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Cornwell, Bernard Winter King paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114552v1. ISBN #0312156960 / 9780312156961. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cornwell, Bernard Winter King paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114552v1. ISBN #0312156960 / 9780312156961. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary It takes a remarkable writer to make an old story as fresh and compelling as the first time we heard it. With The Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell finally turns to the story he was born to write: the mythic saga of King Arthur. The tale begins in Dark Age Britain, a land where Arthur has been banished and Merlin has disappeared, where a child-king sits unprotected on the throne, where religion vies with magic for the souls of the people. It is to this desperate land that Arthur returns, a man at once utterly human and truly heroic: a man of honor, loyalty, and amazing valor; a man who loves Guinevere more passionately than he should; a man whose life is at once tragic and triumphant. As Arthur fights to keep a flicker of civilization alive in a barbaric world, Bernard Cornwell makes a familiar tale into a legend all over again.
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CORNWELL; Adkin, Mark Sharpe Companion: The Early Years Perennial 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1162539. ISBN #0060738146 / 9780060738143. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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CORNWELL; Adkin, Mark Sharpe Companion: The Early Years Perennial 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1162539. ISBN #0060738146 / 9780060738143. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Named "the direct heir to Patrick O'Brian" by The Economist , Bernard Cornwell is the undisputed master of historical battle fi ction, and for more than twenty years, his Richard Sharpe series has thrilled millions of readers worldwide on both the page and on television. Now author Mark Adkin , a major in the British army, has created this indispensable guide covering Sharpe's early career, from his beginnings as an illiterate private fighting on the battlefields of India to his legendary command of the Light Company. A treasure not only for fans of the series but also for anyone interested in nineteenth-century warfare, The Sharpe Companion includes: A chapter devoted to each Sharpe book Glossary of characters, both real and fictional Illustrations and photographs Maps of every battle and skirmish Full of fascinating historical details, thrilling contemporary accounts of actual battles, and impeccable research, The Sharpe Companion is a must for every student of military history and an essential addition to every Sharpe fan's library.
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Correll, Angela Grounded 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1063784. ISBN #1938467566 / 9781938467561. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Correll, Angela Grounded 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1063784. ISBN #1938467566 / 9781938467561. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary New York City flight attendant Annie Taylor is grounded, putting a halt to weekends in Rome and her jet-setting lifestyle. Soon her noncommittal boyfriend s true nature is revealed, and to top it all off, she loses her apartment. With nowhere else to go, Annie leaves the city for the family farm in Kentucky, a place she s avoided for years. She finds a shotgun-wielding grandmother, a farm in disrepair, and a suspicious stranger renting the old stone house. The country quiet haunts Annie with reminders of a past that can t be changed. She tries persuading her grandmother to sell the farm, but is met with stubborn refusal? Yet in the midst of her crashing life, Annie sees a glimmer of hope for a second chance. Jake Wilder is contemplating jumping off the corporate ladder to follow his passion for sustainable farming. He s almost ready to propose to Camille, a girl who wants more, not less. Annie believes Jake is about to make a terrible mistake, but does she have the right to tell him? As the summer heats up, so do Annie s unexpected feelings for Jake and her interest in the land. When a sudden phone call comes from New York, Annie is forced to choose between coming to terms with her past or leaving it all behind.
