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American Notes for General Circulationby Charles Dickens, Patricia Ingham, Charles DickenISBN 0140436499 (0-14-043649-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Notes for General Circulation'Book summary:The New World had caught the English imagination, and its democratic promise had become such a hotly disputed issue that Dickens, who went to America in 1842, was only the most celebrated of many travellers curious to find out what was happening there. [via]
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Americanaby Don DelilloISBN 0140119485 (0-14-011948-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Businessby Neil PostmanISBN 0140094385 (0-14-009438-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business'Book summary:A brilliant powerful and important book....This is a brutal indictment Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World. [via]
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Angle of Reposeby Wallace StegnerISBN 014016930X (0-14-016930-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angle of Repose'Book summary:Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discoverypersonal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.[via]More editions of Angle of Repose:
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At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harborby Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon, Gordon William PrangeISBN 0140157344 (0-14-015734-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor'Book summary:At 7:53 a.m., December 7, 1941, America's national consciousness and confidence were rocked as the first wave of Japanese warplanes took aim at the U.S. Naval fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor. As intense and absorbing as a suspense novel, At Dawn We Slept is the unparalleled and exhaustive account of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. It is widely regarded as the definitive assessment of the events surrounding one of the most daring and brilliant naval operations of all time. Through extensive research and interviews with American and Japanese leaders, Gordon W. Prange has written a remarkable historical account of the assault that-sixty years later-America cannot forget.[via]More editions of At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor:
The Awkward Ageby Henry JamesISBN 0140432973 (0-14-043297-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Meby Richard Farina, Thomas PynchonISBN 0140189300 (0-14-018930-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Billy Buddby Herman Melville, Harold BeaverISBN 0140430296 (0-14-043029-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd'Book summary:Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of satanic treachery, tragedy and great pathos that explores human relationships and the inherently ambiguous nature of man-made justice. Tales such as Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning Rod Man, The Tartarus of Maids or I and My Chimney, show the timeless poetic power of Melville's writing as he consciously uses the disguise of allegory in various ways and to various ends. [via]
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Storiesby Herman MelvilleISBN 0140390537 (0-14-039053-7)
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern Warby Mark BowdenISBN 0140288503 (0-14-028850-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War'Book summary:The acclaimed New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying" (San Francisco Chronicle)
Destined to become a classic of war reporting, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3rd, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly injured.
Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowden's minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever written--a riveting story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle.
"Black Hawk Down ranks among the best books ever written about infantry combat. . . . A descendent of books like The Killer Angels and We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young."-- Bob Shacochis, The New York Observer
"If Black Hawk Down were fiction we'd rank it up there with the best war novels: The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, or The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien."-- Tom Walker, The Denver Post
"Stands in a league with Shelby Foote's stirring Civil War Diary, Shiloh."-- Jim Haner, The Baltimore Sun
"One of the most gripping and authoritative accounts of combat ever written."-- Kirk Spitzer, USA Today
"Amazing . . . One of the most intense, visceral reading experiences imaginable. [via]More editions of Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War:
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The Book of Guysby Garrison KeillorISBN 0140233725 (0-14-023372-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Guys'Book summary:The Book of Guys features 22 very funny stories about "ordinary guys, gods, heroes, and dim bulbs," told in the friendly, conversational style of silver-tongued master storyteller Garrison Keillor, the host and writer of the popular radio show "Prairie Home Companion," author of Lake Wobegon Days, Happy To Be Here, and many other books.
"Guys are in trouble these days," says Keillor. "Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement and now it's just a problem to be overcome. Guys who once might have painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling are now just trying to be Mr. O.K. All-Rite, the man who can bake a cherry pie, be passionate in a skillful way, and yet also lift them bales and tote that barge."
In the book's introduction, a bunch of guys are drinking whiskey in the woods and singing mournful songs. One of them says, "I ain't no misogynist or chauvinist but I got to say, women are getting awfully impossible to please these days. . . . I quit playing softball and deer hunting and took up painting delicate watercolors, still lifes mostly, and tossing salads, and learned how to discuss issues and feelings and concerns and not make jokes about them, and they're still angry at me. A guy can't win . . . . So don't worry about it. Live your life. Oya! we all yelled."
