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Walker, Mildred Orange Tree 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1109538. ISBN #0803298641 / 9780803298644. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Walker, Mildred Orange Tree 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1109538. ISBN #0803298641 / 9780803298644. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary As in Chekhov s play The Three Sisters , the characters in Mildred Walker s Orange Tree search for meaning and happiness in their often uneventful middle-class lives and yet from such a seemingly ordinary premise, subtle and defining drama ensues. Editing Walker s last novel, which the author reworked for nearly two decades, Carmen Pearson has found indications that the Chekhov play had in fact been a template that Walker contemporized in The Orange Tree . The novel centers on two families living in Boston in the 1970s: an older couple, Tiresa and Paulo Romano, and the newlyweds Olive and Ron Fifer. The fragile state of the older woman s health and the younger woman s marriage brings these two couples together in their separate and quietly desperate isolation, producing a combination of insight and compassion that only the finest story can evoke. In The Orange Tree , Walker explores the relationships between men and women and offers an absorbing commentary on literature, writing, education, middle-class life, and the nature of friendship and of death.
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Walker, Sarai Dietland Mariner Books 2016 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1142645. ISBN #0544704835 / 9780544704831. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Walker, Walter Crime Of Privilege 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104244. ISBN #034554837X / 9780345548375. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Walker, Walter Crime Of Privilege 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104244. ISBN #034554837X / 9780345548375. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SACRAMENTO BEE In the tradition of Scott Turow, William Landay, and Nelson DeMille, Crime of Privilege is a stunning thriller about power, corruption, and the law in America and the dangerous ways they come together. A murder on Cape Cod. A rape in Palm Beach. All they have in common is the presence of one of America s most beloved and influential families. But nobody is asking questions. Not the police. Not the prosecutors. And certainly not George Becket, a young lawyer toiling away in the basement of the Cape Islands district attorney s office. George has always lived at the edge of power. He wasn t born to privilege, but he understands how it works and has benefitted from it in ways he doesn t like to admit. Now, an investigation brings him deep inside the world of the truly wealthy and shows him what a perilous place it is. Years have passed since a young woman was found brutally slain at an exclusive Cape Cod golf club, and no one has ever been charged. Cornered by the victim s father, George can t explain why certain leads were never explored leads that point in the direction of a single family and he agrees to look into it. What begins as a search through the highly stratified layers of Cape Cod society, soon has George racing from Idaho to Hawaii, Costa Rica to France to New York City. But everywhere he goes he discovers people like himself: people with more secrets than answers, people haunted by a decision years past to trade silence for protection from life s sharp edges. George finds his friends are not necessarily still friends and a spouse can be unfaithful in more ways than one. And despite threats at every turn, he is driven to reconstruct the victim s last hours while searching not only for a killer but for his own redemption. Praise for Crime of Privilege Twisting, engrossing, irresistible. William Landay, author of Defending Jacob Stunning . . . an outstanding crime story. Library Journal starred review A terrifically entertaining race of a read . . . jam-packed with intelligence, insight, morality and heart. Top-notch and highly recommended John Lescroart A gripping thriller . . . an unsettling, multilayered look at the insidious symbiosis between power and corruption. Maclean s A legal thriller and a murder mystery cloaked in pure enjoyment . . . The author s wit, dry and cutting, is razor-sharp. Bookreporter An engaging, very well-paced novel . . . exciting and unpredictable. Examiner.com From the Hardcover edition.
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Walker, Wendy All Is Not Forgotten: A Novel 2016 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1145230. ISBN #1250097932 / 9781250097934. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Wall, Patrick D. Trio: The Revolting Intellectuals Organization hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1065803. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Wallace, Daniel Mr. Sebastian And The Negro Magician 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1118703. ISBN #0307279111 / 9780307279118. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Wallace, Daniel Mr. Sebastian And The Negro Magician 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1118703. ISBN #0307279111 / 9780307279118. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Henry Walker was once a world-class magician, performing to sold-out shows in New York. But now he has been reduced to joining Musgrove's Chinese Circus which at no point in its tour of the deep South has ever included a single Chinese person as the shambling Negro Magician, whose dark black skin and electric green eyes bewitch most audiences. But one balmy Mississippi night in 1954, Henry disappears in the company of three rowdy white teens and is never seen again. Wallace pieces together Henry's incredible vagabond life from a deal with a bone-white devil known only as Mr. Sebastian, to the heartrending loss of his sister Hannah and creates an enchanting tale of love, loss, identity, and the limitation of magic.
