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Monster Lies: A Woman's Guide to Controlling Her Destiny 11 reviews
Sally Franz, Jennifer Webb
Beagle Bay Books, 2002
Free yourself from lies that control your life
"Monster Lies: A Woman's Guide to Controlling Her Destiny" is an excellent guide to finding the "Lies" that control our destiny as well as uncovering ways to regain control. It begins by identifying the twelve most common "lies" that people often come to accept as truth. Each chapter then takes one of those lies and examines it in detail from how to identify it to determining how it affects ...
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Vengeance2 reviews
Karen S Woods
Sleeping Beagle Books, 2008
Romatic Times gives this book a 4 star review
This is the review from ROMANTIC TIMES magazine.
Woods deals with spousal abuse and a woman's fight to get her life back. The heroine's experiences are heartrending, and the villain is to be pitied. Readers witness what happens when love takes a dark turn in this compelling read.
Summary: R.J.'s storybook marriage turns into a horror flick when her husband, Nick, attacks and tries to kill ...
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The voice (A Beagle mystery)1 review
Anthony Gilbert
Beagle Books, 1971
The Voice
Dashing up the stairs, Simon Crete heard his telephone ringing. When he lifted the receiver, a strange woman's voice cried desperately, "Listen! Tell him it's no use. I haven't got it. He'll have to wait."
So began a ciruitous plot of blackmail and murder, placed in a London pub long known to the police as a hangout for people on the fringe of the underworld. Who belonged to that terrified ...
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Mahalo, My Love: A Novel4 reviews
Ida Hills
Beagle Bay Books, 2002
Rich in Setting and Language
Ms. Hills delivers a fine novel uniquely set during the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. Laelani Winton, half Hawaiian, half English returns to her beloved Hawaiian sugar plantation only to have her dream of running her father's sugar plantation thwarted by her scheming brother-in-law. Traveling with Laelani is her English companion who has a different dream. Under the tropical breezes and ...
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The doctor takes a wife2 reviews
Elizabeth Seifert
Beagle Books, 1972
Talk about hard to get!!!
The doctor wanted the scientist after his wife died. She wasn't being easy to get. They worked together. They studied the people in the country who lived off corn.
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The 3rd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories1 review
Beagle Books, 1971
Ten tales of the supernatural
Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Fontana published a remarkable skein of ghost story collections, piloted by R. Aikman and later by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, no mean supernatural authors themselves. Some of the paperbacks in this series, which winds its way up to the "20th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories" are now collectors' items and worth over a hundred dollars apiece.
Robert Aickman ...
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Follow Your Star1 review
Lucy Walker
Beagle Books, 1971
Outback Romance and Adventure
I always enjoy Lucy Walker's descriptions of outback Australia. She makes it so vivid. Her characters are memorable and she sets them up for some interesting confrontations.
In Follow Your Star, Kylie fights her attraction to Brad. His sister warns Kylie away because she's just the paid companion to their mother while he is the owner of a vast outback station. It's also complicated by a hidden ...
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward32 reviews
H. P Lovecraft
Beagle Books, 1971
Lovecraft at his best
Charles Dexter Ward is a young man in Providence, RI who is fascinated by antiquities --- too fascinated, perhaps. He becomes obsessed with an ancestor, an alleged warlock named Joseph Curwen who escaped persecution in Salem over 200 years before and fled to Providence. A unusually long-lived ancestor, I might add.
If you aren't used to reading Lovecraft, or other writers of the same time ...
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The 3rd (Third) Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories1 review
Robert (Selected and Edited) Aickman
Beagle Books, 1971
"The Beckoning Fair One" & other great ghost stories
Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Fontana published a remarkable skein of ghost story collections, piloted by R. Aikman and later by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, no mean supernatural authors themselves. Some of the paperbacks in this series, which winds its way up to the "20th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories" are now collectors' items and worth over a hundred dollars apiece.
Robert Aickman ...
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Captain Mary, Buccaneer 11 reviews
Jacqueline Church Simonds
Beagle Bay Books, 2000
And they sailed the seas....
year: 1721 setting: Caribbean Simonds leads readers on a realistic journey through the Caribbean with a female buccaneer commanding the brigantine "Fury." Inspired by the lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, who were tried for piracy in the early 1700s, Mary's fictional tale presents an uncensored perspective of the lives of pirates. We are introduced to Mary's dilemma, which navigated her into ...
