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Imprint: Signet Book, 1985 The setting is glamorous Beverly Hills, where casual sex and good weather a re taken for granted, driving ambition is commonplace, and true love is the rarest commodity of all. Four women, all of a certain age, all friends, fa ce major, potentially devastating, changes in their heretofore well-ordered lives., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000000563. ISBN: 9780451134707
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Imprint: Europa Editions, 2010 A mysterious death, unusual car accident, and anonymous threats have one th ing in common-- the victims are all members of the Good Novel bookstore's s ecret selection committee. Set in Paris, this tale combines mystery, romanc e, and French theology and lit., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031978. ISBN: 9781933372822
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Imprint: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr, 1999 Peter Costello takes you on a tour of Dublin pubs most frequented by famous Irish literary personalities, noting the sights to watch for along the way . He describes the background to pub culture, how it arose in the nineteent h century, the finer points of pub etiquette, and peculiar customs and prac tices. He recounts the history of the fourteen best-known pubs in Dublin an d their famous clientele, including James Joyce, James Stephens, W.B. Yeats , Oliver St J. Gogarty, Brendan Behan, Anthony Cronin, Myles na Gopaleen, P atrick Campbell, and many others. Fully illustrated, this elegant little bo ok also includes many contemporary descriptions and quotations. Based on th e hugely popular Jameson Dublin Pub Crawl, Dublin?s Literary Pubs is a fabu lous guide to the pubs that have played a special part in Irish life and wr iting for a century and more., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000027241. ISBN: 9780773518148
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Imprint: Warner Books, 1990 The amazing exploits of the Soviet "Cambridge spy ring" have been extensive ly written about since Anthony Blunt, the queen's art advisor, was unmasked in 1979. British historian Costello provides a fascinating, massively rese arched portrait of the Soviet moles. His conclusions must be viewed cautiou sly, however, since most British secrets are still classified and since "a wilderness of mirrors" confronts anyone attempting to undo these labyrinths . More sweeping in his conclusions than Peter Wright's Spycatcher (Viking, 1987; see The Spycatcher Affair, below), Costello sees Blunt as the "first man" in the Cambridge ring, and the highly placed Guy Laddelle as the Sovie t's "grandfather mole.", Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000005650. ISBN: 9780446357838
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Imprint: Plume, 1988 "A Meridian book." Bibliography: p. 325-328. Includes index., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000010947. ISBN: 9780452009509
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Imprint: Soho Crime, 2005 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 series kickoff is an embarrassment of riches: Holmesian sleuthing, po litical satire, and [a] droll comic study of a prickly late bloomer."-- Kirk us Reviews (starred review) "The sights, smells, and colors of Laos practically jump of the pages of th is inspired, often wryly witty first novel."--Denver Post "A wonderfully fresh and exotic mystery. . . . If Cotterill . . . had done nothing more than treat us to Siri's views on the dramatic, even comic cris es that mark periods of government upheaval, his debut mystery would still be fascinating. But the multiple cases spread out on Siri's examining table . . . are not cozy entertainments, but substantial crimes that take us int o the thick of political intrigue."-- The New York Times Book Review "In Siri, Cotterill has created a detective as distinctive as Maigret or Po irot."--Orlando Sentinel "The Soho Press crime series . . . has done mystery connoisseurs everywhere a favor by adding Colin Cotterill to its publishing list. The author gives us exotic locations; a world that few of us know well; crisp, intelligent, and often- witty writing; and, most of all, a hero unlike any other." --The Philadelphia Inquirer Laos, 1975. The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over this former French colo ny. Dr. Siri Paiboun, a 72-year-old Paris-trained doctor, is appointed nati onal coroner. Although he has no training for the job, there is no one else ; the rest of the educated class has fled. He is expected to come up with the answers the p, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000035186. ISBN: 9781569474181
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Imprint: Rolf Institute, The, 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., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000039866. ISBN: 9780930385019
