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Hardcover:

9781410484772 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 6, 2016), cover price $34.99
9780544323520 | Houghton Mifflin, September 29, 2015, cover price $29.95

Paperback:

9780544705173 | Mariner Books, October 18, 2016, cover price $15.95

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Hardcover:

9780241146743, titled "Mr Bones: Twenty Stories" | Gardners Books, November 6, 2014, cover price $31.30 | also contains Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories
9780544324022 | Houghton Mifflin, September 30, 2014, cover price $27.00

Paperback:

9780544483958 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, May 19, 2015), cover price $14.95

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Product Description: “Never a dull moment . . . Vivid and deft.” — New York Review of BooksMaude Pratt is a legend, a photographer famous for her cutting-edge techniques and uncanny ability to strip away the masks of the world’s most recognizable celebrities and luminaries...read more

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9780544340800 | Reissue edition (Mariner Books, October 21, 2014), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: “Never a dull moment .
9780140050721 | Penguin USA, October 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: As seventy-year-old world-class photographer Maude Coffin Pratt picks through her archives in preparation for a triumphant retrospective on her life and work, she is overwhelmed with memories from her past.
9780671638443 | Reissue edition (Washington Square Pr, May 1, 1987), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: When she rummages through fifty years accumulation of her photographs, seventy-year-old Maude Coffin Pratt realizes that her fame means nothing and that her true self rests on an incestuous passion

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At one time, expatriate Jack Flowers was the youngest drinker at Singapore's Bandung Club. Now, at 53, he is a fixture. But he is beginning to fear death, alone and vulnerable in the alien tropics. And Jack still dreams of success. How can he convert his "perfect dream of magic" into reality, away from the seamy waterfront that has become his home? A funny and sophisticated novel from an acclaimed and popular writer.

Paperback:

9780544339958 | Reissue edition (Mariner Books, October 21, 2014), cover price $14.95
9780140041576 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, July 1, 1997), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: At one time, expatriate Jack Flowers was the youngest drinker at Singapore's Bandung Club.
9780671498221 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, April 1, 1984), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Jack Flowers knew he needed to shake things up when he jumped into the Straits of Malacca and hitched a ride to Singapore.

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Hardcover:

9780547746500 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, May 22, 2012), cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780544002258 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, May 7, 2013), cover price $14.95

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Hardcover:

9780802126047 | Grove Pr, December 6, 2011, cover price $22.00

Paperback:

9780802155108 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, November 6, 2012), cover price $13.00

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Paperback:

9780547737379 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, July 24, 2012), cover price $14.95
9780547336916 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, May 19, 2011), cover price $25.00

Miscellaneous:

9780547549194 | Houghton Mifflin, May 26, 2011, cover price $25.00

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A former American consul joins the disparate members of a group of London terrorists in their murderous activities throughout the city

Hardcover:

9780395244005 | Houghton Mifflin, July 1, 1976, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A former American consul joins the disparate members of a group of London terrorists in their murderous activities throughout the city

Paperback:

9780141049861 | Gardners Books, October 7, 2010, cover price $20.60
9780140044652 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 1996), cover price $14.00
9780671498245 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, September 1, 1984), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A former American consul joins the disparate members of a group of London terrorists in their murderous activities throughout the city

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Paul Theroux returns to India with a stylish and gripping novel of crime and obsession in Calcutta.In A Dead Hand, Paul Theroux brings to dramatic life a dark and twisted narrative of obsession and need. When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer’s block, receives a letter from a captivating and seductive American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son’s, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die — what is it that pulls Delfont into this story, and will he ever find the truth about what happened?

Hardcover:

9780547260242 | Houghton Mifflin, February 11, 2010, cover price $26.00
9780241144633 | Gardners Books, November 5, 2009, cover price $31.25
9780771085376, titled "Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta" | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, November 3, 2009, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Paul Theroux returns to India with a stylish and gripping novel of crime and obsession in Calcutta.

