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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Mistress of Spices Anchor Books 1998 pamphlet. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145140. ISBN #0385482388 / 9780385482387. (keywords: Immortal Time Travel Supernatural Magical Powers Romance) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee One Amazing Thing Voice 2010 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1163491. ISBN #1401340997 / 9781401340995. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Palace Of Illusions Doubleday 2008 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1163493. ISBN #0385515995 / 9780385515993. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Palace Of Illusions Doubleday 2008 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1163493. ISBN #0385515995 / 9780385515993. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat told from the point of view of an amazing woman. Relevant to today s war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers in the Mahabharat, the novel gives us a new interpretation of this ancient tale. The novel traces the princess Panchaali's life, beginning with her birth in fire and following her spirited balancing act as a woman with five husbands who have been cheated out of their father s kingdom. Panchaali is swept into their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of exile and a terrible civil war involving all the important kings of India. Meanwhile, we never lose sight of her strategic duels with her mother-in-law, her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna, or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husbands' most dangerous enemy. Panchaali is a fiery female redefining for us a world of warriors, gods, and the ever-manipulating ha
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee The Mistress of Spices Anchor 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1056795. ISBN #0385482388 / 9780385482387. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee The Mistress of Spices Anchor 1998 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1056795. ISBN #0385482388 / 9780385482387. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Magical, tantalizing, and sensual, The Mistress of Spices is the story of Tilo, a young woman born in another time, in a faraway place, who is trained in the ancient art of spices and ordained as a mistress charged with special powers. Once fully initiated in a rite of fire, the now immortal Tilo--in the gnarled and arthritic body of an old woman--travels through time to Oakland, California, where she opens a shop from which she administers spices as curatives to her customers. An unexpected romance with a handsome stranger eventually forces her to choose between the supernatural life of an immortal and the vicissitudes of modern life. Spellbinding and hypnotizing, The Mistress of Spices is a tale of joy and sorrow and one special woman's magical powers. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, born in India, is an award-winning poet who teaches creative writing at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California, where she also serves as president of MAITRI, a helpline for South Asian women. In 1995 her short story collection Arranged Marriage was awarded the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for Fiction, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Her fourth poetry collection, Leaving Yuba City, was published by Anchor in August 1997.
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Unknown Errors Of Our Lives 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078732. ISBN #038549727X / 9780385497275. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Unknown Errors Of Our Lives 2001 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1078732. ISBN #038549727X / 9780385497275. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From acclaimed and beloved author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni comes a new collection of moving stories about family, culture, and the seduction of memory. With the rich prose and keen insight that made Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart national bestsellers, these tales of journeys and returns, of error, of loss and recovery, all resound with her unique understanding of the human spirit. "Don't we all have to pay, no matter what we choose?" a young woman asks in "The Love of a Good Man," one of the unforgettable stories in Chitra Divakaruni's beautifully crafted exploration of the tensions between new lives and old. In tales set in India and the United States, she illuminates the transformations of personal landscapes, real and imagined, brought about by the choices men and women make at every stage of their lives. "The Love of a Good Man" tells of an Indian woman happily settled in the United States who must confront the past when her long-estranged father begs to meet his only grandson. In the acclaimed "Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter," a widow, inadvertently eavesdropping, discovers that her cherished, old-fashioned ways are an embarrassment to her daughter-in-law. A young American woman joins a pilgrimage of women in Kashmir and, in the land of her ancestors, comes to view herself and her family in a new light in "The Lives of Strangers." Two women, uprooted from their native land by violence and deception, find unexpected comfort and hope in each other in "The Blooming Season for Cacti." And in the title story, a young woman turns to her painting and the wisdom of her grandmother for the strength to accept her fiance's past when it arrives on her doorstep. Whether writing about the adjustments of immigrants to a foreign land or the accommodations families make to the disruptive differences between generations, Divakaruni poignantly portrays the eternal struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the allure of change.
