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Author:Peter Dickinson
A Bone from a Dry Sea
On a prehistoric shore, a young girl fights to help her tribe survive She is at home in the ocean, as comfortable in the water as she is on dry land. The child's people have made their homes by the bay for as long...- $16.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
A Box of Nothing
For one young boy, a box full of nothing is a ticket to adventure While skipping school, James sees his mother on the street. He ducks inside an abandoned store, where an aged shopkeeper asks what he wants to buy. When James says "nothing,"...- $15.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
A Summer in the Twenties
"A lovely smooth read."--The Washington Post"A witty, affectionately nostalgic masterpiece."--The Columbus Dispatch"As absorbingly readable, as well-written as anything Peter Dickinson has written."--The Times Literary SupplementPraise for Peter Dickinson's mysteries: "The works of British Mystery Writer Peter Dickinson are like caviar--an acquired taste that can...- $16.00
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AK
A former child soldier tries to learn the ways of peace in an African nation in this "rip-roaring adventure story" by a Carnegie Medal winner (Publishers Weekly). Paul remembers nothing from before the conflict. Twelve years old, he is no longer a child. He...- $16.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
Annerton Pit
A blind boy and his brother set out on a motorcycle in search of their ghost-hunting grandfather It all starts with the postman. Jake cannot see the mail, but he is an excellent listener, and he can tell by the sound the mail makes...- $15.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
Cagetalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage
Revealing unpublished interviews with John Cage and some of his closest colleagues, including Virgil Thomson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pauline Oliveros, Merce Cunningham, and David Tudor. John Cage, one of America's most renowned composers from the 1940s until his death in 1992, was also a much-admired...- $34.95
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Author:Peter Dickinson
Death of a Unicorn
"Peter Dickinson is my own chosen demigod in the pantheon of crime fiction."--Laurie R. King For best-selling author Lady Margaret, the past is no longer a pleasant memory. Her first lover's mysterious death and the seeming inevitability of her inheriting the family's stately home...- $16.00
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Author:Peter Dickinson
Emma Tupper's Diary
Emma is spending the summer with her Scottish cousins--who are wonderful material for her attempt to win the School Prize for most interesting holiday diary. The cousins, lofty Andy, reserved Fiona, and fierce Roddy, are experimenting with their grandfather's dilapidated old mini-submarine to see...- $12.00
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Author:Peter Dickinson
Eva
THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD EVA wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and begins to explain. A traffic accident, a long coma . . . But there is something, Eva senses, that...- $7.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
Healer
To save his friend, a daring young boy infiltrates a healing center If it weren't for the migraines, Barry would be an ordinary boy. When a crushing headaches strikes him during the school day, he goes to the nurse's office to beg for aspirin....- $16.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
Hindsight: A Crime Novel
In this brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a writer looks back on his past and discovers the memory of a murder that needs to be solved It's been forty years since Paul Rogers spent a night at St. Aidan's...- $16.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
In the Palace of the Khans
A thrilling new adventure for young adults by internationally celebrated and prizewinning author, Peter Dickinson. Nigel's father is the British ambassador in Dirzhan, a small country up among the mountains way out east. It has one foot in the middle ages and one in...- $14.95
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Author:Peter Dickinson
In the Palace of the Khans
In a far-off kingdom, an English boy befriends the mad ruler's daughter The Khan of Dirzhan is a monster. Nigel, the son of the English ambassador to a backward Asian country, is transfixed by stories of the Khan's brutality. It is said that he...- $23.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
King and Joker: A Crime Novel
In the cavernous halls of Buckingham Palace, a series of pranks lead to murder in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Princess Louise and her father, King Victor II of England, agree that life has become painfully dull. When she's not...- $16.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
Music Education in Crisis: The Bernarr Rainbow Lectures and Other Assessments
Seminal lectures on music education since the 1990s. There is no question that music education is in crisis today. The place of music in the national curriculum is controversial; there have been cuts in the provision of individual lessons; and there have been severe...- $60.00
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Author:Peter Dickinson
One Foot in the Grave
CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is back: Now-retired Scotland Yard superintendent James Pibble isn't about to go quietly into the night--not when there's a murder case or two (or three) to solve At Flycatchers, a well-to-do nursing home watched over by no-nonsense nurse...- $18.99
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Perfect Gallows: A Crime Novel
The twisted circumstances surrounding an unspeakable crime, an old man's fortune, and a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest come to light four decades on in this masterful tale of greed, deception, and murder by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Behind his practiced facade...- $18.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
Play Dead: A Crime Novel
A London woman taking her grandson to the park finds her lonely life disrupted by murder in this award-winning author's "gripping thriller" (Reginald Hill). Poppy Tasker never imagined this would be her life at age fifty: divorced, living alone, and stuck caring for a...- $16.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
Q2q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts
This anthology includes seven different plays by queer Canadian writers that provide a snapshot of Canadian contemporary queer performance practices-from play writing to drag to performance art to spoken word to digital performance. A companion title to Play wrights Canada Press's anthology Queer Canadian...- $29.95
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Queer Canadian Theatre and Performance: New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Volume 8
This collection seeks to understand why it is important not just to continue to tell queer stories on stage, but also to piece together the larger historical narrative of Canadian queer theatrical production and reception through academic research. Contributors include Kym Bird, Sky Gilbert,...- $25.00
