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Brick Lane

By: Ali, Monica

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Doubleday: 2003

Seller ID: 2270791

ISBN: 038560484X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. 413 pp. Author's first book. Nazneen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a Bangladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents when she is married off to Chanu. Her life in London's Tower Hamlets is, on the surface, calm. For years, keeping house and rearing children, she does what is expected of her. Yet Nazneen walks a tightrope stretched between her daughters' embarrassment and her husband's resentments. Chanu calls ...
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Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World: A Novel

By: Antrim, Donald

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Viking: 1993

Seller ID: 2199924

ISBN: 0670851396

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Top page edge smudged, spine slightly cocked. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 185 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. In his first novel, Elect Mr. Robinson For a Better World, Donald Antrim demonstrates all of the skill that critics have hailed in his subsequent work: the pitch-perfect ear, the cunning imagination, and the uncanny control of a narrative at once familiar and incandescently strange. In Pete Robinson’s seaside suburban town, things have, well, fallen into disrepair. The voters have de-funded schools, the mayor has been drawn and quarte...
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Reiffen's Choice (The Stoneways Trilogy Book One [1])

By: Butler, S.C.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Tor / Tom Doherty Associates: 2006

Seller ID: 2264580

ISBN: 0765314770

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2006 Hard Cover. 463, [1] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Reiffen, only twelve years old, is the true heir to the thrones of both Wayland and Banking. He and his friends Avender and Ferris live in a magical world of talking animals, dwarves, and shape-shifting bears but…he lives with the shame of knowing that no one will ever let him rule these kingdoms, that their crowns will bring him nothing but betrayal and sorrow…and that he is powerless. Reiffen will have only a short life of child's innocence, a brief respite from the trial of impossible adult resp...
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Dynasty of Death

By: Caldwell, Taylor

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1938

Seller ID: 2202719

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Jacket rubbed & chipped, tape along jacket spine, pages toned, stamping on endpapers. 1938 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author! 797 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900–August 30, 1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback. In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons. Taylor Caldwell's best-known works include Dynasty of Death (1938), ...
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The Virgin Blue

By: Chevalier, Tracy

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 1997

Seller ID: 2270646

ISBN: 0140265023

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1997 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 255, [7] pp. Author's first novel. Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin--two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blue propels her on a quest to ...
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

By: Clarke, Susanna

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury: 2004

Seller ID: 2200379

ISBN: 1582344167

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First American edition, second state jacket (black with white lettering). Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Spine head and foot faintly pushed. 2004 Hard Cover. 782 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, which inspired the BBC television series. English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at ...
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

By: Clarke, Susanna

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury: 2004

Seller ID: 2200961

ISBN: 1582344167

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First American edition, first state jacket (white with black lettering) Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Spine head and foot faintly pushed. 2004 Hard Cover. 782 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, which inspired the BBC television series. English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at Hu...
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Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper -- A Memoir

By: Cody, Diablo

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Gotham Books: 2006

Seller ID: 2260592

ISBN: 1592401821

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Spine ends lightly pushed. 2006 Hard Cover. 212 pp. 8vo. First book by the writer of the screenplay for the Academy-Award-winning film Juno starring Ellen Page & Michael Cera. Diablo Cody was twenty-four years old when she decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. On a whim, she performed at amateur night at Minneapolis's seedy Skyway Lounge. She didn't win a prize that night, but she discovered that stripping delivered a rush she had never experienced before, and too many experiences to not write about it. While she didn't fit the ordinary profile o...
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The Last Samurai

By: DeWitt, Helen

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Talk Miramax Books / Hyperion: 2000

Seller ID: 2297070

ISBN: 0786866683

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Ink name on front endpaper, corners lightly pushed. 2000 Hard Cover. viii, 530 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, a single mother of precocious and rigorous intelligence, and her son, who, owing to his mother's singular attitude to education, develops into a prodigy of learning. Ludo reads Homer in the original Greek at 4 before moving on to Hebrew, Japanese, Old Norse, and Inuit; studying advanced mathematical techniques (Fourier analysis and Laplace transformations); and, as the titl...
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Deliverance

By: Dickey, James

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1970

Seller ID: 2303543

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition (stated, 6-84530 jacket code). Jacket edges rubbed. 1970 Hard Cover. 278 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, adapted to the film starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, which was nominated for numerous awards, and imprinted an unsettling new context for the song Dueling Banjos on the collective consciousness. The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a mo...
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Giant Otto

By: Du Bois, William Pene

Price: $125.00

Publisher: The Viking Press: 1936

Seller ID: 2285925

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Binding a bit shaken but holding, edges rubbed. 1936 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. [40 pp.] Pictorial paper over boards. Author's first book. A children's story written and illustrated by William Pene du Bois, best known for The Twenty-One Balloons (1947), which won the Newbery Medal. He also worked as the art editor for The Paris Review, and was nominated for two Caldecott Medals.
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Geode / Rock Body

