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Alberta Hawse The Birds of Alberta
Multnomah Books 1995-09-01 0880707798 / 9780880707794 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover
Product DescriptionThis story is about Mi'kal, a young Bedouin prince--half Jew, half Arab--who leaves his camp after being threatened with death by his jealous half-brother. The reader will recognize the truth about his incredible Galilean and of a prince's search for eternal life.
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Alex Haley A Different Kind of Christmas
Doubleday 1988-11-01 0385260431 / 9780385260435 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover
Former library book. Good, clean condition. Reader review:When Fletcher Randall returned home to Ashe County, North Carolina from the College of New Jersey (Princeton) and suggested that the family have a "truly different Christmas celebration," his parents, wealthy plantation owners and slaveholders, had no idea how different it would be.They know of his "stormy relationship with the Yankee students" and his "incompatibility with his Southern classmates." However, Fletcher had not told them that he had become "friends" with "Friends" - better known as "Quakers whom his father deplored for their strong anti- slavery views." That friendship was the beginning of a transformation in the thinking of the heir to the plantation and his father's political position. He learned that the best and most important education does not come from books, lectures, library, nor the family. Instead, it comes from the ability to think for oneself and the courage to follow one's conscience - even if it means risking everything.Alex Haley skillfully tells a story of a young man and his struggle between doing what his parents, background, and culture instilled in him and what he came to realize was right. It is also the story of the Underground Railroad - its history, how it operated, the dangers faced by escaping slaves and "conductors" alike, and how a simple woodland noise or an innocent question from a stranger could mean the difference between life and death.This is a simple story, and the reader knows from the beginning the choices Fletcher will make. However, wanting to know how and when they will be made and who will be involved makes you read on and on.This book joins the list of others, which I will read at Christmas time year after year. It should become a Christmas classic.
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Alice Gaines; Bonnie Hamre; Ivy Landon; Jeanie Legendre; Editor-Alexandria Kendall Secrets Volume 1 (Red Sage - Secrets Volumes)
Red Sage Publishing, Inc. 1995-12 0964894203 / 9780964894204 Paperback Used: Very Good Paperback
Very good, clean and crisp condition. Product DescriptionSECRETS VOLUME 1 A LADY'S QUEST - BONNIE HAMRE In A Lady's Quest, author Bonnie Hamre brings you a London historical where Lady Antonia Blair-Sutworth searches for a lover in a way that is sure to shock and please the reader. THE SPINNER'S DREAM - ALICE GAINES The Spinner's Dream weaves a seductive fantasy that will leave every woman wishing for her own private love slave, desperate and running for his life. THE GIFT - JEANIE LEGENDRE he Gift With The Gift you are immersed in the historic tale of exotic seduction and bondage of a concubine's surrender to the Sultan's desires. THE PROPOSAL - IVY LANDON Take a read on the wild side of love. The Proposal will taunt you, tease you, and shock you. A contemporary erotica for the adventurous woman. From the PublisherRed Sage Publication presents the first anthology of eroticism for women. The stories come alive with characters finely drawn and fully fleshed. Each segment offers a set of lovers both fresh and unique, making the pages fairly steam with passion. For those addicted to romance these tales are a must. Reviewed by Kathee Card for Romancing the Web. BOOKAHOLICS.COM I recommend the SECRETS book to those readers looking for more sensuality in their romances. The stories in this collection have such vivid descriptions that nothing is left to your imagination. You not only step behind the bedroom door, but you get into bed with the couples. BE WARNED: If you wear eyeglasses, keep a paper towel handy to wipe the lenses and mop the sweat from your brow. SECRETS, Volume One is HOT!!! -SUSAN - BOOKAHOLICS.COM
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Alice Hoffman Illumination Night
Fawcett 1988-06-12 0449215946 / 9780449215944 Mass Market Paperback Used: Good Mass Market Paperback
Light wear to covers; clean, tightly bound copy. Great reading copy. With an eye for household details and respect for daily events, Hoffman (Fortune's Daughter unleashes the mythic forcefulness of ordinary life in this polished story of love and loneliness set on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Simon is in his fourth year and small even for his age when he sees white-robed Elizabeth Renny, a neighbor in her 75th, tumble out her attic window "like a cloud." In her convalescence, Elizabeth is cared for by her rebellious teen-aged granddaughter Jody, sent from off-island. Jody sets her sights on Simon's father, Andre, who restores antique motorcycles, raising doubts and fears in Vonny, Simon's mother, Andre's wife. Elizabeth recovers; Jody pines and plots for the taciturn Andre; Simon doesn't grow; and Vonny's anxieties bloom into full-fledged agoraphobia. Seasons advance. Jody learns the limits of her desires and meets a freakishly tall eggman; a child dies, another grows; Elizabeth decides she'd rather live than die; and Vonny faces her fears. Illumination Night, an annual celebration on Martha's Vineyard when Victorian houses surrounding a park and bandstand are lit with hundreds of magical Japanese lanterns, provides apt title and image for this shimmering, radiant tale. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Allan Gurganus White People
