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Otto, Whitney A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity Random House 2002 hardcover. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096484. ISBN #0375505458 / 9780375505454. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Otto, Whitney A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity Random House 2002 hardcover. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096484. ISBN #0375505458 / 9780375505454. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The bestselling author of How to Make an American Quilt transports us to San Francisco in the early 1980s, a magical, fog-shrouded city suffused as are many of its denizens with possibility and restless energy. In A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity , Whitney Otto s charac-ters congregate night after night at a North Beach bar called the Youki Singe Tea Room, their lives conjoined by the bonds of friendship and shared experience. At the Youki Singe, the stories of these young people s lives their parties, their eccentric living situations, their passions for books and art and one another are recorded in one patron s pillow book, her version of the intimate journals of the courtesans of Edo Japan. Meanwhile, though, the careless joys of the drifting life are giving way to a desire to find something more substantial, a need to belong to something or someone. The title A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity is taken from a series of woodblock prints by the eighteenth-century artist Utamaro, a master at depicting Japan s legendary Floating World, where, it is said, the patrons of the great pleasure quarters and their escorts devoted them-selves to the pursuit of music, sex, food, poetry, theater, and fashion. Now, two hundred years later and an ocean away, the young men and women of Otto s San Francisco find themselves in their own version of a Floating World. Illustrated with more than two dozen beautifully reproduced woodblock prints, A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity conjures an atmosphere both dreamy and contemporary. Whitney Otto engages the senses as well as the mind while exploring the intricacies, the trouble, and the rapture of human connection.
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Otto, Whitney A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity Random House 2002 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151832. ISBN #0375505458 / 9780375505454. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Otto, Whitney A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity Random House 2002 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151832. ISBN #0375505458 / 9780375505454. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary The bestselling author of How to Make an American Quilt transports us to San Francisco in the early 1980s, a magical, fog-shrouded city suffused as are many of its denizens with possibility and restless energy. In A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity , Whitney Otto s charac-ters congregate night after night at a North Beach bar called the Youki Singe Tea Room, their lives conjoined by the bonds of friendship and shared experience. At the Youki Singe, the stories of these young people s lives their parties, their eccentric living situations, their passions for books and art and one another are recorded in one patron s pillow book, her version of the intimate journals of the courtesans of Edo Japan. Meanwhile, though, the careless joys of the drifting life are giving way to a desire to find something more substantial, a need to belong to something or someone. The title A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity is taken from a series of woodblock prints by the eighteenth-century artist Utamaro, a master at depicting Japan s legendary Floating World, where, it is said, the patrons of the great pleasure quarters and their escorts devoted them-selves to the pursuit of music, sex, food, poetry, theater, and fashion. Now, two hundred years later and an ocean away, the young men and women of Otto s San Francisco find themselves in their own version of a Floating World. Illustrated with more than two dozen beautifully reproduced woodblock prints, A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity conjures an atmosphere both dreamy and contemporary. Whitney Otto engages the senses as well as the mind while exploring the intricacies, the trouble, and the rapture of human connection.
