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The River Cottage Australia Cookbook

By Mark Chew (photographer), Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (foreword by) and Paul West

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Hardcover:

9781408858387 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, May 31, 2016, cover price $40.00

Understanding Mortification: The Pathway to Victory

Product Description: "Understanding Mortification" outlines Sermon Index moderator Paul West's in-depth teachings on mortification and spiritual warfare. The author explains and graphically illustrates the different aspects of self-denial relating to Christian growth and sanctification...read more

By Paul West

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9781470174606 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 15, 2012, cover price $7.22 | About this edition: "Understanding Mortification" outlines Sermon Index moderator Paul West's in-depth teachings on mortification and spiritual warfare.

Atomic Force Microscopy

Product Description: Atomic force microscopy is an amazing technique that allies a versatile methodology (that allows measurement of samples in liquid, vacuum or air) to imaging with unprecedented resolution. But it goes one step further than conventional microscopic techniques; it allows us to make measurements of magnetic, electrical or mechanical properties of the widest possible range of samples, with nanometre resolution...read more

By Paul West

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9780199570454 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 20, 2010, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Atomic force microscopy is an amazing technique that allies a versatile methodology (that allows measurement of samples in liquid, vacuum or air) to imaging with unprecedented resolution.

The Pearl and the Pumpkin: A Classic Halloween Tale

Product Description: The pumpkins raised on the Pringle farm in Vermont are the finest in the world and highly prized by makers of pies and preserves. That's because Joe Miller, Farmer Pringle's nephew, has a secret for growing great, glorious pumpkins...read more

By W. W. Denslow, Michael Patrick Hearn (introduced by) and Paul West

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9780486470313 | Dover Pubns, August 28, 2009, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: The pumpkins raised on the Pringle farm in Vermont are the finest in the world and highly prized by makers of pies and preserves.

Shadow Factory

By Diane Ackerman (foreword by) and Paul West

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Hardcover:

9780930829650, titled "The Shadow Factory" | Lumen, April 1, 2008, cover price $23.00

Old Tides

Simon Hardman is back in the sequel Old Tides. He finally feels like he has won life's lottery. With his home on the western tip of the Choctawhatchee everyday is just another day in paradise. His daughters are now living with him and their mother has accepted his marriage proposal. Paradise is interrupted when two of his closest friends are brutally murdered. It doesn't take Simon long to understand someone is out for revenge and that the past can never be hidden for long. The brother of a man Simon killed has tracked him to Fort Walton and wants revenge. It all comes to a head in the middle of a thunderstorm on a small island located in the middle of Biscayne Bay.

By Paul West

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9781425922375 | Authorhouse, March 30, 2006, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Simon Hardman is back in the sequel Old Tides.

Paperback:

9781425922368 | Authorhouse, March 30, 2006, cover price $14.49

Tea With Osiris

By Paul West

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9780930829551 | Lumen, February 28, 2006, cover price $23.00

My Father's War: A Memoir

Product Description: Eight years ago acclaimed novelist Paul West presented a warmly received memoir of his mother, My Mother's Music. Revisiting the scene now, Paul West delivers in his 40th book an equally remarkable memoir of his father, a half-blinded, shell-shocked veteran of three years of trench warfare during 'The War to End All Wars...read more

By Paul West

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9780929701752 | McPherson & Co, July 1, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Eight years ago acclaimed novelist Paul West presented a warmly received memoir of his mother, My Mother's Music.

A Fifth Of November

Product Description: A suspenseful and uniquely literary look into Guy Fawkes and the English Gunpowder Plot of 1605, by one of America's most celebrated writers. In A Fifth of November, Paul West describes the events surrounding the English Gunpowder Plot (1605)...read more

By Paul West

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9780811214674 | New Directions, May 1, 2001, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A fictional account of the events surrounding the English Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in which Catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, tried to blow up the building that housed the English Parliament.

Paperback:

9780811216067 | New Directions, November 30, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A suspenseful and uniquely literary look into Guy Fawkes and the English Gunpowder Plot of 1605, by one of America's most celebrated writers.

Shelf Life

Provides a hilarious overview of brand name products from around the world that should have given a marketing director pause, from Colon detergent and Bonka coffee to candies called Tit Bits and Bum Bums. 40,000 first printing.

