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Dilloway, Margaret How to Be an American Housewife Berkley 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or964503. ISBN #0425241297 / 9780425241295. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dilloway, Margaret How to Be an American Housewife Berkley 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or964503. ISBN #0425241297 / 9780425241295. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A mother-daughter story about the strong pull of tradition, and the lure and cost of breaking free of it. When Shoko decided to marry an American GI and leave Japan, she had her parents' blessing, her brother's scorn, and a gift from her husband-a book on how to be a proper American housewife. As she crossed the ocean to America, Shoko also brought with her a secret she would need to keep her entire life... Half a century later, Shoko's plans to finally return to Japan and reconcile with her brother are derailed by illness. In her place, she sends her grown American daughter, Sue, a divorced single mother whose own life isn't what she hoped for. As Sue takes in Japan, with all its beauty and contradictions, she discovers another side to her mother and returns to America unexpectedly changed and irrevocably touched.
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Dimon, HelenKay Impulsive 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1053078. ISBN #0758229097 / 9780758229090. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dimon, HelenKay Impulsive 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1053078. ISBN #0758229097 / 9780758229090. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Trouble In Paradise. . . Katie Long was supposed to be undercover. She was just supposed to watch Deputy Prosecutor Eric Kimura at his ex's wedding and gather intel on his campaign for prosecutor. But he's a lot hotter in person, and the kind of intel they accidentally shared in the hotel bathroom might lose both of them their jobs. Especially since it seems to be a recurring incident. Is it possible for a one-night stand to last ten days? Kimura isn't usually the impulsive type. He's driven, he's ambitious, and he knows what he wants--a respectable future in Hawaii politics. Which means wild half-public sex with a beautiful stranger in a short little caterer's skirt is just tabloid fodder waiting to happen. Conveniently, just as his campaign is coming under attack. Sabotage, media gossip, and an insatiable desire for a woman he just met? If he's not careful, Counselor Kimura might lose all control. . .
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Din, Ali Mirdrekvandi Gunga No Heaven For Gunga Din E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc. 1965 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book plate attached. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Price clipped. Book #or841963. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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DiSclafani, Anton The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls: A Novel Riverhead Books 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1055299. ISBN #1594486409 / 9781594486401. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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DiSclafani, Anton The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls: A Novel Riverhead Books 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1055299. ISBN #1594486409 / 9781594486401. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This summer s first romantic page turner. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Named a most anticipated book for Summer 2013 by The Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly and USA Today , NPR, and People summer reads pick From the author of The After Party , coming May 2016, a lush, sexy, evocative debut novel of family secrets and girls -school rituals, set in the 1930s South. It is 1930, the midst of the Great Depression. After her mysterious role in a family tragedy, passionate, strong-willed Thea Atwell, age fifteen, has been cast out of her Florida home, exiled to an equestrienne boarding school for Southern debutantes. High in the Blue Ridge Mountains, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty, and girls friendships, the Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is a far remove from the free-roaming, dreamlike childhood Thea shared with her twin brother on their family s citrus farm a world now partially shattered. As Thea grapples with her responsibility for the events of the past year that led her here, she finds herself enmeshed in a new order, one that will change her sense of what is possible for herself, her family, her country. Weaving provocatively between home and school, the narrative powerfully unfurls the true story behind Thea s expulsion from her family, but it isn t long before the mystery of her past is rivaled by the question of how it will shape her future. Part scandalous love story, part heartbreaking family drama, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is an immersive, transporting page-turner a vivid, propulsive novel about sex, love, family, money, class, home, and horses, all set against the ominous threat of the Depression and the major debut of an important new writer.
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DiSclafani, Anton Yonahlossee Riding Camp For Girls 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1103221. ISBN #1594632707 / 9781594632709. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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DiSclafani, Anton Yonahlossee Riding Camp For Girls 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1103221. ISBN #1594632707 / 9781594632709. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This summer s first romantic page turner. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Named a most anticipated book for Summer 2013 by The Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly and USA Today , NPR, and People summer reads pick From the author of The After Party , a lush, sexy, evocative debut novel of family secrets and girls -school rituals, set in the 1930s South. It is 1930, the midst of the Great Depression. After her mysterious role in a family tragedy, passionate, strong-willed Thea Atwell, age fifteen, has been cast out of her Florida home, exiled to an equestrienne boarding school for Southern debutantes. High in the Blue Ridge Mountains, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty, and girls friendships, the Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is a far remove from the free-roaming, dreamlike childhood Thea shared with her twin brother on their family s citrus farm a world now partially shattered. As Thea grapples with her responsibility for the events of the past year that led her here, she finds herself enmeshed in a new order, one that will change her sense of what is possible for herself, her family, her country. Weaving provocatively between home and school, the narrative powerfully unfurls the true story behind Thea s expulsion from her family, but it isn t long before the mystery of her past is rivaled by the question of how it will shape her future. Part scandalous love story, part heartbreaking family drama, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is an immersive, transporting page-turner a vivid, propulsive novel about sex, love, family, money, class, home, and horses, all set against the ominous threat of the Depression and the major debut of an important new writer.
