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Imprint: Faber and Faber Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000001808. ISBN: 9780571207930
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Imprint: Faber, 2002 In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey gives Ned Kelly a voice so wild, passionate and original that it is impossible not to believe that the famous bushranger himself is speaking from beyond the grave. True History of the Kelly Gang is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a v oice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart- wrenching. Carey gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, as horse thief, farmer, bushranger, ref ormer, bank-robber, police-killer and, finally, as his country's beloved Ro bin Hood., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000007269. ISBN: 9780571209873
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Imprint: Faber and Faber Limited, 2000 A highly collectible first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper. Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also ? at a distance of many thousand miles and more than a century ? a Great American Novel., Very Good/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000007201. ISBN: 9780571192168
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Imprint: New Page Books, 2007 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Witness to Roswell will hold you spellbound as you read the actual eyewitne ss testimony to an amazing event; the recovery of a UFO in 1947 just outsid e of Roswell, New Mexico. Witnesses will not only reveal that the alien cre w were placed in body bags and packed in dry ice, but most astonishing of a ll, that one of them survived the crash. Witness to Roswell exhaustively presents accounts of witnesses to the crash , the military containment and recovery, the high level of security surroun ding all phases of the cleanup operation, deathbed testimonies, sealed post humous statements, and the extreme measures the U.S. government has taken t o prevent people from telling the truth. You will be shocked to learn that: *The Air Force used death threats against civilian eyewitness and their chi ldren to silence them. *The Air Force turned a small New Mexico town upside down and inside out... in search of a weather balloon? *The Air Force's next "official" explanation for Roswell will be its fifth! *The true number of witnesses supporting an extraterrestrial event at Roswe ll versus those favoring the Air Force's balloon explanation. Hint: It's li ke comparing the Empire State Building to a low-rise. Witness to Roswell asserts that the truth cannot be forever suppressed: An alien vessel really did arrive, bodies were recovered, and they were not from here!, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000035332. ISBN: 9781564149435
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Imprint: Washington Square Press, 1991 Although a read copy, spine unblemished, no markings throughout: In the tradition of Stephen McCauley's The Onject of My Affection, here is the critically acclaimed fourth novel from the author of Double Negative. The Los Angeles Times praised The Full Catastrophe as "eccentric, hilarious, wildly inventive and eerily accurate . . . (a) terrific book." Advertising in New York Times Book Review., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000028317. ISBN: 9780671732455
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Imprint: Dale Seymour Publications, 1992 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout, not an ex-lib: Two complete sourcebooks of lessons in an easy-to-use format that incorporates the new standards for teaching math by using hands-on manipulatives to solve problems. Read More Show Less, Fine Stock number: RWARE0000022509. ISBN: 9780201455069
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Imprint: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998 A tight clean softcover, no markings throughout, NOT a former lib-book: Feel like you're always rushing but never catching up?Are you doing more, b ut enjoying it less? The frantic pace and pressure of modern life can take a serious toll on your happiness and your health'but there is one way to st ep off the treadmill without giving up your career or your activities. The answer lies not in sacrificing your work productivity or your lifestyle but rather in changing your attitudes. By using simple exercises to slow down your mind and focus on the present moment, you can actually achieve greater productivity and creativity-all while maintaining a calmer, healthier stat e of mind. Slowing Down to the Speed of Life helps you: Slow down your life without downsizing your lifestyle Enjoy the increased creativity and productivity that flow from inner calm Free yourself from the stressful influence of other peoples' habits, attitu des, behaviors, and moods Attain a sense of satisfaction with your life'and be happy!, Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000026349. ISBN: 9780062514547
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Imprint: Quixote Press, 2001 South Dakota's Roadkill Cookbook: A Collection of Spurious Recipes Using Ve ntre Montant (French for Belly-up) Animals One Finds on South Dakota Highwa ys, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000001256. ISBN: 9781878488190
