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Product Description: Dazzlingly original, Ann Beattie’s Mrs. Nixon is a riveting exploration of an elusive American icon and of the fiction writer’s art. Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir...read more
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Hardcover:

9781439168714 | Scribner, November 15, 2011, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Dazzlingly original, Ann Beattie’s Mrs.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781611204919 | Unabridged edition (Ingram Pub Services, November 15, 2011), cover price $59.99
9781611204957 | Mp3 una edition (Ingram Pub Services, November 15, 2011), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir.

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Product Description: When Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in The New Yorker in the mid-seventies, she emerged with a voice so original, and so uncannily precise and prescient in its assessment of her characters’ drift and narcissism, that she was instantly celebrated as a voice of her generation...read more
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9781439168752 | Scribner, October 11, 2011, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: When Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in The New Yorker in the mid-seventies, she emerged with a voice so original, and so uncannily precise and prescient in its assessment of her characters’ drift and narcissism, that she was instantly celebrated as a voice of her generation.

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Product Description: In this memoir, novelist Craig Nova explores the interconnections between his work as a writer, his personal life, and his passion for fly fishing. Nova leads the reader into his courtship, marriage, the birth of his children, and his life as a father, husband, writer, friend, citizen, and angler...read more
By Ann Beattie (foreword by)
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9780982077146 | John F Blair Pub, May 6, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In this memoir, novelist Craig Nova explores the interconnections between his work as a writer, his personal life, and his passion for fly fishing.

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Product Description: "He'd tell me anything, anything, as long as the information went unattributed, as long as no one knew he and I had even met." Such is the deal Jane, Harvard valedictorian fresh out of college, strikes with Neil, the intoxicating writer 20 years her senior...read more
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9781439175767 | Scribner, June 8, 2010, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Ann Beattie arrived in New York young, observant and celebrated (as The New Yorker’s young fiction star) in one of the most compelling and creative eras of recent times.

Paperback:

9781439168691 | Scribner, June 8, 2010, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Ann Beattie arrived in New York young, observant and celebrated (as The New Yorker’s young fiction star) in one of the most compelling and creative eras of recent times.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781609981419 | Unabridged edition (Audiogo, January 11, 2011), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "He'd tell me anything, anything, as long as the information went unattributed, as long as no one knew he and I had even met.

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Fifteen stories deal with difficult relationships, an important phone call, single parents, an unmarried couple, and mothers and daughters
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9780679731931 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 1991), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Fifteen stories deal with difficult relationships, an important phone call, single parents, an unmarried couple, and mothers and daughters

Miscellaneous:

9780307765734, titled "Secrets & Surprises" | Vintage Books, September 22, 2010, cover price $14.00

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Miscellaneous:

9781439168707 | Scribner, June 8, 2010, cover price $8.99

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Paperback:

9788492663095 | Independent Pub Group, October 1, 2009, cover price $21.00

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Product Description: North Carolina native Ann Rothrock Beattie has produced an autobiographical account of her unique and endearing love story that began on a safari in Zimbabwe, Africa. Her safari love affair eventually lands her in rural Africa on a tobacco farm, where she deals with the challenges and delights of living in Tengwe, Zimbabwe...read more
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9780615200736 | Lightning Source Inc, March 30, 2008, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: North Carolina native Ann Rothrock Beattie has produced an autobiographical account of her unique and endearing love story that began on a safari in Zimbabwe, Africa.

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By Chris Bachelder (contributor), Ann Beattie (contributor), Caren Beilin (contributor), Roddy Doyle (contributor) and Dave Eggers (editor)
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9781932416763 | Har/bklt/c edition (McSweeneys Books, April 18, 2007), cover price $20.00

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Product Description: Lincoln Perry is justly celebrated for his murals and edgy narrative figure paintings, with their saturated palette and multifaceted architectural compositions--Poussin refracted through de Chirico. This beautiful new book showcases his images of Charlottesville, Virginia--many of them multipanel compositions featuring the University of Virginia and its environs--accompanied by an essay and interview by his wife, the writer Ann Beattie...read more
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9780813925035 | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 15, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Lincoln Perry is justly celebrated for his murals and edgy narrative figure paintings, with their saturated palette and multifaceted architectural compositions--Poussin refracted through de Chirico.

