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"A" is for Alibiby Sue GraftonISBN 0312938993 (0-312-93899-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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American Parties in Declineby Gary C. Jacobson, William J. CrottyISBN 0316162221 (0-316-16222-1)
Softcover, Little, Brown
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Among the Russiansby Colin ThubronISBN 0330339508 (0-330-33950-8)
Hardcover, Picador in association with Heinemann
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Ariame Belovedby DupereISBN 0312904924 (0-312-90492-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ariame Beloved'Book summary:Revised edition of Betty Edwards' drawing instruction book, in large format with colour illustrations. [via]
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Arthur Corunna's Storyby Sally MorganISBN 0316582891 (0-316-58289-1)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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B Is for Burglarby Sue GraftonISBN 0312939000 (0-312-93900-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'B Is for Burglar'Book summary:Although business has been slow lately for P.I. Kinsey Millhone, she's reluctant to take on the case of locating Beverly Danziger's sister Elaine Boldt. It's a small matter that Beverly should be able to handle herself. So why is she enlisting Kinsey's services? Beverly claims she needs Elaine's signature on some documents so that she can collect a small inheritance. But the whole affair doesn't sit well with Kinsey. And if there's something she's learned in her line of work, it's to always follow your instincts&[via]
Kinsey's hunch proves true when she begins her inquiries into Elaine's whereabouts and discovers that the attractive widow was last seen in a flashy lynx coat boarding a plane for Boca Raton. But the more Kinsey searches for Elaine the more questions she encounters. Is Elaine's disappearance tied in to the brutal murder several months ago of one of her bridge partners? And what happened to Elaine's Persian cat who seems to have also vanished?
Things take a turn for the worse when a stranger vandalizes the home of one of Elaine's neighbors and another neighbor turns up murdered. With her reputation and career on the line, Kinsey risks all to find a missing woman and a killer who's waiting in the shadows to strike again&More editions of B Is for Burglar:
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Billy and the Boingers Bootleg/Includes Recordby Berke BreathedISBN 0316107298 (0-316-10729-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy and the Boingers Bootleg/Includes Record'Book summary:The most daring -- and deadly -- terrorist plot of all time is about to unfold aboard the supercarrier USS United States. If it succeeds, the balance of nuclear power will tilt in favor of a remorseless Arab leader. And it looks as if no one can stop it - except navy "jet jock" Jake Grafton. "Cag " Grafton is one helluva pilot. His F-14 Tomcat is one helluva plane. But some of Jake's crewmates have already vanished. A woman reporter who boarded the ship in Tangiers may not be who she claims to be. And Jake may have to disobey a direct order from the President himself for one spine-tingling, hair-raising Final Flight
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Blue Highwaysby William Least Heat MoonISBN 0316353299 (0-316-35329-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Highways'Book summary:Published in 1983 to phenomenal reviews, Blue Highways: A Journey into America became a cult classic on par with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. In this highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir, a 38-year-old laid-off college professor of Sioux and white blood drives around the U.S. on the "blue highways, " the rural back made that are colored blue on old maps. The places he discovers during his 13,000-mile journey are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and often full of simply the wonder of the ordinary.-- Blue Highways received extraordinary reviews when it was first published. [via]
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Blue Highways: A Journey into Americaby William Least Heat MoonISBN 0316353957 (0-316-35395-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Highways: A Journey into America'Book summary:First published in 1982, William Least Heat-Moon's account of his journey along the back roads of the United States (marked with the color blue on old highway maps) has become something of a classic. When he loses his job and his wife on the same cold February day, he is struck by inspiration: "A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity."
