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Al Capone Does My Shirtsby Gennifer CholdenkoISBN 0142403709 (0-14-240370-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Al Capone Does My Shirts'Book summary:[via]Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she's denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms Moose's family has used for dealing with her disorder.
When Moose meets Piper, the cute daughter of the Warden, he knows right off she's trouble. But she's also strangely irresistible. All Moose wants to do is protect Natalie, live up to his parents' expectations, and stay out of trouble. But on Alcatraz, trouble is never very far away.
Set in 1935, when guards actually lived on Alcatraz Island with their families. Choldenko's second novel brings humor to the complexities of family dynamics and illuminates the real struggle of a kid trying to free himself from the "good boy" stance he's taken his whole life.
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All the King's Menby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0156004801 (0-15-600480-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the King's Men'Book summary:This landmark book is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, one of the nation's most astounding politicians. All the King's Men tells the story of Willie Stark, a southern-fried politician who builds support by appealing to the common man and playing dirty politics with the best of the back-room deal-makers. Though Stark quickly sheds his idealism, his right-hand man, Jack Burden -- who narrates the story -- retains it and proves to be a thorn in the new governor's side. Stark becomes a successful leader, but at a very high price, one that eventually costs him his life. The award-winning book is a play of politics, society and personal affairs, all wrapped in the cloak of history. [via]
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- All the King's Men: ISBN 0156012952 (0-15-601295-2)
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Softcover, Harcourt - All The King's Men: ISBN 015101163X (0-15-101163-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt - All the King's Men: ISBN 0151047723 (0-15-104772-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt - All The King's Men: ISBN 0156030969 (0-15-603096-9)
Softcover, Harcourt - All the King's Men: ISBN 0156047624 (0-15-604762-4)
Softcover, Harcourt - All the King's Men: ISBN 0151006105 (0-15-100610-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers - All the King's Men: ISBN 0436563126 (0-436-56312-6)
Hardcover, Secker and Warburg - All the King's Men: ISBN 0156004801 (0-15-600480-1)
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- All the King's Men: ISBN 0156012952 (0-15-601295-2)
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The American People in World War II: Freedom from Fearby David M. KennedyISBN 0195168933 (0-19-516893-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American People in World War II: Freedom from Fear'Book summary:Even as the New Deal was coping with the Depression, a new menace was developing abroad. Exploiting Germany's own economic burdens, Hitler reached out to the disaffected, turning their aimless discontent into loyal support for his Nazi Party. In Asia, Japan harbored imperial ambitions of its own. The same generation of Americans who battled the Depression eventually had to shoulder arms in another conflict that wreaked worldwide destruction, ushered in the nuclear age, and forever changed their way of life and their country's relationship to the rest of the world.
The American People in World War II--the second installment of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear--explains how the nation agonized over its role in the conflict, how it fought the war, why the United States emerged victorious, and why the consequences of victory were sometimes sweet, sometimes ironic. In a compelling narrative, Kennedy analyzes the determinants of American strategy, the painful choices faced by commanders and statesmen, and the agonies inflicted on the millions of ordinary Americans who were compelled to swallow their fears and face battle as best they could. The American People in World War II is a gripping narrative and an invaluable analysis of the trials and victories through which modern America was formed. [via]More editions of The American People in World War II: Freedom from Fear:
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Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression 1920-1941by Michael E. ParrishISBN 0393311341 (0-393-31134-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Artists in Crimeby Ngaio MarshISBN 0312963599 (0-312-96359-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morningby Laurie LeeISBN 0233961178 (0-233-96117-8)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning'Book summary:''I was nineteen years old, still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune. I carried a small rolled-up tent, a violin in a blanket, a change of clothes, a tin of treacle biscuits, and some cheese. I was excited, vain-glorious, knowing I had far to go; but not, as yet, how far. As I left home that morning and walked away from the sleeping village, it never occurred to me that others had done this before me.'' Despite this romantic and optimistic opening, what Lee finds and describes is the most primitive and feudal country in Europe, a peninsula for the most part untouched by the modern world, a land of labor without dignity, a church devoid of compassion, and a country ripe for revolutionary change. There is humor here, and love, and adolescent awakening, but beneath the smoothly written surface is a foreboding sense of a savage future, a premonition that a war will come, which will not end soon. For Lee, as for much of the world, 1936 was the end of innocence, a fateful year when ''it was being learned again that men needed more than courage, anger, slogans, convictions, or even a just cause when they went to war.'' Thus Lee, innocently but inexorably, becomes entangled in the passionate, violent, and bloody struggle that was the Spanish Civil War. Along with Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, Lee's sequel to Cider with Rosie is a singular document, written with the excitement and wonder of a twenty-year-old, but infused with the wisdom of a young adult who sees what lies ahead and is capable of conveying to the reader how bad it will be. [via]
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Talesby H. P. LovecraftISBN 0345329457 (0-345-32945-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales'Book summary:A complete short novel, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS is a tale of terror unilke any other. The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless--or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures...and the carved stones tens of millions of years old...and, finally, the mind-blasting terror of the City of the Old Ones. Three additional strange tales, written as only H.P. Lovecraft can write, are also included in this macabre collection of the strange and the weird. [via]
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The Boomerang Clueby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396091555 (0-396-09155-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Brighton Rockby Graham Greene, J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0142437972 (0-14-243797-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brighton Rock'Book summary:Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind.[via]Pinkie, the teenage gangster, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of the spirit or of the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed Kite and also for the death of Hale, he is the embodiment of calculated evil. As a Catholic, however, he is convinced that his retribution does not lie in human hands.