This book is truly a hoot, even if you're not a guy. [via]
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The Buccaneersby Edith WhartonISBN 0140232028 (0-14-023202-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Buccaneers'Book summary:Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charmingand their wealth extremely useful.[via]After Wharton's death in 1937, The Christian Science Monitor said, "If it could have been completed, The Buccaneers would doubtless stand among the richest and most sophisticated of Wharton's novels." Now, with wit and imagination, Marion Mainwaring has finished the story, taking her cue from Wharton's own synopsis. It is a novel any Wharton fan will celebrate and any romantic reader will love. This is the richly engaging story of Nan St. George and guy Thwarte, an American heiress and an English aristocrat, whose love breaks the rules of both their societies.
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The Buccaneers of Americaby Alexander O. ExquemelinISBN 014044212X (0-14-044212-X)
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Burning Brightby John SteinbeckISBN 0140187421 (0-14-018742-1)
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Waterby Marc ReisnerISBN 0140178244 (0-14-017824-4)
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The Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0140366695 (0-14-036669-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Storiesby Jack London, Andrew SinclairISBN 0140186514 (0-14-018651-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories'Book summary:[via]This collection includes The Call of the Wild and its companion novel, White Fang, as well as all of Jack London's famous dog stories"Batard," "Moon-Face," "Brown Wolf," "That Spot," and "To Build a Fire."
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ; [and], The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore ; [and], The Night of the Iguanaby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0140481303 (0-14-048130-3)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Playsby Tennessee WiliamsISBN 0140183841 (0-14-018384-1)
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A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Centuryby Sheila RowbothamISBN 0140232826 (0-14-023282-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Century of Women : The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century'Book summary:As its title suggests, Sheila Rowbotham's A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century is a monumental study--scholarly, readable, well illustrated, well indexed--of Western women's experiences in the 20th century. As a feminist historian, Rowbotham is aware of the scope of her task, beginning her survey with the problems that have been crucial to the study of women's history as such: "Who and what gets into the record of the past? How do you start to document the everyday, the experience which leaves no written, or visual, trace?" With the exception of two chapters devoted to the aftermath of the First and Second World Wars--periods that saw key changes in the patterns of women's work, for example--the study is divided decade by decade, with distinct sections on Britain and the United States. Allowing for an awareness of the differences, as well as the cultural exchange, between Britain and the U.S., Rowbotham gives a fresh sense of the diverse history of contemporary feminism and (some of) the women--writers, critics, Hollywood icons, politicians, amongst others--who have contributed to it. Concluding with brief biographies of the key players and with an extensive bibliography, the book is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to know more about women's recent history. --Vicky Lebeau, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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City Of Glassby Paul AusterISBN 0140097317 (0-14-009731-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City Of Glass'Book summary:Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year, City of Glass inaugurates the intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that the Washington Post Book World has classified as "post-existentialist private eye...It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version." As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective fiction and crime books, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster combines dark humor with Hitchcock-like suspense to City of Glass. [via]
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Colonial American Travel Narrativesby Wendy MartinISBN 014039088X (0-14-039088-X)
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The Complete Poemsby Walt Whitman, Francis MurphyISBN 0140424512 (0-14-042451-2)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poems'Book summary:In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass , the work that defined him as one of America's most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation, and what it meant to be an American. From the joyful "Song of Myself" and "I Sing the Body Electric" to the elegiac "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," Whitman's art fuses oratory, journalism, and song in a vivid celebration of humanity. Containing all Whitman's known poetic work, this edition reprints the final, or "deathbed," edition of Leaves of Grass (1891-92). Earlier versions of many poems are also given, including the 1855 "Song of Myself." Features a completely new-and fuller-introduction discussing the development of Whitman's poetic career, his influence on later American poets, and his impact on the American cultural sensibility Includes chronology, updated suggestions for further reading, and extensive notes [via]
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The Dangling Manby Saul Bellow, Salman RushdieISBN 0140189351 (0-14-018935-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dangling Man'Book summary:Written in 1944, Dangling Man takes the form of the journal of a young man waiting to be drafted. He has received notice, but a series of mix-ups keeps him waiting for the official call to arms. [via]
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The Discoverersby Daniel Joseph Boorstin, Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0140080546 (0-14-008054-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hillby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140374566 (0-14-037456-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hill'Book summary:Orphaned Rose Campbell is overwhelmed when she arrives at the "Aunt Hill" to live with her six aunts and seven boy cousins. Life is certainly more exciting, but will she ever feel at home with this noisy family? [via]
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Empire Express: Building the 1st Transcontinental Railroadby David Haward BainISBN 0140084991 (0-14-008499-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire Express: Building the 1st Transcontinental Railroad'Book summary:On the morning of May 10, 1869, a gang of Irish immigrants met a party of Chinese laborers on a windy bluff northwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. Tired to the bone, the two groups laid down the last of countless wooden ties, bought at the exorbitant cost of six dollars apiece, and thus joined two great rail lines, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific, to form a single transcontinental route. That rail line made possible the mass settlement of the West, and, as those who conceived it well knew, it changed the course of American history.
