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1	Voyage of the Narwhal more books like this by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist Andrea Barrett's novel is about the 1845 expedition to the Arctic that ended in starvation and possibly cannibalism. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Ship Fever: Stories more books like this by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist The love of science, the science of love--and the struggle to reconcile the two--are the subjects of this remarkable collection, stories and a novella. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, these stories move between past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Air We Breathe more books like this by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist The National Book Award-winning author of "Ship Fever" delivers her eagerly anticipated new novel, set in 1916, in an isolated town in the Adirondacks, far from the war raging in Europe. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist Four stories and two novellas, most of them oriented toward the sciences--Andrea Barrett's specialty--and several of them interconnected. Titles include "Theories of Rain" and "The Mysteries of Ubiquitin." The title novella is a strange, detailed account of a mathematician in India in the 1860s who is part of a project to map the Himalayas, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Lucid stars. more books like this by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist This novel, focusing on the lives of four women, spans a quarter of a century. It traces the destruction of the conventional nuclear family and the eventual construction of the "blended family" - that complex of ex-wives, step-mothers, half-sisters etc., that has become a feature of modern life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.37! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The forms of water more books like this by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist This story concerns what happens when 80-year-old Brendan convinces his staid nephew Henry to hijack the nursing home van to make an ancestral visit to where his parental home once stood. The author looks at the complexities of family life, at grief and at the ties that bind us to the past. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work more books like this by Peter Turchi (Editor), Andrea Barrett (Editor), Richard Russo (Foreword by) add to wishlist The contributors to this anthology of short fiction have all submitted an original story, accompanied by an essay describing the challenges of the story and how they were met. We learn about the genesis of a story, what was relinquished and why a story might "insist" on changing. see all copies from $3.95! new only from $6.05! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing more books like this by Professor Nicholas Delbanco (Editor), Andrea Beauchamp (Editor), Michael Barrett, Mfa (Editor) add to wishlist To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Hopwood Awards, the editors of "The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing" collect some of the Awards' best writing by the winners who went on to achieve fame as writers. Since they first began in 1931, funded by a bequest from the will of playwright Avery Hopwood, University of Michigan Class of 1905, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.48! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Servants of the Map by Amanda Barrett, Andrea Barrett add to wishlist Four stories and two novellas, most of them oriented toward the sciences--Barrett's specialty--and several of them interconnected. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $3.99! new only from $5.97!
10	The Middle Kingdom more books like this by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist An unhappily married couple travels to China, where the wife discovers not only that she doesn't love her husband any longer, but that she has succumbed completely to the Chinese people and their culture. This novel was originally published in 1991. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Air We Breathe: A Novel. Andrea Barrett more books like this by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist In fall 1916, Americans debate whether to enter the European war. "Preparedness parades" march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $23.17!
12	The Diabetic's Brand-Name Food Exchange Handbook more books like this by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Secret Harmonies more books like this by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist Written by the author of "Lucid Stars", this is the tragi-comic story of childhood sweethearts, baffled and beset by the eccentric constellation of loved ones swirling around them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Ship fever more books like this by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist Exceptional tales of emancipation and evolution at the birth of the modern era. Winner of US National Book Award. 'Andrea Barrett's work stands out for its sheer intelligence. The overall effect is quietly dazzling.' New York Times Set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century, this elegant collection of stories take their impulse from the ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $14.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
15	Ship Fever Reading Group Guide more books like this by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist "Her work stands out for its sheer intelligence.... The overall effect is quietly dazzling". -- New York Times Book Review see all copies from $18.27!
16 view cover	Air That We Breathe, the by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist see all copies from $4.99! new only from $34.40!
17	Fievre by Barrett Andrea add to wishlist see all copies from $59.39! new only from $59.39!

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