He is therefore not prepared for Ida Arnold, Hale's avenging angel. Ida, whose allegiance is with life, the here and now, has her own ideas about the circumstances surrounding Hale's death. For the sheer joy of it she takes up the challenge of bringing the infernal Pinkie to an earthly kind of justice.
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The Cairo Trilogy : Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Streetby Naguib Mahfouz, Edward W. SaidISBN 0375413316 (0-375-41331-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cairo Trilogy : Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street'Book summary:Naguib Mahfouzs magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prizewinning writers masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britains occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century.
The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sonsthe tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmads rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street brings Mahfouzs vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a Communist, one a Muslim fundamentalist, and one the lover of a powerful politician.
Throughout the trilogy, the familys trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, The Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master storyteller.
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The Cloud Atlasby David MitchellISBN 0375507256 (0-375-50725-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cloud Atlas'Book summary:It's hard not to become ensnared by words beginning with the letter B, when attempting to describe Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell's third novel. It's a big book, for start, bold in scope and execution--a bravura literary performance, possibly. (Let's steer clear of breathtaking for now.) Then, of course, Mitchell was among Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and his second novel number9dreamwas shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Characters with birthmarks in the shape of comets are a motif; as are boats. Oh and one of the six narratives strands of the book--where coincidentally Robert Frobisher, a young composer, dreams up "a sextet for overlapping soloists" entitled Cloud Atlas--is set in Belgium, not far from Bruges. (See what I mean?)
Structured rather akin to a Chinese puzzle or a set of Matrioshka dolls, there are dazzling shifts in genre and voice and the stories leak into each other with incidents and people being passed on like batons in a relay race. The 19th-century journals of an American notary in the Pacific that open the novel are subsequently unearthed 80 years later on by Frobisher in the library of the ageing, syphilitic maestro he's trying to fleece. Frobisher's waspish letters to his old Cambridge crony, Rufus Sexsmith, in turn surface when Rufus, (by the 1970s a leading nuclear scientist) is murdered. A novelistic account of the journalist Luisa Rey's investigation into Rufus' death finds its way to Timothy Cavendish, a London vanity publisher with an author who has an ingenious method of silencing a snide reviewer. And in a near-dystopian Blade Runner-esque future, a genetically engineered fast food waitress sees a movie based on Cavendish's unfortunate internment in a Hull retirement home. (Cavendish himself wonders how a director called Lars might wish to tackle his plight). All this is less tricky than it sounds, only the lone "Zachary" chapter, told in Pacific Islander dialect (all "dingos'n'ravens", "brekker" and "f'llowin'"s) is an exercise in style too far. Not all the threads quite connect but nonetheless Mitchell binds them into a quite spellbinding rumination on human nature, power, oppression, race, colonialism and consumerism. --Travis Elborough [via]
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The Code of the Woostersby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0394720288 (0-394-72028-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Code of the Woosters'Book summary:P.G.Wodehouse's best-loved creation by far is the master-servant team of Bertie Wooster, the likable nitwit, and Jeeves, his effortlessly superior valet and protector. This unlikely duo is as famous as Holmes and Watson, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and Tracy and Hepburn, but they have their own very special inimitable charm. According to Walter Clemons, Newsweek, "They are at their best in The Code of the Woosters," in which Bertie is rescued from his bumbling escapades time and time again by that gentleman's gentleman: Jeeves. [via]
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Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957by W. H. AudenISBN 0394403339 (0-394-40333-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Dead Man's Mirrorby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425067793 (0-425-06779-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Man's Mirror'Book summary:A Poirot story taken from Murder in the Mews Sir Gervase Chevenix-Gore suspects he is the victim of fraud and contacts Hercule Poirot. The host's failure to answer to the dinner gong leads to the discovery of his body in the study. A gun, a shattered mirror -- the obvious inference is suicide until Poirot begins his investigation...Hugh Fraser, known to millions as Captain Hastings in the Poirot productions on television, gives a first-class performance. [via]
