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The Cocktail Waitress
James M. Cain · Hard Case Crime; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Following her husbands death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest... |
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Metamorphosis and Other Stories:
Franz Kafka
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A brilliant new translation of Kafka's best-known work, published for the 125th anniversary of his birth This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his |
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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This powerful gothic drama, set in Puritan Boston, tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair with an unnamed man. Branded with a scarlet A, and isolated in a strict conformist community intent on pushing her to the fringes of this |
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Alternate Side: A Novel
Anna Quindlen · Random House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The tensions in a tight-knit neighborhood - and a seemingly happy marriage - are exposed by an unexpected act of violence in this provocative new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miller's Valley and Still Life with Bread Crumbs. Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband,... |
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Swann's Way
Marcel Proust
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Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Her |
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Forever and a Death
DONALD E WESTLAKE · Hard Case Crime
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A formerly rich businessman thrown out of Hong Kong when the Chinese took over from the British decides to fix his dire financial problems and take revenge on the Chinese by tunneling under Hong Kong's bank vaults and stealing all their gold, then using a doomsday device to set off a "soliton... |
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The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
Irving Stone · NAL; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelos David, New American Library releases a special edition of Irving Stones classic biographical novel—in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A masterpiece in its own right, this novel offers a compelling portrait... |
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Strangers: A Novel
Anita Brookner · Random House
Pages: 235
Format: Hardcover
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Literary master Anita Brookner's elegant style is manifest on every page of her brilliant new novel. Beautifully crafted and emotionally evocative, Strangers portrays the magic and depth of real life, telling the rich story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears... |
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The Knife Slipped
Erle Stanley Gardner · Hardcase Crime
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Lost for more than 75 years, The Knife Slipped was meant to be the second book in the series, but shelved when Gardner's publisher objected to (among other things) Bertha Cool's tendency to "talk tough, swear, smoke cigarettes, and try to gyp people." But this tale of adultery... |
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Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
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No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy · Vintage International/Vintage Books
Pages: 309
Format: Print book
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In No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning's headlines. |
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The Sun Also Rises: The Hemingway Library Edition
Ernest Hemingway · Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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This new edition celebrates the art and craft of the quintessential story of the Lost Generation. Presented by the Hemingway family with supplementary material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library, this edition provides readers with wonderful insight regarding Hemingways... |
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