman goes into her room. But it is not her room. And someone is with her. In London a man stays the night in a waxworks. The killers, the people
How the Other Half Lives. Studies among the Tenements of New York - Jacob A. Riis
How the Other Half Lives was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle class. How The Other Half
Next to Never - Penelope Douglas
New York Times bestseller Penelope Douglas introduces Quinn, younger sister to Jared, Madoc, and Jaxon, in the latest novella in the series that began with Jared and Tate in Bully.... Quinn Caruthers has several problems. Her father, Jason, and her three older brothers, Jared, Madoc, and Jaxon.
Charlie - Lesley Pearse
Can young Charlie find the strength to save her family? One glorious summer's day, sixteen-year-old Charlie Welsh has her privileged childhood brought to an abrupt and terrifying end when she witnesses her mother being brutally attacked in her own garden by two strangers. With her father
Valmouth; Prancing Nigger; Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli - Ronald Firbank
CONTENTS: 1. Valmouth (1919) 2. Prancing Nigger (1924, as Sorrrow in Sunlight) 3. Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926)