New Hardback Books

Bob Wise / Raising the Grade (Hardback)

Raising the Grade: How High School Reform Can Save Our Youth and Our Nation   Written by Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and current president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, Raising the Grade describes the alarming...

John F. Kelly / Tainting Evidence (Hardback)

John F. Kelly, Phillip Wearne Tainting Evidence: Behind the Scandals at the FBI Crime Lab Since the 1930s, the FBI's crime-fighting reputation has been built, in large part, on its forensic laboratory. In 1997 that reputation was shattered by an...

Toni Morrison / Love (Hardback)

Love is the story of Bill Cosey, a charismatic but dead hotel owner. Or rather, it is about the people around him, all affected by his life — even long after his death. The main characters are Christine, his granddaughter and Heed, his widow...

Jeremy Clay / The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton And Other Singular Tales from the Victorian Press (Hardback)

The Bunny Suicides of the 1880s – extraordinary, bizarre and often morbidly funny stories from the depths of the Victorian press.HOLIDAYMAKER FIGHTS OFF AFRICAN LION IN WELSH HOTEL ROOMMAN SWALLOWS MOUSE AND DIESWIFE DRIVEN MAD BY HUSBAND TICKLING...

Joel Levy / 101 Problems for the Armchair Scientist (Hardback)

Is running always faster than walking? If you froze your hand in liquid nitrogen and hit it with a hammer, would it shatter? Could you survive in a falling elevator by jumping as it hit the ground? Why can’t a fly get out of the toilet? This...

Joni Eareckson Tada / A Place of Healing (Hardback)

A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty In this eloquent account of her current struggle with physical pain, Joni Eareckson Tada offers her perspective on divine healing, God’s purposes, and...

Lt. Col. A. L. D'Endrody / Give Your Horse a Chance (Hardback)

Representing a lifetime of experience, this book has long been regarded as a masterpiece and a source of information, inspiration, and wisdom for serious riders and competitors.       This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Robert Hughes / Nothing If Not Critical (Hardback)

Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists The most controversial art critic in America--author of the bestselling The Fatal Shore and The Shock of the New--looks with love and loathing, wit and authority, at art and artists...

Norman Lewis / A Quiet Evening (Hardback)

A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis   Collected here, from a period of nearly five decades, are thirty-six of Norman Lewis s best articles. In each, his writing crackles with poker-faced wit and stylistic brilliance. As a...

Ron Marz / Skylanders: The Kaos Trap (Hardback)

Join Spyro, Pop Fizz, Trigger Happy, Stealth Elf, and more of your favorite characters in these brand new Skylanders adventures!Discover the history of the Trap Masters and Kaos’ plot for Traptanium that ties right into the new game.   This...

Philip Larkin / The Whitsun Weddings (Hardback)

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader. The late John Betjeman...

Janet Brown / Prime Mimicker (Hardback)

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Dexterity Books Editorial / Dwell (Hardback)

Dwell: Celebrating the Arrival of Advent at Home Celebrating the Arrival of Advent at HomeWith cozy images and biblical truths, this full-color Advent gift book ushers in the arrival of this sacred holiday season, guiding readers in welcoming Christ...

Skloot Rebecca / The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardback)

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Michael P. Flynn / Medical Doctor of Many Parts (Hardback)

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Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor (Hardback)

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History From London’s inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the story of how Churchill’s eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own. On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill’s...

Philip Roth / American Pastoral (Hardback)

American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate American's rise and fall - of a strong, confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces of social disorder. Seymour "Swede" Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man,...

Lorraine McIlrath / Higher Education and Civic Engagement (Hardback)

Provides an original and challenging contribution to contemporary debates on the civic purpose of higher education, exploring its manifestations through practices of teaching and research. Offers critical perspectives on the role of higher education...

Jeanette Winterson / The World and Other Places (Hardback)

In this, her first collection of short stories, Winterson reveals all the facets of her extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, she creates physical and psychological worlds that are at once familiar and yet...

Kaczkow Jarosaw / The history of Poland (Hardback)

The main idea behind The history of Poland A National and State between West and East was to combine both scientific and educational qualities as well as enable researchers and students to establish contact with the history of both the nation and the...

C.K. Gunsalus / The College Administrator’s Survival Guide (Hardback)

Late one afternoon, as you are organizing your new office as department chair, one of the senior members of the department drops by. He affably informs you of his plans for the coming semester: that contrary to the published class schedule, he only...

Elliot Perlman / Seven Types of Ambiguity (Hardback)

An epic novel about obsessive love in an age of obsessive materialism, Seven Types of Ambiguity is at once a psychological thriller, a social critique, and a literary adventure of breathtaking scope.It is a story of impulse and paralysis, empty...

David Lebedoff / The Same Man (Hardback)

The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War One climbed to the very top of the social ladder, the other chose to live among tramps. One was a celebrity at twenty-three, the other virtually unknown until his dying days. One was...

E.R. Chamberlin / The Bad Popes (Hardback)

Let yourself be swept up by this colorful, panoramic story of seven men who ruled the Church of Rome at seven critical periods in the 600 years leading up to the Reformation. During this age of grandeur & corruption, popes led armies, made love...

Joel Levy / The Little Book of Conspiracies (Hardback)

The Little Book of Conspiracies: 50 Reasons to Watch Your Back Harmless paranoia, or 50 reasons why they’re really out to get us? You decide. In a world where conspiracy theories have never been so popular, it’s difficult to know who...

Rachel McKenna / Step into Nature (Hardback)

Step into Nature: A Chronicle of Irish Nature through the Year Step into Nature is a week-by-week Irish nature diary that serves as a personal invitation to explore the wonders of the natural world. Author and naturalist Rachel McKenna guides...