David Haward Bain's superb narrative of westward rail history, weighing in at 800 pages, ends not with this great achievement but with the political and financial scandal that would almost overshadow it. Along the way Bain looks closely at the entrepreneurial men who foresaw the possibilities of a vast nation joined by a steel ribbon--most memorably the hit-and-miss businessman Asa Whitney, who proposed to Congress an ingenious scheme to fund the building of the railroad through commercializing the right of way. Some of the men who came after Whitney, such as Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington, and Leland Stanford, amassed great fortunes in realizing this dream. Others died penniless and nearly forgotten in the wake of political maneuverings and bad deals. Bain's vigorous, well-written narrative does much to restore those overlooked actors to history. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondesby Anita LoosISBN 0140184872 (0-14-018487-2)
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishingby Melissa BankISBN 0140293248 (0-14-029324-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing'Book summary:Jane Rosenal, the narrator of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is wise beyond her years. Not that that's saying much--since none of her elders, with the exception of her father, is particularly wise. At the age of 14, Jane watches her brother and his new girlfriend, searching for clues for how to fall in love, but by the end of the summer she's trying to figure out how not to fail in love. At twice that age, Jane quickly internalizes How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, even though that retro manual is ruining her chances at happiness. In the intervening years, Melissa Bank's heroine struggles at love and work. The former often seems indistinguishable from the latter, and her experiences in book publishing inspire little in the way of affection. As Jane announces in "The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine": "I'd been a rising star at H----- until Mimi Howlett, the new executive editor, decided I was just the lights of an airplane."
Bank's first collection has a beautiful, true arc, and all the sophistication and control her heroine could ever desire. In "The Floating House," Jane and her boyfriend, Jamie, visit his ex-girlfriend in St. Croix, and right from the start she can't stop mimicking her beautiful competitor, in a notably idiotic fashion. "I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive," she realizes--one of several thousand of Bank's ruefully funny phrases. But even as Jane clowns around, desperately trying to keep up appearances, she is so hyperaware it hurts. Again and again, the author explores the dichotomy between life as it happens and the rehearsed anecdote, the preferred outcome. In The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, even suburban quiet has "nothing to do with peace." Bank's much-anticipated debut merits all its buzz and, more to the point, transcends it. --Kerry Fried [via]
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountainby Robert Olen ButlerISBN 0140176640 (0-14-017664-0)
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0140188592 (0-14-018859-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravity's Rainbow'Book summary:Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.
Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone's privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
That's just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon's book. It's pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon's cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger's brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon's blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why Kekulé von Stradonitz's dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.
