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The Godfather

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:28:35 PST

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Love and Death in Brooklyn

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:59:22 PST

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With its introduction of ex-cop Blades Overstreet, Glenville Lovell's first mystery, Too Beautiful to Die, was called a "page-turner" (New York Daily News) and "stylish entertainment" (Booklist). Now Lovell is back, with a timely novel of a brilliant young African-American politician gunned down as his career is about to take off.

Hannibal Rising

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:59:22 PST

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He is one of the most haunting characters - in all of literature. At last, the evolution of his evil is revealed. Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal's uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Ha ...

Frenchman's Creek

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:57:51 PST

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Frenchman's Creek, set in 17th-century England, is an absorbing tale of adventure, danger and passion. Lady St. Columb is bored with fashionable life at Court so she sets off for the peace and freedom of her husband's Cornwall estate. Quite unexpectedly, she stumbles on the mooring place of the white-sailed ship belonging to the daring Frenchman who plunders the shores of Cornwall. It is only a ...

Julius

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:57:51 PST

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A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier's third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb.Julius Lévy has grown up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin caught up in the Franco-Prussian War, he is soon forced by tragedy to escape to Algeria. Once there, he learns the ease of swindling, the rewards of love affairs, and the value ...

Shella

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:57:51 PST

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A chilling novel that shows what evil is and where it comes from. This is a thriller re-imagined as a bleak romance of the damned.

I'll Never Be Young Again

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:57:51 PST

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Daphne du Maurier's second work of fictionan amazingly vivid coming-of-age novel set in 1930s Europe.

The Epicure

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:57:51 PST

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A connoisseur of death believes consuming human flesh will renew his soul--and he's after a young girl who dreams of his depravities night after night.

The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:57:51 PST

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At Edinburgh's Department of Environmental Health, hard-drinking, womanising officer Danny Skinner wants to uncover secrets: 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs', secrets he believes might just help him understand his self-destructive impulses. But the arrival of the virginal, model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby at the department provokes an uncharacteristic response in Skinner, and threate ...

The Flight of the Falcon

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:57:50 PST

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As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life -- until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town of Ruffano. He returns to his birthplace, and once there, finds it is haunted by the phantom of his brother, Al ...

Bitten to Death

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:41:39 PST

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Jaz Parks, assassin and black ops agent, is plunged head-first into her latest mission - a confrontation between her ancient vampire boss Vayl, and his previous undead allies. The CIA is hunting arch-criminal Samon, and needs Vayl's ex-friends for information. But the team will have to wade through knotty vampire politics, a were-on-were blood-fest and some nasty (oh, and blood smeared...) vision ...

Emiko Superstar

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:38:07 PST

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Manhunter Vol. 3

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 9:45:10 PST

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A cult favorite series written by Marc Andreko, MANHUNTER has won acclaim from fans, critics, professionals and competitive publishers. It has a loyal fan base that is rabidly devoted to this new heroine who's made her mark in a world filled with costumed heroes, villains, madmen and monsters. After federal prosecutor Kate Spencer lost a case against a super-villain, setting him fr ...

Manhunter

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 9:45:08 PST

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Manhunter Vol. 4

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 9:45:08 PST

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The fourth graphic novel from thecult favorite series pits Manhunter against the DC Universes mightiest female hero. This volume continues the shocking story from INFINITE CRISIS, when Wonder Woman was forced to kill criminal mastermind Maxwell Lord.Now, Kate Spencer must defend the Amazon Princess, but the stakes are higher than either of them could imagine.Will putting super-heroes on the stand ...

Manhunter Vol. 2

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 9:45:08 PST

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When super criminals use the legal system to escape justice,prosecutor Kate Spencer assumed the role of vigilante, becoming theManhunter and meting out her own brand of street justice! In this second collection, Spencer is poised to take on the trial of theyear, as the eyes of the nation are on her latest case: finding the ShadowThief guilty of murdering the hero Firestorm!

Janes in Love

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 9:43:39 PST

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First Among Sequels

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 9:41:44 PST

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Thursday Next is back. And this time it's personal ...Officially, Literary Detective Thursday Next is off the case. Once a key figure in the BookWorld police force, she is concentrating on her duties as a wife and mother. Or so her husband thinks ...Unofficially, Thursday is working as hard as ever - and in this world of dangerously short attention spans, there's no rest for the literate. Can Thu ...

