Teenage Helen and her friend Colette entertain hopes of escaping their lives in Liverpool through going to college. But Helen's family and their desire to keep her with them inhibit her, and when she meets a handsome American serviceman, she is forced to confront some awkward realities.

She's Leaving Home

Literature & Fiction

EDWINA CURRIE

Contemporary

London: Little, Brown

Some dust marks on edge of pages and general wear to edges of jacket.

The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman

Biographies & Memoirs

Aldiss, B

Arts & Literature

Eddie Bosham (aka Charlie Boylan) is in prison on a murder charge. But he's not worried. He's innocent, and, anyway, he has hidden proof of a ghastly scandal that could bring down the monarchy. Taking up his memoirs from where we left him, marooned on the Galapagos Islands, we find Eddie offering a young Charles Darwin an explanation of why the finches on the islands vary. In Texas, staunchly loyal to whichever side will win, he spies for General Santa Anna at the Alamo and, with the help of Emily Morgan, the ravishingly beautiful Yellow Rose of Texas, for Sam Houston at San Jacinto. Eddie works the Mississippi riverboats as a cardsharp. Caught cheating, he is forced to jump ship and inadvertently stumbles across the secret that will launch the Californian Gold Rush. Finally, having traversed the girth of a nation, his disgraceful saga ends, back east, at a highly inflammatory revivalist meeting

Birth of a Nation : A Novel

Rathbone, Julian (1935- )

The Remarkable Lives of Bill Deedes

Robinson, Stephen

Physical description; 390 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Political corruption - Scotland - Fiction. Scandals - Scotland - Fiction. Journalists - Scotland - Fiction. Investigative reporting - Scotland - Fiction.

Boiling A Frog

Brookmyre,Christopher

Genre Fiction

Tigers of the Snow: One Fateful Climb and the Sherpa Legend

History

Neale, Jonathan

Asia

Men, towards the end of the last millennium, felt a sudden tightening of the bowels with the news that the services of their sex had at last been dispensed with. Dolly the Sheep - conceived without male assistance - had arrived. Her birth reminded at least half the population of how precarious man's position may be. What is the point of being a man? For a brief and essential instant he is a donor of DNA; but outside that glorious moment his role is hard to understand. This book is about science not society; about maleness not manhood. The condition is, in the end, a matter of biology, whatever limits that science may have in explaining the human condition. Today's advances in medicine and in genetics mean at last we understand why men exist and why they are so frequent. We understand from hormones to hydraulics how man's machinery works, why he dies so young and how his brain differs from that of the rest of mankind.

Y : The Descent of Men

Politics & Social Sciences

JONES, Steve

Anthropology

Old World, New World

<p>Physical description; xvi, 830 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. Subjects; United States - Relations - Great Britain. Great Britain - Relations - United States.</p>

Burk, Kathleen

Americas

Kensington Court

<p>Fleeing a violent relationship, Kate Ashenberry arrives at a Victorian mansion block and finds a whole new family in exotic Eleni, high-flying Miles, and lovely Connie Boyle. But who is the cold-blooded murderer threatening their security? By the author of Darkening Echoes.</p>

Smith, Carol (b. 1938)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy

Adkins, Lesley

Adkins, Roy (Roy A.)

World

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