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Cleverly, Barbara The Palace Tiger Delta 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1144136. ISBN #0385340095 / 9780385340090. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cleverly, Barbara The Palace Tiger Delta 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1144136. ISBN #0385340095 / 9780385340090. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In her award-winning mysteries from The Last Kashmiri Rose to The Damascened Blade Barbara Cleverly paints a dazzling portrait of the British Raj, infusing it with intrigue, enchantment, and menace. And in her detective hero Joe Sandilands, war veteran and Scotland Yard policeman, Cleverly gives us a gallant guide to this paradise lost. Having seen humankind at its worst, now, in a lush royal kingdom, Sandilands will see it at its most dangerously complex.... In northern India, Ranipur is renowned for its trove of priceless gems, its exquisite palace, and its medieval mores in matters involving men and women. But Ranipur s prince is dying, and Joe has been sent to be Her Majesty s witness to a charged battle of succession. With two heirs dead and another running for his life, Joe suspects that a murderer is hiding among the palace s visitors and residents, from English opportunists to scorned wives and a dangerous seductress. Now, as a gilded, remote bastion teeters on the brink of chaos and a man-eating tiger prowls the nearby countryside, Joe must turn hunter of a human, an animal, and the hunger that drives t
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Clezio, J.M.G. Le Wandering Star 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084895. ISBN #1931896119 / 9781931896115. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Clezio, J.M.G. Le Wandering Star 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084895. ISBN #1931896119 / 9781931896115. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Wandering Star is a luminous lesson in humanity amid the ruins of civilization and intelligence. Le Figaro Wandering Star can unquestionably be ranked among the very great novels. This is true not only because of the precision and evocative power of the writing, the subtlety and balance of the construction, the magnitude and loftiness of the subject, but also because of the stature and the trajectory of the protagonist, Esther Greve, who survives the Holocaust only to be confronted in the land of her dreams with another tragedy. L Humanit "Those unfamiliar with Mr. Le Cl zio and his work should know that he is considered that rare beast by the French: an artist and a best-selling author." Dallas Morning News "This novel brilliantly depicts the universality of human suffering, but it also affirms the existence of kindness and understanding...Le Cl zio rises above politics and religious and cultural differences to express the girls' humanity in the struggles they both face." MultiCultural Review "...the beauty of Le Cl zio's language belies the horror of his subject...We can only hope that Esther and Nejma might someday walk out of these pages, meet once more, and plant and nourish the garden that others battle so feverishly to destroy." Bloomsbury Review "Striking a delicate balance between despair and dignity, between incantation and prayer, in Wandering Star , Le Cl zio touches upon each of the many themes he has addressed during his thirty years as a novelist, mixing and weaving them together into a story that combines elements of adventure, literary epic, confession, and history. It is at one and the same time a painful cry and peaceful sigh." T l rama "From page one, I knew I was in capable hands. J.M.G. Le Cl zio's novel of a young Jewish girl coming of age in wartime France is compelling." Baltimore Jewish Times "Beautifully written and seamlessly translated by C. Dickson, Wandering Star is both a coming-of-age story and a powerful tale of survival. For readers hoping to better understand the world we live in, this book also helpt shed light on current events in the Middle East." MoorishGirl "Le Cl zio goes beyond politics, cultural differences, and historical moments to cast light on the universal feelings in experiences of suffering and the struggles, desires, and dreams growing out of such experiences." Midwest Book Review "Le Cl zio has fashioned an intimate, searching novel about the price of war and exile." Stewart O'Nan " An exquisitely written story...I was struck by the beauty in the midst of the searing pain." Penny Rosenwasser , author of Voices from a Promised Land J.M.G. Le Clezio is that rare combination of best-selling author and artist of the highest order. Wandering Star A Lannan Translation Selection received extraordinary critical praise in France. Pierre Lepape extolled it in Le Monde , noting that Le Clezio neither moralizes nor takes a political stance: He goes much farther than that, much deeper; he seeks the signs of human misery and of potential peace at the very heart of life, in a confrontation with time and the elements; with the sun and the earth, with birth and death, with the mystery of origins and the enigma of the future, with the necessity of both remembering and forgetting, without which nothing can be healed." Wandering Star tells two discrete stories of two young girls, one Jewish and one Palestinian, who meet once briefly by chance. Their stories are connected by substance, rather than plot. Each is a wandering star in search of a homeland Esther escaping the Nazi Holocaust, and Nejma, who experiences the horrors of life in the camps. Yet through this novel of dark times and human suffering, affirmation shines as the characters encounter the beauty of nature and instances of human kindness and love. Author of over thirty novels, essays, story collections, and translations, J.M.G. Le Clezio and his wife share their time between Albuquerque, New Mexico, the island of Mauritius, and Nice, France. He is the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Clift, Charmian The Sea And The Stone The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1955 hardcover. First Edition. Dustjacket is chipped.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1151586. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cline, Edward Sparrowhawk: Book Four Empire 2004 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1083498. ISBN #1931561877 / 9781931561877. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cline, Edward Sparrowhawk: Book Four Empire 2004 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1083498. ISBN #1931561877 / 9781931561877. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The American Revolution did not just happen. It was the culmination of two centuries of Enlightenment ideas that entered men's minds and were refined and honed until they expressed themselves in an unprecedented rejection of tyranny in the name of individual rights and political freedom from the whims of arrogant monarchs and conniving, power-lusting politicians. Sparrowhawk: Book Six, War, encapsulates that process in the story of an exiled young British aristocrat, Hugh Kenrick, and a former indentured felon from the British lower class, Jack Frake, who both reject the tyranny of the British Crown, become friends and neighboring planters, and form a bond that will enable them to take the first steps towards independence from the mother country. Hugh Kenrick becomes a burgess for his county and helps Patrick Henry secure the Stamp Act Resolves. The American Revolution was the capstone and apex of the European Enlightenment and an unprecedented philosophical and political event in human history.
