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Kawabata, Yasunari The Old Capital Tuttle Publishing 1988 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153723. ISBN #4805309725 / 9784805309728. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kay, Guy Gavriel Children of Earth and Sky Berkley Books 2017 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1161505. ISBN #0451472977 / 9780451472977. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kazan, Elia Arrangement hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1058329. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kazan, Elia Understudy 1975 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1077452. ISBN #0812817311 / 9780812817317. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kazan, Elia Understudy 1975 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1077452. ISBN #0812817311 / 9780812817317. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary THE UNDERSTUDY swirls through a wealth of environments: the Broadway stage, a mind-blown safari in east Africa, a Hollywood film studio, a closing-night cast party in Boston, New York's underworld and its straight analog, the television industry. Drawing on his experience as a director, Elia Kazan enhances the meaning of "arrangement" to encompass the sexual accommodations most people live by...and lie about. Kazan's films have become classics. VIVA ZAPATA , EAST OF EDEN and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE secured his reputation, and he won Academy Awards for GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT and ON THE WATERFRONT.
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Kazantzakis, Nikos Zorba the Greek Touchstone/Simon and Schuster 1952 paperback. Some glitter to the cover.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1162938. ISBN #0671211323 / 9780671211325. (keywords: Classics) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keane, Mary Beth Fever 2013 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094892. ISBN #1451693419 / 9781451693416. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keane, Mary Beth Fever 2013 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1094892. ISBN #1451693419 / 9781451693416. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as Typhoid Mary, the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the early twentieth century by an award-winning writer chosen as one of 5 Under 35 by the National Book Foundation. Mary Beth Keane, named one of the 5 Under 35 by the National Book Foundation, has written a spectacularly bold and intriguing novel about the woman known as Typhoid Mary, the first person in America identified as a healthy carrier of Typhoid Fever. On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time, she seemed to have achieved the life she d aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Then one determined medical engineer noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked, and identified her as an asymptomatic carrier of Typhoid Fever. With this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman. The Department of Health sent Mallon to North Brother Island, where she was kept in isolation from 1907 to 1910, then released under the condition that she never work as a cook again. Yet for Mary proud of her former status and passionate about cooking the alternatives were abhorrent. She defied the edict. Bringing early-twentieth-century New York alive the neighborhoods, the bars, the park carved out of upper Manhattan, the boat traffic, the mansions and sweatshops and emerging skyscrapers Fever is an ambitious retelling of a forgotten life. In the imagination of Mary Beth Keane, Mary Mallon becomes a fiercely compelling, dramatic, vexing, sympathetic, uncompromising, and unforgettable heroine.
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Keating, Stephanie; Keating, Barbara A Durable Fire Random House UK 2006 paperback. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128252. ISBN #1846550173 / 9781846550171. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keating, Stephanie; Keating, Barbara A Durable Fire Random House UK 2006 paperback. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128252. ISBN #1846550173 / 9781846550171. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In the first years of Kenyan independence, three young women return to the East African highlands where they shared a carefree childhood. Hannah is struggling to preserve her heritage at Langani Farm, where a series of unexplained and violent attacks threaten her security and recent marriage. Sarah is studying elephant behavior in an area made dangerous by armed poachers, using her work as a salve for the death of her childhood sweetheart. Camilla, the international fashion icon, abandons her career in London and is drawn back to Kenya by her love for a charismatic hunter and safari guide. But there is a secret that hangs over Langani, overshadowing their efforts to establish themselves in the volatile circumstances of a new African nation. With the help of an ambitious Indian journalist, the three girls gradually uncover the truth about the murder of Sarah's fiance, and the continuing attacks on the farm and on their lives. The passions and hardships experienced by these unforgettable heroines, united again in their friendship and their love for the country of their childhood, make a magnificent, epic novel. This superb sequel to Blood Sisters confronts catastrophic loss and delirious happiness, savagery and degradation, limitless beauty, soaring hope, and redemption.
