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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Victor Doyno, Justin KaplanISBN 0449912728 (0-449-91272-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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All the President's Menby Bob Woodward, Carl BernsteinISBN 0446322644 (0-446-32264-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Best Short Stories of the Modern Ageby Douglas AngusISBN 0449300587 (0-449-30058-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Black Like Me: Library Editionby John Howard GriffinISBN 0451192036 (0-451-19203-6)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Like Me: Library Edition'Book summary:[via]In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity-that in this new millennium still has something important to say to every American.
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- Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451208641 (0-451-20864-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451155300 (0-451-15530-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451163176 (0-451-16317-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451192036 (0-451-19203-6)
Softcover, Signet
- Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451208641 (0-451-20864-1)
Black Princeby Iris MurdochISBN 0446817198 (0-446-81719-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Book of Danielby E. L. DoctorowISBN 0449214303 (0-449-21430-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Burning Chromeby William GibsonISBN 0441089348 (0-441-08934-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burning Chrome'Book summary:When "Burning Chrome," the title story in William Gibson's first short story collection, appeared, it grabbed readers by the collar and shook them up a bit. Science fiction in the late '70s had grown a little bit stale and, worse, safe. "Burning Chrome" offered a fresh look at a future that was gritty, real, and more than a little dangerous. These stories brought high tech out of antiseptic university laboratories and corporate boardrooms and put it in the streets and alleyways where people found their own uses for it. Sometimes those uses were even legal.
The philosophy of cyberpunk, the movement that Gibson's early books kicked off, is most explicitly stated in "The Gernsbach Continuum," with its rejection of the '30s ideal of a future of flying cars and shining cities. But the real meat of this collection is found in those stories where Gibson involves us with the people who inhabit his world. The technical boy of "Johnny Mnemonic" and the thief-turned-game-player of "Dogfight" (cowritten with Michael Swanwick) would be right at home on the same streets. Most intense and more enigmatic is the recording engineer of "The Winter Market," who is overwhelmingly attracted to and repulsed by the greatest artist he ever worked with. Still, "Burning Chrome," with its tale of vengeance and high-stakes theft, remains the centerpiece of this collection. Read it and you will know why William Gibson became and remains one of the top writers in science fiction. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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By the Pricking of My Thumbsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0451200527 (0-451-20052-7)
Softcover, Signet
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A Caribbean Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0451199928 (0-451-19992-8)
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Checkmateby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0446313017 (0-446-31301-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Chimeraby John BarthISBN 0449211134 (0-449-21113-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chimera'Book summary:"Rich, hilarious . . . There's every chance in the world that John Barth is a genius." Playboy
By the winner of the National Book Award and bestselling author of "The Tidewater Tales," three of the great myths of all time revisited by a modern master.
Dunyazade, Scheherazade's kid sister, holds the destiny of herself and the prince who holds her captive.
Perseus, the demigod who slew the Gorgon Medusa, finds himself at forty battling for simple self-respect like any common mortal.
Bellerophon, once a hero for taming the winged horse Pegasus, must wrestle with a contentment that only leaves him wretched. [via]More editions of Chimera:
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Davita's Harpby Chaim PotokISBN 0449911837 (0-449-91183-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Davita's Harp'Book summary:For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression take a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns to the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned, finding there both a solace for her questioning inner pain and a test of her budding spirit of independence.
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The Demolished Manby Alfred BesterISBN 0451075854 (0-451-07585-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Demolished Man'Book summary:In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn't been heard of in 70 years: murder. That's the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a 10-year death struggle with rival D'Courtney Enterprises. Terrorized in his dreams by The Man With No Face and driven to the edge after D'Courtney refuses a merger offer, Reich murders his rival and bribes a high-ranking telepath to help him cover his tracks. But while police prefect Lincoln Powell knows Reich is guilty, his telepath's knowledge is a far cry from admissible evidence. [via]
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurantby Anne TylerISBN 0449911594 (0-449-91159-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Disorderly Knightsby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0446312908 (0-446-31290-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Dune Messiahby Frank HerbertISBN 0441172695 (0-441-17269-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Ebony Towerby John FowlesISBN 0451156919 (0-451-15691-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Eye of the Needleby Ken FollettISBN 0451163486 (0-451-16348-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eye of the Needle'Book summary:One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin - code name: "The Needle" - who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life. Ken Follett's unsurpassed and unforgettable masterwork of suspense, intrigue, and dangerous machinations of the human heart. [via]
Eyes Wide Shutby Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael, Arthur SchnitzlerISBN 0446676322 (0-446-67632-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Flounderby Gunter GrassISBN 0449203492 (0-449-20349-2)
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Force 10 from Navaroneby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0449205746 (0-449-20574-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie FlaggISBN 0449911357 (0-449-91135-7)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe'Book summary:Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again...
"Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!"
--Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird
"A real novel and a good one... [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller."
--The New York Times
"It's very good, in fact, just wonderful."
--Los Angeles Times
"Funny and macabre."
--The Washington Post
"Courageous and wise."
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Geek Loveby Katherine DunnISBN 0446391301 (0-446-39130-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Guns of Navaroneby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0449141713 (0-449-14171-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns of Navarone'Book summary:An entire navy had tried to silence the guns of Navarone and failed. Full-scale attacks had been driven back. Now they were sending in just five men, each one a specialist in dealing death. [via]
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The Hidden Staircaseby Carolyn KeeneISBN 0448095025 (0-448-09502-5)
Hardcover, Price Stern Sloan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hidden Staircase'Book summary:Nancy Drew series, number 2 [via]
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A History of the Arab Peoplesby Albert HouraniISBN 0446393924 (0-446-39392-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Arab Peoples'Book summary:Encyclopedic and panoramic in its scope, this fascinating work chronicles the rich spiritual, political, and cultural institutions of Arab history through 13 centuries. [via]
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The Hollow Hillsby Mary StewartISBN 0449206459 (0-449-20645-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hollow Hills'Book summary:A magnificent tale realized by premier novelist, Mary Stewart, here is the spellbinding, suspenseful story of how Merlin, the Enchanter, helped Arthur become king of all Britain, in an extraordinary story that brings the legend Merlin and his protege Arthur to glowing life.
"Enthralling."
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Ice Station Zebraby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0449205762 (0-449-20576-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ice Station Zebra'Book summary:The Dolphin, pride of America's nuclear fleet, is the only submarine capable of attempting the rescue of a British meteorological team trapped on the polar ice cap. The officers of the Dolphin know well the hazards of such an assignment. What they do not know is that the rescue attempt is really a cover-up for one of the most desperate espionage missions of the Cold War -- and that the Dolphin is heading straight for sub-zero disaster, facing hidding sabotage, murder . . . and a deadly, invisible enemy . . . [via]
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In the Beauty of the Liliesby John UpdikeISBN 0449225518 (0-449-22551-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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It Can't Happen Here: Library Editionby Sinclair Lewis, Michael MeyerISBN 045121658X (0-451-21658-X)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Key to Rebeccaby Ken FollettISBN 0451163494 (0-451-16349-4)
Softcover, Signet
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The Last Enchantmentby Mary StewartISBN 0449206467 (0-449-20646-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Enchantment'Book summary:With the great sword Caliburn in his hand and Merlin the enchanter at his side, Arthur comes out of hiding to claim the crown he was born to wear. Merlin, Arthur's protector, sees the glories and horrors that await the new king...and to save him Merlin musters all his power to weave one last enchantment. He is showing signs of age and he gradually realises he is losing his powers of prophecy and clairvoyance to a younger generation. But he is able to accept this because he knows that they will be at the service of his beloved monarch whose fabled victories, marriage and the building of Camelot shine through these pages. [via]
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The Last Templarby Raymond KhouryISBN 0451219953 (0-451-21995-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Templar'Book summary:[via]"The Last Templar" miniseries is now available on DVD! For more information, click here.
"It has served us well, this myth of Christ."
Pope Leo X, 16th CenturyIn a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, The Last Templar opens with a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escaping to the sea carrying a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's dying Grand Master. The ship vanishes without a trace.
