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Ancient Art To Post-Impressionism: Masterpieces From The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
by Mary Beard

ISBN 1903973503 (1-903973-50-3)
Hardcover, Royal Academy of Arts

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Begun in 1878 by a prominent Danish family, the collection now housed in Copenhagen's renowned Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek includes exceptional Greek, Roman, and Etruscan sculptures, works by Danish Golden Age artists and by French artists such as Rodin and Carpeaux, and notable canvases and ceramics by Paul Gauguin. Published to coincide with an exhibition of works from the Glyptotek, this important volume illustrates some 200 artworks. AUTHOR BIO: Flemming Friborg is director of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Mary Beard teaches classics at Cambridge. [via]
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Back Story
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0425194795 (0-425-19479-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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In this 30th entry in one of mystery fiction's longest-running and best-loved series, Spenser--the tough yet sensitive Boston private eye with no first name--takes on an unsolved murder nearly three decades old. The client, an actress, is a friend of Paul Giacomin, Spenser's surrogate son (who first appeared in 1981's Early Autumn). Her mother was slain by leftist radicals at a bank holdup in 1974, and now she wants to know who fired the shot. As Spenser digs into the past, he soon learns that powerful people on both sides of the law want the case left alone--badly enough to kill.
These death threats provide a fine excuse for Hawk, Spenser's extremely scary (yet sensitive) bad-guy pal, to tag along in nearly every scene as bodyguard. The interaction of the two friends is one of this series's familiar pleasures, as is the presence of Susan Silverman, Spenser's longtime love interest. Another pleasure is Parker's stripped-down prose, a marvel of craftsmanship as smooth as 18-year-old Scotch. (Plus we get the first meeting between Spenser and Jesse Stone, hero of another Parker series.) Alas, the whole enterprise feels a little tired. The plot never generates much sustained suspense, and the author's adoration for his central characters renders them at times almost cartoonesque. Still, Back Story is excellently prepared comfort food, even if it isn't five-star cuisine. --Nicholas H. Allison [via]
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- Back Story: ISBN 0399149775 (0-399-14977-5)
  Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Back Story: ISBN 0425194795 (0-425-19479-5)
  Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Bad Business: Library Edition
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0425199576 (0-425-19957-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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A very good book. [via]
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A Catskill Eagle: A Spenser Novel
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0440111323 (0-440-11132-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Spenser's girlfriend Susan runs away with another man, Jerry Costigan, the son of a very rich and dangerous criminal. Spenser and his friend Hawk go in search of Susan, but are soon caught up in the world of the CIA, guns and murder. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]
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Ceremony
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0440109930 (0-440-10993-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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From the bestselling author of Crimson Joy. Spenser's out to make war, not love, as he goes after Boston's entire X-rated industry. Pretty teenager April Kyle has disappeared into the city's darkest underworld, and to rescue her, Spencer pits muscle and wit against bullets and bullies. Part of Dell's ongoing Robert B. Parker reissue program. [via]
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Cold Service
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0425204286 (0-425-20428-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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- Cold Service: ISBN 0399152407 (0-399-15240-7)
  Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Crimson Joy
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0440203430 (0-440-20343-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Double Deuce
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0425137937 (0-425-13793-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Hawk wants Spenser to wage war on a street gang. Susan wants Spenser to move in with her. Either way, Spenser's out of his element. So why not risk both?
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Early Autumn
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 1560542861 (1-56054-286-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.

With a contract out on his life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give a puny 15 year old a crash course in survival and to beat his dangerous opponents at their own brutal game. [via]
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God Save the Child
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0440128994 (0-440-12899-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends...friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser's only lead and he isn't talking...except with his fists. But when push comes to shove, when a boy's life is on the line, Spenser can speak that language too. [via]
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The Godwulf Manuscript
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 1568493177 (1-56849-317-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books

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For Spenser, that most unorthodox of private detectives, no case is ever straightforward and the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript proves no exception. His investigation soon leads him into organized crime, dope-pushing, theft, radical politics, adultery and murder. [via]
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Hugger Mugger
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 156895865X (1-56895-865-X)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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Why is somebody shooting Walter Clive's horses at Three Fillies Stables in Lamarr, Georgia? That's what toothy, patrician Walter wants the droll, hulking Boston detective Spenser to find out. Walter worries that his racetrack phenomenon Hugger Mugger, worth millions, is next. So Spenser goes south to a place where "the heat felt like it could be cut into squares and used to build a wall," as he puts it in the crisp Chandleresque lingo that made him famous in dozens of novels.
The Clive clan is one weird bunch. Take Walter's daughters, his three "fillies." Penny is like her dad, all impeccable looks and icy efficiency. Stonie and SueSue take after their sinister mom, who left the family to live with a guitarist in San Francisco and changed her name to Sherry Lark. Penny helps Dad run the business, while her soused sisters cheat on their pathetic husbands, Cord and Pud. (Pud's short for Puddle; his dad was named Poole.) As unsightly family secrets spill, Spenser feels like he's in a Tennessee Williams play. Then someone on two legs takes a bullet, and the mystery gets tense. Spenser gets plenty of sarcastic mileage out of upper-class horse-country twits, crooked security guards, dumb jocks gone to seed, and wily Southern lawyers, and the story saunters well. What's best are the endless wisecracks, the unflattering thumbnail character sketches, and sharp sentences like this one: "Like all jockeys, he was about the size of a ham sandwich, except for his hands, which appeared to be those of a stonemason." --Tim Appelo [via]
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Hush Money
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0425174018 (0-425-17401-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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- Hush Money: ISBN 0399144587 (0-399-14458-7)
  Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Judas Goat
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0440141966 (0-440-14196-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Spenser has gone to London -- and not to see the Queen. He's gone to track down a bunch of bombers who've blown away his client's wife and kids. His job is to catch them. Or kill them. His client isn't choosy.

