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Across the River and into the Treesby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0020519206 (0-02-051920-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Afflictionby Russell BanksISBN 0060920076 (0-06-092007-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Affliction'Book summary:If Russell Banks hadn't become a writer, he thinks he would have wound up stabbed to death in a barroom brawl. He is the son of a two-fisted, drunken New England plumber, and the grief of fatherly combat resonates through his work like the background radiation of the big bang. Banks became a violently drinking plumber himself--and then a Pulitzer Prize-nominated Princeton literary giant and one of the luckiest Oscar-buzzed writers in Hollywood history.
(The Atom Egoyan adaptation of Banks's brilliant novel The Sweet Hereafter perfectly captures its brooding beauty, and Affliction may be Paul Schrader's finest film since he wrote Taxi Driver.)
Affliction transmutes Banks's painful past into fiction. His divorced protagonist, Wade Whitehouse, 41, is imprisoned by fate in Lawford, New Hampshire, a hell frozen over. He digs wells for chump change, lives in a trailer, drinks, and alienates his daughter by dragging her to a miserable Halloween costume party. In two weeks' time, Wade demolishes his pitiable hopes of family happiness, drawn into a rigorously plausible series of disastrous deaths. In flashbacks to his Dad-abused youth, we see how Wade wound up such a Dostoyevskian clown.
Banks has a mind of winter: when Wade sees his dead parent, the scene unfolds with the cold logic of ice-crystal formation. The story is narrated by Wade's kid brother, the family's sole escapee to college, in a cool, distanced way. Both brothers contain aspects of Banks, but each breaks free of autobiography. This is one haunting novel. [via]
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Apocalipsisby Stephen KingISBN 8497599411 (84-9759-941-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Babylon Revisited and Other Storiesby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0020199805 (0-02-019980-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babylon Revisited and Other Stories'Book summary:Written between 1920 and 1937, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was at the height of his creative powers, these ten lyric tales represent some of the author's finest fiction. In them, Fitzgerald creates vivid, timeless characters -- a dissatisfied southern belle seeking adventure in the north; the tragic hero of the title story who lost more than money in the stock market; giddy and dissipated young men and women of the interwar period. From the lazy town of Tarleton, Georgia, to the glittering cosmopolitan centers of New York and Paris, Fitzgerald brings the society of the "Lost Generation" to life in these masterfully crafted gems, showcasing the many gifts of one of our most popular writers. [via]
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Back to Barbary Lane: The Final Tales of the City Omnibusby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060166495 (0-06-016649-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Back to Barbary Lane: The Final Tales of the City Omnibus'Book summary:"An old fashioned pleasure... there's been nothing like it since the heyday of the serial novel 100 years ago... Tearing through [the tales] one after the other, as I did, allows instant gratification; it also lets you appreciate how masterfully they're constructed. No matter what Maupin writes next, he can look back on the rare achievement of having built a little world and made it run."
--Walter Kendrick, Village Voice Literary SupplementBy turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City series stands as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary. These six classic comedies, some of which originally appeared as serials in San Francisco newspapers, have won Maupin critical acclaim around the world and enthralled legions of devoted fans.
Back to Barbary Lane comprises the second trilogy of the series--Babycakes (1984), Significant Others (1987), and Sure of You (1989) -- concluding the saga of the tenants, past and present, of Mrs. Madrigal's beloved apartment house on Russian Hill. While the first trilogy celebrated the carefree excesses of the seventies, this volume tracks its hapless, all-to-human cast across a decade troubled by plague, deceit and overweening ambition.
Like its companion volume, 28 Barbary Lane, Back to Barbary Lane is distinguished by what The Guardian of London has called "some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read." It promises hours of literate entertainment for readers old and new.