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Imprint: 9780070132351, 1988 In excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlig hting. The spine remains undamage Since its publication,Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd has been the inv estment bible and has sold more than 750,000 copies. Now the fifth edition of this classic updates the application of the Graham and Dodd valuation ap proach for today's greatly changed investment environment. This edition brings the Graham and Dodd approach up to date with the change s that have occurred since the last edition was published-changes in invest ment practices and regulation, several new tax laws, the explosion of new a ccounting and financial reporting rules, persistent inflation in capital ma rkets, new investment instruments, and more. Maintaining the high standards of prior editions, Security Analysis puts at your fingertips the authoritative guidance on analyzing securities that ge nerations of users have come to rely on. Here in clear, easy-to-use explana tions you'll find the tools of financial statement analysis-from the invest or's viewpoint and with an investor's notion of income and capital maintena nce-that have enabled value investors to keep the edge in a highly competit ive market. The book provides the principles and techniques to measure asset values and cash flows so that you can sharpen your judgments of company earnings, refresh your insight into what individual companies are worth, and evaluate how much debt a leveraged company can service. You'll find practical guidance to make better investment decisions whether you're a security analyst, portfolio manager, broker/dealer, investment banker, credit officer, or a, Near Fine/Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000037420. ISBN: 9780070132351
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Imprint: Signet, 1999 Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack allies himself with revenge-driven bank robber W illis Durant against an army of ruthless outlaws who kidnapped Sam's partne r Maria., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000031626. ISBN: 9780451198150
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Imprint: Pearson Education ESL, 2008 Market Leader is the major business English course for tomorrow's business leaders. Incorporating material from the Financial Times(c), it bring busin ess right into the classroom. All the Course Books have self-study CD-ROMS which include video material and interactive case studies. Challenge your s tudents with 'Case Studies' that range from planning a project to choosing the best supplier * Practise the skills needed to carry out real business t asks such as taking part in meetings * Listening texts are based on intervi ews with real business people * New Self-Study Multi-ROMs include a wide ra nge of activities including interactive case studies and video, Good Stock number: RWARE0000034182. ISBN: 9781405813358
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Imprint: Pearson, 2011 Create tests or homework with the Test Master CD-ROM Add to your lessons using the bank of photocopiable activities Get new teaching ideas from the lesson notes, Good Stock number: RWARE0000034193. ISBN: 9781405843423
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Imprint: Avon Books, 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. When U.S. Air Force Lt. Colonel Mike Couillard and his 10-year-old son, Matthew, skied into a blizzard atop Kartalkaya Mountain in Turkey (where Couillard was stationed), they plunged themselves and their family into an extreme test of their faith in God, and were forced to the limits of human endurance. This account of the crisis shuttles from Couillard's intense narrative of being stranded, to his wife's prayer- filled vigil at their home in Ankara, to details of the extensive search efforts organized by both the Turkish and American governments., Fine/Fine Stock number: RWARE0000007375. ISBN: 9780380973927
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Imprint: Jove, 2004 Get blindsided by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. FBI agents Savich and Sherlock face two baffling cases in Catherine Coulter's electrifying thriller, a riveting novel of knife-edge suspense., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000033416. ISBN: 9780515137200
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Imprint: Jove, 2005 The latest in prolific novelist Coulter's series of FBI thrillers once agai n features high-powered husband and wife team Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherl ock. In the middle of a long-awaited vacation with their young son, the two are called to investigate the heinous midnight murder of a Supreme Court J ustice, committed in the Court's library despite tight, round-the- clock sec urity. Known as a moderate, Justice Stewart Califano was undoubtedly contem plating an upcoming case involving the death penalty for psychopathic juven iles when he was brutally garroted, his fingers sliced off as he struggled to escape. The FBI is aided in the case by the CIA, Secret Service and metr opolitan police as well as by the judge's stepdaughter, an investigative re porter for the Washington Post. Yet within 48 hours, two of the Justice's y oung law clerks are murdered in the same grisly fashion--the lovable Daniel strangled with his own St. Christopher medal chain, and the formidable Eli za killed while she's on the phone with Savich. An unrelated supernatural s ide plot is distracting, and the case's solution comes from out of left fie ld, but fans of the author's fictional duo will get their fix--the climacti c face- off takes place in Savich and Sherlock's own living room., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000012380. ISBN: 9780515139259
