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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0835902242 (0-8359-0224-2)
Softcover, Globe Fearon Co
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Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C. - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0821916394 (0-8219-1639-4)
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Akin to Anneby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0848826566 (0-8488-2656-6)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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All Things Bright And Beautifulby James HerriotISBN 0816162697 (0-8161-6269-7)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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All Things Wise And Wonderfulby James HerriotISBN 0816165254 (0-8161-6525-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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An Artist of the Floating Worldby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0844671231 (0-8446-7123-1)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Artist of the Floating World'Book summary:In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the night life who became a propagandist for Japanese imperialism during the war. But the war is over. Japan lost, Ono's wife and son have been killed, and many young people blame the imperialists for leading the country to disaster. What's left for Ono? Ishiguro's treatment of this story earned a 1986 Whitbread Prize. [via]
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As a Man Grows Olderby Ettore SchmitzISBN 0837198194 (0-8371-9819-4)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons: A Calvin and Hobbes Collectionby Bill WattersonISBN 0836218833 (0-8362-1883-3)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Babette's Feast And Other Storiesby Isak DinesenISBN 0848828356 (0-8488-2835-6)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Ballet Shoesby Noel StreatfeildISBN 0844662410 (0-8446-6241-0)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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The Beginning And the Endby Naguib MahfouzISBN 0844672246 (0-8446-7224-6)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Berlin Alexander Platzby Alfred Doblin, Eugene JolasISBN 0826477895 (0-8264-7789-5)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Berlin Alexander Platz'Book summary:Tells the story of Franz Biberkopt, who, on being released from prison is confronted with the proverty, unemployment, crime and burgeoning Nazism of 1920s Germany. As Franz struggles to survive in this world, fate teases him with a little pleasure before cruelly turning on him. [via]
Black Snowby Keith ReddinISBN 0822213710 (0-8222-1371-0)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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Blue Castleby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0833531042 (0-8335-3104-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Castle'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
Body of Evidenceby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 0816158673 (0-8161-5867-3)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Book of Lost Talesby J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 083350116X (0-8335-0116-X)
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Brave New World Revisitedby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0848805372 (0-8488-0537-2)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World Revisited'Book summary:Huxley looks backward and forward in this brilliant extended essay published a quarter of a century after his controversial, dark visionary novel. Analyzing America at mid-century against the tomorrow of the BRAVE NEW WORLD, Huxley finds some answers and asks more questions. [via]
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Cat and Mouseby Gunter GrassISBN 0848801121 (0-8488-0112-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Cat and Mouse and Other Writingsby Gunter Grass, A. Leslie WillsonISBN 0826407331 (0-8264-0733-1)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Collected Stories of Colletteby Colette, Robert PhelpsISBN 0844671843 (0-8446-7184-3)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980by Richard RortyISBN 0816610649 (0-8166-1064-9)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Counter-Clock Worldby Philip K. DickISBN 0839824858 (0-8398-2485-8)
Hardcover, Gregg Pr
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The Days Are Just Packed: A Calvin and Hobbes Collectionby Bill WattersonISBN 0836217357 (0-8362-1735-7)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Days Are Just Packed: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection'Book summary:Zounds! Spaceman Spiff, Stupendous Man, the ferocious tiger Hobbes, and the rest of Calvin's riotous imagination are all included in The Days Are Just Packed. Calvin, the irrepressible pint-sized tyrant, is always bursting with energy. And the volume's oversized 12-by-9 inch format provides Calvin's outrageous fantasies room to explode. Dozens of Sunday strips are lavishly reproduced in color for The Days Are Just Packed, along with Calvin's amusing weekday adventures. [via]
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Death of Virgilby Hermann BrochISBN 0844617423 (0-8446-1742-3)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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The Demolished Manby Alfred BesterISBN 0824014022 (0-8240-1402-2)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis
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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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Emily Climbsby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0848805887 (0-8488-0588-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily Climbs'Book summary:Second in a trilogy from the author of the "Anne of Green Gables" novels, this book continues the adventures of Emily of New Moon. At Shrewsbury High School, she becomes dedicated to writing but is distracted by an unforeseen romance. Other titles include "Emily of New Moon" and "Emily's Quest". [via]
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Emily's Questby L. M. MontgomeryISBN 0848805909 (0-8488-0590-9)
Hardcover, Amereon LTD.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily's Quest'Book summary:Concluding the trilogy from the author of the "Anne of Green Gables" novels, this book completes the story of Emily of New Moon, now concentrating on making a success of her writing but faced with difficult choices. Previous titles in the series include "Emily of New Moon" and "Emily Climbs". [via]
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Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartreby Walter KaufmannISBN 0844661511 (0-8446-6151-1)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre'Book summary:[via]This volume provides basic writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Ortega, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus, including some not previously translated, along with an invaluable introductory essay by Walter Kaufmann.
