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Prose, Francine Mister Monkey: A Novel Harper 2016 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129902. ISBN #0062397834 / 9780062397836. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Prose, Francine Mister Monkey: A Novel Harper 2016 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129902. ISBN #0062397834 / 9780062397836. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children s musical. Mister Monkey a screwball children s musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee is the kind of family favorite that survives far past its prime. Margot, who plays the chimp s lawyer, knows the production is dreadful and bemoans the failure of her acting career. She s settled into the drudgery of playing a humiliating part until the day she receives a mysterious letter from an anonymous admirer . . . and later, in the middle of a performance, has a shocking encounter with Adam, the twelve-year-old who plays the title role. Francine Prose s effervescent comedy is told from the viewpoints of wildly unreliable, seemingly disparate characters whose lives become deeply connected as the madcap narrative unfolds. There is Adam, whose looming adolescence informs his interpretation of his role; Edward, a young audience member who is candidly unimpressed with the play; Ray, the author of the novel on which the musical is based, who witnesses one of the most awkward first dates in literature; and even the eponymous Mister Monkey, the Monkey God himself. With her trademark wit and verve, Prose delves into humanity s most profound mysteries: art, ambition, childhood, aging, and love. Startling and captivating, Mister Monkey is a breathtaking novel from a writer at the height of her craft.
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Prose, Francine Primitive People 2001 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1103063. ISBN #0060934697 / 9780060934699. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Prose, Francine Primitive People 2001 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1103063. ISBN #0060934697 / 9780060934699. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary What are these barbaric rituals that pass for social and family life? Who are these fearsome creatures who linger in decaying mansions and at glittery malls, trendy weddings and dinner parties? These are the questions that trouble Simone, a beautiful, smart young Haitian woman. She has fled the chaotic violence of Port-au-Prince only to find herself in a world no less brutal or bizarre -- a seemingly civilized landscape where dead sheep swing from trees, lightbulbs are ceremonially buried, fur-clad mothers carve terrifying goddesses out of pumice...and where learning to lie is the principal rite of passage into adulthood. The primitive people of this darkly satiric novel are not, as one might expect, the backward denizens of some savage isle, but the wealthy inhabitants of the Hudson Valley in upstate New York.
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Proulx, Annie Brokeback Mountain Scribner 2005 Soft Cover. Clean pages and cover.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or549808. ISBN #0743271327 / 9780743271325. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Proulx, Annie Brokeback Mountain Scribner 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033980. ISBN #0743271327 / 9780743271325. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Proulx, Annie Brokeback Mountain Scribner 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033980. ISBN #0743271327 / 9780743271325. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer. Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it. The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of "Brokeback Mountain," and the story was included in Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards. In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent intolerance.
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Proulx, Annie Brokeback Mountain Scribner 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or986315. ISBN #0743271327 / 9780743271325. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Proulx, Annie Brokeback Mountain Scribner 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or986315. ISBN #0743271327 / 9780743271325. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer. Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it. The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of "Brokeback Mountain," and the story was included in Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards. In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent intolerance.
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Proulx, Annie That Old Ace in the Hole Scribner 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1140262. ISBN #0007154208 / 9780007154203. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Proulx, Annie That Old Ace in the Hole Scribner 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1140262. ISBN #0007154208 / 9780007154203. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes That Old Ace in the Hole, an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love. Bob Dollar is a young man from Denver trying to make good in a bad world. Out of college and aimless, Dollar takes a job with Global Pork Rind, scouting out big spreads of land that can be converted to hog farms. Soon he's holed up in a two-bit Texas town called Woolybucket, where he settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for fifty dollars a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Caf , and learns the hard way how vigorously the old Texas ranch owners will hold on to their land, even when their children want no part of it. Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original, That Old Ace in the Hole traces the waves of change that have shaped the American West over the past century -- and in Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irrepressible characters in contemporary fiction.
