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White Trash

Product Description: Ruby James lives life to the full, the state-run hospital where she works as a nurse a microcosm of the community in which she was born and bred. While some outsiders might label the people of this town âwhite trash,â she knows different, reveling in a vibrant society that values people over money, actions above words...read more

By John King

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9781629632278 | Pm Pr, November 1, 2016, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Ruby James lives life to the full, the state-run hospital where she works as a nurse a microcosm of the community in which she was born and bred.

9780099283065 | Vintage Uk, June 1, 2002, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A classic tale of good against evil pits nurse against consultant and working-class woman against upper-middle-class man.

Headhunters

Product Description: Headhunters is the story of five friends. Carter USM is a live wire who lives on the edge and tries not to think too much; Mango canât stop thinking, has made money but is weighed down by family tragedy; Harry is a beer-lover and dreamer; Balti his drinking partner, out of work and hoping for a fresh start; while Will is the quiet romantic, a voice of reason as the lives of the others become increasingly chaotic...read more

By John King

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9781629632261 | Pm Pr, November 1, 2016, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Headhunters is the story of five friends.

Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society

Product Description: In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation―penned by Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work today...read more

By John King (trans)

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9781250094742 | Picador USA, August 2, 2016, cover price $17.00 | also contains Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society | About this edition: In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality.

Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society

By John King (trans) and Mario Vargas Llosa

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9780374123048 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 11, 2015, cover price $23.00

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By John King

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9781523341801 | Large print edition (Createspace Independent Pub, January 19, 2016), cover price $8.74

The Football Factory

Product Description: âOnly a phenomenally talented and empathetic writer working from within his own culture can achieve the power and authenticity this book pulses with. Buy, steal, or borrow a copy now, because in a short time anyone who hasn't read it won't be worth talking to...read more

By John King

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9781629631165 | Pm Pr, December 1, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: âOnly a phenomenally talented and empathetic writer working from within his own culture can achieve the power and authenticity this book pulses with.

Human Punk

Product Description: A rare novel set against a punk-rock background that works as a cultural documentâpunk and politics: a way of life. A film based on the novel is in currently in development. Â For 15-year-old Joe Martin, growing up on the outskirts of West London, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, busy pubs, disco girls, stolen cars, social-club lager, cutthroat Teddy Boys, and a job picking cherries with the gypsies...read more

By John King

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9781629631158 | Pm Pr, December 1, 2015, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A rare novel set against a punk-rock background that works as a cultural documentâpunk and politics: a way of life.

9780099283164 | Random House Uk Ltd, June 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: For fifteen-year-old Martin, growing up in Slough, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, reggae, disco, stolen cars, cut-throat gangs, and a job picking cherries for the gypsies.

Cityscapes: Reading the Architecture of San Francisco

By John King

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9780517664308, titled "The Linz Tattoo" | Reprint edition (Random House Value Pub, November 1, 1988), cover price $2.99 | also contains The Linz Tattoo

Cityscapes 2: Reading the Architecture of San Francisco

By John King

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9781597143141 | Reprint edition (Heyday Books, September 15, 2015), cover price $15.00

Physics Project Lab

By John King

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9780198704577 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 4, 2015, cover price $99.99

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9780198704584 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 4, 2015, cover price $49.95

Maid of Honor: A Novel of Betrayal and Suspense

Product Description: John King's second novel, Maid of Honor, is a tale of questionable love, money, and betrayal.Ben Taylor was having the time of his life in college. He was young, popular, and handsome. When he receives a letter from a strange girl admonishing him for publicly snubbing her after being introduced, he is puzzled...read more

By John King

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9781499670776 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 31, 2014, cover price $10.49 | About this edition: John King's second novel, Maid of Honor, is a tale of questionable love, money, and betrayal.

Mubarak Al-Sabah: The Foundation of Kuwait

By Souad M. Al-Sabah, Laila Asser (trans) and John King (editor)

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9781780764542 | Tauris Academic Studies, August 27, 2014, cover price $50.00

The Big Mouth

By John King

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9781499660180 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 1, 2014, cover price $8.99

The Trophy Wife: Tales of Love Gone Wrong

Product Description: To his friends, Matt and Gaby, Jeff had it all: a multi-million dollar business, a swank upper east-side apartment, and a beautiful stunning young wife, Erica. But things were not as they seemed. When Jeff returned from a month in Francewithout his wife, could they believe the heartbreaking story he told? Had Ericareally left him for another man, a French film producer, after only one day of sailing on the man's yacht? Was she that flighty and unfaithful? When Gaby hears news from her sister in Marseilles, she starts to wonder if something more sinister has happened...read more

By John King

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9781522791478 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 5, 2014, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: To his friends, Matt and Gaby, Jeff had it all: a multi-million dollar business, a swank upper east-side apartment, and a beautiful stunning young wife, Erica.

