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Langer, Adam The Salinger Contract Open Road Media 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095178. ISBN #1453297944 / 9781453297940. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Langer, Adam The Salinger Contract Open Road Media 2013 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095178. ISBN #1453297944 / 9781453297940. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An enthralling literary mystery that connects some of the world s most famous authors from Norman Mailer and Truman Capote to B. Traven and J. D. Salinger to a sinister collector in Chicago Adam Langer, the narrator of this deft and wide-ranging novel by the author of the same name, tells the intertwining tales of two writers navigating a plot neither one of them could have ever imagined. There may be no other escape than to write their way out of it. Adam is a writer and stay-at-home dad in Bloomington, Indiana, drawn into an uneasy friendship with the charismatic and bestselling thriller author Conner Joyce. Conner is having trouble writing his next book, and when a menacing stranger approaches him with an odd and lucrative proposal, events quickly begin to spiral out of control. A novel of literary crimes and misdemeanors, The Salinger Contract will delight anyone who loves a fast-paced story told with humor, wit, and intrigue.
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Langer, Adam The Salinger Contract Open Road Media 2013 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151992. ISBN #1453297944 / 9781453297940. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Langer, Adam The Salinger Contract Open Road Media 2013 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151992. ISBN #1453297944 / 9781453297940. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary An enthralling literary mystery that connects some of the world s most famous authors from Norman Mailer and Truman Capote to B. Traven and J. D. Salinger to a sinister collector in Chicago Adam Langer, the narrator of this deft and wide-ranging novel by the author of the same name, tells the intertwining tales of two writers navigating a plot neither one of them could have ever imagined. There may be no other escape than to write their way out of it. Adam is a writer and stay-at-home dad in Bloomington, Indiana, drawn into an uneasy friendship with the charismatic and bestselling thriller author Conner Joyce. Conner is having trouble writing his next book, and when a menacing stranger approaches him with an odd and lucrative proposal, events quickly begin to spiral out of control. A novel of literary crimes and misdemeanors, The Salinger Contract will delight anyone who loves a fast-paced story told with humor, wit, and intrigue.
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LaPlante, Alice Turn Of Mind 2011 hardcover. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085013. ISBN #0802119778 / 9780802119773. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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LaPlante, Alice Turn Of Mind 2011 hardcover. Inscribed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085013. ISBN #0802119778 / 9780802119773. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A stunning first novel, both literary and thriller, about a retired orthopedic surgeon with dementia, Turn of Mind has already received worldwide attention. With unmatched patience and a pulsating intensity, Alice LaPlante brings us deep into a brilliant woman s deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be both a blessing and a curse. As the book opens, Dr. Jennifer White s best friend, Amanda, who lived down the block, has been killed, and four fingers surgically removed from her hand. Dr. White is the prime suspect and she herself doesn t know whether she did it. Told in White s own voice, fractured and eloquent, a picture emerges of the surprisingly intimate, complex alliance between these life-long friends two proud, forceful women who were at times each other s most formidable adversaries. As the investigation into the murder deepens and White s relationships with her live-in caretaker and two grown children intensify, a chilling question lingers: is White s shattered memory preventing her from revealing the truth or helping her to hide it? A startling portrait of a disintegrating mind clinging to bits of reality through anger, frustration, shame, and unspeakable loss, Turn of Mind is a remarkable debut that examines the deception and frailty of memory and how it defines our very existence.
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Lardner, Ring Ecstasy of Owen Muir Cameron & Kahn 1954 hardcover. First Edition. Brown and fragile pages. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1175814. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Larsen, Nella Quicksand (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Penguin Classics 2002 paperback. Previous owner written name present. Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155163. ISBN #0141181273 / 9780141181271. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Larsen, Nella Quicksand (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Penguin Classics 2002 paperback. Previous owner written name present. Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1155163. ISBN #0141181273 / 9780141181271. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow existence. Quicksand , Nella Larsen 's powerful first novel, has intriguing autobiographical parallels and at the same time invokes the international dimension of African American culture of the 1920s. It also evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life.
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Larsen, Nella Quicksand and Passing Rutgers University Press 1986 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106850. ISBN #0813511704 / 9780813511702. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Larsen, Nella Quicksand and Passing Rutgers University Press 1986 paperback. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1106850. ISBN #0813511704 / 9780813511702. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand 1928 and Passing 1929 document the historical realities of Harlem in the 1920s and shed a bright light on the social world of the black bourgeoisie. The novels' greatest appeal and achievement, however, is not sociological, but psychological. As noted in the editor's comprehensive introduction, Larsen takes the theme of psychic dualism, so popular in Harlem Renaissance fiction, to a higher and more complex level, displaying a sophisticated understanding and penetrating analysis of black female psychology.
