Harpercollins. 06/01/1991. Veronica Wright, of "My Father's Moon", comes to New York City for a medical conference. In her stuffy, stifling hotel room, she finds herself gripped by cabin fever. Attempting to relieve her mind of this restlessness, Veronica relives her memories of the events of 40 years past, her life as an unwed mother in postwar England, the bleakness of her career as a domestic, and the shabbiness of her own personality. Originally published at $19.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 02/01/1997. Reprint. Colorado rancher Atticus Cody travels to Mexico to recover the body of his son who supposedly committed suicide. But when he gets there, the pieces to the puzzle don't fit, and Atticus begins to suspect that his son was murdered. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% 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. 01/01/1988. A classic French thriller about a terrifying and legendary figure who emerges from the depths of the Paris Opera House and manifests the mythic "opera ghost" in terrifying reality. At the heart of the Phantom's obsession is the lovely Christine Daae, who, after a brilliant performance, disappears suddenly and mysteriously. Originally published at $7.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/1998. A novel, set on the Rio Grande in New Mexico, about a disparate community of troubled souls. Gay Schaefer is separated from her husband of 15 years, but she continues to meet him secretly in motel rooms on a regular basis, while pretending to her daughter, Rita, that they are divorced. Rita, now in high school, is becoming aware of some strange force at play in town, some dread that haunts the lives of her neighbors, the Calzados, whose daughter, Cecilia, is Rita's best friend and whose son, Enrique, begins to date Rita, and to which Rita find herself increasingly drawn. Originally published at $13.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 03/01/1992. An anthology of Graham Greene's previously uncollected stories, dating from 1923 to 1989. Originally published at $8.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 10/01/1999. 242 pgs. This 1948 story of moral decay was one of Graham Greene's greatest popular and critical successes, though not one of his own favorites. His hero Scobie is a colonial police commissioner in West Africa. He endures a loveless marriage and a nondescript career patiently enough until he falls in love with a young shipwreck survivor who, literally, washes ashore at his feet. To send his wife on an extended holiday to South Africa, he borrows money from a Syrian merchant, who then uses his position to blackmail Scobie into turning a blind eye to his smuggling. Once his wife returns home, Scobie finds that he can no longer reconcile his affection for his mistress with his duties as a husband, a policeman, and a Catholic, and is pressed to a desperate resolution of his confusions. One of Greene's aims in this novel was to open a philosophical exploration into the differences between pity (which he sees as destructive) and compassion (which is positive). Upon its publication, Greene commented, "I found myself regarded as a Catholic author in England, Europe, and America--the last title to which I had ever aspired." Originally published at $15.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Lightning Source Inc. 03/01/1998. Reprint. 407 pgs. Jack Ferris, an Irish playwright, loses his lover Catherine and tries to reconstruct their affair in his imagination, bringing together Presbyterians and Catholics in this epic of heartache that comes of such religious schism. Originally published at $22.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1994. Reissue. 322 pgs. A classic French thriller about a terrifying and legendary figure who emerges from the depths of the Paris Opera House and manifests the mythic "opera ghost" in terrifying reality. At the heart of the Phantom's obsession is the lovely Christine Daae, who, after a brilliant performance, disappears suddenly and mysteriously. Originally published at $4.99 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 09/01/1993. 229 pgs. Bailey's Cafe is not located in a specific geographical area. It is a place that appears whenever a character needs a place "to take a breather for a while." The novel consists of the stories of various characters, all of them desperate, all of them in pain. Naylor uses a jazz-like construction, bringing in many voices all "conducted" by Bailey, to tell the story. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Replica Books. 06/01/1994. Reissue. Jim is a young surgeon who is assigned to work at a hospital on an Apache reservation. Wracked with alcoholism, despair, and poverty, the people of the reservation teach Jim about compassion and bearing the burden of a cruel history. Originally published at $15.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 06/01/1978. 297 pgs. THE WAVES, Woolf's highly experimental, almost-prose-poem of a novel, asks the reader, "What endures?" The answer calls out from the novel like an echo in a seashell: nothing. Everything changes, decays, morphs. Woolf sketches six lives--three women and three men--all focused on a leader, Percival, a classical hero. Each character narrates a set of soliloquies through which Woolf explores the ways in which each human life is like a wave that impacts another, but is always truly alone. THE WAVES is a stunning, though abstract, look at humanity--the novel about which Woolf said, "I am writing to a rhythm and not a plot." Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Oxford Univ Pr. 05/01/2000. 410 pgs. Kate Chopin's novel is a probing psychological study of a woman who, oppressed by family life and her romantic difficulties, drowns herself in the ocean. It is also an examination of a particular culture at the end of the 19th century: the aristocratic society of southern Louisiana. Condemned at the time it was written, THE AWAKENING has been valued in later years for its unflinching honesty and sexual frankness. Originally published at $7.95 You save 84% off the cover price!

