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  • Orthodoxy
    by G. K. Chesterton
    ISBN 1557424004 (1-55742-400-4)
    Softcover, Wildside Pr

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    If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]

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  • Jelinek, Elfriede: The Piano Teacher
    The Piano Teacher
    by Elfriede Jelinek
    ISBN 1555840523 (1-55584-052-3)
    Hardcover, Grove Pr

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  • Singer, Daniel: The Reduced Shakespeare Company's the Complete Works of William Shakespeare
    The Reduced Shakespeare Company's the Complete Works of William Shakespeare
    by Daniel Singer, Jess Borgeson, Adam Long, John M. Winfield
    ISBN 1557831572 (1-55783-157-2)
    Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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  • Riders of the Silver Rim
    by Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene
    ISBN 1556610998 (1-55661-099-8)
    Softcover, Baker Pub Group

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    The Merciless Desert and Lawless Frontier Hold Far Greater Threat Than His Dark Secret

    A tragic accident sends Joshua Roberts west to find peace. But in a lawless mining town, peace is hard to find.

    Burned nearly to death under the desert sun, he is brought back to life by the hands of a stranger. The powerful blacksmith now faces challenges he never dreamed of and responsibilities he never wanted. Hired to work at the Silver Rim Mine, Roberts is unaware that the mine's future is threatened by the designs of greedy and unscrupulous enemies. And his own future becomes clouded as he unexpectedly meets a lovely, intriguing woman.

    Roberts truly wants to do his best as constable, even though he is more at home with a blacksmith's hammer in his hand. But can he, an Easterner plagued with painful memories from the past, bring order to a frontier town and protect those he has come to love?

    From the Bestselling Writers of The Man From Shadow Ridge!

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  • Robinson Crusoe
    ISBN 1557481180 (1-55748-118-0)
    Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc

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    Shipwrecked on an uncharted island all alone, Crusoe learns to provide for himself in a place that is both beautiful and dangerous. [via]

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  • Sabatini, Rafael: The Sea-hawk
    The Sea-hawk
    by Rafael Sabatini
    ISBN 1557423903 (1-55742-390-3)
    Softcover, Wildside Pr

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  • Sequoia Scout
    by Brock Thoene
    ISBN 155661165X (1-55661-165-X)
    Softcover, Baker Pub Group

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    He Knew the Ways of the Wilderness. Can He Survive the Clash of Cultures?

    Ten years of trapping had brought Will Reed to the High Sierras. Ten years in search of fortune. Ten years since the mountain men had come east with their stories of the high lonesome. Two dozen trips west had given him wisdom in the ways of the harsh and beautiful land. Now on the threshold of Spanish California, stories about the richness of the mission lands and their exotic Spanish culture lead over the mountains.

    Few Americans have attempted this overland trail, and fewer still have survived the crossing. But Will Reed discovers it is not just marauding Indian tribes and nature's threats that stand in his way. Mexico's newly won independence from Spain has brought an oppressive rule and a clashing of cultures where danger marks every turn.

    Will Reed has never shied away from danger nor from taking a stand for what is right. Loyalty and love now strengthen his revolve. And what he finds in this new land will prove the man he has become.

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  • Buscaglia, Leo F.: Seven Stories of Christmas Love
    Seven Stories of Christmas Love
    by Leo F. Buscaglia
    ISBN 1556420196 (1-55642-019-6)
    Hardcover, Slack Inc

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  • Thoene, Brock: Shooting Star
    Shooting Star
    by Brock Thoene
    ISBN 1556613202 (1-55661-320-2)
    Softcover, Baker Pub Group

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  • Camp, Candace: So Wild a Heart
    So Wild a Heart
    by Candace Camp
    ISBN 1551668777 (1-55166-877-7)
    Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

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  • Stone Butch Blues
    by Leslie Feinberg
    ISBN 1555838537 (1-55583-853-7)
    Softcover, Alyson Pubns

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    Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence.

    Woman or man? Thats the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue--collar town in the 1950s, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist 60s, deciding to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early 70s. This powerful, provocative and deeply moving novel sees Jess coming full circle, she learns to accept the complexities of being a transgendered person in a world demanding simple explanations: a he-she emerging whole, weathering the turbulence.

    Leslie Feinberg is also the author of Trans Liberation, Trans Gender Warriors and Transgender Liberation, and is a noted activist and speaker on transgender issues.

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  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
    by Martin A. Danahay, Martin Danahay
    ISBN 1551116553 (1-55111-655-3)
    Softcover, Broadview Pr

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    The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.

    This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.

