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The Year of Pleasures: A Novel

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2005

Seller ID: 2271023

ISBN: 1400061601

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 206 pp. In this rich and deeply satisfying novel by the beloved author of The Art of Mending, and Open House, a resilient woman embarks upon an unforgettable journey of adventure, self-discovery, and renewal. Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin anew. Pursuing a dream of a different kind of life, she is determined to find pleasure in her simply daily routines. Among those who help her in both expected and unexpected wa...
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Never Change

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Pocket Books: 2001

Seller ID: 2271025

ISBN: 0743411323

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 214 pp. Resigned to her life alone, fifty-one-year-old spinster Myra Lipinsky endures her isolation by immersing herself in her career as a visiting nurse, in which role she is reunited with Chip Reardon, the onetime golden boy she adored from afar in high school, who has returned to his New England hometown to live while he deals with an incurable illness.
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Until the Real Thing Comes Along: A Novel

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1999

Seller ID: 2271026

ISBN: 0679457224

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 241 pp. What do you do when your life isn't living up to your dreams? When the man you love is unavailable, and yet you long for a family, a home? What is the cost of compromising until the real thing comes along? Reading Elizabeth Berg is like having a friend sit down and talk with you about the deepest truths and most perplexing issues in life, and in this exquisite new novel the bestselling author of Talk Before Sleep and The Pull of the Moon once again gives...
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True to Form: A Novel

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Atria Books: 2002

Seller ID: 2271027

ISBN: 074341134X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 214 pp. Living with her stern, unapproachable father and his new wife after the death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Katie finds herself lonely and forges an alliance with Cynthia, a fellow misfit, but when she tries to become part of the in-crowd, she loses her best friend and learns some valuable lessons about herself, her dreams, and her past.
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Open House: A Novel

By: Berg, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2000

Seller ID: 2271028

ISBN: 0375501002

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 241 pp. In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along, a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house and her heart. Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more p...
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The Female World: A Brilliant Exploration of a Previously Uncharted Region--the Special World of Women

By: Bernard, Jessie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Free Press: 1981

Seller ID: 2202132

ISBN: 0029030005

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Signed by author and inscribed: For Elizabeth O'Hera with best regards, Jessie Bernard 10/19/81. Edges very lightly rubbed. Crease to front and rear wrapper of jacket and jacket spine. 1981 Hard Cover. x, 614 pp. A sociological look at the sphere of women examines its patterns and trends, compares it with the world of men, and relates both concepts to politics and economics.
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A Birder's Guide to Eastern Massachusetts (ABA Birdfinding Guide)

By: Bird Observer

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Colorado, American Birding Association: 1994

Seller ID: 2309790

ISBN: 1878788086

Binding: Spiral-Bound Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by William E. Davis, Jr. (President, Bird Observer) and Daniel T. Williams, Jr., (President, American Birding Association), both without inscriptions. 1994 Spiral-Bound Softcover. xi, 292 pp. ...written by local experts for residents and visitors alike, this essential guide is designed to help you find the most birds at dozens of the very best coastal and inland locations. Twenty-three chapters with mile-by-mile route instructions and accurate maps guide you through these prime birding areas. Information about birds' habits, preferred habitat, seasonality and hundreds of other tips will...
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A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories

By: Bloom, Amy

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2000

Seller ID: 2271002

ISBN: 0375502688

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 163 pp. A great short story has the emotional depth and intensity of a poem and the wholeness and breadth of a novel. Amy Bloom writes great short stories. Her first collection, Come to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and here she deepens and extends her mastery of the form. Real people inhabit these pages, the people we know and are, the people we long to be and are afraid to be: a mother and her brave, smart little girl, each coming to terms wi...
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Come to Me: Stories

By: Bloom, Amy

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 1993

Seller ID: 2271003

ISBN: 0060182369

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 177 pp. A first collection of short stories features tales of psychiatrists crossing professional boundaries, a small girl in need of love, a frightened father in need of redemption, and wives who become mistresses.
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Love Invents Us: A Novel

By: Bloom, Amy

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1997

Seller ID: 2271004

ISBN: 0679441093

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 205 pp. This stunning novel by National Book Award finalist Amy Bloom, author of Come to Me, follows the passions of Elizabeth Taube from childhood to middle age, as she finds herself through love--good, bad, and dangerous.
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The Washington Embrace of Business (Benjamin F. Fairless Memorial Lectures)

By: Blough, Roger M.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Carnegie-Mellon University / Columbia University Press: 1975

Seller ID: 2275901

ISBN: 0915604035

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on front endpaper ('To Julian Street, With warm regards, Roger Blough, 12/23/75'). This would be Julian Street, Jr., as his father passed away in 1947. This volume was acquired along with a collection of other books from Street's personal library. Jacket toned. 1975 Hard Cover. 161, [3] pp. 8vo. An analysis of government regulation of businesses by the former Chairman of U.S. Steel, assessing specific historical examples and advocating for shared responsibility between corporations and government in guiding regulation.
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The Book of Banbury