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Imprint: Hachette Books, 2001 In this incredibly stressful world in which we live, parents seem to be the people who come under fire most. Hectic work schedules combined with chauf feuring children to extracurricular activities make us crave more quiet tim e with our children. The Don't Sweat Guide for Parents provides suggestions for enjoying your children more while being less stressed and more present with them in every moment of their lives. Including such strategies as: Admit That You Could Use Some Help The Hardest Job in the World Learn to Take a Breather Because I Said So Keep the Job at the Office Enjoy Your Kids Every Day This book will help you to be a better, calmer, happier mom or dad., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000038496. ISBN: 9780786887187
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Imprint: Pocket, 2007 Carlyle's second Neville family novel (after Never Lie to a Lady) revisits the wounded hero story line and adds a touch of mystery. Through a twist of fate, Gareth Lloyd, part owner of Neville Shipping, discovers that the tit le of duke of Warneham has now fallen to him. It's a bitter inheritance for Gareth, who as a child was sentenced by the old duke to a hardscrabble lif e aboard ship. Reluctantly, Gareth visits his new country estate, Selsdon C ourt, only to discover the duke's beautiful widow, Antonia, still in reside nce. Passion flares between the emotionally damaged pair as Antonia reveals her grief over the death of a young daughter, and Gareth faces anti-Jewish sentiment among the upper class (an atypical touch that works well). The a uthor's natural, concise writing style, attention to historical detail and fully formed characters make her world spring to life, and her plot never f lags; Carlyle even finds room for a dose of mystery, as Gareth's friend, Ke mble, investigates the poisoning death of the previous duke. As usual, Carl yle doesn't disappoint., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000017960. ISBN: 9781416527152
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Imprint: Pocket Books, 2007 In her dazzling new historical trilogy, New York Times bestselling author L iz Carlyle plunges readers into the steamy underworld of nineteenth- century London. Among the swirling glitter of English high society, a scandalous r ogue gets more than he bargained for in the lady of his desires. Lord Nash is a creature of the night -- his wealth and title provide but a tenuous entrée into polite society. Notorious for his sophisticated manners and a dark, dashing elegance, rumors abound of the men he has bankrupted and the women he's left heartbroken. But when Nash leaves his lair for a rare foray into the ton, he faces a lure of temptation all his own -- an extraordinary moment of passion with a mysterious lady in the moonlight -- and an obsession that will lead him into a hellish world of smugglers, spies, and intrigue. And as for his damsel in disguise, the witty and beautiful Miss Xanthia Neville, he soon learns, is as unattainable as she is tempting. And now Nash must decide if she is also dangerous. . . ., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000036455. ISBN: 9781416527145
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Imprint: Pocket Books, 2009 Lady Phaedra Northampton is a proper English miss -- but burdened by a dark secret. She's buried her shame in running her wealthy brother Lord Nash's household while hiding behind a sharp wit and dull wardrobe...until a reckl ess village maid's disappearance pulls her into London's seedy underworld. A former mercenary and jaded spy-for-hire, Tristan Talbot, Lord Avoncliffe, now does little, and manages to do it scandalously. Though Tristan's an ou t-and-out rogue, when his dying father begs him to delve into the secrets b ehind a notorious brothel -- a perfect task for his talents! -- Tristan can 't refuse. Is the brothel a front for a notorious Russian spy ring? Tristan is on the hunt -- until his path collides with the oh-so-tempting Lady Pha e. Soon what should be a simple assignment becomes deliciously complicated...when deception and desire lead to an explosive passion -- and deadly foes!, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000036452. ISBN: 9781416593133
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Imprint: Pocket Star, 2003 Rejected by the man she thought loved her, Frederica "Freddie" d'Avillez tu rns to Randolph "Bentley" Rutledge to wash away the memory of her fickle fo rmer beau. With his reputation as a wicked rogue, "Hell-Bent" Rutledge is n ot the material from which good, dependable husbands are fashioned, but he is something of an expert in matters of seduction and thus should be the pe rfect person to introduce Freddie into the delights of passion. Giving into Freddie's request to show her one night of love, Bentley is surprised not to hear from her again until he bumps into her at a society affair and disc overs that their little fling has left her pregnant. Despite her reluctance , Bentley insists on marrying Freddie, then she discovers that the success of their marriage rests on her ability to uncover the secrets that haunt he r new husband. Readers will be delighted to find that characters from some of her previous books play small roles in Carlyle's latest, beautifully fas hioned story of redemption and love, which features the same addictive mix of superb characterization, exquisitely sensual love scenes, and luscious w riting found in all of her splendidly compelling historical romances., As New Stock number: RWARE0000011803. ISBN: 9780743437875
