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Vidal, Gore Lincoln: A Novel Random House 1984 hardcover. . Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1168602. ISBN #0394528956 / 9780394528953. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Vidal, Gore Lincoln: A Novel Random House 1984 hardcover. . Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1168602. ISBN #0394528956 / 9780394528953. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., Empire, and Hollywood. It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him. During the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation. Isolated in a ramshackle White House in the center of a proslavery city, Lincoln presides over a fragmenting government as Lee's armies beat at the gates. In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions and intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones and his rivals. The cast of characters is almost Dickensian: politicians, generals, White House aides, newspapermen, Northern and Southern conspirators, amiably evil bankers, and a wife slowly going mad. Vidal's portrait of the president is at once intimate and monumental, stark and complex, drawn with the wit, grace, and authority of one of the great historical novelists. With a new Introduction by the autho
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Vidal, Gore Washington, D.C: A Novel (Narratives of Empire) Vintage 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170133. ISBN #0375708774 / 9780375708770. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Vidal, Gore Washington, D.C: A Novel (Narratives of Empire) Vintage 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170133. ISBN #0375708774 / 9780375708770. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary With a New Introduction Washington, D.C. , is the final installment in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire,his acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. It offers an illuminating portrait of our republic from the time of the New Deal to the McCar-thy era. Widely regarded as Vidal's ultimate comment on how the American political system degrades those who participate in it, Washington, D.C. is a stunning tale of corruption and diseased ambitions. It traces the fortunes of James Burden Day, a powerful conservative senator who is eyeing the presidency; Clay Overbury, a pragmatic young congressional aide with political aspirations of his own; and Blaise Sanford, a ruthless newspaper tycoon who understands the importance of money and image in modern politics. With characteristic wit and insight, Vidal chronicles life in the nation's capital at a time when these men and others transformed America into "possibly the last empire on earth." " Washington, D.C. may well be the finest of contemporary novels about the capital," said The New Yorker , and the Times Literary Supplement deemed it "a prodigiously skilled and clever performance." From the Hardcover edition.
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Vilar, J. Juan Diaz Gabriela 2001 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1006058. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Villasenor, Victor Crazy Loco Love 2008 hardcover. signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1088608v1. ISBN #1558853154 / 9781558853157. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Villasenor, Victor Crazy Loco Love 2008 hardcover. signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1088608v1. ISBN #1558853154 / 9781558853157. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From one of America's most beloved writers comes this compelling memoir of his adolescent search for meaning and identity. When Victor Villase or turned sixteen, his father's gift of a brand-new, turquoise pick-up truck was accompanied by another gift: words of wisdom that would guide him on his path to manhood. "You are a man now, he said, and to be an hombre, a man must not only know right from wrong, he must also know who he is and who he isn't." In the weeks to come, however, Victor disregards his father's advice. Swayed by his friends ridicule, he has his new truck painted white to cover the vibrant turquoise, once his favorite color. Soon, he realizes his mistake. "I'd done exactly what my dad had told me not to. I'd listened to other people's opinions instead of listening to what I'd felt inside." So begins this poignant and moving account of Villase or's coming of age. Growing up on his parents ranch in North San Diego County, Victor Villase or's teenage years were marked by a painful quest to find a place for himself in a world he didn't fit into. During his search, Victor wrangles with the usual questions of adolescence: Is it normal to think about sex all the time? Do good girls like sex? Is sex before marriage a sin? But Victor struggles with more than just his burgeoning sexual awareness. The son of a self-made, successful man, he is different from his peers because of his Mexican heritage, and he experiences both subtle and outright discrimination because of this. Raised in a tight-knit, Catholic family, he questions the tenets of his faith and the restrictions it places on his own developing spirituality and sexuality. After high school, Victor's quest for who he is and who he isn't takes him to Mexico, where he is shocked to learn that Mexicans aside from his father are successful. They are architects, professors, and artists. Most importantly, he meets an older woman who cultivates in him a deeper understanding of his own intellectual capacity and helps him see the world and his place in it in a whole new way. This experience allows him to appreciate his own potential and realize his dreams of making a difference in the world through writing. A powerful portrait of a young boy on the path to manhood in the shadow of his influential father, Crazy Loco Love adds a new chapter to the grand tradition of coming-of-age books. Destined to become a classic, this new installment in Villase or's body of work confirms his place as a leading American writer. Crazy Loco Love will enthrall his many fans and surely win him new ones.
