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Winner of the Pultizer Prize for fiction

A gripping powerful novel set in latin america

The story of Clara, the golden child of a migrant worker whose fragile and haunting beauty plunges her too swiftly into womanhood.

Anchor Books, Doubleday, New York. Copyright 1994.

Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes that he is God's instrument.

What happened between two friends at school one summer during the early years of World War II is the subject of Separate Peace

The Rand scientific expedition entered the Amazon and never returned. Years later, one of its members has strumbled out of the rainforest- a former Special Forces soldier scarred, mutilated - terrified

The space shuttle is highjacked.. Now the countdown to adventure begins..

Doubleday and Company Inc., Garden City, New York. Copyright 1971. First Edition.

A shoot out, a dead boy, mob connections... lead to an investigation how City Hall is run...

Twenty-one month old Cassie Jones is bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yet her parents rush her to the emergency room night after night with medical symptoms no doctor can explain.

Duane can't make sense of his life anymore..The stark realization that he has spent his whole life in a miserable dust-bowl town throws him into a protacted end of life crisis....

A family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach out from the past, forever mindful of the tragic secret that could shatter the family to its foundations.

San Francisco 1928, Samuel Dashiell Hammet private eye turned writer is once again on the hunt. In Chinatown, the cathouses, the gambling dens due to the murder of a friend of his.

Out of the ashes of evil, Chris and Cathy made a loving home for their spendid children

Paise for Diane Johnson- "A masterstory teller..her sparkling prose is combined with an intense moral seriousness...each character perfectly drawn." -Susan Cheever.

For Spencer, Fujii, Hawaii is not a vacation paradise but a place of hard work and heartache, the transplanted home of his Japanese American family and the site of a long ago tragedy that shifted the balance of his world and still sears his heart.

A love story for cat people. Fully illustrated. If you ever loved an animal you will lose your heart to Mr. Cat

Dr. Au is the master of pain- needles and scalpel, his instruments of pleasure. And pleasure is business when you run the Chinese heroin connection

For Carrie, Chris and Cathy the Attic was a dark horror that would not leave their minds...

A woman goes missing from a London art gallery. Two weeks later one of her former boyfriends confesses to the murder. While his superiors press for a quick conviction..

Somehow Jilly has to stop Coltrane from destroying everything she cherishes. Including her own vulnerable heart. And the only way to do that is to uncover what Coltrane is really up to, and that could mean upsetting te explosive secrets of the past.

The ultimate espionage novel

A provocative tale of family, heartbreak, friendship, and revelation. Tara Road explores every woman's fantasy, escape into another place and time

One of the medical novels of all times. Originally published in 1937.

Ha Jin's seismically powerful new novel is at once an unblinking look into the bell jar of Communist Chinese Society and a portrait of the eternal compromises and deceptions of the human state.

"We are Family". Alexandre told his children. Loyalty and family must come before everything, and everyone else - If we falter in that loyalty, we will all be condemed.

Politican Peter January is having trouble staying alive so he hires Cliff Hardy to help him. To stand close to January is to stand close to danger and corruption

In the Joy Luck Club, vignettes alternate back and forth between the lives of four Chinese women in pre-1949 China and the lives of their American-born daughters in California.

A celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that will make you believe in love

As the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty Baptizing Wind, Grandpa Herman make the rules for everyone, and everyone obeys, or else.

Intimate acquaintances but less than friends, they meet and part in post-war London and Paris

Cassie Winslow is sixteen. She has just lost her mother in a terrible accident. She crosses the country to live with a father she barely knows and his new family in tiny False Harbor, Cape Cod. Nothing will ever be the same.

by Patrick White. The Viking Press, New York. Copyright 1976. Book Club Edition.

They were identical twins -so perfectly alike that they dared to exhange lives

An American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Avon Books, New York. 1997. First Edition. Hard cover, Good Condition.

Five actresses who have in common one lover the legendary agent and infamous lover, Frankie Adano.

Set in the beautiful Bahamas, it is the story of Maximilian Hertog.

