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Bebris, Carrie Pride and Prescience : Or, A Truth Universally Acknowledged : a Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery Forge 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1150248. ISBN #0765318431 / 9780765318435. (keywords: BENNET ELIZABETH FICTITIOUS CHARACTER FICTION DARCY) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Becker, Stephen D. Dog tags Random House 1973 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1086039. ISBN #0394464397 / 9780394464398. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Becker, Stephen D. Dog tags Random House 1973 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1086039. ISBN #0394464397 / 9780394464398. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary New York: Random House, 1973. VERY GOOD hardcover, binding tight, spine back lightly ruffled, no edgewear, interior pages unmarked, no wear. GOOD yellow jacket, light surface and edge rubbing , one small top spine tear, price cflipped, end flap edges creased, Life of a soldier trying to find his humanity in life during and after WW2 and again in war in Asia as a POW and again returning home. 307 pgs. Fiction. FC704049. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Good. 8vo - over 7
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Becton, Jennifer Charlotte Collins: A Continuation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1116445. ISBN #1453740473 / 9781453740477. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Becton, Jennifer Charlotte Collins: A Continuation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1116445. ISBN #1453740473 / 9781453740477. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary When Charlotte Lucas married Mr. Collins in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice , she believed herself to be fortunate indeed. Her nuptials gained her a comfortable home and financial security. If she acquired these things at the expense of true love, it did not matter one whit. To Charlotte, love in marriage was nothing more than a pleasant coincidence. As the years of her marriage dragged by, Charlotte began to question her idea of love as she suffered continual embarrassment at her husband's simpering and fawning manners. When Mr. Collins dies, finally relieving everyone of his tedious conversation, she must work feverishly to secure her income and home. She gives no further thought to the prospect of love until her flighty sister Maria begs her to act as her chaperone in place of their ailing parents. Hoping to prevent Maria from also entering an unhappy union, Charlotte agrees, and they are quickly thrust into a world of country dances, dinner parties, and marriageable gentlemen. But when an unprincipled gentleman compromises Charlotte's reputation, her romantic thoughts disappear at the prospect of losing her independence. As she struggles to extricate herself from her slander, her situation reveals both the nature of each gentleman and of true love.
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Begner, Edith P. Red in The Morning hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1007066. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Beha, Christopher R. What Happened to Sophie Wilder Tin House Books 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1048637. ISBN #1935639315 / 9781935639312. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Beha, Christopher R. What Happened to Sophie Wilder Tin House Books 2012 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1048637. ISBN #1935639315 / 9781935639312. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A heartfelt exploration of faith and love and friendship, What Happened To Sophie Wilder is a beautiful, absorbing work about the redemptive power of storytelling: a literary love story. Charlie Blakeman has just published his first novel, to almost no acclaim. He's living on New York's Washington Square, struggling with his follow-up, and floundering within his pseudointellectual coterie when his college love, Sophie Wilder, returns to his life. Sophie is also struggling, though Charlie isn't sure why, since they've barely spoke, after falling out a decade before. Now Sophie begins to tell Charlie the story of her life since then, particularly the story of the days she spent taking care of a dying man with his own terrible past and of the difficult decision he forced her to make. When she disappears once again, Charlie sets out to discover what happened to Sophie Wilder. Christopher Beha's debut novel explores faith, love, friendship, and, ultimately, the redemptive power of storytelling.
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Behr, Edward Getting Even Harper & Row 1980 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082691. ISBN #0060103310 / 9780060103316. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Behr, Edward Getting Even Harper & Row 1980 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1082691. ISBN #0060103310 / 9780060103316. (filed under: Fiction ) *
In this riveting and suspensefule novel, whose author is as familiar with embassies and government official as he is with the underground network of Paris, London, Washington and Hong Kong, the action moves swiftly to an enthralling and ironic climax.
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Behrens, Peter The O'Briens Pantheon 2012 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104276. ISBN #0307379930 / 9780307379931. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Behrens, Peter The O'Briens Pantheon 2012 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1104276. ISBN #0307379930 / 9780307379931. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An unforgettable saga of love, loss, and exhilarating change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless family, from the author of the acclaimed novel The Law of Dreams. The O Briens is a family story unlike any told before, a tale that pours straight from the heart of a splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. In Joe O Brien grandson of a potato-famine emigrant, and a backwoods boy, railroad magnate, patriarch, brooding soul Peter Behrens gives us a fiercely compelling man who exchanges isolation and poverty in the Canadian wilds for a share in the dazzling riches and consuming sorrows of the twentieth century. When Joe meets Iseult Wilkins in Venice, California, the story of their courtship told in Behrens s gorgeous, honed style becomes the first movement in a symphony of the generations. Husband and wife, brothers, sisters-in-law, children and grandchildren, the O Briens engage unselfconsciously with their century, and we experience their times not as historical tableaux but as lives passionately lived. At the heart of this clan at the heart of the novel is mystery and madness grounded in the history of Irish sorrow. The O Briens is the story of a man, a marriage, and a family, told with epic precision and wondrous imagination.