In present day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights emerge from Central Park and ride up the Fifth Avenue steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the blacktie opening of a Treasures of the Vatican exhibit. Storming through the crowds, the horsemen brutally attack anyone standing between them and their prize. Attending the gala, archaeologist Tess Chaykin watches in silent terror as the leader of the horsemen hones in on one piece in particular, a strange geared device. He utters a few cryptic Latin words as he takes hold of it with reverence before leading the horsemen out and disappearing into the night.
In the aftermath, an FBI investigation is led by anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly. Soon, he and Tess are drawn into the dark, hidden history of the crusading Knights, plunging them into a deadly game of cat and mouse with ruthless killers as they race across three continents to recover the lost secret of the Templars.
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Lie Down With Lionsby Ken FollettISBN 0451163508 (0-451-16350-8)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lie Down With Lions'Book summary:Ellis, the American. Jean-Pierre, the Frenchman. They were two men on opposite sides of the cold war, with a woman torn between them. Together, they formed a triangle of passion and deception, racing from terrorist bombs in Paris to the violence and intrigue of Afghanistan - to the moment of truth and deadly decision for all of them& "A deadly romantic triangle, a clandestine mission with global stakes, an exotic location, a plot as gripping and ingenious as Eye of the Needle ... engineered to perfection with breathless acceleration. I couldn't put it down!" - Los Angeles Times "Masterful... plot and counterplot, treachery, cunning and killing ... keep you on edge every moment" - Associated Press [via]
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jamichael Henterly, Stephen ArmesISBN 0448409496 (0-448-40949-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Lord Peter Views the Bodyby Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 0450017095 (0-450-01709-5)
Hardcover, New English Library
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Man from St. Petersburgby Ken FollettISBN 0451163516 (0-451-16351-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Mind of My Mindby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0446361887 (0-446-36188-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mind of My Mind'Book summary:For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his private breeding stock. But now a young ghetto telepath has found a way to awaken--and rule--her superhuman kind, igniting a psychic battle as she challenges her creator for her right to free her people. [via]
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The Mirror Crack'Dby Agatha ChristieISBN 0451199898 (0-451-19989-8)
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Mooby Jane SmileyISBN 0449910237 (0-449-91023-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moo'Book summary:The hallowed halls of Moo University, a midwestern agricultural institution (aka "cow college"), are rife with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upsmanship. In this wonderfully written and masterfully plotted novel, Jane Smiley, the prizewinning author of A Thousand Acres, offers a wickedly funny, darkly poignant comedy. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. [via]
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The Mousetrap and Other Playsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0451201140 (0-451-20114-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mousetrap and Other Plays'Book summary:Readers will be front-row center for this special trade collection of Agatha Christie's greatest suspense plays, which includes: The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history, Ten Little Indians and Witness for the Prosecution, both made into classic films, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Towards Zero, Go Back to Murder, and one of Christie's personal favorites, The Verdict-all perfectly staged by the Queen of Crime. [via]
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The Moving Finger: A Miss Marple Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0451201167 (0-451-20116-7)
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The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunkby Carolyn KeeneISBN 0448095173 (0-448-09517-3)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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Mythologyby Edith HamiltonISBN 0446607258 (0-446-60725-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mythology'Book summary:Edith Hamilton loved the ancient Western myths with a passion--and this classic compendium is her tribute. "The tales of Greek mythology do not throw any clear light upon what early mankind was like," Hamilton explains in her introduction. "They do throw an abundance of light upon what early Greeks were like--a matter, it would seem, of more importance to us, who are their descendents intellectually, artistically, and politically. Nothing we learn about them is alien to ourselves." Fans of Greek mythology will find all the great stories and characters here--Perseus, Hercules, and Odysseus--each discussed in generous detail by the voice of an impressively knowledgeable and engaging (with occasional lapses) narrator. This is also an excellent primer for middle- and high-school students who are studying ancient Greek and Roman culture and literature. --Gail Hudson [via]
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No Longer at Easeby Chinua AchebeISBN 0449300234 (0-449-30023-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Longer at Ease'Book summary:In this novel, the so-called sequal to Things Fall Apart Achebe creates a classic story of both personal and moral struggle, and turbulent social conflict.
