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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. Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice Vintage International 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155913. ISBN #0375705759 / 9780375705755. (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 ) *
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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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Cabell, James Branch Rivet In Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy Of Limitations Robert M. McBride & Company 1915 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1071002. (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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Calasso, Roberto Marriage of Cadmus & Harmony Vintage Inter. 1993 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153330. ISBN #0394581547 / 9780394581545. (keywords: FICTION GENERAL) (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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Caldwell, Ian The Fifth Gospel Simon & Schuster 2015 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082998. ISBN #1451694148 / 9781451694147. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Caldwell, Ian The Fifth Gospel Simon & Schuster 2015 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082998. ISBN #1451694148 / 9781451694147. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Instant New York Times Bestseller Masterful... The Fifth Gospel is that rare story: erudite and a page-turner, literary but compulsively readable. It will change the way you look at organized religion, humanity, and perhaps yourself. David Baldacci A gripping thriller rich with human drama and forbidden knowledge. Lev Grossman A lost gospel, a contentious relic, and a dying pope s final wish converge to send two brothers both Vatican priests on an intellectual quest to untangle Christianity s greatest historical mystery. Ten years ago, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason s The Rule of Four became a literary phenomenon that sold nearly two million copies in North America and was hailed by critics as ingenious profoundly erudite The New York Times , compulsively readable People , and an exceptional piece of scholarship San Francisco Chronicle . Now, after a decade of painstaking primary research, Ian Caldwell returns with a masterful new thriller that confirms his place among the most ambitious popular storytellers working today. In 2004, as Pope John Paul II s reign enters its twilight, a mysterious exhibit is under construction at the Vatican Museums. A week before it is scheduled to open, its curator is murdered at a clandestine meeting on the outskirts of Rome. That same night, a violent break-in rocks the home of the curator s research partner, Father Alex Andreou, a Greek Catholic priest who lives inside the Vatican with his five-year-old son. When the papal police fail to identify a suspect in either crime, Father Alex, desperate to keep his family safe, undertakes his own investigation. To find the killer he must reconstruct the dead curator s secret: what the four Christian gospels and a little-known, true-to-life fifth gospel known as the Diatessaron reveal about the Church s most controversial holy relic. But just as he begins to understand the truth about his friend s death and its consequences for the future of the world s two largest Christian Churches, Father Alex finds himself hunted down by someone with a vested stake in the exhibit someone he must outwit to survive. At once a riveting intellectual thriller, a feast of biblical history and scholarship, and a moving family drama, The Fifth Gospel is a story of sacrifice, forgiveness, and redemption. Peppered with references to real-life people, places, and events, the narrative rings true, taking the reader on an emotional journey nearly two thousand years in the making Library Journal, starred review .
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Caldwell, Ian The Fifth Gospel Simon & Schuster 2015 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149752. ISBN #1451694148 / 9781451694147. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Caldwell, Ian The Fifth Gospel Simon & Schuster 2015 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149752. ISBN #1451694148 / 9781451694147. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Instant New York Times Bestseller Masterful... The Fifth Gospel is that rare story: erudite and a page-turner, literary but compulsively readable. It will change the way you look at organized religion, humanity, and perhaps yourself. David Baldacci A gripping thriller rich with human drama and forbidden knowledge. Lev Grossman A lost gospel, a contentious relic, and a dying pope s final wish converge to send two brothers both Vatican priests on an intellectual quest to untangle Christianity s greatest historical mystery. Ten years ago, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason s The Rule of Four became a literary phenomenon that sold nearly two million copies in North America and was hailed by critics as ingenious profoundly erudite The New York Times , compulsively readable People , and an exceptional piece of scholarship San Francisco Chronicle . Now, after a decade of painstaking primary research, Ian Caldwell returns with a masterful new thriller that confirms his place among the most ambitious popular storytellers working today. In 2004, as Pope John Paul II s reign enters its twilight, a mysterious exhibit is under construction at the Vatican Museums. A week before it is scheduled to open, its curator is murdered at a clandestine meeting on the outskirts of Rome. That same night, a violent break-in rocks the home of the curator s research partner, Father Alex Andreou, a Greek Catholic priest who lives inside the Vatican with his five-year-old son. When the papal police fail to identify a suspect in either crime, Father Alex, desperate to keep his family safe, undertakes his own investigation. To find the killer he must reconstruct the dead curator s secret: what the four Christian gospels and a little-known, true-to-life fifth gospel known as the Diatessaron reveal about the Church s most controversial holy relic. But just as he begins to understand the truth about his friend s death and its consequences for the future of the world s two largest Christian Churches, Father Alex finds himself hunted down by someone with a vested stake in the exhibit someone he must outwit to survive. At once a riveting intellectual thriller, a feast of biblical history and scholarship, and a moving family drama, The Fifth Gospel is a story of sacrifice, forgiveness, and redemption. Peppered with references to real-life people, places, and events, the narrative rings true, taking the reader on an emotional journey nearly two thousand years in the making Library Journal, starred review .
