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Goodman, Allegra Family Markowitz 1996 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030767. ISBN #0374153213 / 9780374153212. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Goodman, Allegra Family Markowitz 1996 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030767. ISBN #0374153213 / 9780374153212. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Told through weddings, deaths, academic conferences, and dreams, the uniquely humorous story of three generations of Markowitzes is revealed, creating a familial world of conflict, confusion, and love.
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Goodman, Anthony A. The Shadow Of God: A Novel Of War And Faith 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1145404. ISBN #1402201508 / 9781402201509. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Goodman, Carol Arcadia Falls Ballantine Books 2010 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105104. ISBN #0345497538 / 9780345497536. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Goodman, Carol Arcadia Falls Ballantine Books 2010 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105104. ISBN #0345497538 / 9780345497536. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary There once was a girl who liked to pretend she was lost. . . . Meg Rosenthal is driving toward the next chapter in her life. Winding along a wooded roadway, her car moves through a dense forest setting not unlike one in the bedtime stories Meg used to read to her daughter, Sally. But the girl riding beside Meg is a teenager now, and has exchanged the land of make-believe for an iPod and some personal space. Too much space, it seems, as the chasm between them has grown since the sudden, unexpected death of Meg s husband. Dire financial straits and a desire for a fresh start take Meg and Sally from a comfortable life on Long Island to a tucked-away hamlet in upstate New York: Arcadia Falls, where Meg has accepted a teaching position at a boarding school. The creaky, neglected cottage Meg and Sally are to call home feels like an ill portent of things to come, but Meg is determined to make the best of it and to make a good impression on the school s dean, the diminutive, elegant Ivy St. Clare. St. Claire, however, is distracted by a shocking crisis: During Arcadia s First Night bonfire, one of Meg s folklore students, Isabel Cheney, plunges to her death in a campus gorge. Sheriff Callum Reade finds Isabel s death suspicious, but then, he is a man with secrets and a dark past himself. Meg is unnerved by Reade s interest in the girl s death, and as long-buried secrets emerge, she must face down her own demons and the danger threatening to envelop Sally. As the past clings tight to the present, the shadows, as if in a terrifying fairy tale, grow longer and deadlier. In Arcadia Falls , award-winning author Carol Goodman deftly weaves a mesmerizing narrative of passion: for revenge, for art, for love.
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Goodman, Carol Ghost Orchid 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1066231. ISBN #0345462149 / 9780345462145. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Goodman, Carol Ghost Orchid 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1066231. ISBN #0345462149 / 9780345462145. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In her enthralling novels of literary suspense, Carol Goodman writes stories that resonate with emotion set in lush landscapes that entice the senses. Now, with The Ghost Orchid, a narrative that seamlessly weaves together the past and the present, Goodman creates her most lyrical and haunting work to date. For more than one hundred years, creative souls have traveled to Upstate New York to work under the captivating spell of the Bosco estate. Cradled in silence, inspired by the rough beauty of overgrown gardens and crumbling statuary, these chosen few fashion masterworks and have cemented Bosco s reputation as a premier artists colony. This season, five talented artists-in-residence find themselves drawn to the history of Bosco, from the extensive network of fountains that were once its centerpiece but have long since run dry to the story of its enigmatic founder, Aurora Latham, and the series of tragic events that occurred more than a century ago. Ellis Brooks, a first-time novelist, has come to Bosco to write a book based on Aurora and the infamous summer of 1893, when wealthy, powerful Milo Latham brought the notorious medium Corinth Blackwell to the estate to help his wife contact three of the couple s children, lost the winter before in a diphtheria epidemic. But when a s ance turned deadly, Corinth and her alleged accomplice, Tom Quinn, disappeared, taking with them the Lathams only surviving child. The more time she spends at Bosco, the more Ellis becomes convinced that there is an even darker, more sinister end to the story. And she s not alone: biographer Bethesda Graham uncovers stunning revelations about Milo and Corinth; landscape architect David Fox discovers a series of hidden tunnels underneath the gardens; poet Zalman Bronsky hears the long-dry fountain s waters beckoning him; and novelist Nat Loomis feels something lingering just out of reach. After a bizarre series of accidents befalls them, the group cannot deny the connections between the long ago and now, the living and the dead . . . as Ellis realizes that the tangled truth may ensnare them all in its cool embrace. From the Hardcover edition.
