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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Penguin Books 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1169447. ISBN #0143123599 / 9780143123590. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Penguin Books 2012 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1169447. ISBN #0143123599 / 9780143123590. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Now a major motion picure, adapted from the acclaimed Broadway musical, starring Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, and Sacha Baron Cohen Victor Hugo s tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society , Les Mis rables is a novel on an epic scale, moving inexorably from the eve of the battle of Waterloo to the July Revolution of 1830. This striking edition features the widely celebrated and eminently readable translation by Norman Denny.
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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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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153534. 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 #or1153534. 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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Hugo, Victor Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Classics 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150937. 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 #or1150937. 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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Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame Barnes & Noble Classics 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or909390v1. ISBN #1593081405 / 9781593081409. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre Dame Barnes & Noble Classics 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or909390v1. ISBN #1593081405 / 9781593081409. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Hunchback of Notre Dame , 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 : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices Glossaries, when appropriate 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 first great novels of the Romantic era, Victor Hugo s The Hunchback of Notre Dame has thrilled generations of readers with its powerfully melodramatic story of Quasimodo, the deformed hunchback who lives in the bell tower of medieval Paris s most famous cathedral. Feared and hated by all, Quasimodo is looked after by Dom Claude Frollo, a stern, cold priest who ignores the poor hunchback in the face of his frequent public torture. But someone steps forward to help the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, whose single act of kindness fills Quasimodo with love. Can the hunchback save the lovely gypsy from Frollo s evil plan, or will they all perish in the shadows of Notre Dame? An epic tale of beauty and sadness, The Hunchback of Notre Dame portrays the sufferings of humanity with compassion and power. Isabel Roche teaches French language and literature at Bennington College. She specializes in the nineteenth-century French novel.
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Hui, Wei Shanghai Baby Washington Square Press 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003578. ISBN #0743421574 / 9780743421577. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hui, Wei Shanghai Baby Washington Square Press 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003578. ISBN #0743421574 / 9780743421577. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The gap that divides those of us born in the 1970s and the older generation has never been so wide. Dark and edgy, deliciously naughty, an intoxicating cocktail of sex and the search for love, Shanghai Baby has already risen to cult status in mainland China. The risque contents of the breakthrough novel by hip new author Wei Hui have so alarmed Beijing authorities that thousands of copies have been confiscated and burned. As explicit as Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, as shocking as Trainspotting, this story of a beautiful writer and her erotically charged affairs jumps, howls, and hits the ground running as it depicts the new generation rising in the East. Set in the centuries-old port city of Shanghai, the novel follows the days, and nights, of the irrepressibly carnal Coco, who waits tables in a caf when she meets her first lover, a sensitive Chinese artist. Defying her parents, Coco moves in with her boyfriend and enters a frenzied, orgasmic world of drugs and hedonism. But, helpless to stop her gentle lover's descent into addiction, Coco becomes attracted to a boisterous Westerner, a rich German businessman with a penchant for S M and seduction. Now, with an entourage of friends ranging from a streetwise madame to a rebellious filmmaker, Coco's forays into in the territory of love and lust cross the borders between two cultures -- awakening her guilt and fears of discovery, yet stimulating her emerging sexual self. Searing a blistering image into the reader's imagination, Shanghai Baby provides an alternative travelogue into the back streets of a city and the hard-core escapades of today's liberated youth. Wei Hui's provocative portrayal of men, women, and cultural transition is an astonishing and brave exposure of the unacknowledged new China, breaking through official rhetoric to show the inroads of the West and a people determined to burst free.
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Hulme, Keri Bone People Penguin Books 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1162944. ISBN #0140089225 / 9780140089226. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hulme, Keri Bone People Penguin Books 1986 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1162944. ISBN #0140089225 / 9780140089226. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simon's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality. Out of this unorthodox trinity Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where Maori and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge. Winner of both a Booker Prize and Pegasus Prize for Literature, The Bone People is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerizing emotional complexity.
