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Kohler, Sheila Becoming Jane Eyre Penguin Books 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1115055. ISBN #0143115979 / 9780143115977. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kohler, Sheila Becoming Jane Eyre Penguin Books 2009 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1115055. ISBN #0143115979 / 9780143115977. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A beautifully imagined tale of the Bront sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre. Sheila Kohler's memoir Once We Were Sisters is now available. The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his two most beloved family members. A son destroyed by alcohol and opiates. And three strong, intelligent young women, reduced to poverty and spinsterhood, with nothing to save them from their fate. Nothing, that is, except their remarkable literary talent. So unfolds the story of the Bront sisters. At its center are Charlotte and the writing of Jane Eyre . Delicately unraveling the connections between one of fiction's most indelible heroines and the remarkable woman who created her, Sheila Kohler's Becoming Jane Eyre will appeal to fans of historical fiction and, of course, the millions of readers who adore Jane Eyre , as well as biographies about the Bront s like Claire Harman s Charlotte Bront : A Fiery Heart .
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Kohler, Sheila Bluebird, Or The Invention Of Happiness Berkley Books 2008 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155054. ISBN #0425219615 / 9780425219614. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kohler, Sheila Bluebird, Or The Invention Of Happiness Berkley Books 2008 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155054. ISBN #0425219615 / 9780425219614. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Acclaimed author Sheila Kohler's sweeping historical novel, Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness , is based on the life of Lucy Dillon, an eighteenth-century French aristocrat. Wrenched from the court of Marie Antoinette by the Reign of Terror, the brave and resilient Lucy escapes with her family to the freedom and hardships of a newly independent America where, on a dairy farm in the Hudson Valley, she discovers a new life-and her true self.
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Kohler, Sheila Love Child 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1123685. ISBN #0143119192 / 9780143119197. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kohler, Sheila Love Child 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1123685. ISBN #0143119192 / 9780143119197. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An enthralling new novel from the highly acclaimed author of Becoming Jane Eyre . Sheila Kohler's memoir Once We Were Sisters is now available. The compelling story of a forbidden marriage, a baby lost, and a love triangle gone horribly wrong, Love Child centers on Bill, a South African woman whose life has been defined by the apartheid-era, class-riven society in which she lives. Under pressure to make her will, Bill is forced to think about the momentous events and decisions that have made her an extremely wealthy if somewhat disillusioned woman. To whom should she leave her fortune? As Bill relives her past, we learn that this is a simple question with a complicated answer. In elegant, sensual, and nuanced prose, Kohler skillfully explores the space between our dreams and our reality, between our hopes and our disappointments.
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Konigsburg, E.L. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1134886. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Konrad, George Stonedial 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1023195. ISBN #0151006199 / 9780151006199. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Konrad, George Stonedial 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1023195. ISBN #0151006199 / 9780151006199. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The year 1993. Janos Dragom n, a wandering scholar, a world-famous and world-weary Hungarian writer, returns to his native town to visit three old friends. They are Aba Kuno, the almost saintly, highly respected rector of the university; Antal Tombor, the charismatic popular showman-mayor; and Kobra, a stable family man who is also a ubiquitous media pundit dispensing "common sense." The three have wives, all eager to be seduced by Dragom n, whose reputation precedes him. Through a series of flashbacks, covering his intellectually and sexually precocious schooldays, his memories of the life of Jews in 1944, and the 1956 Revolution brilliantly rendered , we learn that Dragom n inadvertently caused the massacre of six young colleagues. Through the turbulent history of a Central European country, Konr d explores familiar themes and delivers a universal, appropriately ambiguous, message.
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Konwicki, Tadeusz Minor Apocalypse 1984 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1059025. ISBN #0394724429 / 9780394724423. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Konwicki, Tadeusz Minor Apocalypse 1984 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1059025. ISBN #0394724429 / 9780394724423. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary As in his novel The Polish Complex, Konwicki's A Minor Apocalypse stars a narrator and character named Konwicki, who has been asked to set himself on fire that evening in front of the Communist Party headquarters in Warsaw in an act of protest. He accepts the commission, but without any clear idea of whether he will actually go through with the self-immolation. He spends the rest of the day wandering the streets of Warsaw, being tortured by the secret police and falling in love. Both himself and Everyman, the character-author experiences the effects of ideologies and bureaucracies gone insane with, as always in history, the individual struggling for survival rather than offering himself up on the pyre of the greater good. Brilliantly translated by Richard Lourie, A Minor Apocalypse is one of the most important novels to emerge from Poland in the last twenty five years.