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Corrigan, Kelly Glitter and Glue: A Memoir Ballantine Books 2014 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097421. ISBN #034553283X / 9780345532831. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Corrigan, Kelly Glitter and Glue: A Memoir Ballantine Books 2014 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097421. ISBN #034553283X / 9780345532831. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine between mothers and daughters. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as Your father s the glitter but I m the glue. This meant nothing to Kelly, who left childhood sure that her mom with her inviolable commandments and proud stoicism would be nothing more than background chatter for the rest of Kelly s life, which she was carefully orienting toward adventure. After college, armed with a backpack, her personal mission statement, and a wad of traveler s checks, she took off for Australia to see things and do things and Become Interesting. But it didn t turn out the way she pictured it. In a matter of months, her savings shot, she had a choice: get a job or go home. That s how Kelly met John Tanner, a newly widowed father of two looking for a live-in nanny. They chatted for an hour, discussed timing and pay, and a week later, Kelly moved in. And there, in that house in a suburb north of Sydney, 10,000 miles from the house where she was raised, her mother s voice was suddenly everywhere, nudging and advising, cautioning and directing, escorting her through a terrain as foreign as any she had ever trekked. Every day she spent with the Tanner kids was a day spent reconsidering her relationship with her mother, turning it over in her hands like a shell, straining to hear whatever messages might be trapped in its spiral. This is a book about the difference between travel and life experience, stepping out and stepping up, fathers and mothers. But mostly it s about who you admire and why, and how that changes over time. Praise for Glitter and Glue I loved this book, I was moved by this book, and now I will share this book with my own mother along with my renewed appreciation for certain debts of love that can never be repaid. Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love Kelly Corrigan s thoughtful and beautifully rendered meditation invites readers to reflect on their own launchings and homecomings. I accepted the invitation and learned things about myself. You will, too. Isn t that why we read? Wally Lamb, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Water Kelly Corrigan is no stranger to mining the depths of her heart. . . . In Glitter and Glue, Corrigan turns the microscope on her relationship with her own mother. . . . Through her own experience of caring for children, she begins, for the first time, to appreciate the complex woman who raised her. O: The Oprah Magazine Corrigan is a lively, nimble cheerleader for the joys of family. People A funny, sparkling memoir. More Corrigan writes with warmth and delicate humor. The Washington Post An irresistible cocktail of lyrical writing and solid, useful insight. San Francisco Chronicle In this endearing, funny, and thought-provoking memoir, Kelly Corrigan s memories of long-ago adventures illuminate the changing relationships between mothers and children as well as everything else that really matters. Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project
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Corrigan, Kelly The Middle Place Hachette Books 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122852. ISBN #1401340938 / 9781401340933. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Corrigan, Kelly The Middle Place Hachette Books 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122852. ISBN #1401340938 / 9781401340933. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "An amazing story told with steep honesty. The Middle Place is memoir at its highest form." --Darin Strauss, author of More Than It Hurts You and The Real McCoy "If you're in a book club or just love to read, make sure this book ends up in your lap, where it will remain until you finish. Plan to laugh, cry, and be consumed by Kelly Corrigan." --Winston-Salem Journal "Bravely reveals the frightened daughter inside the grown-up wife and mother." --Elle "Come for the writing, stay for the drama. Or vice-versa. Either way, you won't regret it." --San Francisco Chronicle For Kelly Corrigan, family is everything. At thirty-six, she had a marriage that worked, two funny, active kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But even as a thriving adult, Kelly still saw herself as the daughter of garrulous Irish-American charmer George Corrigan. She was living deep within what she calls the Middle Place--"that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap"--comfortably wedged between her adult duties and her parents' care. But Kelly is abruptly shoved into coming-of-age when she finds a lump in her breast--and gets the diagnosis no one wants to hear. When George, too, learns that he has late-stage cancer, it is Kelly's turn to take care of the man who had always taken care of her--and to show us a woman who finally takes the leap and grows up.
