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NY: E. P. Dutton, 1982. 1ST. HARDBOUOND. LIKE NEW in LIKE NEW jacket. 1ST. 9 x 6 X 2 inches. pp. 615. A WONDERFUL BOOK-GIFT WORTHY Dutton; 1982; 1ST; 1ST; Large 8vo 9 -10 tall; (September 22, 1982) Language: English HARDBOUOND: 615 pages ISBN-10: 0525241124 ISBN-13: 978-0525241126 Item Weight: 2.35 POUNDS Dimensions : 8.5 x 6 X 2 inches New York; E. P. Dutton; 1982; 1ST; 1ST; Large 8vo 9 -10 tall; HARDBOUOND; LIKE NEW in LIKE NEW dust jacket; . In nineteenth-century Pennsylvania's Bloodsmoor Valley, the five Zinn sisters search for love and, when Miss Deidre Zinn sails away in an outlaw balloon, move headlong into an age of time machines, the spirit world, and passion.

NY: BOOK OF THE MONTH, 1971. 1ST. HARDBOUOND. VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD jacket. 5.5 X 1.75 X 8.5. pp. 511. Copyright © 1971, 1992 by Joyce Carol Oates. All rights reserved. The poem Wonderland first appeared in Poetry Northwest, Autumn 1970, under the title Iris into Eye ; Part |, Chapter 3 appeared in slightly different form under the title The Dark in Southwest Review, Autumn 1970; Part |, Chapter 8 was originally published under the title Fat in Antaeus 2, Winter 1971. This edition was specially created in 1993 for Book-of-the-Month Club by arrangement with The Ontario Review, Inc. This edition copyright © 1993 by Book-of-the-Month Club Inc. Nominated for the National Book Award in 1971, Wonderland is the haunting story of Jesse Vogel. From a boyhood shattered by the loss of his family, through the rigors of medical school and the demanding life of neurosurgery, to the overwhelming loss of his daughter in the counterculture of the 1960s, Jesse is in pursuit of an American selfhood. The wonderlands… Read More

ONTARIO, CA: HarperCollins Publishers, 1988. 1ST. HARDBOUOND. VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD jacket. 6 X 8. pp. 192. Publisher: Ecco Pr (January 1, 1988) Language: English ISBN-10: 0880012005 ISBN-13: 978-0880012003 Item Weight: 1 POUNDS. 1988 Ecco Press HARDBOUOND. Joyce Carol Oates (Mudwoman: A Novel). In forty-four very short, very powerful stories, Joyce Carol Oates fashions brief, intensely compact dramas out of the unwieldy material of human experience. The stories in The Assignation are infused with a radiant intensity, wrote James Atlas in the New York Times Book Review, and they convey the depth and scope of a novel in a few charged pages. The Assignation is an electric display of the talents that make Joyce Carol Oates one of our finest short story writers.

Dutton Books, 1982. 1ST. HARDBOUOND. LIKE NEW in LIKE NEW jacket. 1ST. 5.62 x 0.91 x 8.34 inches. pp. 615. Publisher: Dutton Adult; 1st edition (September 22, 1982) Language: English HARDBOUOND: 615 pages ISBN-10: 0525241124 ISBN-13: 978-0525241126 Item Weight: 2.35 POUNDS. Set in a nineteenth century similar to our own, A Bloodsmoor Romance follows the beautiful Zinn sisters, five young women who refuse-for the most part- the obligations of Christian marriage. Full of Oates's mordant wit, and breathlessly told in the Victorian style by an unnamed narrator shocked by the Zinn sisters' sexuality, impulsivity, and rude rejection of the mores of their time, A Bloodsmoor Romance is a delicious filigree of literary conventions, a novel of manners in the tradition of Austen, Dickens, and Alcott which Oates turns on its head. Oates's dark exploration interweaves murder and mayhem, ghosts, and abductions, substance abuse and gender identity, women's suffrage, the American spiritualist movement, and… Read More

Harper Perennial, 1990. 1ST. SOFTCOVER. GOOD. 1ST. pp. 340. Title American Appetites Author Joyce Carol Oates Format/Binding SOFTCOVER Book Condition New As New Jacket Condition Dust Jacket Included Edition Dutton, 1989 Book. As New. SOFTCOVER. F. As New. First Edition. C. ISBN: 0-525-24725-4. F Binding SOFTCOVER ISBN 10 0060972785 ISBN 13 9780060972783 Publisher Dutton, 1989 Place Of Publication New York This Edition First Published 1989. Set in an affluent upper-class suburb in the late 1980s, this chilling tale by master storyteller Joyce Carol Oates reveals the dark side of the American Dream. A close-knit group of friends draws closer, and then apart, when scandal and tragedy erupt among them.

