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Product Description: Mary Elizabeth Haldane was Naomi Mitchison's paternal grandmother ('Granniema'). Like her granddaughter, she lived to be a centenarian, raised a large family, exhibited varied talents and died beloved by a wide range of family, friends and admirers...read more
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9781849210300 | Kennedy & Boyd, July 30, 2009, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Mary Elizabeth Haldane was Naomi Mitchison's paternal grandmother ('Granniema').
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9781904999997 | Kennedy & Boyd, July 30, 2009, cover price $24.95
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9781443734783 | Pomona Pr, November 30, 2008, cover price $41.99 | About this edition: 'Her touch is sure, her description admirable.
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9781406794458 | Read Books, January 31, 2006, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Her touch is sure, her description admirable.
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9781443734905 | Lightning Source Inc, November 30, 2008, cover price $42.45 | About this edition: With The Conquered Mrs.
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9781406794823 | Read Books, January 31, 2006, cover price $29.99
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9781406794885 | Read Books, January 31, 2006, cover price $31.99 | About this edition: Rich and frank in passions, and rich, too, in the detail which helps to make feigned life seem real.
Product Description: "Travel Light is the story of Halla, a girl born to a king but cast out onto the hills to die. She lives among bears; she lives among dragons. But the time of dragons is passing, and Odin All-Father offers Halla a choice: Will she stay dragonish and hoard wealth and possessions, or will she travel light?"ÂAmal El-Mohtar, NPR, You Must Read ThisFrom the dark ages to modern times, from the dragons of medieval forests to Constantinople, this is a fantastic and philosophical fairy-tale journey that will appeal to fans of Harry Potter, Diana Wynne Jones, and T...read more
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9781931520140 | Small Beer Pr, September 30, 2005, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: "Travel Light is the story of Halla, a girl born to a king but cast out onto the hills to die.
9780860685623 | Reprint edition (Virago Pr, October 1, 1992), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: "Travel Light is the story of Halla, a girl born to a king but cast out onto the hills to die.
9780140161748 | Penguin USA, October 1, 1987, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Halla, a king's daughter cast out by her evil stepmother, is raised by bears and dragons, and meets the Wanderer, a mysterious figure who sends her on a long journey.
Product Description: These long interviews with very different Scottish writers do not aim at the topical, but to produce a thoughtful window on each writer's mind and work. Recorded at intervals over 16 years, they go at the writer's chosen pace. Writers relish them...read more
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9781862322806 | Birlinn Ltd, August 28, 2002, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: These long interviews with very different Scottish writers do not aim at the topical, but to produce a thoughtful window on each writer's mind and work.
Product Description: Naomi Mitchison, Scotland's grand old lady of literature and celebrated left-wing political thinker, kept a wartime diary at the request of Mass-Observation, a social research agency. From the day Hitler invaded Poland to the day America dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, she recorded this picture of how one (extraordinary) family and their friends lived...read more
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9781842120934 | Phoenix, August 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Naomi Mitchison, Scotland's grand old lady of literature and celebrated left-wing political thinker, kept a wartime diary at the request of Mass-Observation, a social research agency.
Product Description: Had journalists plied their trade in the days of King Arthur, how would they have reported breaking stories like the Quest for the Holy Grail? Or the love affair between Lancelot and Guinevere? Or the fall of the Round Table? In answering these intriguing questions, Naomi Mitchison offers keen and humorous insights into not only how the news is reported, but also how conflicting accounts of the Arthurian story may have grown...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781928999058 | Green Knight Pub, February 1, 2000, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Had journalists plied their trade in the days of King Arthur, how would they have reported breaking stories like the Quest for the Holy Grail?
Product Description: As a fast-paced novel about a future shaped by feminist ideals of sexual and racial equality, "solution three" at first seems to be a peaceful answer to the world's problems. Homosexuality as an international norm and reproduction by cloning have minimized aggression and overpopulation...read more
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9781558610972 | Reprint edition (Feminist Pr, March 1, 1995), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Â Â Â As a fast-paced novel about a future shaped by feminist ideals of sexual and racial equality, "solution three" at first seems to be a peaceful answer to the world's problems.
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9781558610965 | Reprint edition (Feminist Pr, May 1, 1995), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: As a fast-paced novel about a future shaped by feminist ideals of sexual and racial equality, "solution three" at first seems to be a peaceful answer to the world's problems.
Product Description: A new addition to the popular Christian Epics series. In a society where worshiping God is a crime punishable by death, and brutality to slaves is commonplace, Roman citizens Flavius Crispus and his son Beric struggle to become Christians and to treat their slaves as brothers and sisters in Christ...read more
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9780802471079 | Moody Pub, October 1, 1994, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: A new addition to the popular Christian Epics series.
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9780879513771 | Reissue edition (Overlook Pr, July 1, 1990), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Recreates the world of Marob, a village on the shores of the Black Sea, in the year 228 BC, charting the quest of the Corn King in a world of merchant ships, mercenaries, magic, and philosophy
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9780862412876 | New edition (Canongate Books Ltd, January 7, 2010), cover price $23.95
9780939149995 | Reissue edition (Soho Pr Inc, January 1, 1994), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Set more than 2,000 years ago on the calm and fertile shores of the Black Sea, The Corn King and the Spring Queen tells of ancient civilizations where tenderness, beauty, and love vie with brutality and dark magic.
Product Description: Set in Rome during Nero's reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church. With a cast of slaves, ordinary Roman people, exiles and entertainers, it is thorough in its historical interpretation and in its determination to make the past accessible and readable...read more
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9780862411923 | Birlinn Ltd, February 1, 1989, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Set in Rome during Nero's reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church.
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9780582200067 | Addison-Wesley, December 1, 1984, cover price $4.74
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9780714527888 | Harpercollins, August 1, 1983, cover price $12.95
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9780862280383 | Paul Harris, June 1, 1983, cover price $12.95
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9780850361704 | Longwood Pr Ltd, June 1, 1973, cover price $8.50 | About this edition: Book by Mitchison, Naomi
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9780374301651 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1969, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A distinguished British writer presents sketches of eleven African heroes ranging from Sundiata, the king of ancient Mali, to Cetshwayo, a Zulu warrior king
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