Random House Inc, October 2002. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A druid-turned-nun writes of faith, love, and loss in this "beautifully written and thought-provoking book" set at the dawn of Ireland's Christian era (Library Journal) Cloistered in a stone cell at the monastery of Saint Brigit, a sixth-century.....
Regan Books, October 1996. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, January 2009. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess the powers of enchantment and sorcery, attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is the story.....
HarperPress, April 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There is no harm in a man's cub.' Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Set.....
Ballantine Books, January 1990. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Harper Perennial, June 2021. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A Washington Post, NPR, and Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year - Shortlisted for the Booker Prize "More than timely, the novel feels timeless, solid, like a forgotten classic recently resurfaced -- a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2008. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A modern classic, now in a welcome new edition, Wonder Boys firmly established Michael Chabon as a force to be reckoned with in American fiction. At once a deft parody of the American fame factory and a......
Broadway Books, March 2016. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Monsieur Perdu can prescribe the perfect book for a broken heart. But can he fix his own? Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the.....
William Morrow Paperbacks, January 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The Atomic City Girls is a fascinating and compelling novel about a little-known piece of WWII history.--Maggie Leffler, international bestselling author of The Secrets of Flight In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los.....
Harper Perennial, April 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From the Author of the National Book Award Finalist News of the World Good Morning America Book Club Pick For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family's.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, June 2015. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The New York Times bestseller by the author of Cloud Atlas - Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize - Named One of the Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O: The.....
Vintage, October 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art, Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers. When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he secludes himself in the.....
Scribner, October 2006. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway's first novel and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.? A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two.....
Knopf, April 2021. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Alternately bittersweet and laugh-out-loud funny, a wise, bighearted novel of love, disaster, and unconventional family--from the acclaimed author of Standard Deviation, who has been called the literary descendant of Jane Austen, sharing Austen's essentially comic world view (NPR).....
Penguin Books, May 1986. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, The Washington Post Book World says these masterful stories mark T. Coraghessan Boyle's development from a prodigy's audacity to something that packs even more of a wallop: mature artistry. They cover everything, from.....
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and fearless captain in Nelson's navy, accepts a mission to intercept a frigate intent on wreaking havoc among British whalers. As HMS Surprise and her crew draw nearer to the enemy, their.....
Vintage, 1961. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Ballantine Books, March 1997. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain's story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American.....
Penguin Classics, December 1970. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Finance, fashionable society, and the intrigues of the underworld and the police system form the heart of this powerful novel, which introduces the satanic genius Vautrin, one of the greatest villains in world literature. For more than seventy years.....
University of Nebraska Press, June 1990. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). As she grew older Willa Cather became ever more private, complaining of favor-seekers and other parasites of fame. But in her long career she granted thirty-four interviews, gave six public speeches, and published ten letters, discussing literature.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. Trade Paperback. 272 pages. Uncorrected proof of the novel. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Signed by the author on the title page.
Penguin Classics, August 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). E.M. Forster's beloved novel of forbidden love, culture clash, and the confines of Edwardian society Visiting Florence with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional, lower-class Mr. Emerson and his son, George.....
Scribner, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway's first novel and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.? A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel.....
Mariner Books, March 1989. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan, literary icon of the 1960s, together in a single volume, including the unforgettable Trout Fishing in America. Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from.....
Back Bay Books, June 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When.....