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RENDEZVOUS IN BLACK (A MODERN LIBRARY 20TH CENTURY REDISCOVERY)

By: Woolrich, Cornell

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Modern Library: 2004

Seller ID: RWARE0000050381

ISBN: 0812971450

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A grief-crazed young man, holding one among a small group of people respons ible for his fiancee's death, devotes his life to entering the lives of eac h of that group in turn, finding out whom each one most loves, and murderin g these loved ones so that the person who killed his fiancee will live the grief he lives.
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MANHATTAN LOVE SONG

By: Woolrich, Cornell

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Pegasus Books: 2006

Seller ID: RWARE0000051079

ISBN: 1933648074

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

"Nothing beats a tale of fatalistic dread by the supreme master of suspense , Cornell Woolrich. His novels and hundreds of short stories define the ess ence of noir nihilism."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewThe f ather of modern noir first wanted to be the second F. Scott Fitzgerald. Thi s 1932 novel brilliantly showcases Cornell Woolrich's transition from moder nist to pulp master, as the reader follows a young Manhattan couples' tragi c fall from grace.Cornell Woolrich reinvented suspense fiction for the twen tieth century. For four decades hundreds of his stories appeared in ...
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PILATE

By: Wordsworth, Alan

Price: ¥3,000.00

Publisher: Minerva Press: 1999

Seller ID: RWARE0000015696

ISBN: 0754102688

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

A tight clean softcover, this book has been inscribed by the author above a book plate of previous owner. Judea in the first century AD - a land aflame with passions. In this cauldron, the governor, Pontius Pilate, tries to prevent the violence, but is often drawn into the conflict himself. This often unstable period of Roman and Jewish history is evoked in detail in this fictional account.
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LAST LOVER

By: Wormer, Laura Van

Price: ¥300.00

Publisher: Mira: 2001

Seller ID: RWARE0000000045

ISBN: 155166836X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Sally Harrington think she's in the best relationship of her life. She's a Connecticut journalist, he's a Manhattan book editor and they're playing fo r keeps. But in the course of forty-eight hours, Sally finds her love life skidding wildly off the road of respectability, her career spiraling into o blivion, her bank account emptying to zero and herself publicly exposed. All because of one lover, the last lover, Spencer Hawes. And now Sally can't even find him. He's disappeared off the face of the ear th -- run off, Sally believes, with Lilliana Martin, a drop-dead-gorgeous H ollywood actre...
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THE ROSE OF YORK: LOVE & WAR

By: Worth, Sandra

Price: ¥2,000.00

Publisher: Metropolis Ink/End Table Boo: 2003

Seller ID: RWARE0000009039

ISBN: 0975126407

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

How could Shakespeare's notorious villain have given society Blind Justice and the Presumption of Innocence? Hailed as a classic, meticulously-researc hed The Rose of York: Love & War reveals the truth about Richard III. Award -winning novelist Sandra Worth shows how his life impacts ours in a story o f war and peace, love and hate, right and wrong, affording stunning modern parallels.
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TONY I SUSAN

By: Wright, Austin

Price: ¥350.00

Publisher: Warner Books: 1994

Seller ID: RWARE0000000026

ISBN: 0446601055

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

25 years after their divorce a man who had been a struggling novelist sends his ex-wife a manuscript of the book he has finally written, a masterful p sychological thriller, asking her opinion. An arresting story-within-a-stor y.--This text refers to the.
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RIVER ROAD

By: Wright, Hillel

Price: ¥800.00

Publisher: Printed Matter Press: 2012

Seller ID: RWARE0000024274

ISBN: 1933606282

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

A clean softcover, no markings throughout, NOT an ex-lib book: A novel of six stories. A bit of fantasy. A bit of Japan. If you like Hillel Wright's books and stories, you should like this. Not just fiction, he is a journalist who has long reported on Japan's fishing industry. If you don't know Hillel's writing, this book is a good place to begin. Enjoyable fiction.
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ALL WORLDLY PURSUITS

