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Kundera, Milan;Asher, Linda Slowness HarperCollins 1996 Soft Cover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1131988. ISBN #0060173696 / 9780060173692. (keywords: FICTION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kuniczak, W.S. March hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1014574. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kuniczak, W.S. Thousand Hour Day hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1086906. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kureishi, Hanif Something To Tell You 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070803. ISBN #1416572112 / 9781416572114. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kureishi, Hanif Something To Tell You 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070803. ISBN #1416572112 / 9781416572114. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary THE STUNNINGLY ORIGINAL, ICONOCLASTIC, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA RETURNS WITH HIS FINEST, MOST EXUBERANT NOVEL. In the early 1980s Hanif Kureishi emerged as one of the most compelling new voices in film and fiction. His movies My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and his novel The Buddha of Suburbia captivated audiences and inspired other artists. In Something to Tell You, he travels back to those days of hedonism, activism and glorious creativity. And he explores the lives of that generation now, in a very different London. Jamal is middle-aged, though reluctant to admit it. He has an ex-wife, a son he adores, a thriving career as a psychoanalyst and vast reserves of unsatisfied desire. "Secrets are my currency," he says. "I deal in them for a living." And he has some of his own. He is haunted by Ajita, his first love, whom he hasn't seen in decades, and by an act of violence he has never confessed. With great empathy and agility, Kureishi has created an array of unforgettable characters -- a hilarious and eccentric theater director, a covey of charming and defiant outcasts and an ebullient sister who thrives on the fringe. All wrestle with their own limits as human beings; all are plagued by the past until they find it within themselves to forgive. Comic, wise and unfailingly tender, Something to Tell You is Kureishi's best work to date, brilliant and exhilarating.
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Kurlansky, Mark Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1108207. ISBN #1594484880 / 9781594484889. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kurlansky, Mark Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1108207. ISBN #1594484880 / 9781594484889. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary All-new stories about the food we share, love, and fight over from the national bestselling author of Cod and Salt . In these linked stories, Mark Kurlansky reveals the bond that can hold people together, tear them apart, or make them become vegan: food. Through muffins or hot dogs, an indigenous Alaskan fish soup, a bean curd Thanksgiving turkey or potentially toxic cr me brulee, a rotating cast of characters learns how to honor the past, how to realize you're not in love with someone any more, and how to forgive. These women and men meet and eat and love, leave and drink and in the end, come together in Seattle as they are as inextricably linked with each other as they are with the food they eat and the wine they drink. Kurlansky brings a keen eye and unerring sense of humanity to these stories. And throughout, his love and knowledge of food shows just how important a role what we eat plays in our lives.
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Kushner, Ellen The Privilege of the Sword Spectra 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1001653. ISBN #0553382683 / 9780553382686. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kushner, Ellen The Privilege of the Sword Spectra 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1001653. ISBN #0553382683 / 9780553382686. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power in the city's ballroom, brothels and boudoirs. Into this alluring world walks Katherine, a well-bred country girl versed in the rules of conventional society. Her mistake is thinking that they apply. For Katherine's host and uncle, Alec Campion, aka the Mad Duke Tremontaine, is in charge here and to him, rules are made to be broken. When Alec decides it would be more amusing for his niece to learn swordplay than to follow the usual path to marriage, her world changes forever. Blade in hand, it's up to Katherine to navigate a maze of secrets and scoundrels and to gain the self-discovery that comes to those who master: the privilege of the sword.
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Kushner, Rachel Telex From Cuba Scribner 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1022853. ISBN #1416561048 / 9781416561040. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kushner, Rachel Telex From Cuba Scribner 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1022853. ISBN #1416561048 / 9781416561040. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Flamethrowers , an astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading up to Castro's revolution a place that was a paradise for a time and for a few. The first novel to tell the story of the Americans who were driven out in 1958, this is a masterful debut with a unique and necessary lens into US-Cuba relations. Young Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom three hundred thousand acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane that surround their gated enclave. If the rural tropics are a child's dreamworld, Everly and K.C. nevertheless have keen eyes for the indulgences and betrayals of the grown-ups around them the mordant drinking and illicit loves, the race hierarchies and violence. In Havana, a thousand kilometers and a world away from the American colony, a cabaret dancer meets a French agitator named Christian de La Mazi re, whose seductive demeanor can't mask his shameful past. Together they become enmeshed in the brewing political underground. When Fidel and Ra l Castro lead a revolt from the mountains above the cane plantation, torching the sugar and kidnapping a boat full of "yanqui" revelers, K.C. and Everly begin to discover the brutality that keeps the colony humming. Though their parents remain blissfully untouched by the forces of history, the children hear the whispers of what is to come. Kushner's first novel is a tour de force, haunting and compelling, with the urgency of a telex from a forgotten time and place.