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Arranged Marriage: Stories Anchor Books 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Some staining to page edges. Moisture damage. Book #or932617. ISBN #0385483503 / 9780385483506. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Arranged Marriage: Stories Anchor Books 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Some staining to page edges. Moisture damage. Book #or932617. ISBN #0385483503 / 9780385483506. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Although Chitra Divakaruni's poetry has won praise and awards for many years, it is her "luminous, exquisitely crafted prose" Ms. that is quickly making her one of the brightest rising stars in the changing face of American literature. Arranged Marriage , her first collection of stories, spent five weeks on the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller list and garnered critical acclaim that would have been extraordinary for even a more established author.For the young girls and women brought to life in these stories, the possibility of change, of starting anew, is both as terrifying and filled with promise as the ocean that separates them from their homes in India. From the story of a young bride whose fairy-tale vision of California is shattered when her husband is murdered and she must face the future on her own, to a proud middle-aged divorced woman determined to succeed in San Francisco, Divakaruni's award-winning poetry fuses here with prose for the first time to create eleven devastating portraits of women on the verge of an unforgettable transformation.
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Arranged Marriage: Stories 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1054777. ISBN #0385483503 / 9780385483506. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Arranged Marriage: Stories 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1054777. ISBN #0385483503 / 9780385483506. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Although Chitra Divakaruni's poetry has won praise and awards for many years, it is her "luminous, exquisitely crafted prose" Ms. that is quickly making her one of the brightest rising stars in the changing face of American literature. Arranged Marriage , her first collection of stories, spent five weeks on the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller list and garnered critical acclaim that would have been extraordinary for even a more established author.For the young girls and women brought to life in these stories, the possibility of change, of starting anew, is both as terrifying and filled with promise as the ocean that separates them from their homes in India. From the story of a young bride whose fairy-tale vision of California is shattered when her husband is murdered and she must face the future on her own, to a proud middle-aged divorced woman determined to succeed in San Francisco, Divakaruni's award-winning poetry fuses here with prose for the first time to create eleven devastating portraits of women on the verge of an unforgettable transformation.
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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 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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Dobbs, Michael Winston's War: A Novel of Conspiracy Sourcebooks Landmark 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or993471. ISBN #1402217749 / 9781402217746. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dobbs, Michael Winston's War: A Novel of Conspiracy Sourcebooks Landmark 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or993471. ISBN #1402217749 / 9781402217746. (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 , comes Winston's War , a thrilling novel about the dawn of WWII and Winston Churchill's rise to power. At the beginning of WWII, Neville Chamberlain believes he has bought "peace for our time" from Adolph Hitler, who has just seized Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The English are alarmed by the huge German army, while the soldiers that would defend London don't even have steel helmets. For many, compromise and appeasement seem to be England's best defense. But there are a few leaders who don't agree. Among them is Winston Churchill, who understands that the relentless march of fascism will be democracy's death knell. In October 1938, Churchill pleads his case in the press to the BBC's Guy Burgess. One of these two will become the most revered man of his time, and the other will be known as the greatest of traitors. This stunning novel brings to life the surprising political intrigues that set the stage for World War II, and brings alive the passionate, grumpy, whiskey-drinking Winston Churchill, as he inspires his fellow countrymen to take on the world's mightiest army. 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: "An intriguing tale of espionage and treason... this is a work to enthrall." Daily Mail "An author who can bring historical happenings so vitally back to life and made all the more impressive by being historically accurate in every respect." Times of London "A fascinating tale of conspiracy, blackmail, and treachery." Irish Independent "Dobbs takes us so far inside the mind of Winston Churchill that we feel as though we actually are him." Booklist "Dobbs infuses dramatic tension, inventive plots, and heady pacing in the narration of a British icon's noblest hours." Publishers Weekly "Dobbs has done a brilliant job in evoking the drama and despair of Britain hovering on the edge of the abyss." Sunday Express
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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 Penguin Books 2005 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148426. ISBN #0143036165 / 9780143036166. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Doerr, Anthony About Grace Penguin Books 2005 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148426. ISBN #0143036165 / 9780143036166. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Anthony Doerr s short-story collection The Shell Collector was praised by the Los Angeles Times as being "as close to faultless as any writer young or vastly experienced could wish for." One of the finest young writers today, Doerr has the ability to not only spin beautiful prose but also keep readers captivated with his imagination and fully realized characters. With About Grace , he delivers one of the wisest and most compelling first novels of recent times. In luminous prose, Doerr tells the story of David Winkler, a man graced with the gift of premonition and plagued by a dream that foretells his daughter s death. Ranging from Alaska to Ohio to the Caribbean, About Grace is a heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplished novel about the tiny but lifesaving miracles happening around us at each
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