Category: literature

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... View more info

Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles)

By: "Archer, Jeffrey"

Price: $9.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin:

Seller ID: 9781250039026

ISBN: 1250039029

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 gift wins him a sch... View more info

DAY OF LIFE

By: "Argueta, Manlio"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Vintage:

Seller ID: 9780394722160

ISBN: 0394722167

Condition: GOOD

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Pieces of My Sister's Life

By: "Arnold, Elizabeth Joy"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780385340656

ISBN: 0385340656

Condition: GOOD

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 Island harbor with their father, listening to their neighbor Justin's magical fairy tales, and all the while longing for their ab... View more info

Goodbye To All That

By: "Arnold, Judith"

Price: $7.45

Publisher: Bell Bridge Books:

Seller ID: 9781611940930

ISBN: 1611940931

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... View more info

Toutes les chances plus une

By: "Arnothy, Christine"

Price: $7.16

Publisher: France, Editions Grasset & Fasquelle: 1980

Seller ID: 67p010

ISBN: 2253027545

Condition: FINE

"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

ISBN: 0380017997

Condition: GOOD

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Surfacing

By: "Atwood, Margaret"

Price: $1.25

Publisher: Warner Books> C/o Little Br:

Seller ID: 9780445084650

ISBN: 0445084650

Condition: GOOD

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The Edible Woman

By: "Atwood, Margaret"

Price: $2.45

Publisher: Grand Central Pub:

Seller ID: 9780446314985

ISBN: 0446314986

Condition: GOOD

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Wilderness Tips

By: "Atwood, Margaret"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780553560466

ISBN: 0553560468

Condition: GOOD

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DANCING GIRLS AND OTHER STORIES

By: "Atwood, Margaret"

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780553345018

ISBN: 055334501X

Condition: GOOD

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Surfacing

By: "Atwood, Margaret"

Price: $7.45

Publisher: Anchor:

Seller ID: 9780385491051

ISBN: 0385491050

Condition: GOOD

Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, "Surfacing" is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices. "Surfacing" is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose. Here is a rich mi... View more info

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

By: "Atwood, Margaret"

Price: $7.95

Publisher: House of Anansi Press:

Seller ID: 9780887848001

ISBN: 0887848001

Condition: GOOD

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The Blind Assassin: A Novel

By: "Atwood, Margaret"

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Anchor:

Seller ID: 9780385720953

ISBN: 0385720955

Condition: GOOD

The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin," "it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sail... View more info

Alias Grace: A Novel

By: "Atwood, Margaret"

Price: $8.45

Publisher: Anchor:

Seller ID: 9780385490443

ISBN: 0385490445

Condition: GOOD

In "Alias Grace, " bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since "The Handmaid's Tale." She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. Dr. Simon Jo... View more info

Cooking for Picasso: A Novel

By: "Aubray, Camille"

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books:

Seller ID: 9780399177668

ISBN: 0399177663

Condition: GOOD

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Invisible: A Novel

By: "Auster, Paul"

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Picador:

Seller ID: 9780312429829

ISBN: 0312429827

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 Heights ... View more info