A Fawcett Crest Book

Un buen libro explicaciones claras, tiene autoevaluaciones antes de pasar al siguiente capítulo, recomendado para quienes desean acercarse al ESP (Percepción Extra Sensorial)

An intensely disturbing description of the selection and training of an early Einsatzgruppe (Hitler Death Squad). Although the later death squads had different missions, this fictional pilot one was used to destroy Hitler's personal enemies, and those of the group leader. The narrative is through a excerpts from private letters and diaries, so-called historical records and statements, as well as in-the-moment action.

The Fires of Spring (1949) is Michener's second book and first novel. His first book was Tales of the South Pacific published in 1947. It won the Pulitzer Prize and was the basis for Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1949 musical, South Pacific. The Fires of Spring is partially autobiographical. The book begins in a poorhouse and follows young orphan David Harper as he searches for meaning and romance in pre-World War II Pennsylvania. The beginning of the story has no fixed dates (as far as I can see) but it follows Harper through his life up to the time of World War II

The dramatic novel of men and women caught up in the private terrors and conflicts of a war-torn land. LIZZIE—known in London as Lady Elizabeth Stafford, fleeing a past of denied womanhood, discovers the meaning of desire in her reckless, searing love affair with an enigmatic young journalist... TOM—who knows each secret mission behind enemy lines may be his last, finds his greatest challenge in unlocking the passions of the lovely Englishwoman. ALICE—desperately elegant, has brought her daughters to meet the rugged father they—and she—barely know...and to bring fresh hope to a marriage that had been given up for lost... All yearn for knew beginnings. And none can foresee the strange and violent destinies that lie in wait for them after the ruthless and turbulent Siege in the Sun.

A novel in three parts, beginning in the 1920s and ending in the 1950s, that follows the lives of two friends from the prewar years in Germany through an apocalyptic period and its startling aftermath.

Banished to a desert retreat for recalcitrant clerics, the reverend but randy Thomas Marshfield preens his fantasies. This book, written as occupational therapy, is his confession and his testament.

Autobiographical novel about a boy entering his teens in a racially segregated Kansas town in the 1920s.

With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk in the Wild Side has found a place in the imaginations of all generations since it first appeared. As Algren admitted, the book "wasn't written until long after it had been walked . . . I found my way to the streets on the other side of the Southern Pacific station, where the big jukes were singing something called 'Walking the Wild Side of Life.' I've stayed pretty much on that side of the curb ever since." Perhaps the author's own words describe this classic work best: "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. Why men who have suffered at the hands of other men are the natural believers in humanity, while those whose part has been simply to acquire, to take all and give nothing, are the most contemptuous of mankind." -- Amazon.com.

When lovely young Sara Jerome moves to San Francisco, she is filled with anticipation. Not only does the man she has loved since childhood live there, but her father, who left mysteriously so many years ago, came from San Francisco. She feels certain that now she will finally fulfill her dreams of marrying Ritchie Temple and finding out what happened to her father. But Sara has another dream as well, a terrifying nightmare that has haunted her all of her life. Once in San Francisco, it is clearer and more frightening than ever. What does it mean? And what does it have to do with the stormy night her father disappeared? The answers are waiting for her, as is true love, if she just knows where to look...

It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place was straight out of a bygone era, with well-cared-for Colonial houses, a white-steepled church fronting a broad Common. Ned and Beth Constantine chanced upon the hamlet and immediately fell in love with it. This was exactly the haven they dream of. Or so they thought. For Ned and his family, Cornwall Coombe was to become a place of ultimate horror.

"...Here is a whole complex of commercial operations that result in funerals whose expense, display and mumbo jumbo are unrelated to any Christian or Jewish tradition and virtually unheard of in any other country today. And there is precise information on what is being done to lower the cost and raise the dignity of burial in the United States."

IT SEEMED FAR LESS DIFFICULT TO NAB A SPY THAN TO CAPTURE THE HEART OF AN ELUSIVE GENTLEMAN. In translating from German what she believed to be a sordid love letter, Miss Cathy Lyman uncovered top secret information on Napoleon. With little but gothic novels to add excitement to her somewhat tedious life, she plunged into the world of high espionage with eager anticipation--especially since the devilishly handsome Lord Costain led the way. His lordship had no choice but to tell the inquisitive Miss Lyman that he suspected there was a traitor among them. She insisted on joining in the intrigue, deception, and danger though it became hard to ignore her own suspicion that Lord Costain's intentions might not be altogether honorable....

The life of a beautiful, ambitious Englishwoman becomes intertwined with the fate of an American banking family.

Examines such varied aspects of sports in America as organized children's competitions, collegiate athletic programs, sports financing, government involvement, and the role of the media in professional sports.

After being laid off from his college teaching position, the author traversed the United States on lesser roads, shown in blue on old road maps.