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Mechanics of Materials (Mechanics of Materials)

Science & Math

Ferdinand P. Beer

Biological Sciences

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A Darkness in the Eye

Literature & Fiction

Power, M.S.

Contemporary

When Louise returns to the house where she was brought up, old violence stirs beneath the calm surface. What, for instance, is the significance of the rare Chinese lily carefully raised by her grandmother in the odd greenhouse, perched high up on the side of the garden? Why is the gate at the bottom of the garden kept barred and locked against the common lapping up against its walls? Only by unravelling these secrets which the Braithwaites, in their fierce family pride, have deliberately hidden, or deliberately forgotten, can she arrive at the truth about them and about herself.

Across the Common

Berridge, Elizabeth

A fine first novel, wonderfully witty nd sharp eyed writing - funny, subtle and compelling.

Elbowing the Seducer

GERTLER, T.

The Cutting Edge

GILLIATT, PENELOPE

Jaroslav Hasek is best known for his satirical masterpiece, "The Good Soldier Svejk". That has been described as 'Perhaps the funniest novel ever written'. Although his life was short and chaotic, Hasek did however write more as this volume tellingly reveals. In his preface, Cecil Parrott, translator and biographer of Hasek, crisply defines its purpose. 'All the world has heard of Svejk, but few are familiar with the countless other characters Hasek created in his stories and sketches, which together with his feuilletons and articles are thought to number some twelve hundred. The best of these deserve to be made available to the Western public and are included in this volume'. The range is wide. There is a selection from his Bugulma stories ("Hasek as Bolshevik" and "Red Commissar"), some early Svejk stories, reminiscences of Hasek's apprenticeship days, and the hilariously funny speeches made by Hasek when promoting his political 'Party of Moderate Progress within the bounds of the Law'.

The Red Commissar: Including Further Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk and Other Stories

Hašek, Jaroslav

World Literature

The Past

The past must be unravelled from old photograph albums, postcard messages, and rambling memories, clues left behind by three generations of ancestors, before the narrator can discover and reconstruct his own past

Jordan, Neil.

Stranger on the Square

KOESTLER, ARTHUR

Harris, Harold

Koestler, Cynthia

<p>Summarizes recent scientific advances in biology and genetics and, reviewing the theories of Darwin in light of these findings, explores such issues as the distribution of adaptations, rates of evolution, and the genetic code</p>

The Great Evolution Mystery

TAYLOR, Gordon Rattray

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a tongue-in-cheek contest that takes place annually where entrants are invited to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels. Attracting up to 10,000 entries every year, the competition spawns an embarrassment of dire fiction that is both horrifying and hilarious to read. It Was a Dark and Stormy Night collects and presents the worst of this bad fiction in one stunningly awful collection.

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The Best (?) from the Bulwer-Lytton Contest

Humor & Entertainment

Rice, Scott

Humor

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