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Among the Deadby Michael TolkinISBN 0380722992 (0-380-72299-2)
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Biting Silenceby Arturo Von VaconoISBN 0380750600 (0-380-75060-0)
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Blind Descentby Nevada BarrISBN 0380728265 (0-380-72826-5)
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The Bone Forestby Robert HoldstockISBN 0380767813 (0-380-76781-3)
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Booked to Dieby John DunningISBN 0380718839 (0-380-71883-9)
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The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Timeby Edward AbbeyISBN 0380714590 (0-380-71459-0)
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Brazzaville Beachby William BoydISBN 0380780496 (0-380-78049-6)
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Cereus Blooms at Nightby Shani MootooISBN 0380731991 (0-380-73199-1)
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Charms for the Easy Lifeby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0380722704 (0-380-72270-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charms for the Easy Life'Book summary:In the verdant backwoods of North Carolina, in a sad and singular era, the Birches are unique among women of their time-living gloriously rich it decidedly offbeat lives in a private world ahandoned by men. And though misery often heats a path to their door, headstrong Sophia and her y, brilliant daughter Margaret possess charms to ward off loneliness and despair-thanks to the uncompromising strength, uncommon wisdom, and muscular love of a remarkable matriarch and self-taught healer who calls herself Charlie Kate.
In Charms for the Easy Life, Kaye Gibbons has created a luminous, truthtelling novel that gives life to her most passionate and toughminded women yet.
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City of Glassby Bob Callahan, Paul Auster, Art Spiegelman, David Mazzucchelli, Paul KarasikISBN 038077108X (0-380-77108-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Glass'Book summary:I cannot possibly offer enough praise for David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik 's adaptation of City of Glass. While some critics found it to be a dry choice of books to turn into a comics, I think the interplay between image and text only heightens the original metafictional narrative. The treatment of the first speech by the crazy antagonist, Peter Stillman--in which the word balloons trail from random objects such as a broken television and a bottle of ink--is brilliant. Neon Lit: Paul Auster's City of Glass deftly illustrates why comics is a perfect format for exploring fictions about text: the words become visible objects of the story. [via]
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The Color of Her Pantiesby Piers AnthonyISBN 0380759497 (0-380-75949-7)
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In fact, Gwenny Goblin, Che Centaur and Jenny Elf are just about the only creatures on Xanth who have been spared the sight of Mela Merwoman's undergarment -- preoccupied as they are with helping Gwenny beat out her awful half-brother Gobble for chiefship of the goblin horde. But first they must master space and thyme . . . and find the fabulous egg that sits between the Roc and the hard place. While Mela -- who would gladly relinquish her oft-viewed undies for a new husband -- joins the Adult Conspiracy . . . and quickly discovers the power of a perfect pair of panties!
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A Dance at the Slaughterhouse: A Matthew Scudder Crime Novelby Lawrence BlockISBN 0380813734 (0-380-81373-4)
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Death Is a Lonely Businessby Ray BradburyISBN 0380789655 (0-380-78965-5)
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Eight Million Ways to Dieby Lawrence BlockISBN 0380715732 (0-380-71573-2)
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Einsteinby Ronald W. ClarkISBN 0380721481 (0-380-72148-1)
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Emperor of the Amazonby Marcio SouzaISBN 0380762404 (0-380-76240-4)
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The End of History and the Last Manby Francis FukuyamaISBN 0380720027 (0-380-72002-7)
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Endangered Species: An Anna Pigeon Mysteryby Nevada BarrISBN 0380725835 (0-380-72583-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Endangered Species: An Anna Pigeon Mystery'Book summary:As her legions of loyal readers know, Nevada Barr is not a stripper nor a Las Vegas lawyer; she's a former actress and National Park Service ranger who writes excellent mysteries set in the wilderness. Her alter ego, ranger Anna Pigeon, is once again called upon to be mentally and physically astute--this time on Cumberland Island, off the Georgia coast, where the ghosts of the millionaires who used to live there are being added to by a determined killer. As usual, Barr is best at creating believable scenes of action in a setting that is beautifully detailed but never romanticized. Past Barr books in paperback: Firestorm, Ill Wind, A Superior Death, Track of the Cat. [via]
