Harpercollins. 06/01/1996. 248 pgs. Sassela is at a crossroads. In her 30s, a schoolteacher living with a man who is no longer interesting to her, she meets Ciam. With his Caribbean accent and warm smile, he is like an invigorating island breeze washing over her cold and tired life. He is fifteen years younger than she, with no money or attachments; they find themselves together on a Greek island, where Sassela allows herself an affair with him. Seemingly innocent, this fling actually has dark implications, and Sassela finds that she is not in control of nearly as much as she thought. Originally published at $22.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/1997. Reprint. When the 20-year-old protagonist of this novel is expelled from college, he decides to work on a Rhode Island scallop trawler, just Paul Watkins himself did in his youth. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 09/15/1997. Theroux's novel is a parade of episodes, some imaginary and some from Theroux's own life, but all ascribed to a fictional protagonist called "Paul Theroux." Theroux covers his early education by his eccentric Uncle Hal, an unlikely author and lover of dog biscuits. He also delves into his tutelage by the rapacious Lady Max in London, who abandons him for another young protégé. Theroux's stories are largely comprised of the many false names, occupations, and identities that "Paul Theroux" has taken on: there is Pavel Medved; Paulie, an even more famous Paul Theroux; and an elderly German writer whose life has almost exactly mirrored his own. Originally published at $15.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 03/01/1996. Reprint. Lana Franklin tells the story of her family's disintigration from the time she is six until well into her adolescence. In tight, short chapters and believable prose Lana watches her incestuous father, Floyd, a WWII veteran, slowly lose everything, while she and her sister play a game called the Old Man's Gone for Good, in which they imagine his death in a variety of unpleasant ways. Originally published at $10.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1995. Reprint. As astronaut suffers from "post-lunar trauma" and, in the midst of family conflict, he dreams of returning to the moon, where he found peace. Originally published at $12.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 05/01/1996. 176 pgs. Originally published at $21.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Putnam Pub Group. 01/01/1995. 184 pgs. In attempting to escape the oppressive memory of her former female lover, a young woman changes her name, flees her home in North Carolina to take refuge in a cottage on an island in Minnesota, and is nearly successful at inducing amnesia in herself. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Perseus Books Group. 11/01/2004. Reprint. 294 pgs. An Ottawa woman, along with many of the other characters in this novel (her son and daughter, her best friend, her aunt), is obsessed with movies. Peppered with movie references, "best" lists, and fan notes, GARBO LAUGHS has its own movie-like structure, as a couple of newcomers to the city, and a sudden onset of illness, propel the action to the climactic dénouement. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 06/01/2005. 346 pgs. Seeking to escape writer's block, American politics, and over-touristed resorts, Nick and his girlfriend, Sarah, settle into a hotel in a remote part of the Mexican jungle. There, as they try to live the ideal lives they'd dreamed about, many of the things they hoped to leave behind come to plague them--including the fact that they really don't know that much about each other. In the Graham Greene-ish atmosphere of the Third World with all its complexities, their education begins. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 05/30/2006. 325 pgs. When life throws Dora lemons, she draws herself a long bubble bath, surrounds herself with books, and reads, and reads, and reads--sometimes for days at a time. While it doesn't necessarily seem like this would be the guaranteed path to love and happiness, in Dora's case it just may be, in this whip-smart literary confection by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack. Jam-packed with literary references and full of quotes from Virginia Woolf, Jane Austin, Maurice Sendak, and more, LITERACY AND LONGING IN L.A. chronicles one woman's many lives: the single life, the reading life, and life in LA. Originally published at $22.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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