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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 1569471142ISBN 13: 9781569471142
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Aly, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher, embarks on an affair with her best friend's son, Tom, but since he is only half her age, they must overcome many obstacles, including the anger of her best friend and the condemnation of society.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 1569473684ISBN 13: 9781569473689
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition ~1st Printing. Praise for Maisie Dobbs:"Maisie Dobbs is a quirky literary creation. If you cross-pollinated Vera Brittains classic World War I memoir, Testament of Youth, with Dorothy Sayerss Harriet Vane mysteries and a dash of the old PBS series Upstairs, Downstairs, youd approximate the peculiar range of topics and tones within this novel. . . . Its intelligent eccentricity offers relief."-Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air" on NPR"Deft. . . . Prepare to be astonished at the sensitivity and wisdom with which Maisie resolves her first professional assignment. . . . Winspear takes her through her ordeal with great compassion."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review"Surprisingly fresh. . . . Winspear does a fine job with the Upstairs, Downstairs aspects of the story, depicting the class tensions that inevitably arise as Dobbs climbs to a new station in life. Her progression from domestic staff to college student to wartime nurse to private investigator is both believable and compelling."-San Francisco ChronicleMaisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnates daughter who has fled from home. What seems a simple case at first becomes complicated when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiresss old friends. Is there a connection between her mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would kill such charming young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers to all her questions lie in the unforgettable agony of The Great War.Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in England and later worked in publishing and as a marketing communications consultant in the U.K. before emigrating to the United States. She now lives in California and is a regular visitor to the United Kingdom. Birds of a Feather is her second novel featuring Maisie Dobbs.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 1569478511ISBN 13: 9781569478516
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Irish-American Army Lieutenant Detective Billy Boyle returns to his family's homeland only to get sucked into a complex web of wartime intrigue.Autumn, 1943: Fifty Browning Automatic Rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition have been stolen from a US Army base in Northern Ireland. A few miles from the depot, the body of a known IRA man has been found with a bullet in the head and a pound note in his hand-the mark of an informer.Fearing a German-sponsored IRA uprising, General Eisenhower, Billys uncle by marriage, sends him to recover the weapons before more damage is done. Billy searched for the missing weapons with the help of a beautiful Irish woman, an officer in British intelligence. Soldiers of the US Army, members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, as well as of local Protestant societies, and local Catholic laymen all come under suspicion. Bodies begin to accumulate, and Billy finds unexpected challenges to his Boston-Irish upbringing and his own IRA sympathies. There are rogues on both sides, he learns.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 1569479666ISBN 13: 9781569479667
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: used. Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady joined the army to bring honor to her family and to the Middle East. Instead, she finds herself in a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in 2003, guarding a makeshift American prison. There, Kate meets Naema Jassim, an Iraqi medical student whose father and little brother have been detained in the camp.Kate and Naema promise to help each other, but the war soon strains their intentions. Like any soldier, Kate must face the daily threats of combat duty, but as a woman, she is in equal danger from the predatory men in her unit. Naema suffers bombs, starvation, and the loss of her home and family. As the two women struggle to survive and hold on to the people they love, each comes to have a drastic and unforeseeable effect on the others life.Culled from real life experiences of female soldiers and Iraqis, Sand Queen offers a story of hope, courage and struggle from the rare perspective of women at war.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2009
ISBN 10: 1569475954ISBN 13: 9781569475959
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Softcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. With a case of amnesia, will Billy remember who he is and what is his mission, before more people are killed?Billy Boyle has been landed in Sicily in advance of the main Allied invasion forces. But when he awakens in a field hospital after suffering a concussion, he has amnesia. He doesn't know who he is or where he is, much less what his mission is. His only clue is that he possesses a yellow silk handkerchief embroidered with the initial L and a lot of people seem to be eager to get their hands on this talisman.As Billy gradually recovers his memory, he recalls that he is his "Uncle" Ike's personal investigator in the European Theater of War. Before Billy can remember the dangerous task that has been entrusted to him and do his best to carry it out, several people are murdered. Those opposing him include members of various factions of the American Mafia, as well as soldiers of the German and Italian Armies.Billy finally remembers his name, but to truly resolve the question of his identity he must dig deep into his soul to discover what kind of man he is.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 1616952539ISBN 13: 9781616952532
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: used. For readers weary of literary fiction that dutifully obeys the laws of nature, heres a story that stirs the Brothers Grimm and Salvador Dali with its claws . . . as gorgeous as it is devastating.-The Washington PostIn this epic, mythical debut novel, a newly-wed couple escapes the busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost-uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to live there simply, to fish the lake, to trap the nearby woods, and build a house upon the dirt where they can raise a family. But as their every pregnancy fails, the child-obsessed husband begins to rage at this new world: the song-spun objects somehow created by his wife's beautiful singing voice, the giant and sentient bear that rules the beasts of the woods, the second moon weighing down the fabric of their starless sky, and the labyrinth of memory dug into the earth beneath their house.This novel, from one of our most exciting young writers, is a powerful exploration of the limits of parenthood and marriage-and of what happens when a marriages success is measured solely by the children it produces, or else the sorrow that marks their absence.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 9627160385ISBN 13: 9789627160380
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: used. As the takeover of Hong Kong nears, the entrepreneurial Pak family of Hong Kong hire accountant Will Sears to shift around ownerships, set up holdings in the U.S. and Nassau, and transfer title to kin in Macao. Ronnie Pak had entrusted Will with bilingual spreadsheets and information on the family businesses, all of which has gone missing from Will's apartment after Ronnie's arrest in Los Angeles for smuggling heroin hidden in shrimp paste containers. Will, arrested as well, is granted immunity in return for his testimony. Will he live to give it?.
Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 1569472661ISBN 13: 9781569472668
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. A photojournalist chronicles his fascinating journeys to Ellesmere Island in the high Arctic, re-creating some of the historical expeditions to the locale, reflecting on the meaning of extreme adventure, and capturing some of Ellesmere's remarkable landscape and wildlife.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 093914929XISBN 13: 9780939149292
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: used. Clare Fane, hopelessly plain and, by her estimation, ordinary, is the center of this novel of three women--including her sister, Elinor, achingly beautiful and sophisticated, and Antonia, reed-thin, neglected, and vulnerable--who, together, face maturity, independence, and sorrow.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 1569470723ISBN 13: 9781569470725
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: used. In ancient Egypt, an intelligent, ambitious woman named Thu, leaves her native village aboard the boat of a prophet and eventually becomes a powerful concubine of Ramses III.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 156947236XISBN 13: 9781569472361
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. The Hyksos - interlopers from Asia Minor with Cretan and Minoan trading connections - ruled Egypt for over two hundred years, after the end of the Middle Kingdom. Seqenenra Tao of Weset roused the native princes to rebellion but died before they could achieve success. His second son, Kamose, assumed command and led a sweep up the Nile to the Hyksos Pharoah's delta stronghold. Then Kamose was assassinated by his own allies, and young Ahmose, the surviving Tao prince, was wounded.In The Horus Road it is the women of the Tao family who must hold the native forces together until Ahmose recovers and, ultimately, leads the Egyptians to triumph.The Horus Road concludes a trilogy, beginning with The Hippopotamus Marsh, followed by The Oasis, that brings to vivid life the passions and intrigues which ushered in the great Eighteenth Dynasty.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 1569479178ISBN 13: 9781569479179
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. In April 1945, Hitlers Reich is on the verge of extinction. Assaulted by Allied bombs and Soviet shells, ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin has become the most dangerous place on earth.John Russells son Paul is stationed on the Eastern Front with the German Army, awaiting the Soviets final onslaught. In Berlin, Russells girlfriend Effi has been living in disguise, helping fugitives to escape from Germany. With a Jewish orphan to care for, shes trying to outlast the Nazis.Russell hasnt heard from either of them since fleeing Germany in 1941. He is desperate to find out if theyre alive and to protect them from the advancing Red Army. He flies to Moscow, seeking permission to enter Berlin with the Red Army as a journalist, but when the Soviets arrest him as a spy, things look bleak-until they find a use for him that has him parachuting into Berlin behind German lines.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 1569474680ISBN 13: 9781569474686
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: used. Little Face is a wonderful work, a brilliant use of mirrors and the writer's magic. Chilling, tantalizing, and ultimately fair and deeply satisfying.-Barbara DAmato, author of Death of a Thousand CutsHannah adapts to crime fiction with arresting aplomb: Her characters are vivid, the novels challenging double narrative is handled with flair, and its denouement is ingenious.-The Sunday Times (London)Outstandingly chilling.-The SpectatorSuperb . . . good, old-fashioned spine-tingling stuff, but also a fine modern thriller.-The Times (London)A terrifying mystery of manipulation, counter-manipulation and, finally, astounding revelation. Its a haunting story told with bewitching skill.-The ScotsmanImpressive.