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Camus, Albert Stranger Vintage International, Random House 1989 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1138035. ISBN #0679720200 / 9780679720201. (keywords: Fiction, Murder, France, Suspense) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Candela, Margo Good-bye To All That 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1025259. ISBN #1416571353 / 9781416571353. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Candela, Margo Good-bye To All That 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1025259. ISBN #1416571353 / 9781416571353. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When her Hollywood career goes haywire, a young woman must say good-bye to all that . . . or must she? Raquel Azorian has worked her way from temp to executive assistant and is this close to a promotion to junior marketing exec at Belmore Corporation, the media behemoth she s devoted herself to. She s learned to play the Hollywood game navigate office politics, schmooze the right people, avoid the wrong ones, and maintain a sense of decorum even in the craziest of times. All she needs is for her boss to sign her promotion memo. Instead of putting pen to paper, he suffers a very public meltdown that puts not only his professional future but also Raquel s on the line. Getting to the next rung on the Belmore ladder will require every ounce of focus, but that s not going to be easy. Raquel s mom has decided to leave her husband and move into Raquel s apartment, and her older brother seems to be sinking deeper and deeper into depression. Raquel has to keep her job, stop her parents from divorcing, and save her brother. In the chaos of juggling so much, she finally reaches a breaking point: there s just not enough time for everything or for everyone. She s going to have to choose success at work or happiness at home. But then a chance encounter at a bookstore caf leads Raquel to start planning her own Hollywood ending . . . on her own terms.
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Canin, Ethan Emperor of the Air: Stories Harper Perennial 1989 paperback. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099638. ISBN #0060972084 / 9780060972080. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Canin, Ethan Emperor of the Air: Stories Harper Perennial 1989 paperback. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099638. ISBN #0060972084 / 9780060972080. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Highly acclaimed and wildly successful, Ethan Canin's first book combines exquisite precision, humor, and a rare maturity of observation, capturing those miraculous moments when life opens up and presents itself to us. Here are short stories by a writer under thirty that aren't about existential emptiness. Full of life, rich with personal history, plot, and revelation, the stories in Empeor of the Air are the work of an extraordinarily gifted young writer.
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Canton, Beverly All Things Possible paperback. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1008379. ISBN #096448577X / 9780964485778. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cantrell, Rebecca Trace Of Smoke 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078050. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cantrell, Rebecca Trace Of Smoke 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078050. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Even though hardened crime reporter Hannah Vogel knows all too well how tough it is to survive in 1931 Berlin, she is devastated when she sees a photograph of her brother s body posted in the Hall of the Unnamed Dead. Ernst, a cross-dressing lounge singer at a seedy nightclub, had many secrets, a never-ending list of lovers, and plenty of opportunities to get into trouble. Hannah delves into the city s dark underbelly to flush out his murderer, but the late night arrival of a five-year-old orphan on her doorstep complicates matters. The endearing Anton claims that Hannah is his mother and that her dead brother Ernst is his father. As her investigations into Ernst s murder and Anton's parentage uncover political intrigue and sex scandals in the top ranks of the rising Nazi party, Hannah fears not only for her own life, but for that of a small boy who has come to call her mother.
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Cao, Lan Monkey Bridge 1998 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1065856. ISBN #0140263616 / 9780140263619. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cao, Lan Monkey Bridge 1998 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1065856. ISBN #0140263616 / 9780140263619. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Hailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war. Like navigating a monkey bridge?a bridge, built of spindly bamboo, used by peasants for centuries?the narrative traverses perilously between worlds past and present, East and West, in telling two interlocking stories: one, the Vietnamese version of the classic immigrant experience in America, told by a young girl; and the second, a dark tale of betrayal, political intrigue, family secrets, and revenge?her mother?s tale. The haunting and beautiful terrain of Monkey Bridge is the "luminous motion," as it is called in Vietnamese myth and legend, between generations, encompassing Vietnamese lore, history, and dreams of the past as well as of the future. "With incredible lightness, balance and elegance," writes Isabel Allende, "ALan Cao crosses? over an abyss of pain, loss, separation and exile, connecting on one level the opposite realities of Vietnam and North America, and on a deeper level the realities of the material world and the world of the spirits." Quality Paperback Book Club Selection and New Voices Award nominee A Philadelphia Inquirer Best of the Rest of Summer 1997 pick A Kiriyama Pacific Rim Award Book Prize nominee
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Capote, Truman Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel Random House 1987 hardcover. Book Club edition. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or988810. ISBN #0394556453 / 9780394556451. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Capote, Truman Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel Random House 1987 hardcover. Book Club edition. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or988810. ISBN #0394556453 / 9780394556451. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Although Truman Capote s last, unfinished novel offers a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time. Tracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La C te Basque, from literary salons to high-priced whorehouses. It takes in calculating beauties and sadistic husbands along with such real-life supporting characters as Colette, the Duchess of Windsor, Montgomery Clift, and Tallulah Bankhead. Above all, this malevolently finny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty.
