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1	Max und Moritz : eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen more books like this by Wilhelm Busch, Herbert Frederick Cook, Frederick Melville Williams see all copies from $5.00! first editions
2	The Night Inspector more books like this by Frederick Busch William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, returns to New York City bent on reversing his fortunes. Busch's stunning novel is a gripping portrait of a nation trying to heal from the ravages of war and of one man's attempt to recapture a taste for life through the surging currents of his own emotions, ambitions, and shattered ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Don't Tell Anyone more books like this by Frederick Busch The Hungers of love and the fear of time drive the men and women, sons and daughters in these stories to speak. Frederick Busch renders precisely the need to connect and shows us the ways -- funny, tender, and heartbreaking -- in which connections, in spite of love, often fail. In "Heads" a mother is haunted by her own past when her daughter faces ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Harry and Catherine: A Love Story more books like this by Frederick Busch Here is that Rarest and most satisfying of books: a grown-up love story. Harry and Catherine have been falling in and out of love for many years. She is divorced, determinedly raising two sons, and running a small gallery in upstate New York. He is an ex-newspaperman, a wistful drifter, now assistant to a New York senator. After a long separation, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Girls more books like this by Federick Busch, Frederick Busch Busch takes one of his short stories, "Ralph the Duck", and expands it into a literary thriller about a security guard named Jack, whose marriage to Fanny has deteriorated since the death of their infant daughter. Partly to assuage his own pain, Jack participates in a hunt for a missing teenager and becomes obsessed with finding lost children. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The Mutual Friend more books like this by Frederick Busch Using several different narrative voices, Busch reconstructs Charles Dickens's last years: his final American reading tour, the resolution of his affair with Ellen Ternan, the strain of maintaining his larger-than-life persona. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Dangerous Profession: A Book about the Writing Life more books like this by Frederick Busch Essays by fiction writer Frederick Busch on writers, his own life, and the craft of writing itself. see all copies from $3.34! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	War Babies more books like this by Frederick Busch Frederick Busch's novel War Babies is a short, powerful moral tale that sheds light upon the insidious nature of evil and the grip history holds on the lives of the seemingly protected innocent. Peter Santore, the narrator, is an American lawyer in his mid-thirties come to England to track down a certain Hilary Pennels, the daughter of a Korean ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Girls more books like this by Frederick Busch Busch takes one of his short stories, "Ralph the Duck", and expands it into a literary thriller about a security guard named Jack, whose marriage to Fanny has deteriorated since the death of their infant daughter. Partly to assuage his own pain, Jack participates in a hunt for a missing teenager and becomes obsessed with finding lost children. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	A Memory of War more books like this by Frederick Busch Psychologist Alexander Lescziak savors a life of quiet sophistication on Manhattan's Upper West Side, turning a blind eye to the past of his Polish emigre parents. Then a new patient declares that he is the doctor's half-brother, the product of a union between Lescziak's Jewish mother and a German prisoner of war. The confrontation jolts Lescziak ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Invisible Mending more books like this by Frederick Busch Zimmer's wife, Lil, says their love is dead. He says it's just tired. Divorcing, he feels as if his whole love life is passing before him - and then part of it really is, in the still-sexy person of old flame Rhona Glinsky. In artfully crafted interlocking flashbacks set against a vividly drawn scrim of New York City, Busch lets his hapless hero ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Absent Friends more books like this by Frederick Busch see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Closing Arguments more books like this by Frederick Busch This novel weaves a story of fear and courage, pain and escape, love and betrayal, to create the portrait of a man struggling to break his links to the past. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14	Closing Arguments CL more books like this by Frederick Busch A 40-ish country lawyer who is also a troubled Vietnam vet is the focus of this novel. Both a thriller and an exploration of the act of narrating, it is an updated version of Theodore Dreiser's AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15	Harry and Catherine more books like this by Frederick Busch, Robin Desser (Editor) In this domestic love story about middle-aged, difficult people, Harry worries about losing Catherine, a powerfully independent woman who clearly doesn't need him. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16	Children in the Woods CL more books like this by Frederick Busch see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	North more books like this by Frederick Busch Combining The Pace of a detective story with the bold prose of a master storyteller, North is both an adventure and a pilgrimage. Alone and haunted by memories of his dead wife and child, Jack--who prowled the backwaters of Girls--returns to upstate New York from the Carolina coast, where he has been working as a security guard. A New York lawyer ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.92! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Letters to a Fiction Writer more books like this by Frederick Busch (Editor) Thirty-two fiction writers write letters to young friends and students who aspire to become writers themselves. The advice ranges from Richard Bausch's ten commandments (including "Be wary of all advice") to Raymond Carver's caution about alcoholism, "the writer's disease." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Long Way from Home more books like this by Frederick Busch Straight from his success with Closing Arguments, bestselling author Busch now presents a "couageous novel that, once read, will be hard to forget" (Houston Chronicle). Seized with an "emergency feeling", a woman abandons her husband and child to search for her biological mother. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.44! \| signed copies \| first editions
20	Long Way from Home CL more books like this by Frederick Busch The author of Closing Arguments presents a stunning new novel that tells of a family under siege. A mother sets out in search of her biological mother, leaving her own child behind in mortal jeopardy. "One of our most powerful and prolific authors in his output and his restless range of manner and themes".--Los Angeles Times. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21	Take This Man more books like this by Frederick Busch see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Children in the Woods more books like this by Frederick Busch Twenty years of award-winning short story writing have been distilled into one superb new collection. Featuring the best stories of Frederick Busch--including eight that were previously uncollected--The Children In the Woods captures the essence of the author Publishers Weekly says is "a master at exploring the human predicament". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
23	Hardwater Country: Stories by Frederick Busch see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Rescue Missions: Stories more books like this by Frederick Busch Stories of mercy and need among lovers, family, and friends by "one of our very best short-story writers" (Anne Beattie). The war in Iraq is present in some of these stories, and so are the domestic wars; and, in every case, a character seeks to comfort or to save someone. "The Rescue Mission" is narrated by a man who runs a rescue mission out of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.59! \| first editions \| SVS
25	Rounds more books like this by Frederick Busch see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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