From Doon With Death by Ruth Rendell

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‘Love And Death,’ Said Chief Inspector Wexford. ‘Those Were The Only Two Sensational Things That Ever Happened To Margaret Parsons, Love And Death. The Thing Is They Both Happened In My District.’The Police Knew All About Margaret Parsons’ Life, And By The Look Of It, It Was Very Dull. Margaret Parsons Had Been A ‘Good Woman’. Religious, Old-Fashioned And Respectable, Her Life Had Been As Spotless And Ordinary As Her Home, As Unexciting And Dependable As Her Marriage. But It Was Not Margaret Parsons’ Life That Interested Wexford. It Was Her Death. She Had Been A Predictable, Ordinary Woman – But Now She Had Met A Death Of Passion And Violence For Which There Seemed No Motive Or Clue.

Encyclopedia Of Pulp Fiction Writers by Lee Server

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From the early days of dime novels to contemporary mass-market paperbacks, pulp fiction is a vital part of popular culture. This volume offers a survey of the scores of well-known and unsung heroes of popular literature. It seeks to cover the entire spectrum of pop literature’s greatest entertainers and artists; the multimillion-copy bestsellers; and the inventors of the modern genres, such as the western, the hardboiled detective novel, the spy thriller, science fiction, horror, the legal thriller, crime fiction and the erotic/romance novel. The work also profiles colourful but lesser-known underground figures, as well as a wide variety of talented paperback authors who were never given their due. Each of the 200 entries includes a brief biography along with a list of the author’s writing credits.

Picnic At Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

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‘Don’t worry about us, Mam’selle dear,’ smiled Miranda. ‘We shall only be gone a very little while.’ But they weren’t. By turns eerie, haunting and thrilling, Joan Lindsay’s story of vanishing schoolgirls is one of Australia’s greatest mysteries. Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our country’s most memorable children’s books in the Penguin Australia Chlidren’s Classics series of stories too precious to leave behind.

Counseling Our Own by Charna Klein

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This is the first and only book existing on the lesbian/gay counseling service, mental health movement in the United States. It covers how gay counseling services arose from the lesbian/gay subculture and gay movement, why they were needed, their history, organization, philosophy, staff, clients, and relationship with their lesbian/gay communities and the established mental health system. It provides recommendations and advocates measures the on-gay mental health professionals and agencies. It chronicles lesbian/gay history and the struggle for positive mental health services in a context of cultural homophobia and labeling gays as mentally ill.