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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

A fresh, funny, and wisely observed debut novel about marriage-about the love, longing and ambivalence exposed when a husband takes the baby on a highly unusual outing

When Veronica Reed wakes up one frigid January morning, two things are "off"-first of all, she has had a good night's sleep, which hasn't happened in months, and second, both her husband and her baby are gone. Grateful for the much-needed rest, Veronica doesn't, at first, seriously question her husband's trip out to breakfast with baby Clara. Little does she know, her spouse has fled lower Manhattan, with Clara, for some R&R in the Caribbean.

Told through alternating points of view,The Sunshine When She's Gone explores the life-changing impact of parenthood on a couple as individuals and as partners. Thea Goodman brings us into intimacies made tense by sleep-deprivation and to losses and gains made more real by acknowledging them. Here is the story of a couple pushed to the edge and a desperate father's attempt give them both space to breathe.

The Sunshine When She's Gone

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

A Very Nice Girl

Beautiful 1st/1st signed by the author. #fiction #novel #literature #literary #bestbooks #classic #booktok #hardcover 

Ohio

SIGNED!

Below the sign welcoming the new eighth-grade class to school is one that promises to leave no child unsuccessful and a handout that offers eight ways of being smart. For Edwin Hanratty, at times as hilarious as he is miserable, this is part of what makes junior high pretty much a relentless nightmare. And so, with Flake, his only friend, he contends with clique upon clique—the jocks who pummel them, the girls who ignore or taunt them—as well as the dogged and disconcerting attentions of a sixth-grader who’s even more ferociously disaffected than they are. And while Edwin’s parents work hard to understand him, they face without fully realizing it a demoralization so systemic that he and Flake have no recourse other than their own bitter and smart remarks, until they gradually begin flirting with the most horrible revenge of all. This lethal impulse, which has touched communities across America, has never been given such shocking credibility as it has inProject X,which suggests that these boys’ central predicament is not their hatred of the world but their agonized and enduring love of it. Never before has Jim Shepard’s compassionate virtuosity been on such conspicuous, unsettling, and haunting display.

Project X

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

Gilead 

D. W. Saur

"A chosen one can come not only during dark times, but also on the brink of them." The dark times about to grace Sori are marked by a mysterious, ghost-like figure who begins to upset the balance the land has come to enjoy, manipulating members of the Galenvarg and Veirlintu sects into rebellion against the Duine. But hope for peace is not lost; the goddess Nantosuelta has selected her chosen one, a Leigheasan named Maya.

Maya is independent, curious, a skilled hunter, and a master smith, and unique among her kind in her connection to the land. But, sensing that she has an unrevealed purpose, she has yet to undertake her clan's rite of passage, and isolates herself from her peers. With Nantosuelta's blessing, Maya begins her quest to find her powers, prevent war, and establish herself as leader among the Leigheasan. But can she rally the clans in time to confront the dark days ahead? 

"A chosen one can come not only during dark times, but also on the brink of them." The dark times about to grace Sori are marked by a mysterious, ghost-like figure who begins to upset the balance the land has come to enjoy, manipulating members of the Galenvarg and Veirlintu sects into rebellion against the Duine. But hope for peace is not lost; the goddess Nantosuelta has selected her chosen one, a Leigheasan named Maya. Maya is independent, curious, a skilled hunter, and a master smith, and unique among her kind in her connection to the land. But, sensing that she has an unrevealed purpose, she has yet to undertake her clan's rite of passage, and isolates herself from her peers. With Nantosuelta's blessing, Maya begins her quest to find her powers, prevent war, and establish herself as leader among the Leigheasan. But can she rally the clans in time to confront the dark days ahead?

Dark Days

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A Trylle Novel

Duty-bound to marry her friend Tove in order to give the Trylle people their strongest king and queen in history, Wendy, a changeling troll princess, is torn between two other suitors, Finn and Loki.

