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Lahiri, Jhumpa The Namesake (Movie Tie-in Edition) Mariner Books 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164664. ISBN #0618733965 / 9780618733965. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lahiri, Jhumpa The Namesake (Movie Tie-in Edition) Mariner Books 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164664. ISBN #0618733965 / 9780618733965. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America. In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail -- the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase -- that opens whole worlds of emotion. The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name. Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves. The New York Times has praised Lahiri as "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise." The Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity.
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LaHiri, Jhumpa Unaccustomed Earth Alfred A. Knopf 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150552. ISBN #0307265730 / 9780307265739. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lam, Vincent Headmaster's Wager 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1064033. ISBN #0307986489 / 9780307986481. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lam, Vincent Headmaster's Wager 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1064033. ISBN #0307986489 / 9780307986481. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English academy in 1960s Saigon and is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials in order to maintain the elite status of his school. Fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, he is quick to spot the business opportunities rife in a divided country, though he also harbors a weakness for gambling haunts and the women who frequent them. He devotedly ignores all news of the fighting that swirls around him, choosing instead to read the faces of his opponents at high-stakes mahjong tables. But when his only son gets in trouble with the Vietnamese authorities, Percival faces the limits of his connections and wealth and is forced to send him away. In the loneliness that follows, Percival finds solace in Jacqueline, a beautiful woman of mixed French and Vietnamese heritage whom he is able to confide in. But as the complexities of war encroach further into his world, he must confront the tragedy of all he has refused to see. Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader s guide and bonus content
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Lamb, Victoria Queen's Secret Berkley Books 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1178940. ISBN #0425263045 / 9780425263044. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamb, Victoria Queen's Secret Berkley Books 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1168171. ISBN #0425263045 / 9780425263044. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamb, Wally Hour I First Believed Harper Perennial 2009 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1181073. ISBN #0060988436 / 9780060988432. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamb, Wally Hour I First Believed Harper Perennial 2009 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1181073. ISBN #0060988436 / 9780060988432. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. When Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right, and further tragedy ensues.
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Lamb, Wally She's Come Undone Pocket Books 1996 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1157125v1. ISBN #0671003755 / 9780671003753. (keywords: FICTION GENERAL) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamott, Anne All New People Counterpoint 1989 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1175162. ISBN #0865473943 / 9780865473942. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamott, Anne Crooked Little Heart 1998 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104327. ISBN #0385491808 / 9780385491808. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamott, Anne Crooked Little Heart 1998 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104327. ISBN #0385491808 / 9780385491808. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary With the same winning combination of humor and honesty that marked her recent nonfiction bestsellers, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott's new novel gives us an exuberant, richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected. Rosie Ferguson, in the first bloom of young womanhood, is obsessed with tournament tennis. Her mother is a recovering alcoholic still grieving the death of her first husband; her stepfather, a struggling writer, is wrestling with his own demons. And now Rosie finds that her athletic gifts, once a source of triumph and escape, place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own...
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Lamott, Anne Hard Laughter North Point Press 1979 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110112. ISBN #0865472807 / 9780865472808. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamott, Anne Hard Laughter North Point Press 1979 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110112. ISBN #0865472807 / 9780865472808. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Anne Lamott's poignant first novel, reissued in an attractive new edition. Writer and sometime housecleaner Jennifer is twenty-three when her beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor. This catastrophic discovery sets off Anne Lamott's unexpectedly sweet and funny first novel, which is made dramatic not so much by Wallace's illness as by the emotional wake it sweeps under Jen and her brothers, self-contained Ben and feckless, lovable Randy. With characteristic affection and accuracy, Lamott sketches this offbeat family and their nearest and dearest as they draw ever closer in the intimacy Jen prizes "among the other estimable things: good music, good hard laughter, good sex, good industry, and good books."
