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Island Books. Good. 4.1 x 1 x 6.8 inches. Mass Market Paperback. 1999. 416 pages. Cover worn.<br>One of the best novels of the year from one of the very best writers at work today.… Meer...

Island Books. Good. 4.1 x 1 x 6.8 inches. Mass Market Paperback. 1999. 416 pages. Cover worn.<br>One of the best novels of the year from one of the very best writers at work today.--Rocky Mountain News The townspeople of New Iberia, Louisiana, didn't crucify Megan Flynn's father. They just didn't catch whoever pinned him to a ba rn wall with sixteen-penny nails. Decades later, Megan, now a wo rld-famous photojournalist, has come back to the bayou, looking f or cop Dave Robicheaux. It was Dave who found the body of labor l eader Jack Flynn. The sight changed the boy, shaped him as a man. And after forty years, Robicheaux is still haunted by the bizarr e unsolved slaying. Now Megan's return has stirred up the ghosts of the long-buried past, igniting a storm of violence that will rip apart lives of blacks and whites in this bayou country. And f or a good cop with bad memories, hard desire, and chilling nightm ares, the time has come to uncover the truth. Editorial Reviews Review Splendidly atmospheric...with dialogue so sharp you can s have with it.--People One of the best novels of the year from on e of the very best writers at work today.--Rocky Mountain News E ngrossing...a vivid, violent fable...James Lee Burke outshines hi mself in Sunset Limited.--Daily News (N.Y.) America's best novel ist.--The Denver Post Top-drawer work...James Lee Burke just kee ps getting better...Burke writes of the bayous, their people and their violence with electrical luminescence. The dialogue crackle s like heat lightning and the story races from conflict to confli ct. Robicheaux, a modern-day tragic hero, continues to grow as on e of crime fiction's major figures.--San Antonio Express-News Bu rke's dialogue sounds true as a tape recording; his writing about action is strong and economical. . . . Burke is a prose stylist to be reckoned with.--Los Angeles Times Book Review Burke flies miles above most contemporary crime novelists.--The Orlando Senti nel Among writers in the genre, only Tony Hillerman's novels abo ut the Navajo tribal police match Burke's ability to write evocat ively about the natural world. . . . It's hard to imagine readers not bolting it down like a steaming plate of crawfish etouffee.- -Entertainment Weekly Burke writes prose that has a pronounced s treak of poetry in it.--The New York Times James Lee Burke isn't simply a crime writer--he's the Graham Greene of the bayou.--New York Daily News If you haven't already discovered Burke's novel s, find one!--Chicago Tribune James Lee Burke can write some of the best scenes of violence in American literature. He can also t oss out a metaphor or a brief descriptive phrase that can stop a reader cold.--The Washington Post Book World It has become appar ent that not since Raymond Chandler has anyone so thoroughly rein vented the crime and mystery genre as James Lee Burke.--Jim Harri son, author of Legends of the Fall If you haven't read Burke, ge t going.--Playboy Nobody working in the genre holds us more comp ellingly than Mr. Burke, or with such style and ferocity. He stan ds all but alone in the invention of character.--The New Yorker One of our most compelling novelists.--New York Newsday Few writ ers in america can evoke a region as well as Burke.--The Philadel phia Inquirer Robicheaux is a detective to be reckoned with, mor e interesting than Spenser, more complex and satisfying than Trav is McGee . . . James Lee Burke is a writer to be remembered.--USA Today Burke writes prose as moody and memory-laden as his regio n.--Time Burke tells a story in a style all his own; language th at's alive, electric; he's a master at setting mood, laying in at mosphere, all with quirky, raunchy dialog that's a delight.--Elmo re Leonard It's hard to deny the powerful impact of Mr. Burke's hard-boiled poetics.--The Wall Street Journal From the Inside Fl ap aked with sin, Dave Robicheaux is dueling with killers, ghosts , and a woman's revenge.... The townspeople of New Iberia, Louis iana, didn't crucify Megan Flynn's father. They just didn't catch whoever pinned him to a barn wall with sixteen-penny nails. Dec ades later, Megan, now a world-famous photojournalist, has come b ack to the bayou, looking for cop Dave Robicheaux. It was Dave wh o found the body of labor leader Jack Flynn. The sight changed th e boy, shaped him as a man. And after forty years, Robicheaux is still haunted by the bizarre unsolved slaying. Now Megan's retur n has stirred up the ghosts of the long-buried past, igniting a s torm of violence that will rip apart lives of blacks and whites i n this bayou county. And for a good cop with bad memories, hard d esires, and chilling nightmares, the time has come to uncover the truth. From the Back Cover In a land soaked with sin, Dave Robi cheaux is dueling with killers, ghosts, and a woman's revenge.... The townspeople of New Iberia, Louisiana, didn't crucify Megan Flynn's father. They just didn't catch whoever pinned him to a ba rn wall with sixteen-penny nails. Decades later, Megan, now a wo rld-famous photojournalist, has come back to the bayou, looking f or cop Dave Robicheaux. It was Dave who found the body of labor l eader Jack Flynn. The sight changed the boy, shaped him as a man. And after forty years, Robicheaux is still haunted by the bizarr e unsolved slaying. Now Megan's return has stirred up the ghosts of the long-buried past, igniting a storm of violence that will rip apart lives of blacks and whites in this bayou county. And fo r a good cop with bad memories, hard desires, and chilling nightm ares, the time has come to uncover the truth. About the Author J ames Lee Burke is the author of sixteen previous books, including the New York Times bestsellers Cimarron Rose, Cadillac Jukebox, Burning Angel, and Dixie City Jam. He lives with his wife in Miss oula, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana. Excerpt. ® Reprinted b y permission. All rights reserved. The jailer, Alex Guidry, lived outside of town on a ten-acre horse farm devoid of trees or shad e. The sun's heat pooled in the tin roofs of his outbuildings, an d grit and desiccated manure blew out of his horse lots. His oblo ng 1960s red-brick house, its central-air-conditioning units roar ing outside a back window twenty-four hours a day, looked like a utilitarian fortress constructed for no other purpose than to rep el the elements. His family had worked for a sugar mill down tow ard New Orleans, and his wife's father used to sell Negro burial insurance, but I knew little else about him. He was one of those aging, well-preserved men with whom you associate a golf photo on the local sports page, membership in a self-congratulatory civic club, a charitable drive that is of no consequence. Or was ther e something else, a vague and ugly story years back? I couldn't r emember. Sunday afternoon I parked my pickup truck by his stable and walked past a chain-link dog pen to the riding ring. The dog pen exploded with the barking of two German shepherds who carome d off the fencing, their teeth bared, their paws skittering the f eces that lay baked on the hot concrete pad. Alex Guidry cantere d a black gelding in a circle, his booted calves fitted with Engl ish spurs. The gelding's neck and sides were iridescent with swea t. Guidry sawed the bit back in the gelding's mouth. What is it? he said. I'm Dave Robicheaux. I called earlier. He wore tan ri ding pants and a form-fitting white polo shirt. He dismounted and wiped the sweat off his face with a towel and threw it to a blac k man who had come out of the stable to take the horse. You want to know if this guy Broussard was in the detention chair? The an swer is no, he said. He says you've put other inmates in there. For