Category: literature

A specially produced paperback edition--with flaps--of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five peop...
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"Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson"

By: "Albom, Mitch"

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Broadway Books:

Seller ID: 9780767905923

ISBN: 076790592X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

It's been ten years since Mitch Albom first shared the wisdom of Morrie Schwartz with the world. Now-twelve million copies later-in a new afterword, Mitch Albom reflects again on the meaning of Morrie's life lessons and the gentle, irrevocable impact of their Tuesday sessions all those years ago. . . _____ Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that pe...
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For One More Day

By: "Albom, Mitch"

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Hyperion:

Seller ID: 9781401303273

ISBN: 1401303277

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his father--and she dies while he is gone. This haunts him for years. It unravels his own young family. It leads him to depression and drunkenness. One night, he decides to take his life. But somewhere between this world and the next, he encounters his mother again, in their hometown, and gets to spend one last day with her--the day he missed and always wished he'd...
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

By: "Alexie, Sherman"

Price: $7.50

Publisher: "Little, Brown Books for Young Readers":

Seller ID: 9780316013697

ISBN: 0316013692

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break a...
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First Frost: A Novel

By: "Allen, Sarah Addison"

Price: $8.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin:

Seller ID: 9781250019851

ISBN: 1250019850

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

Eva Luna

By: "Allende, isabel"

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 9780553280586

ISBN: 0553280589

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

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...
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The House of the Spirits

By: "Allende, Isabel"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780553273915

ISBN: 0553273914

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Portrait in Sepia: A Novel

By: "Allende, Isabel"

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial:

Seller ID: 9780060936365

ISBN: 0060936363

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

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, she explores the mystery of her past.
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In the Time of the Butterflies

By: "Alvarez, Julia"

Price: $3.25

Seller ID: 9780452274426

ISBN: 0452274427

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

I Pass Like Night (Contemporary Classics)

By: "Ames, Jonathan"

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Washington Square Press:

Seller ID: 9780671034269

ISBN: 067103426X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

When Alexander Vine finishes his work day, he leaves his post as a doorman at Manhattan's exclusive Four Seasons restaurant -- and enters a nighttime landscape of chance and danger, excitement and reinvention in the city's erotic underworld. Walking a tightrope between sexual desire and self-extinction, Alexander Vine charts his destructive course -- and his struggle for redemption -- with startling, unadorned clarity.
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"My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays"

By: "Ames, Jonathan"

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press:

Seller ID: 9781560253754

ISBN: 1560253754

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

My Less Than Secret Life is the companion volume to Jonathan Amess first memoirish endeavor, the mildly perverted and wildly amusing (Vanity Fair) Whats Not to Love? This collection of the cult authors fiction and essays includes Amess public diary, the bi-weekly columns he penned for the New York Press. The entries of this diary are a record of his mad adventures: his ill-fated debut as an amateur boxer fighting as The Herring Wonder, a faltering liaison with a Cuban prostitute, his public outing of George Plimpton as a Jew, his discussion with Eve Ensler about his dear friend The Mangina, a ...
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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

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 curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, ...
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The Fixer Upper: A Novel

By: "Andrews, Mary Kay"

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks:

Seller ID: 9780060837396

ISBN: 006083739X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

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's claiming squatter's rights. Stuck in a tiny town where everyone seems to know her business, Dempsey grits her teeth and rol...
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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

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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Vinegar Hill (Oprah's Book Club)

By: "Ansay, A. Manette"

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Harper Perennial:

Seller ID: 9780380730131

ISBN: 0380730138

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

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 the settling dust of bitterness and routine--where calculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service...
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