| |
|
|
| |
$5.50
 |
Kushner, Ellen The Privilege of the Sword Spectra 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1001653. ISBN #0553382683 / 9780553382686. (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
Kushner, Ellen The Privilege of the Sword Spectra 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1001653. ISBN #0553382683 / 9780553382686. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power in the city's ballroom, brothels and boudoirs. Into this alluring world walks Katherine, a well-bred country girl versed in the rules of conventional society. Her mistake is thinking that they apply. For Katherine's host and uncle, Alec Campion, aka the Mad Duke Tremontaine, is in charge here and to him, rules are made to be broken. When Alec decides it would be more amusing for his niece to learn swordplay than to follow the usual path to marriage, her world changes forever. Blade in hand, it's up to Katherine to navigate a maze of secrets and scoundrels and to gain the self-discovery that comes to those who master: the privilege of the sword.
 |
$5.50
|
Kwija, Yang Distant and Beautiful Place University of Hawai'i 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148559. ISBN #0824826396 / 9780824826390. (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
|
$7.50
|
Kwitney, Alisa Sex As a Second Language 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1028019. ISBN #0743268903 / 9780743268905. (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
Kwitney, Alisa Sex As a Second Language 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1028019. ISBN #0743268903 / 9780743268905. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From Alisa Kwitney, the acclaimed author of "On the Couch" and "The Dominant Blonde," comes a wickedly funny new novel about adult education. A teacher of English as a second language, Katherine Miner is an expert in idiomatic phrases, subtle verbal cues, and unwritten cultural rules, but when it comes to the opposite sex, she's baffled. Her girlfriends and her mother keep telling her that a woman who is about to turn forty needs to approach dating as a job, but Kat's decided to opt for early retirement. It's not that she hates men; she just doesn't trust them. After all, her soon-to-be ex-husband, Logan, has dropped all contact with their son, just as her own father did to her thirty years before. While Kat prepares her students for the messy business of getting personal, she has no intention of getting herself tangled up in bedsheets and emotions. But Magnus Grimmson, the tall, good-looking, tongue-tied Icelander in the front row, doesn't appear to pose any threat. In fact, the man seems to need more help deciphering women than Kat does decoding men. Then Kat receives a letter from her father that turns her life upside down. A former spy, Kat's father writes that he wants to get to know her. But her father's reappearance causes unexpected complications, and suddenly Kat finds herself questioning whom she can trust and discovering that she still has a lot to learn about men, friendship, and the kind of nonverbal communication they don't teach in school. Darkly humorous, emotionally honest, and unabashedly sexy, Alisa Kwitney's novel affirms that forty isn't the end of the road -- sometimes, it's a new beginning.
 |
$4.99
|
Kyle, Aryn God Of Animals 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033413. ISBN #1416533257 / 9781416533252. (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
Kyle, Aryn God Of Animals 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033413. ISBN #1416533257 / 9781416533252. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From an award-winning and talented young novelist comes one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years: a breathtaking and beautiful novel set on a horse ranch in small-town Colorado. When her older sister runs away to marry a rodeo cowboy, Alice Winston is left to bear the brunt of her family's troubles -- a depressed, bedridden mother; a reticent, overworked father; and a run-down horse ranch. As the hottest summer in fifteen years unfolds and bills pile up, Alice is torn between dreams of escaping the loneliness of her duty-filled life and a longing to help her father mend their family and the ranch. To make ends meet, the Winstons board the pampered horses of rich neighbors, and for the first time Alice confronts the power and security that class and wealth provide. As her family and their well-being become intertwined with the lives of their clients, Alice is drawn into an adult world of secrets and hard truths, and soon discovers that people -- including herself -- can be cruel, can lie and cheat, and every once in a while, can do something heartbreaking and selfless. Ultimately, Alice and her family must weather a devastating betrayal and a shocking, violent series of events that will test their love and prove the power of forgiveness. A wise and astonishing novel about the different guises of love and the often steep tolls on the road to adulthood, The God of Animals is a haunting, unforgettable debut.
 |
$5.99
|
Kyle, Barbara The Queen's Captive Kensington Books 2010 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1143143. ISBN #075823855X / 9780758238559. (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
|
$5.99
|
Kyle, Barbara The Queen's Lady Kensington Books 2008 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1143144. ISBN #075822544X / 9780758225443. (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
|
$5.50
|
Laam, Jennifer Lost Season of Love and Snow St. Martin's 2017 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1166908. ISBN #1250121884 / 9781250121882. (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
|
$15.00
|
Lacey, Catherine Answers Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1156030. ISBN #0374100268 / 9780374100261. (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
Lacey, Catherine Answers Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1156030. ISBN #0374100268 / 9780374100261. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Recommended reading by Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, W, Nylon, Elle, Buzzfeed, and Kirkus "Like Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale , The Answers is also a novel about a subjugated woman, in this case not to a totalitarian theocracy but to subtler forces its heroine is only beginning to understand and fears she is complicit with." --Dwight Garner, New York Times Mary Parsons is broke. Dead broke, really: between an onslaught of medical bills and a mountain of credit card debt, she has been pushed to the brink. Hounded by bill collectors and still plagued by the painful and bizarre symptoms that doctors couldn t diagnose, Mary seeks relief from a holistic treatment called Pneuma Adaptive Kinesthesia PAKing, for short. Miraculously, it works. But PAKing is prohibitively expensive. Like so many young adults trying to make ends meet in New York City, Mary scours Craigslist and bulletin boards for a second job, and eventually lands an interview for a high-paying gig that s even stranger than her symptoms or the New Agey PAKing. Mary s new job title is Emotional Girlfriend in the Girlfriend Experiment the brainchild of a wealthy and infamous actor, Kurt Sky, who has hired a team of biotech researchers to solve the problem of how to build and maintain the perfect romantic relationship, cast - ing himself as the experiment s only constant. Around Kurt, several women orbit as his girlfriends with spe - cific functions. There s a Maternal Girlfriend who folds his laundry, an Anger Girlfriend who fights with him, a Mundanity Girlfriend who just hangs around his loft, and a whole team of girlfriends to take care of Intimacy. With so little to lose, Mary falls headfirst into Kurt s messy, ego-driven simulacrum of human connection. Told in Catherine Lacey s signature spiraling, hypnotic prose, The Answers is both a mesmerizing dive into the depths of one woman s psyche and a critical look at the conventions and institutions that infiltrate our most personal, private moments. As Mary struggles to understand herself her body, her city, the trials of her past, the uncertainty of her future the reader must confront the impossible questions that fuel Catherine Lacey s work: How do you measure love? Can you truly know someone else? Do we even know ourselves? And listen for Lacey s uncanny answers.
