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Last Laugh

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mo Campbell

$18.18 28 Aug 2008 Paperback Four O'Clock Press

Bitter Eden

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ttamkhuku Afirka

$14.54 28 Aug 2008 Paperback Arcadia Books

Based on the author's own capture in North Africa and his experiences as a prisoner-of-war in World War II in Italy and Germany.

The Border Trilogy

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Cormac McCarthy

$27.30 28 Aug 2008 Hardback Everyman's Library

Contains three novels - "All the Pretty Horses", "The Crossing", and "Cities of the Plain".

Old House On the Island

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Traditional Family With A Dark Secret Goes to War

By Robert C. Powers

$15.95 28 Aug 2008 Paperback Powerful Publisher LLC

Christians don't have to exert themselves to defeat Satan; the Lord Jesus has already done so at Golgotha. He is the great conqueror! But how then are there still so many battles? The Bible tells it like it is. In this study, the author deals with, a step at a time, the different kinds of battle we are called to fight and the sort of enemy we have to face, but also the weapons God provides. Christians are badly in need of those not to obtain anew the victory, but to remain standing. That is possible as God's word promises and this book clearly demonstrates. Since the battles are spiritual, they must be fought with spiritual weapons. This book tells you all about it.

Remembering the Armed Struggle

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Life in Baader-Meinhof

By Margit Schiller

$16.36 28 Aug 2008 Paperback Zidane Press

The Bad Girl

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mario Vargas Llosa

$12.72 28 Aug 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950, where she claims to be from Chile but vanishes the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris as 'Comrade Arlette', an activist en route to Cuba, a lover who denies knowing anything about the Lily of years gone by.

The Garden of Last Days

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Andre Dubus

$32.74 28 Aug 2008 Hardback Arrow Books Ltd

April's usual babysitter, Jean, has had a panic attack that has landed her in hospital. April doesn't really know anyone else, so she decides it's best to have her three-year-old daughter close by, watching children's videos in the office, while she works. But April is a stripper at the Puma Club for Men. And tonight she has an unusual client.

Train to Trieste

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Domnica Radulescu

$20.00 28 Aug 2008 Paperback Transworld Publishers Ltd

In the summer of 1977, seventeen-year-old Mona falls in love with Mihai, who lives in the mountain city where she spends her summers. But life under Nicolae Ceausescu is difficult. Hunger, paranoia and fear infect everyone. One day she sees him wearing the black leather jacket favoured by the secret police - is it possible he is one of them?

The Wolf

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Joseph Smith

$18.20 28 Aug 2008 Hardback Vintage

A combination of nature writing and fantasy that forces us to see the world afresh through the eyes of a hunter in all its savagery, terror, and magic.

Monster Love

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Carol Topolski

$12.72 28 Aug 2008 Paperback Penguin Books Ltd

No one in the neighbourhood has seen the Gutteridges' little girl Samantha for months. But Brendan and Sherilyn look happier that ever, so nothing is wrong. Is it? For the Gutteridges, Samantha was just a thing that threatened to worm its way into their perfect love. For everyone else, her story is the stuff of tabloid headlines.

Things I Want My Daughters to Know

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Elizabeth Noble

$12.72 28 Aug 2008 Paperback Penguin Books Ltd

Barbara must say a final farewell to her four daughters. But how can she find the words? And how can she leave them when they each have so much growing up to do? Barbara's answer is to write each daughter a letter, finally expressing the hopes, fears, dreams and secrets she couldn't always voice.

The Elephanta Suite

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Paul Theroux

$16.36 28 Aug 2008 Paperback Penguin Books Ltd

Attempts to capture the tumult, ambition, hardship and serenity that mark modern India. This book urges us towards a notion of India and its effect on those who try to lose - or find - themselves there.

Is it Just ME?

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Arabella Weir

$12.72 28 Aug 2008 Paperback Penguin Books Ltd

The Romantic Road

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Joanna Griffiths

$14.54 28 Aug 2008 Paperback Penguin Books Ltd

Holiday

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stanley Middleton

$16.36 28 Aug 2008 Paperback Arrow Books Ltd

Edwin Fisher is on holiday at the English seaside - but this revisiting of childhood haunts is no ordinary holiday. Edwin is seeking to understand the failure of his marriage to Meg, but it turns out that her parents are staying at the same resort - whether by accident or design - and are keen to patch up the relationship.