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Villiers-Stuart, Gerald The Soul of Croesus Cupples & Leon Company 1908 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1171443. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Vincent, Norah Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015 hardcover. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1048695. ISBN #0544470206 / 9780544470200. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Vincent, Norah Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015 hardcover. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1048695. ISBN #0544470206 / 9780544470200. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From a New York Times best-selling author, a boldly imagined portrait of Virginia Woolf that sheds new light on the events that preceded her fatal immersion in the River Ouse in 1941 On April 18, 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house in Sussex and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. Norah Vincent s Adeline reimagines the events that brought Woolf to the riverbank, offering us a denouement worthy of its protagonist. With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Vincent channels Virginia and Leonard Woolf, T. S. and Vivienne Eliot, Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington, laying bare their genius and their blind spots, their achievements and their failings, from the inside out. And haunting every page is Adeline, the name given to Virginia Stephen at birth, which becomes the source of Virginia s greatest consolation, and her greatest torment. Intellectually and emotionally disarming, Adeline a vibrant portrait of Woolf and her social circle, the infamous Bloomsbury Group, and a window into the darkness that both inspired and doomed them all is a masterpiece in its own right by one of our most brilliant and daring writers.
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Vincenzi, Penny Dilemma, The Overlook Press 1996 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145149. ISBN #1590201108 / 9781590201107. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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VIRGIL; Quinn, Kenneth Virgil's Aeneid: A Critical Description 1968 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1079787. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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VIRGIL; Quinn, Kenneth Virgil's Aeneid: A Critical Description 1968 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1079787. (filed under: Fiction ) *
Virgil's Aeneid A critical description Kenneth Quinn The University of Michigan Press 2nd printing with corrections 1969 Printed in England
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Viswanathan, Kaavya How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life Little Brown & Company 2006 paperback. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1029837. ISBN #0316059889 / 9780316059886. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Viswanathan, Kaavya How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life Little Brown & Company 2006 paperback. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1029837. ISBN #0316059889 / 9780316059886. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary New York: Little Brown Company, 2006. ARC and Uncorrected proof; First Edition, First Printing, so stated, but of course as ARC proof it precedes the trade first edition. No ISBN yet at the time this was printed, but it would become 0316059889. Fronted by introductory letter from Michael Pietsch of Little Brown. Cover design by Marie Mundaca. A sharp Near Fine, just white micro-dots along spine edge. Octavo, 312 pp. interestingly, two less pages than the later hardcover . A scarce Advance Review Copy and "proof made from author's manuscript" of Kaavya Viswanathan's controversial expedition into - was it plagiarism ? - of two of Megan McCafferty's neo-chick-lit novels. Passages in in the freshman Harvard prodigy's novel are so similar to parts of McCafferty's "Sloppy Firsts" and "Second Helpings." - in some cases, nearly verbatim - that intentional plagiarizing seemed to many to be beyond credibility, lending perhaps-undeserved credence to apologists' theories. Some of those are rather outre: the possibility that the plagiarism was unconscious, that she had been so pressured to succeed since birth by her success-fixated family that "borrowing" was a learned habit. A "Stepford Plagiarism" variation on that latter even posited that such borrowing is actually psychologically programmed in some children in those circumstances, to the degree that they don't even notice doing it, or at least don't perceive it as an unacceptable action. The reaction has, in fact, been far more interesting than a genre book itself could possibly be. Some comparisons between Viswanathan's real-life behavior and that of her in-book doppelganger, Opal Mehta, even go so far as to imply that Viswanathan was, in fact, living her novel intentionally. L64
