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Potter, Alexandra Me And Mr. Darcy Ballantine Books 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Minimal Notes or Marking. Book #or853108. ISBN #034550254X / 9780345502544. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Potter, Alexandra Me And Mr. Darcy Ballantine Books 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Minimal Notes or Marking. Book #or853108. ISBN #034550254X / 9780345502544. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Dreams come true in this hilarious, feel-good fairy tale about life, love, and dating literature s most eligible bachelor After a string of disastrous dates, Emily Albright decides she s had it with modern-day love and would much rather curl up with Pride and Prejudice and spend her time with Mr. Darcy, the dashing, honorable, and passionate hero of Jane Austen s classic. So when her best friend suggests a wild week of margaritas and men in Mexico with the girls, Emily abruptly flees to England on a guided tour of Jane Austen country instead. Far from inspiring romance, the company aboard the bus consists of a gaggle of little old ladies and one single man, Spike Hargreaves, a foul-tempered journalist writing an article on why the fictional Mr. Darcy has earned the title of Man Most Women Would Love to Date. The last thing Emily expects to find on her excursion is a broodingly handsome man striding across a field, his damp shirt clinging to his chest. But that s exactly what happens when she comes face-to-face with none other than Mr. Darcy himself. Suddenly, every woman s fantasy becomes one woman s reality. . . . Praise for Me and Mr. Darcy : Unexpectedly charming. . . Me and Mr. Darcy offers a Pride and Prejudice - appropriate surprise. . . it turns out to be one of the wittier of this summer's offerings, not to mention sharp and sad in its observations about what spinsterhood, identity and aging look like for women in 2007. Salon Me and Mr. Darcy takes the reader on an extended daydream with an appropriately pleasant ending. The Indianapolis Star Alexandra Potter s clever comedy, an affectionate celebration of books and readers and bookstores might lead you to start browsing those travel websites yourself. The Times- Picayune Pure candy for the imagination. . . Ms. Potter has worked literary magic with the creation of Me and Mr. Darcy . CoffeeTimeRomance.com
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Potter, Alexandra Me And Mr. Darcy 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090042. ISBN #034550254X / 9780345502544. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Potter, Alexandra Me And Mr. Darcy 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090042. ISBN #034550254X / 9780345502544. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Dreams come true in this hilarious, feel-good fairy tale about life, love, and dating literature s most eligible bachelor After a string of disastrous dates, Emily Albright decides she s had it with modern-day love and would much rather curl up with Pride and Prejudice and spend her time with Mr. Darcy, the dashing, honorable, and passionate hero of Jane Austen s classic. So when her best friend suggests a wild week of margaritas and men in Mexico with the girls, Emily abruptly flees to England on a guided tour of Jane Austen country instead. Far from inspiring romance, the company aboard the bus consists of a gaggle of little old ladies and one single man, Spike Hargreaves, a foul-tempered journalist writing an article on why the fictional Mr. Darcy has earned the title of Man Most Women Would Love to Date. The last thing Emily expects to find on her excursion is a broodingly handsome man striding across a field, his damp shirt clinging to his chest. But that s exactly what happens when she comes face-to-face with none other than Mr. Darcy himself. Suddenly, every woman s fantasy becomes one woman s reality. . . . Praise for Me and Mr. Darcy : Unexpectedly charming. . . Me and Mr. Darcy offers a Pride and Prejudice - appropriate surprise. . . it turns out to be one of the wittier of this summer's offerings, not to mention sharp and sad in its observations about what spinsterhood, identity and aging look like for women in 2007. Salon Me and Mr. Darcy takes the reader on an extended daydream with an appropriately pleasant ending. The Indianapolis Star Alexandra Potter s clever comedy, an affectionate celebration of books and readers and bookstores might lead you to start browsing those travel websites yourself. The Times- Picayune Pure candy for the imagination. . . Ms. Potter has worked literary magic with the creation of Me and Mr. Darcy . CoffeeTimeRomance.com
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Pottinger, Stan Last Nazi 2003 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104162. ISBN #0312276761 / 9780312276768. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Pottinger, Stan Last Nazi 2003 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104162. ISBN #0312276761 / 9780312276768. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth Procedure comes a riveting thriller about a deadly virus, born of the past, that threatens to destroy the present. The Last Nazi seamlessly weaves genetics, terrorism, and the very human struggle of right and wrong into a terrifying and unforgettable story. Melissa Gale is an attractive, ambitious lawyer and investigator for the Office of Special Investigations, the Justice Department s Nazi Hunters. Her quarry, known only by the name Adalwolf, was the brilliant young prot g of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Butcher of Auschwitz. Presumed dead for almost fifty years, Adalwolf has suddenly reappeared in the United States to take the lives of three people in a chilling, unusual way. Melissa stalks Adalwolf to bring him to justice, only to discover that he is actually stalking her. She has something he wants: a personal medical history that holds the key to his plan for the ultimate crime. Using a deadly biological virus born of the genetic projects started in the Nazi labs, Adalwolf is about to unleash the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. Melissa Gale and the baby she is carrying could be the key to his success. Trapped in his nightmare scheme, she is forced to fight for her life. The tension builds unbearably as Melissa s race to save her baby and stop Adalwolf from carrying out his plan forces her to confront the boundaries of good and evil---not only in him, but in herself.
