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SENT FOR YOU YESTERDAY

By: Wideman, John Edgar

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 1999

Seller ID: RWARE0000043741

ISBN: 0395877296

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Reimagining the black neighborhood of his youth Homewood, Pittsburgh -Widem an creates a dazzling and evocative milieu. From the wild and uninhibited 1 920s to the narcotized 1970s, "he establishes aamythological and symbolic l ink between character and landscape, language and plot, that in the hands o f a less visionary writer might be little more than stale sociology" (New Y ork Times Book Review).
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THE STONE RAINBOW

By: Wiggin, Helene

Price: ¥600.00

Publisher: Piatkus Books: 2000

Seller ID: RWARE0000011960

ISBN: 0749931779

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

In the shadow of loss and disgrace, Netta must watch her child being brough t up by her father and step-mother. It is not the first time her step-mothe r has taken what is hers - her dead mother's necklace, for instance. Netta is determined to win back both.
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JOHN DOLLAR: A NOVEL

By: Wiggins, Marianne

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: 1990

Seller ID: RWARE0000011536

ISBN: 0060916559

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Of this "mesmerizing" tale of eight shipwrecked British schoolgirls, their governess and her eponymous lover, a sailor, PW observed, "Wiggins strips a way the veneer of civilization to reveal the raw, primitive heart of nature and human nature."
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EVELESS EDEN

By: Wiggins, Marianne

Price: ¥450.00

Publisher: Perennial: 1996

Seller ID: RWARE0000011952

ISBN: 0060927607

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Wiggins elects to tell her tale in the passionate voice of Noah John, a sav vy journalist who has been jettisoned (without warning) by the elusive obje ct of his desire, a globe-trotting photojournalist with a pronounced appeti te for danger. Thankfully, Wiggins does not stop to trace the love affair f rom its fiery beginnings in Cameroon to its bizarre denouement in London. A lbeit, had she offered nothing more than the agitated intensity of this rem arkable liaison--Noah's surprising vulnerability and Lilith's hard edges--W iggins would have had a great story. Instead, displaying a breathtak...
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HERSELF IN LOVE

By: Wiggins, Marianne

Price: ¥450.00

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd: 1991

Seller ID: RWARE0000012104

ISBN: 0140126767

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

This is a collection of the stories of Marianne Wiggins. Varied in their st yle, characters and settings, these are tales about passion, about desire, madness, jealousy, revenge and carnal pleasure.
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SOLDIERS IN HIDING

By: WILEY, Richard

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Picador: 1987

Seller ID: RWARE0000051346

ISBN: 0330300083

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This remarkable novel is not only an imaginative work of the very highest order but a cross-cultural tour de force of extraordinary daring and vision. It begins in Tokyo in 1941, when Teddy Maki and Jimmy Yamamoto, two young Japanese-American jazz musicians, are stranded in Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, drafted into the Japanese army and sent to the Philippines, the scene of bloody conflict with guerrillas and American troops. Rather than ...
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DESPERATE MEASURES

By: Wilhelm, Kate

Price: ¥350.00

Publisher: Mira: 2002

Seller ID: RWARE0000029465

ISBN: 1551669072

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the toughest cases . . . an d winning them. But this time she's up against an unbeatable opponent -- he r father, the lawyer who taught her all she knows. Gus Marchand, a hardworking, God-fearing farmer, is found dead on his kitch en floor, and suspicion soon falls on Alex Feldman, Marchand's hideously de formed neighbor. At the request of another attorney, Barbara agrees to defe nd the young man, whom most of the town has already condemned. But there is another suspect, as well: Hilde Franz, a woman Gus had a very public altercation with just ...
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NEW HOPE FOR THE DEAD

By: Willeford, Charles

Price: ¥400.00

Publisher: Dell: 1995

Seller ID: RWARE0000026538

ISBN: 0440218845

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Hoke Moseley's boss is out for a promotion. His partner is having a baby. H is ex-wife is moving to California with a major leaguer who makes ten times Hoke's policeman's salary. And Hoke's two daughters have shown up at his s qualid, flea-bitten Miami Beach motel: they're expecting a dad. When it rains in Florida, it pours. Dead broke, Hoke needs to find a home inside the Miami city limits within twenty-four hours, while he and his pregnant partner, Ellita Sanchez, have been assigned fifty old unsolved murder cases by their chief. But while Major Willie Brownley wants results -- and all the ...
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THE CHILDREN'S HOUR

By: Willett, Marcia

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Corgi Books: 2004

Seller ID: RWARE0000038325

ISBN: 0552150622

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Nest and Mina still live at Ottercombe, their beautiful old rambling childh ood home in the depths of Devon. They came to the house before the war, whe n as small children they played with their sisters and brothers in the gard ens and the woods and the nearby beach while their mother read them stories and their father visited at weekends. It was, in retrospect, an idyllic ti me, when tragedy seemed far distant. Now they welcome their children and gr andchildren , and especially young Lyddie, their niece, who lives in Cornwa ll with her handsome husband Liam. But when their sister Georgie, now...
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LADY IN PERIL

By: Williams, Ben Ames

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Popular Library: 1959

Seller ID: RWARE0000009625

A popular author whose books ranged from sea stories and mysteries to psych ological dramas and historical fiction, Ben Ames Williams published over 40 short stories in magazines, 35 books, and almost 20 screenplays for the m ovies.
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FIVE PUBS, TWO BARS AND A NIGHTCLUB