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Vlautin, Willy Free Harper Perennial 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150315. ISBN #0062276743 / 9780062276742. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Vlautin, Willy Free Harper Perennial 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150315. ISBN #0062276743 / 9780062276742. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Award-winning author of The Motel Life , Northline and Lean on Pete , Willy Vlautin demonstrates his extraordinary talent for confronting issues facing modern America, illuminated through the lives of three memorable characters who are looking for a way out of their financial, familial, and existential crises in The Free . While serving in Iraq, veteran Leroy Kervin suffered a traumatic brain injury. Frustrated by the simplest daily routines, and unable to form new memories, he eventually attempts suicide. Lying in a coma, he retreats deep inside the memories locked in his mind. Freddie McCall works two jobs and still can't make ends meet. He's lost his wife and kids, and the house is next. Medical bills have buried him in debt, a situation that propels him to consider a lucrative and dangerous proposition. Pauline Hawkins is a nurse at the local hospital. Though she attends to others' needs with practical yet firm kindness, including her mentally ill elderly father, she remains emotionally removed. But a new patient, a young runaway, touches something deep and unexpected inside her. The lives of these characters intersect as they look for meaning in desperate times. Heartbreaking and hopeful, The Free is a testament to the resiliency of the human heart. The Free also includes a P.S. Section additional material in the back of the book with interviews, insights, and more about the author. Vlautin is the founder of the alternative country band Richmond Fontaine and his debut novel, The Motel Life , has been made into a film starring Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff, Dakota Fanning, and Kris Kristofferson.
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Volaire; Translated by H.I. Woolf and Wilfrid S. Jackson; Illustrations by Henry Keen Zadig and the Other Romances Dodd, Mead and Company 1929 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1169423. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Vollman, William T. Europe Central Penguin Books 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1143536. ISBN #0143036599 / 9780143036593. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Vollmann, William T Dying Grass Viking 2015 hardcover. Weak hinge, front endpaper soiled.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1165521. ISBN #0670015989 / 9780670015986. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Voltaire Candide (A Norton Critical Edition) W.W. Norton & Company 1991 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or858818v1. ISBN #0393960587 / 9780393960587. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Voltaire Candide (A Norton Critical Edition) W.W. Norton & Company 1991 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or858818v1. ISBN #0393960587 / 9780393960587. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Robert M. Adams s superlative revised translation of Candide provides the basis for this widely adopted Norton Critical Edition. The accompanying apparatus has been revised in accordance with recent biographical and critical materials. The Backgrounds and Criticism sections provide important essays that shed light on major critical issues relevant to Candide and to the intellectual climate of the period. In addition to the reports of five English visitors to Ferney, essays by Haydn Mason, Erich Auerbach, Ernst Cassirer, and Robert M. Adams are included. The final section of the edition, "The Climate of Controversy," summarizes the debate surrounding Voltaire s works and includes essays by Peter Gay, Raymond Naves, Gustave Lanson, and John Morley. Also included are a series of quotations about Voltaire by such prominent figures as Gustave Flaubert, Frederick the Great, and Stendhal, as well as the text of "Pangloss s Song," a ballad from the 1956 Candide -based operetta by Richard W
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Vonnegut, Kurt Sirens of Titan Delta Trade Paperbacks 1998 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1175407. ISBN #0385333498 / 9780385333498. (keywords: AMERICAN FICTION FICTIONAL WORKS AUTHOR) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Vorhaus, John The California Roll Crown 2010 hardcover. First Edition. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099564. ISBN #0307463176 / 9780307463173. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Vorhaus, John The California Roll Crown 2010 hardcover. First Edition. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099564. ISBN #0307463176 / 9780307463173. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Meet Radar Hoverlander, a witty, gifted con artist with the mind of David Mamet, the voice of Tom Robbins, and the morals of a sailor on shore leave. What do the Merlin Game, the Penny Skim, the Doolally Snadoodle, and the Afterparty Snuke have in common? They re all the work of world-class con artist and master bafflegabber Radar Hoverlander. Radar s been on the snuke since childhood, but he s still looking for his California Roll, the one big scam that ll set him up in sushi for life. Trouble arrives in the stunning, sassy package of Allie Quinn either the last true innocent or a con artist so slick she makes Radar look like a Quaker. Radar s hapless sidekick, Vic Mirplo, a lovable loser who couldn t con a kid out of a candy cane, thinks Radar s being played. But if love is blind, it s also deaf, dumb and stupid, and before Radar knows it, he s sucked into a vortex of double-, triple-, quadruple-crosses that ll either net him his precious California Roll or put him in a hole in the ground. As timeless as a perpetual-motion machine, as timely as a Madoff arraignment, The California Roll brings you deep inside the world of con artistry, where every fact is fiction and the second liar never has a chance.
