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The Blacker the Berry
Simon & Schuster. Originally published at $7.00 You save 73% off the cover price!
$ economy shipping in the U.S. (and only $ for each additional book from this seller)! Scribner Book Company, 1970. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. As new, unread. O'Daniel, Thurman B. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: Young adult. (more information)
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A Valley in Italy
Harpercollins. 06/01/1995. Reprint. In "A Valley in Italy," the author details the year she and her husband, artist Robbie Duff-Scott, spent restoring a magnificent villa hidden in the Umbrian hills. Only after signing ownership papers did the anxious couple discover that their dream castle lacked some necessary amenities, such as windowpanes and parts of a roof. The author's glimpses into the charm of daily life in an Italian village is complemented by her affection for the Italians and her surroundings. A wonderful account of Italian life, where 'all things are made to be as enjoyable as possible.' Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!
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The Family Arsenal
Penguin USA. 04/01/1996. Reissue. 281 pgs. This 1976 novel is about a gang of political terrorists in the London underworld. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!
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The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)
Penguin USA. 06/01/1983. Reprint. 192 pgs. A collection of six stories interconnected to form a novel about the women who live in the community of Brewster Place, a poor neighborhood on a dead-end street. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!
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Stones For Ibarra (Contemporary American Fiction)
Penguin USA. 01/01/1988. Reprint. Richard and Sara Everton, a middle-aged couple devoted to each other and, perhaps, foolhardy, move from California to a small village in Mexico to reopen an abandoned copper mine. As foreigners in an alien environment, they must learn to cope with the villagers' exaggerated respect, their own disorientation, the things they discover about each other--and the terminal cancer with which Richard is diagnosed soon after they arrive. Originally published at $14.00 You save 89% off the cover price!
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LAKE WOBEGON DAYS
Penguin USA. 06/01/1995. Reissue. Based on the enormously popular "Prairie Home Companion", Keillor's show on public radio, this collection of stories of modern Midwestern life skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists in the mid 1980s, and remained there. In this small Minnesota town, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." The book won the collective heart of the country, and critics found it impossible to refrain from quoting sizable portions of it in their reviews. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Penguin USA. 01/01/1995. In Roddy Doyle's novel witty and poignant novel of working-class life in Dublin, 10-year-old Paddy copes with his parents' fights, his earthy neighborhood, and the trials of his little brother Sinbad. PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA was the winner of the Booker Prize in 1993. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!
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Nowhere Else on Earth
Penguin USA. 10/01/2001. 11 pgs. Set during the Civil War, this novel tells the tale of Rhoda Strong (half Scottish, half Lumbee Indian), who is growing up in a North Carolina community remarkable for its diversity and racial tolerance. She marries Henry Lowrie, whose father was killed by racist Home Guard members, and when he is forced to flee and become an outlaw, Rhoda is left to raise their children alone. In this venture into historical fiction, Humphreys evokes a memorable place and appealing characters. Originally published at $14.00 You save 88% off the cover price!
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Merry Men
Harcourt. 01/01/1994. 695 pgs. The third installment in Chute's saga of Egypt, Maine with its huge cast of characters, this time headed by eight-year-old Lloyd Barrington. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!
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Stillwater (Qty: 9)
Harcourt. 08/01/2003. Reprint. 240 pgs. The former governor of Massachusetts writes a novel set in a small town in the eastern part of the state in 1938, a time when several towns in the valley are going to be flooded to create the Quabbin Dam. Jamieson Kooby and his grandmother are slated to lose their home, and the townspeople finally revolt against the collection of crooked politicians, lawyers, and clergymen who are involved in the taking of their land. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!
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The Bloody Hoax (Jewish Literature and Culture)
Indiana Univ Pr. 12/01/1991. THE BLOODY HOAX is the last of Sholom Aleichem's longer novels. Written in 1912, it is a forcefully characterized story about identity, friendship, and the anguish of being a Jew in Russia at that time. Originally published at $29.95 You save 97% off the cover price!
$3.50 economy shipping in the U.S. (and only $2.00 for each additional book from this seller)! a good exlibrary copy. pages are stained. cover clear except for a few library markings. Mylar over dustjacket. Binding solid and tight. No creases. (more information)
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The Bar Stories : A Novel after All
St Martins Pr. 11/01/1989. Originally published at $10.95 You save 82% off the cover price!
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The Woman of the House
St Martins Pr. 03/01/1999. 315 pgs. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!
$ economy shipping in the U.S. (and only $ for each additional book from this seller)! St Martins Pr. Hardcover. 031220065X A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. 1999 St Martins Pr Hard Cover . Very Good. 1999. (more information)
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Remember Me: A Novel (Qty: 3)
St Martins Pr. 10/01/2000. 373 pgs. The big industry in the town of Queduro, New Mexico, is embroidery. Rose works at the craft but ponders leaving the town in which her whole family was wiped out in a horrifying accident, and in which she and her married ex-lover are the object of gossip. Finally, she takes off for a brief temporary fling, and when she returns finds the town has changed: among other things, she is homeless and forced, finally, to confront her feelings about her town and its people. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!
