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NY: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Hardcover.. Used. Hardcover in excellent condition. Dust jacket has small tear on botton front R/H side.Tope of dust jacket has slight pulling.Further pictures can be providedPop culture phenomenon, social rights advocate, and the most prominent LGBTQ+ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you his first collection of witty, personal, and hilarious essays written in the voice that?s earned him more than 10 million followers across social media.

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. Award Winner. Used. The Tiger's Wife is the debut novel of Serbian-American writer T?a Obreht. It was published in 2011 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, a British imprint of Orion Books, and by Random House in America. Obreht won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction for The Tiger's Wife

London: Phoenix, 1995. Used. Josie, the ailing, elderly inhabitant of an Irish country mansion, dwells in the shadowy world of remembered pain and loneliness. McGreevy, the terrorist, reintroduces the possibility of compassion and tenderness, but there is an inevitably violent conclusion to their understanding as the police net closes. With extraordinary skill and empathy, Edna O'Brien shows two faces of a divided land: the yearnings of a woman whose youthful joy was broken, and the intransigent idealism of her captor. Brave and moving, THE HOUSE OF SPLENDID ISOLATION is Edna O'Brien at her very best.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981. Hardcover.. Used. **EX LIBRARY BOOK...Josephine Edna O'Brien DBE (born 15 December 1930) is an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer. Philip Roth described her as "the most gifted woman now writing in English", while a former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, cited her as "one of the great creative writers of her generation".. O'Brien's works often revolve around the inner feelings of women,

London: Penguin Books, 1988. Used. Edna O'Brien's classic trilogy, The Country Girls, Girl with Green Eyes and Girls in their Married Bliss, together with an epilogue especially written for this volume. The country is Ireland. The girls are Kate Brady and Baba Brennan. The Country Girls Trilogy tells the story of their escape from countryside and convent out into the world, into the bright city lights of Dublin and, naive and reckless, into a whirl of flirtations and passionate misadventures. While Kate pursues romance and pragmatic Baba settles for a rich builder, for both girls 'married bliss' seems as elusive as ever . . . 'It is a difficult trip, this coming of age . . . Edna O'Brien tells it with love and outrage' - Los Angeles Times. 'All the freshness in the world and undertones of something more lasting' - Sunday Times. 'Wholly delightful ... warm, rich, sympathetic' - Daily Telegraph.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. Used. In the Forest is a newly reissued edition of the terrifying novel from "one of the greatest writers in the English-speaking world", Edna O'Brien. "O'Brien brings together the earthy and delicately poetic: she has the sound of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf." ?Newsweek O'Brien takes her reader into the mind of Michen O'Kane, a murder who terrorizes the countryside of western Ireland, and traces his transformation from a neglected child to a twisted killer. In the Forest is based on a true story of local horror, and O'Brien provides fragments of O'Kane's story while leaving her reader to try and make sense of his psyche.

PAPERBACK EDITION...CREASES ON SPINE AND COVERLondon: Phoenix, 1997. Used. DOWN BY THE RIVER begins, deceptively, in an idyllic rural setting somewhere in Ireland. By the end, its consequences have addressed and divided the political and judicial fabric of the nation. A crime of passion results in an emotional battlefield for one and all, with opposing factions taking militant sides. In the centre, a young girl struggles with the conflicts of mind and body, the teaching of her faith and her mounting bewilderment at what she might do. This is her rite of passage, a stark progress from the role of child to that of woman; an initiation into terror and beyond it to wisdom.

London: Pan Macmillan, 1996. Used. Leaving Las Vegas is a semi-autobiographical 1990 novel by John O'Brien. The novel was adapted into a 1995 film of the same name, starring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one.

HARDCOVER 1922 EDITION. BOOK HAS TAPE ON SPINE AND PAGES WITH TITLE WRITTEN ON SPINE BY HAND.INSCRIPTION ON INSIDE PAGES.SOME PAGES LOOSE..Oxford City Press, 1922. Used. In his affectionate and gently humorous verses John O'Brien (Patrick Joseph Hartigan)sang of farming life and of the life of Irish settlers in Australia - at home, on the land, and at the Church upon the Hill that is the center of their lives. Around the Boree Log is verse that is simple and sincere and lit with a kindly understanding of the lives it chronicles.

Cambeerwell Vic: Angus & Robertson, 1984. Hardcover.. Used. This book gives the history of the Parish of the Sacred Heart Darlinghurst from 1852 to 1952, concentrating on the early years.

Marries the eastern art of Feng Shui with contemporary interior design. This accessible, practical book that explains how to use the bagua, or map of energies, to relate to specific areas of your home and life to bring about beneficial change.

London: Hutchinson, 2007. Used. 'Love is the death of me', read the handwritten note. The gunshot victim was found in Detective Kathy Mallory's apartment. It was not clear at first if it was homicide or suicide. And Mallory had disappeared.

London: Hutchinson and Co., 1995. Hardcover.. Used. SMALL CUT ON INSIDE BLANK PAGE...fifteen years after Inspector Louis Markowitz adopted the wild child, no one in New York's Special Crimes section knew much about Kathy Mallory's origins. They only knew that the young cop with the soul of a thief could bewitch the most complex computer systems, could slip into the minds of killers with disturbing ease. In Central Park, a woman dies, while a witness watches, believing the brutal murder to be a prelude to a kiss. Mallory goes hunting the killer, armed with under the skin knowledge of the man's mind and the bare clue of a lie. Mallory holds on the one truth: everybody lies, and some lies can get you killed. And she knows that, to trap the killer, she must put her own life at risk, for this killer has taken a persone interest in her.