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Imprint: Bodley Head Limited, 1990 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In "Means of Ascent", Caro covers the years 1941-48, years in the wilderness for Johnson, who had been devastatingly defeated for the Senate in 1941, but years of fascination for the biographer and for anyone interested in the more extreme grotesqueries of American politics. For this is the period when Lyndon Johnson and his wife Ladybird made themselves rich, Texas-style rich. And it is the period when Johnson won his first seat in the US Senate, in an election whose corruption was legendary even by Texas standards. Caro has tried to expose the details of Johnson's financial dealings, so long shrouded in secrecy, and the almost incredible true story of the 1948 Senate contest, a tale of local bosses, controlled votes, and stuffed and stolen ballot boxes. What he shows us is at once funny, horrifying and inevitable., Very Good/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000030628. ISBN: 9780370314907
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Imprint: Marlene Caroselli, 1672 In excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlig hting. The spine remains undamaged. Unimaginative. Risk-adverse. Prone to group-think. These are not just empty complaints about today's employees. A recent article in Newsweek found sol id data that proves a "creativity crisis" is plaguing America. Yet critical thinking, the ability to approach a problem both analytically and creatively, is the bedrock of success for companies and their people. F ortunately, it's a skill that can be learned. The Critical Thinking Tool Kit aims to get employees thinking better and fa ster with 35 hands-on activities and ready-to-use assessments. Team members work on challenging assumptions, brainstorming divergent ideas, and then p inpointing the ones that best benefit an organization. And they'll learn to do it in real-life speed- quickly! The training exercises in The Critical Thinking Tool Kit offer an invigorating departure from the everyday-with the potential for big payoffs in the form of enhanced "on-your-feet" thinking, innovative problem-solving, and profitable idea generation from everyone on the team., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000033726. ISBN: 9780814417409
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Imprint: Vestal Press, 2000 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A wonderful book full of illustrations and explanations to help you protect your back--and certainly lower your score!, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000039742. ISBN: 9780963753502
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Imprint: Z Mass Paper, 1993 Carpenter expertly recounts the anomalous tale of Arlyne Weiss Brickman, wh o after 25 years in the criminal underworld became a major witness for the government against organized crime. Photos., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000011354. ISBN: 9780821741511
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Imprint: Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1997 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Hugh Carpenter provides a wealth of practica l cooking advice; advance- preparation steps, menu & entertai ning suggestions, a glossary of Asian ingredients & a list o f basic pantry ingredients. The dazzling photography is prov ided by his wife. ', Very Good/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000029906. ISBN: 9781556706455
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Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1987 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000037740. ISBN: 9780049280700
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Imprint: Arcturus, 1999 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000021308. ISBN: 9781900032933
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Imprint: Scholastic, Inc., 1988 Inspired by Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, this lively animated adventure, originally released in 1988, follows the adorable orphaned kitten Oliver an d his newfound friends the Pick Pocket dogs and Fagin, their human leader., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000036295. ISBN: 9780590420495
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Imprint: Bantam, 1995 Set in 1896, Carr's novel about a serial killer lose in New York City was a 25-week PW bestseller., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000013603. ISBN: 9780553572995
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Imprint: Bantam Books, 1995 Set in 1896, Carr's novel about a serial killer lose in New York City was a 25-week PW bestseller., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000014039. ISBN: 9780553840018
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Imprint: Ballantine Books, 1998 The time is June 1897. The place is New York City. The story is narrated by 13-year-old, streetwise Stevie Taggart, who is a member of a team of detec ting irregulars. The kidnapping of an 18-month-old child sets the story in motion. The ongoing investigation uncovers a sociopath named Libby Hatch, w ho is a suspect in the deaths of a frightening number of children, includin g her own., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000014282. ISBN: 9780345427632