By: Bloxham, Christine

Price: $15.00

Publisher: England, Barracuda Books Limited: 1975

Seller ID: 2265073

ISBN: 0860230074

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by author with inscription, With best wishes. Front jacket flap clipped, jacket faintly toned. 1975 Large Hardcover. 147 pp. A history of Banbury, illustrated with black-and-white maps and illustrations.
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Temperature's Rising: A Midsummer's Night Steam

By: Blue, Ally; Buchanan, Jade; Mitchell, K.A.; Young, Amanda

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Macon, Samhain Publishing, Ltd.: 2008

Seller ID: 2263420

ISBN: 1599987767

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Inscribed and signed by author on title page (using her real name, Colleen). 2008 Trade Paperback. 260, [8] pp. Guilty pleasures - we all have them. And four of Samhains top m/m erotica writers are serving them up. Taboo Desires by Amanda Young has a man facing a choice - give in to his desire for a man, or go back to his safe, straight life. In Custom Ride by K.A. Mitchell, a summer storm brings more than one man out of the closet. Ally Blues Catching a Buzz gives a whole new meaning to personal electronics. And two werewolves mark each other as mates wit...
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The Greater Emancipation: A Story-Study of Mind

By: Bluntach, John Alexander

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Rochester, The Charter Publisher: 1915

Seller ID: 2164351

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Inscribed without attribution & signed in pencil by author on front flyleaf ('With the good will and regard of J A Bluntach'). Owner sticker on title page, some loss of gilt from titles on front board, minimal pencil marginalia. 1915 Hard Cover. 216, [1] pp. 8vo. A celebration of the power of the human mind, with some philosophical and religious underpinnings, written in the form of a novel.
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The Crane Wife

By: Bodkin, Odds

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Florida, Gulliver Books / Harcourt Brace & Company: 1998

Seller ID: 2303011

ISBN: 0152014071

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by illustrator without inscription. An excellent copy. 1998 Large Hardcover. When Osamu, a lonely sail maker, nurses an injured crane one blustery night, he never suspects that this simple act of kindness will change his life forever. Weeks later a mysterious woman arrives on his doorstep, seeking shelter from a storm. Osamu again offers his help, and soon the sail maker and the stranger fall in love and marry. But when he learns of his wife's gift for making magic sails, ambition replaces compassion--and Osamu risks losing the great happiness he has found. With majestic ...
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Thieves of Baghdad

By: Bogdanos, Matthew

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Bloomsbury: 2005

Seller ID: 2287725

ISBN: 1582346453

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by author with inscription. First edition. Rear jacket faintly rubbed. 2005 Hard Cover. He's a spit-and-polish Marine, a competitive boxer, a classics scholar, and an assistant DA in Manhattan. New York tabloids call him pit bull for his relentless prosecution of high-profile defendants like Sean Puff Daddy Combs and the baby-faced butchers of Central Park. When Baghdad fell, Colonel Matthew Bogdanos was in southern Iraq, tracking down terrorist networks through their financing and weapons smuggling?until he heard about the looting of the museum. Immediately setting out across the deser...
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Genesee Country Museum: Scenes of Town & Country in the Nineteenth Century

By: Bolger, Stuart

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Flower City Printing: 1985

Seller ID: 2193521

ISBN: 0931535042

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Inscribed to local businesswoman/philanthropist & signed by author on title page ('to Jean Groff - with best regards, Stuart Bolger'). Groff's address sticker on title page. 1985 Large Softcover. 103 pp. Depicts the different historical buildings and events that helped shaped Genesee Country. Stuart Bolger, an architectural historian, was the long-time director of Genesee Country Village.
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Philip Pearlstein: The Complete Paintings

By: Bowman, Russell; Kramer, Hilton; Sandler, Irving

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd.: 1983

Seller ID: 2306195

ISBN: 093351669X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Inscribed and signed by Philip Pearlman on front endpaper ('For the Johnsons, Philip Pearlstein'). Tiny spot on top edge. 1983 Large Hardcover. xxxv, [1], 361 pp. A complete collection of the work of the Modernist Realism painter known for his nudes. Philip Pearlstein grew out of Abstract Expressionism to become one of the most important and innovative artists of the contemporary Realist school. Born in 1924, he studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and received his Masters in art history at New York University. Since the early 1960's he has been constantly developing ...
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Nerves: A Novel

By: Boyd, Blanche M.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Plainfield, Vermont, Daughters, Inc.: 1973

Seller ID: 2201035

ISBN: 0913780049

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. Top edge lightly foxed. 1973 Trade Paperback. 169 pp. Author's first book. Diane Hamilton comes of age in a world peopled by troubled women. Not that these are weak women, but they are women who have tried to face life down and failed. Nerves is a novel of generations of women--mother, daughter, aunt, friend of the family. Diane is the strength we all have in adolescence and the fear we felt of growing up female and defeated. It is rare to find a book that explores the tension this creates between mother and daughter.-...
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The Revolution of Little Girls

