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Buck, William Ramayana University of California Press 2000 paperback. 1981 priting. . BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105505. ISBN #0520227034 / 9780520227033. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Buck, William Ramayana University of California Press 2000 paperback. 1981 priting. . BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105505. ISBN #0520227034 / 9780520227033. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, two Sanskrit verse epics written some 2,000 years ago. In Ramayana written by a poet known to us as Valmiki , William Buck has retold the story of Prince Rama--with all its nobility of spirit, courtly intrigue, heroic renunciation, fierce battles, and triumph of good over evil--in a length and manner that will make the great Indian epics accessible to the contemporary reader. The same is true for the Mahabharata --in its original Sanskrit, probably the longest Indian epic ever composed. It is the story of a dynastic struggle, between the Kurus and Pandavas, for land. In his introduction, Sanskritist B. A. van Nooten notes, "Apart from William Buck s rendition no other English version has been able to capture the blend of religion and martial spirit that pervades the original epic." Presented accessibly for the general reader without compromising the spirit and lyricism of the originals, William Buck s Ramayana and Mahabharata capture the essence of the Indian cultural heritage.
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Buckley, Christopher Florence Of Arabia 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1050387. ISBN #0812972260 / 9780812972269. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Buckley, Christopher Florence Of Arabia 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1050387. ISBN #0812972260 / 9780812972269. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking , conspiracy theories in Little Green Men , and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the entire world Arab-American relations in a blistering comic novel sure to offend the few it doesn t delight. Appalled by the punishment of her rebellious friend Nazrah, youngest and most petulant wife of Prince Bawad of Wasabia, Florence Farfarletti decides to draw a line in the sand. As Deputy to the deputy assistant secretary for Near East Affairs, Florence invents a far-reaching, wide-ranging plan for female emancipation in that part of the world. The U.S. government, of course, tells her to forget it. Publicly, that is. Privately, she s enlisted in a top-secret mission to impose equal rights for the sexes on the small emirate of Matar pronounced Mutter , the Switzerland of the Persian Gulf. Her crack team: a CIA killer, a snappy PR man, and a brilliant but frustrated gay bureaucrat. Her weapon: TV shows. The lineup on TV Matar includes A Thousand and One Mornings, a daytime talk show that features self-defense tips to be used against boyfriends during Ramadan; an addictive soap opera featuring strangely familiar members of the Matar royal family; and a sitcom about an inept but ruthless squad of religious police, pitched as Friends from Hell. The result: the first deadly car bombs in the country since 1936, a fatwa against the station s entire staff, a struggle for control of the kingdom, and, of course, interference from the French. And that s only the beginning. A merciless dismantling of both American ineptitude and Arabic intolerance, Florence of Arabia is Christopher Buckley s funniest and most serious novel yet, a biting satire of how U.S. good intentions can cause the Shiite to hit the fan. From
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Buckley, Christopher Little Green Men Random House 1999 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or979821. ISBN #0679452931 / 9780679452935. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Buckley, Christopher Little Green Men Random House 1999 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or979821. ISBN #0679452931 / 9780679452935. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In 1994, Christopher Buckley published one of the most acclaimed and successful comic novels of the decade, Thank You for Smoking. Now Buckley returns to the strange land of Washington, D.C., in Little Green Men , a millennial comedy of manners about aliens and pundits . . . and how much they have in common. The reluctant hero of this hilarious novel is John Oliver Banion, a stuffy Washington talk-show host, whose privileged life is thrown into upheaval when aliens abduct him from his exclusive country-club golf course. But were his gray-skinned captors aliens . . . or something far more sinister? After Banion is abducted again--this time in Palm Springs--he believes he has been chosen by the extraterrestrials to champion the most important cause of the millennium, and he embarks on a crusade, appearing before a convention of UFO believers and demanding that Congress and the White House seriously investigate UFOs. His friends and family suspect that Banion is having some kind of manic-depressive midlife crisis and urge him to seek therapy before his credibility as a pillar of the punditocracy is ruined. So John Oliver Banion must choose: keep his establishment status or become the leader of millions of impassioned and somewhat scruffy new friends who want to expose the government's secret alien agenda. Little Green Men proves once and for all that the truth is out there. Way out there. And it reaffirms Christopher Buckley's status as the funniest humanoid writer in the universe. Coming soon from Christopher Buckley:
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Buckley, Christopher No Way To Treat a First Lady Random House 2002 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or890490. ISBN #0375507345 / 9780375507342. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Buckley, Christopher No Way To Treat a First Lady Random House 2002 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or890490. ISBN #0375507345 / 9780375507342. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Christopher Buckley, the bestselling author of the comic classics The White House Mess and Thank You for Smoking , returns to the funniest place in America: Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Tyler MacMann, the First Lady of the United States, has been charged with killing her philandering husband, the President of the United States. In the midst of a bedroom spat, she allegedly hurled a historic Paul Revere spittoon at him, with tragic results. The attorney general has no choice but to put the First Lady on trial for assassination. The media has never warmed to Beth MacMann her nickname in the tabloids is Lady Bethmac , and as America girds for a scandalous, sensational trial, Beth reaches out to the only defense attorney she trusts, Boyce Shameless Baylor, who charges 1,000 an hour and has represented a Who s Who of scoundrels: murderous running backs, society wife-killers, Los Alamos spies, and national-security sellouts. Why Boyce Baylor? Because Beth loved him once, when they were law students. Boyce wanted to marry her, but Beth chose the future President instead. Now, after all these years, Boyce has a second chance. To what lengths will a shameless lawyer go to win the Trial of the Millennium and regain the love of his life? Buckley has been described by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the best and surest political humorists in America and by Entertainment Weekly as a superb writer of politically incorrect satire. No Way to Treat a First Lady is flat-out hilarious. And furthermore, it s a love
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Buckley, Christopher Supreme Courtship 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114440. ISBN #0446579823 / 9780446579827. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Buckley, Christopher Supreme Courtship 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114440. ISBN #0446579823 / 9780446579827. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird , the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the guts to reject her -- Judge Pepper Cartwright, the star of the nation's most popular reality show, Courtroom Six . Will Pepper, a straight-talking Texan, survive a confirmation battle in the Senate? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? And even if she can make it to the Supreme Court, how will she get along with her eight highly skeptical colleagues, including a floundering Chief Justice who, after legalizing gay marriage, learns that his wife has left him for another woman. Soon, Pepper finds herself in the middle of a constitutional crisis, a presidential reelection campaign that the president is determined to lose, and oral arguments of a romantic nature. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule.
