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Nash, Jennie The Last Beach Bungalow Berkley 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1087720. ISBN #0425219275 / 9780425219270. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Nash, Jennie The Last Beach Bungalow Berkley 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1087720. ISBN #0425219275 / 9780425219270. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A poignant novel about a woman who survives breast cancer, only to struggle with what comes next: living. After five cancer-free years, April Newton should be celebrating, but instead she's restless. She feels her husband slipping away, and though the spectacular, stylish house he's building for her should be a fresh start, April finds herself wanting something more. As their move-in date approaches, she becomes obsessed with winning the right to buy the last bungalow in Redondo Beach, convinced that the quirky, lived-in little house represents comfort, completeness-everything she is missing in her life. And though her quest for the bungalow will take some surprising twists, it may put back together the pieces of her heart.
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Nashe, Thomas U.T: The Unfortunate Traveller Or The Life Of Jack Wilton paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1006502. ISBN #0140430679 / 9780140430677. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Naslund, Sena Jeter Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer William Morrow 1999 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084597. ISBN #0688171877 / 9780688171872. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Naslund, Sena Jeter Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer William Morrow 1999 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084597. ISBN #0688171877 / 9780688171872. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary ""Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." " This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature--along with "Call me Ishmael." Sena Jeter Naslund has created an entirely new universe with a transcendent heroine at its center who will be every bit as memorable as Captain Ahab. "Ahab's Wife" is a novel on a grand scale that can legitimately be called a masterpiece: beautifully written, filled with humanity and wisdom, rich in historical detail, authentic and evocative. Melville's spirit informs every page of her tour de force. Una Spenser's marriage to Captain Ahab is certainly a crucial element in the narrative of "Ahab's Wife," but the story covers vastly more territory. After a spellbinding opening scene, the tale flashes back to Una's childhood in Kentucky; her idyllic adolescence with her aunt and uncle's family at a lighthouse near New Bedford; her adventures disguised as a cabin boy on a whaling ship; her first marriage to a fellow survivor who descends into violent madness; courtship and marriage to Ahab; life as mother and a rich captain's wife in Nantucket; involvement with Frederick Douglass; and a man who is in Nantucket researching his novel about his adventures on her ex-husband's ship. "Ahab's Wife" is a breathtaking, magnificent, and uplifting story of one woman's spiritual journey, informed by the spirit of the greatest American novel, but taking it beyond tragedy to redemptive triumph. ""Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." " This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature--along with "Call me Ishmael." Sena Jeter Naslund has created anentirely new universe with a transcendent heroine at its center who will be every bit as memorable as Captain Ahab. "Ahab's Wife" is a novel on a grand scale that can legitimately be called a masterpiece: beautifully written, filled with humanity and wisdom, rich in historical detail, authentic and evocative. Melville's spirit informs every page of her tour de force. Una Spenser's marriage to Captain Ahab is certainly a crucial element in the narrative of "Ahab's Wife," but the story covers vastly more territory. After a spellbinding opening scene, the tale flashes back to Una's childhood in Kentucky; her idyllic adolescence with her aunt and uncle's family at a lighthouse near New Bedford; her adventures disguised as a cabin boy on a whaling ship; her first marriage to a fellow survivor who descends into violent madness; courtship and marriage to Ahab; life as mother and a rich captain's wife in Nantucket; involvement with Frederick Douglass; and a man who is in Nantucket researching his novel about his adventures on her ex-husband's ship. "Ahab's Wife" is a breathtaking, magnificent, and uplifting story of one woman's spiritual journey, informed by the spirit of the greatest American novel, but taking it beyond tragedy to redemptive triumph.""Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last." " This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature--along with "Call me Ishmael." Sena Jeter Naslund has created an entirely new universe with a transcendent heroine at its center who will be every bit as memorable as Captain Ahab. "Ahab's Wife" is a novel on a grand scale that can legitimately be called a masterpiece: beautifullywritten, filled with humanity and wisdom, rich in historical detail, authentic and evocative. Melville's spirit informs every page of her tour de force. Una Spenser's marriage to Captain Ahab is certainly a crucial element in the narrative of "Ahab's Wife," but the story covers vastly more territory. After a spellbinding opening scene, the tale flashes back to Una's childhood in Kentucky; her idyllic adolescence with her aunt and uncle's family at a lighthouse near New Bedford; her adventures disguised as a cabin boy on a whaling ship; her first marriage to a fellow survivor who descends into violent madness; courtship and marriage to Ahab; life as mother and a rich captain's wife in Nantucket; involvement with Frederick Douglass; and a man who is in Nantucket researching his novel about his adventures on her ex-husband's ship. "Ahab's Wife" is a breathtaking, magnificent, and uplifting story of one woman's spiritual journey, informed by the spirit of the greatest American novel, but taking it beyond tragedy to redemptive triumph.
