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See, Lisa Dragon Bones Random House 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1167104. ISBN #0679463208 / 9780679463207. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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See, Lisa Dragon Bones Random House 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1167104. ISBN #0679463208 / 9780679463207. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband, American attorney David Stark, are dispatched to Site 518 to investigate. As Hulan scrutinizes this death or is it a murder? David, on behalf of the National Relics Bureau, tries to discover who has stolen from the site an artifact that may prove to the world China s claim that it is the oldest uninterrupted civilization on earth. This artifact is not only an object of great monetary value but one that is emblematic of the very soul of China. Everyone from the Chinese government, to a religious cult, to an unscrupulous American art collector wants this relic, and some, it seems, may be willing to kill to get it. At stake in this investigation is control of China s history and national pride, and even stability between China and the United States. The troubled Hulan must overcome her own fears of failure, while David tries desperately to break through the shell that has built up around his wife. As Hulan and David are enmeshed in international schemes for power and the turbulence of their own relationship, these hunters after the truth become the hunted in a fast-driving narrative set against the backdrop of the building of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest and most expensive project China has undertaken since the Great Wall and the subject of great international debate. It is here, in the heart of the Three Gorges, that David and Hulan will battle their enemies and their own natures to see who will win China s dragon bones. Dragon Bones combines ancient myth with contemporary anxieties concerning religious fanaticism and terrorism to tell a story of love, betrayal, history, ecology, greed
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See, Lisa Dreams of Joy: A Novel Random House Trade Paperbacks 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1206817. ISBN #0812980549 / 9780812980547. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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See, Lisa Dreams of Joy: A Novel Random House Trade Paperbacks 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1206817. ISBN #0812980549 / 9780812980547. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In her most powerful novel yet, acclaimed author Lisa See returns to the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl s strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy. Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism and defiance, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the Communist regime. Devastated by Joy s flight and terrified for her safety, Pearl is determined to save her daughter, no matter the personal cost. From the crowded city to remote villages, Pearl confronts old demons and almost insurmountable challenges as she follows Joy, hoping for reconciliation. Yet even as Joy s and Pearl s separate journeys converge, one of the most tragic episodes in China s history threatens their very lives.
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See, Lisa Flower Net Random House 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1187532. ISBN #0812978684 / 9780812978681. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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See, Lisa Flower Net Random House 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1187532. ISBN #0812978684 / 9780812978681. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did for 1920s San Francisco: She discerns the hidden city lurking beneath the public facade. The Washington Post Book World In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the waning days of Deng Xiaoping s reign, the U.S. ambassador s son is found dead his body entombed in a frozen lake. Around the same time, aboard a ship adrift off the coast of Southern California, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Stark makes a startling discovery: the corpse of a Red Prince, a scion of China s political elite. The Chinese and American governments suspect that the deaths are connected and, in an unprecedented move, they join forces to see justice done. In Beijing, David teams up with the unorthodox police detective Liu Hulan. In an investigation that brings them to every corner of China and sparks an intense attraction between the two, David and Hulan discover a web linking human trafficking to the drug trade to governmental treachery a web reaching from the Forbidden City to the heart of Los Angeles and, like the wide flower net used by Chinese fishermen, threatening to ensnare all within its reach. A graceful rendering of two different and complex cultures, within a highly intricate plot . . . The starkly beautiful landscapes of Beijing and its surrounding countryside are depicted with a lyrical precision. Los Angeles Times Book Review Murder and intrigue splash across the canvas of modern Chinese life. . . . A vivid portrait of a vast Communist nation in the painful throes of a sea change. People Fascinating . . . that rare thriller that enlightens as well as it entertains. San Diego Union-Tribune A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Myster
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See, Lisa Interior HarperCollinsPublishers 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1167105. ISBN #0060192615 / 9780060192617. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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See, Lisa Peony in Love Random House 2007 hardcover. Inscribed by Author. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1197402. ISBN #140006466X / 9781400064663. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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See, Lisa Peony in Love Bloomsbury 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1189198. ISBN #140006466X / 9781400064663. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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See, Lisa Peony in Love Random House Trade Paperbacks 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1190362. ISBN #0812975227 / 9780812975222. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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See, Lisa Peony in Love Random House Trade Paperbacks 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1190362. ISBN #0812975227 / 9780812975222. