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Product Description: From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009The Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausescu's dictatorship and the glittering temptations of the West...read more
By Paul Bailey (foreword by)

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9781781255278 | Italian edition edition (Serpents Tail, August 9, 2016), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009The Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausescu's dictatorship and the glittering temptations of the West.

Product Description: Ma Jianzhong was a close adviser to the powerful Qing government official, Li Hong-zhang, and wrote several essays between 1878 and 1890 outlining his plans for economic and administrative reform. He was the first Chinese to advocate the creation of a specialized and professional diplomatic corps...read more

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9781138983014 | Routledge, February 29, 2016, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Ma Jianzhong was a close adviser to the powerful Qing government official, Li Hong-zhang, and wrote several essays between 1878 and 1890 outlining his plans for economic and administrative reform.

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Product Description: They say that the language of an individual is a window to their psyche. What we think and the words we use tell others (and ourselves), in great detail, what we believe our role in the world is all about and define our potential for success...read more

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9781503005402 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 6, 2014, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: They say that the language of an individual is a window to their psyche.

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9781620407196 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 14, 2014, cover price $26.00
9781408851890 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, March 27, 2014, cover price $28.75

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Product Description: "'Superhero Syndrome' is a heroic romantic horror that is centered in Freeport, New York. A village on the south shore of Long Island. Robert Smith, a 27 year old man who works behind the customer service counter of a local grocery store 'Cheep prices' is immensely depressed of his life...read more

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9781493107018 | Xlibris Corp, March 5, 2014, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: "'Superhero Syndrome' is a heroic romantic horror that is centered in Freeport, New York.

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9781493107001 | Xlibris Corp, March 5, 2014, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: "'Superhero Syndrome' is a heroic romantic horror that is centered in Freeport, New York.

Product Description: Chinese labourers were contracted in large numbers – over 140,000 of them – by the French and British governments for war-related work on the Western front. This book examines how this came about; and it explores the experiences of the Chinese workers involved...read more

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9780415739276 | Routledge, June 7, 2017, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Chinese labourers were contracted in large numbers – over 140,000 of them – by the French and British governments for war-related work on the Western front.

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Product Description: Stuck in a hospital and heavily medicated, Harry Chapman doesn't just hear the doctors, nurses, and other patients. Is that the voice of his mother, acerbic and disappointed in him as ever? Perhaps her presence would be understandable enough, but what is Pip from Great Expectations doing in his hospital room? More and more voices join the chorus: friends from childhood, lovers, characters from novels and poetry...read more

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9781608198214 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, July 17, 2012), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Stuck in a hospital and heavily medicated, Harry Chapman doesn't just hear the doctors, nurses, and other patients.

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Product Description: Advice in layman's terms for vehicle owners who want to better understand the automotive body/collision repair process. Learn ways to recognize and obtain quality repairs from shops and insurers.

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9781441474636 | Createspace, February 11, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Advice in layman's terms for vehicle owners who want to better understand the automotive body/collision repair process.

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Product Description: Despite Western culture´s roots and much touted pride in its classical Greek and Roman legacy, the sexual freedoms of the ancient world have had no place in the official cultures of Western societies. As late as the 19th Century, homosexuality was the "love that dare not speak its name"...read more

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9781905422562 | Seagull Books, September 4, 2009, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Despite Western culture´s roots and much touted pride in its classical Greek and Roman legacy, the sexual freedoms of the ancient world have had no place in the official cultures of Western societies.

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Product Description: Too often, it seems that science and spirituality are irreconcilable - but by linking the apparently unrelated fields of quantum physics, holistic health, cosmology, theology, neuroscience, evolutionary theory, and consciousness studies, Paul Bailey proves that each is a facet of a greater, unified reality, and that science and spirituality are two sides of the same coin...read more

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9781905857289 | Watkins Pub Ltd, September 1, 2007, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Too often, it seems that science and spirituality are irreconcilable - but by linking the apparently unrelated fields of quantum physics, holistic health, cosmology, theology, neuroscience, evolutionary theory, and consciousness studies, Paul Bailey proves that each is a facet of a greater, unified reality, and that science and spirituality are two sides of the same coin.

In a small Sicilian village, a young and inexperienced policeman receives a strange phone call from a retired diplomat. On investigating the matter, he finds the diplomat dead. What at first appears to be a case of suicide turns into an intricate tale of corruption that involves the mafia, the head of police and the entire Sicilian establishment.
By Paul Bailey (foreword by) and Leonardo Sciascia

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9781843914259 | Hesperus Pr, April 1, 2010, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In a small Sicilian village, a young and inexperienced policeman receives a strange phone call from a retired diplomat.

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Product Description: In this hilarious sequel to The Secret Life of Nuns, courtesan Nanna reveals to her confidante, Antonia, what really goes on in the lives of married women. A woman can only be saved from a life-threatening craving and utter damnation by a well-endowed priest; an over-devout matron releases her inner devil when she meets an attractive hermit; an insatiable wife is redressed by her husband in a most barbarous manner—these are merely some of the “truths” that Aretino exposes behind the respectable mask of marriage...read more
By Pietro Aretino, Paul Bailey (foreword by) and Andrew Brown (trans)

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9781843911227 | Hesperus Pr, June 30, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In this hilarious sequel to The Secret Life of Nuns, courtesan Nanna reveals to her confidante, Antonia, what really goes on in the lives of married women.