Set in a mental ward of a military hospital on a tropical Indo-Pacific at the end of WWII.

When your dream is big enough, not even your enemies can stop you..

Set in Bitterroot valley, Montana, Billy Bob Holland, former Texas ranger and bow a Texas based lawyer, who has come to Big Sky Country for some fishing ends up helping a old friend in trouble.

by Catherine Gaskin J.B. Lippencott Company. New York. Copyright 1958. Book Club Edition.

A novel set in exposing the world's diamond industry

The lives of two men searching for a way to become brothers.

Caught between love and loyalty to her best friend, Sloane mush search her soul and make a choice to love for the moment, to walk away forever, or to fight and have it all.

A rambunctious, deadly funny novel that goes right for the human heart.

A V.I. Warshawski Mystery

Printed by Kingsport Press, Inc.

Light explores what happens to an entire family when a daughter cannot forgive her father for a single, hypocritical, soulcrushing act. It explores the dangerous bonds of fidelity between sisters, lovers, memories... Walker's language is sensual and at th

A tale of greed adventure on capitalism's wildest frontier

They were poor, young but terribly in love... struggling to fufill their dreams and longings.

Dennis McCrance is trying to find himself. He dropped out of law school and has yet to mention it to his family. He was more interested in playing the drums in a country western band than finishing college. What if he turns forty and is still waiting tabl

First Edition. Arcade Publishing, New York 1998. Hardcover, First Edition. Good Condition.

A novel for pure fun..served piping hot! Bantam Books, New York 2004. Softcover. Good Condition.

A stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. -First Edition.

An ambitious and vindictive DA, an abusive alcoholic father, a loving but isolated wife play all the parts as Jay and Albert meet in bars and basic training, train tracks and hunting shacks, graveyards, court rooms and prisons.

The story of a woman whose life is as real as your own: vibrant, imperfect, and unpredictable regarding matters of the heart...

Or The Adventures of Bingo Marsh. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Copyright 1992. Very Good Condition.

Satire is mixed with suspense in this fresh mystery novel.

Julie Harmon works hard, so hard that at times she is not sure she can stop. People depend on her. She is a teenager when her brother dies in her arms. The following year she marries Hank and moves down into the valley... to survive, they must find out wh

The great achievement of Heart of the Country is the gritty innocence of Joe Cobdon certainly one of God's suffering servants who keeps going despite what seems a completely hostile and indifferent universe.

A young Rabbi and his warm comic adventures in his first pulpit..from the day when- ah, but that would be giving the story away.

Simon & Schuster, New York. Hardcover. Ex-library. Good Condition.

This is an erotic darkly satirical tale of our times - a story of alienation and despair, war and revolution played out on shipboard, in a ozen exotic ports, and on a strife torn Caribbean island.

Cleet Lingsolving returns from WWII with no prospects. He returns to his home town and becomes entangled with a rich and powerful family, the Reardon's.

Missing Paper Jacket -Book in Good Condition. Little Brown and Company, Boston. 1996. Hardcover. Good Condition. No Jacket

A novel about ugly ducklings and swans.

A tale of romance and suspense.

A down and dirty crime novel set in LA

Lady who lives in agony with her terrible secret, until she no longer can; who decieves; who disappoints; who brings sorrow as intense as the joy she brought before.

A novel of the earth's last days

What kind of person... gets what they want? takes without asking? kills withour remorse?

Good Condition- Missing paper jacket.

Hardcover- Good Condition. Simon & Schuster, New York. 1989. Hardcover, Good Condition.

A blend of crime and romance -a witty and charming tale. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 1994. Hardcover. Good Condition.

Mirror reveals the other side of the dancer's mirror, the muscles and heart beneath the costume, the pain and the beauty, the glory beyond pain.

Translated by Richard Lourie. First Polish Edition published by Index on Censorship, London. Poland's love hate relationship with Russia is woven into this novel.

Because he has a happy marriage, two adorable small daughters, and a successful career, mystery writer Marty Stillwater counts himself a lucky man. But all this is shattered when a stranger breaks in to his house one rainy afternoon

G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 2000. Softcover. Good Condition

A woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house and her heart. A love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman and within a women herself.

