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Drew, Alan Shadow Man Random House 2017 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110913. ISBN #1400067804 / 9781400067800. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Drew, Alan Shadow Man Random House 2017 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110913. ISBN #1400067804 / 9781400067800. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A novel of psychological suspense about an idyllic community rocked by a serial killer and a dark secret. Detective Ben Wade has returned to his hometown of Rancho Santa Elena in search of a quieter life and to try to save his marriage. Suddenly the community, with its peaceful streets and excellent public schools, finds itself at the mercy of a serial killer who slips through windows and screen doors at night, shattering illusions of safety. As Ben and forensic specialist Natasha Betencourt struggle to stay one step ahead of the killer and deal with painful episodes in the past Ben s own world is rocked again by violence. He must decide how far he is willing to go, and Natasha how much she is willing to risk, to protect their friendship and themselves to rescue the town from a psychotic murderer and a long-buried secret. With fine, chilling prose, acclaimed author Alan Drew weaves richly imagined characters into the first of several thrilling novels of suspense featuring the California world of Ben Wade and Natasha Betencourt. Shadow Man reveals the treacherous underbelly of suburban life, as a man, a woman, a family, and a community are confronted with the heart of human darkness. Praise for Shadow Man Excellent, atmospheric . . . a superb police procedural . . . Ben Wade is but one of many sharply etched characters who help make Shadow Man a stellar achievement, a book that unspools like a dark-toned movie in the reader s mind. The Wall Street Journal The crime part of this novel is superbly done: Wade, along with forensic expert Natasha Betencourt, are both indelible characters, and the passages from the criminal s perspective are chilling. Yet there is also a lot of complex emotion a lot of novel, if you will going on here, especially in the excavation of Wade s past and in the tension between the remaining wildness and the parcels of civilization carved out of the valley. LitHub Alan Drew s debut psychological thriller succeeds admirably. There are three hearts of human darkness within, and it is for the reader to decide which character is the true shadow man . . . The Steinbeck-like passages about the vanishing cowboy landscape contribute to the novel s power. Booklist starred review Drew s engrossing novel works equally well as psychological study and cop thriller, literary novel and genre piece. Kirkus starred review Drew s cinematic descriptive powers, which he displayed so well in his debut, are on full and wonderful display in Shadow Man , helping to make it an absolute must-read this summer. Bookreporter Entertaining, well-constructed . . . The darkness that affects Ben Wade, a lone wolf rides horses for pleasure, forms the heart of the story, and Drew draws it out nicely while still moving the plot forward. Publishers Weekly Recommend this one to fans of Michael Connelly, Tana French, and Dennis Lehane. . . . The Steinbeck-like passages about the vanishing cowboy landscape contribute to the novel s power. Booklist starred review Wonderfully imagined and wonderfully written, Shadow Man is everything a great thriller should be. . . . A home run. Lee Child, author of Night School
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Drewe, Robert Ned Kelly paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1161333. ISBN #0142003158 / 9780142003152. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Drury, Allen Public Men Scribner 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1027456. ISBN #0684807033 / 9780684807034. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Drury, Allen Public Men Scribner 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1027456. ISBN #0684807033 / 9780684807034. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "We live in the Republic of Feel-Good in a time when all the scum of America is rising to the top." So begins Public Men, the final novel of "the University trilogy" in which Pulitzer Prize winner Allen Drury concludes some fifty years in the lives of the members of the World War II generation whose stories he began on the eve of the war in the novel Toward What Bright Glory? The second novel, Into What Far Harbor?, carries them on through the challenges, triumphs, and tragedies of the war and on to the years when they must worry about their world and the world of their children against the backdrop of the later Vietnam War. Now in Public Men, set in the year 2000, when most are either about to embark upon, or have already entered, their eighties, the fifteen who remain of the original twenty-six meet for a last reunion on the beautiful campus where they shared a fondly remembered fraternity house and the hopes and dreams of youth confronted by history's most chaotic and ominously foreboding century. Public Men concerns them all, but overshadowing their lives as in the two previous novels is the life of Richard Emmett Wilson -- "Willie," now and for many years a United States Senator from his native California; his legislative triumphs on Capitol Hill; the tragic death of his first wife, Donna; his second and third marriages; his political disagreements with, but ultimate pride in, his older son Latt as Latt follows in his footsteps into the House of Representatives and then into the Senate; and, finally, Willie's campaign for president, threatened by other personal tragedies, most devastatingly those of his gentle, vulnerable younger son, Amos. Through it all, Willie, often in alliance with Tim Bates, does battle against what he sees as the "phony liberalism" of his famous fraternity brother Dr. Ren "Renny" Suratt; and Renny and his powerful friends of academe and the media in turn do battle with what they see as the "reactionary conservatism" of Willie and his friends. Tim, wielder of a savage commentator's pen, refers to "Renny and his crew" as "the scum" he attacks. Renny responds with equally scathing pen and matching contempt. As with many of the public men in Public Men, these three fraternity brothers sum up what they regard as the major political and social issues of end-of-the-millennium twentieth century. Allen Drury skillfully meshes the public and private lives of his characters against the Washington world that has formed the rich backdrop of many of his twenty-five books.