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Dixon, Dianne The Language of Secrets Anchor 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or892805. ISBN #0385530633 / 9780385530637. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dobbs, Michael Churchill's Hour: A Novel of Defiance Sourcebooks Landmark 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or993469. ISBN #1402213921 / 9781402213922. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dobbs, Michael Churchill's Hour: A Novel of Defiance Sourcebooks Landmark 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or993469. ISBN #1402213921 / 9781402213922. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From Michael Dobbs, author of the book that inspired the smash hit Netflix series House of Cards , Churchill's Hour is a stunning novel that brings Prime Minister Winston Churchill to life during the midst of WWII. It is 1941, a year of desperation for England as it is battered by the war. Churchill has only one hope, that the U.S. will come to his country's aid, but Roosevelt is unwilling to do so because America is wedded to isolationism. The political difficulties Churchill faces are compounded by a very personal dilemma. Pamela, the wife of his dissolute son, Randolph, has fallen in love with FDR's special envoy to England, Averill Harriman. With England threatened by a German invasion and a desperate Russia devastated by the advancing Nazi onslaught, Churchill must convince America that his cause is theirs. The secret of how he does so is so damning he will take the knowledge to his grave. Following his acclaimed Churchill novels Never Surrender and Churchill's Triumph, Dobbs' powerful reimagining makes England's feisty prime minister jump off the page. Includes bonus reading group guide. Praise for Michael Dobbs, bestselling author of House of Cards , the book that inspired the Netflix series starring Kevin Spacey: "Churchill as nature intended: Dobbs captures his famous subject with artistry. With every stroke of his brush, he etches the character deeper into the memory. It is beautifully done." Sunday Telegraph "Riveting and controversial... Dobbs has the gift of taking you inside his subject's head." Glasgow Evening Times "Michael Dobbs has always had an uncanny feel for current affairs... This is a typically masterful page-turner." Hampstead and Highgate Express "Intriguing political drama from a master of the genre." Irish Independent "An insightful look back in time - Four Stars." Sunday Express "Michael Dobbs weaves history and imagination into a gripping read. His two previous Churchill novels were bestsellers. This one will join them." CHOICE magazine "The voice of Churchill rings true... As an insightful, thought-provoking portrait of one man's personal courage and unshakeable conviction, it succeeds magnificently." Yorkshire Post "Dobbs lifts the lid on the greatest Briton, exposing his strengths, weaknesses, foibles - right down to his table manners - in a way that makes the read utterly compelling... By any standards, this is a remarkable book." Aberdeen Press and Journal "Entertaining and insightful, it shows how the leader's loyalty towards the cause affected his personal life, and threatened to rip apart his family." Northern Echo
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Dobbs, Michael Churchill's Triumph: A Novel of Betrayal Sourcebooks Landmark 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or993470. ISBN #1402210450 / 9781402210457. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dobbs, Michael Churchill's Triumph: A Novel of Betrayal Sourcebooks Landmark 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or993470. ISBN #1402210450 / 9781402210457. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From Michael Dobbs, author of the book that inspired the smash hit Netflix series House of Cards , Churchill's Triumph transports us to the end of WWII as the three most powerful men on earth-Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin-gather in what will later become known as the Yalta Conference to discuss the possibility of worldwide peace. Despite their shared goals, these supposed allies will lie, cheat, and deceive each other in order to secure their respective places in history. Dobbs takes you behind the scenes and brings you into the minds and hearts of the big three leaders: the dominating and seemingly all-powerful Joseph Stalin, with the largest army, and the mission of expanding the Soviet Empire; an ailing and fragile Roosevelt, willing to make whatever compromises he felt he had to in order to bring Stalin and Russia into the final campaign against Japan; and Churchill, the least powerful of the three, but the most far-sighted, who could not count on Roosevelt as his ally, and could not tame the avaricious Russian bear, determined to gobble up the nations around and beyond it. Like a fly on the wall of history, the reader becomes a hidden witness to these monumental negotiations, witnessing negotiations that would betray the heroic struggle of millions who died and fought in the Great War. Acclaimed author Michael Dobbs allows the reader to eavesdrop on the world's most powerful men at a crucial