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Fabulous Harborsby Michael MoorcockISBN 0380795434 (0-380-79543-4)
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Fifteenby Beverly ClearyISBN 0380728044 (0-380-72804-4)
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Fire on the Mountainby Edward AbbeyISBN 0380714604 (0-380-71460-4)
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The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest: A Silicon Valley Novelby Po BronsonISBN 038073155X (0-380-73155-X)
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From the Dust Returnedby Ray BradburyISBN 0380789612 (0-380-78961-2)
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Gallows Viewby Peter RobinsonISBN 0380714000 (0-380-71400-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gallows View'Book summary:Former London policeman Alan Banks relocated to Yorkshire seeking some small measure of peace. But depravity and violence are not unique to large cities. His new venue, the quaint little village of Eastvale, seems to have more than its fair share of malefactors, among them a brazen Peeping Tom who hides in night's shadows spying on attractive, unsuspecting ladies as they prepare for bed. And when an elderly woman is found brutally slain in her home, Chief Inspector Banks wonders if the voyeur has increased the intensity of his criminal activities. But whether related or not, perverse local acts and murderous ones are combining to profoundly touch Banks's suddenly vulnerable personal life, forcing a dedicated law officer to make hard choices he'd dearly hoped would never be necessary. [via]
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George Millsby Stanley ElkinISBN 0380728990 (0-380-72899-0)
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A Girl from Yamhillby Beverly ClearyISBN 0380727404 (0-380-72740-4)
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Girl in the Photographby Lydia Fagundes TellesISBN 0380801760 (0-380-80176-0)
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Gone, Baby, Goneby Dennis LehaneISBN 0380730359 (0-380-73035-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone, Baby, Gone'Book summary:Cheese Olamon, "a six-foot-two, four-hundred-and-thirty-pound yellow-haired Scandinavian who'd somehow arrived at the misconception he was black," is telling his old grammar school friends Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro why they have to convince another mutual chum, the gun dealer Bubba Rugowski, that Cheese didn't try to have him killed. "You let Bubba know I'm clean when it comes to what happened to him. You want me alive. Okay? Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone." Of all the chilling, completely credible scenes of sadness, destruction, and betrayal in Dennis Lehane's fourth and very possibly best book about Kenzie and Gennaro, this moment stands out because it captures in a few pages the essence of Lehane's success.
Private detectives Kenzie and Gennaro, who live in the same working-class Dorchester neighborhood of Boston where they grew up, have gone to visit drug dealer Cheese in prison because they think he's involved in the kidnapping of 4-year-old Amanda McCready. Without sentimentalizing the grotesque figure of Cheese, Lehane tells us enough about his past to make us understand why he and the two detectives might share enough trust to possibly save a child's life when all the best efforts of traditional law enforcement have failed. By putting Kenzie and Gennaro just to one side of the law (but not totally outside; they have several cop friends, a very important part of the story), Lehane adds depth and edge to traditional genre relationships. The lifelong love affair between Kenzie and Gennaro--interrupted by her marriage to his best friend--is another perfectly controlled element that grows and changes as we watch. Surrounded by dead, abused, and missing children, Kenzie mourns and rages while Gennaro longs for one of her own. So the choices made by both of them in the final pages of this absolutely gripping story have the inevitability of life and the dazzling beauty of art.
Other Kenzie/Gennaro books available in paperback: Darkness, Take My Hand, A Drink Before the War, Sacred. --Dick Adler [via]
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A Graveyard for Lunaticsby Ray BradburyISBN 0380812002 (0-380-81200-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Graveyard for Lunatics'Book summary:Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mysteryand into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.
