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Burt, Alexandra Good Daughter 2017 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1112527. ISBN #0451488113 / 9780451488114. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burt, Alexandra Good Daughter 2017 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1112527. ISBN #0451488113 / 9780451488114. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the author of Remember Mia comes the tale of a young woman in search of her past, and the mother who will do anything to keep it hidden... What if you were the worst crime your mother ever committed? Dahlia Waller s childhood memories consist of stuffy cars, seedy motels, and a rootless existence traveling the country with her eccentric mother. Now grown, she desperately wants to distance herself from that life. Yet one thing is stopping her from moving forward: she has questions. In order to understand her past, Dahlia must go back. Back to her mother in the stifling town of Aurora, Texas. Back into the past of a woman on the brink of madness. But after she discovers three grave-like mounds on a neighboring farm, she ll learn that in her mother s world of secrets, not all questions are meant to be answered... READERS GUIDE INSIDE
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Burton, Louisa Bound in Moonlight Bantam 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1117841. ISBN #0553384139 / 9780553384130. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Burton, Louisa Bound in Moonlight Bantam 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1117841. ISBN #0553384139 / 9780553384130. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this provocative follow-up to her sensational debut, House of Dark Delights , Louisa Burton issues another invitation to the notorious Castle of the Hidden Grotto a place of entrancement, temptation, and searing eroticism. For centuries the Castle of the Hidden Grotto, tucked into the French countryside, has provided its guests with a captivating haven where no fantasy is taboo and any erotic dream can be indulged. Seduced into this world by the chateau s beautiful immortal residents, the latest crop of visitors cast off their inhibitions and surrender to their deepest longings . A sheltered heiress is appalled by the licentiousness she encounters at Chateau de la Grotte Cach e, until a beguiling stranger frees her from her gilded cage by tutoring her in the arts of love.... A rector s daughter, in despair over being ruined and impoverished, allows herself to be sold at a slave auction for one week of sexual servitude to an aristocratic master with unorthodox tastes.... A woman with ancient ties to the castle is forced to confront her destiny and a passion as consuming as it is forbidden. Irresistible and deliciously dangerous, Bound in Moonlight propels you into a world of intoxicating sensuality you ll want to return to again and again.
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Bushnell, O. A. The Return of Lono: A Novel of Captain Cook's Last Voyage hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1049491. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Buti, Bruno Rumbling Wine Barrels Buti Publications 1996 hardcover. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1013430. ISBN #0964896001 / 9780964896000. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Buti, Bruno Rumbling Wine Barrels Buti Publications 1996 hardcover. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1013430. ISBN #0964896001 / 9780964896000. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Action Drama Comedy A lusty, fast paced, chaotic but comical tale about Italians hijacking wine in defiance of Prohibition. The unsung heroes that led to the repeal of prohibition. The Robin Hoods of the Roaring Twenties Early childhood experiences and recalling of the many family stories told by the old folks, their friends and colleagues enabled the author, Bruno Buti to gather enough material and factual documentation to tell this tale of prohibition in the San Francisco Bay Area during the exciting Twenties. The author recalls the many stories and anecdotes passed down by the old folks, their friends and colleagues. In his first book, Rumbling Wine Barrels , he unveils fond memories by taking us back to a time when a group of Italian immigrants engaged in a fast paced, chaotic but comical, hell bent for destruction wine hijacking escapade centered in San Francisco. He tells how, during prohibition, these cunning rascals outwitted federal agents linked to East Coast syndicates, and how old world vendettas were settled in the traditional Italian manner associated with this lucrative but risky business. Truths and half-truths, having been skillfully dramatized, reflect a time in San Francisco's history that spawned these would-be unsung heroes of prohibition, "The Robin Hoods of the Roaring Twenties." The front cover scene depicts a chaotic wine hijacking in progress. We see Primo Novelli, behind the wheel of the Mack truck as it comes roaring out of the warehouse with Al Giovanetti, hanging on, wielding a skullcrushing tire iron. In an attempt to thwart their escape, the gangster, Lungo, gun drawn, faces up to both man and machine. Primo, urged by Al, makes a split-second decision. With accelerator to the floorboard, the huge Mack bears down on the gunman. Obscured in the background street scene, as all hell breaks loose, is Primo's buddy, Puccinelli Pucci the San Francisco Fire Inspector, with a company of loyal firefighters running interference for the hijackers. However, they were forced to take cover as the big Mack came rumbling by, leaving crushed and gyrating fire hoses in its wake.
