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Mei, Chin P'ing Adventurous History Of Hsi Men And His Six Wifes paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1072114. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mei, Chin P'Ing Chin P'ing Mei The Adventurous History Of Hsi Men And His Six Wives hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092725. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Melandri, Francesca Eva Sleeps Europa Editions 2016 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119463. ISBN #1609453123 / 9781609453121. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Melandri, Francesca Eva Sleeps Europa Editions 2016 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119463. ISBN #1609453123 / 9781609453121. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A bestselling novel in Italy and Elle magazine's book of the year, Eva Sleeps is a sweeping modern story about family, forgiveness, and conflict. At its heart is the story of a woman searching for the truth about her origins. This literary page-turner will delight fans of Elena Ferrante. Out of the struggles and conflicts in the border regions of Northern Italy and Austria and the rich history that has resulted from this meeting of cultures, comes a family story that embodies the history of nations. Eva, a forty-year-old public relations professional living in Northern Italy, receives an unexpected message from Southern Italy. Vito, a man she briefly knew as a child as a friend of her mother's, is very ill and would like to see her one last time. He is a retired police officer who was stationed in the north during the late-sixties, a period rife with tension, protest, and violence. These troubles, however, did not stop a young hapless policeman from falling in love with the "wrong" woman, a girl named Gerda from Austrian Tyrol, an inventive and accomplished cook, a single mother with a rich family history of her own, a northerner, the sister of a terrorist, and Gerda's mother. Vito's affair with Gerda was a passionate one, but what was the nature of their love? And if he loved her so passionately why did he return to Calabria? What scars did those years leave on Vito, and on Gerda? It's time for Eva to find out.
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Melikan, Rose Blackstone Key 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042571. ISBN #1416560807 / 9781416560807. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Melikan, Rose Blackstone Key 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042571. ISBN #1416560807 / 9781416560807. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary It is 1795, and Mary Finch sets off to meet her wealthy uncle, hoping to heal a bitter family estrangement and perhaps to avoid a dismal career teaching at Mrs. Bunbury's school for young ladies. Eager for an adventure, she is soon embroiled in one of frightening proportions, for war is raging across Europe, England faces the threat of invasion, and some secrets are more valuable than gold. As she uncovers a complex and deadly plot involving ruthless smugglers, secret codes, and a dangerous network of spies and traitors, Mary must learn quickly whom she can trust. The apparently stalwart Captain Holland? The dangerous yet attractive Mr. D prez? Perhaps the mysterious Hicks or even Mrs. Tipton, who knows what is best for everyone, especially Mary? The price of failure may be her life and the safety of all England.
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Melnyczuk, Askold House Of Widows 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099946. ISBN #1555974910 / 9781555974916. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Melnyczuk, Askold House Of Widows 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099946. ISBN #1555974910 / 9781555974916. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A novel of intrigue that is played across decades, continents, and generations by the celebrated, New York Times Notable author of Ambassador of the Dead Late one night, a week after Father's suicide, I finished sweeping the bulk of my inheritance into four giant trash bags, and heaved them into the Dumpster at the construction site around the corner from his apartment. Then I sat down at the two-person coffee table in the middle of his kitchen, the fluorescent light loud as cicadas, and examined the three things I'd kept. The three things that James kept are his father's British military uniform, an oversize glass jar, and a letter written in a language he can't read. They become the keys to unlocking the door on a past James never imagined while growing up amid the security of Boston's north shore, and they send him on an odyssey across England, Austria, and Ukraine. Along the way, he meets his dying aunt Vera, the matriarch of a mysterious branch of the family. His mission puts him face-to-face with the international sex trade, a displaced Palestinian girl with streaked pink hair and attitude to spare, and a violent world in which he is ultimately implicated. From old America, new Europe, and the timeless Middle East, James learns what it means to live in the webbed world of the twenty-first century. In The House of Widows , Askold Melnyczuk offers a searing exploration of the individual's role in the inexorable assault of history.
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Meloy, Maile Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1071799. ISBN #1594484651 / 9781594484650. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Meloy, Maile Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1071799. ISBN #1594484651 / 9781594484650. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2009, award-winning writer Maile Meloy's return to short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers. Meloy's first return to short stories since her critically acclaimed debut, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It is an extraordinary new work from one of the most promising writers of the last decade. Eleven unforgettable new stories demonstrate the emotional power and the clean, assured style that have earned Meloy praise from critics and devotion from readers. Propelled by a terrific instinct for storytelling, and concerned with the convolutions of modern love and the importance of place, this collection is about the battlefields-and fields of victory-that exist in seemingly harmless spaces, in kitchens and living rooms and cars. Set mostly in the American West, the stories feature small-town lawyers, ranchers, doctors, parents, and children, and explore the moral quandaries of love, family, and friendship. A ranch hand falls for a recent law school graduate who appears unexpectedly- and reluctantly-in his remote Montana town. A young father opens his door to find his dead grandmother standing on the front step. Two women weigh love and betrayal during an early snow. Throughout the book, Meloy examines the tensions between having and wanting, as her characters try to keep hold of opposing forces in their lives: innocence and experience, risk and stability, fidelity and desire. Knowing, sly, and bittersweet, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It confirms Maile Meloy's singular literary talent. Her lean, controlled prose, full of insight and unexpected poignancy, is the perfect complement to her powerfully moving storytelling.