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Imprint: Jove, 2006 A new novel of contemporary romance and suspense - and only available in pa perback. Sunday Cavendish is the woman everyone loves to hate. Independent, outspoke n and brazenly sexy, she's clearly the star of the popular soap opera, Born To Be Wild, despite her character's machinations. But Mary Lisa Beverly isn't Sunday - except in front of the cameras. So whe n a car practically runs her over in idyllic Malibu, she realizes she needs some time off to escape. Returning home to Oregon, quickly reminds her wh y she left three years ago. Her ex-fiancé and the sister she found in bed w ith him are now married, her mother barely tolerates her, and she can't rem ember the last time she had a date. Her father alone is her refuge, that i s, until she meets someone off-limits. When the attacks on her life continue after her return to LaLaLand, Mary Lisa turns to her friends and neighbors, her true family, for support. But she doesn't expect to turn to the last man she ever expected to show up on her doorstep. With the threat of danger lurking in every shadow, Mary Lisa must learn to trust her hometown adversary with her life and her heart., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000012392. ISBN: 9780515142396
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Imprint: Putnam's Sons, 2007 At the start of bestseller Coulter's gripping 11th FBI thriller (after Poin t Blank), Julia Ransom is enjoying a liberating stroll on San Francisco's P ier 39 after having been suspected of the brutal murder of her renowned psy chic husband, Dr. August Ransom, six months earlier and hounded by the medi a. When an unknown assailant throws Julia off the pier, FBI Special Agent C heney Stone rescues her. Stone later senses a link between the attack and t he death of Julia's husband. Meanwhile in Virginia, Sheriff Dixon Noble is finally feeling his life is getting back to normal after his wife went miss ing three years earlier. When Noble comes to San Francisco to pursue a lead into his wife's disappearance, he gets involved in a harrowing investigati on with Stone into both mysteries. As usual, the author conjures strong vis ual images, particularly a wild car chase through the streets of San Franci sco. Credible characters and a fascinating look at the world of psychics an d thieves help make this one of Coulter's best., Very Good/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000017502. ISBN: 9780739478721
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Imprint: Jove, 2002 FBI Agent Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock must discover whether Savich's s ister's car crash was a suicide attempt, or a murder conspiracy to gain her extremely valuable paintings., Good Stock number: RWARE0000029481. ISBN: 9780515133301
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Imprint: Jove Books, 2007 Coulter's new thriller romance (Blowout, etc.) opens with Ruth Warnecki los t in a cave in rural Virginia while fellow (married) FBI agents Dillon Savi ch and Lacey Sherlock are hot on the tail of a psychotic dirty old man (Mos es Grace) and his flirtatious teenage partner (Claudia), who've kidnapped a smalltime comedian. Coulter fans know if they suspend belief—r eally suspend belief—she'll deliver page- turners filled with go od guys battling bad guys as well as enjoying domestic tranquility. After R uth makes it out of the cave, she's cared for by Dixon Noble, the local she riff and ex-New Yorker with two kids and a missing wife; then Ruth and the gang return to the cave to discover the body of a murdered music student. L acey and Dillon consult MAX the miracle computer about Moses while Dix intr oduces Ruth to his domineering father-in-law, Chappy, and musician Gordon, Chappy's geriatric lech of a brother. Coulter alternates between the search for the student's killer and the hunt for Moses, cases tied together only by the FBI agents solving them and the theme of criminally insane grumpy ol d men. Coulter continues to prove more convincing describing virtue than vi ce, which means that sympathetic characters and happy endings take preceden ce over serious detective work., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000038993. ISBN: 9780515141689
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Imprint: Jove Books, 2001 Rebecca Matlock is in the thick of politics, enjoying her work as a speechw riter for the governor of New York, who's facing a reelection campaign. Wha t she's not enjoying are the menacing phone calls from a stranger who refer s to himself as "your boyfriend" and warns her that he will kill the govern or if she doesn't stop sleeping with him. Although Becca has never had a se xual relationship with her boss, she is increasingly frightened by the phon e calls. The police, who were initially sympathetic to her plight, make it clear that they regard her as a hysteric, even after the stalker murders an innocent bystander to convince her that he means business. Becca seeks ref uge in Riptide, an isolated community on the Maine coast, but terror contin ues to dog her. The skeleton of a woman who may be the missing wife of a co llege friend is unearthed in the basement of her new house; the stalker tra cks her to her chosen refuge; and she is sought by the police and the FBI f ollowing an assassination attempt on the governor., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000000449. ISBN: 9780515130966
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Imprint: Jove, 2000 Like Jilly Bartlett, who drives her white Porsche off an Oregon cliff in th e prologue, Coulter (The Target) has an uncertain hand on the wheel of her rambling thriller. FBI agent Ford "Mac" MacDouglas, Jilly's brother, is a t ough-but-tenderhearted protagonist unraveling the mystery surrounding his s ister's plunge with frequent interruptions for sex and violent surprises. J illy, a brilliant chemist, survives the accident (or is it a suicide attemp t?), only to disappear upon awaking from a four-day coma, leaving Mac with some vexing questions. What kind of drug have Jilly and her unpleasant scie ntist husband, Paul, developedAa fountain of youth, a wild libido enhancer, a fertility drug, a memory-eraser, or all of the above? Why is Jilly death ly afraid of beautiful Laura Scott, who's ostensibly a reclusive research l ibrarian but obviously far too street smart to play that role convincingly? Who killed retired cop Charlie Duck? Coulter risks exasperating her reader sAwho may tire of the relentless questions this book raises in increasingly heavy dosesAwith excessive and transparent collusions; it turns out that t he highway patrolman who rescues Jilly has ties to sheriff Maggie Sheffield , and that Sheffield is the ex-wife of a detective., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000012391. ISBN: 9780515128604