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A retrospective of the fifty-year career of the acclaimed LIFE magazine photographer offers more than 120 unforgettable images of celebrities, movie stars, writers, politicians, artists, and others, including his studies of Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
By Ann Beattie (introduced by) and John Loengard
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9780865651678 | Vendome Pr, October 18, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A retrospective of the fifty-year career of the acclaimed LIFE magazine photographer offers more than 120 unforgettable images of celebrities, movie stars, writers, politicians, artists, and others, including his studies of Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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A novella-and-story-collection volume by the author of Doctor's House features the themes of adult children, aging parents, and life-changing chance encounters, presenting in the title work the catastrophic consequences of a man's car accident with an elderly woman. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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9780743269612 | Scribner, April 26, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of short works features the themes of adult children, aging parents, and life-changing chance encounters, presenting in the title work the catastrophic consequences of a man's car accident with an elderly woman.

Paperback:

9780743269629 | Reprint edition (Scribner, June 20, 2006), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A novella-and-story-collection volume by the author of Doctor's House features the themes of adult children, aging parents, and life-changing chance encounters, presenting in the title work the catastrophic consequences of a man's car accident with an elderly woman.

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Reveals the story of Nina, a reclusive copyeditor who has become obsessed with her brother Andrew's sexual exploits and indiscretions, through the differing viewpoints of Nina, Andrew, and their mother.
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9780743235013 | Reprint edition (Scribner, February 1, 2003), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Reveals the story of Nina, a reclusive copyeditor who has become obsessed with her brother Andrew's sexual exploits and indiscretions, through the differing viewpoints of Nina, Andrew, and their mother.

Library:

9781585471997 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, June 1, 2002), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An ear for language of the highest order, profound compassion for characters, an eye for the smallest shifts in the cultural landscape, and a preternatural understanding of motivation and behavior -- Ann Beattie's renowned storytelling abilities, for which she won the 2000 PEN/Bernard Malamud Prize, are on dazzling display in The Doctor's House.

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A powerful and unsettling novel follows three unforgettable characters--Nina, a reclusive copyeditor, who, since her husband's death, has been obsessed with her brother Andrew's sexual exploits and indiscretions; Beattie, their mother, who spins her own tale of her children; and Andrew, who shares his own perspective on life--as they attempt to decipher, justify, and simply survive their lives. 30,000 first printing.
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9780743212649 | Scribner, February 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Reveals the story of Nina, a reclusive copyeditor who has become obsessed with her brother Andrew's sexual exploits and indiscretions, through the differing viewpoints of Nina, Andrew, and their mother.

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Product Description: Peopled by characters struggling with second marriages, abandoning artistic aspirations, or coming to terms with the betrayal of their own expectations, this collection of eleven new stories from Ann Beattie makes it strikingly clear why she is known as one of "American literature's most adept explorers and interpreters of the unraveling edges of life" (Miami Herald)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780743211697 | Scribner, January 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Presents a new collection of short stories involving characters who are coming to terms with the legacies of long-believed family myths, describing how they confront new circumstances such as weakness or sudden success.

Paperback:

9780743211703 | Reprint edition (Scribner, January 29, 2002), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Peopled by characters struggling with second marriages, abandoning artistic aspirations, or coming to terms with the betrayal of their own expectations, this collection of eleven new stories from Ann Beattie makes it strikingly clear why she is known as one of "American literature's most adept explorers and interpreters of the unraveling edges of life" (Miami Herald).

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Product Description: Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as "one of our era's most vital masters of the short form," Ann Beattie offers readers unforgettable glimpses of people coming to terms with the world around them. Most of the characters in Where You'll Find Me grew up in the 1960s and 1970s; when we meet them they are in their twenties and thirties and embody a curious, yet familiar, fusion of hope and despair...read more
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9780517676691, titled "Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories" | Random House Value Pub, October 1, 1988, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction reflects on coping with life's inevitable sadness
9780671622206, titled "Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories" | Linden Pub, October 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction reflects on coping with life's inevitable sadness

Paperback:

9780743226783, titled "Where You'll Find Me: And Other Stories" | Reprint edition (Scribner, January 1, 2002), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as "one of our era's most vital masters of the short form," Ann Beattie offers readers unforgettable glimpses of people coming to terms with the world around them.
9780684815107, titled "Where You'll Find Me: And Other Stories" | Scribner, September 1, 1996, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction reflects on coping with life's inevitable sadness
9780020165606, titled "Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories" | Reprint edition (Collier Books, September 1, 1987), cover price $9.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories highlights characters who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s and includes tales about a woman's fascination with a bowl and a couple's coming-to-terms with the loss of their daughter.

