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Homesickness

Barrett, Colin
Homesickness
The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35, Homesickness  is an emotionally resonant and wonderfully wry collection that follows the lives of outcasts, misfits, and malcontents from County Mayo to Canada.When Colin Barrett's debut Young Skins published, it swept up several major literary awards, and,...

CHF 25.90

Yesterday's Spy

Bradby, Tom
Yesterday's Spy
From British journalist and bestselling author, Tom Bradby, Yesterday's Spy is a brilliantly plotted historical espionage novel about a father searching for his disappeared son against the backdrop of the 1953 coup in Tehran.London, 1953. Harry Tower is a recently retired, and even more recently widowed, British intelligence officer. After a night spent drinking away his sorrows, he is awakened by a phone call with chilling news. His estranged...

CHF 24.50

A Pound of Flesh

Linson, Art
A Pound of Flesh
Have you ever wondered what a Hollywood movie producer actually does? In A Pound of Flesh, producer Art Linson takes us behind closed doors on a rare backstage tour through Hollywood. With amusing stories that recount his challenging experiences with a legion of players whose roster includes David Mamet, Robert De Niro, Jeff Katzenberg, Brian De Palma, Sean Penn, Ned Tanen, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, and Sean Connery, Unson sheds klieg lights on ...

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Don Quixote, Which Was a Dream

Acker, Kathy
Don Quixote, Which Was a Dream
A modern visionary collage-novel which puts a woman in place of Don Quixote in a journey that takes her through American history to the final days of Nixon.

CHF 12.50

Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian E...

Ruddick, James
Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England
In 1875 the beautiful widow Florence Ricardo married the handsome and successful young attorney Charles Bravo, hoping to escape the scandals of her past. But Bravo proved to be a brutal and conniving man, and the marriage was far from happy. Then one night he suddenly collapsed, and three days later died an agonizing death. His doctors immediately determined that he had been poisoned. The graphic and sensational details of the case would captu...

CHF 19.90

Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody Wa...

Holland, James
Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to Ve-Day
Celebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legendary tank unit, the Sherwood RangersIn the annals of World War II, certain groups of soldiers stand out, and among the most notable were the Sherwood Rangers. Originally a cavalry unit in the last days of horses in combat, whose officers were landed gentry leading men who largely worked for them, they were switched to the "mechanized cavalry" of ...

CHF 29.90

If Walls Could Speak

Safdie, Moshe
If Walls Could Speak
If Walls Could Speak is a revealing, compulsively readable memoir chronicling an extraordinary life?from Haifa to Montreal to Boston and the world?intersecting with global leaders, artistic luminaries, and impossible-to-please and visionary clients alike.No prior book has taken readers so personally into the mind of an architect and behind the scenes of the creation and construction of seminal, world-famous structures. It brings architecture a...

CHF 41.90