BOOKS by Richard Price

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1	Clockers more books like this by Richard Price This is the story of Rocco Klein, a veteran homicide detective only just this side of burn-out, whose appetite for the hunt is revived by a drug-related murder that has some very unusual ramifications. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Lush Life more books like this by Richard Price In "Lush Life," Price tears the shiny veneer off the "new" New York to show the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour, in this novel that reads like a movie in prose" ("New York Times"). see all copies from $13.00! new only from $15.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Wanderers more books like this by Richard Price A novel set in the Bronx in the early 1960s, where a teenage gang are trying to stay alive and perhaps get to know some girls, but it is not going to be easy, for they face murderous parents, an all-Chinese gang, apathetic teachers and a 10-year-old cold-blooded killer. From the author of FREEDOMLAND and LADIES' MAN. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Freedomland more books like this by Richard Price A white woman stumbles into an inner-city hospital with a horrifying story: she has just been carjacked by a black man who was apparently unaware that her son was asleep on the back seat. As the search ensues, the detective begins to suspect that the woman is holding back a terrible truth. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Merrill Chemistry more books like this by Robert C Smoot, Richard G Smith, Jack Price see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.81! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Samaritan more books like this by Richard Price Dempsy, New Jersey, is right across the river from New York City, and Ray Mitchell has returned there--his home town--from Los Angeles, where he has made a bundle as a screenwriter. Ray is white, and when he is attacked and badly beaten, Nerese Ammons, a black police detective, takes the case, even though she is close to early retirement. A New ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Ladies man more books like this by Richard Price Abandoned by his live-in girlfried, Kenny Becker, an unemployed door-to-door salesman, sets off to explore his new freedom. His journey takes him through singles bars, peep shows, massage parlours and other questionable destinations in New York's underground. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.35! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Chemistry: a Modern Course (Teacher's Annotated Edition) (Teacher's Annotated Edition) by Richard Smith Jack Price, Robert Smoot see all copies from $1.99! new only from $93.92!
9	The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective more books like this by Sidney W Mintz, Richard Price In this provocative study, two anthropologists add a measured voice to the debate on the roots of African-American culture. Exploring the cultural ties between Africans and African-Americans, the authors argue that there was no single culture that enslaved Africans transported intact to the Americas. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.49! \| SVS
10	Bloodbrothers more books like this by Richard Price Stony de Coco is 18 and the son of a pugnacious construction worker who expects his son to follow in his footsteps. Stony, however, is determined to break loose from his belligerent life despite the opposition from everyone else in his family. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $11.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Breaks more books like this by Richard Price Peter "Speedo" Keller is the first college graduate in his working class family - majoring in English, minoring as class clown. His lurching entrance into adult life includes a fantasy-arousing interlude as a telephone sales solicitor and a mind-deadening stint at the post office. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	Clockers CL more books like this by Richard Price Richard Price's gripping, gritty tale of the battle of nerves between the police and the drug dealers across the river from Manhattan in the slums of New Jersey. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	American Gangster: And Other Tales of New York more books like this by Mark Jacobson, Richard Price (Foreword by) In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. So many heroin addicts were buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed the Transit Authority changed the bus routes to avoid them. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, musicians, and politicians, but Lucas was a ruthless ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| SVS
14 view cover	Convict & the Colonel more books like this by Richard Price The life of Medard Aribot of Martinique--artist, convict, madman, legend--spans much of the twentieth century. With an exciting combination of scholarship and storytelling, award-winning anthropologist Richard Price takes readers on a search for the real Medard, using Martinique's transition from colonial society to modern society as a backdrop to ... see all copies from $2.28! new only from $9.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
15	Alabi's World more books like this by Richard Price In the early 18th century, the Dutch colony of Suriname was the envy of all others in the Americas. There, seven hundred Europeans lived off the labor of over four thousand enslaved Africans. Owned by men hell-bent for quick prosperity, the rich plantations on the Suriname river became known for their heights of planter comfort and opulence -- and ... see all copies from $3.06! new only from $17.91! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Where the River Runs: A Portrait of a Refugee Family more books like this by Nancy Price Graff, Richard Howard (Photographer) This study of a refugee family follows the daily life of a Cambodian family as they adapt to life in the United States. Illustrated with b&w photographs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $60.46! \| first editions
17 view cover	Enigma Variations more books like this by Richard Price, Professor Sally Price In a steamy colonial city, an eccentric Frenchman offers for sale an extraordinary collection of primitive art. The two anthropologists called in to appraise the pieces for the national museum quickly find themselves in a murky world where the boundaries of authenticity and deception blur in the tropical heat. What begins as an intellectual puzzle ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas more books like this by Richard Price A systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that lasted less than a year to powerful states encompassing thousands of members and surviving for generations and even centuries. The volume includes eyewitness accounts written by escaped ... see all copies from $3.76! new only from $26.09! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension more books like this by Professor Richard Price, Professor Sally Price Romare Bearden (1911-1988), the great African American artist, spent much of the last two decades of his life on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. This tropical experience influenced not only the work (mainly watercolors) that he produced while in the region but also the imagery of rural North Carolina and Harlem that he created during his final ... see all copies from $28.25! new only from $36.15! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Stedman's Surinam Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society more books like this by Professor John Gabriel Stedman, Professor Sally Price (Editor), Richard Price (Editor) This abridgement of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of ... see all copies from $8.50! new only from $34.06! \| signed copies \| SVS
21 view cover	Opportunities in Animal and Pet Care Careers more books like this by Mary P Lee, Richard S Lee (Photographer) "Opportunities in Animal and Pet Careers" offers job seekers essential information about a variety of careers for animal lovers. The book includes training and education requirements, salary statistics, and professional and Internet resources. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.03!
22 view cover	The Color of Money, Sea of Love, Night and the City: Three Screenplays more books like this by Richard Price The recent success of Freedomland and Clockers has established Richard Price as one of America's most accomplished novelists. Critics have praised both his uncanny ear for the cadences and pitch of dialogue and his insight into the deeper recesses of the American soul. Perhaps more than any novelist today, Price has captured the undercurrents of ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $5.95!
23 view cover	Two Evenings in Saramaka more books like this by Richard Price, Professor Sally Price "Whatever has gotten into the Prices?" asks the apocryphal Professor Goodfellow in the opening lines of "Two Evenings in Saramaka," "After all those books on history and ethnography," he muses, "why are they now turning to children's stories and nonsense songs--mere folklore?" In this innovative work, Richard and Sally Price explore the fully ... see all copies from $3.66! new only from $31.25! \| first editions
24 view cover	Future of Spacetime more books like this by Stephen W. Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, Richard Price (Introduction by) Where the science of black holes, gravitational waves, and time travel will likely lead us, as reported by spacetime's most important theoreticians and observers. Our Minds Tell US that some things in the universe must be true. The nw physics tells us that they are not, and in the process blurs the line between science and science fiction. Here ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.33! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Convict and the Colonel: A Story of Colonialism and Resistance in the Caribbean more books like this by Richard Price This work brings together an election day massacre in colonial Martinique; a "mad" artist who lives in a cave; a satirical wooden bust of a white colonel; the artist's banishment to the Devil's Island penal colony for "impertinence"; and a young anthropologist who arrives in Martinique in 1962, on the eve of massive modernization. In a stunning ... see all copies from $15.45! new only from $25.75! \| SVS

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