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Product Description: A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust, and the struggle for power...read more
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9780385343244 | Delta, May 19, 2009, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A bold English adventurer.

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Product Description: The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire…Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism...read more
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9780385343275 | Delta, May 19, 2009, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire…Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism.
9780440216803 | Reissue edition (Dell Pub Co, May 1, 1994), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Malcolm Struan, the heir to the most powerful English trading company in the Orient, finds his fate intertwined with that of a beautiful young French woman

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Product Description: It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler…Tai-Pan...read more
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9780385343251 | Delta, May 19, 2009, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland.

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Product Description: The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial double-dealing and natural catastrophes—fire, flood, landslide. Yet they are days filled as well with all the mystery and romance of Hong Kong—the heart of Asia—rich in every trade…money, flesh, opium, power...read more
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9780385343268 | Delta, May 19, 2009, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The setting is Hong Kong, 1963.

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A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust, and the struggle for power...
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Hardcover:

9780385292245 | Reissue edition (Delacorte Pr, May 1, 1983), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A bold English adventurer.

Paperback:

9788401464416 | Distribooks Inc, June 1, 1994, cover price $17.95
9780440178002, titled "Shogun: The Epic Novel of Japan" | Dell Pub Co, June 1, 1993, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: A narrative of conflicting cultures, loyalties, motivations, and traditions in early-seventeenth-century Japan, involving the powerful and powerhungry Lord Toranaga, the ambitious Englishman, Blackthorne, and the Lady Mariko, a Catholic convert in love wi

Miscellaneous:

9780307490896 | Random House Inc, February 19, 2009, cover price $8.99

Prebinding:

9781439507704 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $16.99
9780613013284 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $19.65 | About this edition: A narrative of conflicting cultures, loyalties, motivations, and traditions in early-seventeenth-century Japan, involving the powerful and powerhungry Lord Toranaga, the ambitious Englishman, Blackthorne, and the Lady Mariko, a Catholic convert in love with the barbarian Englishman

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The history of Hong Kong and its Tai-Pan (supreme leader) Dick Struan, a pirate, smuggler, and ruthless individual
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Hardcover:

9780689000119 | Macmillan Pub Co, October 1, 1977, cover price $252.80 | About this edition: The history of Hong Kong and its Tai-Pan (supreme leader) Dick Struan, a pirate, smuggler, and ruthless individual

Paperback:

9780440184621, titled "Tai-Pan: The Epic Novel of the Founding of Hong Kong" | Dell Pub Co, June 1, 1993, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: In the years following England's victory in the first Opium War, Dirk Struan, supreme ruler of the most powerful trading company in the Orient, fights to have England use Hong Kong's port to branch out over the Far East
9788401321863 | Lectorum Pubns, November 1, 1986, cover price $20.50 | About this edition: In the years following England's victory in the first Opium War, Dirk Struan, supreme ruler of the most powerful trading company in the Orient, fights to have England use Hong Kong's port to branch out over the Far East

Miscellaneous:

9780307491572 | Dell Pub Co, November 12, 2008, cover price $8.99

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Product Description: Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, "King Rat" is a heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived through those years as a young soldier. Only one man in fifteen had the strength, the luck, and the cleverness simply to survive Changi...read more
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Hardcover:

9780708981757 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, June 1, 1984), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The time is World War II.

Paperback:

9780340750681 | Hodder & Stoughton, May 30, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, "King Rat" is a heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived through those years as a young soldier.
9780385333764 | Delta, July 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Featuring dramatic never-before-published material from the original manuscript and a new introduction, the timeless classic details the conflict between a powerful black marketeer and his fellow prisoners at a Japanese POW camp that leads to tragedy.
9780440145462 | Dell Pub Co, June 1, 1993, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: A conflict between a powerful black marketeer and his fellow prisoners at a Japanese POW camp leads to tragedy

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780736646000 | Abridged edition (Books on Tape, July 1, 1999), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The time is World War II.
9780736645584 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, June 1, 1999), cover price $88.00 | About this edition: The time is World War II.