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Explosion in a Cathedralby Alejo Carpentier, John SturrockISBN 081663808X (0-8166-3808-X)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Eye of the Needleby Ken FollettISBN 0816166552 (0-8161-6655-2)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbinsby SeussISBN 0833513524 (0-8335-1352-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Frenchman's Creekby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 0837604125 (0-8376-0412-5)
Hardcover, Bentley Pub
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A Friend From Englandby Anita BrooknerISBN 081614656X (0-8161-4656-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Gertrudeby Hermann HesseISBN 0816161836 (0-8161-6183-6)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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The Golden Apples of the Sun.by Ray BradburyISBN 0837151600 (0-8371-5160-0)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Apples of the Sun.'Book summary:This deluxe hardcover includes never before published material. [Note: This edition is NOT signed by Mr. Bradbury.] [via]
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The Grass Harpby Truman CapoteISBN 0822204762 (0-8222-0476-2)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grass Harp'Book summary:Set in a small Southern town in the 1930s, this classic work tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. Now a major motion picture from Fine Line Features, starring Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Piper Laurie, and Nell Carter. [via]
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Having Our Sayby A. Elizabeth Delany, Sarah L. Delany, Amy Hill HearthISBN 0816158312 (0-8161-5831-2)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Having Our Say'Book summary:"I never thought I'd see the day that the world would want to hear what two old Negro women have to say," says Bessie Delany. But Bessie and her sister, Sadie, born in 1893 and 1891, saw plenty, by eating a low-fat, high-vegetable diet and outliving the "old Rebby [rebel] boys" who once almost lynched Sadie. This remarkable memoir was a long-running bestseller, spawning a Broadway play and adding to their list of seasoned acquaintances (Marian Anderson, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Cab Calloway) such spring chickens as Hillary Clinton. Born to a former slave whose owners broke the law by teaching him to read, the sisters got a solid education. North Carolina was paradise--despite the Rebbies--until Jim Crow reared its hideous head. The girls had loved to ride in the front of the trolley because the wind in their hair made them feel free, but one day the conductor sadly ordered them to the back. The family moved to New York, where Bessie became the town's second black woman dentist and Sadie the first black woman home-ec teacher. They befriended everyone who was anyone in the Harlem Renaissance (their brother won the 1925 Congressional primary there), pursued careers instead of husbands, and lived peacefully together, despite their differences. Sadie was more peaceable, like Booker T. Washington, while Bessie was a W.E.B. Du Bois-style militant.
They're funny: Bessie notes that blacks must be sharp to get ahead, "But if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere." And they are wise: Sadie says, "Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet." [via]
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Helenaby Evelyn Waugh, George WeigelISBN 082942122X (0-8294-2122-X)
Softcover, Loyola Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Helena'Book summary:[via]In Helena, the play of words and the fireworks, the exquisite descriptions of landscapes, and even the finished portraits of the heroine, her husband, and her son, are always subordinate to the authors broad vision of the mixed anguish and hope with which the world of Constantines time was filled.
