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ACME Novelty Libraryby Chris WareISBN 1897299028 (1-897299-02-8)
Hardcover, Drawn & Quarterly Publications
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Alexander's Bridgeby Willa Cather, Hermione LeeISBN 1853811637 (1-85381-163-7)
Softcover, Virago Pr
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Angel Lustby Perry BrassISBN 1892149001 (1-892149-00-1)
Softcover, Asp Wholesale
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Animal Farmby Ian Woodldridge, George OrwellISBN 1854597892 (1-85459-789-2)
Softcover, Hern Books, Limited, Nick
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Assorted Fire Events: Storiesby David MeansISBN 1893956059 (1-893956-05-9)
Hardcover, Context Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Assorted Fire Events: Stories'Book summary:A bleak inevitability pervades David Means's splendid collection of stories. If the weather's not cold in Assorted Fire Events--which it usually is--then there's an icy fist squeezing someone's heart. In the melancholy "Coitus," for instance, the protagonist, while making illicit afternoon love with a woman who is not his wife, relives the circumstances of his brother's death by drowning in a frigid Michigan river. In "Tahorah," a ravaged old trucker with a balloon pump nestled next to his heart lies helpless in the CCU as his fury mounts at the noisy, foreign-language laments going on out in the hallway. But one of the pleasures of these tough stories comes in unexpected flashes of tenderness or redemption. Sitting shiva for his daughter, a man sees his estranged brother laughing--and rather than erupting into predictable indignation, he is reminded of a treasured shared childhood.
Means explores the fateful intersection where disparate lives touch and thereafter are never the same. In admirably efficient and elegant prose, he weaves a story of an angry, failing pipe supplier celebrating the second marriage of his wife's best friend to a business rival. Sucking down scotches, he thinks the groom needs "breaking in, like a new baseball glove. Someone should pour neat's-foot oil onto it and mash a fist around, grind it right in--get the rich freshness, that silver-spoon suck, out of those cheeks." Into this bitter musing stumbles a homeless man in search of a handout, and then the story ricochets forward in time to the aftermath of the encounter, a ruptured spleen, and inevitable divorce. In the space of a few pages entire lives are revealed.
Railroads figure in several tales--a mournful distant whistle, a bygone hobo culture, and the modern equivalent where the rail-beds and switching yards on the fringes of towns attract the homeless and the hapless. In the title piece, annotated incidents of arson and immolation, some real, some fiction, are strung together into a compelling album of calamity. Fierce and complex, illuminated by compassion, these are stories from the bitter edges of experience. --Victoria Jenkins [via]
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The Best of 2.13.61 Publicationsby Henry RollinsISBN 1880985624 (1-880985-62-4)
Softcover, 2 13 61
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Billy Budd & Other Storiesby Herman MelvilleISBN 185326749X (1-85326-749-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd & Other Stories'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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The Black Flowerby Howard BahrISBN 187785350X (1-877853-50-X)
Hardcover, Nautical & Aviation Pub Co of Amer
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By Right of Conquest: Or, With Cortez in Mexicoby G. A. Henty, Rick G. MedlinISBN 1887159460 (1-887159-46-0)
Softcover, Preston-Speed Pubns
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By Right of Conquest: Or, With Cortez in Mexicoby Rick G. Medlin, W. S. StaceyISBN 1887159215 (1-887159-21-5)
Softcover, Preston-Speed Pubns
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Captain from Castileby Samuel Shellabarger, Jonathan YardleyISBN 1882593634 (1-882593-63-4)
Hardcover, Bridge Works Pub Co
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Captain from Castile : The Best-Selling Historical Epicby Samuel Shellabarger, Jonathan YardleyISBN 1882593626 (1-882593-62-6)
Softcover, Bridge Works Publishing Company, Incorporated
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The Captain from Connecticutby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 1877853305 (1-877853-30-5)
Softcover, Nautical & Aviation Pub Co of Amer
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Cathedralby Raymond CarverISBN 1860463878 (1-86046-387-8)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Chandler - Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories; The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Windowby Raymond Chandler, Frank MacShaneISBN 1883011078 (1-883011-07-8)
Hardcover, Library of America, The
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Cocaine Nightsby J.G. BallardISBN 188717866X (1-887178-66-X)
Hardcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cocaine Nights'Book summary:When travel writer Charles Prentice arrives at Estrella de Mar, a resort town near Gibraltar populated primarily by British retirees, to find out why his brother Frank has been jailed, he's shocked to find that Frank has confessed to a spectacular act of arson that left five people dead. Charles tries to find the real culprit by hanging around Estrella de Mar, which one resident describes as "like Chelsea or Greenwich Village in the 1960s. There are theatre and film clubs, a choral society, cordon blue classes.... Stand still for a moment and you find yourself roped into a revival of Waiting for Godot." But the longer he stays, the more confused Charles is by the residents' breezy lack of concern about the constant background of vandalism, rape, prostitution, and drug dealing.