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Melton, Marliss Protector 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1024952. ISBN #1460951816 / 9781460951811. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Melton, Marliss Protector 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1024952. ISBN #1460951816 / 9781460951811. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Eryn McClellan teaches ESL in Washington, D.C., until the day she s targeted by terrorists avenging her father s actions in Afghanistan. The FBI has stepped in, but when it looks like they are using her for bait, General McClellan enlists the aid of the only man he knows he can trust: former Navy SEAL Ike Calhoun. Embracing solitude in his remote cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Ike thought he'd left the War on Terror behind. Now he s stuck shielding a blue-eyed beauty from ambitious federal agents and crazed jihadists. More disturbing still, the charming Eryn seems intent on shattering his self-imposed isolation. Ike does his best to resist her welcoming ways, but he can feel his restraint eroding like a mountain in a mudslide. With the FBI hot on their heels and the terrorists not far behind, Ike willingly wages a one-man war in defense of the woman whose passion and faith have given him the strength to rise above his past.
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Melville, Herman Billy Budd And Other Stories Penguin Books 1986 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Some underlining. Book #or896205. ISBN #0140390537 / 9780140390537. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Melville, Herman Mardi paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068153. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Melville, Herman Moby Dick paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099957. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Melville, Herman Moby-Dick (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1136028. ISBN #1593080182 / 9781593080181. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Melville, Herman Moby-Dick (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1136028. ISBN #1593080182 / 9781593080181. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Moby-Dick , by Herman Melville , is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes Noble Classics : All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated by the cunningly observant crew member Ishmael, Moby-Dick is the tale of the hunt for the elusive, omnipotent, and ultimately mystifying white whale Moby Dick. On its surface, Moby-Dick is a vivid documentary of life aboard a nineteenth-century whaler, a virtual encyclopedia of whales and whaling, replete with facts, legends, and trivia that Melville had gleaned from personal experience and scores of sources. But as the quest for the whale becomes increasingly perilous, the tale works on allegorical levels, likening the whale to human greed, moral consequence, good, evil, and life itself. Who is good? The great white whale who, like Nature, asks nothing but to be left in peace? Or the bold Ahab who, like scientists, explorers, and philosophers, fearlessly probes the mysteries of the universe? Who is evil? The ferocious, man-killing sea monster? Or the revenge-obsessed madman who ignores his own better nature in his quest to kill the beast? Scorned by critics upon its publication, Moby-Dick was publicly derided during its author s lifetime. Yet Melville s masterpiece has outlived its initial misunderstanding to become an American classic of unquestionably epic proportions. Includes an extensive Dictionary of Sea Terms 37 pages . Carl F. Hovde taught at Columbia University for thirty-five years. An editor for the Princeton University Press edition of Henry David Thoreau, he has also written about Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, and William Fa
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Melville, Herman Typee paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1139394. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Melville, Herman White Jacket paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1139288. ISBN #0810118289 / 9780810118287. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Melville, Herman White Jacket paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068160. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mengestu, Dinaw All Our Names Vintage 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043194. ISBN #0345805666 / 9780345805669. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mengestu, Dinaw All Our Names Vintage 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043194. ISBN #0345805666 / 9780345805669. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Named a best book of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Daily Beast A sweeping, continent-spanning story about the love between men and women, between friends, and between citizens and their countries, All Our Names is a transfixing exploration of the relationships that define us. Fleeing war-torn Uganda for the American Midwest, Isaac begins a passionate affair with the social worker assigned to him. But the couple s bond is inescapably darkened by the secrets of Isaac s past: the country and the conflict he left behind and the beloved friend who changed the course of his life and sacrificed everything to ensure his freedom. From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, here is a love story for our time.
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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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Merullo, Roland Breakfast with Buddha Algonquin Books 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043869. ISBN #1565126165 / 9781565126169. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Merullo, Roland Breakfast with Buddha Algonquin Books 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043869. ISBN #1565126165 / 9781565126169. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he'd planned. But in an effort to westernize his passenger and amuse himself he decides to show the monk some "American fun" along the way. From a chocolate factory in Hershey to a bowling alley in South Bend, from a Cubs game at Wrigley field to his family farm near Bismarck, Otto is given the remarkable opportunity to see his world and more important, his life through someone else's eyes. Gradually, skepticism yields to amazement as he realizes that his companion might just be the real thing. In Roland Merullo's masterful hands, Otto tells his story with all the wonder, bemusement, and wry humor of a man who unwittingly finds what he's missing in the most unexpecte
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Merullo, Roland Dinner with Buddha: A Novel Algonquin Books 2016 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1134109. ISBN #1616205997 / 9781616205997. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Merullo, Roland Dinner with Buddha: A Novel Algonquin Books 2016 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1134109. ISBN #1616205997 / 9781616205997. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary If life is a journey-with detours, paths from which to choose, and myriad roadblocks to overcome-then Otto Ringling is most certainly on the journey of a lifetime. His first fifty or so years were pretty good. He felt he had it all, until one day he didn t. Seeking understanding, he calls on Volya Rinpoche, a wise man and spiritual leader. A man who accepts the world as it comes to him, a man without pride or vanity. But Rinpoche, as it turns out, is experiencing his own time of doubt. In hopes of finding answers to life s mysteries, the two embark on a journey through America, an amusing and enlightening road trip that becomes a lesson in love and gratitude.
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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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