Description: 15 Advance Reading Copies (ARC) / Uncorrected Proofs All are novels of bestselling and prestigious authors dating from between 2005 & 2012 Chance to get 15 books for about the price of one new one. Plus Advance Reading Copies are scarce compared to the general release of these titles to the public. Titles & short descriptions as follows: 1 - Title: Great House Author: Nicole Krauss Publisher: W.W. Norton 2010 Description:This is a stated Advanced Reading Copy known also as an ARC of, Great House a novel by Nicole Strauss. Wraps (paperback) as issued. Pre-publication announcement on rear cover that the book will be published October, 2010 A powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through. For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet’s secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet’s daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer’s life reeling. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father’s study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944. Connecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. As the narrators of Great House make their confessions, the desk takes on more and more meaning, and comes finally to stand for all that has been taken from them, and all that binds them to what has disappeared. Great House is a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our children and how do they absorb our dreams and losses? How do we respond to disappearance, destruction, and change? Nicole Krauss has written a soaring, powerful novel about memory struggling to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss. Condition - Very good plus with light wear. see photos Pages: 289 2- Title: Matrimony Author: Joshua Henkin Publisher: Pantheon 2007 Description:This is a stated Advanced Readers Edition also known also as an ARC - Advance Reading Copy / uncorrected proof for Matrimony by Joshua Henkin. Wraps (paperback) as issued. Pre-publication announcement on rear cover that the book will be published October 2007 It's the fall of 1986, and Julian Wainwright, an aspiring writer, arrives at Graymont College in New England. Here he meets Carter Heinz, with whom he develops a strong but ambivalent friendship, and beautiful Mia Mendelsohn, with whom he falls in love. Spurred on by a family tragedy, Julian and Mia's love affair will carry them to graduation and beyond, taking them through several college towns, over the next fifteen years. Starting at the height of the Reagan era and ending in the new millennium, Matrimony is a stunning novel of love and friendship, money and ambition, desire and tensions of faith. It is a richly detailed portrait of what it means to share a life with someone-to do it when you're young, and to try to do it afresh on the brink of middle age. Condition - Near Fine with light wear on edges. see photos Pages: 293 3- Title: Sartori A Novel Based on Trevanian's Shibumi Author: Don Winslow Publisher: Grand Central Publishing 2011 Description:This is a stated Advanced Uncorrected Copy also known also as an ARC - Advance Reading Copy for limited distribution of, Satori by Don Winslow. Wraps (paperback) as issued. Pre-publication announcement on rear cover that the book will be published March 7, 2011 Nicholai Hel-genius, mystic, and the perfect, formidable assassin-was first introduced to readers in Shibumi, the classic #1 bestseller by master storyteller Trevanian. Now critically acclaimed author Don Winslow continues Hel's story for the first time in this all-new, blockbuster thriller. Prepare to meet the world's most dangerous man . . . It is the fall of 1951, and the Korean War is raging. Twenty-six-year-old Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement at the hands of the Americans. Hel is a master of hoda korosu, or "naked kill," is fluent in seven languages, and has honed extraordinary "proximity sense"-an extra-awareness of the presence of danger. He has the skills to be the world's most fearsome assassin and now the CIA needs him. The Americans offer Hel freedom, money, and a neutral passport in exchange for one small service: to go to Beijing and kill the Soviet Union's commissioner to China. It's almost certainly a suicide mission, but Hel accepts. Now he must survive chaos, violence, suspicion, and betrayal while trying to achieve his ultimate goal of satori-the possibility of true understanding and harmony with the world. Condition - Near Fine and unread. see photos Pages: 418 4- Title: Down Town A Novel - The Journal of James Aloysius Holcombe , Jr. for Ephraim Holcombe Mookinfoos Author: Ferrol Sams Publisher: Mercer University Press 2007 Description:This is a stated ARC - Advance Reading Copy of, Down Town by Ferrol Sams. Wraps (paperback) as issued. ARC announcement on front cover. The literacy landscape of the rural South is peppered with great storytellers, but few are as endearing as James Aloysius ?Buster? Holcombe, Jr., observant narrator of the new novel by best-selling author Ferrol Sams. Buster Holcombe begins his tale immediately after the Civil War, as the patriarchs of his small Georgia town sow seeds that will sprout for more than a century. Generation after generation, we are introduced to the men and women of ?our town.? As he has demonstrated in previous books, including the highly acclaimed Run With the Horsemen, Ferrol Sams is a master at