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Otto, Whitney How To Make An American Quilt 1991 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085100. ISBN #0679400702 / 9780679400707. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Otto, Whitney How To Make An American Quilt 1991 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085100. ISBN #0679400702 / 9780679400707. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Remarkable...An affirmation of the strength and power of individual lives, and the way they cannot help fitting together." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW An extraordinay and moving reading experience, HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT is an exploration of women of yesterday and today, who join together in a uniquely female experience. As they gather year after year, their stories, their wisdom, their lives, form the pattern from which all of us draw warmth and comfort for ourselves. A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE COMING OUT FALL 1995 -- with Maya Angelou, Winona Ryder, and Rip Torn From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Otto, Whitney Now You See Her Villard Books 1994 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or843267. ISBN #0679415831 / 9780679415831. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Otto, Whitney Now You See Her Villard Books 1994 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or843267. ISBN #0679415831 / 9780679415831. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Graceful...Poetic...Otto's voice is sympathetic and direct, her imagination equally practical and romantic." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "ENCHANTING...ASTONISHING AND LOVELY." --Entertainment Weekly Kiki Shaw, a game show question writer, is about to turn forty. She doesn't mind that, except that she's also disappearing. Parts of her that were always there are vanishing, and no one seems to notice. As she contemplates this experience, Kiki makes certain discoveries about her life and those of the women closest to her. Perhaps they will all evanesce bit by bit, until they detect where they misplaced themselves and their once-promising lives . As she did in her New York Times bestseller, How to Make an American Quilt, Whitney Otto has created a rich gallery of voices and lives that draws us in and pierces our perceptions of who we are or should be. "The sight of a work and talent in progress is welcome in the House of Fiction." --The New York Times "You are in the hands of a master. Now sit back and enjoy it." --The Hartford Courant " This gradually, even magically, unfolds to yield another of Otto's intricate, intimate tapestries." --Publishers Weekly From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Ouida Under Two Flags Mershon hardcover. Weak binding, brittle paper. Book #or1194746. (keywords: NOVEL) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Overton, Grant, ed. Great Modern Short Stories Moder Library hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1171252. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Owens, Delia Where The Crawdads Sing G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1201641. ISBN #0735219095 / 9780735219090. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Owens, Iris After Claude New York Review Books 2010 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1195656. ISBN #1590173635 / 9781590173633. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Oz, Amos A Tale of Love and Darkness Harcourt 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164691. ISBN #015603252X / 9780156032520. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Oz, Amos A Tale of Love and Darkness Harcourt 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164691. ISBN #015603252X / 9780156032520. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was twelve and a half years old, his mother committed suicide, a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen and joins a kibbutz, changes his name, marries, has children, and finally becomes a writer as well as an active participant in the political life of Israel. A story of clashing cultures and lives, of suffering and perseverance, of love and darkness.
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Oz, Amos My Michael Mariner Books 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119566. ISBN #0156031604 / 9780156031608. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Oz, Amos My Michael Mariner Books 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119566. ISBN #0156031604 / 9780156031608. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary. New York Times Book Review Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman named Hannah Gonen and her marriage to a decent but unremarkable man named Michael. As the years pass and Hannah s tempestuous fantasy life encroaches upon reality, she feels increasingly estranged from him and the marriage gradually disintegrates. Gorgeously written, profoundly moving, this extraordinary novel is at once a haunting love story, and a rich reflective portrait of a place. "A dazzling, very beautiful, splendidly conceived and composed book." New York Review of Books
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Ozeki, Ruth L. My Year of Meats Penguin Books 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Remnant of sticker removal. Book #or1201722. ISBN #0140280464 / 9780140280463. (keywords: Fiction, Romance, Humor) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Pace, Alison A Pug's Tale Berkley 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104446. ISBN #042524119X / 9780425241196. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Pace, Alison A Pug's Tale Berkley 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104446. ISBN #042524119X / 9780425241196. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The long-awaited follow-up to Pug Hill --from "a poignant and very funny" Washington Post writer. There are pugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Hope McNeill has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for years, but this is the first time she's been able to bring along her pug, Max. Officially at least. Previously she's had to smuggle him in inside her tote bag. The occasion: a special "Pug Night" party in honor of a deep-pocketed donor. Max and his friends are having a ball stalking the hors d'oeuvres and getting rambunctious, and making Hope wonder if this is also the last time she gets to bring Max to the museum. But when a prized painting goes missing, the Met needs Hope's--and Max's--help. In her quest for the culprit, Hope searches for answers with an enigmatic detective, a larger-than-life society heiress, a lady with a shih tzu in a stroller, and her arguably intuitive canine. With luck, she'll find some inspiration on her trips to Pug Hill before the investigation starts going downhill...
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Pace, Alison City Dog 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082497. ISBN #0425221431 / 9780425221433. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Pace, Alison City Dog 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082497. ISBN #0425221431 / 9780425221433. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary New from Alison Pace, the author of Pug Hill . After her divorce, Amy Dodge thought she?d finally write the next Great American Novel. Instead she?s written a bestselling children?s book series, Run, Carlie, Run starring her adorable and spirited West Highland White terrier and a dashing but fictional Scottish explorer. When Carlie is offered a starring role in her own television show, and the explorer begins to take on a life of his own, Amy?s world takes a surreal turn. But just when Amy starts thinking it?s a dog?s life after all, she figures out a way to make everything change. And though life in New York isn?t always a walk in the park, it might just take her exactly where she needs to be.
