Gail Goodwin

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

In 1959, as the first wave of Cuban exiles arrives in the United States, Emma Gant, finally free of her stifling family and bullying stepfather, embarks on a career as a reporter for The Miami Star and begins to thrive in the sultry world of Miami, confronting conflicting loyalties, shady dealings, and personal and professional setbacks as she pursues her goals. 50,000 first printing.

Queen of the Underworld *First Edition*

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Hardcover copy of Father Melancholy's Daughter by Gail Godwin

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oklahoma

Her mother had walked out when she was six, and now Margaret must reconcile her needs as a woman with the demands of her religious father, in an exploration of filial love.

Father Melancholy's Daughter

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Louisiana

Narrates the life of a young female Episcopal priest in High Balsam, a small, economically distressed Smoky Mountain town, which is shaken up by the arrival of three strangers

Evensong

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Missouri

Every evening at five o’clock, Christina and Rudy stopped work and began the ritual commonly known as Happy Hour. Rudy mixed Christina’s drink with loving precision, the cavalier slosh of Bombay Sapphire over ice shards, before settling across from her in his Stickley chair with his glass of Scotch. They shared a love of language and music (she is an author, he a composer, after all), a delight in intense conversation, a fascination with popes, and nearly thirty years of life together. What did I think, that we had forever'muses Christina, seven months after Rudy’s unexpected death. While coming to terms with her loss, with the space that Rudy once inhabited, Christina reflects on their vibrant bond—with all its quirks, habits, and unguarded moments—as well as her passionate sorrow and her attempts to reposition herself and her new place in the very real world they shared. In this literary jewel, a bittersweet novella of absence and presence and the mysterious gap between them, Gail Godwin has performed a small miracle. In essence,Evenings at Fiveis a grief sonata for solo instrument transposed into words. Interwoven with meditations and movements, full of aching truths and a wicked sense of humor, it exquisitely captures the cyclical nature of commitment—and the eternal quality of a romance completed.

Evenings at Five

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Washington

Justin Stokes would never forget the summer she turned fourteen, nor the woman who transformed her bleak adolescent life into a wondrous place of brilliant color. In the little pondside hut she called her "finishing school", eccentric, free-spirited Ursula DeVane opened up a world of love and loyalty, encouraging her to change, to learn, to grow. But the lessons of the finishing school have their dark side as well, and Justin learns how friendship can be shattered by shocking, unforgivable betrayal. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Finishing School

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Vermont

Sparking enthusiasm for a play about the founding of their North Carolina mountains Catholic girls' school, a charismatic ninth grader and her recently orphaned best friend set in motion a series of events that have decades-long ramifications. By the three-time National Book Award-finalist author of The Finishing School.

Unfinished Desires

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After Theodore Quick, twenty-eight, and his girlfriend, Jeanette, are found dead with all the evidence pointing to Theo himself, his family must reevaluate itself

A Southern Family

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Texas

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Florida

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

A Novel and Five New Stories

Seven months after the unexpected death of her husband, Rudy, Christina reflects on their nearly thirty years of life together, the vital bond between them, and her grief, from the perspective of their long-time ritual of getting together every evening at five o'clock to share drinks and their mutual love of language and music. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

This adult novel tells about the gradual breakdown of a closely knit family.

A Mother and Two Daughters

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Maryland

From the author of A Mother and Two Daughters, here is Gail Goodwin's first novel since A Southern Family, which was on The New York Times bestseller list for 11 weeks. Goodwin has emerged as a novelist without peer in exploring the tangled emotions and allegiances that are the fabric of American family life. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Queen of the Underworld

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California

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

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Alabama

Mr. Bedford and the Muses

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Kentucky

A Personal Journey Through Its Myths and Meanings

"The Italians have a musical notation not found in any other language: tempo giusto 'the right tempo.' It means a steady, normal heat, between 66 and 76 on the metronome. Tempo giusto is the appropriate heat of the human heart."

One of the preeminent literary artists of our time turns her attention, her profound insight, and her passion to humankind's most enduring, important, evocative, and provocative symbol:

What is heart? It is the muscle of life, sending our most vital fluid coursing through our veins to every striving hungry part of our being. It is what keeps us striving against impossible odds; that fortifying something that is the cornerstone of every triumph. It elates us when we discover love and pains us greatly when that love is lost or proves unrequited. It is a gentleness that colors what we give to others. It is a symbol that we see on greeting cards: a small, red shape that was drawn on the wall of a cave in Spain more than 12,000 years ago

In this truly remarkable work, acclaimed, bestselling author Gall Godwin takes us on a breathtaking journey of the heart that spans the entire history of human civilization, combining literature, myth, religion, philosophy, medicine, the fine arts, and intensely personal stories from the writer's own past to explore the full and complex character of that unique symbol. Brimming with intelligence and wit, Godwin's explorations and meditations brilliantly track themes of the heart in life, legend, and art -- from the first valentine to the first stethoscope, from Gilgamesh to Confucius, from the heart of darkness to wearing one is heart on one's sleeve.

Here is a gift of the heart from an eminent American writer at the pinnacle of her creative talents. It is a work of extraordinary power, creativity, scholarship, and passion. Lively and moving, Heart offers us a profound new look at where we come from and what has sustained us across millennia-in short, what it is that makes us human.

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Gail Goodwin

Queen of the Underworld *First Edition*

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Father Melancholy's Daughter

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Evensong

Gail Goodwin

Evenings at Five

Gail Goodwin

The Finishing School

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Unfinished Desires

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Evenings at Five

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A Southern Family

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Father Melancholy's Daughter

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Father Melancholy's Daughter

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The Finishing School

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Evenings at Five

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A Mother and Two Daughters

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A Mother and Two Daughters

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Father Melancholy's Daughter

Gail Goodwin

Queen of the Underworld

Gail Goodwin

Unfinished Desires

Gail Goodwin

Unfinished Desires

Gail Goodwin

Evensong

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Evensong

Gail Goodwin

Unfinished Desires

Gail Goodwin

Evensong

Gail Goodwin

Mr. Bedford and the Muses

Gail Goodwin

Heart

Queen of the Underworld First Edition