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Goodman, Joanna The Home For Unwanted Girls: The Heart-wrenching, Gripping Story Of a Mother-daughter Bond That Could Not Be Broken Inspired By True Events Harper Paperbacks 2018 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1149088. ISBN #0062684221 / 9780062684226. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Goodman, Joanna The Home For Unwanted Girls: The Heart-wrenching, Gripping Story Of a Mother-daughter Bond That Could Not Be Broken Inspired By True Events Harper Paperbacks 2018 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1149088. ISBN #0062684221 / 9780062684226. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other. In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility much like Maggie Hughes parents. Maggie s English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don t include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. But Maggie s heart is captured by Gabriel Ph nix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life back on track . Elodie is raised in Quebec s impoverished orphanage system. It s a precarious enough existence that takes a tragic turn when Elodie, along with thousands of other orphans in Quebec, is declared mentally ill as the result of a new law that provides more funding to psychiatric hospitals than to orphanages. Bright and determined, Elodie withstands abysmal treatment at the nuns hands, finally earning her freedom at seventeen, when she is thrust into an alien, often unnerving world. Maggie, married to a businessman eager to start a family, cannot forget the daughter she was forced to abandon, and a chance reconnection with Gabriel spurs a wrenching choice. As time passes, the stories of Maggie and Elodie intertwine but never touch, until Maggie realizes she must take what she wants from life and go in search of her long-lost daughter, finally reclaiming the truth that has been denied them both.
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Goodwin, Ernest Don Cristobal Dodd, Mead & company 1929 hardcover. First Edition. Sunning to top of spine. The dustjacket is heavilly chipped, with the spine having a 2 1/4" x 1 1/2" piece missing, and fold on front with heavy chipping. A Good+ copy in a Fair dustjacket.
. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or703695. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Goodwin, Stephen Breaking Her Fall Harvest Books 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1145560. ISBN #0156029693 / 9780156029698. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Goodwin, Stephen Breaking Her Fall Harvest Books 2004 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1145560. ISBN #0156029693 / 9780156029698. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Just before eleven on an ordinary summer night in Washington, D.C., Tucker Jones picks up the phone, expecting to hear that his teenage daughter, Kat, is back from the movies. But the caller is another parent, a man who tells Tucker that Kat was actually at a party-and makes a shocking allegation about what happened to her there. In a blind rage, Tucker races to the party to find Kat already departed, but his full-boil interrogation of the boys still present spills over into a confrontation-and ends with one of the boys crashing into a glass tabletop. In a second, his rage turns to remorse, and he soon finds himself under arrest. Tucker could easily lose his home and his business, but he is most concerned about losing his daughter. Stephen Goodwin writes with insight and rare power about the way that passion rearranges lives. As Tucker and Kat and everyone around them seek to repair the damages of that night, Breaking Her Fall charts their uncommonly difficult passage from despair to reconciliation and hope with extraordinary grace.
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Goolrick, Robert Reliable Wife 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114881. ISBN #1565129776 / 9781565129771. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Goolrick, Robert Reliable Wife 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114881. ISBN #1565129776 / 9781565129771. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for "a reliable wife." She responded, saying that she was "a simple, honest woman." She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her was her single-minded determination to marry this man and then kill him, slowly and carefully, leaving her a wealthy widow, able to take care of the one she truly loved. What Catherine Land did not realize was that the enigmatic and lonely Ralph Truitt had a plan of his own. And what neither anticipated was that they would fall so completely in love. Filled with unforgettable characters, and shimmering with color and atmosphere, A Reliable Wife is an enthralling tale of love and madness, of longing and murder. br
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Gordimer, Nadine Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black And Other Stories 2007 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1088978. ISBN #0374109826 / 9780374109820. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Gordimer, Nadine Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black And Other Stories 2007 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1088978. ISBN #0374109826 / 9780374109820. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "You're not responsible for your ancestry, are you . . . But if that's so, why have marched under banned slogans, got yourself beaten up by the police, arrested a couple of times; plastered walls with subversive posters . . . The past is valid only in relation to whether the present recognizes it." In this collection of new stories Nadine Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the fearless insight that is the hallmark of her writing. In the title story a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid activist embarks on an unadmitted pursuit of the possibilities for his own racial identity in his great-grandfather's fortune-hunting interlude of living rough on diamond diggings in South Africa, his young wife far away in London. "Dreaming of the Dead" conjures up a lunch in a New York Chinese restaurant where Susan Sontag and Edward Said return in surprising new avatars as guests in the dream of a loving friend. The historian in "History" is a parrot who confronts people with the scandalizing voice reproduction of quarrels and clandestine love-talk on which it has eavesdropped."Alternative Endings" considers the way writers make arbitrary choices in how to end stories--and offers three, each relating the same situation, but with a different resolution, arrived at by the three senses: sight, sound, and smell.
