Birmingham: 111 books

First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Animals, like children, respond immediately to any kind of affirmation because they do not judge them. Therefore, our responsibility as guardians, rescuers, keepers, or veterinarians is tremendous. An animal will absorb whatever thoughts or vibrations we send towards it and react accordingly. We can...

This concise, illustrated history of Portugal offers an introduction to the people and culture of the country, its empire, and to its search for economic modernisation, political stability and international partnership. The book studies the effects of the vast wealth mined from Portuguese Brazil,...

Heart Troubles is a collection of darkly funny and poignant short stories examining the foibles of the human heart, from the bestselling author of “Our Crowd”.  

The Towers of Love is a suspenseful family drama set among the well-to-do schemers of a Connecticut suburb. When Hugh Carey moves home to take stock of his failing marriage, he is reunited with Edrita Everett Smith, the girl next door who got away. But his cold, manipulative and fascinating mother Sandy has never liked Edrita, and she is not about to let Hugh out of her grasp now.  

Those Harper Women is an intimate portrait of the treacherous web weaved by immense and inherited wealth. Three generations of Harper women grapple with the family patriarch and the travails of self-discovery.  

Long-held and terrible family secrets threaten to destroy the Rothmans, New York’s premier publishing dynasty, in this witty and suspenseful novel by one of America’s foremost chroniclers of the wealthy.  

Fast Start, Fast Finish is a novel of suspense, art, marriage, family, and the hollowness of suburbia, from one the country’s most important documentarians of the well-to-do. Charlie Lord is handsome, smart and devastatingly sophisticated. Why does his life keep coming to a blazing halt?  

Love Is in the Air, a collection of romantic short stories about love that comes to us in different ways, different forms, and in ways we might never suspect. Whether we feel worthy or not, love is there. And it will find us all.

Unusual tale of a pageant gone awry.

Miss Daisy Donovan is a bright-faced, clear-eyed, romantic-souled girl. She had finished her course of study in one of the universities of the Middle-west without becoming a cultivated prig. In spite of the fact that history, economics, emasculated philosophy and a kind of intellectual complexion...

A man is attacked and kidnapped on a side street at night, and his friends search for him.  An unusual tale written over a century ago.