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Mason, Daniel Piano Tuner Alfred A. Knopf 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1146800. ISBN #0375414657 / 9780375414657. (keywords: FICTION HISTORICAL) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mason, Finch The White Hat And Other Stories J. W. Arrowsmith hardcover. Inscribed: "Miss Withron[?] from her friend the author August 1892." Staining to the front cover. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1124573. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Masselink, Ben Crackerjack Marines hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1111631. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Masters, Alexander Stuart: A Life Backwards 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128740. ISBN #0007790171 / 9780007790173. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Masters, Alexander Stuart: A Life Backwards 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128740. ISBN #0007790171 / 9780007790173. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this extraordinary book, Alexander Masters has created a moving portrait of a troubled man, an unlikely friendship, and a desperate world few ever see. A gripping who-done-it journey back in time, it begins with Masters meeting a drunken Stuart lying on a sidewalk in Cambridge, England, and leads through layers of hell back through crimes and misdemeanors, prison and homelessness, suicide attempts, violence, drugs, juvenile halls and special schools to expose the smiling, gregarious thirteen-year-old boy who was Stuart before his long, sprawling, dangerous fall. Shocking, inspiring, and hilarious by turns, Stuart: A Life Backwards is a writer s quest to give voice to a man who, beneath his forbidding exterior, has a message for us all: that every life even the most chaotic and disreputable is a story worthy of being told. From the Hardcover edition.
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Masters, John Now, God Be Thanked McGraw-Hill 1979 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082690. ISBN #0070407819 / 9780070407817. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Masters, John Now, God Be Thanked McGraw-Hill 1979 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082690. ISBN #0070407819 / 9780070407817. (filed under: Fiction ) *
Now, God Be Thanked: A Novel His Loss of Eden
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Mate, Ferenc Ghost Sea: A Novel (Dugger/Nello Series) Albatross 2007 paperback. Signed by Author. . Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1126608. ISBN #0920256511 / 9780920256510. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mate, Ferenc Ghost Sea: A Novel (Dugger/Nello Series) Albatross 2007 paperback. Signed by Author. . Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1126608. ISBN #0920256511 / 9780920256510. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "It's Joseph Conrad meets Elmore Leonard." Vancouver Sun A spellbinding tale of the sea: love, murder, and mysticism: At the turn of the century, a Kwakiutl warrior from British Columbia's wild northern islands raids an artifact collector's yacht to reclaim stolen sacred masks. He takes the collector's wife, Kate, as hostage on his 200-mile canoe voyage home. The collector hires Dugger, a coastal trader living on the edges of the law, to give chase in his ketch with the collector as passenger, but Dugger's financial salvation comes at a terrible price, for he is Kate's secret lover. Day and night Dugger sails the uncharted islands, through raging currents and ship-swallowing whirlpools, and the account of his pursuit is interwoven with Kate's harrowing and erotically charged journey. Based on a true story, this novel reaches its thrilling climax at the last secret, hallucinatory potlatch of the ancient Kwakiutl culture, where the history of a doomed people is melded with the fury of three hearts.
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Matsuoka, Takashi Autumn Bridge Delacorte Press 2004 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1157872. ISBN #0385336411 / 9780385336413. (keywords: FICTION HISTORICAL JAPAN RESTORATION 1853-1870 AMERICANS WOMEN MISSIONARIES TRANSLATERS PROPHECIES) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Matsuoka, Takashi Cloud Of Sparrows 2002 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1109726. ISBN #0385336403 / 9780385336406. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Matsuoka, Takashi Cloud Of Sparrows 2002 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1109726. ISBN #0385336403 / 9780385336406. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Once in a great while a new novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, with flawless storytelling and a unique understanding of another place and time. Takashi Matsuoka is just such a writer. His magnificent new novel, set amid the violence and beauty of nineteenth-century Japan, takes us beyond the epic tradition of James Clavell s Shogun and into a majestic realm of samurai and geishas, ninjas and Zen masters. Brilliantly imagined, gloriously written, Cloud of Sparrows is at once a sweeping historical adventure and a love story of almost unbearable poignancy. It is storytelling on the grand scale from a novelist of astounding depth and grace. Cloud of Sparrows It is the dawn of the New Year, 1861. After two centuries of isolation, Japan has been forced to open its doors to the West, igniting a clash of cultures and generations. And as foreign ships threaten to rain destruction on the Shogun s castle in Edo, a small group of American missionaries has chosen this time to spread the word of their God. Among them, Emily Gibson, a woman seeking redemption from a tormented past, and Matthew Stark, a cold-eyed killer with one more death on his mind. Neither realizes that their future in Japan has already been foreseen. For a young nobleman, Lord Genji, has dreamt that his life will be saved by an outsider in the New Year. Widely reviled as a dilettante, Lord Genji has one weapon with which to inspire awe. In his family, one in every generation is said to have the gift of prophecy. And what Lord Genji sees has struck fear in many around him. As the Shogun s secret police chief plots Genji s death--and the utter destruction of his entire clan--the young and untried lord must prove that he is more than the handsome womanizer of legend, famed lover of Edo s most celebrated geisha, Lady Heiko, and that his prophetic powers are no mere fairy tale. Forced to escape from Edo and flee to his ancestral stronghold, the spectacular Cloud of Sparrows Castle, Genji joins his fate with Emily and Stark, unaware of the dark forces that drive them. Together with Genji s uncle, Lord Shigeru, a legendary swordsman knee-deep in the blood of his own kin, and the enigmatic Lady Heiko, the unlikely band embarks on a harrowing journey through a landscape bristling with danger--to prepare for a final battle. Here, on a snowscape stained with blood, horror will mix with wonder, secrets will unravel, and love will duel with vengeance--as East and West, flesh and spirit, past and future, collide in ways no one--least of all Genji--could ha
