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Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca Harper 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148223. ISBN #0380730405 / 9780380730407. (keywords: FICTION ROMANCE ROMANTIC SUSPENSE GOTHIC) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dubus III, Andre House Of Sand And Fog Vintage Contemporaries 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1141183. ISBN #0375708413 / 9780375708411. (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 ) *
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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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Duenas, Maria The Time In Between Atria Books 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145004. ISBN #1451616899 / 9781451616897. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Duenas, Maria The Time In Between Atria Books 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145004. 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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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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DuMaurier, Daphne Daphne DuMaurier Three Complete Novels & Five Short Stories: The King's General; The House On The Strand; Don't Look Now And Other Stories Avenel Books 1981 hardcover. Some taping present.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1142149. ISBN #0517349175 / 9780517349175. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dunant, Sarah Birth Of Venus 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1055929. ISBN #0812968972 / 9780812968972. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dunant, Sarah Birth Of Venus 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1055929. ISBN #0812968972 / 9780812968972. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter s abilities. But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola s reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city. From the Hardcover
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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 In The Company Of The Courtesan 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1040637. ISBN #0812974042 / 9780812974041. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dunant, Sarah In The Company Of The Courtesan 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1040637. ISBN #0812974042 / 9780812974041. (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 final page. From the Hardcover edition.
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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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Dunant, Sarah The Birth of Venus Random House Trade Paperbacks 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1062574. ISBN #0812968972 / 9780812968972. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dunant, Sarah The Birth of Venus Random House Trade Paperbacks 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1062574. ISBN #0812968972 / 9780812968972. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter s abilities. But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola s reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city. From the Hardcover
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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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Duncan, Thomas W. Gus The Great hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1038599. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dunn, Katherine Geek Love Vintage Contemporaries 2002 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1140852. ISBN #0375713344 / 9780375713347. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dunn, Matthew Sentinel 2012 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1046790. ISBN #0062037927 / 9780062037923. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dunn, Matthew Sentinel 2012 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1046790. ISBN #0062037927 / 9780062037923. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Great talent, great imagination, and real been-there done-that authenticity. Lee Child Not since Fleming charged Bond with the safety of the world has the international secret agent mystique been so anchored with an insider s reality. Noah Boyd, author of The Bricklayer and Agent X Matthew Dunn knows his spycraft and he proves it once again in Sentinel , his second electrifying Spycatcher novel. A former British M16 field officer trained in all aspects of intelligence collection, small-arms and explosives, military unarmed combat, and more, Dunn has an addition talent most other spies lack: he can really write In Sentinel , Dunn brings back Agent Will Cochrane whom Kirkus Reviews calls, a Nietzschean hero who looks poised to give Lee Child s Jack Reacher a run for his readers and sends him to Avacha Bay in eastern Russia, where he must infiltrate a top-secret submarine base, decode a cryptic message from a deep undercover operative, and quite possibly prevent a devastating war. Espionage fiction fans who regularly devour the works of Daniel Silva, Robert Ludlum, Alex Berenson, Ted Bell, Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, and Barry Eisler will discover there s a new ace on the international thriller scene.
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Dunn, Nell Poor Cow Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1967 hardcover. 1st U.S. edition.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1143810. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dunne, Dominick Another City, Not My Own: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir Crown 1997 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133263. ISBN #0609601008 / 9780609601006. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dunne, Dominick Another City, Not My Own: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir Crown 1997 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133263. ISBN #0609601008 / 9780609601006. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This is the story of the Trial of the Century as only Dominick Dunne can write it. Told from the point of view of one of Dunne's most familiar fictional characters-Gus Bailey-Another City, Not My Own tells how Gus, the movers and shakers of Los Angeles, and the city itself are drawn into the vortex of the O.J. Simpson trial. We have met Gus Bailey in previous novels by Dominick Dunne. He is a writer and journalist, father of a murdered child, and chronicler of justice-served or denied-as it relates to the rich and famous. Now back in Los Angeles, a city that once adored him and later shunned him, Gus is caught up in what soon becomes a national obsession. Using real names and places, Dunne interweaves the story of the trial with the personal trials Gus endures as he faces his own mortality. By day, Gus is at the courthouse, the confidant of the Goldman and Simpson families, the lawyers, the journalists, the hangers-on, even the judge; at night he is the honored guest at the most dazzling gatherings in town as everyone-from Kirk Douglas to Heidi Fleiss, from Elizabeth Taylor to Nancy Reagan-delights in the latest news from the corridors of the courthouse. Another City, Not My Own does what no other book on this sensational case has been able to do because of Dominick Dunne's unique ability to probe the sensibilities of participants and observers. This book illuminates the meaning of guilt and innocence in America today. A vivid, revealing achievement, Another City, Not My Own is Dominick Dunne at his best.
