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The Pregnant Widow (Vintage International)

By: "Amis, Martin"

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Vintage:

Seller ID: 9781400095988

ISBN: 1400095980

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

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 disturbing truth: between the death of one social order and the birth of another, there exists a state of liminal purgatory, on...
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"Bless Me, Ultima"

By: "Anaya, Rudolfo"

Price: $3.50

Seller ID: 9780446600255

ISBN: 0446600253

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

This coming-of-age classic and the bestselling Chicano novel of all time follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs -- now one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads."

Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past--a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultim...
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Aucassin et Nicolette: Edition Critique

By: "Anonymous (Jean Dufournet, Ed.)"

Price: $6.95

Publisher: "Tours, France", Flammarion (#GF261): 1984

Seller ID: 78P018

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"Tight, bright, clean & square. Occasional pencil underlining and a few notes. Medieval (late 12th or early 13th century) French love story of alternating prose and verse in a format described as cantefable...""combines elements of many Old French genres, such as the chanson de geste (e.g., The Song of Roland), lyric poems, and courtly novels."" Text in French."
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Diary of an Oxygen Thief (Oxygen Thief Diaries)

By: "Anonymous,"

Price: $7.50

Publisher: V Publishing:

Seller ID: 9780692539835

ISBN: 0692539832

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

Hurt people hurt people. Say Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer's assistant and somehow they met in Bright Lights Big City. He's blinded by love. She by ambition DIARY OF AN OXYGEN THIEF is honest hilarious and heartrending but above all a very real account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.
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Antigone

By: "Anouilh, Jean"

Price: $5.95

Publisher: NY, La Table Ronde: 1969

Seller ID: 78P035

Binding: Paperback

Condition: GOOD+

"Taped spine, creased and yellowed covers. Clean text. Text in French"
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Antigone

By: "Anouilh, Jean"

Price: $9.95

Publisher: "Paris, France", Bordas (#ulb 434): 1968

Seller ID: 7NP011

ISBN: 204000713X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"Tight, bright, clean & square. Slight rubbing to spine hinge. ""Extraits avec illustrations, notes et commentaires"" Text in French"
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Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles)

By: "Archer, Jeffrey"

Price: $9.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin:

Seller ID: 9781250039026

ISBN: 1250039029

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

From the internationally bestselling author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes Only Time Will Tell, the first in an ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph.

The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words "I was told that my father was killed in the war." A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he's left school. But then an unexpected gi...
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DAY OF LIFE

By: "Argueta, Manlio"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Vintage:

Seller ID: 9780394722160

ISBN: 0394722167

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Goodbye To All That

By: "Arnold, Judith"

Price: $7.45

Publisher: Bell Bridge Books:

Seller ID: 9781611940930

ISBN: 1611940931

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Redefining who we are in our family takes courage and an indestructible sense of humor.

Being the middle child is never easy, but thirty-six-year-old Jill Bendel is about to find out just how hard that job is when her mother throws away her sensible pumps, packs up her collection of classical music and runs away from home.

Longtime wife and mother Ruth Bendel loves her family but hates her life. Husband Richard doesn't even know how the steam iron works, let alone how a woman works. When Ruth's last nerve snaps, she finally does what she's wanted to do so many times before-she gets an...
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Toutes les chances plus une

By: "Arnothy, Christine"

Price: $7.16

Publisher: France, Editions Grasset & Fasquelle: 1980

Seller ID: 67p010

ISBN: 2253027545

Binding: Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new, unread. Livre de Poche #5564. 381 pg. Text in French."
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Lady Oracle

By: "Atwood, Margaret Eleanor"

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Avon Books:

Seller ID: 9780380017997

ISBN: 0380017997

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Surfacing

By: "Atwood, Margaret"

Price: $1.25

Publisher: Warner Books> C/o Little Br:

Seller ID: 9780445084650

ISBN: 0445084650

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Edible Woman

By: "Atwood, Margaret"

Price: $2.45

Publisher: Grand Central Pub:

Seller ID: 9780446314985

ISBN: 0446314986

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The remarkable novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and Cat's Eye is now avaialble with a stunning new cover package Genuie wit, insight, originality . . . so good --Publishers Weekly.
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Wilderness Tips

By: "Atwood, Margaret"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780553560466

ISBN: 0553560468

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

DANCING GIRLS AND OTHER STORIES

By: "Atwood, Margaret"

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780553345018

ISBN: 055334501X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

By: "Atwood, Margaret"

Price: $7.95

Publisher: House of Anansi Press:

Seller ID: 9780887848001

ISBN: 0887848001

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt. She doesn t talk about high finance or managing money; instead, she goes far deeper to explore debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies. By looking at how debt has informed our thinking from preliterate times to the present day, from the stories we tell of revenge and sin to the way we order social relationships, Atwood argues that the idea of what we owe may well be built into the human imagination as one of its m...
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The Blind Assassin: A Novel

By: "Atwood, Margaret"

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Anchor:

Seller ID: 9780385720953

ISBN: 0385720955

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE

In The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative. The novel begins with the mysterious death--a possible suicide--of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945. Decades later, Laura's sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated their wealthy, eccentric family's history. Intertwined with Iris's account are cha...
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Invisible: A Novel

By: "Auster, Paul"

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Picador:

Seller ID: 9780312429829

ISBN: 0312429827

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.

Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside...
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So Long a Letter (African Writers Series)

By: "B, Mariama"

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Heinemann:

Seller ID: 9780435905552

ISBN: 0435905554

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her struggle for survival. It is the winner of the Noma Award.
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The Invitation to Learning Reader: From Prison and Exile (No. 24 - Vol.6 No. 4)

By: "Backlund, Ralph"

Price: $8.06

Publisher: NY, Herbert Muschel: 1957

Seller ID: 67T016

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new. ""discussions of great books and significant ideas as broadcast weekly on the CBS Radio Network."""
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