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Naslund, Sena Jeter Four Spirits 2003 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133960. ISBN #0066212383 / 9780066212388. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Naslund, Sena Jeter Four Spirits 2003 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133960. ISBN #0066212383 / 9780066212388. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the acclaimed author of the national bestseller Ahab's Wife comes an inspiring, brilliantly rendered new novel of the awakening conscience of the South and of an entire nation. Written with the same scope and emotional depth as her previous award-winning novel, Four Spirits is set in Sena Jeter Naslund's home city of Birmingham, Alabama, a city that in the 1960s was known as Bombingham. Naslund brings to life this tumultuous time, weaving together the lives of blacks and whites, civil rights advocates and racists, and the events of peaceful protest and violent repression, to create a tapestry of American social transformation. Stella Silver is an idealistic, young white college student brought up by her genteel, mannered aunts. She first witnesses the events of the freedom movement from a safe distance but, along with her friend Cat Cartwright, is soon drawn into the mounting conflagration. Stella's and Cat's lives are forever altered by their new friendships with other committed freedom fighters. A student at a black college, Christine Taylor is inspired to action by the examples of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. She courageously struggles to balance her family responsibilities, education, and work with the passions and dangers of the demonstrations. Her friend Gloria Callahan, a gifted young cellist and descendant of a runaway slave, tries to move beyond her personal shyness and family coziness to enter a wider circle, including blacks and whites, men and women, all involved with the protests. Lionel Parrish, teacher, preacher, and peddler of funeral insurance, battles his own demons of lust and self-preservation, while New York activist Jonathan Green gives up a promising career as a pianist to work for racial justice in the South. These characters all add their voices to the chorus that makes up this symphony of innocent children and the mythic elderly, the devoutly religious and the skeptical humanist, the wealthy and the poor, the city and the country. Poignant and evocative, rich in historical detail, and filled with the humanity that is the hallmark of Naslund's fiction, Four Spirits is a compelling tale that transcends tragedy and evokes redemptive triumph.
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Nathan, Robert The Enchanted Voyage Alfred A. Knopf 1936 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1141100. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Nathanson, E. M. The Dirty Dozen Regenesis Press 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150508. ISBN #097046620X / 9780970466204. (keywords: Prisoners Behind Lines Operations War) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Nathanson, E. M. The Dirty Dozen Regenesis Press 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150509. ISBN #097046620X / 9780970466204. (keywords: Prisoners Behind Lines Operations War) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Nayeri, Dina A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea Riverhead Books 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1115974. ISBN #1594487049 / 9781594487040. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Nayeri, Dina A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea Riverhead Books 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1115974. ISBN #1594487049 / 9781594487040. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A magical novel about a young Iranian woman lifted from grief by her powerful imagination and love of Western culture. Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are captivated by America. They keep lists of English words and collect illegal Life magazines, television shows, and rock music. So when her mother and sister disappear, leaving Saba and her father alone in Iran, Saba is certain that they have moved to America without her. But her parents have taught her that all fate is written in the blood, and that twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and sea. As she grows up in the warmth and community of her local village, falls in and out of love, and struggles with the limited possibilities in post-revolutionary Iran, Saba envisions that there is another way for her story to unfold. Somewhere, it must be that her sister is living the Western version of this life. And where Saba s world has all the grit and brutality of real life under the new Islamic regime, her sister s experience gives her a freedom and control that Saba can only dream of. Filled with a colorful cast of characters and presented in a bewitching voice that mingles the rhythms of Eastern storytelling with modern Western prose, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is a tale about memory and the importance of controlling one s own fate.