By Paula Benson, Rosie Walford and Paul West

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9781582344942 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, December 3, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Provides a hilarious overview of brand name products from around the world that should have given a marketing director pause, from Colon detergent and Bonka coffee to candies called Tit Bits and Bum Bums.

9780747576525 | Special edition (Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, October 4, 2004), cover price $15.30 | About this edition: A colourful collection of the world's quirkiest household brands - from Puke playing cards to Hardon tea.

The Immensity of the Here and Now: A Novel of 9.11

Quint, an American psychiatrist who lost his legs in the Vietnam War, receives a visit from his friend Shrop, an Austrian-Hungarian immigrant who lost his memory following the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attack in New York City.

By Paul West

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9780966599855 | 1 edition (Voyant Pub, September 1, 2003), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Quint, an American psychiatrist who lost his legs in the Vietnam War, receives a visit from his friend Shrop, an Austrian-Hungarian immigrant who lost his memory following the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attack in New York City.

Cheops: A Cupboard for the Sun

A novel set in the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt finds Greek historian Herodotus transported back in time to the side of the obsessed dying pharaoh Cheops and his entourage of daughters, sons, wives, and courtiers. (view table of contents)

By Paul West

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9780811215190 | New Directions, January 1, 2003, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A novel set in the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt finds Greek historian Herodotus transported back in time to the side of the obsessed dying pharaoh Cheops and his entourage of daughters, sons, wives, and courtiers.

The Place in Flowers Where Pollen Rests

Product Description: Fiction. Reprint. Paul West is one of the English language's finest novelists. Considered by many to be among his greatest and most rewarding books THE PACE IN FLOWERS WHERE POLLEN RESTS recounts an odyssey from Arizona's Hopi mesas to the California motels where sex films get made, from Vietnam's battle zones to the very stars...read more

By Paul West

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9780385245654, titled "Place in Flowers Where Pollen Rests" | Doubleday, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Leaving the Hopi mesa of his people and his aging uncle, Oswald finds himself a porn movie actor in Hollywood and a soldier in Vietnam, and finally returns to his home, still in search of a meaningful place in society

Paperback:

9780966599824 | Voyant Pub, September 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Fiction.

9780020382607 | Collier Books, October 1, 1989, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Leaving the Hopi mesa of his people and his aging uncle, Oswald finds himself a porn movie actor in Hollywood and a soldier in Vietnam, and finally returns to his home, still in search of a meaningful place in history

Oxford Days: An Inclination

Product Description: The special ethos of Oxford University continues to take hold on award-winning author Paul West. Now a world-renowned writer and acclaimed literary stylist, West illuminates the reader regarding one of the oldest and most venerable universities in the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Paul West

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9780945167525 | British Amer Pub Ltd, August 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The special ethos of Oxford University continues to take hold on award-winning author Paul West.

The Secret Lives of Words

This fascinating new study reveals the amazing and bizarre histories of language's building blocks and chronicles the etymologies of dozens of common words whose original meaning has been obscured through the passage of time. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

By Paul West

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9780151004669 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, June 1, 2000), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Reveals the history of language's building blocks and chronicles the etymologies of dozens of common words whose original meaning has been obscured through the passage of time.

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9780156014090 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, July 1, 2001), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Reveals the history of language's building blocks and chronicles the etymologies of dozens of common words whose original meaning has been obscured through the passage of time.

Master Class: Scenes from a Fiction Workshop

The acclaimed novelist and author of The Secret Life of Words re-creates his last writing seminar in which fifteen students reflect on the art of writing great fiction as they discuss one another's work and shares their insights into the creative writing process. 15,000 first printing.

By Paul West

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9780151005741 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, July 1, 2001), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The novelist and author re-creates his last writing seminar in which fifteen students reflect on the art of writing great fiction as they discuss one another's work and share their insights into the creative writing process.

Life With Swan: A Novel

This loosely fictionalized story of the author's early days with his wife, writer and naturalist Diane Ackerman, describes lovers transcending the divide between art and science and offers readers a glimpse into the rarified world of astronomical discoveries. Reprint.

