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Caroline's Daughters

An incisive portrait of the interconnected lives of thrice-married Caroline Carter and her five very different daughters--Sage, Liza, Fiona, Jill, and Portia--is set against the colorful backdrop of San Fransicco

By Alice Adams

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Hardcover:

9780394568256 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, December 1, 1991), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: An incisive portrait of the interconnected lives of thrice-married Caroline Carter and her five very different daughters--Sage, Liza, Fiona, Jill, and Portia--is set against the colorful backdrop of San Fransicco

9780816153022 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, December 1, 1991), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: An incisive portrait of the interconnected lives of thrice-married Caroline Carter and her five very different daughters--Sage, Liza, Fiona, Jill, and Portia--is set against the colorful backdrop of San Francisco

Paperback:

9780671028480 | Washington Square Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $21.95

9780449148761 | Reprint edition (Gold Medal, May 1, 1993), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: An incisive portrait of the interconnected lives of thrice-married Caroline Carter and her five very different daughters--Sage, Liza, Fiona, Jill, and Portia--is set against the colorful backdrop of San Fransicco

Second Chances

Product Description: In a moving and richly evocative novel about the remarkable capacity of the human spirit, Alice Adams brings readers into the beautiful community of San Sebastian, California, where a group of dear old friends have shared their lives for many wonderful, difficult years...read more

By Alice Adams

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Hardcover:

9780394568249 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A group of friends who have known one another for decades grapples with the realization that they are growing old, attempts to come to terms with the past, and searches for new possibilities in their lives

Paperback:

9780671028497 | Washington Square Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In a moving and richly evocative novel about the remarkable capacity of the human spirit, Alice Adams brings readers into the beautiful community of San Sebastian, California, where a group of dear old friends have shared their lives for many wonderful, difficult years.

9780449146125 | Reprint edition (Gold Medal, June 1, 1989), cover price $4.95 | also contains 2 Thessalonians: Chapters 1-3 | About this edition: A group of friends who have known one another for decades grapples with the realization that they are growing old, attempts to come to terms with the past, and searches for new possibilities in their lives

9781555047047 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, January 1, 1989), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A group of friends who have known one another for decades grapples with the realization that they are growing old, attempts to come to terms with the past, and searches for new possibilities in their lives

Almost Perfect

Punctured by frequent fights and impassioned reconciliations, Stella and Richard's love affair threatens to rupture under the force of a dark secret, in a novel chosen by The New York Times as a Notable Book of 1993. Reprint.

By Alice Adams

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Hardcover:

9780786201808 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 1994), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Richard Fallon and Stella Blake, a seemingly perfect couple living in San Francisco in the 1980s, head for a crash when Richard's erratic personality deteriorates into madness

9780679423980 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 1, 1993, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Richard Fallon and Stella Blake, a seemingly perfect couple living in San Francisco in the 1980s, head for a crash when Richard's erratic personality deteriorates into madness

Paperback:

9780671020699 | Reprint edition (Washington Square Pr, July 1, 1998), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Richard Fallon and Stella Blake, a seemingly perfect couple living in San Francisco in the 1980s, head for a crash when Richard's erratic personality deteriorates into madness

9780449148921 | Reprint edition (Gold Medal, July 1, 1994), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Richard Fallon and Stella Blake, a seemingly perfect couple living in San Francisco in the 1980s, head for a crash when Richard's erratic personality deteriorates into madness

Superior Women

A New York Times best-selling novel traces the friendships and inner lives of four varied young women who meet at Radcliffe at the end of World War II. By the author of Medicine Men. Reprint.

By Alice Adams

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9780896216174 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 1985), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Five young women nmet at Radcliffe in the late 1930s and grow to maturity--through intrigues, ambitions, affairs, and marriages--in the fifties, sixties, and seventies

9780394536323 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 1, 1984, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Five young women meet at Radcliffe in the late 1930s and grow to maturity-through intrigues, ambitions, affairs, and marriages--in the fifties, sixties, and seventies

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9780671020682 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, July 1, 1998), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A New York Times best-selling novel traces the friendships and inner lives of four varied young women who meet at Radcliffe at the end of World War II.

