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Author:Max Brand
Harrigan
"That fellow with the red hair," said the police captain as he pointed. "I'll watch him," the sergeant answered. The captain had raided two opium dens the day before, and the pride of accomplishment puffed his chest. He would have given advice to the...- $9.49
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Author:E. M. Forster
A Room with A View
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society...- $10.00
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Author:Linda K. Hubalek
Hilda Hogties a Horseman: A Historical Western Romance
A clean, sweet historical romance set in 1873. Ranch woman Hilda Hamner spent her youth traveling with her Swedish immigrant family as they drove cattle from Texas up to Kansas cow towns in the 1870s. Hilda decided to get off the cattle trail and...- $11.95
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Author:Linda K. Hubalek
Rania Ropes a Rancher: A Historical Western Romance
A sweet, clean historical romance set in 1873. Rania Hamner and her family emigrated from Sweden fourteen years ago to work on a Texas ranch, working cattle and herding them up the Chisholm Trail. Something in her life on the trail caused her to...- $11.95
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Author:Henry Morley
The History of the Caliph Vathek
William Beckford was an English novelist who wrote the classic Gothic novel The History of the Caliph Vathek.Author: Henry Morley, William BeckfordISBN-10: 1500378356ISBN-13: 9781500378356Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/03/2014Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.14d- $5.99
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Author:Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper: Part Four
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Mark TwainISBN-10: 1499697856ISBN-13: 9781499697858Publisher: Createspace Independent...- $5.99
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Author:Merideth Rose Cleary
Abroad - Cuernavaca, Mexico: A Novela of Adventure
I was twenty-two years old and had changed majors more often than Taylor Swift changes boyfriends. Then I made the wisest decision I possibly could have, by enrolling in a study abroad program in a small city in the heart of Mexico. Between excursions...- $9.99
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Author:Barbara Lynn-Davis
Casanova's Secret Wife
"Full of passion and rich historical detail . . . an enthralling read, impossible to put down." --Phyllis T. Smith, bestselling author of I Am Livia and The Daughters of Palatine Hill "This is Venice beneath the mask: A dark and fascinating love story...- $18.00
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Author:Matthew Salesses
The Hundred-Year Flood
In the shadow of a looming flood that comes every one hundred years, Tee tries to convince himself that living in a new place will mean a new identity and a chance to shed the parallels between him and his adopted father. This beautiful...- $14.95
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Author:Mark Henshaw
Cold Shot
With "searing action" (Publishers Weekly) and "lead characters [who] are fleshed out and interesting, especially the decidedly Sherlock-ian Burke" (Kirkus Reviews), Mark Henshaw delivers the ingenious follow-up to his debut novel, Red Cell, featuring two CIA analysts on the hunt for a dangerous nuclear...- $9.99
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Author:Julio Dantas
A Severa: Romance Original (1901)
""A Severa: Romance Original"" is a novel written by Julio Dantas and first published in 1901. The story is set in Lisbon, Portugal, during the 19th century and revolves around the life of a young woman named Severa. She is a beautiful and talented...- $35.95
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Author:Horatio Jr. Alger
Timothy Crump's Ward
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was a cold day. There was no snow on the ground, but it was frozen into stiff ridges,...- $12.95
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Author:James Kirke Paulding
Koningsmarke The Long Finne Volume 2
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...- $22.95
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Author:Karen Olsson
All the Houses
After her father's heart attack and subsequent surgery, Helen Atherton returns to her hometown of Washington, D.C., to help take care of him and, perhaps more honestly, herself. She's been living in Los Angeles, trying to work in Hollywood, slowly spiraling into a depression...- $20.00
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Author:Ariel Hammon
Jack: A Novel Based on the True Story of Mormon Polygamy.