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Green Shadows, White Whaleby Ray BradburyISBN 0380789663 (0-380-78966-3)
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Harry S. Trumanby Margaret TrumanISBN 0380721120 (0-380-72112-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry S. Truman'Book summary:The definitive biography of one of the most enduring political figures of the 20th century. Margaret Truman writes with unequaled insight and understanding about her father's extraordinary life and offers rare glimpses at the personalities and politics behind the world events of his time. A New York Times bestseller. [via]
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A History of the 20th Century: 1952-1999by Martin GilbertISBN 0380713950 (0-380-71395-0)
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A History of the Twentieth Century Vol. 1 : 1900-1933by Martin GilbertISBN 0380713934 (0-380-71393-4)
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A History of the Twentieth Century, 1933-1951by Martin GilbertISBN 0380713942 (0-380-71394-2)
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Hit Manby Lawrence BlockISBN 038072541X (0-380-72541-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hit Man'Book summary:A man known only as Keller is thinking about Samuel Johnson's famous quote that "'patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel'... If you looked at it objectively, he had to admit, then he was probably a scoundrel himself. He didn't feel much like a scoundrel. He felt like your basic New York single guy, living alone, eating out or bringing home takeout, schlepping his wash to the Laundromat, doing the Times crossword with his morning coffee... There were eight million stories in the naked city, most of them not very interesting, and his was one of them. Except that every once in a while he got a phone call from a man in White Plains. And packed a bag and caught a plane and killed somebody. Hard to argue the point. Man behaves like that, he's a scoundrel. Case closed." But Lawrence Block is such a delightfully subtle writer, one of the true masters of the mystery genre, that the case is far from closed. In this beautifully linked collection of short stories, we gradually put together such a complete picture of Keller that we don't so much forgive him his occupation as consider it just one more part of his humanity. After watching Keller take on cases that baffle and anger him into actions that fellow members of his hit-man union might well call unprofessional, we're eager to join him as he goes through a spectacularly unsuccessful analysis and gets fooled by a devious intelligence agent. We miss the dog he acquires and loses, along with its attractive walker. Like Richard Stark's Parker, Keller makes us think the unthinkable about criminals: that they might be the guys next door--or even us, under different pressures. For a small selection of the many Blocks in paperback, try Coward's Kiss, A Long Line of Dead Men, The Sins of the Fathers, Such Men Are Dangerous, and especially When the Sacred Ginmill Closes. [via]
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The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servandoby Reinaldo ArenasISBN 0380750740 (0-380-75074-0)
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An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Veronaby Tim ParksISBN 0380727609 (0-380-72760-9)
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Johnny's in the Basementby Louis SacharISBN 0380787822 (0-380-78782-2)
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Katapultby Karen KijewskiISBN 0380714868 (0-380-71486-8)
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Killer on the Roadby James EllroyISBN 038080896X (0-380-80896-X)
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Kissby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0380731479 (0-380-73147-9)
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The Lathe of Heavenby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0380791854 (0-380-79185-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lathe of Heaven'Book summary:Ursula K. Le Guin is one of science fiction's greatest writers. She is also an acclaimed author of powerful and perceptive nonfiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. She has received many honors, including six Nebula and five Hugo Awards, the National Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Newbery, the Pilgrim, the Tiptree, and citations by the American Library Association. She has written over a dozen highly regarded novels and story collections. Her SF masterworks are The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), The Dispossessed (1974), and The Lathe of Heaven (1971).
George Orr has dreams that come true--dreams that change reality. He dreams that the aunt who is sexually harassing him is killed in a car crash, and wakes to find that she died in a wreck six weeks ago, in another part of the country. But a far darker dream drives George into the care of a psychotherapist--a dream researcher who doesn't share George's ambivalence about altering reality.
The Lathe of Heaven is set in the sort of worlds that one would associate with Philip K. Dick, but Ms. Le Guin's treatment of the material, her plot and characterization and concerns, are more akin to the humanistic, ethically engaged, psychologically nuanced fiction of Theodore Sturgeon. The Lathe of Heaven is an insightful and chilling examination of total power, of war and injustice and other age-old problems, of changing the world, of playing God. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Life-Sizeby Jenefer ShuteISBN 0380720647 (0-380-72064-7)
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The Living Endby Stanley ElkinISBN 0380728974 (0-380-72897-4)
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A Long Line of Dead Menby Lawrence BlockISBN 0380720248 (0-380-72024-8)
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Mariel of Redwallby Brian Jacques, Gary ChalkISBN 0380719223 (0-380-71922-3)
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Mattimeoby Brian JacquesISBN 0380715309 (0-380-71530-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mattimeo'Book summary:Preparations for the feast for the Summer of the Golden Rain are underway at Redwall Abbey, and young Mattimeo's mother sets him to work with the other inhabitants. His father, Matthius, is the guardian of Redwall Abbey and it is this fact that puts the young Mattimeo in danger, as the evil Slagar the Fox plots to kidnap him in a bid to shake the very foundations of the Abbey and its inhabitants.
