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Landvik, Lorna Oh My Stars 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090391. ISBN #0345468368 / 9780345468369. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Landvik, Lorna Oh My Stars 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090391. ISBN #0345468368 / 9780345468369. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary I am convinced that at birth the cake is already baked. Nurture is the nuts or frosting, but if you re a spice cake, you re a spice cake, and nothing is going to change you into an angel food. Tall, slender Violet Mathers is growing up in the Great Depression, which could just as well define her state of mind. Abandoned by her mother as a child, mistreated by her father, and teased by her schoolmates Hey, Olive Oyl, where s Popeye? , the lonely girl finds solace in artistic pursuits. Only when she s hired by the town s sole feminist to work the night shift in the local thread factory does Violet come into her name, and bloom. Accepted by her co-workers, the teenager enters the happiest phase of her life, until a terrible accident causes her to retreat once again into her lonely shell. Realizing that she has only one clear choice, Violet boards a bus heading west to California. But when the bus crashes in North Dakota, it seems that Fate is having another cruel laugh at Violet s expense. This time though, Violet laughs back. She and her fellow passengers are rescued by two men: Austin Sykes, whom Violet is certain is the blackest man to ever set foot on the North Dakota prairie, and Kjel Hedstrom, who inspires feelings Violet never before has felt. Kjel and Austin are musicians whose sound is like no other, and with pluck, verve, and wit, Violet becomes part of their quest to make a new kind of music together. Oh My Stars is Lorna Landvik s most ambitious novel yet, with a cast of characters whose travails and triumphs you ll long remember. It is a tale of love and hope, bigotry and betrayal, loss and discovery as Violet, who s always considered herself a minor character in her own life story, emerges as a heroine you ll laugh with, cry with, and, most important, cheer for all the way. From
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Landvik, Lorna Patty Jane's House Of Curl paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1039053. ISBN #0449911004 / 9780449911006. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Landvik, Lorna The View from Mount Joy Ballantine Books 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1038671. ISBN #0345468384 / 9780345468383. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Landvik, Lorna The View from Mount Joy Ballantine Books 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1038671. ISBN #0345468384 / 9780345468383. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When teenage hockey player Joe Andreson and his widowed mother move to Minneapolis, Joe falls under the seductive spell of Kristi Casey, Ole Bull High s libidinous head cheerleader. Joe balances Kristi s lustful manipulation with the down-to-earth companionship of his smart, platonic girlfriend, Darva. But it is Kristi who will prove to be a temptation and torment throughout Joe s life. Years later, Joe can t believe that life has deposited him in the aisles of Haugland Foods. But he soon learns that being a grocer is like being the mayor of a small town: His constituents confide astonishing things and always appreciate Joe s generous dispensing of the milk of human kindness. The path Kristi has charged down, on the other hand, is as wild as Joe s is tame. But who has really risked more? Who has lived more? And who is truly happy? As Joe discovers, sometimes people are lucky enough to be standing in the one place where the view of the world is breathtaking, if only they ll open their eyes to all there is to see. Praise for The View from Mount Joy : A delightful journey . . . full of humor and poignancy and the potential for joy in everyday life. The Charlotte Observer Deeply satisfying . . . Bursting with the same deliciously deadpan dialogue that is now a Landvik trademark . . . The View from Mount Joy provides quite possibly Landvik s most lovable character to date. Minneapolis Star Tribune Pervaded by the same tenderness readers loved in Landvik s other books The View from Mount Joy . . . Should inspire interesting book club discussions. St. Paul Pioneer Press Landvik has an easy, engaging narrative style laced with humor. The Boston Globe Landvik s latest homespun homage is pure bliss. Booklist NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
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Landvik, Lorna Welcome To The Great Mysterious paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1111723. ISBN #0345442741 / 9780345442741. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lane, Johanna Black Lake: A Novel Little, Brown and Company 2014 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130747. ISBN #0316228834 / 9780316228831. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lane, Johanna Black Lake: A Novel Little, Brown and Company 2014 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130747. ISBN #0316228834 / 9780316228831. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A debut novel about a family losing grip of its legacy: a majestic house on the cliffs of Ireland. The Campbells have lived happily at Dulough--an idyllic, rambling estate isolated on the Irish seaside--for generations. But upkeep has drained the family coffers, and so John Campbell must be bold: to keep Dulough, he will open its doors to the public as a museum. He and his wife, daughter, and son will move from the luxury of the big house to a dank, small caretaker's cottage. The upheaval strains the already tenuous threads that bind the family and, when a tragic accident befalls them, long-simmering resentments and unanswered yearnings surface. As each character is given a turn to speak, their voices tell a complicated, fascinating story about what happens when the upstairs becomes the downstairs, and what legacy is left when family secrets are revealed.