developing rich characters. Calculating politicians, ruthless businessmen, nosey spinsters, manipulating wives, Southern belles, morticians, - they're all part of the fabric of ?our town.? And Buster Holcombe, the piano playing, poetry loving lawyer who never had time for a wife, loves them all in spite of their shortcomings. Ferrol Sams' eye for what is real among the myths and what's human is unerring. Condition - Very good plus w/ minimal mark to spine - unread. see photos Pages: 309 5- Title: Queen of America A Novel Author: Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher: Little, Brown & Company 2011 Description:This is a stated Advanced Reading Copy known also as an ARC - Uncorrected Proof for limited distribution of, The Queen of America a novel by Luis Alberto Urrea. Wraps (paperback) as issued. Pre-publication announcement on rear cover that the book will be published December, 2011 At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny, Queen of America tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age and finding her place in a new world. Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea's bestselling The Hummingbird's Daughter left off, Queen of America finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and "Saint of Cabora," with her father in 1892 Arizona. But, besieged by pilgrims in desperate need of her healing powers, and pursued by assassins, she has no choice but to flee the borderlands and embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of turn-of-the-century America. Teresita's passage will take her to New York, San Francisco, and St. Louis, where she will encounter European royalty, Cuban poets, beauty queens, anxious immigrants and grand tycoons -- and, among them, a man who will force Teresita to finally ask herself the ultimate question: is a saint allowed to fall in love? Condition - Fine and unread. see photos Pages: 479 6- Title: The Wake of Forgiveness A Novel Author: Bruce Machart Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt 2010 Description:This is a stated Advanced Uncorrected Proof known also as an ARC - Advance Reading Copy of, The Wake of Forgiveness a novel by Bruce Machart. Wraps (paperback) as issued. Pre-publication announcement on rear cover that the book will be published October 21, 2010 “A mesmerizing, mythic saga” of a Texas family damaged by a dark past, and a son driven by a need for redemption (The New York Times Book Review). On a moonless Texas night in 1895, an ambitious young landowner suffers the loss of his wife—"the only woman he’s ever been fond of"—when she dies giving birth to their fourth son, Karel. The boy is forever haunted by thoughts of the mother he never knew and the bloodshot blame in his father’s eyes, and is permanently marked by the yoke he and his brothers are forced to wear to plow the family fields. But from an early age, Karel proves remarkably talented on horseback, and his father enlists him to ride in horseraces against his neighbors, with acreage as the prize. Now, Karel prepares for a high-stakes race against a powerful Spanish patriarch and his alluring daughters—and hanging in the balance are his father’s fortune, his brothers’ futures, and his own fate—in this "powerful story of familial love, anguish, and hatred" (The Dallas Morning News). "[A] luminous and wrenching tale of four motherless brothers." —Entertainment Weekly "This intense, fast-paced debut novel is hard to put down. Machart’s hard-hitting style is sure to capture fans of Cormac McCarthy and Jim Harrison." —Library Journal, starred review "A gripping American drama." —Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried Condition - Fine and unread. see photos Pages: 309 7- Title: Thirteen Steps Down A Novel Author: Ruth Rendell Publisher: Crown Publishers, 2005 Description:This is a stated Advanced Readers Edition known also as an ARC - Advance Reading Copy / Uncorrected Proof of, Thirteen Steps Down a novel by Ruth Rendell. Wraps (paperback) as issued. Pre-publication announcement on spine that the book will be published September 2005 Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying house in Nottinghill, where he plans to pursue his two abiding passions--supermodel Nerissa Nash, whom he worships from afar, and the life of serial killer Reggie Christie, hanged fifty years earlier for murdering at least eight women. Gwendolen Chawcer, Mix’s eighty-year-old landlady, has few interests besides her old books and her new tenant. But she does have an intriguing connection to Christie. And when reality intrudes into Mix’s life, he turns to Christie for inspiration and a long pent-up violence explodes. Intricately plotted and brilliantly written, 13 Steps Down enters the minds of these disparate people as they move inexorably toward its breathtaking conclusion. Condition - Good - was partially read and shows light crease to cover and general light wear with an inner page having previously been folded down in a corner. Wear to edges. (Covers have no titles, but shows endorsements from the New Yorker, P.D. James; Joyce Carol Oates; Tony Hillerman; Patricia Cornwell; the New York Times Book Review; Sue Grafton Scott Turow; Time Magazine; Washington Post; John Mortimer; People Magazine; and Marilyn Stasio). see photos Pages: 340 8- Title: The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore A Novel Author: Benjamin Hale Publisher: Twelve Books, 2011 Description:This is a stated ARC - Advance Reading Copy / Uncorrected Proof of, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore A Novel by Benjamin Hale. Wraps (paperback) as issued. Pre-publication announcement on rear cover that the book will be published February 2, 2011 Bruno Littlemore is quite unlike any chimpanzee in the world. Precocious, self-conscious and preternaturally gifted, young Bruno, born and raised in a habitat at the local zoo, falls under the care of a university primatologist named Lydia Littlemore. Learning of Bruno's ability to speak, Lydia takes Bruno into her home to oversee his education and nurture his passion for painting. But for all of his gifts, the chimpanzee has a rough time caging his more primal urges. His untimely outbursts ultimately cost Lydia her job, and send the unlikely pair on the road in what proves to be one of the most unforgettable journeys -- and most affecting love stories -- in recent literature. Like its protagonist, this novel is big, loud, abrasive, witty, perverse, earnest, and amazingly accomplished. The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore goes beyond satire by showing us not what it means, but what it feels like be human - to love and lose, learn, aspire, grasp, and, in the end, to fail. Condition - Fine and unread. see photos Pages: 578 9- Title: The Yellow Birds A Novel Author: Kevin Powers Publisher: Little, Brown & Company 2012 Description:This is a stated Advanced Uncorrected Proof known also as an ARC - Advance Reading Copy for limited distribution of, The Yellow Birds a novel by Kevin Powers. Wraps (paperback) as issued. Pre-publication announcement on rear cover that the book will be published September 11, 2012 Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic. Condition - Fine and unread. see photos Pages: 226 10- Title: Lula Bell on Geekdom, Freakdom + The Challenges of Bad Hair Author: C.C. Payne Publisher: Amazon Children's Publishing Description:This is a stated Uncorrected Proof also known also as an ARC - Advance Reading Copy . Wraps (paperback) as issued. Pre-publication announcement on rear cover that the book will be published October 2, 2012 While Lula Bell Bonner tries desperately to fit in by not standing out, her wise and irrepressible Grandma Bernice says: Let your light shine! It's Grandma Bernice who provides the joy that balances Lula Bell’s difficult school life, but when this balance is upended, when Kali Keele turns up the heat on her cruel teasing, and when the talent show –that she should NEVER have signed up for-- is about to happen, how in the world can Lula Bell cope?This funny, heartfelt novel exploring friendship, family, and forgiveness, introduces an unforgettable hero, lost in the wilderness of 5th grade, searching for her own shining light. Condition - Fine and unread. see photos Pages: 266 11 - Title: American Dervish A Novel Author: Ayad Akhtar Publisher: Little, Brown 2012 Description:This is a stated Advanced Reading Copy known also as an ARC of, American Deevish a novel by Ayad Akhtar. Wraps (paperback) as issued. Pre-publication announcement on rear cover that the book will be published January, 2012 Hayat Shah, a young Pakistani American, lives in a boring suburb of Milwaukee with his unhappily married parents who are secular Muslims. His mother's best friend Mina and her son Imran come from Pakistan to stay with the family, escaping her ex-husband who threatens to take away Imran. Mina brightens the lives of the Shah family, becoming especially close with Hayat, telling him Sufi stories and teaching him the Quran. Hayat becomes obsessed with being a hafiz (someone who can recite the entire Quran from memory) after Mina tells him that the parents of hafiz are guaranteed a place in Paradise. Meanwhile, she meets Dr. Shah's best friend Nathan and falls in love with him. Nathan, who is Jewish, explores Islam and even expresses an interest in converting. Dr. Shah is an atheist and warns his best friend not to convert as he believes the local imam is only interested in money. When Hayat, Nathan and Dr. Shah go to the mosque to see the imam about Nathan converting, he preaches an anti-Semitic khutbah, devastating Nathan. Hayat is jealous when he realizes that Nathan and Mina are still planning on marrying. He sends a telegram to her ex-husband, revealing that Mina is marrying Nathan. Mina's family threatens to disown her if she marries him and Nathan moves away to Boston. Dr. Shah angrily forbids his son to read the Quran and burns Hayat's copy, although he secretly reads it at school in his effort to become a hafiz. Against the Shahs' objections, Mina decides to marry Sunil, a divorced Pakistani man from Kansas. During her wedding, Hayat discovers from Farhaz that true hafiz recite the Quran in Arabic while he has only been learning it in English. As a result, Hayat gives up on the Quran for many years. After her marriage Mina realizes that her new husband is controlling and abusive; he forces her to move back to Kansas with him. 8 years later when Mina is dying of cancer Hayat finally confesses to her that he sent the telegram. She forgives him and after she dies he sees Nathan and learns that the couple had been secretly keeping in contact. Condition - Near Fine with very light wear. see photos Pages: no page count in ARC, but