But there are nine killers to one Spenser -- long odds. Hawk helps balance the equation. The rest depends on a wild plan. Spenser will get one of the terrorists to play Judas Goat -- to lead him to others. Trouble is, he hasn't counted on her being very blond, very beautiful and very dangerous. [via]
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Leisure and Entertainment Facilities
by Fred Lawson

ISBN 0792430514 (0-7924-3051-4)
Hardcover, Octopus Publishing Group

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Looking for Rachel Wallace
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0440153166 (0-440-15316-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Spenser is..."The sassiest, funniest, most-enjoyable-to-read-about private eye around today...the legitimate heir to the Hammett-Chandler-Macdonald tradition." --The Cincinnati Post

Spenser is..."Tougher, stronger, better educated, and far more amusing than Sam Spade, Phil Marlowe, or Lewis Archer...Spenser gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself." --The Boston Globe [via]
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- Looking for Rachel Wallace: ISBN 0440047641 (0-440-04764-1)
  Hardcover, Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence
- Looking for Rachel Wallace: ISBN 0440153166 (0-440-15316-6)
  Softcover, Bantam Books
Mortal Stakes
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 1560543140 (1-56054-314-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Pale Kings and Princes
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0440200040 (0-440-20004-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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In this crime story, the Boston private eye Spenser is hired to determine whether a reporter was killed by dope dealers or by an irate husband. The other Spenser novels include "The Godwulf Manuscript", "The Judas Goat" and "Promised Land", which won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for 1976. [via]
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- Pale Kings and Princes: ISBN 0385295383 (0-385-29538-3)
  Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
- Pale Kings and Princes: ISBN 0440200040 (0-440-20004-0)
  Softcover, Bantam Books
Paper Doll
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0425141551 (0-425-14155-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Pastime
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0425132935 (0-425-13293-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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The most personal and revealing Spenser thriller of all, Pastime is Robert B. Parker's electrifying masterpeice of crime fiction--a startling game of memory, desire, and danger that forces Spenser to face his own past. Ten years ago, he saved a teenage boy from a father's rage. Now, on the brink of manhood, the boy seeks answers to his mother's sudden disapearance. Spenser is the only man he can turn to.
This time, it's more than a routine search for a missing person--Spenser must search his own soul...
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Promised Land
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0440171970 (0-440-17197-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Acclaimed mystery author Robert B. Parker continues to win an even greater audience with each new Spenser novel. For all crime fiction lovers who discovered Parker through his latest bestsellers "Pastime" and "Double Deuce", his entire Dell backlist is now available in attractively repackaged editions. [via]
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A Savage Place: A Spenser Novel
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0440180953 (0-440-18095-3)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co

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TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps on snooping into charges of Hollywood racketeering.

Spenser's job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story of her career. But her star witness has just bowed out with three bullets in his chest, two tough guys have doubled up to test Spenser's skill with his fists, and Candy is about to use her own sweet body as live bait in a deadly romantic game--a game that may cost Spenser his life. [via]
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School Days
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 1594131163 (1-59413-116-3)
Softcover, Large Print Pr

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Small Vices
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 1568954662 (1-56895-466-2)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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While the rest of us grow older, Spenser seems suspended in perpetual early middle age. Oh, he talks about getting older, but his body is still firm, his muscles toned, and his reflexes are still hair-trigger fine. Even so, it is Spenser's body that betrays him when he is almost killed by an assassin's bullet two-thirds of the way through Robert B. Parker's latest Spenser adventure, Small Vices. Hired to discover the truth behind a four-year-old murder, Spenser soon runs afoul of "the Gray Man," who eventually shoots and partially paralyzes him. Spenser, his stalwart girlfriend Susan, and his almost mythical friend Hawk then hole up in Santa Barbara until the detective can get back on his feet again.
There's never any doubt that Spenser will get back on his feet, or that he will eventually track down the man who shot him and solve the mystery that started the whole ball rolling in the first place. What makes the Spenser mysteries interesting is Spenser himself, the thinking person's private eye, a man of honor and of conscience who understands that every action has consequences. [via]
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Stardust
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 1560540680 (1-56054-068-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Spenser's never had a client like Jill Joyce, the star of TV's Fifty Minutes. She's beautiful, bitchy, sexy--and someone is stalking her. Spenser can hardly blame the would-be assassin...until he means the true meaning of "stage fright."
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Sudden Mischief
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 1568955693 (1-56895-569-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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Taming a Sea-Horse
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0440188415 (0-440-18841-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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In his latest highly acclaimed Spenser novel, Robert B. Parker takes readers into the murky big-city underground where Spenser undertakes an intense search for a beautiful, missing prostitute, and finds himself traveling amidst the sleaze of Times Square where sex is a commodity, and young girls are the currency. This phenomenal bestseller, with a million-copy paperback first printing is supported by national TV advertising and a 6-month backlist reissue program. HC:Delacorte. [via]
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Thin Air
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 1568952120 (1-56895-212-0)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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Valediction: A Spenser Novel
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0440192463 (0-440-19246-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority.

So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name. But Boston's big boys don't know Spenser's ready and willing to meet death more than halfway. [via]
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Walking Shadow
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 156895106X (1-56895-106-X)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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In a shabby waterfront town, an actor is shot dead onstage. Granted, the script left much to be desired. But there's more behind the scenes than an overzealous critic--and Spenser and Hawk are combing Port City's underworld to find it...
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The Widening Gyre
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0440195357 (0-440-19535-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Widow's Walk
by Robert Parker

ISBN 042518904X (0-425-18904-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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- Widow's Walk: ISBN 0399148450 (0-399-14845-0)
  Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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  Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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