The static of the spheres (The Personal history, adventures, experiences & observations of Peter Leroy)
January 30, 2012 by admin
Peter Leroy recalls his maternal grandfather’s attempt to build a shortwave radio, a project that begins with an article in Impractical Craftsman magazine promising “hour after interminable hour of baffling precision work.” After many, many hours spent watching his grandfather labor at his basement workbench, Peter at last gets to put the earphones on, flip the switch, and twiddle the dials. Through the crackling and sussurous static he detects the sounds of love and lust, joy and sorrow, hope and loss. “Reading the Peter Leroy saga is akin to watching a champion juggler deftly...
Fly Away Home: A Novel Reviews
January 21, 2012 by admin
ISBN13: 9780743294270 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Sometimes all you can do is fly away home . . . When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician’s wife—her hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe replaced by tailored knit suits. At fifty-seven, she ruefully acknowledges that her job is staying twenty...
Caught
September 7, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780739385203 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission: to bring down sexual predators via elaborate—and nationally televised—sting...
Cure
August 22, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780399156625 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed The New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with another heart-pounding story of medical intrigue. With her young son’s potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work, only to face the case of her career. The investigation into the death of CIA agent Kevin Markham is a professional...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Signet Classics)
July 28, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780451529947 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed One of the most important documents in American history. In this wrenching, classic autobiography, Douglass describes himself as a man who became a slave-and, later, a slave who became a man. Rating: (out of 134 reviews) List Price: $ 4.95 Price: $ 1.11 Read More →
Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes
July 17, 2011 by admin
The answers to many kitchen conundrums in one easy-to-use volume, from the author of the acclaimed culinary bible On Food and Cooking. From our foremost expert on the science of cooking, Harold McGee, Keys to Good Cooking is a concise and authoritative guide designed to help home cooks navigate the ever-expanding universe of ingredients, recipes, food safety, and appliances, and arrive at the promised land of a satisfying dish. A work of astounding scholarship and originality, Keys to Good Cooking directly addresses the cook at work in the kitchen and in need of quick and reliable guidance....
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
May 17, 2011 by admin
Robert Louis Stevenson’s all-time classic “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”.The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a “shilling shocker”...
The Einstein Theory of Relativity Reviews
May 15, 2011 by admin
The Einstein Theory of Relativity is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by H.A. Lorentz is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of H.A. Lorentz then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Rating: (out of 4 reviews) List Price: $ 9.99 Price: $ 9.99 Read More →
South of Broad: A Novel
May 5, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780385344074 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered—and shadowed—by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of high school outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston, South Carolina’s dark legacy of...
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci – Volume 2 Reviews
March 10, 2011 by admin
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Rating: (out of 2 reviews) List Price: $ 0.00 Price: Read More →