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Larsson, Stieg Girl Who Played with Fire Vintage Books 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1146343. ISBN #030745455X / 9780307454553. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Latiolais, Michelle Widow Stories Bellevue Literary Press 2011 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1143349. ISBN #1934137308 / 9781934137307. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lauck, Jennifer Blackbird: A Childhood Lost And Found 2001 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110166. ISBN #0671042564 / 9780671042561. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lauck, Jennifer Blackbird: A Childhood Lost And Found 2001 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1110166. ISBN #0671042564 / 9780671042561. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away. To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. But when everything that Jenny had come to rely on begins to crumble, an odyssey of loss, loneliness, and a child's will to survive takes flight....
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Laughlin, Ruth Wind Leaves No Shadow, The Caxton Press 1978 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1173452. ISBN #0870040839 / 9780870040832. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Laughlin, Ruth Wind Leaves No Shadow, The Caxton Press 1978 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1173452. ISBN #0870040839 / 9780870040832. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary At Santa Fe, the musty pomp of fading Spain mingled with the acrid smell and gusty language of buffalo hunters, gringo traders, gamblers, elegant cabelleros, and crooked politicians plundering the new nation. It was a time when all lived dangerously, and Dona Tules Barcel more dangerously than all. Her whole life had been tumultuous. As a child she had known cold and hunger and witnessed the terror of Navaho raids. She dreamed of fine clothes and a rich marriage but realized the bitter hopelessness of the poor. She fell in love with a handsome stranger who snatched her away to the sinister excitement of a mountain gold camp. But here again terror and death touched her and she fled to Santa Fe where she became a market vendor and traded her favors to soldiers and politicians. But when a blue-eyed Yankee gave her a gold friendship ring, her luck began to turn and Dona Tules began her role as a notorious gambling queen. She became the governor's mistress and a power in the town where she once had been despised. Her gambling sala in Santa Fe was the rendezvous where conflicting forces of customs and traditions, old and new ideas challenged each other. THE WIND LEAVES NO SHADOW is a powerful story of love, hate, and jealousy, told against the authentic background of a growing, vigorous America.
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Lauren, Christina Dating You Hating You Gallery Books 2017 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153886v1. ISBN #150116581X / 9781501165818. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lauren, Christina My Favorite Half-Night Stand Gallery 2018 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1173963. ISBN #1501197401 / 9781501197406. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lauren, Christina Twice In A Blue Moon Gallery 2019 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1173961. ISBN #1501197428 / 9781501197420. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Laurence, Margaret The Diviners (Phoenix Fiction) University of Chicago Press 1993 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133702. ISBN #0226469352 / 9780226469355. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Laurence, Margaret The Diviners (Phoenix Fiction) University of Chicago Press 1993 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1133702. ISBN #0226469352 / 9780226469355. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In The Diviners , Morag Gunn, a middle aged writer who lives in a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie, struggles to understand the loneliness of her eighteen-year-old daughter. With unusual wit and depth, Morag recognizes that she needs solitude and work as much as she needs the love of her family. With an afterword by Margaret Atwood. "Mrs. Laurence's novel is both poetic and muscular, and her heroine is certainly one of the more humane, unglorified, unpolemical, believable women to have appeared in recent fiction." The New Yorker
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Laurens, Stephanie Taste Of Innocence 2007 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1071236. ISBN #0060840862 / 9780060840860. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Laurens, Stephanie Taste Of Innocence 2007 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1071236. ISBN #0060840862 / 9780060840860. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary For no gentleman is this more true than Charles Morwellan, the eighth Earl of Meredith. Although he's seen the many successful unions of his Cynster connections, he has also watched his father's obsessions nearly destroy their family and fortune, a mistake Charles will not repeat. But as Lord Meredith he must marry, so he offers for Sarah, the daughter of his neighbors Lord and Lady Conningham. She's intelligent enough to run his social life, beautiful enough to grace his arm, and old enough to know the value of his offer. For most young ladies of the ton , the right marriage is the culmination of years of training, perfect deportment, and intricate plans that would impress a general. But as a lady of independent means with a life of her own, Sarah is unwilling to wed unless it is for unbounded love. But Charles always gets what he wants. He convinces Sarah to give him two weeks to win her; if he succeeds, they will marry immediately. And so begins an intense courtship. By day, Charles and Sarah are models of decorum indulging in innocuous walks, polite conversation, sedate waltzes. Each night they steal away to the lush, moonlit gardens, where sensual embraces turn to searing kisses, and much, much more. Both are swept away on a tide of passion and feeling neither can resist. And yet, after the wedding, despite nights of insatiable passion, Charles remains aloof, as if the near-sinful sweetness of their nights exists only in a dream. Sarah battles to prove that true love is a force that can't be contained, a gift worth fighting for, but it's only when she's engulfed in a web of increasingly dangerous incidents that Charles discovers how much he's willing to surrender to protect . . . the taste of innocence.
