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Unsworth, Barry Songs Of The Kings 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1088406. ISBN #0393322831 / 9780393322835. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Unsworth, Barry Songs Of The Kings 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1088406. ISBN #0393322831 / 9780393322835. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Pure gold....One of the best books by this most versatile of writers." Penelope Lively "Troy meant one thing only to the men gathered here, as it did to their commanders. Troy was a dream of wealth; and if the wind continued the dream would crumble." As the harsh wind holds the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis, frustration and political impotence turn into a desire for the blood of a young and innocent woman blood that will appease the gods and allow the troops to set sail. And when Iphigeneia, Agamemnon's beloved daughter, is brought to the coast under false pretences, and when a knife is fashioned out of the finest and most precious of materials, it looks as if the ships will soon be on their way. But can a father really go to these lengths to secure political victory, and can a daughter willingly give up her life for the worldly ambitions of her father? Throwing off the heroic values we expect of them, Barry Unsworth's mythic characters embrace the political ethos of the twenty-first century and speak in words we recognize as our own. The blowhard Odysseus warns the men to not "marginalize" Agamemnon and to "strike while the bronze is hot." High-sounding principles clash with private motives, and dark comedy ensues. Here is a novel that stands the world on its head.
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Updike, John Afterlife and Other Stories Fawcett Columbine 1996 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1184024. ISBN #0449912019 / 9780449912010. (keywords: LOST YOUTH PASSIONS SHORT SINGLE AUTHOR) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Brazil Knopf 1994 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094820. ISBN #0679430717 / 9780679430711. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Brazil Knopf 1994 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094820. ISBN #0679430717 / 9780679430711. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving day to day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, an upper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her absent though very powerful father. Convinced that fate brought them together, betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart, Tristao and Isabel flee to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west -- unaware of the astonishing destiny that awaits them . . . Spanning twenty-two years, from the mid-sixties to the late eighties, BRAZIL surprises and embraces the reader with its celebration of passion, loyalty, and New World innocence. "A tour de force . . . Spectacular." -- Time "Updike's novel, as tender as it is erotic, becomes a magnificently wrought love story . . . . Beautifully written." -- Detroit Free Press From the Paperback edition.
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Updike, John Marry Me: A Romance Random House Trade Paperbacks 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085971. ISBN #0449912159 / 9780449912157. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Marry Me: A Romance Random House Trade Paperbacks 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085971. ISBN #0449912159 / 9780449912157. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Marry Me is subtitled A Romance because, in the author s words, people don t act like that anymore. The time is 1962, and the place is a fiefdom of Camelot called Greenwood, Connecticut. Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias are in love and want to get married, though they already are married to others. A diadem of five symmetrical chapters describes the course of their affair as it flickers off and on, and as their spouses react, in a tentative late-summer atmosphere of almost-last chances. For this is, as Jerry observes, the twilight of the old morality, and there s just enough to torment us, and not enough to hold us in.
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Updike, John Memories of the Ford Administration Knopf 1992 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122110. ISBN #0679416811 / 9780679416814. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Memories of the Ford Administration Knopf 1992 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122110. ISBN #0679416811 / 9780679416814. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Stunning...Alf's life and times are light and funny; Buchanan's are dark and serious. Alternating between the two, Mr. Updike entertains and instructs...in gorgeous prose." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL When junior college professor Alfred Clayton is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well. In a decade of sexual liberation, Clayton was facing a doomed marriage and the passionate beginnings of a futile affair with an unattainable Perfect Wife. But one memory begets another: Clayton's unfinished book on James Buchanan. In John Updike's fifteenth novel, he masterfully alternates between the two men, two lives, two American centuries--one Victorian, the other modern--shining an irreverent, witty, and sometimes caustic light on the contrasting views of social fictions and sexual politics.... A MAIN SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK From the Paperback edition.
