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Carter, Stephen L. The Emperor of Ocean Park Vintage 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or966058. ISBN #0375712925 / 9780375712920. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carter, Stephen L. The Emperor of Ocean Park Vintage 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or966058. ISBN #0375712925 / 9780375712920. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seabord families who summer at Martha s Vineyard and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school. Talcott Garland is a successful law professor, devoted father, and husband of a beautiful and ambitious woman, whose future desires may threaten the family he holds so dear. When Talcott s father, Judge Oliver Garland, a disgraced former Supreme Court nominee, is found dead under suspicioius circumstances, Talcott wonders if he may have been murdered. Guided by the elements of a mysterious puzzle that his father left, Talcott must risk his marriage, his career and even his life in his quest for justice. Superbly written and filled with memorable characters, The Emperor of Ocean Park is both a stunning literary achievement and a grand literary entert
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Carter, Steve Cauldron 2013 paperback. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119115. ISBN #1490943862 / 9781490943862. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carter, Steve Cauldron 2013 paperback. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119115. ISBN #1490943862 / 9781490943862. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The first Saxton-Brown adventure Fueled by American historical events from 1854-1884, The Saxton-Brown Series follows the adventures of John Saxton the only child of a rich Boston shipping magnate and Matari a Maasai warrior who escaped slavery in Zanzibar , known as Marcus Brown. Together they fight as Union guerrillas against the Confederacy and all it stands for. Confederate Major Horatio Garrow and his brutish partner Harley Blackstone are mad men filled with hate and greed, dedicated to one cause their own. A supporting cast of unforgettable characters are caught up in a vicious web of murder, dark secrets, betrayal and intrigue, where only survival matters. In Book One: The Cauldron, a young John Saxton watches helplessly as brutal slavers throw human cargo overboard to avoid capture by the Africa Patrol. From then on, the Boston shipping heir and his mentor Marcus Brown, become implacable abolitionists bent on destroying slavery in America. However, Confederate spies, traitors and the dreaded Deacon Gang are arrayed against them. Can Saxton and his beautiful black bride, Virginia, survive a dangerous game of espionage, treachery and betrayal that culminates in the honeymoon from Hell?
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Carter, Vincent O. Such Sweet Thunder 2003 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or948673. ISBN #1586420585 / 9781586420581. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Carter, Vincent O. Such Sweet Thunder 2003 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or948673. ISBN #1586420585 / 9781586420581. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary For those of us who are used to handling manuscripts sometimes to examine them line by line, more often to flip through the pages it s a privileged moment indeed when we realize that we are dealing with a text destined for that small shelf of memorable literature certain to be printed and reprinted over the years. The telltale signs, for me, are trembling hands, eyeglasses clouding over the psychological equivalent of a thunderclap. The book you have in hand now provided all of these emotions. -- From The Foreword By Herbert R. Lottman SUCH SWEET THUNDER opens in 1944, somewhere in France, near the fighting. Amerigo Jones, a young foot soldier, is invited by a buddy to bed down with a French girl who has put herself at the service of a black United States infantry unit. But when Amerigo half-reluctantly goes to her he sees not a hardened prostitute, but a sad and bewildered innocent. In a daze, he watches her features take on the aspect of Cosima Thornton, the great obsession of his youth in his native Kansas City. This moment of connection serves as the springboard for a unique and compelling novel that deserves a place of prominence in American literature. Amerigo drifts back in time, so far back he recalls suckling at his mother s breast. We see life through the eyes of the boy at each stage of his development as he struggles for independence, respect, understanding from his friends and elders, and above all, love. Set during the segregated 1920s and 30s, Such Sweet Thunder is laced throughout with