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7 Weeks to Safe Social Drinking: How to Effectively Moderate Your Alcohol Intakeby Donna CornettISBN 0595174965 (0-595-17496-5)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Addictive Behaviour: Cue Exposure Theory and Practiceby D. Colin DrummondISBN 0471944548 (0-471-94454-8)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Son Ltd
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Adult Children of Alcoholics Syndrome: From Discovery to Recoveryby Wayne KritsbergISBN 0553272799 (0-553-27279-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Alcoholic Familyby Linda A. Bennett, Peter Steinglass, Steven J. WolinISBN 0465001122 (0-465-00112-2)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The Alcoholic Familyby Peter SteinglassISBN 0465000975 (0-465-00097-5)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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Approval Addictionby Joyce MeyerISBN 0446577723 (0-446-57772-3)
Hardcover, Faithwords
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Approval Addiction'Book summary:Bestselling author Joyce Meyer confronts the need for approval that is so evident in todays world.
So many people these days have an unhealthy need for constant affirmation and are unable to feel good about themselves without it. This can lead to major problems in relationships and may even turn into an addiction. In her latest book, Joyce Meyer provides a release from the need for acceptance from the outside world--an acceptance that is unfulfilling and leads only to disappointment. She provides a supportive voice that understands the effect of insecurity in ones life. Her abiding message is that God provides all the security one needs, and through Him one can attain freedom from the approval addiction. [via]
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Before Women Had Wingsby Connie May FowlerISBN 0449911446 (0-449-91144-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Bell Jarby Sylvia Plath, Frances McCulloughISBN 0553260081 (0-553-26008-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bell Jar'Book summary:Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity. [via]
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Beyond Therapy, Beyond Science : A New Model for Healing the Whole Personby Anne Wilson SchaefISBN 0517132559 (0-517-13255-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Candyby Kevin BrooksISBN 0439683289 (0-439-68328-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candy'Book summary:Kevin Brooks (Kissing the Rain, Martyn Pig, Lucas) excels at portraying the gritty details of English underclass life, and here, in a story of a boy desperately in love, he has written an irresistibly suspenseful and compelling YA novel.
When Joe Beck, a fifteen-year-old suburban kid, gets lost in a disreputable neighborhood on his way to an appointment in London, he is struck dumb by his first sight of beautiful and seemingly innocent Candy. She talks with him, teases him, but reveals nothing about herself except her phone number. Later they have a perfect day at the London Zoo, and soon Joe is as addicted to Candy as she is to heroin, in spite of the threats of her menacing pimp Iggy. Almost nothing matters except his desire to free her from her terrible life -- not his bands chance for a recording contract, not the song he has written for her that has become a hit without him. But there is something that still matters to him, and when he rescues the young prostitute from her sordid rooming house and takes her into hiding to sweat out her addiction, Iggy finds and uses that one thing that is stronger than Joes passion for Candy, in a heart-thumping, breathless conclusion. (Age 14 and up) -- Patty Campbell [via]
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Cannabis Use and Dependence: Public Health and Public Policyby Wayne Hall, Rosalie Liccardo PaculaISBN 0521800242 (0-521-80024-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0553149660 (0-553-14966-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]
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The Catcher in the Ryeby Not AvailableISBN 055311722X (0-553-11722-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]
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Children of Alcoholismby Judith S. Seixas, Geraldine YouchaISBN 0517555999 (0-517-55599-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Circles of Recovery : Self-Help Organizations for Addictionsby Keith HumphreysISBN 0521792770 (0-521-79277-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Clapton!: An Authorized Biographyby Ray ColemanISBN 0446380490 (0-446-38049-0)
Softcover, Warner Books Inc
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Dreamingby Carolyn SeeISBN 0517193329 (0-517-19332-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in Americaby Carolyn SeeISBN 0520204824 (0-520-20482-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Drugs and Addictive Behaviour: A Guide to Treatmentby Hamid GhodseISBN 0521000017 (0-521-00001-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Easing the Ache: Gay Men Recovering from Compulsive Behaviorsby David CrawfordISBN 0452266157 (0-452-26615-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Eight Million Ways to Dieby Lawrence BlockISBN 051508090X (0-515-08090-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Excessive Appetites: A Psychological View of Addictionsby Jim OrfordISBN 0471103012 (0-471-10301-2)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Excessive Appetites: A Psychological View of Addiction'Book summary:This eagerly awaited new edition of Excessive Appetites will offer you a complete and comprehensive revision of this classic text in the field of addictions.