Pynchon doesn't want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though. Gravity's Rainbow uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It's a trip, and it will last. --Tim Appelo [via]
Homer Priceby Robert McCloskeyISBN 0140309276 (0-14-030927-6)
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Island of Hope, Island of Tearsby Frank BrownstoneISBN 0140088202 (0-14-008820-2)
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Jo's Boysby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140367144 (0-14-036714-4)
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The Liar's Clubby Mary KarrISBN 0140179836 (0-14-017983-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Liar's Club'Book summary:In this funny, razor-edged memoir, Mary Karr, a prize-winning poet and critic, looks back at her upbringing in a swampy East Texas refinery town with a volatile, defiantly loving family. She recalls her painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip into psychosis; a fist swinging father who spun tales with his cronies - dubbed the Liars' Club; and a neighborhood rape when she was eight. An inheritance was squandered, endless bottles emptied, and guns leveled at the deserving and undeserving. With a row authenticity stripped of self pity,and a poet's eye for the lyrical detail, Karr shows us a "terrific family of liars and drunks...redeemed by a slow unearthing of truth." [via]
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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Streetby Michael LewisISBN 0140143459 (0-14-014345-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street'Book summary:In fiction there was Bonfire of the Vanities; in reality, there is Liar's Poker--the fascinating insider's account of what really happens on Wall Street. This irreverent and hilarious birds-eye view of Wall Street's heyday will appeal to anyone intrigued by the allure of million dollar deals. Now in trade paper. First serial to Manhattan Inc. [via]
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Liars Poker Rising Through the Wreckage/International Editionby Michael LewisISBN 0140143440 (0-14-014344-0)
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Looking Backward, 2000-1887by Edward Bellamy, Cecelia TichiISBN 0140390189 (0-14-039018-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking Backward, 2000-1887'Book summary:It is the year 2000 - and full employment, material abundance and social harmony can be found everywhere. This is the America to which Julian West, a young Bostonian, awakens after more than a century of sleep. West's initial sense of wonder, his gradual acceptance of the new order and a new love, and Bellamy's wonderful prophetic inventions - electric lighting, shopping malls, credit cards, electronic broadcasting - ensured the mass popularity of this 1888 novel. But, however rich in fantasy and romance, "Looking Backward" is a passionate attach on the social ills of nineteenth-century industrialism and a plea for social reform and moral renewal. In her introduction, Cecelia Tichi discusses how the novel echoes the anguish and hopes of its own age while it embodies a sustaining myth of the American literary tradition - that man's perfectibility is attainable in the New World. [via]
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Lord of the Fliesby William GoldingISBN 0140283331 (0-14-028333-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Flies'Book summary:William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with them-the world of cricket and homework and adventure stories-and another world is revealed beneath, primitive and terrible. Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies has established itself as a true classic. [via]
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A Man on the Moonby Andrew ChaikinISBN 0140272011 (0-14-027201-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man on the Moon'Book summary:A decade in the making, this book is based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with each of the twenty-four moon voyagers, as well as those who contributed their brain power, training and teamwork on Earth. In his preface Chaikin writes, "We touched the face of another world and became a people without limits."
What follows are thrilling accounts of such remarkable experiences as the rush of a liftoff, the heart-stopping touchdown on the moon, the final hurdle of re-entry, competition for a seat on a moon flight, the tragic spacecraft fire, and the search for clues to the origin of the solar system on the slopes of lunar mountains.
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The Marble Faunby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard H. BrodheadISBN 0140390774 (0-14-039077-4)
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The Marrow of Traditionby Eric J. Sundquist, Charles Waddell ChesnuttISBN 0140186867 (0-14-018686-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marrow of Tradition'Book summary:One of the most significant novels in American literature, "The Marrow of Tradition" is based on the Wilmington, North Carolina, Massacre of 1898. Called a "race riot" by the inflammatory Southern press and engineered by white Democrats who had seen their political slip into the hands of Republicans, many of whom were black, it was in fact a coup that restored power to the Democrats by subverting the principles of free democratic election. Some of Charles Chestnutt's relatives lived through the violence, and their accounts inspired this powerful and passionate novel. [via]
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McTeagueby Frank NorrisISBN 0140187693 (0-14-018769-3)
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Mr. Vertigoby Paul AusterISBN 0140231900 (0-14-023190-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Vertigo'Book summary:Paul Auster, the New York Times-bestselling author of The New York Trilogy presents a dazzling, picaresque novel set in the late 1920s the era of Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, and Al Capone. Walter Claireborne Rawley, renowned nationwide as "Walt the Wonder Boy," is a Saint Louis orphan rescued from the streets by a mysterious Hungarian Jew, Master Yehudi, who teaches Walt to walk on air. Master Yehudi brings Walt into a Kansas circus troupe consisting of Mother Sioux and Aesop, a young black genius. The vaudeville act takes them across a vast and vibrant country, through mythic Americana where they meet and fall prey to sinners, thieves, and villains, from the Kansas Ku Klux Klan to the Chicago mob. Walt's rise to fame and fortune mirrors America's own coming of age, and his resilience, like that of the nation, is challenged over and over and over again.[via]More editions of Mr. Vertigo:
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slaveby Frederick Douglass, Houston A. BakerISBN 014039012X (0-14-039012-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave'Book summary:Published in 1845, this autobiography powerfully details the life of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838 - how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. In his introduction, Houston A. Baker, Jr., discusses the slave narrative as a distinct American literary genre and points out its social, political, historical, and literary significance, past and present. [via]
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Notes on the State of Virginiaby Thomas Jefferson, Frank ShuffeltonISBN 0140436677 (0-14-043667-7)
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Frank Shuffleton includes in this edition with selections from relevant correspondence and discusses the work's origins, composition, and initial reception. He focuses particularly on Jefferson's response to contemporary scientific writings on "New World degeneracy"; his differing treatment of Blacks and Native Americans; and his influential (and problematic) role in creating a mythicized American self-image. [via]
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century Americaby Lillian FadermanISBN 0140171223 (0-14-017122-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America'Book summary:Lillian Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 1900s to today's diverse lifestyles. Using journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, news accounts, novels, medical literature, and numerous interviews, she relates an often surprising narrative of lesbian life.[via]"A key work...the point of reference from which all subsequent studies of 20th-century lesbian life in the United States will begin."San Francisco Examiner.