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Imprint: Jove, 1998 Full of karate, pistol-whipping, and other malevolent mayhem, Catherine Cou lter's The Maze could be described as a junior-varsity version of Silence o f the Lambs. As in that novel, the heroine in The Maze, Lacey Sherlock, bec omes an FBI agent to help unravel the mysteries of her own past. Seven year s after her sister was brutally slain by a serial killer (the wonderfully c reepy "String Killer"), Lacey is assigned to the FBI's Criminal Apprehensio n Unit (CAU). The CAU, headed by brawny bureau egghead Dillon Savich, uses computer modeling to catch the baddest guys around--it's like profiling, bu t with databases. Before you know it, Dillon and Lacey are tangling with th e String Killer., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000012390. ISBN: 9780515122497
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Imprint: Jove Books, 1999 Coulter continues the suspense-filled series she began with The Cove (1996) and The Maze (1997), even bringing in some of the same characters. Her lat est is set in the Colorado mountains, where Judge Ramsey Hunt has fled to r ecuperate after being forced to shoot a man during a melee in his courtroom . But his dream of peace and quiet is shattered when he discovers an uncons cious, beaten, and sexually abused little girl who is too traumatized to sp eak. Reluctant to subject her to any more terror, Ramsey refrains from goin g to the authorities and cares for her himself. But once again, violence in trudes, first when two gunmen attempt to take the girl, and then when her m other, Molly, appears, ready to kill the man she believes is the kidnapper. Miraculously, Emma regains her voice in the nick of time, so Molly and Ram sey join forces and attempt to solve the mystery of her abduction. Emma is a target for any of a number of reasons-- her father is a famous rock star w ith a gambling problem, and her grandfather is a Chicago Mob boss--and Coul ter, who doesn't stint on humor or romance, keeps readers guessing., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000000558. ISBN: 9780515125627
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Imprint: Routledge, 1994 This work provides an overview of a wide range of approaches to written tex t analysis. It includes both classic and specially commissioned papers by d istinguished authors, which share a common linguistic framework. The pieces contain a variety of focuses from the patterning of paragraphs, sections o r whole texts to the organization of clauses, individual expressions and si ngle words, as well as a variety of text-types. The examples used range fro m pure science through social science, academic journals, weekly magazines and newspapers, to literary narratives. This collection forms the basis for an course on written text analysis that should be of interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000036004. ISBN: 9780415095204
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Imprint: Routledge, 1985 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 central concern of this book is the analysis of verbal interaction or discourse. This first six chapters report and evaluate major theoretical advances in the description of discourse. The final chapters demonstrate how the findings of discourse analysis can be used to investigate second- language teaching and first-language acquisition and to analyse literary texts., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000030401. ISBN: 9780582553798
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Imprint: HarperCollins Canada / Relig, 2003 A new edition of the NRSV Cross Reference Bible, now available with the Apo cryphal/Deuterocanonical books The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible is steadily increasing in popularity. It is highly respected among academics, including evangelicals, and popular in theological colleges, where it is preferred to the New International Version. Recent press reports indicate that the NIV is receiving adverse publicity because of its archaic approach to gender-inclusive language. Some recent comments on the NIV: Steve Chalke: 'I don't want to be associated with a Bible that's a reaction against modern culture.' Elaine Storkey: 'It is frightening that some people in the States want a Bible that reinforces their prejudices rather than leading them into the light.' The NRSV sensitively avoids these issues without any loss of accuracy or clarity, and retains the traditional style of referring to God as 'He' or 'Him.' This edition has been completely reset as part of a joint project with the design and production team of Cambridge University Press, and features an attractive, stylish and readable page design. It is the first UK edition of the NRSV to incorporate both cross references and the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books, and will be an ideal edition for students and serious Bible readers., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000034521. ISBN: 9780002201308
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Imprint: 1973 Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000005543.