Covering a wide variety of different forms of addiction from alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, through to gambling, eating and sex this book provides an up-to-date and authoritative account of core knowledge in this vital area.
Comprehensive coverage, from the origins and processes of addiction right through to the ways in which people overcome their addictions, and the implications for interventions. [via]More editions of Excessive Appetites: A Psychological View of Addictions:
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Exposureby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0446670235 (0-446-67023-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exposure'Book summary:In luminous, provocative prose, Harrison tells the harrowing story of a woman poised on the edge of a psychological nightmare. As a child, Ann was her photographer father's muse, and his controversial photographs of her shocked the world. Now, years later, a museum retrospective causes her controlled existence to unravel. [via]
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The Faber Book of Smokingby James WaltonISBN 0571193226 (0-571-19322-6)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eatingby Geneen RothISBN 0452270839 (0-452-27083-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Gamblerby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0486290816 (0-486-29081-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gambler'Book summary:The Gambler brilliantly captures the strangely powerful compulsion to bet that Dostoyevsky, himself a compulsive gambler, knew so well. The hero rides an emotional roller coaster between exhilaration and despair, and secondary characters such as the Grandmother, who throws much of her fortune away at the gaming tables, are unforgettable. The book's publishing history is equally so: Under the pressure of a deadline from an unscrupulous publisher, and with rights to his entire oeuvre at stake, Dostoyevsky dictated the book in less than a month to the star pupil of Russia's first shorthand school. Then he married her. [via]
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Gambling As an Addictive Behaviour: Impaired Control, Harm Minimisation, Treatment And Preventionby John O'Connor, Mark DickersonISBN 052184701X (0-521-84701-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Getting Unplugged: Take Control of Your Family's Television, Video Game, and Computer Habitsby Joan Anderson, Robin WilkinsISBN 0471178896 (0-471-17889-6)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Grass Arena: An Autobiographyby John HealyISBN 057115171X (0-571-15171-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Hammeredby ELIZABETH BEARISBN 0553587501 (0-553-58750-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hammered'Book summary:Once Jenny Casey was somebodys daughter. Once she was somebodys enemy. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. Racked with pain, hiding from the government she served, running with a crime lord so she can save a life or two, Jenny is a month shy of fifty, and her artificially reconstructed body has started to unravel. But she is far from forgotten. A government scientist needs the perfect subject for a high-stakes project and has Jenny in his sights. Suddenly Jenny Casey is a pawn in a furious battle, waged in the corridors of the Internet, on the streets of battered cities, and in the complex wirings of her half-man-made nervous system. And she needs to gain control of the game before a brave new future spins completely out of control. [via]
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High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addictionby Marc Redfield, Janet Farrell BrodieISBN 0520227514 (0-520-22751-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic In Babylon - The Case Against Celebrityby Mark C. Ebner, Andrew BreitbartISBN 0471706248 (0-471-70624-8)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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How to Break Your Addiction to a Personby Howard HalpernISBN 0553382497 (0-553-38249-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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How to Break Your Addiction to a Person : When and Why Love Doesn't Work, and What to Do about Itby Howard M. HalpernISBN 0553260057 (0-553-26005-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Break Your Addiction to a Person : When and Why Love Doesn't Work, and What to Do about It'Book summary:Are you in love--or addicted? How to know when to call it quits...and how to find the courage to call it quits.
Are you unable to leave a love relationship even though it gives you more pain than joy? Your judgment and self-respect tell you to end it, but still, to your dismay, you hang on. You are addicted--to a person. Now there is an insightful, step-by-step guide to breaking that addiction--and surviving the split. Drawing on dozens of provocative case histories, psychotherapist Howard Helpern explains to you:
Why you can get addicted to a person.
Why and how you may try to deceive yourself. ("He really loves me, he just doesn't know how to show it.")
How you can recognize the symptoms of a bad relationship.
How to deal with the power moves and guilt trips your partner uses to hold you.
Why strong feelings of jealousy do not mean you are "in love."
How to get through the agonizing breakup period--without going back.