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Proulx, E. Annie Postcards paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1115562. ISBN #068480087X / 9780684800875. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Proulx, E. Annie Postcards Scribner 1994 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1086767. ISBN #068480087X / 9780684800875. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Proulx, E. Annie Postcards Scribner 1994 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1086767. ISBN #068480087X / 9780684800875. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the bestselling author of The Shipping News comes Postcards, the tale of the Blood family, New England farmers who must confront the twentieth century -- and their own extinction. As the family slowly disintegrates, its members struggle valiantly against the powerful forces of loneliness and necessity, seeking a sense of home and place forever lost. Loyal Blood, eldest son, is forced to abandon the farm when he takes his lover's life, thus beginning a quintessentially American odyssey of solitude and adventure. Yearning for love, yet forced by circumstance to be always alone, Loyal comes to symbolize the alienation and frustration behind the American dream.
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Proust, Marcel Pleasures And Days 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1024158. ISBN #1847493173 / 9781847493170. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Proust, Marcel Pleasures And Days 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1024158. ISBN #1847493173 / 9781847493170. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Short pieces present an early glimpse into Proust's genius Proust's only other work of fiction published in his lifetime apart from the monumental novel cycle In Search of Lost Time , this collection takes the reader on a journey through the high-society circles of fin-de-si cle Paris, presenting the lives, loves, and attitudes of a host of unforgettable characters. Rich in language and detail, and by turns satirical and moving, Proust's stories, presented here in Andrew Brown's nuanced translation, are layered with imagery and feeling and foreshadow the themes and psychological atmosphere of his later masterpiece.
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Prouty, Olive Higgins Stella Dallas Triangle Books 1943 hardcover. Heavy chipping to the dustjacket.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1142639. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Puchner, Eric Music Through the Floor: Stories (SIGNED) Scribner 2005 hardcover. Signed by Author. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033999. ISBN #0743270460 / 9780743270465. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Puchner, Eric Music Through the Floor: Stories (SIGNED) Scribner 2005 hardcover. Signed by Author. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033999. ISBN #0743270460 / 9780743270465. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Includes a new story, "Body Language" Now in paperback, Eric Puchner's celebrated debut collection, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, established him as one of our most brilliant and promising new literary voices. Writing from an impressive range of perspectives -- men and women, children and adults, immigrants and tourists -- Puchner deftly exposes the dark, tender undersides of his characters with arresting beauty and precision. Here are people fumbling for identity in a dehumanizing world, captured in moments that are hilarious, shocking, and transcendent, sometimes all at once. Unfailingly true, surprisingly moving, and impossible to forget, these stories make up an extraordinary and strikingly original collection.
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Pulvertaft, Lalage Thing Desired hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1007045. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Purcell, Sarahbeth Love Is The Drug Washington Square Press 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1013050. ISBN #0743476166 / 9780743476164. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Purcell, Sarahbeth Love Is The Drug Washington Square Press 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1013050. ISBN #0743476166 / 9780743476164. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Wonderfully empathic, smartly comic, and wickedly insightful, this captivating debut novel maps the progress of an unforgettable young woman endeavoring to mend a broken heart and find salvation. "Hello, my name is Tyler Tracer and I am falling apart. I am twenty-four years old, and I have no ability whatsoever to choose an occupation or a hair color." Meet Tyler, the singularly irresistible and straight-talking heroine of Sarahbeth Purcell's touching first novel. An incurable romantic, Tyler's chief obsessions include music, list-making -- and David, the man who broke her heart. Despite an exhaustively detailed list of reasons for why she should just forget about David once and for all -- including but by no means limited to chronic illness, terminal self-absorption, and geographical inaccessibility -- Tyler remains hopelessly hooked on him. Hence the wild ride she embarks upon in the wake of her father's death, a ride that takes her from her hometown in Tennessee to sunny Los Angeles, all in hopes of saving David from his ominous take on life. This hilarious and dark cross-country expedition finds our young heroine negotiating the universally perilous terrain of sex, love, and relationships with uncommon verve, wit, and more than a little recklessness. Along the way, Tyler discovers, among other things, the uniquely redemptive powers of roadkill, the fact that enduring love tends to blossom in the most unexpected and unlikeliest places, and, above all, that nothing can stop her from making her own rules and mapping out her own life. Not even herself. A joyous triumph of a debut to which readers will respond with a sense of instant recognition, Sarahbeth Purcell's Love Is the Drug spins a story of bold living and loving that crackles with energy and innovation.
