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Bob Reiss / Frequent Flyer: One Plane, One Passenger, and the Spectacular Feat of Commercial Flight (Hardback)

 A look at commercial airlines discusses the jobs of pilots, mechanics, plane designers, traffic controllers, dispatchers, schedulers, weather forecasters, salesman, labor leaders, and others and recounts anecdotes about air travel. 30,000 first...

R.J. Ellory / The Devil And The River (Hardback)

 When the rains came they found the girl's face. Just her face. At least that was how it appeared...On a perfect summer evening in 1954, sixteen-year-old Nancy Denton walked into the woods of her hometown of Whytesburg, Mississippi. She was never...

Bassam Tibi / Conflict and War in the Middle East: From Interstate War to New Security (Hardback)

 Few studies of Middle East wars go beyond a narrative of events and most tend to impose on this subject the rigid scheme of superpower competition. The Gulf War of 1991, however, challenges this view of the Middle East as an extension of the global...

Graham Donaldson & Maris Ross / The Complete "Why Do We Say That?" (Hardback)

 Examines the origin of familiar phrases such as "currying favour", and "stealing one's thunder". The book attempts to explain the origin of over 180 phrases. This book brings together all the material included in two previous books, "Why Do We Say...

Loni Coombs / You're Perfect ... and Other Lies Parents Tell: The Ugly Truth about Spoiling Your Kids (Hardback)

 Think you’re doing your kids a favor telling them what perfect angels they are? Think again.Former criminal prosecutor, mother and stepmother Loni Coombs has witnessed too many times the shockingly negative effects of what most parents feel...

Alan Anderson / Muck, Sweat & Gears: A Celebration of Cycling (Hardback)

 This revised and updated edition includes stories Bono's cycling accident in Central Park; the wedding of Solange Knowles and Alan Ferguson, when they rode to church on white bicycles; the London 2012 Olympic Games and 2014 Commonwealth Games...

Kawai Strong Washburn / Sharks In The Time Of Saviours (Hardback)

 in 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly...

Clarke and Spurrier's Fine Wine Guide (Hardback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Christian Thompson / Sing No Sad Songs ( A P.I Chris O'Brien Mystery) (Hardback)

 New Year spent with his new girlfriend, Debra, has put a smile on the wise-cracking private-eye Chris O'Brien's face. But the calm can only last so long, and it's not long before a trip to London gets the PI involved in a hunt to find the leaders...

Stephen Hunter / Hot Springs (Hardback)

 In the summer of 1946, the most wide-open town in America is Hot Springs, Arkansas, a city of ancient, legendary corruption. While the pilgrims take the cure in the mineral-rich 142-degree water that bubbles from the earth, the brothels and casinos...

Mickey Zucker Reichert / The Western Wizard (Hardback)

 The Wizards - down through the centuries four masters of magic have struggled to maintain a balance of power in the troubled Northlands. But now the mortal world teeters on the brink of the foretold Great War, and even the Wizards' sorceries may...

David Lozell Martin / Bring Me Children (Hardback)

From the bestselling author of Lie to Me, a supercharged gothic thriller that plunges an emotionally unstable TV newscaster into a nest of evil in the backwoods of West Virginia. This story of a twisted doctor who is killing babies introduces a bizarre...

Mickey Zucker Reichert / Beyond Ragnarok (Hardback)

 And what hope was there for mere humans when Odin, the leader of the gods, was himself doomed to die in the upcoming battle? Yet Odin had long planned to cheat his fate. His chosen weapon to slay his nemesis, Fenris Wolf, was the demigod Colbey...

Shariann Lewitt / Rebel Sutra (Hardback)

 The world of Maya, consisting of two distinct social classes, the Changed, genetically altered for superiority, and the colonists of Babelion, a worker class, finds its unquestioned assumptions threatened when the brilliant colonist Arsen meets...

Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback)

 The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of...

Steven Barnes / Zulu Heart (Hardback)

 This book is the sequel to Lion's BloodZulu Heart returns to the 19th Century of Steven Barnes's justly acclaimed novel Lion's Blood, a brilliant alternate history in which black Africans have colonized the New World with white...