How not to get caught in such a painful relationship again. [via]More editions of How to Break Your Addiction to a Person : When and Why Love Doesn't Work, and What to Do about It:
Idioglossiaby Eleanor BaileyISBN 0552998605 (0-552-99860-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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International Handbook of Alcohol Dependence and Problemsby Nick Heather, Tim Stockwell, Timothy J. PetersISBN 0471983756 (0-471-98375-6)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirsby Jack LondonISBN 0451524284 (0-451-52428-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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L'Assommoirby Emile Zola, Nicholas WhiteISBN 0460875760 (0-460-87576-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Limits of Justiceby John Morgan WilsonISBN 0553578618 (0-553-57861-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave Flaubert, Mildred Marmur, Robin MorganISBN 0451528204 (0-451-52820-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madame Bovary'Book summary:This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering corruption and downfall. A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. Who is Madame Bovary? Flaubert's answer to this question was superb: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." Acclaimed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1857, the work catapulted Flaubert to the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. This volume, with its fine translation by Lowell Bair, a perceptive introduction by Leo Bersani, and a complete supplement of essays and critical comments, is the indispensable Madame Bovary. [via]
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Madame Bovaryby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517385880 (0-517-38588-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Madame Bovaryby Victor HugoISBN 0582454085 (0-582-45408-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Manual of Therapeutics for Addictionsby David E. Smith, Mark S. Gold, Norman S. MillerISBN 0471561762 (0-471-56176-2)
Softcover, Wiley-Liss
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Meditations in Greenby Stephen WrightISBN 0553246453 (0-553-24645-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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[Read by Ray Porter]
Sardonic, searing, seductive, and surreal, the award-winning Meditations in Green is regarded by many as the best novel of the Vietnam War. It is a kaleidoscopic collage that whirls about an indelible array of images and characters: perverted Winky, who opted for the army to stay off of welfare; eccentric Payne, who's obsessed with the film he's making of the war; and bucolic Claypool, who's irrevocably doomed to a fate worse than death, just to mention a few.
And floating at the center of this psychedelic spin is Specialist 4 James Griffin. In country, Griffin studies the jungle of carpet-bomb photos as he fights desperately to keep his grip on reality. And battling addiction stateside after his tour, he studies the green of household plants as he struggles mightily to regain his sanity. With mesmerizing action and Joycean interior monologues, Stephen Wright has created a book that is as much an homage to the darkness of war as it is a testament to the transcendence of art. [via]More editions of Meditations in Green:
Moving Picturesby Ali MacGrawISBN 0553295519 (0-553-29551-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Neuromancerby William GibsonISBN 0441007465 (0-441-00746-5)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Neuromancer'Book summary:The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . . Case had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction. Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the century's most potent visions of the future. [via]
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No More Letting Go: The Spirituality of Taking Action Against Alcoholism And Drug Addictionby Debra JayISBN 0553383604 (0-553-38360-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Novel With Cocaineby M. AgieevISBN 0525242945 (0-525-24294-5)
Hardcover, E.P. Dutton
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nestby Ken KeseyISBN 0451163966 (0-451-16396-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest'Book summary:An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results. With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers. [via]
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Operating Instructionsby Anne LamottISBN 051713778X (0-517-13778-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Operating Instructions: A Journal Of My Son's First Yearby Anne LamottISBN 044990928X (0-449-90928-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Oprah Reading Group 20ISBN 0446789291 (0-446-78929-1)
Softcover, Warner Books Inc
Find This BookBook summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, December 1998: A funny thing happens to Novalee Nation on her way to Bakersfield, California. Her ne'er-do-well boyfriend, Willie Jack Pickens, abandons her in an Oklahoma Wal-Mart and takes off on his own, leaving her with just 10 dollars and the clothes on her back. Not that hard luck is anything new to Novalee, who is "seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty-seven pounds overweight--and superstitious about sevens.... For most people, sevens were lucky. But not for her," Billie Letts writes. "She'd had a bad history with them, starting with her seventh birthday, the day Momma Nell ran away with a baseball umpire named Fred..."
Still, finding herself alone and penniless in Sequoyah, Oklahoma is enough to make even someone as inured to ill fortune as Novalee want to give up and die. Fortunately, the Wal-Mart parking lot is the Sequoyah equivalent of a town square, and within hours Novalee has met three people who will change her life: Sister Thelma Husband, a kindly eccentric; Benny Goodluck, a young Native American boy; and Moses Whitecotton, an elderly African American photographer. For the next two months, Novalee surreptitiously makes her home in the Wal-Mart, sleeping there at night, exploring the town by day. When she goes into labor and delivers her baby there, however, Novalee learns that sometimes it's not so bad to depend on the kindness of strangers--especially if one of them happens to be Sam Walton, the superchain's founder.
