Johnston: 1395 books

Meet my father. Lying Billy Wright. Lies are all you can expect from him. He knows nothing else. Billy Wright has spent half his life in rebellion against truth, sense and decency. A fervent apostle of lies and mischief, he has thrown himself into every kind of trouble he can imagine. He shares his...

Taking Control is a gripping, emotional story about a girl whose life is suddenly turned upside down by an unborn child. Normal life for Natalie is slipping away.At only sixteen years old, Natalie discovers that she is pregnant. Sooner or later, Natalie will have to face another hard truth: things...

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) The Gift of the Magi...

Rear Window meets Serial in this riveting new thriller from Edgar Award-nominated author that follows Alden as he tries to solve a crime only he believes was committed. Alden likes to follow people. He's not trying to be a creep, he just wants to be an investigator someday, and it's good practice. But...

Edinburgh, 2020 - a independent, supposedly crime-free city with a year-round festival. No TV, private cars or popular music; sex sessions once a week. Blues-haunted private investigator Quint Dalrymple is called in to cast light on the murder of a guardswoman. Has the Ear, Nose and Throat Man returned, or is something much worse at the heart of the body politic?

Kristin Lassiter est bouleversée quand Bella Benedict, la mère de Max, son grand amour de jeunesse, lui demande de venir lui rendre visite en Angleterre, dans son château de famille. Car Kristin n’a jamais revu Bella depuis le jour où Max lui a brisé le cœur, dix ans auparavant. Pourquoi son...

Will Sheila get Harry to the altar? Will Harry lose the football match to avoid marrying Sheila? Can Anne Marie Drummond get a good Irish Catholic girl for her son Sean? Can Sean get the sexy non Catholic Payne into bed without Anne Marie finding out? Will the girls take...

**A new ship. A perilous journey. **   Humanity and its allies have survived the terror of the planet-ship known as Malum. The Confederacy, badly beaten but not destroyed, is slowly rebuilding from its brush with oblivion.    Now Navy officer Jared Carter has a new task: to track Malum's path...

April, 2028, and independent Edinburgh is facing a mounting crime wave. Experts from the utopian university-state of New Oxford recommend an extreme deterrent – a maximum security prison alongside the central tourist zone. At the prison opening ceremony, the unthinkable happens – an Edinburgh...

Independent Edinburgh, 2026. The birth-rate is down in the Council’s ‘perfect city’ and gangs of disaffected kids roam the streets. A break-in at the former Scottish Parliament archive is rapidly followed by two gruesome murders, the victims mutilated and covered in blood-drenched branches....

Independent Edinburgh, 2025. Global warming has turned the summer into the Big Heat. With water strictly rationed, citizens are mindlessly devoted to two things: the year-round tourist festival and the weekly lottery (Grand Prize: a five-minute shower per week for a month). Then a body is discovered...

During the 2004 Athens Olympics, a missing girl leads PI Alex Mavros to a pagan ritual and a ring of powerful, devious men in this “absorbing” mystery (Publishers Weekly). As the 2004 Olympics crowds the city of Athens, it seems a more sinister game is afoot. Half-Greek, half-Scots PI Alex...

Is the election result in a constituency affected by the amount of campaign spending there? This book, originally published in 1987 was the first major study of this important question. Based on extensive original research, it addresses two main issues: the impact of constituency campaign spending...

This book illustrates the degree of variability in voting behaviour within social groups and suggests reasons for that variability. It reviews and critiques conventional analyses and presents statistical analyses of the geography of voting in England. The book reveals that substantial geographical...