Driving cross-country in a van named Ghost Dancing, Heat-Moon (the name the Sioux give to the moon of midsummer nights) meets up with all manner of folk, from a man in Grayville, Illinois, "whose cap told me what fertilizer he used" to Scott Chisholm, "a Canadian citizen ... [who] had lived in this country longer than in Canada and liked the United States but wouldn't admit it for fear of having to pay off bets he made years earlier when he first 'came over' that the U.S. is a place no Canadian could ever love." Accompanied by his photographs, Heat-Moon's literary portraits of ordinary Americans should not be merely read, but savored. [via]
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Bones of the Moonby Jonathan CarrollISBN 0312873123 (0-312-87312-3)
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Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926345 (0-316-92634-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brideshead Revisited'Book summary:A departure from Evelyn Waugh's normally comic theater, Brideshead Revisited concerns the tale of Charles Ryder, a captain in the British Army in post-World War I England. Unlike Waugh's previous narrators, Ryder is an intelligent man, looking back on much of his life from his current post in Oxford. He strikes a special friendship with Lord Sebastian Flyte as the setting moves to the Brideshead estate and a baroque castle that recalls England's prior standing in the world. Ryder falls for Flyte's sister while families, politics and religions collide. What makes the book extraordinary is Waugh's sharp, vivid style and his use of dialect and minor characters. This is one of Waugh's finest accomplishments and a superb book. [via]
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-hop Generationby Jeff Chang, DJ Kool HercISBN 0312425791 (0-312-42579-1)
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Catmagicby Whitley Strieber, Jonathan BarryISBN 0312931123 (0-312-93112-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catmagic'Book summary:1986 1sr Ed. Tor [via]
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Collected Poems: Yeatsby W. B. YeatsISBN 0330316389 (0-330-31638-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Collectorby John FowlesISBN 0316290238 (0-316-29023-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collector'Book summary:Hailed as the first modern psychological thriller, The Collector is the internationally bestselling novel that catapulted John Fowles into the front rank of contemporary novelists. This tale of obsessive love--the story of a lonely clerk who collects butterflies and of the beautiful young art student who is his ultimate quarry--remains unparalleled in its power to startle and mesmerize.[via]More editions of The Collector:
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The Complete Works of Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, David BevingtonISBN 032109333X (0-321-09333-X)
Hardcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare'Book summary:Offering the most comprehensive scholarly apparatus available in any Shakespeare text, this anthology provides extensive introductions to the plays and poems - offering discussion topics, sources for each play, and the stage history of performances. [via]
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The Complete Works of Shakespeareby David BevingtonISBN 0321366263 (0-321-36626-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare'Book summary:The discipline's most reader-friendly Shakespeare anthology is now available in a Portable Edition: a boxed set of four portable, paperback volumes organized by genre. This convenient new format features all the content of the hardcover original, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5e, in four paperbacks packaged in a slipcase. The four separate genre volumes can also be purchased on their own. A balanced editorial approach, a highly respected editor, and proven apparatus combine to make Bevingtons the most accessible Complete Works available. A prestigious editorial board provides state-of-the-art scholarship and interpretative balance on each play. In-depth historical coverage helps students understand the cultural context behind each play, without dictating their reading of it. Extensive notes and glosses give students the support they need to understand Elizabethan language and idiomatic expressions. For those who want Shakespeare's complete works in a portable format.
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The Convict and Other Storiesby James Lee BurkeISBN 0316117285 (0-316-11728-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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D Is for Deadbeatby Sue GraftonISBN 0312939027 (0-312-93902-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Die for Loveby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0312921373 (0-312-92137-3)
Hardcover, Congdon & Weed
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Drunk With Loveby Ellen GilchristISBN 0316313149 (0-316-31314-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drunk with Love'Book summary:This latest collection of thirteen masterful short stories by the author of Victory Over Japan brings more critical acclaim to the writer who has been called "a natural teller of tales." [via]
Excellent Womenby Barbara PymISBN 0330335049 (0-330-33504-9)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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The Falling Womanby Pat MurphyISBN 0312854064 (0-312-85406-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literatureby John Bartlett, Justin KaplanISBN 0316084603 (0-316-08460-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature'Book summary:This 16th edition of the book, first published in 1855, has been expanded to include more than 20,000 quotations and more than 340 new authors both historical and contemporary - from Russell Baker, The Doors, Elvis, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Hawking, Primo Levi, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie, the Talmud, Alice Walker and Elie Wiesel. This edition has been revised and edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan. [via]
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The Forge of Godby Greg BearISBN 0312930216 (0-312-93021-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forge of God'Book summary:"A gripping panorama of a world in peril" (Chicago Sun-Times) from the author of Anvil of Stars. June 26, 1996: One of Jupiter's moons disappears. September 28, 1996: A mysterious cinder cone is found in Death Valley. October 1, 1996: An enormous granite mountain is discovered in Australia. It wasn't there six months ago. . . . "Bear's best novel".--San Diego Union. [via]
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A Fragile Paradise: The Discovery of Fletcher Christian Bounty Mutineerby Glynn ChristianISBN 0316140635 (0-316-14063-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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A Glass of Blessingsby Barbara PymISBN 0330334972 (0-330-33497-2)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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Hot Flashesby Barbara RaskinISBN 0312928017 (0-312-92801-7)
