Domestic And Family Fiction from Books of the World

New York: Bantam, July 1999. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 270 pages. Perched right on the Mason-Dixon line, tiny Runnymede, Maryland, is ripe with a history almost as colorful as the women who live there-from Celeste Chalfonte, headstrong and aristocratic, who murders for… Read more

New York: Puffin Books, June 2002. Mass Market Paperback. Second printing. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean with light shelfwear. Not from a library. 218 pages. Working as a mother's helper to a wealthy family that's surrounded by lavish houses and beautiful swimming pools is about as far from her working-class neighborhood in New… Read more

New York: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, April 2004. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with slight edge wear. 328 pages + 13 page reader's guide.

New York: St. Martin's Griffin, July 2019. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition, second printing. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 304 pages. MEET HANNA: Seven-year-old Hanna is a sweet-but-silent angel in the eyes of her adoring father Alex. He's the only person who understands her. But her… Read more

New York: Washington Square Press, October 2007. Trade Paperback. Good+. Edges of the first few dozen pages were wet, otherwise Near Fine with light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 406 pages + reader's guide. Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives… Read more

New York: Vintage, June 2010. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with light reading wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 435 pages. It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over… Read more

New York: Penguin, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Full number line. Very Good. A few notes on first page, but text is unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 171+21 pages. The breakthrough story collection that established A. M. Homes as one of the most daring writers of her generation. This… Read more

New York: William Morrow, September 2014. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. A touch of reading wear to lower front corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 274 pages + 27 page reader's guide. A novel of love, risk, and self-discovery. Angela can feel the clock ticking. She is single… Read more

New York: Random House, August 2002. Hardcover. First Edition (stated), second printing per number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight wear at spine ends. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 493 pages. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady… Read more

New York: St. Martin's Press, July 2009. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends slightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight wear to top edge. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 470 pages. Confidante of Nostradamus, scheming… Read more

New York: Barnes & Noble, August 2005. Hardcover. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, head lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight wear to top edge. No tears, creases or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xlii + 353 pages. Wuthering Heights was deeply controversial at the… Read more

New York: Crown, May 2016. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Jacket clean and bright with light wear at spine ends. No tears or creases. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 386 pages. A novel of suspense and… Read more

London: Pan Books, 1991. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, but lightly creased. Covers clean and bright with light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 418 pages.

Richmond, Virginia: Valancourt Books, May 2016. Trade Paperback. Good+. Ex-library. Text unmarked. Spine lightly creased. x+233 pages. When the Dowager Arabella, Lady Engleton announces to her relatives her jolly scheme to restore the family's fortunes by insuring their lives in favor of her grandson and heir, the young Lord Henry, they laugh at her and think her mad. But they… Read more

New York: Penguin Books, May 2008. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 258 pages. A sweeping saga of three generations of women from World War II-era London to the close of the century.

New York: Europa Editions, September 2008. Trade Paperback. Fine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 325 pages. The book centers on a working-class concierge of an upscale apartment building in Paris, Renee Michel. She is an auto-didact of immense learning who deliberately conceals her intelligence. Her secret is discovered by a young resident of the building named Paloma.… Read more

New York: Ballantine Books, December 2005. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Cover clean and bright with reading wear. 442 pages. It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to find safety now that the… Read more

New York: Anchor, February 2016. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Text unmarked. Light spine crease. Light edgewear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 282 pages. Excitement abounds when the revolving door of life brings fresh faces and hilarious new developments to the residents of 44 Scotland Street. Things are looking up for seven-year-old Bertie Pollock. The arrival… Read more

New York: Anchor, February 2017. Trade Paperback. First U.S. Edition / full number line. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Light spine crease. Covers clean. Corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 291 pages. Bertie's mother, Irene, returns from the Middle East to discover that, in her absence, her son has been exposed to the worst of evils--television shows,… Read more

New York: Scribner, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine creased. Edge and corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxx+512 pages. A young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better life.