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Norris, Frances Blue Plate Special St. Martin's Press 2005 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1158446. ISBN #0312322321 / 9780312322328. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Norris, Frank Octopus paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099704. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Norris, Frank The Octopus Barnes & Noble 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1169845. ISBN #0760773572 / 9780760773574. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Norris, Kathleen The Virgin of Bennington Riverhead Hardcover 2001 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1116939. ISBN #1573221791 / 9781573221795. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Norris, Kathleen The Virgin of Bennington Riverhead Hardcover 2001 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1116939. ISBN #1573221791 / 9781573221795. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The book her devoted readers have been waiting for. At last, New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Norris's first continuous narrative . . . a story of sex, drugs, and poetry. After spending her sheltered high school years in Hawaii, Kathleen Norris was woefully unprepared for Bennington College in the 1960s, with its culture of drugs, sex, and bohemianism. But it was also at Bennington that she discovered her great love of poetry, which carried her to New York City at a time when a new generation of poets was emerging and shaking up the establishment. Working at the Academy of American Poets for her beloved mentor, Elizabeth Kray, and hanging out at clubs with Andy Warhol's crowd at night, Norris found herself immersed in an exciting and emotionally turbulent new world. Her memoir of that time-of her friendships and encounters with poets, including Jim Carroll, Denise Levertov, Gerard Malanga, Erica Jong, James Merrill, Stanley Kunitz, and James Wright, as well as of her own development as a poet-is an inspiring tribute to poetry and a stunning evocation of a time and place. Her tenuous balancing act on the bridge between na ve experimentation and indirection and the more focused responsibilities of adulthood makes for a dramatic and illuminating account of coming-of-age at a tumultuous moment in our history.
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Norris, W.E. Heaps of Money (Leisure Hour Series No. 133) Henry Holt and Company 1882 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1167620. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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North, Will Long Walk Home 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067656. ISBN #0307383032 / 9780307383037. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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North, Will Long Walk Home 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067656. ISBN #0307383032 / 9780307383037. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The miracle of love after loss and longing The Long Walk Home is a story about grief and hope, about love and loss, and about two people struggling with the agonizing complexities of delity to a spouse, to a moral code, to each other, and to a passion neither thought would ever appear again. By turns lyrical and gripping, set amid a landscape of breathtaking beauty and unpredictable danger, this is a story you will not soon forget.
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NORTON(Subject); Notaro, Laurie Idiot Girl's Christmas: True Tales From The Top Of The Naughty List Villard 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145865. ISBN #1400064368 / 9781400064366. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Nothomb, Amelie The Book Of Proper Names faber and faber 2005 paperback. Cut along fore-edge.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1147912. ISBN #0571223443 / 9780571223442. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Novic, Sara Girl at War Random House Trade Paperbacks 2016 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1168738. ISBN #0812986393 / 9780812986396. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Novic, Sara Girl at War Random House Trade Paperbacks 2016 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1168738. ISBN #0812986393 / 9780812986396. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE, BOOKLIST, AND ELECTRIC LITERATURE ALEX AWARD WINNER LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION For readers of The Tiger s Wife and All the Light We Cannot See comes a powerful debut novel about a girl s coming of age and how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war. Zagreb, 1991. Ana Juri is a carefree ten-year-old, living with her family in a small apartment in Croatia s capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering Ana s idyllic childhood. Daily life is altered by food rations and air raid drills, and soccer matches are replaced by sniper fire. Neighbors grow suspicious of one another, and Ana s sense of safety starts to fray. When the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous world. New York, 2001. Ana is now a college student in Manhattan. Though she s tried to move on from her past, she can t escape her memories of war secrets she keeps even from those closest to her. Haunted by the events that forever changed her family, Ana returns to Croatia after a decade away, hoping to make peace with the place she once called home. As she faces her ghosts, she must come to terms with her country s difficult history and the events that interrupted her childhood years before. Moving back and forth through time, Girl at War is an honest, generous, brilliantly written novel that illuminates how history shapes the