True History of the Kelly Gang, Paperback - Peter Carey

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OSCAR AND LUCINDA is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century England and Australia where the two potential lovers lead ...

Reducere. DescriptionPeter Carey's two Booker Prize-winning novels, in one handsome hardcover volume. Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventiv...

Through physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, Joseph Merrick spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until ...

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Reducere. Straight from the streets of the mid-1960s Bronx comes a book about one of the borough's most feared gangs - The Ducky Boys. While their unusual na...

Reducere. Soldier of fortune and 16th century Spanish conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo is best known today for his first-hand accounts of Spain's expedi...

Homer the Blind Wonder Cat, star of "Homer's Odyssey, " returns in a touching and humorous new memoir.Gwen Cooper-author of the blockbuster bestsel...

This stunning memoir-cum-travelogue from twice Booker winning author Peter Carey re-evaluates Japan through its attempts to understand the violent ...

Man Booker Prize FinalistNational Book Award FinalistTwo-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's latest feat of imagination is an irrepressible, aud...

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Peter Carey's astonishing debut novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced ...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Kate VigursIllustration(s): 22 b-w illus. + 1 mapNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

The full story of the thirty-nine female agents of SOE F section who went undercover in France, revealing for the first time how their fates contra...

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Cheryl Ann Araujo is The Accuser. In 1983, she was victimized by men, the judicial system, the Government, the media, and the Portuguese mob becaus...

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A chilling true crime book that chronicles the wave of abductions that terrorized the U.S. during the Great Depression, including the most infamous...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Bernal Diaz del CastilloTranslator: Ted HumphreyNumber of pages: 498Publication date: 2012Dimension...

A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peaco...

Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly ...

What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush townhouse in Great Queen Street? And why ...

La Merica (la mer'.e.ca) Ancient Portuguese name for America. Meaning: "The Western Star" This book is made possible by the re-discovery of an anci...

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One of NPR's Best Books of the Year An Amazon Best History and Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 So Far "Gripping. . . R]eads like a crime novel in the ...

Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Havard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated...

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Reducere. Thrilling submarine espionage and an inside look at the U.S. Navy's "silent service" Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the ...

Publisher: Milo BooksAuthor(s): Peter WalshIllustration(s): 16 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 198 ...

Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quit...