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Author:Heather Tosteson
Visible Signs
Visible Signs, set in Antigua, Guatemala, tells the story of Mikela, a fierce ten-year old indigenous girl determined to save her pregnant severely traumatized twelve-year old sister, Natividad, and the child she carries. Mikela draws together an unlikely assortment of American women to help...- $22.00
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Author:Carol Hart
A History of the Novel in Ants
Why a history of the novel in ants? It makes perfect sense because ants live in an almost exclusively female society. And as Ian Watt noted in THE RISE OF THE NOVEL, the majority of eighteenth century novels were written by -- as well...- $17.90
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Author:Ellen Greenfield
Come From Nowhere
In the tradition of Homer's Odyssey and Joyce's Ulysses, Come From Nowhere explores the concept of home - defining it, creating it, defending it and finding one's way back to it in the face of New York City's most infamous blackout. In the early...- $12.99
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Author:Halldor Laxness
The Great Weaver from Kashmir
From Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness "Laxness brought the Icelandic novel out from the 'sagas' shadow...to read Laxness is also to understand why he haunts Iceland--he writes the unearthly prose of a poet cased in the perfection of a shell of plot, wit, and...- $26.00
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Author:Hesh Kestin
Based on a True Story
Set in post-WWII Africa, Polynesia, and Hollywood, the three novellas that make up Based on a True Story reveal the roots of contemporary life in a world at war with itself. These novellas are reminiscent of work by Steve Stern and Philip Roth.Hesh Kestin...- $16.95
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Author:Peter Markus
Bob, or Man on Boat
"Markus has a remarkable ability to strip life down to its basics, to the point where the metaphors we manufacture as the looking-glass for our existence end up standing in for existence itself. Fish, mud, night and river come to stand in place of...- $13.95
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Author:Valerie Hurley
The 2007 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories
These ten short stories--Valerie Hurley's winning story, Jasmine, washing the Hair of Pearsa, and nine finalists--show the range possible in the contemporary literary short story and offer a snapshot of some of the most compelling writing by established and emerging literary talents. From a...- $15.95
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Author:Jim Potter
Taking Back the Bullet: Trajectories of Self-Discovery
This contemporary, character-driven novel is about people who are stigmatized. However, once they discover their true identities, each is empowered to begin the journey of life's purpose.The man characters are: police officer Tom Jennings, obese as a mutant Idaho potato in a jiggling gelatin...- $19.95
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Author:Larry Kimport
A Small Harvest of Pretty Days
In 1890s Pennsylvania, lonesome Clara Waltz falls in love with an aging drifter whom she rescues from a world far stranger than her own.Author: Larry KimportISBN-10: 0978970446ISBN-13: 9780978970444Publisher: Foremost PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/04/2007Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.00w x 0.49d- $12.97
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Author:Alex Rose
The Musical Illusionist: And Other Tales
In the tradition of Borges and Calvino, The Musical Illusionist is an interwoven collection of postmodern folk tales--disappearing manuscripts, neurological anomalies, teleporting bacteria, and an unforgettable composer who manipulates sound to bend perception--that masterfully blends scientific curiosity with magical-realist caprice. Alex Rose has published...- $14.95
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Author:Dennis Ruane
Wooden Spoons: A novel about life, death, love, and art.
