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A Free Life (Vintage International) Best Price: $6.37 This wonderful book has taken me several weeks to finish, but I enjoyed it immensely, feeling... | All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well (Vintage) Best Price: $5.00 We recently finished reading aloud ALL SHALL BE WELL; AND ALL SHALL BE WELL; AND ALL MANNER OF... | California Fire and Life (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) Best Price: $7.48 First, let me thank Gary Griffiths for turning me on to the novels of Don Winslow, especially... | The Lost City (Vintage Contemporaries) Best Price: $10.08 Up until the last 50 pages or so of this book I was completely entranced. It is not that the... | End Games (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) Best Price: $7.90 My title says it. I read most of the books with Zen as protagonist, and thought this one, of... |
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Italian Shoes (Vintage) Best Price: $5.69 ... occupy the thoughts of 66-year-old Fredrik Welin, a doctor who made a tragic error in a... | Strangers (Vintage Contemporaries) Best Price: $7.73 "And for himself the future held little more than the grim routines that had always... | Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild (Vintage) Best Price: $4.94 A riveting narrative look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in... | Happy All the Time (Vintage Contemporaries) Best Price: $7.78 Last month Old school librarian suggested I read HAPPY ALL THE TIME by Laurie Colwin. I had not... | Claiming Ground (Vintage) Best Price: $8.51 A Providence Journal Best Book of the Year In 1977, Laura Bell left her family home in... |
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Terminal (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) Best Price: $7.89 I don't know what drew me to this book. I was standing in the "mystery" section of... | The Way Through Doors (Vintage Contemporaries) Best Price: $3.44 If you like fiction in which stories are nested within each other, tumbling and turning inside... | Babylon Rolling (Vintage Contemporaries) Best Price: $2.98 Having been such a big fan of Boyden's previous work, Pretty Little Dirty, I was somewhat... | Red April (Vintage International) Best Price: $1.79 Life is a constant struggle for prosecutor Felix Chacaltana Saldivar in Ayacucho. Having... | Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (Vintage International) Best Price: $8.75 As may be expected somewhat uneven essays by Gore spanning decades . He is always entertaining... |
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Death in the Fifth Position (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) Best Price: $1.97 In New York City, as the House Un-American Activities Committee conducts hearings, the Grand... | Charlie St. Cloud (Movie Tie-in Edition/Spanish) (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $0.40 Uno de esos excepcionales libros que revelan los misterios invisibles del mundo que nos rodea ... | The Canterbury Tales: A Prose Version in Modern English (Vintage Classics) Best Price: $5.05 David Wright?s classic translation brings Chaucer?s masterpiece of Middle English storytelling... | Paulo Coelho Moments 2012 Day Planner Best Price: $399.99 Journey through the year with a selection of quotes from Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho has... | One Day (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries) Best Price: $4.74 from Murphy's Library -- [...]
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Dirty Tricks Best Price: $8.36 I encountered Michael Dibdin relatively recently after having spent many years in the company of... | The Rule of Saint Benedict Best Price: $7.30 St. Benedict, The Rule of St. Benedict, Thomas Moore (preface), edited by Timothy Fry (New York,... | La casa de la laguna Best Price: $7.22 Ferre's novel documents the life of a prominent family in Puerto Rico shortly after the end... | Enchanted Night: A Novella Best Price: $6.87 In Enchanted Night, Millhauser has assembled a number of cultural images of the magical moon... | So I Am Glad: A Novel Best Price: $7.70 (A review I wrote in January 2006)
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Juneteenth: A Novel Best Price: $5.47 Ralph Ellison is back on our desks. His posthumous novel, marvellously edited by John F.... | Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray Best Price: $8.49 The above quote is from one of Ralph Ellison's letters to Albert Murray and it summarizes... | Ladysmith: A Novel Best Price: $7.69 From the author of the Whitbread Award?winning The Last King of Scotland , comes a spellbinding... | Revolutionary Road Best Price: $2.98 When you say the name Richard Yates today you usually get blank stares. If you say Bellow,... | 1876: A Novel Best Price: $5.00 Listen up! As a general proposition I like my history straight up- facts, footnotes and all.... |
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A Memoir of Misfortune Best Price: $0.94 Su Xiaokang had faced calamity before: in 1989, after the Tiananmen Square massacre, he became... | New England White (Vintage Contemporaries) Best Price: $2.84 I've read a lot of books. Many of them are mysteries, with different settings and... | The Emperor of Ocean Park Best Price: $0.23 Although "The Emperor of Ocean Park's" narrative is prolonged, at times... | Enchanted Night: A Novella Best Price: $6.87 In Enchanted Night, Millhauser has assembled a number of cultural images of the magical moon... | So I Am Glad: A Novel Best Price: $7.70 (A review I wrote in January 2006)
