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Imprint: [San Francisco] California H, 1992 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: RWARE0000030019.
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Imprint: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2010 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. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A big sweeping novel of friendship and marr iage" (The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered--and shadowed--by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and fi nds it among a tightly knit group of outsiders. Surviving marriages happy a nd troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston, South Carolina's dark legac y of racism and class divisions, these friends will endure until a final te st forces them to face something none of them are prepared for. Spanning two turbulent decades, South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest: a masterpiece from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000039214. ISBN: 9780385344074
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Imprint: Bantam, 1987 Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He's all Marine --- fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife -- beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born at hlete whose best never satisfies the big man. Ben's got to stand up, even f ight back, against a father who doesn't give in -- not to his men, not to h is wife, and certainly not to his son. Bull Meecham is undoubtedly Pat Conr oy's most explosive character -- a man you should hate, but a man you will love., Good Stock number: RWARE0000027887. ISBN: 9780553268928
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Imprint: Bantam, 1987 For sheer storytelling finesse, Conroy will have few rivals this season. Hi s fourth novel is a seductive narrative, told with bravado flourishes, port entous foreshadowing, sardonic humor and eloquent turns of phrase. Like The Great Santini, it is the story of a destructive family relationship wherei n a violent father abuses his wife and children. Henry Wingo is a shrimper who fishes the seas off the South Carolina coast and regularly squanders wh at little money he amasses in farcical business schemes; his beautiful wife , Lila, is both his victim and a manipulative and guilt-inflicting mother. The story is narrated by one of the children, Tom Wingo, a former high scho ol teacher and coach, now out of work after a nervous breakdown. Tom altern ately recalls his growing-up years on isolated Melrose Island, then switche s to the present in Manhattan, where his twin sister and renowned poet, Sav annah, is recovering from a suicide attempt. One secret at the heart of thi s tale is the fate of their older brother Luke; we know he is dead, but the circumstances are slowly revealed. Also kept veiled is "what happened on t he island that day"a grisly scene of horror, rape and carnage that eventual ly explains much of the sorrow, pain and emotional alienation endured by th e Wingo siblings., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000002298. ISBN: 9780553268881
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Imprint: EU-Japan Centre for Industri, 1999 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout, not an ex-lib., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000020207. ISBN: 9784931240032
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Imprint: Grand Central Publishing, 1998 Good fictional cops don't fade away--they get another sequel. In K.C. Const antine's novel, Cranks and Shadows, Rocksburg P.A.'s police chief, Mario Ba lzic, retired. Now, in Family Values, he's bored out of his mind and itchin g for something to do. Before he can drive himself, his wife, his bartender and his friends completely nuts, Deputy Attorney General Warren Livingood arrives to make Balzic an offer: investigate a 17-year- old murder that just gets messier with every passing year in exchange for the title of Special Investigator, state credentials and thirty-five dollars an hour., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000013040. ISBN: 9780446605946
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Imprint: Conway Quality, 1995 Very Good/Good Stock number: RWARE0000019890. ISBN: 9780963146458
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Imprint: William Heinemann Limited, 1992 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: In this memoir the author describes her isolated childhood in the Australian outback. She became her father's farmhand, and when he died prematurely, she moved to Sydney, aged 11 years, and had to learn to adapt to a new and alien set of rules. Later she started drinking under the stress of looking after a depressive mother, then became involved in intellectual university life and began a reassessment of the political, cultural and spiritual ideas she had been brought up with. Eventually she became a successful career woman., Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000017250. ISBN: 9780749303600
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Imprint: Hutchinson, 1990 A highly collectible first edition (sixth impression)protected in a new bro dart wrapper, not an ex-lib or book club edition, no markings throughout. "A timely and courageous book." -- John McGahern, Sunday Times "There have been several other lives of Collins, but none has assembled suc h wealth of detail." -- Independent on Sunday "The events described in this book can usefully be learned from by those wh o govern Ireland now." - - Financial Times "A lively and colourful adventure story with a fascinating, yet recognisably human, hero." -- Dublin Sunday Press, Near Fine/Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000010474. ISBN: 9780091741068
