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Mercusrio, Jed American Adulterer paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1065872. ISBN #0224081551 / 9780224081559. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mercusrio, Jed American Adulterer paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1065872. ISBN #0224081551 / 9780224081559. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "The subject is an American citizen holding high elected office, married, and father to a young family..." From its opening line, American Adulterer examines the psychology of a habitual womanizer in hypnotically clinical prose. Like any successful philanderer, the subject must be circumspect in his choice of mistresses and employ careful calculation in their seduction; he must exercise every effort to conceal his affairs from his wife and jealous rivals. But this is no ordinary adulterer. He is the thirty-fifth president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. JFK famously confided that if he went three days without a woman, he suffered severe headaches. Acclaimed author Jed Mercurio takes inspiration from the tantalizing details surrounding the president's sex life to conceive this provocatively intimate perspective on Kennedy's affairs. Yet this is not an indictment. Startlingly empathetic, darkly witty, and deft, American Adulterer is a moving account of a man not only crippled by back pain but enduring numerous medical crises, a man overcoming constant suffering to serve as a highly effective commander-in-chief, committed to a heroically idealistic vision of America. But each affair propels him into increasingly murky waters. President Kennedy fears losing the wife and children to whom he's devoted and the office to which he's dedicated. This is a stunning portrait of a virtuous man enslaved by an uncontrollable vice and a novel that poses controversial questions about society's evolving fixation on the private lives of public officials and, ultimately, ignites a polemic on monogamy, marriage, and family values.
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Mestre, Ernesto The Lazarus Rumba: A Novel Picador 2000 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1087917. ISBN #031226352X / 9780312263522. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mestre, Ernesto The Lazarus Rumba: A Novel Picador 2000 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1087917. ISBN #031226352X / 9780312263522. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This extraordinarily ambitious novel sets out to portray the spiritual landscape of the Cuban people in the wake of Castro's revolutionary upheaval. Like Cervantes' Don Quixote, The Lazarus Rumba describes a country beset by social dislocation and personal confusion, a country whose soul is best captured by a lush magic realism woven from innumerable tales told in voices both melancholy and lively, lyrical and coarse, delicate and grotesque. As intensely political as Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Lazarus Rumba centers around three generations of woman in the Lucientes family and follows the story of Alicia Lucientes as, almost inadvertently, she becomes the most famous dissident on the island.
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Metalious, Grace No Adam in Eden hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030506. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Meyer, Andrea Room For Love 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1069974. ISBN #0312370784 / 9780312370787. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Meyer, Andrea Room For Love 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1069974. ISBN #0312370784 / 9780312370787. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Jacquie Stuart has just turned thirty-two and she wants to do a major rewrite on her life. Her salary at a snarky film magazine barely covers her mortgage, her bratty sister has staked permanent claim to her couch, her best friend is in an obscenely happy marriage, and the only guy who really gets her is gay. Worst of all, she keeps falling for broke, self-involved commitment-phobes. Needing moonlighting money, Jacquie gets the idea of investigating a new dating trend--looking for Mr. Right in the "Roommate Wanted" ads. After a bunch of colorful near-misses that bring her into the slums of the East Village, the brownstones of Brooklyn, and the dingier digs of the Upper East Side, Jacquie thinks she's finally found the man she's been looking for and stuns her friends by moving out of her beloved apartment--and into his. Complications ensue when her live-in love reveals some alarming imperfections, the irresistible artist who dumped her wants her back and what is up with the mystery man living in the charming one-bedroom she left behind? Jacquie has been looking for love in other people's homes all over town, but could the key to her happiness lie right under her very own roof? di
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Meyer, Stephenie The Chemist Little, Brown and Company 2016 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1141160. ISBN #0316387835 / 9780316387835. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Meyers, Randy Susan Accidents Of Marriage 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1045471. ISBN #1451673051 / 9781451673050. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Meyers, Randy Susan Accidents Of Marriage 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1045471. ISBN #1451673051 / 9781451673050. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A complex and captivating tale The Boston Globe which takes an engrossing look at the darker side of a marriage and at how an ordinary family responds to an extraordinary crisis, forcing a couple to decide when a marriage is too broken to fix. Maddy, a social worker, is trying to balance her career and three children, but her husband s verbal furies have made the family wary and frightened. Where once his fiery passion had been reserved for defending his clients, now he s lashing out at all of them. She vacillates between tiptoeing around him and asserting herself for the sake of their kids keeping a fragile peace until the rainy day when they re together in the car and Ben s volatile temper gets the best of him, leaving Maddy in the hospital fighting for her life. Randy Susan Meyers takes us inside the hearts and minds of her characters, alternating among the perspectives of Maddy, Ben, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Emma. A People magazine Book Pick, Accidents of Marriage is a beautifully written, poignant, and thought-provoking novel Kirkus Reviews , starred review that will resonate deeply with women from all walks of life, ultimately revealing the challenges of family, faith, and forgiveness.
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Meyler, Deborah The Bookstore Gallery Books 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150155. ISBN #147671424X / 9781476714240. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Meyler, Deborah The Bookstore Gallery Books 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150155. ISBN #147671424X / 9781476714240. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Brilliant, idealistic Esme Garland moves to Manhattan armed with a pres tigious scholarship at Columbia University. When Mitchell van Leuven a New Yorker with the bluest of blue New York blood captures her heart with his stunning good looks and a penchant for all things erotic, life seems truly glorious . . . until a thin blue line signals a wrinkle in Esme s tidy plan. Before she has a chance to tell Mitchell about her pregnancy, he suddenly declares their sex life is as exciting as a cup of tea, and ends it all. Determined to master everything from Degas to diapers, Esme starts work at a small West Side bookstore, finding solace in George, the laconic owner addicted to spirulina, and Luke, the taciturn, guitar-playing night manager. The oddball customers are a welcome relief from Columbia s high-pressure halls, but the store is struggling to survive in this city where nothing seems to last. When Mitchell recants his criticism, his passion and promises are hard to resist. But if Esme gives him a second chance, will she, like her beloved book store, lose more than she can handle? A sharply observed and evocative tale of learning to face reality without giv ing up on your dreams, The Bookstore is sheer enchantment from start to finish.