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Humes, H.L. Underground City 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070273. ISBN #081297848X / 9780812978483. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Humes, H.L. Underground City 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1070273. ISBN #081297848X / 9780812978483. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Back in print after nearly fifty years the acclaimed fiction debut of novelist H. L. Humes, co-founder of The Paris Review Immensely intelligent and energetic, intensely dramatic and melodramatic, heroically overwritten yet sharp, insightful, and precise, The Underground City is an astonishing book by a writer of abundant gifts whose resurrection is long overdue. Peter Matthiessen It is the late 1940s and Paris is in turmoil. A man named Dujardin is sentenced to death for treason, sparking general strikes and threats of riots across the city. In the meantime, John Stone, a war-weary American and former secret agent, finds himself being investigated as a suspected Communist. What has brought these two men to their fates? H.L. Humes spins a thrilling account of the French underground during the last years of World War II, and the events that lead to the Dujardin affair. His many memorable characters include Adriane, loved by both Stone and Carnot, a fanatic Communist; Bruce Sheppard, the American ambassador to France, a statesman of vision and compassion; and Solange R camier, the sophisticated young Parisian widow who finds meaning in trying to salvage Stone s broken life. The Underground City displays H.L. Humes s youthful literary skill and a striking capacity for fast-paced narrative. This is a brilliant tour de force. A major achievement . . . The Underground City attains its full stature in poetry and truth. . . . This is a many-sided, absorbing novel, written on a grand scale, that holds the reader s attention from the first to the last of its many pages. New York Herald Tribune Magnificent . . . The Underground City has verisimilitude and scope, action and depth of emotion. Chicago Tribune A work of power, maturity and distinction. Newsweek
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Hummel, Maria Motherland 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092839. ISBN #1619022370 / 9781619022379. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hummel, Maria Motherland 2014 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1092839. ISBN #1619022370 / 9781619022379. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Motherland is inspired by stories from the author s father and his German childhood, and letters between her grandparents that were hidden in an attic wall for fifty years. It is the author s attempt to reckon with the paradox of her father a product of her grandparents fiercely protective love and their status as Mitl ufer, Germans who went along with Nazism, first reaping its benefits and later its consequences. This page-turning novel focuses on the Kappus family: Frank is a reconstructive surgeon who lost his beloved wife in childbirth and two months later married a young woman who must look after the baby and his two grieving sons when he is drafted into medical military service. Alone in the house, Liesl must attempt to keep the children fed with dwindling food supplies, safe from the constant Allied air attacks, and protected against the swell of desperate refugees flooding their town. When one child begins to mentally unravel, Liesl must discover the source of the boy s infirmity or lose him forever to Hadamar, the infamous hospital for unfit children. The novel bears witness to the shame and courage of Third Reich families during the devastating last days of the war, as each family member s fateful choices lead them deeper into questions of complicity and innocence, to the novel s heartbreaking and unforgettable conclusion.
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Hummel, Maria Still Lives Counterpoint 2018 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1168032. ISBN #1619021110 / 9781619021112. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Humphreys, C.C. Place Called Armageddon: Constantinople 1453 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1087206. ISBN #1402280858 / 9781402280856. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Humphreys, C.C. Place Called Armageddon: Constantinople 1453 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1087206. ISBN #1402280858 / 9781402280856. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Gregoras had vowed never to return to Constantinople, the cursed home that had betrayed and scarred not only his mind, but his face, for all to see. But now with 100,000 Muslim soldiers outside its walls, he can hear its desperate calls for his help, as it can only be held by men and mercenaries as skilled in battle as Gregoras, of which few remain. His return home, though, will mean not only having to face the constant hum of arrow and cannon, but also Theon, twin brother...and betrayer. And with him his beloved Sofia, lost when Gregoras was cast from his home, now bound to Theon in marriage. But the rewards of victory would not only be the glories of the battle, but the redemption of his name and his soul.
