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Product Description: This love story, by the author of Birdy and Dad, is set in Paris in 1975. Jack, 49, and American, has walked out on his fast-lane corporate career and troubled marriage to return to his first love, painting. He lives a hand-to-mouth existence in Paris, struggling to express his long-suppressed feelings through his art...read more

Hardcover:

9780374183899 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1991, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Jack leaves his wife and high-powered job to fulfill his long-abandoned dream of being an artist in Paris, where a seventy-year-old blind woman helps him to reclaim his artistic vision

CD/Spoken Word:

9781501286070 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, August 18, 2015), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: This love story, by the author of Birdy and Dad, is set in Paris in 1975.
9781423358190 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, August 17, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This love story, by the author of Birdy and Dad, is set in Paris in 1975.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780930435875 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 1, 1991), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: This love story, by the author of Birdy and Dad, is set in Paris in 1975.
9781561000814 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, August 1, 1991), cover price $73.25 | About this edition: This love story, by the author of Birdy and Dad, is set in Paris in 1975.

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Product Description: In Tidings, one of America’s best-loved authors paints a vivid scene of an unusual family Christmas.At an old mill in the French countryside, philosophy teacher Will and his wife Loretta await the return of their four adult children for the Christmas holidays...read more

Hardcover:

9780805005325 | Henry Holt & Co, November 1, 1987, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Will, a philosophy teacher at the American College in France, his wife, Lor, and their four grown children prepare to celebrate what promises to be their last Christmas together as a family

Paperback:

9780007458035 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, November 7, 2013, cover price $16.45 | About this edition: In Tidings, one of America’s best-loved authors paints a vivid scene of an unusual family Christmas.
9780070695047 | 1 edition (McGraw-Hill, January 1, 1989), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Will, a philosophy teacher at the American College in France, his wife, Lor, and their four grown children prepare to celebrate what promises to be their last Christmas together as a family

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Paperback:

9780007513017 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, June 20, 2013, cover price $13.75

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Product Description: Author of such classic wartime novels as Birdy and A Midnight Clear, William Wharton was one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. However, he was also a very private man—he wrote under a pseudonym and rarely gave interviews—so fans and critics could only speculate how much of his work was autobiographical and how much was fiction...read more

Hardcover:

9780062257376 | William Morrow & Co, May 14, 2013, cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Author of such classic wartime novels as Birdy and A Midnight Clear, William Wharton was one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.

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Recounts the tragic deaths of the author's daughter, son-in-law, and their two small children in a car accident that occurred as a result of bonfire smoke and describes how a 'vision' he had three days later prompted him to take legal action

Hardcover:

9781557042231, titled "Ever After: A Father's True Story" | William Morrow & Co, June 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Recounts the tragic deaths of the author's daughter, son-in-law, and their two small children in a car accident that occurred as a result of bonfire smoke and describes how a 'vision' he had three days later prompted him to take legal action

Paperback:

9781557048431, titled "Ever After: A Father's True Story" | Harpercollins, October 6, 2009, cover price $14.95
9781557042965, titled "Ever After: A Father's True Story" | Newmarket Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Recounts the tragic deaths of the author's daughter, son-in-law, and two small children in a car accident that occurred as a result of bonfire smoke and describes how a "vision" he had three days later prompted Wharton to take legal action.

Birdy, fascinated with birds since early childhood, concentrates all his energies on his passion for flight, becoming an obsessed teen-age Leonardo, building models, exercising to strengthen his 'wing' muscles, and, in his dreams, falling in love with one of his birds

Hardcover:

9780394425696 | Random House Inc, January 1, 1979, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Birdy, fascinated with birds since early childhood, concentrates all his energies on his passion for flight, becoming an obsessed teen-age Leonardo, building models, exercising to strengthen his 'wing' muscles, and, in his dreams, falling in love with one of his birds

Paperback:

9780881452266 | Broadway Play Pub, June 30, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: From the acclaimed 1978 novel by William Wharton, BIRDY tells the story of a man undone by the horrors of World War II and the friend who tries to guide him back to earth.
9780679734123 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 1992), cover price $17.00

Prebinding:

9781439508060 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $23.00

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Product Description: This love story, by the author of Birdy and Dad, is set in Paris in 1975. Jack, 49, and American, has walked out on his fast-lane corporate career and troubled marriage to return to his first love, painting. He lives a hand-to-mouth existence in Paris, struggling to express his long-suppressed feelings through his art...read more

CD/Spoken Word:

9781423358206 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, August 17, 2008), cover price $39.25 | About this edition: This love story, by the author of Birdy and Dad, is set in Paris in 1975.