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Capote, Truman Thanksgiving Visitor Random House 1967 hardcover. Book comes with slip case. Slip Case has light soiling.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or846860. ISBN #0679602372 / 9780679602378. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carcaterra, Lorenzo Sleepers Ballantine Books 1995 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1007967. ISBN #0345396065 / 9780345396068. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carcaterra, Lorenzo Sleepers Ballantine Books 1995 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1007967. ISBN #0345396065 / 9780345396068. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This is the true story of four young boys. Four lifelong friends. Intelligent, fun-loving, wise beyond their years, they are inseparable. Their potential is unlimited, but they are content to live within the closed world of New York City's Hell's Kitchen. And to play as many pranks as they can on the denizens of the street. They never get caught. And they know they never will. Until one disastrous summer afternoon. On that day, what begins as a harmless scheme goes horrible wrong. And the four find themselves facing a year's imprisonment in the Wilkinson Home for Boys. The oldest of them is fifteen, the youngest twelve. What happens to them over the course of that year--brutal beatings, unimaginable humiliation--will change their lives forever. Years later, one has become a lawyer. One a reporter. And two have grown up to be murderers, professional hit men. For all of them, the pain and fear of Wilkinson still rages within. Only one thing can erase it. Revenge. To exact it, they will twist the legal system. Commandeer the courtroom for their agenda. Use the wiles they observed on the streets, the violence they learned at Wilkinson. If they get caught this time, they only have one thing left to lose: their lives. Sleepers is the extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands. Brilliantly written, it is a searing portrait of a system gone awry and of the people--some innocent, some not so innocent--who must suffer the consequences. At the heart of Sleepers is a sensational murder trial that ultimately gives devastating, yet exhilarating, proof of street justice and truly defines the meaning of loyalty and love between friends. Told with great humor and compassion, even at its most harrowing, Sleepers is an unforgettable reading experience. It will leave you breathless.
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Cardona-Hine, Alvaro Half-Eaten Angel: Book One, Agapito: Book Two: Tuna Nodin Press 1981 paperback. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or972741. ISBN #0931714141 / 9780931714146. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cardona-Hine, Alvaro Half-Eaten Angel: Book One, Agapito: Book Two: Tuna Nodin Press 1981 paperback. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or972741. ISBN #0931714141 / 9780931714146. (filed under: Fiction ) *
Book One: Agapito. Book Two: Tuna.
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Carey, Jacqueline Saints Astray Grand Central Publishing 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or855430. ISBN #0446571423 / 9780446571425. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carey, Lisa In The Country Of The Young Perennial 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or987149. ISBN #0060937742 / 9780060937744. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carey, Lisa In The Country Of The Young Perennial 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or987149. ISBN #0060937742 / 9780060937744. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary On a stormy November night in 1848, a ship carrying more than a hundred Irish emigrants ran aground twenty miles off the coast of Maine. Many were saved, but some were not -- including a young girl who died crying out the name of her brother. In the present day, the artist Oisin MacDara lives in self-imposed exile on Tiranogue -- the small island where the shipwrecked Irish settled. The past is Oisin's curse, as memories of the twin sister who died tragically when he was a boy haunt him still. Then on a quiet All Hallows' Eve, a restless spirit is beckoned into his home by a candle flickering in the window: the ghost of the girl whose brief life ended on Tiranogue's shore more than a century earlier. In Oisin's house she seeks comfort and warmth, and a chance at the life that was denied her so long ago. For a lonely man chained by painful memories, nothing will ever be the same again.
