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Imprint: Ballantine Books, 1991 The Berlin Wall is toppled and the Iron Curtain has swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in B ritish Intelligence all his adult life. Now, approaching the end of his car eer, he is forced to revisit his secret years. He illuminates the brave pas t of George Smiley, his hero and mentor, who gives back to him the dangerou s edge of memory that empowers him finally to frame the questions that have haunted him for thirty years., Good Stock number: RWARE0000038504. ISBN: 9780345375285
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Imprint: Knopf, 1996 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, the greatest spy novelist of the Cold War era, continues his post-Cold War quest to define the genre he helped perfect. The classic spy novel was essentially a story of good (England, the United States) vs. evil (Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union), in which good more or less prevailed. The Tailor of Panama is something else entirely: a spy novel with no spies in which the bad guys reap most of the rewards. It is also a viciously funny satire., Near Fine/Fine Stock number: RWARE0000008620. ISBN: 9780679454465
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Imprint: Hodder Stoughton Ltd, 1996 It was an ordinary day in Panama, until Andrew Osnard barged into Harry Pen del's shop, asking to be measured for a suit. Osnard, an old Etonian and a spy, is keeping a watchful eye on the handover of the Panama canal - and al so intends to secure for himself the fortune that has so far eluded him. Review Arguably his best book since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. A masterful portrayal of human weaknesses (Brian Morton in Times Educational Supplemen t) Delightfully pointed and hilarious ...a well- crafted tale whose thread is s tudded with funny and moving episodes, as well as pointed asides (Richard N orton-Taylor in The Guardian) This is a book with a momentum of its own, a romantic delirium for troubled times...The le Carré of his new book is a tough talker. (Karl Miller in Th e Observer) Le Carré is on top form - rich, subtle and powerfully imaginative. (Maxim m agazine) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of th is title. Review 'Le Carré shows what an extraordinarily witty writer he can be, with a true feeling for the farcical.' (The Sunday Times) 'A masterful portrayal of human weakness.' (The Times Educational Supplement), Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000030930. ISBN: 9780340684801
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Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton, 1997 Inspired by Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana, John le Carré's sometimes hu morous, sometimes tragic The Tailor of Panama is the story of Harry Pendel, an ex-con who is now a skilled tailor living in Panama. He's so good, in f act, that he hems the suits and measures the waists of the most significant men in Panama. Apart from being an excellent tailor, Harry is also in debt up to his ears, so when a slick British agent comes asking for some gossip , Harry is more than happy to put his imagination to the test., Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000011368. ISBN: 9780733605482
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Imprint: Ballantine Books, 1997 John le Carré, the greatest spy novelist of the Cold War era, continues his post-Cold War quest to define the genre he helped perfect. The classic spy novel was essentially a story of good (England, the United States) vs. evi l (Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union), in which good more or less prevailed. T he Tailor of Panama is something else entirely: a spy novel with no spies i n which the bad guys reap most of the rewards. It is also a viciously funny satire. The novel is set in Panama, where a plot is in place to make void the Panama Treaty, which would return control of the Panama Canal to the Pa namanians in 1999. At the center of events is Harry Pendel, the tailor of t he title. Coerced into working for British Intelligence, he concocts out of whole cloth a left-wing movement with the goal of luring the American mili tary to do the dirty work--invade Panama à la 1989 and nullify the treaty. From the characters to the setting, le Carré has succeeded in setting new p arameters for an old genre., Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000013367. ISBN: 9780345420435
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Imprint: THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY Reissue of the 1974 Alfred A. Knopf First American Edition of the Hodder an d Stoughton First Edition, part of The Franklin Library of Mystery Masterpi eces, 9/10 fully bound in blue cloth, silver stamping on both boards and sp ine, all page edges silver,a highly collectible franklin edition., Near Fine /No DJ as Issued Stock number: RWARE0000010973.
