2009, ISBN: 9780806531182

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London: Warner Books. Very Good+; Minor shelf wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks . inside, appears unread.. 1994. Reprint. Paperback. Mass Market PB . First Printing; 320 pag… More...

London: Warner Books. Very Good+; Minor shelf wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks . inside, appears unread.. 1994. Reprint. Paperback. Mass Market PB . First Printing; 320 pages; Bettina Daniels was the golden girl with the world at her feet. She had youth, beauty and the most glamorous of lifestyles. Everything her father's love, fame and money could buy. Then, without warning, Justin Daniels was gone. Leaving Bettina with a mountain of debts and a world full of strangers - men who promised her many things, who tempted her with words of love. But she had to live her own life, weave her own dreams, reach out and seize her own chance - for loving. ; 0751505498 ., Warner Books, 1994, 3, London: Futura. Very Good. 1984. First British Edition; Second Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Slight scratch to front cover, light edge wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside. ; 144 pages; Only the most beautiful girl on Luna could have sent a near fatal laser beam into the chest of the Fourth Speaker for the Asteroids. It's an open and shut case, so investigator Gil 'the Arm' Hamilton will have to move fast to save her from the organ banks where criminals repay society with their body parts. ., Futura, 1984, 3, US: Random House, 1938. Edge wear on slip cover, bit of soiling and nicks on cover, however book in good condition, undamaged. This idyllic romance of the South American tropical forest is considered by most critics to be the author's finest work. It is a fantastic and tragic love story of a young naturalist and an extraordinarily beautiful native girl, Rima, whose home is the leafy 'Green Mansions' and who understands and speaks the language of nature. A2.. Hardcover. Acceptable., Random House, 1938, 2.5, -: BCA, 2002. Hardback. Jacket or Cover has Minor Damage. -. Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide. Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours blood-stained secrets and family ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a tyro `bloodhunter` whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a `goblin` succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the ubiquitous Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl whom Quinn loves from her own mortality...Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with its deceptively gentle title brings us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and doppelganger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate., BCA, 2002, 0, Imagine moonlight and roses. And London and Paris. And the intoxicating magic of a Louisiana bayou. Then journey with master storyteller Katherine Stone on this breathtaking voyage of danger, courage, and love.They met beside the brilliant blue bayou. She was an innocent girl, and he was a reckless and angry boy. Claire Chamberlain believed in dreams, and Cole Taylor believed in nothing at all. Cole had no reason to believe--until her. They pledged their love beneath the silver winter moon. But the hopes of Cole and Claire were destined to be drowned in blood.Now, twelve years later, Cole has returned to Harlanville. He has found fame as a singer of love songs. And Claire? Her life has changed, irrevocably, yet she has found a private peace--such a fragile one that Cole's very presence shatters her precarious serenity. And now Cole is asking her to do the impossible, to come away with him, to London. Claire knows he will break her heart again. But she will be with him, she has to be, for as long as she can bear the pain.Claire's is not the only endangered heart in London. A murderer has sent Lady Sarah Pembroke an engraved Valentine invitation--to her own death. And is Claire's girlhood friend afraid of the knife-wielding monster? Hardly. The Global News's star correspondent, the woman who feels oddly sane amid the madness of war, has her own private demons, memories far more fearsome than a murderer who chooses the most romantic day of the year to inflict his lethal terror.But neither Sarah's past nor the killer stalking her are as terrifying as Jack Dalton, the FBI consultant determined to save Sarah's life. Jack needs Sarah's help in his exhaustive, careful search for clues. But remarkably, and infuriatingly, Sarah resists. Sarah will not tell Jack the intimate information he needs to know. She cannot. And yet it is as if he already knows her anguished secrets, cares for her more than he should, and wants more from Lady Sarah Pembroke than she can ever give.Imagine Love is an enthralling read, a beautifully crafted tapestry of suspense and love, of