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Imitation of Christby Thomas A. KempisISBN 0340247010 (0-340-24701-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imitation of Christ'Book summary:The Thomas à Kempis fan club includes St. Ignatius, Thomas Merton, Thomas More, and even Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. (She reads a chapter of The Imitation of Christ every night before sleep.) Imitation has exerted immense influence on Christian worship, ethics, and church structure, because it gives specific yet broad-minded guidance about the central task of Christian life--learning to live like Jesus. Better to read this book a little here and there, now and then, than to try gobbling it cover to cover. Imitation is no triumph of orderly thinking, but it's a great monument and incentive to deep living. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Jane Austen's Emma: A Longman Cultural Editionby Jane Austen, Frances FergusonISBN 032122504X (0-321-22504-X)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen's Emma: A Longman Cultural Edition'Book summary:Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey: A Longman Cultural Editionby Marilyn GaullISBN 0321202082 (0-321-20208-2)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey: A Longman Cultural Edition'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, Susan J. Wolfson, Claudia L. JohnsonISBN 0321105079 (0-321-10507-9)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Let's Go: Budget Guide to Europeby Harvard Student AgenciesISBN 0312481721 (0-312-48172-1)
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Life and Loves of a She-Devilby Fay WeldonISBN 034033228X (0-340-33228-X)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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The Light Fantasticby Terry PratchettISBN 0312486030 (0-312-48603-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Little Women, Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amyby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0316031054 (0-316-03105-4)
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A Maggotby John FowlesISBN 0316290491 (0-316-29049-1)
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Manchester Slingbackby Nicholas BlincoeISBN 033036927X (0-330-36927-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0330029487 (0-330-02948-7)
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Mating Birdsby Lewis NkosiISBN 0312522959 (0-312-52295-9)
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Modern English Usageby FowlerISBN 0317199692 (0-317-19969-2)
Hardcover, Bern Porter
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A Month in the Countryby J. L. CarrISBN 0312546807 (0-312-54680-7)
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The Mummy Caseby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0312925476 (0-312-92547-6)
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The Night Before Christmasby Clement Clarke Moore, Tasha TudorISBN 0316832715 (0-316-83271-5)
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Not That Sort of Girlby Mary WesleyISBN 033344552X (0-333-44552-X)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook: How the British Upper Class Prepares Its Offspring for Lifeby Ann Barr, Peter YorkISBN 0312582293 (0-312-58229-3)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991by Michael AzerradISBN 0316787531 (0-316-78753-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991'Book summary:It was a musical revolution that happened in the midst of Reagan's 80s: a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations and other subversives who re-shaped and re-energized American rock music with punk rock's revolutionary do-it-yourself credo. The music that resulted was deeply personal, always challenging and immensely influential. This book traces the arc of the American indie underground in the 1980s, from obscure beginnings to the point a decade later when the mainstream sat up and took notice. Beginning with the pioneering and notorious punk band, Black Flag, the story continues with the Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Minor Threat, Husker Du, the Replacements, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Big Black, Dinosaur Jr, Fugazi, Mudhoney and Beat Happening, among others. Without major label support, these bands depended on resourcefulness, creativity and an all-powerful sense of community. [via]
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The Power of Oneby Bryce CourtenayISBN 0316158259 (0-316-15825-9)
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, G. C. RosserISBN 0340076151 (0-340-07615-1)
Hardcover, University of London P.
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Quartet in Autumnby Barbara PymISBN 0333227786 (0-333-22778-6)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Retro Hell: Life in the `70s and `80S, from Afros to Zotzby The Editor of Ben Is Dead MagazineISBN 0316102822 (0-316-10282-2)
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Riddley Walkerby Russell HobanISBN 0330266454 (0-330-26645-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Riddley Walker'Book summary:'Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.' Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece. [via]
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Ronald Reagan for Beginnersby Smith, GebbieISBN 0318009560 (0-318-00956-0)
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Saint George and the Dragonby Margaret HodgesISBN 0316367958 (0-316-36795-8)
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Saint George and the Dragonby Trina Schart Hyman, Margaret Hodges, Edmund SpenserISBN 0316367893 (0-316-36789-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saint George and the Dragon'Book summary:Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land. [via]
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The Sculptressby Minette WaltersISBN 0312953615 (0-312-95361-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sculptress'Book summary:Convicted of the brutal ax murders of her mother and sister, Olive Martin spends her days in prison carving tiny human figures out of wax. Rosalind Leigh is a best-selling author whose publisher jolts her out of writer's block by telling her to research a book about Olive and the murders, or else. Though repelled by the idea at first, Rosalind soon becomes intrigued by her subject and begins to believe she may be innocent. She soon uncovers plenty of reasons to doubt the official police version of the killings and with Olive's help, untangles a sinister cover-up. The Sculptress won the 1994 Edgar Award for best mystery novel. [via]
Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 0330029495 (0-330-02949-5)
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Seven Days to a Brand-New Meby Ellen ConfordISBN 0316153117 (0-316-15311-7)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Shadow & Clawby Gene WolfeISBN 0312890176 (0-312-89017-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow & Claw'Book summary:One of the most acclaimed "science fantasies" ever, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is a long, magical novel in four volumes. Shadow & Claw contains the first two: The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator, which respectively won the World Fantasy and Nebula Awards.