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Imprint: Fulcrum Publishing, 1992 The collection of pieces from Jim Carrier who spent three months in the spr ing with the Spann family on their ranch and three in the fall with the Kni ght family on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation in Colorado., Very Good/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031644. ISBN: 9781555910938
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Imprint: Aladdin, 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. Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'. So many readers were to take the advice of the King of Hearts that by the end of the nineteenth century Alice had acquired a pre-eminent and unassailable position in children's literature. Lewis Carroll's use of logic, by which the ordinary is translated into the extraordinary in an entirely plausible way, is delightfully combined with an exceptional knowledge and understanding of the mind of the child. Satire, allusion, and symbolism weave deeper and mysterious meanings, lending a measure of immortality to Carroll's remarkable fantasy., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000040047. ISBN: 9780689833755
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Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group, 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. When Alice tumbles down, down, down a rabbit-hole one hot summer's afternoo n in pursuit of a White Rabbit she finds herself in Wonderland. And there b egin the fantastical adventures that will see her experiencing extraordinar y changes in size, swimming in a pool of her own tears and attending the ve ry maddest of tea parties. For Wonderland is no ordinary place and the char acters that populate it are quite unlike anybody young Alice has ever met b efore. In this imaginary land she encounters the savagely violent Queen, th e Lachrymose Mock Turtle, the laconic Cheshire Cat and the hookah-smoking C aterpillar, each as surprising and outlandish as the next. Alice's adventur es have made her the stuff of legend, the child heroine par excellence, and ensured that Carroll's book is the best loved and most widely read in chil dren's literature. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, celebrated under his pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was born in 1832, the third in a large and talented family of eleven children. His fascination with word games, puzzles and writing was evident from an early age. He was educated at Rugby School and then Christ Church, Oxford, where he was later appointed lecturer in mathematics and subsequently spent the rest of his life. Alongside his academic life he pursued a career both as a writer and an accomplished amateur photographer. His most famous works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), its sequel Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) and The Hunting o, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000039926. ISBN: 9780451527745
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Imprint: Cambridge University Press, 1990 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: International Environmental Diplomacy: The Management and Resolution of Transfrontier Environmental Problems, Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000006385. ISBN: 9780521395649
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Imprint: New Amer Library, 1987 During World War I Ireland was a torn nation. Many men left to fight in the British army against Germany. Others made secret deals with the Germans to further their aim of Irish independence from England. That Carroll manages to capture the complexity and irony of these divergent events through the fictional lives of one Anglo-Irish family is an accomplishment in itself. B ut he achieves more. In portraying Douglas Tyrell, the family's only son an d an officer in the British army, he shows the anguish of what it means to try to be honorable. Tyrell is a raritya good man who is neither a saint no r a bore. Readers will despair at the nations and leaders who forgot people in quests for power and territory. They will weep with the families of tho se who were sacrificed. A strong novel by the author of Mortal Friends., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000002127. ISBN: 9780451148759
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Imprint: Penguin Books, 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. The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960s, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgi ving streets of New York City. During these years, he chronicled his experi ences, and the result is a diary of unparalleled candor that conveys his al ternately hilarious and terrifying teenage existence. Here is Carroll prowl ing New York City--playing basketball, hustling, stealing, getting high, ge tting hooked, and searching for something pure. The Basketball Diaries was the basis for the film of the same name starring Leonardo DiCaprio. "I met him in 1970, and already he was pretty much universally recognized as the best poet of his generation. . . . The work was sophisticated and elegant. He had beauty." -- Patti Smith, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000039235. ISBN: 9780140100181
