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Toronto: HarperFlamingoCanada HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A Novel. JACKET DESIGN BY: Lynn Buckley. RADIO TIE-IN: This novel was the basis of the 2015 BBC Radio 4's 15 Minute Drama broadcast of the same name. SYNOPSIS: The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century--a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. Th middle… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1998. Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped. A Novel. COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Barbara Cole. COVER DESIGN: Andrew Skuja. SYNOPSIS: "The present, like a landscape, is only a small part of a mysterious narrative." Anne Michaels' startlingly beautiful novel tells the interlocking stories of two men from different generations whose lives have been transformed by war. A young boy, Jakob Beer, is rescued from the mud of a buried Polish city during the Second World War and taken to an island in Greece by an unlikely saviour, the scientist and humanist Athos Roussos. There, in the seclusion and tenderness of Athos's house, they spend the last years of the Occupation in a precarious refuge made lavish with poetry and cartography, botany and art. At war's end, Athos accepts an invitation to the University of Toronto's new geography department, headed by a former member of Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition. Jakob learns the terrain of… Read More

New York: Riverhead Books Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A Novel. Khaled Hosseini, Author of A Thousand Splendid Suns. READERS GUIDE INSIDE. BOOK DESIGN BY: Claire Vaccaro. ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-1-59448-000-3; ISBN-10: 1-59448-000-1. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. The Kite Runner, his first novel, is an international bestseller, published in forty countries. His second novel, the #1 national bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns, was published in 2007. In 2006 he was named a U.S. goodwill envoy to the United National Refugee Agency. AWARDS: A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year; An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Fiction Pick of the Year; An American Library… Read More

New York: HarperPerennial A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc., 2000. Light Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Front Cover Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. DESIGNED BY: Elliott Beard. COVER DESIGN: Julie Metz. CONTENTS: Author's Note; Book One GENESIS; Book Two THE REVELATION; Book Three THE JUDGES; Book Four BEL AND THE SERPENT; Book Five EXODUS; Book Six SONG OF THE THREE CHILDREN; Book Seven THE EYES IN THE TREES; Bibliography. SYNOPSIS: The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it--from garden seeds to Scripture--is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the… Read More

New York: HarperPerennial A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc., 2000. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. DESIGNED BY: Elliott Beard. COVER DESIGN: Julie Metz. CONTENTS: Author's Note; Book One GENESIS; Book Two THE REVELATION; Book Three THE JUDGES; Book Four BEL AND THE SERPENT; Book Five EXODUS; Book Six SONG OF THE THREE CHILDREN; Book Seven THE EYES IN THE TREES; Bibliography. SYNOPSIS: The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it--from garden seeds to Scripture--is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable… Read More

New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction Published by Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2001. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. A Novel. Now a Major Motion Picture from Miramax. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. National Book Award Winner and National Bestseller. BOOK NUMBER: 12010799. COVER ART: Miramax Film Corp. MOVIE TIE-IN: This novel was the basis for the 2001 feature film of the same name. SYNOPSIS: When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just deserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts his private demons--and the unpredictable forces of nature and society--he begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery. A… Read More

New York: A Plume Book - the Penguin Group Penguin Books USA Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Yellowing Due to Age. NATIONAL BESTSELLER. BOOK NUMBER: Z6011. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio. She is the author of five other novels: The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and Jazz. Song of Solomon won the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. The winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, she is Robert F. Goheen Professor, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University. AWARDS: 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection; Oprah's Book Club. REVIEWS: "Lovely . . . a delight, full of lyrical variety and allusiveness . . . peopled with an amazing collection of losers and fighters, innocents and murderers, followers of ghosts and followers of money, all of whom add to the pleasure of this… Read More

Toronto: Harper Perennial an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. SUB-TITLE: A Novel. PHOTOGRAPHY: Clown and road: Kathleen Finlay/Masterfile; Elephant: Corbis; Tent: Jean Laughton/Veer. DESIGN BY: Jack Woolsey. MOVIE/RADIO/TV TIE-IN: This novel was the basis for the 2011 feature film of the same name. ISBN-10: 0-00-639155-9. SYNOPSIS: Orphaned and Penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing train--and inadvertently runs away with the circus. Thrown into the chaos of a second-rate traveling show, Jacob is adrift in a world of freaks, swindlers, and misfits. Jacob uses his veterinary skills in the circus menagerie and becomes a savior for the animals he so loves, including a baffling elephant named Rosie. He also comes to know Marlena, the enchanting… Read More

New York: Warner Books A Time Warner Company Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX. Special Reading Group Guide Inside. BOOK DESIGN BY: Giorgetta Bell McRae. COVER ART: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. MOVIE TIE-IN: This novel was the basis for the 2000 feature film of the same name. SYNOPSIS: Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with just $7.77 in change. But Novalee is about to discover hidden treasures in this small Southwestern town--a group of down-to-earth, deeply caring people who will come to love her more than she loves herself, and start her on a moving, warmhearted, and unforgettable journey to...Where the Heart Is. AWARDS: Walker Percy Award; An Alternate… Read More