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Humphreys, Helen The Lost Garden W. W. Norton & Company 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1036339. ISBN #0393324915 / 9780393324914. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Humphreys, Helen The Lost Garden W. W. Norton & Company 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1036339. ISBN #0393324915 / 9780393324914. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Leaving London to grow food for the war effort, Gwen discovers a mysterious lost garden and the story of a love that becomes her own. This word-perfect, heartbreaking novel is set in early 1941 in Britain when the war seems endless and, perhaps, hopeless. London is on fire from the Blitz, and a young woman gardener named Gwen Davis flees from the burning city for the Devon countryside. She has volunteered for the Land Army, and is to be in charge of a group of young girls who will be trained to plant food crops on an old country estate where the gardens have fallen into ruin. Also on the estate, waiting to be posted, is a regiment of Canadian soldiers. For three months, the young women and men will form attachments, living in a temporary rural escape. No one will be more changed by the stay than Gwen. She will inspire the girls to restore the estate gardens, fall in love with a soldier, find her first deep friendship, and bring a lost garden, created for a great love, back to life. While doing so, she will finally come to know herself and a life worth living. Reading group guide included.
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Huneven, Michelle Off Course 2014 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043470. ISBN #0374224471 / 9780374224479. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huneven, Michelle Off Course 2014 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043470. ISBN #0374224471 / 9780374224479. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A bear climbs onto a cabin's deck, presses his nose to the sliding door. Inside, a young woman stands to face him. She comes closer, and closer yet, until only the glass stands between them . . . The year is 1981, Reagan is in the White House, and the country is stalled in a recession. Cressida Hartley, a gifted Ph.D. student in economics, moves into her parents' shabby A-frame cabin in the Sierras to write her dissertation. In her most intimate and emotionally compelling novel to date, Michelle Huneven--author of Blame , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award--returns with her signature mix of fine-grained storytelling, unforgettable characters, and moral complexity. Cress, increasingly resistant to her topic art in the marketplace , allows herself to be drawn into the social life of the small mountain community. The exuberant local lodge owner, Jakey Yates, with his big personality and great animal magnetism, is the first to blur Cress' focus. The builder Rick Garsh gives her a job driving up and down the mountain for supplies. And then there are the two Morrow brothers, skilled carpenters, who are witty, intriguing, and married. As Cress tells her best friend back home in Pasadena, being a single woman on the mountain amounts to a form of public service. Falling prey to her own perilous reasoning, she soon finds herself in dark new territory, subject to forces beyond her control from both within and without. Unsentimental, immersive, and beautifully written--"Huneven's prose is flawless," according to The New Yorker-- Off Course evokes the rapture of new love, the addictive draw of an intense, impossible connection, and what happens when two people simply can't let go of each other or of their previous commitments. As her characters struggle with and delight in one another, Huneven subtly exposes the personal and social forces at play: issues of class, money, and family, as well as the intricate emotional and economic transactions between parents and children, between husbands and wives, between lovers, and between friends. Michelle Huneven is one of our most searching, elegant novelists--Richard Russo has called her "a writer of extraordinary and thrilling talent." In Off Course , she introduces us to an intelligent young woman who discovers that love is the great distraction, and impossible love the greatest distraction of all.
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Huneven, Michelle Off Course Picador 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1123288. ISBN #1250064457 / 9781250064455. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huneven, Michelle Off Course Picador 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1123288. ISBN #1250064457 / 9781250064455. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Skillful and perceptive . . . A complex portrait of a woman under the influence: of love, then obsession." The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The year is 1981. The United States has just installed Ronald Reagan in the White House, and Cressida Hartley, a Ph.D. candidate in economics, has relocated to her parents' A-frame in the Sierras. There, she plans to finish her dissertation on art in the marketplace, but instead Cress finds herself drawn into the life of this small community and into the orbit of Jakey Yates, the owner of the local lodge. When she takes a part-time job with a contractor, she meets the Morrow brothers, and her distractions begin to multiply. As Cress falls prey to her own perilous reasoning, she strays into dark new territory, where she becomes subject to uncontrollable forces from both within and without. At once sharply observed and utterly enthralling, Off Course evokes the pull of an intense, impossible connection and reveals what happens when two people can't let go of one another or their previous commitments.