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Imprint: Fawcett Books, 1999 Chosen by the Bride Finder, a man blessed with amazing insight, Madeline Br eton has come to Cornwall to meet her new husband, the enigmatic Anatole St . Leger. But her dream of happiness soon diffuses in his overpowering shado w. Anatole knows only too well the legacies that to him have been more curs es than gifts. But as Madeline embarks on an odyssey both otherworldly and undeniably real, she and her husband fall hopelessly in love--until she see s a haunting vision of murder and a terrifying enemy emerges to threaten bo th their lives. . . ., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000033430. ISBN: 9780449003886
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Imprint: Hay House, 1999 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. Do you think your child is special? Well, perhaps he or she is! Self-help p rofessionals Lee Carroll and Jan Tober have collected essays by dozens of d octors, counselors, and other childhood experts that seem to document the a rrival on earth of a newly evolved species of human kiddie referred to here as an "indigo" child. The 10 most common traits are: 1.) They come into th e world with a feeling of royalty. 2.) They have a feeling of deserving to be here. 3.) Self-worth is not a big issue. 4.) They have difficulty with a uthority by ritual or without explanation. 5.) They simply will not do cert ain things. 6.) They get frustrated with systems that don't require creativ e thought. 7.) They often see better ways of doing things. 8.) School is of ten difficult for them and they can seem antisocial. 9.) They will not resp ond to guilt-trip discipline. 10.) They are not shy about letting you know what they need. If your little angel/devil fits this pattern and you are pulling your hair out trying to relate, you may want to read this book before resorting to Ritalin., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000038834. ISBN: 9781561706082
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Imprint: Mira, 2007 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: As the Allied forces occupy Japan at the end of World War II, an intense love affair develops beteen shy Australian Allen Spin Bowler, an interpreter in the British army, and Momoko, a western-educated, elegant young woman whose calmness veils tiredness and defeat. Their love transcends the cultural boundaries forever changing their lives., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000022157. ISBN: 9781741165364
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Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers (Au, 2008 That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken, our moment. One summe r morning in 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of the television and wireles s shop, pronounces his Melbourne suburb one hundred years old. That same mo rning, Rita is awakened by a dream of her husband's snores, yet it is years since Vic moved north. Their son, Michael, has left for the city, and is e ntering the awkward terrain of first love. As the suburb prepares to celebr ate progress, Michael's friend Mulligan is commissioned to paint a mural of the area's history. But what vision of the past will his painting reveal? Meanwhile, Rita's sometime friend Mrs Webster confronts the mystery of her husband's death. And Michael discovers that innocence can only be sustained for so long. The Time We Have Taken is both a meditation on the rhythms of suburban life and a luminous exploration of public and private reckoning d uring a time of radical change. 'a writer worth cherishing. His prose is un failingly assured, lyrical, poised' The Australian 'moving and indelible in its evocation of the extraordinary in ordinary lives' Miles Franklin Liter ary Award Judges, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000026861. ISBN: 9780732278373
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Imprint: Transworld Publishers Ltd, 1992 A humorous sequel to "Sucking Sherbet Lemons". Martin Benson has left St Fi nbar's seminary in disgrace and is struggling to correct social injustices in his role as vice-president of the Overseas Students' Society at Aberystw yth University., Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000010481. ISBN: 9780552994651
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Imprint: Bantam Books, Incorporated, 1989 Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000003325. ISBN: 9780552993487
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Imprint: Talos, 2016 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. Eighteen-year-old Aidan Salt isn't a superhero. With his powerful (and unpr edictable) telekinetic abilities he could be one if he wanted to, but he do esn't. He's unambitious, selfish, and cowardly, and he doesn't want to have to deal with all the paperwork required to become a professional superhero . But since the money, fame, and women that come with wearing the cape are appealing, he decides to become the first supervillain the world has seen i n more than twenty years: Apex Strike. However, he soon finds villainy in a world where the heroes have long since defeated all the supervillains. While half the world's heroes seem to want him dead, the other half want to hire him as their own personal villain to keep them relevant. Choosing the latter course, Aidan enters a world of fa me, fortune, and staged superhero fights that is seemingly everything he ev er dreamed of . . . at least until he sees what truly hides behind the cape - and-mask lifestyle. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are commit, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000035951. ISBN: 9781940456508
