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Author:David Hartley Milnes
The Ghost of Neil Diamond
Dark comedy. A washed up folk legend tries his hand as a Neil Diamond impersonator in the Far East and suffers an annihilation of identity. 'The best novel I've read in years. Storytelling, architecture, poetry and painting - a few rare novels excel in...- $9.99
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Author:R. M. Clarke
The Glass Door
'This is a committed and compassionate work which I read in one sitting-it introduces a fresh new voiceand I have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending it to readers.I enjoyed it very much.' Patrick McCabe "Then the leaves whispered, the branches creaked. Something was up...- $15.00
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Author:Lionel Davidson
Under Plum Lake
UNDER PLUM LAKE is a kid's book that also wowed the adults that read it. Right from the opening lines the reader is drifted into a world suffused with poignant melancholy and a sense of loss. LIONEL DAVIDSON (1922-2009) was much admired bu his...- $9.95
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Author:Owen Barfield
The Rose on the Ash-Heap
The Rose on the Ash-Heap is the epilogue from 'English People' - Barfield's ambitious unpublished novel of English life between the First and Second World Wars. At once fairy tale, societal critique, romance and apocalyptic vision, it discloses the redemptive powers of love and...- $14.99
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Author:Andrew Sanger
The J-Word
Argumentative, Yiddish-speaking, 80-year-old Jack Silver has reluctantly returned to Golders Green to care for his 10-year-old grandson, Danny. Unpredictable and outspoken but warm-hearted, Jack is resolutely secular and repudiates everything Jewish. His profoundly troubled son, now a successful, middle-aged journalist, has followed in his...- $14.99
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Author:Neil Gunn
Off in a Boat
"His ability scrupulously to evoke the landscapes and the peoples of the Highlands, his blending together of myth and reality and his wide-ranging imagination make Neil Gunn the most important Scottish novelist of the 20th century."-Trevor Royle, The Macmillan Companion to Scottish LiteratureAuthor: Neil...- $18.95
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Author:Michael Phillips
Murder By Quill
Best-selling novelist Michael Phillips sets up a wonderful cast of characters in this witty mystery set in a fictionalized adaptation of Cullen House in northern Scotland. An eclectic group of aspiring authors--winners of a prestigious writing contest--is invited to a "writer's retreat" at the...- $14.99
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Author:May Sinclair
Mary Olivier: A Life
Originally published alongside Ulysses in the pages of the legendary Little Review, Mary Olivier: A Life is an intimate, lacerating account of the ties between daughter and mother, a book of transfixing images and troubling moral intelligence that confronts the exigencies and ambiguities of...- $14.95
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Author:Italo Svevo
As a Man Grows Older
Not so long ago Emilio Brentani was a promising young author. Now he is an insurance agent on the fast track to forty. He gains a new lease on life, though, when he falls for the young and gorgeous Angiolina-except that his angel just...- $17.95
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Author:Ivan Turgenev
Virgin Soil
Turgenev was the most liberal-spirited and unqualifiedly humane of all the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, and in Virgin Soil, his biggest and most ambitious work, he sought to balance his deep affection for his country and his people with his growing apprehensions about what...- $19.95
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Author:J. F. Powers
The Stories of J.F. Powers
Hailed by Frank O'Connor as one of "the greatest living storytellers," J. F. Powers, who died in 1999, stands with Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver among the authors who have given the short story an unmistakably American cast. In three slim collections...- $29.95
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Author:Joe David
The Infidels
Joe David's latest book is in the great tradition of novels like Forty Days of Musa Dagh and histories like the Rape of Nanking. It reveals the scars of brutality and inhumanity as history intersects with the ordinary lives of innocent people. -- Editor...- $16.95
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Author:Diehr Wolfgang
Fuzzy Ergo Sum
FUZZY ERGO SUM by Wolfgang Diehr is the first new Fuzzy sequel in almost 30 years. This revised 2nd Edition continues H. Beam Piper's most well-known and beloved series, featuring the characters readers have come to know and love, Jack Holloway, Little Fuzzy, Victor...- $36.00
