"A thing of beauty. . . . A wildly funny, infinitely wise, near to tragic t ale of man against the bog god machine." -Houston Chronicle Edward Abbey's classic comic gem of destructive mayhem and outrageous civil disobedience-the novel that sparked the environmental activism movement. Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved sou thwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx e xile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormo n Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, Hayduke is ready to ... View More...
How far will you go to achieve a dream? That's the question a celebrated co ach poses to Katie and Eric Knox after he sees their daughter Devon, a gymn astics prodigy and Olympic hopeful, compete. For the Knoxes there are no li mits--until a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community and everything they have worked so hard for is suddenly at risk. As rumors swi rl among the other parents, Katie tries frantically to hold her family toge ther while also finding herself irresistibly drawn to the crime itself. Wha t she uncovers--about her daughter's fears, her own marriage, and her... View More...
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. James Abel--author of the electrifying Joe Rush novels Protocol Zero and Wh ite Plague--unleashes another heart-stopping thriller in which bioterror mi ght bring the world to its knees... Ex-Marine doctor and bioterror expert Joe Rush receives a plea for help fro m a member of his old military unit who is currently working as a geologist in a chaotic region of Somalia. Joe arrives on the scene to find an entire group of people showing the horr ific sy... View More...
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. View More...
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. What if John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, anticipating the King's return to London, had decided to flee England in order to avoid imprisonment or death? What if he had crossed the ocean and joined the Puritans recently settled in New England? From this idea Peter Ackroyd creates an enthralling story of conflict, treachery, hypocrisy and greed. View More...
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. View More...
New York detective Neil Hockaday, of the S.C.U.M. patrol--Street Crimes Uni t-Manhattan--journeys to Ireland to uncover the truth about his father, who disappeared during World War II. View More...
Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coal and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape. His big chance comes wh en a rich landlord hires him as a chauffeur for his son, daughter-in-law, a nd their two Pomeranian dogs. From behind the wheels of a Honda, Balram see s Delhi and begins to see how the Tiger might escape his cage. For surely a ny successful man must spill a little blood on his way to the top? The Whit e Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balram's journey from the darkness of... View More...
Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island man sion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. Over dinner, a reco rd begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of h iding a guilty secret. That evening, former reckless driver Tony Marston is found murdered by a dead. View More...
Charlotte Gray tells the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who bec omes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis whi le pursuing a perilous mission of her own. In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops a dangerous passion for a battle-weary RAF pilot, and when he fails to return from a daring flight into France she is determined to find him. In the service of the Resistance, she travels to the village of Lavaurette, dyeing her hair and changing her name to conceal her identity. Here she will come face-to-face with the harrowing truth of what too... View More...
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. The sweeping epic novel Red Poppies, by Tibetan author Alai, is set in eastern Tibet in the middle of the last century. It chronicles the waning days of the once-powerful Tibetan chieftains and the rise of the Communist Chinese state. The tale is narrated by the son of one of the most powerful chieftains, a son considered an idiot by his family. But this supposed idiot consolidates his family's power and wealth with peasant good sense and cunning. And cunning ... View More...
An unforgettable French masterpiece in the spirit of The Catcher in the Rye -in a dazzling new translation When Meaulnes first arrives in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring, and charisma. But when he attends a strange party at a myste rious house with a beautiful girl hidden inside, he is changed forever. Pub lished here in the first new English translation since 1959, this evocative novel has at its center both a Peter Pan in provincial France-a kid who re fuses to grow up-and a Parsifal, pursuing his love to the ends of the earth . Poised between youthful admiration an... View More...
'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge b last right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red sca rring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.' Suddenly tomorrow or the day after girls f ind that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi A lderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed, and we loo k at the world in an entirely new light. What if the power to hurt wer... View More...
A highly collectible first edition, tight clean copy, protected in a new br odart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. Sir John Fielding returns in Alexander's entertaining fifth fictionalized case (after Person or Persons Unknown, 1997) for the real-life 18th-century English magistrate known as "Blind Beak." A master of character and plot, Alexander also captures the sounds, smells and social undercurrents of 1770s London. View More...
A highly collectible first edition, tight clean copy, protected in a new br odart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. Eighteenth-century London comes alive in Alexander's (Watery Grave, fourth Sir John Fielding mystery. Here, Sir John, the blind magistrate of the Bow Street Court, and his ward and helper Jeremy Proctor investigate the murders of prostitutes in Covent Garden. After several deaths occur, it becomes clear that they are searching for not one but two brutal killers, each with his own cruel method of murder. View More...
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. Set in Chicago's Polish-American ghetto, a novel which depicts America's 'third person society', a state where the lower classes are exploited and dehumanized, a state where what is sordid is no longer shocking as its sufferers become accustomed to their inevitable victimization. From the author of WALK ON THE WILD SIDE. View More...
A tight clean hardcover, no markings throughout, NOT an ex-lib edition: Following her National Book Critics Circle and Los Angeles Times Book Award -nominated, bestselling debut, Brick Lane, Monica Ali's splendid Alentejo B lue "rewards readers with characters who etch themselves into one's memory" (People). Set in a small Portuguese village, Alentejo Blue is a story of displacement and modernization told through the lives of the locals and of people who a re just passing through. The residents of Mamarrosa whose ancestors occupy the graveyards are restless and struggle to make a living. They ... View More...
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. From the author of Brick Lane comes Ali's second novel set in a Portuguese village. The story takes us into the lives of it's inhabitants both local and foreign, those that live there permantly and temporarily, some long to leave others long to stay, and how their personal stories interweave and crossover. View More...
