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  • Other Men's Daughters

    A Novel

    by Richard Stern ...
    "A beautifully written novel that should be read by everyone who cares about the human condition." — The Philadelphia InquirerHarvard physiologist Robert Merriwether has four whip-smart children, an attractive and intelligent wife, and a successful, stimulating career. True, he and Sarah have not slept together in years, and when he decides to stay behind in Cambridge for the summer while the rest ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Europe

    Or, Up and Down with Schreiber and Baggish

    by Richard Stern ...
    Cultures and egos clash in this hilarious tale of two American men trying to start over again in EuropeFor Max Schreiber, World War II was an idyll. It is the return home to Connecticut that feels like entering a combat zone. Ridiculed by his wife and daughter, bored by his legal practice, Schreiber spends his evenings drinking and eating alone, hoping that when he goes to sleep he will dream of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Golk

    A Novel

    by Richard Stern ...
    "The first really good book I have read about television." —Norman MailerIn midcentury America, one man is determined to take over the airwaves with a program as audacious as it is entertaining. Bald, bombastic, and irresistible, Golk is his name and You're On Camera is his show. To "golk" someone is to trick her, on camera, into betraying her true nature. The more combative the personality, the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stitch

    A Novel

    by Richard Stern ...
    In one of the world's most beautiful cities, an aging sculptor serves as an inspiration and a warning to two aspiring artistsPursuing literary glory, Edward Gunther gives up his job as a copywriter, sells everything he owns, and moves with his wife and three children from Chicago to Venice. But success does not come as quickly or as painlessly as Edward had hoped. During his first month in Italy, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Father's Words

    A Novel

    by Richard Stern ...
    A tale of the battles between a father and son by an author whose novels are "robustly intelligent, very funny, and beguilingly humane" (Philip Roth).Cy Riemer is the patriarch of a successful and loving Chicago family. But not all is copacetic in Cy's world. The scientific newsletter he publishes is foundering financially, his ex-wife still relies on him for money and intimacy, and he can never ... Read more

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  • Natural Shocks

    A Novel

    by Richard Stern ...
    A high-flying journalist comes to ground in this brilliant and bittersweet novel about coming to terms with the traumas of lifeFred Wursup has an enviable existence. Paid to travel around the world "harvesting the annual crop of stars and villains," he has a beautiful geophysicist girlfriend and a friendly relationship with his ex-wife, Susannah, whose living room he can see into from the roof of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tower

    by Richard Martin Stern ...
    This is the incredible suspense novel that inspired the famous movie The Towering Inferno staring Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway and William Holden. The World Communications Center is a glittering skyscraper that is fatally flawed in its design, compromised through dubious means. On opening night the building’s systems fail spectacularly and the structure descends into violence and chaos ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Murder in the Walls

    by Richard Martin Stern ...
    Murder in the Walls is the story of a murdered prostitute and a cop determined to find the killer. Flora Hobbs owned one of New Mexico's oldest Spanish-style houses, and shared it with a bevy of beautiful working girls. When one of them turned up dead -- in a locked room -- Detective Johnny Ortiz followed a scent that went straight beneath Santo Cristo's respectable facade into a world of hustlers ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Environmental Health for All

    Risk Assessment and Risk Communication for National Environmental Health Action Plans

    Edited by David J. Briggs, Richard M. Stern, Tim L. Tinker ...
    Series Book 49 - NATO Science Partnership Subseries
    Accurate assessment of environmental hazards and related risks is a primary prerequisite for effective environmental health protection, at both the individual and collective level. National and regional policies on environmental health need to be guided by knowledge about the risks to the populations involved; as the Environmental Action Plan for Europe notes, 'priority setting requires the ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • The Crime of My Life

    Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, #8

    by Helen McCloy, Richard Martin Stern, John D. MacDonald, Edward D. Hoch, Lawrence Treat, Harold Q. Masur, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, Hillary Waugh, Lillian de la Torre, Brian Garfield, Georges Simenon, Dorothy Salisbury Davis ...
    Series Book 8 - Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics
    A VERY SPECIAL MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY FEATURING THE BEST BY THE BEST…In 1984, Mystery Writers of America brought together a roster of authors that has rarely been equaled before or since. Every living MWA President (including several who were also Grand Masters) was asked to select one of their own published stories and write a brief introduction as to why it was their favorite one. The resulting ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Added Value of Geographical Information Systems in Public and Environmental Health

    Edited by M.J. de Lepper, Henk J. Scholten, Richard M. Stern ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Health for all by the year 2000 is the blueprint for change agreed to by the Member States of the World Health Organization. In Europe, this blueprint is built on 38 regional targets, many of which have the underlying aim of uncovering new knowledge and of using existing knowledge more effectively. The targets related to a healthy environment have the ultimate goals of safeguarding human health ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Bright Road to Fear

    by Richard Martin Stern ...
    The Bright Road to Fear, first published in 1958, received the Edgar Award for best first novel for author Richard Martin Stern. The book describes an ambitious Italian crime syndicate and a young American who becomes involved in their shady dealings. Richard Stern would go on to write many suspense novels, notably The Tower (1973), which was made into a major motion picture. Stern died in 2001 at ... Read more

    $2.78 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus