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Orbit, New York. 10th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light corner wear. Heavy book which may require additional postage.We are not alone.On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system.In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance. When they agree to help a scientist search war-torn Ganymede for a missing child, the future of humanity rests on whether a single ship can prevent an alien invasion that may have already begun . . .Caliban's War is a breakneck science fiction adventure following the critically acclaimed Leviathan Wakes.

Vintage V-207, New York. Later printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, light sunshadow.This English edition includes the plays Caligula, The Misunderstanding (Le Malentendu), State of Siege (L'État de siège), and The Just Assassins (Les Justes).

Berkley, New York, 1986. 3rd paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, spine creasing, light nicks at spine ends.Callahan's Place is open for business, and all of the "regulars" are here--a talking dog, an alcoholic vampire, and two telepaths--enhancing their joys by drowning their sorrows. Everyone, that is, but Mickey Finn, a seven-foot tall alien in danger of enslavement at the hands of a traveller from across the galaxy....Come inside, pull up a chair, order a drink, make a toast, and let Spider Robinson introduce you to the most unique patrons to frequent any establishment, at a bar where the most important law is "shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased." And if there's time left at the end of the night, just maybe they'll save the world...

Condition: New, in shrink copy that includes the student access code card. This is a large, heavy book and may require additional postage based on the destination.The now standard university level biology text.

Spectrum / Prentice Hall, NJ, 1962. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, spine has creasing, covers have light scuffing. A well read book but no pencil marks except for previous book sellers notes on inside front cover.This book, published just two years after Camus' death, is both a memorial and critical summary. The editor, Bree, argues that a central problematic in understanding Camus's place in philosophy and literature is played out in the Sartre/Camus battles and relationship. Bree points up the plan: critical assessment of literary form, political action and philosophical content mixed in with memorials. Some of the essays deal with his life and work in an overview fashion, others with specific works. Some of the essays focus on philosophical analysis and criticism, others are limited to literary criticism.Among contributors: Jean-Paul Satre , Nicola Chiaromonte , Roger Quillot, Serge Dubrovsky , Thomas Hanna, Justin O'Brien, Henri Peyre, and Rachel Bespaloff.

University Of Chicago Press, 2009. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.Decades after his death, Albert Camus (1913–1960) is still regarded as one of the most influential and fascinating intellectuals of the twentieth century. This biography by Stephen Eric Bronner explores the connections between his literary work, his philosophical writings, and his politics.Camus illuminates his impoverished childhood, his existential concerns, his activities in the antifascist resistance, and the controversies in which he was engaged. Beautifully written and incisively argued, this study offers new insights—and above all—highlights the contemporary relevance of an extraordinary man.

Cambridge U. Press, 1988. First paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, slight crease at corner, spine wrinkling.Patrick McCarthy analyzes The Stranger, one of the vital texts of existentialism and twentieth-century literature, in the context of French and French-Algerian history and culture. McCarthy examines how the work undermines traditional concepts of fiction and explores parallels and contrasts between Camus's work and that of Jean-Paul Sartre. Providing students with a useful companion to The Stranger, this second edition features a revised guide to further reading and a new chapter on Camus and the Algerian War.

Condition: Good, slight corner creasing, wear along edges and nicks at spine, fading, back cover has light soiling, stapled paper covers.Includes fold out map, black and white illustrations, interesting view of life in Canada according to the Canadian government in 1960.

Condition: Very good, magazine format, edge wear and slight corner creases, spine has creasing and light nicks at ends.

Doubleday, Toronto, 2016. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket, book has light corner bumps, dust jacket has light edge wear and slight creasing at spine.A comical and revealing account of what it's like to run for office with no political experience, little money and only a faint hope of winning, told first-hand by celebrated writer Noah Richler.

Eos/Harper, New York, 2010.13th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, is a true landmark of twentieth century literature, a chilling and still provocative look at a post apocalyptic future.In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to re-celebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes.

Berkley, New York. 27th paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, spine creasing and slight scuffing, price sticker on rear cover.In a rolling sea off the coast of South America, a target disappears in a puff of green light. In the Soviet hills of Dushanbe near the Afghanistan border, an otherworldly array of pillars and domes rises into the night. To the two greatest nations on earth, no contest is more urgent than the race to build the first Star Wars missile defense system, and no one knows that more than the two men charged with assessing the Soviets' capabilities: Colonel Mikhail Filitov of the Soviet Union, an old-line warrior distrusted by the army's new inner circle of technocrats, and CIA analyst Jack Ryan, hero of the Red October affair.Each must use all his craft to arrive at the truth, but Filitov gets there first -- and that's when all hell breaks loose. Because Filitov, code-named Cardinal, is America's highest agent in the Kremlin, and he is about to be… Read More

Delair/Culinary Arts Institute, New York, 1980. First edition. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, light spine crease, slight price sticker residue.Includes intriguing recipes from Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti and more.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2016. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed, numbered, and limited edition; number 292 of 500 copies. Signed by both authors.Dana Roberts, renowned supernormal investigator hires on an eccentric assistant, Jana, to aid her in picturesque Italy to solve her most exciting and dangerous case yet. Romance and horror blend with blood and mystery as Dana's new assistant, the Watson to her Sherlock, uncover the awful truth about the legend of the bleeding wall, as old friendships change and new friendships blossom.

Condition: New.The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.

Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner creases, spine has nicks and slight scuffmarks.Official guide to Europe's most unusual accommodations.

Orb Books, New York, 1995 (presumed). Presumed first trade paperback edition (P1 on copyright page). Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, price sticker on rear cover.The Washington Post has called Gene Wolfe "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced." This volume joins together two of his rarest and most sought after works--Gene Wolfe's Book of Days and The Castle of the Otter--and add thirty-nine short essays collected here for the first time, to fashion a rich and engrossing architecture of wonder.

Little, Brown, New York, 2012. First hardcover edition. Condition: Good, edge wear and corner bumps, light scuffing, no dust jacket.A big novel about a small town...When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils ... Pagford is not what it first seems.And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?

Bantam, New York, 1972, 33rd paperback printing. Condition: Good minus, edge and corner wear, front cover has been taped, previous bookstore's stamp on inside front cover. A well read book.The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain… Read More

Paragon House, New York, 1992. First edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket has slight edge nicks and bumping at corners.From the publisher: Biography of Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1894-1961, controversial French author of Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan. Awarded the prestigious Goncourt for Biography. Translated by Jesse Browner. This is the "definitive Celine biography," according to Kurt Vonnegut.