Shoe Addicts Anonymous

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Beth Harbison

$12.72 28 Aug 2008 Paperback Arrow Books Ltd

Lorna, Helene, Sandra, and Joss are four very different women; all addicted to shoes. When they come upon a advert, inviting shoe lovers to a weekly shoe-swap, each one jumps at the chance to meet fellow addicts, but none of them realise that they will come away with much more than a new pair of kitten heels.

Her Three Wise Men

28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stanley Middleton

$34.56 28 Aug 2008 Hardback Arrow Books Ltd

In a town like Beechnall there are all sorts of rivalries, enmities and feuds. And many of them soon swirl around the amateur dramatic society's festival production of Twelfth Night, which is under a cloud after politics result in the departure of the established director.

Chaos in the Capital City

27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By D. Mitchell

$6.99 27 Aug 2008 Paperback QBoro Books Inc

When two patrons of a Hispanic restaurant are killed during an armed robbery, the crime sets off a small race war that spreads throughout Washington, D.C., and tests all boundaries.

Billy Goat's Curse

27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stanley Gene Phillips Jr.

$16.49 27 Aug 2008 Paperback Virtualbookworm.com Publishing

Dido's Prize

27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Eugenia Oneal

$10.95 27 Aug 2008 Paperback Parker Publishing LLC

Dido, a slave on a Jamaican sugar plantation, runs away to join Henry Morgan's privateer fleet and find the treasure that will allow her to buy her family's freedom. What she doesn't bargain on is falling in love with El Negro, a pirate captain with no particular yen for a long-lasting relationship. As Morgan sails the Spanish Main, sacking first, El Puerto del Principe in Cuba, and then the great city of Porto Bello in Panama, Dido becomes a valued member of El Negro's crew. After the ships return to Jamaica, Dido thinks she will never see the pirate captain again, but he comes to her rescue when she is in peril. They flee deep into the Blue Mountains, but El Negro knows he will never be safe on the island. Together, Dido and her pirate, head back out to sea to find a place where they can live and love in freedom.

Hotel Crystal

27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Olivier Rolin

$12.95 27 Aug 2008 Paperback Dalkey Archive Press,U.S.

At some Parisian lost-and-found, a mysterious manuscript scribbled onto stray bits of hotel stationary and postcards and stuffed into an abandoned briefcase comes into the hands of an "editor," who claims to faithfully transcribe and assemble the random texts. On the face of it, these consist of fastidious descriptions of a series of hotel rooms in cities around the globe, but their world-weary writer, a certain "Olivier Rolin," is also involved in a number of highly improbable international networks, populated by unsavory thugs and Mata Haris in distress. Author Olivier Rolin has dipped into his extensive travel notebooks to create this highly inventive novel that spoofs, among others, the decaying international espionage scene, the literary author publicity tour, and official French culture, all against a backdrop of the queasy alienation secreted by standard-issue hotel rooms across the globe.

Black Will Shoot

27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel

By Jesse Washington

$14.00 27 Aug 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster

A the editor-in-chief of "Blaze" magazine, Washington has been threatened at gunpoint and beaten up by aggrieved rappers. Knowing the world of hip-hop intimately, he has written a page-turner filled with thinly veiled revelations about some of the biggest names in the business.

Castle Lake

27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Thomas A. Ryerson

$16.95 27 Aug 2008 Paperback Grey Swan Press

A terrible tragedy sets in motion a vengeful curse that can turn a girl's sixteenth birthday into her death day. The spirit of profound grief and hatred hangs like a fog over Castle Lake until it can exact its horrific retribution. In the haunting style of Stephen King, award-winning author, Thomas Ryerson, ably touches the simple, natural world of rural life in the nineteenth century with the evil hand of the supernatural.