Biting the Bullet

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 9:38:11 PST

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Jaz Parks here, though I can't say for how long. This case is a tough one. So tough, it could be my last. The Wizard, a terrorist thorn in the military's side, has finally revealed a chink in his armour. So my vampire boss, Vayl, and I have been asked to join my brother's special ops team to take him down. But nothing on this mission is as it seems. The Wizard has hidden some vicious tricks up hi ...

Breaking Dawn

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 9:33:30 PST

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Twilight tempted the imagination. New Moon made readers thirsty for more. Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon. And now, the book that everyone has been waiting for.... Breaking Dawn, the final book in the #1 bestselling Twilight Saga, will take your breath away.

Eclipse

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 9:33:07 PST

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Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devour Eclipse, the much anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward an ...

New Moon

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 9:32:37 PST

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Shoot, I muttered when the paper sliced my finger; I pulled it out to examine the damage. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut.It all happened very quickly then.Edward threw himself at me, flinging me back across the table...I tumbled down to the floor by the piano, with my arms thrown out instinctively to catch my fall, into the jagged shards of glass. I felt the searing, stinging pain ...

Twilight

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 9:32:03 PST

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When 17 year old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town. But in spite of her awkward manner and low expectations, she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale, dark-haired new girl in town. But not, it seems, the Cullen family. These five adopted brothers and sisters obviously prefer their own company ...

The Terror Dream

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:33:11 PST

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author of Backlash comes an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11 - and of a barely acknowledged society-wide drama shot through with baffling contradictions. Why, asks Susan Faludi, did the culture respond to an assault against American global dominance with a frenzied summons to restore 'traditional' manhood, marria ...

The New York Four

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:25:23 PST

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Water Baby

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 5:38:08 PST

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Burnout

Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:30:44 PST

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Good as Lily

Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:30:43 PST

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Wild Swans

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:25:43 PST

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Leviathan

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:22:52 PST

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Cultural Curiosity

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:19:42 PST

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This anthology of autobiographical essays reveals the human side of the Chinese diaspora. Written by ethnic Chinese who were born or raised outside of China, these moving pieces, full of the poignant details of everyday life, describe the experience of growing up as a visible minority and the subsequent journey each author made to China. The authors--whose diverse backgrounds in countries such as ...

The Elements of Moral Philosophy

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:17:41 PST

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Firmly established as the standard text for undergraduate courses in ethics, this concise, lively book combines clear explanations of the main theories of ethics with discussions of interesting examples. Topics covered include famine relief, euthanasia, homosexuality, and the treatment of animals. The text's versatility allows it to be widely used not only in ethical theory courses, but also in a ...

Watchmen

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:08:46 PST

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Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, but Watchmen remains the critics' favorite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga ...

Big White Lie

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:52:55 PST

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Much has been written about the White Australia Policy, but very little has been written about it from a Chinese perspective. Big White Lie shifts our understanding of the White Australia Policy--and indeed White Australia--by exploring what Chinese Australians were saying and doing at a time when they were officially excluded. Big White Lie pays close attention to Chinese migration patterns, de ...

Bitten

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:30:50 PST

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An addictive, deeply enjoyable thrill ride on the frontier of the feral and feminine...a debut novel of astonishing imaginative power from the future queen of suspense. Elena Michaels slips out of bed, careful not to wake her boyfriend. He hates it when she disappears in the middle of the night, and can’t understand why any normal woman would crave the small hours of the morning, the dark unsaf ...

Industrial Magic

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:30:49 PST

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After Paige Winterbourne is ousted as leader of the American Coven of Witches, all she wants to do is hide under her duvet for a few months. Let the supernatural world manage without her, see if she cares...But fate, of course, has other plans. A murderer is on the loose - someone with superhuman skills. When Paige learns that the killer is targeting children, she realises she has to get involved ...

Haunted

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:30:49 PST

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Eve Levine - half-demon, black witch and devoted mother - has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life and can't be killed again - which comes in handy when you've made as many enemies as Eve. Yes, the afterlife isn't too bad - all she needs to do is find a way to communicate with her daughter Savannah and she'll be happy. But fate - or more exactly, the Fates - ...

Stolen

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:30:49 PST

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In the tradition of Laurell K. Hamilton, and just in time for Halloween, a deliciously wicked sequel to Bitten, from Canada’s new queen of suspense. Even though she’s the world’s only female werewolf, Elena Michaels is just a regular girl at heart -- with larger than normal appetites. She sticks to three feasts a day, loves long runs in the moonlight, and has a lover who is unbelievably frustra ...