Ivy Books 1992-02-23 080410851X / 9780804108515 Mass Market Paperback Used: Good Mass Market Paperback
Just light edgewear; nice, clean copy. With the publication of this virtuoso collection, Gurganus ( Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All ) has again produced a book of literary merit that deserves wide readership. In 10 stories and two novellas written over the last two decades, we meet a delightful array of characters who share the common denominator of white skin, if little else. Narrated almost entirely in an astonishing range of first-person voices, this fiction displays the depth and breadth of Gurganus's skill as a gifted raconteur. In "Condolences to Every One of Us" a woman describes a disastrous African package tour that leads to the death of two tourists. "Breathing Room" is the story of a man who is overtaken by a once sickly younger brother. At age six, he "ached to simply arch right over him, to settle like a jar with air holes and enough floor space so he'd not be bored." But the story ends in a melancholy tone: "Bradley's thirty-four, and thriving; that makes me thirty-six." "America Competes" is a hilarious send-up of arts competitions. "Reassurance" is a delicate letter from the grave of a Civil War casualty that takes up at the final line of Walt Whitman's letter "Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier." The final piece, "Blessed Assurance," is a funny, sad, confessional tale told by a man reflecting on his traumatic youth, when he collected funeral insurance premiums from poor blacks. Gurganus is a champion storyteller with particularly American roots, in the tradition of Mark Twain. This is a collection to be savored and reread while we wait for more. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Alma Fritchley Chicken Run: A Letty Campbell Mystery (Letty Campbell Mysteries) by Fritchley
Women's Press, Ltd. (UK) 2000-10 0704345153 / 9780704345157 Paperback Used: Good Paperback
Former library book in good, clean condition.From Library JournalThis satisfying little English village cosy centers on the changing life of Letty Campbell, a thirtyish lesbian who raises chickens on a smallholding inherited from her aunt. In short order, Letty introduces local librarian Anne to the joys of lesbian nightlife in nearby Manchester, allows an elegant ex-lover to lease her property for a classic car auction, then falls into a serious relationship with Anne. Nothing goes amiss until the very end of Letty's narrative, when some suspect foreigners use the auction for international smuggling. Only minimally a mystery, then, but this first novel is evocative of warmth, charm, and intimacy.
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Amanda Cross Poetic Justice by Cross, Amanda
Avon Books (Mm) 1991-05 0380442221 / 9780380442225 Paperback Used: Good Paperback
Inside Flap CopyStudent riots have ravaged the distinguished New York City university where Kate Fansler teaches. In the ensuing disarray, the survival of the university's plebeian stepchild, University College, seems doubtful. President Jeremiah Cudlipp is snobbishly determined to ax it; and as sycophantic professors fall in line behind him, the rally of Kate and few rebellious colleagues seems doomed. It is a fight to the death, and only a miracle--or perhaps a murder--can save their beloved institution. . . .
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Ambrose Bierce In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
Citadel 2000-06-01 0806505516 / 9780806505510 Paperback Used: Good Paperback
Former library copy with usual markings. Good, clean condition. Product DescriptionSome of the most chilling and macabre tales in the English language can be attributed to American journalist and short story writer Ambrose Bierce. His books include "Can Such Things Be: Tales of Horror and the Supernatural", as well as "The Devil's Dictionary". He has also penned scathing views of frontier life and its lawlessness, and the most caustic treatises on war. "In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians" represents Bierce's short stories written in and around the time of the Civil War. These include "A Horseman in the Sky", "Chickamauga", "The Applicant", "A Holy Terror", "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"-- perhaps his most famous story of all,-- and 21 other disturbing tales. Their message about the horrors of war lives on vividly to this day.
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Andreï Makine Dreams of My Russian Summers
Arcade Publishing 1997-08-22 1559703830 / 9781559703833 Paperback Used: Good Paperback
Each summer, Andrei Makine's narrator and his sister leave the Soviet Union for the mythical land of France-Atlantis. That this country is a beautiful confabulation, a consolation existing only in his maternal grandmother's mind, makes it no less real. Though Charlotte Lemonnier lives in a town on the edge of the steppe, each night she journeys to a long-ago Paris, telling tales that the children then translate with their more Russian minds: "The president of the Republic was bound to have something Stalinesque about him in the portrait sketched by our imagination. Neuilly was peopled with kolkhozniks. And the slow emergence of Paris from the waters evoked a very Russian emotion--that of fleeting relief after one more historic cataclysm ..." Makine's first novel is a singing tribute to the alchemy of inspiration, but it is no less familiar with the sorrows of reality. And it is only as he gets older that the narrator begins to piece together his grandmother's far more tragic past--her experiences in the Great War, the October Revolution, and after. Dreams of My Russian Summers is a love letter to an extraordinary woman (it's hard not to see the book as autobiographical) as well as to language and literature, which the boy turns to in avoidance of history's manipulations. It has all the marks of an instant classic.