Hat Trick 3 Novellas

Product Description: In these three gripping tales, John King explores love both lost and found. In The Last Word, a young couple's miscommunication leads to an unwanted breakup and acts of sexual violence. In The Trophy Wife, the perfect romantic French vacation becomes a nightmare as an American businessman tries to cope with his beautiful young wife's flirtation with a wealthy film producer while sailing about the Riviera...read more

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9781499570465 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 15, 2014, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: In these three gripping tales, John King explores love both lost and found.

Blackjack 21 Stories: Short Stories by John King

Product Description: In a truly diverse collection, John King's stories cross over many genres: mainstream, crime, literary, horror, thriller, suspense and even the apocalyptic. Some are contemporary, others historical, and most have unexpected twists which readers will enjoy...read more

By John King

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9781497554221 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 28, 2014, cover price $10.49 | About this edition: In a truly diverse collection, John King's stories cross over many genres: mainstream, crime, literary, horror, thriller, suspense and even the apocalyptic.

The Martin Ukulele: The Little Instrument That Helped Create a Guitar Giant

By John King and Tom Walsh

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9781476868790 | Hal Leonard Corp, June 1, 2013, cover price $30.00

Inside the Arab Nationalist Struggle: Memoirs of an Iraqi Statesman

By John King (editor)

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9781850437628 | Tauris Academic Studies, September 15, 2012, cover price $50.00

Stories from Highlands, New Jersey: A Sea of Memories

Product Description: The Historic Highlands are known as where the Jersey Shore begins," and in its long life, its residents and visitors have contributed to a rich, vibrant past. In this book, local historian John King compiles over 80 stories authored by more than 40 Highlands residents who have experienced life there and embrace its heritage...read more

By John P. King (editor)

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9781609497071 | History Pr, June 19, 2012, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: The Historic Highlands are known as where the Jersey Shore begins," and in its long life, its residents and visitors have contributed to a rich, vibrant past.

The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

By John King (editor)

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9780521864244 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 31, 2012, cover price $84.99

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9780521682855 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 29, 2012, cover price $29.99

Plural en la cultura literaria y politica latinoamericana / Plural in the Latin-American Politics and Literature Culture: De Tlatelolco a El Ogro Filantropico / From Tlatelolco to the Philanthropic Ogre

By John King and David Medina Portillo (trans)

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9786071608123 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, November 1, 2011, cover price $32.95

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

By Halee Fischer-Wright, John King and Dave Logan

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9780061251320 | Reprint edition (Harperbusiness, June 7, 2011), cover price $16.99

Cityscapes: San Francisco and Its Buildings

Product Description: Buildings in cities are remarkable things: they provide not only shelter but touchstones of reference and recall, a language that shapes our sense of place as well as the skyline. In sparkling prose and with full-color photography, Cityscapes looks at fifty buildings that convey a distinct slice of San Francisco...read more

By John King

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9781597141543 | Heyday Books, May 1, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Buildings in cities are remarkable things: they provide not only shelter but touchstones of reference and recall, a language that shapes our sense of place as well as the skyline.

Reaching for the Sun: How Plants Work

By John King

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Hardcover:

9780521518048 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 14, 2011), cover price $120.00

9780521551489 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $57.99

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9780521736688 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 14, 2011), cover price $49.99

9780521587389 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $36.99

Making Waves: Essays

Product Description: Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of the Nobel Prizeâwinning author Mario Vargas Llosa's thinking on politics and culture, and shows the breadth of his interests and passions. Featured here are astute meditations on the Cuban Revolution, Latin American independence, and the terrorism of Peru's Shining Path; brilliant engagements with towering figures of literature such as Joyce, Faulkner, and Sartre; and observations about the dog cemetery where Rin Tin Tin is buried, Lorena Bobbitt's knife, and the failures of the English public-school system...read more

By John King (editor) and Mario Vargas Llosa

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9780374532963 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 18, 2011, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of the Nobel Prizeâwinning author Mario Vargas Llosa's thinking on politics and culture, and shows the breadth of his interests and passions.

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