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Product Description: This guide deals with the three main areas of a child's life: home, school, and friends. Aimed at the parents of teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18, it looks at issues including parental survival, battles, mending relationsips, careers, disappointment, conflict, boyfriends and girlfriends, and positive self-image...read more
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9780340721698 | Hodder & Stoughton, February 1, 1999, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: This guide deals with the three main areas of a child's life: home, school, and friends.

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Product Description: This guide deals with the three main areas of a child's life: home, school, and friends. Aimed at the parents of children aged seven to twelve, it looks at issues including self-worth, discipline, responsibility, homework, teachers, bullying, sex, drugs and alcohol, and independence...read more
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9780340721681 | Hodder & Stoughton, February 1, 1999, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: This guide deals with the three main areas of a child's life: home, school, and friends.

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During the chaos following the Shah's departure from Iran, Erikki Yokkomen, a Finnish helicopter pilot, tries to reach safety with his Iranian-born wife, Azadeh
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9780340654163 | Hodder & Stoughton, February 1, 1999, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: During the chaos following the Shah's departure from Iran, Erikki Yokkomen, a Finnish helicopter pilot, tries to reach safety with his Iranian-born wife, Azadeh

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Hardcover:

9780517148006 | Random House Value Pub, September 1, 1995, cover price $12.99

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Product Description: It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavell—a talk with his young daughter just home from school—that inspired this chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five quietly devastating minutes. He writes, "The Children's Story came into being that day...read more
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9780440204688, titled "The Children's Story" | Reissue edition (Dell Pub Co, September 1, 1994), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavell—a talk with his young daughter just home from school—that inspired this chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five quietly devastating minutes.
9780440312277 | Laurel Leaf, September 15, 1982, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavell—a talk with his young daughter just home from school—that inspired this chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five quietly devastating minutes.
9780822202066, titled "The Children's Story" | Dramatist''s Play Service, October 1, 1966, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavell—a talk with his young daughter just home from school—that inspired this chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five quietly devastating minutes.

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Product Description: It is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shogun wanes and the rival factions plan to restore the Emperor. In Yokohama, the gai-jin, the hated foreigners, seek to profit from the chaos. At the head of the Noble House - and heir to the title of Tai-Pan - stands Malcolm Struan, who is determined to become his own man and marry the woman he loves...read more
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Hardcover:

9780792718888 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, February 1, 1994), cover price $38.95 | About this edition: It is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shogun wanes and the rival factions plan to restore the Emperor.
9780385310161 | Delacorte Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Malcolm Struan, the heir to the most powerful English trading company in the Orient, finds his fate intertwined with that of a beautiful young French woman

Paperback:

9780792718871 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, August 1, 1994), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: It is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shogun wanes and the rival factions plan to restore the Emperor.

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Product Description: It is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shogun wanes and the rival factions plan to restore the Emperor. In Yokohama, the gai-jin, the hated foreigners, seek to profit from the chaos. At the head of the Noble House - and heir to the title of Tai-Pan - stands Malcolm Struan, who is determined to become his own man and marry the woman he loves...read more
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Hardcover:

9780385310222 | Limited edition (Delacorte Pr, June 1, 1993), cover price $300.00 | About this edition: Malcolm Struan, the heir to the most powerful English trading company in the Orient, finds his fate intertwined with that of a beautiful young French woman

Prebinding:

9781417712342 | Turtleback Books, April 1, 1994, cover price $18.45 | About this edition: It is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shogun wanes and the rival factions plan to restore the Emperor.

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Under the eyes of the KGB, the CIA, and the People's Republic of China, British and American businessmen maneuver for control of Hong Kong's oldest trading house. Reissue.
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9780385287296 | Delacorte Pr, September 1, 1981, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Under the eyes of the KGB, the CIA, and the People's Republic of China, British and American businessmen maneuver for control of Hong Kong's oldest trading house in a torrid atmosphere of easy money, smuggled guns, and natural disaster
9780385287371 | Delacorte Pr, April 1, 1981, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Under the eyes of the KGB, the CIA, and the People's Republic of China, British and American businessmen maneuver for control of Hong Kong's oldest trading house in a torrid atmosphere of easy money, smuggled guns, and natural disaster

Paperback:

