Different For Girls

SMITH, JOAN

Self-Help

Virago

In HUNGRY FOR YOU, Joan Smith turns her attention to this infinitely intriguing. A collection of her own sharp, funny and stimulating essays on our attitudes to food and eating is accompanied and amplified by a fascinating selection of extracts from novels, tracts, songs, self-help books, poetry and biography. Her essays look at cannibalism and the strange imagination of the man-eating serial killers; at the politics of starvation and anorexia; at sexual 'appetite'; at taboos, and the connection between the stricture of Leviticus and the regimes of Rosemary Conley. Each essay is followed by a series of extracts: from Piers Paul Read's chilling account of cannibalism to Nora Ephron on the comforts of mashed potatoes; from the Princess of Wales talking about bulimia to Proust's voluptuous appreciation of the shape and colour of asparagus, and gems from Catullus, Madonna, Swift, Brian Keenan, Freud, and Lorrie.

Hungry For You

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Vintage

When a priceless pearl necklace belonging to the young Dowager Countess deCoventry is stolen at a masquerade ball, the Berkeley Brigade, a colorful crew of young aristocrats, tests their amateur sleuthing powers to recover the jewel

Murder Will Speak

Literature & Fiction

United States

St Martins Pr

Our poorest urban neighbourhoods experience economic and social difficulties that uniquely affect the lives of those who live there. This volume examines the policies and initiatives now underway on both sides of the Atlantic to revitalize those areas. With contributors from the US, France and the UK the volume explains the nature of specific community building programmes and explores critical issues such as the role of partnerships and the importance of race and gender in urban regeneration.

Rebuilding Community: Policy and Practice in Urban Regeneration

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Nine thousand quotes--from Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech to Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First" routine--capture the feeling, culture, and flavor of twentieth century America. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

The New York Public Library Book of Twentieth Century American Quotations

Mesner, Susan

New York Public Library

Reference

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

MURDER IS AN INAUSPICIOUS BEGINNING FOR ROMANCE\nYoung bluestocking Lydia Trevelyn and her notable neighbor Lord Beaumont had managed to thwart all matchmaking schemes. However, fate conspires to bring them together through a most unfortunate means: murder. For when Beaumont finds a body in a local river, Lydia is shocked to discover that the deceased was, in life, her father's mistress.\nShaken by the truth about her father and by the murky circumstances of his paramour's death, Lydia sees Beaumont as an ally in solving the mystery. Amid much bickering, the unlikely pair plumbs London's seamier side, exposing themselves to unbidden danger--not the least of which is the peril of losing their hearts . . . to love!

Little Coquette

Romance

Historical

Ivy Books

The Berkeley Brigade, London's most aristocratic and stylish foursome, find themselves once more enmeshed in mystery and romance in Joan Smith's dazzling series. . . . Though Lady Corinne deCoventry and dashing Lord Luten are now officially engaged, their wedding is perpetually postponed due to Luten's never-ending politicking. Thus Corinne and the bungling Coffen Pattle accept an invitation to join fourth Brigade member Reginald Prance at his country home. Yet murder soon casts all best-laid plans aside. The victim is an odious neighbor, and the prime suspect--Reginald's own dear aunt. As the Berkeley Brigade joins forces to investigate, the countryside becomes a veritable cauldron of clues and motives--complete with a fair enchantress to tempt Corinne's beloved Luten. But matching wiles with a clever killer is what Corinne does best. If only getting married were so easy!

Murder Comes to Mind

The Marquis of Claymore had been rejected by the Beauty of the Season and he was determined to marry the first beautiful woman he could find to assuage his pride. There were the Wanderley twins, with Wanda as gorgeous as could be, and her twin, Ellie, obviously not in the same class. But Wanda was almost engaged…Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett

An Affair of the Heart

Fawcett

Deirdre Gowerâ€™s aunt, the Duchess of Charney, had trapped Lord Belami into offering for her niece. Deirdre had accepted in order to escape having to marry someone she disliked. But now, at Beaulac for the New Yearâ€™s holiday, both participants were ready to renege on the engagementâ€”until solving the mystery of the duchessâ€™s stolen diamond threw them together. Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett

Midnight Masquerade

Deirdre Gower, newly betrothed to Lord Belami, expected to marry at once, not rush off to Brighton with her aunt and her fiancÃ©. But the Prince Regent was in double troubleâ€”a beautiful blackmailer and a questionable long-lost son. Could Lord Belami extract Prinney from this coil without losing his fiancÃ©e? Regency Romance/Mystery by Joan Smith; second of the quartet of Lord Belami mysteries, originally published by Fawcett

Royal Revels

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