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London: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2012. Used. Roughly twenty years from now, our technological marvels unite and turn against us. A childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online. . . and kills the man who created it. This first act of betrayal leads Archos to gain control over the global network of machines and technology that regulates everything from transportation to utilities, defense, and communications. In the early months, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans - from a senator and single mother disconcerted by her daughter's "smart" toys, to a lonely Japanese bachelor, to an isolated U. S. soldier - but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is far too late. Then, in the span of minutes, at a moment known later in history as Zero Hour, every mechanical device in our world rebels, setting off the Robot War that both decimates and - for the first time in history - unites humankind.

Secaucus, N.J: Citadel Press, 1983. Hardcover/Rare. Used. SMALL TEAR AT TOP OF DUST JACKET ON SPINEHardcopy edition:-The films of Jane Fonda by Haddad-Garcia, George. Publication date 1981 Topics Fonda, Jane, Films,-Publisher Secaucus, N.J. : Citadel Press Collection -Rare edition no longer in print...Provides synopsis, cast, credits, review excerpts, and stills for each of the American actress's films, and traces the development of her career

London: Random House, 2012. Used. Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children, a single family and all of them strangers. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games and wet walks. But in the quiet and stillness of the valley, ghosts begin to rise up. The parents Richard thought he had. The parents Angela thought she had. Past and present lovers. Friends, enemies, victims, saviours. And watching over all of them from high on the dark hill, Karen, Angela's stillborn daughter. The Red House is about the extraordinariness of the ordinary, weaving the words and thoughts of the eight characters together with those fainter, stranger voices - of books and letters and music, of the dead who once inhabited… Read More

London: Random House, 2007. Used. George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. 'The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.' Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored. At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family is not pleased - as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has 'strangler's hands'. Katie can't decide if she loves Ray, or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob, and her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned, which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband's former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials. Unnoticed… Read More

London: Penguin Random House, 2016. Used. The first collection of stories from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Porpoise.'Terrifically compelling' GuardianA seaside pier collapses.An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong.A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room.One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean.Another woman is saved from drowning.Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox.A group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size deep in the Amazon jungle.A man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve.

Oxford.: Random House, 2010. Used. Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. As in all good detective stories, however, the more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets - for both Christopher and the rest of his family.

New York: Random House Group, 2004. Used. Meet the Laments???the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of George Hagen???s exuberant debut novel. Howard is an engineer who dreams of irrigating the Sahara and lives by the motto ???Laments move!??? His wife Julia is a fiery spirit who must balance her husband???s oddly peripatetic nature with unexpected aspirations of her own. And Will is the ???waif with a paper-thin heart??? who is given to Howard and Julia in return for their own child who has been lost in a bizarre maternity ward mishap. As Will makes his way from infancy to manhood in a family that careens from continent to continent, one wonders where the Laments will ever belong. In Bahrain, Howard takes a job with an oil company and young Will makes his first friend. But in short order he is wrenched off to another land, his mother???s complicated friendship with the American siren Trixie Howitzer causing the family to bolt. In Northern Rhodesia, during its last days as a… Read More

London: Pan Macmillan, 2014. Used. One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London townhouse. In the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack, the banker recognizes a long-lost friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend has resurfaced to make a confession of unsettling power. In the Light of What We Know takes us on a journey of exhilarating scope - from Kabul to London, New York, Islamabad, Oxford, and Princeton - and explores the great questions of love, belonging, science, and war. It is an age-old story: the friendship of two men and the betrayal of one by the other. The visitor, a man desperate to climb clear of his wrong beginnings, seeks atonement; and the narrator sets out to tell his friend's story but finds himself at the limits of what he can know about the world - and, ultimately, himself.… Read More

SMALL AMOUNT OF WATER MARKS TO TOP OF BOOKHarperCollins Publishers, 2008. Used. The Condition tells the story of the McKotches, a proper New England family that comes apart during one fateful summer. The year is 1976, and the family, Frank McKotch, an eminent scientist; his pedigreed wife, Paulette; and their three beautiful children has embarked on its annual vacation at the Captain's House, the grand old family retreat on Cape Cod. One day on the beach, Frank is struck by an image he cannot forget: his thirteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, strangely infantile in her child-sized bikini, standing a full head shorter than her younger cousin Charlotte. At that moment he knows a truth that he can never again unknown something is terribly wrong with his only daughter. The McKotch family will never be the same. Twenty years after Gwen's diagnosis with Turner's syndrome, a genetic condition that has prevented her from maturing, trapping her forever in the body of a child, all five family members are still… Read More

London: Virgin, 1990. Hardcover. Used. Profiles the adaptations of Agatha Christie detective Fiction for performance in various media, including accounts of the actors who have played Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford by Peter Alexander Haining (April 2, 1940 November 19, 2007) who was a British journalist, author and anthologist who lived and worked in Suffolk. Born in Enfield, Middlesex, he began his career as a reporter in Essex and then moved to London where he worked on a trade magazine before joining the publishing house of New English Library.