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Drury, Tom Pacific 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110611. ISBN #0802119999 / 9780802119995. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Drury, Tom Pacific 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110611. ISBN #0802119999 / 9780802119995. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In a triumphant return to the characters that launched his career two decades ago, Tom Drury travels back to Grouse County, the setting of his landmark debut, The End of Vandalism . Drury s depictions of the stark beauty of the Midwest and the futility of American wanderlust have earned him comparisons to Raymond Carver, Sherwood Anderson, and Paul Auster. When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling travels to Los Angeles to reunite with the mother who deserted him seven years ago, he finds himself out of his league in a land of magical freedom. He does new drugs with new people, falls in love with an enchanting but troubled equestrienne named Charlotte, and gets thrown out of school over the activities of a club called the New Luddites. Back in the Midwest, an ethereal young woman comes to Stone City on a mission that will unsettle the lives of everyone she meets including Micah s half-sister, Lyris, who still fights fears of abandonment after a childhood in foster care, and his father, Tiny, a petty thief. An investigation into the stranger s identity uncovers a darkly disturbed life, as parallel narratives of the comic and tragic, the mysterious and everyday, unfold in both the country and the city.
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Du Brul, Jack Havoc E.P. Dutton 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1168363. ISBN #0525948821 / 9780525948827. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dubus, Andre House of Sand and Fog Vintage Contemporaries 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1171740. ISBN #0375727345 / 9780375727344. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dubus, Andre House of Sand and Fog Vintage Contemporaries 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1171740. ISBN #0375727345 / 9780375727344. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Elegant and powerful...an unusual and volatile...literary thriller." -- Washington Post Book World In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity. Kathy Niccolo is a recovering alcoholic and addict whose house is all she has left, and who refuses to let her hard-won stability slip away from her. Sheriff Lester Burdon, a married man who finds himself falling in love with Kathy, becomes obsessed with helping her fight for justice. Drawn by their competing desires to the same small house in the California hills--and what it represents to each of them--and doomed by their tragic inability to understand one another, the three converge on an explosive collision course. Combining unadorned realism with profound empathy, House of Sand and Fog is a devastating exploration of the American Dream gone awry.
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Dubus, Andre We Don't Live Here Anymore: Three Novellas Vintage Contemporaries 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or988292. ISBN #1400079268 / 9781400079261. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dubus, Andre We Don't Live Here Anymore: Three Novellas Vintage Contemporaries 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or988292. ISBN #1400079268 / 9781400079261. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In these three stories two of which form the basis of the award-winning film We Don t Live Here Anymore literary master Andre Dubus traces the lives of two couples who married too young, and who are intricately entwined by love and friendship, jealousy and understanding. Hank and Jack have been best friends since high school. Hank married Edith, the prettiest girl Jack had ever seen, and Jack married Terry, whom he thinks he may no longer love. But Hank and Edith s adultery didn t begin or end with Jack and Terry. Moving, perceptive, rendered in clear-eyed prose, We Don t Live Here Anymore maps with preternatural insight the often separate lands of love and marriage.
