City and town life - Fiction
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1933 Was a Bad Year
$17.99 Add to cartTrapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, under pressure from his father to go into the family business, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfill his own dreams.
- Author: Fante, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0876856555
- Language: English
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Henry Reed, Inc.
$9.99 Add to cartHenry Reed has arrived in Grover’s Corner–and the town will never be the same. While spending the summer with his aunt and uncle, Henry comes up with a sure-fire money-making project: Henry Reed, Inc… [more below]
- Author: Robertson, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0140341447
- Language: English
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The Enigma of Arrival
$20.00 Add to cartThe Nobel Prize-winning author distills his wide experience of countries and peoples into a moving account of the rites of passage endured by all people and all communities undergoing change or decay.… [more below]
- Author: Naipaul, V. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0394757602
- Language: English
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Stones from the River
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times–“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defi
- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Hegi, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 01, 1997
- ISBN10: 068484477X
- Language: English
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Marcovaldo: Or the Seasons in the City
$18.99 Add to cartA charming portrait of one man’s dreams and schemes, by “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (Guardian).
In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrou… [more below]
- Series: Helen and Kurt Wolff Books
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 121
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0156572044
- Language: English
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Sure of You
$17.99 Add to cart“A quietly understated masterpiece.” —USA Today
The sixth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga.
A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds
- Series: Tales of the City #6
- Author: Maupin, Armistead
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0060924845
- Language: English
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Offshore
$16.99 Add to cart“Dazzling. The novelistic equivalent of a Turner watercolor.” —Washington Post
Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the
- Author: Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0544361512
- Language: English
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London Fields
$25.67 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A blackly comic late 20th-century murder mystery set against the looming end of the millennium, in which a woman tries to orchestrate her own extinction–from “one of the most gi… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Amis, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 03 1991
- ISBN10: 0679730346
- Language: English
