Professor Alexander Easterday hat auf den »Drei Sirenen« einer unbekannten kleinen Inselgruppe zwischen Samoa und den Marquesas, eine sensationelle Entdeckung gemacht. Dies stellt Dr. Maud Hayden, eine Kapazität auf dem Gebiet der Anthropologie, sogleich fest, als sie den Brief des Professors in ...
I read The Second Lady long long ago. But the book was missing the last few pages and after that initial torment of not being able to find out, I have managed to live all this while without knowing what happened the moment they stepped off the plane. And somehow after all these years, something m...
The time is 1964. The place is the Cabinet Room of the Where House. An unexpected accident and the law of succession have just made Douglass Dilman the first black President of the United States.This is the theme of what was surely one of the most provocative novels of the 1960s. It takes the rea...
Four men form a fan club devoted to worshipping actress Sharon Fields, a blond bombshell. Eventually the club kidnaps Sharon, expecting her to fall in love with them. However, she does not become enamored of them, and they take turns raping her. She proves more intelligent than her captors, and "...
O Leito Celestial fala-nos do Dr. Arnold Freeberg, um terapeuta sexual, que recorre à utilização de delegadas sexuais, por achar que existem problemas que não se curam apenas com conversa. As delegadas sexuais são mulheres (e homens, embora com menor expressão) formadas para ajudarem homens (e mu...
Books like these are what makes you want to find the author and throttle him. The book starts out with great promise. The media mogul who just inherited the throne, the yuppie reporter with great zeal, the cynical - handsome, of course - more experienced mentor cum crush of hers, the promise of a...
This is a true story: I first saw The Seven Minutes at a resale shop, immediately bought the weathered copy for 50 cents and about 120 pages into it, the spine cracked something fierce, and no matter how delicately I tried flipping the following pages, preservation was fruitless; I really liked w...
Ein netter kleiner Verschwörungsthriller, den der Autor aus Anlass des 40. Todestags von Adolf Hitler begonnen hat. Die deutsche Ausgabe kam 1989 auf den Markt und war binnen kürzester Zeit Makulatur, denn mit dem Fall der Mauer verlor auch der in der Todeszone dahinter gelegene gesprengte Führer...
WELCOME TO THE EVERLEIGH CLUB --- THE WORLD'S MOST SUMPTUOUS BORDELLOMINNA AND AIDA EVERLEIGH --- proprietors of the famous “house of pleasure” on Chicago's Levee.KAREN --- The mayor's elegant, gorgeous secretary who is playing a dangerous masquerade.CATHLEEN --- The Evereighs' socialite niece, a...
Starts off well but gradually deflates into a contrived and loophole-filled story line, dragging on quite unnecessarily. Also disappointing was that the plot, which involved a scientific discovery of the fountain of youth, offered much promise; I eagerly expected several debates on the implicatio...
The Vatican Announces that the Virgin Mary will return to Lourdes this year to Perform A Miracle Cure! Will It Be A Miracle? Or Will It Be A Fraud? Precious lives, loves, and happiness are at stake: Ken Clayton: the young American who abandons medical treatment for the chance of miracle Edit...
"Guest of Honor" was an easy book to read, presented in a linear time line. The author parallels the lives of Teddy Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington, the guest of honor. I had heard of Booker T. but did not know much about him. This book supplies a basic outline of his life and the incredible e...
"In the Beginning, there was The Word." The classic thriller of an ancient manuscript, a secret society committed to hiding an explosive truth & the man who must uncover that truth--if he can stay alive long enough In the ruins of the Roman seaport of Ostia Antica, an Italian archeologist has dis...
A series of personal adventures, a lively and uninhibited account of the strange people, places and things that have fascinated the author over the past twenty years.
JAMES A. HARDEN-HICKEY Surprise was an emotion few subscribers to the New York Tribune felt by the year 1893. During the previous half decade, most had been stunned into silent acceptance of every new human hydra-head. Through the medium of their favorite front-page, readers had absorbed cruel an...
Gus Pagano quickly stepped out of the car, with Edward Armstead right behind him. The doorman tried to take Armstead’s Mark Cross bag and wardrobe, but Pagano insisted on carrying them himself. The evening was chilly, and they ascended the steps and hastened into the warmth of the hotel lobby. &n...
This early morning, the top and banner headline, bolder and inkier than any that had appeared before, read: SCANDAL! EXCLUSIVE! DILMAN HAS DAUGHTER PASSING AS WHITE! The second headline, scarcely smaller, as brazen and black, read: PRESIDENT’S HIDDEN O...
In his pinched chirography, he wrote: —was one of the rare occasions in which I had to intercede between a laureate and the press. It may be true that Craig drinks—I do not know yet—but if it is true, his resultant behaviour could damage us and ruin him. The Knut Hamsun incident still haunts me....
How would you like to continue to be the First Lady for life?’ ‘For life?’ She had no comprehension of what he was leading up to. ‘Yes, for as long as Bradford remains in the White House, the rest of his term, his next four-year term, and after that remain the former First...
At once, she saw that this was the pocket into which she had stuffed her mail. Fred’s hand was behind the letters. He pulled out the pack of cigarettes, and as he did so, the post card fell to the floor. Sarah sat up, heart pounding, and she watched him retrieve it. He gla...
By eight o’clock, he is piloting his tiny car through the gray, grubby, broken streets of the Ruhr metropolis, past a wildly jagged landscape etched by 275 Allied bomber raids, to the rubble and ruin surrounding a towering office building at 103 Altendorferstrasse, the headquarters of the world-f...
After returning to St. Petersburg to complete a university education, Rand gained an American visa to visit relatives at the age of 21. She never looked back, seeing in America the pinnacle of man’s moral development and the antithesis of everything she had despised about the Soviet system. Takin...
She hit the horn twice, for Bretta, her personal maid, to come and get several packages from I. Magnin’s that were lying on the leather seat beside her, and then left the car and wearily entered the house. In the vestibule, she removed the silk scarf that had protected her blond hair, dropped it ...
Radenbaugh, at the wheel, had pointed across Collins’ chest. ‘There it is - the copper-mine pit. A mile and a half wide and about 600 feet deep. That’s where most of the male population works.’ In short minutes they were in the center of Argo City -a single broad paved mai...
Still in his pyjamas, he telephoned Suzy at the Freeberg Clinic. ‘Suzy, I’ve got to see you today,’ he said excitedly. ‘When can you get here?’ ‘Why, you know, soon^s work is done. I can be there a little after six.’ ‘No, before, I must see you before.’ ‘You make it sound ...
Armbruster checked his watch and noted that he was on time. Entering the marble lobby, he made for the recently installed elevators, and told the operator inside that he wished to go to Mayor Carter Harrison’s office suite on the third floor. After the slow ride up, Armbru...
He reread the epigraph: While there was a great variety in response, the majority of females who had orgasms, whether brought on manually, orally, or through intercourse, reached the climactic state in seven minutes. - The Collingwood Study of 100 Women, Ages 18 to 45 (Lon...
As one approached it across the square, one saw the aged Church of San Moise on the left and to the right a narrow canal with a stone bridge rising over it, always dense with foot traffic. This early morning, Tim Jordan, after picking up a weary Professor MacDonald at Luigi’s cramped apartment, c...