Fine in dj. Orig. printed in England under the name Anthony Morton. 1st U.S. ed.

The Baron and the Chinese Puzzle

Morton, Anthony (John Creasey)

Scribner

Very good hardback with jacket. (1969,Collins Publishers)

An artist in Africa;

SHEPHERD, David

Murder is the result when Perce Spender, a common, unassuming worker, unexpectedly finds himself the Earl of Ellesmere and owner of a grand estate

Corpse in a Gilded Cage

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

BARNARD, ROBERT

Mystery

Final Cut

Wright,Eric

Death By Degrees

Death by Degrees

City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World

Politics & Social Sciences

Rybczynski, Witold

Sociology

A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century [ A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century by Rybczynski, Witold ( Author ) Hardcover Jun- 1999 ] Hardcover Jun- 08- 1999

A Clearing in the Distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy-exasperating, irresponsible, and beguiling-does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors-yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance, and remarkable forgiveness. Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of a Childhood

FRANK MCCOURT

Historical

'This book dances with sunlight and colour, faded patinas and shifting standards, with humour and knowledge making easy companions' Mail on Sunday The monastery of San Giovanni has few treasures -- only a painting doubtfully attributed to Caravaggio. So Flavia di Stefano of Rome's Art Squad is surprised to receive a tip-off that a raid is being planned. The raid happens, but the thieves are disturbed and snatch the wrong painting, a curious icon of the Madonna, remarkable only for the affection in which it is held by the local population. Or is this what the thieves wanted all along? Does the legend of the icon's miraculous powers hold any clue? And who murdered the French dealer found in the Tiber soon afterwards? Flavia, with the help of English art dealer Jonathan Argyll, immerses herself in the intricacies and intrigues of monastic and police politics in an attempt to solve the double mystery, but the solution that awaits her is murkier and more complex than anyone could have known.

Death and Restoration

Pears, Iain.

A blind man spends his days roaming the beaches of Kenya collecting shells, classifying them by feeling their whorls, spines and folds in his fingers. A young woman discovers that she can explore the inner world of an animal’s mind by touching its freshly dead body. A refugee from Liberia, who cannot escape the horrors that he has witnessed, finds salvation in the clandestine act of burying the hearts of beached whales.\nIn The Shell Collector Antony Doerr illuminates both the riotous dangers of the natural world and the rocky terrain of the human heart.

THE SHELL COLLECTOR

Literature & Fiction

Anthony Doerr

Contemporary

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