Ignatius of Loyola / Thoughts of St. Ignatius Loyola for Every Day of the Year (Hardback)

St. Ignatius Loyola is one of the great shapers of the Catholic tradition. The Spanish soldier turned pilgrim for Christ bequeathed not only an extraordinary institutional legacy but also a distinctive spirituality that today nourishes men and women...

Timothy Hugh Barrett / Zen (Hardback)

Zen: The Reason of Unreason       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Charlotte Bingham / Out of the Blue (Hardback)

A romantic and suspenseful read with a fresh, contemporary setting.When Amadea Fontaine wakes upon her thirtieth birthday to find a naked man in the spare room of her immaculate flat, she is horrified, not least because — suffering from her first...

Tom Gabbay / The Berlin Conspiracy (Hardback)

Jack Teller #1 Jack Teller is a former CIA operative who quit the Company after the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961. Living a relatively quiet life in South Florida, Teller finds his peaceful retirement interrupted when his former mentor and boss, Sam...

Jack Russell / Dogs Gone Bad (Hardback)

These pups are barking crazy! Every dog lover will lap up these true tales of imperfect pooches. In 1924, a Labrador was sentenced to life in Pennsylvania Penitentiary for murdering the governor’s cat. (He was framed.) In 2006, a woman in...

Lucy Diamond / The Promise (Hardback)

The Promise is a unforgettable story about finding love, hope and joy in even the darkest moments, by the Sunday Times bestseller Lucy Diamond, author of The Secrets of Happiness.When faced with the sudden death of his brother, Dan’s mission is...

Parragon Books / Granny's Favourites (Hardback)

* Contains over 90 essential recipes * Inspiring photography of every dish to set your taste buds tingling * Clear and easy-to-follow ingredients list and method for each recipe        This book is second hand, and while...

Jo Marchant / Cure (Hardback)

Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's surprising ability to heal the bodyHave you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident?...

Lisa Gardner / Right Behind You (Hardback)

FBI Profiler #7 Lisa Gardner's latest thriller following her runaway hit Find Her takes her wildly popular brand of suspense to new heights.Eight years ago, Sharlah May Nash's older brother beat their drunken father to death with a...

Joe Sweeney / Networking Is a Contact Sport (Hardback)

Networking Is a Contact Sport: How Staying Connected and Serving Others Will Help You Grow Your Business, Expand Your Influence-or Even Land Your Next Job How did Joe Sweeney......get Bob Costas to come to Milwaukee (in the middle of winter)?.....

M.J. Arlidge / All Fall Down (Hardback)

Helen Grace #9 "You have one hour to live." Those are the only words on the phone call. Then they hang up. Surely, a prank? A mistake? A wrong number? Anything but the chilling truth... That someone is watching, waiting, working to take your life in...

Jed Rubenfeld / The Death Instinct (Hardback)

Freud #2   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we...

Robert Descharnes / Dali - The Paintings (Hardback)

Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was one of the century’s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics―and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. He was one of the first to apply the...

Ace Atkins / Don't Let the Devil Ride (Hardback)

S.A. Cosby meets Don Winslow in the breakout thriller from New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins. A Memphis woman hires a PI to find her missing husband, only to discover that he is involved in a dangerous web of international...

John Gribbin / 13.8 (Hardback)

13.8: The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything The twentieth century gave us two great theories of physics. The general theory of relativity describes the behaviour of very large things; quantum theory the behaviour...

Helen Steiner Rice / To Mother With Love (Hardback)

'The priceless gift of life is loveFor with the help of God aboveLove can change the human raceAnd make this world a better place.'Helen Steiner Rice reflects on just what it means to be a mother, in the inspirational poetry that has spoken profoundly to...

Fernando Pessoa / The Book of Disquiet (Hardback)

This journal by the Portuguese modernist poet explores themes such as multiple selves, social isolation, and the preeminent value of art       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Mother Teresa / Mother Teresa: In My Own Words (Hardback)

The legendary Mother Teresa's work for—and among—the poor has become the yardstick by which the entire world measures compassion, generosity, and selflessness. Her words and actions have inspired millions of people from every race and...

Thomas Hardy / Hardy: Poems (Hardback)

Distringuished as both a great novelist and a great poet. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) had a writing career which spanned more than sixty years, concentrating first on prose and then, after publishing his last novel in 1895, on verse. A master of the...

Vivian Head / Allotment Gardening (Hardback)

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Ernest Drake / The Winged Serpent (Hardback)

Dragonology Pocket Adventures #4 In Dragonology Pocket Adventures, YOU are the hero, an intrepid dragonologist sent on a variety of dangerous quests. Read the story and make choices that will lead to FAME, GLORY, and conservation and protection...

Terry Pratchett / Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett (Hardback)

‘I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.’The most quotable writer of our time, Terry Pratchett’s unique brand of wit made him both a...

Stephen Cordwell / Very Rude Jokes (Hardback)

Rude jokes are a reflection of culture and national perspective, and as such, vary enormously from country to country. What seems funny in what part of the world, may not seem so in another. But curiously, dirty jokes seem to be pretty universal. The...

Viz Magazine / Letterbocks : The Bulging Sack (Hardback)

With the possible exception of St Paul the Apostle's epistles to the Corinthians, the funniest letters in the world appear on "Viz Comic"'s Letterbocks page. 'These so-called speed humps are a joke. If anything they slow you down' - Tim Wakefield,...

Andrea Barham / Napoleon Wasn't Short & St Patrick Wasn't Irish (Hardback)

Napoleon Wasn't Short & St Patrick Wasn't Irish: When History Gets it Wrong A fun exposé of many commonly believed historical facts that are, in fact, total fiction After falling for one historical misconception too many, the time is...

A.A. Milne / The Hums of Pooh (Hardback)

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