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![Item #5588] Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague. Geraldine Brooks](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5588_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686351008)
New York, NY: Penguin Group/ Viking, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Geraldine Brooks. "When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes, we follow the story of the plague year, 1666, as her fellow villagers make an extraordinary choice. Convinced by a visionary young minister, they elect to..... More
[Item #5588]![Item #4628] The Viceroy of Ouidah. Bruce Chatwin](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4628.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631743086)
New York, NY: Summit Books/ Simon & Schuster, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The Viceroy of Ouidah begins with the reunion of the numerous descendants of Francisco Felix da Silva- a poor white Brazilian who, Bruce Chatwin tells us, "was by the 1830s the richest man in West Africa....He died a ruined man."...The Viceroy of Ouidah tells...of the man who became the "best friend" of the King of Dahomey, was..... More
[Item #4628]![Item #4601] The Viceroy of Ouidah. Bruce Chatwin](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4601.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630433536)
London, England: Jonathan Cape, 1980. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "In the early 1800s a Brazilian slave trader sailed to the West African Kingdom of Dahomey, entered into a bizarre history of relations with its monarchs, acquired wealth and a position of outlandish influence but died a poor man. Bruce Chatwin's research into this curious story was abruptly thwarted when, on his second trip to Dahomey (by then called Benin), he..... More
[Item #4601]![Item #5479] Children of the Night. Dan Simmons](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5479_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1682031677)
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1992. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Dan Simmons. A spine-tingling novel by Dan Simmons (b. 1948), the acclaimed & prolific award-winning American author who masterfully writes in the science fiction-horror-fantasy genres. Based partly on the stranger-than-fiction actual biography of Vlad the Impaler (1428?-1477?), the fifteenth-century Romanian monarch whose legendary life & cruelties were the basis for Bram Stoker's Dracula, which in turn inspired the..... More
[Item #5479]![Item #4674] The Pawnbroker. Edward Lewis Wallant](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4674.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1634179277)
New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. "Readers who question the continued vitality of the novel in America are urged to consider Edward Lewis Wallant. The Pawnbroker, which follows by one year his notable first novel, The Human Season, is a work of far greater scope and impact, and reveals new aspects of an impressive talent. Sol Nazerman, a university teacher from Poland who has..... More
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