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Astoria: A Novel (Prose Series)

by Robert Viscusi
Publisher: Guernica Editions (1995-03)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 313 pages
SKU: 57936
Condition: G+
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An experiment in what the author terms "speculative history", this novel tracks the movements of a man haunted by the spirit of his deceased mother and dogged by the notion that Astoria - the Italian neighbourhood in Queens where his mother grew up in the 1920s - is the true capital of the world. In 1986, two years after his mother's death, the narrator travels from Paris to New York to Rome, unable to escape the shadow of Napoleon, the historical figure he now associates with his mother. Weaving theory upon theory in an attempt to break the hold of these visions, he finds that she represents the fury, rage, and unappeased desire of migration and the displaced people left in its wake.

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At Large

by Arthur Christopher Benson
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing (2004-06)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 172 pages
SKU: 27591
Condition: G / NONE
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What no doubt heightened the pleasure for me was that I had been passing through a somewhat dreary period. Things had been going wrong, had tied themselves into knots. Several people whose fortunes had been bound up with my own had been acting perversely and unreasonably--at least I chose to think so. My own work had come to a standstill. I had pushed on perhaps too fast, and I had got into a bare sort of moorland tract of life, and could not discern the path in the heather. There did not seem any particular task for me to undertake; the people whom it was my business to help, if I could, seemed unaccountably and aggravatingly prosperous and independent.

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Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch)

by Bernard George Shaw
Publisher: IndyPublish (2007-04-12)
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 348 pages
SKU: 55688
Condition: VG+
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Publisher: Brentano's Publication date: 1921 Subjects: Drama / General Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Drama Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

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Behind From Where We Came

by Gloria Miller
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (2004-02-08)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 152 pages
SKU: 62330
Condition: VG+
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Since of the disappearance of her Mafia husband, Marie has lived for ten years raising her son alone. When she is accused of murder, her husband 'returns from the dead' to assist in her defense. Marie is forced back into the world of organized crime. She is torn between the love she has for her husband and the hate she has for the nature of his business. Now she must conquer her mistakes from the past and struggle to save her son from the life her husband is leading.

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Bittersweet Lesson

by Guadalupe Claudio
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (2007-04-27)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 172 pages
Edition: 0
SKU: 65401
Condition: VG+
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Caridad Nobelle couldn’t be happier. She is teaching Spanish to the executives and employees of an international company and being well paid for her efforts. But when she arrives at work one morning, she is interrogated by two police officers, then taken to the police station where she is summarily arrested for soliciting pornography at her job.

Horrified, Caridad protests her innocence, but her pleas fall on deaf ears. After a short trial where the prosecution proves her guilt, Caridad is sentenced to three years at the Greenhills Women’s Correctional Facility. While in jail, she encounters insults, racism, and abuse from the other inmates, but she learns to cope by teaching Spanish.

Handsome warden James O’Neil plays a dangerous game with the inmates. He and the other wardens routinely rape the women, and no one has the courage to report it to higher authorities. But when James takes advantage of Caridad, something is different. Captivated by her beauty and intellect, it’s not long before the unthinkable happens—he falls in love.

Consumed with hatred against James, Caridad ignores his tender advances. But when she is severely beaten by another warden and lands in the hospital, James comes to her side, and the path to healing—and forgiveness—begins.

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Bless Me, Ultima

by Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher: Warner Books (1999-04-01)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 290 pages
SKU: 83011
Condition: VG
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new condition - remainder mark

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Blue Shoe

by Anne Lamott
Publisher: Riverhead Books (2002-09-30)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 291 pages
Edition: 1ST
SKU: 67125
Condition: NF / NF
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Mattie Ryder is a marvelously funny, well-intentioned, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke recently divorced mother of two young children. Then she finds a small rubber blue shoe-the kind you might get from a gumball machine-and a few other trifles that were left years ago in her deceased father's car. They seem to hold the secrets to her messy upbringing, and as she and her brother follow these clues to uncover the mystery of their past, she begins to open her heart to her difficult, brittle mother and the father she thought she knew. And with that acceptance comes an opening up to the possibilities of romantic love.

In a disarming blend of everyday life and the sublime, of reverence and irreverence, and of humor and grace, Anne Lamott speaks directly to our most closely held concerns, bringing comfort to anyone -all of us-whose family life can feel overwhelming and uncontainable.

Lamott's formidable storytelling gifts have gained her a large and passionate following, and anybody who has experienced the delightful humor and the canny understanding of her previous work will be similarly charmed by Blue Shoe.
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One of the few progressive Christian writers with a national voice, Anne Lamott's work (Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions) ranges from the meditative to the hilarious. Blue Shoe falls somewhere in the middle of that range. A slow, thoughtful novel, rooted in the domestic routines of child-raising, Blue Shoe follows the newly separated Mattie Ryder as she moves back into her childhood home, recently vacated by her elderly mother, and undertakes the renovation of her entire life. Her best friend Angela has left the San Francisco Bay area to move in with her new lover, Julie. Mattie's ex-husband, Nicky, has settled so quickly into a steady relationship with a young woman named Lee that it is clear they were involved during his marriage to Mattie. Nicky and Mattie's two children are displaying signs of emotional disturbance (Lamott is at her best in describing the quietly weird behavior of young children). And to add to the mix, Mattie's mother is falling into a senile dementia characterized by pleading phone calls and wacky assertions of independence. All Mattie wants is a little more money, a decent boyfriend, and for her philandering father to rise from his grave and solve all her problems. Is that so much to ask? Some of the action in this novel could have been compressed, and the major subplot involving Mattie's father fails to excite, but the strengths of Blue Shoe--humor, unflinching characterization, and keen observation--more than compensate for its weaknesses. --Regina Marler

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Bluestones and Salt Hay: An Anthology of Contemporary New Jersey Poets

by (Editor: Joel Lewis)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press (1990-01-01)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 272 pages
Edition: 1990 edition
SKU: 82059
Condition: VG
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Candelabra: Selected Essays and Addresses

by John Galsworthy
Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL) (2001-06-01)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 320 pages
SKU: 13244
Condition: G+
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Essays and addresses are supposed to be enlightening: that is why Galsworthy has called this selection of them Candelabra. But whether the candles are alight is for the reader rather than the author to judge.

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Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong (Studies on Modern China)

by Mary Ann Farquhar
Publisher: M E Sharpe Inc (1999-07)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 335 pages
SKU: 84187
Condition: VG / NONE
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