Ascend

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Shelby Yastrow

Signed Legal Novel Book Undue Influence. Very Good Condition for age. Hardcover. Jacket has light wear and Pages have light wear as shown. Previous owner’s name written inside front cover. Signed and Dated by the author in 1990. Perfect for Attorneys or people who like Books by John Grisham. Books make great Gifts! Medium size Book. 

Missouri

Undue Influence

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David Dalton

Blues Music Novel Book Been Here and Gone by David Dalton. Very Good Condition for age. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket has light wear as shown, and Pages are like new. Perfect for people who like Southern Fiction, or a Mississippi home library. Medium Size Book. 

A Memoir of the Blues

Can I tell you about the blues? Baby, I was born with the blues... So begins the fictional memoir Been Here and Gone, the extraordinary story of an all-but-forgotten bluesman, Coley Williams. A backup musician to some of the most famous and infamous figures in the annals of blues music, and a former recording artist in his own right, Williams had a backstage pass to a world that most of us could never even imagine. In 1998 at the astonishing age of one hundred and two, Williams agreed to tell his tale for the first time. We can only be thankful for the fruits this "collaboration" with renowned author David Dalton has yielded: as funny, furious and funky as a lick on a talking guitar, Dalton's rhythmic prose captures the inimitable voice of a man who walks it like he talks it without missing a beat. From his youth as a tenant farmer on the Mississippi plantations to the Great Migration to the Northern cities, from his incarceration in the notorious Sugarland prison farm to the temptations of freedom on the open road, from the juke joints of the deep South to the stages of Swinging London, Coley Williams' life is at once the story of the blues and the story of the twentieth century. Across a hundred years of tumultuous change, we follow him through the hardships of the Flood of 1927 and the hardscrabble years of the Great Depression, the race riots of the 1960s and the birth of the Civil Rights movement. Along the way, Williams' vividly recounted anecdotes introduce us to the pantheon of blues legends whose paths he crossed: Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, the immortal Robert Johnson, and even the young Elvis Presley. Raucous, rambunctious, and often downright dangerous, these larger-than-life musicians, singers, and all-around rabble-rousers live again in Williams' wonderfully colorful recollections. And of course, throughout it all, there is the music: whether it's the plaintive and lonely sound of the Mississippi Delta or Chicago's lowdown and dirty electric hellfire brew. Here is the boisterous blues in all its hues-salty and soulful and sad with a glimmer of hard-won hope always singing out beyond the last note. Been Here and Gone is a highly personalpanorama of the century as seen and experiencedby one of the most remarkable figures in recentliterature. It is at once a wildly inventive epic, aheartfelt testament to the people and places of avanishing era, and an invaluable contribution tothe literature of - music and popular culture thatwill fascinate blues fans, history buffs, and generalreaders alike. If Coley Williams' story (to quotethe old son) was nearly the "Blues the WorldForgot," then Been Here and Gone is just the tonicwe need to refresh our memories and remindourselves of the vitality of this music and thepeople who have lived it. Here before us is theAmerican Century, set to the tune of the Americanmusic. Can I tell you about the blues? Baby, I wasborn with the blues...

Been Here and Gone

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Signed Mystery Novel Book Fox Creek by William Krueger. Very Good Condition. Hardcover. Jacket has light wear, and Pages are like new. I check for you! Perfect for people who like Crime Stories. Books make great gifts! Medium Size Book. 

Fox Creek 

Sara Paretsky

Signed First Edition Crime Novel ~ Blacklist by Sara Paretsky. Very Good Condition for age. Hardcover. Jacket and Pages have light wear for 2003. Perfect for people who like Women Authors. Medium Size Book. 



This is a story of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations-secrets political, social, sexual, financial: all of them with the power to kill. Eager for something physical to do in the spirit-exhausting wake of 9/11, V.I. accepts a request from an old client to check up on an empty family mansion; subsequently surprises an intruder in the dark; and, giving chase, topples into a pond ...

