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Paul Cattleman is convinced that leaving Harvard to accept a position in a large corporation in Los Angeles was a great decision, but his wife, Katherine, is equally convinced it was a great mistake

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9780805051797 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, August 1, 1997), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Paul Cattleman is convinced that leaving Harvard to accept a position in a large corporation in Los Angeles was a great decision, but his wife, Katherine, is equally convinced it was a great mistake
9780380719365 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, November 1, 1992), cover price $9.00 | About this edition: A young couple from New England's Ivy League plunges into a culture clash during a year in Los Angeles.
9780380700707, titled "Nowhere City" | Reprint edition (Avon Books, May 1, 1986), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Paul Cattleman is convinced that leaving Harvard to accept a position in a large corporation in Los Angeles was a great decision, but his wife, Katherine, is equally convinced it was a great disaster

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Explores the darker underside of higher education, the problems of seduction and adultery, and the consequences of scandal on a small New England campus

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9780805051780 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, August 1, 1997), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Explores the darker underside of higher education, the problems of seduction and adultery, and the consequences of scandal on a small New England campus
9780380719457 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, August 1, 1993), cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled.

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Sixteen legends of the constellations and how they got their names, taken from such varied sources as ancient Greece, Babylon, Egypt, Sumeria, the Bible, Norway, the Balkans, Indonesia, and the American Indians.

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9780374329105 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1980, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of tales from all over the world features legends and myths concerning the stars and planets, with full-color illustrations depicting major figures and showing their position in the night sky

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9780374429270 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1996, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A collection of tales from all over the world features legends and myths concerning the stars and planets

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Product Description: Ghostly hauntings, both literal and metaphorical, are the subject of this delightful Halloween treat by one of America's wittiest and most literate novelists. An irresistible blend of realism, satire and fantasy, each story is delightfully spooky and satisfying.

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9780385473927 | Doubleday, September 1, 1994, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Nine stories deal with a woman who meets the ghost of her fiance's first wife, apparitions of obesity, the ghost of a trick-or-treater, a poet shadowed by her double, and a ghost who only appears when his former fiancee is having an intimate moment with another man

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9780380725014 | Avon Books, October 1, 1995, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Ghostly hauntings, both literal and metaphorical, are the subject of this delightful Halloween treat by one of America's wittiest and most literate novelists.
9780786204151 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 1995), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of nine tales focuses on women haunted by spirits of the night and the mind, such as the story of an imminent second wife who is visited by the ghost of the first, and a dieting secretary who sees obese people everywhere she looks
9780385518314 | Nan a Talese, March 7, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The author of The War Between the Tates and the Pulitzer prize-winning Foreign Affairs now brings her irresistible wit to the ghost story.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745130538 | Chivers, June 1, 1995, cover price $43.01 | About this edition: A collection of nine tales focuses on women haunted by spirits of the night and the mind, such as the story of an imminent second wife who is visited by the ghost of the first, and a dieting secretary who sees obese people everywhere she looks

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9788449300042, titled "El lenguaje de la moda / the Language of Fashion" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, March 4, 1994, cover price $48.95

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9780380714025, titled "Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: Why Kids Love the Books They Do" | Reprint edition (Avon Books, June 1, 1991), cover price $9.95

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Bedlam breaks out at the Tate household as a four-way conflict erupts between Brian and Erica and their two teenage children

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9780394462011 | Random House Inc, July 1, 1974, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Bedlam breaks loose at the Tate household as a four-way conflict erupts between Brian and Erica and their two teenage children

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9780380711352, titled "The War Between the Tates" | Reprint edition (Avon Books, January 1, 1991), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Bedlam breaks out at the Tate household as a four-way conflict erupts between Brian and Erica and their two teenage children

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On a run-down farm in 1935, over the July 4th weekend, two couples, their two little girls, and the headmistress of the girls' progressive school each face a crisis, revelation, or turning point through a network of understandings and misunderstandings

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9780394504711 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1979, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: On a run-down farm in 1936, over the July 4th weekend, two couples, their two little girls, and the headmistress of the girls' progressive school each face a crisis, revelation, or turning point through a network of understandings and misunderstandings

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9780380708758 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, April 1, 1990), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: On a run-down farm in 1935, over the July 4th weekend, two couples, their two little girls, and the headmistress of the girls' progressive school each face a crisis, revelation, or turning point through a network of understandings and misunderstandings

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Polly Alter, a single parent and compassionate feminist, researches the untimely death of painter Lorin Jones, only to be exposed to fast-paced worlds beyond her experience and her own difficult questions

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9780316537209 | Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Polly Aller, a single parent and compassionate feminist, researches the untimely death of painter Lorin Jones, only to be exposed to fast-paced worlds beyond her experiece and her own difficult questions

Paperback:

9780380708079 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, April 1, 1990), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Polly Alter, a single parent and compassionate feminist, researches the untimely death of painter Lorin Jones, only to be exposed to fast-paced worlds beyond her experience and her own difficult questions

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This collection of essays probes the ways in which classic children's literature tends to undermine, rather than support, respectable adult values

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9780316537223 | 1 edition (Little Brown & Co, March 1, 1990), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This collection of essays probes the ways in which classic children's literature tends to undermine, rather than support, respectable adult values

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781556441141 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781556441134 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95

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Vinnie Miller, a professor of children's literature, and Fred Turner, and assistant professor at the same American university, pursue their separate affairs in London during the same six-month period

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9788472232334 | Tusquets Editor, June 1, 1986, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Vinnie Miller, a professor of children's literature, and Fred Turner, and assistant professor at the same American university, pursue their separate affairs in London during the same six-month period

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Presents retellings of European folktales that feature heroines who fight and hunt, defeat giants, answer riddles, and rescue all sorts of friends and relatives from distress

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9780690039436 | Ty Crowell Co, March 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Presents retellings of European folktales that feature heroines who fight and hunt, defeat giants, answer riddles, and rescue all sorts of friends and relatives from distress

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