individual. Sara Novi fearlessly shows the impact of war on one young girl and its legacy on all of us. It s a debut by a writer who has stared into recent history to find a story that continues to resonate today. Praise for Girl at War Outstanding . . . Girl at War performs the miracle of making the stories of broken lives in a distant country feel as large and universal as myth. The New York Times Book Review Editor s Choice An old-fashioned page-turner that will demand all of the reader s attention, happily given. A debut novel that astonishes. Vanity Fair Shattering . . . The book begins with what deserves to become one of contemporary literature s more memorable opening lines. The sentences that follow are equally as lyrical as a folk lament and as taut as metal wire wrapped through an electrified fence. USA Today Gripping . . . Novi , in tender and eloquent prose, explores the challenge of how to live even after one has survived. O: The Oprah Magazine Powerful and vividly wrought . . . Novi writes about horrors with an elegant understatement. In cool, accomplished sentences, we are met with the gravity, brutality and even the mundaneness of war and loss as well as the enduring capacity to live. San Francisco Chronicle Intimate and immense . . . a writer whose own gravity and talent anchor this novel. The New York Times An important and profoundly moving reading experience. The National Remarkable. Julia Glass, The Boston Globe A powerful, gorgeous debut novel. Adam Johnson, The Week An unforgettable portrait of how war forever changes the life of the individual . . . a writer working with deep reserves of talent, heart, and mind. Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story From the Hardcover edition.
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Nye, Edgar Wilson Bill Nye's Red Book hardcover. bottom of front cover torn. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Wear from use. Book #or1127729. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Nye, Robert Late Mr. Shakespeare Penguin Books 2000 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1160032. ISBN #0140289526 / 9780140289527. (keywords: Great Britain England Elizabethian England William Shakespeare Fictional Biography) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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O'Brian, Patrick Hussein: An Entertainment W.W. Norton & Company 1999 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1165361. ISBN #0393049191 / 9780393049190. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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O'Brian, Patrick Master & Commander W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated 1990 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Slight lean to spine. Book #or1150024. ISBN #0393307050 / 9780393307054. (keywords: GREAT BRITAIN FICTION MATURIN STEPHEN FICTITIOUS CHARACTER AUBREY JACK ADVENTURE HISTORICAL ACTION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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O'Brien, Anne Virgin Widow 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113638. ISBN #0451231295 / 9780451231291. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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O'Brien, Anne Virgin Widow 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113638. ISBN #0451231295 / 9780451231291. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A dazzling historical novel set during England's War of the Roses- the story of the courageous Anne Neville, future wife of Richard III, who comes of age in a time of chaos... Anne Neville, daughter of the powerful Earl of Warwick, grows up during the War of the Roses, a time when kings and queens are made and destroyed in an on-going battle for the ultimate prize: the throne of England. As a child Anne falls in love with the ambitious, proud Richard of Gloucester, third son of the House of York. But when her father is branded a traitor, her family must flee to exile in France. As Anne matures into a beautiful, poised woman, skillfully navigating the treacherous royal court of Margaret of Anjou, she secretly longs for Richard, who has become a great man under his brother's rule. But as their families scheme for power, Anne must protect her heart from betrayals on both sides-and from the man she has always loved, and cannot bring herself to trust.
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O'Brien, Edna In the Forest Mariner Books 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1032885. ISBN #0618339655 / 9780618339655. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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O'Brien, Edna In the Forest Mariner Books 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1032885. ISBN #0618339655 / 9780618339655. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In the Forest returns to the countryside of western Ireland, the vivid backdrop of Edna O'Brien's best-selling Wild Decembers. Here O'Brien unravels a classic confrontation of evil and innocence centering on the young, troubled Michael O'Kane, christened by his neighbors "the Kindershrek," someone of whom small children are afraid. O'Kane loses his mother as a boy and by age ten is incarcerated in a juvenile detention center, an experience that leaves him scarred from abuse and worse, with the killing instinct buried within. A story based on actual events, In the Forest proceeds in a rush of hair-raising episodes and asks what will become of O'Kane's unwitting victims -- a radiant young woman, her little son, and a devout and trusting priest. Riveting, frightening, and brilliantly told, this intimate portrayal of both perpetrator and victims reminds us that anything can happen "outside the boundary of mother and child."