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Imprint: bay Books, 2006 A crisp clean hardcover, no markings throughout: We all promise ourselves we'll eat a healthier diet - starting tomorrow. Well, why not start today? Fortunately, following a healthy diet is not about measuring every morsel you eat & counting calories - it's about eating foods in sensible proportions according to the n utritional benefits they offer your body. It;s about balance, not excess. So forget dry crackers that taste like cardboard. 'Naughty' dishes such as lasagne & tiramisu were once blacklisted if you were looking after your health, but not anymore - all you need is a few 'low-fat' adjustments. Good food is one of life's little pleasures - let's not give that up too., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000019484. ISBN: 9781740459341
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Imprint: Basic Books, 1996 When we talk about character, writes Yale law professor Carter (The Culture of Disbelief), integrity "is in some sense prior to everything else"; thus his mix of anecdote and meditation is a worthy but quirky entree to an imp ortant yet hard-to-discuss subject. Integrity, he writes, is more than hone sty?it requires actions and a willingness to spurn conformity. After his co nceptual musings, Carter addresses the role of integrity in performance eva luations (he avoids routine hyperbole), in journalistic objectivity (he thi nks the press should apply to itself the standards it applies to others), i n law and in sports. Carter virtually ignores the broad question of integri ty in business, but he does have interesting, if sometimes convoluted, thou ghts on the role of integrity in marriage. He advises caution in legislatin g integrity in speech or in politics; his arguments spill over, somewhat ov erambitiously, into suggesting how integrity can help clean up politics ("W e must listen to one another") and how the concept can help people face lar ger questions of evil., Fine/Fine Stock number: RWARE0000008886. ISBN: 9780465034666
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Imprint: Allen & Unwin, 2011 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. At forty years old, a successful writer, husband and father, was Paul Carter happily enjoying the fruits of his labour? He'd want to be the first guy to ride around Australia on an underpowered experimental motorcycle that runs on used cooking oil, wouldn't he? Embark on a rollickingly, downright dangerous and often unhinged quest, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000037656. ISBN: 9781741757026
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Imprint: ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUS, 1972 A highly collectible copy, third edition, protected in a new brodart wrappe r, not price clipped, or an ex-lib edition.Illus. by G. Peabody Gardner., Near Fine/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000009804.
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Imprint: University of New Mexico Pre, 1989 In excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlig hting. The spine remains undamaged. Josey Wales was the most wanted man in Texas. His wife and child had been l ost to pre-civil War destruction and, like Jesse James and other young farm ers, he joined the guerrilla soldiers of Missouri—men with no cause bu t survival and no purpose but revenge. Josey Wales and his Cherokee friend, Lone Watie, set out for the West through the dangerous Camanchero territory. Hiding by day, traveling by night, they are joined by an Indian woman named Little Moonlight, and rescue an old woman and her granddaughter from their besieged wagon. The five of them travel toward Texas and win through brash and honest violence, a chance for a new way of life., Fine Stock number: RWARE0000037486. ISBN: 9780826311689
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Imprint: Berkley, 2000 Decorating duo Hillary and Jane go to the south of France to attend a prest igious culinary school-and to uncork a corpse in a vat of wine. Includes Madame Hulot's secret recipe for leg of lamb!, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000016161. ISBN: 9780425175521
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Imprint: Univ. Of New Mexico Press, 1976 Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000021975. ISBN: 9780826308795
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Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2002 UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF A complex, smart mystery filled with intrigue, drama, and more than a littl e danger awaits readers in Stephen L Carter's engaging debut novel, The Emp eror of Ocean Park. After the funeral of his powerful father (a federal judge whose nomination to the US Supreme Court became a public scandal), Talcott Garland, an Afric an-American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel t he meaning of a cryptic note and carry out "the arrangements" his father le ft behind. Armed with fortitude and familial devotion--though paranoid of h is wife's fidelity--Talcott soon finds himself in an investigation that ent angles him with a number of questionable Washington DC denizens, including lawyers and government officials, law