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Butler, Andre Way Of All Flesh Doubleday hardcover. Book Club. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Tears and damage to jacket. Book #or1145669. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Butler, Jack Jujitsu For Christ 1988 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078982. ISBN #0140103740 / 9780140103748. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Butler, Jack Jujitsu For Christ 1988 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078982. ISBN #0140103740 / 9780140103748. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ --originally published in 1986--follows the adventures of Roger Wing, a white born-again Christian and karate instructor who opens a martial arts studio in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, during the tensest years of the Civil Rights era. Ambivalent about his religion and his region, he befriends the Gandys, an African-American family--parents A. L. and Snower Mae, teenaged son T. J., daughter Eleanor Roosevelt, and youngest son Marcus--who has moved to Jackson from the Delta in hopes of greater opportunity for their children. As the political heat rises, Roger and the Gandys find their lives intersecting in unexpected ways. Their often-hilarious interactions are told against the backdrop of Mississippi's racial trauma--Governor Ross Barnett's "I Love Mississippi" speech at the 1962 Ole Miss-Kentucky football game in Jackson; the riots at the University of Mississippi over James Meredith's admission; the fieldwork of Medgar Evers, the NAACP, and various activist organizations; and the lingering aura of Emmett Till's lynching. Drawing not only on William Faulkner's gothic-modernist Yoknapatawpha County but also on Edgar Rice Burroughs's high-adventure Martian pulps, Jujitsu for Christ powerfully illuminates vexed questions of racial identity and American history, revealing complexities and subtleties too often overlooked. It is a remarkable novel about the civil rights era, and how our memories of that era continue to shape our political landscape and to resonate in contemporary conversations about southern identity. But, mostly, it's very funny, in a mode that's experimental, playful, sexy, and disturbing all at once. Butler offers a new foreword to the novel. Brannon Costello, a scholar of contemporary southern literature and fan of Butler's work, writes an afterword that situates the novel in its historical context and in the southern literary canon.
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Butler, Robert Olen A Small Hotel Grove Press 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1102644. ISBN #0802145833 / 9780802145833. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Butler, Robert Olen A Small Hotel Grove Press 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1102644. ISBN #0802145833 / 9780802145833. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler s books have looked at topics as considerable and diverse as hell, extraterrestrials, and Vietnam. His acclaimed twelfth novel, A Small Hotel , chosen for O Magazine s Summer Reading List, offers a more intimate scope as it chronicles the complexities of a disintegrating relationship over the course of twenty years. Set in contemporary New Orleans but working its way back in time, A Small Hotel follows the lives of Michael and Kelly Hays, a couple of the brink of divorce. On the day the Hays are due in court to finalize their separation, Kelly drives from her home in Pensacola and across the panhandle to New Orleans. She checks into room 303 at the Olivier House in the city s French Quarter the hotel where she and Michael fell in love, and where she must now contemplate a startling decision that will hold devastating consequences for her family, including her nineteen-year-old daughter. Butler masterfully weaves scenes of the present with memories from the viewpoints of both Michael and Kelly scenes that span two decades, taking the reader back to critical moments in the couple s relationship and revealing a passionate love tragically undone by miscommunication and insecurity.