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The Oregon Trailby David Levin, Francis ParkmanISBN 0140390421 (0-14-039042-1)
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The Other America: Poverty in the United Statesby Michael HarringtonISBN 0140213082 (0-14-021308-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other America: Poverty in the United States'Book summary:This powerful account draws on research by sociologists and economists to reveal the depth of the poverty crisis, analyzing why such "invisible" citizens as the elderly, children, and minorities are not given adequate opportunities. Originally published in 1962, Harrington's classic work on the plight of the poor in the midst of plenty remains all too relevant today. [via]
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The Outsidersby S. E. HintonISBN 014038572X (0-14-038572-X)
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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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Palimpsest: A Memoirby Gore VidalISBN 0140260897 (0-14-026089-7)
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The Pathfinderby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0140390715 (0-14-039071-5)
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The Portable Steinbeck.by John SteinbeckISBN 0140150021 (0-14-015002-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Steinbeck.'Book summary:He wrote about poor people struggling to survive and about dispossessed people grappling for a piece of land they could call their own. He wrote about inarticulate men groping to express truths locked in wordlessness. He wrote about Americathe land and the peopleas though it were one living organism, and he did so more eloquently than anyone since Walt Whitman. In an extraordinarily prolific career that lasted from 1929 to the 1960s, John Steinbeck created stories and characters that, in the words of Pascal Covici, Jr., this volumes editor, combine the gusto of Homer & along with the thoughtfulness of Emerson.[via]The Portable Steinbeck is a grand sampling of this writers most important works. Here are the complete novels Of Mice and Men and The Red Pony together with self-contained excerpts from The Long Valley, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle (celebrated as Americas best strike novel ), The Grapes of Wrath, his epic of the Okie migration of the Great Depression, Cannery Row, East of Eden, Travels with Charley and other books; two previously uncollected short stories; and the 1962 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. The result is a collection that overflows with Steinbecks prodigal richness of language, humor that is by turns broad and deadpan sly, and empathy for even the most flawed and suffering of his characters.
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The Portable Thomas Jeffersonby Merrill D. Peterson, Thomas JeffersonISBN 0140150803 (0-14-015080-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Thomas Jefferson'Book summary:Includes A Summary View of the Rights of British America and Notes on the State of Virginia complete; seventy-nine letters; "Response to the Citizens of Albemarle," 1790; "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank," 1791; and many other writings.[via]More editions of The Portable Thomas Jefferson:
The Princess Casamassimaby Henry JamesISBN 014043254X (0-14-043254-X)
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The Quiet Americanby Graham Greene, John Clark PrattISBN 014024350X (0-14-024350-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Quiet American'Book summary:Against the intrigue and violence of Vietnam during the French war with the Vietminh, Alden Pyle, an idealistic young American, is sent to promote democracy, as his friend, Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, looks on. Fowlers mistress, a beautiful native girl creates a catalyst for jealousy and competition between the men and a cultural clash resulting in bloodshed and deep misgivings. Written in 1955 prior to the Vietnam conflict, The Quiet American foreshadows the events leading up to the Vietnam conflict. Questions surrounding the moral ambiguity of the involvement of the United States in foreign countries are as relevant today as they were fifty years ago. [via]
Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund BurkeISBN 0140432043 (0-14-043204-3)
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Rights of Manby Thomas PaineISBN 0140390154 (0-14-039015-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rights of Man'Book summary:In this book, Paine says that revolution is acceptable when the government does not respect the natural rights and interests of its people. Man "deposits this right in the common stock of society, and takes the arm of society, of which he is a part, in preference and in addition to his own. Society grants him nothing. Every man is a proprietor in society, and draws on the capital as a matter of right." [via]
Road to Wellvilleby T. C. BoyleISBN 0140167188 (0-14-016718-8)
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryby Mildred D. TaylorISBN 014034893X (0-14-034893-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry'Book summary:In all Mildred D. Taylor's unforgettable novels she recounts "not only the joy of growing up in a large and supportive family, but my own feelings of being faced with segregation and bigotry." Her Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry tells the story of one African American family, fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s. Nine-year-old Cassie Logan, growing up protected by her loving family, has never had reason to suspect that any white person could consider her inferior or wish her harm. But during the course of one devastating year when her community begins to be ripped apart by angry night riders threatening African Americans, she and her three brothers come to understand why the land they own means so much to their Papa. "Look out there, Cassie girl. All that belongs to you. You ain't never had to live on nobody's place but your own and long as I live and the family survives, you'll never have to. That's important. You may not understand that now but one day you will. Then you'll see."