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Imprint: Putnam Publishing Group, 1995 A wonderful tight clean first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper,u nclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. A research scientist discovers a mood-altering, enhancing drug and involves himself and other researchers in a deadly experiment. Blended with this story of greed and laboratories gone awry is a woman's relationship troubles and her increasingly troubled conviction that something has gone wrong., Fine/Fine Stock number: RWARE0000007131. ISBN: 9780399139710
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Imprint: Profile Books Ltd, 2004 This delightful, quick-footed book celebrates the English language by explo ring the rich treasure house of spelling in all its variety - setting tests and proposing rules, with illuminating quotations and tantalising lists He adrillaz and Misteeq; Naming Pop Groups; miniscule parallels; non-letters; the three-letter rule; Faeder ure pup e eart on heofunum; UK number plates; HipHop spelling; East Anglian place-names; the E-cancellation spelling tes t - these are just some of the intriguing subjects presented in this must-h ave, must-give little book., Near Fine/Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000027243. ISBN: 9781861976239
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Imprint: Roc, 2002 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. Anyone else would have learned by now: when trouble comes knocking, don't open the door. But there's a reason why Garrett's still in the P.I. business after all these years-he's not one to learn his lessons. Maybe that's why he lets himself get roped into being a bodyguard for Kip Prose, an obnoxious kid being threatened by creatures that can't quite be described. But before Kip Prose has a chance to explain what he's done to get on the hit list of some nameless nasties, the precocious Prose is abducted, and the chase begins..., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031131. ISBN: 9780451458759
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Imprint: Roc, 1988 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 Stormwarden's children have been kidnapped and Garrett, P.I. is on the case. But caught between the bewitching beauty of a half-elf and the fearsome power of a horde of ogres, Garrett has to think twice before sacrificing all for a fortune in gold-after all, even in this enchanted land, he's only human., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031136. ISBN: 9780451153715
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Imprint: Roc, 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. She was tall, blonde, and offering P.I. Garrett an irresistible fee to take a case that seemed open and shut. But in a town of elves and humans, thugs and swindlers, Garrett had learned to take a long, hard look before saying yes... Editorial Reviews, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031096. ISBN: 9780451157737
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Imprint: Berkley, 2008 Last seen in 2006's Crisis, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomer y diligently investigates an abrupt rise in infection deaths at the start o f bestseller Cook's lively new thriller. All the deaths can be traced to th ree Manhattan hospitals owned by Angels Healthcare. Unbeknownst to Montgome ry, Angels, which specializes in high-profit surgeries of amply insured pat ients, is on the verge of going public and can't risk any bad publicity. Sh e's also unaware that Angels' main financial backer is a local Mafia don, w ho's prepared to kill anyone standing in the way of his investment. Cook sm oothly juggles several subplots--one involving Montgomery's husband and fel low coroner, Jack Stapleton, who's suffered a serious knee injury playing b asketball--and ekes out maximum value from one of his regular standbys, bum bling hoods. It all adds up to an entertaining mix of suspense, action and education about medical issues., As New Stock number: RWARE0000015132. ISBN: 9780425222881
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Imprint: Pan, 2008 New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton return s in the stunning new novel from the master of the medical thriller- a rippe d-from-the-headlines tale of an innovative doctor's dangerous downward spir al. --This text refers to the Audible Audio Edition edition., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000038278. ISBN: 9780330457545
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Imprint: Roc, 1994 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 return of the bestselling Garrett series. Someone has barged in on Garrett, the hardboiled human detective in a fantasy world, with tales of sex, intrigue and murder. The mystery and danger come full force when a rich woman wants Garrett to find her missing daughter--or does she want him as a hitman? Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. . . ., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031107. ISBN: 9780451453051