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Imprint: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2006 Writing a Sherlock Holmes tale is, for popular writers, equivalent to playi ng Hamlet for male actors: a challenge that few refuse and many regret. Bes tselling author Carr (The Angel of Darkness, etc.) acquits himself with hon or, though not high honors, in this short novel that pits Holmes, Watson an d Mycroft Holmes against conspirators at Queen Victoria's Royal Palace of H olyrood in Edinburgh, Scotland. When the men are killed at Holyrood in a fa shion similar to the slaying centuries before of David Rizzio, an Italian c onfidant of Mary, Queen of Scots, Mycroft, who is Victoria's head of intell igence, calls upon his brother and Watson to help solve the mystery. Are th e killings the work of Scottish nationalists? Or perhaps the sign of a rest less ghost? From the latter question, and the novel's primary setting of th e dank castle, emanates a well-drawn atmosphere of gloom that makes this st ory a nice companion to The Hound of the Baskervilles., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000016661. ISBN: 9780312939137
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Imprint: On Cape Publications, 1997 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: "This is a gracious Book about walking. It is an important book about the s hore..." -- The Barnstable Patriot About the Author Elliott Carr writes frequently on the environment and economy for the Cape Cod Times and Cape Codder. President of the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank since 1982, he is the former president and chairman of the Massachusetts Bankers Association and a graduate of Dartmouth and of Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He lives in Brewster with his wife, Susan., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000020387. ISBN: 9780965328326
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Imprint: Jarrold Publishing, 1999 A tight clean softcover, no markings throughout, NOT an ex-library edition: Westminster Abbey is London's (and Britain's) foremost church. There is so much to see that the visitor can feel overwhelmed. This useful guide will help you select key areas and objects., Fine Stock number: RWARE0000025999. ISBN: 9780711710672
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Imprint: Hamlyn, 1970 A tight clean copy, no inscriptions, price clipped, not an ex-lib, protecte d in a new brodart wrapper; Ivories of the West by Massimo Carra, published in 1970 by the Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 159 pages in hardcover measuring approximately 5 3/8 by 7 5/8 inches. This vintage hardcover, now out of print, is profusely illustrated with 71 plates in full color., VG+/VG+ Stock number: RWARE0000009289.
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Imprint: Little, Brown and Company, 2004 This epic tale of loyalty and betrayal spans the lives of two friends from the riot-torn West Berlin of the 1960s to the grimy looking-glass of Cold W ar Europe to the present day of terrorism and new alliances. This is the no vel le Carr fans have been waiting for, a brilliant, ferocious, heartbreaki ng work for the ages., Very Good/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000029853. ISBN: 9780316000642
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Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004 A highly collectible first edition,printing tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not a n Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. A ferocious new novel from the master: when a man's good heart is his worst enemy. . . By chance and not by choice, Ted Mundy, eternal striver, failed writer, and expatriate son of a British Army officer, used to be a spy. But that was i n the good old Cold War days when a cinder-block wall divided Berlin and th e enemy was easy to recognize. Today, Mundy is a down-at-heel tour guide in southern Germany, dodging cred itors, supporting a new family, and keeping an eye out for trouble while in spare moments vigorously questioning the actions of the country he once br avely served. And trouble finds him, as it has before, in the shape of his old German stu dent friend, radical, and one- time fellow spy, the crippled Sasha, seeker a fter absolutes, dreamer, and chaos addict. After years of trawling the Middle East and Asia as an itinerant university lecturer, Sasha has yet again discovered the true, the only answer to life -this time in the form of a mysterious billionaire philanthropist named Dim itri. Thanks to Dimitri, both Mundy and Sasha will find a path out of pover ty, and with it their chance to change a world that both believe is going t o the devil. Or will they? Who is Dimitri? Why does Dimitri's gold pour in from mysterious Middle East ern bank accounts? And why does his apparently noble venture reek less of s tarry idealism than of treachery and fear? Some gifts are too expensive to accept. Could this be one of them? With a cooler head than, As New/As New Stock number: RWARE0000008673. ISBN: 9780340832875
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Imprint: Penguin Books, 2014 From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. John le Carré's new novel, A Legacy of Spies, is now available from Viking. "A novel that beckons us beyond any and all expectations."--Jonathan Yardle y, The Washington Post A counter-terrorist operation, code-named Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a hi gh-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Mini ster, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shad y American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the o peration that even the Minister's personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Three years later, a disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be--or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up? Summoned by Sir Christopher "Kit" Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely observed by Kit's daughter, Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and duty to his Service. If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent?, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000038645. ISBN: 9780143125310