references to the struggle for justice and freedom, with many allusions to the white man and the white man s strange, brutal, and just plain crazy ways. But Amerigo also learns about sexuality, love, art, literature, and life itself the standard themes of the European bildungsroman. Amerigo is a dreamer, and yet it is clear that many of his dreams will go unfulfilled, not because of who he is but because of the color of his skin. Such Sweet Thunder is a jazz song of a book, a river of sound, something like an epic poem. Carter dedicates the novel to Duke Ellington, and it is replete with references to the influential musicians of the Kansas City jazz scene of his youth Count Basie, Jay McShann, Big Joe Turner, and the young Charlie Parker. And there are references to Louis Armstrong, whose scat singing is a lot like the extended dialogue riffs between the book s characters. Jazz musicians in Kansas City during the Depression created an influential big band sound, and in a way Carter has structured his book similarly. It has an orchestral feel it s big; it s got sweep; the characters are like musical instruments, carrying their own themes; there are solos, set pieces, drama, comedy, and pathos and all are arranged to transport the reader on an evocative and emotional journey. Carter has written an unprecedented literary portrait of African American life, but at the heart of this grandly told story is a boy, Amerigo Jones, full of life and humor and as desirous and deserving of love as any child. Part of the greatness of Carter s achievement is his ability to write the way a young boy truly experiences the world. And his depiction of the noisy, jostling, mysterious, fascinating world rich with warmth and fun, danger, and uncertainty in which Amerigo must find his way is as overwhelming and unforgettable as any to be found in literature.
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Cartland, Barbara Love in The Clouds / Imperial Splendour hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1117547. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cary, Joyce Horse's Mouth hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137834. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Casablanca, Rayo 6 Sick Hipsters 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or974916. ISBN #0758222831 / 9780758222831. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Casablanca, Rayo 6 Sick Hipsters 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or974916. ISBN #0758222831 / 9780758222831. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this hilarious, frenetic, adrenalin-charged debut, Rayo Casablanca does for modern day Williamsburg, Brooklyn, what Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero did for '80s L.A.--but with a knowing grin and a far cooler soundtrack... Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is the center of the hipster universe, and the members of the Whole Sick Crew are its shining stars. The gang includes Wolfgang, a heavy metal musician and high school guidance counselor who supplies coke to his charges; Rad, a doctor obsessed with obscure new wave songs who has a bad habit of cutting himself when he's stressed; Beth Ann, the neighborhood's queen knitter who's slowly going blind and Harrison, a museum curator moonlighting as a writer of highly prized porn. Collectively, they're the arbiters of taste for every vinyl-loving, Gap-spurning, thrift store regular in town. But lately someone has been laying waste to Brooklyn's uber-hipsters, dispatching them in gruesome fashion. The cops are dragging their heels, but the Whole Sick Crew knows that a serial killer dubbed Doctor Jeep is responsible. They have a plan to stop him and it's about to go spectacularly awry. Before the week is over, they'll be up to their skinny-jeaned waists in mayhem, manipulation, contract killers, raw sewage, and murderous monkeys. Something is rotten in the state of Billyburg, and the last hipsters standing will discover just how rotten it really is...
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Casares, Oscar Brownsville: Stories Back Bay Books 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043776. ISBN #0316146803 / 9780316146807. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Casares, Oscar Brownsville: Stories Back Bay Books 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043776. ISBN #0316146803 / 9780316146807. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary At the country's edge, on the Mexican border, Brownsville, Texas, is a town like many others. It is a place where people work hard to create better lives for their children, where people bear grudges against their neighbors, where love blossoms only to fade, and where the only real certainty is that life holds surprises.
