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Africa in the 1980s: A Continent in Crisisby Colin LegumISBN 0070370826 (0-07-037082-6)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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African Experienceby Roland OliverISBN 006435850X (0-06-435850-X)
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African Experience: Major Themes in African History from Earliest Times to the Presentby Roland OliverISBN 0064302180 (0-06-430218-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Powerby Marvin Meyer, Richard SmithISBN 0060655844 (0-06-065584-4)
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And Only To Deceiveby Tasha AlexanderISBN 006114844X (0-06-114844-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And Only to Deceive'Book summary:From gifted new writer Tasha Alexander comes a stunning novel of historical suspense set in Victorian England, meticulously researched and with a twisty plot that involves stolen antiquities, betrayal, and murder
And Only to Deceive
For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her overbearing mother, who was set on a grand society match. So when Emily's dashing husband died on safari soon after their wedding, she felt little grief. After all, she barely knew him. Now, nearly two years later, she discovers that Philip was a far different man from the one she had married so cavalierly. His journals reveal him to have been a gentleman scholar and antiquities collector who, to her surprise, was deeply in love with his wife. Emily becomes fascinated with this new image of her dead husband and she immerses herself in all things ancient and begins to study Greek.
Emily's intellectual pursuits and her desire to learn more about Philip take her to the quiet corridors of the British Museum, one of her husband's favorite places. There, amid priceless ancient statues, she uncovers a dark, dangerous secret involving stolen artifacts from the Greco-Roman galleries. And to complicate matters, she's juggling two very prominent and wealthy suitors, one of whose intentions may go beyond the marrying kind. As she sets out to solve the crime, her search leads to more surprises about Philip and causes her to question the role in Victorian society to which she, as a woman, is relegated.
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The Baby Beebee Birdby Diane R. Massie, Steven KelloggISBN 0060517840 (0-06-051784-0)
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Chain of Fireby Beverley Naidoo, Eric VelasquezISBN 0064404684 (0-06-440468-4)
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Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheidby William FinneganISBN 0060914300 (0-06-091430-0)
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Danny Dunn and the Swamp Monsterby Jay Williams, Raymond Abrashkin, Paul SagsoorianISBN 0070705380 (0-07-070538-0)
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Death on the Nileby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003697 (0-06-100369-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death on the Nile'Book summary:Hercule Poirot is perhaps Agatha Christie's most interesting and endearing character; short, round, and slightly comical, Poirot has a razor-sharp mind and puts unlimited trust in his "little grey cells." Those little cells come through for him every time, enabling Poirot to solve some of the most baffling mysteries ever conceived. In Death on the Nile, Poirot, on vacation in Africa, meets the rich, beautiful Linnet Doyle and her new husband, Simon. As usual, all is not as it seems between the newlyweds, and when Linnet is found murdered, Poirot must sort through a boatload of suspects to find the killer before he (or she) strikes again. [via]
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Delcorso's Galleryby Philip CaputoISBN 0060986069 (0-06-098606-9)
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End of Storyby Peter AbrahamsISBN 0061121347 (0-06-112134-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'End of Story'Book summary:Aspiring author Ivy Seidel accepts a part-time position teaching writing to a group of convicted criminals hoping the experience will add depth and darkness to her own work.
But in the haunting writings of charismatic inmate Vance Harrow she discovers a talent possibly greater than her own. And in the startling, disturbing stories Harrow has to tell, Ivy finds a dangerous new purposeand a terrifying temptation that lures her into an inescapable world of shadows.
