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In an unstable world of the near future, as three generations of a Southern California family confront a series of personal and international crises, Phil, a physician at the UCLA hospital, deals with a grieving mother, belligerent children, and disinterested wife while taking on leadership of a top-secret emergency response team. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780786290314 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 18, 2006), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: In an unstable world of the near future, Phil, a physician at the UCLA hospital, deals with a grieving mother, belligerent children, and disinterested wife while taking on leadership of a top-secret emergency response team.

Paperback:

9780345440471 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, September 25, 2007), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In an unstable world of the near future, as three generations of a Southern California family confront a series of personal and international crises, Phil, a physician at the UCLA hospital, deals with a grieving mother, belligerent children, and disinterested wife while taking on leadership of a top-secret emergency response team.

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In an unstable world of the near future, as three generations of a Southern California family confront a series of personal and international crises, Phil, a physician at the UCLA hospital, deals with a grieving mother, belligerent children, and disinterested wife while taking on leadership of a top-secret emergency response team. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780679463177 | Random House Inc, May 16, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the near future, the global threat of terror has cultivated rage, apathy, and panic.

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Product Description: In the definitive biography of John Fante, English and film studies professor Stephen Cooper explores the life of a man whose muse was Los Angeles. If ever a writer presented an enigma to the literary world, it was Fante who grappled at once with brilliance and cruelty, yet presented a talent that has been equated with that of America's finest writers...read more

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9781883318581 | Angel City Pr, August 30, 2005, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In the definitive biography of John Fante, English and film studies professor Stephen Cooper explores the life of a man whose muse was Los Angeles.

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The critically acclaimed author of The Handyman and Dreaming offers an inspirational, offbeat guide to the writing life, sharing whimsical anecdotes about favorite writers along with such sage advice as 'Keep your aspirations to yourself!' and 'Learn to tease the good ideas out of yourself.' Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780679463160 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, August 1, 2002), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The author offers an inspirational guide to the writing life, sharing anecdotes about favorite writers along with such sage advice as 'Keep your aspirations to yourself' and 'Learn to tease the good ideas out of yourself.

Paperback:

9780345440464 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, August 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The critically acclaimed author of The Handyman and Dreaming offers an inspirational, offbeat guide to the writing life, sharing whimsical anecdotes about favorite writers along with such sage advice as 'Keep your aspirations to yourself!

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Product Description: Wide beaches curve out into the Pacific, mountains frame the palm-studded views, fascinatingly diverse communities line the littoral: it is no wonder that many do consider Santa Monica Bay a paradise on earth. SANTA MONICA BAY is a sweeping illustrated history of the region...read more
By Fred E. Basten and Carolyn See (introduced by)

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9780940512306 | Hennessey & Ingalls, May 1, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Wide beaches curve out into the Pacific, mountains frame the palm-studded views, fascinatingly diverse communities line the littoral: it is no wonder that many do consider Santa Monica Bay a paradise on earth.

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A twenty-eight-year-old aspiring painter, Bob Hampton is discouraged by his lack of artistic vision, drops out of art school, and sets out to earn money as a handyman, but he soon discovers his real talent lies in repairing the mixed-up lives of his clients.

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9780345426604 | Ballantine Books, April 4, 2000, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A twenty-eight-year-old aspiring painter, Bob Hampton is discouraged by his lack of artistic vision, drops out of art school, and sets out to earn money as a handyman, but he soon discovers his real talent lies in repairing the mixed-up lives of his clients.

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Product Description: Some of the best writing in America is coming out of Southern California as is evidenced in this first-ever collection of short fiction from Los Angeles. Among the two dozen stories featured here are those by well-known voices such as Ethan Canin, Walter Mosely, and Kate Braverman, as well as those by emerging writers such as Ty Pak, Sandra Tsing Loh, and Karen E...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Steven Gilbar (editor) and Carolyn See (introduced by)

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9781890771294 | Heyday Books, April 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Some of the best writing in America is coming out of Southern California as is evidenced in this first-ever collection of short fiction from Los Angeles.

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A twenty-eight-year-old aspiring painter, Bob Hampton is discouraged by his lack of artistic vision, drops out of art school, and sets out to earn money as a handyman, but he soon discovers his real talent lies in repairing the mixed-up lives of his clients.

Hardcover:

9780786220786 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 1, 1999), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A twenty-eight-year-old aspiring painter, Bob Hampton is discouraged by his lack of artistic vision, drops out of art school, and sets out to earn money as a handyman, but he soon discovers his real talent lies in repairing the mixed-up lives of his clients
9780375501555 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A twenty-eight-year-old aspiring painter, Bob Hampton is discouraged by his lack of artistic vision, drops out of art school, and sets out to earn money as a handyman, but he soon discovers his real talent lies in repairing the mixed-up lives of his clients

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781575110592 | Unabridged edition (Publishing Mills, December 1, 1999), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A twenty-eight-year-old aspiring painter, Bob Hampton is discouraged by his lack of artistic vision, drops out of art school, and sets out to earn money as a handyman, but he soon discovers his real talent lies in repairing the mixed-up lives of his clients.
9780736646123 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, August 1, 1999), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: With this brilliant novel about the surprises of destiny and the origins of fame, the critically acclaimed author of Golden Days ("Extraordinary .