New York Herald Tribune
[Helena] may be read on two levels of appreciation: As bright entertainment, or as deceptively profound commentary. On both levels its a superlatively well done book.
Chicago Tribune
Evelyn Waugh, author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller Brideshead Revisited and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, considered Helena to be perhaps his finest novel. Based on the life of St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine and finder of the true cross, this spiritual adventure brings to life the political intrigues of ancient Rome and the early years of Christianity.More editions of Helena:
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Homicidal Psycho Jungle Catby Bill WattersonISBN 0836217713 (0-8362-1771-3)
Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat'Book summary:Calvin and Hobbes--the sensationally popular comic strip dynamic duo--are ready to pounce back on bestseller lists nationwide with this all-new collection of daily and color Sunday cartoons. All eight previous Calvin and Hobbes collections have sold more than 1 million copies in the first year of publication. [via]
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Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collectionby Bill WattersonISBN 0836217691 (0-8362-1769-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection'Book summary:Reprising the wide-open landscape format of, The Days Are Just Packed, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat chronicles another segment of the multifarious adventures of this wild child and his faithful, but skeptical, friend. If the best cartoons compel readers to identify themselves within the funny frames, then all who enjoy Calvin and Hobbes are creative, imaginative, and ... bad, bad, bad! Calvin, the irascible little boy with the stuffed tiger who comes to life are a pair bound for trouble. Boring school lessons become occasions for death-defying alien air battles, speeding snow sled descents elicit philosophical discussions on the meaning of life, and Hobbe's natural inclination to pounce on his little friend wreaks havoc on Calvin's sense of security. Calvin's the kid we all wish we'd been. Sassy, imaginative, far more verbal than his parents can manage, Calvin is the quintessential bad boy -- and the boy we love to see. He terrorizes little Susie, offers "Candid Opinions" from a neighborhood stand, and questions his parents' authority. "What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?" he demands. Calvin and Hobbes manages to say what needs to be said about childhood and life: "Eww, mud," says Calvin. "Look at this gooshy, dirty, slimy, thick, wet mud ... Bleecch ... Talk about a kid magnet!" [via]
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The Honourable Schoolboyby John Le CarreISBN 0816165394 (0-8161-6539-4)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Huis Clos Les Mouchesby SartreISBN 0844218146 (0-8442-1814-6)
Softcover, Natl Textbook Co
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Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiahby Richard BachISBN 0816165203 (0-8161-6520-3)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Interview With the Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 0833563513 (0-8335-6351-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interview With the Vampire'Book summary:In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.
While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy in subsequent Vampire novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The Vampire Armand), Interview remains a treasured masterpiece. It is that rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of the human condition. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Introduction to Metaphysics: The Creative Mind/No 164by Henri BergsonISBN 0822601648 (0-8226-0164-8)
Softcover, Littlefield Adams
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John Brown's Bodyby Stephen Vincent BenetISBN 0822205947 (0-8222-0594-7)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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A Little Princess : The Story of Sara Creweby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Carol M. Adorjan, Frederic MarvinISBN 0816712026 (0-8167-1202-6)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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Lonesome Doveby Larry McMurtryISBN 0833518496 (0-8335-1849-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lonesome Dove'Book summary:Larry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of the American West. The subject of Lonesome Dove, cowboys herding cattle on a great trail-drive, seems like the very stuff of that cliched myth, but McMurtry bravely tackles the task of creating meaningful literature out of it. At first the novel seems the kind of anti-mythic, anti-heroic story one might expect: the main protagonists are a drunken and inarticulate pair of former Texas Rangers turned horse rustlers. Yet when the trail begins, the story picks up an energy and a drive that makes heroes of these men. Their mission may be historically insignificant, or pointless--McMurtry is smart enough to address both possibilities--but there is an undoubted valor in their lives. The result is a historically aware, intelligent, romantic novel of the mythic west that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. [via]
