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Allen, Sarah Addison Lost Lake 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128399. ISBN #125001980X / 9781250019806. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Allen, Sarah Addison Lost Lake 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128399. ISBN #125001980X / 9781250019806. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Now a New York Times Bestseller From the author of the beloved bestseller Garden Spells comes a beautiful, haunting story of old loves and new, and the power of the connections that bind us forever... The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was on a picture postcard. Just an old photo and a few words on a small square of heavy stock, but when she saw it, she knew she was seeing her future. That was half a life ago. Now Lost Lake is about to slip into Eby's past. Her husband George is long passed. Most of her demanding extended family are gone. All that's left is a once-charming collection of lakeside cabins succumbing to the Southern Georgia heat and damp, and an assortment of faithful misfits drawn back to Lost Lake year after year by their own unspoken dreams and desires. It's a lot, but not enough to keep Eby from relinquishing Lost Lake to a developer with cash in hand, and calling this her final summer at the lake. Until one last chance at family knocks on her door. Lost Lake is where Kate Pheris spent her last best summer at the age of twelve, before she learned of loneliness, and heartbreak, and loss. Now she's all too familiar with those things, but she knows about hope too, thanks to her resilient daughter Devin, and her own willingness to start moving forward. Perhaps at Lost Lake her little girl can cling to her own childhood for just a little longer... and maybe Kate herself can rediscover something that slipped through her fingers so long ago. One after another, people find their way to Lost Lake, looking for something that they weren't sure they needed in the first place: love, closure, a second chance, peace, a mystery solved, a heart mended. Can they find what they need before it's too late? At once atmospheric and enchanting, Lost Lake shows Sarah Addison Allen at her finest, illuminating the secret longings and the everyday magic that wait to be discovered in the unlikeliest of places.
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Allen, Sarah Addison Lost Lake: A Novel St. Martin's Griffin 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137654. ISBN #1250019826 / 9781250019820. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Allen, Sarah Addison Lost Lake: A Novel St. Martin's Griffin 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137654. ISBN #1250019826 / 9781250019820. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Now a New York Times Bestseller From the author of the beloved bestseller Garden Spells comes a beautiful, haunting story of old loves and new, and the power of the connections that bind us forever... The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was on a picture postcard. Just an old photo and a few words on a small square of heavy stock, but when she saw it, she knew she was seeing her future. That was half a life ago. Now Lost Lake is about to slip into Eby's past. Her husband George is long passed. Most of her demanding extended family are gone. All that's left is a once-charming collection of lakeside cabins succumbing to the Southern Georgia heat and damp, and an assortment of faithful misfits drawn back to Lost Lake year after year by their own unspoken dreams and desires. It's a lot, but not enough to keep Eby from relinquishing Lost Lake to a developer with cash in hand, and calling this her final summer at the lake. Until one last chance at family knocks on her door. Lost Lake is where Kate Pheris spent her last best summer at the age of twelve, before she learned of loneliness, and heartbreak, and loss. Now she's all too familiar with those things, but she knows about hope too, thanks to her resilient daughter Devin, and her own willingness to start moving forward. Perhaps at Lost Lake her little girl can cling to her own childhood for just a little longer... and maybe Kate herself can rediscover something that slipped through her fingers so long ago. One after another, people find their way to Lost Lake, looking for something that they weren't sure they needed in the first place: love, closure, a second chance, peace, a mystery solved, a heart mended. Can they find what they need before it's too late? At once atmospheric and enchanting, Lost Lake shows Sarah Addison Allen at her finest, illuminating the secret longings and the everyday magic that wait to be discovered in the unlikeliest of places.