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Imprint: Roc, 1990 Everyone wants to find it a treasure so rich it makes even a hard-boiled de tective like Garrett nervous. Its the legendary Book of Shadows, made of br ass and holding secrets no mortal was ever meant to master and Garrett must make sure no one ever has the chance to work its spells on an unsuspecting and unprotected world., Good Stock number: RWARE0000031177. ISBN: 9780451450081
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Imprint: Tor Books, 1990 Dreams of Steel is Book 5 in Glen Cook's fantasy masterpiece, The Chronicle s of the Black Company. Croaker has fallen and, following the Company's disastrous defeat at Dejago re, Lady is one of the few survivors- -determined to avenge the Company and herself against the Shadowmasters, no matter what the cost. But in assembling a new fighting force from the dregs and rabble of Taglios , she finds herself offered help by a mysterious, ancient cult of murder--c ompetent, reliable, and apparently committed to her goals. Meanwhile, far away, Shadowmasters conspire against one another and the wor ld, weaving dark spells that reach into the heart of Taglios. And in a hidd en grove, a familiar figure slowly awakens to find himself the captive of a n animated, headless corpse. Mercilessly cutting through Taglian intrigues, Lady appears to be growing stronger every day. All that disturbs her are the dreams which afflict her by night--dreams of carnage, of destruction, of universal death, unceasing..., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031134. ISBN: 9780812502107
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Imprint: Roc, 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. Riots between humans and trolls, elves, and other non-humans have plunged Tunfaire into near chaos. Garrett finds himself pulled into the game when a powerful gang of human rightists tries to shake down his employer?and ends up caught in a conspiracy of hate that pits man against? everybody!, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031125. ISBN: 9780451454799
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Imprint: Blue Book Publications, 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. Full Faith & Credit: A Novel About Financial Collapse-A sudden decline in the dollar leads to a steep correction in the stock market. As negative economic news piles up, financial markets go from bad to worse sending stocks and bonds into a relentless tailspin. A panic ensues. The stock market collapses further and most investors are wiped out. The booming economic expansion turns into a sharp credit contraction and depression. Consumer buying shrivels and business activity plummets. Mortgage foreclosures are epidemic. Unemployment soars., F/NF Stock number: RWARE0000007466. ISBN: 9781886768499
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Imprint: Bantam, 1999 Paul Graves is a crime writer obsessed with a single crime--the murder of his own teenaged sister on their Southern farm almost 40 years before. To w ork out his guilt and fear, he has created a series of mysteries set at the turn of the century, in which a dedicated detective pursues a fiendish kil ler called Kessler--the real name of the man who slaughtered his sister. Hi s obsession has made Graves a sad, lonely man, "living thinly, without conn ections," already preparing to kill himself when he can no longer write his books., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000016950. ISBN: 9780553578201
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Imprint: Berkley, 2006 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Cook's twenty-fifth medical thriller revisits medical examiners Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery, whose romantic relationship has hit a major bump. Approaching her forty-third birthday, Laurie wants a family and has grown impatient with Jack's reluctance to commit. She walks out on Jack, but she can't avoid him at work. She soon finds herself absorbed in a puzzling case: 28- year-old Sean McGillan has landed on her table, and she can't determine what killed him. Sean had just undergone routine knee surgery, but she can't find any reason why he went into cardiac arrest in his hospital bed. When another young, seemingly healthy patient dies, she suspects foul play. She finds an ally in Dr. Roger Rosseau, the chief of the medical staff at Manhattan General, who takes a personal interest in Laurie, who has medical problems of her own: she might be carrying the genetic marker for breast cancer. When the death toll at Manhattan General increases, Laurie and Jack are consumed with the mystery even as their continued involvement in the investigation places them in peril. Fans of Cook's previous thrillers will be happy to see the return of two popular characters., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000018283. ISBN: 9780425207345
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Imprint: Ace, 1985 May 1975. St. Louis. In a snow-swept street, a cop finds the body of a man who died fifty years ago. It's still warm. July 1866, Lidice, Bohemia: A te enage girl calmly watches her parents die as another being takes control of her body. August 2058, Prague: Three political rebels flee in to the past, taking with them a terrible secret. As past, present, and future collide, one man holds the key to the puzzle. And if he doesn't fit it together, the world he knows will fall to pieces. It's just A Matter of Time!, Good Stock number: RWARE0000031179. ISBN: 9780441522132