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Dunnett, Dorothy Caprice And Rondo 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1022926. ISBN #0679454772 / 9780679454779. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dunnett, Dorothy Caprice And Rondo 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1022926. ISBN #0679454772 / 9780679454779. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Winter, 1474: In the frozen port of Danzig, Nicholas de Fleury, one-time soldier, merchant, and banker to kings, leads his raffish companions on frivolous, drunken adventures that give little indication of the dark and complex events that have brought him among them--his activities as a spy; his shifts of allegiance from the Duke of Burgundy to the Holy Roman Emperor, and back; the mischief-making at the court of Scotland so vicious that his disgusted friends cast him into justifiable exile. In six vivid novels synopsized in an introduction to this volume , the peerless Dorothy Dunnett has shown us Nicholas's progress from humble dyeworks apprentice to merchant prince with his own private army, consultant to duchies and kingdoms--even as he strives to understand his origins and to come to terms with his independent, contrary wife, Gelis. And now, as the ice melts in Danzig, Nicholas must decide his own future: Will he make a new life working for the Italian colonies of the Levant? Or assist the great Muslim prince Uzum Hasan in his stance against the Turks? Will he remain in Poland, trading and fighting, or lose himself in the secret, scented gardens of the Crimea? In fact, he could appear to be doing any or all of these things while engaged in his private search for a lost fortune in gold . . . Nicholas has an unmapped future as Caprice and Rondo begins, yet whatever he chooses to do, he is still bound, as if by an invisible thread, to the men and women he has left behind. As always, he obliquely tries to protect them from their enemies and his own . . . and they in turn begin to learn more about his past. Nicholas will choose, and he will act. But as the military and political lines form and the great battle is launched to decide the dominance of Europe, his personal struggle for redemption and return will also be resolved--if it is not already too late. Caprice and Rondo, like its predecessors in the House of Niccol sequence, offers a rare and perfect evocation of the fifteenth century, with all its pageantry, excitement, and brutal reality. The intricately twisting narrative challenges and absorbs the reader-- as England's Birmingham Post said of an earlier volume: "You move into another world: one of beauty and intrigue, love and hate, wit and breathtaking adventure." In short, from an author beloved by legions of readers, everything one could want in a novel.
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Dunnett, Dorothy Niccolo Rising 1986 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1093399. ISBN #0394531078 / 9780394531076. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dunnett, Dorothy Niccolo Rising 1986 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1093399. ISBN #0394531078 / 9780394531076. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this first book of The House of Niccol series, the author of the Lymond Chronicles introduces a new hero, Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire. With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccol series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges. Niccol Rising, Book One of the series, finds us in Bruges, 1460. Jousting is the genteel pastime, and successful merchants are, of necessity, polyglot. Street smart, brilliant at figures, adept at the subtleties of diplomacy and the well-timed untruth, Dunnett's hero rises from wastrel to prodigy in a breathless adventure that wins him the hand of the strongest woman in Bruges and the hatred of two powerful enemies. From a riotous and potentially murderous carnival in Flanders, to an avalanche in the Alps and a pitched battle on the outskirts of Naples, Niccol Rising combines history, adventure, and high romance in the tradition stretching from Alexandre Dumas to Mary Renault.
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