When Professor Daniel Whaley abandons his position at The University of Wisconsin, leaves his wife and isolates himself on a mountain in southwestern Pennsylvania, it appears to be an act of desperation. Events that envelop him during his one year tenure on Hemlock Knob...- $10.50
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Author:Melody Groves
Sonoran Rage: A Colton Brothers Saga, No. 2
Stranded in the rugged Sonoran Desert, stagecoach drivers James Colton and older brother, Trace, are captured by warring Apaches. Tortured and driven to the breaking point, James is used as a bargaining chip by the great Apache Chief, Cochise. James will die if Trace...- $19.95
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Author:R. L. Prendergast
The Impact of a Single Event
A terrible car accident occurs. Richard and Sonia, a couple with a crumbling marriage, stop to help the critically injured victims. In the process, they find a 140-year-old journal by the side of the road. Six different people have written in the journal. Though...- $19.95
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Author:Yuri Suhl
One Foot in America
A sweet coming-of-age novel about Shloime (Sol) Kenner's first three years in America, as lived in a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. The protagonist, a sort of Jewish David Copperfield, takes a job in a butcher's shop to help his tradition father put bread on...- $18.00
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Author:Carol Bly
Shelter Half
"The real clue to this mystery lies in its title, referring to the half-tent an American infantryman once carried with him to the battlefield, and buttoned to someone else's half for mutual protection: a covert metaphor provisioned with foregiveness and trust."--O, The Oprah Magazine...- $15.95
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Author:Bruce Hoppe
The Thomas Ladies Club
Picture Lauderback, a 21st century itinerant reporter, laboring in self-inflicted obscurity for dying country weeklies across the Heartland. He is down...but not out. (The only reason he's not out being it would never occur to him that he's down.) Picture the Thomas Ladies Club,...- $14.95
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Author:Mark a. Mills
I & I
I & I (which in Jamaica means me and my people) is a collection of prose and poetry about the human condition that centers on the value system of the ancient Egyptians and the lives of teens living in urban centers such as Brooklyn....- $29.99
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Author:Chuck Rosenthal
Loop's Progress (The Loop Trilogy: Book One)
Restored to the author's original version, Loop's Progress is the first of The Loop Trilogy. An uproarious novel about coming-of-age that reflects the gritty reality of modern urban America.Author: Chuck RosenthalISBN-10: 0977229874ISBN-13: 9780977229871Publisher: Hollyridge PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2007Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...- $15.95
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Author:Lee Polevoi
The Moon in Deep Winter
When Parker Sloane returns from a foray into third-world cash-smuggling to his childhood home in the woods of New England, it seems he's seeing his country and his blended stepfamily for the first time-- and finding both just as twitchy, desperate, paranoid and unpredictable...- $23.95
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Author:Mrs Carver
The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey
Oakendale Abbey: Urban myth? Rural legend? ...or do the dead really walk behind the dusty shuttered windows of the old Abbey? Looming above skeletal trees, the decayed Abbey's immense size makes it a constant presence in the lives of those who live in its...- $14.99
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Author:Michael Hemmingson
This Other Eden
Terrorism, crack cocaine and rape. Failure, miscarriages and suicide. Divorce, incest and misery. This Other Eden is Michael Hemmingson at his most brutal. A man wins the lottery and loses his family. A book agent must deal with a wild girl writer, a white...- $12.75
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Author:James Michael White
Future Nothingness Already
Future Nothingness Already is a travel adventure story in the life of the mind. The action of the novel develops thematically rather than dramatically in an expository poetic narrative that includes interconnected short stories, poems and stream of consciousness essays. The context is an...- $10.00
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Author:Joseph Flynn
Hot Type
Two men on the run ... Newspaperman Dan Cameron gets a cool old typewriter for his 40th birthday. It once belonged to Ben Hecht, who used it to write the movie "Notorious." Dan uses it to write a best-seller. Then the Hecht estate says...- $15.99
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Author:Joseph Flynn
The Concrete Inquisition
A cop gets shot. . . He loses his left eye. He loses his job. And that's after he loses his wife. So what's he going to do? Michael "Doc" Kildare, former undercover narc, sues the government. Claims one-third of the $45 million recovered...- $12.99
