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London: Hodder Headline Australia, 1999. Used. Kaaterskill Falls is a 1998 novel by Allegra Goodman, set in a small Catskill Mountains, New York, USA, community of predominantly Orthodox Jews during summers in the mid-1970s. The location is based on the town of Tannersville, NY where Goodman spent summers with her family. Like its fictional counterpart, Tannersville at the time was a summer home for the German Jews of Washington Heights, Manhattan.

London: Abacus, 2004. Literary Award Winner. Used. Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager to reassess his life? Meanwhile, there are difficulties at the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, where one of the apprentices has discovered the Lord, problems at home with the mysterious death of a hoopoe, and romantic complications when Mma Makutsi sets up a typing school for men . . .

Crows Nest, NSW:slight fraying and tears on top of dust jacket at spineA&R..1982 Hardcover.. Used. Kangaroo is a 1923 novel by D.H. Lawrence. It is set in Australia.

USED PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES ON SPINE AND COVER.MARK ON FRONT COVERMelbourne: HarperCollins, 1996. Used. An SAS group is operating in Bosnia, directing air strikes against Serb positions. They are attacked, but their lives are saved by a Muslim woman, Kara. She is recruited by a group of Muslim fundamentalists, but Kara's game is altogether bigger, more shocking and more important.

hong kong: bison, 1992. Hardcover/Rare. Used. Title: Katharine Hepburn Publisher: Random House Value Publishing Publication Date: 1992Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: excellentDust Jacket Condition: very goodSynopsis:Reviews the career of one of America's most beloved screen stars through a lavishly illustrated look at her many memorable roles, her famous partnership with Spencer Tracy, and her numerous box office hits.

London: Star Books, 1974. Used. In a remarkable career spanning four decades, Katharine Hepburn has dazzled filmgoers as an enchanting comedienne often caught up in romance and rivalry with Spencer Tracy, and as a dramatic actress of rare sensitivity. In this profusely illustred book, Alvin H. Marill appraises her nearly forty films and captures the magic and the unique essence of the durable star.

Great Britain: Pavilion, 1984. Hardcover. Used. If Garbo was the first actress to give the cinema its true and subtle sexuality, then Katharine Hepburn was the first to give it spirit and verbal intelligence. It was with Hepburn that women in the cinema came of age: "She didn't grow up in Hollywood," said George Cukor; "Hollywood grew up to her." In this biography, Sheridan Morley provides a fitting tribute to Katharine Hepburn. Her style and wit, her sense of grandeur, are abundantly apparent in these pages. her career is a testament to survival in an evanescent profession. She did once reveal that when she died she expected people to miss her "just like they'd miss a very old monument", and indeed from A Bill of Divorcement to On Golden Pond, Hepburn's films form a foundation in the twentieth century history of film

London: Pan Books, 2000. Used. A woman is viciously attacked by an intruder in this thrilling crime novel from international bestselling author Clare Francis Catherine Galitza is assaulted in her own home, thrown down the stairwell, and left with serious injuries. As she recovers, she works to solve the mystery of her attacker?s identity, focusing on the barrage of nuisance phone calls she has been receiving for months. Catherine begins to consider the idea of a stalker, a watcher who has become obsessed, playing a silent role in her life. Two men are curiously intent on helping her discover the truth?Simon Jardine, her husband?s business partner; and Terry Devlin, a self-made Irish hotelier whom she has known since youth?but can they be trusted? Finally, the police arrest a suspect, yet Catherine still feels the eyes of a watcher: Will she discover the true culprit before it?s too late?

USED PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES ON SPINE AND COVER.MARK ON FRONT COVERLondon: HarperCollins, 1995. Used. Ex-SAS man Dave Haslam is brought in to negotiate the release of a kidnapped Italian banker. But as the battle of wits develops, so it becomes apparent that this crime is connected somehow, to something very much bigger.

London, UK: Harvill Secker, 2007. Used. When archaeologist Louise Cantors son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Despite traces of sleeping tablets in his system, several clues that only a mother knows lead her to believe something more sinister took place." "Henrik had kept many things from her and she is shocked to learn he had contracted HIV. While looking through his papers, she discovers he was obsessed with the conspiracy theory that JFKs brain disappeared prior to the autopsy along with the vital evidence regarding bullet exit wounds. The only lead is a letter and photograph from Henriks girlfriend in Mozambique." "Louises quest to unravel the mystery surrounding her sons death takes her to Africa, a continent rife with disease, poverty and corruption. Struggling to cope with the oppressive heat and sickness, Louise sees fear in every face, even unexpectedly in the clinics set up by an American businessman. In Kennedys Brain Mankell confirms his status as… Read More

NO DUST JACKETLondon: Random House, 2000. Used. This is the diary of a middle-aged man who is deeply in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's desires...until the day Ikuko discovers her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. Ikuko realises she has found the key to his very soul.

London: Pan Books, 1998. Used.PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVEROur spy in Cairo is the greatest hero of them all...?Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, September 1942 He is known to the Germans as ?Sphinx? to others as Alex Wolff, a European businessman. He arrives suddenly in Cairo from out of the desert, armed with a radio set, a lethal blade and a copy of Daphne du Maurier?Rebecca ?a ruthless man with a burning, relentless conviction that he will win at all costs. The stakes are high, for the survival of the British campaign in North Africa is in the balance. Only Major William Vandam, an intelligence officer, and the beautiful courtesan Elene can put an end to Wolff?brilliant clandestine reports of British troop movements and strategic plans.. As Rommel?troops come closer to victory, Vandam edges nearer to Wolff and the crucial key. Follett builds tension and suspense to a nerve-tearing pitch as he follows the adversaries across the infernal desert to a confrontation which will determine who… Read More

WELL USED PAPERBACK. SOME CREASES TO SPINERuth Rendell Leicester: Random House, 1997. Used. Lush green by day, darkly sinister by night, Regent's Park hosts an underworld of drug ushers and thugs, of London's homeless and the unseen killer who is impaling them, one by one, on the ornate railings that encircle the park. Theirs is a world light years away from Mary Jago's elegant new home and museum job across the park. Mary, in an uncharacteristic act of self-assertion, has left her abusive boyfriend and, in an act of humanity, has donated her bone marrow to a stranger. She then meets the fragile young man whose life she saved--Leo, flesh of her flesh, bone of her bone, a twin soul--and becomes deeply involved with him. But Mary's boldness has its price. Among the park's shattered hopes and new dreams, something dark and deadly waits for her ... eager to rob her of something more precious than life.

HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993. Used.PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERFresh from her dazzling debut in Dead Beat, Manchester P.I. Kate Brannigan finds herself in search of some concrete evidence on a couple of dirty developers. The savvy and down-to-earth detective is reluctant to take on her secretary's new heartthrob, Ted Barlow, as a client: The chances are he's crooked, which would explain why the bank pulled the plug on his conservatory construction business. But when he mentions that some of the conservatories he installed have now vanished into thin air, Kate - despite herself - is hooked. How does a person go about stealing a building? No sooner does she start investigating, though, than she gets involved in a second real-estate wrangle. A close friend has been conned over a land deal, and Kate agrees to find out how, and by whom. Neither problem seems life threatening - or so Kate thinks, until a strange "accident" proves to have been an attempt on her life. Clearly Kate has… Read More

PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES TO COVER AND SPINE.WATER DAMAGE TO OUTSIDE OF PAGES Random House, 2011. Used. Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene of the biggest case he's ever been part of. The President's son and daughter have been abducted from their school. Alex does everything he can but is shunted to the fringes of the investigation. Someone powerful doesn't want Cross too close. A deadly contagion in the DC water supply threatens to cripple the capital. He is already working flat-out on the abduction, and this massive assault pushes Cross completely over the edge. With each hour that passes, the chance of finding the children alive diminishes. But even the highest security clearance doesn't get him any closer to the kidnapper - and Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes in. A full throttle thriller with unstoppable action, unrestrained emotion, and relentless suspense, Kill Alex Cross is the most gripping Alex Cross novel James Patterson has ever written.

Hachette UK, 2013. Used. The first novel in the gripping Tim Rackley series from the internationally bestselling author, Gregg Hurwitz.Tim Rackley is a deputy US marshal who is very good at his job - until everything he believes in is shattered by the brutal murder of his own daughter. Betrayed by an imperfect judicial system, Rackley watches helplessly as the killer walks free. Bent on vengeance, he is forced to explore his own deadly options, a quest that leads him into the shadowy no man's land between justice and the law . . . and into the welcoming fold of The Commission, a relentless vigilante group.But as he's dragged deeper into a deadly morass of hidden agendas and murderous justice, his secret new life starts coming unwound and he's suddenly caught in the most terrifying struggle he has ever faced - a desperate battle to save his marriage, his career, his life, his soul, and everything left that's worth fighting for.

London: Orion Books, 2004. Used. At the end of long, hard day battling LA street traffic, bike messenger Jace Damon is called on to make one last pick-up at a sleazy defence attorney's office - Leonard Lowell. Jace is tired, stressed and needs to get home to check up on his little brother who he's single-handedly bringing up. He makes the pick-up, but the delivery address turns out to be a vacant lot, a car tries to run him down, and Jace only just escapes. He arrives back at Lowell's office to find it trashed, Lowell dead, and himself the prime suspect. Jace is forced to elude both the police and the men who want him dead whilst he attempts to find evidence with which to clear his name. He also has to try to keep Ty, his brother, safe from someone prepared to kill..."--Publisher.

London: Quercus, 2011. Used. The launch of a brand new series by the internationally bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Coroner's Lunch With worldwide critical acclaim, Colin Cotterill is one of the most highly regarded "cult favorite" crime writers today. Now, with this new series, starting with Killed at the Whim of a Hat, Cotterill is poised to break into the mainstream. Set in present day rural Thailand, Cotterill is as sharp and witty, yet more engaging and charming, than ever before. Jimm Juree was a crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail with a somewhat eccentric family?a mother who might be drifting mentally; a grandfather?a retired cop?who rarely talks; a younger brother obsessed with body-building, and a transgendered, former beauty pageant queen, former older brother. When Jimm is forced to follow her family to a rural village on the coast of Southern Thailand, she's convinced her career?maybe her life?is over. So when a van containing the skeletal remains of two… Read More

London: Hodder Australia, 2005. Used. Clive 'Killer' Caldwell was a born pilot, a superb shot, and a natural leader. Acknowledged as Australia's greatest fighter pilot, he shot down 28 enemy aircraft - German, Italian, Vichy French and Japanese. His greatest day was when he flew straight up, and through, a formation of German planes (clipping the wings of several on the way) and turned around and shot down five planes in the space of 18 seconds. After service in the United Kingdom, the Middle East and North Africa, he was recalled to Australia at the time of the Japanese bombing raids on Darwin. He performed superbly in the air, but ended his career in the famous 'Morotai Mutiny' in the Dutch East Indies in 1945. MacArthur had sidelined Australia's best and bravest pilots, rather than sharing the glory of returning to the Philippines. There was an official inquiry which disciplined all those involved - and not least for their part in the smuggling of alcohol and cigarettes. This is the story of a… Read More

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. Used. Killer Instinct is a thriller novel written by Joseph Finder published in May 2006 by Orion Publishing Group. It debuted at #13 on the New York Times bestseller list with competition from The Da Vinci Code and won the International Thriller Writers Award for best novel in 2007.