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Wallace, David Foster Infinite Jest Back Bay Books 1997 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or852258v1. ISBN #0316921173 / 9780316921176. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Wallace, David Foster The Broom of the System Penguin 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1169815. ISBN #0142002429 / 9780142002421. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Wallace, Irving Man hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1040907. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Wallace, Irving The Seven Minutes Simon & Schuster 1969 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or967260. ISBN #0671203592 / 9780671203597. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Wallace, Irving The Seven Minutes Simon & Schuster 1969 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or967260. ISBN #0671203592 / 9780671203597. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The seven minute Irving Wallace's most controversial and explo sive novel to date, certain to stir up national debate from the moment of its publication. It opens with the arrest of a bookstore owner for selling a copy of "the most obscene piece of por nography written since Gutenberg invented moveable type." This notorious, long-banned work which tells the thoughts inside a woman's head during the seven minutes she is engaged in sexual intercourse is condemned under the Cal ifornia Criminal Code for obscenity and is also charged with having driven a respectable college boy to commit a brutal rape and murder. Overnight, as the battle lines are drawn, the defenders of free speech rallying against the "legions of censorship, the Los Angeles obscenity trial erupts into an international cause celebre. In the center of the storm is Michael Barrett, a young lawyer who unwillingly takes the case for the defense and pits himself against an honest but ambitious district attorney, who is backed by relentless and powerful political forces. Behind the scenes, at risk of his life, Bar rett seeks the crucial truth about the mysterious and long dead expatriate author of the book on trial-a book that has become a rallying point in the fight for literary and sexual liberation as well as the symbol of Barrett's own maturity as a man. In his dangerous quest to save the book, the trial, his own future, Barrett crosses the paths of a galaxy of unforgettable characters-includ ing the leering producer of filthy stag films, a sexually permissive society girl, a drunken Greenwich Village poet, the prelate representing the Vatican's Index of Prohibited Books. Gray book boards with gold colored lettering...book measures 8 1 2 x 5 1 2 inches...638 pages...publishers Simon and Schuster,,book club edition.
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Wallace, Irving The Seventh Secret Dutton Adult 1986 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082804. ISBN #0525243828 / 9780525243823. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Wallace, Irving The Seventh Secret Dutton Adult 1986 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082804. ISBN #0525243828 / 9780525243823. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Every week a tall, attractive, older woman named Evelyn Hoffmann make her regular visit to the bustling downtown district of West Berlin....Irving Wallace, whose books have sold over 200 million copies, is one of the most widely read authors in the world. His best-sellers include The Chapman Report, The Prize, The Man, The Word, The Second Lady, and, The Miracle.
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Wallace, Wendy The Painted Bridge Scribner 2012 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1047783. ISBN #1451660820 / 9781451660821. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Wallace, Wendy The Painted Bridge Scribner 2012 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1047783. ISBN #1451660820 / 9781451660821. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An elegant, emotionally suspenseful debut, The Painted Bridge is a story of family betrayals, illicit power, and a woman sent to an asylum against her will in Victorian England. JUST OUTSIDE LONDON, behind a high stone wall, lies Lake House, a private asylum for genteel women of a delicate nature. In the winter of 1859, Anna Palmer becomes its newest patient. To Anna s dismay, her new husband has declared her in need of treatment and brought her to this shabby asylum. Confused and angry, Anna is determined to prove her sanity, but with her husband and doctors unwilling to listen, her freedom will notbe easily won. As the weeks pass, she finds other allies: a visiting physician who believes the new medium of photography may reveal the state of a patient s mind; a longtime patient named Talitha Batt, who seems, to Anna s surprise, to be as sane as she is; and the proprietor s bookish daughter, who also yearns to escape. Yet the longer Anna remains at Lake House, the more she realizes that like the ethereal bridge over the asylum s lake nothing and no one is quite as it appears. Not her fellow patients, her husband, her family not even herself. Locked alone in her room, driven by the treatments of the time into the recesses of her own mind, she may discover the answers and the freedom she seeks . . . or how thin the line between madness and sanity truly is. Wendy Wallace s taut, elegantly crafted first novel, The Painted Bridge, i s a s tory o f f amily betrayals and illicit power; it is also a compelling portrait of the startling history of the psychiatric field and the treatment of women in society and in these institutions. Wallace sets these ideas and her characters on the page beautifully, telling a riveting story that is surprising and deeply moving.