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Vowell, Sarah The Partly Cloudy Patriot Simon & Schuster 2002 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Remainder Mark. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1134981. ISBN #0743223527 / 9780743223522. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Vowell, Sarah The Partly Cloudy Patriot Simon & Schuster 2002 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Remainder Mark. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1134981. ISBN #0743223527 / 9780743223522. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In "The Partly Cloudy Patriot," Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable narratives on public radio's "This American Life" -- ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting the sites of bloody struggles like Salem or Gettysburg? Why do people always inappropriately compare themselves to Rosa Parks? Why is a bad life in sunny California so much worse than a bad life anywhere else? What is it about the Zen of foul shots? And, in the title piece, why must doubt and internal arguments haunt the sleepless nights of the true patriot?Her essays confront a wide range of subjects, themes, icons, and historical moments: Ike, Teddy Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton; Canadian Mounties and German filmmakers; Tom Cruise and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer; " twins and nerds; the Gettysburg Address, the State of the Union, and George W. Bush's inauguration. The result is a teeming and engrossing book, capturing Vowell's memorable wit and her keen social commentary.
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Vreeland, Susan Luncheon Of The Boating Party Viking 2007 hardcover. First Edition. Signed by Author. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151752. ISBN #0670038547 / 9780670038541. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Vreeland, Susan Luncheon Of The Boating Party Viking 2007 hardcover. First Edition. Signed by Author. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151752. ISBN #0670038547 / 9780670038541. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Bestselling author Susan Vreeland returns with a vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world Instantly recognizable, Auguste Renoir s masterpiece depicts a gathering of his real friends enjoying a summer Sunday on a caf terrace along the Seine near Paris. A wealthy painter, an art collector, an Italian journalist, a war hero, a celebrated actress, and Renoir s future wife, among others, share this moment of la vie moderne , a time when social constraints were loosening and Paris was healing after the Franco-Prussian War. Parisians were bursting with a desire for pleasure and a yearning to create something extraordinary out of life. Renoir shared these urges and took on this most challenging project at a time of personal crises in art and love, all the while facing issues of loyalty and the diverging styles that were tearing apart the Impressionist group. Narrated by Renoir and seven of the models and using settings in Paris and on the Seine, Vreeland illuminates the gusto, hedonism, and art of the era. With a gorgeous palette of vibrant, captivating characters, she paints their lives, loves, losses, and triumphs in a brilliant portrait of her own.
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Vreeland, Susan Luncheon Of The Boating Party Penguin Books 2008 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1141818. ISBN #0143113526 / 9780143113522. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Vreeland, Susan Luncheon of the Boating Party Penguin 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1162630. ISBN #0143113526 / 9780143113522. (keywords: Impressionism Painters French France) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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