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1	The Edge of Darkness more books like this by Dr. Tim LaHaye, Bob Phillips add to wishlist LaHaye's exciting series continues with this explosive new installment, including more revelations than ever before. LaHaye reveals the meaning behind some of the most carefully guarded Biblical prophecies to expose a conspiracy with terrifying consequences for the modern world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Secret on Ararat more books like this by Dr. Tim LaHaye add to wishlist THE SECRET ON ARARAT is the second installment in the Babylon Rising series, which concerns the adventures of Michael Murphy, an Indiana Jones-like figure who quests for physical evidence of the events recounted in the Bible. In this volume, the evangelical Christian and biblical archaeologist travels to Mount Ararat to search for the remains of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Babylon Rising more books like this by Dr. Tim LaHaye add to wishlist The co-creator of the Left Behind( series begins a new series of faster-paced thrillers based on prophecies that are relevant to today. Michael Murphy, a scholar of Biblical prophecy and a field archaeologist, defies danger to fearlessly hunt down and authenticate ancient artifacts from biblical times. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy more books like this by Margaret Drabble add to wishlist Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul, but Barbara doesn't know who sent it. On the plane, she avidly reads the memoir, a story of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
5	Colored people more books like this by Henry Louis Gates add to wishlist A re-creation of what it was like to grow up in the hill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s. Recalling an age at which the town and people represented his known universe, Gates describes the clannish pride of the family and the sense of place that characterized Piedmont, with its beautiful countryside, its paper mill, whose ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered Teh Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West more books like this by Edward Rice add to wishlist "This masterpiece of history and biography turns the real-life adventures of Burton into a riveting taleThe last great word on the last great explorer of the colonial age." -Wall Street Journal. A New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice's biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.50! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Way of the White Clouds more books like this by Lama Anagarika Govinda, Robert A F Thurman (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Sea Lady: A Late Romance more books like this by Margaret Drabble add to wishlist Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. Now, as they journey back to receive honorary degrees from a new university there--Humphrey on the train, Ailsa flying--they take stock of their lives, their careers, and their shared personal entanglements, romantic and otherwise. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
9	Vigil more books like this by Robert Masello add to wishlist Paleontologist Carter Cox is a man of science whose faith in the empirical is about to be shaken by forces of evil when he begins to decipher the message left by two ancient artifacts--one reveals the secrets of heaven, and the other foretells an impending hell. Original. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963 more books like this by C S Lewis, Walter Hooper (Editor) add to wishlist The final installment of the three-volume collected letters of C. S. Lewis, this volume contains the letters Lewis wrote during the last part of his life, spanning his time at Cambridge, his brilliant creation of the land of Narnia and the children's series that followed, and his struggle with his wife Joy's serious illness and death. see all copies from $17.32! new only from $19.97! \| SVS
11 view cover	The Bad Quarto: An Imogen Quy Mystery more books like this by Jill Paton Walsh add to wishlist A "New York Times" bestselling author returns to her popular series with this latest installment. Imogen Quy, an inquisitive amateur sleuth, takes it upon herself to uncover the truth behind a research fellow's mysterious death in this literate and compelling mystery. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions
12 view cover	Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds more books like this by Joel L Kraemer add to wishlist Kraemer's biography is at once a portrait of a great historical figure--Moses Maimonides was one of the most influential intellects in all of human history--and an excursion into the Mediterranean world of the 12th century. see all copies from $21.38! new only from $21.38! \| SVS
13 view cover	The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change more books like this by Peter Schafer, Muhammad Qasim Zaman add to wishlist From the cleric-led Iranian revolution to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan, many people have been surprised by what they see as the modern reemergence of an antimodern phenomenon. This book helps account for the increasingly visible public role of traditionally educated Muslim religious scholars (the 'ulama) across contemporary Muslim ... see all copies from $10.69! new only from $15.98!
14 view cover	Desert Heat more books like this by Kat Martin add to wishlist From the "New York Times" bestselling author comes the highly anticipated sequel to her "Midnight Sun," which follows Patience Sinclair through the heart of the Southwest and into the face of terrifying danger . . . and desire. Original. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.71! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton more books like this by Fawn McKay Brodie add to wishlist "Brilliant. . . . [Brodie's] scholarship is wide and searching, and her understanding of Burton and his wife both deep and wide. She writes with clarity and zest. The result is a first class biography of an exceptional man."-J. H. Plumb, New York Times Book Review see all copies from $3.41! new only from $10.43! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Memoirs of my life more books like this by Edward Gibbon add to wishlist Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his Memoirs, which were posthumously edited by his friend Lord Sheffield, and remain an astonishing portrait of a rich, full life. Recounting Gibbon's sickly childhood in London, his disappointment ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $14.61! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages more books like this by Israel Jacob Yuval, Ms. Barbara Harshav (Translator), Jonathan Chipman (Translator) add to wishlist Since it was first published in Hebrew in 2000, this provocative book has been garnering acclaim and stirring controversy for its bold reinterpretation of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in the Middle Ages, especially in medieval Europe. Looking at a remarkably wide array of source material, Israel Jacob Yuval argues that the ... see all copies from $16.80! new only from $24.95! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis: Volume 1: Family Letters 1905-1931 more books like this by C S Lewis, Walter Hooper (Editor) add to wishlist The first of a three volume collection of the letters of C.S. Lewis, this volume contains letters from Lewis's boyhood, his army days in World War I and his early academic life at Oxford. From his declared atheism at age 16 to his budding friendship with Tolkein during his days at Oxford, these letters set the stage for the Lewis's influential ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Swann more books like this by Carol Shields add to wishlist Mary Swann, a latter-day Emily Dickinson, submitted a bag full of poems to newspaper editor hours before her husband hacked her to pieces. How could someone who lived such a dull, sheltered life produce these works of genius? Four very different people search for the elusive answer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Bertrams more books like this by Anthony Trollope add to wishlist Trollope considered this novel (his eighth) to be one of his failures, but it was a favorite of Tolstoy, and, in spite of a weak and conventional plot, the book has some interesting aspects: parts of it, for example, are set in Egypt and Jerusalem (where Trollope himself traveled on post-office business), and it contains a heroine who is much more ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $19.71! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism more books like this by Arnaldo D Momigliano, Silvia Berti (Editor), Maura Masella-Gayley (Translator) add to wishlist Throughout his career, Arnaldo Momigliano wrote essays on a variety of Jewish themes and individuals. This volume collects 26 of these essays, most of which appear in English for the first time. The writings in this collection demonstrate how the ethical experience of the Hebraic tradition informed his other works. Part 1 is devoted entirely to ... see all copies from $10.50! new only from $10.50! \| first editions
22 view cover	Shroud more books like this by John Banville add to wishlist All his life, a rude, bad-tempered old man named Axel Vander has taken delight in telling lies--particularly about his true identity, which is a secret he refuses to divulge. Then a young woman named Cass, who may be mad, and who is undeniably brilliant, threatens to expose him for who he really is, and Vander is forced to travel back into the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Brother Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan more books like this by Caroline Fourest, Ioana Wieder (Translator), John Atherton (Translator) add to wishlist Tariq Ramadan is a global phenomenon. A Swiss-born Muslim activist, he is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical group credited with inspiring modern Islamic radicalism. Ramadan is fluent in English, French and Arabic. In Europe, he is the most quoted and circulated writer on Islam. His writings are a regular feature of ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	George Kennan: A Study of Character more books like this by John Lukacs add to wishlist A man of impressive mental powers, of extraordinary intellectual range, and of exceptional integrity, George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) was an adviser to presidents and secretaries of state, with a decisive role in the history of this country (and of the entire world) for a few crucial years in the 1940s, after which he was made to retire. He then ... see all copies from $4.89! new only from $9.58! \| first editions \| SVS
25	Cloak & Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961 more books like this by Robin W Winks add to wishlist A history of the American intelligence effort from the creation of the OSS through 1961. These names of university professors and scholars are known throughout America, but their backgrounds are not. Winks reveals the shadowy game that is played on the campus as well as in the back streets of Milan and Vienna. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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