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The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDSby Jonathan EngelISBN 0061144886 (0-06-114488-6)
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Flyawayby Desmond BagleyISBN 0060807717 (0-06-080771-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flyaway'Book summary:The disappearance of Paul Billson, clerk in an engineering firm, seems a minor matter to security consultant, Max Stafford. But when routine enquiries result in Stafford being beaten up, he goes after Billson, who has impulsively taken off for the Sahara, where his air ace father had crashed during the London to Cape Town air race forty years earlier. A recent newspaper smear implied that Billson's father had rigged the crash to profit from an insurance scandal. Now Billson is intent on locating the plane and clearing his father's name - but someone is determined that he should never find it. [via]
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Global Studies Africaby Wayne EdgeISBN 0070250367 (0-07-025036-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Gods, Goddesses, and Myths of Creation: A Thematic Source Book of the History of Religionsby Mircea EliadeISBN 0060621362 (0-06-062136-2)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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Hannibal, an African Heroby William Jay JacobsISBN 0070321574 (0-07-032157-4)
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Hercule Poirot's Christmasby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003735 (0-06-100373-5)
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A Hooded Crowby Craig ThomasISBN 0061090395 (0-06-109039-5)
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The Horizon History of Africaby A. Adu Boahen, Alvin M. JosephyISBN 0070303428 (0-07-030342-8)
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Hunting The Jackal: A Special Forces And CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorismby Tim Keown, Billy WaughISBN 0060564105 (0-06-056410-5)
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I Loved a Girlby Walter TrobischISBN 0060684542 (0-06-068454-2)
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Intellectual Traditions of Pre-Colonial Africaby Constance B. HilliardISBN 0070288984 (0-07-028898-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Ritualsby L. TeishISBN 0062508598 (0-06-250859-8)
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883by Simon WinchesterISBN 0060838590 (0-06-083859-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded August 27, 1883'Book summary:In Krakatoa, the author of The Map That Changed the World and The Professor and the Madman focuses his considerable research powers on one of the most cataclysmic events of modern history: the volcanic eruption, in 1883, of the Southeast Asian island of Krakatoa, which resulted in the deaths of 36,000 people and sent shock-waves around the world. But what at the time was a mysterious, almost supernatural phenomenon has become, under the precepts of the contemporary science of plate tectonics, explicable if no less tragic. Winchester veers between eyewitness accounts by survivors and the limited scientific measurements of the time in an attempt to describe the indescribable. The event "is still said to be the most violent explosion ever recorded and experienced by modern man," he writes. "Six cubic miles of rock had been blasted out of existence, had been turned into pumice and ash and uncountable billions of particles of dust." Yet words and numbers can barely hint at the scale of the calamity, which resulted in tsunamis that washed whole villages into the ocean and forever changed the very topography of the area. The author also explores the social and cultural topography, noting, "Orthodox Islam, its revival in part triggered by tragic events such as the great cataclysm, was totally transformed in Java during the nineteenth century, with fundamentalism, militancy, and profound hostility to non-Muslims its watchwords." At times Winchester seems to overstate his case, and the link he finds between Krakatoa and the rise of anti-Western sentiment in the Islamic world isnt especially convincing. But, by weaving together the disaster with science, communications, politics, religion, and economics, he has come up with a comprehensive and often fascinating glimpse into the way the world, and our perception of it, can change in an instant. --Shawn Conner [via]
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Landlockedby Doris May LessingISBN 0060976659 (0-06-097665-9)
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Let It Come Downby Paul BowlesISBN 0061137391 (0-06-113739-1)
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The Lions of Tsavo: Exploring the Legacy of Africa's Notorious Man-Eatersby Bruce D. PattersonISBN 0071363335 (0-07-136333-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Ma Nda La.by Arnold AdoffISBN 0060200863 (0-06-020086-3)
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Mamboby Campbell ArmstrongISBN 0061099023 (0-06-109902-3)
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Mara and Dannby Doris May LessingISBN 006093056X (0-06-093056-X)
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Mara and Dann : An Adventureby Doris LessingISBN 0060182946 (0-06-018294-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Mating Birdsby Lewis NkosiISBN 0060970855 (0-06-097085-5)
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Mutant Message Down Underby Marlo Morgan, K. T. TraversISBN 0060723513 (0-06-072351-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mutant Message Down Under'Book summary:Mutant Message Down Under is the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through outback Australia. An underground bestseller in its original self-published edition, Marlo Morgan's powerful tale of challenge and endurance has a message for us all. Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aborigines to accompany them on walkabout, the woman makes a four-month-long journey and learns how they thrive in natural harmony with the plants and animals that exist in the rugged lands of Australia's bush. From the first day of her adventure, Morgan is challenged by the physical requirements of the journey -- she faces daily tests of her endurance, challenges that ultimately contribute to her personal transformation. By traveling with this extraordinary community, Morgan becomes a witness to their essential way of being in a world based on the ancient wisdom and philosophy of a culture that is more than 50,000 years old. [via]
Ngorongoroby Reinhard KunkelISBN 0060169486 (0-06-016948-6)
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No Laughter Hereby Rita Williams-GarciaISBN 0064409929 (0-06-440992-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Laughter Here'Book summary:Even though they were born in different countries, Akilah and Victoria are true best friends. But Victoria has been acting strange ever since she returned from her summer in Nigeria, where she had a special coming-of-age ceremony. Why does proud Victoria, named for a queen, slouch at her desk and answer the teacher's questions in a whisper? And why won't she laugh with Akilah anymore?
