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One of our most acclaimed historians explores the decorated military service of one of America's most intriguing politicians--the leading Democratic presidential candidate for 2004--and its profound effects on his career...

The bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An American Childhood and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek provides a delightful and informative look into her experiences and struggles with her craft.

The book titled Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by the author J. R. R. Tolkien. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This reference on the Vietnam War covers people, places, battles, events, equipment and related information. The appendices include: a comprehensive bibliography; a detailed chronology; orders of battle for US and...

'An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.' Dolly Alderton 'J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024 'Any book by Yiyun Li is a cause for celebration' SIGRID NUNEZ 'One of our finest living authors' NEW YORK TIMES 'Bruising,...

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us? We humans like to think of ourselves as...

The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean....

An astonishing first book, Apache is a story of courage, comradeship, technology and tragedy, during the ongoing war in Afghanistan. 'Apache' is the first book to come from the cockpit...

Written by the author of "The Holocaust", this is a history of the events of 8 May 1945 and its repercussions, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary celebrations of...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. In the tranquil marshlands of coastal Queensland, a young man named Jim Saddler discovers his calling...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedSet against the turbulent backdrop of wartime Australia in the early 1940s, The Cut-Rate Kingdom is a sharp, satirical novel...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Set against the brutal backdrop of the Yugoslav Partisan resistance during World War II, Season in...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedIn the raw, unforgiving wilderness of colonial New South Wales in 1789, a young Royal Marine lieutenant named Ralph Clark receives...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds comes a gripping personal account of an unlikely friendship forged...

Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn the humid, claustrophobic world of rural New South Wales, Thomas Keneally's A Dutiful Daughter presents one of Australian literature's...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedWhat happens when the sins of one generation reach across decades to consume the next? A Family Madness is a haunting,...

Edition: 2nd aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ: edges chipped and worn with some loss on rear panel....

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingA work of rare psychological intensity, The Refuge: A Confession by Australian author Seaforth Mackenzie presents the intimate inner world...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodJohn Fowles — celebrated author of The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus — reveals an altogether different creative dimension in Poems, a rare...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOn the windswept Cobb at Lyme Regis, a respectable Victorian gentleman named Charles Smithson glimpses a solitary, enigmatic figure staring out to...

Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn a world where legends are not merely remembered but wielded as weapons, A Song of Legends Lost launches...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedA darkly comic and unsettling descent into the underbelly of suburban Australian life, The Flesheaters by David Ireland presents a world where...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: price clipped dj.Raw, anarchic, and deeply unsettling, The Chantic Bird plunges the reader into the fractured consciousness of...

Edition: 1st uk ed., 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerWhat happens to the man who was spared so that another...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to truly inhabit a book — not merely to read it, but to...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFrom one of Australia's most provocative literary voices comes Burn, a raw and visceral novel that plunges readers into the...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in American military history inspire as much awe, controversy, and fascination as General Douglas MacArthur —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions stands a work that rewrites the boundaries of religious...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to act morally — and can philosophy offer us any honest...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew stones in the world carry as much mythic weight as the Blarney Stone, and Blarney Castle: The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadowy world of Cold War intelligence, where loyalty is a currency more dangerous than secrets, Len Deighton's Hope delivers the third and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the gilded doors of diplomacy, power is rarely held by those who appear to wield it. The Ambassador's Women by Catherine Gaskin chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew dog breeds command devotion quite like the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel — a silky-eared, soulful-eyed companion whose aristocratic lineage stretches back to the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodLanguage is alive with history, and Everyday Phrases: Their Origins and Meanings pulls back the curtain on the fascinating stories hidden within the words...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew writers captured the rhythms of English rural life with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the shadow of the ancient Middle East, Jon Cleary's A Flight of Chariots plunges its protagonist into...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor seventeen summers, two Queensland cane-cutters have made their annual pilgrimage to Melbourne, bringing with them the intoxicating promise of freedom, romance, and a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the storm-lashed waters of the North Atlantic during the Second World War,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Australian political history have ignited as much controversy as Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General whose 1975 dismissal of Prime Minister Gough...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind every legendary voice lies an extraordinary life — and few voices of the twentieth century were as luminous, or...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the spring of 1839, a young man of remarkable ambition set sail from Plymouth, England, bound for the remote colonial settlement of Melbourne — and...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Light chipping of edges of jacket spine.Behind the shuttered windows and cobblestoned alleys of wartime and post-war Paris, the ordinary...

Edition: First Illustrated ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Light tanning on block, tape residue on inside of cover. Pages clean, binding firm. Small...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Previous ownerCondition remarks: Light chipping on jacket edges...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew writers of the twentieth century chronicled the human condition with the raw intensity and moral urgency of Joseph Kessel,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFor the artist, collector, or craftsperson who has ever stood back to admire a finished work only to find it...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFor any writer, editor, or student who has ever paused mid-sentence, uncertain whether a word is exactly right or subtly...