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Netherland
by Joseph O'Neill
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- Used - Good
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- 2009-05-07
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- 9780307388773
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In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Willow Field
by William Kittredge
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- Used - Fair
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- October 9, 2007
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- 9781400034123
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Rossie Benasco's horseback existence begins at age 15 and culminates in a thousand-mile drive of more than 200 head of horses through the Rockies into Calgary. It's a journey that leads him, ultimately, to Eliza Stevenson and a passion so powerful, his previously unfocused life gains clarity and purpose. From the settlers, cowboys, and gamblers who opened up this country… Read more about this item Item Price
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Daughter of Fortune
by Isabel Allende
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- Good
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- October 6, 1999
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- 9780060194918
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Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valpara so, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqu n Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By… Read more about this item Item Price
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All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
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- 1993-06-29
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- 9780679744399
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All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid… Read more about this item Item Price
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A River Runs Through It
by Norman Maclean
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- 1976
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- 9780671776978
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Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth century. Originally published… Read more about this item Item Price
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English Creek
by Ivan Doig
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- 1985-11-06
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- 9780140084429
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This first novel of Doig's three-part saga of life in Montana's Two Medicine country is about the important summer of 1939 in the life of 14-year-old Jick McCaskill. Item Price
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The Eleventh Man
by Ivan Doig
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- 2009-09-03
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- 9780547247632
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Driven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSUs 1941 starting lineup went down as legend in Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated. Two years later, the "Supreme Team" is caught up in World War II. Ten of them are scattered around the globe in the wars various lonely and dangerous theaters. The eleventh man, Ben Reinking, has… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art
by Matthew Kirkpatrick
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- 9781946724168
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A strange museum, an even stranger curator, the deceased artist who haunts him, and the mystery surrounding the museum founders' daughter, lost at sea as a child . . . The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art is by turns a dark comedy, a ghost story, a romance, a whodunit, a family saga, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Heart
by Maylis de Kerangal
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- 2017-02
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- 9781250117915
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Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one goes through the windshield. The doctors declare him brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, but his heart is still beating.
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The Ticket That Exploded
by William S. Burroughs
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- 1968
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Visionary and majestic, The Ticket that Exploded is the grand climax to Burroughss cut-up trilogy". The story begun in the previous books escalates to its conclusions as Inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet. In The Ticket that Exploded, Burroughs paints an at once frightening and enthralling nightmare vision of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Reflections in a Golden Eye
by Carson McCullers
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- 2000-09-08
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- 9780618084753
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Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, REFLECTIONS tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. Upon the novel's publication in 1941, reviewers were unsure of what to make of its relatively scandalous subject… Read more about this item Item Price
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New Writing in Japan
by Yukio Mishima, et. al.
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- 1972
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- 9780140034264
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Examples of poetry and short stories by eighteen writers. Item Price
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Haussmann, or the Distinction
by Paul La Farge
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- 2002-10
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- 9780312420925
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Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who transformed Paris from a filthy and haphazard medieval city into the jewel of Europe, is rumored on his deathbed to have wished all his work undone. Why? The answer lies in the story of Madeleine, a foundling from the magical old world Haussmann destroyed; of de Fonce, a '"demolition man" who sold the rubble of Paris… Read more about this item Item Price
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Euphoria
by Lily King
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- 2015-04
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- 9780802123701
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Euphoria is Lily King's nationally bestselling breakout novel of three young, gifted anthropologists of the '30's caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. Inspired by events in the life of revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead, Euphoria is dazzling ... suspenseful ... brilliant...an exhilarating novel."--Boston Globe Item Price
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Damned
by Chuck Palahniuk
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- 2012-10-02
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- 9780307476531
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"Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison," declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Fraud
by Zadie Smith
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- 2023
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- 9780525558965
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A rollicking work of historical fiction, Zadie Smith takes readers from Charles Dickens's London to colonial Jamaica and back. Asking big questions about social roles, public morality, the value of art, and the usefulness of truth; Smith's latest is entertaining and thought-provoking. Item Price
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Ines of My Soul
by Isabel Allende
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- August 28, 2007
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- 9780061161544
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In the early years of the conquest of the Americas, Inés Suárez, a seamstress condemned to a life of toil, flees Spain to seek adventure in the New World. As Inés makes her way to Chile, she begins a fiery romance with Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed Francisco Pizarro. Together the lovers will build… Read more about this item Item Price
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Wolf
by Jim Harrison
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- Used - Good
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- April 15, 1981
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- Previous owner inscription
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- 9780385291606
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Having abandoned Manhattan after too many heatless apartments, nameless women, and drunken nights, Swanson now finds himself back in the wilderness of northern Michigan. Roaming the woods in the hope that he might catch a glimpse of one of the rare wild wolves that prowl the territory, Swanson pauses often for retrospection, recalling his many wild evenings prowling across the… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Good Day to Die
by Jim Harrison
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- Used - Good
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- July 15, 1981
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- 9780385283434
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Their plans were conceived in a drunken excitement and resulted in more horror than any of them could have imagined. There was the poet able to retreat into beatific reveries of superb fishing in cold, fast streams; the Vietnam vet consumed by uppers, downers and violence; and the girl who loved only one of them at first. With their ideals… Read more about this item Item Price
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
by Maile Meloy
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- 2010-07
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- 9781594484650
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Eleven unforgettable new stories demonstrate the emotional power and the clean, assured style that have earned Meloy praise from critics and devotion from readers. Propelled by a terrific instinct for storytelling, and concerned with the convolutions of modern love and the importance of place, this collection is about the battlefields — and fields of victory — that exist in seemingly… Read more about this item Item Price
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