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Potzsch, Oliver Hangman's Daughter paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1051504. ISBN #1935597051 / 9781935597056. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Potzsch, Oliver Hangman's Daughter paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1051504. ISBN #1935597051 / 9781935597056. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Germany, 1660: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at the stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau. When more children disappear and an orphan boy is found dead marked by the same tattoo the mounting hysteria threatens to erupt into chaos. Before the unrest forces him to torture and execute the very woman who aided in the birth of his children, Jakob must unravel the truth. With the help of his clever daughter, Magdelena, and Simon, the university-educated son of the town s physician, Jakob discovers that a devil is indeed loose in Schongau. But it may be too late to prevent bloodshed. A brilliantly detailed, fast-paced historical thriller, The Hangman s Daughter is the first novel from German television screenwriter Oliver P tzsch, a descendent of the Kuisls, a famous Bavarian executioner clan.
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Potzsch, Oliver Ludwig Conspiracy 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084736. ISBN #0544227964 / 9780544227965. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Potzsch, Oliver Ludwig Conspiracy 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084736. ISBN #0544227964 / 9780544227965. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A bold new thriller from the best-selling author of The Hangman s Daughter series In 1886, Ludwig II, the Fairy-tale King of Bavaria, was deposed after being declared insane by doctors who had never met him. He died mysteriously soon thereafter, his eccentric and beautiful castles his only legacy. In The Ludwig Conspiracy , master of historical suspense Oliver P tzsch brings the Mad King back to life. An encoded diary by one of Ludwig s confidants falls into the hands of modern-day rare-book dealer Steven Lukas, who soon realizes that the diary may bring him more misery than money. Lukas teams up with a beautiful art detective, Sara Lengfeld, to investigate each of Ludwig s three famous castles for clues to crack the diary s code as mysterious thugs and Ludwig s fanatical followers chase them at every step. Just what in the diary could be so explosive? "This gripping thriller brings together the present and the past with high-action adventure in a bold, entertaining storyline." Shepherd Express Milwaukee "P tzsch makes clever use of Bavaria s equivalent of the Kennedy assassination in this excellent stand-alone . . . P tzsch s sophisticated plotting and good use of a real-life historical puzzle place this far ahead of most Da Vinci Code wannabes." Publishers Weekly , starred review
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Powell, Anthony The Fisher King University Of Chicago Press 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1103531. ISBN #0226677001 / 9780226677002. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Powell, Anthony The Fisher King University Of Chicago Press 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1103531. ISBN #0226677001 / 9780226677002. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Aboard the Alecto , prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious Arthurian legends, the Fisher King the maimed and impotent ruler of a barren country of whom Perceval failed to ask the right questions. A myth with many permutations and a blurred borderland between them the Fisher King legend dovetails the various explanations Powell offers from his competing narrators as to why a talented young dancer would forsake her art to care for a feeble older man. Ostensibly a novel about gossip on a cruise ship, The Fisher King is much more: a highly stylized narrative infused with Greek mythology, legend, and satire.
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Powell, Padgett Aliens Of Affection: Stories 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1100594. ISBN #0805060006 / 9780805060003. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Powell, Padgett Aliens Of Affection: Stories 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1100594. ISBN #0805060006 / 9780805060003. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Aliens of Affection marks new territory for Padgett Powell, picking up where his first collection of stories, Typical, left off. Although his characters continue to revolt against the received instructions of modern American living--refusing to be dunked in what Saul Bellow has called the "marinade of correctness"--their concerns are less for indepence than for the maintenance of sanity itself. In this sometimes surrealistic terrain, "affection was that which, and the only thing on earth which, you should be eternally thankful for." Emotional estrangement seems both inevitable and worth fighting against to the middle-aged heroine of O. Henry Award-winner "Trick or Treat;" to the unmistakably American roofer of "Wayne" who was introduced in Typical ; to the deserted husband, father, and non-vet of "Dump;" and to the fantastic heroes in three stories grouped as "All Along the Watchtower." The nine stories collected here are hilarious, wrenching, pessimistic, buoyant, low-down, high-strung, and impeccably written.
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Powers, J.F. Morte D'Urban 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1069598. ISBN #0940322234 / 9780940322233. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Powers, J.F. Morte D'Urban 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1069598. ISBN #0940322234 / 9780940322233. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction. The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation as a speaker on the religious circuit and has big plans for the future. But then the provincial head of his dowdy religious order banishes him to a retreat house in the Minnesota hinterlands. Father Urban soon bounces back, carrying God's word with undaunted enthusiasm through the golf courses, fishing lodges, and backyard barbecues of his new turf. Yet even as he triumphs his tribulations mount, and in the end his greatest success proves a setback from which he cannot recover. First published in 1962, Morte D'Urban has been praised by writers as various as Gore Vidal, William Gass, Mary Gordon, and Philip Roth. This beautifully observed, often hilarious tale of a most unlikely Knight of Faith is among the finest achievements of an author whose singular vision assures him a permanent place in American literature.