surprises you won't imagine, and of men and women you will never forget., Ballantine Books, 1996-04, 3.5, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion is a novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. It was published in 1956 and translated into English by Ivan Morris in 1959.Plot introductionThe novel is loosely based on the burning of the Reliquary (or Golden Pavilion) of Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto by a young Buddhist acolyte in 1950. The pavilion, dating from before 1400, was a national monument that had been spared destruction many times throughout history, and the arson shocked Japan. The story is narrated by Mizoguchi, the disturbed acolyte in question, who is afflicted with an ugly face and a stutter, and who recounts his obsession with beauty and the growth of his urge to destroy it. The novel also includes one of Mishima's most memorable characters, Mizoguchi's club-footed, deeply cynical friend Kashiwagi, who gives his own highly individual twist to various Zen parablesTitleThe temple's actual name is the Rokuon-ji (), from the first two characters of the posthumous name of its builder, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. But the shariden or reliquary in its grounds, the Kinkaku, grew so famous that the temple became known as the Kinkaku-ji instead.Plot summaryChildhoodThe protagonist, Mizoguchi, is the son of a consumptive Buddhist priest who lives and works on the remote Cape Nariu on the north coast of Honsh. As a child, the narrator lives with his uncle at the village of Shiraku (), near Maizuru.Throughout his childhood he is assured by his father that the Golden Pavilion is the most beautiful building in the world, and the idea of the temple becomes a fixture in his imagination. A stammering boy from a poor household, he is friendless at his school, and takes refuge in vengeful fantasies. When a naval cadet who is visiting the school makes fun of him, he vandalises the cadet's belongings behind his back. A neighbour's girl, Uiko, becomes the target of his hatred, and when she is killed by her deserter boyfriend after she betrays him, Mizoguchi becomes convinced that his curse on her has been fulfilled.His ill father takes him to the Kinkaku-ji for the first time in the spring of 1944, and introduces him to the Superior, Tayama Dosen. After his father's death, Mizoguchi becomes an acolyte at the temple. It is the height of the war, and there are only three acolytes, but one is his first real friend, the candid and pleasant Tsurukawa. During the 19445 school year, he boards at the Rinzai Academy's middle school and works at a factory, fascinated by the idea that the Golden Pavilion will inevitably be burnt to ashes in the firebombing. But the American planes avoid Kyoto, and his dream of a glorious tragedy is defeated. In May 1945, he and Tsurukawa visit Nanzen-ji. From the tower, they witness a strange scene in a room of the Tenju-an nearby: a woman in a formal kimono gives her lover a cup of tea to which she adds her own breast milk.After his father dies of consumption, he is sent to Kinkaku-ji. On the first anniversary of his father's death, his mother visits him, bringing the mortuary tablet so that the Superior can say Mass over it. She tells him that she has moved from Nariu to Kasagun, and reveals her wish that he should succeed Father Dosen as Superior at Rokuon-ji. The two ambitionsthat the temple be destroyed, or that it should be his to controlleave him confused and ambivalent. On hearing the news of the end of the war and the Emperor's renunciation of divinity, Father Dosen calls his acolytes and tells them the fourteenth Zen story from The Gateless Gate, "Nansen kills a kitten", which leaves them bemused. Mizoguchi is bitterly disappointed by the end of hostilities, and late at night he climbs the hill behind the temple, Okitayama-Fudosan, looks down on the lights of Kyoto, and pronounces a curse: "Let the darkness of my heart equal the darkness of the night which encloses those countless lights!"Friendship with KashiwagiDuring the winter of that year, the Temple is visited by a drunk American soldier and his pregnant Japanese girlfriend. He pushes his girlfriend down into the snow, and orders Mizoguchi to trample her stomach, giving him two cartons of cigarettes in exchange for doing so. Mizoguchi goes indoors and obsequiously presents the cartons to the Superior, who is having his head shaved by the deacon. Father Dosen thanks him, and tells him he has been chosen for the scholarship to Otani University. A week later the girl visits the temple, tells her story, and demands compensation for the miscarriage she has suffered. The Superior gives her money and says nothing to the acolytes, but rumours of her claims spread, and the people at the temple become uneasy about Mizoguchi. Throughout 1946 he is tormented by the urge to confess, but