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The Intimate Adventures Of A London Call Girl

by Belle de Jour,

Faded spine and slight making to front cover but otherwsie good. From back cover: Belle de Jour is the nom de plume of a high-class call girl working in London. This is her story.   From the summer of 2003 to the autumn... more

The Lunatic Express

by Carl Hoffman,

Indonesian Ferry Sinks.  Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff.  African TrainAttacked by Mobs.  Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffmannoticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as far from theidea of tourism,... more

Three to get deadly

by Janet Evanovich

As readers of Janet Evanovich's two previous books about funny, feisty,family-tied bounty hunter Stephanie Plum already know, she operates in"the burg"--a "comfy residential chunk of Trenton, New Jersey, wherehouses and minds are... more

Clarkson on Cars

by Jeremy Clarkson

From Amazon: Jeremy Clarkson gets under the bonnet in Clarkson on Cars; a collection of his motoring journalism.   JeremyClarkson has been driving cars, writing about them and occasionallyvoicing his opinions on the BBC's Top... more

Los Angeles without a Map

by Richard Rayner

When Richard, a London writer, meets a California blonde in a bar in Crete, he deserts his job and girlfriend and hops a plane to Los Angeles. There he sinks his lust in the pursuit of the unpredictable Barbara.    The usual... more

Sacred

by Dennis Lehane

Dying billionaire Trevor Stone has his thugs kidnap sleuths Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro and bring them to his mansion so he can “hire” them to find his missing daughter, Desiree.  Also, Patrick's mentor, Jay Becker, the... more

Tooth and Claw

by T.C. Boyle,

Since his first collection of stories, Descent of Man, appeared in 1979, T.C. Boyle has become an acknowledged master of the form who has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time. Among the fourteen tales in his seventh... more

Hidden Prey

by John Sandford

Theories abound when a Russian gets himself killed on the shore of Lake Superior - shot with fifty-year-old bullets. But when it turns out he had very high government connections, state troubleshooter Lucas Davenport gets the call.... more

Swallowing Grandma

by Kate Long

  Katherine Millar is eighteen and desperate to be less fat, less swotty and to have cooler friends. But most of all, she wishes she had two parents, instead of one grandma, Poll. Poll is pushing seventy, half blind and utterly... more

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

by Ayelet Waldman

  Is Emilia the wicked stepmother incarnate?Passionately in love with her husband, Emilia has a secret, guilty loathing for her precocious little stepson, William - a forty-year-old in a five-year-old's body, whom she picks up... more