Daddy Cool

27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Donald Goines

$10.90 27 Aug 2008 Paperback Melrose Publishing Company

Show and Tell

27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Niobia Bryant

$14.00 27 Aug 2008 Paperback Kensington Publishing

In "Live and Learn," national bestselling author Bryant introduced unforgettable friends Alize, Dom, Moet, and Cristal. Now the ladies are back--with even more drama in tow.

Thug Matrimony

27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Wahida Clark

$15.00 27 Aug 2008 Paperback Kensington Publishing

Angel, Jaz, Tasha, and Kyra are four girlfriends pulling themselves out of the ghetto--and trying to bring their hearts up to higher ground with them. But when an unwanted guest crashes Angel's wedding, all the rage and bloodlust from the Uhood comes bustin' out.

Sugar Vs. Spice

27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Joanne Skerrett

$6.99 27 Aug 2008 Paperback Kensington Publishing

Just as journalist and jazz singer Tari is feeling at the top of her game, she's hit with unexpected news that turns her world upside down. It's a personal battle that will challenge Tari like never before and transform all of her relationships with her sister, her friends, her faith--and even herself.

Do You Take This Woman?

27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel

By R.M. Johnson

$14.00 27 Aug 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster

Two childhood friends must weigh their love for each other against their love for the same woman. As the boundaries of love, trust, and friendship are stretched and tested, this story evolves into a deeply engaging tale.

Twisted

27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Tracy Brown

$14.95 27 Aug 2008 Paperback Griffin,U.S.

From the "Essence"-bestselling author of "White Lines" comes a powerful new drama where the ultimate love must triumph over a tangled web of lies and betrayals.

Whatever it Takes

26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kim Hunter

$16.36 26 Aug 2008 Paperback Olympia Publishers

April Fool

26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Neufeld

$16.95 26 Aug 2008 Paperback Grey Swan Press

Benedict's Carnival

25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kate Wiltshire

$12.72 25 Aug 2008 Paperback Troubador Publishing

When Benedict Jones, a flamboyant, enigmatic gay vicar arrives at a backward, narrow-minded church it causes chaos among the parishioners, particularly for two women vying for his attentions. This novel takes the issues of sexuality, gender and the Church and looks at the turbulent relationship among them.

Lessons in Love

25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kate Lawson

$12.72 25 Aug 2008 Paperback HarperCollins Publishers

A warm romantic comedy about teaching old dogs new tricks!

Snow White Turtle Doves

25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Juliette Bressan

$12.72 25 Aug 2008 Paperback Poolbeg Press Ltd

Feels Like Maybe

25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Claire Allan

$23.64 25 Aug 2008 Paperback Poolbeg Press Ltd

A Great River

23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel

By Charles Dee Sharp

$26.95 23 Aug 2008 Hardback Center for American Places,US

The Mississippi River is as much an American symbol as it is a river, carrying hopes and despair of many in its timeless currents. This book employs Mississippi River as an imaginative force in American landscape. It leads readers into reflections on demands of our time and place in history.

Vertigo

23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By WG Sebald

$15.95 23 Aug 2008 Paperback New Directions Publishing Corporation

A unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again the readers' guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid the restless literary ghosts of Kafka, Stendhal, and Casanova. Now in paperback, "Vertigo" is the marvelous first novel of W.G. Sebald, the acclaimed European writer.

The Sewerside Chronicles

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Tim Lay

$14.54 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Discovered Authors

Gym and Slimline

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Emma Burstall

$12.72 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Preface Publishing

A swanky new gym has opened in leafy south-west London. Four women bond over push ups and Pilates and become firm friends. But their friendship is about to be tested to the limit.

Gym and Slimline

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Emma Burstall

$18.20 21 Aug 2008 Hardback Preface Publishing

A swanky new gym has opened in leafy south west London. Four women bond over push ups and Pilates and become firm friends. Slowly but surely Gym and Slimline becomes far more than a fitness club to them. It is a haven, the place where the girls go to have a laugh and sort out their lives over a cafe latte. Yet trouble is looming.

Drivetime

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By James Meek

$14.54 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Canongate Books Ltd

Sounds like easy money: collecting an antique for a rich stranger. Alan Allen, freshly unemployed, short of cash, and caught up in a bizarre case of mistaken identity, is about to find out otherwise. But not before being swept on a European wild-goose chase.

