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Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye Plume / Penguin Books 1994 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1138968. ISBN #0452273056 / 9780452273054. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye Plume / Penguin Books 1994 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1138968. ISBN #0452273056 / 9780452273054. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Bluest Eye , published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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Mortimer, John Charade Viking Adult 1987 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or924255. ISBN #0670811866 / 9780670811861. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mortimer, John Charade Viking Adult 1987 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or924255. ISBN #0670811866 / 9780670811861. (filed under: Fiction ) *
Its June 1944 in an English seaside resort and a shy young man has just joined an army film unit making a documentary about army training. While shooting a cliff-scaling exercise a sergeant plunges to his death. It seems like an accident, but the shy young man is not convinced.
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Mortimer, Penelope Pumpkin Eater 1975 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1116486. ISBN #0913780111 / 9780913780114. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mortimer, Penelope Pumpkin Eater 1975 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1116486. ISBN #0913780111 / 9780913780114. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapist s couch, and her smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice immediately captures and holds our attention. She is the mother of a vast, swelling brood of children, also nameless, and the wife of a successful screenwriter, Jake Armitage. The Armitages live in the city, but they are building a great glass tower in the country in which to settle down and live happily ever after. But could that dream be nothing more than a sentimental delusion? At the edges of vision the spectral children come and go, while our heroine, alert to the countless gradations of depression and the innumerable forms of betrayal, tries to make sense of it all: doctors, husbands, movie stars, bodies, grocery lists, nursery rhymes, messes, aging parents, memories, dreams, and breakdowns. How to pull it all together? Perhaps you start by falling apart.
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Morton, Kate Distant Hours paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1109974. ISBN #1439152799 / 9781439152799. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Morton, Kate Distant Hours paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1109974. ISBN #1439152799 / 9781439152799. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The 1 internationally bestselling author of The Forgotten Garden mesmerizes readers with this haunting tale of long-buried secrets and the twists of fate that can alter lives forever. It starts with a letter, lost for half a century and unexpectedly delivered to Edie s mother on a Sunday afternoon. The letter leads Edie to Milderhurst Castle, where the eccentric Blythe spinsters live and where, she discovers, her mother was billeted during World War II. The elder Blythe sisters are twins and have spent most of their lives caring for their younger sister, Juniper, who hasn t been the same since her fianc jilted her in 1941. Inside the decaying castle, Edie searches for her mother s past but soon learns there are other secrets hidden in its walls. The truth of what happened in the distant hours has been waiting a long time for someone to find it. In this enthralling romantic thriller, Morton pays homage to the classics of gothic fiction, spinning a rich and intricate web of mystery, suspense, and lost love.
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Mott, Jason Returned Harlequin MIRA 2013 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1020264. ISBN #0778315339 / 9780778315339. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mott, Jason Returned Harlequin MIRA 2013 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1020264. ISBN #0778315339 / 9780778315339. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A People Magazine Pick and an instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller "Jacob was time out of sync, time more perfect than it had been. He was life the way it was supposed to be all those years ago. That's what all the Returned were." Harold and Lucille Hargrave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their only son, Jacob, died tragically at his eighth birthday party in 1966. In their old age they've settled comfortably into life without him, their wounds tempered through the grace of time . Until one day Jacob mysteriously appears on their doorstep flesh and blood, their sweet, precocious child, still eight years old. All over the world people's loved ones are returning from beyond. No one knows how or why this is happening, whether it's a miracle or a sign of the end. Not even Harold and Lucille can agree on whether the boy is real or a wondrous imitation, but one thing they know for sure: he's their son. As chaos erupts around the globe, the newly reunited Hargrave family finds itself at the center of a community on the brink of collapse, forced to navigate a mysterious new reality and a conflict that threatens to unravel the very meaning of what it is to be human. With spare, elegant prose and searing emotional depth, award-winning poet Jason Mott explores timeless questions of faith and morality, love and responsibility. A spellbinding and stunning debut, The Returned is an unforgettable story that marks the arrival of an important new voice in contemporary fiction. Praise for The Returned "Mott's haunting debut is a crackling page turner." People Magazine Pick, Four Stars "An impressive debut novel." USA Today "One of the most emotionally resonant works in many seasons." Essence Magazine
