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Jess Walter
Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition…
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In this dazzling collection of stories, a son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place that will care for the old man. An elderly…
The Dolan brothers live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a…
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The thorough book "Biography and Bibliography of Jesse Walter Fewkes" by Frances S. Nichols gives readers a thorough picture of the life and achievements of eminent anthropologist and archaeologist Jesse…
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Matt Prior is about to lose his job, his house, his wife, and maybe his sanity too. Financial journalist Matt quit his job to set up a website which couldn’t…
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Hailed by critics and loved by readers of literary and historical fiction, Beautiful Ruins is the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 ……
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Jesse Walter
Is there a place in the modern world for the values of a Viking? Can the way of the warrior lead to inner peace? According to veteran combat medic and…
The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest and most romantic novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that…
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The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins delivers another literary miracle (NPR) - a propulsive, richly entertaining novel about two adventure-seeking brothers, the enemies who threaten…
Vince’s real name is Marty Hagen. A career criminal from New Jersey, he has been given a new identity in a sleepy Northwest city by the Witness Protection Program. But…
In Over Tumbled Graves, Jess Walter, National Book Award finalist and author of Citizen Vince and The Zero, confronts our fascination with pathology and murder. A thriller of extraordinary depth…
When a disoriented and strangely familiar figure appears, wanting to write a lengthy confession, Spokane police detective Caroline Mabry finds herself challenged to investigate a murder and the darkly intertwined…
The first collection of short fiction from New York Times -bestselling author Walter–a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by…
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes--for the better, for the worse…
Relates the true story behind the shootout at Ruby Ridge between white supremacist Randy Weaver and federal agents, a confrontation that left Weaver’s wife and only son dead. Reprint.
In the tradition of Franz Kafka, Joseph Heller, and Don DeLillo, comes this extraordinary story of searing humor and sublime horror, of blindness, bewilderment, and that achingly familiar feeling that…
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes--for the better, for the worse…
From National Book Award-finalist Walter comes a hysterically funny–and painfully timely–novel of one man’s attempt to save his family from economic disaster by putting his entrepreneurial leanings toward a life…
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes–for the better, for the worse…
Offers a collection of stories about the American family. This book brings to vivid life a world of lost fathers and redemptive con men, of personal struggles and diminished dreams.
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins delivers another literary miracle (NPR)-a propulsive, richly entertaining novel about two adventure-seeking brothers, the enemies who threaten them, and…
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Jesse Walter Fewkes
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This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the work of an archaeologist in the late 19th century. Jesse Walter Fewkes describes his field work in Arizona in 1897 and the…
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…
Engraved Celts From The Antilles is a book written by Jesse Walter Fewkes and published in 1915. The book is a detailed study of the engraved celts found in the…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…