Akilah's name means "intelligent," and she is determined to find out what's wrong, no matter how much detective work she has to do. But when she learns the terrible secret Victoria is hiding, she suddenly has even more questions. The only problem is, they might not be the kind that have answers.
In this groundbreaking novel, Coretta Scott King Honor winner Rita Williams-Garcia uses her vividly realistic voice to explore an often taboo practice that affects millions of girls around the world every year. Readers will identify with headstrong, outspoken Akilah, whose struggle to understand what's happened to Victoria reveals a painful truth in an honest and accessible way.
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Other Side of Truthby Beverley NaidooISBN 0064410021 (0-06-441002-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Other Side of Truth'Book summary:Sade is slipping her English book into her
schoolbag when her Mama screams. Two sharp
cracks splinter the air.
"Mama mi?" She whispersTwelve-year-old Sade's journalist father is a vocal critic of the corrupt government in Nigeria. When Sade's mother is murdered, her family sees in bloody detail the violent risks that come with exposing the truth.
Her father arranges for Sade and her younger brother to be smuggled to their uncle in London for safety. On the streets of London, the plans fall apart and they are abandoned, passed from foster home to foster home. They try to contact their uncle but he is missing. Then they learn that their father has escaped to London to find them -- but he will be sent back to Nigeria, unless Sade can find a way to tell the world what happened to her family.
Chosen by young readers as the recipient of England's prestigious Smarties Silver Medal, Beverly Naidoo's The Other Side Of Truth explores the issues of family, exile, and freedom with the same eloquence and stunning realism of her award-winning Journey To Jo'Burg.
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globeby Laurence BergreenISBN 006093638X (0-06-093638-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe'Book summary:Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, interweaving a variety of candid, first-person accounts, some previously unavailable in English, brings to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed many long-held views about the world and the way explorers would henceforth navigate its oceans.
In 1519 Magellan and his fleet set sail from Seville, Spain, to find a water route to the Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities -- cloves, pepper, and nutmeg -- flourished. Most important, they were looking for a passageway, a strait, through the great landmass of the Americas that would lead them to these fabled islands. Laurence Bergreen takes readers on board with Magellan and his crew as they explore, navigate, mutiny, suffer, and die across the seas. He also recounts the many unusual sexual practices the crew experienced, from orgies in Brazil to bizarre customs in the South Pacific. With a fleet of five ships and more than two hundred men, they had set out in search of the Spice Islands. Three years later they returned with an abundance of spices from their intended destination, but with just one ship carrying eighteen emaciated men. They suffered starvation, disease, and torture, and many died, including Magellan, who was violently killed in a fierce battle.
A man of great tenacity, cunning, and courage, Magellan was full of contradictions. He was both heroic and foolish, insightful yet blind, a visionary whose instincts outran his ideals. Ambitious to a fault and not above using torture and murder to maintain control of his ships and sailors, he survived innumerable natural hazards in addition to several violent mutinies aboard his own fleet -- and it took no less than the massed forces of fifteen hundred men to kill him.
This is the first time in nearly half a century that anyone has attempted to narrate the complete story of Magellan's unprecedented circumnavigation of the globe -- to tell this truly gripping and profoundly important story of heroism, discovery, and disaster. A voyage into history, a tour of the world emerging from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance, an anthropological account of tribes, languages, and customs unknown to Europeans, and a chronicle of a desperate grab for commercial and political power, Over the Edge of the World is a captivating tale that rivals the most exciting thriller fiction.
