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Horan, Nancy Loving Frank Ballantine Books 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1016059. ISBN #0345495004 / 9780345495006. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Horan, Nancy Loving Frank Ballantine Books 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1016059. ISBN #0345495004 / 9780345495006. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives. In this ambitious debut novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America s greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheney s profound influence on Wright. Drawing on years of research, Horan weaves little-known facts into a compelling narrative, vividly portraying the conflicts and struggles of a woman forced to choose between the roles of mother, wife, lover, and intellectual. Horan s Mamah is a woman seeking to find her own place, her own creative calling in the world. Mamah s is an unforgettable journey marked by choices that reshape her notions of love and responsibility, leading inexorably ultimately lead to this novel s stunning conclusion. Elegantly written and remarkably rich in detail, Loving Frank is a fitting tribute to a courageous woman, a national icon, and their timeless love story. Advance praise for Loving Frank: Loving Frank is one of those novels that takes over your life. It s mesmerizing and fascinating filled with complex characters, deep passions, tactile descriptions of astonishing architecture, and the colorful immediacy of daily life a hundred years ago all gathered into a story that unfolds with riveting urgency. Lauren Belfer, author of City of Light This graceful, assured first novel tells the remarkable story of the long-lived affair between Frank Lloyd Wright, a passionate and impossible figure, and Mamah Cheney, a married woman whom Wright beguiled and led beyond the restraint of convention. It is engrossing, provocative reading. Scott Turow It takes great courage to write a novel about historical people, and in particular to give voice to someone as mythic as Frank Lloyd Wright. This beautifully written novel about Mamah Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright s love affair is vivid and intelligent, unsentimental and compassionate. Jane Hamilton I admire this novel, adore this novel, for so many reasons: The intelligence and lyricism of the prose. The attention to period detail. The epic proportions of this most fascinating love story. Mamah Cheney has been in my head and heart and soul since reading this book; I doubt she ll ever leave. Elizabeth Be
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Hore, Rachel A Place of Secret Henry Holt 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1116374. ISBN #0805094490 / 9780805094497. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hore, Rachel A Place of Secret Henry Holt 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1116374. ISBN #0805094490 / 9780805094497. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A runaway bestseller in Britain with over 100,000 copies sold, a riveting historical mystery in the tradition of Kate Morton Auction house appraiser Jude leaves London for her dream job at Starbrough Hall, an estate in the countryside, examining and pricing the manuscripts and instruments of an eighteenth-century astronomer. She is welcomed by Chantal Wickham and Jude feels close to the old woman at once: they have both lost their husbands. Hard times have forced the Wickham family to sell the astronomer's work, their land and with it, the timeworn tower that lies nearby. The tower was built as an observatory for astronomer Anthony Wickham and his daughter Esther, and it served as the setting for their most incredible discoveries. Though Jude is far away from her life in London, her arrival at Starbrough Hall brings a host of childhood memories. She meets Euan, a famed writer and naturalist who lives in the gamekeeper's cottage at the foot of the tower, where Jude's grandfather once lived. And a nightmare begins to haunt her six-year-old niece, the same nightmare Jude herself had years ago. Is it possible that the dreams are passed down from one generation to the next? What secrets does the tower hold? And will Jude unearth them before it's too late?
