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Beckwith, Lillian: The Hills is Lonely
Book Number: 42710
London: Hutchinson, 1963 8vo. hardcover. 207pp. very good, owner's details on fep. / fair d/w missing piece at bottom of spine.
Keywords: fiction scotland
Price: $15.00 |
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Lethem, Jonathan: The Fortress of Solitude
Book Number: 42905
Faber and Faber January 6, 2005 8vo softcover 160pp very good. This is the story of two boys, Dylan and Mingus. They live in Brooklyn and are friends and neighbours, but since Dylan is white and Mingus is black their friendship is not simple. This is the story of what would happen if two tenage boys obsessed with comic book heroes actually had superpowers.
Keywords: modern fiction The Fortress of Solitude Lethem Jonathan
Price: $15.00 |
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Lee, Jeffrey: Dog Days
Book Number: 42986
Bantam Books Ltd July 1, 2003 8vo softcover 352pp very good. In a small West African country, civil war is brewing. Thousands have already been slaughtered but is's the savage killing of attractive British aid worker Miranda Williams that captures the media's attention.
Keywords: cormac mccarthy kay scarpetta john grisham historical fiction apocalypse god nora roberts the road chinese culture cornwell Dog Days Lee Jeffrey
Price: $12.00 |
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Roorbach, Bill: The smallest color : a novel
Book Number: 43019
Crows Nest, N.S.W. Counterpoint 2003 8vo softcover 325pp very good. A gripping novel about the unhealed wounds and unfinished business of the Sixties. The Smallest Colour is the extraordinary story of one man's mid-life attempt to remember the past, the dark and exotic summer of 1969 - a summer of love and rage and when everything seemed possible and the road held every charm. The unforgetable past and the demanding present ford two brilliant threads in the novel, interwoven into a portrai of time itself and of brotherly love, loss and deliverance.
Keywords: The smallest color a novel Roorbach Bill
Price: $12.00 |
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Banville, John: The Sea
Book Number: 43166
Knopf 2006 8vo Hardcover in d/w. 208pp very good. Max Morden has reached a crossroads in his life, and is trying hard to deal with several disturbing things. A recent loss is still taking its toll on him, and a trauma in his past is similarly proving hard to deal with. He decides that he will return to a town on the coast at which he spent a memorable holiday when a boy. His memory of that time devolves on the charismatic Grace family, particularly the seductive twins Myles and Chloe. In a very short time, Max found himself drawn into a strange relationship with them, and pursuant events left their mark on him for the rest of his life. But will he be able to exorcise those memories of the past?
Keywords: booker prize irish literature contemporary fiction novel literary 2005 booker book novel books 2 read contemporary fiction good novel The Sea Banville John
Price: $18.00 |
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Fairbairn, Charlotte: God Breathes His Dreams Through Nathaniel Cadwallader
Book Number: 43168
Headline Review July 1, 2002 8vo Hardcover in d/w. 215pp very good. In an outlying village in a faraway valley—a place where dreams bleed into reality—a young woman falls pregnant. Winter keeps its grip on the land until June, while despondency and unease take root. When rumors begin to spread of the approach of a mysterious figure, a stranger astride a magnificent brown stallion, the conviction grows that he alone can mend the village's broken spirit.
Riding into the valley, Nathaniel Cadwallader ushers in a golden age of faith and tranquility, exerting a benign, if distant, influence from the chapel where he settles and devotes himself himself to his carpentry. Yet there are those who resent his aloofness, suspicious of the way he holds the village in the palm of his hand. When a beautiful outsider attempts to claim the carpenter as her own, the spell is broken and Nathaniel quickly becomes a scapegoat for his detractors' own guilt and fears. In God Breathes His Dreams Through Nathaniel Cadwallader, Charlotte Fairbairn has created a story that compels the imagination long after the final page is turned.
Keywords: God Breathes His Dreams Through Nathaniel Cadwallader Fairbairn Charlotte
Price: $16.00 |
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Collins, Larry & Lapierre, Dominique.: The Fifth Horseman.
Book Number: 43607
New York, Simon & Schuster 1980, 1st ed Large 8vo. hardcover. 478pp. b/w maps. Very good. / good, chipped d/w.
Keywords: pentagon spy spies carter brezhnev secret agents atomic science
Price: $15.00 |
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Shearer, Cynthia: The Wonder Book of the Air
Book Number: 43628
Trafalgar Square July 3, 1997 8vo softcover 305pp very good. This promising first novel by the curator of William Faulkner's home seems to pick up where the Nobel winner left off-by spanning three generations of a Southern family, from 1931 to the present. We are introduced to young Harrison Dorrance as he makes his way through the confusion of adolescence with the help of his eccentric uncle, who advises him above all to be flexible, because "the earth curves." Though accurate, this maxim is of little help when WWII begins and the once-charming boy grows into an embittered man. As the years pass, other narrative voices replace Harrison's, and a darker side of the protagonist is revealed through the words of the wife he abuses; later, he is seen through the eyes of his mistress, his son and, ultimately, his granddaughter. Shearer continually and gracefully manages to juxtapose the mundane, the lethal and the lyrical; the title comes from an encyclopedia that Harrison buys for his son, to help him "dream his boy's dream of dirigibles and zeppelins." By such contrasts, the fresh and engagingly poetic story takes shape as a complex web of contradictions that is a pleasure to unravel.
Keywords: harry potter vampire stephenie meyer breaking dawn jk rowling romance fantasy edward cullen vampire romance xmen The Wonder Book of the Air Shearer Cynthia
Price: $12.00 |
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GILLOTT, Jacky: WAR BABY
Book Number: 43856
PENGUIN 1974 8vo softcover 304pp very good. War Baby is a panoramic novel about English life in the last 35 years (from 1974).
Keywords: WAR BABY GILLOTT
Price: $8.00 |
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Galsworthy, John: The Forsyte Saga. - The Man of Property; Indian Summer of a Forsyte; In Chancery; Awakening; To Let.
Book Number: 44000
Heinemann London 1967 8vo. hardcover. 783pp. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Keywords: forsyth
Price: $18.00 |
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