With a foreword by the author. [via]
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The Basic Eightby Daniel HandlerISBN 0060733861 (0-06-073386-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Blondeby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0060196076 (0-06-019607-6)
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The Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0030544572 (0-03-054457-2)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'Book summary:Vibrant, black-and-white illustrations complement London's classic adventure story about the relationship between humans and dogs, focusing on Buck, a dog that becomes a sled dog during the Klondike gold rush and, later, the leader of a wolf pack. [via]
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The Call Of The Wild Adventure Classicby Jack LondonISBN 0060728035 (0-06-072803-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Cities of the Red Nightby William S. BurroughsISBN 0030539765 (0-03-053976-5)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities of the Red Night'Book summary:While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of Naked Lunch is the first of the trilogy with The Places of the Dead Roads and his final novel, The Western Plains.
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Corazones En La Atlantida / Hearts in Atlantisby Stephen KingISBN 9871138504 (987-1138-50-4)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Cryptonomiconby Neal StephensonISBN 0060512806 (0-06-051280-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cryptonomicon'Book summary:Neal Stephenson enjoys cult status among science fiction fans and techie types thanks to Snow Crash, which so completely redefined conventional notions of the high-tech future that it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. But if his cyberpunk classic was big, Cryptonomicon is huge... gargantuan... massive, not just in size (a hefty 918 pages including appendices) but in scope and appeal. It's the hip, readable heir to Gravity's Rainbow and the Illuminatus trilogy. And it's only the first of a proposed series--for more information, read our interview with Stephenson.
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods--World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, cryptanalyst extraordinaire, and gung ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They're part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the unit's strange workings to Waterhouse. "When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first.... Of course, to observe is not its real duty--we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed.... Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious."
All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes--inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe--team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the Societas Eruditorum, pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties.
Cryptonomicon is vintage Stephenson from start to finish: short on plot, but long on detail so precise it's exhausting. Every page has a math problem, a quotable in-joke, an amazing idea, or a bit of sharp prose. Cryptonomicon is also packed with truly weird characters, funky tech, and crypto--all the crypto you'll ever need, in fact, not to mention all the computer jargon of the moment. A word to the wise: if you read this book in one sitting, you may die of information overload (and starvation). --Therese Littleton [via]
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Desesperacionby Stephen KingISBN 9875660620 (987-566-062-0)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Dune:La Yihad Butleriana / Dune:the Butlerian Yihad: La Yihad Butleriana/ the Butlerian Yihadby Brian Herbert, Random House Mondadori, Domingo SantosISBN 849759682X (84-9759-682-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Dune:La Yihad Butleriana / Dune:the Butlerian Yihad: La Yihad Butleriana/ the Butlerian Yihadby Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert, Eduardo G. MurilloISBN 8497936728 (84-9793-672-8)
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El Cazador De Suenos / Dreamcatcherby Stephen KingISBN 849759150X (84-9759-150-X)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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El Misterio De Salem's Lot/Salem's Lotby Stephen KingISBN 8497931025 (84-9793-102-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Misterio De Salem's Lot/Salem's Lot'Book summary:Veinte años atrás, por una apuesta infantil, Ben Mears habáa entrado en la casa de los Marsten. Y lo que vio entonces aún poblaba sus pesadillas. Ahora, como escritor consagrado, había vuelto a Salem's Lot para exorcisar sus fantasmas. Salem's Lot era un pueblo tranquilo y adormilado donde nunca pasaba nada, excepto la vieja tragedia de la casa de los Marsten. Y el perro muerto colgado de la verja del cemeterio. Y el misterioso hombre que se instaló en la casa de los Marsten. Y los niños que desaparecían, los animales que morían desangrads. Y la espantosa presencia de ellos, quienesquiera que fuesen. Ellos. [via]
