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  • Acclaimed short story writer Richard Grayson has been keeping a diary since th... Acclaimed short story writer Richard Grayson has been keeping a diary since the summer of 1969 when he turned 18 a time recounted in his first published book of diary entries SUMMER IN BROOKLYN. In LAST SUMMER IN ROCKAWAY it s 1991 and he s turning 40... more
  • It is 1914 the beginning of a blissful golden summer. When Clarissa meets Tom ... It is 1914 the beginning of a blissful golden summer. When Clarissa meets Tom Cuthbert home from university and staying with his mother the housekeeper at Deyning Park she is dazzled. As their friendship deepens the world - and all that they know - is... more
  • Millions of people in the West today live in an empty meaningless universe. Th... Millions of people in the West today live in an empty meaningless universe. The Platonist way of beauty eternity and the intellect is the answer. The void within is too often filled with resentment and rage. This spiritual void is also destroying the... more
  • CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condit... CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more
  • Thrilling heartbreaking and at times absurdly funny The Last Resort is a remar... Thrilling heartbreaking and at times absurdly funny The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love perseverance and resilience of the human spirit. Born and raised in Zimbabwe Douglas... more
  • In an entertaining and darkly over-the-top celebration of gore and sex The Las... In an entertaining and darkly over-the-top celebration of gore and sex The Last Resort transforms a Caribbean paradise into a biological wasteland populated with homicidal flesh-eating vacationers! From the acclaimed writers of Jonah Hex and Uncle Sam... more
  • A captivating exploration of beach resort culture--from its roots in fashionab... A captivating exploration of beach resort culture--from its roots in fashionable society to its undervalued role in today s world economy--as the travel industry approaches a climate reckoning With its promise of escape from the strains of everyday... more
  • Murder mystery set at a grand resort hotel in rural New Hampshire. Murder mystery set at a grand resort hotel in rural New Hampshire. more
  • The first book in this series taught the use of the longsword but medieval kni... The first book in this series taught the use of the longsword but medieval knights didn t always have a sword at hand when trouble struck so the ability to grapple and fight with daggers was crucial in their dangerous world. In this book you ll learn a... more
  • The world of comedy and comedians of the last five decades. By the man the New... The world of comedy and comedians of the last five decades. By the man the New York Times calls a comic institution himself the only comedian (twenty-six years in stand-up) to have made Elie Wiesel laugh as well as having appeared on The Tonight Show... more
  • Historiography on the origins of British Columbia s forest industry seems more... Historiography on the origins of British Columbia s forest industry seems more or less to assume that its coastal forests were constant static phenomena independent of society or even history. A small handful of studies that have examined the socially... more
  • An old sixties musician and his trim mama run a pot farm in the Emerald Triang... An old sixties musician and his trim mama run a pot farm in the Emerald Triangle of northern California and welcome an exonerated ex-con a Las Vegas prostitute a union organizer from the Bronx an escapee of a sex slave cult a retired carney with... more
  • Like a loyal Victorian wife Jenny has devoted her life to her much older husba... Like a loyal Victorian wife Jenny has devoted her life to her much older husband the famous writer and naturalist Wilkie Walker bringing up their children and researching and editing his bestselling books. But this year as winter approaches Wilkie is... more
  • The poems in The Last Resort fall thematically into four or five overlapping s... The poems in The Last Resort fall thematically into four or five overlapping silos: poems about the making of poems; about time s abrasions; about nature s benign/malevolent indifference; about the cultural tattoos of growing up in the Mississippi... more
  • A Manhattan corporate attorney with career and marriage in turmoil drives desp... A Manhattan corporate attorney with career and marriage in turmoil drives desperately away from all he knows to an out-of-season resort on Long Island. As he struggles to put his life back together he meets a surfer a fisherman and a Native American... more
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