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Caramelo or Puro Cuento

By: Cisneros, Sandra

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2002

Seller ID: 2270192

ISBN: 0679435549

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition, review copy with slip laid in. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Spine head and foot faintly pushed. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 443, [7] pp. 8vo. The celebrated author of The House on Mango Street gives us an extraordinary new novel, told in language of blazing originality: a multigenerational story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and poignancy—the very stuff of life. Lala Reyes’ grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl, makers. The striped ca...
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A Simple Habana Melody (From When the World Was Good) [Havana]

By: Hijuelos, Oscar

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Harper Collins: 2002

Seller ID: 2199820

ISBN: 0060175699

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition, advance promotional copy. Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 342 pp. 8vo. It is 1947 and Israel Levis, a Cuban composer whose life had once been a dream of music, love and sadness, is returning to Habana, Cuba, from Spain, where he has just recovered from the physical and spiritual malaise resulting from his experiences in Paris, then Buchenwald, during the Nazi occupation of France. (A devout Catholic, Levis had been mistakenly identified as a Jew because of his n...
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Spreading Fires: A Novel

By: Knowles, John

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1974

Seller ID: 2196210

ISBN: 0394469151

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine cocked, pages toned, black and white photograph by Random House of John Knowles (author) inserted into book. Jacket toned, general light wear to jacket. 1974 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 166 pp. The story of a villa, a cook, an American diplomat, and a forest fire above the villa. First edition. Black and white photograph by Random House of John Knowles (author) inserted into book.
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Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy, 1800-1900

By: Mohr, James C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1978

Seller ID: 2304105

ISBN: 0195022491

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Review copy. Jacket edges rubbed. 1978 Hard Cover. xii, 331 pp. The history of how abortion came to be banned and how women lost--for the century between approximately 1870 and 1970--rights previously thought to be natural and inherent over their own bodies is a fascinating and infuriating one.
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Thirteen [13] Ways of Looking at the Novel

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2005

Seller ID: 2196936

ISBN: 1400040590

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Publisher's review slip and signed promotional photo of author laid in. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 591 pp. 8vo. Over an extraordinary twenty-year career, Jane Smiley has written all kinds of novels: mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. “Is there anything Jane Smiley cannot do?” raves Time magazine. But in the wake of 9/11, Smiley faltered in her hitherto unflagging impulse to write and decided to approach novels from a different angle: she read one hundred of them, from classi...
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Good Faith: A Novel

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2003

Seller ID: 2196939

ISBN: 0375412174

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Publisher's review slip and promotional photo of author laid in. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 417 pp. 8vo. Jane Smiley brings her extraordinary gifts—comic timing, empathy, emotional wisdom, an ability to deliver slyly on big themes and capture the American spirit—to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about what happens when the American Dream morphs into a seven-figure American Fantasy. Joe...
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At Paradise Gate

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1981

Seller ID: 2269284

ISBN: 0671425986

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. Signed without inscription by author on title page. A bit smoky, top page ridge a bit foxed, light crease on front jacket flap corner. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 224 pp. 8vo. The second novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley is known for her exceptionally wide-ranging talent and keen takes on everyday life. Her novel A Thousand Acres was made into a critically acclaimed motion picture starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange, and her new novel, The All-True T...
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf: The Book That Breaks Masonic Silence

By: Thorn, Richard P.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: M. Evans & Company, Inc.: 1994

Seller ID: 2200389

ISBN: 0871317605

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('For Bob Zabel with best wishes, Richard P. Thorn, M.D.'). Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 1994 Hard Cover. 243 pp. 8vo. As the religious right spreads its influence throughout the U.S., it is inevitable that some of its more provocative speakers should tread on the toes of other groups, both religious and nonreligious. In Thorn's case, the fundamentalists have met their match. Thorn attacks the critics of Masonry, showing where they err in their assumptions and providing some good insights into the nature of the Mason...
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