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Will, a mysogynist American journalist-turned-novelist, carries on erotic encounters with women during globe-trotting stints, all the while suspecting their entire gender of staging a genetic revolution to restore cultural matriarchy

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9780231065467 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: Will, a mysogynist American journalist-turned-novelist, carries on erotic encounters with women during globe-trotting stints, all the while suspecting their entire gender of staging a genetic revolution to restore cultural matriarchy

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9780231065474 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1992), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Will, a mysogynist American journalist-turned-novelist, carries on erotic encounters with women during globe-trotting stints, all the while suspecting their entire gender of staging a genetic revolution to restore cultural matriarchy

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Product Description: his last book, tr Barbara Bray, intro Edmund White
By Barbara Bray (trans) and Jean Genet

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9780819552464 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Features reminiscences of the author's experiences with the Black Panthers in the United States and with the Palestinians in the Middle East

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9780819562746 | Reprint edition (Wesleyan Univ Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: his last book, tr Barbara Bray, intro Edmund White

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A corrupt police chief refuses to relinquish his belief in the dream of Confucius as he battles against any force to fulfill a prophecy in war-torn China in the third century B.C.
By Barbara Bray (trans) and Jean Levi

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9780151265701 | Harcourt, October 1, 1992, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In war-torn China in the third century B.

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A memoir by the author of The Lover and Summer Rain describes her relationship with a man thirty years her junior who has helped her overcome, despair, illness, and alcoholism.

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9780684195902 | Scribner, October 1, 1993, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Describes a woman's relationship with a man thirty years her junior who has helped her overcome, despair, illness, and alcoholism

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Product Description: A visionary diagnosis and critique of the modern social and political orders, THE TRUE WORLDS offers a realistic framework for a new world free from war and the inequiities of weath and power.
By Barbara Bray (trans)

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9780029110706, titled "True Worlds: A Transitional Perspective" | Free Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $19.95 | also contains True Worlds: A Transitional Perspective | About this edition: A visionary diagnosis and critique of the modern social and political orders, THE TRUE WORLDS offers a realistic framework for a new world free from war and the inequiities of weath and power.

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An experimental, allegorical novel that centers around the appearance of wolves in the European seaside resort town of Santa Vavara, and the disappearances and metamorphoses that occur as a result

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9780231080200 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: An experimental, allegorical novel that centers around the appearance of wolves in the European seaside resort town of Santa Vavara, and the disappearances and metamorphoses that occur as a result

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In 1983 a visit from a friend and her baby Tshakua, from their home in Rwanda, changes Therese Muanini's life in Paris irrevocably. Her friend dies suddenly from AIDS, and the boy Therese adopts as her own is diagnosed as HIV positive. Therese has to look after the boy and try to keep her job. Forced to leave her apartment, she finds herself alone and destitute, with nowhere to live, no money, and a child whose condition fills some people with fear. This book is the story of how Therese has forged a life for herself and Tshakua.

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9781853752056 | Prion Books, October 1, 1995, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In 1983 a visit from a friend and her baby Tshakua, from their home in Rwanda, changes Therese Muanini's life in Paris irrevocably.

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9781853752025 | Trafalgar Square, January 1, 1997, cover price $11.95

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Product Description: At the core of A Russian Mother lies the profound ambivalence of two people who are chillingly remote yet obsessively attached. This painful symbiosis between a mother and son takes shape in fragments, as the narrative jumps back and forth in time until the late1970s...read more

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9780841913295 | Holmes & Meier Pub, March 1, 1996, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: At the core of A Russian Mother lies the profound ambivalence of two people who are chillingly remote yet obsessively attached.