never does so, and in the spring of 1947 he leaves with Tsurukawa for Otani University. He starts to drift away from Tsurukawa, befriending Kashiwagi, a cynical clubfooted boy from Sannomiya who indulges in long "philosophical" speeches.Kashiwagi boasts of his ability to seduce women by making them feel sorry for himin his words, they "fall in love with my clubfeet." He demonstrates his method to Mizoguchi by feigning a tumble in front of a girl. She helps him into her house. Mizoguchi is so disturbed that he runs away, and takes a train to the Kinkaku-ji to recover his self-assurance. In May, Kashiwagi invites him to a "picnic" at Kameyama Park, taking the girl he tricked, and another girl for Mizoguchi. When left alone with the girl, she tells him a story about a woman she knows who lost her lover during the war. He realises that the woman she is talking about must be the same one he saw two years before through a window of Tenju Hermitage. Mizoguchi's mind fills with visions of the Golden Pavilion, and he finds himself impotent. That evening a telegram arrives at the university bearing news of kindly Tsurukawa's death in a road accident. For nearly a year, Mizoguchi avoids Kashiwagi's company.In the spring of 1948 Kashiwagi comes to visit him at the temple, and gives him a shakuhachi as a present. He takes the opportunity to demonstrate his own skill as a player. In May he asks Mizoguchi to steal some irises and cat-tails for him from the temple garden. Mizoguchi takes them to Kashiwagi's boarding-house, and while discussing the story of Nansen and the kitten, Kashiwagi starts to make an arrangement, mentioning that he is being taught ikebana by his girlfriend. Mizoguchi realises that this girlfriend must be the woman he saw at Tenju Hermitage. When she arrives, Kashiwagi breaks up with her, and they quarrel. She runs away and Mizoguchi follows, telling her that he witnessed her tragic scene two years ago. She is moved, and tries to seduce him, but again he is assailed by visions of the temple, and he is impotent.Enmity with Father DosenIn January 1949 Mizoguchi is walking through Shinkyogoku when he thinks he sees Father Dosen with a geisha. Momentarily distracted, he starts to follow a stray dog, loses it, and then in a back alley he runs into the Superior just as he is getting into a hired car with the geisha. He is so surprised that he laughs out loud, and Father Dosen calls him a fool. Over the next two months Mizoguchi becomes obsessed with reproducing Dosen's brief expression of hatred. He buys a photograph of the geisha and slips it into Dosen's morning newspaper. The Superior gives no sign of having found it, but secretly places the photo in Mizoguchi's drawer the next day. When Mizoguchi finds it there, he feels victorious. He tears it up, wraps the shreds in newspaper with a stone, and sinks it in the pond.As Mizoguchi's mental illness worsens, he neglects his studies. On 9 November 1949, the Superior reprimands him for his poor work. Mizoguchi responds by borrowing ¥3000 from Kashiwagi, who characteristically raises ¥500 of the money by taking back and selling the flute and dictionary he had given as presents. He goes to Takeisao-jinja (a shrine also known as Kenkun-jinja) and draws a mikuji lot which warns him not to travel northwest. He sets off northwest the next morning, to the region of his birth, and spends three days at Yura (now Tangoyura), where the sight of the Sea of Japan inspires him to destroy the Kinkaku.He is retrieved by a policeman, and on his return he is met by his angry mother, who is relieved to learn that he did not steal the money he used to flee. Obsessed by the idea of arson, one day he follows a guilty-looking boy to the Sammon Gate of the Myshin-ji, and is amazed and disappointed when the boy does not set it alight. He compiles a long list of old temples which have burnt down. By May his debt (with 10% simple interest per month) has grown to ¥5100. Kashiwagi is angry, and comes to suspect that Mizoguchi is considering suicide. On 10 June Kashiwagi complains to Father Dosen, who gives him the principal; afterwards, Kashiwagi shows letters to Mizoguchi that reveal the fact that Tsurukawa did not die in a road accident, but committed suicide over a love affair. He hopes to discourage Mizoguchi from doing anything similar. For the last time, they discuss the Zen story of Nansen and the kitten.Final eventsOn 15 June, Father Dosen takes the unusual step of giving Mizoguchi ¥4250 in cash for his next year's tuition. Mizoguchi spends it on prostitutes in the hope that Dosen will be forced to expel him. But he quickly tires of waiting for Dosen to find out, and when he spies on Dosen in the Tower of the North Star, and seems him crouched in the "garden waiting" position, he cannot account for this evidence of secret shame, and is filled with confusion. The next day he buys arsenic and a knife