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Powder Burn - Carl Hiaasen; Bill Montalbano
From Library JournalPublished in 1984, 1981, and 1982, respectively, these novels feature action, intrigue, violence, and murder. In the Hitchcock vein, they also portray protagoni... -
Philosophy_ who needs it - Ayn Rand
SUMMARY: This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of t... -
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and B - Lester Bangs
Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack K... -
Lightnin' Hopkins - Alan Govenar
By the time of his death in 1982, Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins was likely the most recorded blues artist in history. This brilliant new biography--the first book ever written about h... -
Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult
“Everything breaks. Some things just hurt more than others. Charlotte O’Keefe’s beautiful, much-longed-for, adored daughter Willow is born with osteogenesis imper... -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez_ a life - Gerald Martin
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years.Over t... -
Doctor Who_ Fear of the Dark - Trevor Baxendale
Product DescriptionIn the year 2382 archaeologists land on Akoshemon's only moon, searching for evidence of the planet's infamous past. But when the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa are dra... -
Different Seasons - Stephen King
SUMMARY:Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfyi... -
Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut
SUMMARY: Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors–a double murder, a fatal dose of radio... -
Cranioklepty_ Grave Robbing and - Colin Dickey
Beginning dramatically with the opening of Haydn s grave two days after his death in October 1820, Cranioklepty takes us on an extraordinary history of a peculiar kind of obsession...