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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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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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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 We The Living Random House 1959 hardcover. First Edition. Water stains and bowing to the boards.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1142187. (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 ) *
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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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Rash, Ron Saints at the River Henry Holt and Company 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1144878. ISBN #0312424914 / 9780312424916. (keywords: Fiction, Women Photographers, Searhc and Rescue Operations, Drowning Victims, Environmentalists, South Carolina) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Rash, Ron Serena Ecco 2008 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1144407. ISBN #0061470848 / 9780061470844. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Rawlings, Marjoire Kinnan Cross Creek hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Wear from use. Moisture damage. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1013465. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Ray, Jeanne Julie And Romeo 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090736. ISBN #0609606727 / 9780609606728. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Ray, Jeanne Julie And Romeo 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090736. ISBN #0609606727 / 9780609606728. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A deliciously funny and wickedly sexy novel of love found finally and love threatened inevitably by the families who claim to love us best. Romeo Cacciamani and Julie Roseman are rival florists in Boston, whose families have hated each other for as long as anyone can remember what they can't remember is why . When these two vital, lonely people see each other across a crowded lobby at a small business owners' seminar, an intense attraction blooms that neither tries to squelch. They're not sure what fate has in store for them, but they're not about to let something as silly as a generations-long feud stand in the way of finding out. That is, not until Romeo's octogenarian mother, Julie's meddling ex-husband, and a cast of grown Cacciamani and Roseman children begin to intervene with a passionate hatred that matches their newly found love, stroke for stroke. Think Montagues and Capulets, think wise and witty and thoroughly modern. Julie and Romeo is a love story for the ages. All ages.
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Raybourn, Deanna Silent in The Grave 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1136457. ISBN #0778328171 / 9780778328179. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Raybourn, Deanna Silent in The Grave 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1136457. ISBN #0778328171 / 9780778328179. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave." These ominous words are the last threat that Sir Edward Grey receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry agent he has retained for his protection, he collapses and dies at his London home, in the presence of his wife, Julia, and a roomful of dinner guests. Prepared to accept that Edward's death was due to a long-standing physical infirmity, Julia is outraged when Brisbane visits and suggests that her husband was murdered. It is a reaction she comes to regret when she discovers damning evidence for herself, and realizes the truth. Determined to bring the murderer to justice, Julia engages the enigmatic Brisbane to help her investigate Edward's demise. Dismissing his warnings that the investigation will be difficult, if not impossible, Julia presses forward, following a trail of clues that lead her to even more unpleasant truths, and ever closer to a killer who waits expectantly for her arrival.
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Raybourn, Deanna Silent On The Moor Mira 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1144168. ISBN #0778326144 / 9780778326144. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Raybourn, Deanna Silent On The Moor Mira 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1144168. ISBN #0778326144 / 9780778326144. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Despite his admonitions to stay away, Lady Julia arrives in Yorkshire to find Brisbane as remote and maddeningly attractive as ever. Cloistered together, they share the moldering house with the proud but impoverished remnants of an ancient family the sort that keeps their bloodline pure and their secrets close. Lady Allenby and her daughters, dependent upon Brisbane and devastated by their fall in society, seem adrift on the moor winds, powerless to change their fortunes. But poison does not discriminate between classes . A mystery unfolds from the rotten heart of Grimsgrave, one Lady Julia may have to solve alone, as Brisbane appears inextricably tangled in its heinous twists and turns. But blood will out, and before spring touches the craggy northern landscape, Lady Julia will have uncovered a Gypsy witch, a dark rider and a long-buried legacy of malevolence and evil.
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Raybourn, Deanna Spear Of Summer Grass 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114666. ISBN #0778314391 / 9780778314394. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Raybourn, Deanna Spear Of Summer Grass 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114666. ISBN #0778314391 / 9780778314394. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Paris, 1923 The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even among Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savanna manor house until gossip subsides. Fairlight is the crumbling, sun-bleached skeleton of a faded African dream, a world where dissolute expats are bolstered by gin and jazz records, cigarettes and safaris. As mistress of this wasted estate, Delilah falls into the decadent pleasures of society. Against the frivolity of her peers, Ryder White stands in sharp contrast. As foreign to Delilah as Africa, Ryder becomes her guide to the complex beauty of this unknown world. Giraffes, buffalo, lions and elephants roam the shores of Lake Wanyama amid swirls of red dust. Here, life is lush and teeming yet fleeting and often cheap. Amidst the wonders and dangers of Africa, Delilah awakes to a land out of all proportion: extremes of heat, darkness, beauty and joy that cut to her very heart. Only when this sacred place is profaned by bloodshed does Delilah discover what is truly worth fighting for and what she can no longer live without.