point in modern history. Praise for Churchill's Triumph by Michael Dobbs, bestselling author of House of Cards , the book that inspired the Netflix series starring Kevin Spacey: "His portrait of Churchill is as masterly as ever: a wonderful compound of bluster, sentimentality, grumpiness and indefatigable physical energy. There are the usual elegant metaphors... In the tragedy of Poland burning while statesmen fiddled, Dobbs has found a theme worthy of his powers." Sunday Telegraph "How do you delight the profit-maximising big retailers while at the same time writing something dark and moving? Michael Dobbs knows how...Dobbs knows his sources, but the dialogue is his own: good, clean, moving briskly and underpinned by the record, it conveys historical truth. As for Poland, it suffered all the horrors. Dobbs writes about the country with tight passion, transferring to his fictional village, Piorun, the rape, murder and savage enforcement by Germans and Russians which, so far away and so little regarded, actually happened. The old women weeping, the houses burned down, the bodies left promiscuously on the street are history set out for the attention of novel-readers, memorable instruction in human grief... Furiously told and compelling, Churchill's Triumph is a thinking man's bestseller." The Guardian "Dobbs astutely and dramatically portrays the real story of Yalta, the mighty tussle between the three men upon whose political skills and strength of character the rest of the world would depend... The novel is a triumph because of the author's fine appreciation of history and his meticulous eye for detail." The Times "Michael Dobbs brings the Second World War to a resounding close... Dobbs portrays Churchill as being all too human - oversensitive and easily hurt by friendship betrayed, and conjures up Roosevelt's stricken response beautifully... Dobbs is a fine writer and neatly sums up the appeal of historical novels. Not only can they fill in the gaps left by an inaccurate, incomplete or contradictory factual record, but they can capture the spirit of the thing. Dobbs has certainly done that here." Daily Telegraph "It's all too easy to forget that you're not reading an insider's account of ht real events that shaped the modern world. Dobbs clearly has an instinctive feel for what makes powerful men tick." The Mail on Sunday "Although it's a novel rather than a work of non-fiction, Churchill's Triumph brings into vivid focus that one wintry week in Georgia when Europe's fate was decided. It's a compelling story, expertly told, and builds on the totally credible portrait of Britain's cantankerous but brilliant wartime leader Dobbs has drawn in his earlier novels.... Dobbs is one of the brightest and best mass-market storytellers around." The Scotsman "A brilliant drama tracing the human side of the leaders who held the future of the world in their hands, showing the delusions, paranoia, compromises and betrayal which come with statesmanship in times of crisis." Yorkshire Post "The novel is also a reminder that war is about people and interwoven with the events at Yalta are tales of other individuals, from Polish refugees and starving Russian children to Churchill's own children and the German troops fleeing the advancing Red Army. It's a moving story of human tragedy you won't want to put down." Scottish Sunday Post "The real Churchill brought to life." Western Morning News "Dobbs provides an absorbing account of the events that took place at Yalta. The book vividly brings to life one of the pivotal events of the From Michael Dobbs, author of the book that inspired the smash hit Netflix series House of Cards , Churchill's Triumph transports us to the end of WWII as the three most powerful men on earth-Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin-gather in what will later become known as the Yalta Conference to discuss the possibility of worldwide peace. Despite their shared goals, these supposed allies will lie, cheat, and deceive each other in order to secure their respective places in history. Dobbs takes you behind the scenes and brings you into the minds and hearts of the big three leaders: the dominating and seemingly all-powerful Joseph Stalin, with the largest army, and the mission of expanding the Soviet Empire; an ailing and fragile Roosevelt, willing to make whatever compromises he felt he had to in order to bring Stalin and Russia into the final campaign against Japan; and Churchill, the least powerful of the three, but the most far-sighted, who could not count on Roosevelt as his ally, and could not tame the avaricious Russian bear, determined to gobble up the nations around and beyond it. Like a fly on the wall of history, the reader becomes a hidden witness to these monumental negotiations, witnessing negotiations that would betray the heroic struggle of millions who died and fought in the Great War. Acclaimed author Michael Dobbs allows the reader to eavesdrop on the world's most powerful men at a crucial point in modern history. Praise for Churchill's Triumph by Michael Dobbs, bestselling author of House of Cards , the book that inspired the Netflix series starring Kevin Spacey: "His portrait of Churchill is as masterly as