Powell: 1221 books

Everyone in Dawn Powell's New York satire Angels on Toast is on the make: Lou Donovan, the entrepeneur who ricochets frantically between his well-connected current wife, his disreputable ex, and his dangerously greedy mistress; Trina Kameray, the exotic adventuress whose job title is as phony as...

¿Fue realmente Churchill el gran valedor de la unidad europea de la posguerra? ¿Iba su idea de Europa más allá de una mera cooperación entre gobiernos? ¿Cuál era su opinión sobre la participación británica? Sería tan sencillo como inútil recurrir a una cita aislada del popular político...

Documents Annex: http://www.nyupress.org/justtradeannex/index.html While modern trade law and human rights law constitute two of the most active spheres in international law, follow similar intellectual trajectories, and often feature the same key actors and arenas, neither field has actively engaged...

Joshua Butler must overcome progressively more difficult obstacles in order to make it home in time for his wife's important dinner party.

A telephone rang - and Steve Griffin recognized the distant, terrified voice of his wife. ''He’s trying to run me down with a car. He’s trying to smash the life out of me, Steve.'' But who her pursuer was Maureen never lived to tell. What would drive an unknown man to kill Maureen, to smash...

Murder -- it's one of the staples of mystery fiction. One of the unwritten rules of the mystery novel is to start your murder in the first chapter...and on the first page, if possible! Collected here are 22 tales of murder. Some are fiendish. ("The Doorbell" is especially chilling.) Some...

In 1896, Lillie, the eldest child born into a prosperous farm family, finds herself in charge of raising her twelve siblings. And with it, all of the responsibilities of the family fall on her shoulders, including satisfying the needs of her overbearing, unyielding father. Lillie’s delicately balanced...

"Thriller, magic, mystery, love and betrayal: in the cards and in these pages." —Kirkus When Cat and her friends put an end to the sinister Game of Triumphs, they thought they could simply collect their prizes and walk away. But they unwittingly created a monster. Before the dust...

What would you do if you were called to another world…a world filled with seemingly impossible things? Faced with this choice, Davie, Ben, Anne, Chrissie and Billy embark upon a mysterious quest, finding themselves transported to the spectacular and extraordinary world of Avalon, whereupon they...

It's a few months from the start of the war. Having lived in an Inn for ten years, shut off from the world, Scarlett is brought back to civilisation by the men she has been hiding from. They come one night, in the early hours of the morning. She knows immediately why they are there. They've come...

Max Williams wants to work for the CIA when he grows up. This summer he has plans to make a big impression on his future employer - he plans to catch an enemy spy. Max believes his 70 year old neighbor, Mrs. W, is a spy, and his plans to get the evidence he needs to prove it include taking aikido...

Peter Daniels, a talented composer and pianist, is alone in the turbulent Paris of the 1950s when Marie Gautier, an attractive translator, and Jean-Claude - her charismatic boyfriend and a radical young lawyer - befriend him.Working as he does in the demi-monde of illegal immigrants and left wing...

David Powell, through impeccable research and creativity, waves a tapestry of temptation using the bad guys in the Book of Mormon. Political unrest, government corruption, assassinations, bloody wars, moral decay, pride, greed, and unspeakable evil, all are revealed within, showing clearly how the Book...

Here are 4 classic mysteries for younger readers: Sea View Secret, by Elizabeth Kinsey When the Bowmans moved to the suburbs, Peter and Jane discovered there weren't any kids their own age in the neighborhood...except at Sea View, a crumbling old mansion with a secret all its own! The Mystery of Morgan...