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9780801855900 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, March 18, 1997), cover price $27.00

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Amateur detective Stephanie Delacour finds herself involved with the investigation of the brutal murder of a gifted translator, and as the mystery unfolds, she finds herself veering off the trail of the official investigation onto the trail of the real killer

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9780231109987 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Amateur detective Stephanie Delacour finds herself involved with the investigation of the brutal murder of a gifted translator, and as the mystery unfolds, she finds herself veering off the trail of the official investigation onto the trail of the real killer

Product Description: Professor Ilya Zbarski mummified Lenin two months after his death to maintain the Soviet founder's body in perpetuity. Between 1924 and the fall of communism in 1991, hundreds of millions of visitors paid their respects to the embalmed bodies of Lenin and later, Stalin...read more

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9780756754402, titled "Lenin's Embalmers" | Diane Pub Co, July 1, 2000, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Professor Ilya Zbarski mummified Lenin two months after his death to maintain the Soviet founder's body in perpetuity.
9781860465154, titled "Lenin's Embalmers" | Harvill Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $20.00

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Presents the author's never-produced screenplay of Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past,' created with the collaboration of director Joseph Losey and Proust scholar Barbara Bray over the course of one year in the early 1970s.

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9780802136466 | Grove Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Presents the author's never-produced screenplay of Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past,' created with the collaboration of director Joseph Losey and Proust scholar Barbara Bray over the course of one year in the early 1970s.

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A novel about the obsessions of the two great rulers at the palace of Versailles describes how Louis XIV celebrates his armies' victory over Holland while the head gardener, Jean-Baptiste de la Quintinie, the King's gardener, works to the rhythms of the seasons to make the gardens beautiful.

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9781559705837 | Arcade Pub, April 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A novel about the obsessions of the two great rulers at the palace of Versailles describes how Louis XIV celebrates his armies' victory over Holland while his gardener, Jean-Baptiste de la Quintinie, works to make the gardens beautiful.

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9781870259781 | Theatre Communications Group, May 1, 2001, cover price $18.95

By Barbara Bray (trans)

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9780070193161, titled "Standard Plant Operator's Questions and Answers" | 2 edition (McGraw-Hill, June 1, 1982), cover price $57.95 | also contains Standard Plant Operator''s Questions and Answers

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9789990021011 | Consortium Book Sales & Dist, May 1, 2001, cover price $0.02

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Disappointed by his father's seemingly ordinary life, young Michel learns from his uncle the story of two brothers who find themselves at the mercy of a German guard during World War II, a situation that forces them to make a terrible decision. Original.
By Barbara Bray (trans) and Michel Quint

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9781573229166 | Bilingual edition (Riverhead Books, December 1, 2001), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Recounts the tale of Andrâe and Gaston who, after finding themselves in a German prison near the end of World War II, are told that one of the prisoners will die at dawn, and that the prisoners are to choose the victim.

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In 1665, with prophecies and portents fortelling the forthcoming Apocalypse, Balthasar, an antiquarian merchant and sage, embarks on a perilous quest through the countries of the Mediterranean and beyond to find a rare book, entitled The Hundredth Name, that could hold the key to the world's salvation. By the author of The Rock of Tanios. 20,000 first printing.

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9781559706667 | 1 edition (Arcade Pub, November 12, 2002), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In 1665, with prophecies and portents fortelling the forthcoming Apocalypse, Balthasar, an antiquarian merchant and sage, embarks on a perilous quest to find a rare book that could hold the key to the world's salvation.

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In Enver Hoxha's Albania, news was closely guarded and speculation forever rife. The political realities are typified in a Gala Concert in Beijing. The author has penned a glimpse inside a melting pot of rumour and reputation, as the morning's orthodoxies become heresies by dinner time and the Sino-Albanian axis finally comes adrift.

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9781611458725 | Arcade Pub, October 1, 2013, cover price $14.95
9781611452426 | Arcade Pub, April 18, 2011, cover price $26.95
9781846550065 | New edition (Vintage Uk, December 22, 2005), cover price $21.40 | About this edition: In Enver Hoxha's Albania, news was closely guarded and speculation forever rife.
9781559704151 | Arcade Pub, February 5, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A group of Albanian friends are torn apart by the political turmoil of the mid 1970s, as the nation's diplomatic ties with China begin to unravel, and their personal entanglements follow suit in the face of government insecurity

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