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Waller, Robert James Border Music Grand Central Publishing 1995 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or837404. ISBN #0446518581 / 9780446518581. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Waller, Robert James Border Music Grand Central Publishing 1995 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or837404. ISBN #0446518581 / 9780446518581. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Most people don't run out the back door of a place called the Rainbow Bar in Dillon, Minnesota, with someone they don't even know, get in a pickup truck, drive all day, and end up without any clothes on in a motel room. But that's what Texas Jack Carmine did with Linda Lobo. It was the kind of thing Jack was famous for doing. The people who knew Texas Jack Carmine - such as songwriter Bobby McGregor and Jack's uncle Vaughn Rhomer back in Iowa - called him God's only freeborn soul, rider of the summer roads, traveler of the far places. Where he was headed with dark-haired, long-legged Linda was not just back to his one-horse Texas ranch. It was somewhere he had never been: face to face with his own heart and the wild, strange things that live there. Border Music is the story of Jack and Linda, of long, hot days on a high desert ranch, nights wild with loving beneath West Texas skies, and times when their relationship tears them both apart. It's about Vietnam and the Midwest, and Vaughn Rhomer, an old man who,tries in his own fumbling way to be free. It's about men and women who work hard and care intensely, about romance and the passion that you only find once...and you never stop wanting to find again.
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Waller, Robert James Thousand Country Roads: An Epilogue To The Bridges Of Madison County 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078595. ISBN #0971766711 / 9780971766716. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Waller, Robert James Thousand Country Roads: An Epilogue To The Bridges Of Madison County 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078595. ISBN #0971766711 / 9780971766716. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary At last, the rest of the story. Epilogue: A concluding part added to a literary work. There was something about this man that was out of the ordinary, something almost familiar about him. Sunlight angled down and caught the right side of his face, caught the long gray hair parted in the middle and brushed back along the top and sides. The sea wind came up and blew his hair, and he reached to push it back from his face, pulled an orange suspender higher on his shoulder, adjusted the leather Swiss Army knife case on his belt. The sun passed behind a cloud, and he fell into shadow for a few seconds before sunlight again came on him. She experienced an involuntary shudder and had a powerful urge to walk outside and talk with the man. And later: He was glad he had come. It had not been a mistake. Here, in the old bridge, he felt a kind of serenity, and he bathed in the feeling and came quiet within himself. At that moment, he knew this place would be his home ground, the place where his ashes would someday drift out over Middle River. He hoped some of his dust would become one with the bridge and the land, and that some might wash far downstream and into larger rivers and then into all the seas he had crossed on crowded troop ships or night jets to somewhere. --From A Thousand Country Roads Ten years and twelve million copies after the first printing of The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller brings to a poignant conclusion his story of the love affair between a wandering photographer and the conventional wife of an Iowa farmer. This stirring conclusion is for everyone who loved The Bridges of Madison County. In A Thousand Country Roads, Robert Kincaid initially finds himself with little but memories; memories of a lonely existence lived mostly on the road and memories of Francesca Johnson, the woman whose passion he stirred so briefly and with such power. So, with his memories pushing him, searching for something undefined, something to give meaning to the rest of his life, Kincaid takes to the road again in what becomes a journey of discovery and surprise. With his dog Highway beside him in an old truck named Harry, Kincaid begins a long winding run back to Roseman Bridge in Madison County, Iowa, returning to the place of his great love affair. Living her own solitary life, Francesca still visits Roseman Bridge and reflects on her days with Robert Kincaid. Cherishing the memory of the strange, wandering man who changed her world, she vows to search for him. On the expedition he calls Last Time, Kincaid wanders through Oregon, northern California eastward to the Dakotas, and on to Iowa. Along the way, a chance encounter with a woman from his distant past reveals another dimension of his life that he could not have imagined. Finally, in a Seattle bar called Shortys, where saxophonist Nighthawk Cummings still plays on Tuesday nights, Kincaid turns in his chair, looking inward and outward at the same time, and smiles at what he sees sitting before him. And so it comes, the ultimate loner finds he is not as alone as he once believed.
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Wallin, Luke Redneck Poacher's Son hardcover. Inscribed by Author. 2nd printing. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1083329. ISBN #0027924807 / 9780027924800. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Walls, Jeannette Silver Star 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137027v1. ISBN #1451661541 / 9781451661545. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Walls, Jeannette Silver Star 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137027v1. ISBN #1451661541 / 9781451661545. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls gripping new novel that "transports us with her powerful storytelling...She contemplates the extraordinary bravery needed to confront real-life demons in a world where the hardest thing to do may be to not run away" O, The Oprah Magazine . It is 1970 in a small town in California. Bean Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that s been in Charlotte s family for generations. An impetuous optimist, Bean soon discovers who her father was, and hears stories about why their mother left Virginia in the first place. Money is tight, and the sisters start babysitting and doing office work for Jerry Maddox, foreman of the mill in town, who bullies his workers, his tenants, his children, and his wife. Liz is whip-smart an inventor of word games, reader of Edgar Allan Poe, nonconformist. But when school starts in the fall, it s Bean who easily adjusts, and Liz who becomes increasingly withdrawn. And then something happens to Liz in the car with Maddox. Jeannette Walls has written a deeply moving novel about triumph over adversity and about people who find a way to love each other and the world, despite its flaws and injustices.
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