No Humans Involved

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:30:49 PST

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No Humans Involved stars necromancer Jaime Vegas. She's on a television shoot in Brentwood, Los Angeles when weird things start to happen. Invisible hands brush her arms, she sees movements out of the corner of her eye, unintelligible fragments of words are whispered in her ear. Jaime's used to seeing the dead and hearing them clearly. But now, for the first time in her life, she knows what human ...

Another One Bites the Dust

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:21:36 PST

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I'm Jaz Parks. CIA assassin. Black Belt. Belly dancer at the Corpus Christi Winter Festival. The last is cover for my latest mission: retrieve a vital piece of biotechnology by killing the maniac who stole it. The thief is not your run-of-the-mill nut job, either. He's Chien-Lung, an obsessive vamp who's invulnerable while wearing his armour - which is constantly. Then there are the reavers, anci ...

Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:18:40 PST

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I'm Jaz Parks. My boss is Vayl, born in Romania in 1744. Died there too, at the hand of his vampire wife, Liliana. But that's ancient history. For the moment Vayl works for the C.I.A. doing what he does best--assassination. And I help. You could say I'm an Assistant Assassin. But then I'd have to kick your ass.Our current assignment seemed easy. Get close to a Miami plastic surgeon named Assan, a ...

Pandora's Breeches

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:14:57 PST

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'Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.' Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scientific education. Despite the efforts of Makin and her successors, women were excluded from universities until the end of the nineteenth century, yet they found other ways to participate in scientific ...

Rethinking Australian Citizenship

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:14:56 PST

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The notion of citizenship is now being taken up internationally as a way to rethink questions of social cohesion and social justice. In Europe the concept of national identity is under close scrutiny, while the pressures of globalizing markets and the power of transnational corporations everywhere raise questions about the true place and meaning of citizenship in civil society. In Australia, a tr ...

Philosophy Without Women

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:14:56 PST

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For most of its history, western philosophy has regarded woman as an imperfect version of man. Like so many aspects of western culture, this tradition builds on foundations laid in ancient Greece. Yet the first philosophers of antiquity were hardly agreed on first principles. Songe-M-A|ller shows how the Greeks made intellectual choices that would prove fateful for half of humankind.

Debating Cosmopolitics

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:14:50 PST

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Cosmopolitics, the concept of a world politics based on shared democratic values, is in an increasingly fragile state. While Western democracies insist ever more vehemently upon a maintenance of their privilegesfreedom of speech, security, wealthan increasing number of the world's inhabitants are under threat of poverty, famine and war. What is needed, the writers suggest, is a deliberate deci ...

Supernatural

Sun, 4 May 2008 14:36:28 PST

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This graphic novel prequel to the hit CW television show written by series Executive Producer, Peter Johnson, gives readers an incredible never-before-seen look into the mythos of the series. After witnessing the murder of his wife at the hands of a demon, patriarch John Winchester begins a journey into the dark world of the supernatural, seeking a way to hunt down and kill the creature that took ...

Australian Feminism

Sun, 4 May 2008 13:46:45 PST

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The distinctive features of Australian feminism, including diversity, engagement with the state, openness to new ideas, and connections with ideas and developments overseas are fully explored in this major new encyclopedic reference book.

Unpolished Gem

Sun, 4 May 2008 13:46:45 PST

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Perdido Street Station

Sun, 4 May 2008 13:46:38 PST

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The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants and arcane races throng the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night. For more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and artists, spies, magici ...

The Dispossessed

Sun, 4 May 2008 13:46:38 PST

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The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres. But Shevek's work is being stifled by jealous colleagues, so he travels to Anarres's sister-planet Urras, hoping to find more liberty and tolera ...

The Complete Persepolis

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:08:55 PST

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Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna fac ...

Blind Faith

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:40:36 PST

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Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where what a person 'feels' and 'truly believes' is protected under the law, while what is rational, even provable is condemned as heresy. A world where to question ignorance and intolerance is to commit a Crime against Faith. Imagine it. Or just wait until After The Flood. On a hot Sagittarian morning in the year 56 ATF, Trafford S ...

