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By: Abish, Walter
Price: $8.00
Publisher: London, Faber and Faber:
Edition: Advance Review Copy
Seller ID: 09114003
ISBN: No ISBN
Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 09114003. Paperback View more info
By: Abrahams, Peter
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Great Britain, Penguin: 1966
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 17110048
Condition: Good
348 pages. Covers have moderate creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. Pages are reasonably tanned. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Teenage Fiction; Inventory No: 17110048. Paperback View more info
By: Adelaide, Debra
Price: $13.00
Publisher: Great Britain, Picador: 2008
Seller ID: 10060499
ISBN: 0330424254
Condition: As New
386 pages. Multiple copies of this title available. This book is an unread copy. Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. A brilliantly moving and darkly comic novel, which charts the attempts of dying heroine Delia - a modern day Mrs Beeton - to prepare her family for the future and lay to rest a ghost from her past. Inspired by her heroine, Isabella Beeton, Delia has made a living writing a series of hugely successful modern household guides, as well as an acerbic domestic advice column. As the book opens, she is not yet fo... View more info
By: Ainsworth, W. H.
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Great Britain, Alexander Classic Library: No date
Seller ID: 10100156
ISBN: No ISBN
Condition: Good
474 pages. Burgundy leather bindings with gilt lettering on spine (faded) and gilt top edge of pages. Wear to corners of covers. Lightly tanned pages. Edges browned . Hinge is cracked at title page causing binding to be loose Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Teenage Fiction; Inventory No: 10100156. Hardcover View more info
By: Albom, Mitch
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Rydalmere, N.S.W., Hodder Headline: 2001
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 11070065
ISBN: 0751536822
Condition: Fine
208 pages. THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is a wonderfully moving fable that addresses the meaning of life, and life after death, in the poignant way that made TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE such an astonishing book. The novel's protagonist is an elderly amusement park maintenance worker named Eddie who, while operating a ride called the 'Free Fall', dies while trying to save a young girl who gets in the way of a falling cart that hurtles to earth. Eddie goes to heaven, where he meets five people who were unexpectedly instrumental in some way in his life. While each guide takes him through heaven, E... View more info
By: Ali, Monica
Price: $13.00
Publisher: UK, Black Swan: 2007
Seller ID: 10110809
ISBN: 0552771163
Condition: As New
301 pages. Multiple copies of this title available. This book is an unread copy. Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. "Alentejo Blue" is the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through - men and women, children and old people, locals, tourists and expatriates. For some, such as Teresa, a beautiful, dreamy village girl, it is a place from which to escape; for others - the dysfunctional Potts family - it is a way of running from troubl... View more info
By: Alison, Jane
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Text Publishing Company: 2004
Seller ID: 10064241
ISBN: 1920885099
Condition: Very Good
In a damp Venetian palace, Oswaldo contemplates the ravages of time to his body and his beloved city. In New York, Lach savours his freedom, having just dropped Vera to join his new love, Francesca, in Venice. In rainy London, Max packs for New Orleans, in pursuit of Lucinde, a woman he barely knows. From New Orleans, Lucinde flies to the aid and comfort of Vera, who has accepted a grant to paint in Venice. While elsewhere in the Crescent City, Anton, leaving for Venice, sketches a good-bye upon the slumbering body of his wife, Josephine. With wit, sympathy; and surpassing deftness, Jane Aliso... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Australia, Harper Collins: 1999
Seller ID: 13040409
ISBN: 0732265584
Condition: Good
240 pages. Multiple copies of this title available. Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. Pages are lightly tanned. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0732265584. ISBN/EAN: 9780732265588. Inventory No: 13040409. Paperback View more info
By: Astley, Thea
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Ringwood Vic., Penguin: 1979
Seller ID: 10100017
ISBN: 0140058435
Condition: Very Good
175 pages. Clear, self-adhesive laminate to covers/boards. First page is clipped Leverson, the narrator at the centre of these stories, calls himself a 'people freak.' Seduced by north Queensland's sultry beauty and unique strangeness, he is as fascinated by the invading hordes of misfits from the south as by the old established Queenslanders. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0140058435. ISBN/EAN: 9780140058437. Inventory No: 10100017. Hardcover View more info
By: Athanasou, Nikos
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Brandl & Schlesinger: 2002
Seller ID: 18060191
ISBN: 1876040416
Condition: Good (ex-library)
220 pages. Text and spine/cover marked with Library stamps, in all other respects in very good condition throughout. Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. Cover is protected in clear, self-adhesive laminate. Edges of pages are slightly soiled. Pages are lightly creased. George Makris returns to Sydney after 7 years in England. He re establishes his uneasy relationship with those whose aims he once rejected. He is an outsider whose observations bring to the surface the concealed thoughts, impulses and dark instincts of those he encounters. Author a guest at the 2002 Sydney Writer... View more info