$3.99 economy shipping in the U.S. (and only $2.49 for each additional book from this seller)! Picador, 2000-10-18. Paperback. Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. (more information)
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A Place Called Trinity
$ economy shipping in the U.S. (and only $ for each additional book from this seller)! St. Martin's Press. Used - Good. 1st ed. GOOD with average wear to cover, pages and binding. We ship quickly and work hard to earn your confidence. Orders are generally shipped no later than next business day. We offer a no hassle guarantee on all our items. (more information)
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Eggshell Days
St Martins Pr. 07/01/2003. 320 pgs. After a brush with death, four friends leave the city and move to the Cornish countryside, where one of them, Emmy, owns a capacious manor house. The other inhabitants include Emmy's young daughter, whose parentage is mysterious; Niall, one of Emmy's ex-lovers; and Sita and Jonathan (with their children), who begin to suspect that the pastoral life is not for them. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!
$3.50 economy shipping in the U.S. (and only $2.00 for each additional book from this seller)! A very good looking ex-library copy. Barely used. All pages and cover are clear and bright except for a few library markings. There is a light stain from the edge of the pages. The mylar over dustjacket is in great shape and is quite glossy, but it has a little bit of wear in some places. Binding solid and tight. There is just a little bit of wear along the bottom edges of the cover. No creases. There is a small spot or two visible from the edge of the pages. (more information)
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Remembering Blue: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Ballantine Books. 05/01/2001. 290 pgs. Mattie, a young widow who lost her fisherman husband, Nick, in an accident at sea, looks back on the man she adored and who transformed her bleak life into a romantic adventure. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!
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Angel For Dry Creek; An
Harlequin Books. 11/01/1999. Originally published at $4.50 You save 61% off the cover price!
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Plainsong
Random House Inc. 10/01/1999. 301 pgs. In alternating points of view, Haruf chronicles several lives in a small town in Colorado. The plot involves Tom Guthrie, whose wife leaves him with their two little boys; a young pregnant girl who is thrown out of her house by her mother; the elderly McPheron brothers who take her in; and Maggie Jones, Tom's kindhearted colleague. Originally published at $27.50 You save 95% off the cover price!
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The Feast of Love: A Novel
Random House Inc. 05/01/2001. 308 pgs. The plot of Baxter's novel consists of scandalous tales supposedly told to the author by his neighbors--all of whom seem to be involved in sexual imbroglios that intertwine and enrich each other in the telling. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!
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Pobby and Dingan
Random House Inc. 09/01/2000. 93 pgs. Kellyanne Williamson, daughter of an opal miner in New South Wales, endures her brother's merciless teasing about her imaginary friends, the eponymous Pobby and Dingan. When her father gets in trouble with the law, Pobby and Dingan disappear, and Kellyanne goes into a serious decline, grief-stricken and depressed. The whole town joins the search for them, and the way they are finally found is surprising. This short novel is the first by Ben Rice, who wrote it while a student at Oxford, based on his girlfriend's tales of her childhood in Australia. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. Originally published at $18.00 You save 94% off the cover price!
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Sula (Oprah's Book Club)
Random House Inc. 04/01/2002. 174 pgs. Sula and Nel grow up together in "the Bottom," but when they become adults, their paths diverge. Sula leaves to explore the world, Nel settles down to a quiet life. When they are reunited, the differences between them become apparent--as do, in the end, the similarities. Morrison's novel evokes not only two unique women, but the entire culture of a small Ohio town. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!
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The Truth About Celia: A novel
Random House Inc. 07/01/2003. 216 pgs. A little girl named Celia Brooks inexplicably disappears on an ordinary day in March. Four years later, her parents and neighbors gather for a memorial service. Told in a series of stories, this novel is narrated partly by a man with the author's name, and includes sometimes-fantastical speculations about Celia's fate. Her father, Christopher, is a major character, as he tries to learn to live with his grief and his guilt. Originally published at $22.00 You save 95% off the cover price!
$3.50 economy shipping in the U.S. (and only $2.00 for each additional book from this seller)! A very good looking ex-library copy. Barely used. All pages and cover are clear and bright except for a few library markings. The mylar over dustjacket is in great shape and is quite glossy, but it has a little bit of wear in some places. Binding solid and tight. There is just a little bit of wear along the bottom edges of the cover. No creases. There is a small spot or two visible from the edge of the pages. (more information)
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Between Brothers: A Novel (Strivers Row)
Random House Inc. 10/01/2001. In a druggy Washington, D.C. neighborhood, four African-American college students struggle to keep an underfunded community center from closing, but a local drug lord and his gang have other plans. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!
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The Devil, Delfina Varela and the Used Chevy : Which Examines Delfina Varela's Puzzling Pact with the Devil, the Plaintive Love Story of Ruiz Lopez Mondragon and the Doomed Hispanic Political Dream of Manuel Caballos
Random House Inc. 08/01/1993. A comic novel about a close-knit Mexican-American community and its eccentric inhabitants, among them a gardener in pursuit of a beautiful Anglo woman, a beer distributor involved in the election campaign of a "Latino JFK," and an aging widow who sells her soul to the devil for a used Chevrolet. Originally published at $9.00 You save 78% off the cover price!
