Search Results: Titles starting with J from DASHbooks

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.THE RIPPER MYSTERY REVEALEDWho really was Jack the Ripper? Was he a solitary assassin lurking in the shadows of gaslit London? A sexual maniac wreaking a personal vendetta on a sinful society? Or, was Jack the Ripper not one man but three - two cold-blooded murderers and an accomplice involved in this country's greatest conspiracy since Guy Fawkes?Now in this ground-breaking book, Stephen Knight produces startling new evidence that the hitherto unsolved Ripper murders were in fact the culmination of a full-scale cover-up organized at the highest level of government and extending to the monarchy itself...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Late Victorian England. When Bella marries Lloyd Massie she believes she is the happiest woman in the East End of London. Her wedding is a joyful occasion but a young, dedicated detective knows that she is in grave danger. Lloyd Massie, the bride-groom, has already killed once but the police cannot prove it. To complicate matters, Jack the Ripper begins to terrorise the area and all police resources are turned towards his capture. Frustrated, the detective does his best to protect Bella and her sister Lottie but Massie always seems to be one jump ahead of them and the sisters' lives are at risk.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It is a messy, but multiple murders always are. This one is particularly gruesome - a shotgun fired repeatedly at close range, and a wealthy German family living in Provence is wiped out - five deaths in all if you count the unborn child.Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot of the Cavaillon Regional Crime Squad has never seen anything like it. After a meticulous search of the murder scene, his investigation rapidly turns into one of the most baffling - and personal - cases of his career.Many of the villagers in the region remember only too well the atrocities committed during World War Two. But some memories, Jacquot soon discover, are less reliable than others.When a mysterious young woman arrives claiming a special insight, her presence could be the breakthrough Jacquot needs, but does she have something more sinister on her mind? Together they follow a trail that leads back more… Read More

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James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags.
Aunt Sponge is Enourmously Fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is Bony and Screeching.
James is very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. A PEACH begins to grow in the garden and inside it are Seven very Unusual Insects - all waiting to take James on a Magical Adventure.
Where will they go in their Giant Peach? There's only one way to find out . . .

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Jealousy is an evil word. It is an emotion that gnaws away inside you, souring relationships, and if it is not controlled can ruin your life.When Nancy Friday first discovered her own strong feelings of jealousy, she was horrified. Yet she found she was not alone, and that jealousy is at the heart of family life and the core of many relationships.What makes you feel so bitter when:Your best friend lands the job of your dreams?Your mother confides in your sister rather than you?You fear your partner has been seeing someone else?A baby is born and disrupts family life as you know it?Nancy Friday has used her own experiences and those of many men and women to strip bare this multi-faceted emotion. All too often we blame our jealousy on the target of our resentment, but Nancy Friday enables us to understand ourselves more deeply, and to recognize that jealousy is a misery we inflict on ourselves.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In Venice, at the Biennale, a jaded, bellini-swigging journalist named Jeff Atman meets a beautiful woman and they embark on a passionate affair. In Varanasi, an unnamed journalist (who may or may not be Jeff) joins thousands of pilgrims on the banks of the holy Ganges. He intends to stay for a few days but ends up remaining for months. Their journey—as only the irrepressibly entertaining Geoff Dyer could conjure—makes for an uproarious, fiendishly inventive novel of Italy and India, longing and lust, and the prospect of neurotic enlightenment.

In good condition - has markings from use - has slight yellowing to cover - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This collection of fifty-six of Henry Lawson's stories includes much of his finest work, and most of his longer pieces. Joe Wilson in 'Water Them Geraniums' became something of a self-portrait for this much-loved writer, who is seen here at his best.

In good condition - has markings from use - has slight water damage to last few pages - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Journal of Industrial Hemp - production, processing and products. Official Journal of the International Hemp Association.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Everyone in Washington knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network, an adviser to the President on media issues. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. Two brilliant careers. A long, loving partnership. But behind the locked doors of their lush Georgetown home, a very different story emerges. For as Maddy's career soars, a bitter edge has crept into Jack's words, a pattern of subtle put-downs, control, and jealousy that Maddy has always tried to ignore and deny. For Maddy, there are no bruises, no scars, only the daggers of fear, humiliation, and isolation. Their effect as powerful as the gun, the knife, or the fist, the wounds as deep. Through hard work, long years, and with Jack's help, Maddy has become a role model and a star. It seems impossible to believe that a woman the nation idolizes lives in degradation and… Read More

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Ever worry that you won't have enough money to do what you want? Wonder if you should be further ahead than you are? Find talking about money boring?
Then this is the book for you. It's an engaging guide on earning, spending, saving and investing well - so you can live your best life. With step-by-step guides, this book will show you how to clarify your priorities, become conscious about cashflow, and be savvy about investing. It gives you simple 'rules of thumb' to make decisions and track your progress. And because money is about more than just dollars, it also covers career and relationships.
It is sprinkled with real stories from people - singles, couples, parents, blended families - and how they've used these ideas to make the most of their money.
You'll gain confidence and discover the joy of money.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Annie loves Duncan—or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn't. Duncan really loves Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter who stopped making music ten years ago. Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life.In doing so, she initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they've got. Tucker's been languishing (and he's unnervingly aware of it), living in rural Pennsylvania with what he sees as his one hope for redemption amid a life of emotional and artistic ruin—his young son, Jackson. But then there's also the new material he's about to release to the world: an acoustic, stripped-down version of his greatest album, Juliet—entitled, Juliet, Naked.What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And miles… Read More