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Kitchen
by Banana Yoshimoto  Publisher Comments Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When Kitchen was first...
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A Good School
by Richard Yates Publisher Comments Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American ficiton as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer. In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England...
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Bread Givers
by Anzia Yezierksa Publisher Comments Persea's 25th anniversary edition of this classic of twentieth-century American literature. More than 250,000 copies sold. Set on New York's Lower East Side during the 1920s, this is the moving story of a young woman's struggle to free herself from...
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The Schopenhauer Cure (P.S.)
by Irvin D Yalom Publisher Comments Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work -- and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier. Yet Philip...
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Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates 
Publisher Comments With a new introduction by Richard Ford. From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs. It's the...
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My Enemy's Cradle
by Sara Young
Publisher Comments Cyrla's neighbors have begun to whisper. Her cousin, Anneke, is pregnant and has passed the rigorous exams for admission to the Lebensborn, a maternity home for girls carrying German babies. But Anneke's soldier has disappeared, and Lebensborn babies...
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After Hours at the Almost Home
by Tara Yellen Synopsis Restaurant workers at a neighborhood bar and grill on the busiest night of the year continue to mix it up long after hours and well beyond what's good for them, risking hearts and hopes--and the life of a tender young girl....
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Goodbye Tsugumi
by Banana Yoshimoto Publisher Comments Banana Yoshimoto's novels of young life in Japan have made her an international sensation. Goodbye Tsugumi is an offbeat story of a deep and complicated friendship between two female cousins that ranks among her best work. Maria is the only daughter of...
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End of California (06 Edition)
by Steve Yarbrough Publisher Comments From critically acclaimed author Steve Yarbrough comes this riveting, beautifully nuanced, new novel of life in a small town. After twenty-five years away and an illicit scandal in California, Dr. Pete Barrington is returning home to Loring, Mississippi,...
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The Poet
by Yi Mun Yol Publisher Comments When the King's governor, after falling into rebel hands and changing sides, is recaptured by royal troops and executed, his sons and grandsons are also condemned to death. They survive by subterfuge, but they have lost their place in society. The Poet...
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A Woman in Jerusalem
by A B Yehoshua Publisher Comments A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily...
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China Dolls
by Michelle Yu and Blossom Kan Publisher Comments Riding out their twenties while sharing drinks and dim sum in New York City, three Asian-American women endure a series of difficult challenges, from M.J.'s efforts to safeguard her career in a male-dominated industry, to Alex's attempts to break Chinese...
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A Woman in Jerusalem: A Novel
by A. B. Yehoshua Publisher Comments A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily...
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Oriental Tales
by Marguerit Yourcenar Synopsis "From China to Japan, the Balkans to India, "Oriental Tales" addresses love, conquest, betrayal, murder, religion, and passion in an eloquent and exquisite telling."--"Kirkus Reviews."...
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Seventeen Syllables (Women Writers)
by Hisaye Yamamoto Publisher Comments Hisaye Yamamoto's often-reprinted tale of a naive American daughter and her Japanese mother captures the essence of the cultural and generational conflicts so common among immigrants and their American-born children. On the surface, Seventeen Syllables...
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Serve the People!
by Lianke Yan Publisher Comments Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, Serve the People! is a beautifully told, wickedly daring story about the forbidden love affair between Liu Lian, the young, pretty wife of a powerful Division Commander in Communist China, and her household’...
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Amrita (97 Edition)
by Banana Yoshimoto Publisher Comments After losing her beautiful younger sister, a celebrated actress, to suicide, Sakumi falls down a flight of stairs and loses her memory to a head injury. Struggling to remember whom she loves and what she lost, she embarks on a unique emotional journey...
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The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
by Richard Yates
Publisher Comments The literary event of 2001 is now the paperback event of 2002: The Collected Stories of Richard Yates gathers thelate author's powerful and peerless short fiction in one comprehensive volume. Praised by such authors as Michael Chabon, Stewart O'Nan...
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Bread Givers
by Anzia Yezierska Publisher Comments The classic novel of Jewish immigrants in new trade paperback format and design, with sixteen period photographs. This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara...
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The Oxygen Man
by Steve Yarbrough Publisher Comments In this powerful and gritty first novel, Steve Yarbrough takes us into the deep-South world of Ned Rose, who works nights checking the oxygen levels in fish-farm ponds and does all the dirty work his wealthy boss requires. He silently shares the family...
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