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Budd, Lillian April Snow J. B. Lippincott 1951 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Faded Spine. Yellowing from age. JACKET COND: Tears and damage to jacket. Book #or1145125. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burdick, Eugene; Wheeler, Harvey Fail Safe paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097943. ISBN #088001654X / 9780880016544. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burdick, Eugene; Wheeler, Harvey Fail Safe paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097943. ISBN #088001654X / 9780880016544. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination -- Moscow. In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev." Not far away, in the War Room at the Pentagon, the secretary of defense and his aides watch with growing anxiety as the luminous blips crawl across a huge screen map. High over the Bering Strait in a large Vindicator bomber, a colonel stares in disbelief at the attack code number on his fail-safe box and wonders if it could possibly be a mistake. First published in 1962, when America was still reeling from the Cuban missle crisis, Fail-Safe reflects the apocalyptic attitude that pervaded society during the height of the Cold War, when disaster could have struck at any moment. As more countries develop nuclear capabilities and the potential for new enemies lurks on the horizon, Fail-Safe and its powerful issues continue to respond.
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Burdick, Eugene; Wheeler, Harvey Fail-Safe hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1099700. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange W. W. Norton & Company 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Moisture damage. Book #or1144296. ISBN #0393312836 / 9780393312836. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange W. W. Norton & Company 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Moisture damage. Book #or1144296. ISBN #0393312836 / 9780393312836. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The only American edition of the cult classic novel. A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, whose stark terror was captured in Stanley Kubrick's magnificent film of the same title. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him the novel asks, "At what cost?" This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resu
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Burgess, Anthony Any Old Iron Random House 1989 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Previous owners name inking. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1150300. ISBN #0394574842 / 9780394574844. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony Earthly Powers Simon & Schuster 1980 hardcover. Inked note on front fly.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Previous owners name inking. Wear from use. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1144536. ISBN #0671414909 / 9780671414900. (keywords: British Literature) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony End of the World News, The: An Entertainment McGraw-Hill 1983 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1150243. ISBN #0070089655 / 9780070089655. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony Honey for the Bears W. W. Norton & Company 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107804. ISBN #0393314413 / 9780393314410. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony Honey for the Bears W. W. Norton & Company 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107804. ISBN #0393314413 / 9780393314410. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy. . . . Honey for the Bears is a triumph." Kingsley Amis, New York Times A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across, the Russian sensibility begins to pervade: lots of secrets and lots of vodka. When his American wife is stricken by a painful rash and he is interrogated at his hotel by Soviet agents who know that he is trying to sell stylish synthetic dresses to the masses starved for fashion, his precarious inner balance is thrown off for good. More drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with another woman, and his own submerged sexual feelings come breaking through the surface, bubbling up in Russian champagne and caviar. br
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Burgess, Anthony Honey for the Bears W. W. Norton & Company 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145365. ISBN #0393314413 / 9780393314410. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Anthony Honey for the Bears W. W. Norton & Company 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145365. ISBN #0393314413 / 9780393314410. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary "There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy. . . . Honey for the Bears is a triumph." Kingsley Amis, New York Times A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across, the Russian sensibility begins to pervade: lots of secrets and lots of vodka. When his American wife is stricken by a painful rash and he is interrogated at his hotel by Soviet agents who know that he is trying to sell stylish synthetic dresses to the masses starved for fashion, his precarious inner balance is thrown off for good. More drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with another woman, and his own submerged sexual feelings come breaking through the surface, bubbling up in Russian champagne and caviar. br
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Burgess, Anthony The Kingdom of the Wicked Arbor House 1985 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Previous owners name inking. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1150298. ISBN #0877957533 / 9780877957539. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burgess, Dorothy Say Uncle hardcover. First Edition. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Tears and damage to jacket. Some Chipping. Book #or1130265. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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