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Casey, Anne-Marie No One Could Have Guessed The Weather 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1037098. ISBN #0399160213 / 9780399160219. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Casey, Anne-Marie No One Could Have Guessed The Weather 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1037098. ISBN #0399160213 / 9780399160219. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary If you loved The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing , this book is right up your alley. Isabel Gillies, New York Times bestselling author of Happens Every Day Sometimes what you want in your twenties isn t what you want or need in your forties. . . . When Lucy Lovett s husband loses his job, she is forced to give up her posh life in London and move their family to a tiny apartment in Manhattan, where her husband has managed to secure a lowly position. Lucy finds herself living in the center of cool and hip. Across from their apartment is a trendy bar called PDT whenever Lucy passes by, she thinks, Please Don t Tell anyone I m a middle-aged woman. Homesick and resentful at first, Lucy soon embarks on the love affair of her life no, not with her husband though they re both immensely relieved to discover they do love each other for richer or poorer , but with New York City and the three women who befriend her. There s Julia, who is basically branded with a Scarlet A when she leaves her husband and kids for a mini nervous breakdown and a room of her own; Christy, a much older man s trophy wife, who is a bit adrift as only those who live high up in penthouses can be; and disheveled and harried Robyn, constantly compensating for her husband, who can t seem to make the transition from wunderkind to adult. Spot-on observant, laugh-out-loud funny, yet laced with kindness through and through, No One Could Have Guessed the Weather is a story of what happens when you grow up and realize the middle part of your story might just be your beginning.
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Casey, John Spartina Vintage Contemporaries 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or931248. ISBN #0375702687 / 9780375702686. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Casey, John Spartina Vintage Contemporaries 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or931248. ISBN #0375702687 / 9780375702686. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Winner of the 1989 National Book Award A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irascible outbursts against the people he must work for, now that he can no longer make his living from the sea. Pierce's one great passion, a fifty-foot fishing boat called Spartina , lies unfinished in his back yard. Determined to get the funds he needs to buy her engine, he finds himself taking a foolish, dangerous risk. But his real test comes when he must weather a storm at sea in order to keep his dream alive. Moving and poetic, Spartina is a masterly story of one man's ongoing struggle to find his place in the world.
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Casey, John The Half-Life of Happiness Knopf 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or880525. ISBN #0679409785 / 9780679409786. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Casey, John The Half-Life of Happiness Knopf 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or880525. ISBN #0679409785 / 9780679409786. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the winner of the 1989 National Book Award for Spartina , a major new novel--wise, sad, and richly comic--about the meltdown of a marriage against the backdrop of a gloriously awful congressional campaign. Charlottesville, Virginia, 1978: Mike is a successful forty-something lawyer, a onetime congressional staffer who's had it with Washington; Joss, his wife, is a filmmaker. They're Virginia liberals with a clan of close-knit friends--a bright, edgy, flirty, games-playing group, spinning like a Catherine wheel around Mike and Joss. But the sparks that fly between the two are getting hotter and more dangerous, as Joss' restlessness turns to impatience and then anger. When one of the group introduces them all to the woman he wants to marry, things suddenly explode--this new arrival and Joss fall passionately in love, and their whole world careens out of control. What ensues is tragicomedy, as Mike tries to allay his rage and misery by letting himself get sucked into a trial run for a seat in Congress. He wants to be a hero to someone; instead he becomes the unwitting star of a political farce. Meantime, Joss is struggling with her new life, and their two young daughters who form a lovingly unmerciful Greek chorus commenting on the action have to navigate a turmoil in which one parent is a public joke and the other a private scandal. Rarely has the undoing of love been chronicled with such large-hearted humanity.
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Cash, Dixie Our Red Hot Romance Is Leaving Me Blue: A Novel (Domestic Equalizers) Avon 2010 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1125761. ISBN #0061434396 / 9780061434396. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cash, Dixie Our Red Hot Romance Is Leaving Me Blue: A Novel (Domestic Equalizers) Avon 2010 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1125761. ISBN #0061434396 / 9780061434396. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed, cuz Dixie Cash is the best good-night reading around Nancy Martin, author of the Blackbird Sisters series The irrepressible Domestic Equalizers are back in Our Red Hot Romance is Leaving Me Blue a hilarious new Southern hoot from the ever-popular Dixie Cash. If you love Lorraine desPres or the Sweet Potato Queens, you ll want to join Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins as they rush to the rescue of a recent widower in tiny Salt Lick, Texas, who s being haunted by his late wife or not. Read it and laugh, and see why Booklist says, Cash s madcap series just keeps getting better.
