Book Description Glamour, glitz, sex and revenge – and the allure of Hollywood… Toby Temple is the world’s funniest comedian, loved by presidents, lusted after by women. He knows what he wants – and he always makes sure that he gets it. But, deep down, he yearns for love and stability. Jill Castle has always been an outsider, desperate to be accepted. Despite her beauty, ...(展开全部)

Book Description Glamour, glitz, sex and revenge – and the allure of Hollywood… Toby Temple is the world’s funniest comedian, loved by presidents, lusted after by women. He knows what he wants – and he always makes sure that he gets it. But, deep down, he yearns for love and stability. Jill Castle has always been an outsider, desperate to be accepted. Despite her beauty, ...(展开全部)

This is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with many psi powers, including the ability to take control of the minds of others—and complete innocence regarding the mores of man.

This is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with many psi powers, including the ability to take control of the minds of others—and complete innocence regarding the mores of man.

There were two Norman Conquests. John Julius Norwich is writing about the 'other' one, the conquest of Sicily. When on Christmas Day 1130, Roger de Hauteville had himself crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was as brilliant as it was cosmopolitan; to an i...(展开全部)

The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its ...(展开全部)

The enigmatic origins of the stranger that Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the weather. Could he be Jack Frost?

The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its ...(展开全部)