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Kidd, Sue Monk Invention Of Wings Viking 2014 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or1170672. ISBN #0670024783 / 9780670024780. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kidd, Sue Monk Invention Of Wings Viking 2014 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or1170672. ISBN #0670024783 / 9780670024780. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees , a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world and it is now the newest Oprah s Book Club 2.0 selection. Hetty Handful Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. Kidd s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love. As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women s rights movements. Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better. This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.
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Kidd, Sue Monk Mermaid Chair Viking 2005 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book plate attached. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or918092. ISBN #0670033944 / 9780670033942. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kidd, Sue Monk Mermaid Chair Viking 2005 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book plate attached. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or918092. ISBN #0670033944 / 9780670033942. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Sue Monk Kidd s stunning debut, The Secret Life of Bees , has transformed her into a genuine literary star. Now, in her much-anticipated new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans and cement her reputation as one of the most remarkable writers at work today. Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan s conventional life has been molded to the smallest space possible. So when she is called home to cope with her mother s startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Island amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeks she becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother s tormented past, but most of all, as Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, she will find a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right. What inspires the yearning for a soul mate? Few writers have explored, as Kidd does, the lush, unknown region of the feminine soul where the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic exists. The Mermaid Chair is a vividly imagined novel about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body; one that illuminates a woman s self-awakening with the brilliance and power that only a writer of Kidd s ab
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Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees Penguin Books 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or935686. ISBN #0142001740 / 9780142001745. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees Penguin Books 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or935686. ISBN #0142001740 / 9780142001745. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. There they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters who introduce Lily to a mesmerizing world of bees, honey, and the Black Madonna who presides over their household. This is a remarkable story about divine female power and the transforming power of love--a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.
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Kidder, Tracy Home Town Random House 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1160619. ISBN #0965861007 / 9780965861007. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kim, Ronyoung Clay Walls paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133037. ISBN #029596927X / 9780295969275. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kimball, Barbara L. Escape To Forever 2002 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097124. ISBN #1403302979 / 9781403302977. (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 ) *
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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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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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