A hundred years ago, in the Himalayan peaks of Nanvi Dar, the daughter of an English earl is kidnapped by a huge hairy monster. In a secret valley Agatha Farley is introduced to a family of motherless yetis and devotes her life to their upbringing. She teaches them to speak, tells them stories and insists on polite manners. But as the decades pass, tourists come to the mountains, a hotel is built and yeti-hunters arrive. Agatha knows that there is one place in the world where they would be protected - her ancestral home at Farley Towers. When a boy and his sister stumble upon her hidden valley, she knows she has found the courageous people who will carry out her plan. The excited yetis are smuggled into the bridal suite at the hotel. A freezer lorry is waiting to put them into semi-hibernation on the long trip home. But the baby yak that has fallen in love with the youngest yeti foils the refrigeration plan and they set off on a hugely entertaining road trip half way across the world. In the Sultan of Aslerfan's kingdom the yetis release all the animals from his zoo. In the Alps they rescue a lost child in a blizzard. In Spain, the yak creates chaos at a bullfight. But when they arrive in England, a terrible shock awaits them at Farley Towers... This early novel, never submitted for publication, contains all the trademark qualities that made Eva's subsequent books so successful; comedy, loveable and eccentric characters, perfectly-crafted plotting, and inspiring themes of tolerance, kindness to animals, and the defeat of cruelty.

"We all know kids who carry a book everywhere they go. Kids who can't stop reading, even if it's long after bedtime. Kids who love nothing more than sitting quietly in the corner, turning page after page... This book is a love letter to all the other kids. The ones who wouldn't dream of asking for a book as a present. The ones who unwrap the box hoping to find anything - a dog, a skateboard, even socks - besides a book." -- publisher website.

In l998, Mark and his family welcomed into their lives a half-Border Collie/half-Cocker Spaniel they named Pepsi. Six years later they adopted a dog from the local shelter, a Spaniel mix, Sprite. Their lives would never be the same. This book takes an intimate look at the love between a family and a dog.

Having once had his heart broken, Jack keeps it in a bucket safe from harm until one day a young maiden asks him to solve a riddle which teaches him the true meaning of love.

Most of us could only imagine the life that Irene Pollin has lived. In Irene and Abe: An Unexpected Life, Irene Pollin details the life journey that she and her husband Abe experienced together. From the time they fell in love as teenagers, through their careers (including bringing NBA basketball and NHL hockey to the Nation's Capital) and ultimately to Mr. Pollin's passing, Irene Pollin writes about the thrills of owning professional sports teams and building two highly successful sports and entertainment arenas....as well as the joy of raising children and the heartbreak of losing children to heart disease. She also chronicles the challenges she faced through her multifaceted career, from psychotherapist and published author, to founder of a successful, groundbreaking nonprofit organization established to raise awareness of heart disease in women. Irene and Abe: An Unexpected Life is an intimate, first person journey through the lives of two fascinating people, told by a remarkable woman.

FIRST EDITION, Dell #5419, (c) February 1976. Paperback original, so stated. Cover blurb: “In a domed city of easy sex and drugs, love could destroy them all…” Original $1.25 cover price. Spine ISBN: 00-440-05419. Disc: Paperback, 207 pages, 18 cm.

A play for four males and four females. An elderly widow and widower fall in love and decide to live together without getting married, so they can continue to receive their social security benefits, to the consternation of their children.

Will must run, or die. He's seen a murder, and the gang on his estate are after him. Hurt, hungry and afraid, he comes to an abandoned house in a different part of the city. Behind its high fences is a place of safety. Here, he can hide like a wounded beast. He can find food, and healing - and learn how to do more than survive. But when Will meets Padma, he must choose between his good side and his bad one. For the gang he left behind is still there. How can he live without becoming a killer? How can he love without being a thief? Exciting, fast-paced and different, this is a story that keeps you reading until the last line

A leading poet of the feminist movement speaks of woman's emerging power as daughter, wife, mother, lover, priestess, artist, and self-defined being

Just in time for Valentine's Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of "Boy Meets Boy "eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

"Never before published, Rail Tracks is a unique collaboration between two international writers of remarkable achievement, and offers a threaded reflection on the atmospherics and allure of the train, with its attendant stories of love, longing, labour and migration. Developing out of a 2005 collaboration with theatre company Complicite on a unique, site-specific performance, Vanishing Points for the Gymnasium, King's Cross, London, it is an intimate, sensual, exploratory and insightful meditation on place and time, journeys and arrivals. It will be available in several editions internationally, fully illustrated with the evocative photography of Tereza Stehlíková."--Publisher.

A father. A son. A love story that will make you care enough to cry over.

1941: an hour before the attack on Pearl Harbour, a man from the future materialises in President Roosevelt s office. His offer of military aid may cut the War and its pending atrocities short, and alter the course of the future . . . The future: welcome to Mars, where the lives of three ordinary people become entwined in one dingy smokesbar the moment an assassin opens fire. The target: the mysterious Bill Glimmung. But is Glimmung even real? The truth might just be found in the remote FDR Mountains, an empty place, apparently of no significance, but where digital intelligences may be about to bring to fruition a long-held dream of the stars . . . Mixing mystery and science fiction, the Holocaust and the Mars of both Edgar Rice Burroughs and Philip K. Dick, Martian Sands is a story of both the past and future, of hope, and love, and of finding meaning no matter where or when you are.

These two novellas— The Disinformer , a darkly humorous story of international intrigue, and A Nose by Any Other Name , an ironic tale the equal of the best of O. Henry—mark Peter Ustinov’s return to fiction.In The Disinformer , a British spy, just retired and far from content with his new status, decides to play a little game with his former colleagues, just for fun and to keep them on their toes. His “game” involves stirring up some Arab terrorists, both real and concocted, but before long the game has escalated out of his control, and he is caught up in his own too-clever machinations. A Nose by Any Other Name is the story of a girl who loves her parents but resents them for their most striking bequest—her enormous nose. An operation “normalizes” her nose, but ultimately she finds that running away from her heritage is not so easily done. In each of these novellas we see the hand of a master beyond the humor and brilliant language there is always a layer of darkness that shows a remarkable insight into the human psyche.Peter Ustinov’s graceful style and urbane wit often conceal a sharp stiletto ready to strike. He has been called “entertaining,” “sparkling,” “energetic,” “powerful,” “sophisticated,” “witty,” and “worldly-wise”—and he is doubtless all that and more, as these two immensely readable works of fiction amply demonstrate.

A moving story of family ties and true love battling against the odds in wartime Yorkshire. From their first meeting there is an undeniable attraction between Liz Tancred and Michael Anderson, but convention means they must keep their feelings to themselves, for now. Liz is a courageous woman whose life is not all that it seems. Michael is a dutiful young man who steps in to run his family's farm when tragedy strikes. Then, the outbreak of World War II changes everything. As Liz and Michael rise to the challenges of wartime life, can their love blossom and, more importantly, will it survive? The Wind on the Heath is a warm and touching story about the enduring power of love, loyalty and family.

Book by Karl Shapiro

Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. Name/address to front end paper. No other inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped, marked or torn or creased with fine indenting to rear. 1009pp. The history of cricket taken from Wisdens over twenty-four years from 1940 up to 1963.