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Imprint: 1973 Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000005544.
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Imprint: Games Workshop, 2006 Having recovered from his grievous injuries, Warmaster Horus leads the triu mphant Imperial forces against the rebel world of Isstvan III. Though the r ebels are swiftly crushed, Horus's treachery is finally revealed as the pla net is razed by virus bombs, and Space Marines turn on their battle-brother s in the most bitter struggle imaginable. Editorial Reviews, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000024999. ISBN: 9781844163939
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Imprint: University of Massachusetts, 1990 A tight clean copy., Fine Stock number: RWARE0000012651. ISBN: 9780870237157
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Imprint: Flamingo, 2001 In All Families Are Psychotic, Coupland combines Anne Tyler's compassionate command of family relationships with a world-view that probably hails from a distant galaxy. His latest work of genius is fast- paced, blisteringly fu nny and the literary equivalent of electric-shock therapy. NASA Astronauts must be the healthiest people on the planet, and Sarah Drummond, preparing for her debut launch from Cape Canaveral, is no exception. Unfortunately, Sarah's family, gathered in Florida to witness the take-off, is sick--in every sense. Her brother Wade, a low-rent hockey star whose only real talent is bedding women, is performing an elaborate tango with terminal illness and the Federal Penitentiary system. Her mother Janet is a devotee of Internet porn and outlawed medication. Then there's Bryan, who has nothing wrong with him except a highly contradictory desire to have children and kill himself. And Bryan's girlfriend, who really is called Shaw, and really doesn't care about much except renting her womb to the highest bidder., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000000743. ISBN: 9780007117512
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Imprint: Flamingo, 2002 Independent on Sunday A unique and wonderful book... Utterly fresh and thrillingly modern. Yet again, Coupland has zeroed in on where we are now., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000015566. ISBN: 9780007117536
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Imprint: Harper Perennial, 1999 After making love for the first time, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil c onfides to her boyfriend Richard of the dark visions she's been recently su ffering. It's only a few hours later on that snowy Friday night in 1979 tha t she descends into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to a daughter , Megan, her child by Richard, the protagonist of this disturbingly funny n ovel. Karen remains comatose for the next seventeen years. Richard and her circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory throughout the next two decade s; passing through careers as models, film special effects technicians, doc tors, and demolition experts, before finally being reunited on a conspiracy -driven supernatural television series. Upon Karen's reawakening, life grows as surreal as their television show. With apocalyptic events occurring, Karen, Richard, and their friends explore the essential mysteries of life, faith, decency, and existence. Amid the world's rubble they attempt to restore their own humanity., Good Stock number: RWARE0000028593. ISBN: 9780060987329
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Imprint: Bloomsbury USA, 2004 Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles what becomes her last will and testament on a school binder shortly before a rampaging trio of m isfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with para noia, teenage angst, and religious zeal in the massacre's wake, this sleepy suburban neighborhood declares its saints, brands its demons, and moves on . But for a handful of people still reeling from that horrific day, life re mains permanently derailed. Four dramatically different characters tell the ir stories: Cheryl, who calmly narrates her own death; Jason, the boy no on e knew was her husband, still marooned ten years later by his loss; Heather , the woman trying to love the shattered Jason; and Jason's father, Reg, wh ose rigid religiosity has separated him from nearly everyone he loves. Hey Nostradamus! is an unforgettable portrait of people wrestling with spiritua lity and with sorrow and its acceptance., Good Stock number: RWARE0000028711. ISBN: 9781582344157
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Imprint: HarperPerennial, 2004 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 1988, a catastrophic episode of teen violence shatters a suburban community. HEY NOSTRADAMUS follows the aftermath in various voices across two decades: the teenage victims whose ordinary preoccupations with sex and spirituality will never evolve past that moment; the parents whose exposure to their children's underground world threatens their deepest convictions; and those who come to know the survivors only later in life, unable to fully realize what really transpired. HEY NOSTRADAMUS wrestles with religion and nihilism, sorrow and acceptance. It will take you to a place you didn't know existed., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000038056. ISBN: 9780007182589