Blacklist

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A. S. Byatt

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

At the heart of Babel Tower are two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, that shape the story: a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an "obscene" book. Frederica, the independent young heroine, is involved in both. She startled her intellectual circle of friends by marrying a young country squire, whose violent streak has now been turned against her. Fleeing to London with their young son, she gets a teaching job in an art school, where she is thrown into the thick of the new decade. Poets and painters are denying the value of the past, fostering dreams of rebellion, which focus around a strange, charismatic figure -- the near-naked, unkempt and smelly Jude Mason, with his flowing gray hair, a hippie before his time.

We feel the growing unease, the undertones of sex and cruelty. The tension erupts over his novel Babbletower, set in a past revolutionary era, where a band of people retire to a castle to found an ideal community. In this book, as in the courtrooms, as in the art school's haphazard classes and on the committee set up to study "the teaching of language," people function increasingly in groups. Many are obsessed with protecting the young, but the fashionable notion of children as innocent and free slowly comes to seem wishful, and perilous.

Babel Tower is the third, following The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life, of a planned quartet of novels set in different mid-century time frames. The personal and legal crises of Frederica mirror those of the age. This is the decade of the Beatles, the Death of God, the birth of computer languages. In Byatt's vision, the presiding genius of the 1960s seems to be a blend of the Marquis de Sade and The Hobbit. The resulting confusion, charted with a brilliant imaginative sympathy, is as comic as it is threatening and bizarre.

Babel Tower

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The de Warenne Dynasty 

When a chance encounter with the man she has secretly loved for years results in a child, Elizabeth Anne Fitzgerald becomes immersed in a web of lies, scandal, and deception when the father of her child, Tyrell de Warenne, sets out to find the truth and expose her as a liar. Original.

The Masquerade

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Sandra Lee

Tennessee

From New York Times bestselling author Sandra Lee comes her debut novel, a heartwarming story about food, family, and forgiveness.

Grace Holm-D'Angelo is at her wit's end, trying to create a new life from broken pieces. Newly divorced, she is navigating suddenly becoming a single mother to her fourteen-year-old daughter. Emma, resentful about being uprooted from Chicago to LA and still reeling from the divorce, is generally giving her mother a hard time.

Then Grace's best friend, Leeza, succumbs to breast cancer after a long battle, and Grace realizes that you don't get a second chance at life. She returns to her hometown of New London, Wisconsin, to try to reconcile with her own mother, Lorraine, with whom she's been estranged for longer than she cares to remember.

Over the course of the summer, Grace rediscovers the healing powers of cooking, coming to terms with your past, and friendship, and learns you can go home again, and sometimes that's exactly where you belong.

The Recipe Box celebrates mothers, daughters, and friendships, and also features Sandra's delicious original recipes.

Recipe Box

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John Altman

#spies #Altman #novel #Smellbooks #dazzling #history

1 edition

John Altman’s first novel was widely praised: “Deliciously atmospheric,” said Publishers Weekly. “An irresistible page-turner from a welcome new voice.” His second novel, however, is even better.It is February 1940, and England is desperate to find out when and how Hitler will make his move west toward France. A youngsleeper agent named Eva Bernhardt, seduced into spydom by a roguish MI6 agent named Hobbs, comes into possession of a vital piece ofinformation and makes a run for it. But the Germans are on to her quickly - too quickly. Was her source compromised? Was that Hobbs she just saw in the street? Who are those other men shadowing her -or are they? In a lethal game of ruse and counter-ruse, the British and Germans engage in a war of intelligence, each side testing the other, searching for advantage, but there are some things even spymasters cannot control. Uncertain whom to trust, whether she is racing toher safety or her death, Eva Bernhardt is about to take her future into her own hands -and with it, perhaps the future of the entire war.Filled with dazzling setpieces, unpredictable twists, and a memorable gallery of characters, this is suspense writing at its best.