A Nero Wolfe Novel.

Fictional private eyes usually come with skins like crocodiles... Leland is something else

For Pryor Blackwood nothing could cloud the excitement of tomorrows foxhunt. Not the anniversary of her husbands death... When the day of hunt dawns, circumstances of her husbands final days are revealed and a skeleton is found in a tree trunk.... forcing

Hillerman reunited Navajo Tribal Policeman Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee in an effort to unravel a treacherous web of politics and murder.

UnCorrected Proof. A brilliant story of crime and punishment that explores the nature of generosity, the impulse to "do good" .

A heart stopping authorative involving glimpse of today's convent, where sin is as haunting a vocation as sanctity itself

And Other Adventures on the Way Back Home by Bailey White. Bailey White explores how places affect our lives, from her humid hometown in Georgia to a one room school house in Vermont.

An irresistible story of two people bound together by that most binding of ties - a business contract.

The Songdog -a native American term for coyote is the symbol of story telling about the need for love and our inevitable return to the place we come from.

1920's and 1930's Saga of the Werner Family.

A red badge novel of suspense.

In memories that rise like wisps of ghosts, LuLing Young searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the Famous Bonesetter from the mouth of the Mountain.

This is one of those rare and infrequent books, in treating one thing, embraced the Universal. It is an exploration of man's relationship and dependence on fire.

"The Dante Club is pure pleasure for the reader, magnificently informed without being stuffy, gripping without being merely sensational." - Peter Strauss

Suspense from beginning to the end. It includes an international horse race, a trial, and one of the most decisive battles of all time

Vivid romance novel set in Ireland in 1651. Oliver Cromwell's Act of Settlement forces Irish citizens to leave their ancestral lands and travel to the cramped, rocky province of Connacht.-First Edition.

By Louis Auchincloss

A romantic and suspenseful story of Peter Bradford, a young Irish American who is the heir apparent to the title and the estate of an Irish great -uncle he has never seen.

Caney Paxton wanted his cafe to have the biggest and brightest sign in Eastern Oklahoma -the "Opening Soon" part was supposed to by just a removable, painted notice.

Alfred A. knopf, New York. Copyright 1977. First American Edtiion Ex-Library

A Sanders of the River Adventure.

The Locket is a Love Story about Michael and Faye and the challenges they face. It is a story of lvoe between generations, and the nurturing and forgiveness those relationships require.

In the Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein, Theodore Roszak offers us a subversive, erotically charged counterpart to mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein.

Thousands of people are drawn to the grotto where the Virgin Mary first appeared before the young peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous in 1858.

This is Frank's story... married, three children, a customer service representative... who really is Frank Bloye?

A Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award.

Sequel to This Other Eden, a spellbinding story of the noble Eden family if England's North Devon Coast.

Chief Inspector Morse must tackle the case of the murder of Yvonne Harrison.

by William Ard

In the Austrian Alps, the Nazi's recognizing their defeat, hid a sealed chest. No more than 20 years later, only a handful of people know; even fewer have any idea where it might be and what it might contain.

Tanslated from Italian.

Illustrated Edition. Illustrations by Burt Silverman

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Copyright 1971. First American Edition.

Two of his most celebrated novels- The Oldest Confession and the Manchurain Candidate.

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York Copyright 1966 by Faith Balwin Cuthell First Edition

Greeley plumbs into the depths of a woman's soul, a woman who is also a nun, a woman who want to be a saint.

Volume Two

Cleage pays attention to problems that face young African Americans, including AIDS, teenage motherhood, joblessness, crack, low self esteem, and lack of sex education.

When the legends die, the dreams end. When the dreams end, there is no more greatness. What happens to a man when he tries to stamp out his own life, the heritage of his fathers.

Here is the story of the October Revolution and the infamous night of violence that ended the lavish life of the Romanov Court forever. Paris under the shadow of the Great War, and America during the roaring 20's. An unforgettable panorama that embraces t