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Rabelais, Francois Gargantua and Pantagruel W.W. Norton & Company 1990 hardcover. . Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1156950. ISBN #0393028437 / 9780393028430. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Rachman, Tom Imperfectionists 2010 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1069433. ISBN #0385343663 / 9780385343664. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Rachman, Tom Imperfectionists 2010 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1069433. ISBN #0385343663 / 9780385343664. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman s wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it and themselves afloat. Fifty years and many changes have ensued since the paper was founded by an enigmatic millionaire, and now, amid the stained carpeting and dingy office furniture, the staff s personal dramas seem far more important than the daily headlines. Kathleen, the imperious editor in chief, is smarting from a betrayal in her open marriage; Arthur, the lazy obituary writer, is transformed by a personal tragedy; Abby, the embattled financial officer, discovers that her job cuts and her love life are intertwined in a most unexpected way. Out in the field, a veteran Paris freelancer goes to desperate lengths for his next byline, while the new Cairo stringer is mercilessly manipulated by an outrageous war correspondent with an outsize ego. And in the shadows is the isolated young publisher who pays more attention to his prized basset hound, Schopenhauer, than to the fate of his family s quirky newspaper. As the era of print news gives way to the Internet age and this imperfect crew stumbles toward an uncertain future, the paper s rich history is revealed, including the surprising truth about its founder s intentions. Spirited, moving, and highly original, The Imperfectionists will establish Tom Rachman as one of our most perceptive, assured li
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Raczymow, Henri Swan's Way 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085362. ISBN #0810119250 / 9780810119253. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Raczymow, Henri Swan's Way 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085362. ISBN #0810119250 / 9780810119253. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Rarely has anyone taken Swan's Way down a stranger path, and never with such intriguing results. What begins as a meditation on the fictional identity of the elegant "swan" of Proust's In Search of Lost Time becomes, through a series of turns and twists, an ingenious investigation of the character's real-life counterpart, Charles Haas. Part novel, part essay, part literary sleuthing, Swan's Way is a critical tour de force. Through an inspired reading of Proust's text, Henri Raczymow gradually unravels the multiple contradictions of Charles Swann's personality, brought into focus by the fault lines in Proust's narrative method. The author traces Swann's evolution and the multiple ways in which his Jewish identity keeps peeping through the veneer of respectability of this sophisticated dandy. Through a parallel inquiry into the history of the Jockey Club--to which Haas, a Jew, was, like Swann, exceptionally admitted--and the transformation of the German-Jewish Haas into the fashionable British Swann, Swan's Way evolves into an examination of the question of personal identity and posthumous survival. Haas's Jewish identity is the invisible thread that guides Raczymow through the maze of Proust's work, which serves as a backdrop against which fin de si cle French society enacts the ugly drama of anti-Semitism. Blurring the boundaries between life and fiction, Swan's Way leads the reader ever deeper into the unresolved question of literary and personal character.
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Radcliffe, Robert Across the Blood-Red Skies Abacus Software 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1047680. ISBN #0349122261 / 9780349122267. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Radcliffe, Robert Across the Blood-Red Skies Abacus Software 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1047680. ISBN #0349122261 / 9780349122267. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Spring 1917. The average survival time of a First World War reconnaissance pilot is eighteen hours. After weeks in the thick of it, George Duckwell, reluctant novice-hero of the Royal Flying Corps, is living on borrowed time, watching in horror as a succession of comrades are shot down, burned, maimed and killed, while somehow he survives. Struggling to make sense of the conflict, George forms an awkward friendship with William 'Mac' MacBride, an enigmatic Canadian ace, waging his own private war against the legendary Red Baron, Manfred von Richtofen. But when Mac falls for George's sweetheart - front-line nurse Emily - the fragile bond that keeps the two men alive comes under threat on the eve of the most lethal conflict the modern world has known.
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Radic, Theo Whetting Stone paperback. Signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1065749. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Radish, Kris Annie Freeman's Fabulous Taveling Funeral Bantam Books 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1144883. ISBN #0553382640 / 9780553382648. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Radish, Kris Shortest Distance Between Two Women paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090674. ISBN #055380541X / 9780553805413. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Radish, Kris Shortest Distance Between Two Women paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090674. ISBN #055380541X / 9780553805413. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Bestselling author Kris Radish takes the emotional measure of mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends in her wise and wonderful new novel of a woman unsure if she s on the verge of a breakdown or a breakthrough. After all these years is there any way you would see me again? When Emma Lauryn Gilford heard the voice on her answering machine, she thought, How dare he? She s put a lot of distance between herself and Samuel, filling her life with work and family, lavishing her attention on her lovely nieces and a garden that s the pride of Higgins, South Carolina. So why does his voice still have the power to make her heart skip? Why can t she stop thinking about this man she d forgotten so long ago? Emma has always been the dependable daughter, the mediator of the controlled chaos always surrounding her high-strung sisters and her widowed mother, Higgins s own senior citizen seductress. But with the annual Gilford family reunion just around the corner, at least two of her sisters approaching meltdown, and her favorite teenage niece taking sanctuary in her home, Emma s concrete wall of self-denial is showing cracks. And on the other side is a life she can t put off liv