Twenty-five years after it was first published, this special anniversary edition of the classic strikes as deep and powerful a note as ever. Taylor's vivid portrayal of ugly racism and the poignancy of Cassie's bewilderment and gradual toughening against social injustice and the men and women who perpetuate it, will remain with readers forever. Two award-winning sequels, Let the Circle Be Unbroken and The Road to Memphis, and a long-awaited prequel, The Land, continue the profoundly moving tale of the Logan family. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Rose in Bloomby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140374515 (0-14-037451-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rose in Bloom'Book summary:After two years travelling around the world, Rose Campbell has a lot of strong opinions. Before thoughts of marriage, she would like to be independent. However, even her closest friend seems to be acting differently. The author has also written "Little Women". [via]
The Sacred Fountby Henry James, John LyonISBN 0140433503 (0-14-043350-3)
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Saints and Strangersby Angela CarterISBN 014008973X (0-14-008973-X)
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The Saturdays: Library Editionby Elizabeth EnrightISBN 0140383956 (0-14-038395-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Saturdays: Library Edition'Book summary:Four New York City siblings decide to pool their resources so that each can do a special thing on the Saturday that is his turn to receive the combined allowance. [via]
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Seize the Dayby Saul Bellow, Cynthia OzickISBN 0140189378 (0-14-018937-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seize the Day'Book summary:This novel is a portrait of one day in the life of Tommy Wilhelm, a man on the brink of despair. He is a man who has lost his wife, his children, all his money, the respect of his father, and is on the point of losing the support of the one woman whose love could help save him. [via]
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The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.by Washington Irving, Haskell S. SpringerISBN 0140390324 (0-14-039032-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.'Book summary:The creator of such quintessentially American fiction as "Rip Van Winkle," Irving earned his preeminence with the masterpieces in miniature collected here: dozens of short stories, travel essays, biographical discourses, and literary musings. [via]
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The Stone Diariesby Carol ShieldsISBN 014023313X (0-14-023313-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stone Diaries'Book summary:This fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, captured in Daisy's vivacious yet reflective voice, has been winning over readers since its publication in 1995, when it won the Pulitzer Prize. After a youth marked by sudden death and loss, Daisy escapes into conventionality as a middle-class wife and mother. Years later she becomes a successful garden columnist and experiences the kind of awakening that thousands of her contemporaries in mid-century yearned for but missed in alcoholism, marital infidelity and bridge clubs. The events of Daisy's life, however, are less compelling than her rich, vividly described inner life--from her memories of her adoptive mother to her awareness of impending death. Shields' sensuous prose and her deft characterizations make this, her sixth novel, her most successful yet. [via]
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Summerby Edith WhartonISBN 0140186794 (0-14-018679-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summer'Book summary:[via]A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts Berkshires Edith Wharton called Summer her "hot Ethan." In their rural settings and their poor, uneducated protagonists, Summer (1916) and Ethan Frome represent a sharp departure from Wharton's familiar depictions of the urban upper class. Charity Royall lives unhappily with her hard-drinking adoptive father in an isolated village, until a visiting architect awakens her sexual passion and the hope for escape. Exploring Charity's relation to her father and her lover, Wharton delves into dark cultural territory: repressed sexuality, small-town prejudice, and, in subtle hints, incest.
