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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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Dunthorne, Joe Submarine Random House Trade Paperbacks 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155661. ISBN #0812978390 / 9780812978391. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dunthorne, Joe Submarine Random House Trade Paperbacks 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155661. ISBN #0812978390 / 9780812978391. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary At once a self-styled social scientist, a spy in the baffling adult world, and a budding, hormone-driven emotional explorer, Oliver Tate is stealthily nosing his way forward through the murky and uniquely perilous waters of adolescence. His objectives? Uncovering the secrets behind his parents teetering marriage, unraveling the mystery that is his alluring and equally quirky classmate Jordana Bevan, and understanding where he fits in among the mystifying beings in his orbit. Struggling to buoy his parents wedded bliss, deep-six his own virginity, and sound the depths of heartache, happiness, and the business of being human, what s a lad to do? Poised precariously on the cusp of innocence and experience, Oliver Tate aims to damn the torpedoes and take the plunge. Now a major motion picture
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Duras, Marguerite The Malady of Death Grove Press 1994 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1049962. ISBN #0802130364 / 9780802130365. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Duras, Marguerite The Malady of Death Grove Press 1994 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1049962. ISBN #0802130364 / 9780802130365. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a "she," a warm, moist body with a beating heart-the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex, he desires through her to penetrate a different mystery: he wants to learn love. It isn't a matter of will, she tells him. Still, he wants to learn to try . . .This beautifully wrought erotic novel is an extended haiku on the meaning of love, "perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of the universe," and of its absence, "the malady of death." "The whole tragedy of the inability to love is in this work, thanks to Duras' unparalleled art of reinventing the most familiar words, of weighing their meaning." - Le Monde; "Deceptively simple and Racinian in its purity, condensed to the essential." - Translation Review.
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Durham, David Anthony Pride of Carthage: A Novel of Hannibal Doubleday 2005 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105305. ISBN #0385506031 / 9780385506038. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Durham, David Anthony Pride of Carthage: A Novel of Hannibal Doubleday 2005 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105305. ISBN #0385506031 / 9780385506038. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An epic work of literary fiction about the superb military leader of Carthage, Hannibal Barca, and his struggle against the mighty Roman Republic. With a vast cast of characters and nationalities, twists of fate, and tales of inspired leadership, David Anthony Durham perfectly captures the legendary Hannibal's world in Pride of Carthage . Beginning in ancient Spain, where Hannibal's father had carved out a Carthaginian empire, the novel traces the origins of the war, the opening moves, and Hannibal's inspired choice to attack Rome via a land route most believed impossible. In graphic, panoramic prose, Durham describes the battles, including the icy slaughter of the Trebia; the mist-shrouded battle along Lake Trasimene; the battle of Cannae, in which Hannibal's outnumbered force surrounded and decimated seventy thousand Romans in a single afternoon; and Zama, the hard slog that proved to be the decisive contest. Along the way we meet a variety of major historical figures on both sides of the conflict, as well as characters representing the vast array of other ethnicities who played a part in the war: Iberians and Gauls, Numidians and Libyans, Macedonians and Moors. Hannibal's family is brought to life: his wife, mother, sisters, and young son, as is Publius Scipio, the young Roman who was the only match for Hannibal's genius on the field of battle and who eventually defeated him. Pride of Carthage is a stunning achievement in historical fiction, one that will transport readers to a world of mesmerizing authenticity of character, event, and detail.
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Dyer, Geoff But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz 1997 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1071870. ISBN #0865475083 / 9780865475083. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dyer, Geoff But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz 1997 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1071870. ISBN #0865475083 / 9780865475083. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano. However, music is the driving force of But Beautiful, and Dyer brings it to life in luminescent and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician s style.
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Dyer, KC Finding Fraser 2016 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128561. ISBN #0399584366 / 9780399584367. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dyer, KC Finding Fraser 2016 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128561. ISBN #0399584366 / 9780399584367. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Jamie Fraser would be Deeply Gratified at having inspired such a charmingly funny, poignant story and so am I. Diana Gabaldon, 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series Escape to Scotland with the delightful new novel that readers have fallen in love with inspired by Diana Gabaldon s 1 New York Times bestselling Outlander series. I met Jamie Fraser when I was nineteen years old. He was tall, red-headed, and at our first meeting at least, a virgin. He was, in fact, the perfect man. That he was fictional hardly entered into it... On the cusp of thirty, Emma Sheridan is desperately in need of a change. After a string of failed relationships, she can admit that no man has ever lived up to her idea of perfection: the Scottish fictional star of romantic fantasies the world over James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser. Her ideal man might be ripped from the pages of a book, but Emma hopes that by making one life-altering decision she might be able to turn fiction into fact. After selling all her worldly possessions, Emma takes off for Scotland with nothing but her burgeoning travel blog to confide in. But as she scours the country s rolling green hills and crumbling castles, Emma discovers that in searching for her own Jamie Fraser, she just might find herself.
