9780002005883 | 0002005883 | Gilead | nan | Marilynne Robinson | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KQZCPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | A NOVEL THAT READERS and critics have been eagerly anticipating for over a decade, Gilead is an astonishingly imagined story of remarkable lives. John Ames is a preacher, the son of a preacher and the grandson (both maternal and paternal) of preachers. It’s 1956 in Gilead, Iowa, towards the end of t… | 2004 | 3.85 | 247 | 361 |
9780002261982 | 0002261987 | Spider's Web | A Novel | Charles Osborne;Agatha Christie | Detective and mystery stories | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gA5GPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | A new 'Christie for Christmas' -- a full-length novel adapted from her acclaimed play by Charles Osborne Following BLACK COFFEE and THE UNEXPECTED GUEST comes the final Agatha Christie play novelisation, bringing her superb storytelling to a new legion of fans. Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office… | 2000 | 3.83 | 241 | 5164 |
9780006163831 | 0006163831 | The One Tree | nan | Stephen R. Donaldson | American fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OmQawwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | Volume Two of Stephen Donaldson's acclaimed second trilogy featuing the compelling anti-hero Thomas Covenant. | 1982 | 3.97 | 479 | 172 |
9780006178736 | 0006178731 | Rage of angels | nan | Sidney Sheldon | Fiction | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FKo2TgANz74C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | A memorable, mesmerizing heroine Jennifer -- brilliant, beautiful, an attorney on the way up until the Mafia's schemes win her the hatred of an implacable enemy -- and a love more destructive than hate. A dangerous, dramatic world The Dark Arena of organized crime and flashbulb lit courtrooms where … | 1993 | 3.93 | 512 | 29532 |
9780006280897 | 0006280897 | The Four Loves | nan | Clive Staples Lewis | Christian life | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XhQ5XsFcpGIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | Lewis' work on the nature of love divides love into four categories; Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity. The first three come naturally to humanity. Charity, however, the Gift-love of God, is divine, and without this supernatural love, the natural loves become distorted and even dangerous. | 2002 | 4.15 | 170 | 33684 |
9780006280934 | 0006280935 | The Problem of Pain | nan | Clive Staples Lewis | Christian life | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Kk-uVe5QK-gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | "In The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis, one of the most renowned Christian authors and thinkers, examines a universally applicable question within the human condition: If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain? With his signature wealth of compassion and insight, C… | 2002 | 4.09 | 176 | 37569 |
9780006353287 | 0006353282 | An Autobiography | nan | Agatha Christie | Authors, English | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c49GQwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | Donation. | 1977 | 4.27 | 560 | 3975 |
9780006380832 | 0006380832 | Empires of the Monsoon | A History of the Indian Ocean and Its Invaders | Richard Hall | Africa, East | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MuPEQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | Until Vasco da Gama discovered the sea-route to the East in 1497-9 almost nothing was known in the West of the exotic cultures and wealth of the Indian Ocean and its peoples. It is this civilization and its destruction at the hands of the West that Richard Hall recreates in this book. Hall's history… | 1998 | 4.41 | 608 | 65 |
9780006470229 | 000647022X | The Gap Into Madness | Chaos and Order | Stephen R. Donaldson | Hyland, Morn (Fictitious character) | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4oXavLNDWocC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | A new-cover reissue of the fourth book in the bestselling five-volume sf series created by the world-famous author of the Thomas Covenant chronicles -- and acclaimed as the 'best work of his career'. Events were not moving as the Amnion had intended. Once again humans had been false in their dealing… | 1994 | 4.15 | 743 | 103 |
9780006472612 | 0006472613 | Master of the Game | nan | Sidney Sheldon | Adventure stories | http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TkTYp-Tp6_IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api | Kate Blackwell is an enigma and one of the most powerful women in the world. But at her ninetieth birthday celebrations there are ghosts of absent friends and absent enemies. | 1982 | 4.11 | 489 | 43540 |