professors, the FBI, shady underworld figures, chess masters, and friends and family. All the while Talcott trie s not to hurt his lawyer wife's chance for a judicial nomination--and their fragile marriage--but the closer he comes to unravelling his father's dark secrets, the more dangerous things become. Carter's storytelling skills are adept: tension builds, surprises are genuine and clues are not handed out freely. The prose, are crisp and insightful, as demonstrated in Carter's description of the misguided paths of young lawyers who sacrifice, "all on the altar of career... at last arriving... at their cherished career goals, partnerships, professorships, judgeships, whatever kind of ships they dream of sailing, and then looking around at the angry, empty waters and realizing that they have arrived with nothing, absolutely nothing, and wondering what to do with the rest of, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000002048. ISBN: 9780224062848
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Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd, 1996 A revised version of "The History of Literature in English", this book is a imed at students of EFL at intermediate level. It has eight short chapters on literature from 500 AD to the present., Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000016309. ISBN: 9780140815955
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Imprint: Longman, 2001 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. Features illustrations, charts and a glossary of literary and cultural termsSuitable for upper intermediate and advanced level studentsWritten by experts especially for non-native speakers of English, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000038440. ISBN: 9780582465671
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Imprint: Macmillan, 1977 Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000002128. ISBN: 9780330251693
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Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton General D, 1999 The impact a return to the past can have on the present is the theme of thi s delicately crafted novel by Whitbread winner and Booker nominee Justin Ca rtwright. Dan Silas, who has been living in his native England for the last 27 years returns to the American town where he grew up for his high school reunion. The place resonates with poignant reminders of his teenage years, not least his deeply cherished memories of Gloria, his childhood sweethear t. But a journey back cannot fail to disrupt one's perceptions of one's pas t, and Dan discovers that not only are his memories of his relationship wit h Gloria a false recording of reality but that she gave birth to their daug hter soon after he left America. That daughter, of whom he never knew, is n ow dead, killed by a serial killer a few years previously. Furthermore, his oldest friend Gary has suffered a breakdown and now believes himself to be the brother of a dead Indian chief. Dan tries to resolve his sense of help lessness in the face of a present and a past that no longer make sense by v isiting his daughter's killer in prison and by retrieving some "stolen" Ind ian artefacts from a museum for Gary. Cartwright explores well the dislocat ion Dan experiences as a consequence of this sudden radical corruption of h is life and the way his necessary readjustment throws his present life into sharper focus. At times the novel suffers from a sugary American pathos th at is a little cloying, and some incidents, Gary's illness for example, are treated with frustrating simplicity. Despite this, the novel is a haunting examination of the fragile relationship between experience and identity. -, Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000002534. ISBN: 9780340637852
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Imprint: Fourth Estate, 1996 A crisp clean hardcover, no markings throughout, not an ex-lib:, Very Good/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000020656. ISBN: 9781857024036
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Imprint: Barnes & Noble, 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., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000040129. ISBN: 9780760721940
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Imprint: Little, Brown, 1984 Includes bibliographies. v. 1. American life from 1607 to 1877 -- v. 2. Ame rican life from the Civil War to the present., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000000916. ISBN: 9780316130738
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Imprint: University of Michigan Press, 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. Today's teaching world and its never-ending obligations can, over time, sap the spirit of even the best teachers. What is the trick to staying balance d in mind and spirit? Finding time to reflect on our own learning and to en gage with the world around us. Respite for Teachers offers comforting words to help teachers find that balance and time for reflection. 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. This book of essays includes topics related to teaching and learning in culturally diverse settings. The authors discuss, literally and metaphorically, phenomena in education such as listening, questioning, conversing, observing, grading, taking risks, and connecting. The book is grounded in the educational philosophy that recognizes how reflection and engagement with students and colleagues lead to a satisfying teaching life and ultimately to connecting with the world around them., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000033853. ISBN: 9780472032211