ever: a wonderful compound of bluster, sentimentality, grumpiness and indefatigable physical energy. There are the usual elegant metaphors... In the tragedy of Poland burning while statesmen fiddled, Dobbs has found a theme worthy of his powers." Sunday Telegraph "How do you delight the profit-maximising big retailers while at the same time writing something dark and moving? Michael Dobbs knows how...Dobbs knows his sources, but the dialogue is his own: good, clean, moving briskly and underpinned by the record, it conveys historical truth. As for Poland, it suffered all the horrors. Dobbs writes about the country with tight passion, transferring to his fictional village, Piorun, the rape, murder and savage enforcement by Germans and Russians which, so far away and so little regarded, actually happened. The old women weeping, the houses burned down, the bodies left promiscuously on the street are history set out for the attention of novel-readers, memorable instruction in human grief... Furiously told and compelling, Churchill's Triumph is a thinking man's bestseller." The Guardian "Dobbs astutely and dramatically portrays the real story of Yalta, the mighty tussle between the three men upon whose political skills and strength of character the rest of the world would depend... The novel is a triumph because of the author's fine appreciation of history and his meticulous eye for detail." The Times "Michael Dobbs brings the Second World War to a resounding close... Dobbs portrays Churchill as being all too human - oversensitive and easily hurt by friendship betrayed, and conjures up Roosevelt's stricken response beautifully... Dobbs is a fine writer and neatly sums up the appeal of historical novels. Not only can they fill in the gaps left by an inaccurate, incomplete or contradictory factual record, but they can capture the spirit of the thing. Dobbs has certainly done that here." Daily Telegraph "It's all too easy to forget that you're not reading an insider's account of ht real events that shaped the modern world. Dobbs clearly has an instinctive feel for what makes powerful men tick." The Mail on Sunday "Although it's a novel rather than a work of non-fiction, Churchill's Triumph brings into vivid focus that one wintry week in Georgia when Europe's fate was decided. It's a compelling story, expertly told, and builds on the totally credible portrait of Britain's cantankerous but brilliant wartime leader Dobbs has drawn in his earlier novels.... Dobbs is one of the brightest and best mass-market storytellers around." The Scotsman "A brilliant drama tracing the human side of the leaders who held the future of the world in their hands, showing the delusions, paranoia, compromises and betrayal which come with statesmanship in times of crisis." Yorkshire Post "The novel is also a reminder that war is about people and interwoven with the events at Yalta are tales of other individuals, from Polish refugees and starving Russian children to Churchill's own children and the German troops fleeing the advancing Red Army. It's a moving story of human tragedy you w...
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Doctorow, E.L. City of God: A Novel Random House 2000 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1138863. ISBN #0679447830 / 9780679447832. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Doctorow, E.L. City of God: A Novel Random House 2000 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1138863. ISBN #0679447830 / 9780679447832. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In his workbook, a New York City novelist records the contents of his teeming brain--sketches for stories, accounts of his love affairs, riffs on the meanings of popular songs, ideas for movies, obsessions with cosmic processes. He is a virtual repository of the predominant ideas and historical disasters of the age. But now he has found a story he thinks may be-come his next novel: The large brass cross that hung behind the altar of St. Timothy's, a run-down Episco-pal church in lower Manhattan, has disappeared...and even more mysteriously reappeared on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism, on the Upper West Side. The church's maverick rector and the young woman rabbi who leads the synagogue are trying to learn who committed this strange double act of desecration and why. Befriending them, the novelist finds that their struggles with their respective traditions are relevant to the case. Into his workbook go his taped interviews, insights, preliminary drafts...and as he joins the clerics in pursuit of the mystery, it broadens to implicate a large cast of vividly drawn characters--including scientists, war veterans, prelates, Holocaust survivors, cabinet members, theologians, New York Times reporters, filmmakers, and crooners--in what proves to be a quest for an authentic spirituality at the end of this tortured century. Daringly poised at the junction of the sacred and the profane, and filled with the sights and sounds of New York, this dazzlingly inventive masterwork emerges as the American novel readers have been thirsting for: a defining document of our times, a narrative of the twentieth century written for the twenty-first.
