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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 ) *
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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
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Lagerkvist, Par Dwarf 1958 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113845. ISBN #0809013037 / 9780809013036. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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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.
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Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter of Maladies Mariner Books 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1152869. ISBN #039592720X / 9780395927205. (keywords: IngramXYZ Fiction Short Stories Collection) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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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 ) *
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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 ) *
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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, Wally Hour I First Believed 2008 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121875. ISBN #0060393491 / 9780060393496. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamb, Wally Hour I First Believed 2008 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121875. ISBN #0060393491 / 9780060393496. (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 Hour I First Believed paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110448. ISBN #0060988436 / 9780060988432. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamb, Wally Hour I First Believed paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110448. 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 I Know This Much Is True Regan Books 1998 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1133771. ISBN #0060391626 / 9780060391621. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamb, Wally I Know This Much Is True Regan Books 1998 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1133771. ISBN #0060391626 / 9780060391621. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True , a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night , and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went.
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Lamb, Wally She's Come Undone 1996 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104704. ISBN #0671003755 / 9780671003753. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamb, Wally She's Come Undone 1996 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104704. ISBN #0671003755 / 9780671003753. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered...." Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallmomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly up. In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. At once a fragile girl and a hard-edged cynic, so tough to love yet so inimitably lovable, Dolores is as poignantly real as our own imperfections. She's Come Undone includes a promise: you will never forget Dolores Price.
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Lamb, Wally The Hour I First Believed Harper 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1126281. ISBN #0060393491 / 9780060393496. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamb, Wally The Hour I First Believed Harper 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1126281. ISBN #0060393491 / 9780060393496. (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 We Are Water 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122934. ISBN #0061941026 / 9780061941023. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamb, Wally We Are Water 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122934. ISBN #0061941026 / 9780061941023. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary We Are Water is a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True . After 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Oh wife, mother, outsider artist has fallen in love with Viveca, the wealthy Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her success. They plan to wed in the Oh family s hometown of Three Rivers in Connecticut. But the wedding provokes some very mixed reactions and opens a Pandora s Box of toxic secrets dark and painful truths that have festered below the surface of the Ohs lives. We Are Water is a layered portrait of marriage, family, and the inexorable need for understanding and connection, told in the alternating voices of the Ohs nonconformist, Anna; her ex-husband, Orion, a psychologist; Ariane, the do-gooder daughter, and her twin, Andrew, the rebellious only son; and free-spirited Marissa, the youngest. It is also a portrait of modern America, exploring issues of class, changing social mores, the legacy of racial violence, and the nature of creativity and art. With humor and compassion, Wally Lamb brilliantly captures the essence of human experience and the ways in which we search for love and meaning in our lives.
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Lamb, Wally We Are Water 2013 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121874. ISBN #0061941026 / 9780061941023. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamb, Wally We Are Water 2013 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121874. ISBN #0061941026 / 9780061941023. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary We Are Water is a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True . After 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Oh wife, mother, outsider artist has fallen in love with Viveca, the wealthy Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her success. They plan to wed in the Oh family s hometown of Three Rivers in Connecticut. But the wedding provokes some very mixed reactions and opens a Pandora s Box of toxic secrets dark and painful truths that have festered below the surface of the Ohs lives. We Are Water is a layered portrait of marriage, family, and the inexorable need for understanding and connection, told in the alternating voices of the Ohs nonconformist, Anna; her ex-husband, Orion, a psychologist; Ariane, the do-gooder daughter, and her twin, Andrew, the rebellious only son; and free-spirited Marissa, the youngest. It is also a portrait of modern America, exploring issues of class, changing social mores, the legacy of racial violence, and the nature of creativity and art. With humor and compassion, Wally Lamb brilliantly captures the essence of human experience and the ways in which we search for love and meaning in our lives.
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Lamott, Anne Blue Shoe 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1041119. ISBN #1573223425 / 9781573223423. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamott, Anne Blue Shoe 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1041119. ISBN #1573223425 / 9781573223423. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The New York Times Bestseller from the beloved author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies . Mattie Ryder is marvelously neurotic, well-intentioned, funny, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke. Her life at the moment is a wreck: her marriage has failed, her mother is failing, her house is rotting, her waist is expanding, her children are misbehaving, and she has a crush on a married man. Then she finds a small rubber blue shoe 151nothing more than a gumball trinket 151left behind by her father. For Mattie, it becomes a talisman 151a chance to recognize the past for what it was, to see the future as she always hoped it could be, and to finally understand her family, herself, and the ever-unfolding mystery of her sweet, sad, and sometimes surprising life.
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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 Crooked Little Heart 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1051402. ISBN #0385491808 / 9780385491808. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamott, Anne Crooked Little Heart 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1051402. 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 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104702. ISBN #1594485046 / 9781594485046. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamott, Anne Imperfect Birds 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104702. 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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Lamott, Anne Rosie Penguin Books 1997 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1133663. ISBN #0140264795 / 9780140264791. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lamott, Anne Rosie Penguin Books 1997 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1133663. ISBN #0140264795 / 9780140264791. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow ; Small Mercies ; and Stitches , a wise and witty novel about motherhood. Look out for Anne's next book, Hallelujah Anyway , coming in 2017. In Anne Lamott s wise and witty novel, the growing pains of motherhood are portrayed with rare humor and honesty. If Elizabeth Ferguson had her way, she d spend her days savoring good books, cooking great meals, and waiting for the love of her life to walk in the door. But it s not a man she s waiting for, it s her daughter, Rosie her wild-haired, smart-mouthed, and wise-beyond-her-years alter ego. With Rosie around, the days aren t quite so long, but Elizabeth can t keep the realities of the world at bay, and try as she might, she can t shield Rosie from its dangers or mysteries. As Rosie grows older and more curious, Elizabeth must find a way to nurture her extraordinary daughter even if it means growing up herself.
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