By: Williams, John

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc: 1999

Seller ID: RWARE0000012897

ISBN: 0747545138

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

A debut collection of eight interlocking stories exploring the inner-city l ives of a cast of clever, endearing rogues in Cardiff, Wales: a kind of Tra inspotting Lite. Once the stage is set with the first tale, ``Black Caesar' s,'' in which the biggest, baddest businessman of Cardiff's Butetown, Kenny Ibadulla, decides to open a Nation of Islam mosque underneath his club, on ly to be completely snookered by visitors he mistakenly assumes to be repre sentatives of Louis Farrakhan, one understands that the potentially explosi ve situations and grim reality are to serve in a more humorous capaci...
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THE QUICK AND THE DEAD

By: Williams, Joy

Price: ¥550.00

Publisher: Vintage Books: 2002

Seller ID: RWARE0000043227

ISBN: 1860469582

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

From one of our most heralded writers--Joy Williams belongs, James Salter h as written, "in the company of Cline, Flannery O'Connor, and Margaret Atwo od"--her first novel in more than a decade: the life-and-death adventures o f three misfit teenagers in the American desert. Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, each a motherless child, are an unlikely circle of friends. One filled with convictions, another with loss, the third with a worldly pragmatism, they traverse an air-conditioned landscape eccentric with signs and portents--from the preservation of the living dead in a nur sing home to the prese...
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THE PLEASURES OF MEN

By: Williams, Kate

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 2012

Seller ID: RWARE0000034237

ISBN: 0241954541

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Kate Williams' first novel, The Pleasures of Men, is a gothic thriller with a splash of brutal murder. Spitalfields, 1840. A murderer nicknamed The Man of Crows. A heroine with a mysterious past and a vivid imagination. Catherine Sorgeiul lives with her Uncle in a rambling house in London's Eas t End. When a murderer strikes, ripping open the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to resemble a crow's beak, Catherine is fas cinated, and devours news of his exploits. As the murders cause panic throughout the city, she comes to believe she ca n channel the voices of his vic...
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FORTYSOMETHING

By: Williams, Nigel

Price: ¥450.00

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd: 2000

Seller ID: RWARE0000011618

ISBN: 0140292705

Binding: Paperback

A long-running soap opera star is about to be axed. And there ends the simi larity with The Killing of Sister George. Nigel Williams' latest novel is s et firmly in family land, where Paul Slippery, the forty-nine-and-a-half-ye ar-old radio voice of Dr Esmond Pennebaker, has a working wife, Estelle, an d three GCSE to degree level sons, named Ruarighy, Jakob and Edwin. Paul is undergoing some mid-life crisis, doesn't understand his wife's newfound in dependence, doesn't understand the shenanigans going on at the BBC, doesn't understand the intricate goings-on of his teenage sons, representativ...
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THEY CAME FROM SW19

By: Williams, Nigel

Price: ¥550.00

Publisher: Faber and Faber: 1993

Seller ID: RWARE0000012907

ISBN: 0571168361

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

14-year-old ufologist Simon Britton's father has just died and his mother, a member of the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist, is trying to get i n touch with him. But some weird messages come through instead. By the auth or of "My Life Closed Twice" which won the Somerset Maugham Award.
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THE WAR OF THE FLOWERS

By: Williams, Tad

Price: ¥1,450.00

Publisher: Daw Books: 2003

Seller ID: RWARE0000001760

ISBN: 0756401356

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

Travel into another dimension is a popular fantasy ploy, but rarely accompl ished with such humor, terror and even logic as in this stand-alone by best seller Williams (Tailchaser's Song, etc.). After losing his girlfriend, The o Vilmos, a singer in a humdrum northern California rock band, finds in his late mother's remote cabin an amazing if incomplete manuscript left by his eccentric great-uncle, Eamonn Dowd, about a fairy world purportedly visite d by its author. Unsurprisingly, Faerie turns out to be a real place. Apple core, a short-tempered, red-haired sprite, abruptly appears before The...
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ONE ARM

By: Williams, Tennessee

Price: ¥1,000.00

Publisher: New Directions: 1954

Seller ID: RWARE0000007383

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good/Good

A highly collectible edition, of this esteemed playright and author.
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THE TEMPTATION OF THE NIGHT JASMINE

By: Willig, Lauren

Price: ¥1,000.00

Publisher: Dutton Adult: 2009

Seller ID: RWARE0000018087

ISBN: 0525950966

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine/Fine

A crisp clean first edition/printing protected in a new brodart wrapper: Willig spins another sultry spy tale in her fifth installment of the Pink Carnation series. When Robert, duke of Dovedale, returns after more than a decade abroad, Lady Charlotte Lansdowne hopes the romantic world of her novels will soon come to life in the form of a love story between her and Robert. But the duke has come back from India to track Arthur Wrothan, a spy who killed Robert's mentor, and though his and Charlotte's reunion culminates in a blaze of kisses, he abandons her to track down his nemesis. On the trail...
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GREEN RIVER RISING

By: WILLOCKS, TIM

Price: ¥450.00

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd: 1995

Seller ID: RWARE0000012265

ISBN: 0099436515

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Synopsis In Green River State Penitentiary 2800 convicts sweat it out in a labyrinth of granite, glass and steel until the violence of men erupts in a cataclysm of ferocity. On the day that Ray Klein wins his parole, the prison is taken over by its inmates and falls into vicious tribal war.
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ANTIPODES JANE

By: Wilson, Barbara Ker

Price: ¥1,000.00

Publisher: Viking: 1985

Seller ID: RWARE0000041951

ISBN: 0670805866

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

Recovering from a broken love affair, Jane Austen decides to accompany her aunt and uncle to New South Wales, where she falls in love once more and ap plies her considerable talents to creating a new society.
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Category: General Fiction