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Admiralby Dudley PopeISBN 0436377438 (0-436-37743-8)
Hardcover, Harper & Collins
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All the King's Menby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0436563126 (0-436-56312-6)
Hardcover, Secker and Warburg
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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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Amelia Earhart: A Biographyby Doris L. RichISBN 0440503639 (0-440-50363-9)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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American Caesar : Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964by William ManchesterISBN 0440304245 (0-440-30424-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Caesar : Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964'Book summary:Inspiring, outrageous... A thundering paradox of a man. Douglas MacArthur, one of only five men in history to have achieved the rank of General of the United States Army. He served in World Wars I, II, and the Korean War, and is famous for stating that "in war, there is no substitute for victory." AMERICAN CAESAR exaines the exemplary army career, the stunning successes (and lapses) on the battlefield, and the turbulent private life of the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a uniquely American legend. [via]
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Another Countryby James BaldwinISBN 0440302005 (0-440-30200-5)
Hardcover, Dell
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Armageddonby Robert RankinISBN 0440503477 (0-440-50347-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Asking for the Moonby Reginald HillISBN 0440225833 (0-440-22583-3)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt & Mary McCarthyby Hannah ArendtISBN 0436202530 (0-436-20253-0)
Softcover, Secker & Warburg
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Black and Blueby Anna QuindlenISBN 0440226104 (0-440-22610-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black and Blue'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1998: "The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old," begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. "Frannie, Frannie, Fran"--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen appliances--was a young, energetic nursing student when she met her husband-to-be at a local Brooklyn bar. She was instantly captivated by his dark, brooding looks and magnetic personality, but her fascination soon solidified into a marital prison sentence of incessant abuse and the destruction of her own identity. After an especially horrific beating and rape, Fran realizes that the next attack could be the last. Fearing her son would be left alone with Bobby, she escapes one morning with her child. Fran's salvation comes in the form of Patty Bancroft and Co., a relocation agency for abused women that touts better service than the witness protection program. Armed only with a phone number, a few hundred dollars, and the help of several anonymous volunteers, Fran begins a new life. The agency relocates her to Florida, where she becomes Beth Crenshaw, a recently divorced home-care assistant from Delaware. Fran and her son adapt, meeting challenges with unexpected resilience and resolve until their past returns to haunt them. Quindlen renders the intricacies of spousal abuse with eerie accuracy, taking the reader deep within the realm of dysfunctional human ties. However, her vivid descriptions of abuse, emotional disintegration, and acute loneliness at times numb the reader with their realism. [via]
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Bluebeardby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440201969 (0-440-20196-9)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bluebeard'Book summary:Broad humor and bitter irony collide in Vonnegut's fictional biography of aging artist Rabo Karabekian--first introduced in Breakfast of Champions--who wants only to be left alone at his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked in his potato barn. "A joyous, soaring fiction."--Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Reissue. [via]
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Bones and Silenceby Reginald HillISBN 0440209358 (0-440-20935-8)
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Breakfast of Championsby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440131480 (0-440-13148-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast of Champions'Book summary:"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
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The Bridesmaidby Ruth RendellISBN 0445409126 (0-445-40912-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Children of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0441104029 (0-441-10402-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children of Dune'Book summary:The desert planet of Arrakis has begun to grow green and lush. The life-giving spice is abundant. The nine-year-old royal twins, possesing their father's supernatural powers, are being groomed as Messiahs.[via]But there are those who think the Imperium does not need messiahs...