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Author:Peter Dickinson
Samuel Barber Remembered: A Centenary Tribute
Compulsively readable interviews with the great American composer and his friends and colleagues, including Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Leontyne Price. Samuel Barber is one of America's most popular classical composers. His widely beloved works include "Adagio for Strings" and Knoxville: Summer of 1915...- $60.00
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Author:Peter Dickinson
Skeleton-in-Waiting: A Crime Novel
A New York Times Notable Book: CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson revisits his alternate British monarchy, ensnaring the imagined royal family in a dark conspiracy of kidnapping, politics, scandal, and murder Britain's beloved Princess Louise is a grown woman now, married to commoner...- $15.99
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Sleep and His Brother
A strange malady afflicts the children of McNair House in this British mystery featuring former Scotland Yard superintendent James Pibble, from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Recently given the sack by Scotland Yard, James Pibble arrives at McNair House on a private matter,...- $16.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
Some Deaths Before Dying
Harrowing Suspense in the Most Unexpected Places Paralyzed by a debilitating illness, 90-year-old Rachel Matson finds herself confronted by a disturbing mystery -- one that begins when a 19th-century pistol that belonged to her husband pops up on Antiques Roadshow. Determined to solved it,...- $19.99
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Some Deaths Before Dying
The New York Times Book Review calls multiple-award winner Peter Dickinson "a stylist of subtle brilliance". Always surprising and incisive, the author of The Yellow Room Conspiracy and dozens of other unique novels returns with his first new book in five years; and proves...- $35.00
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Author:Peter Dickinson
The Blue Hawk
In an ancient kingdom, a boy and his hawk challenge the gods All his life, Tron has been destined to join the priests who rule his strange desert kingdom. When the old king grows sick, a ritual is called for to restore his health:...- $18.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
The Changes Trilogy: The Devil's Children, Heartsease, and The Weathermonger
Three dystopian novels by an award-winning author that imagine a world where humankind has suddenly and violently rejected modern technology. Something has gone very wrong in England. In a tunnel beneath Wales one man opens a crack in a mysterious stone wall, and all...- $28.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger: Scotland Yard's James Pibble puzzles over the murder of a pygmy tribesman in the middle of London in this "first class" mystery (The Times Literary Supplement). Oddball cases are James Pibble's specialty. But the brutal bludgeoning of the...- $18.99
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The Green Gene: A Crime Novel
CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is back: An Indian doctor joins the English underground to fight racial oppression Dr. P. P. Humayan expects prejudice from the English. Growing up in Bombay, he was raised on stories of the injustices of life in Britain,...- $16.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
The Kin
Four children embark on a quest for a new land at the dawn of human history Africa, two hundred thousand years ago: Suth and Noli were orphaned the night the murderous strangers came, speaking an unfamiliar language and bringing violence to the peaceful Moonhawk...- $29.99
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The Last Houseparty: A Crime Novel
In this gripping novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, the survivor of a manor-house crime delves into the past to solve a mystery At the elegant English manor known as Snailwood, tourists come daily to hear decades-old gossip about the second wife...- $16.99
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The Lively Dead: A Crime Novel
In this mystery from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a landlady discovers a corpse beneath her crowded London boardinghouse A sturdy young woman with a knack for home repair and a practical sense of Marxism, Lydia is renovating her London townhouse while her...- $15.99
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The Lizard in the Cup
An ex-Scotland Yard superintendent is caught up in an international mystery: "The most original crime novelist to appear for a long, long time." --The Guardian The West Indies island of Hog's Cay is soon to open for tourism, but the money behind the deal...- $18.99
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The Music of Lennox Berkeley
Fully revised edition of Peter Dickinson's acclaimed study of one of the great British composers of the twentieth century. Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) was one of the leading British composers of the mid-twentieth century and his music has unique qualities which will ensure its...- $36.95
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The Old English Peep Show
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year: Peter Dickinson targets England's upper classes in this murderous and strikingly original theme-park mystery Tourists are waiting in line for entry into the world of Old England, a graceful, elegant country...- $18.99
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The Ropemaker
Tilja has grown up in the peaceful Valley, which is protected from the fearsome Empire by an enchanted forest. But the forest's power has begun to fade and the Valley is in danger. Tilja is the youngest of four brave souls who venture into...- $8.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
The Sinful Stones
Scotland Yard detective James Pibble travels to a remote Scottish island to free an old man from a dangerous cult of self-proclaimed saints and saviors in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Ninety-two-year-old Sir Francis Francis summons James Pibble to an...- $18.99
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The Weathermonger
Long-awaited new editions of Peter Dickinson's cult classicsEngland in the future - but an England that is less rather than more civilised. This is the time of The Changes - a time when people, especially adults, have grown to hate machines and returned to...- $9.99
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The Yellow Room Conspiracy: A Crime Novel
In this "exceptional" British mystery by a Gold Dagger winner, an aging aristocrat and her longtime lover explore the dark events of their shared past (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Lady Lucy Vereker Seddon is dying of a terminal illness when something she hears on the...- $16.99
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Author:Peter Dickinson
Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice
Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women's comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences of...- $56.99
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