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Michaels, Anne Fugitive Pieces Vintage 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114416. ISBN #0679776591 / 9780679776598. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Michaels, Anne Fugitive Pieces Vintage 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114416. ISBN #0679776591 / 9780679776598. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist, who does not recognize the boy as human until he begins to cry. With this electrifying image, Anne Michaels ushers us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption.As Michaels follows Jakob across two continents, she lets us witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artist who extracts meaning from its abyss. Filled with mysterious symmetries and rendered in heart-stopping prose, Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant work, a book that should not so much be read as it should be surrendered to.
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MICHELANGELO(Subject); Stone, Irving The Story of Michelangelo's Pieta Doubleday 1964 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Tears and damage to jacket. Book #or1151772. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Michener, James Centennial Random House 1974 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Musty. Book #or1146691. ISBN #0394493451 / 9780394493459. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Michener, James A. Centennial 1974 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094795. ISBN #039447970X / 9780394479705. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Michener, James A. Centennial 1974 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094795. ISBN #039447970X / 9780394479705. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Michener is America's best writer, and he proves it once again in CENTENNIAL." THE PITTSBURGH PRESS A stunning panorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration of our country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migrating white men and women, the cowboys, and the foreigners, it is a story of trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters--all caught up in the dramatic events and violent conflicts that shaped the destiny of our legendary West. From the Paperback edition.
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Michener, James A. Chesapeake Random House 1978 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1152106. ISBN #0394500792 / 9780394500799. (keywords: MARYLAND FICTION VIRGINIA HISTORICAL) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Michener, James A. Return to Paradise Secker & Warburg 1951 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Previous owners name inking. Weak binding. Book #or1147053. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Michener, James A. Texas 1985 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090718. ISBN #0394541545 / 9780394541549. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Michener, James A. Texas 1985 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090718. ISBN #0394541545 / 9780394541549. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "A book about oil and water, rangers and outlaws, Anglos and Hispanics, frontier and settlement, money and power...James Michener is something rare and valuable: an honorable craftsman doing honorable work....He manages to make history vivid and palatable to the reader." THE BOSTON GLOBE Texas. A land of sprawling diversity and unparalleled richness; a dazzling chapter in the history of our nation, a place like no other on earth. Through the remarkable lives of four families, this epic saga spans four centuries and two continents and charts the dramatic formation of several great dynasties from the age of the conquistadors to the present day. A richly compelling novel of a proud people eager to meet the challenge of the land, TEXAS is James Michener's most magnificent achievement. From the Paperback edition.
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Milchman, Jenny Cover of Snow Ballantine Books 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1049923. ISBN #0345534220 / 9780345534224. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Milchman, Jenny Cover of Snow Ballantine Books 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1049923. ISBN #0345534220 / 9780345534224. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary WINNER OF THE MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD Jenny Milchman s Cover of Snow is a remarkable debut, a gripping tale of suspense in the tradition of Gillian Flynn, Chris Bohjalian, and Nancy Pickard. Waking up one wintry morning in her old farmhouse nestled in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, Nora Hamilton instantly knows that something is wrong. When her fog of sleep clears, she finds her world is suddenly, irretrievably shattered: Her husband, Brendan, has committed suicide. The first few hours following Nora s devastating discovery pass for her in a blur of numbness and disbelief. Then, a disturbing awareness slowly settles in: Brendan left no note and gave no indication that he was contemplating taking his own life. Why would a rock-solid police officer with unwavering affection for his wife, job, and quaint hometown suddenly choose to end it all? Having spent a lifetime avoiding hard truths, Nora must now start facing them. Unraveling her late husband s final days, Nora searches for an explanation but finds a bewildering resistance from Brendan s best friend and partner, his fellow police officers, and his brittle mother. It quickly becomes clear to Nora that she is asking questions no one wants to answer. For beneath the soft cover of snow lies a powerful conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep its presence unknown . . . and its darkest secrets hidden. Praise for Cover of Snow Well-defined characters take us on an emotional roller-coaster ride through the darkest night, with blinding twists and occasionally fatal turns. This is a richly woven story that not only looks at the devastating effects of suicide but also examines life in a small town and explores the complexity of marriage. Fans of Nancy Pickard, Margaret Maron, and C. J. Box will be delighted to find this new author. Booklist starred review Milchman reveals an intimate knowledge of the psychology of grief, along with a painterly gift for converting frozen feelings into scenes of a forbidding winter landscape. The New York Times Milchman makes readers feel the chill right down to their bones and casts a particularly effective mood in this stylish thriller. Kirkus Reviews Milchman tackles small-town angst where evil can simmer under the surface with a breathless energy and a feel for realistic characters. The Seattle Times The plot unfolds at an excellent clip . . . ultimately rushing headlong to a series of startling revelations. San Francisco Journal of Books Milchman expertly conveys Nora s grief in a way that will warm hearts even in the dead of a Wedeskyull winter. Publishers Weekly starred review From the Hardcover edition.
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