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Univ of Chicago Pr. 06/01/1972. Dostoyevsky had a gambling problem which threatened, from time to time, to eat up the considerable sums of money he made from his books. He writes with insight and sympathy about Alexei, who tries but repeatedly fails to break his addiction. Writing the book was itself a bit of a gamble for Dostoyevsky, who finished it in one month (dictating to the young woman who would eventually become his second wife) in order to appease his publisher. The novel stands as a classic picture of the pointless, superficial, but obsessive world of gambling. Originally published at $12.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Univ of Chicago Pr. 05/01/1993. Reprint. Hagar Shipley, of Manawaka, Canada, is 90 years old. Blind, proud, desperately unhappy, she has spent her life denying her emotions and struggling to be wholly independent of people. As she nears the end of her life, the cracks in her self-sufficient facade are widening; the novel chronicles Hagar's life and the developments that lead to her eventual realization that she cannot remain so insular. Originally published at $15.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Univ of Wisconsin Pr. 11/01/1980. 259 pgs. Unlike the movie, the Cain novel features no murder. Spanning the Depression era, it is the story of a suburban California wife and mother. At the beginning of the book, Mildred turns out her husband Bert, who is jobless and philandering. In order to support her two children and herself, she begins working as a waitress, which she finds abhorrent. Eventually, after different profitable liaisons, she starts a restaurant chain. She is subsumed in her work, obsessed by it, defined by it--as she is by her relationship to her daughter Veda. She draws Veda's heightened resentment, because the girl loves her father deeply, and Veda ultimately betrays Mildred. Originally published at $24.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 11/01/1997. 183 pgs. A novel about a young, unmotivated Harvard graduate, covering 24 hours in his life as he roams around Boston in search of meaning. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 03/01/2002. Reprint. 309 pgs. Malcolm Vaughn is shot dead on the street, and this novel explores the intense grieving of his wife, Sarah, his small son, and his best friend--a Vietnam veteran named Deckard Jones whose troubled past causes the police to cast suspicion on him for Vaughn's death. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. Originally published at $14.00 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 04/01/1999. 327 pgs. A debut novel about an archivist at a university, whose life contains many parallels to the life of the poet T. S. Eliot. When a graduate student requests access to letters written by Eliot to a woman in Boston, the archivist--whose wife committed suicide-- discovers things about his own past that lead to a renewal of his faith in life. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 05/01/1997. 168 pgs. John Stewart, an unlucky gambler with a debt to a Vegas honcho, is making his way through the Nevada desert when he stops in Sierra, a small town down the road from nowhere. John plans to get his Mustang fixed and be on his way, well ahead of his Vegas debtor. But Jack doesn't realize that once you're in Sierra, you're stuck. The local denizens look at Jack and see a way out of the no-horse town. Each of them comes to Jack with a plan to kill somebody and get some money in the process. But the Vegas honcho's hired men are hot on Jack's trail, and if he doesn't get out of Sierra soon, he'll be the one buried there. Originally published at $19.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Farrar Straus & Giroux. 04/01/1996. 247 pgs. John Moon, abandoned by his wife and infant son, supports himself by doing odd jobs and poaching off a neighbor's land. One morning he is out hunting deer. Hearing a rustle in some branches, he fires a single shot which, he is horrified to discover, kills a teenage girl. In his attempts to investigate the girl's identity and why she was in the woods, Moon uncovers a pattern of evil in his town. Originally published at $22.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 10/01/1997. 334 pgs. Updike's 18th novel is an apocalyptic view of the future that takes place in the year 2020, after a nuclear war with China that has reduced American politics and government to rival bands of itinerant warlords. Ben Turnbull lives in a well-to-do suburb of Boston with his wife Gloria and their five children. They pay protection money in lieu of taxes, and manage to live a normal enough life, one that has room for the Updikean themes of infidelity, despair, ennui, and nostalgia. Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 04/01/1999. Reprint. 368 pgs. This portrait of a gay man's coming of age is told from his teenage perspective, then 20 years later. At 15, Walter McCloud is so obsessed with becoming a dancer that he is oblivious to his brother's illness; as an adult, he flounders in his career and his personal life until everything is changed by an unexpected act of grace. Originally published at $13.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 10/01/1997. Reprint. 312 pgs. Mike Lovett, a wounded veteran of World War II, recuperates in a Brooklyn boardinghouse filled with neighbors just as isolated as (and even more bizarre than) himself. The predatory Guinevere and her invisible husband, the secretive ex-Communist McLeod, the effeminate Hollingsworth, the unstable Lannie Madison--all have ended up under the same roof and have worked out some semblance of a common life that keeps none of them very happy. Eventually, each focuses his energy on making an alliance with Mike against the rest of the house. Originally published at $15.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 12/01/1995. For 15 years homicide cop, Vincent Dowling, got results through guts, old-fashioned policework, and 24-hour-days dedication. Then his wife died by her own hand and Vincent Dowling came apart. He now sees a road to redemption, but it winds through a landscape of punks, psychopaths, and blood. At the end of the road is a good cop gone murderously bad, a cop who knows Vincent Dowling's demons only too well. Originally published at $5.50 You save 82% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 10/01/1994. A former drug addict, now an emergency room physician, becomes a suspect in the murders of several junkies. Originally published at $21.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 02/01/1996. 308 pgs. Tim Rooney, an ex-prodigy now chronically unstable and in his 40s, feels a nervous breakdown coming on and heads from his South Carolina town to New York City, so that his fiance wont see him go crazy. On the road, he encounters a runaway young woman and a black man that Tim designates as his guardian angel. When he gets to New York, his condition worsens to the point that he harangues a crowd in Washington Square and gives away all his money. In the end, his fiance, Mary Faith, comes to his rescue. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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W W Norton & Co Inc. 05/01/1995. Reverend Kreer strides briskly into a midlife crisis when his closet atheism is brought painfully to the surface by his mother's death. Kreer is shocked by her cruel will that leaves much of her estate to a former lover. He neglects his daughter, his wife is irritatingly girlish, a parishoner is making absurd public accusations that he molested her, and he is desperately attracted to a young conservatory dropout. Job-like, he verges towards life as a crazed wanderer in the streets of London before salvation makes its grand entrance. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 01/01/1997. 165 pgs. This is Melanie Rae Thon's second collection of short stories. Her characters subsist on the lowest rungs of society, confined by physical and circumstantial twists of fate, with nothing to lose, and often mired in a chronic pattern of bad choices that they immediately regret. It includes work that was selected to be in "The Best American Short Stories 1995" anthology. Thon was also one of Granta's "Best Young American Novelists" in 1996. Originally published at $21.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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