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Paperback:

9780914102038 | Bluefish, June 1, 1974, cover price $2.00

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Presents a gathering of ten tales, religious and funny, that dramatize and explore the process and progress of self-transcendence

Hardcover:

9780252007217 | Univ of Illinois Pr, February 1, 1979, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Presents a gathering of ten tales, religious and funny, that dramatize and explore the process and progress of self-transcendence

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Product Description: Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs andscreams at people to stay away from her babies, Claudel in number 5 thinks he is lucky until his wife burns down their trailer and runs off with Howie Leeke, and Noni in number 7 has telephone conversations with Jesus and tells the police about them...read more

Hardcover:

9780395315477 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1981, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Interrelated stories set in the small, symbolic trailer park just off an American highway, portray individuals who are alone and who take on the attributes of specific archetypes

Paperback:

9780060977061 | Reprint edition (Perennial, April 1, 1996), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs andscreams at people to stay away from her babies, Claudel in number 5 thinks he is lucky until his wife burns down their trailer and runs off with Howie Leeke, and Noni in number 7 has telephone conversations with Jesus and tells the police about them.
9780345330772 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, August 1, 1986), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Interrelated stories set in the small, symbolic trailer park just off an American highway, portray individuals who are alone and who take on the attributes of specific archetypes

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Product Description: RARE 1st edition, 1st printing HCDJ. Near FINE/Near FINE in mylar sleeve.

Hardcover:

9780914590064 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, April 1, 1982, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: RARE 1st edition, 1st printing HCDJ.

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When any work connected with coffins, gravestones, or vestments for the dead becomes heresy, a young coffin-maker faces long years in prison for conscientiously following his craft

Hardcover:

9780940650251 | 1 edition (Sun & Moon Pr, March 1, 1984), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: When any work connected with coffins, gravestones, or vestments for the dead becomes heresy, a young coffin-maker faces long years in prison for conscientiously following his craft
9780940650244 | Limited edition (Sun & Moon Pr, March 1, 1984), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: When any work connected with coffins, gravestones, or vestments for the dead becomes heresy, a young coffin-maker faces long years in prison for conscientiously following his craft

Paperback:

9780060976804 | Reprint edition (Perennial, April 1, 1996), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: When any work connected with coffins, gravestones, or vestments for the dead becomes heresy, a young coffin-maker faces long years in prison for conscientiously following his craft
9780345330765 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, February 1, 1987), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: When any work connected with coffins, gravestones, or vestments for the dead becomes heresy, a young coffin-maker faces long years in prison for conscientiously following his craft

Visiting Jamaica, where he is confronted with the beauty, brutality, and social complexity of the island, the unnamed narrator struggles to come to grips with a series of events that frighten and confuse him

Paperback:

9780060977078, titled "The Book of Jamaica" | Perennial, April 1, 1996, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Visiting Jamaica, where he is confronted with the beauty, brutality, and social complexity of the island, the unnamed narrator struggles to come to grips with a series of events that frighten and confuse him
9780345330741 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, June 1, 1986), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Visiting Jamaica, where he is confronted with the beauty, brutality, and social complexity of the island, the unnamed narrator struggles to come to grips with a series of events that frighten and confuse him

The narrator searches for the true identity of Hamilton Stark, a pipefitter by profession, a New Englander by heredity, an accidental philanderer, and a purposeful anti-hero who has rejected five wives and his only daughter

Paperback:

9780060977054 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1996, cover price $14.95
9780345330758 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, December 1, 1986), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The narrator searches for the true identity of Hamilton Stark, a pipefitter by profession, a New Englander by heredity, an accidental philanderer, and a purposeful anti-hero who has rejected five wives and his only daughter

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781556441486 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95

Product Description: Originally published by Harper in 1985 to great acclaim, Continental Drift is an American masterpiece about innocence and evil by one of the most important novelists writing today.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781556441479 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Originally published by Harper in 1985 to great acclaim, Continental Drift is an American masterpiece about innocence and evil by one of the most important novelists writing today.

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Product Description: [Read by Cassandra Campbell and J. Paul Boehmer]In Family Life, Russell Banks' first novel, he transforms the dramas of domesticity into the story of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom. Life inside this kingdom includes the king, who squeals angrily as is his wont; the queen, who, while pondering the mirror in her chambers, decides to write a book; and three adolescent princes who are, respectively, a superb wrestler, a fanatical sports car driver, and a sullen drunk...read more

Hardcover:

9781557130051 | Signed edition (Sun & Moon Pr, August 1, 1988), cover price $30.00
9781557130044 | Rep sub edition (Sun & Moon Pr, August 1, 1987), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: [LIBRARY EDITION Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl Case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.