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Langer, Adam The Salinger Contract Open Road Media 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095178. ISBN #1453297944 / 9781453297940. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Langer, Adam The Salinger Contract Open Road Media 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095178. ISBN #1453297944 / 9781453297940. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An enthralling literary mystery that connects some of the world s most famous authors from Norman Mailer and Truman Capote to B. Traven and J. D. Salinger to a sinister collector in Chicago Adam Langer, the narrator of this deft and wide-ranging novel by the author of the same name, tells the intertwining tales of two writers navigating a plot neither one of them could have ever imagined. There may be no other escape than to write their way out of it. Adam is a writer and stay-at-home dad in Bloomington, Indiana, drawn into an uneasy friendship with the charismatic and bestselling thriller author Conner Joyce. Conner is having trouble writing his next book, and when a menacing stranger approaches him with an odd and lucrative proposal, events quickly begin to spiral out of control. A novel of literary crimes and misdemeanors, The Salinger Contract will delight anyone who loves a fast-paced story told with humor, wit, and intrigue.
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Lansens, Lori Girls 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1077883. ISBN #0316069035 / 9780316069038. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lansens, Lori Girls 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1077883. ISBN #0316069035 / 9780316069038. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. Since their birth, Rose and Ruby Darlen have been known simply as "the girls." They make friends, fall in love, have jobs, love their parents, and follow their dreams. But the Darlens are special. Now nearing their 30th birthday, they are history's oldest craniopagus twins, joined at the head by a spot the size of a bread plate. When Rose, the bookish sister, sets out to write her autobiography, it inevitably becomes the story of her short but extraordinary life with Ruby, the beautiful one. From their awkward first steps--Ruby's arm curled around Rose's neck, her foreshortened legs wrapped around Rose's hips--to the friendships they gradually build for themselves in the small town of Leaford, this is the profoundly affecting chronicle of an incomparable life journey. As Rose and Ruby's story builds to an unforgettable conclusion, Lansens aims at the heart of human experience--the hardship of loss and struggles for independence, and the fundamental joy of simply living a life. This is a breathtaking novel, one that no reader will soon forget, a heartrending story of love between sisters.
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Lansens, Lori Rush Home Road 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1076885. ISBN #0316008036 / 9780316008037. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lansens, Lori Rush Home Road 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1076885. ISBN #0316008036 / 9780316008037. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When 5-year old Sharla Cody is dumped on the doorstep of Addy Shadd, a 70-year old woman living in a trailer park, Addy does not know how completely her life is about to change. She's hardly used to company and the troubled Sharla is not the sweet, beautiful angel she had envisioned. Over time, Addy and Sharla form a bond that neither of them expected-and Sharla begins to undergo a transformation under Addy's patient and loving care. But much to Addy's surprise and dismay, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own tumultuous childhood. As she reminisces about her days growing up in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid 1800s, she remembers her family and her first love and confronts the painful experience that drove her away from home, never to return. Brilliantly structured and achingly lyrical, this beautiful first novel by the award-winning author of The Girls tells the story of two unlikely people thrown together who transform each other's lives forever.
