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This volume is the author's considered response to the questions raised in The Outsider. Based on the remarkable case of Brad Absetz, it takes issue with the false despair of the rationalist and presents a completely new vision of human potential. Index, 144 pages.

A collection of 16 stories of Jake, the farm hand, and his impressionable charge, the Kid.

The author brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Africans, Irish-Scots, Franco-Canadians and many others, all linked by their successive ownership of a simple green accordion. The music they make is their last link with the past - voice for their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance.

'Acedia & me shows how the numbing repetitions of everyday life...can lead to a sense of hopelessness....And gently, with no fanfare, [Norris] preaches the practicality of love - healing, empowering, sustaining. What demon, however insidious, can compete with that? O, The Oprah Magazine

Adrian Mole has at last reached physical maturity, but he can't help roaming the pages of his diary like an untamed adolescent. Finally given the heave ho by Pandora, he seeks solace in the arms of Bianca, a qualified hydraulic engineer masquerading as a waitress. Between his dishwashing job and completing his epic novel Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland Adrian hopes the fame and fortune will not keep him waiting much longer.

The American classic tale of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley.

The novel centers on Fergus, owner of the family business, Goodlake's Deli. Although married to Annie whom he loves, Fergus is having an affair with a much younger woman - a relationship that starts carefree but eventually, like a slow-building earthquake, destabilizes and collapses the foundations of everything in his life.

After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of the Great War. The daughter of a vicar, she has always been determined to dedicate her life to helping others. Moving to busy Liverpool, she throws herself into her work with those most in need, only tearing herself away for the lively dinners she enjoys with the women at her boarding house. Just as Charlotte begins to settle into her new circumstances, two messages arrive that will change her life. One is from a radical young newspaper editor who offers her a chance to speak out for those who cannot. The other pulls her back to her past, and to a man she has tried, and failed to forget. AS Britain seethes with unrest and postwar euphoria flattens into bitter disappointment, Charlotte must confront long-held insecurities to find her true voice...and the courage to decide if the life she has created is the one she truly wants.

The novel recounts the exotic practices and perverse pleasures of Duc Jean Floressas des Esseintes, a wealthy aesthete in search of an elusive ideal. In his neurotic sensibility, his passion for novelty, Des Esseintes foreshadows every unhappy, solitary hero the the 20th centure; he epitomized the spiritual anguish of modern times.

The renown of Agnes Deans Cameron - a trailblazer in the early days of educational standards in British Columbia, a bold and undaunted traveller, and one of the most well-known writers of her time - has been shadowed in the annals of history. Now, over 100 years later, her life and accomplishments are brought to light in this comprehensive biography of an outstanding woman.

'The Age of Insight take us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind - our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions - and how mind and brain relate to art. 638 pages. Notes, bibliography, and index.

Set in insular upper-class society of New York City in the 1870's, the novel tells the story of Newland Archer, a young lawyer who plans to marry the beautiful debutante May Welland. On the eve of their engagement, he meets May's coussin, Countess Ellen Olenska, who has fled Europe and an unhappy marriage. Ellen's charm and worldliness stir in Archer a longing for life beyond his restrictive upper-class extistence. He cannot think of leaving May, yet he continues to pursue Ellen.

Set in a small town Ontario and spanning three generations, Wright's acclaimed novel of Howard Wheeler's search for self-understanding is a journey through the past, both real and imagined, a brilliant gathering together of the many threads of emotional inheritance that make up a life.

Illustrated paper over boards. Light edge wear. Sound clean copy.

Sound clean copy

As far as Alexandria Hyatt is concerned, being rich and glamorous is simply what she was born to be. When she arrested for shoplifting, having to drag herself into court to face a judge seems like a major inconvenience. But Alexandria has been in trouble before - and this time she can't scheme her way out of the consequences. Before she knows it, she is on a plane headed to Kenya, where she has been order to work for an international charity. Over the course of her month in Africa,she will face a reality she could never have imagined, and will have to look inside herself to see if she has what it takes to confront it.

Mr and Mrs Paxton's daughter Alice was born in the Old Man's house on a night in early spring, shortly after Anthony Edem has pronounced on the Suez crisis. The Old Man didn't want to know of the new world being born outside his great house, of the collapse of belief, the search for equality, of these young men with black leather jackets and badger faces. As the tramp of boots was heard on the road from Aldermaston the Old Man retired to his room of treasures; it was only when Alice fell for the first time that he even acknowledged her existence.The sixties came to the house on the downs, and a feeling of uncertainty was everywhere. Only Alice, growing up, flamingo legs flying under her short skirts, knew where she was going. An only Mrs Paxton knew what would happen when her daughter fell for the last time...

Where do they come from? How long have they been with us? How did they get here? A fantastic voyage from H G Wells and Jules Verne to Star Wars, including science fiction pulps, flying saucers, robots, and popular TV aliens from Superman to Star Trek. 40 colour, 135 black and white photographs; Introduction by B A Tompkins.

This is the fifth and final volume in the Cazalet Chronicles. As a new generation of Cazalets descend on Home Place, only one thing is certain: nothing will ever be the same again.

Nice modern reprint of this Herriot classic trade size paperback.