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The lion-tamer's daughter and other stories

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Description: Each of these stories touches on the idea of a twin, ghostly double of a live person, or a secret self.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1997
Call number: 660969
Creator: Dickinson, Peter (1927-2015)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0385323271; 9780385323277
Provenance: Purchased from Kim Stanley Robinson, August 2025. From the library of Kim Stanley Robinson.
Dimensions: 22 cm
Associated people: Dickinson, Peter, (1927-2015.); Dickinson, Peter, (1927-2015.); Dickinson, Peter, (1927-2015.); Dickinson, Peter, (1927-2015.)

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The secret life of an American writer, Andre Parent, describing his dreams, his privacies, and everything he keeps hidden. Andre Parent's story begins in Massachusetts where his first furtive sexual encounters introduce him to the thrills of leading a double life. Parent travels the globe and tastes the delights of innumerable affairs before settling down to writing, wedlock, and self-analysis.

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The tears of the salamander

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Mana's story

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Mana and the other Kin, a band of people living in prehistoric times, search for food on the edge of a great marsh and fight a new enemy, the dangerous killers whom they name the demon men.

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Po's story

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As a member of the Kin, a band of people living in prehistoric times, young Po wants to prove his bravery but finds that doing so requires overcoming great obstacles.

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In the palace of the Khans

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Dirzhan is a strange little country up among the mountains way out east. It has one foot in the middle ages and one in the age of the internet, and its President Kahn is a ruthless modern dictator who lives in a fantastic old palace riddled with secret passages. Only the old eunuch who looks after the Kahn's daughter Taeela knows where they can run. Nigel is on a visit to his parents when he is asked to spend time with Taeela to improve her English accent, so he is actually present when the Kahn is assasintated in from of their eyes. Now those haunted passages come into their own, allowing them to escape from the palace and make their way through a country in turmoil, find allies up in the mountains and return to the palace by the way they came with a band of followers, so that Taeela can avenge her fathers death.

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The yellow room conspiracy

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An elderly couple, romantically involved all their lives, sit in a sunlit garden in England. At last she puts the question: how did Gerry Grantworth die? So begins the tale of a conspiracy in which both were involved, but knowledge of which they have hidden from each other for 40 years. By the author of The Last Houseparty.

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