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People of Kauby Leni RiefenstahlISBN 0060135697 (0-06-013569-7)
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The Poetry of Our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetryby Ed J. Paine, Jeffery PaineISBN 0060951931 (0-06-095193-1)
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocideby Samantha PowerISBN 0060541644 (0-06-054164-4)
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Prodigal Summerby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060199660 (0-06-019966-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prodigal Summer'Book summary:There is no one in contemporary literature quite like Barbara Kingsolver. Her dialogue sparkles with sassy wit and earthy poetry; her descriptions are rooted in daily life but are also on familiar terms with the eternal. With Prodigal Summer, she returns from the Congo to a "wrinkle on the map that lies between farms and wildness." And there, in an isolated pocket of southern Appalachia, she recounts not one but three intricate stories.
Exuberant, lush, riotous--the summer of the novel is "the season of extravagant procreation" in which bullfrogs carelessly lay their jellied masses of eggs in the grass, "apparently confident that their tadpoles would be able to swim through the lawn like little sperms," and in which a woman may learn to "tell time with her skin." It is also the summer in which a family of coyotes moves into the mountains above Zebulon Valley:
The ghost of a creature long extinct was coming in on silent footprints, returning to the place it had once held in the complex anatomy of this forest like a beating heart returned to its body. This is what she believed she would see, if she watched, at this magical juncture: a restoration.
The "she" is Deanna Wolfe, a wildlife biologist observing the coyotes from her isolated aerie--isolated, that is, until the arrival of a young hunter who makes her even more aware of the truth that humans are only an infinitesimal portion in the ecological balance. This truth forms the axis around which the other two narratives revolve: the story of a city girl, entomologist, and new widow and her efforts to find a place for herself; and the story of Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, who seem bent on thrashing out the countless intimate lessons of biology as only an irascible traditional farmer and a devotee of organic agriculture can. As Nannie lectures Garnett, "Everything alive is connected to every other by fine, invisible threads. Things you don't see can help you plenty, and things you try to control will often rear back and bite you, and that's the moral of the story."Structurally, that gossamer web is the story: images, phrases, and events link the narratives, and these echoes are rarely obvious, always serendipitous. Kingsolver is one of those authors for whom the terrifying elegance of nature is both aesthetic wonder and source of a fierce and abiding moral vision. She may have inherited Thoreau's mantle, but she piles up riches of her own making, blending her extravagant narrative gift with benevolent concise humor. She treads the line between the sentimental and the glorious like nobody else in American literature. --Kelly Flynn [via]
The Queen's Slave Trader: Jack Hawkyns, Elizabeth I, and the Trafficking in Human Soulsby Nick HazlewoodISBN 0060935693 (0-06-093569-3)
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The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Goldby Frank T. KryzaISBN 0060560657 (0-06-056065-7)
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Religions of Africa: Traditions in Transformationby E. Thomas LawsonISBN 006065211X (0-06-065211-X)
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A Respectable Tradeby Philippa GregoryISBN 0061094331 (0-06-109433-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Respectable Trade'Book summary:Through her husband's trade in sugar and slaves, Frances Scott, the poor daughter of an aristocrat, meets and falls in love with an African nobleman, and together they challenge the English society of the late 1700s. [via]
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The Rise and Fall of Black Slaveryby Charles Duncan RiceISBN 0060135522 (0-06-013552-2)
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Roar?by Pamela Duncan Edwards, Henry ColeISBN 006028384X (0-06-028384-X)
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Roars the little lion cub.
"Who will play with me?
1 red monkey rushes up a tree.
Poor little lion cub! All he wants is someone to play with, but he is simply too noisy. As the little lion cub Roars his way across the grassland, young picture-book readers can count the African animals, identify them by color...and Roars along too.
This rollicking, Roaring poem, about a rambunctious little lion cub, is a collaboration of the talented author and illustrator team Pamela Duncan Edwards and Henry Cole.
Children's Pick of the Lists 2000 (ABA)
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Rogue's Marchby W. T. TylerISBN 0060150483 (0-06-015048-3)
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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolutionby Simon SchamaISBN 0060539178 (0-06-053917-8)
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The Spider's Houseby Paul Bowles, Francine ProseISBN 0060578912 (0-06-057891-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spider's House'Book summary:The dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures, recurrent themes of Paul Bowles's writings, are dramatized with brutal honesty in this novel set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising. Totally relevant to today's political situation in the Middle East and elsewhere, richly descriptive of its setting, and uncompromising in its characterizations, The Spider's House is perhaps Bowles's best, most beautifully subtle novel.