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Koomson, Dorothy Goodnight, Beautiful Bantam 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133252. ISBN #0385344260 / 9780385344265. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Koomson, Dorothy Goodnight, Beautiful Bantam 2010 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133252. ISBN #0385344260 / 9780385344265. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the author of the internationally bestselling novels My Best Friend s Girl and Marshmallows for Breakfast comes an incredibly moving, powerfully written new novel about motherhood, love, loss, and new beginnings. Nova will do anything for her closest friend, Mal, whom she has known since childhood. So when Mal and his wife, Stephanie, ask Nova to be a surrogate mother, she agrees despite her reservations about what it might mean for their friendship. Then Nova s fears are realized. Halfway through the pregnancy, Stephanie finds a text from her husband to Nova that reads Goodnight, beautiful. Already suspicious of their deep connection, Stephanie demands that Mal cut all ties to Nova and their unborn baby, leaving Nova to raise the child alone. Eight years later, Nova is anxiously waiting for her son, Leo, to wake up from a coma, while childless Stephanie is desperately trying to save her failing marriage. Despite her anger and hurt, Nova wants Mal to have the chance to know his son before it s too late. Will it take a tragedy to remind them all how much they mean to one another?
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Koomson, Dorothy Marshmallows For Breakfast 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1057317. ISBN #0385341334 / 9780385341332. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Koomson, Dorothy Marshmallows For Breakfast 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1057317. ISBN #0385341334 / 9780385341332. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Dorothy Koomson captivated readers with her international bestseller My Best Friend s Girl. Now she dazzles us once again with a tale of love, friendship, and families the choices that shatter them, the hope that saves them, and the little moments that happen in between. Kendra Tamale is looking for a fresh start and a simple life when she rents a room from Kyle Gadsborough. But against her better judgment Kendra soon finds herself drawn into her new landlord s household: a young father in way over his head, a beautiful mother out the door, and six-year-old twins, Summer and Jaxon, with hearts full of hurt. Kendra has plenty of issues of her own, but this family seems to need her so desperately that she s soon falling in love with Summer s constant chatter, Jaxon s soulful eyes, and the sugar-laden Saturday breakfasts she invents. But when a secret from Kendra s past resurfaces and the children are taken away by their mother, the only way to fix things is to confess to the terrible mistake she made many years ago and the choice she makes now could break more than one person s heart.
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Korelitz, Jean Hanff The White Rose Grand Central Publishing 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1117215. ISBN #1455530816 / 9781455530816. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Korelitz, Jean Hanff The White Rose Grand Central Publishing 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1117215. ISBN #1455530816 / 9781455530816. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Passion, infidelity, social climbing, and one very special white rose weave a seductive narrative in this intelligent and tender novel. At forty-eight, Marian Kahn, a professor of history at Columbia, has reached a comfortable perch. Married, wealthy, and the famed discoverer of the eighteenth-century adventuress, Lady Charlotte Wilcox, she ought to be content. Instead, she is horrified to find herself profoundly in love with twenty-six-year-old Oliver, the son of her eldest friend. When Marian's cousin, the snobbish Barton, announces his engagement to Sophie, a graduate student in Marian's department, Marian, Oliver, and Sophie find their lives woefully entangled, and their hearts turned in unfamiliar directions. All three of them will learn that love may seldom be straightforward, but it's always a gift. From the West Village to the Upper East Side, from the Hamptons to Millbrook, THE WHITE ROSE is at once a nuanced and affectionate reimagining of Strauss's beloved opera, Der Rosenkavalier , and a mesmerizing novel of our own time and place. Includes Reading Group Guide
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Kosinski, Jerzy Being There 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114011. ISBN #0802136346 / 9780802136343. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kosinski, Jerzy Being There 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1114011. ISBN #0802136346 / 9780802136343. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It is the story of Chauncey Gardiner - Chance, an enigmatic but distinguished man who emerges from nowhere to become an heir to the throne of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy adviser, and a media icon. Truly "a man without qualities," Chance's straightforward responses to popular concerns are heralded as visionary. But though everyone is quoting him, no one is sure what he's really saying. And filling in the blanks in his background proves impossible. Being There is a brilliantly satiric look at the unreality of American media culture that is, if anything, more trenchant now than ever.