A Game of Spies

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T. I. Lowe

This night not only marked the end to the drought, but also the end to the long-held secret we'd kept hidden under the magnolias. Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980 Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six siblings together and doing her best to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness. Scratching out a living on the family's tobacco farm is as tough as it gets. When a few random acts of kindness help to ease the Fosters' hardships, Austin finds herself relying upon some of Magnolia's most colorful citizens for friendship and more. But it's next to impossible to hide the truth about the goings-on at Nolia Farms, and Austin's desperate attempts to save face all but break her. Just when it seems she might have something more waiting for her--with the son of a wealthy local family who she's crushed on for years--her father makes a choice that will crack wide-open the family's secrets and lead to a public reckoning. There are consequences for loving a boy like Vance Cumberland, but there is also freedom in the truth. T. I. Lowe's gritty yet tender and uplifting tale reminds us that a great story can break your heart . . . then heal it in the best possible way.

Under the Magnolias

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"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come. The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.

The Alchemist

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Author’s 19th novel. This one is a story of marriage written with realism and satire. Book is in good condition, dust jacket in poor condition. See photos for condition. First edition published in 1945 by Random House of New York. 390 numbered pages. 

Texas

A Novel of Husbands and Wives

Cass Timberlane

Salman Rushdie

First Edition Novel Book The Enchantress of Florence by Banned Author Salman Rushdie. Very Good Condition for age. Hardcover. Jacket and pages have very little wear as shown. Perfect for the Diverse Reads section of your Home Library. Large Book. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the imperial capital.

The Enchantress of Florence

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Peter McCabe

Signed Suspense Book Wasteland by Miami Vice writer Peter McCabe. Very Good Condition for age. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket has light wear as shown, and Pages are Very Good for 1994. Perfect for a California home library. Medium Size Book. 

"Wasteland is a gripping, tightly written mystery set in the corrupt high-finance world of California real estate development. Both Will Dunbar and his wife, Caroline, work for tycoon John Clem, who is creating a waste disposal site that could make him millions. Will, a decent man whose ambition has blinded him, has become essentially a bag man for Clem's operation, overseeing the payoffs to county officials to facilitate the development. But he's beginning to feel distaste for this occupation." "Will learns that an investigative reporter may be getting wind of the shady side of his job at the same time he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair with the disposal site's geologist. Will goes to the geologist's house to have it out with him - only to find his recently murdered corpse and a shadowy figure fleeing over a fence. Will is tried for the murder based on circumstantial evidence and is acquitted only through the surprising perjury of one of the star witnesses, the first of several stunning twists in this carefully constructed story. Haunted by the fact that he was acquitted for the wrong reasons, Will is determined to find out who set him up - and more importantly, why." "Wasteland is full of surprises, as evidenced in McCabe's first novel, City of Lies, which Nicholas Von Hoffman called "compelling, vivid, and rewarding . . . a crime story with real characters." McCabe combines the best of the thriller genre - gritty realism and dizzying plot twists - with the kind of expertly drawn characters and fascinating relationships that one would expect to find only in a literary novel."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Wasteland

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1st edition. Light wear to DJ and pages. Binding is in fair condition. #war #military #history #novel

Michigan

Across Five Aprils 

With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.

Everything Is Illuminated

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#bestsellingnovelist #randomhouse #novel #fiction #retirementcommunities #florida #bintage #hardcover 

Oregon

A fictional portrait of the challenges, dreams, triumphs, and relationships of older adults and their families follows the residents of the Palms, a Florida retirement center, over the course of a single, unforgettable year. 150,000 first printing.

Recessional

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Oliver La Farge

Unforgettable novel- a MUST!! Real stories… real events… real people… real history. (‘29-‘57)
  Barely yellowing of pages, spinal separation in two places but still super sturdy, library stickers and stamps. 

Virginia

Navajo Indians-First Authentic Novel

Laughing Boy

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James A. Michener

A Novel 

A novel about the birth, the rise, and the history of Texas. Follows the turbulent lives of Texans from the first daring settlers of the rugged Mexican territory to the oil riggers, tycoons, and power players of today.

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