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1	Feast of Love more books like this by Charles Baxter add to wishlist The plot of Baxter's novel consists of scandalous tales supposedly told to the author by his neighbors--all of whom seem to be involved in sexual imbroglios that intertwine and enrich each other in the telling. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Time's Eye more books like this by Arthur Charles Clarke, Stephen Baxter add to wishlist In 2037, aliens known as the "Firstborn" fracture the nature of spacetime on Earth. After the so-called "Discontinuity," people from a variety of places and times must somehow create a new society. The action leads up to a meeting in the city of Babylon between the armies of Alexander the Great, joined by 19th-century British troops and a trio of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	First Light more books like this by Charles Baxter add to wishlist A novel that moves backwards in time, from present to past, to tell the story of Dorsey Welch, an astrophysicist studying the origins of the universe, and her brother Hugh. Hugh remains in the small-town house where they were born, while Dorsey travels to California and becomes a wife and mother as well as a successful scientist. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction more books like this by Charles Baxter add to wishlist "In nine brilliant essays, Baxter displays his characteristic wit and intelligence as he muses about the influences of culture and politics on the art of storytelling".--"Ploughshares". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Light of Other Days more books like this by Arthur C Clarke add to wishlist After developing a special camera, a physicist soon finds the invention taken out of his hands by a government determined to use the device to effectively eliminate personal privacy in the name of "security." Before people forget the notion of freedom completely, he desperately tries to adapt the device to allow "sight" into the past, but with an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Hydrology and floodplain analysis more books like this by Philip B Bedient add to wishlist For undergraduate and graduate courses in Hydrology. This text offers a clear and up-to-date presentation of fundamental concepts and design methods required to understand hydrology and floodplain analysis. It addresses the computational emphasis of modern hydrology and provides a balanced approach to important applications in watershed analysis, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $53.50! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Soul Thief more books like this by Charles Baxter add to wishlist In his extraordinary new novel, Baxter delivers one of his most beautifully wrought and unexpected works of fiction: at once lyrical and eerie, acutely observant in it's sensual and emotional detail and audaciously metaphys ical in its underpinnings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Saul and Patsy more books like this by Charles Baxter add to wishlist Saul is a high school teacher. He and his wife, Patsy, have a new baby. All is well until they begin to be plagued by one of Saul's worst students--the not-very-bright Gordy Himmelman. Gordy stands in front of their house, speechless, and during one of these sessions he shoots himself--and as a result becomes a revered cult figure at the school. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Sunstorm more books like this by Arthur Charles Clarke, Stephen Baxter add to wishlist This hard SF collaboration between Sir Arthur Clarke and Stephen Baxter, set in Clarke's 2001 series universe, is the second and final volume in the Time Odyssey duology. Bisesa Dutt has spent five years on an alternate version of Earth, a bizarre patchwork of people and places snatched from different time periods. Now, in the year 2037, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.15! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Firstborn more books like this by Arthur Charles Clarke, Stephen Baxter add to wishlist The final novel--following "Time's Eye" and "Sunstorm"--in the epic trilogy by bestselling science fiction masters Clarke and Baxter at last reveals the whole truth about the mysterious alien race introduced in Clarke's classic "2001: A Space Odyssey." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.83! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Believers: A Novella and Stories more books like this by Charles Baxter add to wishlist Charles Baxter's novella and stories take place mostly in the Midwest, in the fictional city of Five Oaks, Michigan. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Shadow Play more books like this by Charles Baxter add to wishlist When Wyatt Palmer succeeds in bringing to his town a chemical plant that emits toxic waste, he finds that he has made a deal with the devil. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life more books like this by Charles Baxter (Editor), Peter Turchi (Editor) add to wishlist Fiction writers share the secrets of their craft in essays geared for the serious writer see all copies from $14.89! new only from $26.39!
14 view cover	A Relative Stranger by Charles Baxter add to wishlist A volume of acclaimed stories about lonely people. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.77! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Through the Safety Net: Stories more books like this by Charles Baxter add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot more books like this by Charles Baxter add to wishlist Charles Baxter inaugurates "The Art of," a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book "Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction." Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's "The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot "discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in ... see all copies from $6.55! new only from $6.55! \| SVS
17 view cover	A Relative Stranger: Stories more books like this by Charles Baxter add to wishlist A volume of acclaimed stories about lonely people. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations more books like this by Charles Baxter (Editor), Michael Collier (Editor), Edward Hirsch (Editor) add to wishlist William Maxwell (1908-2000) was an important writer and an equally important influence on the writers he worked with as fiction editor at The New Yorker. This tribute to him as writer, editor, and human being includes appreciations by John Updike, Paula Fox, Alice Munro, Donna Tartt, Charles Baxter, Alec Wilkinson, and many more. It also includes ... see all copies from $2.20! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Government and Politics in South Asia: Fourth Edition more books like this by Craig Baxter, Yogendra K Malik, Charles H Kennedy add to wishlist Reflecting new trends in studying comparative politics, the fourth edition has been completely revised according to the structural functional model. Each section treats four major areas of inquiry: political culture and political socialization, interest articulation and interest aggregation, governmental structures, and outputs and outcomes. As ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95!
20 view cover	A Frieze of Girls: Memoirs as Fiction more books like this by Allan Seager, Charles Baxter (Introduction by) add to wishlist 'Time', writes Seager. 'makes fiction out of our memories'. The author tells his coming-of-age story and simultaneously investigates the artistic ways in which we alter our memories, to create a self we can live with. see all copies from $5.50! new only from $12.50! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Harmony of the World more books like this by Charles Baxter add to wishlist Charles Baxter's first collection of short stories, which won an Associated Writing Program Award when it was published in 1984. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Business of Memory: The Art of Remembering in an Age of Forgetting more books like this by Charles Baxter (Editor) add to wishlist Charles Baxter and 12 other writers discuss memoir-writing in general, and privacy and family traumas in particular. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $11.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23	Through the Safety Net more books like this by Charles Baxter add to wishlist Eleven stories about middle-class life in America. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Deep Magic more books like this by Charles K Wolfe, George Baxter add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.94! \| first editions \| SVS
25	Government and Politics in South Asia: Third Edition more books like this by Craig Baxter, Yogendra K Malik, Charles H Kennedy add to wishlist The seven nations of South Asia today face the challenges of nation-building, state-building and political and economic development. They also share a common political heritage of relations with Great Britain. This edition establishes an interdisciplinary setting for understanding the political framework of the seven nations in the context of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.99! \| SVS

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