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Cort, Robert Action! 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1069882. ISBN #0812972163 / 9780812972160. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cort, Robert Action! 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1069882. ISBN #0812972163 / 9780812972160. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary What do you do when your oldest friend, Steve McQueen, pulls out his Smith Wesson and blows your defenseless dining-room chair to smithereens? Or when your hottest client, sex goddess Romy Schneider, demands you leave your wife for her? Those are just a couple of the dilemmas faced by AJ Jastrow, the fictional protagonist of Action , Robert Cort s page-turning saga about a legendary Hollywood family. When we first meet AJ in 1948, a few weeks shy of his thirteenth birthday, he ranks as minor Hollywood royalty Dad is the movie industry s most prominent attorney, Mom is a retired actress whose uncle is Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount. But this year will prove to be the end of the movie industry s Golden Age and the beginning of exile for the Jastrow family. When AJ returns to Tinseltown after a decade s absence, he realizes that fulfilling his father s legacy of creating a movie empire will prove a life s work. Along the way, AJ s soldiers-in-arms include the Machiavellian producer Ray Stark, who teaches him how to win at Monopoly and studio politics; Wall Street genius Charlie Bluhdorn, who coaxes AJ to fly under the radar on a secret mission; AJ s wife, Stephanie, who reminds him that a conscience isn t a luxury; and his daughter and prot g e, Jessica, who refuses to leave his side despite irresistible temptation. His enemies are formidable: studio president Paul Herzog, who seeks to destroy the son as he did the father; the wily agent Mike Ovitz, who intuits the weaknesses of any rival; AJ s mother, Hollywood s wealthiest woman, who cannot abide disloyalty; and AJ s son, Ricky, an actor of uncommon ability, who holds a devastating grudge against his dad. By blending and transforming fact into fiction, by introducing real characters to fictional ones, Robert Cort gives the reader an inside account of Hollywood s path and drift from the end of World War II to the present. And utilizing his insider s knowledge, gained as one of the town s premier producers, he provides an intimate chronicle of how movies are really made, how producers work, and how the industry has evolved, often at the cost of its collective soul. Provocative and vastly entertaining, Action is popular fiction at its best, a story that is both enlightening and great fun to read. From the Hardcover edition.
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Costain, Thomas B. High Towers Doubleday 1949 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Tears and damage to jacket. Book #or1170329. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Costain, Thomas B. Three Edwards: a History of the Plantagenets hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1073345. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Coughlin, Jack Dead Shot St. Martin's hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1146360. ISBN #0312379129 / 9780312379124. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Coughlin, Jack; Davis, Donald A. Running the Maze St. Martin's Press 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153592. ISBN #0312554958 / 9780312554958. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Coughlin, Jack; Davis, Donald A. Running the Maze St. Martin's Press 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153592. ISBN #0312554958 / 9780312554958. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In the latest high-intensity thriller in the New York Times bestselling sniper series, Marine Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson is sent into Pakistan, where an international team of medical workers has been executed in order to cover up a deadly terrorist secret. In the aftermath of great floods, a doctor on a relief mission in northeastern Pakistan discovers the remains of a collapsed bridge that reminds him of a bridge near his childhood home in Ohio. He snaps a cellphone picture and sends it to his sister, just before his entire team is slaughtered. His sister is Beth Ledford, a Coast Guard sniper, who suspects that the answer to the mystery of her brother's death is in that cellphone picture. No one believes her until she finds Swanson and the secret special operations team known as Task Force Trident. When Kyle takes Beth into Pakistan to investigate, they find the true secret behind the mass murder what may be the last, best hope of victory by al-Qaeda and the Taliban over allied forces. Now the two snipers have their sights set on one man, an American diplomat who has become the biggest obstacle to victory in the war on terror. The only question is: which of them gets to pull the trigger?
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Coulter, Catherine Wizard's Daughter 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1102326. ISBN #0739491792 / 9780739491799. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Coulter, Catherine Wizard's Daughter 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1102326. ISBN #0739491792 / 9780739491799. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Dear Reader: When Ryder Sherbrooke finds a child nearly beaten to death in an alley in Eastbourne, he takes her home to Brandon House. She doesn't speak for six months. Her first words, oddly enough, are a haunting song: I dream of beauty and sightless night I dream of strength and fevered might I dream I'm not alone again But I know of his death and her grievous sin. Ah, and just what does this strange song mean that was seemingly imprinted on the child's brain? She names herself Rosalind de la Fontaine since she cannot remember who she is. In her first season in London in 1835, under the aegis of the Sherbrookes, she meets Nicholas Vail, the 7th Earl of Mountjoy, newly arrived from Macau. It is instant fascination on both their parts, but for different reasons. With Grayson Sherbrooke, they are led to an ancient copy of a mysterious book written by a sixteenth-century wizard. The book is written in a baffling code that neither Grayson nor Nicholas can read. But Rosalind can, easily. Strange things start happening. Both Nicholas and Rosalind know it has to do with the old book and, perhaps, even her past, particularly the song she first sang as a child. The urgency builds as they realize Rosalind is the key to a centuries-old mystery. Enjoy, Catherine Coulter
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Coupland, Douglas Girlfriend in a Coma Harper Perennial 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1133131. ISBN #0060987324 / 9780060987329. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Coupland, Douglas Girlfriend in a Coma Harper Perennial 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1133131. ISBN #0060987324 / 9780060987329. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary After making love for the first time, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil confides to her boyfriend Richard of the dark visions she's been recently suffering. It's only a few hours later on that snowy Friday night in 1979 that she descends into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to a daughter, Megan, her child by Richard, the protagonist of this disturbingly funny novel. Karen remains comatose for the next seventeen years. Richard and her circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory throughout the next two decades; passing through careers as models, film special effects technicians, doctors, and demolition experts, before finally being reunited on a conspiracy driven supernatural television series. Upon Karen's reawakening, life grows as surreal as their television show. With apocalyptic events occurring, Karen, Richard, and their friends explore the essential mysteries of life, faith, decency, and existence. Amid the world's rubble they attempt to restore their own humanity.