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El Testamentoby John GrishamISBN 8496581055 (84-96581-05-5)
Softcover, Zeta Bolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Testamento'Book summary:Troy Phelan, a 78-year-old, eccentric and the 10th-richest man in America, is about to read his last will and testament, divvying up an estate worth $11 billion. Phelan's three ex-wives and their grasping spawn all have their eyes glued to digital monitors as they watch the old man read his verdict. But Phelan shocks everyone by naming a mysterious woman as beneficiarya missionary living deep in the wilds of Brazil. Nate O'Rileya washed-up, alcoholic litigatoris dispatched to the Brazilian wetlands in search of the mysterious heir, setting in motion the legal morality tale of a contested will, sin, and redemption.[via]More editions of El Testamento:
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Ethan Fromeby Edith WhartonISBN 0020264801 (0-02-026480-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In her Introduction, the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. [via]More editions of Ethan Frome:
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The Exorcistby William Peter BlattyISBN 0060103655 (0-06-010365-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Exorcist'Book summary:When originally published in 1971, The Exorcist became not only a bestselling literary phenomenon, but one of the most frightening and controversial novels ever written. (When the author adapted his book to the screen two years later, it then became one of the most terrifying movies ever made.) Blatty fictionalized the true story of a child's demonic possession in the 1940s. The deceptively simple story focuses on Regan, the 11-year-old daughter of a movie actress residing in Washington, D.C.; the child apparently is possessed by an ancient demon. It's up to a small group of overwhelmed yet determined humans to somehow rescue Regan from this unspeakable fate. Purposefully raw and profane, this novel still has the extraordinary ability to literally shock us into forgetting that it is "just a story." The Exorcist remains a truly unforgettable reading experience. Blatty published a sequel, Legion, in 1983. --Stanley Wiater [via]
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyISBN 8497930053 (84-9793-005-3)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit 451'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit. [via]
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Faithlessby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0060185252 (0-06-018525-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faithless'Book summary:Penzler Pick, March 2001: I guess it's no secret that I regard Joyce Carol Oates as one of the great living American writers, both of mystery-crime-suspense fiction and of virtually every other form invented. I previously reviewed Blonde, which went on to be nominated for a National Book Award, and it's my joy to be able to recommend Faithless: Tales of Transgression, the stories within which are about as good as the short story gets. (Full disclosure here, with the admission that I might be a trifle prejudiced in favor of this volume. It is dedicated to Alice Turner, the former fiction editor of Playboy, and to me--largely, I reckon, because several of these stories were written especially for several anthologies of which I was the editor.)
There are 24 stories in this generous volume and while some inevitably linger longer in the memory than others, there is not a dull spot in its nearly 400 pages. The title story is a haunting tale of the disappearance of a woman as recalled by her two daughters, grown now. The ending is utterly expected but, nevertheless, comes as a shock. "The Vampire" is not at all a horror story, at least not in the sense that it involves in any way elements of the supernatural, but has a growing sense of pure terror as the reader comes to see the way in which one person can absorb all the life out of another.
In "The High School Sweetheart: A Mystery," a famous mystery writer reads a speech as he accepts the presidency of the most prestigious of all mystery organizations. The speech is delivered as a piece of fiction that appears to be a confession of a horrific crime committed during his teen years while besotted with a girl two years older than he. When the speech ends, the audience cannot imagine applauding because the story seems so true. Is it?
