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New York: Vintage International. Near Fine. 2012. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Light spine crease. 269 pages .

New York: Vintage. As New. 2003. Trade Paperback. 368 pages. Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. His business is to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasionally fake them—all to give the people what they want: a little piece of Fame. But what does Alex want? Only the return of his father, the end of religion, something for his headache, three different girls, infinite grace, and the rare autograph of forties movie actress Kitty Alexander. With fries.<br><br><b>The Autograph Man</b> is a deeply funny existential tour around the hollow trappings of modernity: celebrity, cinema, and the ugly triumph of symbol over experience. It offers further proof that Zadie Smith is one of the most staggeringly talented writers of her generation.<i><br></i> .

New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks. Near Fine. 2012. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Mild spine creasing. Full number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 . 320 pages. When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: Can t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away. His prayer is seemingly answered when Ravi s entrepreneurial cousin sets up a retirement home in India, hoping to re-create in Bangalore an elegant lost corner of England. Several retirees are enticed by the promise of indulgent living at a bargain price, but upon arriving, they are dismayed to find that restoration of the once sophisiticated hotel has stalled, and that such amenities as water and electricity are . . . infrequent. But what their new life lacks in luxury, they come to find, it s plentiful in adventure, stunning beauty, and unexpected love. .

Little Rock, AR: August House Publishers. Fine. 1995. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. 171 pages. American Storytelling. Tall tales, Southwest humor, and wisdom tales highlight this collection gleaned from one of America's premiere storytelling festivals. Contributors include Jeannine Beekman, Tom McDermott, Jay Stailey, John Henry Faulk, Barbara McBride-Smith, James Ford, Harriet Lewis, Charlotte Byrn, and Allen Wayne Damron. .

New York: Grand Central Publishing. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Numer written on front pastedown . Green boards with celery green spine imprinted with title and author in black. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 292 pages. Sparks' latest is the heart-rending story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they've taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined--and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world. When they are both called back to their hometown for the funeral of their mentor, they will be forced to confront the choices each has made, and ask whether love can truly rewrite the past .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 412 pages. Signed by Author .

New York: Hyperion. Very Good. 2002. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. A little corner curl.. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Debut novel. . 496 pages. In <I>Carter Beats the Devil</I>, Glen David Gold subjects the past to the same wondrous transformations as the rabbit in a skilled illusionist's hat. Gold's debut novel opens with real-life magician, Charles Carter, executing a particularly grisly trick, using President Warren G. Harding as a volunteer. Shortly afterwards, Harding dies mysteriously in his San Francisco hotel room,and Carter is forced to flee the country. Or does he? It's only the first of many misdirections in a magical performance by Gold. In the course of subsequent pages, Carter finds himself pursued by the most hapless of FBI agents; falls in love with a beautiful, outspoken blind woman; and confronts an old nemesis bent on destroying him. Throw in countless stunning (and historically accurate) illusions, some… Read More

New York: Modern Library. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1999.. 1/8th inch closed tear on back of dust jacket . 571 pages .

Neptune City, NJ: Vintage Books. Fine. 2009. Trade Paperback. 667 pages. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles -- and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined. .

New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Pale yellow boards with black spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Genealogical table (fictional) on endpapers. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . 431 pages .

New York: Houghton Mifflin. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Olive boards with black spine imprinted with title and author in silver. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 281 pages .

New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. Very Good. 2008. Trade Paperback. Sunning to front cover and spine. 271 pages. We don't want to tell you WHAT HAPPENS in this book.It is a truly SPECIAL STORY and we don't want to spoil it.NEVERTHELESS, you need to know enough to buy it, so we will just say this:This is the story of two women. Their lives collide one fateful day, and one of them has to make a terrible choice, the kind of choice we hope you never have to face. Two years later, they meet again -- the story starts there .. .Once you have read it, you'll want to tell your friends about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens. The magic is in how the story unfolds. .

London: The British Library. Very Good. (1931) 2020. Trade Paperback. Spine creasing. 214 pages. British Library Women Writers. My Husband Simon tells the story of the married life of Nevis Falconer, a young woman novelist, and Simon Quinn. Temperamentally unsuited, they are only kept together by a mutual physical attraction, in spite of innumerable quarrels. They live this superficial existence for three years, until one day Nevis meets Marcus Chard, her American publisher, who has just arrived in London. Soon friendship develops into love. Inevitably the problem faces her. Wife or mistress? Nevis finds herself caught in a whirl of circumstances over which she has no control. Published in 1931 in the immediate aftermath of D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover controversy, Mollie Panter-Downes's book explores the different echelons of the increasingly self-conscious middle class and the ways in which the tensions and nuances of vocabulary, dress, occupation, politics, taste… Read More

New York, NY: The Library of America. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. Previous owner's name and address stamp on page after free front endpage and back endpage; price-clipped; embossed with previous owner's seal on front flap and free back end page . Ribbon bookmark. 1137 pages .

New York: Random House. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2008. First US Edition. Hardcover. Minimal rubbing. 224 pages. Acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte has earned a distinguished reputation as a master of the literary thriller with his international bestsellers The Club Dumas and The Queen of the South. Now, in this haunting new work, Pérez-Reverte has written his most accomplished novel to date. <i>The Painter of Battles </i>is a captivating tale of love, war, art, and revenge.<br><br>Andrés Faulques, a world-renowned war photographer, has retired to a life of solitude on the Spanish coast. On the walls of a tower overlooking the sea, he spends his days painting a huge mural that pays homage to history’s classic works of war art and that incorporates a lifetime of disturbing images. <br>One night, an unexpected visitor arrives at Faulques’ door and challenges the painter to remember him. As Faulques struggles to recall the… Read More

Brooklyn, NY: Melville House Publishing. Near Fine. 2010. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 142 pages .

New York: HarperCollins. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Medium brown boards quarterbound in darker brown cloth with title and author imprinted in gold on spine. Genealogical table on endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Deckle-edged pages. 320 pages. Internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende has written a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile, a marvelous family saga that takes up and continues the story begun in her highly acclaimed <I>Daughter of Fortune</I> Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, <I>Portrait in Sepia</I> is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. As New in As New dust jacket. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover; Red boards quarterbound in black with title and author on in gilt; Red endpages; Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 444 pages .

New York: Harpercollins. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by AUTHOR on half-title. 0.91 x 9.12 x 6.28 Inches. 256 pages. Signed by Author. <p>Robert Elgin has checked out of his life, rendered himself irrelevant, and become invisible. After stumbling upon a secret slush fund his political bosses have been skimming off the public, Elgin takes the money and runs ...</p><p><i>Runs from the corruption of machine politics.</i></p><p><i>Runs from the corrupting of his daughter, molested by a twelve-year-old neighbor.</i></p><p><i>Runs from his wife's obsession with grief counselors, rape specialists, being saved by Jesus, and putting the twelve-year-old behind bars.</i></p><p><i>Runs to New York, where he meets Carla, a doctoral student at Columbia, who, enmeshed in her own world of corruption, is also ready to become invisible, ready to… Read More

New York: Penguin Books. Fine. 2008. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 336 pages. Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, <i>The Secret Life of Bees</i> tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. There they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters who introduce Lily to a mesmerizing world of bees, honey, and the Black Madonna who presides over their household. This is a remarkable story about divine female power and the transforming power of love--a story that… Read More