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Doctorow, E.L. Homer & Langley 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033108. ISBN #1400064945 / 9781400064946. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Doctorow, E.L. Homer & Langley 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033108. ISBN #1400064945 / 9781400064946. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World s Fair, and The March , the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer Langle y, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work. Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley s proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers wars, political movements, technological advances and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves. Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously written, this mesmerizing narrative, a free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York s fabled Collyer brothers, is a family story with the resonance of myth, an astonishing masterwork unlike any that have come before from this great writer.
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Doerr, Anthony About Grace Scribner 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1158897. ISBN #1476789010 / 9781476789019. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Doerr, Anthony About Grace Scribner 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1158897. ISBN #1476789010 / 9781476789019. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The first novel by the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning 1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See , one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times. David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happen a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone. He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream. On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind. Doerr's characters are full of grief and longing, but also replete with grace. His compassion for human frailty is extraordinarily moving. In luminous prose, he writes about the power and beauty of nature and about the tiny miracles that transform our lives. About Grace is heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplished.
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Doerr, Harriet Stones For Ibarra paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033153. ISBN #0140112189 / 9780140112184. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Doerr, Harriet Stones For Ibarra paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101986. ISBN #0140075623 / 9780140075625. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Doig, Ivan English Creek Penguin Books 1985 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1145929. ISBN #0140084428 / 9780140084429. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dolan, Lian Elizabeth the First Wife Prospect Park Books 2013 paperback. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1135941. ISBN #1938849051 / 9781938849053. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dolan, Lian Elizabeth the First Wife Prospect Park Books 2013 paperback. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1135941. ISBN #1938849051 / 9781938849053. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Elizabeth Lancaster, an English professor at Pasadena City College, finds her perfectly dull but perfectly orchestrated life upended one summer by three men: her movie-star ex-husband, a charming political operative, and William Shakespeare. Until now, she d been content living in the shadow of her high-profile and highly accomplished family. Then her college boyfriend and one-time husband of seventeen months, A-list action star FX Fahey, shows up with a job offer that she can t resist, and Elizabeth s life suddenly gets a whole lot more interesting. She s off to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the summer to make sure FX doesn t humiliate himself in an avant-garde production of A Midsummer Night's Dream . As she did so skillfully with her first novel, Helen of Pasadena , which spent more than a year on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list, Lian Dolan spins a lively, smart, and very funny tale of a woman reinventing her life in unexpected ways. Lian Dolan is also the co-author of The Satellite Sisters' Uncommon Senses . As part of the Satellite Sisters, Lian and her four sisters found national acclaim first on NPR, then on ABC Radio and XM Satellite Radio. She also creates the popular podcast and blog Chaos Chronicles.