back cover says book will be 368 pages 12- Title: The Snow Child Author: Eowyn Ivey Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books, Little, Brown & Company 2012 Description:This is a stated Advanced Uncorrected Proof known also as an ARC - Advance Reading Copy for limited distribution of, The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. Wraps (paperback) as issued. Pre-publication announcement on rear cover that the book will be published Feb 1, 2012 In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart -- he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone -- but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them. Reviews "If Willa Cather and Gabriel Garcia Marquez had collaborated on a book, THE SNOW CHILD would be it. It is a remarkable accomplishment -- a combination of the most delicate, ethereal, fairytale magic and the harsh realities of homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness in 1918. Stunningly conceived, beautifully told, this story has the intricate fragility of a snowflake and the natural honesty of the dirt beneath your feet, the unnerving reality of a dream in the night. It fascinates, it touches the heart. It gallops along even as it takes time to pause at the wonder of life and the world in which we live. And it will stir you up and stay with you for a long, long time."—Robert Goolrick, New York Times bestselling author of A Reliable Wife "THE SNOW CHILD is enchanting from beginning to end. Ivey breathes life into an old tale and makes it as fresh as the season' s first snow. Simply lovely."—Keith Donohue, New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child "A transporting tale . . . an amazing achievement."—Sena Jeter Naslund, New York Times bestselling author of Ahab's Wife "THE SNOW CHILD is a vivid story of isolation and hope on the Alaska frontier, a narrative of struggle with the elements and the elemental conflict between one's inner demons and dreams, and the miracle of human connection and community in a spectacular, dangerous world. You will not soon forget this story of learning to accept the gifts that fate and love can bring."—Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek "Eowyn Ivey's exquisite debut transports the reader away to a world almost out of time, into a fairytale destined to both chill and delight. Her portrayal of an untamed Alaska is so detailed you can feel the snowflakes on your own eyelashes, even as her characters' desperate quest for, and ultimate redemption by, love will warm your heart."—Melanie Benjamin, author of Alice I Have Been "Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled there, including an older couple bound together by resilient love. Eowyn Ivey's poignant debut novel grabbed me from the very first pages and made me wish we had more genre-defying Alaska novels like this one. Inspired by a fairy tale, it nonetheless contains more depth and truth than so many books set in this land of extremes."—Andromeda Romano-Lax, author of The Spanish Bow Condition - Near Fine and unread. see photos Pages: 389 13 - Title: Dead End In Norvelt Author: Jack Gantos Publisher: FSG 2011 2012 NEWBERY AWARD WINNING BOOK and was a GUARDIAN'S CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE Description:This is a stated Advanced Readers Edition known also as an ARC of, Dead End In Norvelt by Jack Gantos. Wraps (paperback) as issued. Pre-publication announcement on rear cover that the book will be published September 2011 Dead End in Norvelt is an autobiographical novel by the American author Jack Gantos, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2011. It features a boy named Jack Gantos and is based in the author's hometown, Norvelt, Pennsylvania. According to one reviewer, the "real hero" is "his home town and its values", a "defiantly political" message. The American Library Association awarded Gantos and Dead End the 2012 Newbery Medal, honoring the book as the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". It also won the annual Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. In Britain, where it was published by the Transworld Publishers imprint Corgi Books, it was one of eight books on the longlist for the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Newbery medal judges called the book "achingly funny" and one British reviewer called it "rib-splitting". This is a brilliant book, full of history, mystery, and laughs. It reminded me of my small-town childhood, although my small town was never as delightfully weird as Norvelt.” —Dave BarryMelding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a feisty old neighbor with a most unusual chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launched on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder. Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air. Reviews:“A bit of autobiography works its way into all of Gantos's work, but he one-ups himself in this wildly entertaining meld of truth and fiction by naming the main character . . . Jackie Gantos.