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The Choirboysby Joseph WambaughISBN 0440111889 (0-440-11188-9)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Choirboys'Book summary:They are the Choirboys - the patrol squad of the LA Police attempting to stay sane in an insane world. The five sets of partners on the night-watch are men of varying temperaments and backgrounds, but they are joined together by the job and they have elected to spend their pre-dawn hours in MacArthur Park in relaxing drink and sex sessions they call 'choir practice'. This is the story of men endangered ultimately not by the violence of their jobs but by their choice of off-duty entertainment. This is a boisterous and freewheeling novel, as chillingly authentic as only a veteran police officer could make it. [via]
Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwellby Orwell, Ian Angus, Sonia OrwellISBN 0436350181 (0-436-35018-1)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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The Collected Plays of Jack B. Yeatsby Jack Butler YeatsISBN 0436468204 (0-436-46820-4)
Hardcover, Secker and Warburg
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The Collectorby John FowlesISBN 044031335X (0-440-31335-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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A Day No Pigs Would Dieby Robert Newton PeckISBN 0440920833 (0-440-92083-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Dirty Duckby Martha GrimesISBN 0440120500 (0-440-12050-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dirty Duck'Book summary:In english. Dell Fic. Chapter 1. The doors of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre emptied another audience into a mean rain that always seemed to know the minute the performance ended. [via]
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Disgraceby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0436204894 (0-436-20489-4)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disgrace'Book summary:David Lurie is hardly the hero of his own life, or anyone else's. At 52, the protagonist of Disgrace is at the end of his professional and romantic game, and seems to be deliberately courting disaster. Long a professor of modern languages at Cape Town University College, he has recently been relegated to adjunct professor of communications at the same institution, now pointedly renamed Cape Technical University:
Although he devotes hours of each day to his new discipline, he finds its first premise, as enunciated in the Communications 101 handbook, preposterous: "Human society has created language in order that we may communicate our thoughts, feelings and intentions to each other." His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.
Twice married and twice divorced, his magnetic looks on the wane, David rather cruelly seduces one of his students, and his conduct unbecoming is soon uncovered. In his eighth novel, J.M. Coetzee might have been content to write a searching academic satire. But in Disgrace he is intent on much more, and his art is as uncompromising as his main character, though infinitely more complex. Refusing to play the public-repentance game, David gets himself fired--a final gesture of contempt. Now, he thinks, he will write something on Byron's last years. Not empty, unread criticism, "prose measured by the yard," but a libretto. To do so, he heads for the Eastern Cape and his daughter's farm. In her mid-20s, Lucy has turned her back on city sophistications: with five hectares, she makes her living by growing flowers and produce and boarding dogs. "Nothing," David thinks, "could be more simple." But nothing, in fact, is more complicated--or, in the new South Africa, more dangerous. Far from being the refuge he has sought, little is safe in Salem. Just as David has settled into his temporary role as farmworker and unenthusiastic animal-shelter volunteer, he and Lucy are attacked by three black men. Unable to protect his daughter, David's disgrace is complete. Hers, however, is far worse.There is much more to be explored in Coetzee's painful novel, and few consolations. It would be easy to pick up on his title and view Disgrace as a complicated working-out of personal and political shame and responsibility. But the author is concerned with his country's history, brutalities, and betrayals. Coetzee is also intent on what measure of soul and rights we allow animals. After the attack, David takes his role at the shelter more seriously, at last achieving an unlikely home and some measure of love. In Coetzee's recent Princeton lectures, The Lives of Animals, an aging novelist tells her audience that the question that occupies all lab and zoo creatures is, "Where is home, and how do I get there?" David, though still all-powerful compared to those he helps dispose of, is equally trapped, equally lost.
Disgrace is almost willfully plain. Yet it possesses its own lean, heartbreaking lyricism, most of all in its descriptions of unwanted animals. At the start of the novel, David tells his student that poetry either speaks instantly to the reader--"a flash of revelation and a flash of response"--or not at all. Coetzee's book speaks differently, its layers and sadnesses endlessly unfolding. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Dune Messiahby Frank HerbertISBN 0441172695 (0-441-17269-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Faith in Fakes: Essaysby Umberto EcoISBN 0436140888 (0-436-14088-8)
Hardcover, Secker and Warburg
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Fearby Anatoli RybakovISBN 0440216095 (0-440-21609-5)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0439099390 (0-439-09939-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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- Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0440400554 (0-440-40055-4)
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Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0440477093 (0-440-47709-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0440977096 (0-440-97709-6)
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Galapagosby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440127793 (0-440-12779-3)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Galapagos'Book summary:Galapagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave new, and totally different human race. Here, America's master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry -- and all that is worth saving. [via]
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Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8 The First Manned Flight to Another Worldby Robert ZimmermanISBN 0440235561 (0-440-23556-1)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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Go Tell It on the Mountainby James BaldwinISBN 0440330076 (0-440-33007-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Go Tell It on the Mountain'Book summary:First published in 1953 when James Baldwin was nearly 30, Go Tell It on the Mountain is a young man's novel, as tightly coiled as a new spring, yet tempered by a maturing man's confidence and empathy. It's not a long book, and its action spans but a single day--yet the author packs in enough emotion, detail, and intimate revelation to make his story feel like a mid-20th-century epic. Using as a frame the spiritual and moral awakening of 14-year-old John Grimes during a Saturday night service in a Harlem storefront church, Baldwin lays bare the secrets of a tormented black family during the depression. John's parents, praying beside him, both wrestle with the ghosts of their sinful pasts--Gabriel, a preacher of towering hypocrisy, fathered an illegitimate child during his first marriage down South and refused to recognize his doomed bastard son; Elizabeth fell in love with a charming, free-spirited young man, followed him to New York, became pregnant with his son, and lost him before she could reveal her condition.
