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Lidchi, Maggi Man of Earth hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030198. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Liebegott, Ali Cha-Ching! 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084962. ISBN #0872865703 / 9780872865709. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Liebegott, Ali Cha-Ching! 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084962. ISBN #0872865703 / 9780872865709. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Theo, our scruffy, big-hearted, and quick-witted heroine, is not so much down on her luck as delivered luckless into a culture where the winners and losers have already been decided. Her adventures in getting over take her from San Francisco to New York City, from dyke bars to telemarketing outfits, casinos to free clinics. With the signature poet's voice that has won her awards and acclaim, Ali Liebegott investigates the conjoined hearts of hope and addiction in an unforgettable story of what it means to be young and broke in America. " frank, funny and painfully realistic Liebegott has unleashed a book that s part road novel, part portrait of a would-be artist as a young woman and part unabashed romance." Josh Davis, The Rumpus " Cha-Ching , Liebegott's latest novel, is one of those books that cause you to look up, blinking, realizing that you ve read 75 pages and your coffee is cold. It s a rush of offtrack betting, impulsive road trips, liquor-fueled make-out sessions, and the sort of low-end jobs that are invisible in most fiction but everywhere in Liebegott s work." San Francisco Magazine " Cha-Ching is a rush the clatter of youth on the angry move, the rattling of dreamy gambles in crappy apartments, the desperate crash of falling for someone despite the million reasons why and the bang bang bang of our tender hearts." Daniel Handler, author of Why We Broke Up " Cha-Ching is so raw with need that I found myself itching that addict's itch to chase the seemingly impossible." Karolina Waclawiak, deputy editor of The Believer and author of How to Get Into the Twin Palms "An open-hearted, deeply romantic story about a fucked-up dyke, her pit bull, her search for love, her tenuous grasp on hope, a pretty girl and the literal spin of the wheel." Sarah Schulman, author of The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination "In the game of American-life-on-the-go hopscotch, Ali Liebegott's heroine Theo just jumped a square ahead of Dean Moriarty The author's fine writing about gambling is as good as I ever read, including Dostoevski's and the Barthelme Bros. In the end, love, in whatever twisted, pallid form, a love that has little to do with sexuality, is the only answer Wonderful book." Andrei Codrescu, author of So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems " Ali Liebegott continues her winning streak with her third novel Cha-Ching , tracing the life and times of compelling lead character Theo, a restless lesbian with a military hairstyle which makes her gender-ambiguous enough to nickname herself "sirma'amsir" There is a lot to relate to in Liebegott's cleverly addictive novel. Readers will wonder what happens next to Theo and Cary Grant. Will the love she finds be everlasting, or will her addictions get the best of her? Theo is an engaging character, and she will linger in the imagination long after Cha-Ching 's final page has been turned." Jim Piechota, The Bay Area Reporter Ali Liebegott is the author of the award-winning books The Beautifully Worthless and The IHOP Papers . In 2010 she took a train trip across America interviewing female poets for a project titled, The Heart Has Many Doors ; excerpts from these interviews are posted monthly on The Believer Logger . Her novel Cha-Ching is the third in the City Lights Sister Spit series. In addition, she is the founding editor at Writers Among Artists whose first publication, Faggot Dinosaur , was released in 2012.
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Liebrecht, Savyon Apples From The Desert: Selected Stories 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1077411. ISBN #1558612351 / 9781558612358. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Liebrecht, Savyon Apples From The Desert: Selected Stories 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1077411. ISBN #1558612351 / 9781558612358. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Savyon Liebrecht s intense, lyrical, and emotionally complex stories have made her a best-selling writer in her native Israel. Apples From the Desert brings together Liebrecht s most vivid and affecting work and makes it available in English for the first time. With a precision and a subtle ferocity reminiscent of the work of Nadine Gordimer, Liebrecht s stories reveal the impact of larger social and political conflicts within the private worlds of home and family. She depicts the personal tragedies and the small acts of courage and reconciliation that grow from the deep-rooted conflict between Arabs and Jews, women and men, and older and younger generations in present-day Israel. These stories create a finely nuanced portrait of contemporary Israel; at the same time, they reach toward truths that know no national boundaries. As Lily Rattok writes in her introduction, Liebrecht s skill as a writer, combined with her perceptiveness, her compassion, and her deep humanity, create a body of work that is a testament to the healing power of storytelling.