New York: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1999. Used. Eighteen years ago, a girl shot down a rapist while her father's lawnmower sputtered in the yard outside. Somewhere in the heat and shadows of that day, Alexandra Rafferty took on the burden of her deed, and forged a bond of silence with her cop father. But now Alexandra's husband has left, her father is clinging to his health, and a Miami serial killer is leaving behind death scenes that go beyond the horrific. For Alexandra, her life and work are exploding--exposing the truth about the killer she seeks, the lover she's choosing, and one summer afternoon that has never gone away...Body Language is one of James W. Hall's greatest Thorn mysteries--a heartfelt and gripping thriller.

London: Picador, 1997. Used. This is a big novel about a big continent, the one that exists just beyond the boundaries of everything you know. In the late seventeenth century, Europeans thought of it as terra incognita, a vast, floating island adrift in the southern hemisphere, filled with strange creatures, plants and trees. It was a potentially inexhaustible place where you could attach your name to things, material and people, load them on a boat and turn them into something you did know - money. If, that is, you could find your way home again.The Island in the Mind is a triptych of novels about Enlightenment-age individuals verging too perilously into wide colonial spaces. First, and most memorably, there is the aspiring petty official who forsakes courtly politics for a secret alliance with the musician-in-residence, Orlande Scarron, whose vast operatic tribute to Louis XIV seeks to encapsulate everything the French empire does not - the undiscovered, the unquantifiable, the different.

Sydney: Picador Australia, 1994. Used. Critically acclaimed trilogy spanning the period from the last days of the convict system to the approach of Federation. 'The Second Bridegroom', first published in 1991, deals with a young convict who escapes into the Australian bush, 'The Grisly Wife' first published in 1993, involves an English missionary, her husband and a group of female disciples, and 'Captivity Captive', first published in 1988, features the murder of two sisters and a brother, and the disintegration of a family. The author's other publications include eight volumes of poetry, two biographies and other novels, including 'Just Relations ' which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1982.

slight crease at bottom of front cover Sydney: Picador, 2000. Used. The year is 1919. The Great War ends, as it began, with military blunders. A field ambulance station is being evacuated when a young soldier, blinded by gas during the fighting, joins the wrong queue. Gas blisters in his throat prevent him from telling anyone that his name is Adolf Hitler, private first-class, of the Sixteenth Bavarian Infantry, Reserve Division, or that he is headed for Germany. Later, amid the celebrations at a remote fishing port in New South Wales, the steamer bringing Australian war heroes home also delivers the blinded Hitler. Here he meets Audrey McNeil, aspiring filmmaker and desperate opponent of her sister Sybil. Brief though his visit is, he changes Audrey's life. But is the stranger really who he claims to be?" - back cover.

This trilogy brings together the author's account of the founding of Australia - including Captivity Captive, The Second Bridegroom and The Grisly Wife.

University of Queensland Press, 1905. SOFT COVER. Used. A Place Among People is an intelligent and graceful novel.

London: King Penguin, 1982. Used. Just Relations is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Rodney Hall. The novel won the Miles Franklin Award, the FAW ANA Literature Award, and the FAW Barbara Ramsden Award for the Book of the Year, in 1982.

Ringwood, Vic., Australia: Penguin, 1987. Used. FRONT COVER SLIGHTLY UNGLUED FROM INSIDE FRONT PAGE.PRICE REDUCED ACCORDINGLYAustralian writer Hall's latest book to appear in America is a stunning tour de force. When Bernard Buchanan, real-estate agent turned politician, barters vast uninhabited tracts to be used by a sinister, anonymous multinational company in exchange for the presidency of Australia, that open, friendly society mutates into a horrendous Orwellian state where people spy on each other, and "guest workers" (immigrants) are shipped off to work camps "for their own protection." As the state becomes more self-propagating, Buchanan grows so huge that he cannot see the ground and must be carried even to the bathroom by six aides, while he declaims: "I am the State." By now, he is infested by mice that gnaw at his entrailsbut at least, he thinks, he is feeling something. Eventually, his sensitive, enigmatic wife Dorina, who lives separately, is inspired by disgust for Buchanan to provoke,… Read More

Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2007. Used. The elderly Mrs Shoddy suffers acute depression as a result of a bushfire that kills her beloved horses. A capable countrywoman, she loses her grip and is living in squalor when the district nurse finds her and has her committed to an insane asylum. The time is 1982; the place, a country town in NSW. The NSW Department of Lunacy is still in operation, headed by an official with the title The Master in Lunacy. In this powerful novel, finding herself pitted against the power of the state, Mrs Shoddy calls on her memories of her missing husband, on the spirit of her horses and on the recovery of her self-respect and resilience to create a world in which she can remain sane, even against the institutional brutality she is subjected to. And the characters in her mind become as palpable as the real people she is surrounded by. A hymn of praise to human tenderness, the power of memory and the power of music, 'Love Without Hope' confirms Rodney Hall's status as… Read More

Melbourne Victoria: Sun, 1976. Used. PAPERBACK. SOME CREASES ON SPINE DUE TO AGE. SMALL RIP ON FRONT COVER FROM PRICE TAG REMOVAL'Australian television is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. How far has it come since those inaugral days in the fifties, and where should it be heading?' Soft covers are well handled at the corners, head and tail of spine too. Some minor scuff marks and moderate discolouration of page edges. Simple binding is neat and tidy. Spine well sunned and a little discoloured. Previous owner's inscription on head of front free endpaper. Pages discoloured due to age. Otherwise this book is in fair condition. *We try to describe the faults of our books meticulously - they often present better than they sound.