By: Wright, Hillel

Price: ¥800.00

Publisher: New Orphic Publishers: 2001

Seller ID: RWARE0000024285

ISBN: 0968731767

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A clean softcover, no markings throughout, NOT an ex-lib book: Hillel Wright's first novel is a storm-driven journey through the psychedelic hippie era into dangerous and turbulent seas, both real and metaphorical. Through the adventures of characters in search of permanence which they cannot find and which might very well not exist, we meet members of the American Indian Movement, lovers both sacred and profane, and a fisherman who is married to the sea and quite likely mad.
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KIDNAP

By: Wright, L. R.

Price: ¥300.00

Publisher: Seal Books: 2001

Seller ID: RWARE0000018628

ISBN: 0770427960

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

In the tradition of P.D. James and Ruth Rendell, to whom L.R. Wright is oft en compared, the suspense in Kidnap stems not from whodunnit but why. A you ng girl is taken from her aunt's care while her father is in Hawaii trying to recover from his wife's sudden death. A middle-aged woman, spurred on by an unscrupulous accomplice, tries to assuage her feelings of loneliness an d despair with a dramatic act of revenge. Edwina "Eddie" Henderson, battlin g to assert her authority over the Sechelt's RCMP detachment following the retirement of beloved Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg, urgently tries to put...
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THEY BOTH WERE NAKED

By: Wylie, Philip

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Doubleday: 1965

Seller ID: RWARE0000009007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VG/G+

A highly collectible first edition.
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ALEX

By: Wynne, Frank (Translator)

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: MacLehose Press: 2013

Seller ID: RWARE0000045258

ISBN: 1782067485

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Winner of the CWA International Dagger Award 2013. In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chanc es of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prvost - beautif ul, resourceful, tough - may be no ordinary victim, but her time is running out. Commandant Camille Verhoven and his detectives have nothing to go on: no su spect, no lead, rapidly diminishing hope. All they know is that a girl was snatched off the streets of Paris and bundled into a white van. The enigma that is the fate of Alex will keep Verhoven guessing until the bitter, bitter end. And b...
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RED MANDARIN DRESS: AN INSPECTOR CHEN NOVEL

By: Xiaolong, Qiu

Price: ¥1,000.00

Publisher: Minotaur Books: 2007

Seller ID: RWARE0000020752

ISBN: 0312371071

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine/Fine

A crisp clean first edition (as stated)no markings throughout, not an ex-li b: Bringing 1990s Communist China alive, Qiu's masterful fifth Inspector Chen mystery (after 2006's A Case of Two Cities) finds Shanghai terrorized by its first-ever serial killer. The murderer dresses his victims' corpses in fancy red mandarin dresses before leaving them in public places. Insp. Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department has taken a step back from his professional life to pursue an advanced literature course instead of investigating a politically sensitive corruption case, but now he must return to act...
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DEATH OF A RED HEROINE (AN INSPECTOR CHEN INVESTIGATION)

By: Xiaolong, Qiu

Price: ¥650.00

Publisher: Soho Crime: 2003

Seller ID: RWARE0000051959

ISBN: 1569472424

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. Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe ar...
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SOUL MOUNTAIN

By: Xingjian, Gao

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS: 2000

Seller ID: RWARE0000007260

ISBN: 0066211344

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: In awarding the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature to Gao Xingjian, the Swedish Academy described Soul Mountain as "an odyssey in time and space through the Chinese countryside." The New York Times celebrated the novel "not only for its magical tales, folkloric roots and eroticism but also for its patchwork of narrative styles, from poems and monologues to ballads and conversations." Inspired by Gao's true-life epic journey to freedom through the ancient forests of China -- a five-month trek over 15,000 kilometers -- Soul Mountain challenges convent...
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FIVE SPICE STREET

