Harpercollins. 06/01/2002. Reprint. Billy Mann was orphaned and left on the doorstep of his grandparents' house as a baby. His father has died in Vietnam, and now Billy goes to New Mexico in search of his mother. He finds her daughter Sophia working in a bar in Santa Fe, and he finds a girlfriend named Consuelo, an ex-tightrope walker who sings in the bar. And eventually he finds his mother, too, the elusive Sky, as she is dying of cancer. Originally published at $12.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Natl Book Network. 09/01/1997. 226 pgs. A retired couple, Sylvia and Clayton, travel across America in an RV with their 12-year-old granddaughter, whom they have had custody of since her mother was killed in a car crash. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 07/01/1994. Reprint. Timothy Harcombe, a young boy who is also a psychic, appears with his adored father in the theatres of London, where they heal people of despair. When Timothy is removed by his grandparents from what they consider to be an unsuitable life for a child, his new life in the countryside is unbearable lonely, and he finds solace in visions that encompass time, English history, and a panorama of English creative and cultural icons, from Dickens to Hogarth, from Wonderland to Arthur Conan Doyle, and from Merlin to John Bunyan. Originally published at $12.50 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 09/01/1981. Updike's third novel (after RABBIT, RUN and RABBIT REDUX) about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom follows the Pennsylvania car salesman's passage into middle age in the turbulent 1970s. Rabbit has achieved success as a salesman at Springer Motors, but his life is not without problems, including the return of his recalcitrant son Nelson, the return of an old flame into his life, and the ever-volatile relationship with Janice, his wife. Originally published at $35.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Natl Book Network. 04/01/2002. 262 pgs. During the Great Depression, Willa and Worthy Giberson are raising their grandson in a small Illinois town. A born storyteller, the boy heads for a writing career, experiencing along the way the joys and woes of adolescence, including his initiation into sex, the death of his best friend, the reappearance of the shady character who is his father, and finally the menacing shadow of World War II. Originally published at $15.95 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Univ of Nevada Pr. 03/01/2002. 220 pgs. Lake is a teenager living with her unconventional parents, Mimi and Kirk, who are outside the mainstream in their small Idaho town. When Lake becomes ill, she is sent to live with her relatives in St. Louis, where she begins to grow up as she finds out the truths about various family members. Originally published at $17.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/2004. Reprint. 284 pgs. Brandon's mother deserts him, then wants him back--but his grandparents fight her for custody. They lose and kidnap him, carrying him off to a small fishing village in Florida. When they become involved in a local incident involving the Klan and an African-American church, Brandon is sent back to his mother--and then rescued again, by an unexpected source. Originally published at $14.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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