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Dubus, Andre III Bluesman Vintage 2001 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or958286. ISBN #0375725164 / 9780375725166. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dubus, Andre III Bluesman Vintage 2001 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or958286. ISBN #0375725164 / 9780375725166. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary With House of Sand and Fog , his National Book Award-nominated novel, Andre Dubus III demonstrated his mastery of the complexities of character and desire. In this earlier novel he captures a roiling time in American history and the coming-of-age of a boy who must decide between desire, ambition, and duty. In the summer of 1967, Leo Suther has one more year of high school to finish and a lot more to learn. He's in love with the beautiful Allie Donovan who introduces him to her father, Chick a construction foreman and avowed Communist. Soon Leo finds himself in the midst of a consuming love affair and an intense testing of his political values. Chick's passionate views challenge Leo's perspective on the escalating Vietnam conflict and on just where he stands in relation to the new people in his life. Throughout his and the nation's unforgettable "summer of love," Leo is learning the language of the blues, which seem to speak to the mourning he feels for his dead mother, his occasionally distant father, and the youth which is fast giving way to manhood.
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Dubus, Andre III Garden Of Last Days 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1032192. ISBN #0393041654 / 9780393041651. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dubus, Andre III Garden Of Last Days 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1032192. ISBN #0393041654 / 9780393041651. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog --a new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel. One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April's usual babysitter is in the hospital, so she decides it's best to have her three-year-old daughter close by, watching children's videos in the office, while she works. Except that April works at the Puma Club for Men. And tonight she has an unusual client, a foreigner both remote and too personal, and free with his money. Lots of it, all cash. His name is Bassam. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown out of the club for holding hands with his favorite stripper, and he's drunk and angry and lonely. From these explosive elements comes a relentless, raw, searing, passionate, page-turning narrative, a big-hearted and painful novel about sex and parenthood and honor and masculinity. Set in the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed, it juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love. It seizes the reader by the throat with the same psychological tension, depth, and realism that characterized Andre Dubus's 1 bestseller, House of Sand and Fog-- and an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in the human heart.
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Dubus, Andre III House Of Sand And Fog W.W. Norton & Company 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1162300v1. ISBN #0393338118 / 9780393338119. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dubus, Andre III House Of Sand And Fog W.W. Norton & Company 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1162300v1. ISBN #0393338118 / 9780393338119. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The National Book Award finalist, Oprah Book Club pick, 1 New York Times bestseller and basis for the Oscar-nominated motion picture. A former colonel in the Iranian Air Force yearns to restore his family's dignity. A recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold on to the one thing she has left. And her lover, a married cop, is driven to extremes to win her love. In this masterpiece of American realism and Shakespearean consequence, Andre Dubus III's unforgettable characters people with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand on careen toward inevitable conflict, their tragedy painting a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.
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Dubus, Andre III House Of Sand And Fog W.W. Norton & Company 2011 paperback. Previous owner writing present.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1162300. ISBN #0393338118 / 9780393338119. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dubus, Andre III House Of Sand And Fog W.W. Norton & Company 2011 paperback. Previous owner writing present.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1162300. ISBN #0393338118 / 9780393338119. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary The National Book Award finalist, Oprah Book Club pick, 1 New York Times bestseller and basis for the Oscar-nominated motion picture. A former colonel in the Iranian Air Force yearns to restore his family's dignity. A recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold on to the one thing she has left. And her lover, a married cop, is driven to extremes to win her love. In this masterpiece of American realism and Shakespearean consequence, Andre Dubus III's unforgettable characters people with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand on careen toward inevitable conflict, their tragedy painting a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.
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Dudintsev, Vladimir Not By Bread Alone E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1957 hardcover. Previous owner name written in. Some chipping to the dustjacket.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1168691. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Duenas, Maria The Time In Between Atria Books 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1157837. ISBN #1451616899 / 9781451616897. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Duenas, Maria The Time In Between Atria Books 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1157837. ISBN #1451616899 / 9781451616897. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II. Between Youth and Adulthood At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. At fourteen, she quietly begins her own apprenticeship. By her early twenties she has learned the ropes of the business and is engaged to a modest government clerk. But everything changes when two charismatic men burst unexpectedly into her neatly mapped-out life: an attractive salesman and the father she never knew. Between War and Peace With the Spanish Civil War brewing in Madrid, Sira leaves her mother and her fianc , impetuously following her handsome lover to Morocco. However, she soon finds herself abandoned, penniless, and heartbroken in an exotic land. Among the odd collection of European expatriates trapped there by the worsening political situation back on the Continent, Sira reinvents herself by turning to the one skill that can save her: her gift for creating beautiful clothes. Between Love and Duty As England, Germany, and the other great powers launch into the dire conflict of World War II, Sira is persuaded to return to Madrid, where she takes on a new identity to embark upon the most dangerous undertaking of her career. As the preeminent couturier for an eager clientele of Nazi officers wives, Sira becomes embroiled in the half-lit world of espionage and political conspiracy rife with love, intrigue, and betrayal. An outstanding success around the world, The Time in Between has sold more than two million copies and inspired the Spanish television series based on the book, dubbed by the media as the Spanish Downton Abbey. In the US it was a critical and commercial hit, and a New York Times bestseller in paperback. It is one of those rare, richly textured novels that enthrall down to the last page. Mar a Due as reminds us how it feels to be swept away by a masterful storyteller.
