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Thompson, Alice Justine Counterpoint Press 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003451. ISBN #1887178651 / 9781887178655. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thompson, Alice Justine Counterpoint Press 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003451. ISBN #1887178651 / 9781887178655. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A challenging, chilling postmodern novel that explores the ill-defined margins between imagination and reality, sanity and madness. This story of seductive decadence plays on the Marquis de Sades work of the same name. It chronicles one mans obsession with beauty and his journey, through the darkest recesses of the mind, in its pursuit. An unnamed compulsive art collector becomes fascinated by a womans portrait, one marked with a simple plaque that reads Justine. Searching London for the object of his desire, he finds two women: Justine, a chiseled beauty, and her identical twin, Juliette. Rich in literary allusion, full of twists and turns, Justine, will appeal to readers looking for a challenge and a thrill. With her first novel, the young Scottish writer Alice Thompson performs a bold experiment in the neo-Gothic, spinning out an extravagant tale that charts the borders between contempt and desire. Set in contemporary London, Justine chronicles one mans obsession with beauty and his journey through the darkest recesses of the mind in its pursuit.A sensitive art collector, nameless throughout, becomes enchanted by Justine, the portrait that hangs above his mantel. Enthralled, he spends hours in his flat, smoking opium and watching the beautiful woman in the painting, her hard pale eyes, set wide apart in her face. The image comes to life, sometimes watching him coyly from a formal garden, sometimes glaring at him from a shadowy room. Searching London for the object of his ravening desire, he finds on separate occasions two women: Justine, a refined and chiseled beauty, and her identical twin Juliette, a complex and reckless woman who seems driven by rage. He is never sure when or where he will see them, and they never appear together. As the story unfolds, he finds it increasingly difficult to know the true identity of the evasive and evanescent woman he desires, and his vivid opium-seasoned hallucinations become indistinguishable from reality. In exhilarating short chapters that take him through a morphing landscape, our narrators nightmare builds to a violent and haunting climax.Ruthlessly clever, Justine ropes in references from the Marquis de Sade and Milton, from Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Alfred Hitchcock. Playfully twisting and teasing Sadean conventions to suit her purposes, Thompson sets up a labyrinth of tricks and tropes that inevitably lead us to a place where our familiars--gender and power, passion and violence--are not what they seem.
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Thompson, Cole Chocolate Lizards 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122831. ISBN #0312264860 / 9780312264864. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thompson, Cole Chocolate Lizards 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122831. ISBN #0312264860 / 9780312264864. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When a Harvard-educated aspiring actor loses all of his cash in a poker game, he finds himself stranded in Abilene, Texas. Enter Merle, a hard drinkin', tough talkin', woman lovin' wildcatter who happens to have a job opening. What ensues is a rip-roaring conflagration of unbelievably vibrant characters. In the end, good old Texan gumption wins out, but regardless, Chocolate Lizards is a helluva ride.
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Thompson, Morton Not As a Stranger hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113226. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thompson, Rupert Book Of Revelation hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1072051. ISBN #0375409270 / 9780375409271. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thomson, Lorrie A Measure of Happiness Kensington 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113772. ISBN #0758293321 / 9780758293329. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thomson, Lorrie A Measure of Happiness Kensington 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113772. ISBN #0758293321 / 9780758293329. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Katherine Lamontagne isn't Celeste Barnes's mother, but ever since Celeste graduated high school and her parents abandoned Hidden Harbor, Maine, she's acted the part. At twenty-two, Celeste worked at Katherine s bakery, and hoped to buy the business once Katherine took early retirement. But when Katherine reconsidered that decision, Celeste fled to culinary school in New York only to return two months later, a shadow of the girl who d stormed out the door. Katherine knows the signs of secret heartbreak. Years ago, she gave up her baby son for adoption a regret she s never shared with either her ex-husband or Celeste. She longs for Celeste to confide in her now. But it will be a stranger in town an engaging young wanderer named Zach Fitzgerald who spurs them toward healing. As both women are drawn into Zach s questioning heart, they also rediscover their own appetites for truth and for love and gain the courage to face the past without being imprisoned by it. Uplifting, emotionally rich, and deeply satisfying, A Measure of Happiness illuminates the nature of friendship, motherhood, hope and the gifts of second chances. Advance Praise In this absorbing, emotional novel about family secrets, Lorrie Thomson demonstrates that having the courage to open our hearts to love is the true measure of happiness. --Holly Robinson, author of Beach Plum Island and Haven Lake A Measure of Happiness is about many things finding home, facing fears, and making choices among them. But more than anything, it s the book you ll reach for when you want to recall that perfect love can still be found in an imperfect world. Therese Walsh, author of The Moon Sisters
