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Beau Rosenwald - overweight, not particularly handsome, and improbably charismatic - arrives in Los Angles in 1962 with nothing but an ill-fitting suit and a pair of expensive brogues. By...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA masterwork of Australian short fiction, American Dreams presents a quietly unsettling collection of stories in which Peter Carey...

An acerbic, withering account of the ascent of the Bush family to the pinnacle of the American political and social elite and the implications of the dynasty's hold on power...

Author: Arthur S. Link With The Collaboration Of William B. CattonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in...

Author: Robert A. Divine; George F. ScheerBinding: PaperbackPublished: Meridian Books, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cover has some tanning along spine and edges, previous owner marks...

Now in paperback--a new biography of General Sherman from a retired brigadier general, historian, and son of President Eisenhower. Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman earned a place in history...

Author: Neil Gaiman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 AN ACCLAIMED, EMMY-NOMINATED TV SERIES ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO WINNER OF THE HUGO, LOCUS AND BRAM STOKER AWARDS 'To give him...

Author: Neil Gaiman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 AN ACCLAIMED, EMMY-NOMINATED TV SERIES ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO WINNER OF THE HUGO, LOCUS AND BRAM STOKER AWARDS 'To give him...

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The Mojave is a graveyard. It lies between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and through it runs a road where, in the middle of desert nights, all of the human...

In 2005, Charles Firth travelled to the US and over a period of six months invented five fictional American characters, each of whom represent a different point of view in...

Seeking to reveal the cutting edge of the architecture scene in the USA, this text brings together examples of recent American housing and examines the meanings and origins of the...

The book titled American Images: Photography 1945-1980 by the author Peter Turner. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Theodore P. GreeneBinding: PaperbackPublished: D. C. Heath and Company, 1955Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Worn cover with bent corners. Yellowed...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA practical and visually rich craft resource, American Indian Cut & Use Stencils presents...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA rigorous work of literary scholarship, American Literature in Context, I: 1620–1830 presents a...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce Carol Oates is one...

Author: Adam HochschildFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 440g, 432 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK...

In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially...

Reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016, American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Philip Roth's masterpiece provides a piercing look into...

Completely revised and updated to take full account of the 1992 Presidential Election which swept Bill Clinton to the Oval office, this new edition of "American Politics and Society" provides...

Author: Laura Locker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Queer: A Graphic History, illustrator Julia Scheele teams up with Dr Laura Locker...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work of political criticism, American...

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***NOW A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN*** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' - Sunday Times Physicist and polymath, as...

Jack's wife has disappeared. She was in the car when they stopped for gas, he knows that much. He walked back from the counter, and then ? Jack can't remember....

The importance of Native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s through World War I and the uniquely American innovations...

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Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover...

Edition: uncorrected proof copy Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Small marking on rear panel, otherwise internallu sound. A...

The highly-acclaimed unauthorised biography of cult anti-hero comedian Bill Hicks. He was a radical stand up who dared to question the values of small town America and the evils of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Rubbed lettering on slipcase. Light creasing on covers, otherwise internally sound. This two‑volume slipcased...

A concise, engaging overview of American slavery from the beginning of the colonial era to emancipation and its aftermath. Kolchin takes a broad geographical perspective, putting American slavery in the...

From one of America's most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the residents of a rural New York town, and the shocking headlines that become their local mythologies....

Author: Lauren Wilkinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICK SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT...

LITERARY HUB MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019 'This unflinching debut combines the espionage novels of John le Carre with the racial complexity of Ralph Ellison's INVISIBLE MAN' Publishers Weekly 'With...

Featuring a brand new introduction from bestselling author, Isabelle Broom, talking about what Jackie and her books mean to her! 'Here is a woman who not only wanted to entertain...

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As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of...

Torture violates more than international law and fundamental human rights-it radicalises enemies, undermines credibility and yields unreliable intelligence. Electric shocks. Sleep deprivation. Forced standing. Water boarding. George W. Bush called...

Author: Scott Snyder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 While trafficking in a bestselling sub-genre, AMERICAN VAMPIRE introduces a new strain of vampire - a more muscular and vicious species,...

Author: Scott Snyder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 You are cordially invited to a party--to die for! This volume of American Vampire collects eight amazing stories set in the...

Writer Scott Snyder (BATMAN, SWAMP THING) and artist Rafael Albuquerque bring together even more threads to the complex tapestry that is the world of AMERICAN VAMPIRE. When we last saw...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA richly researched work of historical scholarship, American Views of Soviet Russia 1917-1965 chronicles...

Author, John Ridley Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 208 Academy Award winning author John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Three Kings) presents an alternate U.S. history with the...