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Imprint: Bantam Books, Incorporated, 1994 In Cook's 11th novel (among them Edgar nominees Blood Innocents and Sacrifi cial Ground ), the violence is all in the past (save for a car crash) but t he level of terror is daunting. Fortyish narrator Steve Farris is an archit ect who lives with his wife and son in the suburbs. For him architecture `` is a world which has no room for chance,'' but one that changes drastically when he is contacted by Rebecca Soltero, who wants to interview him for a book she's writing about men who murdered their families. For in 1959 Steve 's father fatally shotgunned his wife and their teenage daughter and son, t hen vanished. Nine-year-old Stevie, desperately missing his gifted 16-year- old sister, managed to block out all thoughts about the deaths. Now Rebecca lures him into talking, and he is forced to acknowledge the questions that have haunted his subconscious mind: Did his father mean to kill him, too? What secret did his father and his sister share? The novel keeps shifting b ack and forth in time, from the present to ``that last year'' to the years before Steve's birth to the immediate aftermath of the deaths, but always c omes back to the horrible deed--the excruciating how and the unanswerable w hy. The deceptively simple writing is harrowing as Steve allows his mind to probe more deeply, examining remembered looks, words and nuances. Terror b uilds and the ending to this chilling study in psychological suspense is a dizzying jolt., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000003536. ISBN: 9780553565324
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Imprint: Roc, 1989 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. SomeoneĀ?or somethingĀ?is murdering the employees of retired General Stantor. Now, this growing legion of the dead wants to add the general to their ranks. And itĀ's up to Garrett and the half-elf Morley Dotes to protect Stantor and find the killer..., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031127. ISBN: 9780451160133
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Imprint: Roc, 1995 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. Garet , P. I., is on the case There are some new gods in the town of TunFaire, but temple real estate on the Street of Dreams is at a premium. So the big gods on the block issued a challenge-find the "key" to the one temple still available. When two rival pantheons try to hire Garrett, he knows he is in for it..., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031092. ISBN: 9780451454782
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Imprint: Roc, 1991 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. Blood soaked blades had been taking their toll among the luscious lovelies in Garrett's home city of TunFaire. And though Garrett could be as civic-minded as the next guy - unless the next guy was Captain Block of the Watch - the private eye wasn't sure he really wanted to take on a serial killer psycho who did too good a carving job and never left any of the blood behind. Still, having Block pay him for his services with lots of ill-gotten government funds, and having his own partner, the Dead Man, strenuously urge him to take the case, proved an irresistible combination for Garrett. And so the top - and only - private eye around found himself lining up his allies for a search that would take him from the lowest slums to the highest estates, from confrontations with butterfly-and-magic- spitting enemies to run-ins with the king of crime's wayward daughter to a final encounter with an ancient evil which had once again been loosed on his unsuspecting town ..., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031138. ISBN: 9780451451088
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Imprint: A Hodder Arnold Publication, 2001 A crisp clean softcover, no markings, throughout. This much needed book will be an excellent text for courses in Language Acq uisition within second language teacher education programs. There is a weal th of new knowledge, new vocabulary, and new perspectives which not only co ntribute to specialized aspects of teacher training but will enrich student s' general education as well -- Patsy Lightbrown, Professor of Applied Ling uistics Vivian Cook aims to provide a book which is not too academic, and w hich is relevant to the classroom teacher; he has succeeded admirably. And although intended for teachers, this book should also prove interesting to anyone who has ever themselves attempted to learn a foreign language. -- La nguage International ...a very valuable text for foreign language teachers and those in training and should feature...on reading lists of initial teac her education courses. -- Language Learning Journal Product Descri ption The first two editions of Second Language Learning Theories were world wide best sellers, admired for their ability to show students interested in becoming language teachers the relevance of second language learning research and theory. This third edition offers a fuller discussion of language teaching and, in particular, highlights some of the places where research contradicts standard language teaching beliefs by analyzing some standard TEFL handbooks and coursebooks from different countries. The broad framework and approach of the successful second edition have been maintained in addition to extensive updating and revision., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000016990. ISBN: 9780340761922
