Category: literature

The New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry "returns with this heartwarming story about a woman rediscovering herself after a personal crisis...fans of Backman will find another winner in these pages" (Publishers Weekly).

Britt-Marie can't stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable sins. She is not one to judge others--no matter how ill-mannered, unkempt, or morally suspect they might be. It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as cri...
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The Hero's Walk: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

By: "Badami, Anita Rau"

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books:

Seller ID: 9780345450920

ISBN: 0345450922

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

In a small, dusty town in India, Sripathi Rao struggles as a copywriter to keep his family afloat in their crumbling ancestral home. But his mother berates him for not becoming a lawyer, his son prefers social protest to work, his unmarried sister seethes with repressed desire, and his wife, though subservient, blames him for refusing to communicate with their daughter Maya, who defied tradition, rejecting her proper Brahmin fianc for a Caucasian husband. Then a phone call brings tragedy: Maya and her husband have been killed in an accident leaving Sripathi to be their daughter's guardian. Sr...
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The Fermata

By: "Baker, Nicholson"

Price: $8.45

Publisher: Vintage:

Seller ID: 9780679759331

ISBN: 0679759336

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish " X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay" (Seattle Times). " Sparkling." --San Francisco Chronicle.
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One Summer

By: "Baldacci, David"

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing:

Seller ID: 9780446583152

ISBN: 0446583154

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

David Baldacci delivers a moving, family drama about learning to love again after terrible heartbreak and loss in this classic New York Times bestseller.

It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members...
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Le pere Goriot (Easy Reader D)

By: "Balzac, Honore de"

Price: $13.95

Seller ID: 8NT024

ISBN: 8742976200

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Tight, bright, clean, square. Tiny bump to one corner. Owners initials. Text in French. Easy Reader D, text in French (fondee sur un vocabulaire de 2500 mots)"
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

By: "Bank, Melissa"

Price: $6.45

Publisher: Penguin Books:

Seller ID: 9780140293241

ISBN: 0140293248

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

The New York Times bestselling classic of a young woman's journey in work, love, and life

"In this swinging, funny, and tender study of contemporary relationships, Bank refutes once and for all the popular notions of neurotic thirtysomething women." --Entertainment Weekly

"Truly poignant." --Time

Generous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, relationships...
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Affliction

By: "Banks, Russell"

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Harper Perennial:

Seller ID: 9780060920074

ISBN: 0060920076

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, he is a former high-school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak. It is a mark of Russell Banks' artistry and understanding that Wade comes to loom in one's mind as a blue-collar American Everyman afflicted by the dark secret of the macho tradition. Told by his articulate, equally scarred younger brother, Wade's story becomes as spellbinding and inexorable as a fuse burning its way to the dynamite.

The Reserve: A Novel (P.S.)

By: "Banks, Russell"

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Harper Perennial:

Seller ID: 9780061430268

ISBN: 0061430269

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness--and explores what happens when two powerful personalities, trapped at opposite ends of a social divide, begin to break the rules. Moving from the secluded beauty of the Adirondack wilderness to the skies above war-torn Spain and Fascist Germany, The Reserve is a clever, incisive, and passionately romantic novel of suspense that adds a new dimension to this acclaimed author'...
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"The Alembic, Providence College, Spring 1990"

By: "Barretti, Dina M. (Ed.)"

Price: $7.95

Publisher: "Providence, RI", Providence College: 1990

Seller ID: 7NH019

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new-gift quality. Annual literary Journal of Providence College Anthology of short fiction, poetry and photography. 94 pages."
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Rules of the Road

By: "Bauer, Joan"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Puffin Books:

Seller ID: 9780698118287

ISBN: 0698118286

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Gawky 5'11", 16-year-old Jenna joins her crusty old employer at Gladstone's Shoe Store for an eye-opening cross-country adventure.
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The Stories of Richard Bausch

By: "Bausch, Richard"

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Harper Perennial:

Seller ID: 9780060956226

ISBN: 0060956224

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

A 2004 PEN/Malamud Award winner, this collection celebrates the work of American artist Richard Bausch -- a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven of which appear here for the first time) defy expectation, attest to Bausch's remarkable range and versatility, and affirm his place alongside such acclaimed story writers as John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley.

Feast of Love

By: "Baxter, Charles"

Price: $3.50

Seller ID: 9780375709104

ISBN: 037570910X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

National Book Award Finalist

From "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), here is a superb new novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people.

The Feast of Love is just that -- a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out their lost children; adult children try to come to terms with their own parents and, in some cases, find new ones.

In...
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Saul and Patsy

By: "Baxter, Charles"

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Vintage:

Seller ID: 9780375709166

ISBN: 0375709169

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both from the East Coast, they met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married life in the Midwest. Saul is Jewish and a compulsively inventive worrier; Patsy is gentile and cheerfully pragmatic. On Saul's initiative (and to his continual dismay) they have moved to this small town-a place so devoid of irony as to be virtually "a museum of earlier American feelings"-where he has taken a job teaching high school.

Soon this brainy and guiltily happy couple will find children have become a part of their lives, f...
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Shadow Play: A Novel

By: "Baxter, Charles"

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Penguin Books:

Seller ID: 9780140235104

ISBN: 0140235108

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

First Light (Contemporary American Fiction)

By: "Baxter, Charles"

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Penguin Books:

Seller ID: 9780140100914

ISBN: 0140100911

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Hugh Welch has cared for his little sister Dorsey ever since they were children, when Dorsey looked at him as though he were a god. But when Dorsey returns to their small Michigan hometown with a successful career as an astrophysicist and a happy family life, Hugh, who has a long habit of worrying about his sister, realizes that it s his own life he has to cure, not Dorsey s. As they explore their complicated history over one hot Fourth of July weekend, they ll come to terms with the experiences that put such distance between them and discover the imperfect love that ties them as siblings."
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Believers: A Novella and Stories

By: "Baxter, Charles"

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Vintage Books:

Seller ID: 9780679776536

ISBN: 0679776532

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

A Relative Stranger: Stories (Norton Paperback)

By: "Baxter, Charles"

Price: $9.45

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company:

Seller ID: 9780393322200

ISBN: 0393322203

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our finest contemporary writers. These two books, set in the Michigan landscape that Baxter has made his own, display his unparalleled gift for revealing the unexpected in everyday life. The often-curious connections of relatives and strangers are illuminated in the thirteen exquisite stories of A Relative Stranger. "You can't just get a brother off the street," a character says, but indeed he does.
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"Lunch Hour Stories: Preview Issue A & B, Volume 1 - Issue 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14 & 15"

By: "Bayer, Nina (ed.)"

Price: $19.95

Publisher: "Bothell, WA", Lunch Hour Stories: 2007

Seller ID: 00T045

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

"Each issue is as new, except A has a note written on the cover. ""A literary magazine dedicated to promoting excellent printed works of literary fiction, especially from new and emerging authors, and authors residing in the northwestern United States."" Each issue contains a single story ranging in length from 16 to 32 pages."
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Leve-toi et marche

By: "Bazin, Herve"

Price: $13.95

Publisher: "Paris, France", Editions Bernard Gasset: 1952

Seller ID: 9-8P001

ISBN: 225300619X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Tight binding, slightly age tanned but clean and unmarked text, square. Light creasing to covers. 318 pages. ""Non, je ne suis pas, je ne serai pas une infirme ordinaire, que, mon orgueil bouleverse mes defaillances! Ordinaire, la vie de Constance Orglaise, vingt ans, ne le sera pas... un des grands"""
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