Rip-roaring adventure at its very best, Mattimeo is one of the exquisitely executed and totally bewitching tales in the best-selling Redwall series. Brian Jacques, with his masterly use of language and enviable talent for descriptive prose that transports the reader to the very heart of Redwall, magically weaves an epic tale breathtaking in proportion and design. Utterly addictive, Mattimeo is packed with so much color, passion, fury, and love that it will leave readers desperate for more. --Susan Harrison [via]
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Memoir from Antproof Caseby Mark HelprinISBN 0380727331 (0-380-72733-1)
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Memorandaby Jeffrey FordISBN 0380802627 (0-380-80262-7)
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The Mennymsby Sylvia WaughISBN 0380725282 (0-380-72528-2)
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Mischiefby Ed McBainISBN 0380713845 (0-380-71384-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mischief'Book summary:The Deaf Man is back! In his first appearance since Eight Black Horses in 1985, the nemesis of the 87th returns with a vengeance. Zeroing in on Steve Carella, his favorite foil, he bombards the squadroom with directives that seem to describe in detail exactly what he's up to this time - but not quite. What he's planning is his most devilish million-dollar caper to date. In the squadroom, an otherwise slow March night is enlivened by the murder of a graffiti writer under a highway bridge. Over the course of several weeks, more of the city's outlaw artists are killed under mysterious circumstances, and a team run by Detective Parker begins to put the pieces together. Meanwhile, a new criminal activity surfaces: Someone is abandoning helpless elderly men and women at different locations around the city. As if all this weren't enough, racial tensions in the city are at an all-time high. While pressure mounts on various fronts, the city announces a free rap concert in the park, set for a day in the very near future. As the shattering finale of Mischief looms, seemingly unrelated developments intertwine in an ending that sets a new standard even for McBain's most discerning fans. It's been said that "nobody writes the police procedural as well as Ed McBain" (San Diego Union). And in his latest tale of the 87th Precinct, Mischief McBain proves his mastery of the genre beyond reasonable doubt. [via]
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Mrs. De Winterby Susan HillISBN 0380721457 (0-380-72145-7)
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Mrs. Ted Blissby Stanley ElkinISBN 0380728966 (0-380-72896-6)
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Mystic Riverby Dennis LehaneISBN 0380731851 (0-380-73185-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mystic River'Book summary:Dennis Lehane's Mystic River takes the material of the ordinary police procedural thriller and shapes it into heart-break. As boys, Jimmy, Dave and Sean were friends, until one day Dave was abducted by two men pretending to be cops, and was never quite the same again. As men, Dave is a damaged fantasist, safe in a quietly happy marriage; Jimmy a retired criminal making a good respectable living for the sake of his children; and Sean is the homicide cop who finds himself investigating the murder of Jimmy's eldest daughter Katie. This is not just a book about what becomes of the children who grow into adults; it is about what happens to a neighbourhood when the rules change, when an old established working-class district acquires gentrified espresso bars at one end and the beats of the city's most dangerous whores at the other. It is also a book about the tragedy of all sudden violent deaths; we never forget our sense of Katie as she was, dancing on the last night of her life--she is never just the corpse here, never just the object of mourning and investigation. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Mythago Woodby Robert HoldstockISBN 0380762765 (0-380-76276-5)
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The mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain's last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley's entire long life. Now, after his death, his sons have taken up his work. But what they discover is numinous and perilous beyond all expectation.
For the Wood, larger inside than out, is a labyrinth full of myths come to life, "mythagos" that can change you forever. A labyrinth where love and beauty haunt your dreams. . .and may drive you insane.
