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Drabble, Margaret Seven Sisters 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082084. ISBN #0151007403 / 9780151007400. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Drabble, Margaret Seven Sisters 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082084. ISBN #0151007403 / 9780151007400. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Candida Wilton--a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters--moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. Candida is not exactly destitute. So, is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life? And yet, as she climbs the dingy communal staircase with her suitcases, she feels both nervous and exhilarated. There is a relationship with a computer to which she now confides her past and her present. And friendships of sorts with other women--widows, divorced, never married, women straddled between generations. And then Candida's surprise inheritance . . . A beautifully rendered story, this is Margaret Drabble at her novelistic best.
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Draper, Norman Backyard Kensington 2014 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119014. ISBN #1617733059 / 9781617733055. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Draper, Norman Backyard Kensington 2014 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119014. ISBN #1617733059 / 9781617733055. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Livia is a nice little suburb in the upper Midwest--but behind the manicured lawns and pristine hedges seethes a ruthless desire to be the greatest green thumb of all. . . George and Nan Fremont have created a paradise in their backyard, complete with semi-hallucinogenic exotics and a comfy spot for drinking their favorite merlot. Marta Poppendauber's garden is as pleasantly haphazard as she is. And Dr. Phyllis Sproot, Livia's self-styled and cantankerous gardening expert, has determined the exact formula for the only correct garden possible. But once Burdick's Plant World announces the garden contest to end them all, none of the gardeners of Livia can afford to live and let live. The Fremonts have almost gardened themselves into bankruptcy. Marta is the victim of black tea blackmail. And Dr. Sproot is turning into a horticultural megalomaniac of the worst kind. The gardeners of Livia are digging up trouble with every turn of the spade, but if they can make it through the summer, who knows what might bloom? "Draper has bottled the spirits of competitive gardeners, added sugar and fizz and let them go, leaving the reader with many hilarious madcap adventures." --Suzy Bales, author of Garden Bouquets and Beyond "Fast-paced, fun and full of flowers." --Amanda Thomsen, author of Kiss My Aster
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Drayson, Nicholas Confessing a Murder W. W. Norton & Company 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106984. ISBN #0393051293 / 9780393051292. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Drayson, Nicholas Confessing a Murder W. W. Norton & Company 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106984. ISBN #0393051293 / 9780393051292. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A murder, a vanished tropical island, a thwarted love affair...clues to the origin of Charles Darwin's famous theory. A nameless narrator, abandoned on an island soon to be obliterated by volcanic activity, tells the story of his life and exile from England. The tale is as extraordinary for its observations of a surreal natural history as for the dark twistings of human nature it reveals. His particular interest is beetles a passion he shares, most literally, with the idolized friend of his school years, Charles Darwin and his reckless pursuit of the golden scarab has led him to a place that mirrors the Galapagos in the utter singularity of its fauna and flora. Blood-sucking mistletoe and amphibian swallows are but two of the fantastic species he records. Is this the diary of a madman? Or is it the story of why Darwin published the book that destroyed his belief in God? Fearlessly original in conception, this novel evokes a collaboration between Jules Verne and Patrick O'Brian.
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Dreiser, Theodore Bulwark Doubleday 1946 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Tears and damage to jacket. Book #or1138456. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie W W Norton & Co Inc 1991 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1108160. ISBN #0393960420 / 9780393960426. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie W W Norton & Co Inc 1991 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1108160. ISBN #0393960420 / 9780393960426. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This Norton Critical Edition features the 1900 Doubleday Page text of the novel. "Backgrounds and Sources" reprints excerpts from Dreiser's autobiographies, and a documentary account, drawn largely from Dreiser's correspondence with Frank Norris, Arthur Henry, Walter H.Page and F.N.Doubleday, discusses the supposed "suppression" of Sister Carrie by its first publisher. "Criticism" includes twelve essays that seek to identify Dreiser's literary naturalism in "Sister Carrie", the sources of fictional strength in the novel and the novel's relationship to American life. New to the second edition are essays by Ellen Moers, Robert Penn Warren, Philip Fisher, Robert Shulman and Donald Pizer.
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Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie Oxford University Press 1999 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or988936. ISBN #0192835742 / 9780192835741. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie Oxford University Press 1999 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or988936. ISBN #0192835742 / 9780192835741. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Theodore Dreiser had a hardscrabble youth and the years of newspaper work behind him when he began his first novel, "Sister Carrie," the story of a beautiful Midwestern girl who makes it big in New York City. Published by Doubleday in 1900, it gained a reputation as a shocker, for Dreiser had dared to give the public a heroine whose "cosmopolitan standard of virtue" brings her from Wisconsin, with four dollars in her purse, to a suite at the Waldorf and glittering fame as an actress. With "Sister Carrie," the original manuscript of which is in the New York Public Library collections, Dreiser told a tale not "sufficiently delicate" for many of its first readers and critics, but which is now universally recognized as one of the greatest and most influential American novels.
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Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042616. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie Oxford University Press 1991 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1141852. ISBN #0192827421 / 9780192827425. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Dreiser, Theodore Twelve Men hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1113789. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Drew, Alan Gardens of Water Random House Trade Paperbacks 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1004017. ISBN #0812978447 / 9780812978445. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Drew, Alan Gardens of Water Random House Trade Paperbacks 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1004017. ISBN #0812978447 / 9780812978445. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Gardens of Water is an enthralling story of two families, and two faiths, in Turkey at the time of the cataclysm of 1999. It tells of Sinan, whose daughter, Irem, dreams of escaping the confines of her family and the duties of a devout Muslim woman. She sees in Dylan, an American boy and her upstairs neighbor, the enticing promise of another life. But then a massive earthquake forces Sinan and his family to live as refugees in their own country and leads to a dangerous intimacy with their American neighbors, as Irem and Dylan fall in love. When Sinan finds himself entangled in a series of increasingly dangerous decisions, he will be pushed toward a final betrayal that will change everyone s lives forever. Powerful and beautifully written, Alan Drew s Gardens of Water marks the debut of a brilliant new American writer.
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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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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 Maurier, Daphne Jamaica Inn Doubleday & Company 1936 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or855716. (keywords: CLASSICS FICTION) (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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