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Kosinski, Jerzy Blind Date 1977 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1118839. ISBN #0395257816 / 9780395257814. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kosinski, Jerzy Blind Date 1977 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1118839. ISBN #0395257816 / 9780395257814. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Blind Date is a spectacular and erotically charged psychological novel that shows Jerzy Kosinski, author of Being There and The Painted Bird, at the height of his power. George Levanter is an idea man, a small investor, an international playboy, and a ruthless deal-maker whose life is delivered in a series of scorching encounters, each more incredible than the last. From Moscow to Paris, from a Manhattan skyscraper to a California mass murder, Blind Date is a dizzying vision of life among the beautiful people and the thrill-seekers.
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Kosinski, Jerzy Cockpit 1975 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1118840. ISBN #0395206715 / 9780395206713. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kosinski, Jerzy Cockpit 1975 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1118840. ISBN #0395206715 / 9780395206713. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An agent known only as Tarden is a former operative of the mysterious security agency "the Service." He has erased himself from all dossiers and transcripts. Now a fugitive, he moves across the landscape free of identity, in search of adventure and intrigue. But Tarden is a man of many disguises, and he is alternately avenger and savior, judge and trickster, as he enters the lives of others, forcing them into the arena of his judgement. In Cockpit, Kosinski is at his most startling and powerful, stripping away pretension and illusions of security to reveal the source of real strength within.
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Kosinski, Jerzy Painted Bird Grove Press 1995 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Minimal Notes or Marking. Book #or1168219. ISBN #080213422X / 9780802134226. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kosinski, Jerzy Painted Bird Grove Press 1995 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Minimal Notes or Marking. Book #or1168219. ISBN #080213422X / 9780802134226. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Kosinski's story follows a dark-haired, olive-skinned boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, as he wanders alone from one village to another, sometimes hounded and tortured, only rarely sheltered and cared for. Through the juxtaposition of adolescence and the most brutal of adult experiences, Kosinski sums up a Bosch-like world of harrowing excess where senseless violence and untempered hatred are the norm. Through sparse prose and vivid imagery, Kosinski's novel is a story of mythic proportion, even more relevant to today's society than it was upon its original publication.
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Kostman, Joel Keys to the City: Tales of a New York City Locksmith Penguin Books 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003584. ISBN #0140279474 / 9780140279474. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kostman, Joel Keys to the City: Tales of a New York City Locksmith Penguin Books 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1003584. ISBN #0140279474 / 9780140279474. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Called "Doctor of the Deadbolt" by The New York Times, musician-turned-locksmith Joel Kostman has been collecting stories about the New York characters he's encountered in twenty years on the job: the poor and the wealthy, the friendly and the lonely, and, of course, the eccentric. As Kostman quietly lets them into their apartments, cars, or safes, they let down their guard and let him into their lives. Here we meet a ninety-two-year-old cousin of Eddie Cantor who urges Kostman to try on one of the singer's jackets; a doctor who was Bugsy Siegel's personal physician; a very sexy Jersey girl; and five naked old men listening to Mozart in a steaming apartment, while a 35-degree-below-zero wind blows outside. In vignettes reminiscent of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Keys to the City is an unforgettable collection of fourteen encounters with New Yorkers locked out, locked in--and a few not far from being locked up.
