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Paperback:
9781442472976 | Margaret K McElderry, May 28, 2012, cover price $8.99
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780745173931 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, November 1, 1997), cover price $32.95
9780745173931 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, November 1, 1997), cover price $32.95
School and Library:
9780689813801 | Margaret K McElderry, October 1, 1997, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: After her owner is arrested while poaching, Jet is requisitioned by the British Army and sees duty on the beach at Dunkirk, searching for survivors of Germany's bombing raids on English cities, and in Italy at the end of the war
Paperback:
9780312430016, titled "The American: A Novel" | 2 mti edition (Picador USA, August 17, 2010), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla--Mr.
Miscellaneous:
9780316087193 | Little Brown & Co, October 31, 2009, cover price $6.99
Product Description: At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet. His father was posted there in 1952, and this memoir is his telling of that youth, a time when he had access to the corners of a colony normally closed to a "Gweilo," a "pale fellow" like him...read more
Hardcover:
9780312348175 | Thomas Dunne Books, November 29, 2005, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: An account of the author's coming-of-age in 1950s Hong Kong describes his experiences of early adolescence as a British citizen in a Chinese society and the conflicts between his Chinese-embracing mother and bigoted father.
Paperback:
9780312426262 | Picador USA, November 14, 2006, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A personal account of the author's coming-of-age in 1950s Hong Kong describes how he moved to the region with his family at the age of seven, his experiences of early adolescence as a British citizen in a Chinese society, and his witness to the conflicts between his Chinese-embracing mother and bigoted father.
Prebinding:
9781439562499 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 10, 2008), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet.
Product Description: An in-depth study of the most widely-used and controversial drug in the world today.To some itâs anathema, to others it provides relief from crippling pain; to others still, it is a legal anomaly and should be decriminalized. Whatever the viewpoint, and by whatever name it is known, cannabis -- or marijuana, hashish, dope, kif, weed, dagga, grass, ganga -- incites debate at every level...read more
Hardcover:
9780312322205 | Thomas Dunne Books, June 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A historical overview of the marijuana debate recounts how cannabis became outlawed throughout the western world, describing the medical, religious, political, legal, and social factors that contributed to current opinions while revealing the impact of cannabis legislation on the global economy.
Paperback:
9780312424947 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, June 1, 2005), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A historical overview of the marijuana debate recounts how cannabis became outlawed throughout the Western world, describing the medical, religious, political, legal, and social factors that contributed to current opinions while revealing the impact of cannabis legislation on the global economy.
Prebinding:
9781435292994 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An in-depth study of the most widely-used and controversial drug in the world today.
Hardcover:
9780316155755 | Little Brown & Co, September 15, 2004, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Pip and her twin brother, Tim, awaken an alchemist's son from a centuries-long slumber when their family moves to an old English country estate, and he enlists them in the fight against an evil alchemist who seeks to create a homunculus.
Paperback:
9780316012850 | Little Brown & Co, April 12, 2006, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Pip and her twin brother, Tim, awaken an alchemist's son from a centuries-long slumber when their family moves to an old English country estate, and he enlists them in the fight against an evil alchemist who seeks to create a homunculus.
Prebinding:
9781435236547 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 3, 2008), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Doctor Illuminatus begins with brother and sister, Pip and Tim, moving into an ancient manor house where they hear strange tapping noises at night.
Miscellaneous:
9780316025492 | Little Brown & Co, July 31, 2007, cover price $6.99
Paperback:
9780552550017 | Transworld Pub, April 1, 2006, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: After being taken in by a sympathetic ranch owner, twelve-year-old Danny finds himself in charge of driving a herd of cattle 680 miles from Texas to Kansas while the Civil War rages to the east and outlaws and bandits hide along the way.
Hardcover:
9780312309084 | Thomas Dunne Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Signor Farfalla, an inconspicuous gentleman who spends his days painting, idling at local cafâes, and sharing a glass of brandy with the town priest, discovers that his mysterious past is about to be revealed and a deadly menace is closing in on him.
9780712634281 | Century Hutchinson, December 1, 1992, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla--Mr.
Paperback:
9780312309091 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, February 14, 2005), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Known as Signor Farfalla--Mr.
Hardcover:
9780316155915 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 2005, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Pip and her twin brother, Tim, join forces again with Sebastian, the alchemist's son they awakened from a centuries-long slumber, to fight against an evil magician who learns people's deepest secrets in order to control their souls.
Paperback:
9780316059930 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, September 6, 2006), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Pip and her twin brother, Tim, join forces again with Sebastian, the alchemist's son they awakened from a centuries-long slumber, to fight against an evil magician who learns people's deepest secrets in order to control their souls.
9780141310381 | Gardners Books, March 25, 2004, cover price $8.60 | About this edition: Evil has returned to Rawne Barton, this time in the form of a malevolent chemistry teacher, Yoland, whose aim is to gain power by stealing souls.
Hardcover:
9780312268046 | Thomas Dunne Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Taking a job in the Scottish Highlands after graduating college, young Alec Marquand makes a life-changing discovery before entering World War I, during which he serves as an on-board medic.