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The Naturalby Bernard MalamudISBN 0380720841 (0-380-72084-1)
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The New Russians: Updated to Include the Failed Coupby Hedrick SmithISBN 0380716518 (0-380-71651-8)
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The Night Lives On : The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" Ship - Titanic!by Walter LordISBN 0380732033 (0-380-73203-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night Lives On : The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" Ship - Titanic!'Book summary:You might say that Walter Lord provoked the whole Titanic mania by interviewing dozens of survivors and fashioning their reminiscences into the classic non-fiction novel A Night to Remember, which was made into a 1958 film that heavily influenced James Cameron's 1998 epic. Some of the dialogue is more vivid than the 1998 film--when a kid sees the deadly iceberg, he says excitedly, "Oh, Muddie, look at the beautiful North Pole with no Santa Claus on it."
But much has been discovered since Lord's original book made waves--such as the shipwreck itself, and a wealth of scientific inquiry. So he wrote this semisequel, which tackles each of the remaining mysteries about the unnecessary calamity in a methodical, but quite readable, fashion. How come the wireless operators blew it so fatally? Maybe they would have had better operators if they paid them more than $5 a week--as Lord notes, it would have taken a wireless operator 18 years to earn one transatlantic ticket. How come the Californian just sat there in nearby waters and neglected to save anyone on the frantically signaling and flare-firing Titanic? Lord quotes a man on the nonsinking ship admitting to "a certain amount of slackness," which he uses for a sardonic chapter title.
Some of the characters are more sympathetic, such as Renee Harris, who used the money she won suing the Titanic owners for her husband's death to bankroll neophyte playwright Moss Hart's first show. Lord says that Hart's memoir, Act One, depicts Harris reacting to an opening-night flop with optimism. After you've survived the Titanic, what's to worry?
Walter Lord has gotten better reviews, and he needn't fret about his reputation. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara Tuchman, author of A Distant Mirror, had this reaction to Night Lives On: "Stunning ... his detection and discoveries make a first-class historical reconstruction and a model in the research and writing of that difficult art." --Tim Appelo [via]
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One More Riverby Lynne Reid BanksISBN 0380715635 (0-380-71563-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One More River'Book summary:Struggling to adapt to life on a border kibbutz in Israel, Lesley reluctantly trades in her past world of trendy clothes and school popularity for manual work, unisex sleeping quarters, and a devastating war. Reissue. SLJ. PW. [via]
Pen, Sword, Camisoleby Jorge AmadoISBN 0380754800 (0-380-75480-0)
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The Phantomby Rob MacGregor, Jeffrey BoamISBN 038078887X (0-380-78887-X)
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The Physiognomyby Jeffrey FordISBN 0380793318 (0-380-79331-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Physiognomy'Book summary:In the Well-Built City, Cley is the perfect judge and jury, the infallible arbiter of life and death, for he is trained in the art/science of physiognomy. To the physiognomist, body shape and facial features reveal every aspect of personality, expose every secret, and even predict the future. When Drachton Below, Master of the Well-Built City, sends his premier physiognomist into the primitive outlands to uncover the thief of an unperishing fruit that may grant immortality, Cley discovers love and the truth about physiognomy. His discoveries unleash horrific destruction and plunge him into Hell--and neither he nor the Master can foresee their revolutionary fate of their world.
A New York Times Notable Book and the winner of the 1998 World Fantasy Award, The Physiognomy may be read with equal success as either fantasy or SF, but it does not much resemble the fiction of either genre. This novel's closest relatives are In the Well-Built City, Dante's Divine Comedy, Kafka's black allegories, and Caleb Carr's crime thriller The Alienist. The brilliant and sardonic Physiognomist Cley is SF/F's most entertainingly arrogant narrator since Richard Garfinkle's Celestial Matters. You won't believe that this strange, ambitious, and sui generis work is Jeffrey Ford's first novel. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Poisonby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0380727412 (0-380-72741-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poison'Book summary:Francisca de Luarac, the daughter of a poor Spanish silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams. Marie Louise de Bourbon, the niece of Louis XIV, dances in slippers of fine Spanish silk in the French Court of the Sun King and imagines her own enchanted future. Born on the same day--in an age when superstition, repression, and the Inquisition reign--the lives of these two young women unfold in tandem, barely touching. Each hoards the memory of her adored lost mother like an amulet. Francica's obsession with her lover, a Catholick priest, will shaper her fate. Marie Loouise is yoked by political expediency to the mad, imptoent Carlos II of Spain. But even as their twin destinies spiral inexorably toward disaster, both Queen and commoner cultivate a dangerous, secret life dedicated to resistance, transcendence, and love. Written in gorgeous prose that has the sheen of silk, Kathryn Harrison's POISON vividlyreminds us of the persistence of desire, the passion that exists between mothers and daughters, and the sorcery of dreams.