Product Description: With this brilliant novel about the surprises of destiny and the origins of fame, the critically acclaimed author of Golden Days ("Extraordinary . . . a very, very important book"-Los Angeles Times Book Review) and Making History ("Radiant ...read more
By Jonathan Marosz (narrator) and Carolyn See

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780736646895 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, April 1, 2000), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: With this brilliant novel about the surprises of destiny and the origins of fame, the critically acclaimed author of Golden Days ("Extraordinary .

Product Description: The award-winning author of Golden Days and The Rest Is Done With Mirrors now tells her life story and that of her family--one in which heavy drinking and, later, recreational drugs, were something of a family tradition. A fiercely funny and deeply empathetic book which shows that the wild life, for better and worse, has made us what we are...read more

Hardcover:

9780517193327 | Random House Value Pub, July 1, 1997, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: The award-winning author of Golden Days and The Rest Is Done With Mirrors now tells her life story and that of her family--one in which heavy drinking and, later, recreational drugs, were something of a family tradition.

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Product Description: Available again in paperback, Golden Days is a major novel from one of the most provocative voices on the American literary scene. Linking the recent past with an imagined future, Carolyn See captures life in Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s...read more

Hardcover:

9780070561205 | McGraw-Hill, January 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: As soon as an attractive, middle-aged divorcee adopts a reckless California lifestyle to escape her dreary past, she is transformed by the shattering possibility of an approaching nuclear nightmare

Paperback:

9780520206731 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, October 1, 1996), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Available again in paperback, Golden Days is a major novel from one of the most provocative voices on the American literary scene.
9780449214374 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, December 1, 1987), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: As soon as an attractive, middle-aged divorcee adopts a reckless California lifestyle to escape her dreary past, she is transformed by the shattering possibility of an approaching nuclear nightmare

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Product Description: In this bittersweet and beautifully written memoir, Carolyn See embarks on nothing less than a reevaluation of the American Dream. Although it features a clan in which dysfunction was something of a family tradition, Dreaming is no victim's story...read more

Hardcover:

9780679430261 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1995, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The author shares reminiscences of her own life and that of her family, one in which heavy drinking and recreational drugs were frequent companions

Paperback:

9780520204829 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, March 1, 1996), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: In this bittersweet and beautifully written memoir, Carolyn See embarks on nothing less than a reevaluation of the American Dream.

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Describes the misfortunes, relationships, and fragile reality of a wealthy family living in the cosmopolitan Los Angeles of the future

Hardcover:

9780395592212 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Describes the misfortunes, relationships, and fragile reality of a wealthy family living in the cosmopolitan Los Angeles of the future

Paperback:

9780440504962 | Reprint edition (Dell Books, November 1, 1992), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Describes the misfortunes, relationships, and fragile reality of a wealthy family living in the cosmopolitan Los Angeles of the future

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Product Description: John Espey and Carolyn See have so little in common it's a phenomenon. They are not from the same social class, the same region, the same religion, or even the same generation. But the unlikely, exhilarating truth is that some years ago they pooled their resources and joined forces...read more

Paperback:

9780936784885 | Daniel & Daniel Pub, May 1, 1991, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: John Espey and Carolyn See have so little in common it's a phenomenon.

Attending graduate school at UCLA, Edith and Walter Wong scramble for elusive grants, endure an impoverished lifestyle, cheat on each other, and become pawns of the federal government as they strive for academic excellence

Paperback:

9780449217993 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, April 1, 1990), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Attending graduate school at UCLA, Edith and Walter Wong scramble for elusive grants, endure an impoverished lifestyle, cheat on each other, and become pawns of the federal government as they strive for academic excellence

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Relates the intimate story of the frustrations and triumphs of Grace and Garnet, two women--mother and daughter--who are both united and divided by a failure in love

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9780698111059 | Coward Mc Cann, September 1, 1981, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Relates the intimate story of the frustrations and triumphs of Grace and Garnet, two women--mother and daughter--who are both united and divided by a failure in love

Paperback:

9780449217092 | Reprint edition (Crest, November 1, 1989), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Relates the intimate story of the frustrations and triumphs of Grace and Garnet, two women--mother and daughter--who are both united and divided by a failure in love

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Paperback:

9780449217108 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, October 1, 1989), cover price $3.95 | also contains Calculus of Residua Intro

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