Once again, the incomparable Joyce Carol Oates has produced a compelling and important volume for the shelves of anyone who cares about distinguished suspense fiction. --Otto Penzler [via]
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Fundacion E Imperioby Isaac AsimovISBN 9871138652 (987-1138-65-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Girl With a Pearl Earringby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0002258900 (0-00-225890-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Girlfriend in a Comaby Douglas CouplandISBN 0060391782 (0-06-039178-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girlfriend in a Coma'Book summary:In this latest novel from the poet laureate of Gen X--who is himself now a dangerously mature 36--boy does indeed meet girl. The year is 1979, and the lovers get right down to business in a very Couplandian bit of plein air intercourse: "Karen and I deflowered each other atop Grouse Mountain, among the cedars beside a ski slope, atop crystal snow shards beneath penlight stars. It was a December night so cold and clear that the air felt like the air of the Moon--lung-burning; mentholated and pure; hint of ozone, zinc, ski wax, and Karen's strawberry shampoo." Are we in for an archetypal '80s romance, played out against a pop-cultural backdrop? Nope. Only hours after losing her virginity, Karen loses consciousness as well--for almost two decades. The narrator and his circle soldier on, making the slow progression from debauched Vancouver youths to semiresponsible adults. Several end up working on a television series that bears a suspicious resemblance to The X-Files (surely a self-referential wink on the author's part). And then ... Karen wakes up. Her astonishment--which suggests a 20th-century, substance-abusing Rip Van Winkle--dominates the second half of the novel, and gives Coupland free reign to muse about time, identity, and the meaning (if any) of the impending millennium. Alas, he also slaps a concluding apocalypse onto the novel. As sleeping sickness overwhelms the populace, the world ends with neither a bang nor a whimper, but a universal yawn--which doesn't, fortunately, outweigh the sweetness, oddity, and ironic smarts of everything that has preceded it. [via]
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The Guardianby Nicholas SparksISBN 8496284530 (84-96284-53-0)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Guardian'Book summary:Julie Barenson es, a sus veintinueve años, demasiado joven para olvidarse del amor. Su amado esposo murió en un trágico accidente cuatro años antes, haciéndole dos regalos antes de su muerte: un cachorro llamado Singer y la promesa de cuidarla para siempre. Ella sigue recordándole, pero siente que por fin ha llegado el momento de rehacer su vida. La pregunta es, ¿con quién? Quiza con Richard Franklin, un hombre guapo y sofisticado que la trata como a una reina; o Mike Harris, el mejor amigo de su difunto marido y un hombre sensato y cabal. La toma de una decisión deparará a Julie momentos de felicidad que no había sentido en años. Pero una pesadilla asomará en su vida justo entonces: los celos la sumirán en una espiral de obsesión y muerte.
Nicholas Sparks, explores in "The Guardian" the darkest corner of the heart in this emotive story of love and obsession. A young widow receives a present from her death husband. [via]More editions of The Guardian:
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Hijos De Dune/Children of Duneby Frank Herbert, Random House MondadoriISBN 8497594320 (84-9759-432-0)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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I Am No One You Know: Storiesby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0060592893 (0-06-059289-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Am No One You Know: Stories'Book summary:I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a girl makes a decision to reveal a family secret, and changes her life irrevocably. In "The Girl with the Blackened Eye," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, a girl pushed to an even greater extreme of courage and desperation manages to survive her abduction by a serial killer. And in "Three Girls," two adventuresome NYU undergraduates seal their secret love by following, and protecting, Marilyn Monroe in disguise at Strand Used Books on a snowy evening in 1956.
These vividly rendered portraits of women, men, and children testify to Oates's compassion for the mysterious and luminous resources of the human spirit. [via]
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In Countryby Bobbie Ann MasonISBN 0060835176 (0-06-083517-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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LA Milla Verdeby Stephen KingISBN 9871138962 (987-1138-96-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Las Aventuras De Arthur Gordon Pymby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 9506201544 (950-620-154-4)
Softcover, Heliasta
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Las Aventuras De Arthur Gordon Pym'Book summary:Arthur Gordon Pym, junto con su amigo Augusto, se embarca en el Grampus, un barco ballenero que tiene como destino los mares del Sur. Una serie de aventuras un motin, un naufragio, la sed y el hambre- cambia el rumbo de una historia que se transforma, subitamente, en un relato de ciencia ficcion. Las Aventuras de Arthur Gordon Pym, la obra mas extensa, discutida y enigmatica de Edgar Allan Poe, fue publicada en forma de libro en 1838, aunque sus primeros capitulos habian sido publicados en el Southern Literary Messenger en 1837. Considerada originalmente por la critica como una obra menor de Poe, las Aventuras de Arthur Gordon Pym es uno de los relatos mas populares del autor, el cual se destaca por las incognitas y sorpresas que presenta su trama. [via]