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Prayers for the Deadby Faye KellermanISBN 0380726246 (0-380-72624-6)
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Prince of Chaosby R. ZelaznyISBN 0380755025 (0-380-75502-5)
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Quicker Than the Eyeby Ray BradburyISBN 0380789590 (0-380-78959-0)
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Sideways Stories from Wayside Schoolby Louis Sachar, Julie BrinckloeISBN 0380731487 (0-380-73148-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School'Book summary:The Wayside School was supposed to be one story high, with 30 classrooms side by side; instead, it was built sideways, with 30 one-classroom stories. As befits such a strange school, these tales are a bit strange too. In one, Jason is stuck to his seat by a large wad of chewing gum. His teacher tries throwing ice water on him (to chill the gum to brittleness) and turning him upside down. She even contemplates cutting his pants off. Finally, though, he falls from his upside-down position when kissed (ugh!) by one of the girls in the class. Other tales include a bit of a moral, such as the story of Kathy, whose assumption that no one will ever like her is proved right, or the story of Bebe, who draws quickly but without artistic merit. The quirky humor in this book is appealing to children, and it makes a good read-aloud book for the younger set. (Ages 5 to 12) --Richard Farr [via]
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A Signal Shatteredby Eric S. NylundISBN 038079294X (0-380-79294-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Signal Shattered'Book summary:The Earth is the graveyard of billions, thanks to mathematician and rogue cryptographer Jack Potter and the treacherous extraterrestrial creature known as Wheeler, Jack's one-time business partner in the trade of alien and human technologies. But Potter and a handful of others managed to escape the holocaust thanks to the miracle of teleportation. From the cold gray ruins of the Moon, the last pitiful remnants of the human race now stare down at the devastation that one of their diminished species unwittingly helped to bring about. Here at civilization's end, a beautiful Chinese mind assassin, a cold-blooded cybernetics genius, a DNA-manipulating "gene witch," and Jack himself stand at the threshold of a new day -- when accelerated evolution will open the door to the full achievement of human potential; when the epic saga of humanity will begin again and Jack will ultimately be redeemed...if he doesn't go insane first.
But Wheeler is still out there -- and out to finish what he started. And this universe isn't big enough for Jack Potter to hide himself in. [via]
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Signal to Noiseby Eric S. NylundISBN 0380792923 (0-380-79292-3)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1by Andrew Glass, Arthur Conan Doyle, Catherine Edwards SadlerISBN 0380780895 (0-380-78089-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1'Book summary:In this first collection of Holmes's stories, the beloved detective uses his uncanny skills to rescue a king from blackmail, to capture an ingenious bank robber, and to save an innocent son accused of patricide. [via]
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Sisterby A. Manette AnsayISBN 0380729768 (0-380-72976-8)
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Smackby Melvin BurgessISBN 0380732238 (0-380-73223-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smack'Book summary:Like so many teenagers, Tar and Gemma are fed up with their parents. Tar's family is alcoholic and abusive, and Gemma feels her home life is cramped by too many restrictions. The young, British couple runs away to Bristol in search of freedom, and finds it in the form of a "squat." This vacant building is also occupied by two slightly older teens who share everything with Tar and Gemma (including their heroin habits). For a while, everything is parties and adventures, but slowly Tar and Gemma find themselves growing more and more dependent on the drug--whose strict mandates are even less forgiving than those of the parents they fled. As Gemma says, "You take more and more, and more often. Then you get sick of it and give up for a few days. And that's the really nasty thing because then, when you're clean, that's when it works so well."
