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Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Paperback. Very Near Fine in Wraps: the text pages have tanned slightly, due to aging; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any creases to the covers. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome very nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a single minor, unobtrusive flaw. Bright and clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.1 x 0.65 inches). 216 pages. Language: English. Weight: 6 ounces. First Edition Thus in the UK (1998), Twelfth Printing. Trade Paperback. First Edition Thus in the UK (1998), Twelfth Printing.

Paperback. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of a tanning to the text pages (a little heavier at the outside edges); else flawless. The binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. Not quite pristine, but remains Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches). 150 pages. Translated by Tim Parks. Weight: 4.6 ounces. First Edition Thus [1994], Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. First Edition Thus [1994], Fourth Printing.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Elliot Erwitt/Magnum (Cover Photo); Caroline Cunningham (Design) (illustrator). 467 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Minimally creased covers. Creased spine. Sticky stain on top edge.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 420pp. '7' in number line. Index, pp. 399-420. Red wraps with title in embossed white letters in curved arc superimposed upon a transparent globe with continents only on the curved surface; author name lettering in blurred-edge embossed white across top front cover; subtitle in smaller black letters on the upward slant across bottom front cover. A crease on the diagonal across lower right front cover corner: long flat, NOT weak or floppy, else Flawless: Tight binding (NO cracks); Sharp corners; NO previous owner names; NO remainder mark. Clean Text. Appears UNREAD.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Mr. Baker's procedure is to settle on something commonplace yet structurally intricate and then, with magnified detailing and sly humor, to unfold hitherto unimagined panoramas.- The New York Times Book Review. This copy is a near fine , first printing paperback with no issues. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good +. Reprint. 416 pages. Paperback with light wear to spine-ends and corners, little used. Nice condition.

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Soft Cover First Edition. Paperback edition in VG condition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt, Versand Büchersendung - It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unkown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is this the same killer, and what could the connection be In this investigation, Wallander is always, tantalisingly, one step behind.

Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Ungeles. Mängelexpl., gestempelt o markiert, Knicke/Schmutz/Aufkleber möglich, Versand per Büchersen - Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. Factor in a manipulative nanny, an Australian boss who looks at Kate's breasts as if they're on special offer, a long-suffering husband, her in-laws, two needy children and an e-mail lover, and you have a woman juggling so many balls that some day soon something's going to hit the ground.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen, Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, Versand Büchersendung - An international bestseller and French publishing sensation CONSOLATION is a dazzling, heartbreaking tale of one man, two remarkable women and an unforgettable transvestite. Charles Balanda is forty-seven; a successful architect, he is constantly on the move. But from the moment he hears about the death of the woman he once loved his life begins to unravel until, one day, he finds himself on a Paris pavement covered in blood. But fate brings him one final chance to be happy in Kate, an enchanting young woman, herself damaged but fearless and in love with life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'Witty, original, inventive.utterly compelling' Daily MailWinner of the Man Booker Prize The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars.'It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction' A.L. Kennedy, Guardian 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt, Versand Büchersendung - Summer, 1952. Twenty powerful men gather in secret and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States . Soon after, writer Eddie Wesley leaves a party hosted by affluent and influential members of black society, and discovers a body. The murdered man had an unusual gold cross gripped between his hands and Eddie is determined to find out why he was killed and what the cross signifies. But then Eddie's sister Junie becomes entangled in an underground movement and vanishes. Is her disappearance connected to the conspiracy to control the President of the United States.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen, Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, Versand Büchersendung - On a journey from the Jersey Shore to the Pacific Ocean the driver crosses an America twisted beyond all recognition, pursued by ghosts of his traumatic past, and by the police, who have discovered the horrifying secrets of his basement. On and off the road, we glimpse the lives of people who are touched by the driver in one way or another - a porn star who can no longer perform; a widower looking for love; two parents who return day after day to the spot where their son was killed. The driver meddles, mixes and murders, heading towards his own macabre realisation of the American Dream.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WITH AN INTRODUCTION, PLUS EXTENSIVE NOTES AND REFERENCES BY HERMIONE LEEThis volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. The sequel, Three Guineas, is a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the evils of fascism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discover Jane Austen's most beloved classic. When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so when Darcy's friend, the affable Mr Bingley, forms an attachment to Jane, Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid. Polite society will be turned upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry and love - Jane Austen's classic romance novel. \*\*One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World\*\*.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mary Panton walls up her desires in a beautiful villa high up in the hills above Florence, as she calmly contemplates her disastrous marriage. But a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that shatters her serenity. She turns for help to the notorious Rowley Flint, and through him comes to realise that to deny love, with all its passions and risks, is to deny life itself.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of world literature' John le Carré The Third Man, Graham Greene's most iconic tale, takes place in post-war Vienna, a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the four Allied powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates. The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play. Left in the care of the butler and his wife whilst his parents go on a fortnight's holiday, Philip realises too late the danger of lies and deceit. But the truth is even deadlier.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN THOMSON.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled' William Blake Patti Smith introduces her favourite selection of Blake's poems, including the complete poems from Songs of Innocence and of Experience.William Blake is one of Britain's most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousness starts to drift and the line between fact and the workings of her excited imagination becomes blurred. What follows is the fable of a woman's passionate, obsessed and violent response to an Africa that will not heed her.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn a prison in Occupied France during the Second World War, the order is given that every tenth inmate is to be executed. Louis Chavel, a rich lawyer, draws the short straw and barters everything he owns to exchange places with another man and survive. Destitute but free, Chavel later returns to the house that he sold for his life, where he must face the consequences of his cowardice and seek redemption.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the youngest brothers, the regime is without hope, and when he inherits a small legacy he defies his elders and runs away, taking with him a twelve-year-old boy, Owen Kane. Radio Eireann call it a kidnapping. For Michael the act is the beginning of Owen's salvation. Posing as father and son, they concentrate on discovering the happiness that is so unfamiliar to them both. But as the outside world closes in around them - as time, money and opportunity run out - Michael finds himself moving towards a solution that is as uncompromising as it is inspired by love.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An unadulterated delight.suffused with a sense of love and very, very funny' Maggie O'Farrell It's 2004 and Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. Making Babies, is the intimate, engaging, and very funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, it has the rush of good news - full of the mess, the glory, and the raw shock of it all. An antidote to the high-minded, polemical 'How-to' baby manuals, Making Babies also bears a visceral and dreamlike witness to the first years of parenthood. Anne Enright wrote the truth of it as it happened, because, for these months and years, it is impossible for a woman to lie.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discover George Eliot's powerful tragedy about the struggle between head and heart.\*\*As Heard on BBC Radio 4\*\* Maggie and Tom Tulliver are both wilful, passionate children, and their relationship has always been tempestuous. As they grow up together on the banks of the River Floss, Tom's self-righteous stubbornness and Maggie's emotional intensity increasingly brings them into conflict, particularly when Maggie's beauty sparks some ill-fated attachments. George Eliot's story of a brother and sister bound together by their errors and affections is told with tenderness, energy and a profound understanding of human nature. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA LEWYCKA 'George Eliot is the greatest British novelist of any age' Daily Mail.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his mother's eye, before attending school to slake what is considered a bizarre thirst for learning.As he grows up, the wider political and social changes occurring in Kenya begin to impinge on the boy's life in both inspiring and frightening ways. Through the story of his grandparents and parents, and his brothers' involvement in the violent Mau Mau uprising, Ngugi deftly etches a tumultuous era, capturing the landscape, the people and their culture, and the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Der Ire Roddy Doyle hat einen Roman geschrieben, der ungeheuer komisch und zugleich abgrundtief traurig ist. Er erzählt von einem Jungen, dem zehnjährigen Patrick Clarke. Patrick sitzt abends vor dem Fernseher, knabbert Chips und sinniert über die amerikanischen Soldaten, die, man schreibt das Jahr 1968, im Mekong-Delta gegen 'Gorillas' kämpfen, er kann seinen kleinen Bruder nicht ausstehen, will Missionar werden und schreckt trotzdem vor einem kleinen Diebstahl nicht zurück. Aber Patricks Welt ist nicht heil; der Vater, ein Trinker, verläßt die Familie, und der Junge muß deshalb den Hohn der Spielkameraden ertragen. Er reagiert auf seine Weise: 'Ich höre ihnen gar nicht zu. Es sind ja bloß Kinder.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's unforgettable epic. Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared everything. They shared the symptoms of pregnancy; they shared the son that they all claim to have borne on the same night. Raised at their six breasts, Omar's mothers teach him to live a life without shame. And it is training that proves very useful when he leaves his mothers' fortress and makes the fateful mistake of falling in love. For he finds himself an unwitting player in an ongoing duel between the families of two men - one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure - living in a world caught between honour and humiliation, where a moment of shame could prove fatal. 'Shame is every bit as good as Midnight's Children. It is a pitch-black comedy of public life and historical imperatives' The Times.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Als der 23jährige Boab an ein und demselben Tag aus seiner Fussballmannschaft und aus dem Elternhaus geschmissen wird, dann auch noch Freundin und Job verliert, trifft er Gott auf der Straße. Von Boab zur Rede gestellt, antwortet der 'alte Knacker', er sei nicht tot, wie Nietzsche meinte, aber eben ein genauso fauler Hund wie Boab, er habe einfach keinen Bock, sich um die bekloppten Menschen zu kümmern. Boab muss sich selber helfen.Surreal, spacig und ganz schön abgedreht - wie die Stories in Robert Altmans 'Shortcuts' oder in Tom Twykers 'Lola rennt' entwerfen die Geschichten in 'The Acid House' ein Kaleidoskop des menschlichen Lebens ganz eigener Art.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed and rapidly running out of money. His best friend Bimbo has been made redundant at the company where he has worked for many years. The two old friends are out of luck and out of options. That is, until Bimbo finds a dilapidated 'chipper van' and the pair decide to go into business.By the bestselling author of The Commitments and The Snapper, The Van is a tender tale of male friendship, swimming in grease and stained with ketchup.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While Mortals Sleep is a smart, clear-eyed collection of stories from one of the most original writers in American fiction. Set in trailers, bars and factories, Vonnegut conjures up a world where men and machines, art and artifice, fame and fortune become curiously twisted and characters pit their dreams and fears against a cruel and comically indifferent world.Written early in his career, and never published before, these tightly plotted stories are infused with Vonnegut's distinctive blend of observation, imagination and scabrous humour. This collection features an introduction by Dave Eggers.