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A Most Determined Woman
$11.21
For Sarah Hawke, daughter of an impoverished miner, life offers little beyond the grime of 1890s Glasgow and the drudgery of back-breaking work. Until a mysterious stranger enters her lifea stranger who turns out to be her real father, the owner of a vast and prosperous shipping empire. Catapulted i..
A Summer of Discontent (Matthew Bartholomew Chroni...
$10.49
It is 1354, and the Bishop of Ely has been accused of a most terrible murder. Glovere was steward to Lady Blanche de Wake, a close relative of the King. A malicious gossip, his body was discovered days after the Bishop had publicly threatened him. Protesting his innocence, the Bishop summons Cambrid..
Achtung Schweinehund!: A Boy's Own Story of Imagin...
$10.91
This is a book about men and war. Not real conflict but war as it has filtered down to generations of boys and men through toys, comics, games, and movies. Harry Pearson belongs to the great battalion of men who grew up playing with toy soldiers-refighting World War II-and then stopped growing up. I..
Almost Heaven: Travels Through the Backwoods of Am...
$8.96
After seven years as Washington correspondent of The Times, Martin Fletcher set off to explore the raw and untamed land far from cities and national parks. This is his account of a journey which took him to places few tourists would ever visit, to communities largely unknown to outsiders, to the qui..
Betty Blue
$12.23
This is a full-fledged lovers' tragedy between a drifter-turned-writer and the fatally flawed Betty, his muse and obsessive promoter. Author: Djian, Philippe Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0349101108 ISBN-13: 9780349101101..
Bonaparte's Sons (Alain Lausard Adventures)
$9.09
Set in France during the Napoleonic Wars, this is the first volume in a trilogy telling the story of a regiment of Napoleon's soldiers recruited from the dungeons of the Bastille. Thrown together under the leadership of the ambitious Cezar, they are pronounced expendable. Author: Howard, Richard Pub..
Celebrity: The Photographs of Terry O'Neill
$12.15
In this book we find Tom Cruise, Brigitte Bardot, Elton John, Mick Jagger, Joan Collins, Michael Caine, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery and others who have superseded the fads of reputation and proven their celebrity longevity. The range of Terry O'Neill's celebrity portraits reaches from ..
Embrace
$13.57
Embrace is the story of the awakening of Karl De Man, a thirteen-year-old student at the Berg, an exclusive academy for boys in South Africa in the 1970s. The events of Karl's school life are interwoven with memories from his childhood and first years at the Berg, as he falls in love with both his b..
Having a Lovely Time
$10.17
Joe Dobson left his wife and kids when his girlfriend, Nina, discovered she was pregnant. Now he feels like a cliché, and Nina feels like a drudge. So when Joe announces that he’s booked a luxury holiday in Tuscany, Nina is thrilled-until she realizes that Joe’s kids are coming along for the ride. G..
Ireland: A History
$10.11
Revised and updated, Robert Kee's book is an introduction to the fascinating history that has made modern Ireland, and a thought-provoking examination of how past facts have bred present myths. Author: Kee, Robert Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0349..
John Birt : The Harder Path
$18.23
John Birt : The Harder Path Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0316860190 ISBN-13: 8601415866438..
Letters from a Prince: Edward, Prince of Wales, to...
$14.14
While the correspondence between the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson has been preserved and published, it had been thought that many of the Prince of Wales' letters to his earlier mistress, Mrs. Freda Dudley Ward, had been destroyed by her sometime before her death. But in November 1996, while ho..
My Championship Year
$9.09
Book by Hill, Damon Author: Hill, Damon Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0751519146 ISBN-13: 9780751519143..
People Like Us: A Season Among the Upper Classes
$9.08
What is it like to live the wonderful life In People Like Us, Charles Jennings is the suburban outsider trying to make sense of the closed, privileged, self-indulgent world of being born and raised in another way of life. From the great social functions of the Season, to private parties in Kensingt..
River Dog: A Journey Down the Brahmaputra
$8.97
Birthplace of legends, the mighty Brahmaputra River begins its journey as a tiny glacial stream high on the desolate plateau of western Tibet. It sweeps 1,800 miles through three countries to end its journey, as wide as a sea, in the Bay of Bengal. In River Dog, celebrated travel writer Mark Shand c..
The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette ...
$10.78
The story of the fight to gain the vote for women is about much more than a picturesque skirmish around the introduction of universal suffrage. It is an explosive story of social and sexual revolutionary upheaval, and one which has not yet ended. The movement for women's suffrage in the late 19th an..
The Best of Smash Hits: The 80s
$30.58
In its heyday in the mid to late 1980s, Smash Hits enjoyed a circulation of more than one million passionate readers. The Best of Smash Hits is for all those readers: a glorious, full-color celebration of all the best bits, and even better-some of the worst. Packed with such fascinating pop cultural..
The Breeders Box
$19.87
The three siblings, Jess, Flip, and Tigger are inseparable. A single entity in childhood, they remain so when they move to frenzied downtown Manhattan and become part of a decadent demi-monde moving to the heartbeat of music and drugs, fashion, and celebrity. Then on New Year's Eve 1989, Flip opens ..
The Fallen Kings (Morland Dynasty)
$9.69
Continuing the addictive saga of the Morland family, now with its many branches spread across the Empire and the new world1918: German troops flood back from the Russian front for an all-out assault in France, before the Americans can join the war. The under-strength British retreat; and for the fir..
The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers
$15.69
In this newly illustrated edition, 300 years of wanderlust are captured as women travel the world for pleasure and peril. Among the extraordinary women whose writing is included here are Gertrude Bell, Rose Macaulay, Mary McCarthy, Vita Sackville-West, Freya Stark, Edith Wharton, and Mary Wollstonec..
The Kuan Yin Oracle: The Voice of The Goddess of C...
$10.99
Kuan Yin, the ancient Chinese goddess of Compassion, is the principal deity in the Eastern firmament. Wherever there are Chinese- or Japanese-speaking people in the world, Kuan Yin’s image can be found, and the ritual of consulting her has brought solace, hope, and insight to countless people. In St..
The Learning Game: A Teacher's Inspirational Story
$12.55
Jonathan Smith takes us a his personal journey from his first days as a pupil through to the challenges of his professional and private life on the other side of the desk. He explains what it's like to be a teacher facing the joys and the battles of a class. He asks what difference a teacher can mak..
The Sleeper in the Sands
$10.15
In Egypt in 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter exposes a flight of stone steps leading to a mysterious tomb sealed and marked with a terrible curse. What is the nature of the tomb's deadly secret And what is the web of connections reaching back to the very heart of Egypt's past Author: Holland, Tom..
The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919
$9.10
The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919 is a remarkably coherent narrative, in diary form, of an infantry battalion's experience on the Western Front. A moving, truthful historical record, it deserves to be added to the select list of outstanding accounts of the First World War. Author: Dunn, Captain J...
The Wayward Mind: An Intimate History of the Uncon...
$44.30
This book brilliantly charts history’s many different ways of explaining the unconscious mind, from ancient descriptions of the “underworld” to theories of contemporary neuroscience. Guy Claxton’s beautifully written book takes in intellectual and cultural history, literature, and spirituality. In T..