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De, Shobhaa: Starry Nights
Book Number: 45613
Penguin March 30, 2005 8vo softcover 402pp very good, remainder mark on bottom edge. The Original Bollywood Novel.
Aasha Rani, the unrivalled number one of Bombay cinema, seems intent on ruining her career—and her life—blinded by a scorching passion that threatens to destroy everything she has attained. Aasha Rani's story is that of a vulnerable, small-town girl whose scheming mother pushes her via a never-ending orgy of blue films and indiscriminate sex into the crass world of Bombay cinema, teeming with vicious, preening stars and near-stars and insecure, high-society celebrities: Akshay Arora, the reigning stud of 70mm and the object of Aasha Rani's desire; Sheth Amirchand, the Don of Bombay's underworld, under whose hallowed sheets her career is sealed; Kishenbhai, the small-time distributor, who gives her her first break, and his heart; Sudha, her younger sister, whose envy and hate of her sister's success make her Aasha Rani's worst enemy.
Keywords: Starry Nights De Shobhaa
Price: $12.00 |
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Perera, Shyama: Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet
Book Number: 45697
Sceptre 1999 Large 8vo softcover 248pp. very good. This is the story of Mala and her gang, of London and growing up, of toys and boys, tears and fears, love and loss.
Keywords: Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet Perera Shyama
Price: $15.00 |
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Wroblewski, David: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Book Number: 45765
Fourth Estate July 7, 2008 8vo softcover 576pp very good.
Keywords: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Wroblewski David
Price: $18.00 |
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Adelaide, Debra: The Household Guide to Dying
Book Number: 45890
Picador Australia 1 Jun 2008 8vo softcover 400pp very good. When Delia Bennet, author and domestic advice columnist, is diagnosed with cancer, she knows it's time to get her house in order. After all, she's got to secure the future for her husband, their two daughters and their five beloved chickens. But as she writes lists and makes plans, questions both large and small creep in. Should she divulge her best culinary secrets? Read her favourite novels one last time? Plan her daughters' far-off weddings? Complicating her dilemma is the matter of the past, and a remote country town where she fled as a pregnant teenager, only to leave broken-hearted eight years later. Researching and writing her final household guide, Delia is forced to confront the pieces of herself she left behind. She learns that what matters is not the past but the present - that the art of dying is all about truly living. Fresh, witty, deeply moving - and a celebration of love, family and that place we call home - this unforgettable story will surprise and delight the reader until the very last page.
Keywords: Household Guide to Dying The Adelaide Debra
Price: $12.00 |
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Julavits, Heidi: The Uses of Enchantment: A Novel
Book Number: 45865
Anchor January 8, 2008 8vo softcover 368pp very good. On November 7, 1985, Mary Veal, 16, a not especially distinguished upper-middle-class girl, disappears from New England's Semmering Academy. A month later she reappears at Semmering, claiming amnesia, but hinting at abduction and ravishment.
Keywords: heidi julavits literary fiction psychological The Uses of Enchantment A Novel Julavits Heidi
Price: $14.00 |
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Rushdie, Salman: Fury
Book Number: 45908
Jonathan Cape Ltd August 30, 2001 8vo hardcover in d/w 259pp very good. Salman Rushdie hauls his hero, Malik Solanka, from Bombay to London to New York, and finally to a fictional Third World country, all in order to show off a preternatural ability to riff on anything from Bollywood musicals to revolutionary politics. Professor Solanka is propelled on this path by his strange love of dolls. He plays with them as a child; as an adult he quits his post at Cambridge in order to produce a TV show wherein an animated doll, Little Brain, meets the great thinkers of history. Little Brain becomes a smash hit, and perhaps inevitably, Solanka finds himself in America. (It's not only the show-biz version of manifest destiny that brings him to the New World: one night in London he finds himself standing over the sleeping figures of his beloved wife and child, frighteningly close to stabbing them. This intellectual puppeteer is, of course, fleeing himself.)
Keywords: Fury Rushdie Salman
Price: $16.00 |
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Trigiani, Adriana: Milk Glass Moon
Book Number: 46225
Pocket Books February 5, 2007 8vo softcover 320pp very good. The last in the "Big Stone Gap" trilogy (Big Stone Gap, Big Cherry Holler) brings us back to Ave Maria and Jack Mac during daughter Etta's teenage years. Despite upheaval and family tensions, this is a happy book, sprinkled with gentle, down-home humor and a rich sense of place the mountains of both Virginia and Italy. The advice from the Wise County Fair fortune-teller to "redream" or reinvent one's life is perfect for readers of all ages. Trigiani does a fine job of resolving 20-year story lines while still leaving readers wanting more. Fans of the previous novels will savor this title as well while anticipating the film version of Big Stone Gap.
Keywords: adriana trigiani Milk Glass Moon Trigiani Adriana
Price: $14.00 |
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Adichie, Chimamanda: Thing Around Your Neck
Book Number: 46706
Harper Collins Omes 8vo softcover 218pp near fine. Twelve dazzeling stories in which the author turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West.
Keywords: Thing Around Your Neck Adichie Chimamanda
Price: $16.00 |
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Knox, Elizabeth: Dreamhunter
Book Number: 46708
HarperCollins Publishers April 27, 2005 8vo softcover 368pp near fine. From School Library JournalnGrade 5-9–Laura Hame and her cousin Rose, 14, live in a recognizable early-20th-century society, realistically portrayed but for one thing: the Place, discovered about 20 years earlier by Lauras father. It lies outside geographical boundaries, and only select people are able to enter and experience dreams there. These dreamhunters then perform their received dreams for large theater audiences, and those in attendance go to sleep and experience them. At the time of this story, dreams have become big business and are embroiled in issues of social control (especially the control of prisoners) and power politics. When Lauras father disappears, the girl takes enormous risks first to try to find him, and then to complete his mission.
Keywords: Dreamhunter Knox Elizabeth
Price: $12.00 |
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Schwartz, Leslie: Angel's Crest
Book Number: 46709
Vintage January 20, 2005 8vo softcover 303pp near fine. A father pays the price for a brief moment of distraction in this histrionic lost child novel set in the mountains of California. Ethan Denton finally has everything he ever wanted. He's just won full custody of his three-year-old son, Nate, and they're living together in a tiny isolated town near a stunning peak called Angels Crest. Nate falls asleep in the truck, and Ethan makes the fateful decision to leave him for a moment while he follows the trail of two handsome bucks. By the time Ethan gets back, Nate has walked away in his footie pajamas and disappeared into the forest. Before long, nearly everyone in town is engaged in Ethan's parental nightmare, including Ethan's alcoholic ex-wife, Cindy ("with her wear-and-tear body"), lesbian couple Rocksan and Jane, ex-con woodsman Glick, diner waitress Angie and tormented Jewish judge Jack Rosenthal.
Keywords: Angel's Crest Schwartz Leslie
Price: $12.00 |
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