Search Results: Authors starting with T from Petes Loved Books

Not Listed: HarperCollins, Not recorded. Used. This survey originally appeared in N. L. Gage (Editor), Handbook of Research on Teaching, published by Rand McNally & Company in 1963, under the longer tide "Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research on Teaching." As a result, the introductory pages and many of the illustrations come from educational research. But as a study of the references will indicat

London: Sceptre, 2009. Booker Prize. Used. Winner of the first ?Arabic Booker Prize, a vivid compelling historical tale set in late nineteenth-century Egypt.When Mahmoud, a disgraced Egyptian officer, is posted to the remote desert town of Siwa, his Irish wife insists on accompanying him, to pursue the secrets of Alexander the Great. Neither is prepared for the stultifying heat, the hostility of the townspeople, or the astonishing and disturbing events that befall them in the dreamlike other-worldliness of the Sunset Oasis.In turns mesmerizing and shocking, Sunset Oasis is an enthralling story of mystery and frustrated passions set against the backdrop of an exotic locale in the late 1800s

Crows Nest , N.S.W: Allen & Unwin, 2008. Hardcover. Used. NO DUST JACKET Do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street?Or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass?Do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night?Shaun Tan, creator of The Arrival, The Lost Thing and The Red Tree, reveals the quiet mysteries of everyday life: homemade pets, dangerous weddings, stranded sea mammals, tiny exchange

London: Chapmans, 1992. Hard Cover. Used. LIFTING TO EDGES OF DUST JACKET. NO TEARS OR RIPSBeginning with Connery's early days in the theatre and television in the 1950s, this book covers each decade in turn: from his success as James Bond in the 1960s to the Offence , The Wind and the Lion , The Man Who Would Be King and Robin and Marian in the 1970s, on through the 1980s with The Name of the Rose , The Untouchables (for which he won an Oscar ) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and into the 1990s with The Hunt for Red October , The Russia House and Medicine Man . Robert Tanitch provides a running commentary on each production, with quotes from critics of the day. He also wrote A Pictorial Companion to Shakespeare's Plays , Ralph Richardson: A Tribute , Leonard Rossiter , Olivier , Ashcroft , Gielgud , Dirk Bogarde and Guinness .

LONDON: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 1988. Hardcover/Rare/Collectable. Used. Robert Tanitch is a British playwright, author, biographer, lecturer, theatre and film critic. The first professional production of one of his plays was while he was still at Oxford University. His comedies include Call It Love?, with musical numbers by Sandy Wilson, which was staged at Wyndham's Theatre, London and in Vienna in 1960; Came the Knight, directed by Trevor Nunn at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, circa 1963; and Highly Confidential, which starred Hermione Gingold at the Cambridge Theatre, London, in 1969. He has also written material for two West End revues. He has been the Old Vic Theatre's education projects director and has lectured on Shakespeare and run seminars in England, Australia, Indonesia and Kenya. Tanitch has written and directed the cassette series, Shakespeare Interviews. He devised a Shakespearean revue, Shakespeare in Love (directed by David Giles) which was performed in London and Dallas in… Read More

London: Hutchinson, 1987. Hardcover. Used. Robert Tanitch is a British playwright, author, biographer, lecturer, theatre and film critic. The first professional production of one of his plays was while he was still at Oxford University. His comedies include Call It Love?, with musical numbers by Sandy Wilson, which was staged at Wyndham's Theatre, London and in Vienna in 1960; Came the Knight, directed by Trevor Nunn at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, circa 1963; and Highly Confidential, which starred Hermione Gingold at the Cambridge Theatre, London, in 1969. He has also written material for two West End revues. He has been the Old Vic Theatre's education projects director and has lectured on Shakespeare and run seminars in England, Australia, Indonesia and Kenya. Tanitch has written and directed the cassette series, Shakespeare Interviews. He devised a Shakespearean revue, Shakespeare in Love (directed by David Giles) which was performed in London and Dallas in order to raise money to rebuild… Read More

Readers Digest, Date of Publication. Hardcover/First Edition. Used. Clint Eastwood by Robert TanitchAn Oscar-nominated actor, Oscar-winning director and Clint Eastwood has an instinctive gift for the public what it wants, and has achieved popularity in a wide range of genres -- Western, detective, thriller, and comedy. This stunning tribute to his incredible career chronicles Eastwood's more than in the industry. His numerous films are arranged chronologically and presented with a selection of fantastic photographs and numerous reviews from major publications

London: Collins & Brown, 1993. Hardcover. Used. Robert Tanitch is a British playwright, author, biographer, lecturer, theatre and film critic.The first professional production of one of his plays was while he was still at Oxford University.His comedies include Call It Love?, with musical numbers by Sandy Wilson, which was staged at Wyndham's Theatre, London and in Vienna in 1960; Came the Knight, directed by Trevor Nunn at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, circa 1963;

NO DUST JACKETLondon: Random House, 2000. Used. This is the diary of a middle-aged man who is deeply in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's desires...until the day Ikuko discovers her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. Ikuko realises she has found the key to his very soul.

London: Little Brown, 2013. Hardcover with DJ Used. Donna Tartt is an American writer who received critical acclaim for her first two novels, The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages. Tartt was the 2003 winner of the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend. Her novel The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014.

London: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Used. The Little Friend is the second novel by the American author, Donna Tartt. The novel was initially published by Alfred A. Knopf on October 22, 2002, a decade after her first novel, The Secret History. The Little Friend is a mystery adventure, centered on a young girl, Harriet Cleve Dufresnes, living in Mississippi in the early 1970s.