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The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934by Anais Nin, Gunther StuhlmannISBN 0156260255 (0-15-626025-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934'Book summary:This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.[via]More editions of The Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934:
Dumb Witness: A Hercule Poirot Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425098540 (0-425-09854-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Early Diary of Anais Nin: 1923-1927by Anais NinISBN 0156272504 (0-15-627250-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Evil Under the Sunby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425129608 (0-425-12960-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evil Under the Sun'Book summary:A flirtatious young bride is strangled to death while vacationing, and only Poirot can unravel the woman's strange secrets. [via]
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Four Quartetsby T. S. EliotISBN 0156332256 (0-15-633225-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Quartets'Book summary:Published in the fiery days of World War II, Four Quartets stands as a testament to the power of poetry amid the chaos of the time. Let the words speak for themselves: "The dove descending breaks the air/With flame of incandescent terror/Of which the tongues declare/The only discharge from sin and error/The only hope, or the despair/Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre--/To be redeemed from fire by fire./Who then devised this torment?/Love/Love is the unfamiliar Name/Behind the hands that wave/The intolerable shirt of flame/Which human power cannot remove./We only live, only suspire/Consumed by either fire or fire." [via]
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945by David M. KennedyISBN 0195144031 (0-19-514403-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945'Book summary:You can think of Freedom from Fear as the academic's version of The Greatest Generation: like Tom Brokaw, Stanford history professor David M. Kennedy focuses on the years of the Great Depression and the Second World War and how the American people coped with those events. But there the similarities end--and, in terms of the differences, one might begin by noting that the historian's account is over twice the size of the journalist's.
Whereas Brokaw made use of extensive interviews, Kennedy relies on published accounts and primary sources, all meticulously footnoted. This academic rigor, however, does not render the book dull--far from it. Certainly the subject matter is interesting enough in its own right, but Kennedy offers attention-grabbing turns of phrase on nearly every page. He also unleashes some convention-shattering theses, such as his revelation that "the most responsible students of the events of 1929 have been unable to demonstrate an appreciable cause-and-effect linkage between the Crash and the Depression" and his subsequent argument that, although it made order out of chaos, the New Deal did not reverse the Depression--that, he says, was the war's doing. All in all, Freedom from Fear compares favorably to its companions in the multivolume Oxford History of the United States in both its comprehensive heft and its vivid readability. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Girl at the Lion D'orby Sebastian FaulksISBN 0375704531 (0-375-70453-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Good Earthby Pearl S. BuckISBN 0381980332 (0-381-98033-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Earth'Book summary:The story begins on the wedding day of farmer Wang Lung and follows his simple, often one-sided view of the Chinese culture, times, and his connection with the land. The land is a recurring theme throughout the novel, seemingly nurtured by the apparent protagonists, rejected and ruined by the antagonists. The author uses the House of Hwang, a nearby house of nobles, to contrast and predict their rise and fall. As the House of Hwang meets its slow and desperate end, Wang Lung rises.
However, as the weather turns disastrous for farming, Wang Lung's family has to flee to the city to scrape out a meager living. Upon returning home, the family fares better. Wang Lung eventually becomes a prosperous man, his rise contrasting with the downfall of the Hwang family, who lose their connection to the land. At the end of the novel, when Wang Lung is an old man, he overhears his sons plotting to sell some of the land, thus showing the end of the cycle of wealth and downfall. [via]
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The Great Depression: 1929-1939by Pierre BertonISBN 0385658435 (0-385-65843-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Groupby Mary McCarthyISBN 0156372088 (0-15-637208-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Group'Book summary:Written with a trenchant, sardonic edge, The Group is a dazzlingly outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America between two world wars.