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Author:Marguerite Duras
Yann Andrea Steiner
Dedicated to Duras' companion with whom she spent her last decade of life, Yann Andr a Steiner is a haunting dance between two parallel stories of love and solitude: the love between Duras and the young Yann Andr a and a seaside romance observed...- $15.00
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Author:Karen Sagstetter
The Thing with Willie: Stories of Two Families
These wise, humorous, and poignant stories explore the parallel paths of two families, one white and one African American, as they confront profound historical developments of the twentieth century. The book opens with the Great Depression and its tragic impact on Willie, a black...- $15.95
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Author:Ki Longfellow
China Blues
The Roaring Twenties, Chinatown, San Francisco: back-street blues and bathtub gin... hardball mobsters and hardheaded cops... seductive speakeasies and sizzling scandals. As the young Louis Armstrong blows his horn in the infamous Blue Canary, impetuous Nob Hill Socialite Elizabeth Stafford Hamilton plunges into a...- $16.95
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Author:Bruce Holland Rogers
The Keyhole Opera
Bruce Holland Rogers has been writing fiction full-time since 1991. His works range from literary and experimental to SF, fantasy, and mystery, and many of the stories in The Keyhole Opera began as subscription stories and went on to be published in magazines and...- $19.95
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Author:Matthew J. Sullivan
The 2005 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories
These twelve short stories--Matthew J. Sullivan's winning story, "Unfound," and eleven finalists--show the range possible in the contemporary literary short story and offer a snapshot of some of the most compelling writing by established and emerging literary talents. From a pool of over five...- $14.95
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Author:Arnould Galopin
Doctor Omega - Collector's Edition
Author: Arnould Galopin, Jean-Marc LofficierISBN-10: 0974071110ISBN-13: 9780974071114Publisher: Hollywood ComicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2003Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.10h x 6.22w x 0.63dReview Citation(s): Asimov's Science Fiction 10/01/2004 pg. 235- $19.95
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Author:Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Tales
An innocent's wish, once granted, gives rise to one of literature's most memorable villains in Oscar Wilde's tale of prodigal aestheticism, "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Under the tutelage of Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian is lead into a double life - a surface of...- $17.99
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Author:Michael Eisele
Obeah
When Hannes Wirt stepped onto the shores of Dominica, his wildest dreams could not have predicted what lay in store for him. Like his predecessor, Alfred Nantes, who endured a mere three months of a five year tenure as chief botanist, his existence was...- $15.50
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Author:Stan I. S. Law
Yeshua a Personal Memoir of the Missing Years of Jesus
The novel is based on a statement by Edgar Cayce, the late American prophet, that Jesus had visited "Persia, India, Syria and Egypt to complete His education." The author has thoroughly researched early Indian and Middle-Eastern history. He illustrates conditions in which such an...- $12.95
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Author:Robert Hugh Benson
The Sentimentalists
THE SENTIMENTALISTS represents Robert Hugh Benson's first foray into "non-genre" fiction, as well as a significant and sensational switch from the historical novels by which he had achieved widespread popularity. This novel also marks Benson's change to an increasingly universal outlook, as well as...- $20.00
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Author:Veronica Montes
Benedicta Takes Wing and Other Stories
Benedicta Takes Wing and Other Stories is the debut collection of short fiction by Filipino American writer Veronica Montes. In these fourteen stories, Montes explores the intricate workings of Filipino families as they struggle to define their place in the world. Two American-born sisters...- $19.95
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Author:Veronica Montes
Benedicta Takes Wing and Other Stories
Benedicta Takes Wing and Other Stories is the debut collection of short fiction by Filipino American writer Veronica Montes. In these fourteen stories, Montes explores the intricate workings of Filipino families as they struggle to define their place in the world. Two American-born sisters...- $26.95
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Author:Linda Ty-Casper
A River, One-Woman Deep: Stories
