Realistic Fiction from Turtleman Used Books

Originally published in 1934, the author was the youngest person to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1935 for her debut novel. An account of a family's struggles to survive by farming in the years of the Depression and Dust Bowl. Book shows very little wear. The spine is square and uncreased, the pages are clean, tight and… Read more about this item

Little wear other than some spine creases. 309 pages appear clean, tight and unmarked. Someone once said, "You can't go home again". March Murray goes home for a funeral, and faces a past she has tried to put behind her. In Heaven, love is simple and glorious, but altogether different here on Earth...

Trade paperback. 302 pages. Some minor wear, most significant being a 1 cm tear at the lower front spine edge. Pages clean, tight and intact, and the spine is uncreased. After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon,… Read more about this item

Two novels by David Eddings, written before his fantasy successes but published after. Both can be classed as philosophical or allegoric fiction. The book is almost like new, with a small red marker spot on the lower edge of the pages, and a slight yellowing. The dust cover has some minor rubbing from being on the shelf… Read more about this item

Trade paperback. Little wear, mostly at the cover corners, and one crease in the front. A story of a British family and their quartet of kids. In this case, focusing on the boy, Indigo, as he deals with school bullies and an American friend.