By: Ehrlich, Gretel

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Capricorn Press: 1970

Seller ID: 2196147

ISBN: 0912264152

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition, #39 of 50. Signed by author without inscription and hand-numbered on limitation page. Tiny sticker remnant on corner of front endpaper, otherwise an exceptional copy. 1970 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 34 pp. 8vo. The first published work by the poet, travel and nature writer, and essayist, who won the Henry David Thoreau Award. A collection of poems, it was published when the author was just 24 years old. This edition was limited to 600 copies, only 50 of which were bound in cloth. Designed and printed by Noel Young in Santa Barbara, cover drawing ...
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The Land Surveyor's Daughter: Poems (Lost Roads Number 14, 1979)

By: Gilchrist, Ellen

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Lost Roads Publishing Company / White River Printers: 1979

Seller ID: 2196149

ISBN: 0918786150

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. An exceptional copy. 1979 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 46 pp. Author's first book. A collection of poetry by the author who won the National Book Award for her 1984 short story collection Victory Over Japan. Gilchrist also studied under the well-known writer Eudora Welty at Millsaps College. Keywords: ELLEN GILCHRIST LAND SURVEYOR DAUGHTER POEMS POETRY SIGNED FIRST EDITION
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Black Sunday

By: Harris, Thomas

Price: $30.00

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1975

Seller ID: 2202745

ISBN: 0399114432

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lightly rubbed, jacket price clipped. 1975 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 318 pp. 8 1/2 x 6. Author's first book. Harris later wrote The Silence Of The Lambs, which inspired the film starring Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, and Ted Levine. Black Sunday is a 1975 novel by Thomas Harris. It was the first novel by Harris, and achieved only moderate success, until it was sold to Hollywood, for the production of a film based on the novel. The novel is a thriller about a plot by terrorists to commit mass murder during the Super Bowl in New Orlean...
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The Girl on the Train

By: Hawkins, Paula

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Riverhead Books / Penguin Group Inc.: 2015

Seller ID: 2117100

ISBN: 1594633665

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Spine ends faintly pushed. 2015 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 323 pp. 8vo. Author's first book. A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. 'Jess and Jason,' she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not...
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Getting Our Breath Back

By: Johnson, Shawne

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dutton: 2002

Seller ID: 2200760

ISBN: 0525946543

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2002 Hard Cover. viii, [2], 261 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Violet, Lilly, and Rose know how it feels to be black women trying to find their place in a changing white world. Violet, the eldest, grows up believing in the myth of the southern belle-only to discover that good manners and genteel charm aren't going to bring her acceptance from a closed-minded society... or a philandering husband. Lilly is an ex-Black Panther and writer caught up in the stormy aftermath of the sixties; she shuts out this new world of confusion and pain with the heroin that can never give her peace...
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The Jewel of Medina: A Novel

By: Jones, Sherry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Beaufort Books, Inc: 2008

Seller ID: 2207865

ISBN: 0825305187

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2008 Hard Cover. ix, 358 pp. Author's first novel. Born Aisha bint Abi Bakr in seventh century Arabia, she would become the favorite wife of the Prophet Muhammad, and one of the most revered women in the Muslim faith. Married at the age of nine, The Jewel of Medina illuminates the difficult path Aisha confronted, from her youthful dreams of becoming a Bedouin warrior, to her life as the beloved wife and confident of the founder of Islam.Extensively researched and elegantly crafted, The Jewel of Medina presents the beauty and harsh realities of life in an age long past, during a ...
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White Sky, Black Ice

By: Jones, Stan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Soho Press: 1999

Seller ID: 2300412

ISBN: 1569471525

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Author's first novel. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('Ruth - Hope you enjoy the story. Stan Jones 6-28-99, P.S. Ronnie's not a bad kid!'). 1999 Hard Cover. viii, 264 pp. 8vo. An Alaskan State trooper must satisfy both Eskimo and white man's justice. Trooper Nathan Active, child of a fifteen-year-old unmarried Inupiat Eskimo girl, was given up for adoption and raised in Anchorage, where he graduated from the university. Now that he has been posted to his remote birth village, Chukchi, he longs to return to civilization. Before that happens, he is confronted with at...
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A Soldier of the Revolution

By: Just, Ward

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1970

Seller ID: 2269668

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A bit smoky, jacket spine a bit toned. 1970 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 223 pp. Author's first novel. Ward Just took time off from the editorial page of The Washington Post to write his first novel, A Soldier of the Revolution, the story of a young man who is sent to South America to work for an American corporation and finds himself drawn into a local insurgency movement. Michael Reardon, easygoing and contemplative, passes his days in the high plateau of a South American country gathering information that disappears into the maw of a cosmetics com...
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Abacus (Wesleyan New Poets Series)

By: Karr, Mary

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press: 1987

Seller ID: 2196007

ISBN: 0819521345

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 52, [2] pp. 8vo. First novel by the author of 'three award-winning, bestselling memoirs: The Liars Club, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Cherry, which was selected as a notable book by book reviews nationwide; and Lit, which was one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year (and made virtually every other Best of the Year list) and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, Kar...
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Prodigal Summer

