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The Holiday Candy Book (An Atlantic Monthly Press Book)
Author: Virginia Pasley Binding: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 123 Publication Date: 1952 [... more]
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Grey Area (Self, Will)
Amazon.com Review: The latest collection of short stories by Will Self explores a world so saturated with sensory stimulation its inhabitants are immune to it. In the minds of his characters, vastly complicated interior worlds and conspiracies are formed [... more]
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Music in Every Room: Around the World in a Bad Mood ...
A Very Different Travel Adventure: I read this book years ago and was so impressed with it that I gave copies to several friends. This is a travel book with a very personal twist. The author and his girl friend take off around the world with different [... more]
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Porterhouse Blue
The Hilarious world at the top of British academia: A hilarious tale of the strange world that one finds at a place like Cambridge. While one is almost tempted to say, 'yes, but it's actually fiction,' the truth is not far from Sharpe's tale of disaster [... more]
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A Singular Man
To maintan five stars as the rating for this fine novel: Having visciously ensnared every opinion as yet posted upon this board, I am inclined to agree. I also am of the opinion that this is the greatest book that I have ever read only just after the [... more]
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A Fairy Tale of New York (Donleavy, J. P.)
One of the funniest books ever written: I am actually a publisher and we have a line called Humour Classics, in which we reissue out of print classics of humour. And a book I read many years ago, that I loved (I love all of J.P. Donleavey - he is one of [... more]
$14.00
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Those Who Walk Away (Highsmith, Patricia)
Done Just Right: "Those Who Walk Away" is a concise, fast reading novel of low-keyed suspense. The background is an appropriately gloomy wintertime Venice. Ray, the key character, has lost his wife to suicide. Ed is the unforgiving, not to [... more]
$13.00
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Italian Days
You Can't Go Home Again: The first two-thirds of this book is a superb travel guide to Milan, Venice, Rome, and Campania. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison is very conversant with the best travel literature of the past (and thoughtfully provides us a useful [... more]
$15.00
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Ancestor Stones: A Novel
Beautifully rendered: A beautifully rendered novel, reminiscent in some ways of Andrea Levy's Small Island which won a few prestigious awards a few years ago. The scope here of Aminatta Forna's novel, though, is slightly larger, representing a range of [... more]
$24.00
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Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
Amazon.com Review: In Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa, Peter Godwin, a journalist for the London Sunday Times, recalls his privileged childhood growing up in white-ruled Rhodesia, his unwitting participation in the savage status quo and his later efforts [... more]
$24.00
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So Well Remembered (An Atlantic Monthly Press Book)
Author: James Hilton Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 1946 [... more]
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Bare feet in the palace (An Atlantic Monthly Press book)
Soul-Stirring Account of True Freedom in PostWW2 Philippines: "Bare Feet in the Palace" is an excellent account of the people of the Philippines during the transition time after WWII, (1948-1952), as they became a truly independent country. It [... more]
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