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Naylor, Clare Catching Alice Ballantine Books 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1054465. ISBN #0449005577 / 9780449005576. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Naylor, Clare Catching Alice Ballantine Books 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1054465. ISBN #0449005577 / 9780449005576. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary After losing a job, boyfriend, and apartment all within one kick-me-when-I'm-down week, Alice Lewis desperately needs a break. So when an old pal sweeps into London and offers her escape, Alice jumps at the chance--and onto the next plane to Los Angeles, the city of . . . yeah, right. L.A. turns out to be a little less "angelic" than the down-to-earth English girl anticipated. For one, there's the new nine-to-five: the unbelievably glamorous, frenzied chore of coddling doing PR for the stars--not to mention the bevy of gorgeous, stick-thin models who suddenly appear in Alice's orbit and the suntan convertible lifestyle that taunts her pasty-white self starting with her thighs . And just when she thinks her new life couldn't get any more surreal, Alice acquires that most American of accessories: her very own stalker. While the B-list actresses grumble how unfair it is that Alice gets a stalker and they don't, Alice tries to figure out who the mystery man leaving her poems and flowers could be. Is it Charlie, the slick but twisted talent agent? Or Paddy, the hot Irish director who has eyes for any breathing woman? Or maybe it's Tommy, the unbelievably beautiful and totally wasted movie star? Because if truth be told, Alice doesn't think it's all that strange, this stalker business. In fact, she's pretty sure it's downright romantic . . .
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Naylor, Clare Love: A User's Guide Ballantine Books 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1054474. ISBN #0449005569 / 9780449005569. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Naylor, Clare Love: A User's Guide Ballantine Books 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1054474. ISBN #0449005569 / 9780449005569. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Working for Vogue, Amy spends her days dressing waif models in London's latest apparel while fending off insults from the Gucci-garbed staff. Hardly the glamorous job she hoped it would be. But that won't stop her from fantasizing about the jet-set life she knows she's destined for--or the prince who's bound to redeem her from a less than glowing record in romance. However, beneath her dreamy exterior, Amy has a sure streak of common sense. So when the impossible happens--and her path crosses that of London's hottest film star--she swoons with longing, expecting nothing in return. But Orlando Rock has other ideas. For Amy is just the kind of girl he's after--smart and witty, with a penchant for quoting from the classics, different from the daft supermodels and vain leading ladies he's dated before. Or is she? For with fame, fortune, and true love just around the corner, Amy's head is spinning, her jet-fueled imagination poised for takeoff. Is her love for Orlando stronger than her lust for the limelight--or is she merely fated to be the paparazzi's latest prey . . .? Hip and hilarious, this enchanting, sizzlingly sexy tale of a winsome twenty-something caught between romance and reality will have you rooting her on through each outrageous mishap and daring plunge toward love. . . .
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Naylor, Clare; Hare, Mimi First Assistant paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1086317. ISBN #0452288363 / 9780452288362. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Naylor, Clare; Hare, Mimi First Assistant paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1086317. ISBN #0452288363 / 9780452288362. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The further fortunes of everyone?s favorite assistant as she struggles to keep her footing on Hollywood?s slippery slope In The Second Assistant , readers fell in love with smart, witty East Coast girl Elizabeth Miller. Now that Lizzie has been promoted, can she still keep her pumps firmly on the ground in the city of stars? With a viperish subordinate after her job, the world?s hottest teen starlet to keep out of trouble and a boyfriend on location with a beautiful actress, she certainly has her hands full. The satire is sharper than ever as Naylor and Hare take another wry and hilarious look at the wheeling, dealing, schmoozing, and snubbing that make Hollywood the cutthroat capital of the world. The First Assistant is a lesson in how to survive in a town where tonight?s Oscar frock is tomorrow?s laughing stock.