Perfume

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:32:51 PST

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The New Space Opera

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 22:29:25 PST

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Rethinking Feminist Ethics

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 20:17:15 PST

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The question of whether there can be a distinctively female ethics is one of the debates in gender studies, philosophy and psychology today. This text examines these debates and seeks to bridge the ground between women theorists disenchanted with aspects of traditional ethics and traditional theories that insist upon the need for some ethical principles.

Kimmie 66

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 20:17:07 PST

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Undead and Unwed

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 18:56:17 PST

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It's been a hell of a week for Betsy Taylor. First she loses her job. Then she's killed in a freak accident only to wake up in a morgue to discover she's a vampire. On the plus side, being undead sure beats the alternative. She now has superhuman strength and an unnatural effect on the opposite sex. But what Betsy can't handle is her new liquid diet...And whilst her mother and best-friend are jus ...

Beowulf

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 18:53:13 PST

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A special adaptation of the big-screen retelling of the ancient myth from filmmakers Neil Gaiman, Roger Avary and Robert Zemeckis! In the sixth century, the warrior Beowulf must do battle with the monster Grendel as well as Grendel's mother and a dragon who has a personal connection to the Scandanavian warrior. Adapted by Chris Ryall and Gabriel Rodriguez (Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show ...

Maximum Impact

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 9:49:13 PST

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In 1993, a legendary hacker brainstorms the ultimate terrorist attack in a members-only online chat room. On September 11, 2001, he sees his dark vision materializing into a murderous reality. Jeannie Reese, lead designer in the US government's Total Information Awareness program, begins a high-tech pursuit of this mythical figure of the Internet underground. But the hunt soon leads Jeannie down ...

Something Rotten

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 5:04:01 PST

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Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the C ...

The Well of Lost Plots

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 5:03:40 PST

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Lost in a Good Book

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 4:25:16 PST

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Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. The sinister Goliath Corporation wants its operative Jack Schitt out of the poem in which Thursday trapped him, an ...

The Eyre Affair

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 7:36:36 PST

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Meet Thursday Next, literary detective without equal, fear or boyfriend. There is another 1985, where London criminal gangs have moved into the lucrative literary market, and Thursday Next is on the trail of the new crime wave’s Mr Big. Acheron Hades has been kidnapping characters from work of fiction and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre is gone. Missing. Thursday sets out to find a way into ...

The Stone Key

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:54:02 PST

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There was a great crash and wood splintered... I had a brief glimpse of a group of Herder priests, bald and robed, peering at me, and then the sundered remnants of the locker door were torn aside and a rough hand reached in to hail me out by the hair. A Hendra captain stared into my face with eyes that burned with a fanatical fire above a thin nose and a lipless slash of a mouth... 'You will die ...

Designated Targets

Sun, 3 Feb 2008 14:11:33 PST

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Final Impact

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:15:22 PST

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The Earthsea Quartet

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:03:32 PST

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Blacklines

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:02:46 PST

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives on contemporary cultural issues are presented in this collection of critical essays by indigenous Australians. From museums and anthropology to land rights and feminism, a range of topics are covered that touch on both indigenous and mainstream Australian history. Discussions of identity politics, the concept of Aboriginality, and aesthetic repre ...

Master Lam's Step-by-Step Tai Chi

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:02:46 PST

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Tai Chi is the perfect discipline for people in today's busy society, as it requires no special clothing or equipment, can be performed in small spaces and is a powerful antidote to stress. "Master Lam's Step-by-Step Tai Chi" is the number-one beginner's guide to this ancient 'meditation in motion', as it features clear step-by-step instructions and new colour photographs of all the basic Tai Chi ...

The Best Australian Essays 2007

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:37:50 PST

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Heroes, Volume One

Sat, 8 Dec 2007 13:19:42 PST

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This stunning hardcover collects the amazing online comics based on the smash-hit, Emmy Award-nominated NBC show HEROES! This volume -- featuring a cover by comics legend Alex Ross -- also includes an introduction by Masi Oka (Hiro), all 34 chapters of Season One, and Tim Sale's artwork as seen on the show. The comics included have been written and illustrated by some of comics' and television's ...

Blue Dragon

Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:41:07 PST

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MARTIAL ARTS MAGIC DEMONS and SCIENCE The forces of Hell are poised to strike ...When Emma's relatives come to visit her they are totally freaked out by what they learn ...Emma's beloved John Chen is a 3000 year old Chinese god. Not only that John is becoming weaker by the day. Demons pursue him relentlessly hoping to use Emma and his child Simone as bargaining tools against him. Emma ...