With Smack, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for Fiction, Melvin Burgess brilliantly sketches a gradual descent into drug addiction. There is no preaching here, just the artful revelation of cold, hard facts. Burgess's use of the first-person voice--for not only the main characters but those in the background as well--brings you into the mind of every character in this homeless, hooked culture, offering a (sometimes terrible) glimpse of the motivations and transitions of each person. (Tar's personality changes dramatically over the course of the book, from sweet-natured, lonely boy to hard-edged, hit-seeking addict.) More subtle and less graphic than Beauty Queen, Linda Glovach's tale of a girl's downward spiral into heroin addiction, Smack will linger in the your mind long after its haunting conclusion has been reached. (Ages 13 and older) --Brangien Davis [via]
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Soldier of the Great Warby Mark HelprinISBN 0380727366 (0-380-72736-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Soldier of the Great War'Book summary:On his, last long walk, septuagenarian war hero, deserter, and professor Alessandro Giuliani shares his past with an illiterate young factory worker -- spinning a remarkable tale of heart-stopping escapes, of loves unrequited and won, of madmen, dwarfs, and mafiosi. But overshadowing all is hismost miraculous and terrible adventure, the Great War -- a surreal parade of horrors that devastated and defined Alessandro, yet enabled him to experience fully the magic and beauty of the absurd human comedy called life.
From Mark Helprin bestselling author of Winter's Tale and Memoir from Antproof Case, comes a magnificent epic adventure in which the hero reckons with love, loss, beauty, honor; and mortality. [via]
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A Stained White Radianceby James Lee BurkeISBN 0380720477 (0-380-72047-7)
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An assassination attempt and the death of a cop draw Robicheaux into the Sonniers' dangerous web of madness, murder and incest.
But Robicheaux has devils of his own. And they've come out of hiding to destroy the tormented investigator--and the two people he holds most dear.
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A Superior Deathby Nevada BarrISBN 038072362X (0-380-72362-X)
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Tales from Watership Downby Richard AdamsISBN 0380729342 (0-380-72934-2)
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The Teams: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy Sealsby Kevin DockeryISBN 0380728745 (0-380-72874-5)
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Tiger Burning Brightby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0380775123 (0-380-77512-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tiger Burning Bright'Book summary:"Three acclaimed, bestselling authors -- three extraordinary fantasists -- unite talent and vision to create a noble dynasty and a remarkable realm of spirit and substance.
The House of the Tiger has skillfully ruled Merina in times of peace. But now the indomitable armies of the Emperor Balthasar stand poised to crush the vulnerable city/state. And in the enemy's midst is the gray mage Apolon -- foul necromancer who serves the Dreadful Dark . . . and whose mission it is to satsfy his Master's terrible hungers with living souls, the Heart of a Goddess, and the blood of a Princess.For Adele, aging Dowager Queen; for ruling Queen Lydana; and for Princess Shelyra, lithe, impetuous, ingenious Designated Daughter, the battle seems hopeless -- for they possess no defense, save for their wiles and weapons of the spirit. But the Tiger is a cunning beast, not to be underestimated. And when corered, she bares her teeth . . . and strikes. [via]
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Time to Murder and Createby Lawrence BlockISBN 0380763656 (0-380-76365-6)
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Timothy of the Cayby Theodore TaylorISBN 0380721198 (0-380-72119-8)
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The Translatorby John CrowleyISBN 0380815370 (0-380-81537-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Translator'Book summary:John Crowley's The Translator is a novel with a time bomb ticking over its head. It takes place during the dark days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as an American coed develops a complicated relationship with an exiled Russian poet who is her college professor, poetic collaborator, and perhaps lover. Innokenti Falin is a man of many secrets--but then, so is Christa Malone. Growing up, her father spoke only vaguely about his work with the government and computers; her Green Beret brother died under mysterious circumstances in Southeast Asia; and Christa herself has a few things in her past that she'd rather not contemplate.