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Imprint: Troll Communications, 1996 Willy has the coolest train set ever. The Tiny Town Express makes its way t hrough Tiny Town, a whole collection of towns that portray different times and places. But problems begin when Willy adds Hurley the Hobo, a gift from his best friend Zack, to the Tiny Town train station. The toy figure with its haunting green eyes seems to be leading all the toys in the house in a revolt against the humans. Willy's parents won't believe the boys when they explain that the toys are making the messes in the house and are plotting to take over. This first volume of the "Deadtime Stories" series has cliffh angers at the end of each chapter that make the book difficult to put down until its frightfully surprising ending., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000003685. ISBN: 9780816742585
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Imprint: Arrow Books, 2005 As a television news correspondent, Alex Callahan has traveled to some of t he most dangerous corners of the globe, covering famine, plague, and war. H e's seen more than his share of blood and death, and knows what it means to be afraid. But what he's never known is the terror that grabs him when, on a tranquil summer afternoon, he ceases to be an observer of the dark side and, to his shock, becomes enmeshed in it. Separated from his wife, and str uggling not to become a stranger to his six-year-old twin sons, Alex is log ging some all-too-rare quality time with the boys when they vanish without a trace amid the hurly-burly of a countryside Renaissance Fair. Then the ph one call comes. A chilling silence, slow, steady breathing, and the familia r, plaintive voice of a child - "Daddy?" - complete the nightmare and set i n motion a juggernaut of frenzy and agony. The longer the police search, ex hausting leads without success, the deeper Alex's certainty grows that time is running out. And when, at last, telltale signs reveal a hidden pattern of bizarre and ghoulish abductions, Alex vows to use his own relentless inv estigative skills to rescue his children from the shadowy figure dubbed The Piper. Whoever this elusive stranger is, the profile that slowly emerges - from previous crimes involving twins, from the zealously secret world of p rofessional magicians, and from the eerie culture of voodoo - suggests that The Piper is a predator unlike any other. A twisted soul hell-bent on fulf illing an unspeakably dark dream. A fiend with a terrifying true calling. W hat Alex Callahan is closing in on is a monster with a mission., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000034661. ISBN: 9780099464945
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Imprint: Prentice Hall, 1995 Written by two highly respected economists and educators, the book uses the "Stories, Graphs, and Equations" approach to make economic concepts ac cessible and relevant to readers with various learning styles. It is known for its unified and logical structure, lively writing style, and clear expl anations. Chapter topics include the scope and method of economics; the eco nomic problem: scarcity and choice; demand, supply, and market equilibrium; household behavior and consumer choice; short- and long-run costs and outp ut decisions; input demand; general equilibrium and the efficiency of perfe ct competition; monopoly and antitrust policy; monopolistic competition and oligopoly; income distribution and poverty; international trade, comparati ve advantage, and protectionism; and economic growth in developing and tran sitional economies. For individuals who want to better understand the funda mentals of microeconomics., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000004978. ISBN: 9780134409184
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Imprint: Ballantine Books, 2003 When part-time legal investigator and full-time artist Danny Cray gets a c hance to pick up some extra cash trying to trace the source of a smear camp aign against a mysterious European tycoon, he jumps at it eagerly. But all is not as it seems in this taut, intricately plotted thriller-- except Dan ny, of course, who turns out to possess unexpected resources of grit and b rains. The action moves from Washington to Geneva to that volatile area of Turkey where tribal politics, religion, and corruption collide with explo sive results. John Case mixes strong descriptive prose, interesting charac ters, a powerful narrative, and a dramatic denouement to come up with a su re winner in his fourth novel, one fans of Ludlum and le Carré are sure to enjoy., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000016965. ISBN: 9780345463326
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Imprint: Cassette & Video Learning Sy, 1992 The most complete and easy to understand beginning bass method available to day. It includes many illustrations showing correct left & right hand techn ique. Styles include alternating bass notes, two beat, eighth notes, walkin g patterns, common rock & roll riffs, and complete discussion of theory as it applies to the bass. Comes with an audio CD that features a full band (b ass, drums, guitar, keyboard, & vocals) playing Good Hearted Woman, Old Tim e Rock & Roll, That'll Be The Day, Wanderer, Peaceful Easy Feeling, Johnny B. Goode, Kansas City, Under My Thumb, Addicted To Love, Billy Jean, She Wo rks Hard For The Money, La Bamba, & others. All music is written in both st andard music notation and tablature., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000013787. ISBN: 9781893907270