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Imprint: Tor Fantasy, 1989 After the devastating battle at the Tower of Charm, Croaker leads the great ly diminished Black Company south, in search of the lost Annals. The Annals will be returned to Khatovar, eight thousand miles away, a city that may e xists only in legend...the origin of the first Free Companies. Every step of the way the Company is hounded by shadowy figured and carrion -eating crows. As they march every southward, through bug infested jungle, rivers dense with bloodthirsty pirates, and cities, dead and living, haunte d by the passage of the Company north, their numbers grow until they are th ousands strong. But always they are watched--by the Shadowmasters--a deadly new enemy: twisted creature that deal in darkness and death: powerful, shadowy creatures bent on smothering the world in their foul embrace. This is the first round in a deadly game, a game that the Black Company cannot ea hope to win., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031123. ISBN: 9780812533828
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Imprint: Roc, 1992 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. Mercenary soldiers in the service of the Lady, the Black Company stands against the rebels of the White Rose. They are tough men, proud of honoring their contracts. The Lady is evil, but so, too, are those who falsely profess to follow the White Rose, reincarnation of a centuries- dead heroine. Yet now some of the Company have discovered that the mute girl they rescued and sheltered is truly the White Rose reborn. Now there may be a path to the light, even for such as they. If they can survive it., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031142. ISBN: 9780140165548
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Imprint: Roc, 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. An investigator is hired to track down a woman to whom his dead pal has left a fortune. His task turns out to be much harder than he'd expected since he's up against gnomes instead of humans. A nasty collection of vampires, centaurs, and gnomes have him on the double take at every turn., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031173. ISBN: 9780451150615
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Imprint: Routledge, 1992 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 comprehensive introduction to advertising discourse examines the language of contemporary advertising, not as an isolated object, but in complex interaction with the texts around it, with music and pictures and, importantly, with the people who make and experience it. Clearly explaining relevant theories of linguistics and poetics, each chapter ends with a series of stimulating exercises, and theoretical discussion is accompanied by examples from literary and sub-literary texts and recent advertisements. Putting forward the controversial view that adverts answer a need for play and display in contemporary society, Guy Cook explores the social function of advertising, moving from the uses of sound and sight, through creativity and word play to the poetic intricacies of the text to assess the effect of these on the people who receive adverts everyday, and whose identity is partly constructed by them., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000035588. ISBN: 9780415041713
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Imprint: Tor Fantasy, 1989 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. ...embedded in the trunk of the scion of the godtree, it contains the essence of the maddest of the Ten Who Were Taken...The Dominator. Defeated by the Lady and cast from this world, all that was left of him was a foul trace of lingering evil. But the graveyard that was once the Barrowland contains more secrets than dead. All who would possess the power of the Dominator are drawn to the spike. A foolhardy band of thieves is the first to reach it, and a rapacious and malign spirit is unleashed on an unwary world. The forces gather, sides are drawn, and mortal men can only die as the Dark Lords battle for domination., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031094. ISBN: 9780812502206
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Imprint: Corgi, 1991 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: RWARE0000036652. ISBN: 9780552133272
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Imprint: Roc, 1992 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: RWARE0000031143. ISBN: 9780140165555
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Imprint: Corgi, 1988 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: RWARE0000036352. ISBN: 9780552125666
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Imprint: Corgi, 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. After an oracle's prediction, Yenn Olas becomes involved in the life-long feud of the warlords of the Collosnon Empire. She was a witness to war, madness and wizardry, and would play a greater part in the events of her time that a mere oracle has any right to expect., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000036662. ISBN: 9780552131315
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Imprint: Corgi Books, 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. Togura would not have chosen the profession of questing hero, but in the end he had no choice. He was caught between The Wordsmiths and The Warguild, two organizations which vied for power in the dismal kingdom of Sung, a land famous for being so often and richly insulted., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000036314. ISBN: 9780552131308
