Product Description: This is the tale of JAMIESON, a selfish fellow who can't see further than his navel but who by his intelligence and great good fortune – comes into a FORTUNE which changes his whole aspect on life, including the personal ambitions he sets out to achieve, the outstretched but rather irresistible pretty little hands he needs to dodge, not to mention at least one person with murder in his soul...read more

Product Description: Recit (bi-langue) de Saskia, une femme qui se retrouve prise au piège dans un pays étranger quand une guerre civile éclate autour d'elle. Elle a tout perdu dans l’incendie qui suivait un attentat, donc, sans autres ressources que son esprit et sa courage, elle raconte ses difficultés, ses philosophies, même quelques recettes de cuisine et beaucoup plus, dans l'espoir de les envoyer à une nièce avant que le pire ne lui arrive...read more

Product Description: Saskia, a formerly very fortunate woman loses everything as she finds herself trapped by a civil war in her adopted country. She survives as her fortress of a house is heavily bombed, and having no means of support but her ingenuity, she keeps notes on her experiences, on surviving on a shoe string - brilliant recipes using wild foods, on dealing with treachery and social terrorism, on health, beauty and philosophy - She amuses herself by translating all this from English to French, with the hope that she can pass so much of what she has learned to a niece growing up obliviously in a country at peace...read more

Product Description: OUT OF PRINT BECAUSE RE-NAMED and EDITED as CALIFORNIA BITTERS.  Our heroine, the bright young SASKIA seems saddled with YING, a ruthless young girl who accepts no bounds as she grapples for position, wealth and security, but not necessarily in that order...read more

Product Description: OUT OF PRINT BECAUSE RE-NAMED and EDITED as AUSTRALIAN SCORES;  An amusing and thought-provoking story as the irrepressible Saskia skirts a murder and postpones her own personal moment of truth. Could her good friend Jill really be capable of killing some one - and why? - and what will Saskia do about it, considering she's got problems of her own? Should she accept the repentance of the elegant IGOR of the lapis-blue eyes about his slip into unfaithfulness - and go ahead and marry him anyway? What about Galina, his Russian mother? - and meanwhile, who has put their hands on the legendary Kalnikov diamond ring? And how are those magnificent horses involved in all of this?The people Saskia tangles with and their dramas, could happen to any of us, anywhere in the world, at any time, but would we have Saskia's resourcefulness to deal with them?Readers will surely sympathize with and probably compare themselves to characters and events which fill these pages, emblematic of the social changes of the 1970's which opened up modern mores...read more

Product Description: Like a river in full spate, DODGING JOE presents a raging philosophical challenge as our funny, idealistic young heroine sets out to prove to herself that she's worth much more than her selling price in diamonds. Determined to MAKE something of her life, she achieves what precious few men (or women) have, as she zips us from California to Hong Kong's sophistication and on through some of Southeast Asia's wildest backcountry as she allies with psychotic Joe to dodge a drug baron who thinks he’s purchased her...read more