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Horgan, Paul Citizen of New Salem Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1961 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Remnant of sticker removal. Book #or1167563. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Horgan, Paul Mountain Standard: Main Line West Far From Cibola The Common Heart 1656 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1035475. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Horn, Dara Eternal Life W.W. Norton hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1161498. ISBN #0393608530 / 9780393608533. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hornburg, Michael Bongwater Grove Press 1996 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151075. ISBN #0802134564 / 9780802134561. (keywords: FICTION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Horowitz, Laurie Family Fortune 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1064317. ISBN #0060875275 / 9780060875275. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Horowitz, Laurie Family Fortune 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1064317. ISBN #0060875275 / 9780060875275. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Jane Fortune's fortunes have taken a downturn. Thanks to the profligate habits of her father and older sister, the family's money has evaporated and Jane has to move out of the only home she's ever known: a stately brick town house on Boston's prestigious Beacon Hill. Thirty-eight and terminally single, Jane has never pursued idle pleasures like her sibling and father. Instead, she has devoted her time to running the Fortune Family Foundation, a revered philanthropic institution that has helped spark the careers of many a budding writer, including Max Wellman, Jane's first and only love. Now Jane has lost her luster. Max, meanwhile, has become a bestselling novelist and a renowned literary lothario. But change is afoot. And in the process of saving her family and reigniting the flames of true love, Jane might just find herself becoming the woman she was always meant to be.
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Hosseini, Khaled And the Mountains Echoed Riverhead Books 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1168208. ISBN #1594632383 / 9781594632389. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hosseini, Khaled And the Mountains Echoed Riverhead Books 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1168208. ISBN #1594632383 / 9781594632389. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns , has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.
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Hosseini, Khaled Kite Runner Riverhead Books 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1150518v1. ISBN #1594480001 / 9781594480003. (keywords: Friendship Father Sons Loyalty Betrayal Taliban) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Housden, Roger Chasing Rumi : A Fable About Finding the Heart's True Desire HarperSanFrancisco 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Like New. Book #or1147923. ISBN #0060084456 / 9780060084455. (keywords: FICTION RELIGIOUS Rumi Jalal al Dan Rama Maulana) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Houston, Margaret Bell Gypsy Weather hardcover. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1007040. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Houston, Pam Cowboys Are My Weakness Washington Square Press 1993 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106792. ISBN #0671793888 / 9780671793883. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Houston, Pam Cowboys Are My Weakness Washington Square Press 1993 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106792. ISBN #0671793888 / 9780671793883. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "I've always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey. But a real cowboy is hard to find these days, even in the West," says the narrator in the title story of Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection. In these strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. Our heroines are part daredevil, part philosopher, all acute observers of the nuances of modern romance. They go where their cowboys go, they meet cowboys who don't look the part -- and they have staunch friends who give them advice when the going gets rough. Cowboys Are My Weakness is a refreshing and realistic look at men and women -- together and apart.
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Howe, Katherine The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane Voice 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043846. ISBN #1401340903 / 9781401340902. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Howe, Katherine The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane Voice 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043846. ISBN #1401340903 / 9781401340902. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "A fresh present-day story infused with an original take on popular history. Forget broomsticks and pointy hats; here are witches that could well be walking among us today. This debut novel flows with poetic charm and eloquence that achieves high literary merit while concocting a gripping supernatural puzzler. Katherine Howe's talent is spellbinding." --Matthew Pearl, author of The Poe Shadow and The Dante Club A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history-the Salem witch trials. Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest--to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge. As the pieces of Deliverance's harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salem's dark past then she could have ever imagined. Written with astonishing conviction and grace, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the witch trials of the 1690s and a modern woman's story of mystery, intrigue, and revelation.
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Howland, Leila Nantucket Summer (A Collection) Hyperion 2014 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150353. ISBN #1368002129 / 9781368002127. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hua, Chuang Crossings 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137946. ISBN #0930350987 / 9780930350987. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hua, Chuang Crossings 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1137946. ISBN #0930350987 / 9780930350987. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A powerful story of one woman's displacement between cultures and traditions a landmark in Asian-American literature. When it was first published in America in 1968, Chuang Hua's evocative novel Crossings was completely unheralded and quickly went out of print. Years later it would be widely recognized as the first modernist novel to address the Asian-American experience, its deeply imagistic prose marked by spatial and temporal leaps, an unconventional syntax, and unanticipated shifts in plot as haunting as the writing of Jane Bowles. At the center of Crossings is Fourth Jane, the fourth of seven children whose recollections of an oppressive yet loving father, Dyadya, are collaged with her constant migrations between four continents. Suffering from a domestic torpor occasionally enlivened by ritualistic preparations of food for her foreign lover, Jane's displacement only heightens the remembrance of what she has fled: a breech of the familial code; a failed romance; and further in the past, the desolation of war as "bloated corpses flowed in the current of the yellow river." Spare, lyrical, Taoist in form and elusiveness, visually cinematic, tender and sensual, Chuang Hua's powerful narrative endures as one of the most moving and original works of literature in the history of American letters.