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Allen, Sarah Addison Sugar Queen 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078599. ISBN #0553384848 / 9780553384840. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Allen, Sarah Addison Sugar Queen 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078599. ISBN #0553384848 / 9780553384840. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this irresistible novel, Sarah Addison Allen, author of the New York Times bestselling debut, Garden Spells , tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets and secret passions are about to change her life forever. Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter is her favorite season, she s a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her closet. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her mother s house, her one consolation is the stockpile of sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night . Until she finds her closet harboring Della Lee Baker, a local waitress who is one part nemesis and two parts fairy godmother. With Della Lee s tough love, Josey s narrow existence quickly expands. She even bonds with Chloe Finley, a young woman who is hounded by books that inexplicably appear when she needs them and who has a close connection to Josey s longtime crush. Soon Josey is living in a world where the color red has startling powers, and passion can make eggs fry in their cartons. And that s just for starters. Brimming with warmth, wit, and a sprinkling of magic, here is a spellbinding tale of friendship, love and the enchanting possibi
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Allende, Isabel Island Beneath the Sea Harper 2010 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or993188. ISBN #0061988243 / 9780061988240. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Allende, Isabel Island Beneath the Sea Harper 2010 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or993188. ISBN #0061988243 / 9780061988240. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarit -- known as T t -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, T t finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it s with powdered wigs in his baggage and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father s plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride -- but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave. Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of the intertwined lives of T t and Valmorain, and of one woman s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circu
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Allgeyer, Amy Dig Too Deep Albert Whitman & Company 2017 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122921. ISBN #0807515817 / 9780807515815. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Allgeyer, Amy Dig Too Deep Albert Whitman & Company 2017 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122921. ISBN #0807515817 / 9780807515815. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary With her mother facing prison time for a violent political protest, seventeen-year-old Liberty Briscoe has no choice but to leave her Washington, DC, apartment and take a bus to Ebbottsville, Kentucky, to live with her granny. There she can at least finish high school and put some distance between herself and her mother or her former mother, as she calls her. But Ebbottsville isn't the same as Liberty remembers, and it's not just because the top of Tanner's Peak has been blown away to mine for coal. Half the county is out of work, an awful lot of people in town seem to be sick, and the tap water is bright orange the same water that officials claim is safe. And when Granny's lingering cold turns out to be something much worse, Liberty wonders if somebody at the mine is hiding the truth about the water. She starts to investigate and is soon plunged into a world of secrets, lies, threats, and danger. Her searches for answers and justice lead to even tougher questions should she turn to violence and end up like her mother? Give up her quest for the sake of keeping the peace? Or keep fighting until the mine is shut down for good?
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Allison, Dorothy Bastard Out Of Carolina 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1126920. ISBN #0452297753 / 9780452297753. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Allison, Dorothy Bastard Out Of Carolina 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1126920. ISBN #0452297753 / 9780452297753. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A modern literary classic, now available in a twentieth anniversary keepsake edition with deckled-edges with a new afterword by the author. The publication of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina was a landmark event. The novel's profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South won the author a National Book Award nomination and launched her into the literary spotlight. Critics have likened Allison to William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Harper Lee, naming her the first writer of her generation to dramatize the lives and language of poor whites in the South. Since its appearance, the novel has inspired an award-winning film and has been banned from libraries and classrooms, championed by fans, and defended by critics. Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family-a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard- drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a bastard child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly keen perspective. When her stepfather Daddy Glen, "cold as death, mean as a snake," becomes increasingly more vicious toward her, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that tests the loyalty of her mother, Anney-and leads to a final, harrowing encounter from which there can be no turning back.
