Condition: Very good

April Liesgang and Caleb Shannon have known each other for just three short months, so their Valentine's Day wedding at a chapel near the shores of Lake Michigan has both families in an uproar. As the festivities unfold (and the cash bar opens), everyone has an opinion and a lively prediction about April and Caleb's union, each the reflection of a different marital experience.Meanwhile, at the nearby Hideaway Lodge, a domestic quarrel ends in tragedy. As April and Caleb's life together begins, death parts another man and woman in angry violence--and as the two stories gradually intersect, thei...
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Kimmie66

By: Aaron Alexovich

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Minx : 2007

Seller ID: 0134274

ISBN-13: 9781401203733

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich Navigate the neon-lit corridors of an online VR lair in this high-velocity, dangerous quest to locate the world's first digital girl, written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich (Serenity Rose, TV's Invader Zim and Avatar: The Last Airbender) Telly Kade is pretty much your typical 23rd century teen. She's got impossible hair, misfit friends, a big sloppy brother...and a pair of VR goggles that lets her live among the vampires - online, at least. She's also got a problem: a suicide note from her best friend, Kimmie66. But if Kimmie is really dead, why ...
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Watermelon Syrup

By: Abbie Jacobsen

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press : 2007

Seller ID: 0130351

ISBN-13: 9781554580057

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor's family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two children. Lexi soon adapts to modern conveniences, happily wears Cammy's expensive cast off clothes, and is transformed from an innocent into a chic urban beauty. When Lexi is called home to Saskatchewan to care for her dying mother, she returns a changed person. At home, Lexi finds a journal written by her older brother during...
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A Three Dog Life

By: Abigail Thomas

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Harcourt : 2006

Seller ID: 0059675

ISBN-13: 9780156033237

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

When Abigail Thomas's husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institution. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change, of moving to a small country town, of a new family composed of three dogs, knitting, and friendship, of facing down guilt and discovering gratitude. It is also about her relationship with Rich, a man who lives in...
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Superjack

By: Adam Baron

Price: $9.99

Publisher: MacMillan : 2001

Seller ID: 0156908

ISBN-13: 9780333906170

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Handbook For Hosts

By: Adam Bluestein

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Town & Country : 2006

Seller ID: 0128667

ISBN-13: 9781588165541

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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Paris To The Moon

By: Adam Gopnik

Price: $11.48

Publisher: Random House : 2008

Seller ID: 0076854

ISBN-13: 9780375758232

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The finest book on France in recent years."--Alain de Botton, The New York Times Book Review In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of Paris. In the grand tradition of Stein, Hemingway, Baldwin, and Liebling, Gopnik set out to enjoy the storied existence of an American in Paris--walks down the paths of the Tuileries, philosophical discussions in caf s, and afternoon jaunts to the Mus e d'Orsay. But as readers of Gopnik's beloved and award-winning "Paris Journal" in The New ...
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