Laconic Krystallos Series
January 16th, 2011
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Foyle’s War Series 1-5 $103.27 Rated: NRSynopsis: Combining uncompromising historical accuracy with compelling mysteries, this award-winning British series opens a unique window on a significant time and place. Michael Kitchen (Out of Africa) stars as the laconic Christopher Foyle, detective chief superintendent in the English town of Hastings. As World War II ravages the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front. The 19 mysteries in this collection follow the course of the war from 1940 to 1945. |
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Tales of Belkin & The Queen of Spades (Unabridged) $10.78 Light, laconic, graceful language of the genius; it is the language of Pushkin…. |
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The Xenophobe’s Guide to the Aussies $4.36 A guide to understanding the Aussies which takes an insightful, laconic look at their character and attitudes. |
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For Student Series Short Stories: Mateo Falcone by Prosper Merimee $8.99 Prosper Merimee’s “Mateo Falcone” (1829), originally subtitled “Les moeurs de Corse” (“The Ways of Corsica”), chronicles the killing of a ten-year-old boy by his father. The story, Merimee’s first, is provocative in spite of the detached narrative voice of his unnamed narrator. This laconic, disconnected voice heightens the shock value of the event and at the same time demands the reader to interpret the story objectively. Such contemporaries as Stendhal (Henri Beyle), Henry James, and Walter Pater admired Merimee and praised him for his craft. Pater called “Mateo Falcone” “the cruellest story in the world.” “Mateo Falcone” is a brief, but complex story. It features at least five points of view and at least four “ways of life” (the “moeurs” of the original subtitle). Merimee’s themes include betrayal and honor, savagery and civilization, vendetta and law, and custom and morality. Most importantly, “Mateo Falcone” exemplifies the art of storytelling at its most concentrated and allusive. Most critics consider the story disturbing and unforgettable. |
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Raylan by Leonard, Elmore Edition LTE, $23.99 The revered New York Times bestselling author, recognized as America's greatest crime writer (Newsweek), brings back U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the laconic, Stetson-wearing, fast-drawing lawman of Pronto, Riding the Rap, and the hit FX series Justified in this dark and droll page-turner filled with the sparkling dialogue and sly suspense that are the hallmarks of this modern master. |
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Death of a Bore By Beaton, M. C. $12.4 Confounded by the murder of Lochdubh writing circles longwinded organizer, laconic police officer Hamish Macbeth investigates the victims writings for clues and wonders at sinister themes within an unfinished soap opera script. By the author of Death of a Village. Reprint. Author: Beaton, M. C. Series Title: Hamish Macbeth Mystery Publication Date: 2006/01/01 Number of Pages: 261 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 4.25 Height: 6.75 |
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For Student Series Short Stories: Private Lies by Bobbie Ann Mason $8.99 Private Lies, first published in the March 1983 issue of The Atlantic and a classic Bobbie Ann Mason story, is set in the western Kentucky of her youth-a landscape dotted with a growing number of fast food restaurants and big box stores. As Laura Fine notes, “The people of Mason’s stories are predominately lower-middle class white heterosexuals who could live in any subdivision or farm in the country,” and the characters of “Private Lies” are just those kind of people. Like Mason’s other characters, Mickey, Tina, and Donna are in transition. Appearing in Mason’s collection of short stories, Love Life (1989), “Private Lies” introduces themes of loss, grief, and mourning by characters who seem divorced from their own inner feelings, as well as from each other. Furthermore, in “Private Lies,” Mason explores the shaky ground of gender in contemporary culture. “Private Lies” has not received the kind of critical attention lavished on Mason’s other stories such as “Shiloh,” “Big Bertha Stories,” and “Love Life.” Nevertheless, with its laconic, spare style, and in its attention to painful moments of the heart, “Private Lies” is a story worth studying, one that reveals the importance of past relationships to present lives. |
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For Student Series Short Stories: Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl $8.99 Initially rejected, along with four other stories, by The New Yorker, “Lamb to the Slaughter” eventually appeared in Collier’s in 1953, after Knopf published its first collection of Dahl’s short stories and established his American reputation. Dahl had been making headway as a professional writer with a spate of tales which, like “Lamb to the Slaughter,” reflect aspects of human perversity, cruelty, and violence. “Lamb to the Slaughter” opens with Mary Maloney, the pregnant, doting wife of a policeman waiting for her husband to come home from work. When he does so, he makes an abrupt but unspecified statement to Mary, the upshot of which is that he intends to leave her. Her connubial complacency shattered by this revelation, Mary crushes her husband’s skull with a frozen leg of lamb and then arranges an alibi. The laconic suddenness of the events, as Dahl tells them, creates an experience of shock for the reader, an effect which no doubt accounts for the popularity of this frequently anthologized and reprinted story. Dahl, who is also the author of popular childrens’ fiction, appears here as an adult student of adult evil, as a cynically detached narrator, and as an advocate of a grisly form of black comedy. Yet “Lamb to the Slaughter” prefigures the grotesqueness in even his work for children: in both James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory “bad” children meet with bizarre and horrific but appropriate fates. |
