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Portrait in Sepia: A Novel
Price: $6.95
Publisher: Harper Perennial:
Seller ID: 9780060936365
Isabel Allende's sensuous novel about the mystery of memory In nineteenth-century Chile, Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases all recollections of the first five years of her life. Raised by her regal and ambitious grandmother Paulina del Valle, Aurora grows up in a privileged environment, but is tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal at the hands of the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude... View more info
Eva Luna
Price: $2.00
Seller ID: 9780553280586
An exotic dance that beguiles and entices... The enchanted and enchanting account of a& #160; & #160; contemporary Scheherazade, a wide-eyed American& #160; & #160; teller-of-tales who triumphs over harsh reality& #160; & #160; through the creative power of her own imagination... View more info
D'Amore e Ombra (Original title: De Amor t de Sombra)
Price: $22.95
Publisher: "Milan, Italy", 1988
Edition: (5th printing - 1989)
Seller ID: 94T007
"Tight, faint page yellowing, clean interior, faint age soil to exterior top of page edges., faint curl. 244+ pages. Text in Italian. ""sullo sfondondell'inquieto scenario della sociata cilena, il sorgere di un amore tra due giovanni giornalisti impegnati in una pericolosa indagine... """ View more info
Je Ne Me Tairai Jamais
By: "Ambre, Joanne"
Price: $23.95
Publisher: "Paris, France", ©1979
Seller ID: 99H022
As new - gift quality! Text in French. View more info
The Pregnant Widow (Vintage International)
By: "Amis, Martin"
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Vintage:
Seller ID: 9781400095988
A riotous, bitingly funny, and supremely clever novel from one of our most distinctive voices in the English language. The year is 1970, and Keith Nearing, a twenty-year-old literature student, is spending his summer vacation in a castle on a mountainside in Italy. The Sexual Revolution is in full-swing--a historical moment of unprecedented opportunity--and Keith and his friends are immediately caught up in its chaotic, ecstatic throes. Yet they soon discover a di... View more info
"Bless Me, Ultima"
By: "Anaya, Rudolfo"
Price: $3.50
Publisher: GRAND CENTRAL PUB MASS MARKET:
Seller ID: 9780446600255
Exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English. Indeed, Anaya's tales fairly shimmer with the haunting beauty and richness of his culture. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Anaya is perhaps best loved for his classic bestseller, Bless Me, Ultima... Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a... View more info
The Fixer Upper: A Novel
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks:
Seller ID: 9780060837396
After her boss is caught in a political scandal, fledgling Washington lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left broke, unemployed, and homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help turn Birdsong--the fading Victorian mansion he recently inherited in Guthrie, Georgia--into a real estate cash cow. But Birdsong turns out to be a moldering Pepto-Bismol-pink dump with duct-taped windows, a driveway full of junk, and a grumpy distant relation who'... View more info
Aucassin et Nicolette: Edition Critique
By: "Anonymous (Jean Dufournet, Ed.)"
Price: $9.95
Publisher: "Tours, France", 1984
Seller ID: 78P018
"Tight, bright, clean & square. Occasional pencil underlining and a few notes. Medieval French love story of alternating prose and verse in a format described as cantefable. Text in French." View more info
Antigone
By: "Anouilh, Jean"
Price: $5.95
Publisher: NY, 1969
Seller ID: 78P035
"Taped spine, creased and yellowed covers. Clean text. Text in French" View more info
Antigone
By: "Anouilh, Jean"
Price: $9.95
Publisher: "Paris, France", 1968
Seller ID: 7NP011
"Tight, bright, clean & square. Slight rubbing to spine hinge. ""Extraits avec illustrations, notes et commentaires"" Text in French" View more info
Vinegar Hill (Oprah's Book Club)
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Harper Perennial:
Seller ID: 9780380730131
In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill--a loveless house suffused with th... View more info
Blue Water: A Novel
Price: $6.95
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks:
Seller ID: 9780380732883
From New York Times bestselling author A. Manette Ansay comes an unforgettable story of two families united by tragedy -- and one woman's deeply emotional journey toward a choice she'd never thought possible.On an ordinary morning in Fox Harbor, Wisconsin, Meg and Rex Van Dorn's lives are irrevocably altered when a drunk driver -- Meg's onetime best friend, Cindy Ann Kreisler -- slams into the Van Dorns' car, killing their six-year-old son, Evan. As Meg recovers fr... View more info
O Misterio Dos MMM
By: "Anthology (Joao Conde, ed.)"
Price: $24.95
Publisher: "Rio de Janeiro, Brazil", Classicos Brasileiros/Edicoes de Ouro: (Undated)
Seller ID: 88P001
"Tight, bright, clean, slight tilt. Slight edgewear. ""Romance policial escrito por dez dos maior es escritores brasileiros."" Selections by Correa, De Queiroz (Rachel & Dinah), Cardoso, Sales, Amado, Conde, Rosa, Callado, Lessa. Text in Portuguese. 208 pages " View more info
Ten Korean Short Stories
By: "Anthology (Kevin O'Rourke, trans.)"
Price: $7.95
Publisher: 1981
Edition: "(3rd printing, 1990)"
Seller ID: 4-9H014
"As new except for owner's name on first title page. ""two generations of Korean short stories, bringing to life the first faltering steps of an ancient land entering the modern age""" View more info
Pieces of My Sister's Life
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Bantam:
Seller ID: 9780385340656
Two sisters who shared everything. One unforgivable moment. And a second chance...There's something to talk about in every chapter of Elizabeth Joy Arnold's poignant, insightful debut novel--the perfect summer read for all those who loved Elisabeth Robinson's "The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, "Judy Blume's Summer Sisters," " and Jodi Picoult's "My Sister's Keeper." Once, Kerry and Eve Barnard did everything together: sailing the Block Isla... View more info
Toutes les chances plus une
Price: $7.16
Publisher: France, LIVRE DE POCHE: 1980
Seller ID: 67p010
"As new, unread. Livre de Poche #5564. 381 pg. Text in French." View more info
Lady Oracle
By: "Atwood, Margaret Eleanor"
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Avon Books:
Seller ID: 9780380017997
The Handmaid's Tale
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Anchor:
Seller ID: 9780385490818
In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if the... View more info