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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

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9781417989867 | Kessinger Pub Co, May 30, 2005, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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Product Description: This work dissects the lives of two extraordinary men and one remarkable woman who defied the sexual prejudices of their age and lived by their own rules. It tells the rags-to-riches story of Fred Barnes, a singer, dancer, comedian and scourge of the military; Naomi Jacob, a terrible but prolific novelist, broadcaster and cross-dresser; and Arthur Marshall, wit, television personality and "portly sunbeam"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780140290691 | Penguin Global, October 31, 2004, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This work dissects the lives of two extraordinary men and one remarkable woman who defied the sexual prejudices of their age and lived by their own rules.

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A septuagenarian reflects on his childhood relationship with his eccentric but talented tenor uncle, who took him in and humorously educated him in the ways of a gentleman after fleeing fascist Romania. By the author of Kitty & Virgil.

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9780312318345 | St Martins Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A septuagenarian reflects on his childhood relationship with his eccentric but talented tenor uncle, who took him in and humorously educated him in the ways of a gentleman after fleeing fascist Romania.

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Product Description: In the spring of 1985, novelist Paul Bailey found himself becoming the unlikely owner of a dog. He saw the puppy in the window of a pet shop and was instantly (and lastingly) beguiled. She was given the name Circe by Bailey's dying partner, David, who was also overcome by her charms, though after a good deal of resistance...read more

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9780241142011 | Hamish Hamilton, July 1, 2003, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: In the spring of 1985, novelist Paul Bailey found himself becoming the unlikely owner of a dog.

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Product Description: The content of this book is the Truth inspired by the Almighty God, and will be the most troubling and disturbing, but also rewarding work you have ever read. The Great Tribulation has begun; the great shaking that will break apart the very foundation of the things man believes to be true...read more

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9780595205745 | Writers Club Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The content of this book is the Truth inspired by the Almighty God, and will be the most troubling and disturbing, but also rewarding work you have ever read.

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Product Description: Paul Bailey has created a fascinating portrait of the unique Quentin Crisp, with contributions from friends, admirers, and critics. His various careers—as a performer, artist's model, writer of a memorable autobiography, and authority on style and etiquette—are examined with wit, affection, and disinterested criticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Paul Bailey (editor)

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9780593046777 | Transworld Pub, October 1, 2000, cover price $22.99

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9780552999274, titled "Stately Homo: A Celebration of the Life of Quentin Crisp" | Transworld Pub, October 1, 2001, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Paul Bailey has created a fascinating portrait of the unique Quentin Crisp, with contributions from friends, admirers, and critics.

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An encounter with Virgil Florescu, a dissident Romanian poet who had fled the turmoil and repression of his homeland, forever alters the course of Kitty Crozier's life, in a new novel by the award-winning author of At the Jerusalem. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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9781585670109, titled "Kitty and Virgil" | Overlook Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: An encounter with Virgil Florescu, a dissident Romanian poet who had fled the turmoil and repression of his homeland, forever alters the course of Kitty Crozier's life, in a new novel by the awardwinning author of At the Jerusalem.

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9780452282483 | Reissue edition (Plume, June 1, 2001), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: An encounter with Virgil Florescu, a dissident Romanian poet who had fled the turmoil and repression of his homeland, forever alters the course of Kitty Crozier's life, in a new novel by the award-winning author of At the Jerusalem.
9781857025682 | Fourth Estate Classic House, July 1, 2000, cover price $17.95

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9780718501525 | Leicester Univ Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $85.01

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Product Description: All great cities inspire great literature, but no other city has so consistently stimulated the literary imagination as London. Over the centuries writers, poets, historians, artists, and simple observers have chronicled the life and growth of the capital from its humble beginnings to the teeming metropolis it is today...read more

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9780192141927 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: An evocative celebration of the great city of London presents contributions from novelists, poets, diarists, artists, and historians, including Charles Dickens, William Wordsworth, Ben Jonson, Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe, George Bernard Shaw, and other notables.

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9780192832443 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1997), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: All great cities inspire great literature, but no other city has so consistently stimulated the literary imagination as London.

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Product Description: From the legendary Fire Emperor and his magical whisk, to herbal solutions for the modern population crisis, this is the first Western account of medicine in China from earliest times to the present day. The story begins in the myth and legend of the Shang dynasty of 1766-1122 B...read more

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9780774804493 | Univ of British Columbia Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: From the legendary Fire Emperor and his magical whisk, to herbal solutions for the modern population crisis, this is the first Western account of medicine in China from earliest times to the present day.

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A noted author, actor, and playwright relates his experiences growing up gay in a working-class London community

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9780525934110 | E P Dutton, March 1, 1992, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A noted author, actor, and playwright relates his experiences growing up gay in a working-class London community

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