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Lapena, Shari A Stranger in The House: A Novel 2017 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1144830. ISBN #0735221138 / 9780735221130. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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LaPlante, Alice Turn Of Mind 2011 hardcover. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085013. ISBN #0802119778 / 9780802119773. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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LaPlante, Alice Turn Of Mind 2011 hardcover. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085013. ISBN #0802119778 / 9780802119773. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A stunning first novel, both literary and thriller, about a retired orthopedic surgeon with dementia, Turn of Mind has already received worldwide attention. With unmatched patience and a pulsating intensity, Alice LaPlante brings us deep into a brilliant woman s deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be both a blessing and a curse. As the book opens, Dr. Jennifer White s best friend, Amanda, who lived down the block, has been killed, and four fingers surgically removed from her hand. Dr. White is the prime suspect and she herself doesn t know whether she did it. Told in White s own voice, fractured and eloquent, a picture emerges of the surprisingly intimate, complex alliance between these life-long friends two proud, forceful women who were at times each other s most formidable adversaries. As the investigation into the murder deepens and White s relationships with her live-in caretaker and two grown children intensify, a chilling question lingers: is White s shattered memory preventing her from revealing the truth or helping her to hide it? A startling portrait of a disintegrating mind clinging to bits of reality through anger, frustration, shame, and unspeakable loss, Turn of Mind is a remarkable debut that examines the deception and frailty of memory and how it defines our very existence.
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Larkin, Alison English American 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1049170. ISBN #141655159X / 9781416551591. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Larkin, Alison English American 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1049170. ISBN #141655159X / 9781416551591. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Adopted at birth into a loving, tidy family, charming, chronically untidy Pippa Dunn hopes that finding her birth parents will help her understand why she's so different from everyone she knows - and somehow cure her of her inability to trust even the most devoted of men. She meets her untidy, creative birth mother in Georgia, her charismatic birth father in Washington DC - and moves to New York to be near them, while pursuing an exciting new career. At the same time, she re-connects with a man she hardly knows, who also seems to understand her and sends her seductive emails from around the world. She's found her 'self' and everything she thought she wanted. Or has she?
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Larkin, Alison English American, The Simon & Schuster 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or785360. ISBN #1439156530 / 9781439156537. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Larkin, Alison English American, The Simon & Schuster 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or785360. ISBN #1439156530 / 9781439156537. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When Pippa Dunn,adopted as an infant and raised terribly British, discovers that her birth parents are from the American South, she finds that "culture clash" has layers of meaning she'd never imagined. Meet The English American , a fabulously funny, deeply poignant debut novel that sprang from Larkin's autobiographical one-woman show of the same name. In many ways, Pippa Dunn is very English: she eats Marmite on toast, knows how to make a proper cup of tea, has attended a posh English boarding school, and finds it entirely familiar to discuss the crossword rather than exchange any cross words over dinner with her proper English family. Yet Pippa -- creative, disheveled, and impulsive to the core -- has always felt different from her perfectly poised, smartly coiffed sister and steady, practical parents, whose pastimes include Scottish dancing, gardening, and watching cricket. When Pippa learns at age twenty-eight that her birth parents are from the American South, she feels that lifelong questions have been answered. She meets her birth mother, an untidy, artistic, free-spirited redhead, and her birth father, a charismatic and politically involved businessman in Washington, D.C.; and she moves to America to be near them. At the same time, she relies on the guidance of a young man with whom she feels a mysterious connection; a man who discovered his own estranged father and who, like her birth parents, seems to understand her in a way that no one in her life has done before. Pippa feels she has found her "self" and everything she thought she wanted. But has she? Caught between two opposing cultures, two sets of parents, and two completely different men, Pippa is plunged into hilarious, heart-wrenching chaos. The birth father she adores turns out to be involved in neoconservative activities she hates; the mesmerizing mother who once abandoned her now refuses to let her go. And the man of her fantasies may be just that... With an authentic adopted heroine at its center, Larkin's compulsively readable first novel unearths universal truths about love, identity, and family with wit, warmth, and heart.