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Keener, Jessica Strangers in Budapest 2017 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122938. ISBN #1616204974 / 9781616204976. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keener, Jessica Strangers in Budapest 2017 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122938. ISBN #1616204974 / 9781616204976. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Jessica Keener has written a gorgeous, lyrical, and sweeping novel about the tangled web of past and present. Suspenseful, perceptive, fast-paced, and ultimately restorative. Susan Henderson, author of Up from the Blue Budapest: gorgeous city of secrets, with ties to a shadowy, bloody past. It is to this enigmatic European capital that a young American couple, Annie and Will, move from Boston with their infant son shortly after the fall of the Communist regime. For Annie, it is an effort to escape the ghosts that haunt her past, and Will wants simply to seize the chance to build a new future for his family. Eight months after their move, their efforts to assimilate are thrown into turmoil when they receive a message from friends in the US asking that they check up on an elderly man, a fiercely independent Jewish American WWII veteran who helped free Hungarian Jews from a Nazi prison camp. They soon learn that the man, Edward Weiss, has come to Hungary to exact revenge on someone he is convinced seduced, married, and then murdered his daughter. Annie, unable to resist anyone s call for help, recklessly joins in the old man s plan to track down his former son-in-law and confront him, while Will, pragmatic and cautious by nature, insists they have nothing to do with Weiss and his vendetta. What Annie does not anticipate is that in helping Edward she will become enmeshed in a dark and deadly conflict that will end in tragedy and a stunning loss of innocence. Atmospheric and surprising, Strangers in Budapest is, as bestselling novelist Caroline Leavitt says, a dazzlingly original tale about home, loss, and the persistence of love.
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Keillor, Garrison WLT : A Radio Romance paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1034199. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keillor, Garrison WLT: A Radio Romance Viking 1991 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1020743. ISBN #0670818577 / 9780670818570. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keillor, Garrison WLT: A Radio Romance Viking 1991 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1020743. ISBN #0670818577 / 9780670818570. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The glory days of Midwest radio prove the ideal subject for old radio-hand Keillor, now writing at the height of his awesome power, which could make a homesick cat laugh. Brothers Ray and Roy Soderbjerg set up station WLT With Lettuce and Tomato in Minneapolis in 1926 to draw crowds to their wilting sandwich restaurant. The station proves a gold mine after the two reluctantly agree to allow commercials, and the brothers turn their somewhat divided attention Ray's chief vocation is sex, Roy's inventing the unnecessary to the new medium. The novel takes off on a sustained joyride as a hilarious bunch of characters are hired to fill the air with the cornball, pseudo-pious, pseudo- populist fare that held the Midwest in thrall until television offered a superior snow job. Keillor continually contrasts the smutty, lust-filled lives of the cast and crew in the studio with the wholesome, homespun drivel they broadcast.
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Keillor, Garrison Wobegon Boy 1997 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122575. ISBN #0670878073 / 9780670878079. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Keillor, Garrison Wobegon Boy 1997 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1122575. ISBN #0670878073 / 9780670878079. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary John Tollefson, the son of Byron and Mary of Lake Wobegon, leaves Minnesota for upstate New York, to manage a public radio station at a college for academically challenged children of financially gifted parents. Free from the Dark Lutherans of his hometown, he makes a pleasant bachelor life for himself in New York. He buys a new house and paints it a deep gold. He has a bright idea for a restaurant specializing in fresh produce. He falls in love with a historian named Alida Freeman. He is presented with public radio's coveted Wally Award. In the midst of plenty, it occurs to John that his life lacks nobility and grace. A consumer of fine food and wine and giver of good parties, he yet has no coherent life story. Compared to his great-grandfather John Tollefson, who finagled his way over from Norway, he feels rootless, restless, joined in no struggle, with nothing at stake. The only true magnificence in his life is Alida, who eludes his courtship and gives him an impassioned speech about the pleasures of living alone. Folded into the romance of John and Alida is the checkered saga of his ancestors - dour butcher, a playboy publisher, a medicine-show politician, Siamese-twin ballplayers, a Texas Pentacostalist, and a bank embezzler - and Lake Wobegon itself, with its bachelor farmers, its stout-hearted burghers and housewives, its simple code: Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and Avoid self-pity. A useful code, as John discovers in his pursuit of magnificance, especially as the going gets tougher.