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9780671646349, titled "Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories" | Simon & Schuster, August 1, 1987, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Since her first appearance in The New Yorker in 1974, Ann Beattie has been a leading force in contemporary fiction--a writer who has spearheaded the popular resurgence of the short story.

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Evocative essays by Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Richard Russo, and Elizabeth Strout complement 120 full-color photographs by an acclaimed landscape photographer in an intimate celebration of Maine through four seasons of the year. 25,000 first printing.
By Ann Beattie (contributor), Richard Ford (contributor), Terrell S. Lester, Richard Russo (contributor) and Elizabeth Strout (contributor)
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9780375411182 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 2001), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Depicts the lakes, seacoasts, and landscapes of Maine through the seasons, accompanied by essays written by Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Richard Russo, and Elizabeth Strout.

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Miscellaneous:

9780743214650 | Scribner, April 13, 2001, cover price $16.99

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Miscellaneous:

9780743215251 | Scribner, January 14, 2001, cover price $16.99

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Thirty-six short stories--including eight never before published in book form, as well as classics from earlier collections--appear in an anthology that features 'Snakes' Shoes,' 'The Burning House,' 'Heaven on a Summer Night,' and others. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.
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Hardcover:

9780679455066 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories features a couple dealing with the loss of their child, a housekeeper who experiences a startling insight, and a family secret that is only revealed many years after a bizarre experience

Paperback:

9780679781332 | Vintage Books, July 1, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories features a couple dealing with the loss of their child, a housekeeper who experiences a startling insight, and a family secret that is only revealed many years after a bizarre experience
9780679781332 | Vintage Books, July 1, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories features a couple dealing with the loss of their child, a housekeeper who experiences a startling insight, and a family secret that is only revealed many years after a bizarre experience

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781881025306 | Equinox Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $10.95

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Jean Warner, a young woman married into a large New England family, has her life thrown into turmoil when she becomes friends with Dara Falcon, a new arrival in town and a fascinating, seductive woman who is also a manipulative, pathological liar. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. NYT.
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9780002245616 | Harpercollins Canada, December 1, 1997, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: In her latest novel, the author of Another You combines intensely realistic description and an effortless command of mood to examine the treacherous difference between love and fascination--between what we know about other people and what we think we know.
9780679455028 | Random House Childrens Books, May 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Jean Warner, a young woman married into a large New England family, has her life thrown into turmoil when she becomes friends with Dara Falcon, a new arrival in town and a fascinating, seductive woman who is also a manipulative, pathological liar

Paperback:

9780679781325 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 1998), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Jean Warner, a young woman married into a large New England family, has her life thrown into turmoil when she becomes friends with Dara Falcon, a new arrival in town and a fascinating, seductive woman who is also a manipulative, pathological liar.

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Product Description: With This Ring: A Portrait of Marriage is a moving and honest look at the institution of marriage. "These photographs are a testament to the inherent mystery of how people live and embrace. To the unknowableness of life behind closed doors, yet the titillation of spying because someone seems to have permeated these walls...read more
By Ann Beattie (introduced by) and Mary M. Kalergis
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9780940744677 | Chrysler Museum Library, March 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: With This Ring: A Portrait of Marriage is a moving and honest look at the institution of marriage.

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In the wake of a failing marriage and a stepmother's impending death, Marshall and Sonja Lockard are thrust into a reassessment of their lives by the arrival of one of Marshall's colleagues. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. NYT.
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9780679400783 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1995, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In the wake of a failing marriage and a stepmother's impending death, Marshall and Sonja Lockard are thrust into a reassessment of their lives when one of Marshall's colleagues arrives

Paperback:

9780679734642 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 27, 1996), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: In the wake of a failing marriage and a stepmother's impending death, Marshall and Sonja Lockard are thrust into a reassessment of their lives by the arrival of one of Marshall's colleagues.

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Product Description: Guided visualization & relaxation techniques designed for general stress reduction and personal growth.
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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781881025313 | Equinox Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Guided visualization & relaxation techniques designed for general stress reduction and personal growth.

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