    This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]

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  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    by Robert Louis Stevenson, Martin A. Danahay
    ISBN 1551112450 (1-55111-245-0)
    Softcover, Broadview Pr

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    The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.

    This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.

    This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]

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  • The Tragedie of Macbeth
    by William Shakespeare, Neil Freeman
    ISBN 1557832900 (1-55783-290-0)
    Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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    If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances. [via]

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  • The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice
    by William Shakespeare, Neil Freeman
    ISBN 1557834377 (1-55783-437-7)
    Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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    If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances. [via]

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  • The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
    by William Shakespeare, Maurice Charney, John Russell Brown, Stuart Vaughn
    ISBN 1557831831 (1-55783-183-1)
    Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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    (Applause Books). If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances. [via]

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  • Twelfth Night
    by William Shakespeare, Neil Freeman
    ISBN 155783380X (1-55783-380-X)
    Softcover, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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    These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the imagination in the process. [via]

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  • MacLennan, Hugh: Two Solitudes
    Two Solitudes
    by Hugh MacLennan
    ISBN 1550413082 (1-55041-308-2)
    Softcover, Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd

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  • Vanity Fair: Bringing Thackeray's Timeless Novel to the Screen
    by Julian Fellowes, Mira Nair, Matthew Faulk, Mark Skeet
    ISBN 1557046379 (1-55704-637-9)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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    The full-color companion to the new film version of the Thackeray novel starring Reese Witherspoon and directed by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay!).

    Reese Witherspoon stars as Becky Sharp, one of the greatest female characters ever created. Born into the lower class, Becky can rely only on her wit, guile, and sexuality as she makes her way up through London society circa 1820, alongside her best friend Amelia. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battlesmilitary and domesticare fought, fortunes made and lost.

    In addition to the complete screenplay by Oscar®-winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) and Matthew Faulk & Mark Skeet (NBC's Jason and the Argonauts), this Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook features over 150 full-color illustrations, extracts from Thackeray's novel, interviews with the cast and crew, notes by director Mira Nair, and sidebars on the film's costume, set, and production design. 150 color photos.

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  • Villette
    by Kate Lawson, Lynn Shakinovsky
    ISBN 1551114615 (1-55111-461-5)
    Softcover, Broadview Pr

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    Charlotte Brontë's contemporary George Eliot wrote of Villette, "There is something almost preternatural in its power." The deceptive stillness and security of a girls school provide the setting for this 1853 novel, Brontës last. Modelled on Brontës own experiences as a student and teacher in Brussels, Villette is the sombre but engrossing story of Lucy Snowe, an unmarried Englishwoman making her way in a culture deeply foreign to her. The heroines relationships with the fiery professor M. Paul, the cool Englishman Dr. John, and the schools powerful headmistress, Madame Beck, are described in her compelling and enigmatic first-person narration. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction by Kate Lawson and Lynn Shakinovsky. The many contextual documents include contemporary writings on surveillance and espionage, anti-Catholicism, and working women, as well as letters describing Brontës own time in Brussels. [via]

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  • War of the Worlds
    by Martin A. Danahay
    ISBN 1551113538 (1-55111-353-8)
    Softcover, Broadview Pr

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    This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."

    Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]

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  • Fisher, Robin: What's Wrong
    What's Wrong
    by Robin Fisher
    ISBN 1551521369 (1-55152-136-9)
    Softcover, Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd

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  • L'Engle, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time: Library Edition
    A Wrinkle in Time: Library Edition
    by Madeleine L'Engle
    ISBN 1557360596 (1-55736-059-6)
    Hardcover, Cornerstone Books

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  • Ousmane, Sembene: Xala
    Xala
    by Sembene Ousmane
    ISBN 1556520700 (1-55652-070-0)
    Softcover, Lawrence Hill Books

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  • Year of the Grizzly
    by Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene
    ISBN 1556611676 (1-55661-167-6)
    Softcover, Baker Pub Group

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    He refused to take a side until they took his wife and son.

    On a sprawling rancho near Santa Barbara, mountain man Will Reed has found a place to call home and a family he loves. But when the Americans and the Mexicans begin to battle over supremacy in California, their struggle threatens to destroy Will's dreams perhaps his life.

    Human greed and the lust for power hold sway as both the American military and Mexican Banditos attempt to grab for themselves the wealth of central California's cattle ranches. And Will Reed's family is caught in the middle. Battling against both nature and the human propensity for evil, Will must face the most dangerous of adversaries men who are determined to take his land at any cost.

    But much more than the land is at stake. Saving his family will require every ounce of courage and resourcefulness the mountain man can muster -.

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