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Allison, Dorothy Cavedweller Dutton Adult 1998 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1026091. ISBN #0525941673 / 9780525941675. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Allison, Dorothy Cavedweller Dutton Adult 1998 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1026091. ISBN #0525941673 / 9780525941675. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When Delia Byrd packs her car and begins the long trip home from Los Angeles-from the glamour of the rock 'n roll business, her passion for singing and songwriting, and the darker days of whisky and violence and too much belief in the promises of a man she loved-she heads to Cairo, Georgia, and her own unresolved past. Ten years earlier, Delia left the husband who turned on her, abandoned her two daughters, one an infant, and fled to California. But Delia is pulled back to Georgia: to a world of convenience stores and biscuit factories, kudzu and deep-rooted Baptism-to make a deal with the man she paid a high price to leave. She brings her third daughter, Cissy, with her. And as the lives of Delia, Cissy, Amanda, and Dede converge, Delia's past uncoils into the present with a ferocity that brings all four women to terms with themselves and with one another. Told in the incantatory and unforgettable voice of one of America's greatest storytellers, Cavedweller is a sweeping novel of the human spirit that maps a world of "lost" and "known" caves, the unexplored recesses of the heart, and the lives of four women at a place where violence, and what redeems it, intersect. Bastard Out of Carolina was a National Book Award Finalist and a national bestseller. The critically acclaimed film adaptation of Bastard Out of Carolina , directed by Angelica Houston, was broadcast on Showtime in 1996 and is now available on videocassette. Cavedweller is the long-awaited, greatly anticipated second novel from a beloved author with a strong and loyal audience. The Plume edition of Bastard Out of Carolina averages 6,000 copies in sales each month.
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Allison, Dorothy Trash: Stories 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1065933. ISBN #0452283515 / 9780452283510. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Allison, Dorothy Trash: Stories 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1065933. ISBN #0452283515 / 9780452283510. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Trash , Allison's landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina , the National Book Award finalist that was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "simply stunning...a wonderful work of fiction by a major talent." In addition to Allison's classic stories, this new edition of Trash features "Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories," an introduction in which Allison discusses the writing of Trash and "Compassion," a never-before-published short story. First published in 1988, the award-winning Trash showcases Allison at her most fearlessly honest and startlingly vivid. The limitless scope of human emotion and experience are depicted in stories that give aching and eloquent voice to the terrible wounds we inflict on those closest to us. These are tales of loss and redemption; of shame and forgiveness; of love and abuse and the healing power of storytelling. A book that resonates with uncompromising candor and incandescence, Trash is sure to captivate Allison's legion of readers and win her a devoted new following.
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Allsburg, Chris Van Chronicles Of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell The Tales 2011 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1120789. ISBN #0547548109 / 9780547548104. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Allsburg, Chris Van Chronicles Of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell The Tales 2011 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1120789. ISBN #0547548109 / 9780547548104. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Style Definitions table.MsoNormalTable mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; An inspired collection of short stories by an all-star cast of best-selling storytellers based on the thought-provoking illustrations in Chris Van Allsburg s The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. For more than twenty-five years, the illustrations in the extraordinary Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg have intrigued and entertained readers of all ages. Thousands of children have been inspired to weave their own stories to go with these enigmatic pictures. Now we ve asked some of our very best storytellers to spin the tales. Enter The Chronicles of Harris Burdick to gather this incredible compendium of stories: mysterious, funny, creepy, poignant, these are tales you won t soon forget. This inspired collection of short stories features many remarkable, best-selling authors in the worlds of both adult and children's literature: Sherman Alexie, M.T. Anderson, Kate DiCamillo, Cory Doctorow, Jules Feiffer, Stephen King, Tabitha King, Lois Lowry, Gregory Maguire, Walter Dean Myers, Linda Sue Park, Louis Sachar, Jon Scieszka, Lemony Snicket, and Chris Van Allsburg himself. Van Allsburg's Harris Burdick illustrations have evoked such wonderment and imagination since Harris Burdick's original publication in 1984; many have speculated or have woven their own stories to go with his images. More than ever, the illustrations send off their eerie call for text and continue to compel and pick at the reader's brain for a backstory a threaded tale behind the image. In this book, we've collected some of the best storytellers to spin them.