Red Phoenix

Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:40:59 PST

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IMMORTALS MARTIAL ARTS GODS AND DEMONS The intrigue deepens as the demon threat closes around mortals and gods alike ...When Emma Donahoe took the position of nanny to John Chen's daughter Simone she never expected to be caring for the child of a Chinese god and she didn't expect that demons would want him dead. Nor has moving from nanny to partner in his heavenly realm made Emma's life any e ...

White Tiger

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:06:48 PST

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ACTION INTRIGUE DEMONS AND DRAGONS Kylie Chan creates a fast and furious story balanced between the celestial and the mortal the powerful and the innocent ...Emma Donahue has just started her new job as nanny to Simone the daughter of John Chen a very rich Hong Kong businessman. She understands that Simone may be a target for kidnappers but she does not expect to be drawn into a world of ma ...

Weapons of Choice

Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:23:28 PST

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Fat is a Feminist Issue

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:50:34 PST

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In one volume together with its bestselling sequel When it was first published, "Fat is a Feminist Issue" became an instant classic and it is as relevant today as it was then. Reflecting on our increasingly diet and body-obsessed society, Susie Orbach's new introduction explains how generations of women and girls are growing up absorbing the eating anxieties around them. In an age where women wan ...

Confessions of a Blabbermouth

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:50:17 PST

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Crash Deluxe

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:42:19 PST

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Parrish Plessis, sometime coup leader, paid assassin and ex-bodyguard, is finding life tough. Betrayed by the enigmatic Loyl Daac, and still under blood debt to the deadly Cabal Coomera, Parrish is trying to hold together the little empire she's inherited in the Tert, live up to the expectations of the many strays and waifs she's accumulated, and attempt to flush the high-tech parasite from her s ...

Code Noir

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:42:18 PST

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Jamon Mondo may be dead, but don't think that makes Parrish Plessis' life any less complicated. Sure, she's got a shape- changing psycho off her back, but at what cost? The media have a price on her head so high that every scumbag from the Tert to Viva City Central is out to get a piece of her. The neighbouring ganglords are getting antsy for a share of the territory she just liberated. And ...

The Firebrand

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:42:18 PST

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Blending archaeological fact and legend, the myths of the gods and the feats of heroes, Marion Zimmer Bradley breathes new life into the classic tale of the Trojan War-reinventing larger-than-life figures as living people engaged in a desperate struggle that dooms both the victors and the vanquished, their fate seen through the eyes of Kassandra-priestess, princess, and passionate woman with the ...

The Best American Erotica 2007

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:40:54 PST

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Erotic Reading That SatisfiesEvery Sexual AppetiteIn the fourteenth edition of this seductive series, erotica's veterans and up-and-coming new writers join forces to explore how tantalizing crossing the so-called Lolita gap between youth and middle age can be.Kathryn Harrison explores the story of a psychiatrist whose sexual affairs with a young client have an unexpected consequence; Dennis Coope ...

The Sandman: Fables and Reflections

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:40:50 PST

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The critically acclaimed THE SANDMAN: FABLES AND REFLECTIONS continues the fantastical epic of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, as he observes and interacts with an odd assortment of historical and fictional characters throughout time. Featuring tales of kings, explorers, spies, and werewolves, this book of myth and imagination delves into the dark dreams of Augustus Caesar, Marco Polo, Cain and Abe ...

The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:40:50 PST

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"Wake up, sir. We're here." It's a simple enough opening line--although not many would have guessed back in 1991 that this would lead to one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comics of the second half of the century. In Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman weaves the story of a man interested in capturing the physical manifestation of Death but who instead captures the King of Dreams ...

The Sandman: A Game of You

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:40:50 PST

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You may have heard somewhere that Neil Gaiman's Sandman series consisted of cool, hip, edgy, smart comic books. And you may have thought, "What the hell does that mean?" Enter A Game of You to confound the issue even more, while at the same time standing as a fine example of such a description. This is not an easy book. The characters are dense and unique, while their observations are, as alway ...

Nylon Angel

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:40:50 PST

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Nylon Angel introduces a startling new femme fatale and all-around bad girl. While trying to send her sadistic boss to death row, she finds herself sheltering a suspect in the murder of newsgirl Razz Retribution. In a world run by the media, the truth isn't relevant-it's bad for ratings. Which is why Parrish finds herself tagged for the murder-and up to her tricked-out leather tank top in trou ...