Mary McCarthys most celebrated novel follows the lives of eight Vassar graduates, known simply to their classmates as the group. An eclectic mix of personalities and upbringings, they meet a week after graduation to watch Kay Strong get married. After the ceremony, the women begin their adult livestraveling to Europe, tackling the worlds of nursing and publishing, and finding love and heartbreak in the streets of New York City. Through the years, some of the friends grow apart and some become entangled in each other's affairs, but all vow not to become like their mothers and fathers. It is only when one of them passes away that they all come back together again to mourn the loss of a friend, a confidante, and most importantly, a member of the group. [via]
A Gun for Saleby Graham GreeneISBN 014303930X (0-14-303930-X)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunterby Carson McCullersISBN 0395079780 (0-395-07978-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Homage to Cataloniaby George OrwellISBN 0156421178 (0-15-642117-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homage to Catalonia'Book summary:"I wonder what is the appropriate first action when you come from a country at war and set foot on peaceful soil. Mine was to rush to the tobacco-kiosk and buy as many cigars and cigarettes as I could stuff into my pockets." Most war correspondents observe wars and then tell stories about the battles, the soldiers and the civilians. George Orwell--novelist, journalist, sometime socialist--actually traded his press pass for a uniform and fought against Franco's Fascists in the Spanish Civil War during 1936 and 1937. He put his politics and his formidable conscience to the toughest tests during those days in the trenches in the Catalan section of Spain. Then, after nearly getting killed, he went back to England and wrote a gripping account of his experiences, as well as a complex analysis of the political machinations that led to the defeat of the socialist Republicans and the victory of the Fascists. [via]
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The Homecomingby Earl HamnerISBN 0380012545 (0-380-01254-5)
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In Dubious Battleby John Steinbeck, Warren G. FrenchISBN 0143039636 (0-14-303963-6)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Dubious Battle'Book summary:[via]This 1936 novelset in the California apple countryportrays a strike by migrant workers that metamorphoses from principled defiance into blind fanaticism.More editions of In Dubious Battle:
It's Superman!: A Novelby Tom De HavenISBN 0345493923 (0-345-49392-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Keep the Aspidistra Flyingby George OrwellISBN 0156468999 (0-15-646899-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying'Book summary:London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Nearly 30 and "rather moth-eaten already," a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen "flatter than any pancake," Gordon has given up a "good" job and gone to work in a bookshop at half his former salary. Always broke, but too proud to accept charity, he rarely sees his few friends and cannot get the virginal Rosemary to bed because (or so he believes), "If you have no money ... women won't love you." On the windowsill of Gordon's shabby rooming-house room is a sickly but unkillable aspidistra--a plant he abhors as the banner of the sort of "mingy, lower-middle-class decency" he is fleeing in his downward flight. In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell has created a darkly compassionate satire to which anyone who has ever been oppressed by the lack of brass, or by the need to make it, will all too easily relate. He etches the ugly insanity of what Gordon calls "the money-world" in unflinching detail, but the satire has a second edge, too, and Gordon himself is scarcely heroic. In the course of his misadventures, we become grindingly aware that his radical solution to the problem of the money-world is no solution at all--that in his desperate reaction against a monstrous system, he has become something of a monster himself. Orwell keeps both of his edges sharp to the very end--a "happy" ending that poses tough questions about just how happy it really is. That the book itself is not sour, but constantly fresh and frequently funny, is the result of Orwell's steady, unsentimental attention to the telling detail; his dry, quiet humor; his fascination with both the follies and the excellences of his characters; and his courageous refusal to embrace the comforts of any easy answer. --Daniel Hintzsche [via]
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940by William Raymond ManchesterISBN 0316545120 (0-316-54512-0)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940'Book summary:Alone is the second volume of William Manchester's brilliant three-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In this volume, we witness the war within, before the colossal war to come. During this period, Churchill was tested as few men are: relentlessly pursued by creditors, disowned by his own party, vociferously dismissed by the press as a warmonger, and twice nearly lost his seat in Parliament. Yet despite his personal and political troubles, Churchill managed to assemble a vast, underground intelligence network-both within the British government and on the continent-which provided him with more complete and accurate information on Germany than the British government. Recognizing the horrifying truth, Churchill stood almost alone against Nazi aggression and the sordid British and French policy of appeasement.