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Huang, Yang Living Treasures 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1019910. ISBN #0989596052 / 9780989596053. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huang, Yang Living Treasures 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1019910. ISBN #0989596052 / 9780989596053. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Shortlisted for The Rubery Book Award INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist Pen Bellwether Prize Finalist A woman can have a career and family, but which comes first? A starving panda eats a hen in order to nurse her cub in the dead of winter--there begins the perilous adventure of Gu Bao, a girl who grows up under the Chinese government's one-child policy. Bao falls in love with a handsome soldier during the tumultuous Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. The demonstrations transfix her fellow students and kill one of her friends. Bao finds herself pregnant and faces the end of her academic career. Her grieving parents arrange for a secret abortion and ship her off to her grandparents' house in the remote countryside where she was raised. Bao searches for her inner strength while exploring the evocative Sichuan mountain landscape. She befriends a panda mother caught in a poacher's snare, and an expectant young mother hiding from villainous one-child policy enforcers bent on giving compulsory abortions. All struggle against society to preserve the treasure of their little ones. Can Bao save a rural family from destruction, and help a giant panda along the way? She devises a daring plan that changes the lives of everyone around her. A deeply moving story of family, passion, and courage, Living Treasures is both a gripping page-turner and an incisive social critique, portraying a young woman's quest for romance and justice in a rigid society. Bao, a law student, aspires to have both a career and family, but which comes first? A baby rarely arrives at a convenient time. The decision about the woman's body is not an easy choice but rather a compromise that comes with a dear price. Bao's struggle encapsulates many women's journeys through life, as they experience the triumphs, suffer the heartbreaks, and learn to live with the consequences.
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Hudson, W. H. Green Mansions hardcover. some wear to slipcase. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1013922. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huggam Isabel Elizabeth Stories paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1035323. ISBN #0140101993 / 9780140101997. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huggan, Isabel Elizabeth Stories paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1089352. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hughes, Anita Christmas in London: A Novel St. Martin's 2017 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153090. ISBN #1250145791 / 9781250145796. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor Huchback of Notre-Dame Barnes & Noble Classics 1996 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164098. ISBN #0760701679 / 9780760701676. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1162705. ISBN #1593080662 / 9781593080662. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1162705. ISBN #1593080662 / 9781593080662. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Les Miserables , by Victor Hugo , is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes Noble Classics : All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. One of the most widely read novels of all time, Les Mis rables was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo s stunning career. Though he was considered the greatest French writer of his day, Hugo was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Napoleon III. While in exile he completed Les Mis rables , an enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I. This newly abridged edition of Les Mis rables tells the story of the peasant Jean Valjean unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert. As Valjean struggles to redeem his past, we are thrust into the teeming underworld of Paris with all its poverty, ignorance, and suffering. Just as cruel tyranny threatens to extinguish the last vestiges of hope, rebellion sweeps over the land like wildfire, igniting a vast struggle for the democratic ideal in France. A monumental classic dedicated to the oppressed, the underdog, the laborer, the rebel, the orphan, and the misunderstood, Les Mis rables is a rich, emotional novel that captures nothing less than the entirety of life in nineteenth-century France. Laurence M. Porter has published twelve books, including Victor Hugo 1999 , and a hundred articles and chapters. He was a National Endowment for the Humanties Senior Fellow in 1998. He teaches French at Michigan State University, where he won the Distinguished Faculty Award in 1995.
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