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Boffa, Alessandro You're An Animal, Viskovitz! 2002 hardcover. First American Edition. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121698. ISBN #0375405283 / 9780375405280. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Boffa, Alessandro You're An Animal, Viskovitz! 2002 hardcover. First American Edition. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121698. ISBN #0375405283 / 9780375405280. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From Italy, a wildly modern riff on Ovid s Metamorphoses a whirlwind of ironic fables in which the central hero, Viskovitz, continually changes identities in pursuit of his one true love. A snail with two sexes, a parrot who speaks of love, a dormouse who has erotic dreams, a police dog who s a Buddhist, a microbe with an inferiority complex, a lion in love with a gazelle, a chameleon hoping to find himself, an intestinal worm, a dung beetle . . . Viskovitz is each of these animals and many more, possessed by their behaviors, their neuroses, their vanities. And the gorgeous and impossible Ljuba, the object of Viskovitz s desire, is in turn a sow, a bitch, a gazelle. There is an animal passion between them that lasts from story to story, but it is the fullness of the human condition that is portrayed most vividly in these hilarious metamorphoses. Dazzling beginnings lead into plots full of surprises, ranging from slapstick to Western, from cautionary tale to thriller. Scientific jargon is turned into wordplay and witty aphorism; theatrical reversals and philosophical insights abound. You re an Animal, Viskovitz is a triumph of comic inventiveness and intelligence unlike anything we ve seen before.
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Bogarde, Dirk West of Sunset The Viking Press 1984 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1157913. ISBN #0670757845 / 9780670757848. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bogdan, D.L. Secrets Of The Tudor Court Kensington Books 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151215. ISBN #0782419933 / 9780782419931. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bognanni, Peter The House Of Tomorrow Amy Einhorn Books 2010 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151908. ISBN #0399156097 / 9780399156090. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bohjalian, Chris Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands Doubleday 2014 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148178. ISBN #0385534833 / 9780385534833. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bohjalian, Chris Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands Doubleday 2014 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148178. ISBN #0385534833 / 9780385534833. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and moving novel narrated by a teenage runaway, from the bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls . Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of people are forced to flee their homes in the Kingdom; rivers and forests are destroyed; and Emily feels certain that as the daughter of the most hated man in America, she is in danger. So instead of following the social workers and her classmates after the meltdown, Emily takes off on her own for Burlington, where she survives by stealing, sleeping on the floor of a drug dealer's apartment, and inventing a new identity for herself -- an identity inspired by her favorite poet, Emily Dickinson. When Emily befriends a young homeless boy named Cameron, she protects him with a ferocity she didn't know she had. But she still can't outrun her past, can't escape her grief, can't hide forever and so she comes up with the only plan that she can. A story of loss, adventure, and the search for friendship in the wake of catastrophe, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is one of Chris Bohjalian s finest novels to date breathtaking, wise, and utterly transporting.
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Bohjalian, Chris Double Bind Vintage 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148378. ISBN #1400031664 / 9781400031665. (keywords: Bobbie Crocker Homeless Laurel Estabrook) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bohjalian, Chris Midwives Vintage Contemporaries 1997 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1141780. ISBN #0375706771 / 9780375706776. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bohjalian, Chris The Double Bind Vintage 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107036. ISBN #1400031664 / 9781400031665. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bohjalian, Chris The Double Bind Vintage 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107036. ISBN #1400031664 / 9781400031665. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography, spending all her free time at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he won t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies, Laurel discovers a deeply hidden secret a story that leads her far from her old life, and into a cat-and-mouse game with pursuers who claim they want to save her. In a tale that travels between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century, between Jay Gatsby s Long Island and rural New England, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian has written his most extraordinary no
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Bohjalian, Chris The Night Strangers Crown 2011 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094177. ISBN #0307394999 / 9780307394996. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bohjalian, Chris The Night Strangers Crown 2011 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094177. ISBN #0307394999 / 9780307394996. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain due to double engine failure. The body count? Thirty-nine. What follow is a riveting ghost story with all the hallmarks readers have come to expect from bestselling, award-winning novelist Chris Bohjalian: a palpable sense of place, meticulous research, an unerring sense of the demons that drive us, and characters we care about deeply. The difference this time? Some of those characters are dead.