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Los Limites De La Fundacionby Isaac AsimovISBN 8497594347 (84-9759-434-7)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Los Refugios De Piedraby Jean M. AuelISBN 9706516212 (970-651-621-2)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Los Refugios De Piedra'Book summary:From the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the 1960s, Mexican American Catholics experienced racism and discrimination within the U.S. Catholic church, as white priests and bishops maintained a racial divide in all areas of the church's ministry. To oppose this religious apartheid and challenge the church to minister fairly to all of its faithful, a group of Chicano priests formed PADRES (Padres Asociados para Derechos Religiosos, Educativos y Sociales, or Priests Associated for Religious, Educational, and Social Rights) in 1969. Over the next twenty years, PADRES became a powerful force for change within the Catholic church and for social justice within American society. This book offers the first history of the founding, activism, victories, and defeats of PADRES. At the heart of the book are oral history interviews with the founders of PADRES, who describe how their ministries in poor Mexican American parishes, as well as their own experiences of racism and discrimination within and outside the church, galvanized them into starting and sustaining the movement. Richard Martinez traces the ways in which PADRES was inspired by the Chicano movement and other civil rights struggles of the 1960s and also probes its linkages with liberation theology in Latin America. He uses a combination of social movement theory and organizational theory to explain how the group emerged, flourished, and eventually disbanded in 1989.... RICHARD EDWARD MARTINEZ is an independent scholar who lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. He holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from UCLA. [via]
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The Mysteries Of Pittsburghby Michael ChabonISBN 0060790598 (0-06-079059-8)
Softcover, Perennial
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Nanaby Chuk PalahniukISBN 8497935136 (84-9793-513-6)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Paris Era Una Fiestaby Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel FerraterISBN 9871144377 (987-1144-37-7)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Peace Breaks Outby John KnowlesISBN 0030569087 (0-03-056908-7)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Pigs in Heavenby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060922532 (0-06-092253-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Plains Song, for Female Voicesby Wright MorrisISBN 0060130474 (0-06-013047-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Presa / Preyby Michael CrichtonISBN 9875660280 (987-566-028-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Prodigal Summerby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060199660 (0-06-019966-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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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]
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Quicksilverby Neal StephensonISBN 0060593083 (0-06-059308-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksilver'Book summary:In Quicksilver, the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date. The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campus of what passes for MIT in eighteenth-century Massachusetts. Daniel, Enoch's message conveys, is key to resolving an explosive scientific battle of preeminence between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the development of calculus. As Daniel returns to London aboard the Minerva, readers are catapulted back half a century to recall his years at Cambridge with young Isaac. Daniel is a perfect historical witness. Privy to Robert Hooke's early drawings of microscope images and with associates among the English nobility, religious radicals, and the Royal Society, he also befriends Samuel Pepys, risks a cup of coffee, and enjoys a lecture on Belgian waffles and cleavage-all before the year 1700.
In the second book, Stephenson introduces Jack Shaftoe and Eliza. "Half-Cocked" Jack (also know as the "King of the Vagabonds") recovers the English Eliza from a Turkish harem. Fleeing the siege of Vienna, the two journey across Europe driven by Eliza's lust for fame, fortune, and nobility. Gradually, their circle intertwines with that of Daniel in the third book of the novel.
The book courses with Stephenson's scholarship but is rarely bogged down in its historical detail. Stephenson is especially impressive in his ability to represent dialogue over the evolving worldview of seventeenth-century scientists and enliven the most abstruse explanation of theory. Though replete with science, the novel is as much about the complex struggles for political ascendancy and the workings of financial markets. Further, the novel's literary ambitions match its physical size. Stephenson narrates through epistolary chapters, fragments of plays and poems, journal entries, maps, drawings, genealogic tables, and copious contemporary epigrams. But, caught in this richness, the prose is occasionally neglected and wants editing. Further, anticipating a cycle, the book does not provide a satisfying conclusion to its 900 pages. These are minor quibbles, though. Stephenson has matched ambition to execution, and his faithful, durable readers will be both entertained and richly rewarded with a practicum in Baroque science, cypher, culture, and politics. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Rebelion en la granja / Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 9685270694 (968-5270-69-4)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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Robots Del Amanecerby Isaac Asimov, Hernan Sabate, Maria Teresa SegurISBN 8497599551 (84-9759-955-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Significant Othersby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060924810 (0-06-092481-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Significant Others'Book summary:The fifth novel in the "Tales of the city" sequence, which chronicles high, low and louche life in San Francisco and looks at the perplexing consequences of the AIDS epidemic. Maupin aims to portray the trials of modern love and lust and demystify the gay way of life, with sensitivity and humour. He lives in San Francisco and his novels were originally serialized in the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the "San Francisco Examiner". The four previous books in this sequence are available as Corgi paperback originals. [via]
Six of Oneby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0060105240 (0-06-010524-0)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Summerby Edith Wharton, Marilyn FrenchISBN 0020554400 (0-02-055440-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Sure of Youby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060161647 (0-06-016164-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The System Of The Worldby Neal StephensonISBN 0060750863 (0-06-075086-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The System Of The World'Book summary:'Tis done.