Baldwin lays down the terrible symmetries of these two blighted lives as the ironic context for John's dark night of the soul. When day dawns, John believes himself saved, but his creator makes it clear that this salvation arises as much from blindness as revelation: "He was filled with a joy, a joy unspeakable, whose roots, though he would not trace them on this new day of his life, were nourished by the wellspring of a despair not yet discovered."
Though it was hailed at publication for its groundbreaking use of black idiom, what is most striking about Go Tell It on the Mountain today is its structure and its scope. In peeling back the layers of these damaged lives, Baldwin dramatizes the story of the great black migration from rural South to urban North. "Behind them was the darkness," Baldwin writes of Gabriel and Elizabeth's lost generation, "nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" This is Baldwin's music--a music in which rhapsody is rooted anguish--and there is none finer in American literature. --David Laskin [via]
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God Emperor of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0441294677 (0-441-29467-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandpreISBN 0439064872 (0-439-06487-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'Book summary:A fantastic mass market edition of the phenomenonally best-selling second Harry Potter novel, to tie in to the second Harry Potter filmHarry's second year at Hogwarts. [via]
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- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: ISBN 0439420105 (0-439-42010-5)
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Hardcover, Arthur a Levine - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: ISBN 0439203538 (0-439-20353-8)
Hardcover, Scholastic - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: ISBN 0439554896 (0-439-55489-6)
Hardcover, Scholastic - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: ISBN 0439425239 (0-439-42523-9)
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby Joe VauxISBN 0439451930 (0-439-45193-0)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandpreISBN 0439136369 (0-439-13636-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'Book summary:Harry Potter has to sneak back to Hogwarts, after accidentally inflating his horrible Aunt Petunia. But once there everyone is whispering about a prizoner who has escaped from the famous wizard prizon, Azkaban. His name is Sirius Black, and as a follower of Lord Voldemort he is determined to track Harry Potter down -- even if it means laying siege to the very walls of Hogwarts! [via]
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stoneby J. K. RowlingISBN 043936213X (0-439-36213-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'Book summary:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Cassette Travel Bag is a complete and unabridged reading by Stephen Fry on six cassettes, contained in a travel box. A CD travel bag is also available.
Just when it seems that there cannot possibly be another twist to the Harry Potter tale, Stephen Fry dons his haughtiest and naughtiest tones to bring Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to vibrant life on audio. Harry Potter has spent the first 10 years of his life at the mercy of the dreadful Dursleys--the aunt, uncle and fat, spoilt brat of a cousin who reluctantly gave him a home after the death of his mother and father. But on his 11th birthday Harry discovers that he is no ordinary boy, and despite the best efforts of his hideous relatives he escapes to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his new life as a trainee wizard. And the rest, as they say, is history...