days. Then he's lying. You have a detention chair, though, don't you? For inmates who are out of control, who don't respond to Isolation. You gag them? No. I rubbed the back of my neck and looked at the dog pen. The water bowl was turned over and fli es boiled in the door of the small doghouse that gave the only re lief from the sun. You've got a lot of room here. You can't let your dogs run? I said. I tried to smile. Anything else, Mr. Robi cheaux? Yeah. Nothing better happen to Cool Breeze while he's in your custody. I'll keep that in mind, sir. Close the gate on yo ur way out, please. I got back in my truck and drove down the sh ell road toward the cattle guard. A half dozen Red Angus grazed i n Guidry's pasture, while snowy egrets perched on their backs. T hen I remembered. It was ten or eleven years back, and Alex Guidr y had been charged with shooting a neighbor's dog. Guidry had cla imed the dog had attacked one of his calves and eaten its entrail s, but the neighbor told another story, that Guidry had baited a steel trap for the animal and had killed it out of sheer meanness . I looked into the rearview mirror and saw him watching me from the end of the shell drive, his legs slightly spread, a leather riding crop hanging from his wrist. Monday morning I returned to work at the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Department and took my mail out of my pigeonhole and tapped on the sheriff's office. He tilt ed back in his swivel chair and smiled when he saw me. His jowls were flecked with tiny blue and red veins that looked like fresh ink on a map when his temper flared. He had shaved too close and there was a piece of bloody tissue paper stuck in the cleft in hi s chin. Unconsciously he kept stuffing his shirt down over his pa unch into his gunbelt. You mind if I come back to work a week ear ly? I asked. This have anything to do with Cool Breeze Broussard 's complaint to the Justice Department? I went out to Alex Guidr y's place yesterday. How'd we end up with a guy like that as our jailer? It's not a job people line up for, the sheriff said. He scratched his forehead. You've got an FBI agent in your office ri ght now, some gal named Adrien Glazier. You know her? Nope. How' d she know I was going to be here? She called your house first. Your wife told her. Anyway, I'm glad you're back. I want this bul lshit at the jail cleared up. We just got a very weird case that was thrown in our face from St. Mary Parish. He opened a manila folder and put on his glasses and peered down at the fax sheets i n his fingers. This is the story he told me. Three months ago, u nder a moon haloed with a rain ring and sky filled with dust blow ing out of the sugarcane fields, a seventeen-year-old black girl named Sunshine Labiche claimed two white boys forced her car off a dirt road into a ditch. They dragged her from behind the wheel, walked her by each arm into a cane field, then took turns raping and sodomizing her. The next morning she identified both boys fr om a book of mug shots. They were brothers, from St. Mary Parish, but four months earlier they had been arrested for a convenience store holdup in New Iberia and had been released for lack of evi dence. This time they should have gone down. They didn't. Both had alibis, and the girl admitted she had been smoking rock with her boyfriend before she was raped. She dropped the charges. La te Saturday afternoon an unmarked car came to the farmhouse of th e two brothers over in St. Mary Parish. The father, who was bedri dden in the front room, watched the visitors, unbeknown to them, through a crack in the blinds. The driver of the car wore a green uniform, like sheriff's deputies in Iberia Parish, and sunglasse s and stayed behind the wheel, while a second man, in civilian cl othes and a Panama hat, went to the gallery and explained to the two brothers they only had to clear up a couple of questions in N ew Iberia, then they would be driven back home. It ain't gonna t ake five minutes. We know you boys didn't have to come all the wa y over to Iberia Parish just to change your luck, he said. The b rothers were not cuffed; in fact, they were allowed to take a twe lve-pack of beer with them to drink in the back seat. A half hou r later, just at sunset, a student from USL, who was camped out i n the Atchafalaya swamp, looked through the flooded willow and gu m trees that surrounded his houseboat and saw a car stop on the l evee. Two older men and two boys got out. One of the older men wo re a uniform. They all held cans of beer in their hands; all of t hem urinated off the levee into the cattails. Then the two boys, dressed in jeans and Clorox-stained print shirts with the sleeve s cut off at the armpits, realized something was wrong. They turn ed and stared stupidly at their companions, who had stepped backw ard up the levee and were now holding pistols in their hands. Th e boys tried to argue, holding their palms outward, as though the y were pushing back an invisible adversary. Their arms were olive with suntan, scrolled with reformatory tattoos, their hair spike d in points with butch wax. The man in uniform raised his gun and shouted an unintelligible order at them, motioning at the ground . When the boys did not respond, the second armed man, who wore a Panama hat, turned them toward the water with his hand, almost g ently, inserted his shoe against the calf of one, then the other, pushing them to their knees, as though he were arranging manikin s in a show window. Then he rejoined the man in uniform up the ba nk. One of the boys kept looking back fearfully over his shoulder . The other was weeping uncontrollably, his chin tilted upward, h is arms stiff at his sides, his eyes tightly shut. The men with guns were silhouetted against a molten red sun that had sunk acro ss the top of the levee. Just as a flock of ducks flapped across the sun, the gunmen clasped their weapons with both hands and sta rted shooting. But because of the fading light, or perhaps the na ture of their deed, their aim was bad. Both victims tried to ris e from their knees, their bodies convulsing simultaneously from t he impact of the rounds. The witness said, Their guns just kept popping. It looked like somebody was blowing chunks out of a wate rmelon. After it was over, smoke drifted out over the water and the shooter in the Panama hat took close-up flash pictures with a Polaroid camera. The witness used a pair of binoculars. He says the guy in the green uniform had our department patch on his sle eve, the sheriff said. White rogue cops avenging the rape of a b lack girl? Look, get that FBI agent out of here, will you? He lo oked at the question in my face. She's got a broom up her ass. H e rubbed his fingers across his mouth. Did I say that? I'm going to go back to the laundry business. A bad day used to b, Island Books, 1999, 2.5, Secker & Warburg. Good. 22.2 x 14.1 centimetres (0.32 kg. Hardcover. 1992. 308 pages. dj faded and worn <br>Portrait of the Artist's Wife be gins at a post-humous publication party, where the creme de la cr eme of New Zealand's literary crowd has gathered to honor the lat est creation - an erotic and names-naming confessional - of the b rilliant and controversial Jack Macalister. The survivor in this quirky and ironic scene is Sarah Tandy, talented painter and wido w of the philandering Jack; her attempts to endure the stiff and awkward ceremonial come up against some complex and. ., Secker & Warburg, 1992, 2.5, Headline Book Publishing. Good. 5.94 x 1.02 x 9.13 inches. Paperback. 2006. 