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Bellamy, Edward Looking Backward 2000-1887 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1014267. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Beller, Thomas The Sleep-Over Artist W. W. Norton & Company 2001 paperback. . Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042751. ISBN #0393321711 / 9780393321715. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Beller, Thomas The Sleep-Over Artist W. W. Norton & Company 2001 paperback. . Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1042751. ISBN #0393321711 / 9780393321715. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "In the same way Salinger carved out the niche of male adolescence ....Beller approaches that mutable boy-to-man territory." San Francisco Chronicle Writing with the sparkling wit and insight of his highly praised debut, Seduction Theory "Brilliantly captures the great expectations and recurring ambivalence of youth." The New York Times , Thomas Beller continues to plumb the adventures of his hero, Alex Fader, a youthful existentialist and sensualist with an insatiable appetite for trouble. The Sleep-Over Artist is an account of critical stages in Alex's life, mapping his progress from youthful delinquent to filmmaker whose career begins when he makes a documentary film exposing the prep school from which he has been expelled. Alex longs for the taste of family life that the early death of his father has denied him. As a young boy he sleeps over at his friends' houses and ingratiates himself with their families; as a young man he extends his sleep-overs to the lives of women, culminating in the ultimate sleep-over an affair in England with a glamorous, slightly older woman, the mother of a young boy. Beller has a pitch-perfect ear for emotional nuance and a microscopic eye for rendering the wordless moments when a relationship catches fire and all too often begins to falter. The high-wire tension that electrifies The Sleep-Over Artist is Beller's ingenious portrait of a young man who longs to disappear and belong all at the same time. "Hilarious....captures perfectly the myriad stages of fear, discovery and elation that mark one's first sexual experience." The New York Times Book Review , Katherine Dieckmann, 16 July 2000 " W ell-crafted stories recall the witty phrasing of Updike, the poignant nostalgia of Cheever, the earnest but confused innocence of Salinger." Library Journal "Featuring a New York that, like Kundera's Prague, is a vast hive of seductions....A moving portrait." Publishers Weekly , 17 April 2000 "The gentle humor and delicacy of Sleep-Over Artist remind me of the stories of another young cosmopolite, F. Scott Fitzgerald." Stewart O'Nan, author of A Prayer for the Dying "Fresh, sophisticated and most of all utterly readable...strikes a perfect balance between timely ironies and perennial emotional truths." Eva Hoffman "Tom Beller is gifted with a wry, dry appreciation of life's sweet and unlikely subtleties." Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch "A fine novel of Manhattan manners." New York Observer
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Bellow, Saul A Theft paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1034195. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bellow, Saul Dean's December Harper & Row 1981 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book plate attached. Some staining to page edges. Moisture damage. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or888762. ISBN #0060148497 / 9780060148492. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bellow, Saul Dean's December Harper & Row 1981 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Book plate attached. Some staining to page edges. Moisture damage. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or888762. ISBN #0060148497 / 9780060148492. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Corde is a Professor of Journalism and Dean of students at a Chicago university. His beautiful wife Minna is an internationally known astronomer. As the book opens the couple are in Eastern Europe. Minna had to migrated to America many years before, but now her mother has suffered a stroke and is lying semicouscious in the local State hospital. As Corde tries to help Minna grapple with an alien bureaucracy, to adapt to life in his mother-in-law's small apartment and to cope with her relations and family friends, news filters through to him of problems he has left behind in Chicago. One of his students has been murdered by black criminals; his cousin and his nephew line up against him and try to make him drop the case. A series of articles he is writing for a magazine offends powerful and influential Chicagoans he had thought of as friends. A childhood companion, now a television pundit, shows him unsuspected aspects of his own character. Gradually it becomes clear that Corde's trip abroad is more than a brief interlude in a calm and orderly life and that nothing for him will ever be the same again. To the familiar Bellow magic and mastery, The Dean's December adds a new sense of urgency, of topicality, and an almost thriller-like tension. The wit, the erudition, the unique and extraordinary use of language will be a delight to admirers of Herzog and Humboldt's Gift; but the framework in which they are displayed represents a completely new departure.
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Bellow, Saul Ravelstein 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1027634. ISBN #067084134X / 9780670841349. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bellow, Saul Ravelstein 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1027634. ISBN #067084134X / 9780670841349. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent Midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers-and-shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously -- and well beyond his means. His close friend Chick, a writer, has suggested that he pen a book encapsulating his ideas, and much to Ravelstein's surprise he and becomes a bestselling millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a biography of him, and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris, Chick plays Boswell to Ravelstein's Johnson, narrating their life stories as the two share thoughts on mortality, philosophy and history, old loves, old suits, and old jokes. The mood turns more somber once they have returned to the midwest and Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS, yet this affectionate portrait of friendship remains by turn deeply insightful and always moving, as Chick himself faces his own brush with death.Saul Bellow's new novel is a journey through memory and friendship. It is brave, dark and bleakly funny: an elegy to friendship and to lives well lived.
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Bellow, Saul The Actual Viking Adult 1997 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1139166. ISBN #0670860751 / 9780670860753. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Bellow, Saul The Actual Viking Adult 1997 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1139166. ISBN #0670860751 / 9780670860753. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Harry Trellman doesn't belong. Not in the Chicago orphanage where he is sent by his mother, not in high school too brainy , not even on the streets. Human attachments? Yes, he has them, but they are like everything else in his life, singular and irregular. People who know him say that he "drowns his feelings in his face," and that he has a Mongolian "masked look." But though Harry stands apart, he has always been a most keen observer, listener, recorder and interpreter, and none of this is lost on the Chicago billionaire, Sigmund Adletsky, who takes Harry into his "brain trust." He retains Harry to advise him. They discuss ordinary things - they gossip together. Old Adletsky has set feelings aside while he amassed his vast fortune. The old man is so apt that he divines the secrets behind Harry's mask, and brings him together with the one person Harry has loved dumbly for forty years. Amy Wustrin has not exactly stood apart from the sexual revolution while waiting for Harry to come wooing. Far from remaining the static object of his fantasy, she has moved about in the real world, from one marriage to another, from rich to broke, from hot high-school girl to correct matron. Still, in Amy, Harry sees what he calls his "actual." Harry has had his opportunities with Amy, but it is not until he finds himself at the cemetery with her for the exhumation and reburial of her husband that he feels free to speak out.
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