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tytuł / title: TWICE SHY; THE WARFIELD SYNDROME; THROUGH THE NARROW GATE; CONTROL TOWER

seria / serie: a book in Reader's Digest Condensed Books series

autor / author: Dick Francis; Henry Denker; Karen Armstrong; Robert P. Davies

wydanie / publication: 1982 Reader's Digest

format / size: 13,5 cm X 20 cm

okładka / cover: twarda, skórzana

ilość stron / pages: 511

ISBN: 0[zasłonięte]340-287-4

typ / type: używana / used

stan książki / condision of book: bardzo dobry minus / very good minus (minimalne ślady użycia; lekko pożółkłe strony wewnętrzne)

Opis treści / summary:

TWICE SHY - Dick Francis

When a friend is violently killed after thrusting three musical cassettes into Jonathan Derry's hands, the young physician is hurled headlong into a terrifying nightmare. Because the seemingly harmless tapes contain a computerized horse-betting system that could make whoever possesses them a very rich man-or a very dead one.

THE WARFIELD SYNDROME - Henry Denker

Dedicated to her brilliant career in neurology, Dr. Christine Warfield has never allowed herself to become emotionally involved with a patient - until Gilber Hopkins enters her life. A distinguished physicist critically wounded by a Soviet agent, Hopkins has suffered a loss of memory that is as threatening to United State security as it is frightening to his fifteen-year-old daughter. While Dr. Warfield struggles to save his life, she finds herself haunted by painful memories from her past, and stirred by the awakening of love.

THROUGH THE NARROW GATE - Karen Armstrong

Through the Narrow Gateis Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With refreshing honesty and clarity, the book takes readers on a revelatory adventure that begins with Armstrong's decision in the course of her spiritual training offers a fascinating view into a shrouded religious life, and a vivid, moving account of the spiritual coming age of one of our most loved and respected interpreters of religious. After leaving her religious order in 1969,Karen Armstrongtook a degree at Oxford University and taught modern literature. She is also the author of the bestsellingA History of God. Her other books includeBeginning of the World,The Gospel According to Woman,Buddha,Holy War, andMohammed. Now featuring a new introduction by the author,Through the Narrow Gateis an articulate, highly compelling autobiography concerning life inside a Catholic convent. A leading religious scholar, author, and commentator (who eventually left her religious order in 1969), Armstrong takes readers on a candid if not revelatory adventure that begins with her decision, at age 17, to become a nun and devote herself to God. What she discovers over the course of her religious trainingand Mary McCarthy once called this work "the most full and honest book that I've read on this subject"gives readers a fascinating view into a shrouded religious life. This classic autobiography, moreover, is a detailed meditation on spiritual coming of ageand on the nature and character of faith itself. As Armstrong writes in her new introduction: "WritingThrough the Narrow Gatestarted something that I did not expect. Almost by accident, I did become a writer, began to explore the history of the great world religions, and to investigate the notions of God and the sacred. I have told the story of this post-convent quest inThe Spiral Staircase. But the search began here, in this first memoir." "A scrupulous record of one woman's spiritual journey, excellently written and profoundly moving."Cosmopolitan "An emotive, spiritually intimate, and often quite moving memoir . . . Written with affection, some humor, and a bittersweet regret."Kirkus Reviews

CONTROL TOWER - Robert P. Davis

High over southern Florida, buffeted by the winds of a tropical storm, a British Concorde and a small private plane converge on the crowded skies over Miami. Below them Jeff Sutton, chief of the airport control tower, anxiously monitors their approach - for Jeff's only daughter is abroad the supersonic jet. Suddenly, a storm of a different kind erupts within the tower itself. And the aircraft seemed destined for certain disaster...