9780449207468 | Reissue edition (Crest, November 1, 1993), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Five young women meet at Radcliffe in the late 1930s and grow to maturity--through intrigues, ambitions, affairs, and marriages--in the fifties, sixties, and seventies

A Southern Exposure

Escaping from a poor job and a brush with adultery, the Bairds move to South Carolina during the Depression in the hopes of regaining their lost innocence, but their new home changes them in unexpected ways

By Alice Adams

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Hardcover:

9780679444527 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1995, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Escaping from a poor job and a brush with adultery, the Bairds move to South Carolina during the Depression in the hopes of regaining their lost innocence, but their new home changes them in unexpected ways

Paperback:

9780449911136 | Fawcett Books, November 1, 1996, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Escaping from a poor job and a brush with adultery, the Bairds move to South Carolina during the Depression in the hopes of regaining their lost innocence, but their new home changes them in unexpected ways

9781568953243 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, May 1, 1996), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Escaping from a poor job and a brush with adultery, the Bairds move to South Carolina during the Depression in the hopes of regaining their lost innocence, but their new home changes them in unexpected ways

Mexico: Some Travels and Some Travelers There

Recounting her decade-long obsession with Mexico, the author describes Mayan ruins, the misery of Mexico City, Mexican art, and the magic of the country's landscape and people

By Alice Adams

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Hardcover:

9780132023269 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1991, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Recounting her decade-long obsession with Mexico, the author describes Mayan ruins, the misery of Mexico City, Mexican art, and the magic of the country's landscape and people

Paperback:

9780671792770 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, December 1, 1992), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Recounting her decade-long obsession with Mexico, the author describes Mayan ruins, the misery of Mexico City, Mexican art, and the magic of the country's landscape and people

The Emblem in Renaissance and Baroque Europe: Tradition and Variety : Selected Papers of the Glasgow International Emblem Conference 13-17 August, 1

Product Description: The volume is a cross-section of contributions to the Glasgow International Emblem Conference 1990, and demonstrates the range of research currently under way into the emblem tradition in the Renaissance and Baroque periods and the variety of its development across the centuries in many European countries...read more

By Alice Adams and Anthony J. Harper (editor)

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9789004095885 | Brill Academic Pub, April 1, 1992, cover price $236.00 | About this edition: The volume is a cross-section of contributions to the Glasgow International Emblem Conference 1990, and demonstrates the range of research currently under way into the emblem tradition in the Renaissance and Baroque periods and the variety of its development across the centuries in many European countries.

Listening to Billie

Eliza Hamilton Quarles, a writer at forty, comes to terms with her proper past, her family, and her lovers and reaches out toward independence, unqualified personal success, and self-understanding

By Alice Adams

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Hardcover:

9780394410692 | Random House Inc, December 1, 1977, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Eliza Hamilton Quarles, a writer at forty, comes to terms with her proper past, her family, and her lovers and reaches out toward independence, unqualified personal success, and self-understanding

Paperback:

9780449219973 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, December 1, 1991), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Eliza Hamilton Quarles, a writer at forty, comes to terms with her proper past, her family, and her lovers and reaches out toward independence, unqualified personal success, and self-understanding

The Best American Short Stories, 1991

Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada

By Alice Adams and Katrina Kenison (editor)

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9780395544105 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada

Paperback:

9780395544099, titled "Best American Short Stories, 1991" | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1991, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada

Families and Survivors

By Alice Adams

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9780449219959 | Reprint edition (Crest, August 1, 1991), cover price $4.99 | also contains Chakra Balancing for Animals

After You'Ve Gone

A new selection of short stories explores the impact and adjustment of individuals dealing with separation and the loss of lovers, spouses, parents, and friends

By Alice Adams

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Hardcover:

9780394579269, titled "After You'Ve Gone" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A new selection of short stories explores the impact and adjustment of individuals dealing with separation and the loss of lovers, spouses, parents, and friends

Paperback:

9780449218815, titled "After You'Ve Gone" | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, October 1, 1990), cover price $4.95 | also contains Captain Danger Super Cat

Rich Rewards

In flight from a finished love affair in Boston, Daphne Matthiessen--veteran of many affairs--arrives in San Francisco to visit an old school friend, becomes involved with the friend's friends, and submits to memory and fantasy

By Alice Adams

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Hardcover:

9780394511016 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1980, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In flight from a finished love affair in Boston, Daphne Matthiessen--veteran of many affairs--arrives in San Francisco to visit an old school friend, becomes involved with the friend's friends, and submits to memory and fantasy

Paperback:

9780449146521 | Reprint edition (Gold Medal, March 1, 1990), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: In flight from a finished love affair in Boston, Daphne Matthiessen--veteran of many affairs--arrives in San Francisco to visit an old school friend, becomes involved with the friend's friends, and submits to memory and fantasy

Careless Love

By Alice Adams

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Paperback:

9780449146118 | Reissue edition (Gold Medal, May 1, 1989), cover price $3.95 | also contains 12 Easy to Make Decadent Looking Dessert Recipes

2nd Chances

A group of friends who have known one another for decades grapples with the realization that they are growing old, attempts to come to terms with the past, and searches for new possibilities in their lives

By Alice Adams

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Hardcover:

9781555047283 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, January 1, 1989), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A group of friends who have known one another for decades grapples with the realization that they are growing old, attempts to come to terms with the past, and searches for new possibilities in their lives

Roses, Rhododendron

By Alice Adams

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9781556280207 | Redpath Pr, December 1, 1988, cover price $4.95

Beautiful Girl

Tells the stories of a maid, a college girl in Paris, a girl's visit to a psychiatrist, a burglary, two dissimilar brothers, a jealous husband, and an alcoholic heiress

By Alice Adams

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Hardcover:

9780394427379 | Random House Inc, December 1, 1978, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: This first collection by the celebrated short-story writer contains sixteen stories that represent the best of her writing from The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and the O.

Paperback:

9780449214121 | Reprint edition (Crest, October 1, 1987), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of a maid, a college girl in Paris, a girl's visit to a psychiatrist, a burglary, two dissimilar brothers, a jealous husband, and an alcoholic heiress

Swastika on Our Door/Molly's Dog

By Alice Adams

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781556441745, titled "Swastika on Our Door/Molly's Dog" | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, July 1, 1987, cover price $13.95

Alice Adams Interview With Kay Bonetti

By Alice Adams

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781556441752 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95

Return Trips

The author writes in these stories of people in motion, traveling in search of friends, culture, renewed engagement with life--people seeking the magic of a new place or traveling to places of childhood to put the past to rest

By Alice Adams

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Hardcover:

9780394536330 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The author writes in these stories of people in motion, traveling in search of friends, culture, renewed engagement with life--people seeking the magic of a new place or traveling to places of childhood to put the past to rest

Paperback:

9780449209530 | Reprint edition (Crest, August 1, 1986), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The author writes in these stories of people in motion, traveling in search of friends, culture, renewed engagement with life--people seeking the magic of a new place or traveling to places of childhood to put the past to rest

The Available Press/Pen Short Story Collection

Gathers eighty-three stories describing the problems people face with relationships, work, and the complexities of modern life

By Alice Adams

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9780345321268 | Ballantine Books, October 12, 1985, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Gathers eighty-three stories describing the problems people face with relationships, work, and the complexities of modern life

To See You Again

Tells the stories of a woman distraught over the loss of her husband's diaries, a teacher's unexpected attraction towards a student, and an artist's reevaluation of her life and accomplishments

By Alice Adams

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Hardcover:

9780394523354 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1982, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Tells the stories of a woman distraught over the loss of her husband's diaries, a teachers's unexpected attraction towards a student, and an artist's reevaluation of her life and accomplishments

Paperback:

9780140064834 | Viking Pr, May 1, 1983, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of a woman distraught over the loss of her husband's diaries, a teacher's unexpected attraction towards a student, and an artist's reevaluation of her life and accomplishments

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