Manchester's luminous portrait never loses sight of Churchill the man-a man with limitations, especially his callousness toward others (including his supporters) and his recklessness, which could border on the foolhardy; but also a man whose vision was global and whose courage was boundless. Here is Churchill as a light in the approaching darkness, readying himself for the terrible stand to come. [via]More editions of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940:
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Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone, 1932-40by William ManchesterISBN 0385313314 (0-385-31331-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone, 1932-40'Book summary:The long-awaited second volume of the best Churchill biography reveals the true portrait of this ambitious world leader. Discussion centers on the alarm he sounded about the terrible plot being hatched inside Hitler's deranged mind. Two 8-page photos inserts. [via]
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The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932by William ManchesterISBN 0316545031 (0-316-54503-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932'Book summary:William Manchester met Winston Churchill on January 24, 1953. Their encounter on the Queen Mary sparked an intense curiosity in Manchester that would eventually result in his classic three-volume magnum opus The Last Lion.
In this, the first volume, we follow Churchill from his birth to 1932, when he began to warn against the remilitarization of Germany. Born of a lovely, wanton American mother and a gifted but unstable son of a duke, his childhood was one of wretched neglect. He sought glory on the battlefields of Cuba, Sudan, India, South Africa and the trenches of France. In Parliament he was the prime force behind the creation of Iraq and Jordan, laid the groundwork for the birth of Israel, and negotiated the independence of the Irish Free State. Yet, as Chancellor of the Exchequer he plunged England into economic crisis, and his fruitless attempt to suppress Gandhi's quest for Indian independence brought political chaos to Britain.
Throughout, Churchill learned the lessons that would prepare him for the storm to come, and as the 1930's began, he readied himself for the coming battle against Nazism--an evil the world had never before seen. [via]More editions of The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932:
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The Long Weekend: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939by Robert Graves, Alan HodgeISBN 0393311368 (0-393-31136-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Long Weekend: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939'Book summary:A classic social history by two distinguished writers who lived through the time. "The long week-end" is the authors' evocative phrase for the period in Great Britain's social history between the twin devastations of the Great War and World War II. From a postwar period of prosperity and frivolity through the ever-darkening decade of the thirties, The Long Week-End deftly and movingly preserves the details and captures the spirit of the time. [via]
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The Maltese Falcon, the Thin Man, Red Harvestby Dashiell Hammett, Robert PolitoISBN 0375411259 (0-375-41125-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Maltese Falcon, the Thin Man, Red Harvest'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The three classic novels published here in one volume are rich with the crisp prose, subtle characters, and intricate plots that made Dashiell Hammett one of the most admired writers of the twentieth century.
A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel. In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade, a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, tangles with a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. The Thin Man introduces Hammett's wittiest creations, Nick and Nora Charles, who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. And in Red Harvest, Hammett's anonymous tough-guy detective, the Continental Op, takes on the entire town of Poisonville in a deadly war against corruption.
"Dashiell Hammett is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer."Boston Globe
Hammett was spare, hard-boiled, but he did over and over what only the best writers can ever do. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before. Raymond Chandler
Hammetts prose was clean and entirely unique. His characters were as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction. The New York Times
As a novelist of realistic intrigue, Hammett was unsurpassed in his own or any time. Ross Macdonald
Dashiell Hammetts dialogues can be compared only with the best in Hemingway. André Gide
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnsonby Robert A. CaroISBN 0394720954 (0-394-72095-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson'Book summary:Robert Caro's Master of the Senate examines in meticulous detail Lyndon Johnson's career in that body, from his arrival in 1950 (after 12 years in the House of Representatives) until his election as JFK's vice president in 1960. This, the third of a projected four-volume series, studies not only the pragmatic, ruthless, ambitious Johnson, who wielded influence with both consummate skill and "raw, elemental brutality," but also the Senate itself, which Caro describes (pre-1957) as a "cruel joke" and an "impregnable stronghold" against social change. The milestone of Johnson's Senate years was the 1957 Civil Rights Act, whose passage he single-handedly engineered. As important as the bill was--both in and of itself and as a precursor to wider-reaching civil rights legislation--it was only close to Johnson's Southern "anti-civil rights" heart as a means to his dream: the presidency. Caro writes that not only does power corrupt, it "reveals," and that's exactly what this massive, scrupulously researched book does. A model of social, psychological, and political insight, it is not just masterful; it is a masterpiece. --H. O'Billovich [via]
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Mr Popper's Penguinsby Richard Atwater, Florence Atwater, Robert LawsonISBN 0316058432 (0-316-05843-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr Popper's Penguins'Book summary:More than 60 years have not dated this wonderfully absurd tale--it still makes kids (and parents) laugh out loud. Poor Mr. Popper isn't exactly unhappy; he just wishes he had seen something of the world before meeting Mrs. Popper and settling down. Most of all, he wishes he had seen the Poles, and spends his spare time between house-painting jobs reading all about polar explorations. Admiral Drake, in response to Mr. Popper's fan letter, sends him a penguin; life at 432 Proudfoot Avenue is never the same again. From one penguin living in the icebox, the Popper family grows to include 12 penguins, all of whom must be fed. Thus is born "Popper's Performing Penguins, First Time on Any Stage, Direct from the South Pole." Their adventures while on tour are hilarious, with numerous slapstick moments as the penguins disrupt other acts and invade hotels. Classic chapter-a-night fun. (Ages 5 to 10) --Richard Farr [via]
Mr. Parker Pyne, Detectiveby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396088651 (0-396-08865-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Mulliner Nightsby P. G. WodehouseISBN 039472027X (0-394-72027-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Murder at the Vicarageby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425094537 (0-425-09453-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Murder in the Mewsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425104354 (0-425-10435-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder in the Mews'Book summary:What's better than Poirot and Christie? Poirot and Christie times four!
