Second-hand Books

Everyone knows of St Patrick, but what do we know about him? Simply that it was he who `converted the Irish to Christianity'. The strange fact is that for two...

As the motorist speeds past Arras on the motorway south to Paris, a look to the east should bring into view the hilltop village of Monchy le Preux. This farming...

The ultimate secret for "the good life." In the never-ending quest for fulfillment, we sometimes convince ourselves that life would be better if we just had a different career ....

Uses photographs to document Operation Desert Storm

At last--the contemporary masters of memoir have come together to reveal their strategies and impart their advice. This book contains an unprecedented wealth of knowledge in one place. In The...

Most people only know her as Justin Bieber's mom, but Pattie Mallette has had an incredible journey of her own. Many people have heard of her son's rags to riches...

Based upon the premise that there have never been vampires--only terrible, tortured human beings--this stunning reinvention of the Dracula myth is a superb novel of evil, madness, and twisted sexuality....

Chinese by birth, Eurasian by blood, Mei-Ling Wang's extraordinary life is a mirror of our time. Born in China in 1949, the year of the Red Army's entry into Beijing,...

The leader of the team that created the revolutionary Mars Sojourner rover chronicles her trailblazing career in space exploration and tells the fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of the celebrated Mars Pathfinder...

Kitty Goes to War : the eighth novel in the New York Times bestselling Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn Kitty Norville, Alpha werewolf and host of The Midnight Hour,...

The first book to focus exclusively on women as subjects in street art, this study, part travelogue and part dialogue, examines these depictions of women artistically, politically, and culturally across...

The age of the metrosexual is over. Dead and buried. In places as diverse as Seattle, Los Angeles, Austin, Richmond, Miami, and Charleston, modern American men are ushering in a...

For women mentoring women, delightfully wise and witty exchanges between an older Christian woman and her younger friend. Fresh, honest, and highly personal observations.

A lighted-hearted scientific look at the rituals and icons of Christmas. What are the thermodynamics involved in cooking a turkey? What are the likely celestial candidates for the Star of...

Timothy made his first appearance in the nation's history when he was a ship's mascot in the Crimean War in 1854. After a long naval career, he retired for a...

The third novel in a historical trilogy, set against the backdrop of WW1. With their menfolk fighting far away in France, the women left behind must take on many burdens....

Brilliantly interweaving the romantic and thriller elements of her plot,Anita Burgh sets the individual stories of her rich charcters against the cruel and illegal world of dog farming and dog...

Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate the death of a young British woman murdered more than...

GOODNIGHT, SWEET PRINCE - Nacy Thompson is a bondager, a farm labourer forced to live in virtual slavery, her life dictated by the cruel and barbaric whims of her masters....

TOMORROW'S PAST London's Kentish Town in the middle years of the 20th century teems with life, where everyone knows everyone else and every life is interwoven in an intricate web....

TIES OF LOVE AND HATE Belfast, 1907. Maggie's family disown her when she marries her Catholic sweetheart, Paul Mason. The couple's happiness cannot be destroyed that easily, though, and with...

Teenage schoolgirl Helen Majinsky and her friend Colette are part of a small circle that entertains hopes of leaving Liverpool through the route of college entrance. They play truant from...

Date rape didn't exist in 1962. But thirty years after Karen Kern's life fell apart on a cold New York night, her nemesis returns, hogging the limelight on prime-time TV....

Marietta von Burgheim is a woman of beauty and morality, and an heiress to a fortune. Turning her back on the responsibilities of her noble birth and her father's wrath,...

Peter Arnett is an international correspondent for CNN. In this book he shares his experiences of more than 35 years inside the world's war zones. He has reported from Bangkok,...

In the grandest wedding the small western plains town of Bathurst has ever seen, Eve Herman, without position or money, is marrying John Stuart Wakeman, one of the richest, most...

The authoritative handbook for anyone planning any personal ceremony or celebration. Ceremonies & Celebrations gives details of how to organise a celebration or ceremony, with example ceremonies, a wealth of...

She goes to school. She does her homework. And she swims. One of Nina's dreams is to swim very, very fast. When that dream comes true, Nina Hallet's world is...

Hannah Nyala escaped from an abusive marriage, risking everything to save herself and her two children. But then she and her children were subjected to more terror, as her husband...