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Packer, Ann Dive From Clausen's Pier 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1048075. ISBN #0375412824 / 9780375412820. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Packer, Ann Dive From Clausen's Pier 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1048075. ISBN #0375412824 / 9780375412820. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary " The Dive from Clausen's Pier is one of those small miracles that reinforce our faith in fiction. It does what the best novels so often do, making the largest things visible by its perfect rendering of life on the smaller scale. It is witty, tragic and touching, and beguiling from the first page." --Scott Turow A riveting novel about loyalty and self-knowledge, and the conflict between who we want to be to others and who we must be for ourselves. Carrie Bell has lived in Wisconsin all her life. She s had the same best friend, the same good relationship with her mother, the same boyfriend, Mike, now her fianc , for as long as anyone can remember. It s with real surprise she finds that, at age twenty-three, her life has begun to feel suffocating. She longs for a change, an upheaval, for a chance to begin again. That chance is granted to her, terribly, when Mike is injured in an accident. Now Carrie has to question everything she thought she knew about herself and the meaning of home. She must ask: How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or of weakness to walk away from someone in need? The Dive from Clausen s Pier reminds us how precarious our lives are and how quickly they can be divided into before and after, whether by random accident or by the force of our own desires. It begins with a disaster that could happen, out of the blue, in anybody s life, and it forces us to ask how we would bear up in the face of tragedy and what we know, or think we know, about our deepest allegiances. Elegantly written and ferociously paced, emotionally nuanced and morally complex, The Dive from Clausen s Pier marks the emergence of a prodigiously gifted ne
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Packer, Ann Songs Without Words Knopf 2007 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1194681. ISBN #0375412816 / 9780375412813. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Page, Jeremy The Collector of Lost Things Pegasus 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070427. ISBN #160598485X / 9781605984858. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Page, Jeremy The Collector of Lost Things Pegasus 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070427. ISBN #160598485X / 9781605984858. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An arctic adventure story fueled by obsession, passion, and gothic influence, The Collector of Lost Things is a compulsive literary suspense novel The worlds of ocean and ice were meeting in a frontier of rage, as if the Earth had torn in two along this line. This was a place, if there ever was a place, where you could disappear . . . The year is 1845 and young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an expedition to the Arctic in the hope of finding remains of the by-now-extinct Great Auk, a large flightless bird of mythical status. Eliot joins a hunting ship, but the crew and the passengers are not what they seem. Caught in the web of relationships on board, Eliot struggles to understand the motivations of the sociopathic Captain Sykes; the silent First Mate, French; the flamboyant laudanum-addicted Bletchley; and most importantly of all, Bletchley's beautiful but strange 'cousin' Clara. As the ship moves further and further into the wilds of the Arctic Sea, Eliot clings to what he believes in, desperate to save Clara but irrevocably drawn back into a past that haunts him and a present that confronts him with a myriad of dangers.
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Pain, Barry The New Gulliver and Other Stories T. Werner Laurie, Ltd. hardcover. First Edition. Hinges shaken, cracked spine, hinges cracked, missing bf endpaper, no copyright date listed. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or501599. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Palahniuk, Chuck Choke Anchor Books 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1200689. ISBN #0385720920 / 9780385720922. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Palahniuk, Chuck Choke Anchor Books 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1200689. ISBN #0385720920 / 9780385720922. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be saved by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor s life, go on to send checks to support him. When he s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, is the visionary we need and the satirist we
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Palahniuk, Chuck Fight Club Vintage 1997 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1178080. ISBN #0099283336 / 9780099283331. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Palahniuk, Chuck Fight Club W.W. Norton & Company 1996 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1201761. ISBN #0393327345 / 9780393327342. (keywords: Millennialism Young Men Apocalyptic Fantasies Satire ingramxyz) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Palahniuk, Chuck Fight Club W. W. Norton 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1175065. ISBN #0393327345 / 9780393327342. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Palahniuk, Chuck Fight Club W. W. Norton 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1175065. ISBN #0393327345 / 9780393327342. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club. Chuck Palahniuk's outrageous and startling debut novel that exploded American literature and spawned a movement. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with white-collar jobs and failed lives take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter, and dark, anarchic genius, and it's only the beginning of his plans for violent revenge on an empty consumer-culture world.
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