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Eclipse Fever

By: Abish, Walter

Price: $8.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber:

Seller ID: 09114003

ISBN: No ISBN

Binding: Medium Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 09114003. Paperback
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Wild Conquest

By: Abrahams, Peter

Price: $11.00

Publisher: UK, Penguin: 1966

Seller ID: 17110048

Binding: Paperback

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
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The Household Guide To Dying

By: Adelaide, Debra

Price: $13.00

Publisher: UK, Picador: 2008

Seller ID: 10060499

ISBN: 0330424254

Binding: Medium Trade Paperback

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...
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Aesop's Fables

By: Aesop

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions: 1994

Seller ID: 20041039

ISBN: 1853261289

Binding: Medium Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

199 pages. Some deep indentations on cover. Covers have moderate creasing. Edges of covers have moderate edgewear and corners are moderately bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. Edges of pages are lightly browned. Pages are lightly tanned and lightly creased. Aesop's celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of the individual fables - the fox and the grapes, the dog in the manger, the wolf in sheep's clothing and many others - have entered the languages and idioms of most European tongue...
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Alentejo Blue

By: Ali, Monica

Price: $13.00

Publisher: UK, Black Swan: 2007

Seller ID: 10110809

ISBN: 0552771163

Binding: Medium Trade Paperback

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...
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The Marriage of the Sea

By: Alison, Jane

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Text Publishing Company: 2004

Seller ID: 10064241

ISBN: 1920885099

Binding: Trade Paperback

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...
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Wilful Disregard : A Novel About Love

By: Anderson, Lena

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Picador: 2015

Seller ID: 20050037

ISBN: 1447268911

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

196 pages. Dust jacket have some soiling from sitting in warehouse. 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 clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. Ester Nilsson is a sensible person in a sensible relationship. Until the day she is asked to give a lecture on famous artist Hugo Rask. The man himself sits in the audience, spellbound, and, when the two meet afterwards, he has the same effect on her. From now on Ester's existence is intrinsically linked to this conversation...
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Vinegar Hill

By: Ansay, A. Manette

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Harper Collins: 1999

Seller ID: 13040409

ISBN: 0732265584

Binding: Medium Trade Paperback

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
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The Greek Liar

By: Athanasou, Nikos

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Brandl & Schlesinger: 2002

Seller ID: 18060191

ISBN: 1876040416

Binding: Medium Trade Paperback

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...
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The Blind Assassin

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $11.00

Publisher: UK, Virago Press: 2001

Seller ID: 10100077

ISBN: 1860498809

Binding: Medium Trade Paperback

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...
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On the Edge

By: Aubyn, Edward

Price: $31.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1998

Seller ID: 10050262

ISBN: 0701167254

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0701167254. ISBN/EAN: 9780701167257. Inventory No: 10050262. Paperback
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Beware of God Stories

By: Auslander, Shalom

Price: $21.00

Publisher: UK, Picador: 2006

Seller ID: 09060156

ISBN: 0330442031

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $33.00

Publisher: London, Ward Lock & Co:

Seller ID: 09010232

ISBN: No ISBN

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Remember Me

By: Azzopardi, Trezza

Price: $13.00

Publisher: UK, Picador: 2005

Seller ID: 09050625

ISBN: 0330493469

Binding: Softcover

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 womans 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 sensatio...
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Winterton Blue

By: Azzopardi, Trezza

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Picador: 2008

Seller ID: 10010340

ISBN: 0330493485

Binding: Medium Trade Paperback

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...
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Martin Rattler

By: Ballantyne, R. M.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: UK, Alexander Classic Library: No date

Seller ID: 10100147

ISBN: No ISBN

Binding: Hardcover (Full Leather)

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
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Talking It Over

By: Barnes, Julian

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Random House: 1991

Seller ID: 07110229

ISBN: 0394222393

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

By: Bartlett, John

Price: $42.00

Publisher: USA, Little, Brown: 1980

Seller ID: 13110518

ISBN: 0316082759

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1539 pages. Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear and minor chipping. Edges of pages are slightly foxed. A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Reference. ISBN: 0316082759. ISBN/EAN: 9780316082754. Inventory No: 13110518. Hardcover
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A Literature Collection

By: Batchelor, Mary

Price: $28.00

Publisher: UK, Lion Publishing: 2003

Seller ID: 10110823

ISBN: 0745951465

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: As New

412 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. Reading a good book is for most people a deeply satisfying and enjoyable experience. What, though, makes a book good? According to Mary Batchelor, compiler of "A Literature Collection", good fiction 'rings true'. It leads to greater understanding of ourselves and others, broadens our compassion and expands our knowledge of life and of human strength and frailty. In "A Literary Collection", ...
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Evil: a Novel

By: Bell, Diane

Price: $13.00

Publisher: North Melbourne, Australia, Spinifex: 2005

Seller ID: 08010048

ISBN: 1876756551

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

289 pages. Multiple copies of this title available. Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. Remainder mark on page edges. Pages are reasonably tanned. 'Sex, silence and sin', this is what newly appointed professor, Dee P Scrutari, writes in her notebook as she turns her anthropological gaze on the tribe of 'non-reproducing males' who dominate St Jude's, a prestigious Jesuit liberal arts college in the north east of the US. Something is awry. What happened to the previous occupant of her newly painted office? Professor Scrutari's fieldwork begins. Her notebooks fill. The mystery mo...
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Category: Literature & Literary