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Lonesome Travellerby Jack KerouacISBN 084881746X (0-8488-1746-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lonesome Traveller'Book summary:In his first frankly autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac tells the exhilarating story fo the years when he was writing th books that captivated and infuriated the public, restless years of wandering during which he worked as a railway brakeman in California, a steward on a tramp steamer, and a fire lookout on the crest of Desolation Peak in the Cascde Mountains.[via]More editions of Lonesome Traveller:
Lord Peter Views the Bodyby Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 0848811534 (0-8488-1153-4)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Lyre of Orpheusby Robertson DaviesISBN 0816148392 (0-8161-4839-2)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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The Mansionby William Faulkner, Michael MillgateISBN 0824068327 (0-8240-6832-7)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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The Moving Finger: A Miss Marple Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 081614561X (0-8161-4561-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Murder in Mesopotamiaby Agatha ChristieISBN 0816145687 (0-8161-4568-7)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Murther & Walking Spiritsby Robertson DaviesISBN 0816154678 (0-8161-5467-8)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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No Exit and The Flies Notesby W. John CampbellISBN 0822009048 (0-8220-0904-8)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Exit and The Flies Notes'Book summary:The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background all to help you gain greater insight into great works you're bound to study for school or pleasure.
In CliffsNotes on Sartre's No Exit & The Flies, you examine two well-known plays by Jean-Baptiste Sartre and discover how Sartre uses his work to put forth his philosophy of existentialism. Both plays were written during the Nazi occupation of France in WWII and deal with the central of theme of freedom, which is a hallmark of Sartre's existential philosophy.
In this study guide, you'll find Life of the Author, as well as detailed Summaries and Commentaries of both plays. You'll also find critical essays on the following topics:
- Sartrean existentialism: Principles and philosophies, existentialism before Sartre, an overview of existentialism, and Sartre's specific principles of existentialism
- Sartre's political ideas
- Sartre's dramatic formula
- Plus suggested essay topics and a selected bibliography
Classic literature or modern-day treasure you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides. [via]
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Noblesse Oblige; An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy.by Nancy MitfordISBN 0837173876 (0-8371-7387-6)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Townby Amos TutuolaISBN 0837140447 (0-8371-4044-7)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63by Taylor BranchISBN 0844672955 (0-8446-7295-5)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63'Book summary:An award-winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., a history of the civil rights movement, and a portrait of an era, Taylor Branch's Parting the Waters begins slowly but soon catches the listener in a tumult of unforgettable events. Branch's thorough research has been synthesized into an impressive account of the violence, courage, and confusion at the beginning of the civil rights movement, building to a powerful conclusion with a blow-by-blow retelling of the events in Birmingham, Alabama. Ably narrated by Joe Morton and C.C.H. Pounder, the audio abridgment is occasionally choppy, but well-done considering the print edition runs about 900 pages. The broad cast of characters includes Baptist preachers and student movement leaders as well as President John F. Kennedy and his cabinet. If you are daunted by the sheer mass of the print edition of Parting the Waters, this abridged production is for you. However don't be surprised if you find yourself wanting more and digging into the print version after all or perhaps the audio version of Pillar of Fire, Taylor's second book in his projected three-part series. (Running time: 6 Hours; 4 cassettes) [via]
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Passingby Nella LarsenISBN 0837115418 (0-8371-1541-8)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Passing'Book summary:The heroine of Passing takes an elevator from the infernal August Chicago streets to the breezy rooftop of the heavenly Drayton Hotel, "wafted upward on a magic carpet to another world, pleasant, quiet, and strangely remote from the sizzling one that she had left below." Irene is black, but like her author, the Danish-African American Nella Larsen (a star of the 1920s to mid-1930s Harlem Renaissance and the first black woman to win a Guggenheim creative-writing award), she can "pass" in white society. Yet one woman in the tea room, "fair and golden, like a sunlit day," keeps staring at her, and eventually introduces herself as Irene's childhood friend Clare, who left their hometown 12 years before when her father died. Clare's father had been born "on the left hand"--he was the product of a legal marriage between a white man and a black woman and therefore cut off from his inheritance. So she was raised penniless by white racist relatives, and now she passes as white. Even Clare's violent white husband is in the dark about her past, though he teases her about her tan and affectionately calls her "Nig." He laughingly explains: "When we were first married, she was white as--as--well as white as a lily. But I declare she's getting darker and darker." As Larsen makes clear, Passing can also mean dying, and Clare is in peril of losing her identity and her life.