9780440164845, titled "Noble House: The Epic Novel of Modern Hong Kong" | Dell Pub Co, June 1, 1993, cover price $8.99 | also contains Noble House: The Epic Novel of Modern Hong Kong | About this edition: Under the eyes of the KGB, the CIA, and the People's Republic of China, British and American businessmen maneuver for control of Hong Kong's oldest trading house in a torrid atmosphere of easy money, smuggled guns, and natural disaster

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Under the eyes of the KGB, the CIA, and the People's Republic of China, British and American businessmen maneuver for control of Hong Kong's oldest trading house. Reissue.
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9780440164845 | Dell Pub Co, June 1, 1993, cover price $8.99 | also contains Noble House: A Novel of Contemporary Hong Kong | About this edition: Under the eyes of the KGB, the CIA, and the People's Republic of China, British and American businessmen maneuver for control of Hong Kong's oldest trading house in a torrid atmosphere of easy money, smuggled guns, and natural disaster

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During the tumultuous days just after the Shah's departure from Iran, Andrew Gavallan, managing director of a British-run helicopter company secretly controlled by the Noble House of Hong Kong, faces financial ruin until he devises a desperate plan
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Hardcover:

9780517676769 | William Morrow & Co, May 1, 1991, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: During the tumultuous days just after the Shah's departure from Iran, Andrew Gavallan, managing director of a British-run helicopter company secretly controlled by the Noble House of Hong Kong, faces financial ruin until he devises a desperate plan
9780688066635 | William Morrow & Co, November 1, 1986, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: During the tumultuous days just after the Shah's departure from Iran, Andrew Gavallan, managing director of a British-run helicopter company secretly controlled by the Noble House of Hong Kong, faces financial ruin until he devises a desperate plan

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During the tumultuous days following the Shah's departure from Iran, Andrew Gavallan, managing director of a British-run helicopter company secretly controlled by the Noble House of Hong Kong, faces financial ruin until he devises a desperate plan
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9780380703128 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, October 1, 1987), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: During the tumultuous days following the Shah's departure from Iran, Andrew Gavallan, managing director of a British-run helicopter company secretly controlled by the Noble House of Hong Kong, faces financial ruin until he devises a desperate plan

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A conflict between a powerful black marketeer and his fellow prisoners at a Japanese POW camp leads to tragedy
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9788401321757 | Plaza & Janes Editories Sa, November 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A conflict between a powerful black marketeer and his fellow prisoners at a Japanese POW camp leads to tragedy

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When a tiny wizard whisks seven-year-old Patricia and her crutches from her home in Australia to Japan, she encounters his family, an evil ghoul, and the hope of a magic cure for her physical handicap.
By James Clavell and George Sharp (illustrator)
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9780385295048 | Delacorte Pr, September 1, 1986, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This journey into the fantastic world of a Japanese wizard, and his apprentice, recounts their Nobel Quest to rescue Patricia, a child in the evil clutches of Nurk-u the Bad

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A narrative of conflicting cultures, loyalties, motivations, and traditions in early-seventeenth-century Japan, involving the powerful and power hungry Lord Toranaga, the ambitious Englishman, Blackthorne, and the Lady Mariko, a Catholic convert in love with the barbarian Englishman
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Paperback:

9780440178033 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, July 1, 1985), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A narrative of conflicting cultures, loyalties, motivations, and traditions in early-seventeenth-century Japan, involving the powerful and power hungry Lord Toranaga, the ambitious Englishman, Blackthorne, and the Lady Mariko, a Catholic convert in love with the barbarian Englishman

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Paperback:

9780440141624 | Dell Pub Co, October 1, 1983, cover price $21.35

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Hardcover:

9780385314480 | Reissue edition (Delacorte Pr, April 1, 1983), cover price $24.95

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A conflict between a powerful black marketeer and his fellow prisoners at a Japanese POW camp leads to tragedy
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Hardcover:

9780385292115 | Reissue edition (Delacorte Pr, March 1, 1983), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A conflict between a powerful black marketeer and his fellow prisoners at a Japanese POW camp leads to tragedy

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A chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five minutes centers on the vulnerability of children's minds in controlled circumstances and the value of freedom
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9780385281355 | Delacorte Pr, September 1, 1981, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five minutes centers on the vulnerability of children's minds in controlled circumstances and the value of freedom

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