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Lamott, Anne Hard Laughter: A Novel North Point Press hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130765. ISBN #0865472807 / 9780865472808. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamott, Anne Imperfect Birds Riverhead Trade 2011 paperback. Small holes/tears on front cover. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1178018. ISBN #1594485046 / 9781594485046. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamott, Anne Imperfect Birds Riverhead Trade 2011 paperback. Small holes/tears on front cover. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1178018. ISBN #1594485046 / 9781594485046. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A powerful and redemptive novel of love and family-from the beloved bestselling author. Seventeen-year-old Rosie Ferguson is smart, athletic, and beautiful- everything her mother, Elizabeth, and stepfather, James, hoped she would be. But as the school year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the well-adjusted teenage life that Rosie claims to be leading is a sham. Slowly and painfully, Elizabeth and James are forced to confront the fact that Rosie has been lying to them-and that her deceptions have profound consequences for them all. Imperfect Birds is Anne Lamott's most honest and heartrending novel, exploring our human quest for connection and salvation as it exposes the traps that life-and we-set for ourselves.
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LaMure, Pierre Clair De Lune hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133912. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lancaster, Jen Bitter is the New Black New Amer Library 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1177192. ISBN #0451217608 / 9780451217608. (keywords: Memoirs) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lancaster, Jen Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide To Why It Often Sucks in The City, Or Who Are These Idiots And Why Do They All Live Next Door To Me? 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1058958v1. ISBN #0451221257 / 9780451221254. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lancaster, Jen Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide To Why It Often Sucks in The City, Or Who Are These Idiots And Why Do They All Live Next Door To Me? 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1058958v1. ISBN #0451221257 / 9780451221254. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Contrary to what you see on TV and in the movies, most urbanites aren't party-hopping in slinky dresses and strappy stilettos. But lucky for us, Lancaster knows how to make the life of the lower crust mercilessly funny and infinitely entertaining. Whether she's reporting rude neighbors to Homeland Security, harboring a crush on her grocery store clerk, or fighting-and losing-the Battle of the Stairmaster- Lancaster explores how silly, strange, and not-so-fabulous real city living can be. And if anyone doesn't like it, they can kiss her big, fat, pink, puffy down parka.
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Lanchester, John Mr Phillips 2000 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067629. ISBN #0399146040 / 9780399146046. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lanchester, John Mr Phillips 2000 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067629. ISBN #0399146040 / 9780399146046. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The triumphant return of John Lanchester, whose debut novel, The Debt to Pleasure , won the hearts of booksellers, readers, and reviewers across America. Mr Phillips wakes on the morning of July 31 in his modest, nearly mortgage-free home, in the bed he has contentedly shared with his wife of thirty years though to be honest, at night he lies beside her and dreams of other women , ready to face another ordinary day. Except that for Mr Phillips, it is not an ordinary day, for on Friday, July 28, he was summarily sacked. Nonetheless, he rises at his usual hour and prepares himself as he has done his entire working life for the office he no longer has. This is the story of one day in the life of a decent man who only forty-eight hours before knew exactly who and what he was--husband and father, accountant, home-owner, son--and who on this day wonders who and what he can become. With his eye for the telling detail, his ear for the commonplaces of speech that make us who we are, his sympathy for the very ordinariness that sets us each apart, John Lanchester has created a jewel of a novel: From common clay, he has given us gold. He has been called "a writer whose gifts border on the demonic" Michael Upchurch, Chicago Tribune , and his first novel, The Debt to Pleasure , was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, winner of the Whitbred Best First Novel Award, a New York Times Notable Book, and a national bestseller.
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Landis, Dylan Rainey Royal SOHO 2014 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149829. ISBN #1616954523 / 9781616954529. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Landis, Jill Marie Summer Moon Ballantine Books 2001 hardcover. First Edition. Signed by Author. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1185414. ISBN #0345440390 / 9780345440396. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Landis, Jill Marie Summer Moon Ballantine Books 2001 hardcover. First Edition. Signed by Author. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1185414. ISBN #0345440390 / 9780345440396. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Acclaimed author Jill Marie Landis has gifted readers with award-winning love stories that express the most intimate longings of the human heart. With unique insight and irresistible wit, she breathes vivid life into her characters while depicting superb settings of stunning beauty and realism. Now, in her long-awaited hardcover debut, Jill Marie Landis tells the tender tale of a woman without choices who risks everything for one last chance at happiness. RANCHER SEEKING WIFE. For Kate Whittington, the modest words of a newspaper ad are the answer to her desperate prayers. Daughter of a dockside harlot and raised in a bleak orphanage, she has no prospects in the unforgiving Maine village of her birth. Correspondence from the lonely Texas widower looking for a mail-order bride sparks tempting dreams of a house, a family, and a future in a land filled with possibilities. Kate arrives at the magnificent Lone Star Ranch eager to meet her new husband. Instead she is greeted by the news that Reed Benton has been wounded during a raid on a Comanche village and has returned with a prisoner--a wild-looking young boy who may be his long lost son. Even more shattering, however, is the fact that Reed has never heard of Kate, never wrote the searing letters that charmed her heart. Reed Benton doesn't want a wife. But he does need someone to look after the boy--a bitter reminder of a past ravaged by lies and betrayal. It will take a miracle to heal these two damaged souls . . . or the faith of one woman with nothing left to lose but her heart. Summer Moon is a deeply moving story of broken promises and new beginnings, crafted by a true master of romantic fiction.
