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Portrait in Sepia: A Novel

By: Allende, Isabel; Peden (from the Spanish), Margaret Sayers

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 2001

Seller ID: 604511

ISBN: 0066211611

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Stories of an Imaginary Childhood

By: Bukiet, Melvin Jules

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Evanston, IL, Northwestern Univ Press: 1991

Seller ID: 601401

ISBN: 0810110067

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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True History of the Kelly Gang

By: Carey, Peter

Price: $9.99

Publisher: New York, Vintage International: 2002

Seller ID: 608842

ISBN: 0375724672

Binding: Trade Paperback

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 ...
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The House on Mango Street

By: Cisneros, Sandra

Price: $17.95

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1994

Seller ID: 608205

ISBN: 067943335X

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Adultery

By: Coelho, Paulo

Price: $12.45

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2014

Seller ID: 608017

ISBN: 1101874082

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

255 pages
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Aleph

By: Coelho, Paulo; Costa (Translator), Margaret Jull

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Vintage International: 2012

Seller ID: 607340

ISBN: 0307744574

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Light spine crease. 269 pages
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Eleven Minutes

By: Coelho, Paulo; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Price: $24.95

Publisher: New York, HarperCollinsPublishers: 2004.

Seller ID: 607885

ISBN: 0060589272

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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The Witch of Portobello: A Novel

By: Coelho, Paulo; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, HarperCollinsPublishers: 2007.

Seller ID: 608159

ISBN: 006133880X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Small dent to front edge of front board . 268 pages
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No Death by Unknown Hands

By: Coleman, Minnette

Price: $84.95

Publisher: self-published: 2010

Seller ID: 608803

ISBN: 1453709940

Binding: Trade Paperback

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...
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The Prague Cemetery

By: Eco,Umberto; Dixon (Translator), Richard

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2010

Seller ID: 608135

ISBN: 0547577532

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Carter Beats the Devil

By: Gold, Glen David

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Hyperion: 2002

Seller ID: 602542

ISBN: 0786886323

Binding: Trade Paperback

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 ...
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The Cider House Rules: A Novel

By: Irving, John

Price: $13.95

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1999.

Seller ID: 607828

ISBN: 0679603352

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

1/8th inch closed tear on back of dust jacket . 571 pages
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The Secret Life of Bees

By: Kidd, Sue Monk

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 2008

Seller ID: 603964

ISBN: 0143114557

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 336 pages. Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's ...
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Quincie Bolliver

By: King, Mary

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Lubbock, TX, Texas Tech University Press: (1941) 2001

Seller ID: 608714

ISBN: 0896724492

Binding: Trade Paperback

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...
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Safe in Heaven Dead

By: Ligon, Samuel

Price: $11.95

Publisher: New York, Harpercollins: 2003

Seller ID: 602030

ISBN: 0060099100

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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A Day Late and a Dollar Short

By: McMillan, Terry

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2001

Seller ID: 608160

ISBN: 0670896764

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Genealogical table (fictional); Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . 431 pages
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: A Novel

By: Moggach, Deborah

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Random House Trade Paperbacks: 2012

Seller ID: 607182

ISBN: 0812982428

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Mild spine creasing. Full number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 . 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 sophisitica...
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Parnassus on Wheels

By: Morley, Christopher

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Brooklyn, NY, Melville House Publishing: 2010

Seller ID: 608610

ISBN: 1935554115

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

142 pages
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The Painter of Battles: A Novel

By: Perez-Reverte, Arturo; Peden, Margaret Sayers

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2008

Seller ID: 604027

ISBN: 1400065984

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Minimal rubbing. 224 pages. Acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte has earned a distinguished reputation as a master of the literary thriller with his international bestsellers The Club Dumas and The Queen of the South. Now, in this haunting new work, Pérez-Reverte has written his most accomplished novel to date. The Painter of Battles is a captivating tale of love, war, art, and revenge.

Andrés Faulques, a world-renowned war photographer, has retired to a life of solitude on the Spanish coast. On the walls of a tower overlooking the sea, he spends his days painting a huge mura...
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A Twist at the End: A Novel of O. Henry

By: Saylor, Steven

Price: $8.42

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2000

Seller ID: 607734

ISBN: 0684856816

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Tiny closed tear at back fold of dust jacket. Olive green boards with red spine imprinted with title and author in gold. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . 462 pages
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