By Paul West

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9781585671236 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, April 1, 2001), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A fictional account of the author's early days with his wife Diane Ackerman describes lovers transcending the divide between art and science, and offers a glimpse into the rarified world of astronomical discoveries.

The Dry Danube: A Hitler Forgery

Product Description: The Dry Danube presents Hitler's "memoir" of the years he spent as a failed art student in Vienna, just before World War One. Each of the book's four parts is a solid raving block of barbaric flourishes, free of paragraphing in its headlong rush of disgorged spleen...read more

By Paul West

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9780811214322 | New Directions, April 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Dry Danube presents Hitler's "memoir" of the years he spent as a failed art student in Vienna, just before World War One.

Paperback:

9780811217910 | New Directions, April 30, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Dry Danube presents Hitler's "memoir" of the years he spent as a failed art student in Vienna, just before World War One.

Ok: The Corral, the Earps, and Doc Holliday

Product Description: John Henry "Doc" Holliday was Southern gentry by birth, a dentist by training, sharp shooter and lawman by design, and gambler by default, being by disposition and circumstance -- he contracted tuberculosis soon after graduating from dental school -- unable to practice dentistry formally...read more

By Paul West

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9780684848655 | Scribner, April 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A recreation of the Old West follows the lives of the legendary gunfighter Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers, including their famous battle at the OK Corral, in a combination of historical fact and fiction.

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9781416577508, titled "O.K.: The Corral, The Earps, and Doc Holliday" | Scribner, September 1, 2007, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: John Henry "Doc" Holliday was Southern gentry by birth, a dentist by training, sharp shooter and lawman by design, and gambler by default, being by disposition and circumstance -- he contracted tuberculosis soon after graduating from dental school -- unable to practice dentistry formally.

Final Drafts: Suicides of World-Famous Authors

Examines the lives of authors who killed themselves between 1894 and 1991, including Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf (view table of contents)

By Mark Seinfelt and Paul West (foreword by)

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9781573927413 | Prometheus Books, December 1, 1999, cover price $35.99 | About this edition: Examines the lives of authors who killed themselves between 1894 and 1991, including Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf

My Mother's Music

The celebrated author paints a portrait of his mother, describing her early life in England, her work as a pianist, her World War II experiences, and her devotion to her children

By Paul West

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9780670867578, titled "My Mother's Music" | Viking Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The celebrated author paints a portrait of his mother, describing her early life in England, her work as a pianist, her World War II experiences, and her devotion to her children

Paperback:

9780140255317, titled "My Mother's Music" | Penguin USA, December 1, 1999, cover price $11.95

Terrestrials: Novel

A panoramic novel tells the story of two American military pilots who find integration into civilian life as hard as war itself

By Paul West

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9780879518912 | Overlook Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A panoramic novel tells the story of two American military pilots who find integration into civilian life as hard as war itself

Life With Swan

By Paul West

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9780684848648 | Scribner, February 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A fictional account of the author's early days with his wife, Diane Ackerman, describes lovers transcending the divide between art and science and offers a glimpse into the rarified world of astronomical discoveries

The Brewer Twins: Double Take

Offers fashion photographs of the twin blond Californians who have found success as models, and describes how they spend their time between assignments

By Derek Brewer, Keith Brewer, Jason Losser and Paul West

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9780789301338 | Universe Pub, June 1, 1998, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Offers fashion photographs of the twin blond Californians who have found success as models, and describes how they spend their time between assignments

The Tent of Orange Mist: A Novel

Product Description: In December 1937 the city of Nanking, China, falls to brutal Japanese invaders. Thus begins a compelling drama wherein the teenaged daughter of an eminent scholar is forced to work as a prostitute. Short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Prize, The Tent of Orange Mist illuminates the plight of intellectuals and artists during profound social and cultural upheaval...read more

By Paul West

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9780684800318 | Scribner, September 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Discovering that her brother and mother have been brutally killed after the 1937 invasion of China, sixteen-year-old Scald Ibis, defiled by Japanese troops, is forced to work as a prostitute in order to support her ailing father

Paperback:

9780879517922 | Overlook Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In December 1937 the city of Nanking, China, falls to brutal Japanese invaders.

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