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Cline, Edward Sparrowhawk: Book Three Carton 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1083512. ISBN #1931561885 / 9781931561884. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cline, Edward Sparrowhawk: Book Three Carton 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1083512. ISBN #1931561885 / 9781931561884. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Third in the popular historical series, Sparrowhawk Book Three follows Jack Frake Book One and Hugh Kenrick Book Two as they meet in Colonial Virginia. Jack is a successful planter who has gained a lifetime of experience since he was brought to Virginia as an indentured felon. Hugh, after completing his education in Philadelphia, decides not to return to England but, instead, to buy a plantation. Both take extraordinary actions to preserve their lives, fortunes, and moral independence in the turbulent period following the French and Indian War.
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Cline, Emma Girls 2016 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1175235. ISBN #081299860X / 9780812998603. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cline, Emma Girls 2016 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1175235. ISBN #081299860X / 9780812998603. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong this stunning first novel is perfect for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides s The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan s A Visit from the Goon Squad . Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence. Emma Cline s remarkable debut novel is gorgeously written and spellbinding, with razor-sharp precision and startling psychological insight. The Girls is a brilliant work of fiction. Praise for The Girls Spellbinding . . . A seductive and arresting coming-of-age story hinged on Charles Manson, told in sentences at times so finely wrought they could almost be worn as jewelry . . . Emma Cline gorgeously maps the topography of one loneliness-ravaged adolescent heart. She gives us the fictional truth of a girl chasing danger beyond her comprehension, in a Summer of Longing and Loss. The New York Times Book Review The Girls reimagines the American novel . . . Like Mary Gaitskill s Veronica or Lorrie Moore s Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, The Girls captures a defining friendship in its full humanity with a touch of rock-memoir, tell-it-like-it-really-was attitude. Vogue Debut novels like this are rare, indeed. . . . The most remarkable quality of this novel is Cline s ability to articulate the anxieties of adolescence in language that s gorgeously poetic without mangling the authenticity of a teenager s consciousness. The adult s melancholy reflection and the girl s swelling impetuousness are flawlessly braided together. . . . For a story that traffics in the lurid notoriety of the Manson murders, The Girls is an extraordinary act of restraint. With the maturity of a writer twice her age, Cline has written a wise novel that s never showy: a quiet, seething confession of yearning and terror. The Washington Post Emma Cline has an unparalleled eye for the intricacies of girlhood, turning the stuff of myth into something altogether more intimate. She reminds us that behind so many of our culture s fables exists a girl: unseen, unheard, angry. This book will break your heart and blow your mind. Lena Dunham Emma Cline s first novel positively hums with fresh, startling, luminous prose. The Girls announces the arrival of a thrilling new voice in American fiction. Jennifer Egan I don t know which is more amazing, Emma Cline s understanding of human beings or her mastery of language. Mark Haddon, New York Times bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Cloete, Stuart Rags Of Glory hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078621. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Coates, Robert M. The Bitter Season Harcourt, Brace and Company 1946 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1177621. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cobb, Irvin S. A Plea For Old Cap Collier hardcover. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128066. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cobb, James H. ; Ludlum, Robert Robert Ludlum's the Arctic Event Grand Central Publishing 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Remainder Mark. Book #or1158894. ISBN #0446699071 / 9780446699075. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cochran, Heather Mean Season Red Dress Ink 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1061272. ISBN #037325069X / 9780373250691. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cochran, Heather Mean Season Red Dress Ink 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1061272. ISBN #037325069X / 9780373250691. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary She's got Hollywood's next leading man under her roof. And she can't wait for him to leave. Prepping for his new movie in the tiny town of Pinecob, West Virginia, up-and-coming actor Joshua Reed lands himself another drunk-driving conviction, this time involving a stolen limo, a dark country road and a cow. Rather than let him rot in jail for the summer, twenty-five-year-old Leanne Gitlin, his fan club president, agrees to vouch for him so he can serve out his sentence under house arrest. In her home. But playing the gracious guest isn t in Joshua Reed s repertoire. And while everyone in town is thinking up excuses to drop by the Gitlin house, Leanne quickly finds herself counting the days until her famous visitor leaves. Leanne, the youngest of five, watched her family fall apart and dutifully stayed put to help her mother pick up the pieces. Stuck in Pinecob all these years, she was itching for something new, but Joshua Reed s media circus isn t quite what she had in mind. In a debut novel as endearing as it is wise, Heather Cochran has whipped up one season the town of Pinecob won t soon forget.