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Buxbaum, Julie Opposite Of Love 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067755. ISBN #0385341237 / 9780385341233. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Buxbaum, Julie Opposite Of Love 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067755. ISBN #0385341237 / 9780385341233. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary With perfect pitch for the humor and heartbreak of everyday life, debut author Julie Buxbaum has fashioned a heroine who will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has loved and lost and loved again. When twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is about to propose, she can t explain to even her closest friends why she did it. But somewhere beneath her independent exterior, Emily knows her breakup with Andrew has less to do with him and more to do with...her. It s like you get pleasure out of breaking your own heart, her best friend Jess tells her. As the holidays loom and Emily contemplates whether she made a huge mistake, the rest of her world begins to unravel. She s assigned to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit where she must defend the very values she detests by a boss who can t keep his hands to himself her Grandpa Jack, the person she cares most about in the world, is losing it, while her emotionally distant father has left her to cope alone and underneath it all, memories of her deceased mother remind her that love doesn t last forever. How this brave young woman finally faces the fears that have long haunted her is the great achievement of this marvelous first novel, written with authority,
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Byatt, A.S. Babel Tower Random House 1996 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1102153. ISBN #0679405135 / 9780679405139. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Byatt, A.S. Babel Tower Random House 1996 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1102153. ISBN #0679405135 / 9780679405139. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession presents a stunning, contemporary story set against the clashing politics, passionate ideals, and shifting sexual roles of the early 1960s. In Byatt's vision, the presiding genius of the day seems to be a blend of the Marquis de Sade and The Hobbit. Peopled with weird and colorful characters, charted with brilliant, imaginative sympathy, Babel Tower is as comic as it is threatening and bizarre.
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Byatt, A.S. Whistling Woman 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104935. ISBN #0375415343 / 9780375415340. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Byatt, A.S. Whistling Woman 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104935. ISBN #0375415343 / 9780375415340. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This electrifying new novel forms the triumphant conclusion to the great Frederica quartet depicting the forces in English life from the early 50s to 1970. While Frederica -- the spirited heroine of Virgin in the Garden , Still Life , and Babel Tower -- falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life and those of the people she loves. In the late 1960s the world begins to split. Near the university, where the scientists Luk and Jacqueline are studying snails and neurons and the working of the brain, an anti-university springs up. On the high moors nearby, a gentle therapeutic community is taken over by a turbulent, charismatic leader. Visions of blood and flames, of mirrors and doubles, share the refracting energy of Frederica s mosaic-like television shows. The languages of religion, myth and fairy-tale overlap with the terms of science and the new computer age. Darkness and light are in perpetual tension and the meaning of love itself seems to vanish; people flounder, often comically, to find their true sexual, intellectual and emotional identity. The focus of these novels first widened from the old nuclear family to the experimental group and now narrows again to reveal the different, modern patterns of intimacy which emerged in these years. Through her wayward, lovingly drawn characters and breath-taking twists of plot, Byatt illuminates the effervescence of the 1960s -- both its excitements and its dangers -- as no one has done before. A Whistling Woman is the ultimate novel of ideas made flesh -- gloriously sensual, sexy and scary, bursting with ideas, contradictions, scientific discoveries, ethical conflicts, sly humour and wonderful humanity.
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Bynum, Sarah Shun-lien Madeleine Is Sleeping 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078725. ISBN #0151010595 / 9780151010592. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bynum, Sarah Shun-lien Madeleine Is Sleeping 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078725. ISBN #0151010595 / 9780151010592. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary 2004 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST When a girl falls into a deep and impenetrable sleep, the borders between her provincial French village and the peculiar, beguiling realm of her dreams begin to disappear: A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight; a failed photographer stumbles into the role of pornographer; a beautiful young wife grows to resemble her husband's viol. And in their midst travels Madeleine, the dreamer, who is trying to make sense of her own metamorphosis. Part fairy tale, part coming-of-age story, this enchantingly inventive novel follows Madeleine as she leaves home, joins a gypsy circus, and falls into an unexpected triangle of desire and love. Embracing the earthy and the ethereal, the comical and the poignant, Madeleine Is Sleeping is an adventure in the discovery of art, sexuality, community, and the self that transcends both time and place.