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Duffy, Bruce The World As I Found It Houghton Mifflin (P) 1988 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067740. ISBN #0899198082 / 9780899198088. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Duffy, Bruce The World As I Found It Houghton Mifflin (P) 1988 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1067740. ISBN #0899198082 / 9780899198088. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary One of the most talked-about bestsellers of the year is now available in paperback. "A most unusual, even preposterous venture: a novel constructed out of the lives, the thoughts, the appetites, the egos, the very toenails and pocket watches of the philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and G.E. Moore."--Los Angeles Times.
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Duffy, Bruce The World As I Found It Houghton Mifflin 1987 paperback. Crease to the cover.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1170643. ISBN #0899198082 / 9780899198088. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Duffy, Bruce The World As I Found It Houghton Mifflin 1987 paperback. Crease to the cover.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1170643. ISBN #0899198082 / 9780899198088. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary One of the most talked-about bestsellers of the year is now available in paperback. "A most unusual, even preposterous venture: a novel constructed out of the lives, the thoughts, the appetites, the egos, the very toenails and pocket watches of the philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and G.E. Moore."--Los Angeles Times.
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Dugel, Pramila U. Two in One 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1100274. ISBN #0615632785 / 9780615632780. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dugel, Pramila U. Two in One 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1100274. ISBN #0615632785 / 9780615632780. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Pramila U. Dugel, second time author, is originally from Nepal and was educated in Darjeeling, India. After receiving her Cambridge University Overseas certificate, she graduated with a bachelor degree in Kathmandu. She taught in International Schools in Vienna, Austria, New York, USA, and Beijing, China. As Principal of a private school in Long Beach, CA for nine years, she resigned in 2003 to pursue her dream-to be an author. She established the first Kindergarten in Kathmandu, she has given teachers' workshops, written educational articles Macmillan and has lectured in educational forums. Extensive travel allowed her the opportunity to meet people of various races, religions and cultures. With compassion and sincere interest, she has written this fiction about those who are marginalized and dejected. Could this really happen? The reader can decide.
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Dumas, Alexandre Queen Margot Hyperion 1994 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1160243. ISBN #0786880821 / 9780786880829. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dumas, Alexandre Queen Margot Hyperion 1994 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1160243. ISBN #0786880821 / 9780786880829. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Released to coincide with the new Miramac film starring Isabelle Adjani, this is the classic novel unavailable for over 25 years. Massacres, conspiracies, clandestine trysts, secret alliances, daring escapes, sumptuous feasts, and duels of wit propel the action in this delightful story of French royalty during the 16th century. Advertising with movie.
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Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers (Barnes & Noble Classics) Barnes & Noble Classics 2004 paperback. A few light marks.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1154405. ISBN #1593081480 / 9781593081485. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers (Barnes & Noble Classics) Barnes & Noble Classics 2004 paperback. A few light marks.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1154405. ISBN #1593081480 / 9781593081485. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Three Musketeers , by Alexandre Dumas , is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes Noble Classics : All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Mixing a bit of seventeenth-century French history with a great deal of invention, Alexandre Dumas tells the tale of young D Artagnan and his musketeer comrades, Porthos, Athos and Aramis. Together they fight to foil the schemes of the brilliant, dangerous Cardinal Richelieu, who pretends to support the king while plotting to advance his own power. Bursting with swirling swordplay, swooning romance, and unforgettable figures such as the seductively beautiful but deadly femme fatale, Milady, and D Artagnan s equally beautiful love, Madame Bonacieux, The Three Musketeers continues, after a century and a half of continuous publication, to define the genre of swashbuckling romance and historical adventure. Barbara T. Cooper is Professor of French at the University of New Hampshire. She is a member of the editorial boards of Nineteenth-Century French Studies and the Cahiers Alexandre Dumas and specializes in nineteenth-century French drama and works by Dumas.