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “A fast-paced and witty read.” —School Library Journal “A more quietly (but still absurdly) funny and insightful account of a kid's growth, kin to Gantos's Jack stories, that will stealthily hook even resistant readers into the lure of history.” — Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB) “This winning novel, both humorous and heartwarming, takes place during the summer of 1962, when narrator Jack Gantos turns 12 and spends most of his days grounded. Jack's main ‘get out of jail free card,' and one of the novel's most charming characters, is Miss Volker. The blossoming of their friendship coincides with the blooming of Jack's character.” —Shelf Awareness Pro “ There's more than laugh-out-loud gothic comedy here. This is a richly layered semi-autobiographical tale, an ode to a time and place, to history and the power of reading.” —The Horn Book, starred review “Gantos, as always, delivers bushels of food for thought and plenty of outright guffaws.” —Booklist “ An exhilarating summer marked by death, gore and fire sparks deep thoughts in a small-town lad not uncoincidentally named 'Jack Gantos.' The gore is all Jack's, which to his continuing embarrassment 'would spray out of my nose holes like dragon flames' whenever anything exciting or upsetting happens. And that would be on every other page, seemingly. . . . Characteristically provocative gothic comedy, with sublime undertones.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Nobody can tell a story like Jack Gantos can. And this is a story like no other. It's funny. It's thoughtful. It's history. It's weird. But you don't need me to attempt to describe it. Get in there and start reading Gantos.” —Jon Scieszka, founder of guysread.com and author of the Spaceheadz series From the Publisher Condition - Near Fine with light wear and slight lean at spine. see photos Pages: 341 14- Title: Heft A Novel Author: Liz Moore Publisher: Norton 2012 Description:This is a Advanced Reading Copy also known also as an ARC - of, Heft A Novel by Liz Moore. Wraps (paperback) as issued. Sticker on front and rear covers that this copy is an ARC and Complimentary Review copy. From the New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River: "A stunningly sad and heroically hopeful tale…This is a beautiful novel about relationships of the most makeshift kind." —O, The Oprah Magazine Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn’t left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising baseball career. The link between this unlikely pair is Kel’s mother, Charlene, a former student of Arthur’s. Told with warmth and intelligence through Arthur and Kel’s own quirky and lovable voices, Heft is the story of two improbable heroes whose connection transforms both their lives. Condition - Near Fine and unread. see photos Pages: 352 15- Title: Alif The Unseen A Novel Author: G. Willow Wilson Publisher: Grove Press 2012 Description:This is a Advance Proof also known also as an ARC - of, Alif The Unseen A Novel by G. Willow Wilson. Wraps (paperback) as issued. Rear cover states that this copy is a Uncorrected Proof Not For Resale. Alif the Unseen is a masterful debut novel, an enchanting, incredibly timely adventure tale worthy of Neil Gaiman. In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker protects watched groups from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble—until he falls in love with the wrong woman and unleashes a forbidden text thought to be written by the jinn. As the book opens, Alif’s computer has just been breached by the “Hand of God,” as the hackers call the state’s electronic security force, and he is scrambling to protect his clients—dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other vulnerable groups in autocratic states across the region. The aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted him for a prince chosen by her parents, and when it turns out the fiance is the Hand, and the state security forces come after Alif with guns drawn, he must go underground, trying all the while to fight back against a piece of code he wrote to protect his lover but which the Hand is using to create the most sophisticated state surveillance the world has ever known. When Alif discovers The Thousand and One Days, the secret book of the jinn, has fallen into his hands and may unleash a new level of information technology, the stakes are raised and Alif must struggle for life or death. With shades of Neal Stephenson, Philip Pullman, and The Thousand and One Nights, Wilson’s Alif the Unseen is a tour de force that will enchant readers—a sophisticated melting pot of ideas, philosophy, religion, technology, and spirituality smuggled inside an irresistible page-turner. Condition - Very Good plus slight crease to cover, smudge to first page on publishers announcement but book is unread. see photos Pages: 431 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Terms (payment, shipping, tax, returns, feedback, etc.) Please read before buying U.S. bidders only Payment Please pay within 48 hours of winning. eBay managed payments Shipping Shipping will be $20.50 (heavy box) and will be shipped USPS media mail with tracking. 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Book Title: Lot of 15 ARCs
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Publication Year: 2012
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Author: Bruce Machart, Don Winslow, Joshua Henkin, Benjamin Hale, Nicole Krauss, Ferrol Sams, Luis Alberto Urrea, Kevin Powers, C.C. Payne, Ruth Rendell, Liz Moore, Jack Gantos, Eowyn Ivey, Ayad Akhtar, G. Willow Wilson
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