The Sandman: The Doll's House

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:40:50 PST

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The immense popularity of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series is due in large part to the development of his characters. In The Doll's House, the second book of the Sandman magnum opus, Gaiman continues to build the foundation for the larger story, introducing us to more of the Dream King's family of the Endless. The Sandman returns to his kingdom of the Dreaming after nearly a century of imprisonment, ...

The Sandman: Dream Country

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:40:50 PST

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The third book of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories. What's remarkable here (considering the publisher and the time that this was originally published) is that the main character of the book--the Sandman, King of Dreams--serves only as a minor character in each of these otherwise unrelated stories. (Actually, he's not even in the last story.) This signaled a coup ...

V for Vendetta

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:39:01 PST

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A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V for Vendetta takes place in a totalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fights political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts. It's ...

The Sandman: Worlds' End, Vol. 8

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:39:01 PST

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When Brant and Charlene wreck their car in a horrible snowstorm in the middle of nowhere, the only place they can find shelter is a mysterious little inn called World's End. Here they wait out the storm and listen to stories from the many travelers also stuck at this tavern. These tales exemplify Neil Gaiman's gift for storytelling--and his love for the very telling of them. This volume has almos ...

The Sandman: The Wake

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:39:01 PST

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In the last chapter of the SANDMAN saga, the Endless and all the dreamers come to celebrate the life and mourn the passing of the King of Dreams.

The Sandman: Season of Mists

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:39:01 PST

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In many ways, Season of Mists is the pinnacle of the Sandman experience. After a brief intermission of four short stories (collected as Dream Country) Gaiman continued the story of the Dream King that he began in the first two volumes. Here in volume 4, we find out about the rest of Dream's Endless family (Desire, Despair, Destiny, Delirium, Death, and a seventh missing sibling). We find out the ...

Girl Genius Volume 1

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:39:01 PST

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In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become an all-out war, Mad Science rules the World... with mixed success. At Transylvania Polygnostic University, Agatha Clay is a student with trouble concentrating and rotten luck. Dedicated to her studies but unable to build anything that actually works, she seems destined for a lackluster career as a minor lab assistant. But when the University is ...

Re-Gifters

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:39:01 PST

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Meet Jen Dik Seong -- or "Dixie" as she's known to her friends. Korean American, dirt poor, and living on the ragged edge of LA's Koreatown, Dixie's only outlet is the ancient martial art of hapkido. In fact, she's on the verge of winning a championship -- until she falls for fellow hapkido fan/California surfer boy Adam and gets thrown spectacularly off her game. As she struggles to win t ...

Clubbing

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:38:58 PST

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A spoiled, rebellious London girl takes on the stuffy English countryside in CLUBBING. The crime: Getting caught with a fake I.D. at a posh London nightclub. The punishment: Spending the summer at her Grandparent's stuffy country club. But Charlotte "Lottie" Brook, best known for her mile-high platforms, an expendable wi-fi account and an unbridled passion for classic lit, will end up ...

The Plain Janes

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:36:41 PST

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Noted young adult novelist Cecil Castellucci and artist Jim Rugg launch MINX with THE PLAIN JANES, a story about four girls named Jane who sit at the reject table at lunch. When transfer student Jane is forced to move from the confines of Metro City to Suburbia, she thinks her life is over. But there in the lunch room at the reject table she finds her tribe: three other girls named Jane. ...

Backlash

Sat, 8 Sep 2007 20:03:49 PST

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What has made women unhappy in the last decade? Faludi writes 'is not their equality' - which they don't yet have - but the rising pressure to halt, even worse, women's quest for that equality.

Surveys in Social Research

Thu, 6 Sep 2007 12:41:06 PST

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This volume provides clear advice on how to plan, conduct and analyse social surveys. It emphasizes the links between theory and research, the logic and interpretation of statistics and the practices of social research. This fifth edition has been completely rewritten and much expanded, and contains new examples, and data and extensive lists of web resources. It also includes new material on: tec ...

Even After All This Time

Thu, 6 Sep 2007 12:40:42 PST

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Growing up in Tehran in the 1970s, Afschineh Latifi and her sister and two brothers enjoyed a life of luxury. Their father had worked his way from nothing to become a colonel in the Shah's army. In 1979 he was arrested by members of the newly installed Khomeni regime. Fearing for their safety the children were sent to the west.