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Laurens, Stephanie The Ideal Bride (Cynster Novels) William Morrow 2004 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130030. ISBN #0060505737 / 9780060505738. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Laurens, Stephanie The Ideal Bride (Cynster Novels) William Morrow 2004 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130030. ISBN #0060505737 / 9780060505738. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "This is the book that dares to ask the question: Who is this man's ideal bride? Michael Anstruther-Wetherby is a rising member of Parliament -- a man destined for power. Aristocratic, elegant, and effortlessly charming, he is just arrogant enough to capture the interest of the ladies of the ton. And with his connections to the wealthy and influential Cynster family -- his sister is married to Devil Cynster, the Duke of St. Ives -- his future appears assured. Except that Michael lacks the single most important element of success: a wife. Political pressure sends him searching for his ideal bride, a gently bred, malleable young lady, preferably one with a political background. Michael discovers such a paragon but finds a formidable obstacle in his path -- the young lady's beautiful, strong-minded aunt -- Caroline Sutcliffe. One of London's foremost diplomatic hostesses, Caro has style and status but, having lived through an unhappy political marriage, wants nothing of the sort for her niece, who has already lost her heart to another. So Caro and the younger woman hatch a plot -- Caro will demonstrate why an inexperienced young lady is not the bride for Michael. She succeeds in convincing him that what he really needs is a lady of experience by his side. And the perfect candidate is right under his nose -- Caro herself. Then it is Michael's turn to be persuasive, a task that requires every ounce of his seductive charm as he tempts and tantalizes Caro, seeking to convince her that becoming his bride will bring her all her heart desires . . . and more. But then a series of mysterious, and dangerous, accidents befall Caro -- an assailant has stepped in with their own idea for Caro's future -- one that could involve murder. Before Caro can become Michael's ideal bride, they must race to uncover the unknown's identity before all hope of what they long for, and wish for, is destroyed. "
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Laurie, Hugh Gun Seller Washington Square Press 1996 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1160752. ISBN #067102082X / 9780671020828. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Laurie, Hugh Gun Seller Washington Square Press 1996 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1160752. ISBN #067102082X / 9780671020828. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" Vanity Fair -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy. Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead -- a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favorite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life among other things in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales. Up against rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer looking to make a high-tech killing, Lang's out to save the leggy lady he has come to love...and prevent an international bloodbath to boot.
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Lavigne, Michael Not Me Random House Trade Paperbacks 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1071701. ISBN #0812973321 / 9780812973327. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Lavigne, Michael Not Me Random House Trade Paperbacks 2007 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1071701. ISBN #0812973321 / 9780812973327. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Not Me is a remarkable debut novel that tells the dramatic and surprising stories of two men father and son through sixty years of uncertain memory, distorted history, and assumed identity. When Heshel Rosenheim, apparently suffering from Alzheimer s disease, hands his son, Michael, a box of moldy old journals, an amazing adventure begins one that takes the reader from the concentration camps of Poland to an improbable love story during the battle for Palestine, from a cancer ward in New Jersey to a hopeless marriage in San Francisco. The journals, which seem to tell the story of Heshel s life, are so harrowing, so riveting, so passionate, and so perplexing that Michael becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about his father. As Michael struggles to come to grips with his father s elusive past, a world of complex and disturbing possibilities opens up to him a world in which an accomplice to genocide may have turned into a virtuous Jew and a young man cannot recall murdering the person he loves most; a world in which truth is fiction and fiction is truth and one man s terrible or triumphant transformation calls history itself into question. Michael must then solve the biggest riddle of all: Who am I? Intense, vivid, funny, and entirely original, Not Me is an unsparing and unforgettable examination of faith, history, identity, and love. From the Hardcover edition.
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Lawhon, Ariel I Was Anastasia Anchor Books 2019 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1160395. ISBN #1101973315 / 9781101973318. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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