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Radish, Kris The Elegant Gathering of White Snows Bantam Dell Books 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1102695. ISBN #0553382411 / 9780553382419. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Radish, Kris The Elegant Gathering of White Snows Bantam Dell Books 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1102695. ISBN #0553382411 / 9780553382419. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Eight Women on a Journey That Will Change Their Lives as Lovers, Wives, Mothers, Daughters, Friends Just after midnight in a small town in Wisconsin, eight women begin walking together down a rural highway. Career women, housewives, mothers, divorc es, and one ex prom queen, they are close friends who have been meeting every Thursday night for years, sharing food, wine, and their deepest secrets. But on this particular Thursday, Susan, Alice, Chris, Sandy, Gail, Mary, Joanne, and Janice decide to disappear from their own lives. Their spontaneous pilgrimage attracts national attention and inspires other women from all across the country. As the miles fall away and the women forge ahead on their backroads odyssey leaving small miracles in their wake each of their histories unfolds, tales of shattered dreams and unexpected renewal, of thwarted love affairs and precious second chances.In luminous, heartwarming prose, Kris Radish deftly interweaves the women s intimate confessions into the story of their brave, history-making walk. A breathtaking achievement, The Elegant Gathering of White Snows tells an incomparable tale of friendship and love, loss and li
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Rahman, Zia Haider In the Light of What We Know Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097209. ISBN #0374175624 / 9780374175627. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Rahman, Zia Haider In the Light of What We Know Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097209. ISBN #0374175624 / 9780374175627. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London townhouse. In the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack, the banker recognizes a long-lost friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend has resurfaced to make a confession of unsettling power. In the Light of What We Know takes us on a journey of exhilarating scope--from Kabul to London, New York, Islamabad, Oxford, and Princeton--and explores the great questions of love, belonging, science, and war. It is an age-old story: the friendship of two men and the betrayal of one by the other. The visitor, a man desperate to climb clear of his wrong beginnings, seeks atonement; and the narrator sets out to tell his friend's story but finds himself at the limits of what he can know about the world--and, ultimately, himself. Set against the breaking of nations and beneath the clouds of economic crisis, this surprisingly tender novel chronicles the lives of people carrying unshakable legacies of class and culture as they struggle to tame their futures. In an extraordinary feat of imagination, Zia Haider Rahman has telescoped the great upheavals of our young century into a novel of rare intimacy and power.
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Rajan, Balachandra The Dark Dancer Simon and Schuster 1958 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1151615. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Raleigh, Michael In the Castle of the Flynns Sourcebooks Landmark 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1115929. ISBN #1570717974 / 9781570717970. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Raleigh, Michael In the Castle of the Flynns Sourcebooks Landmark 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1115929. ISBN #1570717974 / 9781570717970. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The year is 1954 and Daniel Dorsey learns at the age of eight the intimate meaning of death when his parents are killed in a car crash. Taken in by his colorful, at times mad, and always tender and caring extended family, Daniel learns that even the deepest sorrows and hurt can be healed. Michael Raleigh s In the Castle of the Flynns is about a young boy growing up Irish in a vibrant 1950s Chicago neighborhood. Now grown and looking back on those years, Daniel recalls his bouts with grief and fear of abandonment as he learns to adjust to his new surroundings amidst his oddball family. It is a time of wakes and weddings, conflicts and romance. Above all, it is a time when Daniel comes to understand both his own loss and the dark places in the lives of his loved ones. In the Castle of the Flynns is a poignant, often hilarious story of hope, passions and unforgettable memories. It is a novel that will make grown men weep, women cry and cause both to break out in great guffaws of laughter.
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Ramirez, Sergio To Bury Our Fathers Readers International 1984 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150160. ISBN #0930523032 / 9780930523039. (keywords: NICARAGUA FICTION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Rand, Ayn Atlas Shrugged A Plume Book 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1143831. ISBN #0452011876 / 9780452011878. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Rand, Ayn Fountainhead Macmillan Publishing Company 1986 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1150014. ISBN #0026009102 / 9780026009102. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Rand, Ayn Fountainhead Plume 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1156467. ISBN #0452286379 / 9780452286375. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Rand, Ayn Fountainhead Plume 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1156467. ISBN #0452286379 / 9780452286375. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand 's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special Afterword by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff which includes excerpts from Ayn Rand's own notes on the making of The Fountainhead . As fresh today as it was then, here is a novel about a hero and about those who try to destroy him. di
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Randall, Alice Wind Done Gone 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084270. ISBN #061810450X / 9780618104505. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Randall, Alice Wind Done Gone 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084270. ISBN #061810450X / 9780618104505. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In a brilliant rejoinder and an inspired act of literary invention, Alice Randall explodes the world created in Margaret Mitchell s famous 1936 novel, the work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South. Imagine simply that the black characters peopling that world were completely different, not egregious, one-dimensional stereotypes but fully alive, complex human beings. And then imagine, quite plausibly, that at the center of this world moves an illegitimate mulatto woman, and that this woman, Cynara, Cinnamon, or Cindy -- beautiful and brown -- gets to tell her story. Cindy is born into a world in which she is unacknowledged by her plantation-owning father and passed over by her mother in favor of her white charges. Sold off like so much used furniture, she eventually makes her way back to Atlanta to take up with a prominent white businessman, only to leave him for an aspiring politician of her own color. Moving from the Deep South to the exhilarating freedom of Reconstruction Washington, with its thriving black citizenry of statesmen, professionals, and strivers of every persuasion, Cindy experiences firsthand the promise of the new era at its dizzying peak, just before it begins to slip away. Alluding to events in Mitchell s novel but ingeniously and ironically transforming them, THE WIND DONE GONE is an exquisitely written, emotionally complex story of a strong, resourceful black woman breaking away from the damaging world of the Old South to emerge into her own, a person capable of not only receiving but giving love, as daughter, lover, and mother. A passionate love story, a wrenching portrait of a tangled mother-daughter relationship, and a book that gives a voice to those history has silenced, THE WIND DONE GONE is an elegant literary achievement of significant political force and a novel whose time has finally come.
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