By: Xue, Can

Price: ¥800.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: 2009

Seller ID: RWARE0000044358

ISBN: 0300122276

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine

In excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlig hting. The spine remains undamaged. Five Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city whose inha bitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweave s their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Some think X is 50 years old; others that she is 22. Some believe she has occult powers and has thereby enslaved the young men o f the street; others think she is a clever trickster playing mind games wit h the common people. Who is Madam ...
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UNDER OATH

By: Yastrow, Shelby

Price: ¥250.00

Publisher: Diamond Books: 1994

Seller ID: RWARE0000000575

ISBN: 0786500050

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Tracey Walton sues her doctor for failing to predict prior to delivery that her baby would be born with Down's Syndrome. Steve Sinclair insists that h e did everything correctly. The trial that pits opposing lawyers and the in surance company makes compelling reading, and the verdict is a shocker-but it's after the settlement that new, unanswered questions surface. The renew ed, but secret investigation leads to a fast-paced, intriguing, and excitin g conclusion.
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JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM

By: Yehoshua, Abraham B.

Price: ¥2,900.00

Publisher: Doubleday: 1999

Seller ID: RWARE0000007981

ISBN: 0385488823

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine/Fine

A tight clean first edition/printing, protected in a new brodart wrapper, n ot price clipped/ex library or a book of the month edition. A Journey to the End of the Millennium. The year is 999 and the protagonis t is Ben Attar, a North African Jewish merchant who has, for many years, be en in profitable partnership with his nephew Abulafia and a Muslim trader n amed Abu Lutfi. But when Abulafia marries a German Jew who disapproves of h is uncle's two wives, the partnership is suddenly dissolved and Ben Attar f inds himself out of business. Abulafia's repudiation of his uncle sets the stage for...
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ONLY CHILDREN

By: Yglesias, Rafael

Price: ¥600.00

Publisher: Trafalgar Square: 1989

Seller ID: RWARE0000012648

ISBN: 0747503303

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

"The joys of Motherhood. Are they all one great lie?" In carefully orchestr ated, parallel stories of two New York couples and their sons from birth th rough age five, Yglesias explores this and other contemporary parenting iss ues. The story moves carefully between the Golds and the Hummels in a sort of literary counterpoint that becomes more staccato in the second half of t he book. Educated professionals with good incomes, both sets of parents hav e excellent intentions but are crippled by emotional "baggage": they are ad ult children ("only children") themselves. The children are unusually...
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A HAPPY MARRIAGE: A NOVEL

By: Yglesias, Rafael

Price: ¥1,000.00

Publisher: Scribner: 2009

Seller ID: RWARE0000020392

ISBN: 1439102309

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine

A crisp clean first edition (as stated), no markings throughout: Yglesias (Fearless) delivers his first novel in 13 years, an autobiographical and devastatingly raw appraisal of a nearly 30-year marriage. As the novel opens in 1975, 21-year-old Enrique Sabas, a high school-dropout literary wunderkind, has just met Margaret Cohen, a vivacious, beautiful budding graphic designer who will become the love of his life. Enrique and Margaret's romantic and sexual misadventures during the first awkward weeks of their courtship are interspersed with scenes from the couple's three decades together befor...
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THE SNOWY ROAD (MODERN KOREAN SHORT STORIES)

By: Yi, Chong-Jun

Price: ¥2,000.00

Publisher: Hollym International Corpora: 2005

Seller ID: RWARE0000013656

ISBN: 1565912039

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine/Fine

A tight clean copy.In Korean and English. A poignant, radiant tale of a mother's ceaseless devotion to her son, The S nowy Road is the story of a family that loses everything due to one son's a buse of alcohol. This tragedy does not shake the mother's resolve to contin ue to work hard for her one remaining son, making his happiness her sole go al in life. The son behaves contemptuously, though, oblivious to his mother 's sacrifice, until the day he learns of her long walk home along a snowy m ountain road years before when he left home. Part of the Modern Korean Short Stories Series.
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Category: General Fiction