-The Mail on SundayThe first time she goes out after their daughter is born, Alice leaves the two-week-old infant at home with her husband, David. When she returns two hours later, she insists that the baby in the crib is not her child. Despite her apparent distress, David is adamant that she is wrong.The police are called to the scene. Detective Constable Simon Waterhouse is sympathetic, but he doubts Alices story. His superior, Sergeant Charlie Zailer, thinks Alice must be suffering from some sort of delusion brought on by postpartum depression. With an increasingly hostile and menacing David swearing she must either be mad or lying, how can Alice make the police believe her before its too late?Sophie Hannah is an award-winning and best-selling poet in the United Kingdom. She has also previously published fiction. This is her first psychological crime novel. She lives in West Yorkshire with her husband and two children.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 1569471541ISBN 13: 9781569471548
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: used. Etsuko has fallen in love with the shy young university lecturer who clumsily courts her. But her family objects to his past: his father was a war criminal; his deceased younger brother, a murderer. When Etsuko lies to force the marriage through, she thinks their troubles are over, but on their wedding night, the groom leaves in response to an urgent phone call. In the morning, he is still missing.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0939149281ISBN 13: 9780939149285
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st U.S. Ed. In a police procedural by Japan's foremost master of mystery, Inspector Imanishi Eitaro, a typically Japanese detective fond of gardening and haiku, must follow a killer's trail across the social strata of Japan.
Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 1569473307ISBN 13: 9781569473306
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: used. "Meet Maisie Dobbs, who in 1929 launches her career as a private investigator and finds herself drawn back to the Great War she thought she'd long since put behind her: an unexpected beginning for Maisie-and a rare treat for mystery fans."-Charles Todd"A welcomed addition to the sleuthing scene. . . . Maisie isn't a character I'll easily forget."-Elizabeth George."Poignant and compelling."-Library Journal, starred.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 1569471339ISBN 13: 9781569471333
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. The author invites readers on an adventurous and humorous journey as he hitchhikes the full length of Japan, beginning in a small town where local gardeners dust their blossom petals after the nearby volcano sprinkles them with ash.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 1569472750ISBN 13: 9781569472750
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 0. At the turn of the eighth century B.C., a mighty Assyrian army entered Judah and fought its way to the very gates of Jerusalem, poised, the prophet Isaiah warned, to "smash the city as easily as someone hurling a clay pot against the wall." But the assault never came; instead, the Assyrian army turned and fled, an event that has been called the Deliverance of Jerusalem. Whereas biblical accounts attribute the Assyrian retreat to divine intervention, journalist Henry Aubin offers an explanation that is miraculous in its own light: the siege was broken by the arrival of an army from Kushite Egypt--an army, that is, made up of black Africans. These Kushites figured in historical texts, Aubin continues, until the late 19th century, when racist scholars expunged them from the record--a process that, Aubin observes, coincided with the European conquest and colonization of Africa. The Kushite intervention assured the survival of the Hebrew people, Aubin asserts, and it deserves to be acknowledged anew. Well-written and carefully developed, Aubin's argument will doubtless excite discussion.
Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 1616953098ISBN 13: 9781616953096
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: used. "With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter-the bravery of these stories left me breathless.-Alissa Nutting, author of TampaFrom the author of Nine Months and Baby comes a daring new collection that seethes with alienation, lust and rage. Bomer takes us from hospitals, halfway houses, and alleyways, to boarding schools and Park Avenue penthouses, exploring the complex relationships girls have with their bodies, with other girls, and with boys. The title novella tracks the ins and outs of an outsiders life: her childhood obesity and kinky sex life, her toxic relationships, whether familial or erotic, and her various disappearing acts, of body and mind.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 1569473420ISBN 13: 9781569473429
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Softcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. "Excellent . . . does a good job of -laying out the tactics without drowning the reader in seas of detail . . . Great stuff."-Kirkus Reviews"The most meticulously researched war novels that I have ever read."-Len DeightonNick Everard joins a submarine crew sent to destroy a German battle cruiser.Alexander Fullerton attended the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, at the age of 13. He served in battleships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines and has written many novels about the sea in addition to the nine volumes of the Everard series.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 156947382XISBN 13: 9781569473825
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: used. "What an astounding, loony tour de force! Hard-boiled yet comedic, realistic yet absurd-Jack Fish is a noir story told in technicolor. It also puts in time as a real love letter to New York City. J Milligan is a great new writer, and this is a great new book."-Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir!"Dig it: Jack Fish is a wild ride through a groovy new novelist's imagination. It's juicy metaphor, hot satire and a boss meditation on media. J Milligan is here to stay."-James Ellroy, author of L.A. Confidential"Wonderful. . . . Told with the same mad glee as Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn or Thom Jones's best stories. I read it with a permanent smile on my face and am happy to say it made me laugh out loud a lot."-Jonathan Carroll, author of White Apples and The Wooden Sea"At once a love song to New York City and a madcap assassination plot, Jack Fish is funny, smart, and utterly engaging. I read it from start to finish without stopping. You will, too."-Joshua Henkin, author of Swimming Across the HudsonSomewhere off Coney Island, paddling through seaweed and Styrofoam, is secret agent "Jack Fish." As an operative of the Elders of Atlantis, he is to find their enemy and spear him. Once he gets the hang of breathing on the surface, he can take up his mission. Staggering out of the water, he begins his odyssey into the strange city of New York. He's concerned about adjusting, but if he can make it here, he can make it anywhere. At first worried about being noticed, he discovers the Topworld is teeming with neighborhoods that are like reefs, filled with air breathers who seem as alien as he feels. ("You're from Atlanta?"). Jack Fish is just another dude from out of town, hanging out at the Mermaid Diner, scratching the webbing between his toes.Headlong and wildly entertaining, Jack Fish does for Atlanteans what Anonymous Rex did for dinosaurs.J Milligan has been published in The New Yorker and is co-author of a non-fiction book, The Wisdom of Big Bird and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 1569474710ISBN 13: 9781569474716
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: used. Praise for the Billy Boyle series:A meaty, old-fashioned and thoroughly enjoyable tale of WWII-era murder and espionage.-The Seattle TimesThe World War II atmosphere and history are expertly handled.-Denver PostGreat fun. Benn knows his war history. . . . The novel introduces a batch of intriguing characters who seem destined to make another appearance.-The Globe and Mail (Toronto)A memorable debut.-BookPageA must for history buffs and mystery fans.-Connecticut PostIf you enjoy World War II mysteries . . . youll love this book. . . . One of the best books Ive read this year.-Mystery SceneBenn crafts a crackling good adventure, with much flavorsome period color.-Kirkus ReviewsIll look for another book about Billy Boyle, with pleasure.-Deadly PleasuresLieutenant Billy Boyle reluctantly accompanies Major Samuel Harding, his boss, in the first boat to land on the shores of Algeria during the Allied invasion. Their task is to arrange the surrender of the Vichy French forces. But there is dissension between the regular army, the local militia, and De Gaulles Free French. American black marketeers in league with the enemy divert medical supplies to the Casbah, leading to multiple murders that Billy must solve while trying to rescue the girl he loves, a captured British spy.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 1569476349ISBN 13: 9781569476345
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1. In the fall of 1941, Anglo-American journalist John Russell is still living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his fourteen-year-old son, Paul, and his longtime girlfriend, Effi. Forced to work for both German and American Intelligence, he's searching for a way out of Germany. Can he escape and take Effi with him?From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 1569470014ISBN 13: 9781569470015
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. Reissue. Horribly disfigured, sensitive and intelligent Edward lives a life of seclusion in an isolated woodland cabin with his invalid mother, until Katherine, a curious young woman, begins paying him visits.
Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 1569474176ISBN 13: 9781569474174
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: used. Praise for The White Earth:"Tremendous narrative skill . . . a lean, intelligent, and incisive novel."-The Sydney Morning Herald"These characters . . . could have stepped from the pages of a Dickens novel. . . . At one level a suspenseful gothic thriller. At another it's a national allegory, with its portent that past wrongs will come back to haunt future generations."-The Age"A powerful work, filled with passion and a kind of surreal grandiosity. . . . A truly compelling story. . . . It reverberates long after it's been finished."-The New Zealand HeraldWhen young William's ineffectual father is killed in an accidental fire, he is cast upon the charity of an unknown great-uncle, John McIvor. The bitter, childless old man had been brought up to expect to marry the heiress to Kuran Station-a grand estate in the Australian Outback-only to be disappointed by his rejection and the subsequent selling off of the land. His life has been devoted to putting the estate back together; he has only recently partially succeeded and moved into the disintegrating, once-elegant mansion, Kuran House.McIvor tries to imbue William with his obsession for the land. He enlists him to work in a crackpot political party he is active in, whose policy is to thwart the Aborigines' attempts to recover ancestral territory. For recently passed laws entitle the native peoples to reclaim certain sacred sites.William's mother desperately wants her son to ingratiate himself so that he will become John McIvor's heir. But what no one knows, because neither his uncle nor his mother actually ever see him, is that William is ill and his condition is gradually worsening.
Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 156947155XISBN 13: 9781569471555
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: used. Based on a real-life incident, a novel of industrial espionage, adultery, and murder features a down-and-out stockbroker who finds himself the prime suspect in the killing of an old friend, who had married his former girlfriend.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Pr Inc, 1987
ISBN 10: 0939149079ISBN 13: 9780939149070
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: used. A story of a young couple who abandoned their careers in New York and moved to Ireland tells of their idyllic life in a cottage, surrounded by the beauty and character of the land of their ancestors.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 1569479739ISBN 13: 9781569479735
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. The funny man is a middling comic in an unnamed city. By day he takes care of his infant son, by night he performs in small clubs, sandwiched between other aspiring comics. His wife waits tables to support the family. It doesnt sound like much, but theyre happy, more or less. Until the day he comes up with it. His thing. His gimmick. And everything changes. Hes a headliner, and the venues get bigger fast. Pretty soon its Hollywood and a starring role in a blockbuster, all thanks to the gimmick.Which is: He performs with his fist in his mouth to the wrist. Jokes, impressions, commercials-all with his fist in his mouth to the wrist. The people want him-are crazy for him-but only with his fist in his mouth.And the funny man, he is tired of having his fist in his mouth.Thus, as the novel begins, his careers in tatters, his familys left him, and hes on trial for shooting an unarmed man six times. But for the second time in his life, against all odds, hes found love. This time with another celebrity, who may or may not be sending him coded messages, and may or may not be equally in love-or even know he exists. A coruscating satire of our culture of celebrity, this debut noveldocuments one individuals slide from everyman to monster, even as it reveals the potential for grace-and mercy-in his life.
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Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 1569473870ISBN 13: 9781569473870
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: used. "With a dramatic sense of time and place, Caroline Petit has woven a story as intricate as embroidered Chinese silk. She blends a tragic period in Asian history with the extraordinary journey of Leah Kolbe, a compelling character who is perfect for Petit's late-1930s Hong Kong."-Jacqueline Winspear, author of Maisie Dobbs and Birds of a FeatherHong Kong, 1937. Orphaned at the age of 19 by the sudden death of her father, a shady Hong Kong dealer in antiquities, Leah Kolbe finds that she has also been left penniless. Her only assets are the skills her father taught her: connoisseurship, secretiveness and duplicity.She is approached by a Mr. Chang, who claims to have known her father and offers her a commission to go to Manchukuo (the Japanese puppet kingdom recently established in Manchuria) to smuggle out Chinese imperial treasures-and the chief eunuch. She consents, and, accompanied by her faithful amah and a white Russian woman in Chang's pay, she takes the train north. The trip is perilous, as is her return, through besieged Nanking and by sampan across the South China Sea. But it is not until she reaches the empty house on Victoria Peak back in Hong Kong that Leah realizes that she has become a woman with a country of one.Caroline Petit was born in Washington, DC, raised in Maryland and now lives in Victoria, Australia with her husband. She is a graduate of Chatham College in Pittsburgh and holds advanced degrees from Johns Hopkins University, the London School of Economics and the University of Melbourne's Law School. She is a writer and producer for Write Angle Productions, and her writing has appeared in numerous publications. The Fat Man's Daughter is her first novel.
Editore: Brand: Soho Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 1569474540ISBN 13: 9781569474549
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: used. By 1939, Anglo-American journalist John Russell has spent over a decade in Berlin, where his son lives with his mother. He writes human-interest pieces for British and American papers, avoiding the investigative journalism that could get him deported. But as World War II approaches, he faces having to leave his son as well as his girlfriend of several years, a beautiful German starlet.When an acquaintance from his old communist days approaches him to do some work for the Soviets, Russell is reluctant, but he is unable to resist the offer. He becomes involved in other dangerous activities, helping a Jewish family and a determined young American reporter. When the British and the Nazis notice his involvement with the Soviets, Russell is dragged into the murky world of warring intelligence services.
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