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Mount, Ferdinand Jem (And Sam) 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1088185. ISBN #0786707453 / 9780786707454. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mount, Ferdinand Jem (And Sam) 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1088185. ISBN #0786707453 / 9780786707454. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Although Jeremiah Mount receives only passing notice in the celebrated diary of Samuel Pepys, in Jem's own memoirs Sam figures significantly and large -- not as a fellow clerk in Oliver Cromwell's government but as an ill-natured, galling colleague and measly mouse of a man who sets the professionally envious Jem on a hapless path of revenge. Their personal destinies criss-crossing to wildly ironic ends, Jem and Sam not only pursue worldly successes and their erotic whims in a bustling, boisterous city of London. They also survive war, rebellion, pestilence, and the Great Fire. Less fortunately, in his final bid for literary fame, Jem falls into a fatal vat of boiling ink, but not before recounting the adventures in this rollicking novel's marvelous fabrication of a man and his times.
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Moussa, Sabri Seeds of Corruption Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 1980 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1011946. ISBN #0395285410 / 9780395285411. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Moussa, Sabri Seeds of Corruption Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 1980 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1011946. ISBN #0395285410 / 9780395285411. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Set in the harsh desert of eastern Egypt, Seeds of Corruption is the tale of a Ulysses-like hero in search of himself and his ultimate salvation. The novel becomes a singularly compelling play between the peace and desolation of the desert, the corruption of the dissolute Egyptian king and his court, the purity of the hero's daughter, and the simple dignity of the fishermen and desert Bedouins. Seeds of Corruption eloquently portrays the corruption of the Egyptian monarchy and the aristocracy before 1952 as aided by foreign influence. Nicola, a mine engineer of European background, must decide his true identity. Is he an exploiter, like his bourgeois business partner, or is he more like the people of the desert whom he admires so deeply for their ancestral dignity and sense of honor? The novel offers a vivid and colorful panorama of the Eastern desert by the Red Sea. Such a distant place is a refreshing departure and Moussa's style is rich in imagery and metaphors, making this book a masterpiece of fine Arabic writing.
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Mowbray, J. P. A Journey to Nature hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1050373. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Muhlbach, L. Berlin And San-Souci; Or Frederick The Great And His Friends hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or977723. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mukherjee, Bharati Holder Of The World 1994 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096372. ISBN #0449909662 / 9780449909669. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mukherjee, Bharati Holder Of The World 1994 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096372. ISBN #0449909662 / 9780449909669. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee prove she is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the future and the past into a tale that is singularly intelligent and provocative." --AMY TAN This is the remarkable story of Hannah Easton, a unique woman born in the American colonies in 1670, "a person undreamed of in Puritan society." Inquisitive, vital and awake to her own possibilities, Hannah travels to Mughal, India, with her husband, and English trader. There, she sets her own course, "translating" herself into the Salem Bibi, the white lover of a Hindu raja. It is also the story of Beigh Masters, born in New England in the mid-twentieth century, an "asset hunter" who stumbles on the scattered record of her distant relative's life while tracking a legendary diamond. As Beigh pieces together details of Hannah's journeys, she finds herself drawn into the most intimate and spellbinding fabric of that remote life, confirming her belief that with "sufficient passion and intelligence, we can decontrsuct the barriers of time and geography...."
