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Crooked Little Heart: A Novel

By: Anne Lamott

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Anchor: June 1998

Seller ID: 364705

ISBN: 0385491808

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With the same winning combination of humor and honesty that marked her recent nonfiction bestsellers, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott's new novel gives us an exuberant, richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected.

Rosie Ferguson, in the first bloom of young womanhood, is obsessed with tournament tennis. Her mother is a recovering alcoholic still grieving the death of her first husband; her stepfather, a struggling writer, is wrestling with his own demons. And now Rosie finds that h...
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The Planet Pirates

By: Anne McCaffrey,Jody Lynn Nye,Elizabeth Moon

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Baen: October 1993

Seller ID: 319125

ISBN: 0671721879

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Complete Saga in One Huge Volume

Two amazing women: Sassinak, who went from slave to Fleet Officer; and Lunzie, who spent a century in coldsleep. When they team up to save a confederation of worlds, the galaxy will never be the same.
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The Winter Vault

By: Anne Michaels

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Knopf: April 2009

Seller ID: 325899

ISBN: 0307270823

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the author of the acclaimed Fugitive Pieces, her first work of fiction in more than a decade: a mesmerizing love story that juxtaposes historical events with the most intimate moments of individual lives. In 1964, a newly married Canadian couple settle into a houseboat on the Nile just below Abu Simbel. Avery is one of the engineers responsible for the dismantling and reconstruction of the temple, a machine-worshipper who is nonetheless sensitive to their destructive power. Jean is a botanist by vocation, passionately interested in everything that grows. They met on the banks of the St. L...
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Shoulder the Sky: A Novel (World War I)

By: Anne Perry

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Ballantine Books: August 2005

Seller ID: 345450

ISBN: 0345456556

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In the firmament of great historical novelists, Anne Perry is a star of the greatest magnitude. First there were her acclaimed Victorian mysteries, sparkling with passion and suspense. Now readers have embraced this bestselling new series of World War I novels-which juxtapose the tranquil life of the English countryside with the horrors of war.

By April of 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of trench warfare is impartially cutting down England's youth. On one of his rescue forays into no-man's-land, Joseph finds the body of an arrogant war cor...
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Blood Canticle

By: Anne Rice

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: January 2003

Seller ID: 318765

ISBN: 0965330257

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, Book 4)

By: Anne Rice

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Knopf: October 1992

Seller ID: 321500

ISBN: 0679405283

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In another feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned.

Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale--everything he has come to believe and feel safe with--is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his...
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Taltos: Lives of the Mayfair Witches

By: Anne Rice

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Knopf: September 1994

Seller ID: 384456

ISBN: 067942573X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Rice's new novel continues the epic occult saga that began with The Witching Hour and Lasher. Taltos takes readers back through the centuries to a civilization part human and part of wholly mysterious origins, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt.
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Pandora

By: Anne Rice

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: March 1998

Seller ID: 337755

ISBN: 0375401598

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead.
The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded cafe, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life.
Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her me...
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Merrick (Vampire Chronicles)

By: Anne Rice

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: October 2000

Seller ID: 338593

ISBN: 0679454489

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In her mesmerizing new novel, the author of The Vampire Chronicles and the saga of the Mayfair Witches demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic. Here, in a magnificent tale of sorcery and the occult, she makes real for us a hitherto unexplored world of witchcraft.

At the center is the beautiful, unconquerable witch Merrick. She is a descendant of the gens de couleur libres, a society of New Orleans octoroons and quadroons steeped in the lore and ceremony of voodoo, who reign in the shadowy world where African and French--the ...
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Blood and Gold (Vampire Chronicles)

By: Anne Rice

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Ballantine Books: October 2002

Seller ID: 339939

ISBN: 0345409329

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"RICE WRITES WITH HER USUAL EROTIC AND HISTORICALLY EVOCATIVE FLAIR."
-People

Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires-in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through his eyes we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine, the horrific sack of the Eternal City at the hands of the Visigoths, and the vile aftermath of the Black Death. Ultimately restored by the beauty of the Renaissance, Marius becomes a painter, living dange...
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Merrick (Vampire Chronicles)

By: Anne Rice

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: October 2000

Seller ID: 345110

ISBN: 0679454489

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles)

By: Anne Rice

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Knopf: October 2003

Seller ID: 345111

ISBN: 037541200X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins where Blackwood Farm left off -- and tells the story of Lestat's quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair.

Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who's come to the farm to die and is brought into the realm of the undead; her uncle, Julian Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to forever torment Lestat for what he has done to Mona; Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosur...
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Violin

By: Anne Rice

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Knopf: October 1997

Seller ID: 345112

ISBN: 0679433023

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to the dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation.

At the novel's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana--who once dreamed of becoming a great musician--and the demonic fiddler Stefan, tormented ghost of a Russian aristocrat, w...
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Servant of the Bones

By: Anne Rice

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Knopf: August 1996

Seller ID: 353547

ISBN: 0679433015

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In a new and major novel, the creator of fantastic universes o vampires and witches takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones.

He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to Europe of the Black Death and on to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to ...
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The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles) Book 6

By: Anne Rice

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Ballantine Books: October 2000

Seller ID: 385230

ISBN: 0345434803

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Anne Rice in Large Print

* About Large Print
All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface

In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller ...
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Peachtree Road

By: Anne Rivers Siddons

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Ballantine Books: November 1989

Seller ID: 351707

ISBN: 0345362721

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Low Country

By: Anne Rivers Siddons

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Harper Collins: July 1998

Seller ID: 326379

ISBN: 0060176164

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a rich husband -- and a predictable routine of country-club luncheons and cocktail parties. Caroline is the chatelaine of a magnificent home, hostess to her husband's wealthy friends and prospective clients, and the official "one-woman welcome wagon" for young, eager talent that her husband, Clay, imports to their corner of South Carolina to work for the family company -- a vastly successful land-developing conglomerate.

If Caro drinks a little too much for Clay's liking, he knows the reason why, and he takes ...
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Digging to America: A Novel

By: Anne Tyler

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Ballantine Books: August 2007

Seller ID: 341492

ISBN: 034549234X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

New York Times Bestseller

Rich, tender, and searching, Digging to America challenges the notion that home is a fixed place, and celebrates the subtle complexities of life on all sides of the American experience.

Two families meet at the Baltimore airport while waiting for their baby girls to arrive from Korea. The Iranian-American Sami and Ziba Yazdan, with Ziba's elegant and reserved mother, Maryam, in tow, wait quietly while brash and all-American Bitsy and Brad Donaldson, plus extended family, are armed with camcorders and a fleet of balloons proclaiming "I...
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A Patchwork Planet (Fawcett Book)

By: Anne Tyler

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Ballantine Books: March 1999

Seller ID: 347815

ISBN: 0449003981

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order.

Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he was after, like his teenage cohorts. It was just that he liked to read other people's mail, pore over their family photo albums, and appropriate a few of their precious mementos.

But for eleven years now, he's been working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renting his back to old folks and shut-ins who can't...
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Vinegar Girl: William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare)

By: Anne Tyler

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Hogarth: March 2017

Seller ID: 351312

ISBN: 0804141282

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies.

Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she's always in trouble at work - her pre-school charges adore her, but their parents don't always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner.

Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. H...
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