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Luck Of The Vails

E. F. Benson · 1986

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

The Hogarth Press 1986 Paperback 320 Unaware of the family curse attached to it, Harry, the twelfth baronet of Vail, finds the Luck of the Vails, a golden cup, hidden in the attic. New Introduction by Stephen Knight Benson. Page edges foxing. Good

Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology : Volume 16

Japanese Society Of Cultural Anthropology and Takami Kuwayama · 2015

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology 2015 Paperback 254 ISSN 0021-5023 Supplement to Japanese Journal of Cultural Antropology, Vol 80. Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology is an English journal published by the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (formerly the J...

Fantonia : Chapter One

Lea Dambeck

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Lea Dambeck Stapled 20 Undated. Two unlikely friends meet to discover they have a lot more in common than they thought. Together they want to escape Fantonia to explore the unknown world! Kyle has to uncover the mysteries surrounding his past and April has to fight for her ri...

The Fuglies # 1

Steve Carter and Antoinette Rydyr · 2014

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Pikitia Press 2014 Stapled 24 A pair of genetically enhanced girls go on a rampage of murder and cannabilistic mayhem while being chased by the authorities through a wilderness populated by savage genetic freaks & horrific mutations. The Fuglies was first published by Steve Ca...

Once & Future

Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy · 2019

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Oneworld Publications 2019 Paperback 368 King Arthur as you've never seen her! This bold YA novel reimagines the Once and Future King as a queer teenage girl on an epic quest to save the universe. Coming to terms with your identity is always difficult. But for Ari, the 42nd re...

What Katy Did

Susan Coolidge · 2009

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Penguin Adult 2009 Paperback 240 What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge is a classic much loved by adults and children alike. Katy Carr intends to be beautiful and beloved and as sweet as an angel one day. For now, though, her hair is forever in a tangle, her dress is always torn and...

Unbelievable!

Paul Jennings · 1994

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Penguin Group Australia 1994 Paperback 110 Unbelievable? Maybe. But I'm telling you it's true. The crusher had pushed all the air out of my lungs. It was squeezing me tighter and tighter. I knew I had only seconds to live. Believe it or not... A kid can grow younger. Birds can...

The Cat Sanctuary

Patrick Gale · 2009

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

HarperCollins Publishers Australia 2009 Paperback 288 A powerful and moving novel in which Patrick Gale casts a compassionate yet satirically sharp eye over the pains and abuses inflicted by families, friends and lovers. Judith and Deborah are sisters driven apart by traumatic...

Round The Twist

Paul Jennings · 1990

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Puffin Books 1990 Paperback 122 Three short stories and the low-down on how the television series was made. Fact, fiction and fun from the fantastic pen of Paul Jennings. Good

Roar

Cora Carmack · 2017

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Tor Teen 2017 Paperback 380 In a land ruled and shaped by violent magical storms, power lies with those who control them. Aurora Pavan comes from one of the oldest Stormling families in existence. Long ago, the ungifted pledged fealty and service to her family in exchange for ...

One Thousand Chestnut Trees

Mira Stout · 1997

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Flamingo 1997 Hardback 323 The tumultuous history of Korea unfolds in Mira Stout's debut novel One Thousand Chestnut Trees, a compelling story of a young woman's search for her Korean heritage--and her own sense of identity. In her journeys, she discovers a legacy left behind ...

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

Karen Blixen · 1984

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Penguin Books Ltd 1984 Paperback 352 With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. Out of Africa is Karin Blixen's love letter to the country she cal...

Unseen!

Paul Jennings · 2000

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Puffin 2000 Paperback 176 This title presents another collection of wacky and varied short stories, stories to be read and enjoyed at a sitting. They're about a boy who is able to grow new fingers, but not always in the right places; the dead dog that isn't quite what it seems...

Life And Fate

Vasily Grossman · 2006

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Vintage 2006 Paperback 864 Suppressed by the KGB, Life and Fate is a rich and vivid account of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union. On its completion in 1960,Life and Fatewas suppressed by the KGB. Twenty years later, the novel was smuggled out of the Soviet Un...

A Way Home

Jillian Sullivan · 2016

$19.50 (€17.69 | £14.76 | ¥3,114)

Potton & Burton 2016 Paperback 200 When life as she knew it ended, with her marriage over and her last child off into the world, writer Jillian Sullivan set out to fulfil a long-held dream of building a strawbale house. A Way Home tells the story of how she settled in a small ...

White Nights: The Story of a Prisoner in Russia

Menachem Begin · 1978

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Futura Publications Ltd 1978 Paperback 240 White Nights: the Story of a Prisoner in Russia is an autobiographical memoir by Menachem Begin, the sixth Prime Minister of Israel, describing his imprisonment in the Soviet gulag labour camps during 1940-1942. The book was first pub...

The Good Mayor

Andrew Nicoll · 2008

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HarperCollins Publishers Australia 2008 Paperback 480 Set in the little town of Dot in a forgotten part of the Baltic, it tells the story of Tibo Krovic, the good and honest Mayor of Dot, and his love for his secretary, the beautiful, lonely, but married, Mrs Agathe Stopak. In...

The Mozart Conspiracy

Scott Mariani · 2008

$8.50 (€7.71 | £6.43 | ¥1,357)

Harper Collins 2008 Paperback 456 An ancient murder. A clandestine society. A conspiracy that will end in death... Former SAS operative Ben Hope is running for his life. Enlisted by the beautiful Leigh Llewellyn - world famous opera star and Ben's first love - to investigate h...

Medea And Other Plays

Euripides · 1998

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Oxford Paperbacks 1998 Paperback 272 Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register and mood. He is also remarkable for the pr...

Isak Dinesen: the Life of Karen Blixen

Judith Thurman · 1986

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Penguin 1986 Paperback 544 Owner's Name inside. Pages tanned, spine creased, cover faded. Fair