Paperback:

9780060977047 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, April 1, 1996), cover price $12.00
9780345346933 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, January 1, 1991), cover price $5.95 | also contains Translation and Localisation in Video Games: Making Entertainment Software Global | About this edition: [LIBRARY EDITION Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl Case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781482968682 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 12, 2013), cover price $22.99 | About this edition: [Read by Cassandra Campbell and J.

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Product Description: Book by
By Russell Banks (editor), Michael Ondaatje (editor) and David Young (editor)

Paperback:

9780889103498 | Coach House Books, January 1, 1989, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by

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Wade Whitehouse, a gentle man and the victim of a violent father, is driven to sudden criminal acts by a fellow cop whom he suspects of murdering a local labor official and by an ex-wife who limits his contact with their daughter. Reprint. Movie tie-in.

Hardcover:

9780060161422 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A gentle man, the victim of a violent father, is made violent himself by a fellow cop whom he suspects of murdering a local labor official, and an ex-wife who limits contact with their daughter

Paperback:

9780060920074 | Reprint edition (Perennial, September 1, 1990), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A gentle man, the victim of a violent father, is made violent himself by a fellow cop whom he suspects of murdering a local labor official, and an ex-wife who limits contact with their daughter

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Following a tragic school bus accident, the people of a small town try to come to terms with the deaths of their children. By the author of Continental Drift. Reprint. National ad/promo.

Hardcover:

9780060167035 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1991, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Four narrators--bus driver Dolores, upright Bill, shrewd Mitchell, and teenaged Nichole--address agonizing questions as they describe an accident that killed fourteen children and the effects of the tragedy on themselves and their town

Paperback:

9780060923242 | Reprint edition (Perennial, September 1, 1992), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Four narrators--bus driver Dolores, upright Bill, shrewd Mitchell, and teenaged Nichole--address agonizing questions as they describe an accident that killed fourteen children and the effects of the tragedy on themselves and their town

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Four narrators--bus driver Dolores, upright Bill, shrewd Mitchell, and teenaged Nichole--address agonizing questions as they describe an accident that killed fourteen children and the effects of the tragedy on themselves and their town

Reinforced:

9780606300094 | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $22.35 | About this edition: Four narrators--bus driver Dolores, upright Bill, shrewd Mitchell, and teenaged Nichole--address agonizing questions as they describe an accident that killed fourteen children and the effects of the tragedy on themselves and their town

Prebinding:

9781417636419, titled "Sweet Hereafter" | Turtleback Books, August 5, 1992, cover price $24.55 | About this edition: Four narrators--bus driver Dolores, upright Bill, shrewd Mitchell, and teenaged Nichole--address agonizing questions as they describe an accident that killed fourteen children and the effects of the tragedy on themselves and their town

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Product Description: Student book - Elementary Level

Hardcover:

9780021464203 | Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Div, June 1, 1993, cover price $69.84 | About this edition: Student book - Elementary Level

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Product Description: Stories and Poems. Contributors include: A. Artidor, Margaret Atwood, Madison Smartt Bell, James Bland, Hayden Carruth, Robert Creeley, Fielding Dawson, Deborah Digges, Stephen Dobyns, Jessica Hagedorn, Lola Haskins, Garrett Hongo, Fanny Howe, Mark Jarman, Laura Kasischke, Martin Lammon, Dana Levin, Adrian C...read more
By Russell Banks (editor) and Chase Twichell (editor)

Paperback:

9780933277090 | Ploughshares Books, December 1, 1993, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Stories and Poems.

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Slipping into the dangerous world of drugs and petty theft as a means of rebelling against an abusive home life, a teenaged Chappie takes on a new identity and encounters a host of unusual characters, including a sexually victimized young girl. Reprint. $50,000 ad/promo. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780060172756 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Slipping into the dangerous world of drugs and petty theft as a means of rebelling against an abusive home life, Chappie takes on a new identity and encounters a host of characters, including a sexually victimized young girl

Paperback:

9780060927240 | Reprint edition (Perennial, April 1, 1996), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Slipping into the dangerous world of drugs and petty theft as a means of rebelling against an abusive home life, Chappie takes on a new identity and encounters a host of characters, including a sexually victimized young girl

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559948098 | Harperaudio, May 1, 1995, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Attempting to escape his abusive home life, fourteen-year-old Chappie takes on a new identity and encounters a host of characters, one of whom leads him to Jamaica, where he meets the father who left him when he was five.