The tale is simple on the surface--a few adventures in Chicago and New York's high life, with lots of real people and race-mixing events described (explicated by Thadious M. Davis's helpful introduction and footnotes). But underneath, it seethes with rage, guilt, sex, and complex deceptions. Irene fears losing her black husband to Clare, who seems increasingly predatory. Or is this all in Irene's mind? And is everyone wearing a mask? Larsen's book is a scary hall of mirrors, a murder mystery that can't resolve itself. It sticks with you. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Pat of Silve Bushby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 0848823710 (0-8488-2371-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Prehistory of the Far Side: A Tenth Anniversary Exhibitby Gary LarsonISBN 0836218515 (0-8362-1851-5)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Quartet in Autumnby Barbara PymISBN 0816166617 (0-8161-6661-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Railway Children Br 243by Edith NesbitISBN 0816704694 (0-8167-0469-4)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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The Recognitionsby William GaddisISBN 0844667404 (0-8446-6740-4)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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The Red Ponyby John SteinbeckISBN 0816158991 (0-8161-5899-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Revenge of the Baby-Sat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collectionby Bill WattersonISBN 0836218663 (0-8362-1866-3)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revenge of the Baby-Sat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection'Book summary:"Calvin and Hobbes provided an exhilarating blend of fantasy, sophistication, pungent humor and superb drawing that was dazzling." --The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio
With keen insight, Bill Watterson depicted life through the eyes of a child in Calvin and Hobbes--with all the inherent fun and frustrations. Through the adventures of this engaging pair, the limits of our imaginations were challenged as we enjoyed accompanying Calvin and Hobbes as they traveled through time, transmogrified themselves, stirred up trouble.
Watterson's vibrant characterization of event and personality, deft artistic presentation, and whimsical perspective have cultivated an unwavering affection for his characters. In The Revenge of the Baby-Sat, readers can relish the opportunity to dwell once more in the enduring reminder of life as a child today. [via]
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A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles, Book 4by Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0844672858 (0-8446-7285-8)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 0816704589 (0-8167-0458-9)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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The Secret Garden/Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jan Burridge, Louise HillISBN 0831712139 (0-8317-1213-9)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
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Selected Stories of Lu Hsunby Lu HsunISBN 0835122727 (0-8351-2272-7)
Softcover, China Books & Periodicals
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Stories of Lu Hsun'Book summary:When I was young I, too, had many dreams. Most of them came to be forgotten, but I see nothing in this to regret. For although recalling the past may make you happy, it may sometimes also make you lonely, and there is no point in clinging in spirit to lonely bygone days. However, my trouble is that I cannot forget completely, and these stories have resulted from what I have been unable to erase from my memory. . . . [via]
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Selected Stories of Lu Hsunby Lu XunISBN 0835121925 (0-8351-2192-5)
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The Shiningby Stephen KingISBN 0816156859 (0-8161-5685-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Ship of Foolsby Katherine Anne PorterISBN 0848811291 (0-8488-1129-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Sittaford Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0854562036 (0-85456-203-6)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Sonnets To Orpheusby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0819561657 (0-8195-6165-7)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sonnets To Orpheus'Book summary:A collaborative translation by Keele, a German scholar, and Norris, a poet, of the famous sonnets. [via]