Michael Simon / Dirty Sally (Hardback)

 A New Yorker by birth, police detective Dan Reles fled to Texas at the age of fifteen when his father’s “friendship” with the mob turned sour. Now a member of Austin’s homicide unit, he’s the department’s only...

Nick Tosches / Trinities (Hardback)

 The Mafia, Asian drug lords, and Wall Street financiers wage an all-out war for control of the world's multi-billion-dollar heroin trade, while a lawman fights a battle for his own soul     All of our books are second hand, and while...

Mickey Zucker Reichert / The Children of Wrath (Hardback)

 In the final installment of the best-selling Renshai Chronicles, the King of Pudar, convinced that his son is the father of the child the Renshai Kevral is carrying, threatens to make war on Be+a7arn unless she surrenders the babe...

Barb Hendee / Traitor to the Blood - A Novel of the Noble Dead (Hardback)

   Born a half-breed to an elven mother and human father, Leesil was raised in the Warlands as assassin, spy, and slave to Lord Darmouth, ruler to one of its independent provinces. But Leesil's mother trained him too well, and he used his...

Kathleen McGowan / The Expected One ( Magdalene Line - Book 1) (Hardback)

 In the rocky wilds of the French Pyrenees, rests a series of scrolls, written in the first century by Mary Magdalene. These startling documents hold the power to redefine the events and characters of the New Testament, and can only be uncovered by...

Danah Zohar / SQ: Connecting With Our Spiritual Intelligence (Hardback)

 A radical new exploration of the human need for meaning and values.At the beginning of the 20th century, as psychologists discovered ways and means to measure intelligence, Aristotle's definition of man as "a rational animal" developed into an...

Tananarive Due / The Living Blood (Hardback)

 Struggling to rebuild her life after the disappearance of her husband, David, and the death of her older daughter Kira at his hand, Jessica Jacobs-Wolde is stunned to discover that her second daughter, Fana, has inherited her father's immortality...

Jim Kelly / The Water Clock (Hardback)

 In the bleak, snowbound landscape of the Cambridgeshire Fens, a man's mutilated body is discovered in a block of ice. High up on Ely Cathedral a second body is discovered, grotesquely riding an ancient stone gargoyle. The decaying corpse, it seems,...

David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback)

 Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The...

John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback)

 The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing.     All of our...

Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback)

 Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that...

Michael A. Black / Windy City Knights ( A Ron Shade Novel) (Hardback)

 How much do you owe a former love? Against his better judgment, private detective Ron Shade lets Paula back into hs life, but then she left again, without so much as a good-bye kiss. Now she's turned up dead.Paula's cousin doesn't think her death...

Loren D. Estleman / Something Borrowed, Something Black (Hardback)

 Peter Macklin, contract killer--retired--has found himself the perfect woman. He's convinced young, beautiful, innocent Laurie that he is simply a salesman from Detroit, and they're passionately honeymooning in Los Angeles. . . . until the phone...

Dirk Seifert / Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment: How to Create a Supply Chain Advantage (Hardback)

 The process known as Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) is supply chain management taken to the extreme. The first book to document this cutting-edge technique that's been adapted by companies like Wal-Mart, Pillsbury,...

Andi Dorfman / It's Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak into Happily Never After (Hardback)

   Andi Dorfman, the beloved finalist of season eighteen of The Bachelor who infamously rejected Juan Pablo and went on to star on season ten of The Bachelorette, dishes about what it’s like to live out a love story—and its...

Wilfried Martens / Europe : I Struggle, I Overcome (Hardback)

 Wilfried Martens is one of the most distinguished politicians to come from Belgium in the last ffty years. In his long political career, he has always fought for the implementation of his goals with passion and deep conviction. What has to be...

Alyse Nelson / Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change Around the World (Hardback)

 How women around the world are leading powerful changeWomen's progress is global progress. Where there is an increase in women's university enrollment rates, women's earnings, and maternal health, and a reduction in violence against women, we see...

Katie Hewett / 60 Classic Indoor Games (Hardback)

 Fun indoor games for the whole family to enjoy. Switch off your screens, gather the family, open up 60 Classic Indoor Games and remember how simple it is to play and laugh together. Inside this wonderful little book are new, classic and beloved...