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The Stories of Paul Bowlesby Paul BowlesISBN 006093784X (0-06-093784-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stories of Paul Bowles'Book summary:The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wrypossessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In "Pastor Dowe at Tecaté," a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his God has no power. In "Call at Corazón," an American husband abandons his alcoholic wife on their honeymoon in a South American jungle. In "Allal," a boy's drug-induced metamorphosis into a deadly serpent leads to his violent death. Here also are some of Bowles's most famous works, including "The Delicate Prey," a grimly satisfying tale of vengeance, and "A Distant Episode," which Tennessee Williams proclaimed "a masterpiece."
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Partsby Hugh Lofting, Michael Hague, Patricia C. McKissack, Fredrick L. McKissack, Peter GlassmanISBN 0060775971 (0-06-077597-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts'Book summary:Doctor John Dolittle loves animals. He loves them so much that his home and office overflow with animals of every description. When Polynesia the parrot teaches him the language of the animals, Doctor Dolittle becomes a world-famous doctor, traveling even as far away as Africa to help his friends. This edition of the beloved children's classic contains black-and-white illustrations by Michael Hague and has been edited by award-winning authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack for modern audiences.
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The Story of General Dann And Mara's Daughter, Griot And the Snow Dogby Doris LessingISBN 0060530138 (0-06-053013-8)
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The Sweetest Dreamby Doris LessingISBN 0060937556 (0-06-093755-6)
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Teach Yourself Swahili and English Dictionary: Swahili-English/English-Swahiliby Joan Russell, D. V. PerrottISBN 0071421378 (0-07-142137-8)
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animalby Jared M. DiamondISBN 0060845503 (0-06-084550-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution And Future of the Human Animal'Book summary:Jared Diamond states the theme of his book up-front: "How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to a world conqueror; and how we acquired the capacity to reverse all that progress overnight." The Third Chimpanzee is, in many ways, a prequel to Diamond's prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns examines "the fates of human societies," this work surveys the longer sweep of human evolution, from our origin as just another chimpanzee a few million years ago. Diamond writes:
It's obvious that humans are unlike all animals. It's also obvious that we're a species of big mammal down to the minutest details of our anatomy and our molecules. That contradiction is the most fascinating feature of the human species.
The chapters in The Third Chimpanzee on the oddities of human reproductive biology were later expanded in Why Is Sex Fun? Here, they're linked to Diamond's views of human psychology and history.
Diamond is officially a physiologist at UCLA medical school, but he's also one of the best birdwatchers in the world. The current scientific consensus that "primitive" humans created ecological catastrophes in the Pacific islands, Australia, and the New World owes a great deal to his fieldwork and insight. In Diamond's view, the current global ecological crisis isn't due to modern technology per se, but to basic weaknesses in human nature. But, he says, "I'm cautiously optimistic. If we will learn from our past that I have traced, our own future may yet prove brighter than that of the other two chimpanzees." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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This Voice in My Heart: A Genocide Survivor's Story of Escape, Faith, And Forgivenessby Gary Brozek, Gilbert TuhabonyeISBN 0060817518 (0-06-081751-8)
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Too Far from Home: The Selected Writings of Paul Bowlesby Paul Bowles, Daniel Halpern, Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0061137405 (0-06-113740-5)
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The Twentieth Century: A People's Historyby Howard ZinnISBN 0060530340 (0-06-053034-0)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0060806184 (0-06-080618-4)
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Water Hole Waitingby Jane Kurtz, Christopher Kurtz, Lee ChristiansenISBN 0060298502 (0-06-029850-2)
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The Way of the Orisa: Empowering Your Life Through the Ancient African Religion of Ifaby Philip John NeimarkISBN 0062505572 (0-06-250557-2)
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Windfallby Desmond BagleyISBN 0060807563 (0-06-080756-3)
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The Yacoubian Buildingby ALAA AL-ASWANY, Humphrey T. DaviesISBN 0060878134 (0-06-087813-4)
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