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Stiff Upper Lip, Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0848806824 (0-8488-0682-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves'Book summary:P. G. Wodehouse's complete Jeeves and Wooster novel read by Jonathan Cecil. Bertie Wooster looks pretty stylish in his new Tyrolean hat - or so he thinks. Others, notably Jeeves, disagree. But when Bertie embarks on an errand of mercy to Totleigh Towers, things get quickly out of control and he's going to need all the help Jeeves can provide. There are good eggs present, such as Gussie Fink-Nottle and the Rev. 'Stinker' Pinker. But there also is Sir Watkyn Bassett JP, enemy of all the Woosters hold dear, to say nothing of his daughter Madeline and Roderick Spode, now raised to the peerage. And Major Brabazon Plank, the peppery explorer, who wants to lay Bertie out cold. Thank goodness for the intervention of Chief Inspector Witherspoon of Scotland Yard. But is this gentleman all he seems...? Jonathan Cecil (picture above) has toured in "The Incomparable Max", "Twelfth Night" and "An Ideal Husband", while among his considerable TV and film appearances are "The Rector's Wife", "The Worst Week of My Life", "Midsomer Murders" and "Victoria & Albert". [via]
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The Temple of My Familiarby Alice WalkerISBN 0833548042 (0-8335-4804-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Temple of My Familiar'Book summary:[via]First published in 1990, The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walkers follow-up novel to her iconic The Color Purple, spent more than four months on the New York Times Bestseller list and was hailed by critics as a major achievement (Chicago Tribune).
Described by the author as a romance of the last 500,000 years, The Temple of My Familiar follows a cast of interrelated characters, most of African descent, and each representing a different ethnic strainranging from diverse African tribes to the mixed bloods of Latin Americathat contribute to the black experience in America.More editions of The Temple of My Familiar:
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There's Treasure Everywhereby Bill WattersonISBN 0836213130 (0-8362-1313-0)
Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'There's Treasure Everywhere'Book summary:Few writers--and even fewer cartoonists--have captured the imagination of childhood more effectively than Watterson in his many Calvin and Hobbes cartoons--and apart from his Tenth Anniversary Book, this is probably my favorite Calvin and Hobbes collection. [via]
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There's Treasure Everywhere: A Calivn Hobbes Collectionby Bill WattersonISBN 0836213122 (0-8362-1312-2)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'There's Treasure Everywhere: A Calivn Hobbes Collection'Book summary:Few writers--and even fewer cartoonists--have captured the imagination of childhood more effectively than Watterson in his many Calvin and Hobbes cartoons--and apart from his Tenth Anniversary Book, this is probably my favorite Calvin and Hobbes collection. [via]
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Thirteen at Dinnerby Agatha ChristieISBN 0816146098 (0-8161-4609-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Tortilla Flatby John SteinbeckISBN 0816159017 (0-8161-5901-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tortilla Flat'Book summary:Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America?s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers?and to the many who revisit them again and again."[via]More editions of Tortilla Flat:
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The Vampire Lestatby Anne RiceISBN 0833563521 (0-8335-6352-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vampire Lestat'Book summary:After the spectacular debut of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in Cry to Heaven and the Free People of Color in The Feast of All Saints. But Lestat, the mischievous creator of Louis in Interview, finally emerged to tell his own story in the 1985 sequel, The Vampire Lestat.
As with the first book in the series, the novel begins with a frame narrative. After over a half century underground, Lestat awakens in the 1980s to the cacophony of electronic sounds and images that characterizes the MTV generation. Particularly, he is captivated by a fledgling rock band named Satan's Night Out. Determined both to achieve international fame and end the centuries of self-imposed vampire silence, Lestat takes command of the band (now renamed "The Vampire Lestat") and pens his own autobiography. The remainder of the novel purports to be that autobiography: the vampire traces his mortal youth as the son of a marquis in pre-Revolutionary France, his initiation into vampirism at the hands of Magnus, and his quest for the ultimate origins of his undead species.
