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Penguin USA. 07/01/1996. Reissue. Alcott revisits Jo and her family in this follow-up to her popular novels "Little Women" and "Little Men." Originally published at $4.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 05/01/1995. Reissue. 368 pgs. In this sequel to LITTLE WOMEN, Jo and her husband, Professor Friedrich Bhaer, open Plumfield--a boarding school for boys. Louisa May Alcott's story describes the adventures of Plumfield's boisterous but kindhearted students with the entire Bhaer family, including Jo and Friedrich's two young sons. Originally published at $4.99 You save 70% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/2005. 292 pgs. In 1971, Dominick Pindle is 16 years old, and his family life is chaotic, to say the least. His father is a drunk who has impregnated a local divorcée, and his mother is also pregnant, but not by his father. When Dominick is forced to steal money from his mother, she can't afford to pay for an abortion, and dies attempting it herself. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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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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Harpercollins. 07/01/2003. Reprint. Tobias is growing up in a very bohemian milieu, complete with free-thinking artist-mother and lesbian aunt. When Roehm, his mother's new boyfriend, arrives on the scene, Toby is monumentally jealous, and the question arises: is Roehm the monster Toby believes him to be, or is Toby unhinged by his Oedipus complex? Originally published at $13.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 03/01/1987. Reprint. Lambert Strether is dispatched to Paris by the widowed Mrs. Newsome--his fiancée--to bring back her son Chadwick. It is rumored that Chad has fallen under the spell of a Frenchwoman of dubious reputation, and his mother wants him to return to take over the running of the Newsome Mills, in Massachusetts. Once in Paris, Strether undergoes a personality change. Not only does he advise Chad to remain there with his lover--the charming Mme. de Vionnet--but he comes perilously close to succumbing to the city's magic himself. The ending is both unexpected and deeply ironic; Strether's situation illustrates James's lifelong preoccupation with the differences in culture, morality, and the concept of the good life in a city like Paris vs. a New England mill town. It is, of course, no secret where the author's sympathies lie. As the aging Strether expresses it in a word of advice to a younger character: "Live all you can....Don't miss things out of stupidity. Live!" James considered this novel to be his masterpiece, and--despite its extreme length, slowness, and quiet absence of action or real suspense--critical opinion generally agrees with him. Originally published at $7.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 04/01/1992. Reissue. Originally published at $6.99 You save 72% 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. 05/01/1995. Reprint. Margaret Yearwood abandons her California life for the town of Blue Dog, New Mexico where she lives with her newly deaf son, Peter. In addition to falling in love with her neighbor, she finds the courage to explore her artistic side. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 09/01/1996. 342 pgs. Originally published at $24.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 02/01/1999. 261 pgs. From best-selling author Sue Miller comes this novel that chronicles the challenges of caring for aging parents. Lily, a distinguished author, must live with her son and his wife while she awaits relocation to a retirement community. Plagued by Parkinson's disease and unable to write, Lily must cope with her dwindling abilities. A young journalist visits their home to write a piece on Lily for The New Yorker, setting off an avalanche of memories for both Lily and her son. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Lightning Source Inc. 05/01/1999. 326 pgs. After Nora's husband dies in an accident, she and her young son Jason are stalked by dangerous men in relentless pursuit of something they don't know they possess. This literary thriller is something of a departure for Bausch, whose novels of domestic realism, usually about well-meaning men and their troubled relationships, have been widely acclaimed. Originally published at $14.95 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 03/01/2001. 306 pgs. Pat McNab murders his mother and buries her in the back yard. After that, things go rapidly down hill: he is plagued by his mother's ghost, his next-door neighbor forces him into sex, a blackmailer threatens him, and a drug sale goes bad. As a result of his troubles, he commits more murders. Unless, of course, the entire scenario is the product of Pat's hazy alcoholic fantasy life.... Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 01/01/2002. 319 pgs. Indiana rounds out his American Crime trilogy with this scabrous, Swiftian fictionalization of the case of true-life homicidal grifters Sante and Kenneth Kimes. Originally published at $24.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/2003. Large Print. 640 pgs. A year in the life of a middle-aged woman named True Dickinson, who runs a baby-gift business, has a wonderful 10-year-old son, is loved by her friends and family, but craves romance. She meets Hank, a part-black younger man and local restaurateur, and within two months they are married. Then True gets pregnant, 9/11 makes her business precarious, the marriage falters when Hank is unfaithful--and things get worse due to the machinations of True's nutty mother. But as the year comes to an end, things begin to right themselves. Originally published at $25.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 09/01/1997. In this coming-of-age novel, Walter Marshall can't decide between becoming a newsman like his idol, Edward R. Murrow, or running for president like his other idol, JFK. He's equally divided in his love life, attracted both to the kind and practical Alice to whom he's engaged, and the mysterious German Natalie. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 01/01/2003. Reprint. 496 pgs. Beginning with Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Doris Lessing's very autobiographical novel chronicles, over two decades, the story of Frances Lennox, her two sons, and her unsavory ex-husband, Johnny, a self-important Marxist who drops in and out of her life wreaking various kinds of havoc. At the end of the novel, a peripheral character named Sylvia--the daughter of Johnny's second wife--becomes the focus, as she goes about her daily life as a doctor in a small mission town in Zimbabwe. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. Originally published at $13.95 You save 95% 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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Farrar Straus & Giroux. 06/01/1998. Reprint. 243 pgs. A comic novel about a young man's coming of age. Jeremy Zorn's happy Jewish childhood is marred only by his speech impediment, a failing that weighs so heavily upon him that he develops a lifelong obsession with words. By the time he reaches college, Jeremy's stammer has not quite been overcome, but his attempts to rid himself of it have left him a gifted writer and storyteller. It is then that he must face an even greater trial: the impending death of his beloved mother. Originally published at $12.95 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Consortium Book Sales & Dist. 09/15/2004. 161 pgs. A novel about the difficulties of family life, told from the point of view of a confused 11-year-old and set in 1943--the year that pennies were indeed made of zinc. Originally published at $9.95 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 07/01/1994. Reprint. Originally published at $12.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1993. Reprint. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1994. Reprint. 248 pgs. A chronicle of the odd and compelling lives of a pair of elderly, inseparable identical twins, Lewis and Benjamin Jones, who are sheep-farmers in rural Wales. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 01/01/1996. Reprint. Originally published at $15.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 05/01/1989. Reprint. In this coming-of-age story set in a small Louisiana town, John Girlie, an all-American football player, returns home after his grandfather's death to confront his possessive mother, the absence of his father and his brother, the dissipations of his old friend, Charlie--and the love of a strange, grieving woman he meets in a cemetery. Originally published at $6.95 You save 74% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 03/01/1990. Reprint. A riveting and entertaining novel about a chess prodigy pitted against an MIT computer. Originally published at $8.95 You save 79% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 02/01/1995. Reprint. A harrowing novel about ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner, who was executed for murdering a white girl in Mississippi in 1937. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1996. Reprint. A debut novel from Stevens about remembrance and regeneration. Augusta asks her husband to leave their suburban home and then succumbs to the ensuing depression by taking to her bed. The long, hot summer brings together a cast of quirky characters: Augusta's teenage son Henry, his brother Matthew, a reclusive health nut home from Harvard, and Henry's zany girlfriend Bette, whose arrival puts a spin on all their lives. Originally published at $10.95 You save 82% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 07/01/1999. 259 pgs. The story of a teenager's fixation on his beautiful stepmother, written by the celebrated Latin American novelist. Set in Lima, it describes the middle-aged Don Rigoberto's shock at discovering his second wife Lucrecia's indiscretions with his son, Alfonso. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Originally published at $14.00 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/2001. 11 pgs. Makine's second novel tells the story of Olga, a Russian refugee who escapes the Bolsheviks, flees to a small town in France with her hemophiliac little boy, and becomes a librarian. As her son becomes a teenager, Olga's life begins to crumble as she realizes unpleasant truths about the boy and about her relationship with him--things over which she has no control, and which, in the end, threaten to drive her mad. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Penguin/Highbridge. 05/01/1996. Stella Payne lives in a beautiful house near San Francisco, with her 11-year-old son Quincy. She works as a financial systems analyst for a salary that most would salivate over. She chose her career at the behest of her now ex-husband, who convinced Stella to leave her art-furniture business for something more lucrative. When Quincy goes to visit his father, Stella decides, on a whim, to go to Jamaica for nine days. There, she finds Winston Shakespeare, a 20-year-old chef's assistant who arouses her passion in such a way that she can't forget him once she's home again. She invites Winston to visit her, and he promptly wins over everyone in sight and persuades Stella to make some changes in her life. Originally published at $16.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 12/01/1997. In the third volume of Sigrid Undset's monumental historical saga, Kristin and her family return to her childhood home, where she watches her sons growing up in a difficult time while her marriage slowly crumbles. Originally published at $13.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Penguin/Highbridge. 06/01/2000. Family drama ensues when Guy Stockdale, a 62-year-old magistrate and respected patriarch, leaves his wife to marry his young mistress. Originally published at $18.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 05/01/2002. Reprint. 8 pgs. In Ann B. Ross's second book about Miss Julia, her heroine has come to terms with her onetime rival, Hazel Marie, and is now the guardian of Little Lloyd. Now Hazel Marie has disappeared, and Miss Julia has to find her. With Little Lloyd by her side, she sets off across North Carolina, and encounters enough obstacles and adventures to tax even Miss Julia's amazing and ingenious survival skills. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 07/01/1997. 345 pgs. An 81-year-old woman, widow of a plantation owner and survivor of the tragedies that have marked her family, reflects on her past and tries to find meaning in it. Originally published at $23.00 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 05/01/2004. Reprint. 400 pgs. An epic novel by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Breaking Away". It describes the unhappy life of Doc Karoo, a Hollywood script doctor trying to sell a story, avoid his ex-wife, reconcile himself with his son, and begin a new love affair. Unfortunately, the script is no good, his son is far away at college, and his new girlfriend turns out to be Doc's long-lost mother. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Lightning Source Inc. 04/01/2002. 