Touchstone Books, 2008. 1ST. HARDBOUOND. LIKE NEW in LKE NEW jacket. 1ST. 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches. pp. 304. Publisher: Touchstone; First Edition (January 8, 2008) Language: English HARDBOUOND: 304 pages ISBN-10: 0641912560 ISBN-13: 978-0641912566 Item Weight: 1.1 pounds Dimensions: 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches. A novelization based on a sex scandal surrounding the famous late-nineteenth-century Beecher family traces how the sensational downfall of Henry Ward Beecher divided the nation and severed the loving relationship between his sisters, author Harriet Beecher Stowe and suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker.

Mariner Books, 1977. 1ST. SOFTCOVER. LIKE NEW. 1ST. 5.4 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches. pp. 265. Edition: 1st edition ISBN-13: 978-0156364652 Format: SOFTCOVER/softback Publisher: Mariner Books (2/1/2001) Copyright: 1977 Dimensions: 5.4 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches Weight: 1 lb. Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor herself singled it out by making it the title piece of her first collection and the story she most often chose for readings or talks to students. It is an unforgettable tale, both riveting and comic, of the confrontation of a family with violence and sudden death. More than anything else O'Connor ever wrote, this story mixes the comedy, violence, and religious concerns that characterize her fiction. This now-classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor to be one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic, situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the… Read More

National Geographic Books, 2009. 1ST. SOFTCOVER. VERY GOOD. Publisher ‏ : ‎ Plume; Original edition (September 29, 2009) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 259 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0452295580 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0452295582 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches Book #2 of the Someday Quilts Mystery series By the author of The Lover?s Knot, a brand-new quilting mystery in the tradition of Jennifer Chiaverini and Emilie Richards. In the sleepy town of Archers Rest, Nell Fitzgerald is finishing her first quilt and preparing for her first date? with Police Chief Jesse Dewalt. When Jesse stands her up, it turns out he has a good reason?the body of a murdered young woman has been discovered near the Hudson River. Meanwhile the members of Nell?s quilting circle encourage her to take drawing classes with the famous artist Oliver White. When Nell?s professor meets her grandmother Eleanor, owner of the Someday Quilts shop, he seems instantly… Read More

NY: Henry Holt & Company, 1999. 1ST. SOFTCOVER. LIKE NEW. 1ST. 5.76 x 0.83 x 8.6 inches. pp. 215. Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.; Reprint edition (March 15, 1998) Language: English HARDBOUOND: 215 pages ISBN-10: 0805056637 ISBN-13: 978-0805056631 Item Weight: 1.2 POUNDS Dimensions: 5.76 x 0.83 x 8.6 inches. Are You Somebody is a moving and fascinating portrait of both Ireland and one of its most popular and respected commentators. This gem of honesty and insight had its first life as the introduction to a collection of Nuala O'Faolain's Irish Times columns that became a number-one bestseller in Ireland. It now stands alone. Ireland has fallen in love with this memoir of an Irish woman of letters, and now this country will too.

Pantheon, 2000. 1ST. HARDBOUOND. LIKE NEW in LIKE NEW jacket. 5TH. 5.75 x 1 x 8.25 inches. pp. 296. Publisher: Pantheon (November 1, 2000) Language: English HARDBOUOND: 296 pages ISBN-10: 0375420614 ISBN-13: 978-0375420610 Item Weight: 1 POUNDS Dimensions: 5.75 x 1 x 8.25 inches. In this beautifully crafted novel, Icelandic writer Olaf Olafsson tells the moving story of a woman who, in the remaining months of her life, undertakes an extraordinary emotional journey. For years, Disa has lived a quiet life, managing an English country-house hotel with her close companion, Anthony. Having learned she is terminally ill, Disa decides it is time to travel back to the village in Iceland where she was born. With enormous sensitivity, Olafsson carries the reader with Disa on her quietly heroic journey. As she goes north, events she has spent most of her life trying to forget are slowly revealed. Turned away by her mother, her young fiancé murdered by the Nazis, Disa was left to find refuge as a cook in a… Read More

University of Utah Press, 2001. 1ST. SOFTCOVER. VERY GOOD. 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches. pp. 219. Publisher: University of Utah Press; 1st edition (January 22, 2001) Language: English SOFTCOVER: 219 pages ISBN-10: 0874806739 ISBN-13: 978-0874806731 Reading age: 18 years and up Item Weight: 12.8 OUNCES Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches. W. Scott Olsen and Bret Lott invited a dozen friends to consider one particular calendar month in the place they call home. The result is A Year in Place, a captivating collection of new writing by twelve eminent American writers.