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Cash, Wiley Land More Kind Than Home 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1115165. ISBN #0062088238 / 9780062088239. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cash, Wiley Land More Kind Than Home 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1115165. ISBN #0062088238 / 9780062088239. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In his phenomenal debut novel a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small North Carolina town author Wiley Cash displays a remarkable talent for lyrical, powerfully emotional storytelling. A Land More Kind than Home is a modern masterwork of Southern fiction, reminiscent of the writings of John Hart Down River , Tom Franklin Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter , Ron Rash Serena , and Pete Dexter Paris Trout one that is likely to be held in the same enduring esteem as such American classics as To Kill a Mockingbird , Of Mice and Men , and A Separate Peace . A brilliant evocation of a place, a heart-rending family story, a gripping and suspenseful mystery with A Land More Kind than Home , a major American novelist enthusiastically announces his arrival.
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Castedo, Elena Paradise Grove Pr 1990 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1087921. ISBN #1555842798 / 9781555842796. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Castedo, Elena Paradise Grove Pr 1990 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1087921. ISBN #1555842798 / 9781555842796. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this ingenious satire, Solita, the not quite ten-year-old daughter of refugees from Franco s Spain, is whisked from the urban ghetto of Galmeda to El Topaz, the lush hacienda of a wealthy eccentric, which her mother assures her will be paradise. But behind its beautiful fa ade, El Topaz is a quagmire of social subterfuge, from its politicking adults to its spiteful children, and Solita finds herself alone in a glittery world where you couldn t trust anything. Or anybody. You had to navigate completely on your own.
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Castel-Bloom, Orly Human Parts 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1032552. ISBN #1567922562 / 9781567922561. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Castel-Bloom, Orly Human Parts 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1032552. ISBN #1567922562 / 9781567922561. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "It was an exceptional winter." With deceptive understatement, Orly Castel-Bloom draws back the curtain on her disturbing, revelatory novel set in Israel during the Al Aksa intifada. This is a world already regularly interrupted by terrorist ambushes and suicide bombs. And now it is further plagued by a Saudi flu that is decimating the population, and by apocalyptic weather that brings a ruinous winter after eight years of drought. The economy is shot to pieces. Hail stones as big as dinner plates are falling from the sky. And yet, against this backdrop of monumental affliction, ordinary people are still trying to lead normal lives. Kati Beit-Halahmi, an impoverished cleaner, is snatched up by a community television program and given her full fifteen-minutes-of-fame. Iris Ventura, divorced with three children, is wondering how she can afford both to replace her broken washing machine and have some essential dental work done. And the Israeli president, Reuven Tekoa, travels from hospital to funeral, musing on the state of the nation from the back of his limousine. Orly Castel-Bloom spins a web of filament-fine connections between her characters whose preoccupations, she reminds us, are not so very different from our own. Death or disaster might intrude at any moment, but people still watch game shows on TV, go to the laundromat and train to be beauticians.
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Castellani, Christopher All This Talk of Love Algonquin Books 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099619. ISBN #1616201703 / 9781616201708. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Castellani, Christopher All This Talk of Love Algonquin Books 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099619. ISBN #1616201703 / 9781616201708. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary It s been fifty years since Antonio Grasso married Maddalena and brought her to America. That was the last time she saw her parents, her sisters and brothers everything she knew and loved in the village of Santa Cecilia, Italy. Maddalena sees no need to open the door to the past and let the emotional baggage and unmended rifts of another life spill out. But Prima was raised on the lore of the Old Country. And as she sees her parents aging, she hatches the idea to take the entire family back to Italy hoping to reunite Maddalena with her estranged sister and let her parents see their homeland one last time. It is an idea that threatens to tear the Grasso family apart, until fate deals them some unwelcome surprises, and their trip home becomes a necessary journey. All This Talk of Love is an incandescent novel about sacrifice and hope, loss and love, myth and memory.
