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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA landmark work of Russian literary nonfiction, Korolenko's Siberia presents the vivid autobiographical sketches...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark of Russian literary realism, The Blind Musician chronicles the life of Petro, a boy born blind in rural Ukraine, as...

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The Vintage Classics Russians series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history 'The best translation of Crime...

The old woman was merely a sickness... it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle! TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY 'The old woman was merely...

The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history Read this stunning new translation...

Author: Marie CorelliBinding: HardbackPublished: Methuen & Co., 1900Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cracked hinges, net showing. No...

'I arrange some cushions on the rug and the professor lies across these as if trained. I kneel beside him, then straddle his buttocks, thinking I may as well be...

'Agatha Christie vibes with archaeology in the beautiful Sussex countryside, what's not to love!' 'A brilliant cosy crime novel' 'I thoroughly enjoyed this cosy murder mystery and would highly recommend'...

Immerse yourself in these enjoyable word grid puzzles. Packed full of 300 themed Kriss Kross puzzles to test your word power and logic. You will find 100 easy, 100 medium...

The best of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems in a beautiful new gift edition Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was educated at Christ's Hospital, London and Jesus College, Cambridge. Close collaboration with...

Beautiful, exuberant, and stubborn Georgiana Black has more spirit than sense - which she learns when an ultimatum to the Earl of Beckenham ends their engagement. Six years later, Georgie...

Have you ever been labeled as 'antisocial,' 'shy,' or 'lost in your own thoughts' because you don't realise someone's been calling your name 148 times? The cats understand. All Cats...

The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fish, or - more accurately - has been dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans....

The 64 members of Fire Lake's sophomore class have managed to survive the first two phases of the Program - and each other. Now, they alone have emerged into the...

'The most sought-after tenor in the world', the greatest tenor of today', 'the new king of tenors' - for years Jonas Kaufmann has occupied a unique status among the world's...

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'A searing, nourishing journey through a history the world needs' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 'Please read it!' - Philippa Gregory, bestselling...

If Paris has a heart, its pulse is surely in its grand hotels. Splendid as ocean liners, they are at the hub of the most extravagant lifestyles. This lavish volume...

Colleges and universities benefit from diversity in their leadership roles and profess to value diversity--of thought, of experience, of person. Yet why do women remain under-represented in top academic leadership...

What's Geronimo to do in order to prevent the Pirate Cats from turning the almost-complete Eiffel Tower into a gigantic monument to Catardone's already monumental ego? No matter what the...

Athens, Greece-May Day 2010. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union (EU) were putting together the final details of a $100 billion euro rescue package for the country....

Detective Scott Jericho returns in Jericho's Dead , the second gripping crime thriller by William Hussey - now available to pre-order in hardback, eBook and audiobook. ________________ Former CID detective...

Between 1939 and 1944, as the Nazis overran Europe, they were also quietly conducting another type of pillage. The Lost Museum tells the story of the Jewish art collectors and...

'Brilliantly written, masterful storytelling, and hard to put down. This story will stay with me for a very, very long time' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz 'Mesmerising....

Johnny West has lived in this area for the past decade and speaks fluent Arabic, and so has the skills and ability to talk to everyone from security guards to...

From the No. 1 bestselling author of The Stolen Child comes a gripping new emotional thriller. 'A delightfully twisty mystery' ANDREA MARA 'Poignant, twisty and so compelling, I couldn't put...

Vermeer, Goya, Rembrandt, Rubens - the Beit art collection was worth millions. For decades Sir Alfred and Lady Beit had lived peacefully at Russborough House in Ireland. Until people started...

"Talk about stranger than fiction. Selwyn Raab tells riveting, true tales of the fabled mob figures. It's 'The Godfather' annotated - a classic piece of reporting by a man who...

'Moran's swift-moving narrative is sure to carry the reader in its currents.' -Publishers Weekly 'It's a story in which surface calm and ribald humor belie the fierce undertow of Joycean...

In this "chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis" ( In These Times ), Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization...

WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2017 'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with a cast of characters...

In "Empire of Debt", maverick financial writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin provide you with the first in-depth look at how the American character has shifted to accommodate its new...

An original novel set in the Halo Universe and based onthe New York Times bestselling video game series! It is 2553, and the three-decade long Covenant War that defined a...

Explains how to discover the best flea market finds in Paris and restore them to their original glory, in a book that includes a stylized map of the area, professional...

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