The Last Disco in Outer Mongolia
 snapshot of Mongolia tied in with history ancient & recent: The book swings back and forth between the history of Mongolia (from the Khans to the Communists) and the author's two trips. One was near the end of the Communist regime, and his next trip ( [... more]
$14.45
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Trail of Feathers
Author: Tahir Shah Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 910 EAN: 9780753813171 ISBN: 0753813173 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2002-01-10 [... more]
$16.50
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The Last Diaries
NIGHT MUST FALL: The first volume of Alan Clark's `Diaries' got him a lot of notice and publicity through their candour about his extra-marital affairs and their liberal use of four-letter words and longer words derived from them. He just lapped up [... more]
$13.16
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The Stone of Heaven: The Secret History of Imperial ...
Author: Adrian Levy Author: Cathy Scott-Clark Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 549 EAN: 9780753813294 ISBN: 0753813297 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: 2002-02-07 [... more]
$18.60
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
History as Daily Life: This book is unique in that it doesn't deal with the great sweep of history and its players so much as dwell on day to day life. In particular, the daily life of ordinary people who, in their own way, were not players on the larger [... more]
$14.88
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To the Bitter End: To the Bitter End, 1942-45 v. 2: The ...
A Harrowing Look At Life In The Final Years Of Nazi Germany: As with Volume One (see my review), the most disarming and appealing feature of this tome is its slow and ineluctable building of suspense and empathy as World War I veteran Klemperer steadily [... more]
$13.73
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The Hill Station
Author: J.G. Farrell Author: J. G. Farrell Author: John Spurling Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781857990867 ISBN: 1857990862 Number Of Pages: 254 Publication Date: 1993 [... more]
$14.45
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Vita Brevis : A Letter to St Augustine
Misleading: This book wants to be an answer to Augustin's famous "Confession". This book is fiction and it is strange that some reviewers think the letters to be real. Gaarder lets the woman, with whom Augustin lived together for a long time, [... more]
$19.95
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The Rationalist : A Novel
Wonderfully Crafted, Compelling, and Brilliantly Written!: "I raised my dress, and I saw his eyes move at last from the two escapes of window and door which until now had formed his whole world. I raised my dress, sir, like a curtain on a stage. And [... more]
$14.45
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Astonishing the Gods
Skip This Book: I have recently read Dangerous Love by Ben Okri, which was a stunning novel-the writing and imagery was superb. I thought Astonishing the Gods was just the opposite. The writing was abysmal, contrived, silly--I had to force myself to get [... more]
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Jerusalem Commands
Pyat -- the Big Lie continues: The third novel of the Pyat Quartet finds Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski scheming his way from New York to Hollywood, Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the utter limits of sexual degradation, leaving a trail of [... more]
$14.45
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Byzantium Endures
A great beginning!: Byzantium Endures captures a slice of early twentieth century reality from a very unsuspecting source: That of a Russian youth caught in the riptides of history and his dreams. These forces would eventually cast him out of his [... more]
$18.95
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