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Edition: 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBeneath the familiar landscapes of the American Northeast lies a geological story of staggering complexity and deep time — one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFor anyone who has ever longed for the perfect withering retort, The Second Book of Insults delivers a...

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Deep Water offers an incisive, searching, and beautifully written account of the emerging crisis over dams and the world's water. Reporting in the tradition of John McPhee and Peter Matthiessen,...

There are pop stars, and then there is Prince. In this kaleidoscopic, freewheeling biography, John McKie examines the remarkable life and career of one of the most mysterious figures in...

There are pop stars, and then there is Prince. In this kaleidoscopic, freewheeling biography, John McKie examines the remarkable life and career of one of the most mysterious figures in...

The book titled Australian Gardener's Antholog by the author Gribble McPhee. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Kenya, 1952, a colony on the edge. Settlers drink sundowners on the veranda but the servants can't be trusted. Beyond manicured lawns, in the dark of the forest, freedom is...

An intimate new portrait of one of history's most controversial figures: heroic revolutionary or the first terrorist? For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr...

The French countryside is as beloved by the many millions of tourists who visit it each year as it is of French people themselves. But it has not always looked...

For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For...

Author: Stuart Campbell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 John McPake, a former teacher, has a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Soon after his marriage fell apart he started hearing voices and...

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A strikingly new account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for...

The Wicked Earl Margaret McPhee The very proper Miss Langley does not know what she has done to encourage the attentions of a Lord, only that they are most unwanted...

'Trippy, incisive, riotously funny' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN'[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER'A stunner' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH'Luminous ... as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers' room' WASHINGTON POST A work...

The Gentleman Rogue In a Mayfair ballroom, beautiful Emma Northcote stands in amazement. For gazing at her, with eyes she'd know anywhere, is Ned Stratham - a man whose roguish...

The book titled From Merciless Invaders by the author Alexander McKee. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Drawing on countless hours of interviews with James Cagney that were not used in Cagney's autobiography, John McCabe has written a searching chronicle of a major actor's life and career.

Over a decade after number one bestselling book SERIOUS , John McEnroe is finally back and ready to talk once again. Since his hit book, he's maintained a huge presence...

He is one of the most controversial and beloved athletes in history, a tennis legend and a volcanic, mesmerizing presence. But after reaching the top of his game - what...

Hollywood has given us no greater director than John Ford. Between 1917 and 1970, Ford directed and/or produced some 226 pictures, from short silent films to ambitious historical epics and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to count — and how did humanity's relationship with number shape the very...

Author: J. B. PriestleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis compelling critical biography chronicles the multifaceted career...

The life of John Reith is a classical tragedy, but one of baroque proportions. Reith founded, and for its first 14 years directed, the BBC, imbuing it with that Reithian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA soldier's inner world, rendered in verse — Write Me A Poem: A Selection of Poetry by John...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the vast, sun-scorched reaches of the Australian outback, one...

Author: W. Scott McpheatBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder and Stoughton, 1963Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis biographical work chronicles the life of John Flynn, a prominent figure...

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Author: Molly McGhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Trippy, incisive, riotously funny' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN '[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER 'A stunner' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH 'Luminous ... as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAustralia's first rock 'n' roll superstar blazed a trail so incandescent that no biography could afford to ignore...

When Shane McCrae was eighteen months old, he was removed from his parents and taken to suburban Texas. His mother was white and his dad was Black, and to hide...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: DJ: slightly worn; faded spine. Boards: slightly worn spine. Binding remains tight. Set against the sun-drenched, humid streets of...

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Author: John DonneBinding: HardbackPublished: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis profound work presents a series of meditations and prayers, meticulously crafted during a period...

The book titled A Welcome on the Mat: Father Tom Dunlea - A Memoir by the author The story of a priest from Tipperary who arrived in Sydney in 1920...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Creased spines. "Jean-Christophe" is a Nobel Prize-winning roman-fleuve published across four volumes ("Dawn and Morning," "Storm and Stress," "In Paris,"...

William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of...

A breathtaking and cinematic novel about the lust for gold and its bloody consequences, set in the unforgiving landscape of the sub-Arctic Canadian wilderness, from the acclaimed author of The...

When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike, the result was no ordinary biography. Instead Baker's account...

Moonfleet (1898) begins as a mystery and an adventure story, a tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. What will be the outcome of the...