This is the first-person narrative of Severian, a lowly apprentice torturer blessed and cursed with a photographic memory, whose travels lead him through the marvels of far-future Urth, and who--as revealed near the beginning--eventually becomes his land's sole ruler or Autarch. On the surface it's a colorful story with all the classic ingredients: growing up, adventure, sex, betrayal, murder, exile, battle, monsters, and mysteries to be solved. (Only well into book 2 do we realize what saved Severian's life in chapter 1.) For lovers of literary allusions, they are plenty here: a Dickensian cemetery scene, a torture-engine from Kafka, a wonderful library out of Borges, and familiar fables changed by eons of retelling. Wolfe evokes a chilly sense of time's vastness, with an age-old, much-restored painting of a golden-visored "knight," really an astronaut standing on the moon, and an ancient citadel of metal towers, actually grounded spacecraft. Even the sun is senile and dying, and so Urth needs a new sun.
The Book of the New Sun is almost heartbreakingly good, full of riches and subtleties that improve with each rereading. It is Gene Wolfe's masterpiece. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Sirens of Titanby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0340028769 (0-340-02876-9)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sirens of Titan'Book summary:Winston has flown his craft into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum, and been converted into pure energy. Materializing only when his waveforms intercept a planet, he only gets home once every 59 days. But at least it's some consolation that he knows all that ever has been and all that ever will be. [via]
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Speaker for the Deadby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312853254 (0-312-85325-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Speaker for the Dead'Book summary:Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts. Like its predecessor, this book won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. [via]
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The Story of Junkby Linda YablonskyISBN 0316968080 (0-316-96808-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of Junk'Book summary:The early '80s in the lower east side of New York was a thrilling time for the popular music and art culture created at the end of the punk and New Wave eras. It was also a devastating time of drug addiction and the beginning of AIDS awareness. In her stunning first novel, Linda Yablonsky, a survivor of that dangerous time, tells the story of a would-be writer turned heroin junkie who deals to queers, artists, punks, and yuppies. This is an exquisitely written, brutal, caring book. [via]
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The Sweet Dove Diedby Barbara PymISBN 0333233239 (0-333-23323-9)
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The Sweet Foreverby George P. PelecanosISBN 0316691097 (0-316-69109-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sweet Forever'Book summary:George P. Pelecanos's latest book is not only a tremendously detailed and emotionally powerful crime novel but also a virtual compendium and update of his other excellent novels that are all similarly rooted in the nonpolitical neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. Brought back for major roles are Marcus Clay, Dimitri Karras, and other important players from King Suckerman. There are poignant cameos by Randolph of Shoedog as well as the two Nick Stefanos--grandfather and grandson--from The Big Blowdown, A Firing Offense, Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go, and Nick's Trip. As always, Pelecanos uses jabs of pop music, basketball, clothes, and cars to quickly root us in time and place.
