University of Chicago Press
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 2: The Day of the Scorpion Volume 2
$26.00 Add to cartIn The Day of the Scorpion, Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World War II. With force and subtlety, he recreates both private ambition and perversity, and the politics of … [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction #2
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 493
- Publish Date: May 22 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743411
- Language: English
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The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
$22.50 Read moreWith The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the natu… [more below]
- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823849
- Language: English
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The Rare Coin Score: A Parker Novel
$17.00 Add to cartWhen it comes to heists, Parker believes in some cardinal rules. On this job, he breaks two of them: never bring a dame along–especially not one you like–and never, ever, work with amateurs. Neverth
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226771075
- Language: English
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The Handle
$17.00 Add to cartIn The Handle, Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speedboats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast. With double-crosses and double-dealings from the word go
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226771067
- Language: English
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Staying on
$21.00 Add to cartIn this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating he… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743497
- Language: English
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The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season
$15.00 Read more“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.”
Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stre- Series: Year of Quotes
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 022662496X
- Language: English
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Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
$18.00 Add to cartA year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision-and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories … [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 22 2013
- ISBN10: 022605487X
- Language: English
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The Voice Imitator
$15.00 Add to cartThe Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our times. At once pessimistic and exhilarating, Bernhard’s work depicts the corrupt… [more below]
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0226044025
- Language: English
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Butcher’s Moon
$18.00 Read moreStark’s antihero Parker attempts to retrieve money he had to leave in an amusement park, but the money is gone. He enlists Alan Grofield to assist, but when Grofield is taken hostage, Parker assembles… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0226770958
- Language: English
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The Chinese Maze Murders: A Judge Dee Mystery
$13.00 Add to cartPoisoned plums, a cryptic scroll picture, passionate love letters, and a hidden murderer with a penchant for torturing and killing women lead Judge Dee to the heart of the Governor’s garden maze and t… [more below]
- Series: Judge Dee Mysteries
- Author: Van Gulik, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226848787
- Language: English
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The Blackbird
$17.00 Add to cartDonald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent
- Series: Alan Grofield Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0226770427
- Language: English
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 4: A Division of Spoils Volume 4
$23.00 Add to cartAfter exploiting India’s divisions for years, the British depart in such haste that no one is prepared for the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1947. The twilight of the raj turns bloody. Against the backdrop of… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction #4
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 22 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743446
- Language: English
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Breakout: A Parker Novel
$19.00 Add to cartTogether at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2017
- ISBN10: 022650820X
- Language: English
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Deadly Edge
$17.00 Read moreDeadly Edge bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes south. Soon Parker finds himself–and his woman, Claire–menaced by a pair of sadistic, strung-out killer
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0226770915
- Language: English
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Dirty Money: A Parker Novel
$19.00 Add to cartTogether at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 2017
- ISBN10: 022648615X
- Language: English
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The Damsel
$17.00 Add to cartDonald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: April 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0226770362
- Language: English
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 3: The Towers of Silence Volume 3
$23.00 Add to cartIndia, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel fa軋de of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction #3
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 399
- Publish Date: May 22 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743438
- Language: English
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Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse
$15.00 Read more“When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over–like this world, and some of the people in it.”
In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would be- Author: Nersessian, Anahid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 022682652X
- Language: English
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The Outfit
$17.00 Add to cartThey wanted Parker dead–and a late-night visit from a hitman proved they meant business. Now Parker plans to get even–dead even. Armed with a new face and his usual iron will, Parker is declaring a … [more below]
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226771016
- Language: English
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The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of The Journey to the West
$20.00 Add to cartAnthony C. Yu’s celebrated translation of The Journey to the West reinvigorated one of Chinese literature’s most beloved classics for English-speaking audiences when it first appeared thirty years ago
- Author: Yu, Anthony C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0226971562
- Language: English