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Death of a Dustman by Beaton, M. C. Edition , 0 $15.49 Scotland's most laconic & low-tech policeman, Hamish MacBeth returns. |
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FOYLES WAR:FROM DUNKIRK TO VE DAY SE BY FOYLES WAR (DVD) [19 DISCS] $149.41 Combining uncompromising historical accuracy with compelling mysteries, this awardwinning British series opens a unique window on a significant time and place. Michael Kitchen stars as the laconic Christopher Foyle, detective chief superintendent in the English town of Hastings. As World War II ravages the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front. The 19 mysteries in this collection follow the course of the war from 1940 to 1945. Includes all episodes from Foyles War Sets 15. Artist: FOYLES WAR Genre: Television: British Mystery/Dr Rating: NR Release Date: 29SEP2009 |
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Mexican Postcards $42.84 In this first translation in book form of his work, Latin American social commentator Carlos Monsivais presents an extraordinary chronicle of contemporary life south of the Rio Grande, ranging over subjects as various as Latino hip hop, Dolores del Rio, boleros, and melodrama. Monsivaiss chronicles are laconic and satirical, taking as a constant theme the conflicts between Mexican and North American culture and between modern and traditional ways of life. Author: Monsivais, Carlos/ Kraniauskas, John Series Title: Critical Studies in Latin American Iberian Culture Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 Publication Date: 1997/06/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.14 x 6.14 x 0.70 inches |
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While You’re Here Doc by Brown, Bradford B. Edition , 0 $19.99 Provides the memoirs of a veterinarian who practiced in a small coastal town in 1950s Maine, including tales involving stallions, monkeys, and laconic farmers. |
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Tao Te Ching by Chen, Ellen M.; Chen, Ellen Edition , 0 $21.49 The Feng/English translation captures Lao Tsu’s philosophical wisdom and laconic style of writing, making his classic work even more accessible to a broader audience. |
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Foyle’s War Set 4 DVD $49.98 While the world’s at war, one man fights his own battle on the home front History meets mystery in this award-winning series, set at the height of World War II. Michael Kitchen (Out of Africa ) returns as the laconic Christopher Foyle, detective chief superintendent in the English town of Hastings. War has torn the social fabric of this once-quiet coastal community, and Foyle’s investigations explore the violence and opportunism that the conflict has fostered on the home front. Also starring Anthony Howell and Honeysuckle Weeks , and featuring Kenneth Colley , Dermot Crowley , Liz Fraser , Philip Jackson , Michael Jayston , Corey Johnson , Jonah Lotan , and Roy Marsden . SET 4 INCLUDES: Invasion / Bad Blood / Bleak Midwinter / Casualties Of War (4 DVD) approx. 6.7 hrs. |
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Foyle’s War From Dunkirk to VE Day, Set 1-5 DVD $129.98 “A triumph from start to finish” – The Wall Street Journal “Brilliantly explores the moral gray areas of war.” – San Francisco Chronicle Combining uncompromising historical accuracy with compelling mysteries, this award-winning British series opens a unique window on a significant time and place. Michael Kitchen (Out of Africa ) stars as the laconic Christopher Foyle, Detective Chief Superintendent in the English town of Hastings. As World War II ravages the social fabric of this once-quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front. The 19 episodes in this collection follow the course of the war from 1940 to 1945. Also stars Anthony Howell and Honeysuckle Weeks , with guest stars Julian Ovenden , Corin Redgrave , Robert Hardy , Charles Dance , Michael Jayston , Rosamund Pike , Amanda Root , James Wilby and James McAvoy . Includes: All episodes from Foyle’s War Sets 1-5 (19 DVD), approx. 31.7 hrs. |
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Angioplasty Series $99.99 Angioplasty Series |
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Fart Series $10 Fart Series |
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ISABELLA SERIES $309.99 ISABELLA SERIES |
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FRANCESCA SERIES $254.99 FRANCESCA SERIES |
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PALERMO SERIES $346.99 PALERMO SERIES |
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