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Updike, John My Father's Tears and Other Stories Alfred A. Knopf 2009 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1194848. ISBN #0307271560 / 9780307271563. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories Alfred A. Knopf 1962 hardcover. Front end paper missing and tears to paste downs.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Notes and marking. Wear from use. Cracked Hinge / still useable. Yellowing from age. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1144774. (keywords: FICTION SHORT COLLECTION SINGLE AUTHOR) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Rabbit Is Rich Knopf 1981 hardcover. First Edition. Previous owner embossed stamp.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1189725. ISBN #0394520874 / 9780394520872. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Rabbit Is Rich Knopf 1981 hardcover. First Edition. Previous owner embossed stamp.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1189725. ISBN #0394520874 / 9780394520872. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run 1960 , ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux 1971 , has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last -- until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.
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Updike, John Same Door: Short Stories hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101221. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Seek My Face 2002 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095942. ISBN #0375414908 / 9780375414909. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Seek My Face 2002 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095942. ISBN #0375414908 / 9780375414909. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary John Updike s twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair 1959 , takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her by a New York interviewer named Kathryn, and recapitulates, through the story of her own career, the triumphant, poignant saga of postwar American art. In the evolving relation between the two women, the interviewer and interviewee move in and out of the roles of daughter and mother, therapist and patient, predator and prey, supplicant and idol. The scene is central Vermont; the time is the early spring of 2001.
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Updike, John Terrorist Knopf 2006 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122089. ISBN #0307264653 / 9780307264657. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Updike, John Terrorist Knopf 2006 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122089. ISBN #0307264653 / 9780307264657. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The ever-surprising John Updike s twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur an, as expounded to him by a local mosque s imam. The son of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, Ahmad turned to Islam at the age of eleven. He feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping factory town of New Prospect, in northern New Jersey. Neither the world-weary, depressed guidance counselor at Central High School, Jack Levy, nor Ahmad s mischievously seductive black classmate, Joryleen Grant, succeeds in diverting the boy from what his religion calls the Straight Path. When he finds employment in a furniture store owned by a family of recently immigrated Lebanese, the threads of a plot gather around him, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security. But to quote the Qur an: Of those who plot, God is the best.
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Updike, John Toward the End of Time Alfred A. Knopf 1997 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1162941. ISBN #0375400060 / 9780375400063. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Uris, Leon God in Ruins 1999 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1132979. ISBN #0060183772 / 9780060183776. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Uris, Leon God in Ruins 1999 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1132979. ISBN #0060183772 / 9780060183776. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Master storyteller and international bestselling author of Redemption, Trinity, and Exodus, Leon Uris once again brilliantly interweaves historical fact with gripping fiction in this powerful novel of politics, family, intrigue, love, and the passions that rule human lives. Spanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the unforgettable story of Quinn Patrick O'Connell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. In an era morally unmoored, rife with armed separatists and fundamentalist zealotry, Quinn, the last great liberal of the Rocky Mountains, emerges as America's hope to reclaim its great past and its promises of the future. But Quinn is a man with an explosive secret that can shatter his political ambitions and threaten his life--a secret buried for over a half century that even he does not know.... Returning home at the end of World War II a decorated and wounded hero, Daniel Timothy O'Connell had moved his young wife, Siobhan, from the crowded streets of Brooklyn to the golden mountains of Colorado. Building a successful life as cattle ranchers, Daniel and Siobhan had everything they wanted--except a child. Desperate, they turned to the Church and adopted a beautiful three-year-old of mysterious parentage, a charming little boy they named Quinn Patrick. In riveting prose, Leon Uris unfolds Quinn's life as he matures from a restless youth into a brave Marine undertaking a deadly undercover mission, and finally, into an earnest, intelligent, and thoughtful leader willing take on the most vicious and malevolently destructive forces threatening the country. Here, too, are the two beautiful women who have always loved him--Greer, the lover driven by ambition and passion, and Rita, the sensuous, adoring daughter of his friend and mentor, painter and philosopher Reynaldo Maldonado. Through the years Quinn has made some powerful enemies who are determined to destroy him, including presidential incumbent Thornton Tomtree. A conservative computer mogul who built an electronic empire out of his father's Rhode Island junkyard, Tomtree is a right-wing pragmatist who will court the most dangerous and deadly elements of society and risk America s safety to achieve his own ambitions. From America's victorious past to its shadowed future, from the grandeur of Colorado's mountains to the enclaves of private militias hidden deep in the canyons of the Southwest's Four Corners, A God in Ruins races to a powerful, unforgettable conclusion. A sweeping novel of a man, a life, and a nation, it vividly brings to life memorable characters that will indelibly touch the heart and mind and illuminates the major crisis facing America at the dawn of a new millennium.