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Caldwell, Taylor Melissa Charles Scribner's Sons 1948 hardcover. Dustjacket is heavily chipped, closed tear, 3" piece missing on spine. Previous owner name and information on front pastedown. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1142619. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Callaway, Joy Fifth Avenue Artists Society 2016 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068851. ISBN #0062391615 / 9780062391612. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Callaway, Joy Fifth Avenue Artists Society 2016 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1068851. ISBN #0062391615 / 9780062391612. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Bronx, 1891. Virginia Loftin, the boldest of four artistic sisters in a family living in genteel poverty, knows what she wants most: to become a celebrated novelist despite her gender, and to marry Charlie, the boy next door and her first love. When Charlie proposes instead to a woman from a wealthy family, Ginny is devastated; shutting out her family, she holes up and turns their story into fiction, obsessively rewriting a better ending. Though she works with newfound intensity, literary success eludes her until she attends a salon hosted in her brother s writer friend John Hopper s Fifth Avenue mansion. Among painters, musicians, actors, and writers, Ginny returns to herself, even blooming under the handsome, enigmatic John s increasingly romantic attentions. Just as she and her siblings have become swept up in the society, though, Charlie throws himself back into her path, and Ginny learns that the salon s bright lights may be obscuring some dark shadows. Torn between two worlds that aren t quite as she d imagined them, Ginny will realize how high the stakes are for her family, her writing, and her chance at love.
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Callaway, Joy Fifth Avenue Artists Society 2016 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145231. ISBN #0062391615 / 9780062391612. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Callaway, Joy Fifth Avenue Artists Society 2016 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145231. ISBN #0062391615 / 9780062391612. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary The Bronx, 1891. Virginia Loftin, the boldest of four artistic sisters in a family living in genteel poverty, knows what she wants most: to become a celebrated novelist despite her gender, and to marry Charlie, the boy next door and her first love. When Charlie proposes instead to a woman from a wealthy family, Ginny is devastated; shutting out her family, she holes up and turns their story into fiction, obsessively rewriting a better ending. Though she works with newfound intensity, literary success eludes her until she attends a salon hosted in her brother s writer friend John Hopper s Fifth Avenue mansion. Among painters, musicians, actors, and writers, Ginny returns to herself, even blooming under the handsome, enigmatic John s increasingly romantic attentions. Just as she and her siblings have become swept up in the society, though, Charlie throws himself back into her path, and Ginny learns that the salon s bright lights may be obscuring some dark shadows. Torn between two worlds that aren t quite as she d imagined them, Ginny will realize how high the stakes are for her family, her writing, and her chance at love.
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Calvino , Italo If On a Winter's Night a Traveler Harcourt Brace Jovanavich 1981 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1158890. ISBN #0156439611 / 9780156439619. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Calvino, Italo Invisible Cities HBJ Books 1974 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1153788. ISBN #0156453800 / 9780156453806. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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