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Hunt, Angela Unspoken WestBow Press 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1151113. ISBN #0849944821 / 9780849944826. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hunt, Laird The Exuisite Coffee House Press 2006 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150168. ISBN #1566891876 / 9781566891875. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hunter, Georgia We Were the Lucky Ones Penguin 2017 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1168248. ISBN #0399563091 / 9780399563096. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hunter, Georgia We Were the Lucky Ones Penguin paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1146141v1. ISBN #0399563091 / 9780399563096. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Hurley, Victor The Parthian Fleet Publishing Company 1960 hardcover. Small repaired tear to spine. Dustjacket is chipped, has some taping, and staining.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or794963. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huss, Juli I. Happy Maisy Coleman: A Novel Monkfish Book Publishing 2004 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105422. ISBN #0972635777 / 9780972635776. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huss, Juli I. Happy Maisy Coleman: A Novel Monkfish Book Publishing 2004 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105422. ISBN #0972635777 / 9780972635776. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary " Happy Maisy Coleman s holy rite of passage roars past a unique set of guide posts including, a Holocaust-survivor psychiatrist; a carnal mother from hell; an Evangelical sinner of vast theology; with Frank Sinatra, of all people, as a neighborly pragmatist. There are few trips in life and books as bizarre, exhilarating and affecting as this one." William Kinsolving, author of The Diplomat s Daughter and Bred to Win This is an irresistible multigenerational story about the Coleman family, early pioneers of the Salvation Army, who evolve from the darkest pits of poverty into the height of wealth, sensuality and beauty. The mystical, three-dimensional saga is narrated by great granddaughter, Happy Maisy Coleman, who captures the searing heartbreak of her rich and complex dysfunctional family with a surprising mix of intuitive genius and humor. A novel with a distinctly American touch, Happy Maisy Coleman dives into such fleshy subjects as female sexuality, Christianity, insanity and forgiveness. Juli I. Huss is the author of The Faux Gourmet: A Single Woman s Confession on Food and Sex and Dish . She has been a repeated guest author and columnist on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Good Day New York , CNBC, CNN, Lifetime, AM Los Angeles, AM Seattle, AM San Francisco, AM Atlanta, Geraldo, The Michael Jackson Show radio , The Dennis Praeger Show radio . She is as an adjunct lecturer for NYU School of Continuing Education and has written freelance articles for many magazines, including Cosmopolitan and Manhattan Style , interviewing celebrities such as Shania Twain, Lauren Hutton, Lou Reed, Carol Alt, Naomi Judd and Stephen Baldwin.
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Huston, James W. Falcon Seven St. Martin's Press 2010 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1021308. ISBN #0312364326 / 9780312364328. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huston, James W. Falcon Seven St. Martin's Press 2010 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1021308. ISBN #0312364326 / 9780312364328. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary New York Times bestselling author James W. Huston returns with his most powerful thriller to date. Exploding with international intrigue, sizzling courtroom drama, and heart-stopping action, Falcon Seven delivers an all-too-realistic tale of America under fire. A U.S. Navy F A-18 flying over Afghanistan is suddenly diverted and ordered to bomb a building in Pakistan, where a meeting between al Qaeda and the Taliban is taking place. After destroying their target, the fighter jet is immediately hit by Stinger missiles and the pilots eject over Pakistan. They are captured, assaulted, and dragged through the streets of Peshawar. The world is on edge. The fliers are quickly forced onto a secret Falcon jet headed for the Netherlands, where they ll stand trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Court. The building they hit was actually a medical post constructed by Europeans for Afghan refugees---and sixty-five innocent people were killed. It s up to Washington criminal defense lawyer and former Navy SEAL Jack Caskey to defend the two navy officers and get to the bottom on what is beginning to seem like an orchestrated event. The National Security Council pushes President Obama to employ the act passed under George W. Bush that authorizes the use of force to extract Americans held by the International Criminal Court. While the president initially approves a special operations team to grab the Americans, he later withdraws to cooperate with the ICC. Already fighting a losing battle for his clients, an outraged Caskey works with his contacts in the shadowy world of special operations and CIA operatives to free his clients himself . . . or help them battle through an international show trial and face imprisonment---for life.