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Uris, Leon O'Hara's Choice 2003 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1134314. ISBN #0060568739 / 9780060568733. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Uris, Leon O'Hara's Choice 2003 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1134314. ISBN #0060568739 / 9780060568733. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Fifty years after his first novel, Battle Cry, took the world by storm, Leon Uris returns to the topic that first inspired him to write books that captivate, educate, and thrill -- the Marine Corps. In the years following the Civil War, first-generation Irish-American Zachary O'Hara, son of a legendary Marine and a force of a man in his own right, finds himself playing a critical role in the very future of the Marines. If he can persuade the Secretary of the Navy that the Marines are more crucial than ever to America's safety and security -- all the while hefting a heavier secret weight in his heart -- he'll save the corps and make his career. But there's an obstacle in his path that this warrior had not planned on. Amanda Blanton Kerr, the daughter of a ruthless industrialist, is a woman on a mission of her own; passionate, obstinate, and whip-smart, she's an heiress poised to blaze a trail for her sex. O'Hara's Choice is the story of the inevitable collision of these two handsome, fighting spirits. Getting their souls' desire could jeopardize everything they -- and their parents before them -- scraped and struggled to achieve. Duty to country, love of family, and a tormented passion intertwine in this latest epic by Leon Uris, international bestselling author of such classics as Exodus, Trinity, and Battle Cry. A riveting, sweeping tale in inimitable Uris style, O'Hara's Choice is this master of the historical novel at his most brilliant.
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Uris, Leon Trinity Doubleday 1976 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book plate attached. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1192105. ISBN #038503458X / 9780385034586. (keywords: IRELAND HISTORY EASTER RISING 1916 FICTION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Urquhart, Jane Stone Carvers McClelland & Stewart Inc. 2002 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1184019. ISBN #0771086857 / 9780771086854. (keywords: FICTION_HISTORICAL ONTARIO_FICTION WORLD WAR, 1914-1918_FICTION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Urrea, Luis Alberto The House of Broken Angels Back Bay Books 2019 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1187929. ISBN #031615489X / 9780316154895. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Urza, Monique The Deep Blue Memory (The Basque Series) University of Nevada Press 1993 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1174593. ISBN #0874172128 / 9780874172126. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa Dirty Girls Social Club St. Martin's Griffin 2003 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1187426. ISBN #0312313829 / 9780312313821. (keywords: Women friendship ingramxyz) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa Make Him Look Good 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1091837. ISBN #0312349807 / 9780312349806. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa Make Him Look Good 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1091837. ISBN #0312349807 / 9780312349806. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The "him" in Make Him Look Good is Ricky Biscayne, sexy Latin singing sensation who has taken the pop world by storm. But it takes more than swiveling hips and dreamy eyes to get to the top of the charts. The women who orbit Ricky are: -- Milan, Ricky's new publicist, and her sister Geneva whose Club G promises to have Miami's hottest opening ever -- Jill Sanchez, a media-manic Latina star who has crossed over from CDs to perfume, clothes and movies -- Jasminka, Ricky's gorgeous Croatian model wife -- Irene, a firefighter whose high school romance with Ricky was the last love in her life, eking out an existence for herself and her daughter Sophia, who is beginning to suspect that she and Ricky Biscayne look a little too much alike With several satisfying romances set against Miami's music, club and modeling scenes, Make Him Look Good is irresistible fiction from one of America's most original voices.
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