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Gordimer, Nadine Burger's Daughter paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1032154. ISBN #0140055932 / 9780140055931. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Gordimer, Nadine Burger's Daughter Penguin Books 1984 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1153118. ISBN #0140055932 / 9780140055931. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Gordimer, Nadine Writing and Being Harvard University Press 1995 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110137. ISBN #067496232X / 9780674962323. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Gordimer, Nadine Writing and Being Harvard University Press 1995 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110137. ISBN #067496232X / 9780674962323. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Whether talking about her own writing, interpreting the works of others, or giving us a window on the world that "we in South Africa are attempting to reconstruct," Nadine Gordimer has much to tell us about the art of fiction and the art of life. In this deeply resonant book Gordimer examines the tension for a writer between life's experiences and narrative creations. She asks first, where do characters come from--to what extent are they drawn from real life? We are touching on this question whenever we insist on the facts behind the fiction, Gordimer suggests, and here she tries to unravel the mysterious process that breathes "real" life into fiction. Exploring the writings of revolutionaries in South Africa, she shows how their struggle is contrastingly expressed in factual accounts and in lyrical poetry. Gordimer next turns to three writers linked by their search for a life that transcends their own time and place: in distinctive and telling ways, Naguib Mahfouz, Chinua Achebe, and Amos Oz defy accepted norms of loyalty to the mores and politics of their countries. Their search in Egypt, Nigeria, and Israel for a meaningful definition of home testifies to what it must be: the destination of the human spirit beyond national boundaries. Ending on a personal note, Gordimer reveals her own experience of "writing her way out of" the confines of a dying colonialism.
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Gordon, Jaimy Lord Of Misrule 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1037752. ISBN #0307946738 / 9780307946737. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Gordon, Jaimy Lord Of Misrule 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1037752. ISBN #0307946738 / 9780307946737. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A brilliant novel that captures the dusty, dark, and beautiful world of small-time horse racing, where trainers, jockeys, grooms and grifters vie for what little luck is offered at a run-down West Virginia track . Tommy Hansel has a plan: run four horses, all better than they look on paper, at long odds at Indian Mound Downs, then grab the purse -- or cash a bet -- and run before anyone s the wiser. At his side is Maggie Koderer, who finds herself powerfully drawn to the gorgeous, used up animals of the cheap track. She also lands in the cross-hairs of leading trainer Joe Dale Bigg. But as news of Tommy s plan spreads, from veteran groom Medicine Ed, to loan shark Two-Tie, to Kidstuff the blacksmith, it s Maggie, not Tommy or the handlers of legendary stakes horse Lord of Misrule, who will find what's valuable in a world where everything has a price.
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Gordon, Rose Secrets Of a Viscount 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130882. ISBN #1938352335 / 9781938352331. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Gordon, Rose Secrets Of a Viscount 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130882. ISBN #1938352335 / 9781938352331. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary One summer night, Sebastian Gentry, Lord Belgrave hauled the wrong young lady to Gretna Green. When her identity is exposed, the only obvious solution is to get an annulment. Only, just like his elopement plans, things didn t go as planned and while she has reason to believe they are no longer married, he knows better. Wanting to make things right for her, he offers to help her find a husband Isabelle Knight has just been given an unexpected fortune and is in the midst of doing what she never believed she'd have to do: spend a Season on the Marriage Mart. Finding no one who seems to catch her fancy--or even seems bearable to tolerate until death do them part--her entire world is sent spinning with the sudden appearance of none other than her former husband. Isabelle is in no position to refuse his offer to help her find a husband and reluctantly agrees, but what neither counts on is her future husband just might be the one she s still secretly married to.
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Gortner, C.W. Tudor Conspiracy 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1044633. ISBN #1250042771 / 9781250042774. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Gortner, C.W. Tudor Conspiracy 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1044633. ISBN #1250042771 / 9781250042774. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Hunted by a shadowy foe in Bloody Mary s court, Brendan Prescott plunges into London s treacherous underworld to unravel a dark conspiracy that could make Elizabeth queen or send her to her death in C.W. Gortner's The Tudor Conspiracy England, 1553: Harsh winter encroaches upon the realm. Mary Tudor has become queen to popular acclaim and her enemies are imprisoned in the Tower. But when she s betrothed to Philip, Catholic prince of Spain, putting her Protestant subjects in peril, rumors of a plot to depose her swirl around the one person whom many consider to be England s heir and only hope the queen s half-sister, Princess Elizabeth. Haunted by his past, Brendan Prescott lives far from the intrigues of court. But his time of refuge comes to an end when his foe and mentor, the spymaster Cecil, brings him disquieting news that sends him on a dangerous mission. Elizabeth is held captive at court, the target of the Spanish ambassador, who seeks her demise. Obliged to return to the palace where he almost lost his life, Brendan finds himself working as a double-agent for Queen Mary herself, who orders Brendan to secure proof that will be his cherished Elizabeth s undoing. Plunged into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a mysterious opponent who hides a terrifying secret, Brendan races against time to retrieve a cache of the princess s private letters, even as he begins to realize that in this dark world of betrayal and deceit, where power is supreme and sister can turn against sister, nothing and no one is what it seems.