JACK is the story of Marcellus Friedman, born and raised in Salt Lake City, as a member of the Mormon church who turns away and disappoints his family.As a promising scientist, he impresses his mentors at the university where he also meets Lena, the...- $14.95
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Author:Ashley Capes
The Fairy Wren
From the moment a fairy wren drops his lost wedding ring at his feet, Paul realises there's more magic to the world than he thought... When Paul Fischer receives a strange phone call asking for help, from a woman who might be his estranged...- $12.99
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Author:Michael Jarvis
Field of Vision
American photographer Jake Mayfield finds racial trouble and multiple passions on a beautiful Caribbean island. A surprising literary adventure story of sex, war, art, love, travel and survival.Author: Michael JarvisISBN-10: 098853892XISBN-13: 9780988538924Publisher: Field of Vision BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2012Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w...- $9.99
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Author:Mark A. Rayner
Marvellous Hairy: a novel in five fractals
So hair is sprouting in unspeakable places and you can no longer carry a tune, but if you're a surrealistic artiste with an addiction to Freudian mythology and guilt-free sex, turning into a monkey has its upsides. Nick Motbot may be evolving as a...- $20.00
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Author:Ann L. McLaughlin
Sunset at Rosalie
SUNSET AT ROSALIE tells the story of a young girl, Carlin McNair, and her family on a failing cotton plantation in Mississippi during the early 1900s. The coming of the boll weevil and the sharp decline of cotton prices cause drastic changes in the...- $13.24
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Author:Andy Mozina
Quality Snacks
Stories about the pursuit of all kinds of gratification--from cheap and immoral to expensive and emotionally satisfying. In a wide range of forms and tones, the fifteen stories in Andy Mozina's new collection, Quality Snacks, center on high-stakes performances by characters trying to gratify...- $19.99
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Author:José Maria de Eça de Queirós
The Yellow Sofa
José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) "no digressions, no rhetoric," creating a book where "everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated." The story, a terse and seamless spoof of...- $14.95
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Author:Trezza Azzopardi
Remember Me
The much-anticipated second novel by the Man Booker Prize finalist and national best-selling author of The Hiding Place is a harrowing, elegant, and vivid portrait of a lost life at last reclaimed. Winnie would say she's no trouble, content to let the days go...- $13.00
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Author:Alden Rivers
The Café Royal
It was a time when things were simpler--when large houses, not small cars, cost twenty thousand dollars and gasoline was eighteen cents a gallon. It was 1955 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and with a plan only the mind of a seventeen-year-old boy could contrive, Randy...- $12.95
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Author:Carol K. Carr
India Black
Read India Black's blog and other content on the Penguin Community. When Sir Archibald Latham of the War Office dies from a heart attack while visiting her brothel, Madam India Black is unexpectedly thrust into a deadly game between Russian and British agents who...- $22.00
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Author:Angela Davis-Gardner
Butterfly's Child
When three-year-old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, and stepmother, Kate, on their farm in Illinois, the family conceals Benji's true identity as a child born from a liaison...- $17.00
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Author:Brendan Mathews
This Is Not a Love Song
A debut collection of moving and darkly witty stories from an "admirably fearless" (New York Times Book Review) writer whom critics have compared to Michael Chabon, E.L. Doctorow, and Dennis LehaneA Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read" SelectionWhen marriages, friendships, and families come undone, to...- $34.00
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Author:Marti Leimbach
Daniel Isn't Talking
Melanie Marsh is an American living in London with her British husband, Stephen, and their two young children. The Marshes' orderly home life is shattered when their son Daniel is given a devastating diagnosis. Resourceful and determined not to acceptt what others, including her...- $16.00
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Author:Pingali Suranna
The Sound of the Kiss, or the Story That Must Never Be Told
Composed in the mid-sixteenth century, The Sound of the Kiss, or The Story That Must Never Be Told, could be considered the first novel written in South Asia. Telugu, the language spoken in today's Andhra Pradesh region of southern India, has a classical literary...- $35.00
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Author:Sheila Kohler
The Bay of Foxes
An erotic tale of passion and power and their dangerous consequences. Sheila Kohler's memoir Once We Were Sisters is now available. In 1978, Dawit, a young, beautiful, and educated Ethiopian refugee, roams the streets of Paris. By chance, he spots the famous French author...- $22.00
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Author:John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath: Text and Criticism
John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western moevement of wone family and a nation in search of work and human dignity. This completely updated Viking Critical Library Edition of The Grapes of Wrath includes the full text of the...- $25.00
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Author:Joshua Max Feldman
Start Without Me
The author of the critically acclaimed The Book of Jonah explores questions of love and choice, disappointment and hope in the lives of two strangers who meet by chance in this mesmerizing tale that unfolds over one Thanksgiving Day.Adam is a former musician and...- $19.99
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Author:Michael C. White
A Dream of Wolves
From the author of the critically acclaimed novels A Brother's Blood and The Blind Side of the Heart comes a brilliant tale of a decent man's struggle to choose between his past and his future, between the woman he once loved and the woman...- $15.99