After River

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Donna Milner

$14.54 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Quercus Publishing Plc

Growing up on a dairy farm in the 1960s, Natalie Ward knew little of the outside world. But she had her family. But the arrival of a stranger, an American draft-dodger called River, would test the morals and beliefs of the family and the community to breaking point. This is an account of how war and conflict can devastate lives across generations.

Sleep Softly Baby

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Carol Magill

$12.72 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Poolbeg Press Ltd

Atlantis

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By David Gibbins

$14.54 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Headline Publishing Group

History's greatest code has finally been broken ...

The Last Gospel

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By David Gibbins

$12.72 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Headline Publishing Group

The Last Gospel

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By David Gibbins

$12.72 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Headline Publishing Group

'What do you get if you cross Indiana Jones with Dan Brown? Answer: David Gibbins' Mirror

Filthy Rich

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Wendy Holden

$12.72 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Headline Publishing Group

A hilarious tale from Sunday Times bestselling author Wendy Holden - 'Up there with the best of Jilly Cooper' THE TIMES

Busy Woman Seeks Wife

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Annie Sanders

$12.72 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Orion Publishing Co

Every woman's secret desire ... is to have a 'her indoors' to do the chores

The Breakdown Lane

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jacquelyn Mitchard

$14.54 21 Aug 2008 Paperback John Murray General Publishing Division

As if life wasnt hard enough ...

Doom

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By William Gerhardie

$23.66 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

The Polyglots

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By William Gerhardie

$25.48 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

Futility

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel on Russian Themes

By William Gerhardie

$21.84 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

The Wine-dark Sea

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Robert Aickman

$25.48 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

The Unsettled Dust

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Robert Aickman

$23.66 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

Cold Hand in Mine

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Robert Aickman

$21.84 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

Morwyn

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Cowper Powys

$27.30 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

Ducdame

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Cowper Powys

$27.30 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

Set in Dorset, this novel features the protagonist, Rook Ashover who is an introverted young squire with a dilemma: to go on loving his mistress, Netta Page, or, make a respectable marriage and produce an heir.

The Loudest Sound and Nothing

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Clare Wigfall

$16.36 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

One summer Theresa drowns a wasps' nest in Mr Mordecai's back garden and ends up making a much more sinister discovery. A young mother, Lella, is terrified by a sudden spate of disappearing newborns, and tries desperately to protect her baby by never letting her out of her sight.

Man in the Dark

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Paul Auster

$27.28 21 Aug 2008 Hardback Faber and Faber

Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident. Plagued by insomnia, he tries to push back thoughts of things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus - by telling himself stories. This novel celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a brutal world.

Brand New Friend

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mike Gayle

$14.54 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Finding friends is hard to do...

His 'n' Hers

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mike Gayle

$12.72 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Hodder & Stoughton General Division

The brilliant romantic comedy from No. 1 bestseller Mike Gayle

Dinner for Two

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mike Gayle

$14.54 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Hodder & Stoughton General Division

A romantic comedy from No. 1 bestseller Mike Gayle

Turning Thirty

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mike Gayle

$12.72 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Hodder & Stoughton General Division

From the No. 1 bestselling author of MY LEGENDARY GIRLFRIEND and MR COMMITMENT comes a third wickedly observed, and poignant novel about love and nostalgia.

Mr. Commitment

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mike Gayle

$12.72 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Hodder & Stoughton General Division

No 1 bestselling author of MY LEGENDARY GIRLFRIEND returns with this wickedly observed second novel about modern relationships: does Mr Irresponsible have what it takes to become Mr Commitment?

My Legendary Girlfriend

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mike Gayle

$12.72 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Hodder & Stoughton General Division

A hilarious, original story for anyone who has ever been dumped, dumped or lived in a dump - with the cross-over and bestselling appeal of BRIDGET JONES, HIGH FIDELITY and THIS LIFE.

The Secret Lives of Sisters

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Linda Kelsey

$12.72 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Hodder & Stoughton General Division

She's your best friend. And your worst enemy.