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Cocoletzi, Eric Light One On and Pop One Open paperback. BOOK COND: New. JACKET COND: New. Book #or1158227v1. ISBN #1545217866 / 9781545217863. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cocoletzi, Eric MIGHT AS WELL paperback. BOOK COND: New. JACKET COND: New. Book #or1158226v1. ISBN #1795732288 / 9781795732284. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cocoletzi, Eric They Say Animals Can Take Care Of Themselves paperback. BOOK COND: New. JACKET COND: New. Book #or1158228v1. ISBN #1985398338 / 9781985398337. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Codrescu, Andrei Blood Countess Simon & Schuster 1995 hardcover. Inked note on first page by PO. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1163242. ISBN #0684802449 / 9780684802442. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Coe, Jonathan The Winshaw Legacy: or What a Carve Up! Knopf 1995 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1159735. ISBN #0679433856 / 9780679433859. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Coe, Jonathan The Winshaw Legacy: or What a Carve Up! Knopf 1995 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1159735. ISBN #0679433856 / 9780679433859. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary 'I could recommend The Winshaw Legacy as I a superb political novel, or as a fiendishly clever meta-novel, or as a unique modern historical novel, or as a riveting family saga, but I'm afraid that would drive everyone, yawning in terror, straight out of the bookstore. So let's just say it has naked pictures of Natasha Richardson...Can't say that? Well, let's say it's a nasty farce with lots of bathroom humor and violence which reminds me at least as much of Fawlty Towers as it does of Midnight's Children.' -- Jay McInerney A postmodern detective story, a scathing send-up of the rapacious eighties, a macabre Gothic -- all rolled up in a bravura tragicomic entertainment. The Winshaw family, as their official biographer is warned by old Mortimer Winshaw himself, is the meanest, greediest, cruellest bunch of backstabbing penny-pinching bastards who ever crawled across the face of the earth.' Bankers, industrialists, politicians, arms dealers and media barons -- they rule Britannia, more or less. They also have a guilty secret in the shape of a mad aunt stashed away in a remote asylum, convinced of familial treachery during World War II and determined to effect the ruin of her entire clan. In the summer of 1990, while Saddam Hussein is provoking yet another war, the Winshaws' biographer a severely depressed young novelist is piecing together the truth of their sordid legacy, and discovers that it converges bizarrely with the plot of a film he's been obsessed by since childhood. Moreover, it seems that all of this, dynasty and cinema alike, has some mysterious connection with his own troubled history. Of course whether he -- or anybody else -- will be alive when this compound riddle is solved remains to be seen. Savagely funny, hugely inventive and passionately political. The Winshaw Legacy assumes Dickensian proportions as it excoriates the modern age of greed -- and heralds the American debut of an extraordinary writer. As The Economist concluded: Talented comic novelists are rare but that exclusive club -- Thomas Love Peacock, Evelyn Waugh and P. G. Wodehouse are among its members -- has admitted a newcomer, an Englishman called Jonathan Coe.' 'A remarkable achievement; intelligent, funny, and important.' -- The Times Literary Supplement 'An extravagant literary blockbuster...A grand and intelligent novel, so full of accomplishment and pleasure.' -- New Statesman Society' Really, something to get excited about...his big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving treat of a novel.' -- The Guardian
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Coelho, Paulo Devil And Miss Prym HarperCollinsPublishers 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1166168. ISBN #0060527994 / 9780060527990. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Coelho, Paulo Devil And Miss Prym HarperCollinsPublishers 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1166168. ISBN #0060527994 / 9780060527990. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path. Will they choose good or evil? In the remote village of Viscos -- a village too small to be on any map, a place where time seems to stand still -- a stranger arrives, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives. Paulo Coelho's stunning novel explores the timeless struggle between good and evil, and brings to our everyday dilemmas fresh perspective: incentive to master the fear that prevents us from following our dreams, from being different, from truly living. The Devil and Miss Prym is a story charged with emotion, in which the integrity of being human meets a terrifying test.
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Coelho, Paulo The Valkyries HarperCollinsPublishers 1992 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1140616. ISBN #0062512919 / 9780062512918. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Coetzee, J. M. Foe Penguin Books 1987 Trade Paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or547055v1. ISBN #014009623X / 9780140096231. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Coetzee, J. M. Foe Penguin Books 1988 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1100004. ISBN #842042496X / 9788420424965. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Coetzee, J. M. Foe Penguin Books 1988 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1100004. ISBN #842042496X / 9788420424965. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians and The Master of Petersburg, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself In 1720 the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe is approached by Susan Barton, lately a castaway on a desert island. She wants him to tell her story, and that of the enigmatic man who has become her rescuer, companion, master and sometimes lover: Cruso. Cruso is dead, and his manservant, Friday, is incapable of speech. As she tries to relate the truth about him, the ambitious Barton cannot help turning Cruso into her invention. For as narrated by Foe as by Coetzee himself the stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving.
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