Where the Heart Is oddly mixes heart-warming vignettes and surprising, brutal violence. Novalee's story is juxtaposed with occasional chapters chronicling Willy Jack's downward spiral into prison, disappointment, and degradation. And even in Sequoyah, sudden storms, domestic violence, kidnapping, and deadly fires punctuate Novalee's progress from homeless, unwed teen mom to successful, happy member of the community. This is not a subtle book; there's never any doubt that our heroine will make a home for herself and her baby or that Willy Jack will get what he deserves for abandoning them. Still, Billie Letts has created several memorable characters, and there's always room for another novel that celebrates the life-affirming qualities of reading, the importance of education, and the power of love to change lives. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Outsidersby S. E. HintonISBN 0440967694 (0-440-96769-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Outsiders'Book summary:According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser. This classic, written by S. E. Hinton when she was 16 years old, is as profound today as it was when it was first published in 1967. [via]
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Parched: A Memoirby Heather KingISBN 0451220064 (0-451-22006-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Portnoy's Complaintby Philip RothISBN 0449202917 (0-449-20291-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Runaway Juryby John GrishamISBN 0440221471 (0-440-22147-1)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Runaway Jury'Book summary:Millions of dollars are at stake in a huge tobacco-company case in Biloxi, and the jury's packed with people who have dirty little secrets. A mysterious young man takes subtle control of the jury as the defense watches helplessly, but they soon realize that he in turn is controlled by an even more mysterious young woman. Lives careen off course as they bend everyone in the case to their will. [via]
Shadow Syndromesby Catherine Johnson, John J. RateyISBN 0553379593 (0-553-37959-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Shadowed by Wings: Book Two of the Dragon Temple Sagaby Janine CrossISBN 0451461029 (0-451-46102-9)
Softcover, Roc
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Shadowsby Jonathan NasawISBN 0451186591 (0-451-18659-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Shopaholic & Sisterby Sophie KinsellaISBN 044024191X (0-440-24191-X)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shopaholic & Sister'Book summary:What's a round-the-world honeymoon if you can't buy the odd souvenir to ship back home? Like the twenty silk dressing gowns Becky found in Hong Kong...the hand-carved dining table (and ten chairs) from Sri Lanka...the, um, huge wooden giraffes from Malawi (that her husband Luke expressly forbade her to buy)... Only now Becky and Luke have returned home to London and Luke is furious. Two truckloads of those souvenirs have cluttered up their loft, and the bills for them are outrageous. Luke insists Becky go on a budget. And worse: her beloved best friend Suze has found a new best friend while Becky was away. Becky's feeling rather blue-when her parents deliver some incredible news. She has a long-lost sister! Becky is thrilled! She's convinced her sister will be a true soulmate. They'll go shopping together, have manicures together....Until she meets Jessica for the first time and gets the shock of her life. Surely Becky Bloomwood's sister can't...hate shopping? Sophie Kinsella is a former financial journalist and the author of the bestselling novels Confessions of a Shopaholic, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Can You Keep a Secret?, and The Undomestic Goddess. She lives in England, where she is at work on her next book. [via]
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Shopaholic Ties the Knotby Sophie KinsellaISBN 0440241898 (0-440-24189-8)
Softcover, Dell Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shopaholic Ties the Knot'Book summary:The lovable heroine of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan is back!in a hilarious tale of one blushing bride who just cant say no to saying I do.