 |
$5.99
|
Lacey, Catherine Nobody Is Ever Missing Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1160703. ISBN #0374534497 / 9780374534493. (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
|
$4.50
|
Laferriere, Dany An Aroma of Coffee Coach House Pr 1993 paperback. Previous owner name written in. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1135454. ISBN #0889104395 / 9780889104396. (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
Laferriere, Dany An Aroma of Coffee Coach House Pr 1993 paperback. Previous owner name written in. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1135454. ISBN #0889104395 / 9780889104396. (filed under: Fiction ) *
A young boy watches the complex life of Petit-Goave, Haiti from the porch of his grandmother's house in the center of town
more
about
this
book |
$4.95
|
Lagerkvist, Par Dwarf 1958 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113845. ISBN #0809013037 / 9780809013036. (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
Lagerkvist, Par Dwarf 1958 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113845. ISBN #0809013037 / 9780809013036. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his head from the depths of their souls." P r Lagerkvist's richly philosophical novel The Dwarf is an exploration of individual and social identity. The novel, set in a time when Italian towns feuded over the outcome of the last feud, centers on a social outcast, the court dwarf PIccoline. From his special vantage point Piccoline comments on the court's prurience and on political intrigue as the town is gripped by a siege. Gradually, Piccoline is drawn deeper and deeper into the conflict, and he inspires fear and hate around him as he grows to represent the fascination of the masses with violence.
 |
$4.95
|
Lagerkvist, Par Dwarf Hill and Wang 1973 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1163318. ISBN #0809013037 / 9780809013036. (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
Lagerkvist, Par Dwarf Hill and Wang 1973 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1163318. ISBN #0809013037 / 9780809013036. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary "I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his head from the depths of their souls." P r Lagerkvist's richly philosophical novel The Dwarf is an exploration of individual and social identity. The novel, set in a time when Italian towns feuded over the outcome of the last feud, centers on a social outcast, the court dwarf PIccoline. From his special vantage point Piccoline comments on the court's prurience and on political intrigue as the town is gripped by a siege. Gradually, Piccoline is drawn deeper and deeper into the conflict, and he inspires fear and hate around him as he grows to represent the fascination of the masses with violence.
|
$5.50
|
Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter of Maladies Houghton Mifflin Company 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155141v1. ISBN #039592720X / 9780395927205. (keywords: Fiction East Indian Americans Social Life Customs Short Stories Love ingramxyz10/05) (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
|
$4.50
|
Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter of Maladies Houghton Mifflin Company 1999 paperback. . Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1149454. ISBN #039592720X / 9780395927205. (keywords: Fiction East Indian Americans Social Life Customs Short Stories Love ingramxyz10/05) (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
|
$4.50
|
Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter of Maladies Houghton Mifflin Company 1999 paperback. Previous owner written name present.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155141. ISBN #039592720X / 9780395927205. (keywords: Fiction East Indian Americans Social Life Customs Short Stories Love ingramxyz10/05) (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
|
$10.00
|
Lahiri, Jhumpa Lowland 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1166604. ISBN #0307265749 / 9780307265746. (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
Lahiri, Jhumpa Lowland 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1166604. ISBN #0307265749 / 9780307265746. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary National Book Award Finalist Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: a tale of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution, and a love that lasts long past death. Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. It is the 1960s, and Udayan charismatic and impulsive finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty; he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes. Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his brother s political passion; he leaves home to pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet, coastal corner of America. But when Subhash learns what happened to his brother in the lowland outside their family s home, he goes back to India, hoping to pick up the pieces of a shattered family, and to heal the wounds Udayan left behind including those seared in the heart of his brother s wife. Masterly suspenseful, sweeping, piercingly intimate, The Lowland is a work of great beauty and complex emotion; an engrossing family saga and a story steeped in history that spans generations and geographies with seamless authenticity. It is Jhumpa Lahiri at the height of her considerable powers.
 |
$5.95
|
LaHiri, Jhumpa Namesake Mariner Books 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1157144. ISBN #0618485228 / 9780618485222. (keywords: YOUNG MEN MASSACHUSETTS EAST INDIAN AMERICANS CHILDREN IMMIGRANTS ASSIMILATION SOCIOLOGY ALIENATION SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY GOGOL APPRECIATION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
|
$4.50
|
Lahiri, Jhumpa Namesake Houghton Mifflin Company 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1159592. ISBN #0618485228 / 9780618485222. (keywords: Fiction East Indian ingramxyz10/05) (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
|
$5.50
|
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 ) *
|
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.
 |
$10.00
|
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 ) *
|
|
$4.95
|
Lam, Vincent Headmaster's Wager 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1064033. ISBN #0307986489 / 9780307986481. (filed under: Fiction ) *
|
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
 |
<--PREV 25 NEXT 25-->
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
|
|
| |
|
|
|