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Naylor, Clare; Hare, Mimi First Assistant: A Continuing Tale From Behind The Hollywood Curtain 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137100. ISBN #0670034975 / 9780670034970. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Naylor, Clare; Hare, Mimi First Assistant: A Continuing Tale From Behind The Hollywood Curtain 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137100. ISBN #0670034975 / 9780670034970. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The further adventures of talent agency assistant Lizzie Miller as she finally gets some traction on the slippery Hollywood slope In The Second Assistant , readers across the country found a heroine they loved to love in Lizzie Miller, the smart and witty East Coast girl clinging for dear life to the bottom rung of the Hollywood ladder. But no more coffee runs and sorting thumbtacks by color for Lizzie; she s been promoted. As first assistant to Scott Wagner, now president of The Agency and one of Hollywood s premiere movers and shakers, she s making decisions and learning the ins and outs of the business. But unlike the other airhead assistants, she s not being wooed by the glamour and mystique of Lala Land. At least, that s what she tells herself. But with a fabulous boyfriend and visions of Harry Winston diamonds and a black AmEx dancing in her head, it is getting harder for Lizzie to keep her pumps firmly on the ground. In The First Assistant , Clare Naylor and Mimi Hare have again joined forces to take a wry and hilarious look at the wheeling, dealing, schmoozing, and snubbing that make Hollywood the cutthroat capital of the world. Readers are hungry for more and The First Assistant is just the romp into the red-carpet world that they crave.
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Naylor, Clare; Hare, Mimi Second Assistant: A Tale From The Bottom Of The Hollywood Ladder 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137099. ISBN #0670033073 / 9780670033072. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Naylor, Clare; Hare, Mimi Second Assistant: A Tale From The Bottom Of The Hollywood Ladder 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137099. ISBN #0670033073 / 9780670033072. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary No political science degree could ever prepare Elizabeth Miller for her new job as second assistant at The Agency, whose clients include everyone you ve never met but you know who they re sleeping with. A former congressional intern in Washington, Lizzie makes a bid for a life change that lands her a job a world away, where ethics and First Amendment debates take a backseat to pleading the Fifth for ritalin-snorting boss Scott Wagner, the hottest young agent in Hollywood who devotes his days to playing online poker that is, when he s not closing a 30 million deal for one of his AAA-list clients. And while getting six hundred dollar highlights from Cameron D s colorist or organizing the strippers for George C s party come close to causing heart failure for this East Coast girl, the real dangers lurk elsewhere. But Lizzie is a survivor, and no Machiavellian assistant, lecherous producer, or power struggle at The Agency can douse her nascent dreams of climbing up the Hollywood ladder. But first she has to run down to the Coffee Bean to pick up that triple espresso, or Scott is going to throw something.... For anyone who loved The Nanny Diaries or The Devil Wears Prada , The Second Assistant is a compulsively readable novel and a gleeful skewering of Tinsel Town packed with outrageous, thinly veiled stories about the deranged, the dastardly, and the unspeakably glamorous that will have tongues wagging from coast to coast.
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Naylor, Gloria The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series) Penguin Books 1983 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1140257. ISBN #014006690X / 9780140066906. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Naylor, Gloria The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series) Penguin Books 1983 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1140257. ISBN #014006690X / 9780140066906. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Once the home of poor Irish and Italian immigrants, Brewster Place, a rotting tenement on a dead-end street, now shelters black families. This novel portrays the courage, the fear, and the anguish of some of the women there who hold their families together, trying to make a home. Among them are: Mattie Michael, the matriarch who loses her son to prison; Etta Mae Johnson who tries to trade the 'high life' for marriage with a local preacher; Kiswana Browne who leaves her middle-class family to organize a tenant's union.