Life has been good for Becky Bloomwood: Shes become the best personal shopper at Barneys, she and her successful entrepreneurial boyfriend, Luke, are living happily in Manhattans West Village, and her new next-door neighbor is a fashion designer! But with her best friend, Suze, engaged, how can Becky fail to notice that her own ring finger is bare? Not that shes been thinking of marriage (or diamonds) or anything . . . Then Luke proposes! Bridal registries dance in Beckys head. Problem is, two other people are planning her wedding: Beckys overjoyed mother has been waiting forever to host a backyard wedding, with the bride resplendent in Mums frilly old gown. While Lukes high-society mother is insisting on a glamorous, all-expenses-paid affair at the Plaza. Both weddings for the same day. And Becky cant seem to turn down either one. Can everyones favorite shopaholic tie the knot before everything unravels? [via]More editions of Shopaholic Ties the Knot:
The Spirituality of Imperfection: Modern Wisdom from Classic Storiesby Katherine Ketcham, Ernest KurtzISBN 0553083007 (0-553-08300-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Journey to Wholenessby Katherine Ketcham, Ernest KurtzISBN 0553371320 (0-553-37132-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Sugar Bluesby William F. DuftyISBN 0446343129 (0-446-34312-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Terry: My Daughter's Life-And-Death Struggle With Alcoholismby George McGovernISBN 0452278236 (0-452-27823-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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That Was Then, This Is Nowby S. E. HintonISBN 0440986524 (0-440-98652-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'That Was Then, This Is Now'Book summary:Ever since Mark's parents died, he has been living with Bryon. The boys are more like brothers than mere friends. They've been inseparable--until recently. Something seems to be changing between them, and Bryon can't figure it out. Is it Cathy, Bryon's new girlfriend? Is Mark jealous? Bryon is also tired of the street fighting, but Mark seems unable to quit. And where is Mark getting all of that money? In That Was Then, This Is Now, one of her most admired novels, S. E. Hinton paints a richly textured portrait of two boys at a crossroads in their friendship. With careful, intimate strokes, Hinton reveals a boy struggling over whether to protect his best friend or whether to follow his own beliefs about right and wrong. The ending will surprise readers, challenging them to puzzle over Bryon's dilemma in their own hearts. [via]
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Touched by Venomby Janine CrossISBN 0451460790 (0-451-46079-0)
Softcover, Roc
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Under the Influence: A Guide to the Myths and Realities of Alcoholismby James Robert MilamISBN 0553274872 (0-553-27487-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Valley of the Dollsby Jacqueline SusannISBN 0553242865 (0-553-24286-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Vurtby Jeff NoonISBN 0517196182 (0-517-19618-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Where the Heart Isby Billie LettsISBN 0446603651 (0-446-60365-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Heart Is'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, December 1998: A funny thing happens to Novalee Nation on her way to Bakersfield, California. Her ne'er-do-well boyfriend, Willie Jack Pickens, abandons her in an Oklahoma Wal-Mart and takes off on his own, leaving her with just 10 dollars and the clothes on her back. Not that hard luck is anything new to Novalee, who is "seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty-seven pounds overweight--and superstitious about sevens.... For most people, sevens were lucky. But not for her," Billie Letts writes. "She'd had a bad history with them, starting with her seventh birthday, the day Momma Nell ran away with a baseball umpire named Fred..."
Still, finding herself alone and penniless in Sequoyah, Oklahoma is enough to make even someone as inured to ill fortune as Novalee want to give up and die. Fortunately, the Wal-Mart parking lot is the Sequoyah equivalent of a town square, and within hours Novalee has met three people who will change her life: Sister Thelma Husband, a kindly eccentric; Benny Goodluck, a young Native American boy; and Moses Whitecotton, an elderly African American photographer. For the next two months, Novalee surreptitiously makes her home in the Wal-Mart, sleeping there at night, exploring the town by day. When she goes into labor and delivers her baby there, however, Novalee learns that sometimes it's not so bad to depend on the kindness of strangers--especially if one of them happens to be Sam Walton, the superchain's founder.
Where the Heart Is oddly mixes heart-warming vignettes and surprising, brutal violence. Novalee's story is juxtaposed with occasional chapters chronicling Willy Jack's downward spiral into prison, disappointment, and degradation. And even in Sequoyah, sudden storms, domestic violence, kidnapping, and deadly fires punctuate Novalee's progress from homeless, unwed teen mom to successful, happy member of the community. This is not a subtle book; there's never any doubt that our heroine will make a home for herself and her baby or that Willy Jack will get what he deserves for abandoning them. Still, Billie Letts has created several memorable characters, and there's always room for another novel that celebrates the life-affirming qualities of reading, the importance of education, and the power of love to change lives. --Alix Wilber [via]
Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excessby Danny SugermanISBN 0452263808 (0-452-26380-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The World on Bloodby Jonathan NasawISBN 0451186583 (0-451-18658-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World on Blood'Book summary:living in Northern California, horror novelist Nick Santos first enjoys the incredible world of these modern-day vampires, until a growing madness and murderous rage make him resolve to end his addiction. [via]
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You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Againby Julia PhillipsISBN 0451170725 (0-451-17072-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again'Book summary:Oscar-winning producer Julia Phillps's work on Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and The Sting, made her famous. This is the memoir that made her infamousa downfall chronicle of a private hell that could only have been written by someone with nothing left to lose.[via]More editions of You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again:
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