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Matthews, Carole For Better, For Worse 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1079020. ISBN #0380820447 / 9780380820443. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Matthews, Carole For Better, For Worse 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1079020. ISBN #0380820447 / 9780380820443. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary After her marriage to Damien ended in disaster, Londoner Josie Flynn -- thirtysomething and single again -- is flying across the ocean to her American cousin's "big mistake" wedding. In her present "love stinks" frame of mind, the last person she expects to be seated next to on the flight is someone like Matt Jarvis. A recently divorced rock journalist, Matt is sensitive, good-looking, and remarkably attentive -- and before their plane touches down, Josie's smitten. So how can she hope to convince her cousin to cut and run when Josie is all ready to leap into love again -- with a stranger, no less, who might be just another Mr. Totally Wrong in Mr. Seductively Right's clothing? The point is rendered moot, of course, once they deplane and she and Matt go their separate ways. After all, Josie's got prenuptial confabs to worry about and that dreaded lilac chiffon bridesmaid's dress to wear. But Dante himself couldn't have dreamed up the hell this wedding is proving to be -- and when her dream hunk reappears and throws himself into the mix, Josie finds herself wondering how she -- or any unattached modern woman, in fact -- can hope to survive the new romantic rules of the twenty-first century. Already a bestseller in the U.K., Carole Matthews's For Better, for Worse is a deliriously droll, dead-on tale of marriage, sex, monogamy, and modern love.
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Matthiessen, Peter At Play in the Fields of the Lord Vintage Books 1991 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1160902. ISBN #0679737413 / 9780679737414. (keywords: SOUTH AMERICA FICTION GENERAL INDIANS MISSIONARIES RELIGIOUS) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Matthiessen, Peter At Play in the Fields of the Lord Vintage Books 1991 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1163317. ISBN #0679737413 / 9780679737414. (keywords: SOUTH AMERICA FICTION GENERAL INDIANS MISSIONARIES RELIGIOUS) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Matthiessen, Peter Shadow Country The Modern Library 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1163335. ISBN #081298062X / 9780812980622. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Matthiessen, Peter Shadow Country The Modern Library 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1163335. ISBN #081298062X / 9780812980622. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Peter Matthiessen s great American epic Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man s River, and Bone by Bone was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has cut nearly a third of the overall text and collapsed the time frame while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters with brilliant rewriting throughout. In Shadow Country, he has marvelously distilled a monumental work, realizing his original vision. Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son. Shadow Country traverses strange landscapes and frontier hinterlands inhabited by Americans of every provenance and color, including the black and Indian inheritors of the archaic racism that, as Watson s wife observed, "still casts its shadow over the nation." Peter Matthiessen s lyrical and illuminating work in the Watson narrative has been praised highly by such contemporaries as Saul Bellow, William Styron, and W. S. Merwin. Joseph Heller said "I read it in great gulps, up each night later than I wanted to be, in my hungry impatience to find out more and more." Praise for Shadow Country Shadow Country is altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told , not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature. This magnificent, sad masterpiece about race, history, and defeated dreams can easily stand comparison with Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men . Little wonder, too, that parts of the story of E.J. Watson call up comparisons with Dostoevsky, Conrad, and, inevitably, Faulkner . In every way, Shadow Country is a bravura performance, at once history, fiction, and myth as well as the capstone to the career of one of the most admired and admirable writers of our time . The New York Review of Books Magnificent and capacious . I'll just say right here that the book took my sleeve and like the ancient mariner would not let go. Matthiessen has made his three-part saga into a new thing . Finally now we have these books welded like a bell, and with Watson's song the last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate .a breathtaking saga. The Los Angeles Times Gorgeously written and unfailingly compelling, Shadow Country is the exhilarating masterwork of Matthiessen s career, every bit as ambitious as Moby Dick . National Geographic Adventure magazine Peter Mattiessen consolidates his epic masterpiece of Florida -- and crafts something even better He deserves credit for decades of meticulous research and obsessive details and soaring prose that converted the Watson legend into critically acclaimed literature .Anyone wanting an explanation for what happened to Florida can now find it in a single novel, a great American novel . Miami Herald Matthiessen is writing about one man's life in Shadow Country , but he