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Imprint: Knopf, 1989 A crisp clean hardcover, no markings throughout: Winner of the 1989 National Book Award A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and c ompassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Isla nd's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irasci ble outbursts against the people he must work for, now that he can no longer make his liv ing from the sea. Pierce's one great passion, a fifty-foot fishing boat called Spartina, lies unfinished in his back yard. Determined to get the funds he needs to buy her engine, he f inds himself taking a foolish, dangerous risk. But his real test comes when he must weat her a storm at sea in order to keep his dream alive. Moving and poetic, Spartina is a mast erly story of one man's ongoing struggle to find his place in the world., Very Good+/Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000022755. ISBN: 9780394500980
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Imprint: Knopf, 1998 A crisp clean first edition (as stated), no markings throughout. From the winner of the 1989 National Book Award (for Spartina), a major new novel-- wise, sad, and richly comic--about the meltdown of a marriage again st the backdrop of a gloriously awful congressional campaign. Charlottesvil le, Virginia, 1978: Mike is a successful forty-something lawyer, a onetime congressional staffer who's had it with Washington; Joss, his wife, is a fi lmmaker. They're Virginia liberals with a clan of close-knit friends--a bri ght, edgy, flirty, games-playing group, spinning like a Catherine wheel aro und Mike and Joss. But the sparks that fly between the two are getting hott er and more dangerous, as Joss' restlessness turns to impatience and then a nger. When one of the group introduces them all to the woman he wants to ma rry, things suddenly explode--this new arrival and Joss fall passionately i n love, and their whole world careens out of control. What ensues is tragicomedy, as Mike tries to allay his rage and misery by letting himself get sucked into a trial run for a seat in Congress. He wants to be a hero to someone; instead he becomes the unwitting star of a political farce. Meantime, Joss is struggling with her new life, and their two young daughters (who form a lovingly unmerciful Greek chorus commenting on the action) have to navigate a turmoil in which one parent is a public joke and the other a private scandal. Rarely has the undoing of love been chronicled with such large-hearted humanity., Very Good+/Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000022751. ISBN: 9780679409786
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Imprint: St. Martin's Griffin, 1998 The title of Claudia Casper's first novel, The Reconstruction refers to the skeletal remains of Lucy, a fine example of Australopithecus, an early for erunner of modern-day Homo sapiens. Protagonist Margaret is a sculptor in t he midst of a life crisis who, in the course of assembling casts of Lucy's bones for a museum model, begins reconstructing her own life as well., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000014320. ISBN: 9780312181642
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Imprint: CounterPunch 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. In a series of lively essays, this pioneering book proves that US slang has its strongest wellsprings in nineteenth-century Irish America. "Jazz" and "poker," "sucker" and "scam" all derive from Irish. While demonstrating thi s, Daniel Cassidy simultaneously traces the hidden history of how Ireland f ashioned America, not just linguistically, but through the Irish gambling u nderworld, urban street gangs, and the powerful political machines that gre w out of them. Cassidy uncovers a secret national heritage, long discounted by our WASP-dominated culture. Daniel Cassidy is the founder and co-director of the Irish Studies Program at New College in San Francisco., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000029837. ISBN: 9781904859604
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Imprint: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1989 One of the most celebrated writers and teachers of fiction, Richard Bausch, pairs his insight and inspiration with Norton's trusted editorial standard s to deliver the finest teaching anthology available.The Norton Anthology o f Short Fiction features 152 worksâ??many of them new to this editionâ??by 130 authors, offering a broad collection of short stories with the most tho ughtful annotations and apparatus on the market. With a new Authors in Dept h feature, an extensive Reviews and Commentaries section, and expanded cove rage of Writers on Writing, the Eighth Edition provides a wealth of critici sm of key works and authors, as well as the opportunity to look deeper into the craft of fiction., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000039996. ISBN: 9780393959345