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Gourevitch, Philip; Morris, Errol Standard Operating Procedure Penguin Press 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1056453. ISBN #1594201323 / 9781594201325. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Gourevitch, Philip; Morris, Errol Standard Operating Procedure Penguin Press 2008 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1056453. ISBN #1594201323 / 9781594201325. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An utterly original literary and intellectual collaboration by two of our keenest moral and political observers has produced a nonfiction Heart of Darkness for our time: the first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison, based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with the Americans involved. The Ballad of Abu Ghraib reveals the stories of the American soldiers who took and appeared in the iconic photographs of the Iraq war-the haunting digital snapshots from Abu Ghraib prison that shocked the world-and simultaneously illuminates and alters forever our understanding of those images and the events they depict. Drawing on more than two hundred hours of Errol Morris's startlingly frank and intimate interviews with Americans who served at Abu Ghraib and with some of their Iraqi prisoners, as well as on his own research, Philip Gourevitch has written a relentlessly surprising account of Iraq's occupation from the inside out-rendering vivid portraits of guards and prisoners ensnared in an appalling breakdown of command authority and moral order. What did we think we saw in the infamous photographs, and what were we, in fact, looking at? What did the people in the photographs think they were doing, and why did they take them? What was "standard operating procedure" and what was "being creative" when it came to making prisoners uncomfortable? Who was giving orders, and who was following them? Where does the line lie between humiliation and torture, and why and how does that matter? Was the true Abu Ghraib "scandal" a result of an expos or a cover-up? In exploring these questions, Gourevitch and Morris have crafted a nonfiction morality play that stands to endure as essential reading long after the current war in Iraq passes from the headlines. By taking us deep into the voices and characters of the men and women who lived the horror of Abu Ghraib, the authors force us, whatever our politics, to reexamine the pat explanations in which we have been offered-or sought-refuge, and to see afresh this watershed episode. Instead of a "few bad apples," we are confronted with disturbingly ordinary young American men and women who have been dropped into something out of Dante's Inferno. The Ballad of Abu Ghraib is a book that makes you think and makes you see-an essential contribution from two of our finest nonfiction artists working at the peak of their powers.
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Gowda, Shili Somaya Secret Daughter paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082549. ISBN #0062089498 / 9780062089496. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Gowda, Shili Somaya Secret Daughter paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082549. ISBN #0062089498 / 9780062089496. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Somer's life is everything she imagined it would be- she's newly married and has started her career as a physician in San Francisco- until she makes the devastating discovery she never will be able to have children. the same year in India, a poor mother makes the heartbreaking choice to saver her newborn daughter's life by giving her away. It is a decision that will haunt Kavita for the rest of her life, and cause a ripple effect that travels across the world and back again. Asha, adopted out of a Mumbai orphanage, is the child that binds the destinies of these two women. We follow both families, invisibly connecteduntil Asha's journey of self- discovery leads her back to India. Compulsively readable and deeply touching, "Secret Daughter" is a story of the unforeseen ways in which our choices and families affect our lives, and the indelible power of love in all of its many forms. SHILPI SOMAYA GOWDA was born in Toronto and raised there by parents who emmigrated from Bombay. She lives with her husband and two children in California.
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Grace, Patricia Baby No-Eyes 1998 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148742. ISBN #0824821610 / 9780824821616. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Grace, Patricia Baby No-Eyes 1998 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148742. ISBN #0824821610 / 9780824821616. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible for others to share. In fact his whole whanau is bonded by secrets, a genealogy stitched together by shame, joy, love and sometimes grief. Patricia Grace's major new novel merges recent headlines with stories of a heartfelt family history. It is an account of the mysteries that operate at many levels between generations, where the present is the pivot, the center of the spiral, looking outward to the past and future that define it.
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Grady, Ronan C. The Collected Works of Ducrot Pepys hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1126710. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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