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The author reflects on his family's decision to live on a houseboat on the Seine, detailing the renovation of a crippled vessel, the excitement and adventure experienced by his family, and the French lifestyle

Hardcover:

9781557042729 | William Morrow & Co, July 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The author reflects on his family's decision to live on a houseboat on the Seine, detailing the renovation of a crippled vessel, the excitement and adventure experienced by his family, and the French lifestyle

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Called home by the news of his mother's heart attack, John Tremont--in his fifties--finds himself trapped in his own middle age, between his college-drop-out son's impatience to live and his father's heartbreaking weariness and inability to cope

Hardcover:

9780394510972 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1981, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Called home by the news of his mother's heart attack, John Tremont--in his fifties--finds himself trapped in his own middle age, between his college-drop-out son's impatience to live and his father's heartbreaking weariness and inability to cope

Paperback:

9781557042569 | Harpercollins, July 1, 1996, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Called home by the news of his mother's heart attack, John Tremont--in his fifties--finds himself trapped in his own middle age, between his college-drop-out son's impatience to live and his father's heartbreaking weariness and inability to cope

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Mistakenly sent into the Ardennes Forest in December 1944, nineteen-year-old Will Knott and five fellow survivors man a remote observation post and are the recipients of unusual, puzzling, unwarlike gifts from the German soldiers all around them

Hardcover:

9780394519678 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 1, 1982, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Mistakenly sent into the Ardennes Forest in December 1944, nineteen-year-old Will Knott and five fellow survivors man a remote observation post and are the recipients of unusual, puzzling, unwarlike gifts from the German soldiers all around them

Paperback:

9781557042576, titled "A Midnight Clear" | Harpercollins, July 1, 1996, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Mistakenly sent into the Ardennes Forest in December 1944, nineteen-year-old Will Knott and five fellow survivors man a remote observation post and are the recipients of unusual, puzzling, unwarlike gifts from the German soldiers all around them
9780345312914, titled "A Midnight Clear" | Mti edition (Ballantine Books, April 1, 1992), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Mistakenly sent into the Ardennes Forest in December 1944, nineteen-year-old Will Knott and five fellow survivors man a remote observation post and are the recipients of unusual, puzzling, unwarlike gifts from the German soldiers all around them

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Dick Kettleson, his young son Dickie, carnival stunt man Stu Modig, and an African lion taken from his family live proud lives but finally touch each other in a way that changes each permanently

Hardcover:

9780394536361 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1985, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Dick Kettleson, his son Dickie, Stu Modig, and a lion taken from his family live lives to which the word 'pride' is intrinsic, and finally touch each other in a way that changes each permanently

Paperback:

9781557042590 | Harpercollins, July 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Dick Kettleson, his young son Dickie, carnival stunt man Stu Modig, and an African lion taken from his family live proud lives but finally touch each other in a way that changes each permanently
9780440371182 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, October 1, 1987), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Dick Kettleson, his young son Dickie, carnival stunt man Stu Modig, and an African lion taken from his family live proud lives but finally touch each other in a way that changes them forever
9781555041182 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, August 1, 1986), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Dick Kettleson, his son Dickie, Stu Modig, and a lion taken from his family live lives to which the word 'pride' is intrinsic, and finally touch each other in a way that changes each permanently

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Scumbler, an American painter living in Paris, after reaching sixty, begins to reexamine his life and values

Hardcover:

9780394535746 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1984, cover price $2.98 | also contains Discovering Ancient China | About this edition: Scumbler, an American painter living in Paris, after reaching sixty begins to reexamine his life and values

Paperback:

9781557042583 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, July 1, 1996), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Scumbler, an American painter living in Paris, after reaching sixty, begins to reexamine his life and values
9780881841350 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, May 1, 1985), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Scumbler, an American painter living in Paris, after reaching sixty begins to reexamine his life and values

A story of family love turning on a fox named Franky Furbo opens in Italy during World War II and carries into an imaginary time in the future

Hardcover:

9780805013085 | Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A story of family love turning on a fox named Franky Furbo opens in Italy during World War II and carries into an imaginary time in the future

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