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Deadly Edge A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770918, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
230 pp., 20x13 cm

"Deadly Edge" bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes south. Soon Parker finds himself – and his woman, Claire – menaced by a pair of sadistic, drug-crazed hippies. Parker has a score to settle while Claire'...

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Plunder Squad A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770932, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
198 pp., 20x13 cm

"Hearing the click behind him, Parker threw his glass straight back over his right shoulder, and dove off his chair to the left". When a job looks like amateur hour, Parker walks away. But even a squad of seasoned professionals can't guarantee agains...

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Slayground A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770925, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
200 pp., 20x13 cm

The hunter becomes prey, as a heist goes sour and Parker finds himself trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters. There are no exits from Fun Island. Outnumbered and outgunned, Parker can't afford a single miscalcula...

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Children's Books

Fiction

Dracula

Stoker Bram

ISBN: HB: 9781402773242, GMC Group, Sterling, September 2010
416 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

Thanks to the huge success of the Twilight series, vampires have become the most popular supernatural creatures on earth. But Dracula is the one that started it all, back in 1897. Bram Stokers eternally terrifying classic established the genre, with...

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Poetry

Literary Criticism

Hesiod's Calendar

Saxton Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781906188030, Carcanet, August 2010
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

The ancient Greek poet Hesiod is best known for two poems, the "Theogony" and the "Works and Days". The "Theogony" gives an account of the creation of the universe andthe war between the Titans and Olympians, while "Works and Days" offers plain-speak...

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Film Studies

Literary Criticism

Typhus

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781906497422, Seagull Books, August 2010
212 pp., 20.1x23 cm

Set in Malaya during the British protectorate, Sartre's "Typhus" centres on the improbable couple formed by the disgraced former doctor Georges, who has sunk to the lowest depths of a highly stratified colonial society, and Nellie, a down-at-heel nig...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

This Is Enlightenment

Siskin Clifford, Warner William

ISBN: PB: 9780226761480, ISBN: HB: 9780226761473, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 24 halftones

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Imanual Kant himself addressed the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The contributors to this ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous query...

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Poetry

Rough Music

Sampson Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9781847770455, Carcanet, May 2010
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Rough music" is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. This is a book full of disturbing musical echoes, in which brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore themes of violence, loss and belonging. Fiona Sampso...

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Love Poems by Pedro Salinas My Voice Because of You and Letter Poems to Katherine

Salinas Pedro

ISBN: HB: 9780226734262, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line illus.

When Pedro Salinas's 1933 collection of love poems, "La voz a ti debida", was introduced to American audiences in Willis Barnstone's 1975 English translation, it was widely regarded as the greatest sequence of love poems written by a man or a woman,...

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Black Ice Score A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226771090, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
168 pp., 20x13 cm

A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them to a Manhattan safe house. Four upstanding citizens plan to rescue their new nation by stealing the diamonds back – with the help of a "specialist" – Pa...

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