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Vinegar Hill (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Ansay, A. Manette

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: March 1998

Seller ID: 131554

ISBN: 0380730138

Condition: Used - Good

In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill--a loveless house suffused with the settling dust of bitterness and routine--where calculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service...
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The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Buck, Pearl S.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Washington Square Press: September 2004

Seller ID: 108278

ISBN: 0743272935

Condition: Used - Good

Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In "The Good Earth" she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century w...
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Great Expectations (English Library)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: December 1965

Seller ID: 95881

ISBN: 0140430032

Condition: Used - Good

This endearing tale of Pip and the mysterious fortune that changes his life will be in theaters this fall from 20th Century Fox/Knickerbocker Films, starring Robert DeNiro, Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Anne Bancroft.
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A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Dover Publications: March 1999

Seller ID: 130371

ISBN: 0486406512

Condition: Used - Good

Against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Dickens unfolds a masterpiece of drama, adventure, and courage featuring Charles Darnay, a man falsely accused of treason. He bears an uncanny resemblance to the dissolute, yet noble Sydney Carton. Brilliantly plotted, the novel culminates in a daring prison escape in the shadow of the guillotine.
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As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: October 1990

Seller ID: 129697

ISBN: 067973225X

Condition: Used - Good

"I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall." --William Faulkner on "As I Lay Dying" "As I Lay Dying" is Faulkner's harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members--including Addie herself--as well as others the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Considered one of the most influential novels in Amer...
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The Book of Ruth

By: Hamilton, Jane

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor Books: January 1990

Seller ID: 132826

ISBN: 0385265700

Condition: Used - Good

A Map of the World: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Hamilton, Jane

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor: December 1999

Seller ID: 134559

ISBN: 0385720106

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Mother of Pearl

By: Haynes, Melinda

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Hyperion: June 1999

Seller ID: 120909

ISBN: 0786866276

Condition: Used - Good

Marking the debut of a stunning new literary talent, Mother of Pearl captures the irony and beauty of life in the Deep South in exquisite prose that brings to mind Kaye Gibbons and Olive Ann Burns. But Haynes creates a wholly distinctive new style by drawing on her own Southern roots and the "noble county" language of her youth in this remarkable first novel.Set in a small Mississippi town in the late 1950s, Mother of Pearl is populated by wonderfully rich and original characters with themes of identity and the true meaning of family interwoven throughout. The story revolves around twenty-e...
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Mother of Pearl (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Haynes, Melinda

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Washington Square Press: June 2000

Seller ID: 134224

ISBN: 0671774670

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Capturing all the rueful irony and racial ambivalence of small-town Mississippi in the late 1950s, Melinda Haynes' celebrated novel is a wholly unforgettable exploration of family, identity, and redemption. "Mother of Pearl" revolves around twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, the fifteen-year-old white daughter of the town whore and an unknown father. Both are passionately determined to discover the precious things neither experienced as children: human connection, enduring commitment, and, above all, unconditional love. A startlingly accom...
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Fall on Your Knees

By: MacDonald, Ann-Marie

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage Books: July 1997

Seller ID: 131555

ISBN: 0099740516

Condition: Used - Good

The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives -- even destroy them. Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, "Fall on Your Knees is an internationally acclaimed multigenerational saga that chronicles the lives of four unforgettable sisters. Theirs is a world filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love. Compellingly written, by turns menacingly dark and hilariously funny, this is an epic tale of five generations of sin, guilt, and redemption.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: January 2004

Seller ID: 132201

ISBN: 0060740450

Condition: Used - Good

One of the 20th century's enduring works, "One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize- winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendi a family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendi a family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of...
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

By: Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: November 1994

Seller ID: 105668

ISBN: 0140119906

Condition: Used - Good

One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)

By: Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics: March 2006

Seller ID: 134219

ISBN: 0060883286

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.
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The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2008) (Vintage International)

By: McCarthy, Cormac

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: October 2008

Seller ID: 128095

ISBN: 0307455297

Condition: Used - Good

NATIONAL BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE WINNERNational Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist A "New York Times" Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year"The Boston Globe," "The Christian Science Monitor," "The Denver Post," "The Kansas City Star," "Los Angeles Times," "New York," "People," "Rocky Mountain News," "Time," "The Village Voice," "The Washington Post" The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It ...
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Gap Creek: A Novel

By: Morgan, Robert

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Algonquin Books: January 2000

Seller ID: 133885

ISBN: 1565122968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A "New York Times" Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club PickYoung Julie Harmon works hard as a man, they say, so hard that at times she s not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better.But Julie and Hank s new life in the valley, in the last years of the nineteenth century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Sometimes it s hard to tell what to fear most the fires and floods or the flesh-and...
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Back Roads (Oprah's Book Club)

By: O'Dell, Tawni

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Viking Adult: March 2000

Seller ID: 26423

ISBN: 0670894184

Condition: Used - Good

Cry, the Beloved Country

By: Paton, Alan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Scribner: September 2003

Seller ID: 80550

ISBN: 0743262174

Condition: Used - Good

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much." The most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948, Alan Paton's impassioned nove...
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Night

By: Wiesel, Elie

Price: $2.75

Publisher: Bantam Books: November 1987

Seller ID: 131762

ISBN: 0553272535

Condition: Used - Good

"Night" -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as "The Diary Of Anne Frank," "Night" awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.
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