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Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2007 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Already dubbed Microserfs 2.0 by some pundits--a winking allusion to Douglas Coupland's previous novel Microserfs, which similarly chronicled pop-culture-damaged twentysomething misfits flailing, foundering, and occasionally succeeding in the high-tech sector--JPod is, like all of Coupland's novels, a byproduct of its era and yet strangely detached from it. Only this time with a bold and very crafty narrative device: Douglas Coupland, novelist, is a character in Douglas Coupland's novel. Which, when you think about it, makes sense since the type of people Coupland depicts are precisely the type of people who consume Coupland novels. As the once-great comedian Dennis Miller might holler, "Stop him before he sub-references again!" Readers familiar with Coupland's oeuvre know what to expect with the characterizations here. They also know that Coupland on a roll is both savagely observant and laugh-out-loud funny: "Bree was showing someone photos of her recent holiday visiting Korean animation sweathshops. She was bummed because she couldn't get into North Korea: too much legal juju. [She said] 'I just wanted to know what it's like to be in a society with no technology except for three dial telephones and a TV camera they won from Fidel Castro in a game of rock paper scissors.'" Much of the book is like that, built on granular and meandering exchanges between characters about . . . stuff. While JPod's flow is hobbled by some preposterous twists and character traits and by random words, phrases, and numbers splattered gratuitously across successive pages in oversized typeface, it, Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000020866. ISBN: 9780747589150
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Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers Can, 2001 Good Stock number: RWARE0000028710. ISBN: 9780006485896
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Imprint: Scribner, 2002 Coupland's funny, spot-on portrait of the death of the yuppie. Tyler Johnso n is an apocalyptic entrepreneur in the making. His memories begin with Ron ald Reagan. With his neat girlfriend, smart jokes and shampoo collection, h e works at the nuclear power plant where his hippie parents used to demonst rate, plotting his fortune. But fortune has other plans - the return of a P aris summer fling, one of the 'low-ambition Euro-teens', who takes Tyler on the road to the shimmering dreams of L.A., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000028284. ISBN: 9780743231534
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Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2008 A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Two misfits find common ground and a unique, surreal friendship via unspok en words in Coupland's latest (after JPod), a fine return to form. In the t wo years since his wife's (nonfatal) cancer was diagnosed, Roger Thorpe has devolved into a dejected, hard-drinking, divorced father and the oldest em ployee by a fair margin at Staples. A frustrated novelist to boot, Roger co nsiders himself lost, continually haunted by dreams of missed opportunities and a long ago car accident that claimed four friends. His younger, disgru ntled goth co-worker, Bethany Twain, one day discovers Roger's diary--fille d with mock re-imaginings of her thoughts and feelings--in the break room. She lays down a supreme challenge for them both to write diary entries to e ach other, but neither is allowed to acknowledge the other around the store . Through exchanged hopes and dreams, customer stories, world views and cau tionary revelations (time speeds up in a terrifying manner in your mid-thir ties), the pair become intimately acquainted before things unravel for both . Running parallel to the epistolary narrative are chapters from Roger's no vel, Glove Pond, which begins having much in common with the larger narrati ve it's enclosed in. Coupland shines, the story is humorous, frenetic, focu sed and curiously affecting. (Oct.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edi tion of this title. From Booklist Relentlessly contemporary Coupland helped explode the Gen-X mind-set, and now follows his specimens as th, Good Stock number: RWARE0000020071. ISBN: 9780747594932
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Imprint: Bloomsbury USA, 2011 Douglas Coupland's inventive novel-think Clerks meets Who's Afraid of Virgi nia Woolf?-is the story of an extraordinary epistolary relationship between Roger and Bethany, two very different, but strangely connected, "aisles as sociates" at Staples. Watch as their lives unfold alongside Roger's work-in -progress, the oddly titled Glove Pond. A raucous tale of four academics, t wo malfunctioning marriages, and one rotten dinner party, Roger's opus is a Cheever-style novella gone horribly wrong. But as key characters migrate i nto and out of its pages, Glove Pond becomes an anchor of Roger's unsettled -and unsettling-life.Coupland electrifies us on every page of this witty, w ise, and unforgettable novel. Love, death, and eternal friendship can all t ranspire where we least expect them...and even after tragedy seems to have wiped your human slate clean, stories can slowly rebuild you., Good Stock number: RWARE0000028715. ISBN: 9781596915008