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O'Brien, Edna Lonely Girl 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095867. ISBN #0452283752 / 9780452283756. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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O'Brien, Edna Lonely Girl 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095867. ISBN #0452283752 / 9780452283756. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The New York Times Book Review hailed The Country Girls , the first book in Edna O'Brien's critically acclaimed trilogy, as "Powerful. Intelligent. Ironic. A treasure." The Lonely Girl continues the story of childhood friends Kate and Baba, now both twenty-one, as they navigate the rocky, sometimes treacherous pathways of urban life. With hearts as big as Dublin, and hopes as bright as new pennies, they move bravely and eagerly toward the future. Yet the two couldn't be more different. Kate toils in a grocery shop and lives out her romantic fantasies in books. Baba entertains more earthbound dreams. Their principles and friendship are tested when Kate meets a dashing married man, and discovers the exhilaration of passion...and the consequences of falling in love. A novel that combines the teeming ethos of big-city life with the ambitions and yearnings of two emerging young women, The Lonely Girl is a stellar achievement from one of Ireland's finest storytellers.
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O'Brien, Tim Going After Cacciato Broadway Books 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1142583. ISBN #0767904427 / 9780767904421. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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O'Brien, Tim The Nuclear Age Alfred A. Knopf 1985 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or882557. ISBN #039454286X / 9780394542867. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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O'Brien, Tim The Nuclear Age Alfred A. Knopf 1985 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or882557. ISBN #039454286X / 9780394542867. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary At the age of 49, after a lifetime of insomnia and midnight peril, William Cowling believes the hour has come for him to sieze control. So, he begins to dig a hole in his backyard--a shelter against impending doom--much to the chagrin of his family. Ultimately, he finds he must make a choice: safety or sanity; love or fidelity to the truth. Darkly comic, poignant, and provocative, this visionary novel by the author of In the Lake of the Woods captures the essence of what it's like to be a conscious human being in the nuclear age Pub: 6,000.
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O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried Mariner 2009 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164623. ISBN #0618706410 / 9780618706419. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried Mariner Books 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1154767v1. ISBN #0618706410 / 9780618706419. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried Mariner Books 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1154767v1. ISBN #0618706410 / 9780618706419. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. DIV
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O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried Broadway 1998 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1160670v1. ISBN #0767902890 / 9780767902892. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried Broadway 1998 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1160670v1. ISBN #0767902890 / 9780767902892. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this masterpiece. It is both: a collection of interrelated short pieces which ultimately reads with the dramatic force and tension of a novel. Yet each one of the twenty-two short pieces is written with such care, emotional content, and prosaic precision that it could stand on its own. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and of course, the character Tim O'Brien who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. They battle the enemy or maybe more the idea of the enemy , and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she dances , and love for each other, because in Vietnam they are the only family they have. We hear the voices of the men and build images upon their dialogue. The way they tell stories about others, we hear them telling stories about themselves. With the creative verve of the greatest fiction and the intimacy of a searing autobiography, The Things They Carried is a testament to the men who risked their lives in America's most controversial war. It is also a mirror held up to the frailty of humanity. Ultimately The Things They Carried and its myriad protagonists call to order the courage, determination, and luck we all need to survive.
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O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried Broadway Books 1998 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Notes and marking. Some underlining. Book #or1149839. ISBN #0767902890 / 9780767902892. (keywords: FICTION PSYCHOLOGICAL VIETNAMESE CONFLICT 1961) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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