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Kincaid, Jamaica A Small Place Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148646. ISBN #0374527075 / 9780374527075. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kincaid, Jamaica A Small Place Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148646. ISBN #0374527075 / 9780374527075. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall V. C. Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.
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Kincaid, Jamaica Annie John Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1985 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043355v1. ISBN #0374525102 / 9780374525101. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kincaid, Jamaica Annie John Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1985 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1043355v1. ISBN #0374525102 / 9780374525101. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Kincaid s novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood. Annie s voice urgent, demanding to be heard is one that will not soon be forgotten by readers. An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence, who is the very center of the little girl s existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother s benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, It was in such a paradise that I lived. When she turns twelve, however, Annie s life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at school she instinctively rebels against authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a young lady, ceases to be the source of unconditional adoration and takes on the new and unfamiliar guise of adversary. At the end of her school years, Annie decides to leave Antigua and her family, but not without a measure of sorrow, especially for the mother she once knew and never ceases to mourn. For I could not be sure, she reflects, whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the r
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King, A.S. Please Ignore Vera Dietz Ember 2012 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133704. ISBN #0375865640 / 9780375865640. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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King, A.S. Please Ignore Vera Dietz Ember 2012 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133704. ISBN #0375865640 / 9780375865640. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Vera s spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she s kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything. So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to? Edgy and gripping, Please Ignore Vera Dietz is an unforgettable novel: smart, funny, dramatic, and always surprising. From the Hardcover edition. Book Details: Format: Paperback Publication Date: 4 10 2012 Pages: 336 Reading Level: Age 14 and Up
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King, Grace Balcony Stories hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1126318. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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King, Ross Ex-Libris Penguin Books 2001 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170976. ISBN #0142000809 / 9780142000809. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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King, Shelly The Moment of Everything Grand Central Publishing 2014 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1049751. ISBN #1455546798 / 9781455546794. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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King, Shelly The Moment of Everything Grand Central Publishing 2014 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1049751. ISBN #1455546798 / 9781455546794. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In the tradition of The Cookbook Collector comes a funny, romantic novel about a young woman finding her calling while saving a used bookstore. Maggie Dupr s, recently "involuntarily separated from payroll" at a Silicon Valley startup, is whiling away her days in The Dragonfly's Used Books, a Mountain View institution, waiting for the Next Big Thing to come along. When the opportunity arises for her to network at a Bay Area book club, she jumps at the chance-even if it means having to read Lady Chatterley's Lover , a book she hasn't encountered since college, in an evening. But the edition she finds at the bookstore is no Penguin Classics Chatterley- it's an ancient hardcover with notes in the margins between two besotted lovers of long ago. What Maggie finds in her search for the lovers and their fate, and what she learns about herself in the process, will surprise and move readers. Witty and sharp-eyed in its treatment of tech world excesses, but with real warmth at its core, The Moment of Everything is a wonderful read.
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King, Thomas Green Grass, Running Water Bantam Books 1994 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1108698. ISBN #0553373684 / 9780553373684. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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King, Thomas Green Grass, Running Water Bantam Books 1994 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1108698. ISBN #0553373684 / 9780553373684. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor who would like to trade her two boyfriends for a baby but no husband; Lionel is forty and still sells televisions for a patronizing boss; Eli and his log cabin stand in the way of a profitable dam project. These three and others are coming to the Blackfoot reservation for the Sun Dance and there they will encounter four Indian elders and their companion, the trickster Coyote and nothing in the small town of Blossom will be the same
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Kinghorn, Judity Snow Globe New American Library paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1148383. ISBN #9451472096 / 9789451472093. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kingsbury, Suzanne Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me 2002 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1048316. ISBN #0743223039 / 9780743223034. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kingsbury, Suzanne Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me 2002 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1048316. ISBN #0743223039 / 9780743223034. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "It is the things that happen to you which no one else knows about that make you important in life," says Haley Ellyson in this captivating first novel about loss of innocence and the ties of passion and friendship. Set in Houser Banks, Mississippi, a fictional town frozen in time, Suzanne Kingsbury's debut is an intense and evocative tale of young people coming to terms with the legacy of racism over the course of a sultry Southern summer. Deserted by her mother and raised by her whiskey-drinking, gun-shooting father, beautiful Haley has broken the heart of every boy in town. Yet she hides two intimate and explosive secrets that empower her just as they threaten to undermine everything she holds dear. Haley is engaged in a dangerous flirtation with one of her father's friends when Fletcher Greel, the Judge's son, comes home for the summer, having just graduated from a New England prep school. Fletcher's friend Riley is in love with a blues-singing black girl named Crystal, and Fletcher falls instantly for Haley. These four soon become inseparable, intoxicated by love, desire, and the new-found freedoms of late adolescence. But Houser Banks is a small town where attitudes hearken back to a time of racism and hatred. As the summer wanes, disapproval of Riley and Crystal's romance takes increasingly violent turns, and Haley's secrets surface to devastating results. An enormously talented young writer, Suzanne Kingsbury has crafted a pitch-perfect, cinematic first novel rich with unforgettable characters, mesmerizing prose, and smoldering sexual tension. A fresh and vivid rendering of timeless themes, "The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me" captures the exhilaration of firstlove and the consequences of rebellion in a place resistant to change.
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Kingsley, Charles Westward Ho! hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107075. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kingsolver, Barbara Animal Dreams HarperPerennial 1990 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1176700. ISBN #0060921145 / 9780060921149. (keywords: Fiction Arizona Short Stories) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kingsolver, Barbara Bean Trees; Animal Dreams; Pigs in Heaven Quality Paperback Book Club 2001 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170730. ISBN #0965019861 / 9780965019866. (keywords: Fiction Kingsolver) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kingsolver, Barbara Flight Behavior Harper Perennial 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121437v1. ISBN #0062124277 / 9780062124272. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kingsolver, Barbara Flight Behavior Harper Perennial 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121437v1. ISBN #0062124277 / 9780062124272. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Kingsolver is a gifted magician of words." Time The extraordinary New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna winner of the Orange Prize , The Poisonwood Bible nominated for the Pulitzer Prize , and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle , Barbara Kingsolver returns with a truly stunning and unforgettable work. Flight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial that explores how the complexities we inevitably encounter in life lead us to believe in our particular chosen truths. Kingsolver's riveting story concerns a young wife and mother on a failing farm in rural Tennessee who experiences something she cannot explain, and how her discovery energizes various competing factions religious leaders, climate scientists, environmentalists, politicians trapping her in the center of the conflict and ultimately opening up her world. Flight Behavior is arguably Kingsolver's must thrilling and accessible novel to date, and like so many other of her acclaimed works, represents contemporary American fiction at its finest.
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Kingsolver, Barbara Pigs in Heaven Harper Collins Publishers 1993 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1150570. ISBN #0060168013 / 9780060168018. (keywords: fiction, Barabar Kingsolver, Turtle Greer-fiction, Hoover Dam-fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kingsolver, Barbara Prodigal Summer HarperCollins 2000 hardcover. Dust jacket is chipped and taped. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1172595. ISBN #0060199652 / 9780060199654. (keywords: FICTION GENERAL APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS LITERATURE) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kingston, Maxine Hong Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book Vintage Books 1990 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1147360. ISBN #0679727892 / 9780679727897. (keywords: FICTION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kinsella, Sophie Can You Keep A Secret? Black Swan 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1166258. ISBN #0552771104 / 9780552771108. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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