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Huston, James W. FALLOUT William Morrow 2001 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or866965. ISBN #0688172024 / 9780688172022. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huston, James W. FALLOUT William Morrow 2001 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or866965. ISBN #0688172024 / 9780688172022. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Devastated at being reprimanded for a midair collision, TOPGUN instructor Luke Henry quits the Navy to start a private aerial combat school in the Nevada desert, where he and a number of his buddies, all former TOPGUN fliers -- part of the Old Bro network -- train fighter pilots for the U.S. government. Prior to leaving the Navy, Luke discovers that the United States has purchased twenty MiG-29s -- Russia's front-line fighter -- from Moldova, of the former Soviet Union. These are the very planes he wants to use for his own school, flying the Russian MiGs from an abandoned Air Force base. But Luke's lucrative contract with the U.S. government comes with a caveat: among his students are a group of Pakistani Air Force pilots -- handpicked by the Department of Defense -- whom he must instruct. Luke is hesitant to train fighters from another country in the skills he learned at TOPGUN, but he won't be allowed to start the school without agreeing. The school opens, but the closer he gets to these students, the more he suspects that they may have an entirely different, and malicious, agenda in mind. They have a bone to pick with the United States and may be using Luke's school as their Trojan Horse to get into the country and launch an attack that would cause more damage than that sustained at Pearl Harbor. It falls to Luke to discover their plan and to stop it before it spirals out of control. With Fallout James W. Huston scores big with his most riveting and thought-provoking thriller yet. Filled with exciting twists and turns and characters whose motivations will keep readers guessing until the startling conclusion, Fallout is a story of domestic terrorism that is as realistic as it is terrifying.
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Huston, James W. The Price of Power William Morrow 1999 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1038825. ISBN #0688159184 / 9780688159184. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Huston, James W. The Price of Power William Morrow 1999 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1038825. ISBN #0688159184 / 9780688159184. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An admiral is on trial for having defied the President while carrying out the orders of a rebellious Congress. A President is on trial for having failed to act when a crisis threatened his country. In a nation's darkest hour, a terrorist strikes. With a feel for politics, a gift for legal drama, and a rush of military action, this rousing novel sweeps from the Oval Office to a Navy SEAL assault on an Indonesian island, from the court-martial of an admiral to the impeachment hearings of a president. In this sequel to James W. Huston's Balance of Power , the President has ordered the arrest and trial of battle-group commander Admiral Ray Billings, who led a Congress-authorized attack on terrorists in defiance of a presidential order. The angry Speaker of the House retaliates by initiating impeachment proceedings against the President. Jim Dillon, the Speaker's top aide, finds himself defending the admiral in the court-martial and is named number-two prosecutor for the upcoming impeachment trial. Meanwhile, when a terrorist invades a U.S.-owned gold mine on an Indonesian island and takes hostages, demanding the return his 28 compatriots, captured in a daring raid by Admiral Ray Billings, Dillon uncovers another forgotten power in the Constitution: the Rules of Capture, authorizing a SEAL-led attack. Nothing will prevent a great nation from doing what is right, no matter what the price, not when the honor and the future of America is at stake.
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