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Allsop, Kenneth Adventure Lit Their Star hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1120176. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Altman, Phyllis Law Of The Vultures 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067106. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Alvar, Mia In The Country: Stories 2015 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133026. ISBN #0385352816 / 9780385352819. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Alvar, Mia In The Country: Stories 2015 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133026. ISBN #0385352816 / 9780385352819. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, vividly give voice to the women and men of the Filipino diaspora. Here are exiles, emigrants, and wanderers uprooting their families from the Philippines to begin new lives in the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere and, sometimes, turning back again. A pharmacist living in New York smuggles drugs to his ailing father in Manila, only to discover alarming truths about his family and his past. In Bahrain, a Filipina teacher drawn to a special pupil finds, to her surprise, that she is questioning her own marriage. A college student leans on her brother, a laborer in Saudi Arabia, to support her writing ambitions, without realizing that his is the life truly made for fiction. And in the title story, a journalist and a nurse face an unspeakable trauma amidst the political turmoil of the Philippines in the 1970s and 80s. In the Country speaks to the heart of everyone who has ever searched for a place to call home. From teachers to housemaids, from mothers to sons, Alvar s powerful debut collection explores the universal experiences of loss, displacement, and the longing to connect across borders both real and imagined. Deeply compassionate and richly felt, In the Country marks the emergence of a formidable new writer.
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Alvarez, Julia How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Remainder Mark. Book #or917224. ISBN #156512975X / 9781565129757. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Alvarez, Julia How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Remainder Mark. Book #or917224. ISBN #156512975X / 9781565129757. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Garc as Dr. Carlos Papi , his wife Laura Mami , and their four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sof a belong to the uppermost echelon of Spanish Caribbean society, descended from the conquistadores. Their family compound adjoins the palacio of the dictator s daughter. So when Dr. Garc a s part in a coup attempt is discovered, the family must flee. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Dominican Republic. Papi has to find new patients in the Bronx. Mami, far from the compound and the family retainers, must find herself. Meanwhile, the girls try to lose themselves by forgetting their Spanish, by straightening their hair and wearing fringed bell bottoms. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating being caught between the old world and the new, trying to live up to their father s version of honor while accommodating the expectations of their American boyfriends. Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez s brilliant and buoyant first novel sets the Garc a girls free to tell their most intimate stories about how they came to be at home and not at home in America.
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Amis, Martin House Of Meetings 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1045388. ISBN #1400044553 / 9781400044559. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Amis, Martin House Of Meetings 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1045388. ISBN #1400044553 / 9781400044559. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An extraordinary novel that ratifies Martin Amis s standing as a force unto himself, as The Washington Post has attested: There is, quite simply, no one else like him. House of Meetings is a love story, gothic in timbre and triangular in shape. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. And for the narrator, the sole survivor, the reverberations continue into the new century. Harrowing, endlessly surprising, epic in breadth yet intensely intimate, House of Meetings reveals once again that Amis is a stone-solid genius . . . a dazzling star of wit and insight The Wall Street Journal .
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Amis, Martin Information Flamingo 1995 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or903441. ISBN #0002253569 / 9780002253567. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Amis, Martin Lionel Asbo: State Of England 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1035768. ISBN #0307958086 / 9780307958082. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Amis, Martin Lionel Asbo: State Of England 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1035768. ISBN #0307958086 / 9780307958082. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A savage, funny, and mysteriously poignant saga by a renowned author at the height of his powers. Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug self-named after England's notorious Anti-Social Behaviour Order , has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine. He provides him with fatherly career advice always carry a knife, for example and is determined they should share the joys of pit bulls fed with lots of Tabasco sauce , Internet porn, and all manner of more serious criminality. Des, on the other hand, desires nothing more than books to read and a girl to love and to protect a family secret that could be the death of him . But just as he begins to lead a gentler, healthier life, his uncle once again in a London prison wins 140 million in the lottery and upon his release hires a public relations firm and begins dating a cannily ambitious topless model and poet. Strangely, however, Lionel's true nature remains uncompromised while his problems, and therefore also Desmond's, seem only to multiply.