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Imprint: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: The House of Night series is set in a world very much like our own, except in 16-year-old Zoey Redbird's world, vampyres have always existed. In this first book in the series, Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become an adult vampire--that is, if she makes it through the Change. Not all of those who are chosen do. It's tough to begin a new life, away from her parents and friends, and on top of that, Zoey finds she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite club, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny--with a little help from her new vampyre friends., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000022616. ISBN: 9780312360269
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Imprint: Pocket Books (Mm), 1985 Carlos Castaneda takes the reader into the very heart of sorcery, challengi ng both imagination and reason, shaking the very foundations of our belief in what is "natural" and "logical." His landscape is full of terrors and mysterious forces, as sharply etched as a flash of lightning on the deserts and mountains where don Juan takes him to pursue the sorcerer's knowledge-the knowledge that it is the Eagle that gives us, at our births, a spark of awareness, that it expects to reclaim at the end of our lives and which the sorcerer, through his discipline, fights to retain. Castaneda describes how don Juan and his party, left thisworld- "the warriors of don Juan's party had caught me for an eternal instant, before they vanished into the total light, before the Eagle let them go through"-and how he, himself, upon witnessing such a sight, jumped into the abyss., Good Stock number: RWARE0000035411. ISBN: 9780671619329
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Imprint: Touchstone, 1979 At the center of the book is a new and formidable figure, dona Soledad, a woman whose powers are turned against Castaneda in a struggle that almost consumes him. Dona Soledad has been taught by don Juan, transformed by his teachings from a bent and gray-haired old woman into a sensual, lithe, de eply sexual figure of awesome and mysterious power, a sorceress whose miss ion is to test Castaneda by a series of terrifying tricks. Castaneda's com bat with her, his gradual realization that she not only derives her power from don Juan but is fulfilling his plans, is all a prelude to an astonish ing discovery. Castaneda unfolds a sorcerer's party ,a small closed societ y in which the teachings of don Juan have become a way of life., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000018653. ISBN: 9780671248512
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Imprint: Fashion First Aid, 2013 In excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlig hting. The spine remains undamaged. The Dirty Side of Fashion is a fun yet informational book containing laundry tips and simple solutions to save your wardrobe from the dirty side of life. Fashion First Aid expert, Kim Castellano, takes a lighthearted but scientific approach to the issues of stubborn stains, destructive washing machines, and expensive clothes that don't stand up to the abuse of life. Learn the best way to wash delicate items, remove stains (of all kinds), avoid dry cleaning and keep your wardrobe in top shape. Included are 33 stickers, 10 hanger cards, and 4 different product samples. There are also links to exclusive how-to videos for fun activities like doing the jelly roll and cleaning your washing machine. The money you save by following the advice in The Dirty Side of Fashion will pay for the book many times over. In fact, it might also be a life-saver for the fashionista on your gift list., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000035275. ISBN: 9780615865904
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Imprint: Perrin, 1998 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. Joseph Fouché, duc d'Otrante (1759-1820), servit et trahit beaucoup d'hommes, de régimes et de partis. Mais comme il en est pour Talleyrand, avec qui il est souvent mis en parallèle, son prodigieux opportunisme, son génie de l'intrigue, sa duplicité, font parfois oublier qu'il avait l'étoffe d'un homme d'Etat. Ancien élève des oratoriens, il enseigne à Niort et Arras, où il se lie avec Robespierre, et à Nantes dont il devient député à la Convention. Il vote la mort du roi avant d'orchestrer les mitraillages de Lyon. Arrêté en 1795, amnistié, ministre de la Police en 1799, il met rapidement sur pied un formidable réseau d'agents et d'espions. Doué d'une grande habileté et d'une intelligence politique aiguë, il sait se rendre indispensable à Barras et surtout à Napoléon qui, sauf pendant une courte période, le maintient à son poste jusqu'en 1809. Devenu au lendemain de Waterloo le chef du gouvernement provisoire, bien qu'il ait été de nouveau ministre de la Police pendant les Cent- Jours, il contribue au retour de Louis XVIII, et le frère de Louis XVI ne pourra faire autrement que de prendre ce régicide pour ministre de la Police avant de le contraindre à l'exil en 1816.Utilisant une documentation en partie inédite ainsi que les Mémoires de Fouché que l'on a longtemps crus apocryphes, André Castelot restitute les différents visages de ce grand cynique. Napoléon s'étonnant un jour qu'il ait voté la mort de Louis XVI, Fouché répliqua froidement : "C'est le premier service que j'ai, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000033964. ISBN: 9782262014261
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