Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling stories and inventing dolls. She has nightmares about teeth, which may explain her career choice. She is going to school in England, where she is mocked for her accent and her friendship with an unpopular girl, and she has made it through the year without crying.Nicholson Baker follows Nory as she interacts with her parents and peers, thinks about God and death-watch beetles, and dreams of cows with pointed teeth. In this precocious child he gives us a heroine as canny and as whimsical as Lewis Carroll's Alice and evokes childhood in all its luminous weirdness. Views: 111
Three novellas selected by Damon Knight:-Fiddler's GreenThe Saliva TreeThe Ugly Little Boy Views: 110
It was murder that made Paul Van der Voort return to his childhood home in Rotterdam after eight years at sea without once contacting Dr. Pieter Van der Voort, the man who had adopted him when he was ten years old Views: 110
They were worlds apart. Sarah Bly, a sophisticated career woman on a chauffeur-driven tour of America with the wealthy Mrs Margaret Peel. Jim Brent, a tough, old-fashioned cowboy, ill at ease away from his rugged mountain ranch. Yet a wrong turn on a remote road in Wyoming unexpectedly brings them together. The discovery of the ranch house Rest and be Thankful opens Sarah’s eyes to the beauty of the West and makes the brash cynicism of the city seem irrelevant. After years of travelling the world, this idyllic place could be what she’s been searching for. But can two such different people every really overcome their differences and give in to love?Review"Exhilarating, eventful, romantic... the top-notch entertainment that Helen MacInnes always brings you" (New York Herald Tribune)" About the AuthorHelen MacInnes (1907-1985) was the Scottish-born American author of 21 spy novels. Dubbed "the queen of spy writers", her books have sold more than 25 million copies in the United States alone and have been translated into over 22 languages. Several of her books have been adapted into films, such as Above Suspicion (1943), with Joan Crawford, and The Salzburg Connection (1972). Views: 110
The earth is doomed!Only ten people out of every 3,000 will escape aboard space ships to begin a new colony on Mars. For the rest of humanity . . . inevitable destruction.Bill Easson is a conscientious, straightforward guy. But as pilot of one of the ships, he holds the power of life and death in his hands. As the time grows nearer, violent mobs swarm through the streets, and the ten names on Bill's list change and change again.The authorities only give Bill a 60 percent chance of survival. He knows in his bones he's got to lengthen the odds.Or die trying. Views: 110
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On the planet Sirgol the death machines have a unique and sublte mode of
attack. Now, the time and place of the next attack has been
pinpointed--the berserkers will try to eliminate Vincent Vincento, an
early genius whose loss will cost mankind a hundred years of progress in
the physical sciences. Derron Odegard, one of the elite corps of Time
Operatives, has the toughest assignment in Sirgol's history--protect
Vincento at any cost. Views: 109
Bill Saunders kills a man in a pub brawl. Fleeing, he hides out in the apartment of lonely shop assistant Jane Wharton. Later, despite misgivings about his violent nature, Jane becomes involved with Bill, who resolves to reform. She gets him a job with her aunt and things are looking up untill Bill's past catches up with him.Unavailable for several years, this classic thriller of the "hard-boiled" genre has been compared to the work of James M. Cain and Graham Greene. "A tight narrative of recklessness, of ruthlessness".--Kirkus Views: 108
Playscript for a work first staged in 1963, which was very surreal, even by the late great Spike Milligan’s standards. If you never saw the play, now’s your chance to find out what happened after Lord Fortnum changed into a Bedsitting Room as the result of a nuclear holocaust. And if you did see the play – well, you still want to find out. Views: 108
A SPACESHIP so fantastic that it is rightfully christened Fantasy. A new spacedrive is quietly to be tested, a method previously unknown. If successful, it promises a whole new epoch in space travel, an unprecedented blossoming out into the unknown vastness of the cosmic realm. Perry Rhodan & his men prepare to leap farther out into the universe than they have ever gone before. How Auris of the emerald eyes & coppery hair glinting with metallic highlights figures in the exploratory trip of the Fantasy will be revealed, along with other aspects of this beautiful alien, on your way to– The Target Star! Views: 108
Scanned, converted, reformatted, proofed and eBook creation by Jerry. Views: 107
EDITORIAL REVIEW:For 13 years Perry Rhodan promised to take Thora and Khrest, the Arkonides back to their own parent planetary system. In five hyper-transitions the great spaceship Ganymede takes Perry, Thora and Khrest To Arkon.But in between comes interception! The Ganymede is forced to land on Naat. Rhodan and his friends are captured, and their ship immobilized beneath insurmountable energy fields. They must contact the Akonide authority on Naat to negotiate their release so that they may go on to their goal. And if Perry, Thora and Khrest get to Arkon, the Arkonides will find that things have radically changed for them at home during their absence... TO ARKON! Views: 107
Nick Saturday, private eye, went out to find Helen Burdette, lost gal. He had the right town and the right street — but the wrong world.A nice entertaining SciFi story in the multiple-worlds tradition, mixed with a hard-boiled PI of little imagination (Joe Friday, meet Nick Saturday). The title is totally misleading, but goes well with the gorgeous pulp cover. Views: 106