Paperback:

9780547394497 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, January 13, 2011), cover price $14.95

Miscellaneous:

9780547488714 | Houghton Mifflin, January 13, 2011, cover price $26.00

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Hardcover:

9780771085338 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, September 30, 2008, cover price $34.99
9780241142530, titled "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of 'the Great Railway Bazaar'" | Gardners Books, September 4, 2008, cover price $35.40 | also contains Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On The Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

Paperback:

9780771085352 | Reprint edition (McClelland & Stewart Ltd, August 25, 2009), cover price $21.00 | also contains Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On The Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
9780547237930 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, August 6, 2009), cover price $16.95 | also contains Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On The Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

Miscellaneous:

9780547348582 | Houghton Mifflin, August 6, 2009, cover price $15.95 | also contains Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On The Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

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Hardcover:

9780241142530, titled "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of 'the Great Railway Bazaar'" | Gardners Books, September 4, 2008, cover price $35.40 | also contains Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
9780618418879 | Houghton Mifflin, August 18, 2008, cover price $28.00

Paperback:

9780771085352 | Reprint edition (McClelland & Stewart Ltd, August 25, 2009), cover price $21.00 | also contains Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
9780547237930 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, August 6, 2009), cover price $16.95 | also contains Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

Miscellaneous:

9780547348582 | Houghton Mifflin, August 6, 2009, cover price $15.95 | also contains Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

Three intertwining novellas portray Westerners in India, as a middle-aged couple travel on vacation, a lawyer discovers Mumbai's slums, and a woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore.

Hardcover:

9780618943326 | Houghton Mifflin, September 26, 2007, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Three intertwining novellas portray Westerners in India, as a middle-aged couple travel on vacation, a lawyer discovers Mumbai's slums, and a woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore.

Paperback:

9780547086026 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, September 18, 2008), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India.
9780771085345 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, June 24, 2008, cover price $19.99

Miscellaneous:

9780547347295, titled "Elephanta Suite" | Houghton Mifflin, September 18, 2008, cover price $14.95

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A journey downriver in a remote eastern province of Ecuador gives the author the experience he has been seeking and a miracle drug, which induces temporary blindness. On his return to the USA, he is rejuvenated able not only to write and remember, but granted an almost uncanny prescience, bordering on second sight.

Hardcover:

9780618418862 | Houghton Mifflin, June 1, 2005, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Explores creative genius and fame through the life of a writer whose search for a muse has led him into dangerous and destructive places.

Paperback:

9780141015736 | Gardners Books, July 6, 2006, cover price $14.40 | About this edition: A journey downriver in a remote eastern province of Ecuador gives the author the experience he has been seeking and a miracle drug, which induces temporary blindness.
9780618711963 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, June 1, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Explores creative genius and fame through the life of a writer whose search for a muse has led him into dangerous and destructive places.

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A collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and Hotel Honolulu deals with the themes of lust, sensuality, and rites of passage as a sixty-year-old man recalls a long ago affair with a countess, a young boy walks in on a woman and her lover, and a retired lawyer in Hawaii fantasizes about his housekeepers. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780618265152 | Houghton Mifflin, January 12, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Stories deal with lust, sensuality, and rites of passage as a sixty-year-old man recalls a long ago affair with a countess, a young boy walks in on a woman and her lover, and a retired lawyer in Hawaii fantasizes about his housekeepers.

Paperback:

9780618485338 | Reprint edition (Houghton Mifflin, October 5, 2004), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and Hotel Honolulu deals with the themes of lust, sensuality, and rites of passage as a sixty-year-old man recalls a long ago affair with a countess, a young boy walks in on a woman and her lover, and a retired lawyer in Hawaii fantasizes about his housekeepers.

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In a complex and confessional tale, the author constructs his own fictional memoir, complete with the fake occupations of particle physicist, cartographer, and teacher. Read by David Dukes.

Hardcover:

9780670865833 | Viking Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In this complex, candid confessional, Paul Theroux's newest protagonist is one of depth and great subtlety whose tragedy is unique--or is it?
9780395825273 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A novel in the guise of an autobiography follows a disaffected novelist's journey from a career in London under the wing of an eccentric mentor to a solitary return to his hometown

Paperback:

9780395877524 | Mariner Books, September 15, 1997, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A novel in the guise of an autobiography follows a disaffected novelist's journey from a career in London under the wing of an eccentric mentor to a solitary return to his hometown

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781590402542 | Abridged edition (Phoenix Audio, September 1, 2003), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A novel in the guise of an autobiography follows a disaffected novelist's journey from a career in London under the wing of an eccentric mentor to a solitary return to his hometown.
9780787111267 | Dove Entertainment Inc, December 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A novel in the guise of an autobiography follows a disaffected novelist's journey from a career in London under the wing of an eccentric mentor to a solitary return to his hometown.