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Anand, Valerie House Of Allerbrook 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113633. ISBN #0778326012 / 9780778326014. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Anand, Valerie House Of Allerbrook 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113633. ISBN #0778326012 / 9780778326014. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Lady-in-waiting Jane Sweetwater's resistance to the legendary attentions of Henry VIII may have saved her pretty neck, but her reward is a forced and unhappy marriage with a much older man and a harsh life on his farm. Her only consolation is that she still lives upon her beloved Exmoor, the bleak yet beautiful land that cradles Allerbrook House, her family home. Played out in this remote, forbidding place, Jane's long and storied life is fraught with change: her fiercely protective nature leads her to assume responsibility not only for her own husband and child, but also for the rebellious son of her wayward sister. In time, she regains the position of a woman with status and property, but she cannot ignore the rumblings from London, as the articles of faith change with every new coronation. Jane's small world is penetrated by plotting, treachery and even thwarted love as those she holds dearest are forced to choose between family loyalty and fealty to the crown.
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Andersen, C. Paul Voice in The Night 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1035836. ISBN #1591568919 / 9781591568919. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Andersen, C. Paul Voice in The Night 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1035836. ISBN #1591568919 / 9781591568919. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary It has all the ingredients for a fun and relaxing winter vacation - a film festival, world-class winter games, a visit to an ancestral home, and the flattering attentions of a charming and handsome stranger. A time to unwind and reassess a tenuous career. How could actress Lesley Kern know that it could turn deadly? Now the seemingly simple and straightforward sale of her inherited home near Silver Forks Mountain has become an exercise in terror. Who is so desperate to see her fail? And who is her mysterious, young visitor, and what is the urgent message she has for Lesley? These are questions that Lesley and Jim Shepherd, a man who can solve other people's problems much easier than he can his own, must find the answers before it's too late.
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Andersen, Kurt Heyday Random House 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1000752. ISBN #0375504737 / 9780375504730. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Andersen, Kurt Heyday Random House 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1000752. ISBN #0375504737 / 9780375504730. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Heyday is a brilliantly imagined, wildly entertaining tale of America s boisterous coming of age a sweeping panorama of madcap rebellion and overnight fortunes, palaces and brothels, murder and revenge as well as the story of a handful of unforgettable characters discovering the nature of freedom, loyalty, friendship, and true love. In the middle of the nineteenth century, modern life is being born: the mind-boggling marvels of photography, the telegraph, and railroads; a flood of show business spectacles and newspapers; rampant sex and drugs and drink and moral crusades against all three ; Wall Street awash with money; and giddy utopian visions everywhere. Then, during a single amazing month at the beginning of 1848, history lurches: America wins its war of manifest destiny against Mexico, gold is discovered in northern California, and revolutions sweep across Europe sending one eager English gentleman off on an epic transatlantic adventure. . . . Amid the tumult, aristocratic Benjamin Knowles impulsively abandons the Old World to reinvent himself in New York, where he finds himself embraced by three restless young Americans: Timothy Skaggs, muckraking journalist, daguerreotypist, pleasure-seeker, stargazer; the fireman Duff Lucking, a sweet but dangerously damaged veteran of the Mexican War; and Duff s dazzling sister Polly Lucking, a strong-minded, free thinking actress and discreet part-time prostitute with whom Ben falls hopelessly in love. Beckoned by the frontier, new beginnings, and the prospects of the California Gold Rush, all four set out on a transcontinental race west relentlessly tracked, unbeknownst to them, by a cold-blooded killer bent on revenge. A fresh, impeccable portrait of an era startlingly reminiscent of our own times, Heyday is by turns tragic and funny and sublime, filled with bona fide heroes and lost souls, visionaries Walt Whitman, Charles Darwin, Alexis de Tocqueville and monsters, expanding horizons and narrow escapes. It is also an affecting story of four people passionately chasing their American dreams at a time when America herself was still being dreamed up an enthralling, old-fashioned yarn interwoven with a bracingly modern novel of ideas. "In this utterly engaging novel, the author of Turn of the Century brings 19th-century America vividly to life . . . While this is a long book, it moves quickly, with historical detail that's involving but never a drag on the action; the characters are beautifully drawn. A terrific book; highly recommended." Library Journal " Heyday is fuled by manic energy, fanatical research, and a wicked sense of humor.... It's a joyful, wild gallop through a joyful, wild time to be an American." -Vanity Fair
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