at a shop near Senbon-Imadegawa, an intersection 2 km to the southeast of the temple, and loiters outside Nishijin Police Station. The outbreak of the Korean War on 25 June, and the failure of Kinkaku's fire-alarm on 29 June, seem to him signs of encouragement. On 30 June a repairman tries to fix it, but he is unsuccessful, and promises to return the next day. He does not come. A strange interview with the visiting Father Kuwai Zenkai, of Ryuho-ji in Fukui Prefecture, provides the final inspiration, and in the early hours of 2 July Mizoguchi sneaks into the Kinkaku and dumps his belongings, placing three straw bales in corners of the ground floor. He goes outside to sink some non-inflammable items in the pond, but on turning back to the temple he finds himself filled with his childhood visions of its beauty, and he is overcome by uncertainty.Finally he remembers the words from the Rinzairoku, "When you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha", and he resolves to go ahead with his plan. He enters the Kinkaku and sets the bales on fire. He runs upstairs and tries to enter the Kukkych, but the door is locked. He hammers at the door for a minute or two. Suddenly feeling that a glorious death has been "refused" him, he runs back downstairs and out of the temple, choking on the smoke. He continues running, out of the temple grounds, and up the hill named Hidari Daimonji, to the north. He throws away the arsenic and knife, lights a cigarette, and watches the pavilion burn.Allusions to actual history, geography and current scienceThe real storyThe only detailed information in English on the arson comes from Albert Borowitz's Terrorism For Self-Glorification: The Herostratos Syndrome (2005), which includes translations of interview transcripts published in the book Kinkaku-ji Enj (1979) by Mizukami Tsutomo, a novelist who had known the boy at school.The acolyte's name was Hayashi Yken, and the Superior's name was Murakami Jikai. The prostitute to whom he boasted was called Heya Teruko. Hayashi's mother threw herself in front of a train soon after the event. His sentence was reduced on account of his schizophrenia; he was released on 29 September 1955, the same year that the rebuilding commenced, and died in March 1956. (Borowitz comments that many accounts avoid giving the acolyte's name, perhaps to prevent him from becoming a celebrity.) The pavilion's interior paintings were restored much later; even the gold leaf, which was mostly all gone long before 1950, was replaced.Mishima collected all the information he could, even visiting Hayashi in prison, and as a result the novel follows the real situation with surprising closeness.Yukio Mishima ( Mishima Yukio?) is the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka ( Hiraoka Kimitake?, January 14, 1925 November 25, 1970), a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, and film director. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century; he was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was poised to win the prize in 1968 but lost the award to his fellow countryman Yasunari Kawabata. His avant-garde work displayed a blending of modern and traditional aesthetics that broke cultural boundaries, with a focus on sexuality, death, and political change. He is remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d'état attempt, known as the "Mishima Incident".Mishima was also known for his natural bodybuilding and modelling.The Mishima Prize was established in 1988 to honor his life and works., Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1980, 0, U.S.A.: Harlequin Books S.A., 1978. A Harlequin paperback romance, printed February 1978 in very good plus condition. Very clean book, very light crease along spine on front cover and on middle of back cover near edge, very light rubbing of edges................*We have other titles in this genre in stock and give discounts in shipping on additional books sent in the same package, please contact us for more info.**.......WRAPPED IN PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK....Summary - He's something of a catch, you know. Eloise was told about the handsome Dr. Timon van Zeilst. But no one's caught him yet. Eloise felt quite sure that it wouldn't be her. Why should he look twice at a plain English nurse with the beautiful Liske around? And Liske had claimed she was destined to be his wife. It was no good telling herself not to care, because she. Even if he was the most infuriating man she'd ever met!.. First Harlequin Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus., Harlequin Books S.A., 1978, 3, Toronto - Winnipeg, Canada.: Harlequin Books., 1952. 