352 pages. Cover faded<br>Andie DeGrasse, an aspiring actress and single mom, is not your typical juror. Hoping to get dismissed f rom the pool, she tells the judge that most of her legal knowledg e comes from a bit part curling around a stripper's pole in The S opranos. But she still ends up as juror #11 in a landmark trial a gainst a notorious mob boss. The case quickly becomes the new Tr ial of the Century. Mafia don Dominic Cavello, known as the Elect rician, is linked to hundreds of gruesome, unspeakable crimes. Se nior FBI agent Nick Pellisante has been tracking him for years. H e knows Cavello's power reaches far beyond the courtroom, but the FBI's evidence against the ruthless killer is iron-clad. Convict ion is a sure thing. As the jury is about to reach a verdict, th e Electrician makes one devastating move that no one could have p redicted. The entire nation is reeling, and Andie's world is shat tered. For her, the hunt for the Electrician becomes personal, an d she and Pellisante come together in an unbreakable bond: they w ill exact justice--at any cost. Editorial Reviews From Publishe rs Weekly Bestsellers Patterson and Gross (Lifeguard) once again deliver what their fans expect in this slapdash revenge thriller. When mob godfather Dominic Cavello is finally brought to trial b y FBI agent Nick Pellisante, his longtime nemesis, the accused is strangely unconcerned even as a parade of his former criminal as sociates finger him as having ordered a hit on a corrupt business man. The gangster's plan to intimidate the decision-makers at his trial reaches its climax when he arranges for a bomb to blow up the bus transporting the jury. The sole survivor teams up with Pe llisante to make Cavello pay. Numerous legal howlers that would b e obvious even to those who only know about trials from watching Law and Order may annoy some readers. Copyright ® Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved . From AudioFile Perfecting the mobster's attitude, as well as t hat of the FBI agent tracking him, could be difficult for some, b ut innuendo, accent, and timing are Joe Mantegna's trademarks in narrating, and he does a superb job here. Nick Pellisante comes a live as the emotionally burdened agent, as does Andie DeGrasse, t he not-so-willing juror, as their lives become entangled while th e Mafia don laughs in the face of the law. Using wise-guy accents for the mobsters and a sincere tone for the agent, Mantegna weav es this story flawlessly, bringing the listener into a gritty wor ld in which the villains get the upper hand, but only for a short while. D.L.M. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award ® AudioFile 20 06, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine Fro m Booklist Judge and Jury gets off to a slightly slow start but d elivers plenty of twists and turns. FBI agent Nick Pellisante has finally done the impossible: captured Mob boss Dominic Cavello. The jury is selected and Cavello's trial progresses smoothly--it seems the conviction Pellisante is hoping for is within his reach . Several formerly loyal henchmen now sitting in jail strike deal s with the prosecution and testify about the savage murders Cavel lo ordered, and Pellisante takes the stand to detail how Cavello shot two of his colleagues while trying to elude capture. But Cav ello has hired Richard Nordeshenko, a methodical and calculating killer, to make sure the trial never concludes. Nordeshenko carri es out his plan with brutal efficiency, leaving a wake of devasta tion in his path. Pellisante is crushed by the abrupt end of the trial and determined to make sure that the retrial isn't similarl y derailed, but Cavello and Nordeshenko have an even more diaboli cal plan in store this time around. A compelling hero and a truly evil villain distinguish this exciting read. Kristine Huntley Co pyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Abou t the Author James B. Patterson (born March 22, 1947) is an award -winning American author. Formerly an advertising executive for J . W. Thompson in the early 1990s, Patterson came up with the slog an Toys R Us Kid. Shortly after his success with Along Came A Spi der he retired from the firm and devoted his time to writing. The novels featuring his character, Alex Cross, a black forensic psy chologist formerly of the Washington, D.C. Police Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation, now working as a private psychol ogist and government consultant, are the most popular books among Patterson readers. James Patterson has been criticized by Stephe n King, who called Patterson's books dopey thrillers.[citation ne eded] Patterson shrugged off the comments, stating that he wants to be the thrillingest thriller writer of all time.[citation need ed] James Patterson has also been put as one of Forbes magazine's top 100 celebrities. ., Headline Book Publishing, 2006, 2.5, TOR. Very Good. 110 x 178mm. Paperback. 1992. 562 pages. Cover worn.<br>Ender and Valentine Wiggin are brother and sister who both share the gift of genius. The monstrous Starw ays Congress has sent a warfleet to their home planet of Lusitani a, containing two alien species and the deadliest virus ever know n. They have also issued the order to destroy the planet. Editor ial Reviews Review A Reading Guide for Ender's Game. THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender's Series: Ender Wiggin: The finest ge neral the world could hope to find or breed. The following Ende r's Series titles are listed in order: Ender's Game, Ender In Exi le, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind. Ender' s Shadow Series: Parallel storylines to Ender's Game from Bean: E nder's right hand, his strategist, and his friend. The followin g Ender's Shadow Series titles are listed in order: Ender's Shado w, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, Sh adows in Flight. The First Formic War Series: One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and de ath. These are the stories of the First Formic War. Earth Unawa re, Earth Afire. Ender Novellas A War of Gifts, First Meetings . The Authorized Ender Companion: A complete and in-depth encycl opedia of all the persons, places, things, and events in Orson Sc ott Card's Ender Universe. --This text refers to the audio_downlo ad edition. Excerpt. ? Reprinted by permission. All rights reser ved. Xenocide 1A PARTING<Today one of the brothers asked me: Is i t a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're standing?><You answered ...><I told him that I am now more free than he is. The inability to move frees me from the obligat ion to act.><You who speak languages, you are such liars.> Han F ei-tzu sat in lotus position on the bare wooden floor beside his wife's sickbed. Until a moment ago he might have been sleeping; h e wasn't sure. But now he was aware of the slight change in her b reathing, a change as subtle as the wind from a butterfly's passi ng.Jiang-qing, for her part, must also have detected some change in him, for she had not spoken before and now she did speak. Her voice was very soft. But Han Fei-tzu could hear her clearly, for the house was silent. He had asked his friends and servants for s tillness during the dusk of Jiang-qing's life. Time enough for ca reless noise during the long night that was to come, when there w ould be no hushed words from her lips.Still not dead, she said. S he had greeted him with these words each time she woke during the past few days. At first the words had seemed whimsical or ironic to him, but now he knew that she spoke with disappointment. She longed for death now, not because she hadn't loved life, butbecau se death was now unavoidable, and what cannot be shunned must be embraced. That was the Path. Jiang-qing had never taken a step aw ay from the Path in her life.Then the gods are kind to me, said H an Fei-tzu.To you, she breathed. What do we contemplate?It was he r way of asking him to share his private thoughts with her. When others asked his private thoughts, he felt spied upon. But Jiang- qing asked only so that she could also think the same thought; it was part of their having become a single soul.We are contemplati ng the nature of desire, said Han Fei-tzu.Whose desire? she asked . And for what?My desire for your bones to heal and become strong , so that they