Send Me A Lover

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Carol Mason

$36.38 21 Aug 2008 Hardback Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Carol Mason's sexy, modern, thoughtful novels will appeal to women of all ages

Second Glance

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jodi Picoult

$14.54 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Latest release from bestselling international phenomenon Jodi Picoult asks: What would you do if you lost the love of your life?

The Life and Soul of the Party

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mike Gayle

$21.82 21 Aug 2008 Paperback Hodder & Stoughton General Division

One year. Three couples. Six parties.

Just Ask

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Steven Dee

$12.72 20 Aug 2008 Paperback Pulford Paperbacks

Management and the Arts

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By William J. Byrnes

$50.95 20 Aug 2008 Paperback Elsevier Science & Technology

Reflects the trends in managing organizations and people. This work provides the reader with the practical tools necessary to manage an arts organization. It includes case studies that focus on the challenges facing managers and organizations every day, and "In The News" quotes give the reader real-world examples of principles and theories.

Wrack and Ruin

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel

By Don Lee

$23.95 19 Aug 2008 Hardback W W Norton & Co Ltd

"Wrack and Ruin" is an exhilarating comic satire. Hilarious and philosophical, this many-hued novel about the landscape of contemporary "multicultural" America is critically acclaimed author Lee's best book yet.

The Bad Dog's Diary (Bk. 2)

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Blake's Progress

By Dr. Martin Howard

$18.18 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Anova Books

Blake the mongrel part of a bigger family - the owner now has a baby - finds himself dealing with the difficulties of fatherhood himself, thanks to the antics of his own step-puppy. The neighbourhood troop of trusty canine friends also find themselves with a new challenge in the shape of a damsel in distress.

The Devil's Jump

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Doyle

$14.95 18 Aug 2008 Paperback Puncture Publications

The Winding Ways Quilt

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

By Jennifer Chiaverini

$24.00 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Simon & Schuster

Jennifer Chiaverini's bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues with THE WINDING WAYS QUILT, in which the arrival of newcomers into the Circle of Quilters illuminates the ways that life takes each and every one of us down unexpected paths.

Lush Life

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Richard Price

$23.64 18 Aug 2008 Hardback Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Tears the shiny veneer off the 'new' New York to show us the hidden cracks, the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour.

The Archivist's Story

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Travis Holland

$14.54 18 Aug 2008 Paperback Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The great author Isaac Babel is spending his last days in the Lubyanka prison, forbidden to write. His final works have been consigned to the young archivist Pavel Dubrov, who must destroy them. But Pavel makes a reckless decision in the face of a vast bureaucracy of evil: he will save the stories of the writer he so admires, whatever the cost.

The Shadow Catcher

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Novel

By Marianne Wiggins

$15.00 18 Aug 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster

Marianne Wiggins turns her extraordinary literary imagination to the American West, where the life of legendary photographer Edward S. Curtis is the basis for a resonant exploration of history and family, landscape and legacy.

The Ancient Ship

18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Zhang Wei

$14.54 18 Aug 2008 Paperback HarperCollins Publishers

The classic bestselling Chinese novel spanning four decades following the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, translated into English for the first time.

The Sorrows of Egret Lake

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Selected Stories by Duanmu Hongliang

By Duanmu Hongliang

$23.00 15 Aug 2008 Paperback The Chinese University Press

Consists of nine stories about the Manchurian landscape and people.

A Dream of Glory (Fanhua Meng)

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Chuanqi Play by Wang Yun

By Wang Yun

$39.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback The Chinese University Press

Wang Yun (1749-1819) was a famous playwright in imperial China. Her play "A Dream of Glory" is a significant full length chaunqi written by a woman about a woman's dream and desire. This volume provides an English translation with detailed annotations and introduction of traditional Chinese women's drama.

The reach of the republic of letters : literary and learned societied in late medieval and early modern Europe, v.1-2

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

$222.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Brill Academic Pubs

Garry Trudeau : Doonesbury and the aesthetics of satire

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Soper, Kerry.

$50.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback U Pr Mississippi

How a revolutionary cartoonist opened the funnies to political commentary and biting satire

People Don't Grow by Being Measured

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Recollections and Reflections of a Dyslexic Grandmother

By Brenda Crowe

$16.36 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Troubador Publishing

Raises questions about educational theory and practice: Should we aim to 'put right' children with special educational needs, or respect and support the unique people they already are? Should we teach subjects, or teach children? How do we educate children for life and not just for exams?

