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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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John Le Carre

READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

Our Kind of Traitor

Our Kind of Traitor

by John Le Carre

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 305 PAGES

In John le Carre's latest thriller, an unsuspecting young British couple on a tennis holiday in Antigua meet Dima, a money launderer on the run from the Russian mob, keen to defect to the United Kingdom. Naturally, Perry and Gail are soon drawn into the deadly games and international intrigue, well-played as usual by the master of espionage. (GRB10, $15.00)

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

by John Le Carre

  • LITERATURE
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

The cold war spy thriller that established Le Carre as master of the genre. (GER37, $15.00)

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

by John Le Carre

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 381 PAGES

MI6 agent George Smiley plays a dangerous cat-and-mouse game of wits with a Soviet mole who has infiltrated the highest echelons of the British Secret Service. The first novel in Le Carre's celebrated Karla trilogy. (GRB9, $16.00)

The Honourable Schoolboy

The Honourable Schoolboy

by John Le Carre

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 608 PAGES

Le Carre at his best, with British Secret Service agent George Smiley at work among the backstreets of Hong Kong, and across Asia. A riveting cold war spy story that is suffused in Hong Kong atmosphere. (HKG01, $16.00)

Smiley's People

Smiley's People

by John Le Carre

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 416 PAGES

The last in Le Carre's Karla trilogy, George Smiley chases the KGB spymaster from Paris to Berlin for a final confrontation. Nobody writes spy novels like Le Carre. (FRN969, $16.00)

The Little Drummer Girl

The Little Drummer Girl

by John Le Carre

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 496 PAGES

An aspiring actress becomes a pawn in an elaborate game to find and assassinate a Palestinian terrorist. (MED182, $16.00)

The Tailor of Panama

The Tailor of Panama

by John Le Carre

  • LITERATURE
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 512 PAGES

Set in Panama, this thriller by master storyteller John Le Carre includes spymasters, corrupt officials, arms manufacturers and other unsavory types. (CAM51, $7.99)

A Perfect Spy

A Perfect Spy

by John Le Carre

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 608 PAGES

Over the course of his seemingly irreproachable life, Magnus Pym has been all things to all people: a devoted family man, a trusted colleague, a loyal friend -- and the perfect spy. But in the wake of his estranged father's death, Magnus vanishes, and the British Secret Service is up in arms. The stage is set, intriguingly, for a deeply moving and unusual coming-of-age story within the frame of a modern espionage thriller. (GRB11, $16.00)

The Russia House

by John Le Carre

  • LITERATURE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 434 PAGES

Espionage in the Gorbachev era delivered with traditional Le Carrean panache. (RUS186, $16.00)

The Night Manager

The Night Manager

by John Le Carre

  • LITERATURE
  • 1994
  • PAPER
  • 473 PAGES

This best-selling, post-Cold War thriller about ruthless arms dealers in Geneva is a gripping read. Carrying on the great Le Carre tradition of espionage, a man who essentially gave up living after a tremendous failure is given a costly shot at redemption. (SWZ06, $7.99)

 
The Naive and Sentimental Lover, A Novel

The Naive and Sentimental Lover, A Novel


by John Le Carre

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

A new edition of Le Carre's first novel, not a tale of espionage but of the Bohemian life. (GRB21, $16.00)

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