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Imprint: Sterling Pub Co Inc, 1985 Meditator's Manual: A Practical Introduction to the Art of Meditation, Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000007050. ISBN: 9780850304107
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Imprint: Strand Publishing, 1999 Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000027367. ISBN: 9781876825249
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Imprint: Viking, 2007 A crisp clean, first edition, not an ex-lib: A superb storyteller (The Times ) The ultimate international bestseller (New York Times ) About the Author Bryce Courtenay was born in South Africa and has lived in Sydney for the major part of his life. He is the bestselling author of The Power of One, April Fool's Day, The Potato Factory, Tommo & Hawk, Jessica, Solomon's Song, Smoky Joe's Café, Four Fires, Brother Fish, Whitethorn and Sylvia., Very Good/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000022100. ISBN: 9780670070701
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Imprint: Mandarin, 1989 Good Stock number: RWARE0000021954. ISBN: 9781863300193
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Imprint: VIKING AUSTRALIA, 1997 A first edition/printing protected in a new brodart wrapper: Brutally kidnapped during childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of fifteen in Hobart Town. Together, they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood. From whale hunting in the Pacific to the Maori Wars of New Zealand, Tommo and Hawk must stick together to overcome their enemies., Very Good/Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000017066. ISBN: 9780670878772
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Imprint: Free Press, 2005 A read copy, but no markings throughout, spine unblemished, not an ex-lib e dition. The world has changed dramatically since the classic, internationally bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was published, influencing tens of millions. The challenges and complexity we all face in our relationships, families, professional lives and communities are of an entirely new order of magnitude. In order to thrive, innovate, excel and lead in what Covey calls the new Knowledge Worker Age, we must build on and move beyond effectiveness...to greatness. Accessing the higher levels of human genius and motivation in today's new reality requires a sea change of new thinking -- a new mind-set, a new skill-set, a new tool-set -- in short, a whole new habit., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000027456. ISBN: 9780743287937
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Imprint: Harcourt Paperbacks, 1999 Armageddon Summer provides a front-row seat for the type of event most of u s only witness on a TV screen. Reverend Raymond Beelson is gathering 144 "B elievers" atop Mount Weeupcut in Massachusetts to camp out, pray, and await Armageddon--July 27, 2000--when he predicts that his faithful flock will b e saved as the rest of the world is set ablaze in fire and brimstone. We ex perience the month leading up to this climax through the eyes of two teenag ers who have never met before, Jed and Marina, each of whom have come to th e compound out of a sense of responsibility toward their families. Young Je d is only on the mountain to watch over his father who "went a little crazy " after his wife left the family: "When my father told me that the world wa s going to end I figured he was making some sort of weird joke." Jed's sarc asm, humor, and flippancy toward the Believers does not erase the love he f eels for his newly devout father, nor his capacity for empathy toward membe rs of the congregation. Marina is a Believer, or so she tries to be, in the hope that somehow her faith will restore harmony to her family. She has tr aveled to the mountain with her younger brothers at her mother's fervent in sistence, but her fear that her father will remain below with the rest of t he nonbelievers to burn alive unnerves her., Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000000089. ISBN: 9780152022686
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Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton General D, 1998 In an island monastery, a cloistered monk experiences the adventure of a li fetime. News of Fra Mauro's attempt to make a perfect map spreads, and expl orers, pilgrims, travellers and merchants are all eager to share their acco unts of far-away lands, making him question the nature of reality itself., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000000742. ISBN: 9780340717400
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Imprint: Sphere, 1972 Very Good Stock number: RWARE0000010715.
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Imprint: Wiley], 1980 Very Good+ Stock number: RWARE0000005998. ISBN: 9780471015598
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Imprint: OUP Australia and New Zealan, 1985 A tight clean copy of a rare out of print book., Near Fine Stock number: RWARE0000010967. ISBN: 9780195581331
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