is also writing about the life of the nation over the course of half a century. Watson's story is essentially the story of the American frontier, of the conquering of wild lands and people, and of what such empires cost . Even among a body of work as magnificent as Matthiessen's, this is his great book. St. Petersburg Times Shadow Country is a magnum opus . Matthiessen is meticulous in creating characters, lyrical in describing landscapes, and resolute in dissecting the values and costs that accompanied the development of this nation. -- Seattle Times Shadow Country is an ambitious, lasting, and meaningful work of literature that will not soon fade away. It is a testament to Mr. Matthiessen s integrity as an artist that he felt compelled to return to the Watson material to produce this work and satisfy his original vision .a multifaceted work that can be read variously or simultaneously as a psychological novel, a historical novel, a morality tale, a political allegory, or a mystery. -- East Hampton Star Matthiessen s Watson trilogy is a touchstone of modern American literature this reworking is remarkable .Where Watson was a magnificent character before, he comes across as nothing short of iconic here; it s difficult to find another figure in American literature so thoroughly and confincingly portrayed. Publishers Weekly , starred review, Pick of the Week Matthiessen has reinvigorated and rejoined the trilogy s novels a mosaic about the life and lynch-mob death of a turn-of-the century Florida Everglades sugar planter and serial killer named E. J. Watson into the 900-plus-page Shadow Country . This is no mere repackaging: Four hundred pages were cut from the novels, previous background characters now tromp to the foreground, and the books rangy, Faulknerian essence is rendered more digestible. Deliciously digestible , that is; this is a thick porterhouse of a novel . Men s Journal "The fiction of Peter Matthiessen is the reason a lot of people in my generation decided to be writers. No doubt about it. SHADOW COUNTRY lives up to anyone's highest expectations for great writing ." -- Richard Ford "Peter Matthiessen is a brilliantly gifted and ambitious writer, an inspired anatomist of the American mythos. His storytelling skills are prodigious and his rapport with his subject is remarkable." -- Joyce Carol Oates "Peter Matthiessen's work, both in fiction and non-fiction, has become a unique achievement in his own generation and in American literature as a whole. Everything that he has written has been conveyed in his own clear, deeply informed, elegant and powerful prose. The Watson saga-in-the-round, to which he has devoted nearly thirty years, is his crowning achievement . SHADOW COUNTRY, his distillation of the earlier trilogy, is his transmutation of it to represent his original vision. It is the quintessence of his lif
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Maugham, W. Somerset Andalusia Alfred A. Knopf 1927 hardcover. Chipping to the dustjacket.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1154116. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maugham, W. Somerset Collected Short Stories: Volume 1 Penguin Classics 1977 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153203. ISBN #0140185895 / 9780140185898. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maugham, W. Somerset Collected Short Stories: Volume 1 Penguin Classics 1977 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153203. ISBN #0140185895 / 9780140185898. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary These 30 short stories, comprising Somerset Maugham's first collection, are set in locations ranging from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. They include "Rain," "The Three Fat Women of Antibes," "The Voice of the Turtle," and "Before the Party." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Maugham, W. Somerset Collected Stories Everyman's Library 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1160220. ISBN #1400042534 / 9781400042531. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maugham, W. Somerset The Best Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham The Modern Library 1957 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1157194. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maugham, W. Somerset The Narrow Corner Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1935 hardcover. Previous owner name written in.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1154960. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maugham, W. Somerset Theatre Vintage International 2001 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1162186. ISBN #037572463X / 9780375724633. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maum, Courtney I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104703. ISBN #1476764557 / 9781476764559. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Maum, Courtney I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104703. ISBN #1476764557 / 9781476764559. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this reverse love story set in Paris and London, which The Wall Street Journal hailed as funny and soulful immediately appealing, a failed monogamist attempts to woo his wife back and to answer the question: Is it really possible to fall back in love with your spouse? Despite the success of his first solo show in Paris and the support of his brilliant French wife and young daughter, thirty-four-year-old British artist Richard Haddon is too busy mourning the loss of his American mistress to a famous cutlery designer to appreciate his fortune. But after Richard discovers that a painting he originally made for his wife, Anne when they were first married and deeply in love has sold, it shocks him back to reality and he resolves to reinvest wholeheartedly in his family life just in time for his wife to learn the extent of his affair. Rudderless and remorseful, Richard embarks on a series of misguided attempts to win Anne back while focusing his creative energy on a provocative art piece to prove that he s still the man she once loved. Skillfully balancing biting wit with a deep emotional undercurrent, this charming and engrossing portrait of one man s midlife crisis Elle creates the perfect picture of an imperfect family and a heartfelt exploration of marriage, love, and fidelity.
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