Four extraordinary cases that are not only unexpected...but unpredictable. [via]More editions of Murder in the Mews:
The Mysterious Mr. Quinby Agatha ChristieISBN 0312981600 (0-312-98160-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Nightmare Years 1930-1940by William L. ShirerISBN 0316787035 (0-316-78703-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nightmare Years 1930-1940'Book summary:As European correspondent for a number of American newspapers during the 1930s, William L. Shirer witnessed at first hand many of the pivotal events in the buildup to World War II. At the Nuremberg rallies, when Hitler roared through the streets celebrating his newly-won domination of Germany, Shirer was there. In Munich, as Chamberlain abandoned the Czechs, Shirer was there. In Vienna during the night of the Anschluss, in Berlin, when Hitler loosed his Blitzkrieg on Poland and began the war, Shirer was there. Through articles, broadcasts and translations of Hitler's speeches, Shirer tirelessly tried to warn the world of the terrible evil that was growing in Germany. The Nightmare Years, a No. I bestseller when first published in America in 1984, is not only the fascinating eyewitness account of this cataclysmic decade, but also the more personal story of a young American caught in tense and desperate times, struggling to survive and provide a life for himself and his family as the world lurched inexorably towards war.
'More than any conventional history book, Shirer's memoirs let a reader relive history' -People 'A superb journalist. ..Shirer was close enough to Hitler to feel the Nazi leader's messianic personal force. ..An unusually fine book' -Time 'No one ever did more to explain the rise of the Nazis' -Barbara Tuchman 'An outstanding achievement of journalistic history; indeed it is the best kind of accurate and absorbing history' -Washington Post REVIEWS 'Reporting at its best. ..A highly readable, absorbing story of a fascinating man and a dangerous decade. ..A deeply personal account of living with history as it's being made -an absorbing narrative' -Houston Chronicle 'More than any conventional history book, Shirer's memoirs let a reader relive history' -People 'A superb journalist. ..Shirer was close enough to Hitler to feel the Nazi leader's messianic personal force. ..An unusually fine book' -Time 'No one ever did more to explain the rise of the Nazis' -Barbara Tuchman 'An outstanding achievement of journalistic history; indeed it is the best kind of accurate and absorbing history' -Washington Post [via]More editions of The Nightmare Years 1930-1940:
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Orient Expressby Graham GreeneISBN 0142437913 (0-14-243791-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orient Express'Book summary:[via]As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople, the driven lives of several of its passengers become bound together in a fateful interlock. The menagerie of characters include Coral Musker, a beautiful chorus girl; Carleton Myatt, a rich Jewish businessman; Richard John, a mysterious and kind doctor returning to his native Belgrade; the spiteful journalist Mabel Warren; and Josef Grunlich, a cunning, murderous burglar.
What happens to these strangers as they put on and take off their masks of identity and passion, all the while confessing, prevaricating, and reaching out to one another in the "veracious air" of the onrushing train, makes for one of Graham Greene's most exciting and suspenseful stories. Originally published in 1933, Orient Express was Greene's first major success.