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Thor, Brad Spy Master Atria 2018 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149594. ISBN #147678941X / 9781476789415. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thoreau, Henry David; Atkinson, Brooks (Edt.) Walden and Other Writings of Henry David Thoreau Modern Library 1965 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Slight lean to spine. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1158315. ISBN #0394604210 / 9780394604213. (keywords: Modern Library Walden Concord Merrimack Rivers Cape Cod Allegash East Branch Walking Civil Disobedience Slavery Massachusetts Plea Captain John Brown Principle) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thorpe, Rufi Girls From Corona Del Mar 2014 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1069686. ISBN #0385351968 / 9780385351966. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thorpe, Rufi Girls From Corona Del Mar 2014 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1069686. ISBN #0385351968 / 9780385351966. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Why did Lorrie Ann look graceful in beat-up Keds and shorts a bit too small for her? Why was it charming when she snorted from laughing too hard? Yes, we were jealous of her, and yet we did not hate her. She was never so much as teased by us, we roaming and bratty girls of Corona del Mar, thieves of corn nuts and orange soda, abusers of lip gloss and foul language. An astonishing debut about friendships made in youth, The Girls from Corona del Mar is a fiercely beautiful novel about how these bonds, challenged by loss, illness, parenthood, and distance, either break or endure. Mia and Lorrie Ann are lifelong friends: hard-hearted Mia and untouchably beautiful, kind Lorrie Ann. While Mia struggles with a mother who drinks, a pregnancy at fifteen, and younger brothers she loves but can t quite be good to, Lorrie Ann is luminous, surrounded by her close-knit family, immune to the mistakes that mar her best friend s life. Then a sudden loss catapults Lorrie Ann into tragedy: things fall apart, and then fall further and there is nothing Mia can do to help. And as good, brave, fair Lorrie Ann stops being so good, Mia begins to question just who this woman is, and what that question means about them both. A staggeringly honest, deeply felt novel of family, motherhood, loyalty, and the myth of the perfect friendship, The Girls from Corona del Mar asks just how well we know those we love, what we owe our children, and who we are without our friends.
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Thorpe, Rufi The Girls from Corona del Mar Vintage 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084508. ISBN #080417007X / 9780804170079. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thorpe, Rufi The Girls from Corona del Mar Vintage 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084508. ISBN #080417007X / 9780804170079. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Best friends Mia and Lorrie Ann couldn t be more different; where Mia is reckless and proudly hard-hearted, Lorrie Ann is kind, serenely beautiful, and seemingly immune to the kind of teenage mistakes that Mia can t help but make. But within a few years, fortunes change. Suddenly, Mia is free to grow up and adventure, falling in and out of love while Lorrie Ann is weighed down by responsibilities at home. And when good, nice, brave Lorrie Ann stops being so good, Mia must question how well she ever really knew her best friend in the first place.
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Thumann, Chad The Undesirables Lake Union Publishing 2016 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1139119. ISBN #1503939960 / 9781503939967. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thumann, Chad The Undesirables Lake Union Publishing 2016 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1139119. ISBN #1503939960 / 9781503939967. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In the winter of 1941 1942, Leningrad is under siege, and Karen Hamilton, a seventeen-year-old American musician, finds herself trapped and struggling to survive. Throughout the city, people are dying of starvation and frostbite, and Karen knows that if she doesn t escape immediately, she will share their fate. If she has any hope of leaving Russia and reuniting with her fianc , Bobby, in New York, she must do the impossible: cross enemy lines and then stow away. On her harrowing journey, Karen encounters Petr, a young conscripted Russian soldier. She isn t sure she can trust him he is equally wary of her. But as the two join forces in order to stay alive, an unexpected romance takes root. Now, as Karen gets closer to the reality of escape, she has a choice to make: Will she return to a safe life in America with Bobby, or remain in war-torn Russia with Petr?