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In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel's narrator, a down-on-his-luck writer, escapes to Waikiki and soon finds himself the manager of the Hotel Honolulu, a low-rent establishment a few blocks off the beach. Honeymooners, vacationers, wanderers, mythomaniacs, soldiers, and families all check in to the hotel. Like the Canterbury pilgrims, every guest has come in search of something -- sun, love, happiness, objects of unnameable longing -- and everyone has a story. By turns hilarious, ribald, tender, and tragic, HOTEL HONOLULU offers a unique glimpse of the psychological landscape of an American paradise.

Hardcover:

9780618146130 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted.
9780618095018 | Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A shabby Hawaiian hotel provides the backdrop for a series of interwoven stories about love, crime, friendship, and family, as seen through the eyes of a down-on-his-luck writer who takes a job as hotel manager.

Paperback:

9788432219986 | Seix Barral, October 1, 2002, cover price $32.95
9780618219155 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, May 15, 2002), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A shabby Hawaiian hotel provides the backdrop for a series of interwoven stories about love, crime, friendship, and family, as seen through the eyes of a down-on-his-luck writer who takes a job as hotel manager.

Successful real-estate agent Parker Jagoda risks his apparently peaceful, happy life and marriage as his obsessive pursuit of sexual pleasure draws him into a terrifying nightmare of erotic psychosis and murder

Hardcover:

9780679401889 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1991, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Successful real-estate agent Parker Jagoda risks his apparently peaceful, happy life and marriage as his obsessive pursuit of sexual pleasure draws him into a terrifying nightmare of erotic psychosis and murder

Paperback:

9788472232969 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $17.95
9780804111614 | Reprint edition (Ivy Books, January 1, 1994), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Successful real estate agent Parker Jagoda risks his apparently peaceful, happy life and marriage as his obsessive pursuit of sexual pleasure draws him into a terrifying nightmare of erotic psychosis and murder

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In an intriguing memoir of friendship, the best-selling novelist, travel writer, and author of The Great Railway Bazaar recounts his experiences and memories as he journeyed around the world with renowned writer V. S. Naipaul. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780771085062 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, November 1, 1998, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: This heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux's thirty-year friendship with the legendary V.
9780395907283 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Theroux recounts his experiences and memories as he journeyed around the world with renowned writer V.

Paperback:

9780618001996 | Mariner Books, January 8, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In an intriguing memoir of friendship, the best-selling novelist, travel writer, and author of The Great Railway Bazaar recounts his experiences and memories as he journeyed around the world with renowned writer V.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780787118143 | Abridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, November 1, 1998), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Theroux recounts his experiences and memories as he journeyed around the world with renowned writer V.

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As British rule ends, threatening things begin to happen to Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, in Hong Kong when they refuse to sell the family business to a sinister man from mainland China. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. NYT.

Hardcover:

9780783882758 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, September 1, 1997), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A life-long British denizen of Hong Kong, Neville 'Bunt' Mullard fears the colony's impending return to China's control, and the intrusion of a mysterious Chinese gentleman into Bunt's family business changes his life for good
9780395860298 | Houghton Mifflin, June 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A life-long British denizen of Hong Kong, Neville 'Bunt' Mullard fears the colony's impending return to China's control, and the intrusion of a mysterious Chinese gentleman into Bunt's family business changes his life for good

Paperback:

9780395901410 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, July 6, 1998), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A life-long British denizen of Hong Kong, Neville 'Bunt' Mullard fears the colony's impending return to China's control, and the intrusion of a mysterious Chinese gentleman into Bunt's family business changes his life for good

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More than sixty stories, written over a period of twenty-five years and including such genres as mystery, farce, and satire, are contained in this first major retrospective of the work of the best-selling author of The Mosquito Coast and The Great Railway Bazaar. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780670861279 | Viking Pr, July 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: More than sixty short stories portray students, diplomats, academics, and other characters in such locales as Africa, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia

Paperback:

9780140274943 | Penguin USA, July 1, 1998, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: More than sixty short stories portray students, diplomats, academics, and other characters in such locales as Africa, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia

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Product Description: This volume contains three comic and sinister novels set against Africa's vibrant landscape. In Fong and the Indians, a Chinese immigrant in a ramshackle East African country learns to survive by making friends with his enemies; The Girls at Play is the story of white female teachers at an isolated school for African girls in the Kenyan Bush; and Jungle Lovers is the "comic and disturbing" story of an insurance salesman abducted by revolutionary terrorists in Malawi...read more

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9780140248357 | Penguin USA, September 1, 1996, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: This volume contains three comic and sinister novels set against Africa's vibrant landscape.

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The key to writer Andrew Parent's present romantic difficulties lies in his past, and a review of his worldly love life reveals the solution to his predicament

Hardcover:

9780399134241 | Putnam Pub Group, June 1, 1989, cover price $21.95

Paperback:

9780449912003 | Ballantine Books, September 29, 1996, cover price $27.00
9780804105149 | Reprint edition (Ivy Books, March 1, 1990), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The key to writer Andrew Parent's present romantic difficulties lies in his past, and a review of his worldly love life reveals the solution to his predicament

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A fourteen-year-old girl narrates this tale of the rise of a magician whose diet consists only of foods mentioned in the Bible and who gets his own television program

Hardcover:

9780679402473 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1994, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A fourteen-year-old girl narrates this tale of the rise of a magician whose diet consists only of foods mentioned in the Bible and who gets his own television program

Paperback:

9780449911976 | Ballantine Books, August 1, 1996, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: A fourteen-year-old girl narrates this tale of the rise of a magician whose diet consists only of foods mentioned in the Bible and who gets his own television program
9780804113113 | Reprint edition (Ivy Books, April 1, 1995), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: "Brilliant.

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An eccentric, self-destructive American inventor, Allie Fox moves his family to the jungles of Central America in the hopes of finding a better life. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9781568493480 | Buccaneer Books, February 1, 1998, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Allie Fox hates America and everything about the 20th century, so he decides to take his wife and two sons to live a better and simpler life in the Honduran jungle.
9780708980644 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, August 1, 1982), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Allie Fox hates America and everything about the 20th century, so he decides to take his wife and two sons to live a better and simpler life in the Honduran jungle.
9780395320754, titled "Mosquito Coast" | Limited edition (Houghton Mifflin, May 1, 1982), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: An eccentric American inventor moves his family to the jungles of Central America in hopes of finding a better life

Paperback:

9780582418141, titled "Mosquito Coast" | Addison-Wesley, February 1, 2000, cover price $9.27 | About this edition: Allie Fox hates America and everything about the 20th century, so he decides to take his wife and two sons to live a better and simpler life in the Honduran jungle.
9780582402485 | Prentice Hall, November 1, 1998, cover price $7.67 | About this edition: Allie Fox hates America and everything about the 20th century, so he decides to take his wife and two sons to live a better and simpler life in the Honduran jungle.
9789990220704, titled "Mosquito Coast" | Penguin USA, April 30, 1996, cover price $0.02
9780140060898 | Penguin USA, April 1, 1996, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An eccentric American inventor moves his family to the jungles of Central America in hopes of finding a better life.
9780380619450 | Mti rei edition (Avon Books, May 1, 1990), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: An eccentric American inventor moves his family to the jungles of Central America in hopes of finding a better life
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Prebinding:

9781417623433, titled "Mosquito Coast" | Turtleback Books, April 1, 1996, cover price $23.65 | About this edition: In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left.

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Product Description: A reign of terror begins for Alfred and Emma Munday when they take their failing marriage to the solace of an old country house.

Hardcover:

9780395194003 | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 1974, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: An anthropologist and his wife return from Africa to an English country house that is haunted by the spirit of a woman

Paperback:

9780140087925 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 1996), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A reign of terror begins for Alfred and Emma Munday when they take their failing marriage to the solace of an old country house.
9780671498238 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, July 1, 1984), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A mysterious, sensual presence that pervades their rented English village house threatens the marriage of anthropologist Alfred Munday, after he and his wife return from ten years in the African jungle

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