John Terraine

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

The Retreat to Victory

Twice in the 20th century, a British Expeditionary Force has taken the field in Northern France to fight beside the French Army. Twice, the Expeditionary Force has survived threat of complete destruction. But the differences between the Retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and the first encounter with the enemy at Mons in 1914 are significant.

Mons

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Antoine Terrasse

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Text by the artist's grand-nephew brings a special intimacy to the vibrant & colorful work of the French artist Bonnard. (Discoveries Series).

Discoveries: Bonnard

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John Webster

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The best-known of the Jacobean tragedies; an exemplary model of the "tragedy of blood."

The Duchess of Malfi

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P. D. James

The untimely death of a young priest in training draws Commander Adam Dalgliesh back to East Anglia to investigate at the request of the young man's father, as Dalgliesh finds himself drawn into a complex and violent mystery.

Death in Holy Orders

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Pliny the Pliny the Younger

This selection of letters provides details of Pliny's activities and interests and also provides a description of the private, public, and literary life of the capital of the Roman Empire in the early second century A.D.

Fifty Letters of Pliny

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Susan Jacoby

This fair-minded, penetrating investigation of the political and intellectual struggle over the Alger Hiss case from the mid-twentieth century into the twenty-first explores the reasons why the Cold War controversy has turned into a permanent battle over the definition and ownership of American values. Book jacket.

Alger Hiss and the Battle for History

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Audrey Williamson

An Investigation into a Supposed Murder

Mystery of the Princess

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James Ellroy

Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950's -- a town blinded to its own grime by Hollywood glitter; a society nourished by newspaper lies that wants its heroes all-American and squeaky clean. A chance to lead on a possible serial killing is all it takes to fuel Underhill's reckless ambition - and it propels him into a dangerous alliance with certain mad and unstable elements of the law enforcement hierarchy. When the case implodes with disastrous consequences, it is Fred Underhill who takes the fall. His life is in ruins, his promising future suddenly a dream of the past. And his good and pure love for a crusading woman lawyer has been corrupted and may not survive. But even without the authority of a badge, Fred Underhill knows that his only hope for redemption lies in following the investigation to its grim conclusion. And the Hell to which he has been consigned for his sins is the perfect place to hunt for a killer who hungers but has no soul.

Clandestine

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Donald E. Westlake

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The multi-award-winning, widely-acclaimed mystery master Donald E. Westlake delivers a masterpiece with this brilliant, laser-sharp tale of the deadly consequences of corporate downsizing.

Burke Devore is a middle-aged manager at a paper company when the cost-cutting ax falls, and he is laid off. Eighteen months later and still unemployed, he puts a new spin on his job search -- with agonizing care, Devore finds the seven men in the surrounding area who could take the job that rightfully should be his, and systematically kills them. Transforming himself from mild-mannered middle manager to ruthless murderer, he discovers skills ne never knew ne had -- and that come to him far too easily.

The Ax

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Ulrich Bischoff

Max Ernst

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R. J. Hollingdale

A Critical Study

Digs down to the foundations of Mann's fictional world and shows what it rests on; illustrates its connection with certain outstanding members of the German literary and philosophic tradition, especially Nietzsche; and indicates in what way it mirrors the real world of its time, which is still our time.

Thomas Mann

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Alan K. Russell

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Forty Stories of Crime and Detection from Original Illustrated Magazines

Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

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Peter Gay

Victoria to FreudVolume 1: ^BEducation of the Senses^R

A series of books on the Victorian bourgeoise.

The Bourgeois Experience

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Michael Rosen

This collection is a moving record of how perceptions and realities of childhood have changed and how profoundly they have stayed the same. It draws upon many sources - autobiography, letters, diaries and songs, many written by children themselves.

The Penguin Book of Childhood

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Erskine Childers

Set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. Bored with his life in London, a young man accepts an invitation to join a friend on a sailing holiday in the Baltic. The story builds in excitement as these two young adventurers discover a German plot to invade England.

The Riddle of the Sands

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Donald J. Crump

Lands of Seclusion

America's Hidden Wilderness

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Tom Wicker

Richard Nixon and the American Dream

America's leading liberal journalist revisits the case of Richard Nixon, taking a fresh look at this political enigma and offering a rereading of contemporary history

One of Us

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Jeff Collins

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Derrida is arguably the late 20th century's most famous philosopher.

Introducing Derrida

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Herman Cyril McNeile

David Stuart Davies

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Bulldog Drummond was the original daredevil adventurer who, with his various friends, made it their mission to fight all enemies of Britain in the uncertain years following the First World War. This volume contains the first four novels of the series, in which Hugh Drummond finds himself pitting his wits again Carl Peterson, a criminal genius.

Bulldog Drummond

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Isaac Kramnick

The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern liberalism, cultural humanism, science and technology, and laissez-faire Capitalism This volume brings together works from this era, with more than 100 selections from a range of sources. It includes examples by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social, and economic institutions.

The Portable Enlightenment Reader

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Charles Einstein

More Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball

The national pastime in fact and fiction--from the source of America's best writers on the game. Tis volume contains more than 70 stories from the likes of: Roger Angell, Zane Grey, Garrison Keillor, Irwin Shaw, William Kennedy, and Robert Penn Warren; and pieces such as: George Eill on the Louisville Slugger, John Lardner on Bobo Newsom, and Robert Creamer on Babe Ruth.

The New Baseball Reader

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William Lindesay

Guo Baofu

In 1974, near Xi'an in central China, villagers chanced upon what has become one of the world's most astonishing archaeological finds--an 8,000-man army in battle-ready formation, each warrior a life-size figure in pottery made over 2,200 years ago.

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