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From a new voice in crime fiction, this focuses on Timothy Waverly, once professor now professional gambler, who after seven years in prison, returns to face his former lives there....
Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman,
The "honorable men" who ruled the Old South had a language all their own, one comprised of many apparently outlandish features yet revealing much about the lives of masters and...
A Personal History of Thirst
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The book titled A Personal History of Thirst by the author John Burdett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Blue Nowhere
From the bestselling author of The Empty Chair comes the suspenseful story of a computer hacker--code-named PHATE--on a Silicon Valley killing spree. Hot on his trail are ex-hacker Wyatt Gillette...
Menacing Groves
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The book titled Menacing Groves by the author John Sherwood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
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A Spectator Best Book of the Year "It's an extremely handsome, well-designed book, and you couldn't ask for a better introduction to Kafka...If you've never read Kafka before or if...
Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year A BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year "Excellent...A fascinating, authoritative account of the paths for China's future explored during a...
On Leaders and Tyrants
The first complete English translation of a controversial Renaissance debate centering moral questions on power and leadership. Poggio Bracciolini was a prominent scholar-official of the early Renaissance and a leading...
The Color of North: The Molecular Language of Proteins and the Future
An awe-inspiring journey into the world of proteins-how they shape life, and their remarkable potential to heal our bodies and our planet. Each fall, a robin begins the long trek...
Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
"The relationship between China and Korea is one of the most important, and least understood, in Asia. With the wisdom and clarity we have come to expect from Westad, this...
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Award Winner of the US-Russia Relations Book Prize "The achievement of a lifetime." -Stephen Kotkin,...
Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture: Transmedia Storytelling, Digital
Webtoons-a form of comic that are typically published digitally in chapter form-are the latest manifestation of the Korean Wave of popular culture that has increasingly caught on across the globe,...
Freedom: An Unruly History
Winner of the PROSE Award An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year "Ambitious and impressive At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain,...
Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
An Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal Winner A Progressive Book of the Year A TechCrunch Favorite Read of the Year "This subtle, important book forces rethinking not just about...
Happiness in Action: A Philosopher's Guide to the Good Life
A young philosopher and Guinness World Record holder in pull-ups argues that the key to happiness is not goal-driven striving but forging a life that integrates self-possession, friendship, and engagement...
Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican
The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising US colossus by establishing Old World empire on its doorstep. The...
The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in
Countering recent hype around technology, a leading expert argues that the endurance of dictatorship in China owes less to facial recognition AI and GPS tracking than to the human resources...
The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
An award-winning science journalist details the quest to isolate and understand dark matter-and shows how that search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit. When you train a...
A Question of Guilt
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The book titled A Question of Guilt by the author Frances Fyfield. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
Everything is made of them, from the furthest reaches of the universe to this book that you hold in your hands, including you. Like you, the elements have lives: personalities...
Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man
Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a great poet and a novelist with a world reputation. His life was also extraordinary: from the poverty of...
World Atlas of Warfare: Military Innovations That Changed the Course
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The 'world atlas of warfare' provides an in-depth chronological survey of military history from the neolithic era until the present day, with special emphasis on csritical turning points in the...
The Right Break
John Abernethy has seized life with both hands. A man of the land and the sea, he fought in Vietnam, started a successful fishing charter business and owned a horse...
Joining Loose Ends: How a long walk revealed a new life
This book tells the true story of a couple who in 2010 set out on a long walk through Britain which led to a second unplanned internal journey. The physical...
Bouncing Back
BOUNCING BACK ! is about rebounding from failure, loneliness, disappointment, disaster and grief. It's about discovering resilience we never knew we had. Andrew Matthews pinpoints the 7 critical things that...
When Only Today Matters and Other Stories
The unwashed man woken by kookaburras at first light and his unlikely friendship with Benny, whose life on the street started when he was ten years old; the young woman...
Drug War
When the daughter of a senior police officer is abducted and brutally gang-raped in Australia's Snowy Mountains, it's the final straw for some highly trained Vietnam veterans. They've lost children...
Upside Down World: Early European Impressions of Australia's Curious
Penny Olsen will discuss her new book about early European impressions of Australia's curious mammals on Thursday 4 November, 4.00 pm, National Library of Australia - Conference Room. This free...
Before the Day After: Can N.A.T.O.Defend Europe?
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Victorian Parlour Games: 50 Traditional Games for Today's Parties
Have a seat in the parlour and spend a rollicking evening with this elegant box of 50 Victorian-era entertainments. Have a seat in the parlour and spend a rollicking evening...
The House on Biscayne Bay
As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and present collide in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's atmospheric new...
The Female Brain
In this groundbreaking book, Dr Louann Brizendine describes the uniquely flexible structure of the female brain and its constant, dynamic state of change - the key difference that separates it...
Fair at Sokolniki
The book titled Fair at Sokolniki by the author Fridrikh Neznansky. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Falconer's Crusade
A detective novel set in medieval Oxford and featuring real historical figures. Town and gown are at loggerheads as the barons prepare to challenge Henry III's authority, and the university...
The Hammer of God
The book titled The Hammer of God by the author Sir Arthur C. Clarke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
How the World Was One: Turbulent History of Global Communications
The book titled How the World Was One: Turbulent History of Global Communications by the author Arthur C. Clarke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
The Sergeant's Cat and Other Stories
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Questions of Identity
The book titled Questions of Identity by the author Bob Cook. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Botanist at Bay
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The book titled A Botanist at Bay by the author John Sherwood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Notorious Virtues: A glittering new fantasy thriller from the New
'A sparkling cocktail . . . Hamilton is back and better than ever.' Samantha Shannon, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree 'M ore-than-magical ....
Cold Desert Sky
No one wanted to say it to me, that the girls were dead. But I knew. Late 1946 and Charlie Yates and his wife Lizzie have returned to Los Angeles,...
A Rich Full Death
Young Bostonian Robert Booth manoeuvres an entree into the Florentine residence of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. When Mr Browning is called away, Booth follows him - and is brought...
QI: the Second Book of General Ignorance
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Who made the first aeroplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and...
Unholy Awakening
A female corpse is found in the town of Lotingen. The girl's neck has been ripped open, all the blood drained from the body. Hanno Stiffeniis hastens to investigate a...
Sulphuric Acid
Tired of traditional reality shows, the television audience wants blood, literally. One day, while out taking a walk in the Jardin des Plantes, Pannonique finds herself piled into a cattle-truck....
Plot Against Pepys
It is 1679 and England is awash with suspicion. Fear of conspiracy and religious terrorism has provoked panic in politicans and a zealous reaction from the legal system. Everywhere -...
Turbulence
The D-day landings - the fate of 2.5 million men, 3000 landing craft and the entire future of Europe depends on the right weather conditions on the English Channel on...