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McCann, Maria: As Meat Loves Salt
Book Number: 52831
Flamingo March 4, 2002 8vo softcover 544pp near fine. In the seventeenth century, the English Revolution is under way. The nation, seething with religious and political discontent, has erupted into violence and terror. Jacob Cullen and his fellow soldiers dream of rebuilding their lives when the fighting is over. But the shattering events of war will overtake them. A darkly erotic tale of passion and obsession, As Meat Loves Salt is a gripping portrait of England beset by war. It is also a moving portrait of a man on the brink of madness. Hailed as a masterpiece, this is a first novel by a most original new voice in fiction.
Keywords: Fiction As Meat Loves Salt McCann Maria
Price: $12.00 |
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Pressfield, Steven: Killing Rommel
Book Number: 52977
Doubleday March 24, 2008 8vo hardcover 352pp very good / very good d/w. Autumn,1942: Hitler’s legions have swept across Europe. Soviet Russia reels under the German onslaught while across the channel, Britain struggles on. And in North Africa, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps have routed the 8th Army, threatening the oil fields of the Middle East. The war hangs in the balance... Out of this, the British hatch a desperate plan – to send a small, highly mobile fighting force behind enemy lines to strike a blow that will stop Rommel's army in its tracks. It is to be called the Long Range Desert Group and its exploits will become the stuff of legend. Based on real events, Steven Pressfield’s bold new novel brings to pulse-racing life the ingenuity and daring of this maverick commando unit - a disparate, dedicated ‘band of brothers’ who sacrificed so much for the sake of freedom...
Keywords: Modern fiction Killing Rommel Pressfield Steven
Price: $14.00 |
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Monaldi, Francesco Sorti Rita: Imprimatur
Book Number: 53027
Birlinn Ltd September 30, 2009 8vo softcover 650pp near fine. 11 September 1683, Rome. Rome is a city on a knife-edge. The citizens wait anxiously for news of the outcome of the Battle of Vienna, as the Islamic forces of the Ottoman Empire lay siege to the defenders of Catholic Europe. Meanwhile a suspected outbreak of plague causes a famous Roman tavern to be placed under quarantine. Among this detained in the Locanda Donzello is the mysterious Atto Melani, a spy in the service of the French king. With the help of the young serving boy, he discovers a secret passage leading to a network of tunnels under the city. Their nocturnal journeys into the Roman underworld lead them to some startling discoveries about the deadly enmity between Pope Innocent XI and Louis XIV, and a plot to unleash a weapon of mass destruction in the battle between Islam and the West. Meticulously researched and brilliantly conceived, Imprimatur contains startling revelations that have been concealed for centuries. It is a captivating thriller that sheds new light on the power struggles of 17th-century Europe, the repercussions of which are still felt today. First published to great controversy in Italy in 2002, Imprimatur was boycotted by the Italian press and publishing world. Despite this, the novel has become a European bestseller.
Keywords: FICTION / Historical Imprimatur Monaldi Francesco Sorti Rita
Price: $12.00 |
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Robilant, Andrea Di: A Venetian Affair - a True Story of Impossible Love in the Eighteenth Century
Book Number: 53080
Fourth Estate 2004 8vo softcover 313pp very good. Index. In the waning days of Venice’s glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city’s oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mother and British father. Because of their dramatically different positions in society, they could not marry. And Giustiniana’s mother, afraid that an affair would ruin her daughter’s chances to form a more suitable union, forbade them to see each other. Her prohibition only fueled their desire and so began their torrid, secret seven-year-affair, enlisting the aid of a few intimates and servants (willing to risk their own positions) to shuttle love letters back and forth and to help facilitate their clandestine meetings. Eventually, Giustiniana found herself pregnant and she turned for help to the infamous Casanova–himself infatuated with her. Two and half centuries later, the unbelievable story of this star-crossed couple is told in a breathtaking narrative, re-created in part from the passionate, clandestine letters Andrea and Giustiniana wrote to each other.
Keywords: Careers A Venetian Affair a True Story of Impossible Love in the Eighteenth Century Robilant Andrea Di
Price: $12.00 |
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Hearn, Lian: Blossoms and Shadows
Book Number: 53242
Hachette Livre Australia, Sydney, 2010 Large 8vo. softcover. 468pp. Very good+.
Keywords: japan japanese fiction
Price: $18.00 |
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Mosher, Howard Frank: The True Account: A Novel of the Lewis and Clark and Kinneson Expeditions
Book Number: 54751
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt June 5, 2003 8vo softcover 352pp very good. Private True Teague Kinneson, a Vermont schoolteacher and inventor, writes to Jefferson to recommend himself for the expedition to the Pacific. When Jefferson announces that he's already appointed Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, True, with his teenage nephew, Ticonderoga, in tow, heads West anyway, determined to reach the Pacific first.
Keywords: Discoveries in geography The True Account A Novel of the Lewis and Clark and Kinneson Expeditions Mosher Howard Frank
Price: $12.00 |
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