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Imprint: Hodder Stoughton, 1983 A highly collectible first edition/printing, tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricat e shadow world's of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and know ledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. In this thrilling and though-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young English actress, is lured into "the theatre of the real" by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist., Very Good/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000008660. ISBN: 9780340328477
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Imprint: Bantam Books, 1984 Good Stock number: RWARE0000031865. ISBN: 9780553170788
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Imprint: Simon & Schuster Ome, 2008 Good Stock number: RWARE0000026238. ISBN: 9781439144909
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Imprint: Viking Adult, 2010 A crisp clean first edition as stated, no markings throughout: Starred Review. Those readers who have found post-cold war le Carré too cerebral will have much to cheer about with this Russian mafia spy thriller. While on holiday in Antigua, former Oxford tutor Perry Makepiece and his lawyer girlfriend, Gail Perkins, meet Dmitri "Dima" Vladimirovich Krasnov, an avuncular Russian businessman who challenges Perry to a tennis match. Even though Perry wins, Dima takes a shine to the couple, and soon they're visiting with his extended family. At Dima's request, Perry conveys a message to MI6 in England that Dima wishes to defect, and on arriving home, Perry and Gail receive a summons from MI6 to a debriefing. Not only is Dima a Russian oligarch, he's also one of the world's biggest money launderers. Le Carré ratchets up the tension step-by-step until the sad, inevitable end. His most accessible work in years, this novel shows once again why his name is the one to which all others in the field are compared., Near Fine/Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000019867. ISBN: 9780670022243
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Imprint: Viking Penguin, 2010 Good Stock number: RWARE0000038028. ISBN: 9780241953747
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Imprint: Ballantine Books, 1992 The Cold War is over. The rules of the spying game have changed. But to tra in new spies for this uncertain future, one must first show them the past. Enter the man called Ned, the loyal and shrewd veteran of the Circus. With the inspiration of his inscrutable mentor George Smiley, Ned thrills all as he recounts forty exhilarating years of Cold War espionage across Europe a nd the Far East ., Good Stock number: RWARE0000038508. ISBN: 9780345374769
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Imprint: Scribner, 1999 A highly collectible first edition, tight clean copy, protected in a new br odart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex- Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. On a Turkish hillside, ex-Communist mobsters shatter the skull of a corrupt English lawyer. In a sleepy English village, the authorities ask a lonely children's magician how come £5,000,030 sterling just got anonymously deposited in his baby daughter's bank account. With machine-like logic and soulful literary magic, John le Carré links these two events in Single & Single, a stay-up-all-night thriller., Fine/Fine Stock number: RWARE0000008674. ISBN: 9780684859262
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Imprint: Pocket, 2000 From Single & Single's "tour de force opening" (Kirkus Reviews), le Carré m asterfully establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysteriou s, complex and compelling. He fashions a story of corrupt liaisons between criminal syndicates in the new Russian states and the legitimate world of W estern finance. He also intimately portrays two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering the profits; one betrayed by a son-in-law, the other betrayed-and redeemed-by a son. An enthralling, multilayered tale by an author at the height of his creative powers, Single & Single is le Carré's finest novel in years., Good Stock number: RWARE0000038505. ISBN: 9780671027971
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Imprint: Non Basic Stock Line, 2010 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Britain is in the depths of recession.A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua.By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch.He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment., Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000023440. ISBN: 9780670919024