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Raymond, Jon Freebird: A Novel Graywolf Press 2017 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129903. ISBN #155597760X / 9781555977603. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Raymond, Jon Freebird: A Novel Graywolf Press 2017 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129903. ISBN #155597760X / 9781555977603. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A page-turning new novel from the author of Livability, winner of the Oregon Book Award The Singers, an all-American family in the California style, are about to lose everything. Anne is a bureaucrat in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability whose ideals are compromised by a proposal from a venture capitalist seeking to privatize the city s wastewater. Her brother, Ben, a former Navy SEAL, returns from Afghanistan disillusioned and struggling with PTSD, and starts down a path toward a radical act of violence. And Anne s teenage son, Aaron, can t decide if he should go to college or pitch it all and hit the road. They all live inside the long shadow of the Singer patriarch Grandpa Sam, whose untold experience of the Holocaust shapes his family s moral character to the core. Jon Raymond, screenwriter of the acclaimed films Meek s Cutoff and Night Moves , combines these narrative threads into a hard-driving story of one family s moral crisis. In Freebird , Raymond delivers a brilliant, searching novel about death and politics in America today, revealing how the fates of our families are irrevocably tied to the currents of history.
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Raymond, Midge My Last Continent: A Novel Scribner 2016 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1140113. ISBN #1501124706 / 9781501124709. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Raymond, Midge My Last Continent: A Novel Scribner 2016 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1140113. ISBN #1501124706 / 9781501124709. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An unforgettable debut with an irresistible love story, My Last Continent is a big-hearted, propulsive novel set against the dramatic Antarctic landscape original and entirely authentic love story Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project . It is only at the end of the world among the glacial mountains, cleaving icebergs, and frigid waters of Antarctica where Deb Gardner and Keller Sullivan feel at home. For the few blissful weeks they spend each year studying the habits of emperor and Ad lie penguins, Deb and Keller can escape the frustrations and sorrows of their separate lives and find solace in their work and in each other. But Antarctica, like their fleeting romance, is tenuous, imperiled by the world to the north. A new travel and research season has just begun, and Deb and Keller are ready to play tour guide to the passengers on the small expedition ship that ferries them to their research destination. But this year, Keller fails to appear on board. Then, shortly into the journey, Deb s ship receives an emergency signal from the Australis , a cruise liner that has hit desperate trouble in the ice-choked waters of the Southern Ocean. Soon Deb s role will change from researcher to rescuer; among the crew of that sinking ship, Deb learns, is Keller. As Deb and Keller s troubled histories collide with this catastrophic present, Midge Raymond s phenomenal novel takes us on a voyage deep into the wonders of the Antarctic and the mysteries of the human heart. My Last Continent is packed with emotional intelligence and high stakes a harrowing, searching novel of love and loss in one of the most remote places on earth, a land of harsh beauty where even the smallest missteps have tragic consequences Half adventure, half elegy, and wholly recommended Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves .
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Rea, Rachelle Sound Of Diamonds 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128888. ISBN #1939023599 / 9781939023599. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Rea, Rachelle Sound Of Diamonds 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128888. ISBN #1939023599 / 9781939023599. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Her only chance of getting home is trusting the man she hates. With the protestant Elizabeth on the throne of England and her family in shambles, Catholic maiden Gwyneth seeks refuge in the Low Countries of Holland, hoping to soothe her aching soul. But when the Iconoclastic Fury descends and bloodshed overtakes her haven, she has no choice but to trust the rogue who arrives, promising to see her safely home to her uncle's castle. She doesn't dare to trust him...and yet doesn't dare to refuse her one chance to preserve her own life and those of the nuns she rescues from the burning convent. Dirk Godfrey is determined to restore his honor at whatever cost. Running from a tortured past, Dirk knows he has only one chance at redemption, and it lies with the lovely Gwyneth, who hates him for the crimes she thinks he committed. He must see her to safety, prove to the world that he is innocent, prove that her poor eyesight is not the only thing that has blinded her but what is he to do when those goals clash? The home Gwyneth knew is not what she once thought. When a dark secret and a twisted plot for power collide in a castle masquerading as a haven, the saint and the sinner must either dare to hold to hope...or be overcome.
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Read, Cornelia A Field of Darkness Warner Books 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Wear from use. Book #or1144229. ISBN #0446699497 / 9780446699495. (keywords: FICTION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Read, Miss Village Centenary Houghton Mifflin 1981 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or902563. ISBN #0395312620 / 9780395312629. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Read, Miss Village Centenary Houghton Mifflin 1981 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or902563. ISBN #0395312620 / 9780395312629. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary VILLAGE CENTENARY welcomes us back to Miss Read's cozy downland village just in time for the one hundredth anniversary of Fairacre School. Miss Clare, who was a pupil and later a teacher there, points out that such a centenary should be celebrated, and all of Fairacre is quick to offer suggestions -- from a tea party to a full-scale pageant. Deciding how best to stage the grand occasion, however, is only of Miss Read's problems. The ancient skylight in the school is leaking, and Mr. Willetts fears that replacing it will be a difficult job. The new teacher, Miss Briggs, fresh from college and full of idealistic theories, proves a thorn in Miss Read's side. The vicar has decided to keep bees. Miriam Quinn is afraid she might have to leave home. And Mrs. Pringle is her usual dour self. But the seasons continue to change, and the centenary year unfolds with its hopes and fears, its memories and forecasts, its friendships and feuds. VILLAGE CENTENARY marks yet another delightful year in the company of our favorite Fairacre friends.
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Read, Miss Village School Houghton Mifflin 2001 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1144792. ISBN #061812702X / 9780618127023. (keywords: Fairacre Series Schoolmistress England) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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