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Liftin, Hilary Movie Star 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1080780. ISBN #0670016411 / 9780670016419. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Liftin, Hilary Movie Star 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1080780. ISBN #0670016411 / 9780670016419. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The It book you absolutely must pack in your beach bag an addictively juicy novel of celebrity love gone wrong. An EW Best Book of 2015 for the Pop Culture Fanatic in Your Life Readers who come for the dirt, real or imagined, won t be disappointed; there s plenty of gold in these True Hollywood hills. Entertainment Weekly Chosen as a Great Summer Read by: USA Today People Magazine Entertainment Weekly Good Housekeeping Cosmopolitan Vogue.com The Hollywood Reporter A delicious beach read. People Magazine A hilarious, tabloid-trashing gotcha novel. Vanity Fair A juicy work of shocking betrayal. Us Weekly I ve had a million meetings in my acting career, and I had no idea that this would be the one that would change my life forever. I walked into the room, and there was Rob . . . in the flesh. Actress Lizzie Pepper was America s Girl Next Door and her marriage to Hollywood mega-star Rob Mars was tabloid gold a whirlwind romance and an elaborate celebrity-studded wedding landed them on the cover of every celebrity weekly. But fame, beauty, and wealth weren t enough to keep their marriage together. Hollywood s It couple are over and now Lizzie is going to tell her side of the story. Celebrity ghostwriter Hilary Liftin chronicles the tabloids favorite marriage as Lizzie Pepper realizes that, when the curtain falls, her romance isn t what she and everyone else thought. From her lonely holidays in sumptuous villas to her husband s deep commitment to a disconcertingly repressive mind-body group, Lizzie reveals a side of fame that her fans never get to see. Full of twists and turns, Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper is a breathless journey to the heights of Hollywood power and royalty and a life in the spotlight that is nearly impossible to escape.
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Lightman, Alan Diagnosis 2000 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119157. ISBN #0679436154 / 9780679436157. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lightman, Alan Diagnosis 2000 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119157. ISBN #0679436154 / 9780679436157. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Alan Lightman's first novel, Einstein's Dreams , was greeted with international praise. Salman Rushdie called it "at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and so very beautifully written." Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times that the novel creates "a magical, metaphysical realm . . . as in Calvino's work, the fantastical elements of the stories are grounded in precise, crystalline prose." With The Diagnosis , Lightman gives us his most ambitious and penetrating novel yet. While rushing to his office one warm summer morning, Bill Chalmers, a junior executive, realizes that he cannot remember where he is going or even who he is. All he remembers is the motto of his company: The maximum information in the minimum time. When Bill's memory returns, "his head pounding, remembering too much," a strange numbness afflicts him, beginning as a tingling in his hands and gradually spreading over the rest of his body. As he attempts to find a diagnosis of his illness, he descends into a nightmare, enduring a blizzard of medical tests and specialists without conclusive results, the manic frenzy of his company, and a desperate wife who decides that he must be imagining his deteriorating condition. By turns satiric, comic, and tragic, The Diagnosis is a brilliant and disturbing examination of our modern obsession with speed, information, and money, and what this obsession has done to our minds and our spirits.
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Lightman, Alan Diagnosis: 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1065844. ISBN #0375725504 / 9780375725500. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lightman, Alan Diagnosis: 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1065844. ISBN #0375725504 / 9780375725500. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the bestselling author of Einstein s Dreams comes this harrowing tale of one man's struggle to cope in a wired world, even as his own biological wiring short-circuits. As Boston s Red Line shuttles Bill Chalmers to work one summer morning, something extraordinary happens. Suddenly, he can't remember which stop is his, where he works, or even who he is. The only thing he can remember is his corporate motto: the maximum information in the minimum time. Bill s memory returns, but a strange numbness afflicts him. As he attempts to find a diagnosis for his deteriorating illness, he descends into a nightmarish tangle of inconclusive results, his company s manic frenzy, and his family s disbelief. Ultimately, Bill discovers that he is fighting not just for his body but also for his soul.