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret. For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green tea, and jasmine, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live spectacle few females have ever seen. Like the heroine in the drama, Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family, trapped like a good-luck cricket in a bamboo-and-lacquer cage. Though raised to be obedient, Peony has dreams of her own. Peony s mother is against her daughter s attending the production: Unmarried girls should not be seen in public. But Peony s father assures his wife that proprieties will be maintained, and that the women will watch the opera from behind a screen. Yet through its cracks, Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man with hair as black as a cave and is immediately overcome with emotion. So begins Peony s unforgettable journey of love and destiny, desire and sorrow as Lisa See s haunting new novel, based on actual historical events, takes readers back to seventeenth-century China, after the Manchus seize power and the Ming dynasty is crushed. Steeped in traditions and ritual, this story brings to life another time and place even the intricate realm of the afterworld, with its protocols, pathways, and stages of existence, a vividly imagined place where one s soul is divided into three, ancestors offer guidance, misdeeds are punished, and hungry ghosts wander the earth. Immersed in the richness and magic of the Chinese vision of the afterlife, transcending even death, Peony in Love explores, beautifully, the many manifestations of love. Ultimately, Lisa See s new novel addresses universal themes: the bonds of friendship, the power of words, and the age-old desire of women to be heard. Fro
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See, Lisa Shanghai Girls Random House 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1206816. ISBN #0812980530 / 9780812980530. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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See, Lisa Shanghai Girls Random House 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1206816. ISBN #0812980530 / 9780812980530. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In 1937 Shanghai the Paris of Asia twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from Los Angeles to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, from the Chinese countryside to the shores of America. Though inseparable best friends, the sisters also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. Along the way they make terrible sacrifices, face impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they are Shangha
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See, Lisa Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Random Hous 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1185979. ISBN #0812968069 / 9780812968064. (keywords: NOVEL) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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See, Lisa Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Random House Trade Paperbacks 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1195331. ISBN #0812968069 / 9780812968064. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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See, Lisa Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Random House Trade Paperbacks 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1195331. ISBN #0812968069 / 9780812968064. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, old same, in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she s painted a poem in nu shu, a unique language that Chinese women created in order to communicate in secret, away from the influence of men. As the years pass, Lily and Snow Flower send messages on fans, compose stories on handkerchiefs, reaching out of isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. Together, they endure the agony of foot-binding, and reflect upon their arranged marriages, shared loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive. But when a misunderstanding arises, their deep friendship suddenly threatens to tear
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Segal, Erich Oliver's Story Harper & Row, Publishers 1977 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1147129. ISBN #0060138521 / 9780060138523. (keywords: Love Story Mystery Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Seierstad, Asne With Their Backs To The World: Portraits From Serbia 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085296. ISBN #0465076025 / 9780465076024. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Seierstad, Asne With Their Backs To The World: Portraits From Serbia 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085296. ISBN #0465076025 / 9780465076024. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From beloved international reporter sne Seierstad comes a remarkable exploration of the lives of ordinary Serbs under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic-during the dramatic events leading up to his fall, and finally in the troubled years that have followed. Seierstad traveled extensively through Serbia between 1999 and 2004, following the lives of people from across the political spectrum. Her moving and perceptive account follows nationalists, Titoists, Yugonostalgics, rock stars, fugitives, and poets. Seierstad brings her acclaimed attention to detail to bear on the lives of those whom she encounters in With Their Backs to the World , as she creates a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation made up of so many different-and often conflicting-hopes, dreams, and points of view.
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Seitz, Nicole Spirit Of Sweetgrass 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1044653. ISBN #1591455065 / 9781591455066. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Seitz, Nicole Spirit Of Sweetgrass 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1044653. ISBN #1591455065 / 9781591455066. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Essie Mae Laveau Jenkins is a 78-year-old sweetgrass basket weaver who sits on the side of Hwy. 17 in the company of her dead husband, Daddy Jim. Inspired by her Auntie Leona, Essie Mae finally discovers her calling in life and weaves powerful "love baskets," praying fervently over them to affect the lives of those who visit her roadside stand. When she's faced with losing her home and her stand and being put in a nursing home, Daddy Jim talks her into coming on up to Heaven to meet sweet Jesus-something she's always wanted to do. Once there, she reunites with Gullahs and African ancestors; but soon, her heavenly peace is disrupted, for she still has work to do. Now Essie Mae, who once felt powerless and invisible, must find the strength within her to keep her South Carolina family from falling apart.
