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Fire Along the Sky

Sara Donati · 2005

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Bantam 2005 Paperback 610 The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has come home to the mountain cabin in Paradise where she grew up with her father Nathaniel and her stepmother Elizabeth. But she has returned alone, without her husband and without her son, and with a story of horro...

Sweet Bird of Youth; a Streetcar Named Desire; the Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams · 1962

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Penguin Books Ltd 1962 Paperback 320 Spine faded; tanning. Good

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins · 2012

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Scholastic (UK) 2012 Paperback 464 Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been clse to death before-and survival, for her, is sec...

Harry Potter And the Half-Blood Prince

J. K. Rowling · 2005

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2005 Hardback 608 It is the middle of summer, and there is an unseasonal mist pressing against the windowpanes. Harry Potter is waiting nervously in his bedroom at the Dursleys' house in Privet Drive for a visit from Professor Dumbledore himself. One ...

Orientalism

Edward W. Said · 2019

$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,429)

Penguin 2019 Paperback 396 In this highly acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering Orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal...

The Plague

Albert Camus · 2009

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

Penguin Books 2009 Paperback 264 The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine, each responding in their own way to the lethal bacillus:...

Dracula

Bram Stoker · 2009

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

Penguin 2009 Paperback 408 Count Dracula's castle is a hellish world where night is day, pleasure is pain and the blood of the innocent prized above all. Young Jonathan Harker approaches the gloomy gates with no idea what he is about to face . . .And back in England eerie inci...

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli · 2011

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

Penguin Books Ltd 2011 Paperback 106 As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince is his controversial handbook about the dynamics of power, leadership and strategy. M...

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · 2009

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

Penguin 2009 Paperback 288 Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with the secret of resurrecting the dead. But when he makes a new man out of plundered corpses, his hideous creation fills him disgust. Rejected by all humanity, the creature sets out to destroy Frankenstein and everyo...

The Crystal Gorge

David Eddings and Leigh Eddings · 2005

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

HarperCollins Publishers Limited 2005 Paperback 517 In the new epic fantasy from the masters of modern fantasy David and Leigh Eddings, the Ruler of the Wasteland challenges the Gods and wreaks devastation on their people. The Dreamers are children teetering on the brink of di...

Life On Air

David Attenborough · 2003

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

BBC Worldwide 2003 Paperback 384 David Attenborough's career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned almost five decades and over the last 25 years he has become a leading natural history programme maker. In these memoirs, he describes the people and animals he has met, an...

Lives Of The Hunted : Containing A True Account Of The Doings Of Five Quadrupeds & Three Birds, And In Elucidation Of The Same, Over 200 Drawings

Ernest Thompson Seton · 1902

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

London : David Nutt 1902 Hardback 360 Krag, the Kootenay ram. -- A street troubadour : being the adventures of a cock sparrow. -- Johnny Bear. -- The mother teal and the overland route. -- Chink : the development of a pup. -- The kangaroo rat. -- Tito : the story of the coyote...

City Fashion Berlin

Christine Anna Bierhals · 2011

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Ullmann 2011 Paperback 215 Heavy. Very Good

Dreaming In Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer

Emily Arnold McCully · 2019

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Candlewick Press 2019 Hardback 164 "Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her narcissistic mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as martyred ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron and had Ada tutored at home by some of the brightest minds....

My Music

Daniel Cavicchi and Susan D. Crafts and Charles Keil · 1993

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

University Press of New England 1993 Paperback 218 A first-hand exploration of the diverse roles music plays in people's lives. My Music is a first-hand exploration of the diverse roles music plays in people's lives. "What is music about for you?" asked members of the Music in...

Guitar Style, Open Tunings, And Stringband Music In Papua New Guinea

Denis Crowdy · 2005

$19.50 (€17.69 | £14.76 | ¥3,114)

Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies 2005 Paperback 140 Acoustic guitar and ukulele-based ensembles, known as stringbands, developed in Papua New Guinea in the second half of the twentieth century. A variety of regional stringband styles are evident, differentiated through la...

Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants In The Hollywood Melting Pot

Michael Rogin · 1996

$16.50 (€14.97 | £12.49 | ¥2,635)

University of California Press 1996 Hardback 339 The founding Hollywood movie, Birth of a Nation, celebrated the Ku Klux Klan. The first talking picture, The Jazz Singer, was a blackface film. Gone With the Wind remains the all-time box-office success. From their beginnings, M...

Prince Of The Elves (Amulet Book Five)

Kazu Kibuishi · 2012

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

GRAPHIX 2012 Paperback 187 Emily survived the chaos of the Guardian Academy, but Max Griffin has stolen the Mother Stone. With it, the Elf King forges new amulets that will give him the power to invade and destroy the nation of Windsor. Emily and her friends lead the soldiers ...

Pil: Ancestral Stories of the Lihir Islands

Kirsty Gillespie · 2018

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies 2018 Softcover 107 This book is a collection of stories, known as pil, told across the generations by the people of Lihir. Collected between 2008 and 2010, and accompanied by sound recordings which can be found online, these seven stories ...

101 Cool Hilarious Histories

Steve Burdett · 2017

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Hinkler Books Pty, Limited 2017 Paperback 208 These 101 true tales from history - packed with colourful cartoons celebrating the looniest legends, the most dastardly dynasties and the craziest curses - will have you in stiches! Did you know that the Ancient Egyptians believed ...