Award-wnning Filipina writer, Linda Ty-Casper, who is noted for her historical fiction set in the Philippines, presents a new collection entitled, A River, One-Woman Deep: Stories. The book includes her novella of the same time and short stories.Her novella is set during the tumultuous...- $29.00
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Author:Bret Funk
Forge of Faith
The Boundary. The greatest feat of magic in the history of Madryn. An impenetrable barrier raised to imprison the Darklord Lorthas and bring an end to the long and bloody MageWar. With the Boundary weakening, Madryn is collapsing into chaos. Betrayed by one of...- $14.99
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Author:Eugene Stovall
Consort of the Female Pharaoh: Hat-Shep-Sut, Senen-Mut & Egypt's 18th Dynasty
Hat-Shep-Sut was Egypt's greatest Pharaoh So why has history tried to erase her memory for the past 3500 years? Does it have anything to do with the fact that Egypt passed from the Lunar Cult to the Solar Cult during her reign? Pharaoh Maat-Ka-Re...- $15.00
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Author:Meredith Sue Willis
Dwight's House and Other Stories
Author: Meredith Sue WillisISBN-10: 0971487324ISBN-13: 9780971487321Publisher: Hamilton Stone EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2004Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.02w x 0.53d- $14.95
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Author:Frederick Williams
The Fires of Greenwood: The Tulsa Riot of 1921, a Novel
In the early morning hours of June 1, 1921, hordes of angry whites in Tulsa, Oklahoma, crossed the Frisco railroad tracks into the Greenwood section known as Black Wall Street, armed with weapons and a determination to destroy. Within a seven hour period, they...- $18.95
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Author:Gary Worthington
India Treasures: A Novel of Rajasthan and Northern India Through the Ages
Author: Gary WorthingtonISBN-10: 0970766203ISBN-13: 9780970766205Publisher: Timebridges PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2002Pages: 636Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 8.49h x 5.56w x 1.29d- $15.95
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Author:James A. Misko
The Most Expensive Mistress in Jefferson County
What would you do to earn a $10 million profit? Would you be willing to compromise your principles? Hawkins Neilson is about to find out in The Most Expensive Mistress in Jefferson County. The United States Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of...- $15.95
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Author:Karen Myers
The Ways of Winter: A Virginian in Elfland
TRAPPED BEHIND ENEMY LINES, CAN HE FIND THE STRENGTH TO DEFEND ALL THAT HE VALUES MOST, OR EVEN JUST TO SURVIVE?Book 2 of The Hounds of Annwn.It's the dead of winter and George Talbot Traherne, the new human huntsman for the Wild Hunt, is...- $19.99
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Author:Rick DeMarinis
El Paso Twilight
Illegal immigration and drug smuggling, corporate polluters and tragic affairs of the heart. On the border country between Mexico and the United States, literature can barely keep up with the bad news. An exception is the new novel from Rick DeMarinis, "El Paso Twilight."...- $17.95
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Author:Lindsay Parnell
Dogwood
"You'd think she was an angel if she wasn't always flying so close to hell." Released from prison on probation, 19-year-old Harper Haley returns to the brutal, sweaty, dogwood scented landscape of her youth. Chronicling her homecoming and struggle for rehabilitation, this is the...- $12.99
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Author:Qaisra Shahraz
Revolt
"Delightfully detailed, emotionally rich and relevant" Anora McGaha, editor of Women Writers, Women Books/font> A multi-layered, multi-faceted story of love, loss and mixed-race marriage, Revolt is the tale of three wealthy sisters and the problems that no amount of money can solve. There is...- $17.99
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Author:Joan Fallon
Santiago Tales: A journey in search of love
SANTIAGO TALESA journey in search of loveBeth is a woman whose life is falling apart; there are problems with her marriage, her career is in the doldrums and her health is not good. When she discovers her husband has been leading a double life...- $16.99
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Author:Joan Fallon
The House on the Beach
"The House on the Beach" is a novel set in the years after the Civil War, in a Spain ruled by the military dictator Francisco Franco. This is a time when women had little independence; they were expected to lead prescribed lives, dominated by...- $16.99
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Author:Jiri Pehe
Three Faces of an Angel
This novel about the twentieth century begins when time was linear and ends when the notion of progress becomes less well defined. "It strikes me that Josef Brehme lived in an epoch when time still proceeded in a straight line from the past to...- $32.00
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