286 pages. Harlequin book #170; (5/1952; 18th Century pioneer settlment Canadian Historical Fiction Adventure); "This is the incredibly moving & dramatic novel from one of the most fascinating pages in colonial history. The Acadians a peace-loving group of French neutral's living in Nova Scotia, were cruelly uprooted from their prosperous farms and scattered throughout the English colonies. Against the background of this pitiful migration, is set the story of Graham, an Englishman, and Barbe, a beautiful French girl. Their forbidden love brought disgrace and jail to Graham and exile to Barbe. Yet they continued to love, not knowing whether they would live from one day to the next. Throughout the horrible adventures that befell each of them they kept the memory of their love, and though they became embroiled in the vicious intrigues of the day they finally met again." *** SCARCE book Number in the Highly Collectible Original Vintage HARLEQUIN Paperback Series; >> Heavy cover creasing;. First Canadian Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Good to Very Good.. Illus. by GGA - Good Girl Art Painted Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.. Mass Market Paperback., Harlequin Books., 1952, 2.75, Toronto, Ontario, Canada..: Bantam Books., 1969. 247 pages. "The explosive novel of three love - hungry women eager to take on anything ... but the consequences! Deedee - as hard and bright as a diamond, she divided her time between the beds of her lovers and the couch of her psychiatrist! Barbara - Serene, full of her private joy, but deserted at the one time she needed a man most! Hester - at nineteen, too blonde and beautiful to be ignored, too innocent to resist ... and too infatuated to care! Three women - ready to devour a life that could devour them!" >> Story of 3 beautifuil Women in NEW YORK & the Men they Love, desire & USE. Ut is the story of their Pain & heartbreak, their fleeting hours of happiness & their insatiable need for Love. >> Minor cover wear.. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. Soft Cover. Very Good to Fine. Illus. by GGA {Good Girl Art} PHOTO Cover.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.. Mass Market Paperback., Bantam Books., 1969, 3, Danbury, CT, U.S.A.: Stabenfeldt, Inc, 2007. Unknown Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. Brief summary of content available upon request by e-mail., Stabenfeldt, Inc, 2007, 3, Toronto - Winnipeg, Canada.: Harlequin Books., 1952. 286 pages. Harlequin book #170; (5/1952; 18th Century pioneer settlment Canadian Historical Fiction Adventure); "This is the incredibly moving & dramatic novel from one of the most fascinating pages in colonial history. The Acadians a peace-loving group of French neutral's living in Nova Scotia, were cruelly uprooted from their prosperous farms and scattered throughout the English colonies. Against the background of this pitiful migration, is set the story of Graham, an Englishman, and Barbe, a beautiful French girl. Their forbidden love brought disgrace and jail to Graham and exile to Barbe. Yet they continued to love, not knowing whether they would live from one day to the next. Throughout the horrible adventures that befell each of them they kept the memory of their love, and though they became embroiled in the vicious intrigues of the day they finally met again." *** SCARCE book Number in the Highly Collectible Original Vintage HARLEQUIN Paperback Series; . First Canadian Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Good to Very Good.. Illus. by GGA - Good Girl Art Painted Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.. Mass Market Paperback., Harlequin Books., 1952, 2.75, NY: Citadel Press / Kensington Publishing Group, 2009. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's cover design©. Covers clean, colors bright, no reading creases at spine, minor edge and handling wear [shallow crease at back extending into a few of the last pages]. Pages [270 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Illustrated with a few B&W drawings. Originally published at $14.95 US. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Illus. by Mattice, Wesley. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Citadel Press / Kensington Publishing Group, 2009, 4<

2009, ISBN: 9780806531182

NY: Citadel Press / Kensington Publishing Group, 2009. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's cover design©. Covers clean, colors bright, no rea… More...

NY: Citadel Press / Kensington Publishing Group, 2009. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's cover design©. Covers clean, colors bright, no reading creases at spine, minor edge and handling wear [shallow crease at back extending into a few of the last pages]. Pages [270 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Illustrated with a few B&W drawings. Originally published at $14.95 US. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Illus. by Mattice, Wesley. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Citadel Press / Kensington Publishing Group, 2009, 4<

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