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Coupland, Douglas JPod Bloomsbury USA 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114248. ISBN #1596911050 / 9781596911055. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Coupland, Douglas JPod Bloomsbury USA 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114248. ISBN #1596911050 / 9781596911055. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary JPod , Douglas Coupland's most acclaimed novel to date, is a lethal joyride into today's new breed of tech worker. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames begin with "J" are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company. The jPodders wage daily battle against the demands of a boneheaded marketing staff, who daily torture employees with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal life is shaped or twisted by phenomena as disparate as Hollywood, marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, and the rise of China. JPod 's universe is amoral, shameless, and dizzyingly fast-paced like our own. Douglas Coupland is a novelist who also work in visual arts and theater. His novels include Generation X, Microserfs, All Families Are Psychotic, Hey Nostradamus , and Eleanor Rigby. He lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. Praise for JPod: "JPod is a sleek and necessary device: the finely tuned output of an author whose obsolescence is thankfully years away."-New York Times Book Review"It's to Coupland's credit that in JPod he's still nimble enough to take the post-modern man-too young for Boomer nostalgia and too old for youthful idealism-and drown his sorrows in a willful, joyful satire that revels in the same cultural conventions that it sends up."-Rocky Mountain News "It's time to admire Coupland's virtuoso tone and how he has refined it over 11 novels. The master ironist just might redefine E. M. Forster's famous dictate 'Only connect' for the Google age."-USA Today "Zeitgeist surfer Douglas Coupland downloads his brain into JPod."-Vanity Fair Also available: JPod - HC ISBN-10 1-59691-104-2 ISBN 13 978-1-59691-104-8 24.95 All Families Are Psychotic - PB, ISBN-10 1-58234-215-6 ISBN-13 1-58234-215-3 13.95 Hey Nostradamus - PB, ISBN-10 1-58234-415-9 ISBN-13 1-58234-415-7 13.95 Eleanor Rigby - HC, ISBN-10 1-58234-5
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Courtenay, Bryce The Power of One Ballantine Books 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113781. ISBN #034541005X / 9780345410054. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Courtenay, Bryce The Power of One Ballantine Books 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113781. ISBN #034541005X / 9780345410054. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama. The New York Times Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the individual, armed with the spirit of independence the power of one can prevail. Cleveland Plain Dealer In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreams which are nothing compared to what life actually has in store for him. He embarks on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the power of words, the power to transform lives, and the power of one. Totally engrossing . . . presents the metamorphosis of a most remarkable young man and the almost spiritual influence he has on others . . . Peekay has both humor and a refreshingly earthy touch, and his adventures, at times, are hair-raising in their suspense. Los Angeles Times Book Review Marvelous . . . It is the people of the sun-baked plains of Africa who tug at the heartstrings in this book. . . . Bryce Courtenay draws them all with a fierce and violent love. The Washington Post Book World Impressive. Newsday A compellin
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Courter, Gay Midwife's Advice Dutton/Plume 1992 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1167684. ISBN #0525934944 / 9780525934943. (keywords: NEW YORK N Y FICTION STATE) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Coutts, Marion The Iceberg: A Memoir Grove Press, Black Cat 2016 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107006. ISBN #0802124607 / 9780802124609. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Coutts, Marion The Iceberg: A Memoir Grove Press, Black Cat 2016 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107006. ISBN #0802124607 / 9780802124609. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Winner of the Wellcome Prize A finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Award A memoir quite unlike any other. It has the strength of an arrow: taut, spiked, quavering, working to its fatal conclusion...an extraordinary story told in an extraordinary way. The Sunday Times The most heartbreaking memoir of the year. Independent on Sunday Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize, and finalist for every major nonfiction award in the UK, including the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Award, The Iceberg is artist and writer Marion Coutts astonishing memoir; an adventure of being and dying and a compelling, poetic meditation on family, love, and language. In 2008, Tom Lubbach, the chief art critic for The Independent was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The Iceberg is his wife, Marion Coutts , fierce, exquisite account of the two years leading up to his death. In spare, breathtaking prose, Coutts conveys the intolerable and, alongside their two year old son Ev whose language is developing as Tom s is disappearing Marion and Tom lovingly weather the storm together. In short bursts of exquisitely textured prose, The Iceberg becomes a singular work of art and an uplifting and universal story of endurance in the face of loss.
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Cox, C. Jay and Fabris, T Latter Days Alyson 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1154329. ISBN #1555838685 / 9781555838683. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cox, Elizabeth Slow Moon 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1035595. ISBN #081297770X / 9780812977707. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cox, Elizabeth Slow Moon 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1035595. ISBN #081297770X / 9780812977707. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary On an early spring night in 1991, Sophie and Crow, flushed with anticipation, slip away from a rowdy high school party and sneak off into the woods. Tonight, for the first time, they will make love. An hour later, Sophie lies unconscious, covered with blood, and Crow is crashing through the underbrush, hurling himself into the river to escape the police. . . . What was meant to be an idyllic, intimate evening has turned into a nightmare. Despite Crow s frantic claims of innocence, evidence at the scene suggests his guilt. And Sophie, by now awake in the hospital, refuses to speak, leaving the residents of the couple s seemingly placid Tennessee town to draw their own wildly varying conclusions. If Crow isn t to blame, then who assaulted Sophie, and what compelled Crow to flee? With each answer comes a new set of questions. Elizabeth Cox s vibrant and lyrical narrative revisits the events leading up to the fateful night, then shows how the tragedy reverberates throughout the community, among parents, friends, teachers, and neighbors all connected to the young lovers, all with a stake in what happens next. As growing suspicions divide the town, a closer look reveals that everyone has something to hide. A compelling and passionate page-turner, The Slow Moon waxes full with suspense, a haunting story of innocence lost, lives betrayed, and the courage required to face the truth. From the Hardcover edition.
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Cox, Lynne Swimming in the Sink: A Memoir Vintage 2017 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110218. ISBN #1101971835 / 9781101971833. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Cox, Lynne Swimming in the Sink: A Memoir Vintage 2017 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110218. ISBN #1101971835 / 9781101971833. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this stunning memoir of life after loss, open-water swimming legend and bestselling author of Grayson Lynne Cox tells of facing the one challenge that no amount of training could prepare her for. A celebrated athlete who set swimming records around the world, Lynne Cox achieved astonishing feats of strength and endurance. She was the first to swim the frigid waters of the Bering Strait, the Strait of Magellan, and the coast of Antarctica, and she was the fastest to swim the English Channel. But it is a different kind of struggle that pushes her to the brink. In a short period of time, Lynne loses her father, and then her mother, and then Cody, her beloved Labrador retriever. Soon after, Lynne herself is diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition that leaves her unable to swim and barely able to walk. But against all odds, and with the support of her friends and family, Lynne begins the slow pull toward recovery, reaching always for the open waters that give her the freedom and mastery that mean everything to her. What follows is a beautifully poignant meditation on loss and an exhilarating celebration of life as, to Lynne s surprise, she begins to find, within the unfamiliar space of vulnerability, the greatest treasures like falling in love.
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