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THE EAGLE HAS FLOWN by Jack Higgins "
Product Details: Hardcover: 335 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster (February 1, 1991) ISBN: 0671724584
While 'The Eagle Has Flown' is considerably weaker than the 'The Eagle Has Landed,' it nevertheless is a great adventure story that takes the reader through the underworld of World War Two espionage. At times it almost mimics 'Landed' in it's characters and situations, and the ending is not terribly credible to anyone who has studied the Nazi structure. But despite this, 'The Eagle Has Flown' is a wonderful story in the great Jack Higgin's tradition.
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CIRCUS OF AMBITION: THE CULTURE OF WEALTH AND POWER IN THE EIGHTIES by John Taylor
Product Details: Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Warner Books Inc (October 1, 1989)
ISBN: 0446514845
Arguing that our growing conservatism in things political goes hand in hand with American society's increasing interest in wealth, appetite for conspicuous consumption and yearning for power, Taylor ( Storming the Magic Kingdom ) offers an entertaining if controversial analysis of the causes of these allied developments and their impact on all aspects of life. Our "money culture," he contends, was sanctioned by religious leaders such as Jerry Falwell--and by bluestocking charities and institutions like New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, avid for new money. Taylor maintains that despite the 1987 stock market "crash," our current crippling deficit, economic and social polarization, the money culture's yen for quick profits continues unabated.
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LOOSE AMONG THE LAMBS by Brandon, Jay Brandon
Product Details: Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Atria (December 1, 1993) ISBN: 0671760327
In San Antonio, a twisted sexual deviant confesses, then recants. A victim then identifies another player--attorney Austin Paley--as the perpetrator. Brandon slowly scales up the tension, producing surprise witnesses and withholding the consequences should Paley be convicted;
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BILLY STRAIGHT: A Novel by Jonathan Kellerman
Product Details: Hardcover: 467 pages Publisher: Random House; 1st ed edition (December 16, 1998) ISBN: 0679459596
Kellerman isn't just an Edgar Award-winning thriller writer, he's a prominent child psychologist, and it shows in Billy Straight. The hero is a 12-year-old runaway whose sharp mind and straitlaced moral sense make him fit to survive the lurid jungles of Hollywood. One night hiding in Griffith Park, Billy witnesses the butchering of Lisa Ramsey, the cokehead ex-wife of Cart Ramsey, a crummy actor-golfer once busted for pummeling Lisa. Did Cart knife Lisa, or was it his pathetic old football sidekick Greg Balch?
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THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF HORROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL
Product Details: Hardcover: 599 pages Publisher: Arbor House (1981) ISBN: 0877953090
41 classic tales of horror and the supernatural are presented in 599 pages by the editors Pronzini, Malzberg, and Greenberg in two sections:
Grandmasters -Modern Masters - If [this book] proves anything, it proves that the tale of horror and/or the supernatural is serious, is important, is necessary... not only to those human beings who read to think, but to those vast numbers of readers who read to feel".
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THE DILBERT PRINCIPLE : CUBICLE'S-EYE VIEW OF BOSSES, MEETINGS, MANAGEMENT FADS, AND OTHER WORKPLACE AFFLICTIONS by Scott Adams
Product Details: Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: HarperBusiness (May 8, 1996)
ISBN: 0887307876
Corporate America continues to undermine itself with bumbling tales of bad management and poor policy. As always, Adams pokes fun at the pompous with his true tales of corporate mayhem. A must read for the burnt out and the enraged in the business world
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THE BEST OF JOHN W. CAMPBELL by John Wood Campbell
Product Details: Hardcover : 278 pages Publisher: Sidgwick and Jackson (1973)
ISBN: 0283978562
Here are the finest stories by the man who almost single-handedly created modern science fiction--the writer who taught a generation to dream...and to write of all possible futures.
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HAVES WITHOUT HAVE-NOTS: ESSAYS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY ON DEMOCRACY AND SOCIALISM by Mortimer Jerome Adler
Product Details Hardcover: 337 pages Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co (April 1, 1991)
ISBN: 0025005618
While diverse, these six essays by the popular philosopher share a unifying theme: the merger of capitalism and socialism in a new democratic world society. Arguing that we are creating a society free of the "have-nots," Adler, author of Intellect: Mind Over Matter ( LJ 2/15/90) and Truth in Religion ( LJ 10/1/90), admirably analyzes the importance of liberal education for citizenship.
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THE ART OF CONVERSATION: MAGIC KEY TO PERSONAL AND SOCIAL POPULARITY by James A. Morris
Product Details: Hardcover: 207 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster (August 1, 1976)
ISBN: 0130466980
Has some good general principles for the art of conversation. A book that might help salesmen.
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CLARA BARTON: PROFESSIONAL ANGEL (STUDIES IN HEALTH, ILLNESS & CAREGIVING) by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Product Details: Hardcover: 444 pages Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (1987)
ISBN: 0812280601
For this outstanding biography, Pryor uses Barton's recently discovered diaries, plus letters and other primary sources, to portray a complex, troubled heroine without delving into historical psychoanalysis.
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BY-LINE, ERNEST HEMINGWAY: SELECTED ARTICLES AND DISPATCHES OF
FOUR DECADES by Ernest Hemingway
Product Details: Hardcover 479 pages Publisher: Collins (1968) NO ISBN
Hemingway's fiction and journalism frequently interchange themes and even wholesale passages. This takes nothing away from either, rather demonstrating that good writing finds application in either venue. It is a vastly interesting piece of work to a reader that has an intrinsic interest in Hemingway, and his life and times. It is less interesting to the reader looking for a story, though there are some great ones in there. These pieces added a lot to my understanding of an american icon.
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