The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England's shores. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty and contemporary of the most brilliant minds of the age, he has braved the merciless sea and an assault by the infamous pirate Blackbeard to help mend the rift between two adversarial geniuses at a princess's behest. But while much has changed outwardly, the duplicity and danger that once drove Daniel to the American Colonies is still coin of the British realm.
No sooner has Daniel set foot on his homeland when he is embroiled in a dark conflict that has been raging in the shadows for decades. It is a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist Isaac Newton and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner, a.k.a. Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a new and more volatile level, as Half-Cocked Jack plots a daring assault on the Tower itself, aiming for nothing less than the total corruption of Britain's newborn monetary system.
Unbeknownst to all, it is love that set the Coiner on his traitorous course; the desperate need to protect the woman of his heart -- the remarkable Eliza, Duchess of Arcachon-Qwghlm -- from those who would destroy her should he fail. Meanwhile, Daniel Waterhouse and his Clubb of unlikely cronies comb city and country for clues to the identity of the blackguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with Infernal Devices -- as political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending death of the ailing queen; as the "holy grail" of alchemy, the key to life eternal, tantalizes and continues to elude Isaac Newton, yet is closer than he ever imagined; as the greatest technological innovation in history slowly takes shape in Waterhouse's manufactory.
Everything that was will be changed forever ... The System of the World is the concluding volume in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, begun with Quicksilver and continued in The Confusion. [via]
Tortilla Flatby John SteinbeckISBN 9580417989 (958-04-1798-9)
Softcover, Grupo Editorial Norma USA
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A Tree Grows in Brooklynby Betty SmithISBN 0060736267 (0-06-073626-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'Book summary:Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive. Betty Smith's poignant, honest novel created a big stir when it was first published over 50 years ago. Her frank writing about life's squalor was alarming to some of the more genteel society, but the book's humor and pathos ensured its place in the realm of classics--and in the hearts of readers, young and old. (Ages 10 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
Un Mal Principioby Lemony SnicketISBN 9685958300 (968-5958-30-0)
Softcover, Montena
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Un Paseo para Recordar/ A Walk to Rememberby Nicholas SparksISBN 9500421046 (950-04-2104-6)
Softcover, Emece
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UN Saco De Huesosby Stephen KingISBN 8497595963 (84-9759-596-3)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Vby Thomas PynchonISBN 0060913088 (0-06-091308-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'V'Book summary:Having just been released from the Navy, Benny Profane is content to lead a slothful existence with his friends, where the only real ambition is to perfect the art of "schlemihlhood," or being a dupe, and where "responsibility" is a dirty word. Among his pals--called the Whole Sick Crew--is Slab, an artist who can't seem to paint anything other than cheese danishes. But Profane's life changes dramatically when he befriends Stencil, an active ambitious young man with an intriguing mission--to find out the identity of a woman named V., who knew Stencil's father during the war, but who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. [via]
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Viaje a Ixtlanby Carlos CastanedaISBN 9681603354 (968-16-0335-4)
Softcover, Fondo De Cultura Economica USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Viaje a Ixtlan'Book summary:The dazzling, fantastic work that concludes the teachings of the Yaqui sorcerer, Don Juan. Castaneda is an anthropologist, a mystic, a poet and a marvelously gifted author whose books have sold phenomenally well. "One can't exaggerate the significance of what Carlos Castaneda has done".--The New York Times. [via]
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Wickedby Gregory Maguire, Douglas SmithISBN 0060745908 (0-06-074590-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wicked'Book summary:This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, as Maguire tells us, wasnt nearly as Wicked as we imagined.