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Carey, Peter Illywhacker paperback. . Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1087872. ISBN #0702232599 / 9780702232596. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carey, Peter Jack Maggs Vintage International 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1002008. ISBN #0679760377 / 9780679760375. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carey, Peter Jack Maggs Vintage International 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1002008. ISBN #0679760377 / 9780679760375. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. He has the demeanor of a savage and the skills of a hardened criminal, and he is risking his life on seeking vengeance and reconciliation. Installing himself within the household of the genteel grocer Percy Buckle, Maggs soon attracts the attention of a cross section of London society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. The writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hypnosis. But Maggs is obsessed with a plan of his own. And as all the various schemes converge, Maggs rises into the center, a dark looming figure, at once frightening, mysterious, and compelling. Not since Caleb Carr's The Alienist have the shadowy city streets of the nineteenth century lit up with such mystery and ro
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Carey, Peter True History Of The Kelly Gang Alfred A. Knopf 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or978730. ISBN #0702233218 / 9780702233210. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carey, Peter True History Of The Kelly Gang Alfred A. Knopf 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or978730. ISBN #0702233218 / 9780702233210. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs . Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also at a distance of many thousand miles and more than a century a Great American Novel. This is Ned Kelly's true confession, in his own words and written on the run for an infant daughter he has never seen. To the authorities, this son of dirt-poor Irish immigrants was a born thief and, ultimately, a cold-blooded murderer; to most other Australians, he was a scapegoat and patriot persecuted by "English" landlords and their agents. With his brothers and two friends, Kelly eluded a massive police manhunt for twenty months, living by his wits and strong heart, supplementing his bushwhacking skills with ingenious bank robberies while enjoying the support of most everyone not in uniform. He declined to flee overseas when he could, bound to win his jailed mother's freedom by any means possible, including his own surrender. In the end, however, she served out her sentence in the same Melbourne prison where, in 1880, her son was hanged. Still his country's most powerful legend, Ned Kelly is here chiefly a man in full: devoted son, loving husband, fretful father, and loyal friend, now speaking as if from the grave. With this mythic outlaw and the story of his mighty travails and exploits, and with all the force of a classic Western, Peter Carey has breathed life into a historical figure who transcends all borders and embodies tragedy, perseverance, and freedom.
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Carey, Peter True History Of The Kelly Gang paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1079021. ISBN #0375724672 / 9780375724671. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carey, Peter True History of the Kelly Gang Faber & Faber 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130486. ISBN #0571209874 / 9780571209873. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carey, Peter True History of the Kelly Gang Faber & Faber 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130486. ISBN #0571209874 / 9780571209873. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey gives Ned Kelly a voice so wild, passionate and original that it is impossible not to believe that the famous bushranger himself is speaking from beyond the grave. True History of the Kelly Gang is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart-wrenching. Carey gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, as horse thief, farmer, bushranger, reformer, bank-robber, police-killer and, finally, as his country's beloved Robin Hood.
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Carhart, Thad Piano Shop On The Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier Random House Trade Paperbacks 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or988316. ISBN #0375758623 / 9780375758621. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carhart, Thad Piano Shop On The Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier Random House Trade Paperbacks 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or988316. ISBN #0375758623 / 9780375758621. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Walking his two young children to school every morning, Thad Carhart passes an unassuming little storefront in his Paris neighborhood. Intrigued by its simple sign Desforges Pianos he enters, only to have his way barred by the shop s imperious owner. Unable to stifle his curiosity, he finally lands the proper introduction, and a world previously hidden is brought into view. Luc, the atelier s master, proves an indispensable guide to the history and art of the piano. Intertwined with the story of a musical friendship are reflections on how pianos work, their glorious history, and stories of the people who care for them, from amateur pianists to the craftsmen who make the mechanism sing. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is at once a beguiling portrait of a Paris not found on any map and a tender account of the awakening of a lost childhood passion. Praise for The Piano Shop on the Left Bank : Carhart s writing is fluid and lovely enough to lure the rustiest plunker back to the piano bench and the most jaded traveler back to Paris. San Francisco Chronicle Captivating . . . Carhart joins the tiny company of foreigners who have written of the French as verbs. . . . What he tries to capture is not the sight of them, but what they see. The New York Times Thoroughly engaging . . . In part it is a book about that most unpredictable and pleasurable of human experiences, serendipity. . . . The book is also about something more difficult to pin down, friendship and community. The Washington Post Carhart writes with a sensuousness enhanced by patience and grounded by the humble acquisition of new insight into music, his childhood, and his relationship to the city of Paris. The New Yorker NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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