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Selby Jr., Hubert Requiem For A Dream Thunder's Mouth Press 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1178709. ISBN #1560252480 / 9781560252481. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Self, Will How the Dead Live Grove Pr 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1021358. ISBN #080211671X / 9780802116710. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Self, Will How the Dead Live Grove Pr 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1021358. ISBN #080211671X / 9780802116710. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Will Self is a novelist of world-class stature, an unparalleled literary craftsman with a ferocious insight. In How the Dead Live, he gives us his best and most important book yet, an incisive and troubling dissection of the spiritual emptiness and death in our culture. Lily Bloom is an aging American in final-stage cancer in the Royal Ear Hospital in Central London. Not that there's anything wrong with her ears -- it's just the only bed they could find for her. As her two daughters buzz around her and the nurses pump her full of morphine, Lily slides in and out of consciousness, outraged that there's so little time left and so much hate still to go around. In her delirium she rails against everything, from the sins of those in the immediate proximity to the world at large, viewed through the lens of her paranoid bigotry. In the corner of the ward sits an impassive, middle-aged Aboriginal Australian man, who from time to time reminds Lily that it will be his responsibility to ferry her across the Styx, and that in lieu of a coin, he'll happily accept her dentures. How the Dead Live is an unforgettable portrait of the human struggle with mortality. In it, Will Self has given us a book that will change the way we talk about death, a novel that, like Underworld or Mason Dixon, will be a literary sensation remembered for years to come.
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Seligman, Courtney Two Pigs And a Chicken 2004 paperback. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101464. ISBN #1594573557 / 9781594573552. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Seligman, Courtney Two Pigs And a Chicken 2004 paperback. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101464. ISBN #1594573557 / 9781594573552. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The farmer takes a waif... When Gael bought Aramie, he presumed that they would just live together as friends, and that would be that. But he soon discovered that the dispirited girl who plodded behind her uncle's wagon was actually a captivating young woman, and as she almost literally blossomed before his eyes, he found it more and more difficult to think of her as someone he couldn't be interested in. And he couldn't be interested in her. He hadn't rescued her from her uncle, only to ruin her life, himself. He'd bought her to save her, and save her he would, no matter what it entailed..
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Sellers-Garcia, Sylvia When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep Riverhead Books 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101975. ISBN #1594489548 / 9781594489549. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Sellers-Garcia, Sylvia When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep Riverhead Books 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101975. ISBN #1594489548 / 9781594489549. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The award-winning debut novel that ?brings to mind the atmosphere and tension of Gabriel Garc a M rquez.? Katharine Weber, author of The Little Women N tido Am n knows he was born in Guatemala, but he doesn?t know why his family left. Raised in the States by his immigrant parents, they never talked about it. When N tido loses his father to Alzheimer?s disease, his despondent mother grows increasingly silent and N tido realizes that his links to the past are disappearing. Seeking answers, N tido travels to Guatemala against his mother?s wishes. Upon his arrival in the small town of R o Roto, he is mistaken for the new priest, and decides to play the part. From his parishioners, he catches tantalizing and frightening glimpses of the buried history he?s aching to know. In a place shrouded in secrets, N tido is at once determined and frightened to unearth the unnamed horrors it has seen. With her elegant, hypnotic prose, this marks Sellers- Garc a?s arrival as a distinctive new voice in fiction.
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Selznick, Matthew Wayne Pilgrimage Volume 2 2013 paperback. Signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1108589. ISBN #0976942488 / 9780976942481. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Semple, Maria Where'd You Go, Bernadette Back Bay Books 2013 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1206877. ISBN #0316204269 / 9780316204262. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Semple, Maria Where'd You Go, Bernadette Back Bay Books 2013 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1206877. ISBN #0316204269 / 9780316204262. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
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Semple, Maria Where'd You Go, Bernadette Back Bay Books 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1174687. ISBN #0316204269 / 9780316204262. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Semple, Maria Where'd You Go, Bernadette Back Bay Books 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1174687. ISBN #0316204269 / 9780316204262. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
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Sendker, Jan-Philipp Art Of Hearing Heartbeats Other 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1177878. ISBN #1590516095 / 9781590516096. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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