As Harry battles against the evils thrown in his path, Stephen Fry injects the proceedings with a wry, dry and extremely contagious humour that perfectly suits the tale, wringing out the best in Harry and his cohorts as they get to grips with their new lives at the sharp end of Hogwarts. Fry's innate upper-class drone is perfectly suited to the telling of this most magical tale, cracking into the high-pitched squawking of Hermione the swat, or the gentle tones of the firm but fair Dumbledore, or the evil sniping of slimey Snape at precisely the right moments.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a fine story and much has been written about its success, but until you have heard Fry's cracking reading of this most magical of stories then you simply haven't lived. As with any audio book, this one is perfect for car journeys and an ideal way of introducing reluctant readers to the magic that is Harry Potter. (Ages 9 and over) --Susan Harrison
Running time: 8 hrs 25 mins [via]
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stoneby Jill Daniels, Rodger Smith, Jill DaneilsISBN 0439294827 (0-439-29482-7)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone'Book summary:With six two-page spreads featuring the key scenes from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, this Harry Potter pop-up book allows younger children to begin to experience the thrilling saga of Harry Potter's first year at Hogwarts. Every page literally pops out with creative 3-D engineering in full color, while pull-tabs allow readers to bring a Quidditch game to life or help Harry see his heart's desire in the Mirror of Erised. The cartoonish art is muddy and unspectacular, but fans and collectors blinded by their enthusiasm for the boy wizard may not care a bit. (Ages 4 and older) [via]
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The History Manby Malcolm BradburyISBN 0436065029 (0-436-06502-9)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Humboldt's Gift: Library Editionby Saul BellowISBN 0436039508 (0-436-03950-8)
Hardcover, Secker and Warburg
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In the Heart of the Countryby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0436256703 (0-436-25670-3)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Indecent Exposureby Tom SharpeISBN 0436458012 (0-436-45801-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town Americaby Bill BrysonISBN 0436071835 (0-436-07183-5)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America'Book summary:A travelogue by Bill Bryson is as close to a sure thing as funny books get. The Lost Continent is no exception. Following an urge to rediscover his youth (he should know better), the author leaves his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that takes him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook.
With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of boredom, kitsch, and beauty when you least expect it. Gentler elements aside, The Lost Continent is an amusing book. Here's Bryson on the women of his native state: "I will say this, however--and it's a strange, strange thing--the teenaged daughters of these fat women are always utterly delectable ... I don't know what it is that happens to them, but it must be awful to marry one of those nubile cuties knowing that there is a time bomb ticking away in her that will at some unknown date make her bloat out into something huge and grotesque, presumably all of a sudden and without much notice, like a self-inflating raft from which the pin has been yanked."
Yes, Bill, but be honest: what do you really think? [via]
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The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum: Or, How Violence Develops and Where It Can Leadby Heinrich BollISBN 0436054523 (0-436-05452-3)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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The Man with a Load of Mischiefby Martha GrimesISBN 0440153271 (0-440-15327-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man with a Load of Mischief'Book summary:[via]At the Man with a Load of Mischief, they found the dead body stuck in a keg of beer. At the Jack and Hammer, another body was stuck out on the beam of the pubs sign, replacing the mechanical man who kept the time. Two pubs. Two murders. One Scotland Yard inspector called in to help. Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury arrives in Long Piddleton and finds everyone in the postcard village looking outside of town for the killer. Except for one Melrose Plant. A keen observer of human nature, he points Jury in the right direction: into the darkest parts of his neighbors hearts&
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Man Without Qualities: The Like of It Now HappensISBN 0436298007 (0-436-29800-7)
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The Master of Petersburgby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0436201933 (0-436-20193-3)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Miguel Streetby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0435989545 (0-435-98954-5)
Softcover, Heinemann
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More Die of Heartbreakby Saul BellowISBN 0440201101 (0-440-20110-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Nicholas and Alexandraby Robert K. MassieISBN 0440363586 (0-440-36358-6)
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The Nitpicker's Guide for Classic Trekkersby Phil FarrandISBN 0440506832 (0-440-50683-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Old Fox Deceiv'dby Martha GrimesISBN 0440167477 (0-440-16747-7)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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On Beulah Heightby Reginald HillISBN 0440225906 (0-440-22590-6)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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The Once and Future Kingby Terence Hanbury WhiteISBN 0441003834 (0-441-00383-4)
Softcover, Ace Books
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Haby Roddy DoyleISBN 0436201356 (0-436-20135-6)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha'Book summary:In Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, an Irish lad named Paddy rampages through the streets of Barrytown with a pack of like-minded hooligans, playing cowboys and Indians, etching their names in wet concrete, and setting fires. Roddy Doyle has captured the sensations and speech patterns of preadolescents with consummate skill, and managed to do so without resorting to sentimentality. Paddy Clarke and his friends are not bad boys; they're just a little bit restless. They're always taking sides, bullying each other, and secretly wishing they didn't have to. All they want is for something--anything--to happen.
