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Irving, John Avenue Of Mysteries 2015 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099120. ISBN #1451664168 / 9781451664164. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Irving, John Avenue Of Mysteries 2015 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1099120. ISBN #1451664168 / 9781451664164. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries , Juan Diego a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you. Lupe doesn't know the future as accurately. But consider what a terrible burden it is, if you believe you know the future especially your own future, or, even worse, the future of someone you love. What might a thirteen-year-old girl be driven to do, if she thought she could change the future? As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. As we grow older most of all, in what we remember and what we dream we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past in Mexico collides with his future.
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Irving, John Cider House Rules William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1985 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1160830. ISBN #068803036X / 9780688030360. (keywords: MAINE FICTION PHYSICIANS AMERICAN FICTIONAL WORKS AUTHOR LITERARY MEDICAL) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Irving, John Fourth Hand Random House 2001 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or910059. ISBN #0375506276 / 9780375506277. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Irving, John Fourth Hand Random House 2001 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or910059. ISBN #0375506276 / 9780375506277. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: "How can anyone identify a dream of the future?" The answer: "Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love." While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant; meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housekeeper. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband's left hand-that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is alive, relatively young, and healthy. This is how John Irving's tenth novel begins; it seems, at first, to be a comedy, perhaps a satire, almost certainly a sexual farce. Yet, in the end, The Fourth Hand is as realistic and emotionally moving as any of Mr. Irving's previous novels-including The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany , and A Widow for One Year -or his Oscar-winning screenplay of The Cider House Rules . The Fourth Hand is characteristic of John Irving's seamless storytelling and further explores some of the author's recurring themes-loss, grief, love as redemption. But this novel also breaks new ground; it offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances and the will to change.
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Irving, John Hotel New Hampshire E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. 1981 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book. Prior owner's embossed stamp on free front end paper. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1160831. ISBN #052512800X / 9780525128007. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Irving, John Last Night in Twisted River Random House 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1093927. ISBN #1400063841 / 9781400063840. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Irving, John Last Night in Twisted River Random House 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1093927. ISBN #1400063841 / 9781400063840. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River John Irving s twelfth novel depicts the recent half-century in the United States as a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course. From the novel s taut opening sentence The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving s breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp. What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author s unmistakable voice the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: We don t always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.
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Irving, John Last Night in Twisted River Random House 2009 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151591. ISBN #1400063841 / 9781400063840. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Irving, John Son Of The Circus 1994 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1063633. ISBN #0679434968 / 9780679434962. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Irving, John The Hotel New Hampshire Dutton 2018 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1137501. ISBN #034541795X / 9780345417954. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Irving, John The Hotel New Hampshire Dutton 2018 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1137501. ISBN #034541795X / 9780345417954. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The first of my father s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels. So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is , and playthings of mad fate, they dream on in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted Rive
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Irving, John The World According to Garp A Henry Robbins Book/E.P. Dutton 1978 hardcover. Dust jacket has light chipping and rubbing. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1162881. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Irving, John Until I Find You Random House 2005 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119029. ISBN #1400063833 / 9781400063833. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Irving, John Until I Find You Random House 2005 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1119029. ISBN #1400063833 / 9781400063833. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local master or scratcher. Alice and Jack abandon their quest, and Jack is educated at schools in Canada and New England including, tellingly, a girls school in Toronto. His real education consists of his relationships with older women from Emma Oastler, who initiates him into erotic life, to the girls of St. Hilda s, with whom he first appears on stage, to the abusive Mrs. Machado, whom he first meets when sent to learn wrestling at a local gym. Too much happens in this expansive, eventful novel to possibly summarize it all. Emma and Jack move to Los Angeles, where Emma becomes a successful novelist and Jack a promising actor. A host of eccentric minor characters memorably come and go, including Jack s hilariously confused teacher the Wurtz; Michelle Maher, the girlfriend he will never forget; and a precocious child Jack finds in the back of an Audi in a restaurant parking lot. We learn about tattoo addiction and movie cross-dressing, sleeping in the needles and the cure for cauliflower ears. And John Irving renders his protagonist s unusual rise through Hollywood with the same vivid detail and range of emotions he gives to the organ music Jack hears as a child in European churches. This is an absorbing and moving book about obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, the signs we carry on us and inside us, the traces we can t get rid of. Jack has always lived in the shadow of his absent father. But as he grows older and when his mother dies he starts to doubt the portrait of his father s character she painted for him when he was a child. This is the cue for a second journey around Europe in search of his father, from Edinburgh to Switzerland, towards a conclusion of great emotional force. A melancholy tale of deception, Until I Find You is also a swaggering comic novel, a giant tapestry of life s hopes. It is a masterpiece to compare with John Irving s great novels, and restates the author s claim to be considered the most glorious,