While very different from the first novel in the Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat has proved to be the foundation for a broader range of narratives than is possible from Louis's brooding, passive perspective. The character of Lestat is one of Rice's most complex and popular literary alter egos, and his Faustian strivings have a mythopoeic resonance that links the novel to a grand tradition of spiritual and supernatural fiction. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 0816728933 (0-8167-2893-3)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Fang'Book summary:Jack London's classic companion novel to Call of the Wild is now available through Buki Editions! With a fully functioning table of contents. [via]
The World Jones Madeby Philip K. DickISBN 0839824831 (0-8398-2483-1)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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World's Fairby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0844666963 (0-8446-6696-3)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Editionby Shawn St. JeanISBN 0821416545 (0-8214-1654-5)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition'Book summary:Scholars have argued for decades over which constitutes the best possible version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's much-anthologized story The Yellow Wall-Paper. Most editions have been based on the1892 New England Magazine publication rather than the handwritten manuscript at Radcliffe College. Publication of the unedited manuscript in 1994 sparked controversy over which of the two was definitive. Since then, scholars have discovered half a dozen parent texts for later twentieth-century printings, including William Dean Howells' version from 1920 and the 1933 Golden Book version. While traditional critical editions gather evidence and make an argument for adopting one text as preferable to others, "This volume offers both Gilman scholars and scholars of textual studies a unique and helpful means of engaging with a work that exists in multiple forms, and includes some insightful new readings of this much-analyzed story," saus Charlotte Rich, editor of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newsletter. Shawn St. Jean's The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition offers instead both manuscript and magazine, critically edited and printed in parallel for the first time. When viewed as part of a process beginning with writing and ending with bibliographic coding, new significance appears in such facets as the magazine's accompanying illustrations, its lineation and paragraphing, Gilman's choice of minor pronouns, and her original handwritten ending. This critical edition of The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman includes a full and nontraditional apparatus for ease of use by students and scholars to study the more than 400 variants between the two. Four new essays, written especially for this volume, explore the implications of this multitext model. Shawn St.Jean, an independent scholar in Brockport, New York, has previously published on Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Studies in Bibliography, Feminist Studies, and Studies in Short Fiction. He is the author of Pagan Dreiser: Songs from American Mythology. [via]
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Yukon Ho!: A Calvin And Hobbes Collectionby Bill WattersonISBN 0836218353 (0-8362-1835-3)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yukon Ho!: A Calvin And Hobbes Collection'Book summary:The spirit of childhood leaps to life again with boundless energy and magic in Yukon Ho!, the newest collection of adventures featuring rambunctious six-year-old Calvin and his co-conspirator tiger-chum, Hobbes. Picking up where The Essential Calvin and Hobbes left off, Yukon Ho! is sure to begin an immediate reign at the top of bestseller lists everywhere! [via]
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El Reino De Este Mundoby Alejo Carpentier, Federico AcevedoISBN 0847701875 (0-8477-0187-5)
Softcover, Universidad De Puerto Rico
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Reino De Este Mundo'Book summary:Novela calificada por Mario Vargas Llosa como una de las mas acabadas que haya producido la lengua espanola, EL REINO DE ESTE MUNDO (1949) recrea de forma incomparable los acontecimientos que, a caballo entre los siglos xviii y xix, precedieron y siguieron a la independencia haitiana. Estimulado por la prodigiosa historia original y valiendose de un magistral dominio de los recursos narrativos, Alejo Carpentier (19041980) embarca al lector, merced al poder de su palabra, en un mundo exuberante, desaforado y legendario en el que brillan con luz propia el licantropo Mackandal, en quien se conjugan la rebelion popular y los poderes sobrenaturales, y el dictador Henri Christophe, quien alumbro en su palacio de SansSouci y la ciudadela de La Ferrière arquitecturas dignas de Piranesi. [via]
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