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Author:Richard Seltzer
Meter Maid Marion, How to Tutor a Ghost, The Third Tortoise
24 stories plus self-contained excerpts from 9 novels, ranging from romance to mind-twisting fantasy to realism, to history. In addition to the title stories, these include: The Princess Tango, The Seventh Note, Reinventing the Airplane, The Gentle Inquisitor, Aunt Rachel and the Wizard of...- $17.95
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Author:Jennifer Weiner
The Summer Place
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another "must-have" (USA TODAY) beach read about family, secrets, and the ties that bind. When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser...- $10.99
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Author:John Cheever
Falconer
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Stunning and brutally powerful, "one of the most important novels of our time" (The New York Times) tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a...- $20.00
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Author:Jayna Locke
Somewhere in Minnesota; Short Stories
With springtime in the air, a toddler chases a ball onto a melting ice-covered lake far beyond his parents' reach.As the chill of Autumn comes to Minnesota, Max opens the door to find a grizzled drifter on the doorstep. Then Max realizes he knows...- $17.95
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Author:Daniel Mason
A Far Country
From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, a stunning novel about a young girl's journey through a vast, unnamed country in search of her brother.Fourteen-year-old Isabel was born in a remote village with the gift and curse of "seeing farther." When drought and...- $19.00
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Author:Jennifer Niven
Velva Jean Learns to Drive: Book 1 in the Velva Jean series
The New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places--soon to be a Netflix film starring Elle Fanning--presents a coming-of-age debut about ill-fated love during the Great Depression--and what it means to be a woman with ambition. Velva Jean's mother urged her to...- $22.00
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Author:Doris Lessing
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell: A Psychological Thriller
In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and...- $20.00
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Author:Leonora Carrington
The Stone Door
Ancient Mesopotamia, the Zodiac, and the land of the dead feature in this wildly surrealistic adventure story--Leonora Carrington's revolutionary second novel, long out of print. The Stone Door is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like...- $15.95
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Author:Stephanie Booth
Libby Lost and Found
Libby Lost and Found is a book for people who don't know who they are without the books they love. It's about the stories we tell ourselves and the chapters of our lives we regret. Most importantly, it's about the endings we write for...- $27.99
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Author:Lavinia Greenlaw
An Irresponsible Age
A powerful, involving new novel, following on from the author's much-praised debut novel 'Mary George of Allnorthover'. 'An Irresponsible Age', Lavinia Greenlaw's extraordinary new novel, is set in London in 1990, with Thatcher still in power but the country unwilling to 'abandon an idea...- $19.99
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Author:Joseph Conrad
Nostromo: A Tale Of The Seaboard
This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The...- $23.00
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Author:Philip Roth
The Breast
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed--into a 155-pound breast. What follows is "terrific...inventive and sane and very funny (The New York Times Book...- $16.00
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Author:Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji: Introduction by Edward G. Seidensticker
In the early eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote what many consider to be the world's first novel, more than three centuries before Chaucer. The Heian era (794--1185) is recognized as one of the very greatest periods...- $40.00
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Author:Diane Johnson
Le Divorce
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST "If one were to cross Jane Austen and Henry James, the result would be Diane Johnson."--San Francisco ChronicleThe national bestseller and inspiration for the major motion picture starring Naomi Watts and Kate Hudson! Called "stylish... refreshing... genuinely wise" by The...- $22.00
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Author:Bruce Duffy
Disaster Was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud burst onto the literary scene in 1871 with a startling new voice, transforming himself from an anonymous country boy into the sensation of Paris. His explosive life included a passionate affair with the older (and married) poet Paul Verlaine, and a prosperous...- $21.00
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Author:Catherine Ryan Hyde
Love in the Present Tense
From the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Perfect Things comes a moving novel about the bond between a five-year-old abandoned by his mother and the man who raises him. "This novel will envelop you like a fuzzy blanket." --USA Today After accidentally...- $17.00
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Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov: A New Translation by Michael R. Katz
Dostoevsky's final, greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, paints a complex and richly detailed portrait of a family tormented by its extraordinarily cruel patriarch, Fyodor Pavlovich, whose callous decisions slowly decimate the lives of his sons--the eponymous brothers Karamazov--and lead to his violent murder. In...- $40.00
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Author:Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Treasures
Brighten the season with tales from the master of Christmastime fiction. Charles Dickens' most famous holiday story was the 1843 publication, A Christmas Carol, but he was a prolific writer in the yuletide genre and a great contributor to many now-prevalent traditions of the...- $14.99
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