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Vittachi, Nury: The Feng Shui Detective's Casebook
Book Number: 50996
Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited 2006 8vo softcover 298pp very good.
Keywords: feng shui The Feng Shui Detective's Casebook Vittachi Nury
Price: $12.00 |
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Vittachi, Nury: The Feng Shui Detective
Book Number: 50997
Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited 2008 8vo softcover 298pp very good.
Keywords: feng shui The Feng Shui Detective's Casebook Vittachi Nury
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Fletcher, Susan: Eve Green
Book Number: 51327
HarperPerennial January 3, 2005 8vo softcover 288pp very good. Following the loss of her mother, eight-year-old Evie is sent to a new life in rural Wales -- a dripping place, where flowers appear mysteriously on doorsteps and people look at her twice. With a sense of being lied to she sets out to discover her family's dark secret -- unaware that there is yet more darkness to come with the sinister disappearance of local girl Rosemary Hughes. Now many years later Eve Green is waiting for the birth of her own child, and when she revisits her past something clicks in her mind and her own reckless role in the hunt for Rosie's abductor is revealed! A truly beautiful and hypnotic first novel, this is both an engaging puzzle and an enchanting work of literature.
Keywords: Eve Green Fletcher Susan
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Miller, Kristen: Kiki Strike
Book Number: 51339
Random House 2006 8vo softcover 387pp very good.
Keywords: Kiki Strike Miller Kristen
Price: $9.00 |
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Krauss, Nicole: Great House
Book Number: 51368
Viking 7 Oct 2010 8vo softcover 370
pp near fine.
Keywords: Great House Krauss Nicole
Price: $14.00 |
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Meyer, Stephenie: The Host
Book Number: 51590
Little Brown & Co 2008 8vo softcover 624pp very good. po inscription on ffl.
Keywords: science fiction aliens stephenie meyer The Host Meyer Stephenie
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Tallis, Frank: Sensing Others
Book Number: 51681
Hamish Hamilton 2000 8vo softcover 304pp very good. The drug Naloxyl is Nick's only reliable source of income. He isn't making ends meet gigging in pubs in Essex so he's volunteered for a drug trial. But he's beginning to suspect it's giving him side-effects. Not least of which is the ability to recall other people's memories. But should he reveal this to his trial doctor, or is he just paranoid? And all this at a time when he really doesn't need the hassle. His friend Eric, former 70s rock star turned eco-warrior, has invited himself to stay. His relationship with older woman Cairo is swinging in and out of focus; and a Swedish producer wants to hear his band perform but the only gig they can fix is at a dodgy S & M club in Kings Cross...
Keywords: Sensing Others Tallis Frank
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Rahimi, Atiq - with an Introduction by Khaled Hosseini: The Patience Stone
Book Number: 51983
Chatto and Windus 2010 8vo. Hardcover in d/w, as new. 135pp.
In Persian folklore, Syngue Sabour is the name of a magical black stone, a patience stone, which absorbs the plight of those who confide in it. It is believed that the day it explodes, after having received too much hardship and pain, will be the day of the Apocalypse. But here, the Syngue Sabour is not a stone but rather a man lying brain-dead with a bullet lodged in his neck. His wife is with him, sitting by his side. But she resents him for having sacrificed her to the war, for never being able to resist the call to arms, for wanting to be a hero, and in the end, after all was said and done, for being incapacitated in a small skirmish. Yet she cares, and she speaks to him. She even talks to him more and more, opening up her deepest desires, pains, and secrets. While in the streets rival factions clash and soldiers are looting and killing around her, she speaks of her life, never knowing if her husband really hears. And it is an extraordinary confession, without restraint, about sex and love and her anger against a man who never understood her, who mistreated her, who never showed her any respect or kindness. Her admission releases the weight of oppression of marital, social, and religious norms, and she leads her story up to the great secret that is unthinkable in a country such as Afghanistan. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, The Patience Stone captures with great courage and spare, poetic, prose the reality of everyday life for an intelligent woman under the oppressive weight of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
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Morrison, Sally: The Insatiable Desire of Injured Love
Book Number: 52014
Hodder 2002 8vo softcover 235pp very good. n the Cathedral Ranges in 1973, 27-year-old Renata Ochiltree steps off a mountain into thin air. Fully encased in a body cast - a premature coffin - Renata is humiliated by Matron, prodded by visiting medical students and in receipt of no sympathy from her doctor. But a broken neck, arms, fractured skull and vertebrae are the least of Renata's ills when visiting hours begin. Apart from her Uncle George, who shares the same hospital floor after drink-driving into a cow, Renata's three lovers - Matt, Mike and Warren - all make less than perfunctory company, while her family all descend on her and her home like harpies. Renata's only comfort, besides her right big toe (the one organ of her body that's mysteriously escaped harm - is her seemingly insatiable desire for the utterly unworthy, raffish, already married Mike, a gambling philanderer who stole the ground from under her in the first place.
Keywords: The Insatiable Desire of Injured Love Morrison Sally
Price: $12.00 |
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Aw, Tash: The Harmony Silk Factory
Book Number: 52131
HarperPerennial 2006 8vo softcover 384pp very good. A brilliant novel from a genuinely exciting new voice in British fiction. A novel for anyone who enjoyed The English Patient. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman -- a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer -- whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Factory, he uses as a front for his illegal businesses; Snow Soong, the beautiful daughter of one of the Kinta Valley's most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novel's narrators; Kunichika, a Japanese officer who loves Snow too; and an Englishman, Peter Wormwood, who went to Malaysia like many English but never came back, who also loved Snow to the end of his life. A journey the four of them take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them, and brilliantly exposes the cultural tensions of the era. Haunting, highly original, The Harmony Silk Factory is suspenseful to the last page.
Keywords: The Harmony Silk Factory Aw Tash
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