Written before Achebe was thirty, No Longer at Ease tell the story of Obi Okonowo, a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him a part of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. The agony of choosing between traditional values and the demands of a changing world is dramatized with unequaled clarity and poignancy. Still relevant more than forty years after it was written, No Longer at Ease remains a brilliant statement of the challenge facing African society.
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Number the Starsby Lois LowryISBN 0440700310 (0-440-70031-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Number the Stars'Book summary:The evacuation of Jews from Nazi-held Denmark is one of the great untold stories of World War II. On September 29, 1943, word got out in Denmark that Jews were to be detained and then sent to the death camps. Within hours the Danish resistance, population and police arranged a small flotilla to herd 7,000 Jews to Sweden. Lois Lowry fictionalizes a true-story account to bring this courageous tale to life. She brings the experience to life through the eyes of 10-year-old Annemarie Johannesen, whose family harbors her best friend, Ellen Rosen, on the eve of the round-up and helps smuggles Ellen's family out of the country. Number the Stars won the 1990 Newbery Medal. [via]
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Partners in Crimeby Agatha ChristieISBN 0451201175 (0-451-20117-5)
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The Password to Larkspur Laneby Carolyn KeeneISBN 0448095106 (0-448-09510-6)
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Pawn in Frankincenseby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0446312940 (0-446-31294-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pawn in Frankincense'Book summary:The fourth title in the LYMOND CHRONICLES series, originally published in 1969. Set in 1552, Frances Crawford is searching for his son, who has been hidden somewhere in slavery. While he searches, his enemy waits with an elaborate plan of humiliation and violence. Follows THE GAME OF KINGS, QUEEN'S PLAY and THE DISORDERLY KNIGHTS. [via]
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Peter Shaffer's Amadeusby Peter ShafferISBN 0451158946 (0-451-15894-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Rabbit Is Richby John UpdikeISBN 0449911829 (0-449-91182-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The hero of John Updikes Rabbit, Run, ten years after the events of Rabbit Redux, has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as the chief sales representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national self-confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Rabbit Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at lastuntil his wayward son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to the lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbits middle age as he continues to pursue, in his zigzagging fashion, the rainbow of happiness. -
Rabbit Reduxby John UpdikeISBN 0449911934 (0-449-91193-4)
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A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles, Book 4by Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0440972329 (0-440-97232-9)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles, Book 4'Book summary:Vicky Austin is filled with strong feelings as she stands near Commander Rodney's grave while her grandfather, who himself is dying of cancer, recites the funeral service. Watching his condition deteriorate as the summer passes on beautiful Seven Bay Island is almost more than Vicky can bear. To complicate things, she finds herself the center of attention for three very different boys: Leo is an old friend wanting comfort and longing for romance; Zachary, whose attempted suicide inadvertently caused the Commander's death, is attractive and sophisticated but desperately troubled; and Adam, her older brother's friend, offers her a wonderful chance to assist in his experiments with dophins but treats her as a young girl just when she's ready to feel most grown-up.