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Imprint: Putnam Pub Group, 1998 A highly collectible, tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. Cook cooks up another medical thriller, with a bunch of E.coli bacteria as villain, an underdone hamburger as murder weapon, and a little boy as victim. His doctor-father soon discovers that something far more sinister than bad hygiene is the cause., VG+/VG+ Stock number: RWARE0000007364. ISBN: 9780399143168
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Imprint: Arrow, 2003 A unique collection of Cook's finest and funniest writings -- of which many have never before been published., Fine Stock number: RWARE0000012697. ISBN: 9780099443254
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Imprint: Rough Guides, 1996 A remarkably complete -- and compact -- travel guide to the entire United S tates. I scrutinized pages for two cities I know intimately (New Haven, CT, and Seattle, WA) and one I just visited (Palm Springs, CA) and can honestl y say that this book does a very good job of capturing the essential feelin g of each place, and of describing the high and low points of each locale. As is inevitable for such a copious compendium, there are entries for estab lishments that have gone out of business (The Unicorn and Costermonger), or entries I wished they had included (The Museum of Toasters). But on the wh ole, it's hard to imagine a more comprehensive and useful volume for the pe rennially peripatetic US traveler. Two suitcases up, up, and away!, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000012105. ISBN: 9781858281612
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Imprint: Dodd, 1961 Very Good/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000019683.
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Imprint: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006 From the famous BBC correspondent and television host comes a remarkably in sightful and detailed firsthand portrait of America during the early days o f World War II. Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Alistair Cooke, a newly naturalized American citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing monumental change. Cooke traveled small highways, with t heir advertising signs and their local topography, in an age before the int erstate highway system. In The American Home Front - a fascinating artifact, a charming travelogue, and a sharp portrait of America - Cooke chronicles the regional glories he encounters and the reactions of the citizens to war, from indifference to grief, from opportunism to resilience under military threat. Filled with touching personal stories of the effects of war, from a Japanese family facing internment that tries to sell Cooke their car, to the experiences of the unemployed relocating in hopes of jobs in a gunpowder factory, The American Home Front is the work of an experienced, talented journalist; it is intelligent, touching, and funny., Good/Good Stock number: RWARE0000035615. ISBN: 9780871139399
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Imprint: Crown Forum, 2016 A call to arms for the growing movement of "Conservatarians"--members of th e right who are fiscally conservative but socially liberal--and a fascinati ng look at conservatism's past and future. There is an underserved movement budding among conservatives, in which fisc al responsibility, constitutional obedience, and controlled government spen ding remain crucial tenets, but issues like gay marriage and drug control a re approached with a libertarian bent. In The Conservatarian Manifesto, Charles C.W. Cooke engages with the data a nd the philosophy behind this movement, applauding conservatarianism as a f orce that can help Republicans mend the many ills that have plagued their p arty in recent years. Conservatarians are vexed by Republicans' failure to cut the size and scope of Washington D.C., but they are critical of some li bertarians for their unacceptable positions on abortion, national defense, and immigration. They applaud conservatives' efforts to protect Second Amen dment rights--efforts that have recently been wildly successful--but they s ee the War on Drugs as an unmitigated disaster that goes against everything conservatives ought to value. All movements run the risk of stagnation, and of losing touch with the principles and values that made them successful in the first place. In this book, Charles Cooke shows the way back to a better and more honest conservatism that champions limited government, reality-based policy, and favor for the smallest minority of all: the individual., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000034794. ISBN: 9780804139748
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Imprint: Transworld Publishers Limite, 1985 There would be times when Riah Millican came to regret that her husband had learned to read and write, and then shared his knowledge with her and thei r children. For this was Durham in the 1830's, when employers tended to reg ard the spread of education with suspicion. But now Seth Millican was dead and she was a widow with the need to find a home and a living for herself a nd her children. The chance of becoming a housekeeper didn't work out, but it led to Moor Ho use and a scholarly recluse obsessed with that very book learning that coul d open so many doors and yet create so many problems; especially with her d aughter, Biddy, who was not only bright, but witful... THE BLACK VELVET GOWN is the story of a mother and daughter, often at odds with each other, facing the need to challenge and fight the prejudice of an age-a narrative of great power and diversity that is one of Catherine Cookson's major achievements., Good Stock number: RWARE0000002209. ISBN: 9780552124737