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Neill, Fiona Slummy Mummy Riverhead Books 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151018. ISBN #1594483124 / 9781594483127. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Neill, Fiona Slummy Mummy Riverhead Books 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151018. ISBN #1594483124 / 9781594483127. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The irresistible, laugh-out-loud debut novel hailed as a literary sensation to rival Bridget Jones. Anna Wintour, Vogue Lucy Sweeney has three sons, a husband on a short fuse, and a tendency toward domestic disaster. Lucy is living in a constant state of emergency, and the white lies to cover up the trail of Slummy Mummy destruction are escalating. When she begins a flirtation with Sexy Domesticated Dad, disaster looms, making it hard for her to remember why she exchanged her career and sanity for this. Pitch-perfect and satisfyingly smart, Slummy Mummy is a hilarious novel about the dilemmas of modern marriage and motherhood for those who never discovered their domestic goddess
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Nelson, Peter I Thought You Were Dead Algonquin Books 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or997794. ISBN #161664818X / 9781616648183. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Nelson, Peter I Thought You Were Dead Algonquin Books 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or997794. ISBN #161664818X / 9781616648183. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Though many owners talk to their dogs, Stella actually talks back-and not with a simple bark, either. A Lab-shepherd mix, her chats with Paul are infused with her particularly dry sense of humor, and truth be told, that's exactly what Paul needs right now. Though he's a successful writer who pens the popular For Morons series, everything else in his life seems to be off track: His father has suffered a stroke, his girlfriend is dating another man, he's thoroughly out of shape and he's spending entirely too much time at his favorite bar "Do you realize you're only slightly less routinized than a cat?" asks Stella . Stella seems to know Paul better than he knows himself, and is always offering lots of sage advice and unconditional love. Written by Pete Nelson, I Thought You Were Dead is at once heartwarming, heartbreaking, and heart-wrenchingly funny. As Paul struggles to get a handle on his drinking and repair his relationship with his father, his trusty pup is with him every step of the way. This is a sweet, surprisingly moving story, a tale that proves that with a good dog by your side-especially a wise and witty conversationalist like Stella-anything is possible.
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Nelson, Suzanne Heart And Salsa 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042545. ISBN #0142406473 / 9780142406472. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Nelson, Suzanne Heart And Salsa 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042545. ISBN #0142406473 / 9780142406472. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Cat Wilcox has left chilly Boston for sunny Mexico and a summer of girl bonding with her best friend, Sabrina. But Sabrina has a surprise. She is accompanied by her boyfriend a boyfriend Cat didn t even know existed. So rather than Sabrina and Cat spending their study-abroad semester working together at the orphan school building site, Cat expects she ll be hammering nails all by her lonesome. Then she meets Aidan. He s cute, he s smart, and he s paying her a lot of attention. Cat can t tell if he s flirting or friendly, but she s not sure it matters. Isn t it easier to be just friends? But this is enchanted Mexico and, between hiking in the rain forest, diving off waterfalls, and finishing the orphan center, it s going to take a little bit of salsa spirit, and a lot of heart, for Cat to make it through the summer unchanged.