By: Kingsolver, Barbara

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Harper Collins: 2000

Seller ID: 2196868

ISBN: 0060199652

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. An exceptional copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [5], 444 pp. 8vo. Barbara Kingsolver, a writer praised for her extravagantly gifted narrative voice (New York Times Book Review), has created with this novel a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. At the heart o...
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The Historian

By: Kostova, Elizabeth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: 2005

Seller ID: 2284551

ISBN: 0316011770

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Spine ends lightly pushed. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 642 pp. Author's first novel. Blends history & fantasy in evoking the enigmatic figure of Vlad the Impaler. To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to My dear and unfortunate successor, and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to ...
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The Johnstown Flood [The Incredible Story Behind One of the Most Devastating 'Natural' Disasters American Has Ever Known]

By: McCullough, David

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.: 1968

Seller ID: 2283498

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Remainder mark on page base, jacket flap price crossed out (but still visible), jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1968 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 302 pp. 8vo. Includes section of black & white photographs, maps on endpapers. The first book the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. David McCullough is known to millions as the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling books The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas, and Mornings on Horseback, and as host of the popular PBS television series 'Smithsonian World?' The Johnstown Flood, David McCullough's fi...
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A Bigamist's Daughter: A Novel

By: McDermott, Alice

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Random House: 1982

Seller ID: 2196025

ISBN: 0394522028

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Board edges very slightly faded. Jacket mildly toned. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 282 pp. 8vo. First book by the author of Charming Billy, which won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Elizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream of publication (admittedly, to writers of questionable talent). Stories of true emotional depth rarely cross her desk. But when a young writer named Tupper Daniels walks in, bearing an unfinished novel, Elizab...
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The Song of Achilles

By: Miller, Madeline

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Ecco / Harper Collins: 2012

Seller ID: 2303953

ISBN: 0062060619

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Corners very slightly bruised, tiny smudge on rear board. 2012 Hard Cover. 378 pp. Author's first novel. The legend begins... Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. “The best of all the Greeks”—strong, beautiful, and the child of a goddess—Achilles is everything the shamed Patroclus is not. Yet despite their differences, the boys become steadfast companions. Their bond deepens as they grow into young men and become skilled in the arts...
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House Made of Dawn

By: Momaday, N. Scott

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Harper & Row: 1968

Seller ID: 2297072

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Edges lightly toned. 1968 Hard Cover. 212, [4] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, and the first novel by a Native American author to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his grandfather’s, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world—modern, industrial America—pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, claiming his soul, and goading him into a destructive, compulsiv...
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The Winter Should Pass: A Novel

By: Patten, Nigel

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1967

Seller ID: 2200438

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('With the respects of the author, Nigel Patten, Villar [?] Juillet '67.'). 1967 Hard Cover. 255 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Issak flees his native Antwerp after committing a terrible crime. Settling in Snowdonia, he builds a home in the hills and founds a family with Rachel, a vagrant gypsy woman. But he remains haunted by his past with Julie, his one true love, and the conviction that his eldest son will in some way pay for his father's past sins. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born near London in 1940, Nigel Patten has lived permanently ...
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Ellie and the Harpmaker [Harp Maker]

By: Prior, Hazel

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkley: 2019

Seller ID: 2292975

ISBN: 1984803786

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2019 Hard Cover. 327, [1] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. A rich, heartwarming and charming debut novel that reminds us that sometimes you find love in the most unexpected places. Dan Hollis lives a happy, solitary life carving exquisite Celtic harps in his barn in the countryside of the English moors. Here he can be himself, away from social situations that he doesn’t always get right or completely understand. On the anniversary of her beloved father’s death, Ellie Jacobs takes a walk in the woods and comes across Dan’s barn. She is enchanted by his collection. Dan gives h...
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Recital of the Dog: A Novel

By: Rabe, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press: 1993

Seller ID: 2207569

ISBN: 0802114881

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Very faint spots to top page ridge, ink stamp to title page, sticker remnants on jacket, jacket edges lightly bumped. 1993 Hard Cover. 308 pp. First novel by the Tony-winning playwright. In classic works such as Hurlyburly and Streamers, David Rabe's depictions of violence and the dark side of the human psyche have won him widespread acclaim. In Recital of the Dog, a painter who has left urban chaos for the country soon finds his hopes of tranquility shattered by a marauding intruder-a dog that torments his small herd of cows. Desperate to restore order to his world, the man sh...
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Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One) (Daw Book Collectors No. 1396)

By: Rothfuss, Patrick

Price: $600.00

Publisher: New York, Daw Books, Inc.: 2007

Seller ID: 2294212

ISBN: 075640407X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition, first printing, in 'red haired man' jacket (one of two original jacket states). An exceptional copy. 2007 Hard Cover. 661, [1] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, for which Rothfuss won the Quill Award. The second book in The Kingkiller Chronicles, The Wise Man's Fear, made it to the top of the bestsellers list, and inspired a tabletop game called Tak. Rothfuss is known in the tabletop gaming community for his appearances on Penny Arcade, Critical Role, and Tabletop. Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wiza...
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