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Osi Poirotby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425067998 (0-425-06799-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Parker Pyne Investigatesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0312981651 (0-312-98165-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Poirot Loses a Clientby Agatha ChristieISBN 0399136045 (0-399-13604-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Remains of the Dayby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0394573439 (0-394-57343-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Remains of the Day'Book summary:A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.
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Ship of Foolsby Katherine Anne PorterISBN 0316713902 (0-316-71390-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ship of Fools'Book summary:The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Germany. Passengers include a Spanish noblewoman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, a pair of Mexican Catholic priests. This ship of fools is a crucible of intense experience, out of which everyone emerges forever changed. Rich in incident, passion, and treachery, the novel explores themes of nationalism, cultural and ethnic pride, and basic human frailty that are as relevant today as they were when the book was first published in 1962. [via]
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Song Of Solomonby Toni MorrisonISBN 0394497848 (0-394-49784-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhartby Mary S. LovellISBN 0312051603 (0-312-05160-3)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart'Book summary:This definitive biography of aviation legend Amelia Earhart delivers a brilliantly researched report on Earhart's life--from her tomboy childhood and early fascination with flying, her peculiar business/matrimonial realtionship with publisher G.P. Putnam to her consuming quest for avaiation fame. [via]
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The Story of Babar, the Little Elephantby Jean De BrunhoffISBN 0394805755 (0-394-80575-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant'Book summary:The Story of Babar--the early adventures of the enduring, endearing elephant--was written in 1931 by French writer Jean de Brunhoff (1899-1937). Since then, it has been translated into at least 12 languages. It's amazing how much can happen to one little elephant in the course of one little book: Babar loses his mother to a hunter, wanders into the city, gets a new wardrobe, becomes the hit of high society, marries his cousin Céleste (totally acceptable in contemporary Elephantine society), and is crowned King of the Elephants.
The Story of Babar is essentially the tale of a country boy who comes to the city and, while there, comes of age. In the end, he returns home to share his knowledge and experiences with family and friends. The beautiful, delightfully detailed illustrations--de Brunhoff was a painter by trade--never fail to amuse. (Although none of the characters seem to notice, the sight of Babar in a suit leaning against the mantel while he regales his audience with tales of the jungle is plainly hilarious.) All of the Babar books are notable for their ability to tell larger stories with simplicity and style, and The Story of Babar is no exception. Potentially troubling moments--the death of Babar's mother, for example--are handled with taste, emphasizing Babar's unique gift for uncovering a silver lining in the most persistent of clouds. (Ages 4 to 8, though the cursive writing makes it best for reading aloud.) [via]
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirtiesby Noel Riley FitchISBN 0393302318 (0-393-30231-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Thirties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Periodby Edmund Wilson, Leon EdelISBN 0374275726 (0-374-27572-6)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Couglin and the Great Depressionby Alan BrinkleyISBN 0394716280 (0-394-71628-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Voyage in the Darkby Jean RhysISBN 0393311465 (0-393-31146-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Wavesby Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey, Molly HiteISBN 0156031574 (0-15-603157-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?by Agatha ChristieISBN 0312981597 (0-312-98159-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Winds of Warby Herman WoukISBN 0316952664 (0-316-95266-4)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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The Years of Lyndon Johnsonby Robert A. CaroISBN 039471654X (0-394-71654-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Powerby Robert CaroISBN 0394499735 (0-394-49973-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power'Book summary:The profound understanding of the uses and abuses of power Robert Caro displayed in his 1974 biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker, is a scathing achievement the author surpassed with panache in this, his second book. Caro's dogged research and refusal to accept received wisdom results in an eye-opening portrait that unforgettably captures the titanic personality of Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973). Though stronger on Johnson's duplicity and naked self-promotion than his intelligence and charm, Caro nails it all. He chronicles the evolution of an attention-demanding youth from the Texas hill country into a seasoned congressman who would abandon his ardent espousal of the New Deal as soon as it ceased to be expedient. The dirty details begin with college elections that earn young Lyndon a reputation as a crook and a liar; Caro goes on to unravel financial shenanigans of impressive ingenuity. Johnson's consuming desire to get ahead and his political genius "unencumbered by philosophy or ideology" are staggering. The White House, Great Society, and Vietnam lie ahead when the main narrative closes in 1941, but the roots of Johnson's future achievements and tragic failures are laid bare. This biography may well stand as the best book written in the second half of the 20th century about personal ambition inextricably linked with historic change. --Wendy Smith [via]
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