don't snap at the slightest pressure. So that you could stand again, or even raise an arm without your own muscles tearing away chunks of bone or causing the bone to break under th e tension. So that I wouldn't have to watch you wither away until now you weigh only eighteen kilograms. I never knew how perfectl y happy we were until I learned that we could not stay together.M y desire, he answered. For you.'You only covet what you do not ha ve.' Who said that?You did, said Han Fei-tzu. Some say, 'what you cannot have.' Others say, 'what you should not have.' I say, 'Yo u can truly covet only what you will always hunger for.'You have me forever.I will lose you tonight. Or tomorrow. Or next week.Let us contemplate the nature of desire, said Jiang-qing. As before, she was using philosophy to pull him out of his brooding melanch oly.He resisted her, but only playfully. You are a harsh ruler, s aid Han Fei-tzu. Like your ancestor-of-the-heart, you make no all owance for other people's frailty. Jiang-qing was named for a rev olutionary leader of the ancient past, who had tried to lead the people onto a new Path but was overthrown by weak-hearted cowards . It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die befo re him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besid es, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more compl ete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their c hildren. They were never as solitary as a man alone.Jiang-qing re fused to let him return to brooding. When a man's wife is dead, w hat does he long for?Rebelliously, Han Fei-tzu gave her the most false answer to her question. To lie with her, he said.The desire of the body, said Jiang-qing.Since she was determined to have th is conversation, Han Fei-tzu took up the catalogue for her. The d esire of the body is to act. It includes all touches, casual and intimate, and all customary movements. Thus he sees a movement ou t of the corner of his eye, and thinks he has seen his dead wifem oving across the doorway, and he cannot be content until he has w alked to the door and seen that it was not his wife. Thus he wake s up from a dream in which he heard her voice, and finds himself speaking his answer aloud as if she could hear him.What else? ask ed Jiang-qing.I'm tired of philosophy, said Han Fei-tzu. Maybe th e Greeks found comfort in it, but not me.The desire of the spirit , said Jiang-qing, insisting.Because the spirit is of the earth, it is that part which makes new things out of old ones. The husba nd longs for all the unfinished things that he and his wife were making when she died, and all the unstarted dreams of what they w ould have made if she had lived. Thus a man grows angry at his ch ildren for being too much like him and not enough like his dead w ife. Thus a man hates the house they lived in together, because e ither he does not change it, so that it is as dead as his wife, o r because he does change it, so that it is no longer half of her making.You don't have to be angry at our little Qing-jao, said Ji ang-qing.Why? asked Han Fei-tzu. Will you stay, then, and help me teach her to be a woman? All I can teach her is to be what I am- -cold and hard, sharp and strong, like obsidian. If she grows lik e that, while she looks so much like you, how can I help but be a ngry?Because you can teach her everything that I am, too, said Ji ang-qing.If I had any part of you in me, said Han Fei-tzu, I woul d not have needed to marry you to become a complete person. Now h e teased her by using philosophy to turn the conversation away fr om pain. That is the desire of the soul. Because the soul is made of light and dwells in air, it is that part which conceives and keeps ideas, especially the idea of the self. The husband longs f or his whole self, which was made of the husband and wife togethe r. Thus he never believes any of his own thoughts, because there is always a question in his mind to which his wife's thoughts wer e the only possible answer. Thus the whole world seems dead to hi m because he cannot trust anything to keep its meaning before the onslaught of this unanswerable question.Very deep, said Jiang-qi ng.If I were Japanese I would commit seppuku, spilling my bowel i nto the jar of your ashes.Very wet and messy, she said.He smiled. Then I should be an ancient Hindu, and burn myself on your pyre. But she was through with joking. Qing-jao, she whispered. She was reminding him he could do nothing so flamboyant as to die with h er. There was little Qing-jao to care for.So Han Fei-tzu answered her seriously. How can I teach her to be what you are?All that i s good in me, said Jiang-qing, comes from the Path. If you teach her to obey the gods, honor the ancestors, love the people, and s erve the rulers, I will be in her as much as you are.I would teac h her the Path as part of myself, said Han Fei-tzu.Not so, said J iang-qing. The Path is not a natural part of you, my husband. Eve n with the gods speaking to you every day, you insist on believin g in a world where everything can be explained by natural causes. I obey the gods. He thought, bitterly, that he had no choice; tha t even to delay obedience was torture.But you don't know them. Yo u don't love their works.The Path is to love the people. The gods we only obey. How can I love gods who humiliate me and torment m e at every opportunity?We love the people because they are creatu res of the gods.Don't preach to me.She sighed.Her sadness stung h im like a spider. I wish you would preach to me forever, said Han Fei-tzu.You married me because you knew I loved the gods, and th at love for them was completely missing from yourself. That was h ow I completed you.How could he argue with her, when he knew that even now he hated the gods for everything they had ever done to him, everything they had ever made him do, everything they had st olen from him in his life.Promise me, said Jiang-qing.He knew wha t these words meant. She felt death upon her; she was laying the burden of her life upon him. A burden he would gladly bear. It wa s losing her company on the Path that he had dreaded for so long. Promise that you will teach Qing-jao to love the gods and walk al ways on the Path. Promise that you will make her as much my daugh ter as yours.Even if she never hears the voice of the gods?The Pa th is for everyone, not just the godspoken.Perhaps, thought Han F ei-tzu, but it was much easier for the godspoken to follow the Pa th, because to them the price for straying from it was so terribl e. The common people were free; they could leave the Path and not feel the pain of it for years. The godspoken couldn't leave the Path for an hour.Promise me.I will. I promise.But he couldn't say the words out loud. He did not know why, but his reluctance was deep.In the silence, as she waited for his vow, they heard the so und of running feet on the gravel outside the front door of the h ouse. It could only be Qing-jao, home from the garden of Sun Cao- pi. Only Qing-jao was allowed torun and make noise during this ti me of hush. They waited, knowing that she would come straight to her mother's room.The door slid open almost noiselessly. Even Qin g-jao had caught enough of the hush to walk softly when she was a ctually in the presence of her mother. Though she walked on tipto e, she could hardly keep from dancing, almost galloping across th e floor. But she di... --This text refers to the audio_download e dition. From School Library Journal YA-- A fitting culmination t o the marvelous trilogy that began with Ender's Game (1985) and c ontinued in Speaker for the Dead (1986, both TOR). Once started, Xenocide is almost impossible to put down. It continues the confl icts with the Penuininos (the alien race infected with a deadly v irus); the Hive Queen and her workers; and the humans, including Ender, on Lusitania. What makes this title so fascinating are the new characters introduced here: Gloriously Bright