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Kwitney, Alisa Sex As a Second Language 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1028019. ISBN #0743268903 / 9780743268905. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kwitney, Alisa Sex As a Second Language 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1028019. ISBN #0743268903 / 9780743268905. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From Alisa Kwitney, the acclaimed author of "On the Couch" and "The Dominant Blonde," comes a wickedly funny new novel about adult education. A teacher of English as a second language, Katherine Miner is an expert in idiomatic phrases, subtle verbal cues, and unwritten cultural rules, but when it comes to the opposite sex, she's baffled. Her girlfriends and her mother keep telling her that a woman who is about to turn forty needs to approach dating as a job, but Kat's decided to opt for early retirement. It's not that she hates men; she just doesn't trust them. After all, her soon-to-be ex-husband, Logan, has dropped all contact with their son, just as her own father did to her thirty years before. While Kat prepares her students for the messy business of getting personal, she has no intention of getting herself tangled up in bedsheets and emotions. But Magnus Grimmson, the tall, good-looking, tongue-tied Icelander in the front row, doesn't appear to pose any threat. In fact, the man seems to need more help deciphering women than Kat does decoding men. Then Kat receives a letter from her father that turns her life upside down. A former spy, Kat's father writes that he wants to get to know her. But her father's reappearance causes unexpected complications, and suddenly Kat finds herself questioning whom she can trust and discovering that she still has a lot to learn about men, friendship, and the kind of nonverbal communication they don't teach in school. Darkly humorous, emotionally honest, and unabashedly sexy, Alisa Kwitney's novel affirms that forty isn't the end of the road -- sometimes, it's a new beginning.
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Kyle, Aryn God Of Animals 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033413. ISBN #1416533257 / 9781416533252. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kyle, Aryn God Of Animals 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033413. ISBN #1416533257 / 9781416533252. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From an award-winning and talented young novelist comes one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years: a breathtaking and beautiful novel set on a horse ranch in small-town Colorado. When her older sister runs away to marry a rodeo cowboy, Alice Winston is left to bear the brunt of her family's troubles -- a depressed, bedridden mother; a reticent, overworked father; and a run-down horse ranch. As the hottest summer in fifteen years unfolds and bills pile up, Alice is torn between dreams of escaping the loneliness of her duty-filled life and a longing to help her father mend their family and the ranch. To make ends meet, the Winstons board the pampered horses of rich neighbors, and for the first time Alice confronts the power and security that class and wealth provide. As her family and their well-being become intertwined with the lives of their clients, Alice is drawn into an adult world of secrets and hard truths, and soon discovers that people -- including herself -- can be cruel, can lie and cheat, and every once in a while, can do something heartbreaking and selfless. Ultimately, Alice and her family must weather a devastating betrayal and a shocking, violent series of events that will test their love and prove the power of forgiveness. A wise and astonishing novel about the different guises of love and the often steep tolls on the road to adulthood, The God of Animals is a haunting, unforgettable debut.
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L'Engle, Madeleine Irrational Season paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1127735. ISBN #0866839461 / 9780866839464. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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L'Heureux, John The Shrine at Altamira Grove Press 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1054510. ISBN #0802136559 / 9780802136558. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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L'Heureux, John The Shrine at Altamira Grove Press 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1054510. ISBN #0802136559 / 9780802136558. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Now available in a Grove paperback edition, The Shrine at Altamira by John L'Heureux has the simple shape and powerful impact of Greek tragedy. When Maria Corazon Alvarez meets Russell Whitaker at a school dance, she sees his blue eyes and solid American name as a ticket out of the ghetto into a better life. They dance, they touch, they tumble into a love so strong and elemental it should last forever. But gradually the balance shifts; he loves her more, she loves him less. When their son is born, Maria gives him all her love and Russell is pushed aside. Wild, obsessed, Russell runs mad and his desperate love becomes a fire that consumes them all.
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Laclos, Choderlos de Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1059972. ISBN #0192838679 / 9780192838674. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Laclos, Choderlos de Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1059972. ISBN #0192838679 / 9780192838674. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses 1782 one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Its prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil--gifted, wealthy, and bored--form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game. And they play this game with such wit and style that it is impossible not to admire them, until they discover mysterious rules that they cannot understand. In the ensuing battle there can be no winners, and the innocent suffer with the guilty. This new translation gives Laclos a modern voice, and readers will be able to judge whether the novel is as "diabolical" and "infamous" as its critics have claimed, or whether it has much to tell us about a world we still inhabit.
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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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Laken, Valerie Dream House 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1014873. ISBN #0060840935 / 9780060840938. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Laken, Valerie Dream House 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1014873. ISBN #0060840935 / 9780060840938. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The perfect haunted house story for these unnerving times. New York Times Dream House , the riveting debut novel from Pushcart Prize-winning author Valerie Laken, tells the story of one troubled house the site of a domestic drama that will forever change the lives of two families. Embracing volatile issues such as race, class, and gentrification, while seamlessly mixing genres as diverse as crime fiction, suspense, and home renovation, Dream House is a sexy, sharp-eyed, deeply haunted, and wonderful book. Charles Baxter, author of the National Book Award finalist The Feast of Love
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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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