stephanie forgotten continent chronicle

books:

The Island of Adventure and The Castle of Adventure

7 reviews
Enid Blyton

Pan Books Ltd, 2003

Adventure Series a must have for kids
My Mother read my siblings and I these books when we were kids. We just loved them and would hate when she would have to put it down for the night. I will for sure read them to my kids when I have them. Thank you Amazon for carrying these wonderful books by this wonderful Author.

Death of Faith, the

7 reviews
Donna Leon

Pan Books, 1998

An outstanding mystery tale
It's always interesting to travel with the Commissario on his cases, and pleasant to share fine Italian lunches with his family, his English professora wife and his two rebellious teenagers. Brunetti is the classics-lovin, uncorrupted anti-hero who struggles successfully with both the underworld and the legal powers that be, with the aid of his beautiful and thoughtful secretary, who's a whiz ...

Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicle)

1 review
Elizabeth Jane Howard

Pan Books, 1996

Fantastic Author
I loved this book and have read all the installments. This is the last Volume.- I wish she had written more about this family. If you enjoy stories about Britian during WWII, with a terrific cast of characters you won't be able to put this down. But start with the first Volume "The Light Years" and read them in order. All of her books are really good.

The Anonymous Venetian

6 reviews
Donna Leon

Pan Books, 1995

What sexual gratification would a person get from wearing clothing of the opposite sex? Brunetti's fetish thoughts answered.
A word used in our human circles to describe a crossdresser would be transvestite (Italian: travestito) meaning someone who dresses in the clothes usually worn by the opposite sex. Transvestites may be bisexual, heterosexual or homosexual; Transvestite comes from the Latin word travesty. Commissario Brunetti investigate the death of what is first to be thought a female worker or prostitute ...

Into the Wild

2 reviews
Jon Krakauer

Pan Books, 2007

KING OF THE ROAD...
This is a poignant, compelling narrative about Chris McCandless, an intelligent, intense, and idealistic young man, who cut off all ties to his upper middle class family. He then reinvented himself as Alexander Supertramp, a drifter living out of a backpack, eking out a marginal existence as he wandered throughout the United States. A modern day King of the Road, McCandless ended his journey in ...

A Venetian Reckoning

4 reviews
Donna Leon

Pan Books, 1996

One of Her Best
All of Donna Leon's excellent mysteries set in Venice have a theme, beyond the common one of massive corruption in Italian politics and its connections with the Mafia. This time the theme is trafficking, and it is very powerfully developed. This time around Commisario Guido Brunetti's 14 year old daughter tries to help him out, with sad repercussions. Once again rich and respected pillars ...

Facing the Frozen Ocean

3 reviews
Bear Grylls

Pan Books, 2005

An amazing story, I can't believe they survived
This book is the account of Bear Grylls and 4 others crossing the North Atlantic Sea in a 40ft rigid inflatable boat. Picture similar conditions to "The Deadliest Catch" on Discovery Channel, only in a boat that sits 2 feet above sea level. At one point their tiny boat was subject to Force 7 winds (a moderate Gale) which caused a cruise ship traveling the same seas to turn back from its trip ...

The Shackled Continent

10 reviews
Robert Guest

Pan Books, 2005

Sharp and entertaining analysis of Africa's problems
Why is Africa the only continent that has not seen economic growth in the last 40 years? It is all too easy to blame just AIDS and the legacy of colonialism for all the problems. In this razor-sharp analysis Robert Guest uses examples from his experience as a traveling journalist for The Economist to explain his view on Africa's problem. Sure, AIDS and other infectious diseases is one of them, ...

Pyramid

1 review
Tom Martin

Pan Books, 2007

Fun read!
Entertaining, engrossing action-adventure! The author does a good job of maintaining a fast pace and holding your interest, while furnishing a wealth of information about the relationships among ancient codes, mathematics, astronomy, geology, ancient civilizations (mostly Egyptian and Mayan) and mythology. The place/monument descriptions in Peru and Egypt are especially good. My only criticism ...

The Meaning of Liff

7 reviews
Douglas Adams, John Lloyd

Pan Books, 1983

Now my liff has a real meaning!!!
(Attention, if not warning: this comment contains two or so profanities. When confronted with them, just block your eyes then, eh??! OK, great!!:) I've tried 'em all, Webster's, Oxford's, Cambridge's, but none of those dictionaries ever really made sense to me. I mean, I could not possibly care less how many people live in a town named Aalst (nothing personal, Aalst, but that's where I always ...

21 Years Gone
Jack Osbourne

Pan Books, 2007

A History of Modern Britain
Andrew Marr

Pan Books, 2008

A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity, and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they are doing, but find themselves confounded. Every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and ...

Four to Score (Stephanie Plum, No. 4)

244 reviews
Janet Evanovich

Pan Books, 2001

Bounty Hunting, yay!
This is the fourth book in the Stephanie Plum series. I really like Morelli, but I know either he's about to do something stupid in the next book or two, or Ranger is about to do something droolworthy, because aliances are about to shift. (Hey, I was spoiled, you get spoiled too. Though I don't really know enough to spoil anyone.) The only thing I don't like about the Stephanie Plum series is ...

The Dark of the Sun

9 reviews
Wilbur Smith

Pan Books, 1970

Awesome Thriller from Wilbur Smith
A tremendous adventure novel set in the Congo in the early 1960's, this book will keep the reader on the edge of his/her seat. Later filmed with Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux, diffcult to find on TV (presumably because of lack of PC credentials), it makes a great adventure movie. Also I personally suspect that it served as a partial inspiration for the more recent film "Tears of the Sun." ...

Last Waltz in Vienna

1 review
George Clare

Pan Books, 2002

A century of a Jewish family until the shoah
This well-written, incisive, and even-handed telling of the author's Klaar family in Austria, 1842-1942, is a fine way to find out about how many Jews entered into the middle classes out of the shetl and worked their way up into the military and civilian ranks. The end of the narrative, when the author becomes a protagonist as he does in the opening pages, really captured my interest much more. ...

The Tinder Box

3 reviews
Minette Walters

Pan Books, 2005

Iliked it but it really is a novelette not a novel
I did enjoy reading this, but the length does not justify the original retail price. So buy a used one like I did and i think you will be happy with it.

Come to Grief

20 reviews
Dick Francis

Pan Books, 1996

Twisted Pain
Dick Francis, puts Sid Haley back in the saddle for an Edgar Award with COME TO GRIEF. A sick child fighting a losing battle begs Sid's help to discover who mutilated her pony so viciously it had to be destroyed. Sid's heart goes out to the bewildered little girl as other prime colts are attacked in the night. Sid risks a life-time of friends and his professional reputation to being a killer to ...

The Forgotten Garden

1 review
Kate Morton

Pan Books, 2008

The Forgotten Garden: Another Blockbuster for Kate Morton
A four-year-old girl waits alone on a dock in Australia for parents who never come. Her only possession? A tiny white suitcase containing no information about who she is or how she came to be abandoned. Nell is a foundling, and what a rare foundling she is. A stow-away on an ocean liner, she refuses to tell even so much as her name. Until in her 60s, over-protected by a loving foster father, ...

Town Like Alice

63 reviews
Nevil Shute

Pan Books Ltd, 1968

Straight to the Moon, Alice...
When is a love story not a romance novel? When is a book about Japanese POWs not a book about war? When it's A Town Like Alice. I've been a fan since seeing the Masterpiece Theater version about 20 years ago (after which I had to immediately run out and buy the book. There are lots of reviews posted here, so we don't need another rehash of the plot. Suffice it to say, if you are NOT a romantic, ...

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