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Nemirovsky, Irene Suite Francaise 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1026057. ISBN #0676977707 / 9780676977707. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Nemirovsky, Irene Suite Francaise 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1026057. ISBN #0676977707 / 9780676977707. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Suite Fran aise is both a brilliant novel of wartime and an extraordinary historical document. An unmatched evocation of the exodus from Paris after the German invasion of 1940, and of life under the Nazi occupation, it was written by the esteemed French novelist Ir ne N mirovsky as events unfolded around her. This haunting masterpiece has been hailed by European critics as a War and Peace for the Second World War. Though she conceived the book as a five-part work based on the form of Beethoven s Fifth Symphony , Ir ne N mirovsky was able to write only the first two parts, Storm in June and Dolce , before she was arrested in July 1942. She died in Auschwitz the following month. The manuscript was saved by her young daughter Denise; it was only decades later that Denise learned that what she had imagined was her mother s journal was in fact an invaluable work of art. Storm in June takes place in the tumult of the evacuation from Paris in 1940, just before the arrival of the invading German army. It moves vividly between different levels of society from the wealthy P ricand family, whose servants pack up their possessions for them, to a group of orphans from the 16th arrondissement escaping in a military truck. N mirovsky s immense canvas includes deserting soldiers and terrified secretaries, cynical bank directors and hapless priests, egotistical writers and hardscrabble prostitutes all thrown together in a chaotic attempt to escape the capital. Moving between them chapter by chapter, this thrilling novel describes a journey hampered and in some cases abandoned because of confusion, shelling, rumour, lack of supplies, bad luck and ordinary human weakness. Cars break down or are stolen; relatives are forgotten; friends are divided; but there are also moments of love and charity. Throughout, whether depicting saintly forbearance or the basest selfishness, Storm in June neither sweetens nor demonizes its characters; unsentimentally, with stunning perceptiveness, N mirovsky shows the complexities that mean no-one is simply a hero or villain. The second volume, Dolce , is set in the German-occupied village of Bussy. Again, N mirovsky switches seamlessly between social strata, from tenant farmers to the local aristocracy. The focus, however, is on the delicate, secret love affair between a German soldier and the French woman in whose house he has been billeted; the passion, doubts and deceits of their burgeoning relationship echo the complex mixture of hostility and acceptance felt by the occupied community as a whole. N mirovsky is amazingly sensitive in her depiction of changing, often contradictory emotions, but her attention to the personal is matched by her sharp-eyed discussion of small-town life and the politics of occupation. In this myth-dissolving book, the French villagers see the Germans as oppressive warriors, but also as handsome young men, and occupation does nothing to remedy the condescension and envy that bedevil relations between rich and poor. Quite apart from the astonishing story of its survival, Suite Fran aise is a novel of genius and lasting artistic value. Subtle, often fiercely ironic, and deeply compassionate, it is both a piercing record of its time and a humane, profoundly moving novel.
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Nersesian, Arthur Chinese Takeout 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1124309. ISBN #0060548827 / 9780060548827. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Nersesian, Arthur Chinese Takeout 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1124309. ISBN #0060548827 / 9780060548827. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the author of the cult classic The Fuck-Up comes a vicious new tale of art, drugs, love, and death on the Lower East Side. Orloff Trenchant is a painter who sells books on West 4th Street in Manhattan and is obsessed with mastering his craft. Desperate for cash, Or agrees to take a commission no one else will touch: he has three weeks to carve a headstone for a recently deceased restaurateur -- a Chinese takeout box. As Or attempts to make his deadline, he navigates among a toxic mix of fellow artists, struggling gallery owners, bloodsucking art dealers, his politically active friends, and a haunting addict poet whose life is more out of control than Or's own. Nersesian's prose is sparkling and hypnotic in this brutal and comic story that will make you wonder if life and art are two different things.
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Nersesian, Arthur Unlubricated Harper Perennial 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1123269. ISBN #0060734116 / 9780060734114. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Nersesian, Arthur Unlubricated Harper Perennial 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1123269. ISBN #0060734116 / 9780060734114. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A Fierce and Hysterical Tale Of Self-Destruction On The Road to Being Discovered Hannah is a struggling actress living in New York's Tribeca, and like any young thesp she is bent on success: finding paying jobs that offer good material, not just mindless roles for eager and nubile bodies. When she comes across a lost play by a dead 1980s icon -- brilliantly written, with the perfect role that will display her acting chops -- she thinks she's hit the jackpot. But when she becomes the play's de facto producer and lands a gig on an indie film, she's forced to deal with the nonstop whirlwind of backstage maneuverings and outrageous personalities ... and with the fact that she witnessed the falling of the Twin Towers from blocks away. When Hannah loses her coveted role to an old rival, she learns a shocking truth that could bring her whole world tumbling down. Dynamic and moving, with trademark Nersesian moments of cutting humor and truth, Unlubricated is a tale of down-and-dirty off-Broadway New York theatre, sex, love, and life in the wake of September 11.
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Newhouse, Edward The Temptation Of Roger Heriott hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or1066802. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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