London: Abacus, 2002. Used. At thirty-three one's direction in life should be clear, and mine was not. In search of some direction, or at least a new challenge, Jeffrey Tayler gave up his day job of opening rejection letters from publishers and went exploring. Having always been fascinated by Africa and the great age of Victorian exploration he went to Kinshasa in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) and found a boat to take him up-river to Kisangani, deep in the heart of the jungle. Not content with that, he then bought a pirogue (a kind of canoe), hired a guide and set out to paddle the 1000 miles back to Kinshasa.

Glasgow: WELL READ PAPERBACK. CREASES TO THE SPINE AND COVER..MARK ON FRONT COVERHarperCollins UK, 2009. Used. From the internationally bestselling author of A Woman of Substance A forgotten past hides the key to the future. Meredith Stratton, at forty-four the owner of six elegant international inns, is about to celebrate her daughter???s engagement. At this seemingly happy time in her life she begins to suffer from a strange illness that baffles everyone. Her doctor cannot find a physical cause for her debilitating symptoms, and, desperate for answers, she seeks the help of a psychiatrist. Through therapy Meredith peels back the layers of her life to discover the truth behind her most careful creation ??? herself. Determined to get well, Meredith traces her roots back to another country where she learns about childhood experiences that dramatically changed her life. What she discovers is not only the key to the past but to her future happiness and fulfilment as a woman. Moving from the Connecticut… Read More

Melbourne, Victoria: Text Publishing, 2013. Used. I was blinded by his beauty. In the one or two photographs I???ve kept of him I can still see it. He stares out of them almost miserably, as if his loveliness is an affliction. Not that I saw it that way, at least not in the beginning. In the beginning I thought it was a kind of miracle. Arthur Wheeler is haunted by his infatuation with a Japanese youth he encountered in the enemy alien camp where he worked as a guard during WW2. Abandoning his wife and baby son, Arthur sets out on a doomed mission to rescue his lover from forced deportation back to Japan, a country in ruins. Thus begins the secret history of a soldier at war with his own sexuality and dangerously at odds with the racism that underpins the crumbling British Empire. Four decades later Arthur is still obsessed with the traumatic events of his youth. He proposes a last reunion with his lost lover, in the hope of laying his ghosts to rest, but this mission too seems doomed to failure.… Read More

London: Blue Door, 2011. Used. A powerful novel of love and war, righteousness and redemption, and the triumph of the human spirit. From the author of the critically-acclaimed The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart comes this sweeping novel of love and war, power and oppression, faith and deception, over the course of three defining American decades. At the end of the Pacific War, where he has witnessed terrible things, Loyal Ledford is a lost man, disconnected from the present yet divorced from his dissolute, violent past. His life is set on a new course when he meets his cousins, Dimple and Wimpy, the Bonecutter brothers. Their land, mysterious, elemental Marrowbone Cut, calls to him and it is there, with help from an unlikely bunch, that the Marrowbone Marble Company is slowly forged. Over the next two decades, the factory grounds become a vanguard of the civil rights movement and the war on poverty, a home for those intent on change. Inevitably, such a home invites trouble, and Ledford must fight for… Read More

Artarmon, NSW: Greenwich Editions, 2003. SOFT COVER. Used. Clairvoyance, this book covers a wide range of clairvoyant phenomena, and includes guidelines for exploring your own abilities. By Joules & Ken Taylor.

London: National Film Theatre, 1965. Rare/Collectable. Used. National Film Theatre Program. Original publication from 1965

London:PAPERBACK EDITION..WELL READ WITH CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER Orion, 1995. Used. Probation Officer Ann Carlisle is coping with her husband??s unsolved disappearance, and her young son??s consequent problems, the best way she knows ?? launching a one-woman war on crime. But when an apparently random shooting leads to a grisly discovery in a probationer??s abandoned drug lab, Ann soon realises that both she and her son are in deadly danger. Could the intruder who so brutally attacks her, the source of the sinister phone messages, be her missing husband? Or is someone trying to frighten her out of testifying about her discovery.

London: Tom Doherty Associates, 2009. Used. Patrick Taylor first charmed readers with An Irish Country Doctor, a warm and enchanting novel in the tradition of James Herriot and Jan Karon. Now Taylor returns to the colorful Northern Ireland community of Ballybucklebo, where there's always something brewing beneath the village's deceptively sleepy surface.Young Doctor Barry Laverty has only just begun his assistantship under his eccentric mentor, Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, but he already feels right at home in Ballybucklebo. When the sudden death of a patient casts a cloud over Barry's reputation, his chances of establishing himself in the village are endangered, especially since the grieving widow is threatening a lawsuit. While he anxiously waits for the postmortem results that he prays will exonerate him, Barry must regain the trust of the gossipy Ulster village, one patient at a time. From a put-upon shop girl with a mysterious rash to the troubled pregnancy of a winsome young lass who's not… Read More

New York: Forge Books, 2008. Used. An Irish Country Doctor from bestselling author Patick Taylor is a charming and engrossing tale that will captivate readers from the very first page???and leave them yearning to visit the Irish countryside of days gone by. Barry Laverty, M.B., can barely find the village of Ballybucklebo on a map when he first sets out to seek gainful employment there, but already he knows that there is nowhere he would rather live than in the emerald hills and dales of Northern Ireland. The proud owner of a spanking-new medical degree and little else in the way of worldly possessions, Barry jumps at the chance to secure a position as an assistant in a small rural practice.At least until he meets Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly.The older physician, whose motto is to never let the patients get the upper hand, has his own way of doing things. At first, Barry can't decide if the pugnacious O'Reilly is the biggest charlatan he has ever met, or the best teacher he could ever hope for.… Read More