Knopf, 1992. 1ST. SOFTCOVER. LIKE NEW. 1ST. 5.22 x 0.68 x 7.98 inches. pp. 302. Condition: Used-Good Format: HARDBOUOND Sold by: HPB Mason Seller rating: Language: English Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc ISBN-13: 9780679416784 ISBN: 0679416781 Publication Year: 1992 Item Weight 8.2 ounces Dimensions 5.22 x 0.68 x 7.98 inches. At the end of World War II, the lives of four people--a young American nurse, her dying English patient, a handless American thief, and an Indian soldier in the British army--intertwine in a deserted Italian villa.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2001. 1ST. SOFTCOVER. LIKE NEW. 311 pgs Book Condition UsedVeryGood Quantity Available 1 Binding Unknown ISBN 10 0375724370 ISBN 13 9780375724374 Publisher Vintage Place of Publication New York, New York, U.S.A.. This edition first published April 24, 2001 With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder… Read More

Kodansha International, 1974. 1ST. HARDBOUOND. VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD jacket. pp. 219. Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd.; 1st edition (January 1, 1974) Language: English HARDBOUOND: 219 pages ISBN-10: 0870112406 ISBN-13: 978-0870112409 Item Weight: 1.25 POUNDS. In the spring of 1974, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine police, hostile islanders, and successive Japanese search parties, Onoda had skillfully outmaneuvered all his pursuers, convinced that World War II was still being fought and that one day his fellow soldiers would return victorious. This account of those years is an epic tale of the will to survive that offers a rare glimpse of man's invincible spirit, resourcefulness, and ingenuity. A hero to his people, Onoda wrote down his experiences soon after his return to civilization. This book was translated into English the… Read More

Macmillan, 2011. 1ST. HARDBOUOND. LIKE NEW. Publisher ‏ : ‎ Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition (September 27, 2011) Language ‏ : ‎ English HARDBOUOND ‏ : ‎ 324 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0805093079 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805093070 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.27 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.46 x 1.16 x 9.61 inches A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly. The iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history―how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of increasingly harrowing battles.

NASHVILLE, TN: Broadway, 2006. 1ST. HARDBOUOND. NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE jacket. 1ST. 6.45 x 0.85 x 9.5 inches. pp. 219. Publisher: Crown Archetype; 1st edition (September 15, 2006) Language: English HARDBOUOND: 219 pages ISBN-10: 0767920929 ISBN-13: 978-0767920926 Item Weight: 1.1 POUNDS Dimensions: 6.45 x 0.85 x 9.5 inches. Bill O'Reilly is the very embodiment of the idea of a Culture Warrior-and in this book he lives up to the title brilliantly, with all the brashness and forthrightness at his command. He sees that America is in the midst of a fierce culture war between those who embrace traditional values and those who want to change America into a secular-progressive country. This is a conflict that differs in many ways from the usual liberal/conservative divide, but it is no less heated, and the stakes are even higher.

Nashville, TN: Kratville Publications, 1966. 1ST. HARDBOUOND. VERY GOOD. 1ST. 4to-over 9¾-12 tall. pp. 136. A great book for Husker fans and Husker history buffs It has many of great facts and significant stories. Publisher: Kratville Publications; 1st edition (January 1, 1966) Language: English HARDBOUOND: 136 pages Item Weight: 1.01 POUNDS.

Broadway Books, 2001. 1ST. HARDBOUOND. LIKE NEW in LIKE NEW jacket. 1ST. 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches. pp. 272. Publisher: Broadway Books; 1st edition (November 13, 2001) Language: English HARDBOUOND: 272 pages ISBN-10: 0767911113 ISBN-13: 978-0767911115 Reading age: Baby-12 years Item Weight: 1.1 POUNDS Dimensions: 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches. From the age of three, Shane Osborn dreamed of being a pilot. He began learning the skills he would need to fly as a member of the Civil Air Patrol, a branch of the U.S. Air Force, when he was just twelve years old. But it wasn't until he graduated from the naval ROTC program at the University of Nebraska and joined the navy that his dream became a reality. For five years, Osborn practiced rigorous training exercises, working tirelessly day in and day out until he advanced from navy pilot to mission commander.

FaithWords, 2015. 1ST. HARDBOUOND. LIKE NEW in LIKE NEW jacket. 1ST. 5.75 x 0.88 x 8.63 inches. pp. 224. Publisher FaithWords; Illustrated edition (December 29, 2015) Language English HARDBOUOND 224 pages ISBN-10 1455591521 ISBN-13 978-1455591527 Item Weight 12 ounces Dimensions 5.75 x 0.88 x 8.63 inches. In this one-of-a-kind guide, Joel Osteen provides practical insight and encouragement to help you stay connected to God so you can receive His strength and be empowered to accomplish all that He has for you.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. 1ST. HARDBOUOND. LIKE NEW. Publisher ‏ : ‎ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1st edition (January 1, 2010) Language ‏ : ‎ English HARDBOUOND ‏ : ‎ 255 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0547435576 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0547435572 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Heir to the Glimmering World presents a retelling of Henry James's The Ambassadors that follows the efforts of divorced schoolteacher Bea Nightingale to navigate a turbulent year spent with her estranged brother's family.Foreign Bodies transforms Henry James’s prototype into a brilliant, utterly original, new American classic. At the core of the story is Bea Nightingale, a fiftyish divorced schoolteacher whose life has been on hold during the many years since her brief marriage. When her estranged, difficult brother asks her to leave New York for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows, she becomes entangled… Read More