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Kostova, Elizabeth Swan Thieves Little, Brown and Company 2009 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1152271. ISBN #0316065781 / 9780316065788. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kostova, Elizabeth The Swan Thieves Back Bay Books 2010 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1143775. ISBN #031606579X / 9780316065795. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kowal, Mary Robinette Glamour in Glass (Glamourist Histories) TOR Books 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1170630. ISBN #0765325616 / 9780765325617. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kowal, Mary Robinette Of Noble Family (Glamourist Histories Book 5) TOR Books 2016 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1170628. ISBN #076537837X / 9780765378378. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kowal, Mary Robinette Shades of Milk and Honey (Glamourist Histories Book 1) Corsair 2013 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170495. ISBN #1472102495 / 9781472102492. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kowal, Mary Robinette Valour and Vanity (Glamourist Histories Book 4) TOR 2014 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170493. ISBN #0765334186 / 9780765334183. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kowal, Mary Robinette Without a Summer (Glamourist Histories Book 3) TOR Books 2014 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170623. ISBN #0765334178 / 9780765334176. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kowalski, William Eddie's Bastard 1999 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1098753. ISBN #0060193557 / 9780060193553. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kowalski, William Eddie's Bastard 1999 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1098753. ISBN #0060193557 / 9780060193553. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "There was something irrevocably different about my life, about who I was and how I came to be, that made me nothing like other kids my age; and what was more, it was too late to do anything about it. It had always been too late, in a sense. . . ." In this rich, deeply resonant literary debut, twenty-eight-year-old William Kowalski explores the power of family, the meaning of history, and the bonds of individuals united and shaped by love--a wondrous novel in the grand storytelling tradition of John Irving and Wally Lamb. "Eddie's Bastard" is one William Amos Mann IV, fondly known as Billy, the illegitimate blue-eyed son of "Ready Eddie" Mann--a legendary golden athlete and brave pilot killed in Vietnam--and an unknown mother. The last in a line of proud, fiercely individualistic Irish-American men, Billy is discovered in a basket on the doorstep of the once grand farmhouse that is his ancestral family home, now a dusty, haunted mansion. The sole inhabitant is Billy's grandfather, Thomas, a bitter and lonely recluse who will raise Billy on love, fried baloney sandwiches, and the fascinating lore of the Mann family itself. While his birth may have been inauspicious, Billy's life is destined for greatness. He is a Mann, Grandpa reminds him daily, the progeny of an indomitable family scarred by success and tragedy. Through the whisky-tinged tales of his grandfather, Billy learns how the clan's fortune was discovered by his great-great-grandfather and namesake, Willie, a hero of the Civil War, and how it was lost by Thomas himself, a veteran of World War II, in a scheme known as the Great Ostrich Fiasco of 1946. As he matures into adolescence, Billy will eventually capture these stories on paper, a tradition begun by his great-great-grandfather, who confessed his secrets in a journal he kept throughout his life. Through the tales of his ancestors and his own experiences, Billy learns of bravery and cowardice, of life and death, of the heart's capacity for love and for unremitting hatred, eventually grasping the meaning and true beauty of family and history and their power to shape destiny. Here, too, are the unforgettable people who will indelibly mark him, including the generous and loving Dr. Connor, his grandfather's best friend and the man who holds the key to the secrets of Billy's past and the promise of his future; the charmingly offbeat Shumachers, a "loud, Teutonic, and vibrantly healthy" tribe of Pennsylvania Dutch farmers who care for young Billy when his grandfather is hospitalized after a freak accident; Elsie Orfenbacher, a ripe, energetic woman who will later introduce him to the pleasures of manhood; and the love of Billy's life, Annie Simpson, an ethereal girl with a dark mystery that will first bring them together and then threaten to drive them apart. A novel of discovery, of a young man's emergence into the world and the endless possibilities for greatness it offers, Eddie's Bastard is a luminous reading experience, a novel steeped in imagery and lyricism that marks the debut of a talented new writer. "My life has been made of stories from beginning to end, and just when it seems one is ending, a new one begins. The world itself is woven of stories, each man and woman and child of us threading our own brightly colored tale into the bigger story that was already being told as we were born, and that will continue to be woven by others long after our threads have run out..." -- from Eddie's Bastard
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Kraft, Eric Leaving Small's Hotel 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101547. ISBN #0312206607 / 9780312206604. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Kraft, Eric Leaving Small's Hotel 1999 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101547. ISBN #0312206607 / 9780312206604. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary With this, his seventh novel, Eric Kraft once again gives readers and critics everywhere a reason to celebrate: Kirkus declared it "one of the most delightful novels of the decade," while Publishers Weekly asked, "Is there a more beguiling writer today than Eric Kraft?" Small's Hotel is where Peter and Albertine Leroy have spent their lives, hosting visitors while Peter works on his memoirs. But as guests grow harder to come by the future of the hotel--and of every gift Peter ever dreamed of giving his wife--is in jeopardy. What he does to save his marriage is a story involving friendship, childhood, gadgets, and great, abiding love.
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