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Lindbergh, Judith The Thrall's Tale Plume 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1065586. ISBN #0452288177 / 9780452288171. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lindbergh, Judith The Thrall's Tale Plume 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1065586. ISBN #0452288177 / 9780452288171. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The mesmerizing chronicle of three tenth-century Viking women whose lives are inextricably bound by fate The Thrall s Tale is a masterpiece of historical fiction that follows Katla, a slave, her daughter Bibrau, and their mistress Thorbjorg, a prophetess of the Norse god Odin, as they navigate the stormy waters of love, revenge, faith, and deception in the Viking Age settlements of tenth century Greenland. Lindbergh s lyrical prose captures the tenuousness of lives led on the edge of the known world, the pain of loyalties shattered by Christian conversion, and the deepest desires hidden in the human heart. A book that has appeal for readers of fantasy and romance as well as historical and literary fiction, The Thrall s Tale is an absorbing cultural saga researched and written over ten years as Lindbergh immersed herself in the literature, artifacts, and landscape of her characters lives
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Lipp, Frederick J. Rulers of Darkness hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1086086. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lipsyte, Sam The Ask: A Novel Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1088338. ISBN #0374298912 / 9780374298913. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lipsyte, Sam The Ask: A Novel Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1088338. ISBN #0374298912 / 9780374298913. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Milo Burke, a development officer at a third-tier university, has not been developing : after a run-in with a well-connected undergrad, he finds himself among the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is offered one last chance by his former employer: he must reel in a potential donor a major ask who, mysteriously, has requested Milo s involvement. But it turns out that the ask is Milo s sinister college classmate Purdy Stuart. And the give won t come cheap. Probing many themes or, perhaps, anxieties including work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row, and the eroticization of chicken wire, The Ask is a burst of genius by a young American master who has already demonstrated that the truly provocative and important fictions are often the
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Lipsyte, Sam The Subject Steve Broadway 2001 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121963. ISBN #0767908856 / 9780767908856. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lipsyte, Sam The Subject Steve Broadway 2001 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121963. ISBN #0767908856 / 9780767908856. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The bad news was bad. I was dying. I was dying of something no one had ever died of before. I was dying of something absolutely, fantastically new. The Subject Steve is a dark, dazzling, and totally original satire on human mortality and our desperate efforts to evade it. Meet Steve not his real name , a Special Case, in truth a Terminal Case, and the eponymous antihero of Sam Lipsyte s savagely funny first novel. Steve has been informed by his two doctors, the Philosopher and the Mechanic, that he is dying of a condition of unquestioned fatality but no discernible physical cause. Eager to brand a new plague with their names, they call it Goldfarb-Blackstone Preparatory Extinction Syndrome, or PREXIS for short. The news that this perfectly ordinary postmodern citizen bitter ex-husband, quasi-deadbeat father, midlife adman, creator of such resonant dot.com slogans as Reality Is for Those Who Dream and How Did You Like Tomorrow? is dying of something that might well be boredom sets off a media frenzy. When his physicians are exposed as frauds, but not his death sentence, he betakes himself upstate to the Center for Nondenominational Recovery and Redemption, founded and ruled by the shadowy and brutal caregiver Heinrich of Newark. From there he will travel to the desert, where the success of a cultish media empire will rest on his demise. But nothing will alter the Subject Steve s inevitable rendezvous with those twin banes of humankind, death and synergy. With the publication of this novel, by turns manic, ebullient and exquisitely deadpan, Sam Lipsyte enters the company of the master American satirists. It is a dark comedy for overlit times.
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Lish, Atticus Preparation for the Next Life Tyrant Books 2014 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1061575. ISBN #0988518333 / 9780988518339. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lish, Atticus Preparation for the Next Life Tyrant Books 2014 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1061575. ISBN #0988518333 / 9780988518339. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Winner of the 2015 PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction New York Times Best of 2014 Wall Street Journal's Best of 2014 Vanity Fair's Best of 2014 Publishers Weekly's Best of 2014 BuzzFeed's Best of 2014 Zou Lei, orphan of the desert, migrates to work in America and finds herself slaving in New York's kitchens. She falls in love with a young man whose heart has been broken in another desert. A new life may be possible if together they can survive homelessness, lockup, and the young man's nightmares, which may be more prophecy than madness. Praise for Preparation for the Next Life "Perhaps the finest and most unsentimental love story of the new decade." -The New York Times "As bold and urgent a love story as you ll read this year." -Wall Street Journal "A sledgehammer to the American dream." -Kirkus Reviews "One of the most acclaimed debut novelists of the year." - New York Observer Lish Life Is with People turns to fiction with this stunning debut novel that plums the underbelly of New York City, tracing the relationship of Zou Lei, a Chinese immigrant working in a tiny noodle restaurant, and Skinner, an AWOL Iraqi war veteran and wanderer. Enduring stints in prison and homelessness, Zou Lei and Skinner experience life on society's fringes. Lish destroys the American dream with struggles his characters face and New York City is anything but idyllic. Zou Lei and