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Juneteenth: A Novel Best Price: $5.47 Ralph Ellison is back on our desks. His posthumous novel, marvellously edited by John F.... | Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray Best Price: $8.49 The above quote is from one of Ralph Ellison's letters to Albert Murray and it summarizes... | Ladysmith: A Novel Best Price: $7.69 From the author of the Whitbread Award?winning The Last King of Scotland , comes a spellbinding... | Revolutionary Road Best Price: $2.98 When you say the name Richard Yates today you usually get blank stares. If you say Bellow,... | 1876: A Novel Best Price: $5.00 Listen up! As a general proposition I like my history straight up- facts, footnotes and all.... |
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A Memoir of Misfortune Best Price: $0.94 Su Xiaokang had faced calamity before: in 1989, after the Tiananmen Square massacre, he became... | New England White (Vintage Contemporaries) Best Price: $2.84 I've read a lot of books. Many of them are mysteries, with different settings and... | The Emperor of Ocean Park Best Price: $0.23 Although "The Emperor of Ocean Park's" narrative is prolonged, at times... | A Samba for Sherlock: A Novel Best Price: $19.99 It's unusual for a light novel such as this to succeed on so many counts. The humour is... | The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election Best Price: $8.25 Dr. Zachary Karabell's "The Last Campaign" focuses on the legendary 1948... |
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A Death in the Family Best Price: $8.60 This novel contains some of the most exquisite writing I have ever encountered. For those who... | My Pilgrim's Progress: Media Studies, 1950-1998 Best Price: $7.50 I'm torn about this book and don't really know what to rate it, since I found it wildly... | The Moving Target Best Price: $6.08 "The Moving Target," (1949) was the first novel Canadian-American hard-boiled mystery... | Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives Best Price: $4.72 Crouch, an essayist, newspaper columnist (Sunday column in the New York Daily News), critic (of... | Lark and Termite (Vintage Contemporaries) Best Price: $0.98 Lark and Termite share the same mother, but have two different fathers. Lark is a willowy beauty... |
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Soft! Best Price: $4.17 Despite the intriguing premise that it is possible to plant subliminal messages in the mind as a... | The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity Best Price: $3.33 It's said that the second historian was the first revisionist. In other words, to some... | Trouble in Mind Best Price: $11.88 Litwack's TROUBLE IN MIND clears up any doubt about what was going on in the segregated... | Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy Best Price: $8.72 Sons of Mississippi is Paul Hendrickson's account of James Meredith and the seven... | White People Best Price: $7.91 Allan Gurganus is the Pope of the Prose I can say that these stories--along with every other... |
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The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars' Rebellion Against the Inquisition, 1290-1329 Best Price: $8.00 An exceptional presentation based heavily on historical records. Weis refrains from undue... | The Ministry of Special Cases (Vintage International) Best Price: $7.73 It's difficult to believe this is a first novel. Indeed, Englander has written two books... | Italian Fever: A Novel Best Price: $1.89 Sometimes the "livin' is easy," and so is the readin' found in Valerie... | Selected Sermons, Prayers, and Devotions Best Price: $11.41 The back cover notes that Vintage Spiritual Classics are "[f]illed with eloquence and... | Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice Best Price: $3.01 A.S. Byatt's 1998 collection of fairy tales, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, was one... |
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The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism Best Price: $7.49 Kertzer is a shamefully ignorant hack and polemicist; his objective was not expiation but... | Lying Awake Best Price: $2.73 Rare is the novel that enthralls me sufficiently to warrant reading in a single sitting. Being... | No Country for Old Men Best Price: $7.29 That is no country for old men. The young
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The Song and the Truth Best Price: $6.94 _ Reviewed by Randy Farnsworth, author of "A Stand Yet Taken". As soon as I started... | God's Snake Best Price: $8.13 This novel is comprised of lovely symbolic episodes of a young Greek girl's life with her... | Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia Best Price: $5.72 A visiting Kong University Lecturer,and Hong Kong resident, I regret not reading this book prior... | Paths of Life: Seven Scenarios Best Price: $5.00 This is my fourth book by Miller, having recently finished 'For Your Own Good' and... | La Diosa de las Américas Best Price: $8.38 Sin duda este es un libro que merece mas que los cinco estrellas, merece un numero como los... |
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Silk Best Price: $1.46 "Silk" is a delightful little booklet, easy to finish in a single sitting. I have read... | Manana Forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans (Vintage) Best Price: $11.53 In this shrewd and fascinating book, the renowned scholar and former foreign minister Jorge... | Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln Best Price: $6.99 The bad points first...
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