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Adios Munecaby Raymond Chandler, Cesar AiraISBN 9500425181 (950-04-2518-1)
Softcover, Emece
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Algo supuestamente divertido que nunca volvere a hacerby Not AvailableISBN 9685957207 (968-5957-20-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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El Arbol Generosoby Shel Silverstein, Carla Pardo ValleISBN 9806053443 (980-6053-44-3)
Hardcover, Lectorum Pubns
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La Boda/ the Weddingby Nicholas SparksISBN 8496525090 (84-96525-09-0)
Softcover, Roca Editorial
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El Cardenal Del Kremlinby Tom ClancyISBN 9500415615 (950-04-1561-5)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Casa Capitular Dune/ Chafterhouse Duneby Frank Herbert, Random House MondadoriISBN 8497597702 (84-9759-770-2)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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El Caso Bourne/ the Bourne Identityby Robert Ludlum, Equipo Traductor de Editorial AtlantidaISBN 8497593693 (84-9759-369-3)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Caso Bourne/ the Bourne Identity'Book summary:Un hombre, herido de bala y al borde de la muerte, es rescatado del mar por unos pescadores franceses. Al cabo de varios dias de inconsciencia, vuelve en si. Pero ignora su nombre, su nacionalidad, su procedencia: todo. Su amnesia es absoluta. Una sola pista lo une al pasado: un microfilme que lleva implantado bajo la piel, y en el que figura el numero de una cuenta bancaria en Zurich. A partir de esa referencia, el desconocido empieza a rastrear su propia identidad en Zurich, Marsella, Paris, Nueva York... Lo que va descubriendo es aterrador. Dentro de este laberinto, sus pasos se encaminan inexorablemente hacia el mas buscado terrorista internacional de todos los tiempos: «Carlos». [via]
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Cementerio De Animales/pet Cemetaryby Stephen KingISBN 8497930991 (84-9793-099-1)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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La Chica Que Amaba a Tom Gordon / the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordonby Stephen KingISBN 9871138946 (987-1138-94-6)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Chica Que Amaba a Tom Gordon / the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon'Book summary:"El mundo tenia dienter y podia morderte en cualquer momento. Trissha McFarland to descubrio cuando tenia nueve anos. A las diez de una manana de principios de junio estaba sentada en el asiento trasero del Dodge Caravan de su madre, vestida con una sudadera azul de los Res Sox (la que llevaba 36 Gordon estampado en la espalda), y jugaba con su muneca. A las diez y media se había perdido en el bosque. A las once intentaba contener su terror, no pensar. Esto va en serio, esto va muy en serio. Intentaba no pensar que, en ocasiones, cuando la gente se perdía en el bosque salia gravemente danada. A veces incluso moría," --- from book's back cover [via]
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Las Cinco Personas Que Encontraras En El Cielo / the Five People You Meet in Heavenby Mitch AlbomISBN 9706518991 (970-651-899-1)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Diario/ Diary: Una Novela/ a Novelby Chuk PalahniukISBN 849793637X (84-9793-637-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Dios Emperador De Dune / God Emperor of Duneby Frank Herbert, Random House Mondadori, Montserrat ConillISBN 8497597486 (84-9759-748-6)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Fundacion Y Tierra/ Foundation and Earthby Isaac Asimov, Random House MondadoriISBN 8497599225 (84-9759-922-5)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fundacion Y Tierra/ Foundation and Earth'Book summary:La saga de la Fundacion (Fundacion, Fundacion e Imperio, Segunda Fundacion y Los limites de la Fundacion) es la obra de ciencia ficcion mas leida de todos los tiempos. Esta narracion monumental continua con el presente titulo, que es la quinta y mas emocionante novela de la serie. La humanidad, en un lejano futuro galactico, busca sus origenes en un planeta perdido llamado Tierra... [via]
