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By: Allende, Isabel; Peden (from the Spanish), Margaret Sayers
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Our Product Number: 604511
ISBN: 0066211611
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Medium brown boards quarterbound in darker brown cloth with title and author imprinted in gold on spine. Genealogical table on endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Deckle-edged pages. 320 pages. Internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende has written a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile, a marvelous family saga that takes up and continues the story begun in her highly acclaimed Daughter of Fortune Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secr... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Evanston, IL, Northwestern Univ Press: 1991
Edition: No Edition indicated
Our Product Number: 601401
ISBN: 0810110067
Condition: Very Good in As New dust jacket
Black remainder dot on bottom of book. . 197 pages. In Stories of an Imaginary Childhood Melvin Jules Bukiet inscribes the world that might have been his own if not for the catastrophe that destroyed most of Jewish life in eastern Europe during the 1940s. Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each interconnected story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and the rites of manhood, as he fights against historical, social, and psychological forces that threaten to pull him down. Winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Aw... View more info
By: Carey, Peter
Price: $9.99
Publisher: New York, Vintage International: 2002
Edition: 1st Vintage International Edition
Our Product Number: 608842
ISBN: 0375724672
Condition: Near Fine
No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 348 pages. In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives. Indentured by his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief (who was also her lover), Ned saw ... View more info
By: Cisneros, Sandra
Price: $17.95
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1994
Our Product Number: 608205
ISBN: 067943335X
Condition: As New in As New dust jacket
134 pages. In hardcover for the first time--on the tenth anniversary of its initial publication--the greatly admired and bestselling book about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this novel depicts a new American landscape through its multiple characters. View more info
By: Coelho, Paulo
Price: $12.45
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2014
Edition: First American Edition
Our Product Number: 608017
ISBN: 1101874082
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
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By: Coelho, Paulo; Costa (Translator), Margaret Jull
Price: $11.95
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2011
Edition: First American Edition
Our Product Number: 606723
ISBN: 0307700186
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Deckle-edged pages. 288 pages View more info
By: Coelho, Paulo; Costa (Translator), Margaret Jull
Price: $9.95
Publisher: New York, Vintage International: 2012
Edition: First Edition Thus
Our Product Number: 607340
ISBN: 0307744574
Condition: Near Fine
Light spine crease. 269 pages View more info
By: Coelho, Paulo; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Price: $24.95
Publisher: New York, HarperCollinsPublishers: 2004.
Edition: First US Edition
Our Product Number: 607885
ISBN: 0060589272
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Deckle-edged pages. 269 pages. A new, international bestseller by the author of The Alchemist tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Instead, she ends up working as a prostitute. In Geneva, Maria drifts further and f... View more info
By: Coelho, Paulo; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Price: $9.50
Publisher: New York, HarperCollinsPublishers: 2007.