$3.50 economy shipping in the U.S. (and only $1.75 for each additional book from this seller)! New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday Publishing, 1993 USED - Standard. Book has only minor reading wear; binding is square and tight; text is clean and unmarked. BOOKSMART offers free domestic shipping (media mail) on orders of three or more books. . First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)
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Song of Solomon
Random House Inc. 09/01/1977. 337 pgs. In Toni Morrison's powerful 1977 novel, Milkman Dead hears a strange story: his father and his aunt Pilate witnessed their father's murder, and Pilate has carried his bones around with her for 20 years. Milkman travels south to find that this grandfather (who fled slavery and escaped, creating a myth of flight) has been immortalized in folktales and songs. He and Pilate bury his bones at last, and Milkman is made free and powerful by his newfound connection to his ancestors. Winner of the 1978 National Book Critics Award. Originally published at $29.95 You save 93% off the cover price!
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Offshore
Houghton Mifflin. 04/03/1998. 141 pgs. OFFSHORE is a love story set among a community of barge-dwellers on the Thames, where Fitzgerald herself lived with her family in the 1960s. The novel won the Booker Prize in 1979. THE GATE OF ANGELS, also known as THE BLUE FLOWER, tells the story of an idealistic man who is the lover and mentor of a 12-year-old girl with whom he is obsessed. Upon her death three years later, she becomes his muse. This novel is based on the life of the German romantic poet Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772-1801), whose major work was a novel describing the artist's search for a "blue flower." Originally published at $12.95 You save 93% off the cover price!
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Offshore
by Penelope Fitzgerald
a Mariner Book published by Houghton Mifflin Company 1979, ISBN#: 0395478049, Soft bound, Very Good condition (ex-library book with labels on base of spine and back cover and rubber stamps on top paged edges and first and title pages, piece 2 x 7/8 inches has been cut from the top of the back cover and the last page).
Penelope Fitzgerald was awarded Britain's most prestigious literary award, The Booker Prize, for this story of a group of eccentrics living on houseboats on the Thames river in Battersea Reach during the 1960s. Belonging neither to land nor sea, they form an odd society. "Has a magical power to sail steadfastly to the heart"--Philadelphia Inquirer From New York Times Book Review, "Almost disreputably enjoyable...You can breathe the air and taste the water."
Offshore possesses perfect, very odd pitch with the wittiest and most melancholy prose, Penelope Fitzgerald limns the lives of "creatures neither of firm land nor water". One man, a marine artist whose commissions have dropped off since the war, is attempting to sell his decrepit craft before it sinks. Another, a dutiful businessman with a bored, mutinous wife, knows he should be landlocked but remains drawn to the muddy Thames. A third, Maurice, a male prostitute, doesn't even protest when a criminal acquaintance begins to use his barge as a depot for stolen goods: "The dangerous and the ridiculous were necessary to his life, otherwise tenderness would overwhelm him." At the center of the novel are Nenna and her truant six- and 11-year-old daughters. The younger sibling "cared nothing for the future, and had, as a result, a great capacity for happiness." But the older girl is considerably less blithe. "Small and thin, with dark eyes which already showed an acceptance of the world's shortcomings," Fitzgerald writes, she "was not like her mother and even less like her father. The crucial moment when children realize that their parents are younger than they are had long since been passed by Martha." Their father is farther afield. Unable to bear the prospect of living on the Grace, he's staying in Stoke Newington, part of London but a lost world to his wife and daughters. Meanwhile, Nenna spends her time going over incidents that seem to have led to her current situation, and the matter of some missing squash racquets becomes of increasing import. Though she is peaceful by nature, experience and poverty are wearing Nenna down. Her confidante Maurice, after a momentary spell of optimism, also returns to his life of little expectation and quiet acceptance: "Tenderly responsive to the self-deceptions of others, he was unfortunately too well able to understand his own." Penelope Fitzgerald views her creations with deep but wry compassion. Having lived on a barge herself, she offers her expert spin on the dangers, graces, and whimsies of river life. Nenna, too, has become a savant, instantly recognizing on one occasion that the mud encasing the family cat is not from the Reach. This "sagacious brute" is almost as complex as his human counterparts, constantly forced to adjust her notions of vermin and authority. Though Stripey is capable of catching and killing very young rats, the older ones chase her. "The resulting uncertainty as to whether she was coming or going had made her, to some extent, mentally unstable." As always, Fitzgerald is a master of the initially bizarre juxtaposition. Adjacent sentences often seem like delightful non sequiturs--until they flash together in an effortless evocation of character, era, and human absurdity. Nenna recalls, for instance, how the buds had dropped off the plant her husband rushed to the hospital when Martha was born. She "had never criticized the bloomless azalea. It was the other young mothers in the beds each side of her who had laughed at it. That had been 1951. Two of the new babies in the ward had been christened Festival." Tiny comical epiphanies such as these have caused the author to be dubbed a "British miniaturist." Yet the phrase utterly misses the risks Fitzgerald's novellas take, the discoveries they make, and the endless pleasures they provide.
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