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Insomnia/ Insomniaby Stephen KingISBN 8497597729 (84-9759-772-9)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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El Juego De Las Horas / the Hour Gameby David Baldacci, Merce Diago, Abel DebrittoISBN 849654639X (84-96546-39-X)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Juego De Las Horas / the Hour Game'Book summary:El cadaver de una mujer es hallado en un bosque de Virginia. En su muneca, el homicida ha dejado un reloj de pulsera con un extrano simbolo. Se trata de la primera victima de un asesinato en serie que tiene en vilo a la poblacion de Wrightsburg. Su proceder es escalofriante y metodico: siempre deja en la escena del crimen un reloj al que detiene en una hora concreta. Sean King y Michelle Maxwell son llamados a participar en la investigacion del caso. Una desagradable sorpesa va a enturbiar aun mas su trabajo: la supuesta aparicion de un segundo asesino que reproduce los crimenes cometidos por el primero. Retomando los protagonistas de Una Fraccion de Segundo, Baldacci demuestra una vez mas que es uno de los escritores de thrillers mas destacados de la actualidad. [via]
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Maleficio / Thinnerby Stephen KingISBN 9500405792 (950-04-0579-2)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Los Pilares de la Tierra / The Pillars of the Earthby Ken FollettISBN 8497592905 (84-9759-290-5)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Los Pilares de la Tierra / The Pillars of the Earth'Book summary:Situado en la Inglaterra del siglo XII, el clásico medieval de Ken Follett nos transporta a la ciudad de Kingsbridge, donde contra un trasfondo de luchas religiosas, se alza una gloriosa catedral gótica y se entrecruzan las vidas y ambiciones de cinco hombres y mujeres, creando una hechizante historia de poder, amor y muerte.Los pilares de la Tierra es el hechizante bestseller de Ken Follett y constituye una excepcional evocación de una época de reyes, damas, caballeros, castillos, pugnas feudales, y sobre todo, violentas pasiones. [via]
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Rebelion En La Granja / Animal Farmby G. OrwelISBN 9706438807 (970-643-880-7)
Softcover, Selector S.A. De C.V.
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El Sueno Eterno/the Eternal Dreamby Raymond ChandlerISBN 950042522X (950-04-2522-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Drago Rossoby Robert Harris, Marco AmanteISBN 8804397705 (88-04-39770-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Gli Snicci E Altre Storie/The Sneetches and other Storiesby SeussISBN 8809024486 (88-09-02448-6)
Hardcover, Distribooks Inc
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Mentiras No Divaby YalomISBN 8500018925 (85-00-01892-5)
Softcover, Ediouro Publicacoes
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mentiras No Diva'Book summary:This is the Portuguese version of Lying On The Couch. Yalom's second novel is an ingenious blend of psychological insight and fictional invention. In a daring spin on his lifelong devotion to chart the inner lives of patients in his intimate case histories, Dr.Yalom now turns the tables on the other half of the therapeutic relationship - the therapists themselves. Meet Seymour, an older therapist from an age of secrets, who "interprets" the boundaries of sexual propriety. Or Marshal, haunted in his own obsessive-compulsive behaviors. And finally there is Ernest Lash, who, saved ultimately by his sincere desire to help people, risks a totally open, authentic relationship with a patient and assumes that to be healing in and of itself. Their stories are rendered here with great affection and ruthless recognition. In Lying on the Couch, the reader is seated ringside the nastiest of power plays between therapists and patients and moved by a resolution of suprising humanity and redemptive faith. [via]
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Slapstick, Eller, Aldrig Mera Ensamby Kurt VonnegutISBN 9117810213 (91-1-781021-3)
Softcover, PAN/Norstedts
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