A merging of the old and new is where we started, and it is where we are today. ALL kinds of books from 95 cent children's paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles. Since 1980 it has always been about the books. We fill those orders on a first come first serve basis, but will refund promptly any items that are out of stock. We have a very active online inventory and as such, we can receive multiple orders for the same item. Please do not call the stores to place orders for Abe Books sales. Items on Abe are not necessarily in stock at our retail locations. We have over 1 Million books for sale on our website and another 1 Million books for sale in our 3 locations. Wonder Book and Video has been in business since 1980 and online since 1997. With 3 stores less than 1 hour outside the DC/Metropolitan area (1 in Gaithersburg, 1 in Frederick and 1 in Hagerstown, MD), we have the largest selection of books in the tri-state area. is a writer of far greater than ordinary powers.” As Milton Hindus wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “The pathos of the ending may move the reader to tears, but they are not sentimental tears. As such, it belongs on a small shelf with such mid-century classics as Rabbit, Run The Adventures of Augie March and The Moviegoer. At its heart, this is a book about the burden of sexual freedom. Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870s-but first published in 1960-Isaac Bashevis Singer’s second novel hides a haunting psychological portrait inside a beguiling parable. Now, though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escape-from his wife and his homeland and the last tendrils of his father’s religion. For Yasha is an escape artist not only onstage but in life, a man who lives under the spell of his own hypnotic effect on women. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a freethinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant Jewish wife, a Gentile assistant who travels with him, and a mistress in every town. Yasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland. The fiftieth anniversary of a lost classic-a deceptively sophisticated tale of sexual compulsion and one man’s flight from love
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