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Purcell, Sarahbeth This Is Not a Love Song Washington Square Press 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1013021. ISBN #0743476174 / 9780743476171. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Purcell, Sarahbeth This Is Not a Love Song Washington Square Press 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1013021. ISBN #0743476174 / 9780743476171. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the author of Love Is the Drug , the wickedly funny, pull-no-punches story of Julia, a hip, young writer whose life is thrown completely out of whack when her free-spirited soul mate decides to free himself from her, leaving her reeling. Brilliant young writer Sarahbeth Purcell combines witty melodramatics with her own brand of hard-edged, tough-girl cadences in This Is Not a Love Song , a fantastic new novel filled with characters who are idealistic enough for readers to relate to and just cynical enough to respect. When Julia first met Chase one February day two years ago, she knew something was different. An intelligent, free-spirited artist, Chase was not like the other guys Julia had dated. He was her soul mate. At least for two blissful years. And then, with nothing more than a single note left on a bedside table, he was gone -- following his lifelong search for peace and inspiration on another spontaneous road trip across the country. But this time, he wasn't coming back. Devastated and depressed, Julia turns to her friend Delia, a gorgeous and tortured alcoholic who approaches life with the spirit of a warrior. Through terse phone calls and late-night crying jags, Delia helps Julia navigate her heartbreaking loss. Hilarious and heart wrenching, This Is Not a Love Song is a story about hope, healing, and that endless search for the truest form of affection -- loving yourself.
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Purl, Mara What the Heart Knows: A Milford-Haven Novel, Book One Bellekeep Books 2011 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1001725. ISBN #1936878011 / 9781936878017. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Purl, Mara What the Heart Knows: A Milford-Haven Novel, Book One Bellekeep Books 2011 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1001725. ISBN #1936878011 / 9781936878017. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Book One of the Milford-Haven Novels, based on the author's own hit BBC Radio Drama, introduces the beautiful coastal town and its several residents, including protagonist Miranda Jones. An ambitious young woman whose paintings are beginning to succeed in the competitive art world, she is also on an internal personal journey to establish her own sense of spirituality and purpose. Author Mara Purl is a former soap opera celebrity from Days of Our Lives, as well as a former journalist from the London Financial Times and the Associated Press. Through her novel series she has established a loyal following in the Women's Fiction genre. Short stories appear as prequels to each novel, extending the five-book series.
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Putney, Mary Jo Marriage Spell 2006 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1139625. ISBN #0345449185 / 9780345449184. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Putney, Mary Jo Marriage Spell 2006 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1139625. ISBN #0345449185 / 9780345449184. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putney is acclaimed by critics and readers alike for unforgettable storytelling and arresting characters. Now she introduces a Regency England you ve never seen before, where dazzling magic is practiced in all but the highest reaches of Society, and where desire is the most mysterious and seductive force of all. One of the Duke of Wellington s most respected officers, Jack Langdon, Lord Frayne, takes his family s honor very seriously. He also hides a shameful secret: a talent for sorcery he has been raised to suppress and openly reject. But after an injury lands Jack at death s door, his only chance at survival lies with Abigail Barton, a peer s daughter and a skilled wizard. Her price: Jack s hand in marriage. It isn t long before Jack feels an irresistible attraction to his forthright new wife, whose allure is as intense as the reawakening magical abilities he can no longer deny. Abigail had to make a great sacrifice to perform a spell powerful enough to save Lord Frayne, and although she cannot help but be drawn to her reluctant husband s surprising sensitivity and kindness, she knows all too well his distaste for magic. Once she has Jack s name and the child she has always longed for, she is determined to live apart from him so that he can preserve his reputation and so that she herself can stay true to her gifts. But neither Abby nor Jack reckons on the deep, long-simmering passions her spell ignites. They challenge each other s extraordinary powers and deepest desires for the sake of a love that may cost them all they cherish most. With breathtaking skill and vivid historical detail, Mary Jo Putney weaves a tale of enchantment, mystery, and romance that will forever hold you spellbound.
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Puzo, Mario The Godfather G.P. Putnam's Sons 1969 hardcover. Reprint.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1143610. ISBN #0399103422 / 9780399103421. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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