E-Tales Three: More of the Best & Worst of Internet Humour (Hardback)

   Spam, spam spam, spam... If you're still hungry for laughter, here's yet another spicy helping of frivolous forwardings. For the third time, the best & worst of Internet humor is coming your way, with more sick tales of personal injury...

Norman Lebrecht / The Game of Opposites : A Novel (Hardback)

 From the author of The Song of Names (winner of the 2002 Whitbread First Novel Award), a powerful new novel that explores the reverberations of love and hate in the story of one man’s unlikely survival.In an unnamed country at the end of a...

Carol Shields / Dressing Up for the Carnival (Hardback)

 A new collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry's Party (winner of the Orange prize). In every town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife' s lace-trimmed night...

T. Jefferson Parker / L.A. Outlaws (Hardback)

 Los Angeles is gripped by the exploding celebrity of Allison Murietta, her real identity unknown, a modern-day Jesse James with the compulsion to steal beautiful things, the vanity to invite the media along, and the conscience to donate much of her...

Helga Schneider / Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS (Hardback)

 A powerful memoir in which Helga Schneider describes her relationship and final encounter with her mother, a former SS guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau.In 1998, Schneider is summoned to her 90 year-old mother’s nursing home in Vienna. The last...

Salman Rushdie / Quichotte (Hardback)

 A dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age--an epic tour de force that is as much an homage to an immortal work of literature as it is to the quest for love and family, by Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman...

Nancy Winters / How to Train a Man (Hardback)

 Despite historical tendencies, there is still much to recommend a man over other popular companions such as cats, hamsters, tropical fish or even flatmates. But training one is no easy task. This is a humorous guide to showing you how...

Cameron Spence / Sabre Squadron (Hardback)

 In the first week of Operation Desert Storm, four SAS convoys slipped across the Saudi border into Iraq. Their mission was to destroy Saddam's mobile scud missiles. The author of this book recounts in graphic detail the untold story of the SAS...

Nicholas Fisk / Dark Sun, Bright Sun (Hardback)

Originally Published 1986  SF FOR YOUNGER READERSHIP   Dark Sun Bright Sun (1986) – young protagonists must deal with issues of imperialism on a colony planet orbiting two suns – adroitly conceals harsh realities under a...

George Routledge / The Well Bred Person's Book of Etiquette (Hardback)

 Before the days of unruly teenagers, 'ladettes' and a public obsessed with scandal, there existed a time of gentility and manners. Setting the standards of propriety was The Well-Bred Person's Book of Etiquette, the epitome of politeness consulted...

Richard Benson / Dad's Wit and Wisdom - Quips and Quotes for Fantastic Fathers (Hardback)

 You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.' Franklin P. JonesWhen your precious offspring have hijacked the car and there’s a hole in your wallet the size of the Grand Canyon, kick back and relax with...

Kate Ashton / Mother and Child Companion (Hardback)

This gift book celebrates the most precious person in everyone's life and provides insight into how this role is cherished, in our society and others, through stones, poems, anecdotes, artwork, photos and illustrations.     All of our books...

Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback)

 How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,...

Sarah Williams / Darn It !: Traditional Skills That EveryoneShould Know (Hardback)

 Have you ever wished you could sew on a button, get out a stain, or perform other helpful tasks?From baking bread and making jam to ironing a shirt and treating a sting, this book features all the essential skills that everyone should learn to make...

Patrick Moran / Mayo God Help Us (Hardback)

  Mayo God Help Us is a multiple love story set in Co Mayo. Princess is a troubled girl, who had a traumatic childhood experience, is drawn to Hermit in his humble abode (an ancient church and burial ground). Princess is also attracted to Vet, a...

Paula Reid / World's Most Dangerous Jobs (Hardback)

 Complete with a foreword by Bear Grylls, this book questions the real-life practicalities of these career paths When you're stuck at your desk day after day, do you find yourself daydreaming about a glamorous occupation, such as a race car...

Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback)

 The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers...

Karin Slaughter / Broken (Hardback)

   When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant, a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes, it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It's a brutal, cold-blooded...