323 pgs. Alice Valentine is dying in her English country home, where she is dependent in her last days on an oxygen tank. Her two sons, bringing their complicated lives along, converge at her deathbed. In a related plot line, a playwright named Laszlo Lazar, in Paris with his lover, seeks to redeem past guilts by performing a daring mission during the war in Bosnia. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. Originally published at $30.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 01/01/2003. 352 pgs. Jana's concerns about her young son, Evan, awaken memories of her own childhood and her troubled younger brother. Originally published at $25.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 02/01/1994. A woman in crisis accidentally kills an acquaintance with her car and then conspires to keep it a secret in this thriller about difficult loves in an Italian-American community. Originally published at $21.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Lightning Source Inc. 04/01/1996. Reprint. 340 pgs. Paula, an affluent black woman, takes in her husband's ailing mother and must resolve her ambivalence about her racial identity and her own mother. Originally published at $19.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 04/01/2002. Reprint. 272 pgs. Jeanne Roth goes home to take care of her mother, who has been stricken with Alzheimer's, and in the process she discovers that what she really needs to do is gain a better understanding of her relationships not only with her parents but with her ex-husband and her son. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 07/01/2002. Reprint. 214 pgs. The narrator of this debut novel wants more than anything to become pregnant, and after a series of loveless encounters she succeeds, becoming the mother of Paul, whom she worships as a substitute for all that's missing in her life. Gradually, she becomes more and more possessive, refusing to allow her son to go to school or lead a normal life, and her madness spirals out of control. Originally published at $14.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 07/01/2001. Reprint. 244 pgs. This debut novel, set in 1983, is about a young Irishman named Patrick Scully, his roommate and best friend Xavier O'Reilly, and his girlfriend Francesca--who is in love with Xavier. The narrative alternates between Patrick's perceptions and Francesca's diary, which often contradicts them. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 07/01/1992. Reissue. Peter Levi, at age 19, returns to his summer haunt of Rocky Port, Maine, after a five- year absence. While he was gone, his favorite horned owl died, and when he looks with his mother for a waterfall they both liked, they discover it has been demolished to make way for a highway. When the summer ends, Peter travels to Paris for his junior year abroad at the Sorbonne. But his ideas of French culture clash with the reality of it. The hero of this coming-of-age novel is reputedly modelled on author Mary McCarthy's son. Originally published at $10.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Lightning Source Inc. 12/01/1993. Reprint. Originally published at $17.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 07/01/1993. Originally published at $17.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/01/1995. Reprint. Originally published at $10.00 You save 81% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 11/01/1996. Reissue. 212 pgs. Twenty-three-year-old Conor has come back to Ireland after years of looking for his mother in North America, only to find his father, a failed photographer who worked as a roofer, subsisting in filth and rather incapacitated by a smoker's cough. As he stays with his father and tries to make his life a little more comfortable, Conor reminisces about his childhood and his travels, and grows closer and more understanding toward his father. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% 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. 09/01/1998. 218 pgs. A first novel about a pair of 14-year-old twins--Medina and Jim--who are transplanted to Palos Verdes, California when their cardiologist father takes a job there. Their parents' marriage immediately becomes precarious; their father is never home, their mother is seriously depressed. The twins, inevitably, react in damaging ways to their new environment, but the affection between them remains, and Medina, though she grows up fast, manages to survive. Originally published at $11.95 You save 85% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 10/01/1997. 247 pgs. When a young boy has a near-death experience, in which his dead mother tells him she did not commit suicide a year earlier, but was murdered, D.A. Arlene Flynn reopens the case. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 12/01/1997. 247 pgs. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 12/01/1998. Illustrated. 222 pgs. Originally published at $21.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 06/01/2001. 277 pgs. Set in a right-wing, xenophobic Paris of the future, this novel is about an American expatriate diplomat named Will Law, his elusive lover Pedro Douglas, and an American woman whose young son has been kidnapped by terrorists. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/2001. 351 pgs. For five years, Miami police detective turned successful crime writer Hannah Keller has been searching for J.J. Fielding, the man she knows stole her family's fortune and killed her parents. Now that Hannah and her mission have been discovered by the FBI, they have decided to come to her aid. Or have they? It seems an FBI unit has their own agenda: to find serial killer Hal Bonner. And Hannah, they determine, is the perfect bait. If money-hungry Hal can be persuaded that Hannah has in fact already found Fielding and his stash of millions, he will follow her right into the FBI's trap. Meanwhile, for Hannah, each clue the FBI gives her is bringing her closer to a madman. Originally published at $6.99 You save 86% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 06/01/1999. 214 pgs. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 11/01/2002. Reissue. 240 pgs. Michael Cunningham's critically acclaimed novel, which is inspired by Virginia Woolf's MRS. DALLOWAY, tells three simultaneous stories. One is about Virginia Woolf while she is writing the novel in the mid-1920s. In another, a woman reading MRS. DALLOWAY in 1949 fights off despair. In the third, a woman named Clarissa (whose nickname is "Mrs. Dalloway") prepares a party for a friend in the late 1990s. The main action of each part of the novel takes place over the course of one day--as MRS. DALLOWAY does. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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