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Presents a gathering of ten tales, religious and funny, that dramatize and explore the process and progress of self-transcendence (view table of contents)

Paperback:

9780252007224 | Reissue edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, August 1, 1996), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Presents a gathering of ten tales, religious and funny, that dramatize and explore the process and progress of self-transcendence

An exhibition of striking photographs of the residents of a small town in Maine is accompanied by fascinating text, written by the acclaimed author of Cloudsplitter, that offers a sense of the life people endure in such places.

Hardcover:

9780060192341 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, July 1, 1999), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Photographs of the residents of a small town in Maine are accompanied by text that offers a sense of the life people endure in such places

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After his ill-fated pursuit of the American dream, Bob Dubois finds employment on a fishing boat off the Florida Keys where he becomes involved in a plot to smuggle two Haitians into Florida

Hardcover:

9780060153830 | Harpercollins, February 1, 1985, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: After his ill-fated pursuit of the American dream, Bob Dubois finds employment on a fishing boat off the Florida Keys where he becomes involved in a plot to smuggle two Haitians into Florida

Paperback:

9780060854942 | Harper Perennial Modern Classics, March 1, 2007, cover price $14.99
9780060956738 | Perennial, June 1, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: After his ill-fated pursuit of the American dream, Bob Dubois finds employment on a fishing boat off the Florida Keys where he becomes involved in a plot to smuggle two Haitians into Florida.
9780060925741 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1994, cover price $13.50 | also contains Having and Raising Children: Unconventional Families, Hard Choices, and the Social Good
9780345330215 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, December 1, 1988), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: After his ill-fated pursuit of the American dream, Bob Dubois finds employment on a fishing boat off the Florida Keys where he becomes involved in a plot to smuggle two Haitians into Florida

Prebinding:

9781417648634 | Turtleback Books, June 1, 2000, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: After his ill-fated pursuit of the American dream, Bob Dubois finds employment on a fishing boat off the Florida Keys where he becomes involved in a plot to smuggle two Haitians into Florida.

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Product Description: AUTODAFE is a collection of reports, interviews, correspondence, narratives, and stories from around the world. The review aims to be a place for debate and experimentation, a place where writers, silenced by censorship join voices with world-renowned writers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Russell Banks (editor)

Paperback:

9781583222621 | Seven Stories Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: AUTODAFE is a collection of reports, interviews, correspondence, narratives, and stories from around the world.

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A collection of short stories extends into the vast territory of the heart and world, from working class New England to Florida, the Carribean, and Africa.

Hardcover:

9780060173968, titled "The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks" | Harpercollins, June 1, 2000, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A collection of short stories extends into the vast territory of the heart and world, from working class New England to Florida, the Carribean, and Africa.

Paperback:

9780060931254, titled "The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks" | Perennial, April 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories extends into the vast territory of the heart and world, from working class New England to Florida, the Carribean, and Africa.

Reinforced:

9780606227780 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $24.60 | About this edition: A collection of short stories extends into the vast territory of the heart and world, from working class New England to Florida, the Carribean, and Africa.

Prebinding:

9780613457064 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $28.15 | About this edition: A collection of short stories extends into the vast territory of the heart and world, from working class New England to Florida, the Carribean, and Africa.

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Product Description: El angel en el tejado/ The angel on the roof (Spanish Edition)

Hardcover:

9788493271268, titled "El angel en el tejado/ The angel on the roof" | Losada/ Espana, June 1, 2002, cover price $41.95 | also contains El angel en el tejado/ The angel on the roof | About this edition: El angel en el tejado/ The angel on the roof (Spanish Edition)

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Product Description: El angel en el tejado/ The angel on the roof (Spanish Edition)

Hardcover:

9788493271268 | Losada/ Espana, June 1, 2002, cover price $41.95 | also contains El Angel En El Tejado | About this edition: El angel en el tejado/ The angel on the roof (Spanish Edition)

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Product Description: One day Bob Dubois dropped out — with his boat he wants to make true his dream of sun and freedom. In Florida he meets the young Vanise, who escaped the poverty of Haiti. A delicate and unusual love story starts. But then the idealistic Bob makes a momentous decision: He participates in the business of illegal immigrants...read more

Paperback:

9781400055111 | Goldmann Wilhelm Verlag Gmbh, January 1, 2003, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: One day Bob Dubois dropped out — with his boat he wants to make true his dream of sun and freedom.
9781400055111 | Goldmann Wilhelm Verlag Gmbh, January 1, 2003, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: One day Bob Dubois dropped out — with his boat he wants to make true his dream of sun and freedom.

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