From Winter to Paradise

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jack Coates

$16.36 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Pen Press Publishers Ltd

Set in the Italian countryside during World War II, this novel tells the story of Corporal Jim Corner, one of many escaped POWs who endured the winter of 1943-1944.

Bareset Revisited

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ronald McGowen

By Ronald McGowen

$14.54 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Pen Press Publishers Ltd

A sequel to "The Last Chronicles of Barset". It lets you meet the favourites again - Archdeacon Grantly, Bishop Proudie, Glencora and Planty Pall, and the Reverend Josiah Crawley among others. It is the continuing love story of Johnny Eames, the poor clerk and Lily Dale, the squire's daughter.

Stale Bread and Miracles

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jan Fortune-Wood

$14.54 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Cinnamon Press

The Secret World of the Irish Male

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Joseph O'Connor

$18.18 15 Aug 2008 Paperback New Island Books

The Killer Angels

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael Shaara

$14.54 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Birlinn General

On June 15, 1863, Robert Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia slips across the Potomac to begin the invasion of the North. His army is 70,000 strong but mostly unpaid and self-equipped. It has won nearly every battle it has fought. Lee knows a letter has been written, a letter offering peace.

Eternal youth : Al and Al.

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Karen Allen

$25.00 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Found Art Creative Tech, UK/U of Chicago Pr

Al & Al's spectacular computer-generated videos radically re-appropriate contemporary pop culture through an inventive use of celebrity icons, live action performance and animation special effects. This book examines the work of one the exciting duos working in video art.

History and politics in French-language comics and graphic novels

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By McKinney, Mark

$50.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback U Pr Mississippi

Perspectives on French-Language comics and their lively inquiries

Conversations with Anne : twenty-one interviews

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bogart, Anne.

$18.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Theatre Communications/Consortium Bk Sales Dst

"Conversations with Anne" documents the series of intimate interviews that theater director Bogart has conducted with major artists and cultural thinkers at her West Side studio, for the benefit of live audiences, over the past five years.

Glass of Blessings

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Barbara Pym

$12.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Moyer Bell

Girls Fall Down

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Maggie Helwig

$18.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Coach House Books

A girl faints in the Toronto subway. Her friends are taken to the hospital with unexplained rashes; they complain about a funny smell in the subway. Swarms of police arrive, and then the hazmat team. Panic ripples through the city, and words like poisoning and terrorism become airborne.

The Blue City

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sean Thomas Dougherty

$14.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Marick Press

Contains chapters that draw on real and imagined Eastern European history. This book includes characters who weave in and out of mythical cities based on colors that cut across time and space, as they seek to understand the many avenues that inhabit us both outside and within.

Researcher's guide to Shakespeare on film, television, and radio

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

$37.50 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Wallflower Pr, UK/Columbia Univ Pr

Gates of reconciliation : literature and the ethical imagination

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Literature and the Ethical Imagination

By Frank Stewart, Barry Lopez

$16.00 15 Aug 2008 Paperback U of Hawaii Pr

An anthology of essays, fiction, and poetry set in South America, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Asia, the United States, and elsewhere, which explores how individuals, communities, and nations can reconcile differences and grievances and forge a future with a renewed sense of dignity and mutual respect.

Murder Casts a Shadow

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Hawai'i Mystery

By Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl

$14.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback University of Hawai'i Press

On New Year's Eve, while Honolulu celebrates with champagne and fireworks, someone is making away with the Bishop Museum's portrait of King Kalakaua and its curator. A series of brutal murders follows, and a newspaper reporter and visiting playwright, find themselves investigating a twisted trail of clues in an attempt to recover the painting.

Dying in a Strange Land

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Milton Murayama

$24.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback University of Hawai'i Press

After her husband sinks them deep in debt, strong-willed and pragmatic Sawa takes charge of the family. The war ends and her children leave the plantation camp for Honolulu and the Mainland, but Sawa has little time for loneliness or regret.

Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Cristina Bacchilega, Stephen Benson, Sarah Gamble, Elizabeth Wanning Harries, Merja Makinen, Andrew Teverson, Sharon R. Wilson

$29.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Wayne State University Press

Considers the influence of fairy tales on contemporary fiction, including the work of Margaret Atwood, A S Byatt, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Salman Rushdie, and Jeanette Winterson. This title argues that fairy tales are one of the key influences on fiction and that they continue to shape literary trends.

Visit Me in California

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Stories

By Cooley Windsor

$16.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Northwestern University Press,U.S.

Moving between the comic and the tragic, the sacred and the profane, this is a collection of short stories which is populated by modern children, ancient poets, dying men, and your basic, mundane Greek gods.

The Latino threat : constructing immigrants, citizens, and the nation

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation

By Chavez, Leo R. (Leo Ralph)

$55.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Stanford U Pr

Investigates the media stories about and experiences of immigrants to show how prejudices and stereotypes have been used to malign an entire immigrant population - and to define what it means to be an American.

The Gingerbread Girl

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sheila Newberry

$36.38 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Magna Large Print Books

Young people, new theatre : a practical guide to an intercultural process

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Greig, Noel.

$29.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Routledge/Taylor & Francis Inc

Theatre studies : the basics

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Basics

By Leach, Robert, 1942-

$17.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Routledge/Taylor & Francis Inc

Introduces you to various aspects of drama, theatre and performance. This title contains topics as dramatic genres, from tragedy to political documentary; theories of performance; the history of the theatre in the West acting; and, directing and scenography the audience.

Theatre studies : the basics

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Basics

By Leach, Robert, 1942-

$100.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Routledge/Taylor & Francis Inc

Introduces you to various aspects of drama, theater and performance. This book takes you through such topics as dramatic genres, from tragedy to political documentary, theories of performance, the history of the theater in the West, and, acting, directing and scenography.

A Blessed Child

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Linn Ullmann

$27.28 15 Aug 2008 Hardback Pan Macmillan

Isak Lovenstad is an obstetrician - and a charismatic womanizer. Every summer he gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarso. Here Erika, Molly and Laura know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of other children, each undergoes the rites of growing up.

Do You Want to Know a Secret?

14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Claudia Carroll

$21.82 14 Aug 2008 Paperback Transworld Publishers Ireland Ltd

Vicky Harper is single and it's been a long time since she had a date with that elusive species - the decent single man. So she decides to put the laws of attraction into action. All she has to focus on is thinking her wildest fantasies into reality.

The Pages

14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Murray Bail

$27.28 14 Aug 2008 Hardback Vintage

Erica, a philosopher, is sent from Sydney to appraise a work. Accompanying her is Sophie who needs a distraction from a string of failed relationships. These two women, each with different views of the world, meet a situation they have not experienced before, with surprising results. This novel is a meditation on friendship and love.

The Land of Summer

14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Charlotte Bingham

$27.28 14 Aug 2008 Hardback Transworld Publishers Ltd

Emmaline has always understood from her mother that as the eldest of four daughters she must marry, but it seems that no proposals are going to come her way. Until, at a crowded ball, Julius makes his way to her side and waltzes her off. The next morning he makes it plain that he wants to marry her, and will marry her no matter what.

Country Pursuits

14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jo Carnegie

$18.20 14 Aug 2008 Hardback Transworld Publishers Ltd

The gorgeous women of Churchminster know exactly what they want - a constant flow of champagne and the love of a good man. But when a part of their beloved village comes under threat from a villainous property developer and his bulldozer, the community is united by a different kind of passion. Can they raise enough money to save Churchminster?

Wounded

14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Percival Everett

$14.54 14 Aug 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

Training horses is dangerous - a head-to-head confrontation with 1,000 pounds of muscle takes courage. It is these same qualities that allow John and his uncle Gus to live in the beautiful high desert of Wyoming. This novel explores a divided America.

The Enchanted

14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Charlotte Bingham

$16.20 14 Aug 2008 Paperback Bantam

When Will There be Good News

14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kate Atkinson

$21.82 14 Aug 2008 Paperback Transworld Publishers Ltd