Throughout the novel, Paddy teeters on the nervous verge of adolescence. In one scene, Paddy tries to make his little brother's hot water bottle explode, but gives up after stomping on it just one time: "I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen." Paddy Clarke senses that his world is about to change forever--and not necessarily for the better. When he realizes that his parents' marriage is falling apart, Paddy stays up all night listening, half-believing that his vigil will ward off further fighting. It doesn't work, but it is sweet and sad that he believes it might. Paddy's logic may be fuzzy, but his heart is in the right place. --Jill Marquis [via]
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Paradise Newsby David LodgeISBN 0436256681 (0-436-25668-1)
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Pictures of Perfectionby Reginald HillISBN 0440218004 (0-440-21800-4)
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A Pinch of Snuffby Reginald HillISBN 0440169127 (0-440-16912-7)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Editionby Muriel SparkISBN 0440371155 (0-440-37115-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Pure and the Impureby ColetteISBN 0436105179 (0-436-10517-9)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Recalled to Lifeby Reginald HillISBN 0440215730 (0-440-21573-0)
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Riotous Assemblyby Tom SharpeISBN 0436458004 (0-436-45800-4)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Road Rageby Ruth RendellISBN 0440226023 (0-440-22602-3)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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A Sight for Sore Eyesby Ruth RendellISBN 0440235448 (0-440-23544-8)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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Simisolaby Ruth RendellISBN 0440222028 (0-440-22202-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Sirens of Titanby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440179483 (0-440-17948-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 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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Skipping Christmasby John GrishamISBN 0440242576 (0-440-24257-6)
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Slouching Toward Bethlehemby Joan DidionISBN 0440080274 (0-440-08027-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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A Small Town in Germanyby John Le CarreISBN 0440180368 (0-440-18036-8)
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Stalky and Co.by Rudyard KiplingISBN 044040519X (0-440-40519-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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A Summer Bird-Cageby Margret DrabbleISBN 0445085843 (0-445-08584-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Theftby Saul BellowISBN 043603963X (0-436-03963-X)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Things Fall Apartby Chinua AchebeISBN 0435909886 (0-435-90988-6)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Things Fall Apart'Book summary:One of Chinua Achebe's many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two years before Nigeria declared independence from Great Britain, the book eschews the obvious temptation of depicting pre-colonial life as a kind of Eden. Instead, Achebe sketches a world in which violence, war, and suffering exist, but are balanced by a strong sense of tradition, ritual, and social coherence. His Ibo protagonist, Okonkwo, is a self-made man. The son of a charming ne'er-do-well, he has worked all his life to overcome his father's weakness and has arrived, finally, at great prosperity and even greater reputation among his fellows in the village of Umuofia. Okonkwo is a champion wrestler, a prosperous farmer, husband to three wives and father to several children. He is also a man who exhibits flaws well-known in Greek tragedy:
Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand. His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children. Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo's fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father.
And yet Achebe manages to make this cruel man deeply sympathetic. He is fond of his eldest daughter, and also of Ikemefuna, a young boy sent from another village as compensation for the wrongful death of a young woman from Umuofia. He even begins to feel pride in his eldest son, in whom he has too often seen his own father. Unfortunately, a series of tragic events tests the mettle of this strong man, and it is his fear of weakness that ultimately undoes him.Achebe does not introduce the theme of colonialism until the last 50 pages or so. By then, Okonkwo has lost everything and been driven into exile. And yet, within the traditions of his culture, he still has hope of redemption. The arrival of missionaries in Umuofia, however, followed by representatives of the colonial government, completely disrupts Ibo culture, and in the chasm between old ways and new, Okonkwo is lost forever. Deceptively simple in its prose, Things Fall Apart packs a powerful punch as Achebe holds up the ruin of one proud man to stand for the destruction of an entire culture. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Time Machineby H. G. Wells, Melvin BurgessISBN 0439436540 (0-439-43654-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoagby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0441854575 (0-441-85457-5)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Venus halfshell C195by Kilgore TroutISBN 0440161495 (0-440-16149-5)
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Waiting for the Barbariansby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0436102951 (0-436-10295-1)
Hardcover, Harper & Collins
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions)by Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440087171 (0-440-08717-1)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
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Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloonsby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440185335 (0-440-18533-5)
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The Water Jump: The Story of Transatlantic Flightby David BeatyISBN 0436039133 (0-436-03913-3)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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The Waterfallby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0445041188 (0-445-04118-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Wiltby Tom SharpeISBN 0436458047 (0-436-45804-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Wood Beyondby Reginald HillISBN 0440218039 (0-440-21803-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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