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Dumas, Alexandre Three Muskateers Barnes & Noble Books 1994 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164101. ISBN #1566195438 / 9781566195430. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dunant, Sarah In the Company of the Courtesan Random House 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1144607. ISBN #1400063817 / 9781400063819. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dunant, Sarah In the Company of the Courtesan Random House 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1144607. ISBN #1400063817 / 9781400063819. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor s army blew a hole in the wall of God s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment. Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan , Sarah Dunant s epic novel of life in Renaissance Italy. Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice, the shimmering city born out of water to become a miracle of east-west trade: rich and rancid, pious and profitable, beautiful and squalid. With a mix of courage and cunning they infiltrate Venetian society. Together they make the perfect partnership: the sharp-tongued, sharp-witted dwarf, and his vibrant mistress, trained from birth to charm, entertain, and satisfy men who have the money to support her. Yet as their fortunes rise, this perfect partnership comes under threat, from the searing passion of a lover who wants more than his allotted nights to the attentions of an admiring Turk in search of human novelties for his sultan s court. But Fiammetta and Bucino s greatest challenge comes from a young crippled woman, a blind healer who insinuates herself into their lives and hearts with devastating consequences for them all. A story of desire and deception, sin and religion, loyalty and friendship, In the Company of the Courtesan paints a portrait of one of the world s greatest cities at its most potent moment in history: It is a picture that remains vivid long after the
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Dunant, Sarah Sacred Hearts Random House 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1127132. ISBN #1400063825 / 9781400063826. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dunant, Sarah Sacred Hearts Random House 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1127132. ISBN #1400063825 / 9781400063826. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God s protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina s new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core. Ripped by her family from an illicit love affair, sixteen-year-old Serafina is willful, emotional, sharp, and defiant young enough to have a life to look forward to and old enough to know when that life is being cut short. Her first night inside the walls is spent in an incandescent rage so violent that the dispensary mistress, Suora Zuana, is dispatched to the girl s cell to sedate her. Thus begins a complex relationship of trust and betrayal between the young rebel and the clever, scholarly nun, for whom the girl becomes the daughter she will never have. As Serafina rails against her incarceration, others are drawn into the drama: the ancient, mysterious Suora Magdalena with her history of visions and ecstasies locked in her cell; the ferociously devout novice mistress Suora Umiliana, who comes to see in the postulant a way to extend her influence; and, watching it all, the abbess, Madonna Chiara, a woman as fluent in politics as she is in prayer. As disorder and rebellion mount, it is the abbess s job to keep the convent stable while, outside its walls, the dictates of the Counter-Reformation begin to purge the Catholic Church and impose on the nunneries a regime of terrible oppression. Sarah Dunant, the bestselling author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan , brings this intricate Renaissance world compellingly to life. Amid Sacred Hearts is a rich, engrossing, multifaceted love story, encompassing the passions of the flesh, the exultation of the spirit, and the deep, enduring power of friendship.
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Duncan, David James River Why 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1120554. ISBN #1578050847 / 9781578050840. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Duncan, David James River Why 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1120554. ISBN #1578050847 / 9781578050840. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Since its publication by Sierra Club Books more than two decades ago, The River Why has become a classic, standing with Norman Maclean s A River Runs Through It as our era s most widely read fiction about fly-fishing. This captivating and exuberant tale is told by Gus Orviston, an irreverent young fly fisherman and one of the most appealing heroes in contemporary American fiction. Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus decides to strike out on his own, taking refuge in a remote riverbank cabin to pursue his own fly-fishing passion with unrelenting zeal. But instead of finding fishing bliss, Gus becomes increasingly troubled by the degradation of the natural world around him and by the spiritual barrenness of his own life. His desolation drives him on a reluctant quest for self-discovery and meaning ultimately fruitful beyond his wildest dreams. Stylistically adept and ambitious in scope, The River Why is a touching and powerful novel by an important voice in American fiction. In a new Afterword written for this twentieth-anniversary edition, David James Duncan reflects on the genesis of his book and on the surprising link between fishing and wisdom.
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