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Bynum, Sarah Shun-Lien Madeleine Is Sleeping 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133036. ISBN #0156032279 / 9780156032278. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bynum, Sarah Shun-Lien Madeleine Is Sleeping 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133036. ISBN #0156032279 / 9780156032278. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When a girl falls into a deep and impenetrable sleep, the borders between her provincial French village and the peculiar, beguiling realm of her dreams begin to disappear: A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight; a failed photographer stumbles into the role of pornographer; a beautiful young wife grows to resemble her husband's viol. And in their midst travels Madeleine, the dreamer, who is trying to make sense of her own metamorphosis as she leaves home, joins a gypsy circus, and falls into an unexpected triangle of desire and love. Madeleine Is Sleeping received jubilant critical acclaim and was honored with a National Book Award nomination. Part fairy tale, part coming-of-age story, this "dream of a book" Michael Cunningham is an adventure in the discovery of art, sexuality, community, and the self.
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Bynum, Sarah Shun-Lien Ms. Hempel Chronicles 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084882. ISBN #0547247753 / 9780547247755. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bynum, Sarah Shun-Lien Ms. Hempel Chronicles 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084882. ISBN #0547247753 / 9780547247755. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Ms. Beatrice Hempel, teacher of seventh grade, is new new to teaching, new to the school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her idiosyncratic father. Grappling awkwardly with her newness, she struggles to figure out what is expected of her in life and at work. Is it acceptable to introduce swear words into the English curriculum, enlist students to write their own report cards, or bring up personal experiences while teaching a sex-education class? Sarah Shun-lien Bynum finds characters at their most vulnerable, then explores those precarious moments in sharp, graceful prose. From this most innovative of young writers comes another journey down the rabbit hole to the wonderland of middle school, memory, daydreaming, and the extraordinary business of growing up. 20090901
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Byrne, Donn Blind Raftery and His Wife, Hilaria hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Wear from use. Cracked Hinge / still useable. Book #or1123241. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Byrne, Donn Blind Raftery and His Wife, Hilaria hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1123243. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cable, George W. Kincaid'S Battery hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1115265. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cahan, Abraham Rise of David Levinsky hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1109905. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Caldwell, Bo City Of Tranquil Light 2010 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084842. ISBN #0805092285 / 9780805092288. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Caldwell, Bo City Of Tranquil Light 2010 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084842. ISBN #0805092285 / 9780805092288. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "What ardent, dazzling souls emerge from these American missionaries in China . . . A beautiful, searing book that leaves an indelible presence in the mind." Patricia Hampl, author of The Florist's Daughter Will Kiehn is seemingly destined for life as a humble farmer in the Midwest when, having felt a call from God, he travels to the vast North China Plain in the early twentieth-century. There he is surprised by love and weds a strong and determined fellow missionary, Katherine. They soon find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a more than two-thousand-year-old dynasty that plunges the country into decades of civil war. As the couple works to improve the lives of the people of Kuang P'ing Ch'eng City of Tranquil Light, a place they come to love and face incredible hardship, will their faith and relationship be enough to sustain them? Told through Will and Katherine's alternating viewpoints and inspired by the lives of the author's maternal grandparents City of Tranquil Light is a tender and elegiac portrait of a young marriage set against the backdrop of the shifting face of a beautiful but torn nation. A deeply spiritual book, it shows how those who work to teach others often have the most to learn, and is further evidence that Bo Caldwell writes "vividly and with great historical perspective" San Jose Mercury News .
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Caldwell, Bo Distant Land Of My Father 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1074100. ISBN #0156027135 / 9780156027137. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Caldwell, Bo Distant Land Of My Father 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1074100. ISBN #0156027135 / 9780156027137. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Anna, the narrator of this riveting first novel, lives in a storybook world: exotic pre- World War II Shanghai, with handsome young parents, wealth, and comfort. Her father, the son of missionaries, leads a charmed and secretive life, though his greatest joy is sharing his beloved city with his only daughter. Yet when Anna and her mother flee Japanese-occupied Shanghai to return to California, he stays behind, believing his connections and a little bit of luck will keep him safe. Through Anna's memories and her father's journals we learn of his fall from charismatic millionaire to tortured prisoner, in a story of betrayal and reconciliation that spans two continents. The Distant Land of My Father , a breathtaking and richly lyrical debut, unfolds to reveal an enduring family love through tragic circumstances. National Bestseller
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