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Dyke, Henry Van Mansion hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1053132. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Earle, Steve I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1002712. ISBN #0547754434 / 9780547754437. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Earle, Steve I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1002712. ISBN #0547754434 / 9780547754437. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Steve Earle brings to his prose the same authenticity, poetic spirit, and cinematic energy he projects in his music. I ll Never Get Out of This World Alive is like a dream you can t shake, offering beauty and remorse, redemption in spades. Patti Smith Shot through with humor and insight and . . . enough action and intriguing characters in it to keep readers turning pages. Boston Globe Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams. Literally. In 1963, ten years after he may have given Hank the morphine shot that killed him, Doc has lost his license. Living in the red-light district of San Antonio, he performs abortions and patches up the odd knife wound to feed his addiction. But when Graciela, a young Mexican immigrant, appears in the neighborhood in search of Doc s services, miraculous things begin to happen. Everyone she meets is transformed for the better, except, maybe, for Hank s angry ghost who isn t at all pleased to see Doc doing well.
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Earley, Tony Jim The Boy paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1064754. ISBN #0316198951 / 9780316198950. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Eberhardt, Esabelle Oblivion Seekers and Other Writings City Lights Books 1975 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155183. ISBN #0872860825 / 9780872860827. (keywords: FICTION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Ebershoff, David Pasadena 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1022568. ISBN #0812968484 / 9780812968484. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Ebershoff, David Pasadena 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1022568. ISBN #0812968484 / 9780812968484. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the award-winning author of The Danish Girl and The Rose City , Pasadena tells the story of Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm, and the three men who change her life: her jealous brother, Edmund; Bruder, the orphan Linda s father brings home from World War I; and a Pasadena orange rancher named Willis Poore. The novel spans Linda s adventurous and romantic life, weaving the tales of her Mexican mother and her German-born father with those of the rural Pacific Coast of her youth and of the small, affluent city, Pasadena, that becomes her home. Pasadena is a novel of passion and history, about a woman and a place in perpetual transformation.
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Ebershoff, David Rose City: Stories 2001 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1075372. ISBN #0670894834 / 9780670894833. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Ebershoff, David Rose City: Stories 2001 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1075372. ISBN #0670894834 / 9780670894833. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary David Ebershoff's shockingly original debut novel, The Danish Girl , which explored the boundaries of love and gender, was hailed by critics around the world. The Boston Globe called it "heartbreaking and unforgettable . . . a complete triumph" and the Chicago Tribune praised it for its "startling refinement and beauty." His first collection, The Rose City combines a bouquet of vivid characters with Ebershoff's trademark emotional insight and lush prose in seven stories about young men and boys making their way in a chaotic world. Often tragic but lacking in despair, The Rose City delves into the tribulations of everyday life, identity, and sexuality. Each story is about someone from or moving to Pasadena, a part of California, as the character in the title story says, "Where the real history is." In "Chuck Paa" a young man in flight from his misdemeanant mother seeks and finds employment in an upscale world which can never quite become his own. In the title story, "The Rose City," remembrance and a shared lost love bring together ex-lovers who reunite to reflect on their past, their present, and what lies ahead. What they discover is that relationships rarely turn out the way you want them to-especially when your ex has moved on to a house and home life and you're left alone, foot tapping, waiting around for Mr. Right. With the same insight and daring of The Danish Girl , The Rose City secures David Ebershoff's reputation as a writer of rare talent and sensitivity.
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Eck, Matthew The Farther Shore Milkweed Editions 2007 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1135568. ISBN #1571310576 / 9781571310576. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Eck, Matthew The Farther Shore Milkweed Editions 2007 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1135568. ISBN #1571310576 / 9781571310576. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In coastal Africa, a small unit of U.S. Army soldiers is separated from its command and left for dead. Josh and his battle buddies are forced to keep moving to escape the marauding gangs that rule the area, and after a series of terrifying, violent encounters, only a few of them survive. In this haunting, adrenaline-filled war novel, both natives and invaders are almost inhuman, reflecting the horror and strangeness of postmodern military engagements.
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Eco, Umberto Foucault's Pendulum hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1081821. ISBN #0151327653 / 9780151327652. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Eco, Umberto Island Of The Day Before 1996 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1145141. ISBN #0156030373 / 9780156030373. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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