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Irving, John Until I Find You Vintage Canada 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1161234. ISBN #0676977170 / 9780676977172. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Irving, John Until I Find You Vintage Canada 2006 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1161234. ISBN #0676977170 / 9780676977172. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local master or scratcher. Alice and Jack abandon their quest, and Jack is educated at schools in Canada and New England including, tellingly, a girls school in Toronto. His real education consists of his relationships with older women from Emma Oastler, who initiates him into erotic life, to the girls of St. Hilda s, with whom he first appears on stage, to the abusive Mrs. Machado, whom he first meets when sent to learn wrestling at a local gym. Too much happens in this expansive, eventful novel to possibly summarize it all. Emma and Jack move to Los Angeles, where Emma becomes a successful novelist and Jack a promising actor. A host of eccentric minor characters memorably come and go, including Jack s hilariously confused teacher the Wurtz; Michelle Maher, the girlfriend he will never forget; and a precocious child Jack finds in the back of an Audi in a restaurant parking lot. We learn about tattoo addiction and movie cross-dressing, sleeping in the needles and the cure for cauliflower ears. And John Irving renders his protagonist s unusual rise through Hollywood with the same vivid detail and range of emotions he gives to the organ music Jack hears as a child in European churches. This is an absorbing and moving book about obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, the signs we carry on us and inside us, the traces we can t get rid of. Jack has always lived in the shadow of his absent father. But as he grows older and when his mother dies he starts to doubt the portrait of his father s character she painted for him when he was a child. This is the cue for a second journey around Europe in search of his father, from Edinburgh to Switzerland, towards a conclusion of great emotional force. A melancholy tale of deception, Until I Find You is also a swaggering comic novel, a giant tapestry of life s hopes. It is a masterpiece to compare with John Irving s great novels, and restates the author s claim to be considered the most glorious,
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Irving, Washington Adventures Of Captain Bonneville 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096003. ISBN #0792237439 / 9780792237433. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Irving, Washington Adventures Of Captain Bonneville 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096003. ISBN #0792237439 / 9780792237433. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When Captain James Bonneville left for California in May of 1832 his motives were mixed. Officially, the French-born officer was on a two-year leave of absence from the U. S. Army, but he carried orders to collect information on the geography, geology, and topography of the Country within the limits of the Territories belonging to the United States, between our frontier, and the Pacific. No one heard from him for five years, and he was assumed he was dead, or AWOL. But Bonneville had befriended a mountain man named Joseph Rutherford Walker in 1833, and the two men became the first white men to see Yosemite. They returned by a more southern route, discovering Walker Pass, the southern route across the Sierras the salt flats in Utah are named in Bonneville's honor . Upon Bonneville's return, Washington Irving, by then an internationally famous writer, met him in the home of John Jacob Astor, the fur baron. Washington was fascinated by Bonneville's tales of exploration, finding them full of interesting details of life among the mountains, and of mountain men and Native Americans that he had met.It bore, too, throughout, the impress of his character, his bonhommie, his kindliness of spirit, and his susceptibility to the grand and beautiful, according to Irving. Bonneville's journals formed the backbone of Irving's work, which was widely lauded upon its publication in 1837. It has remained a classic ever since, capturing a long lost era of rugged mountain men and the thrill of being the first to view the expansive landscapes of the American West.
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Irving, Washington Alhambra A.L. Burt hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1147681. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Irving, Washington Tales of the Alhambra Editorial Padre Sudrez 1963 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1161614. (keywords: Classics Granada Adventure Tales Spain Travels Fairy Tales Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Irving, Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle, The Spectre Bridegroom Bendon 2014 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1159006. ISBN #1453080007 / 9781453080009. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Irwin, Margaret Young Bess hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1020899. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Ish-Kishor, Sulamith Our Eddie Pantheon Books 1969 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1156172. ISBN #039481455X / 9780394814551. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Isherwood, Christopher Down There On A Visit Simon and Schuster 1962 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1151504. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Isherwood, Christopher The Berlin Stories A New Directions Paperbook 2008 paperback. Ex-school bookstore price-stamp on the back.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1155219. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Islas, Arturo Rain Avon Books 1991 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1151482. ISBN #0380763931 / 9780380763931. (keywords: FICTION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Israel, Charles E. Who Was Then The Gentleman? hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or1118816. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Ivie, Michael John Little Lower Than The Angels: Warm Hearts in a Cold War 2006 paperback. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1036173. ISBN #1424113946 / 9781424113941. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Ivie, Michael John Little Lower Than The Angels: Warm Hearts in a Cold War 2006 paperback. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1036173. ISBN #1424113946 / 9781424113941. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The headline in The Stars and Stripes reads: The Berlin Wall Is a Fact. Such is the time of this love story. Mike Goodman is a reluctant soldier, but he falls in love and does some growing during his service with the Peace-Time army despite the wall. Mike and his companions find their military adventure mostly trivial; sometimes surreal. Still they try to make sense of the institutional insanity. Laughter, beer and lovely Teutonic temptresses help them cope. Initially, Mike Goodman finds love to be a miraculous escape mechanism amid the confusion. Then he meets Tina, with her twinkling, chestnut-colored eyes and more vivacity and charm than one woman deserves to monopolize. Their meeting proves to be costly. The love story, not the love, ends in death. Even so, life goes on; so does the Cold War.
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Iweala , Uzodinma Beasts of No Nation Harper paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148570. ISBN #0062420119 / 9780062420114. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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