Books2Buy.co.za

From 1917 to the 1980's

Paul Johnson begins this dramatic account of the last six decades with ehe end of the First World War, which saw the destruction of the traditional European order, the triumph of Einstein's new cosomology, the full impact of Freudianism, the establishment of the First Marxist state and the genesis of the great Marxist heresy, Fascism.  He traces the interplay of these forces during the aracdian Twenties, the desparate Thirties and the catastrophe of the Second World War.  Within the framework of the ingenious organisational structure, which allows ample space for the vivid incident and telling anecdote, de describes the rise of the two super - powers, locked in Cold War, the Communist revloution in China, the deconilization of Africa and Asia and the tragic aftermath of independence, the stunning recovery of democracy and capitalism in Western Europe, the rise of the Pacific enterprise economies led by Japan, the radicalizing of Latin America, the expansion of the Soviet Russia as a global military power, the hegemony of the United States followed by its attempted suicide in the years 1965-1980.

Author: John Sandford
Condition: 4/10
Published Date: 1999

It's when she's hired for a job in Minnesota that things become complicated for her. A defense attorney wants a rival eliminated, and that's fine.

Author: Julia Baird 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 316

Until now, the true story of John Lennon`s childhood has never been told. John`s sister Julia has herself been on a personal journey that has made it possible only now to reveal the full extent of the pain and difficulties - as well as the happier times - living inside John Lennon`s family brought.

Author:  John Katzenbach
Condition: 6/10
This books Published Date: 2003
Pages: 1120
In the Heat of Summer:They call July the 'mean season' in Miami, and this hot summer a clever, elusive killer is terrorising the entire city. The death of the first victim was just a good story for reporter Malcolm Anderson, but the killer liked his style and begins to feed him a stream of front-page exclusives. The Shadow Man:  Among the traitorous Jews hired by the Gestapo to hunt down & turn in their neighbors, none was more feared than the Shadow Man. Now, 50 years later in Florida, the Shadow Man is back, and a small group of Holocaust survivors are in fear for their lives.

Author: John Keegan 
Condition: 9/10
This books Published Date:  2004 
Pages:  440

The age of war with big armies is past; we live in the age of big intelligence -- secret organizations with huge budgets running vast infrastructures for collecting information, some of it stolen, and for confounding foes, sometimes violently. The Cold War was mainly fought on the intelligence battlefield, and victory in the new war on terror will depend little on the awesome American capacity to destroy the works of man, so evident in the first Gulf War, and depend much on outwitting a clandestine enemy who travels light and moves in secret.

Author: Chris Beebee
Condition: 4/10
Published Date: 1985

A galactic realm in mysterious decline...

Author: John Carbone 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 410

Stunning concept, totally engrossing read - a new generation of Mafia thriller is born. All Marco wants is to be a stand-up guy. To make his way in the world without too much trouble. Right? But in 1970s New York, that's not so easy.

Author: Sam Walton
Condition: 9/10
This books Published Date: 1993
Pages: 346
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world.

Author: John Connolly
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2004
Pages: 446

John Connolly, bestselling author of five brilliantly scary mystery novels, now turns his pen to the short story to give us a dozen chilling tales of the supernatural.

'This is a story about a paradise lost, an African dream that began with a murder. Rainbow's End is about a uniquely wonderful place, at a very particular point in the history of Africa.'

Author: John van de Ruit
Condition: 8/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages:341

Note: Read once, well looked after.

Hilarious, bitter-sweet, tragic and real, join Spud as he takes another tentative step forward while all around him the madness continues... ' Triumphantly funny! A scintillating sequel to Spud that will make you weep with laughter and read passages out loud to all your friends.'

Author:  John Grisham 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date:  2000 
Pages: 365

Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, a 'camp', home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals- drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, two wall street crooks, one doctor, and at least five lawyers.

Author: John Grisham 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2005
Pages: 467
The Broker marries the best of John Grisham's many talents--his ability to immerse himself in the culture of small town life (in this case, Bologna, Italy), and his uncanny mastery of the chase. The first half of the book focuses on Backman's transformation from infamous power broker to helpless victim in his own game.

Author: John Gordon 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2002
Pages: 240
A thrilling and intriguing ghost story by a master of the genre. Written over four hundred years ago by the murdered young master of Blacklode Hall, Randal's Pledge is said to contain clues to the whereabouts of his hidden fortune.

Author: M. John Harrison 
Condition: 4/10
This books Published Date: 1971
Pages: 142
In the distant future, a medieval system rises from the ruins of a technology that destroyed itself. Armored knights ride their horses across dunes of rust, battling for the honor of the Queen.

Author: John Brindley 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 341

Author: John Updike 
Condition: 7/10
This books Published Date: 1999
Pages: 334
Ben Turnbull, the hero of John Updike's eighteenth novel, is a sixty-six-year-old retired investment counselor living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. The dollar has been locally replaced by Massachusetts scrip; instead of taxes, one pays protection money to competing racketeers.

Author: John Fante 
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2007

An excellent rites of passage tale, infused with all the glory, humiliation, rich humor and treacherous hormones of adolescence.

Author:  John Fante
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 1999
Pages: 210

Fiction. John Fante recalls his first novel, recently republished by Black Sparrow Press: "Now that I am an old man I cannot look back upon WAIT UNTIL SPRING, BANDINI without losing its trail in the past. Sometimes, lying in bed at night, a phrase or a paragraph or a character from an early work will mesmerize me and in a half dream I will entwine it with phrases and draw from it a kind of melodious memory of an old bedroom in Colorado, or my mother, or my father, or my brothers and sister...

Author:  John C. Maxwell 
Condition:  10/10
This books Published Date: 2004
Pages: 275

Each section contains guiding People Principles. Some are intuitive, such as The Lens Principle: Who We Are Determines How We See Others. Others may go against your instincts, such as The Confrontation Principle: Caring for People Should Precede Confronting People. All of them are 100 percent practical!