Author: Julia Golding
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corp/Cc
Keywords: quartet, companions, gaze, book, companion, gorgon
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0761453776
ISBN-13: 9780761453772
Connie Lionheart’s calculating great-aunt and uncle try to take her away from the tantalizing reach of the Society for the Protection of Mythical Creatures. What they don’t realize (or do they?) is that Connie is the Society’s most important member--she is the only universal companion able to bond with all mythical creatures. Connie’s great gift also puts her in great danger, as the evil shape-shifter Kullervo needs her power to destroy the Society once and for all. But how can Connie help anyone, even herself, when she hasn’t learned how to use her gift yet? In t
Author: Cynthia Ozick
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: quartet, dictation
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-04-14
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0547237871
ISBN-13: 9780547237879
Ozicks latest work of fiction brings together four long stories, including the novella-length "Dictation," that showcase this incomparable writers sly humor and piercing insight into the human heart. Each starts in the comic mode, with heroes who suffer from willful self-deceit. From self-deception, these not-so-innocents proceed to deceive others, who dont take it lightly. Revenge is the consequenceand for the reader, a delicious if dark recognition of emotional truth. The glorious novella "Dictation" imagines a fateful meeting between the secretaries to Henry James and Joseph Conrad at t
Author: Jean Rhy
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Keywords: fiction, paperback, norton, quartet
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1997-03-17
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0393315460
ISBN-13: 9780393315462
Now available for the first time in paperback, Quartet "belongs to the new tradition in prose, which shuns elaboration for sharpness and intensity of effect" (New York Times). A woman, caught in the stranglehold between her lover and his wife, faces a further dilemma when her own husband is released from prison.
Author: Lawrence Durrell
Publisher: Penguin
Keywords: quartet, alexandria, mountolive
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1991-07-12
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140153209
ISBN-13: 9780140153200
This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. Together, the more than one hundred UC Libraries comprise the largest university research library in the world, with over thirty-five million volumes in their holdings. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library.HP’s patented BookPrep technology was used to clean artifacts resulting from use and digitization, improving your reading experience.
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Keywords: quartet, bride, happy
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2010-11-02
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0425236757
ISBN-13: 9780425236758
Dreams are realized in the eagerly-awaited fourth novel in Nora Roberts’s Bride Quartet. As the public face of Vows wedding planning company, Parker Brown has an uncanny knack for fulfilling every bride’s vision. She just can’t see where her own life is headed. Mechanic Malcomb Kavanaugh loves figuring out how things work, and Parker is no exception. Both know that moving from minor flirtation to major hook-up is a serious step. Parker’s business risks have always paid off, but now she’ll have to take the chance of a lifetime with her heart...
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Piatkus Books
Keywords: quartet, bride, happy
Number of Pages: 355
Published: 2011-05-01
List price: $10.75
ISBN-10: 0749929057
ISBN-13: 9780749929053
Will Parker and Mal ever get their Happy Ever After...? Childhood friends Mackensie, Parker, Laurel and Emmeline have formed a very successful wedding planning business together but, despite helping thousands of happy couples to organise the biggest day of their lives, all four women have struggled to find love. But now, with her three best friends happily settled in relationships, only workaholic Parker remains single. Her business is her life and she devotes all her energies to it. But someone is about to divert her focus...
Author: Julia Golding
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corporatio
Keywords: quartet, companions, minotaur, mines
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0761453024
ISBN-13: 9780761453024
A fantasy series about a secret society sworn to protect mythical creatures and the girl who becomes its most important member