Full of twists and turns and it will keep you guessing all the way through to the end!' 5* review 'Kept me guessing till the very end. . . struggled to put it down!' 5* review 'Carol O'Connell is a one of my favourite writers' 5* review Twenty years after the disappearance of his brother, ex-Army Criminal Investigator Oren returns to his family home to discover that human bones have been left on the doorstep. Oren's ageing father believes them to be the bones of Oren's lost brother, Josh, but Oren quickly discovers that the bones are not just his brother's. There is at least one more body. Faced with the horror of multiple victims, Oren is determined to find his brother's killer. But at what cost? In a town full of long-buried secrets, Josh's secret may be the most shocking of all. .

London: Arrow, 1995. Used. At its center is Kathleen Mallory, an extraordinary wild child turned New York City policewoman. Adopted off the streets as a little girl by a police inspector and his wife, she is still not altogether civilized now that she is a sergeant in the Special Crimes section. With her ferocious intelligence and green gunslinger eyes, Mallory (never Kathleen, never Kathy) operates by her own inner compass of right and wrong, a sense of justice that drives her in unpredictable ways. She is a thing apart.And today, she is a thing possessed. Although more at home in the company of computers than in the company of men, Mallory is propelled onto the street when the body of her adoptive father, Louis Markowitz, is found stabbed in a tenement next to the body of a wealthy Gramercy Park woman. The murders are clearly linked to two other Gramercy Park homicides Markowitz had been investigating, and now his cases become Mallory's, his death her cause. Prowling the streets, sifting through… Read More

London: PAPERBACK EDITION...CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERRandom House, 1999. Used. Sadie Green's purple bicycle was found abandoned at the bus stop. Then her friend, Gwen, disappeared, which led the police to propose a runaway theory to the press. But State Police Investigator Rouge Kendall wasn't convinced. On a barstool in Dame's tavern, where Kendall spent a little too much time, he remembered his own mother, begging for the life of his twin sister, Susan. That was fifteen years ago. And a man had been imprisioned for that murder - a priest, barely in his twenties. Father Paul Marie continued to proclaim hi innocence. And current events might prove that he was telling the truth, that someone else might be responsible for all three crimes. . . Taut, menacing, intensely felt, Carol O'Connell's fifth novel reveals a total mastery of her craft.

Camberwell, Victoria: Random House, 2003. Used. On a hot August afternoon, in an East Side apartment, a woman is found hanged. Carefully placed red candles and an enormous quantity of dead flies suggest some kind of bizarre ritual. By some cruel miracle, the victim lives, but remains in a coma- Mallory does not recognise her immediately. The blue eyes are undisguised by mascara and purple shadow. The former bleached straw hair has turned a more natural shade of blond. Even the nose is different. And there are no track marks on her arms. Fifteen years have passed since Kathy Mallory lived on the streets of New York, succoured by hookers and thieving to survive. Now she has traded in her plastic pellet gun for a .357 revolver and a police badge. No one is allowed to call her Kathy anymore. Just Mallory. Once upon a time, a junkie whore and police informer, known simply as Sparrow, had cared for a young street urchin when she was lost and alone. Now Mallory finds that she is staring her bitter past in… Read More

London: Random House, 2004. Used. After bringing in a unanimous and very dubious acquittal in a murder case, only three of the original jurors remain alive. And someone, known only as the 'Reaper' because of the signature of a bloody scythe left at the crime scenes, is clearly determined to make a clean sweep of the terrified survivors. Detective Sgt. Riker, although on paid sick leave after a teenage psychopath pumped four bullets into his chest, has a keen but unofficial interest in the case. And his NYPD Special Crimes partner, Kathy Mallory, orphan, sociopath and computer genius, is resolute that there will be no more personal defections in her life, and determined to discover the identity of the killer before he, or she makes a complete mockery of justice. Meanwhile, on his increasingly popular radio show, Ian Zachary, plays a sick and dangerous game - Hunt the Juror.

London: Random House, 1998. Used. The young stranger came to town just past twelve noon. Within an hour, the idiot had been assaulted, hands bloodied and broken; Deputy Travis suffered a major stroke at the wheel of his patrol car; and Babe Laurie was found murdered. The young stranger who had preceded all of these events was sitting in a jail cell ... That stranger is Kathy Mallory. Having left her detective's badge back in New York, she has made her way to Dayborn, a small town in the wetlands of Louisiana. There, seventeen years earlier, an unspeakably brutal act had changed her life forever. Now she is back to take a very personal revenge ... 'Bewitching bayou Gothic ... I have rarely read a more original and haunting murder scene' Independent 'There's never been a Fictional detective like Kathy Mallory ... You won't read another crime novel quite like this all year' Val McDermid

London: Headline, 2012. Used. The eight-year-old girl appeared in New York?s Central Park one day: red-haired, blue-eyed, dirty-faced, smiling widely. She looked perfect, like a porcelain fairy?except for the blood on her shoulders. It fell from the sky, she told the police. It happened while she was looking for her Uncle Red, who had turned into a tree. Right, they thought, poor child. And then they found the body in the tree.For Mallory, newly returned to the Special Crimes Unit after three months? lost time, spent she will not say where, there is something about the girl that she understands. Mallory is damaged, they say, dangerously unstable, but she can tell a kindred spirit when she sees one. And this one will ultimately lead her to a story of extraordinary crimes, to murders stretching back fifteen years, to blackmail and complicity and a particular cruelty that perhaps only someone with Mallory?s history could fully recognize. In the next few weeks, she will deal with them all?in her own way.