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Imprint: Scribner, 2000 A highly collectible first edition, tight clean copy, protected in a new br odart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex- Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. British diplomat Justin Quayle, complacent raiser of freesias and doting hu sband of the stunning, much younger Tessa, has tended his own garden in Nai robi too long. Tessa is Justin's opposite, a fiery reformer, "that rarest t hing, a lawyer who believes in justice," whose campaigns have earned her a nickname: "the Princess Diana of the African poor." But now Tessa has turne d up naked, raped, and dead on a mysterious visit to remote Lake Turkana in Kenya. Her traveling companion (and lover?), the handsome Congolese-Belgia n doctor Arnold Bluhm, has vanished. So has Quayle's complacency. Tessa had been compiling data against a multinational drug company that use s helpless Africans as guinea pigs to test a tuberculosis remedy with unfor tunately fatal side effects. Her report was destroyed by her husband's supe riors; was she? It's all somehow connected to the sinister British firm Hou se of ThreeBees, whose ad boasts that it's "buzzy for the health of Africa! " John le Carré symbolically associates ThreeBees with an ominous buzz in t he Nairobi morgue: "Over [the corpses], in a swaying, muddy mist, hung the flies, snoring on a single note." The home office tries to take Quayle in out of the cold. He cleverly eludes their clammy embrace, turns spy, and takes off on a global chase to avenge Tessa and solve her murder. Le Carré has lost none of his gift for setting vivid scenes in far-flung places expertly described: London, Germany, Saskatchewan, Kenya. His s, Fine/Fine Stock number: RWARE0000008662. ISBN: 9780743215053
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Imprint: Pocket Star, 2005 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: British diplomat Justin Quayle, complacent raiser of freesias and doting hu sband of the stunning, much younger Tessa, has tended his own garden in Nai robi too long. Tessa is Justin's opposite, a fiery reformer, "that rarest t hing, a lawyer who believes in justice," whose campaigns have earned her a nickname: "the Princess Diana of the African poor." But now Tessa has turne d up naked, raped, and dead on a mysterious visit to remote Lake Turkana in Kenya. Her traveling companion (and lover?), the handsome Congolese-Belgia n doctor Arnold Bluhm, has vanished. So has Quayle's complacency. Tessa had been compiling data against a multinational drug company that use s helpless Africans as guinea pigs to test a tuberculosis remedy with unfor tunately fatal side effects. Her report was destroyed by her husband's supe riors; was she? It's all somehow connected to the sinister British firm Hou se of ThreeBees, whose ad boasts that it's "buzzy for the health of Africa! " John le Carré symbolically associates ThreeBees with an ominous buzz in t he Nairobi morgue: "Over [the corpses], in a swaying, muddy mist, hung the flies, snoring on a single note." The home office tries to take Quayle in out of the cold. He cleverly eludes their clammy embrace, turns spy, and takes off on a global chase to avenge Tessa and solve her murder. Le Carré has lost none of his gift for setting vivid scenes in far-flung places expertly described: London, Germany, Saskatchewan, Kenya. His sprinting thriller prose remains in great shape. And thanks to his 16 years in the British Foreign Office, his merciless send-up, Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000020514. ISBN: 9781416503903
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Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton Paperback, 2005 Le Carre's novel starts backstage at the British embassy in Cairo. Sandy, a n apparently decent Englishman is in a bit of a state. Tessa, an Englishwom an married to Justin, a not very impressive Embassy official, has been brut ally murdered up country; her companion, a charismatic African doctor calle d Bluhm, has disappeared. Sandy, it emerges, was in love with Tessa and rat her despised her husband. He seems to suspect Tessa's vanished friend of co mplicity in her death. But nastier things are going on., Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000014228. ISBN: 9780340837092
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Imprint: Pocket, 2001 Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carre's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quay le near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putat ive African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid age ncies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband , Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. A ma ster chronicler of the deceptions and betrayals of ordinary people caught i n political conflict, le Carre portrays, in "The Constant Gardener," the da rk side of unbridled capitalism. His eighteenth novel is also the profoundl y moving story of a man whom tragedy elevates. Justin Quayle, amateur garde ner and ineffectual bureaucrat, seemingly oblivious to his wife's cause, di scovers his own resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he bar ely had time to love. "The Constant Gardener" is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytelle rs of our time., Good Stock number: RWARE0000027792. ISBN: 9780743422918
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Imprint: Little, Brown and Company, 2006 A highly collectible first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper. Bestseller le Carré (The Constant Gardener) brings a light touch to his 20th novel, the engrossing tale of an idealistic and naïve British interpreter, Bruno "Salvo" Salvador. The 29-year-old Congo native's mixed parentage puts him in a tentative position in society, despite his being married to an attractive upper-class white Englishwoman, who's a celebrity journalist. Salvo's genius with languages has led to steady work from a variety of employers, including covert assignments from shadowy government entities. One such job enmeshes the interpreter in an ambitious scheme to finally bring stability to the much victimized Congo, and Salvo's personal stake in the outcome tests his professionalism and ethics. Amid the bursts of humor, le Carré convincingly conveys his empathy for the African nation and his cynicism at its would-be saviors, both home-grown patriots and global powers seeking to impose democracy on a failed state. Especially impressive is the character of Salvo, who's a far cry from the author's typical protagonist but is just as plausible., As New/As New Stock number: RWARE0000010625. ISBN: 9780316016742