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Author:Paul Bowles
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
Paul Bowles reads this classic suite of Moroccan kif stories that he recorded in Tangier, Morocco, in the Fall of 1978. Previously released as a 2 LP recording in 1981, and long sold out, these stories are now available again in this audiobook format....- $29.95
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Author:Chantel Acevedo
A Falling Star
Daysy Maria del Pozo and Stella Maris Morales-Quinn both find themselves haunted by their families' complicated and painful Cuban pasts.Author: Chantel AcevedoISBN-10: 0932112951ISBN-13: 9780932112958Publisher: BlairLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2014Pages: 279Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.80dAward: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Bronze Medal Winner- $21.95
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Author:Paulette Boudreaux
Mulberry
Mulberry is a gripping and beautifully written tale of family crisis and personal strength that focuses on Maddy, an eleven-year-old girl struggling to keep herself and her three younger brothers, afloat in small-town segregated Mississippi in the early 1960s.Author: Paulette BoudreauxISBN-10: 0932112870ISBN-13: 9780932112873Publisher: BlairLanguage:...- $17.95
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Author:Maurice Blanchot
When the Time Comes
WHEN THE TIME COMES ostensibly chronicles the troubled relations between the narrator-a very ill man-and the two women whose lives he invades. As in all of Blanchot's intensely subjective fiction, the true subject of the work is the narrator's consciousness and the process by...- $14.95
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Author:Jaimy Gordon
She Drove Without Stopping
Perhaps the ultimate woman's road novel, She Drove Without Stopping presents young Jane Turner's cross-country journey toward self-possession. As she refuses to turn back from a terrain we all know is dangerous to women, her wit wrestles with the violence she encounters on a...- $15.00
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Author:Michael Charles Tobias
The Adventures of Mr Marigold
Michael Charles Tobias - in this colossal comic novel of 625,000 words - has given us a masterpiece of insight about our lives and troubled times. Through his idealistic hero Murillo Marigold and his earthy sidekick Sannazaro, Tobias meditates on everything that matters: poetry,...- $30.00
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Author:Donna Winters
Aurora of North Manitou Island
With her new husband, Harrison, lying helpless after an accident on stormy Lake Michigan, Aurora finds marriage far from the glorious romantic adventure she had anticipated. And when Serilda Anders appears out of his past to tend the light and nurse him to health,...- $12.25
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Author:Hector Abad
The Farm
Closely knit Colombian siblings' internal rifts threaten to tear apart the hard-won legacy their father fought to establish against guerilla and paramilitary violence. An intimate and transgressive novel that confirms H ctor Abad as one of the great writers of Latin American literature today....- $20.00
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Author:Antonio Tabucchi
For Isabel: A Mandala
Winner of the 2018 Italian Prose in Translation Award A metaphysical detective story about love and existence from the Italian master, Antonio Tabucchi. When Tadeus sets out to find Isabel, his former love, he soon finds himself on a metaphysical journey across the world,...- $16.00
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Author:Ivan Vladislavic
The Exploded View
The Exploded View, from the masterful South African novelist Ivan Vladislavic, tells the story of four lives intertwined through the sprawling infrastructure on the margins of Johhanesburg: a stastician taking the national census, an engineer out on the town with city officials, an artist...- $18.00
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Author:Lojze Kovacic
Newcomers: Book One
The first volume of this three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their home of Switzerland, eventually leading to their settlement in the father's home country of Slovenia. Narrated by Kovacic as a ten-year-old boy, he describes...- $18.00
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Author:Juvenal
Juvenal: Satires I, III, X
This introduction to three of Juvenal's satires aims tohelp intermediate high school or college readers understand the meaningof Juvenal's Latin. Satire I is Juvenal's explanation of why he writespoetry and satire. Satire III discusses why life in Rome has becomeintolerable. Satire X concerns itself...- $30.95
