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Harpercollins. 08/01/1999. 198 pgs. In Momaday's first novel, Abel is a Jemez Indian returning to his tribe after World War II. An outsider among his own people because of his war experiences and because of the fact that he is the illegitimate offspring of a Navajo, Abel is humiliated at a ceremony, then he murders the man who offended him. After serving an eight-year sentence, Abel moves to Los Angeles, where he is confronted by the Reverend Tosamah, a Kiowa Indian based on a parodic view of Momaday himself. Tosamah proceeds to victimize Abel because he is a "longhair"--an unassimilated Indian. Abel is victimized in other ways in Los Angeles, and eventually returns to the Jemez reservation to bury his grandfather. Through the use of traditions from both Navajo and Jemez cultures, Abel is finally able to bring together the shards of his identity into a coherent whole. Originally published at $13.00 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Univ of Chicago Pr. 08/01/1993. Reprint. Rachel Cameron, of Laurence's Jest of God, has a 39-year-old sister Stacey, who left their hometown of Manawaka as soon as she was able, and went searching for a better life in Vancouver. However, once there, she became trapped in a dissatisfying marriage, with four children and an impending midlife crisis. Stacey spends the course of the novel examining her life and struggle to find the impetus to continue living it. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 07/01/2001. 241 pgs. The narrator, who remains nameless, is the daughter of an Iraqi father and an English mother--parents who are unable to agree on anything, including how to raise their child. When her father dies, the heroine returns to England with her terminally ill mother, and finds herself isolated on many levels--without a family, without a country, and forced to separate from the man she loves. Originally published at $23.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 05/11/1999. 320 pgs. A novel about Grace Quinn, an English woman married to an oppressive husband in contemporary rural Ireland. Grace's husband blames her for the accidental death of their son 20 years earlier; their remaining son is an open homosexual living in Dublin. Grace gets a respite from her husband when he is imprisoned following a drunk-driving accident that results in the death of a young girl, but upon his release, he continues abusing her. Grace finally escapes, and she finds herself in Dublin. This is the author's first novel. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. Originally published at $13.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 10/01/1996. 339 pgs. A novel which chronicles the lives of two women who leave the elegant world of 19th-century Paris for the Kansas prairies. Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 03/01/2001. 584 pgs. In 1936, a wealthy man named Henry Frye Gould leaves his family in New York and travels to a small village in Ceylon in search of spiritual enlightenment. Among the people he meets are a monk who instructs him in Buddhism and a young boy who is also a spy. Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Monarch Notes. 08/01/1983. Reissue. Based very closely on Lawrence's own life, SONS AND LOVERS (1913) tells the story of young Paul Morel, son of the troubled union of an educated, upwardly mobile mother and an unlettered coal miner father. Although in later life Lawrence regretted his brutal portrait of his father, the hero of his novel is most definitely his mother's boy who becomes increasingly dissatisfied with his mean, impoverished home in a Nottinghamshire coal town. He is drawn to a young woman named Miriam, with whom he reads poetry and speaks French; his mother fears Paul's attraction to Miriam will jeopardize her own relationship with him, and she succeeds in coming between them. Paul then begins an affair with Clara, a married woman and a feminist. When Paul's mother becomes fatally ill and dies, Paul rejects his background for good, resolves to forget both Miriam and Clara, and sets out with renewed resolution on a quest for a life of his own. Unique for its sexual frankness and working-class background, SONS AND LOVERS is Lawrence's first major achievement, and a groundbreaking step forward in the history of English realistic fiction. Originally published at $3.95 You save 62% off the cover price!

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Lightning Source Inc. 05/01/1999. 251 pgs. Upper-class German refugees come to America during the 1930s. The narrative takes place over a 40 year period, tracing the lives of the characters, not necessarily in chronological order. Originally published at $15.00 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Baker Pub Group. 04/01/2001. 269 pgs. When her mother dies, a Dutch landscape designer journeys back into her unhappy childhood, trying to understand the cruelty of her parents, the pitiless religiosity of her grandfather, and the reasons why the identity of her true father was kept from her. Originally published at $12.99 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Univ of Nebraska Pr. 10/01/2000. 229 pgs. The Atkins family, of the Nebraska plains, is a family of women headed by Cora, who has learned to submit to the rhythms of nature and maintains a moral innocence. Her sister-in-law, Belle, dies in childbirth. Sharon Rose, Belle's daughter, is raised by Cora and eventually leaves Nebraska for the sophistication of the East Coast. Years later she returns to the plains and comes face-to-face with Cora's dignity, resourcefulness, and resolute character. Originally published at $14.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Academy Chicago Pub. 02/01/1997. 167 pgs. Sarah has followed her parents' wishes to marry instead of pursuing her dream of being a schoolteacher. Her husband, a rather insensitive farmer, struggles to work his farm while Sarah remains inside the crude cabin, isolated and longing for a better life. The marshland where she lives, known as the Pocosin, is haunted by the ghosts of three women; these ghosts appear to Sarah and make it clear that they have lived her life and been equally dissatisfied with and worn down by it. Sarah has to decide whether or not to remain by the Pocosin and live the life she is expected to, or to move on to the life she wants and risk the unknown with her young daughter. Originally published at $20.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Mid List Pr. 08/01/2001. 209 pgs. It's the 1970s, and after her brother's death in Vietnam Leslie can't wait to leave her pokey upstate New York town and her annoyingly wacky family that includes a gun-nut father and alcoholic mother. She takes off for New York at 18, gets a job, loses her virginity, almost joins the women's movement, and then travels on, to an ashram in India, where she learns what she wants from life and returns home chastened. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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McPherson & Co. 08/01/2002. 207 pgs. Liam is the son of Cathleen and Noah, and when Liam goes off to college his parents find themselves meditating on their pasts. Noah ponders a seductive Frenchwoman he once had an affair with, and Cathleen remembers an extramarital dalliance of long ago. Originally published at $22.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 03/01/2001. 282 pgs. When his girlfriend turns out to be a lesbian, Jordy McNeil moves to the Bay Area--where he promptly falls in love with another lesbian. He also goes to work for a dot-com shopping company, and when they are bought by a large corporation he makes a fortune. Originally published at $13.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 01/03/2006. Reprint. 224 pgs. The dubious hero of William Nicholson's novel tires of his aimless London post-university life and, disgusted by the fact that his father's new young wife has just produced a child, he flees. Ending up in an unnamed Eastern European country, where he is accused of terrorism, he finds that his dilemma is not only physical but existential. In addition to writing novels, Nicholson also writes plays and screenplays (including GLADIATOR). Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 07/01/2006. 209 pgs. YA-author Francesca Lia Block collaborates with Carmen Staton to tell the story of Ruby, a strong-willed, wildly imaginative young girl who escapes from the sexual tyranny of her father and then finds love caring for a wounded man. The magical world of Ruby's imagination and the terrifying realities of her life swirl together in a rich and evocative blend. Originally published at $21.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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