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Powers, Kevin The Yellow Birds Little, Brown and Company 2012 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1038043. ISBN #0316219363 / 9780316219365. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Powers, Kevin The Yellow Birds Little, Brown and Company 2012 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1038043. ISBN #0316219363 / 9780316219365. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.
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Powers, Richard Plowing the Dark Picador USA 2001 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107854. ISBN #0312280122 / 9780312280123. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Powers, Richard Plowing the Dark Picador USA 2001 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107854. ISBN #0312280122 / 9780312280123. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these people unwittingly build in common, where they are all about to meet, where the dual frames of this inventive novel to coalesce. Adie Klarpol, a skilled but disillusioned artist, comes back to life, revived by the thrill of working with the Cavern's cutting-edge technology. Against the collapse of Cold War empires and the fall of the Berlin Wall, she retreats dangerously into the cyber-realities she has been hired to create. As her ex-husband lies dying and the outbreak of computerized war fills her with a sense of guilty complicity, Adie is thrown deeper into building a place of beauty and unknown power, were she might fend off the incursions of the real world gone wrong. On the other side of the globe, Taimur Martin, an English teacher retreating from a failed love affair, is picked up off the streets in Beirut by Islamic fundamentalists and held in solitary captivity. Without distraction or hope of release, he must keep himself whole by the force of his memory alone. Each infinite, empty day moves him closer to insanity, and only the surprising arrival of sanctuary sustains him for the shattering conclusion. Plowing the Dark is fiction that explores the imagination's power to both destroy and save.
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Powers, Richard Prisoner's Dilemma paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070517. ISBN #0060977086 / 9780060977085. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Powers, Richard Prisoner's Dilemma paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070517. ISBN #0060977086 / 9780060977085. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and with his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness. Meanwhile, in private, Eddie puts the finishing touches on a secret project he calls Hobbstown, a place that he promises will save him, the world and everything that's in it. A dazzling novel of compassion and imagination, Prisoner's Dilemma is a story of the power of invalid experience.
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Prcic, Ismet Shards 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1014217. ISBN #0802170811 / 9780802170811. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Prcic, Ismet Shards 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1014217. ISBN #0802170811 / 9780802170811. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Ismet Prcic s brilliant, provocative, and propulsively energetic debut is about a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised that in order to make peace with the corrosive guilt he harbors over leaving behind his family behind, he must write everything. The result is a great rattlebag of memories, confessions, and fictions: sweetly humorous recollections of Ismet s childhood in Tuzla appear alongside anguished letters to his mother about the challenges of life in this new world. As Ismet s foothold in the present falls away, his writings are further complicated by stories from the point of view of another young man real or imagined named Mustafa, who joined a troop of elite soldiers and stayed in Bosnia to fight. When Mustafa s story begins to overshadow Ismet s new-world identity, the reader is charged with piecing together the fragments of a life that has become eerily unrecognizable, even to the one living it. Shards is a thrilling read a harrowing war story, a stunningly inventive coming of age, and a heartbreaking saga of a splintered family.
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Pressfield, Steven Afghan Campaign 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129062. ISBN #038551641X / 9780385516419. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Pressfield, Steven Afghan Campaign 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129062. ISBN #038551641X / 9780385516419. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In words that might have been ripped from today s combat dispatches, Steven Pressfield, the bestselling novelist of ancient warfare, returns with a riveting historical novel that re-creates Alexander the Great s invasion of the Afghan kingdoms in 330 B.C., a campaign that eerily foreshadows the tactics, terrors, and frustrations of contemporary conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Narrated by Matthias, a young infantryman in Alexander s army, The Afghan Campaign explores the challenges, both military and moral, that Alexander and his soldiers face as they embark on a new type of war and are forced to adapt to the methods of a ruthless foe that employs terror and insurgent tactics, conceals itself among the civilian populace, and recruits women and boys as combatants. Matthias joins Alexander s army after it has conquered the Persian empire and is advancing east into Afghanistan on its way to the riches of India. Part of a unit that includes recruits his own age as well as veterans, Matthias chronicles his rapid coming-of-age as a soldier as he enacts Alexander s scorch-and-burn strategies, experiences the joys and sorrows of a romance with an Afghan girl, and faces the barbarism of the Afghans, his fellow soldiers, and ultimately himself. As Matthias relates the brutal day-to-day encounters between the two sides, he exposes the human cost borne by a company of men whose code is humanist and secular when they seek to impose their will on a people of deep religiosity, insularity, unbending pride, and a passionate readiness to die for their cause. An edge-of-your-seat adventure that brings to life the confrontation between an invading Western army and fierce Eastern warriors determined at all costs to defend their homeland, The Afghan Campaign once again demonstrates Steven Pressfield s profound understanding of the hopes and desperation of men in battle and of the historical realities that continue to influence our world.
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