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Condition: clean copy.Content: In a seedy Hollywood bar, a whiskey-loving barman is struggling to compile his notes for a novel. Drawn ever further into the nocturnal world of the bar's clientele of drifters and losers - with their jealous squabbles, delusions, and casual sex - he comes to realize that escape offers the only chance of survival.168 pages.

Condition: clean copy, dust jacket in excellent condition, protected by plastic cover.Content: Slaves were important to the Northwest Coast economies for their labor and for their value as major items of exchange, Although these were small-scale societies, lacking complex political institutions, the richness and complexity of their cultural systems has been well documented. The author finds that slavery played a major role in more famous and frequently analyzed Northwest Coast cultural forms such as the potlatch and the spectacular art style and ritual systems that were a primary part of elite activity. Slavery, he says not only supported but made possible the elaborate ranking and stratification system and allowed the elite of each community to participate in intercommunity elite activities as well as to dominate in their home communities.380 pages, notes, references, index.

This volume is the author's considered response to the questions raised in The Outsider. Based on the remarkable case of Brad Absetz, it takes issue with the false despair of the rationalist and presents a completely new vision of human potential. Index, 144 pages.

The author brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Africans, Irish-Scots, Franco-Canadians and many others, all linked by their successive ownership of a simple green accordion. The music they make is their last link with the past - voice for their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance.

'Acedia & me shows how the numbing repetitions of everyday life...can lead to a sense of hopelessness....And gently, with no fanfare, [Norris] preaches the practicality of love - healing, empowering, sustaining. What demon, however insidious, can compete with that? O, The Oprah Magazine

Adrian Mole has at last reached physical maturity, but he can't help roaming the pages of his diary like an untamed adolescent. Finally given the heave ho by Pandora, he seeks solace in the arms of Bianca, a qualified hydraulic engineer masquerading as a waitress. Between his dishwashing job and completing his epic novel Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland Adrian hopes the fame and fortune will not keep him waiting much longer.

The American classic tale of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley.

Condition: clean copy.Content: When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation in the works, they are primed for action - but what can they do? They know nothing about the attack: the what, where, or when. They have no sources in Al Qaeda, and it's impossible to plant someone, impossible, unless...The Afgan is Izmat Khan, a five-year prisoner of Guantanamo Bay and a former senior commander of the Taliban. The Afgan is also Colonel Mike Martin, a 25-year veteran of war zones around the world, a dark, lean man born and raided in Iraq. In and attempt to stave off disaster, the intelligence agencies will try to do what no one has ever done before - pass off a Westerner as an Arab among Arabs - pass off Martin as the trusted Khan.464 pages.

Condition: clean copy, with slip case.Content: Limited edition, Copy #525 of 1000 copies. Stories of hunting in Africa, in the Norther Frontier District of Kenya of the late 1950's.280 pages, illustrated.

Condition: clean copy, some wear on dust jacket.Content: This is the narrative of the trip In 1957 by Nicholas Mosley and Hugo Charteris, two novelists, of a journey by car from Dakar to Lagos across West Africa. Their route took them partly through the progressive and nationalist areas of the coast, but more especially to the tribes of the interior; so that they seemed 'to be moving up and down the country not only in space, but also in centuries, as if we were travelers on a time machine.'224 pages.

The novel centers on Fergus, owner of the family business, Goodlake's Deli. Although married to Annie whom he loves, Fergus is having an affair with a much younger woman - a relationship that starts carefree but eventually, like a slow-building earthquake, destabilizes and collapses the foundations of everything in his life.

Condition: clean copy.Content: This book takes a straightforward look at the questions we all have about dying. It examines death myths from different cultures, the science behind dead bodies, and the ways people around the world honor their loved ones who have died.88 pages, glossary, resources, index, richly illustrated with colour photographs.

Condition: dust jacket in excellent condition, as is the book itself.Content: non-fiction, history. The author provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of Japanese Buddhist modernism by focusing on a 50 year period from 188501935, during which the tradition sought various ways of reforming itself in relation to domestic sociopolitical challenges and the impact of Western influences and ideologies. This exceptionally well-researched and eminently readable volume brings to light many previously overlooked sources cast in terms of global perspectives.404 pages, notes, bibliography, index.

The novel recounts the exotic practices and perverse pleasures of Duc Jean Floressas des Esseintes, a wealthy aesthete in search of an elusive ideal. In his neurotic sensibility, his passion for novelty, Des Esseintes foreshadows every unhappy, solitary hero the the 20th centure; he epitomized the spiritual anguish of modern times.

The renown of Agnes Deans Cameron - a trailblazer in the early days of educational standards in British Columbia, a bold and undaunted traveller, and one of the most well-known writers of her time - has been shadowed in the annals of history. Now, over 100 years later, her life and accomplishments are brought to light in this comprehensive biography of an outstanding woman.

Set in insular upper-class society of New York City in the 1870's, the novel tells the story of Newland Archer, a young lawyer who plans to marry the beautiful debutante May Welland. On the eve of their engagement, he meets May's coussin, Countess Ellen Olenska, who has fled Europe and an unhappy marriage. Ellen's charm and worldliness stir in Archer a longing for life beyond his restrictive upper-class extistence. He cannot think of leaving May, yet he continues to pursue Ellen.

Set in a small town Ontario and spanning three generations, Wright's acclaimed novel of Howard Wheeler's search for self-understanding is a journey through the past, both real and imagined, a brilliant gathering together of the many threads of emotional inheritance that make up a life.

Sound clean copy illustrated throughout with b and w photos 72pp

Illustrated paper over boards. Light edge wear. Sound clean copy.

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