In their power to evoke the physical pleasures of poetry, the scenes in which Falin and Malone work together evoke A.S. Byatt's Possession, another gripping novel about language and the life of the mind. Improbably, Crowley even makes the act of translation sexy:
She thought, long after, that she had not then ever explored a lover's body, learned its folds and articulations, muscle under skin, bone under muscle, but that this was really most like that: this slow probing and working in his language, taking it in or taking hold of it; his words, his life, in her heart, in her mouth too.
The novel's principal shortcoming is that it can't quite make up its mind whether it's a cloak-and-dagger cold war novel or a less realistic fable about love, loss, and the power of art. Nonetheless, as the depiction of an era, a passion, and one woman's helplessness in the face of history, The Translator succeeds. Much can be forgiven of a book that makes us feel that words are important--that they can in fact change the world. --Mary Park [via]More editions of The Translator:
Unholy Allianceby Peter LevendaISBN 0380777223 (0-380-77722-3)
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The Violent Landby Jorg AmadoISBN 0380754754 (0-380-75475-4)
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Voices Within the Arkby Howard SchwartzISBN 0380761092 (0-380-76109-2)
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Mosesby Bruce S. FeilerISBN 0380807319 (0-380-80731-9)
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The War Against the Angelsby Michael MoorcockISBN 0380780798 (0-380-78079-8)
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Watermelonby Marian KeyesISBN 0380796090 (0-380-79609-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watermelon'Book summary:At twenty-nine, fun-loving, good-natured Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to her first baby, James visits her in the recovery room to inform her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a beautiful newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a body that she can hardly bear to look at in the mirror.
In the absence of any better offers, Claire decides to go home to her family in Dublin. To her gorgeous man-eating sister Helen, her soap-watching mother, her bewildered father. And there, sheltered by the love of an (albeit quirky) family, she gets better. A lot better.
In fact, so much better that when James slithers back into her life, he's in for a bit of a surprise. [via]
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Wayside School Is Falling Downby Louis SacharISBN 0380731509 (0-380-73150-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wayside School Is Falling Down'Book summary:The extraordinary thirty-story school and its zany inhabitants are back in the long-awaited sequel to the classic SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL, one of the most popular Camelot books ever.
The extraordinary thirty-story school and its zany inhabitants are back in the long-awaited sequel to the classic SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL, one of the most popular Camelot books ever. "Rib-tickling...sure-to-please..."-Kirkus [via] 
When the Sacred Ginmill Closesby Lawrence BlockISBN 0380728257 (0-380-72825-7)
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The Wolves In The Wallsby Neil Gaiman, Dave McKeanISBN 0380810956 (0-380-81095-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wolves In The Walls'Book summary:Truth be told, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's picture book The Wolves in the Walls is terrifying. Sure, the story is fairytale-like and presented in a jaunty, casually nonsensical way, but it is absolutely the stuff of nightmares. Lucy hears wolves hustling, bustling, crinkling and crackling in the walls of the old house where her family lives, but no one believes her. Her mother says it's mice, her brother says bats, and her father says what everyone seems to say: "If the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over." Lucy remains convinced, as is her beloved pig-puppet, and her worst fears are confirmed when the wolves actually do come out of the walls.
Up to this point, McKean's illustrations are spectacular, sinister collages awash in golden sepia tones evocative of the creepy beauty in The City of Lost Children. The wolves explode into the story in scratchy pen-and-ink, all jaws and eyes. The family flees to the cold, moonlit garden, where they ponder their future. Her brother suggests they escape to outer space where there's "nothing but foozles and squossucks for billions of miles". Lucy wants to live in her own house...and she wants the pig-puppet she left behind.
Eventually she talks her family into moving back into the once-wolfish walls, where they peek out at the wolves who are watching their television and spilling popcorn on slices of toast and jam, dashing up the stairs and wearing their clothes. When the family can't stand it anymore, they burst forth from the walls, scaring the wolves, who shout "And when the people come out of the walls, it's all over!" The wolves flee and everything goes back to normal...until the tidy ending when Lucy hears "a noise that sounded exactly like an elephant trying not to sneeze". Adult fans of this talented pair will revel in the quirky story and its darkly gorgeous, deliciously shadowy trappings, but the young or faint of heart, beware. The book is recommended for ages nine and above. --Karin Snelson, Amazon.com [via]
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