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Mukherjee, Neel A State of Freedom: A Novel W. W. Norton & Company 2018 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129919. ISBN #0393292908 / 9780393292909. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mukherjee, Neel A State of Freedom: A Novel W. W. Norton & Company 2018 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129919. ISBN #0393292908 / 9780393292909. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into? In this stunning novel, prize-winning author Neel Mukherjee wrests open the central, defining events of our century: displacement and migration. Five characters, in very different circumstances from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, to a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city find out the meanings of dislocation and the desire for more. Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel of multiple narratives formally daring, fierce, but full of pity delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.
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Mullen, Thomas The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers: A Novel Random House Trade Paperbacks 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1125338. ISBN #081297929X / 9780812979299. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Mullen, Thomas The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers: A Novel Random House Trade Paperbacks 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1125338. ISBN #081297929X / 9780812979299. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In award-winning author Thomas Mullen s evocative and spirited novel, we follow the Depression-era adventures of Jason and Whit Fireson bank robbers known as the Firefly Brothers by an adoring public that worships their acts as heroic counterpunches thrown at a broken system. Late one night in August 1934, following a yearlong crime spree across the Midwest, the Firefly Brothers are forced into a police shootout and die in a hail of bullets. Or do they? Jason and Whit s girlfriends Darcy, a wealthy socialite, and Veronica, a hardened survivor struggle between grief and an unyielding belief that the Firesons are alive. Wild rumors spread that the bandits are still at large. Through it all, the Firefly Brothers remain as charismatic, unflappable, and as mythical as the American dream itself, racing to find the women they love and to make sense of a world in which all has come unmoored.
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Mulock, Miss John Halifax, Gentleman hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1050420. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Munaweera, Nayomi Island of a Thousand Mirrors St. Martin's Press 2014 paperback. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1072542. ISBN #125004393X / 9781250043931. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Munaweera, Nayomi Island of a Thousand Mirrors St. Martin's Press 2014 paperback. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1072542. ISBN #125004393X / 9781250043931. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, Yasodhara's and her siblings' lives are shaped by social hierarchies, their parents' ambitions, teenage love and, subtly, the differences between Tamil and Sinhala people; but the peace is shattered by the tragedies of war. Yasodhara's family escapes to Los Angeles. But Yasodhara's life has already become intertwined with a young Tamil girl's Saraswathie is living in the active war zone of Sri Lanka, and hopes to become a teacher. But her dreams for the future are abruptly stamped out when she is arrested by a group of Sinhala soldiers and pulled into the very heart of the conflict that she has tried so hard to avoid a conflict that, eventually, will connect her and Yasodhara in unexpected ways. Nayomi Munaweera's Island of a Thousand Mirrors is an emotionally resonant saga of cultural heritage, heartbreaking conflict and deep family bonds. Narrated in two unforgettably authentic voices and spanning the entirety of the decades-long civil war, it offers an unparalleled portrait of a beautiful land during its most difficult moment by a spellbinding new literary talent who promises tremendous things to come.
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Munroe, Jim Everyone in Silico Thunder's Mouth Press 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1135651. ISBN #1568582404 / 9781568582405. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Munroe, Jim Everyone in Silico Thunder's Mouth Press 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1135651. ISBN #1568582404 / 9781568582405. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary What happens when the cyberworld becomes more important than the real world . . . ? Modern citizens in 2036 are willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine, a life with no wasted hours. A life free of crime and disease. A life that ends when you want it to, not when some faceless entity decides it's your time. Those who don't buy in -- the poor, the old, the paranoid -- have to watch as their loved ones, their friends and their jobs leave the city. They have to watch as the latest prestige technology, Self, changes everything -- not just the world, but humanity itself. Everyone seems to be downloading his personality into the Self world, leaving the "meat" behind. On the bright side, the rents have dropped. And in several unexpected ways, resistance is growing . . . things come to a head when a grandmother, searching for the 12-year-old boy in her charge who has gone over to Self, reactivates her army-issued bodysuit -- transforming her into a vengeful, and nearly unstoppable, saver of souls.
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Murdoch, Iris Fairly Honourable Defeat hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114910. ISBN #0670305332 / 9780670305339. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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