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Ann Benson The Plague Tales
Dell 1998-05-11 0440225108 / 9780440225102 Mass Market Paperback Used: Good Mass Market Paperback
Before venturing back and forth in time with this historical and futuristic adventure novel, Ann Benson was best known for her beads. The idea for The Plague Tales came to her during a period of research in London for one of her craft books; passing by an open plot of ground, she learned that it was a mass grave for 14th-century victims of the bubonic plague, inspiring her own fantastic version of the disastrous disease's effects. The Plague Tales consists of two parallel stories: one an account of a king's physician in 14th-century England, the other a tale of futuristic London--a time when antibiotics no longer cure and "Bio-Cops," empowered to exterminate those suspected of carrying disease, prowl the streets. --
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Anna Clarke Case of the Paranoid Patient, The
Doubleday 1991-07-01 0385418647 / 9780385418645 Hardcover Used: Very Good Hardcover
Product DescriptionWhile recuperating in the hospital, Paula Glenning overhears desperate moans and inquires into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the convalescence of another patient, Margaret Leeming.
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Anna Shone Mr Donaghue Investigates (Ulysses Donaghue Mystery) by Shone, Anna
Worldwide Library 1997-04-01 0373262388 / 9780373262380 Paperback Used: Good Paperback
From Publishers WeeklyWhat do you get when you throw an American movie mogul, his pop-star wife, an Olympic judo champ, a bunch of nuns and an idiosyncratic PI named Ulysses Finnegan Donaghue into a restored 12th-century monastery in Provence? In this case: the colorful cast of this lively debut, set during a spiritual retreat at a monastery restored by the mogul, Thelonius Kapp, and his young wife, the singer Salome. The patrons' needs are tended to by a cadre of nuns who have taken vows of silence. Tranquillity, however, is shattered when Kapp collapses in agony in the chapel. Salome's young beautician is the next to die, and, after a beautiful novice is crushed beneath an ancient wine press, Donaghue joins with a local chief inspector to solve what might be murder, a double suicide or a conspiracy. An intriguing series of interviews sets off a provocative (and sometimes confusing) avalanche of information. Shone's manipulations are sometimes obtrusive, and much of the dialogue is cu
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Anne McCaffrey Dragonquest
Del Rey 1979-04-12 0345284259 / 9780345284259 Mass Market Paperback Used: Good Mass Market Paperback
There are dragons all over Anne McCaffrey's house. Some she's bought, but many have been made for her by adoring fans and given to her as gifts. I don't make dragons, of course. But whenever circumstances allow, I do try to bring her American bacon, something she can't get easily in Ireland, and something which she has taught all her friends there to love, as well! I remember the first time I went to visit her, when she was still living in her old, much smaller but very homey, house. My husband and I arrived at the doorstep, and she immediately began bustling about, frying up some of the bacon we'd brought and sharing a lovely late breakfast with us before sending us off to the hotel for a nap. She made us dinner that night, too--the one and only time in my life that I've actually liked shrimp cocktail. Maybe that's because if you squint your eyes and look sideways, shrimp are kind of dragonlike, and I was eating them in the right company! --Shelly Shapiro, Executive Editor
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Anonymous Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics
Random House 1996-01-16 0679448594 / 9780679448594 Hardcover Used: Very Good Hardcover
Bookplate, no other markings, book and jacket are both crisp and clean.The famous -- or infamous -- roman a clef about the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign. You've read the hype; now read the book. Primary Colors has its rich rewards as a savvy insider's look at life on the stump. But it travels far beyond mere gossip and expose and discovers a convincing world of its own, peopled by smart cookies, nutcases, and wheeler-dealers, whose public and private lives illuminate each other -- sometimes by casting dark shadows. This story spans the novelistic spectrum from bedroom farce to high moral drama, and it paints a picture of the political state of the nation so vivid and authentic that one finds in it the deepest kind of truth -- the kind of truth that only fiction can tell.
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B. Irene Martin Emerald Thorn
Hearthstone Publishing 1991 1879366207 / 9781879366206 Paperback Used: Good Paperback
Former library copy with usual markings. Good, clean condition. Slight curling to cover/s. 100% of the proceeds from the purchase of this book will go towards our family's Christmas fundraising project. We are going to sponser at least one child for cleft palate corrective surgery through the Smile Train organization. Thank you for your purchase!
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Barbara D'Amato Authorized Personnel Only (Suze Figueroa) [Hardcover] by D'Amato, Barbara
Forge Books 2000-12-01 0312865643 / 9780312865641 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover
HDon't read this book with your back to the cellar door! Although this third in the Suze Figueroa series starts out as a Chicago police procedural, the mood grows eerie as the pages fly by. Officer Figueroa and her partner, Norm Bennis, are handling their usual pickpockets and burglars when a sizable number of the force's detectives are incapacitated by a bout of food poisoning after a banquet. Temporarily promoted to detective, Suze and Norm must quickly track down a serial killer and a child molester before each has a chance to strike again. The murderer targets the homeless, getting them drunk and suffocating each by a different method. Undetected, the child molester secrets himself in Figueroa's large house to revenge her interruption of an earlier crime. He prefers preteen females, gleefully finding two of them, Figueroa's nieces, in the house. The policewoman's son, J.J., is just trying to survive preadolescence with a mother who must be gone more and more as the murders multiply
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