Paperback:
9780312423322 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, January 1, 2004), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Taking a job in the Scottish Highlands after graduating college, young Alec Marquand makes a life-changing discovery before entering World War I, during which he serves as an on-board medic.
9781899235797 | Dewi Lewis Pub, January 7, 2003, cover price $14.80 | About this edition: England, 1914.
Hardcover:
9780871130563 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Joe Sandingham, a down-and-out ex-British Lieutenant living in a seedy Hong Kong hotel, struggles to maintain hope and trust and obliterate from his memory the horrors of his years in a Japanese prison camp
Paperback:
9780312268053 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, January 1, 2003), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Joe Sandingham, a down-and-out ex-British Lieutenant living in a seedy Hong Kong hotel, struggles to maintain hope and trust and obliterate from his memory the horrors of his years in a Japanese prison camp.
9780140097306 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 1987), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Joe Sandingham, a down-and-out ex-British Lieutenant living in a seedy Hong Kong hotel, struggles to maintain hope and trust and obliterate from his memory the horrors of his years in a Japanese prison camp
1916: the height of the First World War. Fourteen year old Ted Foley escapes from a battle-besieged ship, only to find himself held captive in a German Prisoner of War camp. Conditions are harsh and escape seems impossible...
Hardcover:
9780582447189 | New edition (Gardners Books, August 7, 2002), cover price $11.80 | About this edition: 1916: the height of the First World War.
Paperback:
9780754061601 | Gardners Books, June 1, 2001, cover price $20.55
Paperback:
9780340718063 | New edition (Hodder & Stoughton, December 6, 2001), cover price $16.05 | About this edition: Aleister Crowley was a famous and feared magician; a poet, and sinister practitioner of the dark arts in the first half of the 20th century.
Hardcover:
9780786707355 | Carroll & Graf Pub, August 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Traces the two-thousand-year history of the Triads, the one-time Chinese secret society that has evolved into an international criminal fraternity involved in world-wide extortion, gambling, and other criminal enterprises.
Paperback:
9780786708697 | Basic Books, July 17, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Traces the more than two-thousand-year history of the Triads, the one-time Chinese secret society that has evolved into an international criminal fraternity, bound by ritual and archaic oaths, involved in world-wide extortion, gambling, prostitution, money laundering, fraud, narcotics, immigrant smuggling, and other criminal enterprises.
School and Library:
9780689829765 | Margaret K McElderry, April 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Two teenagers discover a panther family living in the English countryside and determine to protect the wild animals.
Hardcover:
9780312242039, titled "The Industry of Souls" | St Martins Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Alexander Bayliss, a British citizen sent to the Soviet Union's gulags for spying in the 1950s, comes out of the camps feeling more Russian than English and, with the demise of Communism, faces soul-shattering choices and memories
Paperback:
9780312267537 | Picador USA, October 1, 2000, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: As Soviet Communism self-destructs, Alexander Bayliss, a British citizen who spent years in the gulag for spying and who stayed in the Soviet Union after his release, remembers the tribulations of his past and faces a shattering choice.
Nicholas Holford is smuggled to safety in China when Japan invades Hong Kong in 1941. If the enemy discover he is European, he will not survive. He joins the secret fight against the Japanese and learns about 'music on the bamboo radio' - smuggling information to prisoner-of-war camps.
Hardcover:
9780435124908 | Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, February 15, 2000, cover price $13.75 | About this edition: Nicholas Holford is smuggled to safety in China when Japan invades Hong Kong in 1941.
Hardcover:
9780312242510 | Minotaur Books, February 1, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A biography of the author of the Sherlock Holmes series reveals a man of Victorian times who was loath to be remembered as the creator of Holmes
Hardcover:
9780312186432 | Thomas Dunne Books, July 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the history and often unexplored cultural impact of a narcotic whose use has spanned centuries and forms, from smoking dens in the 1800s to the heroin of today
9780684816869 | Gardners Books, June 3, 1996, cover price $27.80
Paperback:
9780312206673 | Griffin, June 1, 1999, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: A fascinating chronicle of opium's effect on the world's history and culture discusses its prehistoric use in religious rituals, its role in international wars and in great art, and the current state of the powerful heroin industry.
Paperback:
9780192828590 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Jim Corbett's classic stories of hunting the man-eating tigers of India have thrilled generations of readers and made him famous world-wide.
Hardcover:
9780312055240 | St Martins Pr, February 1, 1991, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Discusses the secret Chinese Triad societies, ancient organized criminal groups that are now entrenched in North America and that pose a greater threat than the Mafia or the Colombian drug cartels
Hardcover:
9780688095291 | William Morrow & Co, April 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Stationed in Lebanon, far from the London intellectual society to which he aspires, minor poet James Elroy Flecker falls in love with T.
Hardcover:
9780871132390 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Set in Portuguese colony in China during World War II, this novel follows the rise and fall of Sean Mulrenan, an Anglo-Irish pianist turned gambler and adventurer, and his lover, the half-English ex-concubine Alice Soon
Paperback:
9780850304565 | Inner Traditions, August 1, 1987, cover price $12.95
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