and her father /mentor Han Fei-tzu, two of the ruling class on the planet Path. Their Chinese heritage, combined with their possession by obsessi ve-compulsive disorder, makes for an intriguing situation. The ph ilosophical nature of this novel may be frustrating for some read ers, and hardware fanatics may be disappointed by a solution that ventures into the more speculative realms of physics. For everyo ne else, however, Xenocide successfully pulls together all of the various themes Card has explored in this series. It will appeal not only to his fans, but also to readers of the speculative fict ion of David Brin and Greg Bear. A thought-provoking, insightful, and powerfully written volume that no library should be without. --Cathy Chauvette & John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text ref ers to the audio_download edition. From Kirkus Reviews Sequel to Ender's Game (1984) and Speaker for the Dead (1986), exploring t he problems of alien contact and coexistence on planet Lusitania, where now three intelligent species dwell: human colonists; ``bu ggers'' (an arachnoid Hive Queen reasserts herself after the near extinction of her species in the human-bugger war); and the indi genous ``piggies,'' who, after a horrid flaying-alive ceremony, m etamorphose into sapient trees. But the planet is rife with desco lada virus; this mediates the transformation of piggies into tree s, but in humans mutates into a deadly, ineradicable plague. Rath er than permit the descolada to spread, Earth sends a battle flee t to blast Lusitania. Once again, Ender Wiggin and his sister Val entine will play prominent roles in the search for a solution--th e upshot being, thanks to time travel, a ``rescolada'' rescue-vir us that promises to turn a potential plague into a fabulous biolo gical tool. Splendid plotting--if you can stomach Card's repulsiv e transcendence-through-torture notions; and, what with the frequ ent, irksome, and interminable theological/philosophical interlud es, it's hard to escape the conclusion that Card's true purpose h ere is to preach rather than simply tell a story. -- Copyright ?1 991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refe rs to the audio_download edition. From AudioFile Book Three in t he popular Ender Quartet is meticulously directed by Stefan Rudni cki and Gabrielle de Cuir, who also narrate the novel, along with an ensemble cast. XENOCIDE follows the lives of the humans, a ra ce called the pequeninos, and the insectoid Hive Queen on Lusitan ia as the Starways Congress prepares to wipe out all life on that planet. Each chapter is introduced with an eerie dialogue betwee n the Hive Queen (de Cuir) and a sentient tree (Scott Brick). A d ifferent narrator reads each of the various subplots. At the clos e of this audiobook, author Card speaks for four minutes about th e series and its audio adaptation. S.E.S. ? AudioFile 2006, Portl and, Maine-- Copyright ? AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text r efers to the audio_download edition. From Library Journal As an armed fleet from Starways Congress hurtles through space toward t he rebellious planet Lusitania, Ender Wiggin, his sister Va, TOR, 1992, 3, London England: Silver Moon & Silver Mink. publishers warning Adults only. "Your pain is my pleasure". This is the creed of the Connoisseur - wealthy collector of beautiful women. The lovely but proud and headstrong Vivienne presents him with an irresistible challenge. Can she be added to his collection? And will she come to live by the iron code that governs his other slaves.light foxing . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Paperback Printing. 2000., Silver Moon & Silver Mink, 2000, 3, US: Oxford University Press, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Di ctionary. Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language--"so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy"--and pays homage to the great dictionary makers, from "the irredeemably famous" Samuel Johnson to the "short, pale, smug and boastful" schoolmaster from New Hartford, Noah Webster. He then turns his unmatched talent for story-telling to the making of this most venerable of dictionaries. In this fast-paced narrative, the reader will discover lively portraits of such key figures as the brilliant but tubercular first editor Herbert Coleridge (grandson of the poet), the colorful, boisterous Frederick Furnivall (who left the project in a shambles), and James Augustus Henry Murray, who spent a half-century bringing the project to fruition. Winchester lovingly describes the nuts-and-bolts of dictionary making--how unexpectedly tricky the dictionary entry for marzipan was, or how fraternity turned out so much longer and monkey so much more ancient than anticipated--and how bondmaid was left out completely, its slips found lurking under a pile of books long after the B-volume had gone to press. We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium--the Scrippy or the Shed, as., Oxford University Press, 2004, 3, With a "knack for romantic tension and page-turning suspense, this one is a winner." The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful New York Times bestselling novel by Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capitol of Texas (Booklist, starred review).Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . . and lands in more than he bargained for. On the day he arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of her abduction, and worse. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff, a notorious cathouse madam, a sly bootlegger, feuding moonshiners . . . and a young widow whose soft features conceal an iron will.What was supposed to be a fresh start for Laurel Plummer turns to tragedy. Left destitute but determined to dictate her own future, Laurel plunges into the lucrative regional industry, much to the dislike of the good ol' boys, who have ruled supreme. Her success quickly makes her a target for cutthroat competitors, whose only code of law is reprisal. As violence erupts, Laurel andnow deputyThatcher find themselves on opposite sides of a moonshine war, where blood flows as freely as whiskey., grand central Publishing, 2021, 3, Iron Stream Books, 2019-10-01. Paperback. Good. 6x0x9., Iron Stream Books, 2019-10-01, 2.5, Iron Stream Books, 2019-10-01. Paperback. Good. 96x7x144., Iron Stream Books, 2019-10-01, 2.5, This is the original game of thrones George R.R. MartinFrom the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martins epic work.Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!The Iron King Philip the Fair is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. He governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons are weak and their wives adulterous; while his red-blooded daughter Isabella is unhappily married to an English king who prefers the company of men.A web of scandal, murder and intrigue is weaving itself around the Iron King; but his downfall will come from an unexpected quarter. Bent on the persecution of the rich and powerful Knights Templar, Philip sentences Grand Master Jacques Molay to be burned at the stake, thus drawing down upon himself a curse that will destroy his entire dynasty ., 0, Pan Books, UK, 1988. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 364 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books, UK, 1988. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. Edgewear to covers. Tanned pages. Moderate spine lean. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The man who invented medical techno-horror takes you on a startling and chilling odyssey into the origins of life--and death. When an eminent biomolecular geneticist dies violently before his eyes, a doctor must use more than his medical knowledge to explain what he comes to believe is murder, and to stop a scientific breakthrough from becoming a curse instead of a miracle. There was a lot that internist Jason Howard didn't know about Dr. Alvin Hayes. But when the scientist met his sudden end, it all came out with a vengeance--for the academically respected geneticist had led a double life, and the private side was damning. Dismissing official police reports linking Hayes's death to his associations with the sordid side of society, Jason believes Hayes was silenced to keep him from revealing the results of his research, and the secret lies not in the back streets of Boston's erotic underworld, the Combat Zone, but in the high-tech genetics laboratories of the Good Health Plan clinic. Overcoming his own personal emotional problems, Jason turns his powers of diagnosis to deduction, vowing to solve the mystery no matter who tries to stop him. His search will take him from gleaming modern labs to seamy sex clubs, from Beacon Hill drawing rooms to the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and back, before the pieces of the deadly puzzle fall into place. By then, Jason has unearthed the scientific breakthrough Hayes was killed to hide--and has himself become the target of a malevolent cabal, bend on using the origins of life to create a hell on earth. With this disturbing story, DNA research is shown to have a fearful potential, not only through possible mistakes and accidents, but ironically even through success. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Thrillers; ISBN: 0330307606. ISBN/EAN: 9780330307604. Inventory No: 11010638.. 9780330307604, Pan Books, 1988, 2.5<

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NY: Conde Nast Publications, 1962. Vol. LXLX, No. 3. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by Schoenherr for "The Real Bug-Eyed Monster" (article) by Campbell. Includes "Anything You Can Do" (pt. 1 of 2) by Darrel T. Langart [Randall Garrett]; ". . .Nor Iron Bars" (novelette) by Jonathan Blake MacKenzie [Randall Garrett]; "Look Before You Leap" (novelette) by Don Westake; "The Next Logical Step" by Ben Bova; "Sight Gag" by Larry M. Harris [Laurence M. Janifer]. Science Fact: "The Fourth Law of Motion' by William O. Davis. Readers' Departments: "The Editor's page: That Fourth Law of Motion" by John W. Campbell, Jr.; "In times to Come"; "The Reference Library" by P. Schuyler Miller. Illustrated by Leone, Schelling, and Schoenherr. Corner loss, about dime-sized, to upper rear cover spine corner and following few pages; tanning.. SingleIssueMagazine. Very Good-., Conde Nast Publications, 1962, 3, NY: Conde Nast Publications, 1972. Vol. XC, No. 1. Edited by Ben Bova. Cover art by Freas for "The Symbiotes" (novelette) by James H. Schmitz. Includes "Ideological Defeat" by Christopher Anvil; "The Hated Dreams" by John Strausbaugh; "Generation Gaps" by Clancey O'Brien; "The War of the Words" by Rick Conley; "The Pritcher Mass" (pt. 2 of 3) by Gordon R. Dickson. Science Fact: "The Iron Pillar of Delhi" by L. Sprague de Camp; "How to Design a Flying Saucer" by Dr. Richard J. Rosa. Reader's Departments: "Personality Profile: Buckminster Fuller: The Synergetic Man" by Norman Spinrad; "In Times to Come"; "The Analytical Laboratory"; "The Reference Library" by P. Schuyler Miller; "Brass Tacks". Illustrated by Kelly Freas, Vincent diFate, Michael Gilbert, Leo Summers, John Schoenherr, and Gray Morrow. Tanning; Creasing; edge and corner wear; minor rubbing.. SingleIssueMagazine. Very Good+., Conde Nast Publications, 1972, 3, Clydesdale Press, LLC. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects., Clydesdale Press, LLC, 3, Toronto: Gold Eagle, 1988. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. First edition. Light foxing to page ridge. 1988 Mass Market Paperback. The Soviets are claiming that American agents are behind the brutal terrorist raids in Yugoslavia. With the Yugoslav government going into a tailspin and the Soviets mounting pressure in Eastern Europe, Phoenix Force is ordered to stem the tide of violent deaths and prove American innocence. The Force is between a rock and a hard place as they race to defuse a deadly deception before the Iron Curtain comes down on a final grotesque act of treachery., Gold Eagle, 1988, 3, Washington Square Press. Very Good. When a sixty-seven-year-old Canadian rascal named Bernard Panofsky decides to write "the true story of my wasted life" the result is Barney's Version, Mordecai Richler's wickedly funny blend of satire, social commentary, and brilliant introspection on the state of contemporary lifeHoping to rebut the charges about him made in a rival's autobiography Barney feels compelled to pen his account of events From his bohemian misadventures during the 1950s in Paris to the fortune he amassed through his trashy TV company Totally Unnecessary Productions and the three women he married, he quickly proves that his memory may be slipping, but his bile isn't He skewers feminists, politicians, the bourgeoisie, fads, social movements, and most of all himself And when it comes to being charged with the murder of his own best friend -- caught in bed with the second Mrs Panofsky -- Barney's version is as contradictory and slippery as real life right up to its astonishing endWildly vulgar, superbly ironic, and brilliantly manic, Barney's Version is Mordecai Richler's comic masterpiece, the great work of a satirist at the top of his game, Washington Square Press, 3, xii+323 pages with frontispiece map, maps, figures, tables, charts, drawings and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. This book summarizes present knowledge of the prehistory of eastern and southern Africa during the last twenty thousand years, up to the time when history takes over. This is a period whose cultural richness and diversity often comes as a surprise to the outsider, and which saw the inception of food-production techniques in regions where man had previously gained his livelihood by hunting, gathering and fishing. Particular attention is paid to the evidence for the origin and spread of the Iron Age peoples. Condition: A near fine copy in a fine jacket., African Publishing, 1977, 4.5, NY: Street & Smith, 1943. Vol. XXXII, No. 4. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by Timmins for "The Debt" (novelette) by E. Mayne Hull. Includes "Lost Art" (novelette) by George O. Smith; "We Print the Truth" (novelette) by Anthony Boucher; "Fricassee in Four Dimensions" by P. Schuyler Miller; "The Iron Standard" by Lewis Padgett (C. L. Moore & Henry Kuttner). Articles: "Master Chemist" by Arthur McCann; "Extraterrestrial Bacteria" by Willy Ley. Readers' Departments: "The Editor's Page: Insects Now"; "In Times to Come"; "The Analytical Laboratory"; "Brass Tacks". Letter from Malcolm Jameson. No back cover; tears to spine with small losses and small tape; tanned; front cover glued on at hinge.. SingleIssueMagazine. Fair to Good-., Street & Smith, 1943, 2, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking Adult. Very Good in Good jacket Very Good in Good jacket 22 cm. Condition very good in oatmeal boards with black cloth spine, DJ good with slight chipping top and bottom edges, clean tight 5th printing, BOMC alternate. From Publishers Weekly: Known to discerning readers for his beguiling Deptford Trilogy and the more recent Rebel Angels, Canadian author Davies has written another irresistible novel. His story of the secret life of Francis Cornish, full of ironic twists and surprises, has the added enticement of a look inside the rarefied world of art experts and restorers. There is even a hint of the thriller genre, since Cornish joins British Intelligence to participate in an international scheme to defraud the Nazis of Old Masters. But this is primarily a character study, built around the theme: "what's bred in the bone comes out in the flesh, " with the corollary that suffering endured when one is young builds character for later achievements. Born into an eccentric, wealthy Canadian family in a backwoods town, enduring a lonely and suffocatingly pious upbringing, Cornish eventually becomes a respected art appraiser and collector, at the sacrifice of his considerable talent as a painter. In addition to the tantalizing story of how this comes about, related with elements of intrigue and mystery, Davies delivers a wickedly funny, trenchant dissection of provincial society and some witty observations about religion and art. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1986., Viking Adult, 1986, 2.75, NY: Street & Smith, 1962. Vol. LXIX, No. 1. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by Schoenherr. Includes "Epilogue" (short novel) by Poul Anderson; "His Master's Voice" (novelette) by Randall Garrett; "Uncalculated Risk" by Christopher Anvil; "Rough Beast" by Roger Dee; "The Iron Jackass" by John Brunner. Science Fact: "Power supplies for Space Vehicles" (pt. 2 of 2) by J. B. Friedenberg. Readers' Departments: "The Editor's Page: Maybe It'll Go Away. . ." by John W. Campbell, Jr.; "Brass Tacks"; "The Reference Library" by P. Schuyler Miller; "In Times to Come". Illustrated by Krenkel, Schoenherr, Barberis, and Morey. Foxing; small cover scar; old price in pencil on cover; tanning.. SingleIssueMagazine. Very Good-., Street & Smith, 1962, 3, NY: Knopf Book. Good. Hardcover. 1919, later printing, 408pp. G+. "The Pennys are a family of iron founders in Pennsylvania since colonial days. Some hundreds of years before their establishment in America a Welsh strain had come into the family by marriage. Instead of being diffused and lost it emerges in one generation or another in a dark, rebellious, ruthless individual, to whom opposition is the breath of life." See Keller: THE READER'S DIGEST OF BOOKS.., Knopf, 2.5, Mass Market Paperback. Good. 2005 Later Printing Paperback,  Bright Copy, minor general reading wear, no names, no stamps, no labels, a few lightly upturned page corner tips, cleartape reinforced cover cornertips, unmarked story text.  For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twains inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, to the bitter vision of humankind in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, to the delightful hilarity of Is He Living or Is He Dead? Surging with Twains ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career ofin the words of H. L. Menckenthe father of our national literature. Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida Missouri in 1835-died in 1910) is the greatest and best known American author. Twain wrote several novels; the greatest two are Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Many have read these classics in school but have not been introduced to the genius of Twain in the genre of the short story/tale tale. That omission is corrected in this marvelous collection of almost eight hundred pages. Included are such classics as "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg"; "A Dog's Tale:; "Was it Heave or Hell?" The dark apocalyptic vision of "The Mysterious Stranger"; The humorous gem "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calevaras County: and many more. Twain's targets are: 1. Hypocrisy in all its many incarnations in the human animal 2. Racial injustice in America . 3. Unthinking belief in God 4. Cruelty to animals 5. Science at war with Faith. Twain was a master at fable, the tall tale and the ironical short sto, 2.5, With a "knack for romantic tension and page-turning suspense, this one is a winner." The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful New York Times bestselling novel by Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capitol of Texas (Booklist, starred review).Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . . and lands in more than he bargained for. On the day he arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of her abduction, and worse. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff, a notorious cathouse madam, a sly bootlegger, feuding moonshiners . . . and a young widow whose soft features conceal an iron will.What was supposed to be a fresh start for Laurel Plummer turns to tragedy. Left destitute but determined to dictate her own future, Laurel plunges into the lucrative regional industry, much to the dislike of the good ol' boys, who have ruled supreme. Her success quickly makes her a target for cutthroat competitors, whose only code of law is reprisal. As violence erupts, Laurel andnow deputyThatcher find themselves on opposite sides of a moonshine war, where blood flows as freely as whiskey., grand central Publishing, 2021, 3, Iron Mountain Press, 1997-05-01. paperback. Good. 8x5x0., Iron Mountain Press, 1997-05-01, 2.5, US: Oxford University Press, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Di ctionary. Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language--"so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy"--and pays homage to the great dictionary makers, from "the irredeemably famous" Samuel Johnson to the "short, pale, smug and boastful" schoolmaster from New Hartford, Noah Webster. He then turns his unmatched talent for story-telling to the making of this most venerable of dictionaries. In this fast-paced narrative, the reader will discover lively portraits of such key figures as the brilliant but tubercular first editor Herbert Coleridge (grandson of the poet), the colorful, boisterous Frederick Furnivall (who left the project in a shambles), and James Augustus Henry Murray, who spent a half-century bringing the project to fruition. Winchester lovingly describes the nuts-and-bolts of dictionary making--how unexpectedly tricky the dictionary entry for marzipan was, or how fraternity turned out so much longer and monkey so much more ancient than anticipated--and how bondmaid was left out completely, its slips found lurking under a pile of books long after the B-volume had gone to press. We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium--the Scrippy or the Shed, as., Oxford University Press, 2004, 3, US: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., 1990. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. 2021 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. "Willa Cather's lyrical and bittersweet n ovel of a middle-aged man losing control of his life is a brilliant study i n emotional dislocation and renewal. Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man i n his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, a nd his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him re bels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mi ld resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass t he entire order of his life. The Professor's House combines a delightful gr asp of the social and domestic rituals of a Midwestern university town in t he 1920s with profound spiritual and psychological introspection." From Vin tage Classic Edition. Behind the understated prose relating the story of Professor Godfrey St. Peter, who, despite his success, experiences at midcareer a profound disappointment with life, is the fierce account of how he decides to continue living despite those disappointments. Tom Outland's thrilling tale of a long-lost civilization is both an ironic contrast to the professor's staid outer life and a mirror of the imaginative interior life he experiences in his attic study., Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., 1990, 3, Pan Books, UK, 1988. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 364 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books, UK, 1988. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. Edgewear to covers. Tanned pages. Moderate spine lean. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The man who invented medical techno-horror takes you on a startling and chilling odyssey into the origins of life--and death. When an eminent biomolecular geneticist dies violently before his eyes, a doctor must use more than his medical knowledge to explain what he comes to believe is murder, and to stop a scientific breakthrough from becoming a curse instead of a miracle. There was a lot that internist Jason Howard didn't know about Dr. Alvin Hayes. But when the scientist met his sudden end, it all came out with a vengeance--for the academically respected geneticist had led a double life, and the private side was damning. Dismissing official police reports linking Hayes's death to his associations with the sordid side of society, Jason believes Hayes was silenced to keep him from revealing the results of his research, and the secret lies not in the back streets of Boston's erotic underworld, the Combat Zone, but in the high-tech genetics laboratories of the Good Health Plan clinic. Overcoming his own personal emotional problems, Jason turns his powers of diagnosis to deduction, vowing to solve the mystery no matter who tries to stop him. His search will take him from gleaming modern labs to seamy sex clubs, from Beacon Hill drawing rooms to the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and back, before the pieces of the deadly puzzle fall into place. By then, Jason has unearthed the scientific breakthrough Hayes was killed to hide--and has himself become the target of a malevolent cabal, bend on using the origins of life to create a hell on earth. With this disturbing story, DNA research is shown to have a fearful potential, not only through possible mistakes and accidents, but ironically even through success. *** Quantity Available: 3. Category: Fiction; Thrillers; ISBN: 0330307606. ISBN/EAN: 9780330307604. Inventory No: 11010638.. 9780330307604, Pan Books, 1988, 2.5<

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US: Oxford University Press, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlightin… Meer...

US: Oxford University Press, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Di ctionary. Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language--"so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy"--and pays homage to the great dictionary makers, from "the irredeemably famous" Samuel Johnson to the "short, pale, smug and boastful" schoolmaster from New Hartford, Noah Webster. He then turns his unmatched talent for story-telling to the making of this most venerable of dictionaries. In this fast-paced narrative, the reader will discover lively portraits of such key figures as the brilliant but tubercular first editor Herbert Coleridge (grandson of the poet), the colorful, boisterous Frederick Furnivall (who left the project in a shambles), and James Augustus Henry Murray, who spent a half-century bringing the project to fruition. Winchester lovingly describes the nuts-and-bolts of dictionary making--how unexpectedly tricky the dictionary entry for marzipan was, or how fraternity turned out so much longer and monkey so much more ancient than anticipated--and how bondmaid was left out completely, its slips found lurking under a pile of books long after the B-volume had gone to press. We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium--the Scrippy or the Shed, as., Oxford University Press, 2004, 3, Pan Books, UK, 1988. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 364 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books, UK, 1988. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. Edgewear to covers. Tanned pages. Moderate spine lean. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The man who invented medical techno-horror takes you on a startling and chilling odyssey into the origins of life--and death. When an eminent biomolecular geneticist dies violently before his eyes, a doctor must use more than his medical knowledge to explain what he comes to believe is murder, and to stop a scientific breakthrough from becoming a curse instead of a miracle. There was a lot that internist Jason Howard didn't know about Dr. Alvin Hayes. But when the scientist met his sudden end, it all came out with a vengeance--for the academically respected geneticist had led a double life, and the private side was damning. Dismissing official police reports linking Hayes's death to his associations with the sordid side of society, Jason believes Hayes was silenced to keep him from revealing the results of his research, and the secret lies not in the back streets of Boston's erotic underworld, the Combat Zone, but in the high-tech genetics laboratories of the Good Health Plan clinic. Overcoming his own personal emotional problems, Jason turns his powers of diagnosis to deduction, vowing to solve the mystery no matter who tries to stop him. His search will take him from gleaming modern labs to seamy sex clubs, from Beacon Hill drawing rooms to the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and back, before the pieces of the deadly puzzle fall into place. By then, Jason has unearthed the scientific breakthrough Hayes was killed to hide--and has himself become the target of a malevolent cabal, bend on using the origins of life to create a hell on earth. With this disturbing story, DNA research is shown to have a fearful potential, not only through possible mistakes and accidents, but ironically even through success. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Thrillers; ISBN: 0330307606. ISBN/EAN: 9780330307604. Inventory No: 11010638.. 9780330307604, Pan Books, 1988, 2.5<

1988, ISBN: 9780330307604

Pan Books, UK, 1988. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 364 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books, UK, 1988. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. Edgewear to covers. Tanned pag… Meer...

Pan Books, UK, 1988. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 364 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books, UK, 1988. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. Edgewear to covers. Tanned pages. Moderate spine lean. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The man who invented medical techno-horror takes you on a startling and chilling odyssey into the origins of life--and death. When an eminent biomolecular geneticist dies violently before his eyes, a doctor must use more than his medical knowledge to explain what he comes to believe is murder, and to stop a scientific breakthrough from becoming a curse instead of a miracle. There was a lot that internist Jason Howard didn't know about Dr. Alvin Hayes. But when the scientist met his sudden end, it all came out with a vengeance--for the academically respected geneticist had led a double life, and the private side was damning. Dismissing official police reports linking Hayes's death to his associations with the sordid side of society, Jason believes Hayes was silenced to keep him from revealing the results of his research, and the secret lies not in the back streets of Boston's erotic underworld, the Combat Zone, but in the high-tech genetics laboratories of the Good Health Plan clinic. Overcoming his own personal emotional problems, Jason turns his powers of diagnosis to deduction, vowing to solve the mystery no matter who tries to stop him. His search will take him from gleaming modern labs to seamy sex clubs, from Beacon Hill drawing rooms to the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and back, before the pieces of the deadly puzzle fall into place. By then, Jason has unearthed the scientific breakthrough Hayes was killed to hide--and has himself become the target of a malevolent cabal, bend on using the origins of life to create a hell on earth. With this disturbing story, DNA research is shown to have a fearful potential, not only through possible mistakes and accidents, but ironically even through success. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Thrillers; ISBN: 0330307606. ISBN/EAN: 9780330307604. Inventory No: 11010638.. 9780330307604, Pan Books, 1988, 2.5<

ISBN: 9780330307604

Paperback. Very Good., 3