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The Tragic Museby Henry James, Philip HorneISBN 0140433899 (0-14-043389-9)
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Seaby Richard Henry DanaISBN 0140390081 (0-14-039008-1)
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Typeeby Herman Melville, John BryantISBN 0140434887 (0-14-043488-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Typee'Book summary:Webster's paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Hindi thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Typee by Herman Melville was edited for three audiences. The first includes Hindi-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFLý or TOEICý preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Hindi speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Hindi in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placementý (APý) or similar examinations. By using the Webster's Hindi Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Hindi or English.
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Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayingsby Robert E. Hemenway, Joel Chandler HarrisISBN 0140390146 (0-14-039014-6)
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Vietnam: A Historyby Stanley KarnowISBN 0140145338 (0-14-014533-8)
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau, Michael MeyerISBN 0140390448 (0-14-039044-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Civil Disobedience'Book summary:'If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.' Disdainful of America's growing commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods by Walden Pond. Walden, the classic account of his stay there, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance. But even as Thoreau disentangled himself from worldly matters, his solitary musings were often disturbed by his social conscience. 'Civil Disobedience', expressing his antislavery and antiwar sentiments, has influenced nonviolent resistance movements worldwide. Michael Meyer's introduction points out that Walden is not so much an autobiographical study as a 'shining example' of Transcendental individualism. So, too, 'Civil Disobedience' is less a call to political activism than a statement of Thoreau's insistence on living a life of principle. [via]
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Walt Whitman: The Complete Poemsby Francis MurphyISBN 0140422226 (0-14-042222-6)
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Wasby Geoff RymanISBN 0140178724 (0-14-017872-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Was'Book summary:This haunting, wildly original novel explores the lives of several characters entwined by The Wizard of Oz--both the novel written by L. Frank Baum and the strangely resonant 1939 film. Was traverses the American landscape to reveal how the human imagination transcends the bleakest circumstance. [via]
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We Are Still Marriedby Garrison KeillorISBN 0140131566 (0-14-013156-6)
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What Katy Did at Schoolby Susan CoolidgeISBN 0140350438 (0-14-035043-8)
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry JamesISBN 0140432639 (0-14-043263-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:The Wings of the Dove is a classic example of Henry James's morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad. In early-20th-century London, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are engaged in a passionate, clandestine love affair. Croy is desperately in love with Densher, who has all the qualities of a potentially excellent husband: he's handsome, witty, and idealistic--the one thing he lacks is money, which ultimately renders him unsuitable as a mate. By chance, Croy befriends a young American heiress, Milly Theale. When Croy discovers that Theale suffers from a mysterious and fatal malady, she hatches a plan that can give all three characters something that they want--at a price. Croy and Densher plan to accompany the young woman to Venice where Densher, according to Croy's design, will seduce the ailing heiress. The two hope that Theale will find love and happiness in her last days and--when she dies--will leave her fortune to Densher, so that he and Croy can live happily ever after. The scheme that at first develops as planned begins to founder when Theale discovers the pair's true motives shortly before her death. Densher struggles with unanticipated feelings of love for his new paramour, and his guilt may obstruct his ability to avail himself of Theale's gift. James deftly navigates the complexities and irony of such moral treachery in this stirring novel. [via]
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The Winter of Our Discontentby John SteinbeckISBN 0140187537 (0-14-018753-7)
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WLT: A Radio Romanceby Garrison KeillorISBN 0140103805 (0-14-010380-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'WLT: A Radio Romance'Book summary:In the spring of 1926, the Soderbjerg brothers, Ray and Roy, plunge into radio and launch station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) to rescuer their failing restaurant and become the Sandwich Kings of South Minneapolis. For the next quarter century, the Friendly Neighbor station produces a dazzling array of shows and stars, including Leo LaValley, Dad Benson, Wingo Beals, Slim Graves and Little Buddy, chain-smoking child star Marjery Moore, and blind baseball announcer Buck Steller.[via]Francis With, a shy young man from North Dakota, entranced by radio, gets into WLT through his uncle Art and quickly becomes the Soderbjerg's right hand. Soon Francis is a budding announcer adored by Lily Dale, the crippled nightingale of WLT kept hidden from her fans, whose firing contributes to the downfall of the station. And then comes television.
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