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Slam the Big Door
Published as a paperback original in 1960, this is MacDonald's favorite among his own novels, available for the first time in a quality hardcover edition.Author: John D MacDonald Publishing IncISBN-10: 0892961902ISBN-13: 9780892961900Publisher: Mysterious PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1987Pages: 212Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d- $33.00
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Author:Ed McBain
Another Part of the City
Author: Ed McBainISBN-10: 0892961538ISBN-13: 9780892961535Publisher: Mysterious PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1986Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 03/07/1986- $34.00
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Author:Cyril Connolly
The Rock Pool
First published in 1936, and long out of print, this famous novel is now presented in a new edition with a new, informative introduction by Peter Quennell to whom the book is dedicated. This totally engaging satire chronicles the clash between two cultures -...- $35.00
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Author:Dylan Landis
Normal People Don't Live Like This
At the center of this startling fiction debut is Leah Levinson, a teen at sea in the anonymous ordeals of a middle-class upbringing on the Upper West Side in the 1970s. In ten installments, written from varying perspectives, we witness her uneasy relationships with...- $35.00
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Author:George Ryga
The Prairie Novels
James Hoffman, George Ryga's biographer, provides a brilliant guide to the reader of this collection, with a compelling reappraisal of Ryga's fiction as far ahead of its time. The three short novels included here--Hungry Hills, Ballad of a Stonepicker and Night Desk--draw from the...- $19.95
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Author:Martine Desjardins
Fairy Ring
In 1895, the arctic explorer Captain Ian Ryder has let his house in Blackpool on the Nova Scotia coast to the recently married Clara Weiss, who is about to become the compass of a social circle far too intimate for its own good. Lost...- $19.95
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Author:Mary Meigs
The Time Being
From Mary Meigs, the celebrated author of In the Company of Strangers, comes an autobiographical novel, The Time Being. An affair born of a correspondence with a distant admirer leads the lovers to an arranged meeting in Australia. With a lifetime of relationships already...- $13.95
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Author:Howard O'Hagan
Trees Are Lonely Company
Available for the first time in one volume, Trees Are Lonely Company is a collection of Howard O'Hagan's short stories previously published to critical acclaim in The Woman Who Got on at Jasper Station & Other Stories and Wilderness Men. spanning decades of O'Hagan's...- $19.95
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Author:Dora Dueck
All That Belongs
Catherine, an archivist, has spent decades committed to conserving the pasts of others, only to find her own resurfacing on the eve of her retirement. Carefully, she mines the failing memories of her aging mother to revive a mysterious Uncle and relive the tragic...- $19.00
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Author:John Geddes
Sundog Season
Co-Winner of the 2006 Ottawa Book Award for English fiction, whose jury wrote: "The Sundog Season is a nuanced portrayal of small-town life, seen through the eyes of a young boy growing up in a northern Ontario mining town. This part coming-of-age, part mystery...- $15.95
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Author:Gaetan Soucy
Atonement
Atonement is Sheila Fischman's translation of Gaetan Soucy's brilliant novel, originally published in French as L'Acquittement. Twenty years after leaving the tiny village of Saint Aldor, Louis Bapaume has come home to make amends. During that one blustery winter solstice day, between the railway...- $14.95
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Author:Maurice Blanchot
The One Who Was Standing Apart from Me
This work takes the form of a conversation, an interview. An obsessive questioning back and forth builds up Blanchot's narrative, with its sense--shared with Kafka's famous doorkeeper parable--that behind each question lies the spooky possibility of a further, more imposing, more insoluble question. Thematically,...- $14.95
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Author:Karen Spears Zacharias
Christian Bend
Christian Bend isnt the kind of place where one expects to find the sorts of secrets the widow Burdy Luttrell has been harboring. Tucked in the hills of East Tennessee, Christian Bend is a place of piercing beauty, where the rivers and love run...- $17.00