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Thurber, James Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated Perennial/Harper & Row, Publishers 1990 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1154065. ISBN #0060909994 / 9780060909994. (keywords: AMERICAN WIT AND HUMOR HUMOR_GENERAL) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thurber, James Thurber Album; a Collection of Pieces About People Touchstone Book/Simon and Schuster 1952 Soft Cover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or572618v1. ISBN #0672101572 / 9780672101571. (keywords: FICTION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thurber, James Thurber Carnival Harper & Row 1982 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1160996. ISBN #0060904453 / 9780060904456. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thurman, Wallace Blacker The Berry... Scribner Paperback Fiction 1996 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1153196. ISBN #068481580X / 9780684815800. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thurman, Wallace Blacker The Berry... Scribner Paperback Fiction 1996 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1153196. ISBN #068481580X / 9780684815800. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary One of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berry ...was the first novel to openly explore prejudice within the Black community. This pioneering novel found a way beyond the bondage of Blackness in American life to a new meaning in truth and beauty. Emma Lou Brown's dark complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation -- not only to herself, but to her lighter-skinned family and friends and to the white community of Boise, Idaho, her home-town. As a young woman, Emma travels to New York's Harlem, hoping to find a safe haven in the Black Mecca of the 1920s. Wallace Thurman re-creates this legendary time and place in rich detail, describing Emma's visits to nightclubs and dance halls and house-rent parties, her sex life and her catastrophic love affairs, her dreams and her disillusions -- and the momentous decision she makes in order to survive. A lost classic of Black American literature, The Blacker the Berry ...is a compelling portrait of the destructive depth of racial bias in this country. A new introduction by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, author of The Sweeter the Juice, highlights the timelessness of the issues of race and skin color in America.
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Thurman, Wallace Blacker The Berry... 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1127859. ISBN #068481580X / 9780684815800. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Thurman, Wallace Blacker The Berry... 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1127859. ISBN #068481580X / 9780684815800. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary One of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berry ...was the first novel to openly explore prejudice within the Black community. This pioneering novel found a way beyond the bondage of Blackness in American life to a new meaning in truth and beauty. Emma Lou Brown's dark complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation -- not only to herself, but to her lighter-skinned family and friends and to the white community of Boise, Idaho, her home-town. As a young woman, Emma travels to New York's Harlem, hoping to find a safe haven in the Black Mecca of the 1920s. Wallace Thurman re-creates this legendary time and place in rich detail, describing Emma's visits to nightclubs and dance halls and house-rent parties, her sex life and her catastrophic love affairs, her dreams and her disillusions -- and the momentous decision she makes in order to survive. A lost classic of Black American literature, The Blacker the Berry ...is a compelling portrait of the destructive depth of racial bias in this country. A new introduction by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, author of The Sweeter the Juice, highlights the timelessness of the issues of race and skin color in America.
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Thuy, Le Thi Diem The Gangster We Are All Looking For Alfred A. Knopf 2003 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153242. ISBN #0375400184 / 9780375400186. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Tighem, J Bradley Van Puha Brad Van Tighem 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1020968. ISBN #0988935600 / 9780988935600. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Tighem, J Bradley Van Puha Brad Van Tighem 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1020968. ISBN #0988935600 / 9780988935600. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Many Wolves, a 12-year-old boy adopted by Lipan Apaches, is haunted by memories of mounted men with painted faces killing his white-skinned parents. When Laughing Crow, the powerful leader of the Nokoni Comanche band responsible for the killings, discovers his Lipan village and asks for the white-skinned boy in exchange for peace, Many Wolves flees. In the harsh desert wilderness, nourished by the salty waters of the Pecos River, he learns to survive alone with his trained wolf hawks. Five years later, the Nokoni leader s son is killed by a Lipan arrow, which sets Laughing Crow on a trail of blood and vengeance. Many Wolves, now hardened by nature and empowered with a gift to walk with the spirits of his animals, is forced out of seclusion to confront his nightmare and protect his Lipan village. Puha, the Comanche word for spiritual power, is an unconventional western story set in the late 1700s, before Texas was settled with Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles: a time when vast herds of buffalo roamed the Southern Plains, grizzly bears and wolves thrived, and the Comanche rode unchallenged on painted ponies. Puha submerses the reader in a forgotten time of American History when indigenous people lived free and in harmony with nature.
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Tinti, Hannah Good Thief Dial Press Trade Paperback 2009 paperback. Bump to the bottom edge.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1147911. ISBN #0385337469 / 9780385337465. (keywords: Orphans, New England, History) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Tinti, Hannah Good Thief Dial Press Trade Paperback 2009 paperback. Bump to the bottom edge.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1147911. ISBN #0385337469 / 9780385337465. (keywords: Orphans, New England, History) (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Winner of the 2008 John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Washington Post Best Book of 2008 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2008 Richly imagined and gothically spooky, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting talents writing today. Twelve year-old Ren is missing his left hand. How it was lost is a mystery that Ren has been trying to solve for his entire life, as well as who his parents are, and why he was abandoned as an infant at Saint Anthony s Orphanage for boys. When a young man named Benjamin Nab appears, claiming to be Ren s long-lost brother, his convincing tale of how Ren lost his hand persuades the monks at the orphanage to release the boy and to give Ren some hope. But is Benjamin really who he says he is? As Ren is introduced to a life of hardscrabble adventure filled with outrageous scam artists, grave robbers, and petty thieves, he begins to suspect that Benjamin not only holds the key to his future, but to his past as we
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