Evelyn Waugh

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Vile Bodies

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#paperback #fiction #whiteoleander #losangeles #contemporary #bookclub #modernclassic #classic 

California

A Novel

Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery.

White Oleander

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Janet Fitch

Very slight tear in the back cover as shown, other than that in excellent condition! 

Magnetic bookmark included! 

Maine

John Steinbeck

David Wyatt

Virginia

East of Eden

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UK Penguin edition, slight tear to spine 

Texas

The Midwich Cuckoos

Michigan

#paperback #fiction #modernclassic #barbarakingsolver #bestseller #historicalfiction #theprisonwoodbible #kingsolver 

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

The Poisonwood Bible

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Milan Kundera

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover—these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Barbara Kingsolver

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Utah

Mary Renault

During his first twenty years of life, Alexander the Great is torn between admiration, hatred, and love for his father, asserts his independence from his mother's jealous love, is tutored by Aristotle, and becomes king of Macedon. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Fire from Heaven

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Georgia

Illinois

Truman Capote

One of the most beloved novels of the twentieth century by a writer of neverending interest, newly available in a 50th anniversary edition.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

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New Jersey

A chilling look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction. Reissue.

The Handmaid's Tale

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Ann M. Martin

The Babysitters Club #70

Stacey starts dating Robert, a cute basketball player, and decides to try out for the cheerleading squad. But if she makes the team will she and her boyfriend be too cool for the Baby-sitters Club #70.

Stacey and the Cheerleaders

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Ken Kesey

Massachusetts

An international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the defining works of the 1960s.

In this classic novel, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, backed by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story's shocking climax.

"BRILLIANT!"--Time

"A SMASHING ACHIEVEMENT...A TRULY ORIGINAL NOVEL!"--Mark Schorer

"Mr. Kesey has created a world that is convincing, alive and glowing within its own boundaries...His is a large, robust talent, and he has written a large, robust book."--Saturday Review

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Wisconsin

Witty and buoyant comedy of manners is brilliantly plotted from its effervescent first act to its hilarious denouement, and filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams. Widely considered Wilde's most perfect work, the play is reprinted here from an authoritative early British edition. Note to the Dover Edition.

The Importance of Being Earnest

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New York

Florida

David Mitchell

The front cover is slightly bent. I love how each page has a small cloud on it. David Mitchell is a genius. Harkening back to Philip K. Dick, the book is dream like and mind-bending. 

Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.

Cloud Atlas (Movie Tie-In Edition)

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Minnesota

Eric Hoffer

Idaho

Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements





"Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly." --New Yorker

The famous bestseller with "concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement" (Wall St. Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman.

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer--the first and most famous of his books--was made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television press conferences.

Called a "brilliant and original inquiry" and "a genuine contribution to our social thought" by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., this landmark in the field of social psychology is completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today as it delivers a visionary, highly provocative look into the mind of the fanatic and a penetrating study of how an individual becomes one.

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Evelyn Waugh

Vile Bodies

Janet Fitch

White Oleander

Janet Fitch

White Oleander

John Steinbeck; David Wyatt

East of Eden

John Wyndham

The Midwich Cuckoos

Janet Fitch

White Oleander

Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible

Mary Renault

Fire from Heaven

Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible

Janet Fitch

White Oleander

Janet Fitch

White Oleander

Truman Capote

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

John Steinbeck; David Wyatt

East of Eden

Ann M. Martin

Stacey and the Cheerleaders

Ken Kesey

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

Ken Kesey

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Janet Fitch

White Oleander

David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas (Movie Tie-In Edition)

Janet Fitch

White Oleander

Eric Hoffer

The True Believer