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Author:Ann Hite
Sleeping Above Chaos
Imagine the relationship triangle from "East of Eden" and set it deep in the Appalachian Mountains. Add a couple of ghosts, a good measure of dysfunction, and a whole lot of twists and turns, and you have Ann Hite's new Black Mountain novel, SLEEPING...- $17.00
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Author:Esther Freud
Hideous Kinky
The debut novel from the author of Summer at Gaglow, called "a near-seamless meshing of family feeling, history and imagination" by the New York Times Book ReviewEscaping gray London in 1972, a beautiful, determined mother takes her daughters, aged 5 and 7, to Morocco...- $16.99
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Author:Gary Hoppenstand
More Tales of the Defective Detective in the Pulps
This second collection of defective detective stories features some of the best of the period, including Russell Gray's gimpy hero Ben Bryn, Edith and Ejler Jacobson's hemophiliac gum-shoe Nat Perry, John Kobler's glaucomatous troubleshooter Peter Quest, and Leon Byrne's deaf detective Dan Holden.Author: Gary...- $13.95
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Author:John Fante
Full of Life
In the definitive biography of John Fante, English and film studies professor Stephen Cooper explores the life of a man whose muse was Los Angeles. Author: John FanteISBN-10: 0876857187ISBN-13: 9780876857182Publisher: Ecco PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2002Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d- $18.00
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Author:Casey Pycior
The Spoils
Deep in the landlocked heart of the Midwest, the characters in The Spoils are drowning under the weight of masculinity, paralyzed in the grip of things left unsaid. These men are broken and breaking, struggling to reckon with the decisions they've made and those...- $15.95
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Author:Lynne Hugo
Remember My Beauties
Imagine a hawk's view of the magnificent bluegrass pastures of Kentucky horse country. Circle around the remnants of a breeding farm, four beautiful horses grazing just beyond the paddock. Inside the ramshackle house, a family is falling apart. Hack, the patriarch breeder and trainer,...- $15.95
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Author:Paul Costello
World Historians and Their Goals
Costello analyzes paradigms of world history, focusing on seven twentieth-century historians, from H. G. Wells to William H. McNeill. He interprets central models of the history of civilizations as responses to modernism and as efforts to rescue meaningful patterns of history as a whole....- $20.00
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Author:Richard Yaz
El Paso del Norte: Stories on the Border
The Chicano characters in Richard Yanez's debut story collection live in El Paso's Lower Valley but inhabit a number of borders-between two countries, two languages, and two cultures, between childhood and manhood, life and death. The teenaged narrator of Desert Vista copes with a...- $16.00
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Author:Fran輟is-Timol駮n de Choisy
The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville
The beautiful Marquise de Banneville meets a handsome marquis, and they fall in love. But the young woman is actually a young man (brought up as a girl and completely in the dark about her--or his--true sex), while the marquis is actually a young...- $22.00
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Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
David Balfour
David Balfour: The Original Text was originally published by Huntington Library Press and is now distributed by Stanford University Press. This edition of David Balfour, which continues the epic story begun in Kidnapped, is based upon the original manuscript at Harvard University's Houghton Library,...- $30.00
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Author:Kate Braverman
A Good Day for Seppuku: Stories
Haunting new stories about girls on the brink of adulthood, women on the verge of breakdowns, and families undone by past deceptions. "Kate Braverman is a writer of astonishing versatility and lyricism. Her stories are brilliantly rendered, painfully intimate portraits of individuals who come...- $15.95
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Author:Antonio Ben咜ez-Rojo
Woman in Battle Dress
Finalist for the 2016 PEN Center USA Award for TranslationIn 1809, at the age of eighteen, Henriette Faber enrolled herself in medical school in Paris--and since medicine was a profession prohibited to women, she changed her name to Henri in order to matriculate. She...- $19.95
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