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How to Love the Job You Hate: Job Satisfaction for the 21st Century4 reviews
Jane Boucher
Beagle Bay Books, 2004
Read before you quit because you "hate" your job
For a variety of reasons, everyone seems to hate their job these days. This book shows how to discover just what the problem may be, and how to fall back in love with your job.
What sort of personality do you have? Are you a detail-person, interested in analysis and interpretation of information, who finds yourself in a people-person job? Are you a support-person, best suited for a backroom ...
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Jeeves1 review
C. Northcote Parkinson
Beagle Books, 1972
The life and times of Jeeves...
Where did Jeeves come from? What family did he come from? Where did he learn to become the learned and serious minded Gentleman's Gentleman that we all have come to know and love in the novel? And what happened to him after his retirement? The answers are all here, in this lovely, informative book by C. Northcote Parkinson.
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Lust For A Vampire1 review
William Hughes
Beagle Books, 1971
-Very Entertaining
This novelization of the film moves at a brisk pace and does not disappoint.
Several details are found here which I do not remember learning in the film. Example: The cloaked man and woman at the beginning of the film who return Mircalla to the land of the living are actually her parents. (It's been years for me, maybe it was there but I just didn't remember it.)
The ending is a bit more ...
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Ginger Lacey, fighter pilot (Battle of Britain)3 reviews
Richard Townshend Bickers
Beagle Books, 1970
I knew this man.
Not yet got to the book, just found it. However, I knew Ginger in Bridlington, England where he taught flying at Grindale aerodrome in the early 80's. A quiet, unassuming man whose flying was as effortless to him as walking. He flew a few times with me and I loved every minute of it. I never knew about his wartime exploits till years later. He never bragged about anything. I'll miss him.
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The Witch from the Sea: A Novel 10 reviews
Lisa Jensen
Beagle Bay Books, 2001
A fun read.
This first novel is well written, fast paced, vivid and an all over fun book to read. The time and place come to life as you sail the blue seas with unforgettable pirates that break away from the usual sterotypes. And there's romance as well. I'm looking forward to the sequel.
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Nine lives3 reviews
Alan C Deere
Beagle Books, 1970
One of the most exciting accounts of the Battle of Britain.
For a thrilling eye to eye account of the Battle of Britain particularly of the Allied evacuation of Dunkirk from the point of view of a pilot who literally experienced "Nine Lives", this book comes highly recommended.
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Ursula's Maiden Army8 reviews
Philip Griffin
Beagle Bay Books, 2006
Courtesy of Teens Read Too
URSULA'S MAIDEN ARMY is a work of historical fiction based loosely on the legend surrounding Saint Ursula. According to the author's notes in the book, there is a popular German legend that surrounds a young woman who was sainted by the Catholic Church hundreds of years after her death. She had lived in the fourth or fifth century A.D., at about the same time that Rome collapsed. According to the ...
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The Tomb1 review
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Beagle Books, 1965
An excellent horror story
Jervas Dudley was always a strange lad, a dreamer and a visionary. But, when he takes to sleeping in an old abandoned tomb, his dreams begin to take on a weird and frightening tone.
This is another great Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) book. It was originally published in 1922 in The Vagrant, and is an excellent horror story. So, if you like a good horror story, then you should get this ...
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Happy Sails: The Carefree Cruiser's Handbook (Happy Sails)13 reviews
Pamela Kane
Beagle Bay Books, 2004
An Indispensable Guide
Happy Sails is a gold mine of information and ideas about how to get the most out of your next cruise vacation. Even experienced cruisers will find Pam Kane's unique perspective refreshing and helpful. Have you ever thought about a systematic way to pack for a cruise, accounting for the limited space of ship cabins and the times you won't have access to all your luggage? Pam Kane has, and she ...
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Gudrun's Tapestry9 reviews
Joan Schweighardt
Beagle Bay Books, 2003
copious insightful and thrilling fifth century saga
In the fifth century Attila the Hun leads his invading horde against the collapsing Roman Empire, which offers little resistance. Used to taking charge and care for her family and desperate to save her people, the Burgundians, Gudrun decides she must stop Attila before he destroys Burgundy. She devices a simple plan similar in a sense to the Trojan Horse as she guesses on what makes Attila ...
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