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Borges, Jorge Luis Collected Fictions Penguin Books 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1158041. ISBN #0140286802 / 9780140286809. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Borges, Jorge Luis Collected Fictions Penguin Books 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1158041. ISBN #0140286802 / 9780140286809. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The complete fiction of Jorge Luis Borges, whom Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa calls the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes A New York Times Notable Book The International Bestseller For the first time in English, all of the best Latin American writer Jorge Luis Borges s dazzling fictions are collected in a single volume in brilliant new translations by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare s Memory , these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges s talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story, Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Playfully experimenting with ostensibly subliterary genres, Borges took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics; he took fantasy writing and made it, with its questioning and reinventing of everyday reality, central to the craft of fiction; he took the literary essay and put it to use reviewing wholly imaginary books. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of his birth, this edition at last brings together all of Borges s magical short stories. Collected Fictions is the definitive one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the Argentine master s work for those who have yet to disco
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Boston, L. M. Treasure Of Green Knowe Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1156168. ISBN #0152899820 / 9780152899820. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bouillier, Gregoire The Mystery Guest; An account Mariner Books 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or904182. ISBN #061895970X / 9780618959709. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bouillier, Gregoire The Mystery Guest; An account Mariner Books 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or904182. ISBN #061895970X / 9780618959709. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary One gloomy Sunday afternoon, Gr goire Bouillier answers the phone only to hear the voice of the woman who left him, without warning, five years before. She isn t calling to apologize or explain the way she abruptly vanished from his life, but to invite him to be the mystery guest at a birthday party for a woman he s never met. Here is the true story of how a bottle of Bordeaux, a nonconsensual work of conceptual art, and a seemingly innocuous comment at a dinner party enabled one man to unravel the mystery of his being dumped, to explore how literature shapes and gives meaning to our lives, to let go of his heartbreak and his dependence on turtlenecks, and to -- in the most unexpected of ways -- fall in love again.
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Boulle, Pierre Bridge Over The River Kwai Gramercy Books 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003930. ISBN #0517207419 / 9780517207413. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Boulle, Pierre Bridge Over The River Kwai Gramercy Books 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003930. ISBN #0517207419 / 9780517207413. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary 1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one prisoner, Colonel Nicholson, a proud perfectionist. Pitted against the warden, Colonel Saito, Nicholson will nevertheless, out of a distorted sense of duty, aid his enemy. While on the outside, as the Allies race to destroy the bridge, Nicholson must decide which will be the first casualty: his patriotism or his pride.
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Bowen, Elizabeth The Heat of the Day Alfred A. Knopf 1949 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1151541. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bowen, Elizabeth The Last September Anchor Books 2000 paperback. Bookstore price sticker on rear cover. Underlining / Highlighing throughout. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1142753. ISBN #0385720149 / 9780385720144. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bower, B. M. Good Indian hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114032. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Boyd, Martin The Cardboard Crown hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1084252. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Boyd, William Ice-Cream War Vintage International 1999 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153577. ISBN #0375705023 / 9780375705021. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Boyd, William Ice-Cream War Vintage International 1999 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153577. ISBN #0375705023 / 9780375705021. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Rich in character and incident, An Ice-Cream War fulfills the ambition of the historical novel at its best." -- The New York Times Book Review Booker Prize Finalist "Boyd has more than fulfilled the bright promise of his first novel. . . . He is capable not only of some very funny satire but also of seriousness and compassion." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 1914. In a hotel room in German East Africa, American farmer Walter Smith dreams of Theodore Roosevelt. As he sleeps, a railway passenger swats at flies, regretting her decision to return to the Dark Continent--and to her husband. On a faraway English riverbank, a jealous Felix Cobb watches his brother swim, and curses his sister-in-law-to-be. And in the background of the world's daily chatter: rumors of an Anglo-German conflict, the likes of which no one has ever seen. In An Ice-Cream War , William Boyd brilliantly evokes the private dramas of a generation upswept by the winds of war. After his German neighbor burns his crops--with an apology and a smile--Walter Smith takes up arms on behalf of Great Britain. And when Felix's brother marches off to defend British East Africa, he pursues, against his better judgment, a forbidden love affair. As the sons of the world match wits and weapons on a continent thousands of miles from home, desperation makes bedfellows of enemies and traitors of friends and family. By turns comic and quietly wise, An Ice-Cream War deftly renders lives capsized by violence, chance, and the irrepressible human capacity for love. "Funny, assured, and cleanly, expansively told, a seriocomic romp. Boyd gives us studies of people caught in the side pockets of calamity and dramatizes their plights with humor, detail and grit." -- Harper's "Boyd has crafted a quiet, seamless prose in which story and characters flow effortlessly out of a fertile imagination. . . . The reader emerges deeply moved." --Newsday
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Boyd, William New Confessions Vintage International 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151273. ISBN #0375705031 / 9780375705038. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Boyd, William New Confessions Vintage International 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151273. ISBN #0375705031 / 9780375705038. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this extraordinary novel, William Boyd presents the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and exhilarating life as one of the most unappreciated geniuses of the twentieth century is equal parts Laurence Stern, Charles Dickens, Robertson Davies, and Saul Bellow, and a hundred percent William Boyd. From his birth in 1899, Todd was doomed. Emerging from his angst-filled childhood, he rushes into the throes of the twentieth century on the Western Front during the Great War, and quickly changes his role on the battlefield from cannon fodder to cameraman. When he becomes a prisoner of war, he discovers Rousseau's Confessions , and dedicates his life to bringing the memoir to the silver screen. Plagued by bad luck and blind ambition, Todd becomes a celebrated London upstart, a Weimar luminary, and finally a disgruntled director of cowboy movies and the eleventh member of the Hollywood Ten. Ambitious and entertaining, Boyd has invented a most irresistible her
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