Skinner have their budding relationship tested by insurmountable odds, and their own foibles and peculiarities are rendered with vivid detail. Lish's prose is at once raw and disciplined, and every word feels necessary. -Publishers Weekly "So much of American fiction has become playful, cynical and evasive. "Preparation for the Next Life" is the strong antidote to such inconsequentialities. Powerfully realistic, with a solemn, muscular lyricism, this is a very, very good book." Joy Williams The next life of Atticus Lish s novel is the one you have to die to know. It s also the next civilian life of a soldier ravaged by three tours in Iraq, and the dodgy life of an immigrant in the city s sleepless boroughs. The work is violent, swift, and gloriously descriptive. It is love story and lament, a haunting record of unraveling lives. Lish says starkly and with enormous power: the spirit prevails until it doesn t. A stunning debut. --Noy Holland, author of Swim for the Little One First An illegal Chinese immigrant meets a broken American warrior, and the great love story of the 21st century begins. The intersection of their paths seems inevitable, irrevocable. Their story: tender, violent, terrible, and beautiful. Atticus Lish's prose, lyrical and taut, sentences as exact and indisputable as chemical formulas, is trance-like, evangelical in its ability to convert and convince its reader. Preparation for the Next Life is that rare novel that grabs you by the shirt and slaps you hard in the face. Look, it says. It isn't pretty. Turn away at your own risk. In case you haven't noticed, the American Dream has become a nightmare. Atticus Lish has your wake up call. He has created a new prototype of the hero, and her journey provides us with a devastating perspective on the "promised land" of the post 9 11 U.S., where being detained is a rite of passage and the banality of violence is simply part of the pre-apocalyptic landscape. -Christopher Kennedy, Ennui Prophet
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Liss, David Coffee Trader 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1072321. ISBN #0375760903 / 9780375760907. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Liss, David Coffee Trader 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1072321. ISBN #0375760903 / 9780375760907. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Amsterdam, 1659: On the world s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city s most envied merchants, Miguel has suddenly lost everything. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living in his younger brother s canal-flooded basement, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation. Miguel enters into a partnership with a seductive Dutchwoman who offers him one last chance at success a daring plot to corner the market of an astonishing new commodity called coffee. To succeed, Miguel must risk everything he values and face a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to see him ruined. Miguel will learn that among Amsterdam s ruthless businessmen, betrayal lurks everywhere, and even friends hide
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Liss, David Whiskey Rebels 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105801. ISBN #0812974530 / 9780812974539. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Liss, David Whiskey Rebels 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105801. ISBN #0812974530 / 9780812974539. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary America, 1787. Ethan Saunders, once among General Washington s most valued spies, is living in disgrace after an accusation of treason cost him his reputation. But an opportunity for redemption comes calling when Saunders s old enemy, Alexander Hamilton, draws him into a struggle with bitter rival Thomas Jefferson over the creation of the Bank of the United States. Meanwhile, on the western Pennsylvania frontier, Joan Maycott and her husband, a Revolutionary War veteran, hope for a better life and a chance for prosperity. But the Maycotts success on an isolated frontier attracts the brutal attention of men who threaten to destroy them. As their causes intertwine, Joan and Saunders both patriots in their own way find themselves on opposing sides of a plot that could tear apart a fragile n
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Lisser, Herbert G. De White Witch of Rosehall hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1034032. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Livingston, Harold The Detroiters hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or1060263. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Livingston, Michael The Shards of Heaven Tor Books 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128050. ISBN #0765380315 / 9780765380319. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Livingston, Michael The Shards of Heaven Tor Books 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128050. ISBN #0765380315 / 9780765380319. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Julius Caesar is dead , assassinated on the senate floor, and the glory that is Rome has been torn in two. Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar's legacy. But as civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may truly shape the course of history: two sons of Caesar have set out on a ruthless quest to find and control the Shards of Heaven, legendary artifacts said to possess the very power of the gods -- or of the one God. Caught up in these cataclysmic events, and the hunt for the Shards, are a pair of exiled Roman legionnaires, a Greek librarian of uncertain loyalties, assassins, spies, slaves . . . and the ten-year-old daughter of Cleopatra herself. The Shards of Heaven reveals the hidden magic behind the history we know, and commences a war greater than any mere mortal battle.
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Llewellyn, Richard Down Where the Moon is Small hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1036069. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Llosa, Mario Vargas In Praise of the Stepmother Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1990 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1158179. ISBN #0374175837 / 9780374175832. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Llosa, Mario Vargas Who Killed Palomino Molero? Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1987 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1142635. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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