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Random House Inc. 10/01/1996. Reprint. 296 pgs. Peter Carey's first novel concerns Harry Joy, an advertising executive in the thick of a mid-life crisis. He has had a heart attack; his wife is pressuring him to move to New York City; his kids are into drugs, sex, and money. When his wife commits him to a mental hospital, Harry escapes and throws himself into a new relationship with a political subversive. The two run from her enemies into the rain forest. Leavened with a healthy streak of irony, Bliss takes the Cheever-Updike style of novel one step further into the world of the political thriller. Originally published at $13.00 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 02/01/1999. 431 pgs. The story of the rupture of a family, FAMILY PICTURES focuses on the relationships among family members. David Eberhardt is a psychiatrist who blames his wife Lainey for the autism of their son Randall. Lainey insists on keeping Randall at home rather than sending him to an institution, and we see the effect of this decision on the whole family. Originally published at $13.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 12/01/1996. Reprint. Harry Griffin is a former Special Forces Commando and now works as a journalist in St. Paul, Minnesota. On a hunting trip with his old friend Bud Maston, Bud's wife Jesse, and her two grown sons, Harry foils an attempt on Bud's life--but in doing so, he kills Bud's stepson. Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 12/01/1997. A widow pushing 70 returns to Manhattan from Florida to straighten out her children's lives. Her daughters (a stockbroker whose career is floundering and an overweight slob with a bad marriage) and her gay entrepreneur son plot to marry her off to get her out of their hair. Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 03/01/2001. 336 pgs. Jim Drake is a teenager in Madison, Wisconsin, and in the process of coming of age he and his siblings must cope with their father's drunken brutality and their mother's terrified acquiescence in it. When Jim's sister Mandy dies, the horror escalates, to the point where Jim has to leave--and pursue his own destructive cycle of violence and booze. In the midst of the wrenching breakdown of family life, Jim finds Mandy's diary and discovers that the circumstances of her life were even worse than he had been aware. Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/1999. Reprint. 901 pgs. A 40-year-old housepainter named Dominick Birdsey, from a spectacularly dysfunctional family, is the narrator of this long novel about the search for self-acceptance. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. Originally published at $16.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 10/01/2002. 384 pgs. Originally published at $14.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 01/01/2000. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 03/01/2001. 290 pgs. A schizophrenic incarcerated in an upstate New York town escapes, buys a gun, and goes after his parents. Originally published at $13.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 01/01/2001. When the Palmers buy a television set in 1954, daughter Cassie sees prophetic messages in the flickering test pattern, and gradually the family's life is ruined--in various dysfunctional ways--by a combination of TV and the Zeitgeist. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 01/01/1994. Reprint. 227 pgs. An acclaimed novel about gay life in the 1990s. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 05/01/1998. Reprint. A pair of twins in Kerala, India--Rahel and her brother, Estha--struggle to maintain a life in the midst of the wreckage of their family. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1997. Originally published at $14.95 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 02/01/1979. A brief novel full of melodramatic sexual alliances, in which the hero falls in love with his dead mother's housekeeper. Originally published at $10.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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W W Norton & Co Inc. 09/01/2001. 399 pgs. When Wyatt Palmer succeeds in bringing to his town a chemical plant that emits toxic waste, he finds that he has made a deal with the devil. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1995. A brilliant chemist finds that her absorption in her work threatens her marriage, her strange and possibly disturbed young daughter, her career, and perhaps her sanity. Originally published at $10.95 You save 82% off the cover price!

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Penguin/Highbridge. 06/01/1998. Abridged. Arley, a 14-year-old honor student in Texas, begins writing to Dillon LeGrande, an inmate of the nearby correctional facility. Gradually, she falls in love with him, and they are secretly married. When she becomes pregnant, she is rejected by her family and moves in with an activist lawyer, a woman who is having troubles with her boyfriend, a death row attorney. Dillon escapes from prison and goes on a crime spree, and while Arley waits for a reunion with him she must cope with not only a forest fire but her maddened and violent sister. Originally published at $24.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Macadam Cage Pub. 09/01/2001. 261 pgs. When their mother has a mental breakdown and goes away for a rest, Rainey and her siblings find their lives irrevocably changed. First of all, their aunt Merle from the Bronx comes to take care of them, along with her alarmingly sophisticated teenage daughter, followed not long after by Merle's abusive husband and her creepy son, who wreaks his own abuse on Rainey. Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 08/01/1992. Reprint. 231 pgs. Chandler's most famous protagonist, private detective Philip Marlowe, appears in this first novel. Drawn from Arthurian legend, Marlowe is a modern knight, dedicated to causes greater than himself and to restoring order in the world. His first priority is always his client. He is also wary of the authorities, although Chandler takes a more benevolent view of the police than do other writers of the noir genre. In this novel, Marlowe must discover what has happened to Rusty Regan, the beloved son-in-law of Marlowe's client General Sternwood. This book was originally published in 1939. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 03/01/1996. 234 pgs. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/1997. 208 pgs. Danny Graubert must cope not only with the confusions of adolescence but with a violent, autistic brother, his father's alcoholism, and his mother's affair with the family doctor. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/01/1997. 245 pgs. Zelda's father is a tormented man who eventually commits suicide. His lover, a prostitute called Wanda, lives next door with her deformed son, whom Zelda and her sister torture because they fear him. Zelda grows up to be a lesbian who deals in secondhand clothes, trying desperately to bring together the pieces of her disjointed life and gain some insight from her trials. Originally published at $20.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/1998. 240 pgs. A man on death row writes a memoir of his supremely dysfunctional Boston Irish family. Originally published at $22.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/1999. 341 pgs. In a small English village, Stella Benson tries to make sense of the life she has fled, as well as her new life working for autocratic employers, caring for a disabled boy, coping with unsuitable weather, and fighting off persistent young men. Originally published at $24.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/1999. 228 pgs. Originally published at $21.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 08/01/2000. 306 pgs. Indie Brown returns home when she gets a frantic phone call from her sister saying their neglectful and abusive mother is ill. The suspicion is that her symptoms are self-induced, and that she is in fact suffering from Munchausen syndrome, which causes people to realistically fabricate their own illness. Then Indie's sister begins showing symptoms of the same disorder. As the sisters remember and confront the implications of their past, they try to break the cycle of abuse and mental illness perpetrated by their parents. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/2003. 384 pgs. When one of a pair of twins is murdered in her crib, hard living (and morally challenged) forensic psychiatrist Dr. Frank Clevenger gets the call to investigate the rest of the suspects, a wealthy Nantucket family who not only all seem to have had both motive and opportunity for the killing, but are all also nearly as emotionally damaged as Clevenger himself. Originally published at $6.99 You save 79% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 06/01/1998. 287 pgs. In the late 1960s, Trisha is coming of age in a violent, haunted family whose Salem, Massachusetts roots go back--fittingly--to the famous witch trials. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/2001. 205 pgs. Johnnie Paul is a failure--a hack screenwriter who longs to write a real novel. He and his alcoholic wife leave the craziness of L.A. for a rural community on a lake, hoping to find paradise. Instead, the life they find there proves to be even more troubled than the one they left. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 03/01/2001. 319 pgs. In this, the second volume of Gerrold's young adult series (it is the sequel to JUMPING OFF THE PLANET), the three Dingillian brothers wind up tangling with robots, a sinister monkey, an untrustworthy boyfriend, and an ex-Russian with a whole deck of ulterior motives. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Replica Books. 04/01/1996. 297 pgs. Claude Cheever, known as Cheevey, about to turn 20, still lives with his parents, doesn't have a girlfriend, and is bored silly. Everything changes when Mom divorces Dad and moves to France, his sister's behavior grows increasingly bizarre, and Cheevey succeeds in seducing his brother's girlfriend. Originally published at $28.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 05/01/1998. 298 pgs. Taking place in a weekend, "Purple America" exposes the damaged dreams of the Raitliffes, a crisis-ridden family in suburban Connecticut. Originally published at $14.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 11/01/1996. A librarian discovers he is the heir to a fortune, but his newfound relatives may be out to kill him. Originally published at $6.99 You save 79% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 03/01/1999. 298 pgs. This coming-of-age novel set in the 1970s is about an 11-year-old boy growing up in the brutal world of a Manila slum. Originally published at $19.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Pocket Books. 02/01/1997. Reprint. 306 pgs. Ten chapters alternate the points of view of Beatrice and Henry as they describe describe the beginning and the end of the life they shared. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 04/01/2000. Reprint. Originally published at $7.50 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 01/01/1991. Reprint. Brian Tate, a poli-sci professor at Corinth University, realizes the greatness of his work will never extend beyond his department. He has an affair and gets one of his students pregnant. His wife Erica then has affairs, and experiments with drugs and Eastern philosophy. Meanwhile, their best friends, the Zimmerns, divorce, and their children are growing up. Originally published at $8.95 You save 79% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 02/01/1998. In this novel about a troubled family on the eve of the presidential election in a Caribbean republic, a nine-year-old boy sees ominous visions after being struck on the head by an ax, and an angry mob burns down his family's home. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 07/01/2003. 333 pgs. The Corbetts and the O'Malleys have feuded for years. Jolene Hadley Corbett is inclined to pursue the enmity between the families when Ryman O'Malley announces plans to raze the South Winds motel, which is important to the town economy. But Ryman's also Jolene's former teen crush--and a lot more gorgeous than she remembered... Originally published at $13.95 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 10/01/2003. 309 pgs. Written as a journal kept by a druggy teenager with a harelip, this novel is about a family on safari: Richard, the son; Ted, the alcoholic father; and Janet, the depressed and possibly insane mother. As they make their way through Africa, these characters (and more) are revealed in all their nutty complexity in a voice that spares no one. Originally published at $13.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 02/01/1998. 340 pgs. In a rural Vermont community, Darlene marries Earl, an emotionally dysfunctional loner. After three children and years of abuse from her husband, Darlene flees to New York City, and Earl turns his anger on his children--especially adolescent Tina, who escapes her father by hiding out for the winter in the woods, with tragic consequences. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 03/01/1993. Angel is a poet, dark and plain, introverted and submissive. Lara is a dancer, beautiful and irresponsible. As they grow to adulthood, the friendship between these two cousins deepens into a complex and dangerous relationship. Originally published at $19.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 08/01/1994. Reprint. Angel is a poet, dark and plain, introverted and submissive. Lara is a dancer, beautiful and irresponsible. As they grow to adulthood, the friendship between these two cousins deepens into a complex and dangerous relationship. Originally published at $9.00 You save 78% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 01/01/1994. 356 pgs. It's 1969, and 14-year-old Teddy, his 16-year-old sister Cora, and their mother, Rosemary, are driving from Massachusetts to San Francisco, eventually to sail to Formosa to be with the father of the family, who is stationed there. Joining them to help with the driving is Cousin Bobbie, who has, with mixed feelings, left her husband. Along the way, the ultimate goal of each member is revealed. Rosemary hopes for reconciliation and renewed togetherness; Bobbie hopes to get her husband back; Cora wants to become a Hollywood director; and Teddy just wants everyone to be happy. Originally published at $21.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 07/01/1995. There are troubles besetting Josie Jericho Hunter. Her husband is having an affair, her father has Alzheimer's disease, her mother is selling her childhood home, her car is stolen, and her sister has returned after a long absence. She must contend with all of this and raise her two daughters. The local river, which is badly polluted and in danger of flooding, brings all these problems to a head. Originally published at $22.50 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 09/01/1996. 309 pgs. A middle-aged man, separated from his wife, spends time on the island where he summered as a boy, and sorts through disturbing memories of his large, alcoholic, complex, and unhappy family. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1995. Reprint. When the last of the strange Fontana family is taken in by the Catholic orphanage and destined for the priesthood, the town of Monroe, Louisiana, breathes a sigh of relief. But Billy Fontana is destined not for the celibate life but to perpetuate the cursed family line. Originally published at $15.00 You save 87% off the cover price!

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W W Norton & Co Inc. 02/01/1995. Reissue. Violet Dene Gordon and her husband, Charles, return to the Dene family home in Ireland, where memories of Violet's difficult relationship with her sister, Barbara, surface--and are subtly changed by the arrival of Barbara's daughter, Sally. Originally published at $10.00 You save 81% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 10/01/1975. This novel presents portraits of two very different women: a successful archaeologist with a devoted lover and four vibrant children--and her cousin, a bored housewife with a troublesome new baby and a husband she despises. When their reclusive great-aunt dies of starvation alone in her squalid cottage and a nephew commits suicide, the two cousins must sort out what parts of their lives to accept and what to struggle against. As in all her novels, Drabble is concerned with fate and individual identity. Originally published at $13.50 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 04/01/1980. 342 pgs. Snapshots of a Connecticut middle-class family in the midst of social and psychological upheaval. Originally published at $10.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 01/01/1991. Reprint. Ann Beattie's novel, reflecting her fascination with photography, is about the fragile love between a mother and her son and the difficulties of maintaining an extended family in the world of the 1980s. Will is a bright and charming 5-year-old; Jody, his mother, is a well-known photographer; Wayne is Will's absent father who sees the boy as an inconvenience; and Mel is Jody's new lover, who wants desperately to play a role in Will's life. True to its heroine's profession, the novel is structured like a series of chronologically arranged snapshots in a family album. Originally published at $15.00 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 10/01/1994. 549 pgs. In North Bath, a down-at-the-heels town in upstate New York which is not unlike the Mohawk of Russo's two previous novels, Sully must come to terms with his estranged son and his own past. Originally published at $14.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 09/01/1994. Reissue. The story of the tense relationship between a dominating, destructive Marine fighter-pilot and his eldest son. Inspired the feature film of the same name. Originally published at $7.99 You save 82% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 12/01/1991. Reissue. Tom Wingo, a middle-aged high school football coach and English teacher, is summoned from his home in Charleston, South Carolina to New York City to attend to his twin sister Savannah, who has remained comatose since attempting suicide. Savannah's psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein, wants Tom to fill in many of the details in Savannah's upbringing. As Tom tells the Wingo story to Susan, he begins to uncover long-repressed memories, revealing some terrible family secrets. Gradually, the reasons why Savannah has tried to kill herself become evident. Originally published at $7.99 You save 81% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 09/03/1998. 187 pgs. Frank Reid, living in Moscow, is abandoned by his wife, and must cope with his floundering business and the welfare of his children. The novel is set in 1913, before the Russian Revolution. Originally published at $12.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 07/01/1997. Reissue. 214 pgs. A thoroughly hateful old woman torments her family and everyone around them during a visit to the Middle East. Originally published at $6.99 You save 74% off the cover price!

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Putnam Pub Group. 09/01/1992. Pete Flowers, a gay man turning 40, learns that his mother has breast cancer. The crisis brings him together with his dysfunctional family, and Pete must decide whether or not to come out. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 05/01/1997. Reprint. When the chaos of her home life plunges her into a fearful silence, Bird Jackson, starstruck by a dime-store picture of Jesus, declares herself to be His girlfriend and embarks on a quest for salvation. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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