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Larsen, Nella Passing 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1100579. ISBN #0375758135 / 9780375758133. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Larsen, Nella Passing 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1100579. ISBN #0375758135 / 9780375758133. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary First published to critical acclaim in 1929, Passing firmly established Nella Larsen's prominence among women writers of the Harlem Renaissance. The Modern Library is proud to present Passing an electrifying story of two women who cross the color line in 1920s New York together with a new Introduction by the Obie Award- winning playwright and novelist Ntozake Shange. Irene Redfield, the novel's protagonist, is a woman with an enviable life. She and her husband, Brian, a prominent physician, share a comfortable Harlem town house with their sons. Her work arranging charity balls that gather Harlem's elite creates a sense of purpose and respectability for Irene. But her hold on this world begins to slip the day she encounters Clare Kendry, a childhood friend with whom she had lost touch. Clare light-skinned, beautiful, and charming tells Irene how, after her father's death, she left behind the black neighborhood of her adolescence and began passing for white, hiding her true identity from everyone, including her racist husband. As Clare begins inserting herself into Irene's life, Irene is thrown into a panic, terrified of the consequences of Clare's dangerous behavior. And when Clare witnesses the vibrancy and energy of the community she left behind, her burning desire to come back threatens to shatter her careful deception. Brilliantly plotted and elegantly written, Passing offers a gripping psychological portrait of emotional extremity. The New York Times Book Review called Larsen "adroit at tracing the involved processes of a mind divided against itself, that fights between the dictates of reason and desire." The Saturday Review of Literature said, " Larsen has produced a work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel."
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Larsen, Nella Quicksand (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) Dover Publications 2006 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1105405. ISBN #0486451402 / 9780486451404. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Larsen, Nella Quicksand (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) Dover Publications 2006 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1105405. ISBN #0486451402 / 9780486451404. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Helga's mother is white, and her father is black and absent. Ostracized throughout her lonely childhood for her dark skin, Helga spends her adult life seeking acceptance. Everywhere she goes the American South, Harlem, even Denmark--she feels oppressed. Socially, economically, and psychologically, Helga struggles against the "quicksand" of classism, racism, and sexism. One of the most acclaimed and influential writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen published her powerful first novel in 1928. Quicksand features intriguing autobiographical parallels with Larsen's own life, in addition to reflecting many aspects of African-American culture of the 1920s. Alice Walker praised it and Passing Larsen's second novel, also available in a Dover edition as "novels I will never forget. They open up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read them years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable."
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Larsen, Nella Quicksand and Passing Rutgers University Press 1986 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106850. ISBN #0813511704 / 9780813511702. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Larsen, Nella Quicksand and Passing Rutgers University Press 1986 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106850. ISBN #0813511704 / 9780813511702. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand 1928 and Passing 1929 document the historical realities of Harlem in the 1920s and shed a bright light on the social world of the black bourgeoisie. The novels' greatest appeal and achievement, however, is not sociological, but psychological. As noted in the editor's comprehensive introduction, Larsen takes the theme of psychic dualism, so popular in Harlem Renaissance fiction, to a higher and more complex level, displaying a sophisticated understanding and penetrating analysis of black female psychology.
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Lathan, Sharon Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One Sourcebooks Landmark 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1001212. ISBN #1402215231 / 9781402215230. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lathan, Sharon Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One Sourcebooks Landmark 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1001212. ISBN #1402215231 / 9781402215230. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Sharon Lathan presents Mr. Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy , A fascinating portrait of a timeless, consuming love - and the sweetest, most romantic Jane Austen sequel. It's Darcy and Elizabeth's wedding day, and the journey is just beginning as Jane Austen's beloved Pride and Prejudice characters embark on the greatest adventure of all: marriage and a life together filled with surprising passion, tender self-discovery, and the simple joys of every day. As their love story unfolds in this most romantic of Jane Austen sequels, Darcy and Elizabeth reveal to each other how their relationship blossomed. From misunderstanding to perfect understanding and harmony, theirs is a marriage filled with romance, sensuality, and the beauty of a deep, abiding love. WHAT READERS ARE SAYING: "This journey is truly amazing." "So beautifully written... making me feel as though I was in the room with Lizzy and Darcy... and sharing in all of the touching moments between." "What a wonderful beginning to this truly beautiful marriage." "I love your style of writing, the vocabulary you use, and the way you describe things but still leave things to the imagination." "Could not stop reading." "One can visualize, quite accurately, every detail."
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Latiolais, Michelle Widow Stories Bellevue Literary Press 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1143349. ISBN #1934137308 / 9781934137307. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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