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Kelhawk, Terry Topkapi Secret 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1046791. ISBN #1616142138 / 9781616142131. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kelhawk, Terry Topkapi Secret 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1046791. ISBN #1616142138 / 9781616142131. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary On display within the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul lies the Topkapi Codex an ancient manuscript of the Koran involved in the murder that split Shiite from Sunni. What s the truth about the Topkapi Codex? Is there blood on it? Are its contents the same as the modern Koran s? No one knows because the Topkapi Codex is off limits to research. Mohammed Atareek is obsessed with getting his hands on this mysterious manuscript. His research has convinced him that the Koran has been changed many times, and the text of the famous codex could prove it. But other scholars are turning up dead. Did they share his conviction? Should he expose himself to their risk? Angela, a UC Berkeley English professor, married money and kept it; but lost the marriage, most of her family, and a friend under traumatic circumstances. On top of that, she makes a career move that puts her in the Middle East and in Mohammed s path. His overconfident, witty, and impulsive personality is both puzzling and refreshing to Angela. But when Mohammed tries to engage her in his quest, he finds she has an agenda of her own. Cat and mouse games, heated discussions, and sparks of romance inevitably ensue. Based on solid historical research, this exciting debut novel features a page-turning plot, a startling conclusion, and many eye-opening facts about the origins of the Koran.
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Kellan, Lynn Clear As Glass 2014 paperback. Signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130887. ISBN #1628305282 / 9781628305289. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kellan, Lynn Clear As Glass 2014 paperback. Signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130887. ISBN #1628305282 / 9781628305289. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Poised to become her overbearing father's right-hand man, Jaye Davis is tired of being a faceless drone, writing software. She d rather help real people like her clients who own a struggling glassblowing factory. While she s there, she might even discover who she really is. Mitch Blake and his father keep butting heads about expanding Blake Glassware, and now Mitch has to deal with his father s consultant, Jaye. She claims online marketing will boost sales, but Mitch insists broadening their product line will increase revenue. Arguing with this doe-eyed woman makes one thing perfectly clear: she has the power to shatter his safe but lonely life. Jaye is caught between the father counting on her to run their business in the future, an ex-boyfriend who understands her past, and the solemn glassblower who wants her now, just as she is. Is she strong enough to be honest about what she really wants?
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Kelly, Erin He Said/She Said: A Novel Minotaur Books 2017 hardcover. First Edition. . Some light wear from use. Very Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1158973. ISBN #1250113695 / 9781250113696. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kelly, Martha Hall Lilac Girls Ballantine Books 2017 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1157411v3. ISBN #1101883081 / 9781101883082. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kelly, Martha Hall Lilac Girls Ballantine Books 2017 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1157411v3. ISBN #1101883081 / 9781101883082. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah s Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline s world is forever changed when Hitler s army invades Poland in September 1939 and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences. For the ambitious young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired, though, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbr ck, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Their stories cross continents from New York to Paris, Germany, and Poland as Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten. USA Today New and Noteworthy Book LibraryReads Top Ten Pick Harrowing . . . Lilac illuminates. People A compelling, page-turning narrative . . . Lilac Girls falls squarely into the groundbreaking category of fiction that re-examines history from a fresh, female point of view. It s smart, thoughtful and also just an old-fashioned good read. Fort Worth Star-Telegram A powerful story for readers everywhere . . . Martha Hall Kelly has brought readers a firsthand glimpse into one of history s most frightening memories. A novel that brings to life what these women and many others suffered. . . . I was moved to tears. San Francisco Book Review Extremely moving and memorable . . . This impressive debut should appeal strongly to historical fiction readers and to book clubs that adored Kristin Hannah s The Nightingale and Anthony Doerr s All the Light We Cannot See . Library Journal starred review A compelling first novel . . . This is a page-turner demonstrating the tests and triumphs civilians faced during war, complemented by Kelly s vivid depiction of history and excellent characters. Publishers Weekly Kelly vividly re-creates the world of Ravensbr ck. Kirkus Reviews Inspired by actual events and real people, Martha Hall Kelly has woven together the stories of three women during World War II that reveal the bravery, cowardice, and cruelty of those days. This is a part of history women s history that should never be forgotten. Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of China Dolls Profound, unsettling, and thoroughly . . . the best book I ve read all year. Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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