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 A Voyage for Madmen by Peter NicholsRetail Price: $26.00 Our Price: $22.10 In 1967, nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back. These men were not sailors. Some did not even know how to sail. Look into the minds of these nine very different men (including Chay Blyth, Robin Knox-Johnston and Donald Crowhurst) and see how the sea cut them down, one by one. A whodunit as well as the story behind the last great maritime adventure.  |
 Slammerkin by Emma DonoghueRetail Price: $24.00 Our Price: $20.40 Set in London and Monmouth, this novel is based on the true story of a young girl hanged for murder in 1763. The daughter of a poor seamstress, Mary hungers as greedily for fine clothes and ribbons as others of her class do for food and warmth - a hunger which draws her into prostitution. "A powerful and unforgiving tale of London in the 1760s...Slammerkin is a novel of real force" - Elle Magazine |
 Sylvia and Ted by Emma TennantRetail Price: $22.00 Our Price: $18.70 This is a fictional re-creation of the marriage and separation of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. From the start, poetry was their trysting-place and battleground: Sylvia read Ted's poetry before she met him, confronting the handsome young poet with his own words at their first encounter, one cold Cambridge night. As Sylvia and Ted struggle to create both life and art, their duet becomes a duel-creating a powerful vortex of sensation and passion that draws everyone into its path, including Sylvia's darkly beautiful rival, Assia Wevill. "A gem" - Antonia Fraser |
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 John Adams by David McCulloughRetail Price: $35.00 Our Price: $29.75 Master historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history. |
 Empire Falls by Richard RussoRetail Price: $25.95 Our Price: $22.06 Empire Falls has seen better days. One by one, its logging and textile enterprises have gone belly-up, and the once vast holdings of the Whiting clan now mostly amount to decrepit real estate. The working classes, meanwhile, continue to eke out whatever meager promise isn’t already boarded up. Called back from college and set to work by family obligations, Miles Roby never left home again. Even so, his own obligations are manifold but these are offset by his daughter, Tick, whom he guides gently and proudly through the tribulations of adolescence. |
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