Called upon to be dependable, stable, and wise, Vicky is exhilarated but often overwhemed. Forces of darkness and light, tragedy and joy, hover about her, and at times she doesn't know whcih will prevail. [via]More editions of A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles, Book 4:
Ringed Castleby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0446312967 (0-446-31296-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Rosemary's Babyby Ira LevinISBN 0451194004 (0-451-19400-4)
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The Secret Adversaryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0451201205 (0-451-20120-5)
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The Shiningby Stephen KingISBN 0451160916 (0-451-16091-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shining'Book summary:A six-hour ABC-TV miniseries airing in May, starring Steven Weber and Rebecca De Mornay. High in the isolated, wintry Rocky Mountains, terror awaits behind every door of the Overlook Hotel--a place where the guests are deceased but not necessarily departed. Now the only hope against the ghastly forces that threaten to claim the hotel's caretaker and his family is his young son, a boy possessed of a fearsome power he neither knows nor understands. [via]
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Ship of Foolsby Katherine Anne PorterISBN 0451092724 (0-451-09272-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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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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Sleeping Murderby Agatha ChristieISBN 0451200195 (0-451-20019-5)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sleeping Murder'Book summary:Originally published the year of Agatha Christie's death, Sleeping Murder is a novel as legendary as its lead character and its creator...A novel that adheres to the classic mystery formula, and transcends it... A novel that is a must for every mystery reader, marking the final bow of Christie's beloved sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. Now Sleeping Murder is back in a special trade edition, sure to delight old and new fans alike....[via]"Agatha Christie makes us feel Miss Marple's shiver." --New York Times
"Has all the virtues of Agatha Christie's work; a coherant plot, firm andpurposeful narration, anda pleasant style." --Times Literary
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Sourceryby Terry PratchettISBN 0451162331 (0-451-16233-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sourcery'Book summary:A sourcerer is born, a wizard so powerful that by comparison, all other magic is just mucking about in pointy hats! And his very existence brings the Discworld to the verge of all-out thaumaturgical war*. All that stands in the way of complete devastation is Rincewind, the failed magician, who wants to save the world (or at least that part of it which contains him). SOURCERY is the third Discworld book to to brought to the silver screen for Sky One, and like HOGFATHER and THE COLOUR OF MAGIC, this lavishly illustrated volume will contain the complete working screenplay, written by Vadim Jean and mucked about with by Terry Pratchett,l as well as stills, sketches, blueprints, screen grabs, and anything else the boys left lying around the film studio! * A Bad Thing [via]
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Strategyby B.H. Hart, Liddell HartISBN 0451134265 (0-451-13426-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Thanatos Syndromeby Walker PercyISBN 0449911969 (0-449-91196-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thanatos Syndrome'Book summary:When Dr. Tom More is released on parole from state prison, he returns to Feliciana, Louisiana, the parish where he was born and bred, where he practiced psychiatry before his arrest. He immediately notices something strange in almost everyone around him: unusual sexual behavior in women patients, a bizarre loss of inhibition, his own wife's extraordinary success at bridge tournaments, during which her mind seems to function like a computer.
With the ingenious help of his attractive cousin, Dr. Lucy Lipscomb, Dr. More begins to uncover a criminal experiment to "improve" people's behavior by drugging the area's water supply. But beyond this grand scheme are activities so sinister that even Tom More wouldn't believe them if he hadn't witnessed them with his own eyes... [via]More editions of The Thanatos Syndrome:
The Thirty-Nine Steps: Level 4by John BuchanISBN 0445083123 (0-445-08312-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Unnatural Causesby P. D. JamesISBN 0446312193 (0-446-31219-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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V for Vendettaby David Lloyd, Alan MooreISBN 0446391905 (0-446-39190-5)
Softcover, Warner Books Inc
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We the Livingby Ayn RandISBN 0451187849 (0-451-18784-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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When We Were Very Youngby A. A. MilneISBN 0440494850 (0-440-49485-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When We Were Very Young'Book summary:In all likelihood, your mother or father read you these poems and remember their parents reading the same. This collection of poetry by the creator of Winnie the Pooh was first published in 1924. With its companion volume Now We Are Six, the little books became two of the biggest bestsellers in publishing history. Children all over the world have heard about changing the guard at Buckingham Palace; James James Morrison Morrison Weather by George Dupree; the three little foxes who kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes; and, of course, Christopher Robin, named for A.A. Milne's son. Adults and older children will enjoy Milne's poems too, as some of his humor is subtly directed at a more sophisticated audience. But younger children are the ones who love the naughty Mary Jane (lovely rice pudding again?) and the bears on the corners of London's streets. Read these poems aloud and pass along (or start) a family tradition. (Ages 5 to 9) [via]
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White Jazzby James EllroyISBN 0449000885 (0-449-00088-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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It is 1958 and the heat is on LAPD lieutenant Dave Klein. There isn't much he hasn't done in the line of duty--murder, bribery, scams, beatings, shakedowns. But now, with the Feds on the tail of blue corruption, Klein is hung out to dry as a bad example. So it's pay-up time for him. Big time. He plunges into a nightmare world of greed, blood, fists, and twisted sin. A monstrous world he created. But now the monster has turned on its creator. [via]
World's Fairby E. L. DoctorowISBN 0449212378 (0-449-21237-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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