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Sol is a gifted but also terrifying six year old; his mother believes he is destined for greatness. He has a birthmark, like his dad, his grandmother and great-grandmother. But...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: DamagedPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: damage to front of dust jacket, otherwise fine; stain on side of blocFran Huston's The Rich Get It All presents...

A retired baseball player finds himself fighting for his life in this "fantastically hopped-up thriller with a wrong-man plot worthy of Hitchcock" (Entertainment Weekly, Editor's Choice) "Wow! Brutal, visceral, violent,...

'It was believed lightning would not strike a house that held a thunderstone. And so these fossils were placed on top of clocks, under floorboards, over stable doors... But there...

Joe Pitt's life sucks. He hasn't had a case or a job in God knows how long and his stashes are running on empty. What stashes? The only ones that...

An L.A. Times bestseller, one of the Washington Post's Top Ten Thrillers and Mysteries of 2007, and a nominee for the Gumshoe Award and the Strand Critic's Award. Four friends...

NANCY MITFORD died in 1973 before she could write an autobiography. But she was one of the great letter-writers of this century, and her sparkling correspondence to her famous family...

Lieutenant Sean Woods doesn't tell anyone when Tony Vialli, his best friend and fellow F-14 pilot, submits false leavepapers and sneaks off to Israel to rendezvous with his new Israeli...

Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: they're true. Only it's...

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The book titled Unwillingly to Vegas by the author Nancy Livingston. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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'Say My Name is a dazzling debut about a highly-charged and very sensual affair. Skilfully crafted, original and beautifully written, I loved it!' - Santa Montefiore 'This is the time...

A provocative and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, skewering the myth that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior. In Survival of the Prettiest...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageShe was the original American flapper — dazzling, dangerous, and ultimately destroyed by the very era that worshipped...

Acting, direction, stagecraft, theatre architecture and design, the extraordinary evolution of dramatic literature - here is an all-embracing and richly illustrated history, global in scope and ranging from the ancient...

A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it's often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids....

AD 273. Obsessed by the solar religions of the east, the emperor Aurelian sets out to obtain every sacred object within his realm. But one - a mysterious rock said...

Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. These were the words uttered by the seventeen-year-old Lady Jane Grey as...

Tortoise is set in his ways.He doesn't like change, and he doesn't want to change. But in this witty follow-up to Katy Hudson's best-selling Too Many Carrots, Tortoise is forced...

This is the incredible story of how the GAA and its people weathered the coronavirus pandemic, and found the strength to survive. In the year 2020, our lives, purpose and...

At a time of extraordinary change, two women must harness their talents to take control of their own destiny . . . Bristol, 1896. Used to scraping a living as...

From New York Times bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a sizzling sports romance full of flamingo feathers, slow-burn heat, and one grump-meets-sunshine love story that's anything but fake. They're faking...

'Written in a lively, accessible style, The Waiting Game is full of insight' Suzannah Lipscomb, Literary Review Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only...

Caroline Webb knows what it means to lose the person you love most. Twenty years ago, her five-year-old daughter, Hayley, was the light of her life. Then came the terrible...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, NEW SCIENTIST , AND...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA life of faith, sacrifice, and extraordinary purpose unfolds in Nun the Less, the candid and...

The bloody history of Britain through the stories of its most notorious traitors A History of Treason details British history from 1351 to 1945, covering major historical moments in a...

In 1994 two important paintings by J.M.W. Turner (then valued at 24 million pounds) were stolen from a German public gallery while on loan from Tate Britain, London. Sandy Nairne...

'Endlessly captivating ' - Tracy Borman ' Tantalising ' - Gill Hornby ' More scandal than Bridgerton 's Lady Whistledown ' - Helena Kelly The carriages have rolled back into...

'Freeman's pleasure in the food of literature ... is infectious. THE READING CURE will speak to anyone who has ever felt pain and found solace in a book' Bee Wilson...

During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the Billionaire Junk Bond King. He invented such things as "the highly confident letter" (I'm highly confident that I can...

'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Human and curious . . . an admirable family memoir of migration' Guardian Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, lived a life of...

All the passions and intrigues of Bonaparte's court are seen through the eyes of the merchant's daughter from Marseilles, a young woman who became Napoleon's fiancee and, ultimately, the Queen...

Return to the world of the Invisible Library for Irene's most perilous mission yet . . . Librarian Spy Irene is heading into danger. Not for the first time, but...

'This fantastically strange, explosive debut novel entrances even as it unsettles. It's so brilliantly written' - BUZZFEED Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the...

A mile outside the Cotswolds, everyone knows everyone in Honeystone, and for many years the villagers have lived quiet, steady lives. But a wind of change is here... Anthea is...

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries seances and spiritualist meetings grew in popularity. One 'ghost' appeared more than any other: the Katie King spirit. A Ghost's Story presents the mysterious...

This is the extraordinary story of David White, a Manchester City legend whose life was torn apart by abuse he suffered at the hands of one of his coaches. David...