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Dolan-Leach, Caite Dead Letters 2017 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1136722. ISBN #039958885X / 9780399588853. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dolan-Leach, Caite Dead Letters 2017 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1136722. ISBN #039958885X / 9780399588853. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A missing woman leads her twin sister on a twisted scavenger hunt in this clever debut novel with eccentric, dysfunctional characters who will keep you guessing until the end for readers of Luckiest Girl Alive and The Wife Between Us. Ava has her reasons for running away to Paris. But when she receives the shocking news that her twin sister, Zelda, is dead, she is forced to return home to her family s failing vineyard in upstate New York. Knowing Zelda s penchant for tricks and deception, Ava is not surprised when she receives her twin s cryptic message from beyond the grave. Following her sister s trail of clues, Ava immerses herself in Zelda s drama and her outlandish circle of friends and lovers, and soon finds herself confronted with dark family legacies and twisted relationships. Is Zelda trying to punish Ava for leaving? Or is she simply trying to write her own ending? Caite Dolan-Leach s debut thriller is a literary scavenger hunt for secrets hidden everywhere from wine country to social media, and buried at the dysfunctional heart of one utterly unforgettable family. Praise for Dead Letters Dolan-Leach writes like Paula Hawkins by way of Curtis Sittenfeld. Amy Gentry, author of Good as Gone A sharp, wrenching tale of the true love only twins know . . . Dolan-Leach nimbly entwines the clever mystery of Agatha Christie, the wit of Dorothy Parker, and the inebriated Gothic of Eugene O Neill. Kirkus Reviews A smart, dazzling mystery . . . Dolan-Leach revels in toying with both Ava and her audience . . . and the result is captivating. Publishers Weekly starred review Draws you in like you are part of the story itself, living and breathing alongside the compelling characters as they uncover the dark secrets of their complicated family. Wendy Walker, author of All Is Not Forgotten Push-pull tension . . . This book is wine-soaked yet lucid, comforting and frightening, asking the big questions about intimacy and loyalty. Caroline Kepnes, author of You
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Domingue, Ronlyn Mercy Of Thin Air 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1045886. ISBN #0743278828 / 9780743278829. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Domingue, Ronlyn Mercy Of Thin Air 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1045886. ISBN #0743278828 / 9780743278829. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary New Orleans, 1920s. Raziela Nolan is in the throes of a magnificent love affair when she dies in a tragic accident. In an instant, she leaves behind her one true love and her dream of becoming a doctor -- but somehow, she still remains. Immediately after her death, Razi chooses to stay between -- a realm that exists after life and before whatever lies beyond it. From this remarkable vantage point, Razi narrates the stories of her lost love, Andrew, and the relationship of Amy and Scott, a couple whose house she haunts almost seventy-five years later. The Mercy of Thin Air entwines these two fateful and redemptive love stories that echo across three generations. From ambitious, forward-thinking Razi, who illegally slips birth control guides into library books; to hip Web designer Amy, who begins to fall off the edge of grief; to Eugenia, caught between since the Civil War, the characters in this wondrous novel sing with life. Evoking the power of love, memory, and time, The Mercy of Thin Air culminates in a startling finish that will leave readers breathless.
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Donald, Angus King's Man 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1023042. ISBN #1250014689 / 9781250014689. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Donald, Angus King's Man 2012 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1023042. ISBN #1250014689 / 9781250014689. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "A rip-roaring tale...inspired by but not slavish to historical events of the Dark Ages, this book is full of twists and turns...A fast-moving, thoroughly enjoyable yarn." Kirkus Reviews on King's Man In 1192 A.D., with the Third Crusade over, Richard the Lionheart is headed back home to England, only to be betrayed, captured, and held for ransom. Now with the princes of Europe lining up against him, the fate of the greatest warrior in Christendom lies in the hands of a renegade earl and former outlaw: Robin Hood. The mission is deadly and the enemies are powerful and numerous. But for king and country, Robin and his loyal lieutenant Alan Dale will face great risks from battles on blood-soaked fields to deadly assassins in a heroic bid to restore the Lionheart to his rightful throne. Angus Donald has written a brilliant novel of the dark ages, one that brings some of the best-known figures in history to wondrous, vivid life.
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Donato, Pietro Di Christ in Concrete hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1004465. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Donleavy, J.P. Ginger Man 2001 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1051803. ISBN #0802137954 / 9780802137951. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Donleavy, J.P. Ginger Man 2001 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1051803. ISBN #0802137954 / 9780802137951. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy's wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American ne'er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Dangerfield's appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless charm. "Lusty, violent, wildly funny ... The Ginger Man is the picaresque novel to stop them all."--Dorothy Parker, Esquire
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