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1991

Seller ID: 2271005

ISBN: 0679400907

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed and dated (June 3, 1991) by author without inscription. A nice copy. We have more books available by this author!. 205 pp. No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with her Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young woman in the 1960s and '70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard, finds herself as a lesbian, then very nearly loses herself to booze and shamans. And though the w...
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Mourning the Death of Magic: A Novel

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.: 1977

Seller ID: 2271006

ISBN: 0025142704

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1977 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 214 pp. An intensely powerful, understated novel about contemporary Southern life, the struggle of the new generation with themselves, their past, and their region.
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The Redneck Way of Knowledge: Down-Home Tales

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1982

Seller ID: 2271007

ISBN: 039451050X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 159 pp. This intoxicating book by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls combines autobiography, reporting, and the dressed-up lies we call fiction. An underground classic since its initial publication, it is the wildly funny personal testament of Blanche McCrary Boyd, sixties radical and born-again Southerner, a lesbian with an un-P.C. passion for skydiving and stock-car racing, a graduate of Esalen and kundalini yoga who now takes her alte...
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Terminal Velocity

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1997

Seller ID: 2271009

ISBN: 0679430083

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 255 pp. In 1970 I realized that the Sixties were passing me by. I had never even smoked a joint, or slept with anyone besides my husband. A year later I had left Nicky, changed my name from Ellen to Rain, and moved to a radical lesbian commune in California named Red Moon Rising, where I was playing the Ten of Hearts in an outdoor production of Alice in Wonderland when two FBI agents arrived to arrest the Red Queen . . . So begins Blanche McCrary ...
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Water Music: A Novel

By: Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston, An Atlantic Monthly Press Book/Little, Brown and Company: 1981

Seller ID: 2281544

ISBN: 0316104671

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket spine lightly toned. Page ridge very faintly foxed. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 437 pp. Author's first novel. Twenty five years ago, T.C. Boyle published his first novel, Water Musica funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyles tremendous gifts as a storyteller. Set in the late eighteenth century, Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, through Londons seamy gutters and Scotlands scenic highlandsto...
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After the Plague, and Other Stories

By: Boyle, T.C. [Coraghessan]

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2001

Seller ID: 2199485

ISBN: 0670030058

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Signed by author without inscription. First edition. Faint smell of smoke, top page edges lightly foxed. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 303 pp. Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T. C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. InAfter the Plague, his sixth collection of stories, Boyle exhibits his maturing themes, speaking to contemporary social issues in a range of emotional keys. The sixteen stories gathered here, nine of which h...
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The Long Dirt Road: A Short Story with a Long Reach

By: Braman, Clifford L.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: North Charleston, South Carolina, Clifford L. Braman: 2014

Seller ID: 2265326

ISBN: 149748247X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by author with inscription, To Laurie, from Clifford L. Braman. Top corner lightly bumped. 2014 Trade Paperback. iii, 134 pp. Over fifty years ago, Clifford L. Braman was a student at a private Christian high school in central Floridaa place that should have nurtured, strengthened, and prepared him for the world. It did, but not in a positive way; sadly, its administrators and teachers introduced him to the hardships of life through their own harshness and deceit. Students were subjected to a multitude of rules, some strict, others utterly ridiculous: no movies, no dating the same girl ...
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Small Craft Warnings: Stories

By: Braverman, Kate

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Reno/Las Vegas, University of Nevada Press: 1998

Seller ID: 2201015

ISBN: 0874173213

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. 1998 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 180 pp. The indigo skies and lush vegetation of the contemporary West Coast belie the damaged souls and desperate alienation that lurk behind fading stucco walls and off the endless highways. The lives of women on the edge and beyond the margins have seldom been explored with as much power or insight as in these brilliant stories by award-winning novelist and poet Kate Braverman. In a world without succor, Bravermans characters grope for meaning and so...
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Wonders of the West: A Novel

By: Braverman, Kate

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Fawcett Columbine: 1993

Seller ID: 2270801

ISBN: 0449906566

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 280 pp. Newly arrived at her brother's home in 1960s Los Angeles, teenager Jordan Lerner struggles to deal with her brother's terminal illness, her mother's dalliances with a string of men, and a school where she is considered an outcast.
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The Incantation of Frida K.

By: Braverman, Kate

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Seven Stories Press: 2002

Seller ID: 2270802

ISBN: 1583224696

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 235 pp. I was born in rain and I will die in rain, begins Kate Bravermans The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred pages on the threshold of life and death, dream and reality, truth and myth. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wounds of h...
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The Day Jesse James Was Killed

By: Breihan, Carl W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick Fell, Inc., Publishers: 1961

Seller ID: 2195335

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author. Pages heavily toned Jacket heavily toned, jacket edges heavily rubbed, bottom right front corner of jacket taped. 1961 Hard Cover. xxvi, 235 pp. a wealth of material never before published, which casts new light on many aspects of the James' activities and motives, gleaned from rare newspaper accounts of the day, letters and photographs obtained from members of the James family and personal reminiscences of their friends and neighbors. Black and white photographs included.
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