Edition: First US Edition
Our Product Number: 608159
ISBN: 006133880X
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Small dent to front edge of front board . 268 pages View more info
Price: $84.95
Publisher: self-published: 2010
Our Product Number: 608803
ISBN: 1453709940
Condition: Fine
283 pages. Death by Unknown Hands' is how a US coroner would officially record a death by lynch mob. The 1950s was a watershed period for such atrocities in the Deep South. It was still entirely possible for a colored person to be lynched, for colored houses to be burned down, and for colored workers to lose their jobs, but these were no longer automatic responses to an event which outraged the white community - they were certainly possible, there were even quite probable, but they were no longer guaranteed. It was therefore a time when the colored community held its breath to see if the justi... View more info
By: Eco,Umberto; Dixon (Translator), Richard
Price: $13.50
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Our Product Number: 608135
ISBN: 0547577532
Condition: As New in As New dust jacket
Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover; Red boards quarterbound in black with title and author on in gilt; Red endpages; Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 444 pages View more info
Price: $15.95
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1993
Edition: First Edition Thus
Our Product Number: 605719
ISBN: 0679424784
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
310 pages. William Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the pieces in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published The Sound and the Fury. They explore many of the themes found in the novels and feature characters of small-town Mississippi life that are uniquely Faulkner’s. In “A Rose for Emily,” the first of his stories to appear in a national magazine, a straightforward, neighborly narrator relates a tale of love, betrayal, and murder. The vicious family of the Snopes trilogy turns up i... View more info
By: Gold, Glen David
Price: $6.00
Publisher: New York, Hyperion: 2002
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Our Product Number: 602542
ISBN: 0786886323
Condition: Very Good
A little corner curl.. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Debut novel. . 496 pages. In Carter Beats the Devil, Glen David Gold subjects the past to the same wondrous transformations as the rabbit in a skilled illusionist's hat. Gold's debut novel opens with real-life magician, Charles Carter, executing a particularly grisly trick, using President Warren G. Harding as a volunteer. Shortly afterwards, Harding dies mysteriously in his San Francisco hotel room,and Carter is forced to flee the country. Or does he? It's only the first of many misdirections in a magical ... View more info
By: Henry, O.
Price: $13.00
Our Product Number: 606212
Condition: Fine
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By: Irving, John
Price: $13.95
Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1999.
Our Product Number: 607828
ISBN: 0679603352
Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket
1/8th inch closed tear on back of dust jacket . 571 pages View more info
By: King, Mary
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Lubbock, TX, Texas Tech University Press: (1941) 2001
Edition: First Edition Thus
Our Product Number: 608714
ISBN: 0896724492
Condition: Near Fine
425 pages. Quincie, the motherless thirteen-year-old daughter of an itinerant muleskinner, is the captivating protagonist of this Depression-era novel set in the Texas oil patch. Her story's value resides not only in the viewpoint of a young girl who comes of age in the shadow of the derricks but also in the currency of her creators sensitivity to the natural world and environmental issues. Originally a 1941 Houghton-Mifflin Literary Fellowship Book, "Quincie Bolliver" is an extraordinary study in character, place, and the community of women weak and strong. From the moment the wise, l... View more info
By: Landay, William
Price: $7.15
Publisher: New York, Delacorte Books: 2012
Edition: First Edition
Our Product Number: 606654
ISBN: 0385344228
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Dent to front cover. Light Gray boards with light gray spine imprinted with title and author in red metallic. Full number line 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 421 pages View more info
By: Ligon, Samuel
Price: $11.95
Publisher: New York, Harpercollins: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Our Product Number: 602030
ISBN: 0060099100
Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket
SIGNED by AUTHOR on half-title. 0.91 x 9.12 x 6.28 Inches. 256 pages. Signed by Author. Robert Elgin has checked out of his life, rendered himself irrelevant, and become invisible. After stumbling upon a secret slush fund his political bosses have been skimming off the public, Elgin takes the money and runs ...Runs from the corruption of machine politics.Runs from the corrupting of his daughter, molested by a twelve-year-old neighbor.Runs from his wife's obsession with grief counselors, rape specialists, being saved by Jesus, and putting the twelve-year... View more info
By: McMillan, Terry
Price: $12.95
Publisher: New York, Viking: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Our Product Number: 608160
ISBN: 0670896764
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Genealogical table (fictional); Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . 431 pages View more info
By: Moggach, Deborah
Price: $7.50
Publisher: New York, Random House Trade Paperbacks: 2012
Edition: First Edition Thus
Our Product Number: 607182
ISBN: 0812982428
Condition: Near Fine
320 pages. When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: Can t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away. His prayer is seemingly answered when Ravi s entrepreneurial cousin sets up a retirement home in India, hoping to re-create in Bangalore an elegant lost corner of England. Several retirees are enticed by the promise of indulgent living at a bargain price, but upon arriving, they are dismayed to find that restoration of the once sophisiticated hotel has stalled, and that such amenities as water an... View more info