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Imprint: Transworld Publishers Limite, 1995 The day Joe Remington brought his new bride to Fell Rise, he had already se nsed she might not settle easily into his home just outside the Tyneside to wn of Fellburn. Making plain her disapproval of Joe's familiarity with the servants, questioning the donation of food to striking miners' families-the se objections and more soon rubbed Joe and the local people up the wrong wa y, a problem he could easily have done without, for this was 1926, the year of the General Strike, the effects of which would nowhere be felt more acu tely than in this heartland of the North-East. Then when Elaine became pregnant, she saw it as a disaster and only the wil lingness of her unmarried sister Betty to come and see her through her conf inement made it bearable. But in the long run, would Betty's presence only serve to widen the rift between husband and wife, or would she help to brin g about a reconciliation? Catherine Cookson's powerful new novel spans the years of change leading into the Second World War and explores the many facets of a marriage based on initial passion rather than love., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000003583. ISBN: 9780552136228
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Imprint: Corgi, 1999 There were many who said of Riley (as he was almost always known) that in h is early life he appeared to be older than his years. With a harsh childhoo d behind him, he left school with little in the way of knowledge but brimfu l of optimism, and secure in the knowledge that one of his teachers, Fred B eardsley, had faith in him; although at the time neither of them could have envisaged how the other was to influence the course of their lives. Fred Beardsley, who much to everyone's surprise had become acquainted with and married Louise Barrington, a teacher at his school, within a matter of weeks, ran into Riley while they were on their honeymoon in Paris. Riley sa id he'd won first prize in a talent competition - hence his presence, with his uncle, in the city for the weekend. In addition, he told the happy coup le that as a result of winning the competition he had been offered a 'posit ion' at The Little Palace Theatre in Fellburn. Fred and Louise, who suspected that the position' was probably that of a do gsbody, nevertheless encouraged Riley, whom they knew to be an expert mimic . After a time, however, it became clear to them that Riley had - actually been appointed assistant stage- manager. And then he surprised them by formi ng a close friendship with the leading lady, thirty-something Nyrene Forbes -Mason, who he claimed was nurturing his burgeoning talent as an actor. Wha t Riley hadn't told them, however, was that he had great hopes of the relat ionship developing into something more than friendship ... Over the subsequent years, Fred and Louise observed with amazement the rise to fame and fortune of this remarkable lad,, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000011735. ISBN: 9780552141550
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Imprint: Transworld Publishers Limite, 2000 Almost immediately Cookson establishes one theme that she emphasizes consta ntly: English society before World War I had class barriers. Fewer than 50 pages into the novel, perceptive readers recognize that Agnes Thorman and R obert Bradley will cross those barriers to marry. As Agnes's monetary fortu nes decline and Robert's advance, the absurdity of the division grows more apparent. Yet, Agnes's and Robert's affection is opposed by her profligate brothers and his fellow servants. Because the outcome is never in doubt, Co okson must use madness, murder, and sexual suggestion to keep the plot chur ning., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000000977. ISBN: 9780552145459
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Imprint: Transworld Publishers Limite, 1997 The son and grandson of cobblers, Samuel Fairbrother owns a series of boot factories. He buys a Newcastle mansion as a means of showing off his wealth and fortune. Totally out of his social depth, he relies on his butler Mait land to tell him how to dress, when to have a party, and whom to invite. Sa m is a crude, possessive man who blusters loudly when he does not get his w ay. He knows he is considered an upstart. When Sam and his wife separate, h e insists that his oldest child, Janet, trained as a librarian, stay with h im. She and Maitland fall in love, but first one disaster and then another postpone their wedding. Cookson skillfully shows the class conflicts that r esult when a tradesman tries to climb beyond his station. Cookson, a perenn ial favorite (The Obsession,), has written another enjoyable tale of love a nd conflict in late 19th-century England., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000003540. ISBN: 9780552140379
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