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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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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, 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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Butler, Robert Olen Hell Grove Press 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1165956. ISBN #0802145094 / 9780802145093. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Butler, Robert Olen Hell Grove Press 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1165956. ISBN #0802145094 / 9780802145093. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Hatcher McCord is an evening news presenter who has found himself in Hell and is struggling to explain his bad fortune. He s not the only one to suffer this fate in fact, he s surrounded by an outrageous cast of characters, including Humphrey Bogart, William Shakespeare, and almost all of the popes and most of the U.S. presidents. The question may be not who is in Hell but who isn t. McCord is living with Anne Boleyn in the afterlife but their happiness is, of course, constantly derailed by her obsession with Henry VIII and the removal of her head at rather inopportune moments . One day McCord meets Dante s Beatrice, who believes there is a way out of Hell, and the next morning, during an exclusive on-camera interview with Satan, McCord realizes that Satan s omniscience, which he has always credited for the perfection of Hell s torments, may be a mirage and Butler is off on a madcap romp about good, evil, free will, and the possibility of escape. Butler s depiction of Hell is original, intelligent, and fiercely comic, a book Dante might have c
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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. 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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Cabot, Meg Queen of Babble in the Big City HarperCollinsPublishers 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1166881. ISBN #0060852011 / 9780060852016. (keywords: Fiction, Chick Lit, New York) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cabot, Meg Queen of Babble in the Big City William Morrow 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1169985. ISBN #0060852011 / 9780060852016. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cabot, Meg Queen of Babble: A Novel Avon Books 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1169944. ISBN #0060851996 / 9780060851996. (keywords: Fiction, Chick Lit) (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, Erskine God's Little Acre The Modern Library 1934 hardcover. Soft boards. Dust jacket has staining and is chipped, including a large piece on rear cover.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1168720. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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