By: Atwood, Margaret
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Great Britain, Virago Press: 2001
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 10100077
ISBN: 1860498809
Condition: Very Good
637 pages. Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describ... View more info
By: Atwood, Margaret
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Great Britain, Virago: 1997
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 19050292
ISBN: 1860492592
Condition: Good
545 pages. Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are moderately bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. Pages are reasonably tanned. Previous owner's name in ink. Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s is wound this tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery. Was Grace Marks a female fiend? A femme fatale? Or a weak and unwilling victim? The accusation of murderess follows her "like a taffeta skirt along the floor". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 1860492592.... View more info
By: Aubyn, Edward
Price: $31.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1998
Seller ID: 10050262
ISBN: 0701167254
Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0701167254. ISBN/EAN: 9780701167257. Inventory No: 10050262. Paperback View more info
Price: $21.00
Publisher: Great Britain, Picador: 2006
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 09060156
ISBN: 0330442031
Condition: Near Fine
194 pages. Multiple copies of this title available. This book is an unread copy. Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. Pages are lightly tanned. Shalom Auslander's stories in "Beware of God" have the mysterious punch of a dream. They are wide ranging and inventive: a young man's inexplicable transformation into a very large, blond, tattooed goy ends with a Talmudic argument over, whether or not his father can beat his unclean son with a copy of the Talmud. A pious man having a near-death experience discovers that God is actually a chicken, and h... View more info
Price: $33.00
Publisher: London, Ward Lock & Co:
Seller ID: 09010232
ISBN: No ISBN
Condition: Good
421 pages. Minor edgewear to boards. Edges browned . Undated but appears to be early 1900s. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 09010232. Hardcover View more info
Price: $13.00
Publisher: Great Britain, Picador: 2005
Seller ID: 09050625
ISBN: 0330493469
Condition: As New
262 pages. Multiple copies of this title available. This book is an unread copy. Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. Pages are lightly tanned. Set in England against the backdrop of World War II, the much anticipated second novel by the Booker Prize finalist and national best-selling author of The Hiding Place is a story of pursuit: of stolen goods, of missing years, and of one woman’s forgotten history The only debut novel to be short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2001, The Hiding Place became a national bestseller and established Trezza Azzopardi as an international sensa... View more info
Price: $13.00
Publisher: Picador: 2008
Seller ID: 10010340
ISBN: 0330493485
Condition: Near Fine
271 pages. Multiple copies of this title available. This book is an unread copy. Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. Pages are lightly tanned. Lewis is haunted by the memory of his brother, by a stolen car and a river running full, and most of all by the boy at the wheel. Anna is haunted too, but her ghost is very much alive. Rita, Anna's mother, is the exact opposite of her daughter loud, carefree, and a daredevil, at seventy-six. When Rita suffers a fall, Anna must leave London and spend the winter looking after her mother in Yarmouth. As they search for solutions to their p... View more info
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Great Britain, Alexander Classic Library: No date
Seller ID: 10100147
ISBN: No ISBN
Condition: Good
281 pages. Burgundy leather bindings with gilt lettering on spine (faded) and gilt top edge of pages. Wear to corners of covers. Lightly tanned pages. Edges browned . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 10100147. Hardcover View more info
By: Barnes, Julian
Price: $13.00
Publisher: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Random House: 1991
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Seller ID: 07110229
ISBN: 0394222393
Condition: Good (ex-library)
275 pages. Clear plastic protective cover over dustjacket. Text marked with Library stamps, but very discreetly, spine unmarked, in all other respects in very good condition throughout. Written by the author of A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters and Flaubert's Parrot, this novel begins as a comedy about love and misunderstanding, then slowly darkens and deepens, drawing us into the quagmires of the heart. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0394222393. ISBN/EAN: 9780394222394. Inventory No: 07110229. Hardcover View more info
By: Bartlett, John
Price: $35.00
Publisher: USA, Macmillan: 1975
Edition: Fourteenth Edition
Seller ID: 13110517
ISBN: 0333017137
Condition: Very Good
1750 pages. Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Spine has slight fading. Dust jacket has moderate creasing. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear and moderate chipping. Pages are lightly tanned. Edges of pages are slightly soiled. A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Reference. ISBN: 0333017137. ISBN/EAN: 9780333017135. Inventory No: 13110517. Hardcover View more info
