Category: General Fiction

The First Man in Rome #1 Masters of Rome [used book]

By: Colleen McCullough

Price: $7.00

Publisher: UK, Arrow : 1991

Seller ID: 001635

ISBN-13: 9780099792307

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

In Rome, 110BC, upstart military genius Gaius Marius marries the daughter of aristocrat Gaius Julius. Three years later her wayward sister marries the attractive, ambitious but unsuitable Lucius Cornelius Sulla. This book unfolds a tale of intrigue and ambition interwoven with passion.
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By: Curtis Sittenfeld

Price: $22.95

Publisher: UK, Black Swan : 2010

Seller ID: 9780552776844

ISBN-13: 9780552776844

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. Her head is filled with images from the school brochure of handsome boys in sweaters leaning against old brick buildings, girls running with lacrosse sticks across pristine athletics fields, everyone singing hymns in chapel. But as she soon learns, Ault is a minefield of unstated rules and incomprehensible social rituals, and Lee must work hard to find and maintain her place in the pecking order. About the Author: "Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of...
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The New You Survival Kit [used book]

By: Daisy Waugh

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Harper Collins : 2002

Seller ID: 001774

ISBN-13: 9780007137763

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Daisy Waugh's commercial fiction debut is a wickedly funny satire of the bitch eat bitch world of celebrity PR, with an unexpected romantic heart. Welcome to the noughties. Can you take it? She's at the top of her profession, but Jo's social life is as much a game of survival as her work. This is London in 2001, where if you call your boyfriend on his mobile, you have to disguise your number or he won't pick up -- he's always expecting someone more important to ring. Where your best friends think nothing of cancelling at the last minute, ten times in a row. Where commitment is a 'pencilled opt...
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A Far Country [used book]

By: Daniel Mason

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Picador : 2007

Seller ID: 003016

ISBN-13: 9780230017955

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Throughout their childhood in the dusty cane fields of Saint Michael, Isabel and her older brother Isaias have been inseparable. But when Isaias runs away to become a musician, promising to return, Isabel's life changes irrevocably. With scorching droughts setting in and the threat of starvation looming over the villagers, Isabel's parents are forced to send her to the Capital, the glamorous and exotic city in the south. However, the city is not the land of plenty they had believed it to be, leaving her no choice but to make a home for herself in the sprawling slums. And although there has b...
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Category: General Fiction