It's 1986, 10 years after the Bicentennial events of King Suckerman, so a woman in her 30s wears a Susanna Hoffs-style haircut "from the cover of the 'All Over the Place' album, not the redone look off the new LP." Dimitri, after a brief career as a teacher, is now working full-time for his friend Marcus's expanded chain of four Real Right record stores; he drives a BMW 325 and wears his graying hair moussed and spiked. (He also snorts more cocaine than Al Pacino did in Scarface, one of several films used as icons here.) The doomed basketball star Len Bias--just finishing his college career and about to sign a huge deal with the Boston Celtics--is on TV screens everywhere, admired equally by the former local hoops hero Clay and a conflicted cop named Kevin Murphy who has misplaced his moral compass. The complicated, satisfying plot involves $25,000 stolen from a drug dealer; several children in peril; smart adults who screw up their lives in dumb ways; and the speed with which violence festers and explodes in unexpected directions. --Dick Adler [via]
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Tail Feathers from Mother Goose: The Opie Rhyme Bookby OpieISBN 0316650811 (0-316-65081-1)
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A Tale From Percy's Park One Snowy Nightby Nick ButterworthISBN 0316119180 (0-316-11918-0)
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0330344706 (0-330-34470-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:Tess is a young country girl from a decayed aristocratic family who suffers ravishment at the hands of a nouveau riche cad. The confession of her misfortune to her husband, a sanctimonious Anglican, blights her marriage and leads to her downfall. A critical introduction accompanies the text. [via]
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Hardcover, St Martins Pr - Tess of the D'Urbervilles: ISBN 0333168852 (0-333-16885-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Tess of the D'Urbervilles: ISBN 0333168968 (0-333-16896-8)
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyby John Le CarreISBN 0340188790 (0-340-18879-0)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'Book summary:From the author of THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY, SMILEY'S PEOPLE and THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, a tale of espionage in which George Smiley embarks on a mission to catch a Soviet mole who has been operating for some thirty years. [via]
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To Serve Them All My Daysby R. F. DelderfieldISBN 0340149965 (0-340-14996-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Serve Them All My Days'Book summary:Young David Powlett-Jones, a Welsh miner's son, is invalided home from France when he suffers severe shell shock on the Western Front. At a remote English public school in Devon the debilitated veteran, himself barely out of his teens, decides temporarily to try his hand at teaching while striving to awaken from the nightmare of World War I -- the national catastrophe that sweeps England out of the comfortable certainties of the Victorian Age into the moral perplexities and harsh economic realities of more modern times. [via]
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The Truth About Lorin Jonesby Alison LurieISBN 0316537209 (0-316-53720-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Truth About Lorin Jones'Book summary:This is another novel by the author of "Foreign Affairs". [via]
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Ulyssesby James Joyce, Danis RoseISBN 033035230X (0-330-35230-X)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
An Unsuitable Attachmentby Barbara PymISBN 0333326547 (0-333-32654-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Vintage Stuffby Tom SharpeISBN 0330269828 (0-330-26982-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vintage Stuff'Book summary:In this novel, Sharpe turns his attention to a very minor public school, taking hilarious pot-shots at the public school system. The humorous and wild incidents include hoaxes, chases, car crashes, shootings and general mayhem. [via]
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Which Witchby Eva IbbotsonISBN 0330265865 (0-330-26586-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Which Witch'Book summary:Arriman the Awful, Loather of Light and Wizard of the North, needs a wife. How else can he have a wizard baby to carry on the family tradition of blighting and smiting, blasting and wuthering? The problem is, wizards can only marry one kind of person--a witch. Arriman dreads the thought. "A great black crone with warts and blisters in unmentionable places from crashing about on her broom! You want me to sit opposite one of those every morning eating my cornflakes?" But a witch it must be, so Arriman holds a contest to decide which witch. The local witches are all atwitter over what spell they'll perform for the contest--all except Belladonna, who is, to her great shame, a white witch. She looks rather like the girl on the Clairol Herbal Essence bottle, with a sweet face and flowing blonde hair. "There was usually something in Belladonna's hair: A fledgling blackbird parked there by its mother while she went to hunt for worms, a baby squirrel wanting somewhere safe to eat its hazel nuts, or a butterfly who thought she was a lily or a rose."
Black spells are cast, enchantments are woven, and even Belladonna manages to do a little damage in this wonderfully clever 1979 book by Eva Ibbotson (of The Secret of Platform 13). Young readers will delight in the way Ibbotson glories in the ghoulish and the gory--and in her engaging characters who are kindly and fiendish all at once. Which Witch (finally reissued in the United States) begs to be read aloud, with before-bed-length chapters and lots of opportunities for funny voices. (Ages 9 and older) --Claire Dederer [via]
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Why Me?by Ellen ConfordISBN 0316153265 (0-316-15326-5)
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The Wisdom of Laotseby Lao-Tzu, Yutang Lin, Chuang-Tz+UISBN 0313211647 (0-313-21164-7)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wisdom of Laotse'Book summary:A cycle of short poems, this is a work of world literature and has the significance of the Bible for more than a quarter of humanity. Written in two halves, the "Tao" ("way") and the "Te" ("virtue"), it is treasured for its poetic statements about life's most profound and elusive truths. [via]
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You Never Can Tellby Ellen ConfordISBN 0316152676 (0-316-15267-6)
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