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Landolfi, Tommaso Gogol's Wife & Other Stories New Directions 1963 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1185646. ISBN #0811200809 / 9780811200806. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Landvik, Lorna Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090349. ISBN #0345442822 / 9780345442826. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Landvik, Lorna Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090349. ISBN #0345442822 / 9780345442826. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The women of Freesia Court are convinced that there is nothing good coffee, delectable desserts, and a strong shoulder can t fix. Laughter is the glue that holds them together the foundation of a book group they call AHEB Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons , an unofficial club that becomes much more. It becomes a lifeline. Holding on through forty eventful years, there s Faith, a lonely mother of twins who harbors a terrible secret that has condemned her to living a lie; big, beautiful Audrey, the resident sex queen who knows that with good posture and an attitude you can get away with anything; Merit, the shy doctor s wife with the face of an angel and the private hell of an abusive husband; Kari, a wise woman with a wonderful laugh who knows the greatest gifts appear after life s fiercest storms; and finally, Slip, a tiny spitfire of a woman who isn t afraid to look trouble straight in the eye. This stalwart group of friends depicts a special slice of American life, of stay-at-home days and new careers, of children and grandchildren, of bold beginnings and second chances, in which the power of forgiveness, understanding, and the perfectly timed giggle fit is the CPR that mends broken hearts and shattered dreams.
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Landvik, Lorna Oh My Stars 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090391. ISBN #0345468368 / 9780345468369. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Landvik, Lorna Oh My Stars 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090391. ISBN #0345468368 / 9780345468369. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary I am convinced that at birth the cake is already baked. Nurture is the nuts or frosting, but if you re a spice cake, you re a spice cake, and nothing is going to change you into an angel food. Tall, slender Violet Mathers is growing up in the Great Depression, which could just as well define her state of mind. Abandoned by her mother as a child, mistreated by her father, and teased by her schoolmates Hey, Olive Oyl, where s Popeye? , the lonely girl finds solace in artistic pursuits. Only when she s hired by the town s sole feminist to work the night shift in the local thread factory does Violet come into her name, and bloom. Accepted by her co-workers, the teenager enters the happiest phase of her life, until a terrible accident causes her to retreat once again into her lonely shell. Realizing that she has only one clear choice, Violet boards a bus heading west to California. But when the bus crashes in North Dakota, it seems that Fate is having another cruel laugh at Violet s expense. This time though, Violet laughs back. She and her fellow passengers are rescued by two men: Austin Sykes, whom Violet is certain is the blackest man to ever set foot on the North Dakota prairie, and Kjel Hedstrom, who inspires feelings Violet never before has felt. Kjel and Austin are musicians whose sound is like no other, and with pluck, verve, and wit, Violet becomes part of their quest to make a new kind of music together. Oh My Stars is Lorna Landvik s most ambitious novel yet, with a cast of characters whose travails and triumphs you ll long remember. It is a tale of love and hope, bigotry and betrayal, loss and discovery as Violet, who s always considered herself a minor character in her own life story, emerges as a heroine you ll laugh with, cry with, and, most important, cheer for all the way. From
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Landvik, Lorna Tall Pine Polka Ballantine Books 2001 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1147500. ISBN #0449003701 / 9780449003701. (keywords: HUMOR FICTION FEMALE FRIENDSHIP) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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