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Imprint: Back Bay Books, 2007 "Gripping and moving. . . . A marvelous return to the John le Carre of old, with all the captivating characters, finely rendered landscapes, and messy complexities that have always powered his best work." -San Francisco Chron icle Hailed everywhere as a masterpiece of suspense, John le Carre's return to A frica is the story of Bruno Salvador (aka Salvo), the 25-year- old orphaned love child of an Irish missionary and a Congolese woman. Quickly rising to the top of his profession as an interpreter, Salvo is dispatched by British Intelligence to a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East C ongolese warlords, where he hears things not intended for his ears--and is forced to interpret matters never intended for his reawoken African conscie nce. By turns thriller, love story, and comic allegory of our times, The Mi ssion Song recounts Salvo's heroically naive journey out of the dark of Wes tern hypocrisy and into the heart of lightness. "Entertaining... Salvo may be the author's most naive creation to date, but he is also one of the most fascinating and engaging... The atmosphere of i ntrigue builds nicely and convincingly."-Baltimore Sun "An incendiary tale... Le Carre's understanding of how the world ticks is, as always, machete sharp." -USA TODAY "To categorize Le Carre, as many do, as a 'spy' novelist is to do him a dis service; he uses the world of cloak- and-dagger much as Conrad used the sea- -to explore the dark places in human nature.' -Washington Post Book World "Le Carre's insight into the dense, dangerous nexus of corporate and govern ment interests is chillingly assured." -New York Times Book Review "Engagi, Good Stock number: RWARE0000026255. ISBN: 9780340921999
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Imprint: Back Bay Books, 2007 "Gripping and moving. . . . A marvelous return to the John le Carre of old, with all the captivating characters, finely rendered landscapes, and messy complexities that have always powered his best work." -San Francisco Chron icle Hailed everywhere as a masterpiece of suspense, John le Carre's return to A frica is the story of Bruno Salvador (aka Salvo), the 25-year- old orphaned love child of an Irish missionary and a Congolese woman. Quickly rising to the top of his profession as an interpreter, Salvo is dispatched by British Intelligence to a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East C ongolese warlords, where he hears things not intended for his ears--and is forced to interpret matters never intended for his reawoken African conscie nce. By turns thriller, love story, and comic allegory of our times, The Mi ssion Song recounts Salvo's heroically naive journey out of the dark of Wes tern hypocrisy and into the heart of lightness. "Entertaining... Salvo may be the author's most naive creation to date, but he is also one of the most fascinating and engaging... The atmosphere of i ntrigue builds nicely and convincingly."-Baltimore Sun "An incendiary tale... Le Carre's understanding of how the world ticks is, as always, machete sharp." -USA TODAY "To categorize Le Carre, as many do, as a 'spy' novelist is to do him a dis service; he uses the world of cloak- and-dagger much as Conrad used the sea- -to explore the dark places in human nature.' -Washington Post Book World "Le Carre's insight into the dense, dangerous nexus of corporate and govern ment interests is chillingly assured." -New York Times Book Review "Engagi, Good Stock number: RWARE0000029724. ISBN: 9780316016759
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Imprint: Pan Book, 1977 From the brilliant, bestselling author of the "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold" and "A Small Town In Germany" - his most extraordinary bestseller: A masterpiece of erotic suspense - one woman and two men locked in a labyrin th of love., Good Stock number: RWARE0000033415. ISBN: 9780330232937
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Imprint: Ballantine Books, 2004 Enter the new world of espionage, where the skills forged by generations of spies during the darkest days of the Cold War are put to even more terrify ing use. Penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugg lers who have risen to unthinkable power and wealth. The sinister master of them all is an untouchable Englishman named Roper, the charming, unstoppab le ruler of a corrupt world all his own. Slipping into this maze of peril is a former British soldier, Jonathan Pine, who knows Roper well enough to hate him more than he hates any other man on earth. Now personal vengeance is only part of the reason Pine is willing to help the men at Whitehall bring Roper down., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000038509. ISBN: 9780345480323
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Imprint: Knopf, 1990 A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Nothing is as it was. Old enemies embrace. The dark staging grounds of the Cold War -- whose shadows barely obscure the endless games of espionage -- are flooded with light. The rules are rewritten, the stakes changed and the future unfathomable., Very Good/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000008661. ISBN: 9780394588421
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