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Castillo, Ana Mixquiahuala Letters paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1014677. ISBN #0385420137 / 9780385420136. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cather, Willa December Night : Scene from Willa Cather's Novel Death Comes for the Archbishop Alfred A. Knopf hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1146190. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cather, Willa My Antonia University of Nebraska Press 2003 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151624. ISBN #080326433X / 9780803264335. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cather, Willa My Antonia University of Nebraska Press 2003 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151624. ISBN #080326433X / 9780803264335. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, My ntonia secured Willa Cather s place in the first rank of American writers. Cather drew deeply on her childhood days in frontier Nebraska for her fourth novel, published in 1918. ntonia Shimerda is memorable as the warm-hearted daughter of Bohemians who must adapt to a hard life on the desolate prairie. She survives and matures, a pioneer woman made radiant by spirit. This Willa Cather Scholarly Edition of My ntonia is edited according to standards set by the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association and it presents the full range of biographical, historical, and textual information on the novel. The selection of W. T. Benda s illustrations and the historical photography and maps also illuminate the fiction of a writer who drew so extensively on actual experience.
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Cather, Willa My Antonia 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1054857. ISBN #1551114917 / 9781551114910. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cather, Willa My Antonia 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1054857. ISBN #1551114917 / 9781551114910. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Willa Cather s My ntonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows ntonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story. The novel is important both for its literary aesthetic and as a portrayal of important aspects of American social ideals and history, particularly the centrality of migration to American culture. The Broadview edition includes a rich selection of primary source materials: the revised introduction for the 1926 edition; Cather s Mesa Verde Wonderland is Easy to Reach , Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle, Peter , and her comments on the novel; contemporary reviews and photographs.
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Cather, Willa My Antonia Barnes & Noble Classics 2005 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1017124. ISBN #1593081847 / 9781593081843. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cather, Willa My Antonia Barnes & Noble Classics 2005 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1017124. ISBN #1593081847 / 9781593081843. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary My ntonia, by Willa Cather , is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. No romantic novel ever written in America . . . is one half so beautiful as My ntonia . H. L. Mencken Widely recognized as Willa Cather s greatest novel, My ntonia is a soulful and rich portrait of a pioneer woman s simple yet heroic life. The spirited daughter of Bohemian immigrants, ntonia must adapt to a hard existence on the desolate prairies of the Midwest. Enduring childhood poverty, teenage seduction, and family tragedy, she eventually becomes a wife and mother on a Nebraska farm. A fictional record of how women helped forge the communities that formed a nation, My ntonia is also a hauntingly eloquent celebration of the strength, courage, and spirit of America s early pioneers. Gordon Tapper is Assistant Professor of English at DePauw University. He is the author of The Machine That Sings: Modernism, Hart Crane, and the Culture of the Body , from Routledge.
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Cather, Willa My Antonia 1995 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090007. ISBN #039575514X / 9780395755143. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cather, Willa My Antonia 1995 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1090007. ISBN #039575514X / 9780395755143. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary My ntonia is one of eight classic American novels featured in the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read initiative, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The Big Read provides citizens with the opportunity to read and discuss a single book within their communities and is supported by expansive outreach and publicity campaigns. Over one hundred communities will participate in 2007, each with a program lasting approximately one month. A kick-off event is followed by panel discussions, film screenings, and lectures or public readings devoted to the book. Willa Cather s heartfelt novel is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman s life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains. Through Jim Burden s affectionate reminiscence of his childhood friend, the free-spirited ntonia Shimerda, a larger, uniquely American portrait emerges, both of a community struggling with unforgiving terrain and of a woman who, amid great hardship, stands as a timeless inspiration
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