Things become clearer as Charles makes the acquaintance of local tennis pro Bobby Crawford, who has some interesting hypotheses about how to maintain the quality of the inner life in the age of affluence. As another of the locals explains, "Leisure societies lie ahead of us, like those you see on this coast. People ... will retire in their late thirties, with fifty years of idleness in front of them.... But how do you energize people, give them some sense of community?" Bobby's succinct answer, provided to Charles in another context: "There's nothing like a violent reflex now and then to tune up the nervous system." Bobby convinces Charles to help him replicate his social experiment in an adjacent retirement community, slowly convincing him that crime and creativity really do go hand in hand. But who, if anybody, takes the responsibility?
Cocaine Nights resonates quite neatly with Ballard's earlier science fiction and experimental stories. As early as The Atrocity Exhibition, Ballard was speculating about the salubrious effects of transgression, and his science fiction novel High Rise also deals with the introduction of violence to a self-contained paradise. Cocaine Nights differs from that earlier work primarily in that it is a naturalistic fiction set in a world that is much more ostensibly real, a world that, with a little less detached theorizing (even at his most natural, it seems, Ballard cannot help but be clinical) on the part of its characters, might even be mistaken for real. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Dead of the House: A Novelby Hannah GreenISBN 1885983077 (1-885983-07-7)
Softcover, Turtle Point Pr
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Diamond As Big As the Ritzby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 1860920330 (1-86092-033-0)
Softcover, Travelman Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diamond As Big As the Ritz'Book summary:Stories in the Travelman Short Stories series take the reader to places of mystery, fantasy, horror, romance, and corners of the universe yet unexplored. In turn, readers take them on the bus or subway, slip them into briefcases and lunchboxes, and send them from Jersey to Juneau. Each classic or original short story is printed on one sheet of paper and folded like a map. This makes it simple to read while commuting, convenient to carry when not, and easy to give or send to a friend. A paper envelope is provided for mailing or gift-giving, and both are packaged in a clear plastic envelope for display. The cost is not much more than a greeting card. [via]
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A Different Sinby Rochelle H. SchwabISBN 187960308X (1-879603-08-X)
Softcover, Los Hombres Pr
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Dragon's Teeth Iby Upton SinclairISBN 1931313032 (1-931313-03-2)
Softcover, Simon Pubns
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Early Autumnby Louis BromfieldISBN 1888683317 (1-888683-31-7)
Softcover, Wooster Book Co
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Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poemsby J.D. McClatchyISBN 1931082359 (1-931082-35-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems'Book summary:A lively selection by J. D. McClatchy, the distinguished poet, critic, and editor, casts Millay's career in a new light. Here are familiar favorites alongside neglected gems: translations, a verse play, songs from her opera libretto The King's Henchman, and the complete sonnet sequence Fatal Interview. [via]
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Elephant, and Other Storiesby Raymond CarverISBN 1860465005 (1-86046-500-5)
Softcover, Harvill Press
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Entretien Avec UN Vampire/Interview With the Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 2266034839 (2-266-03483-9)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Erotique Legsby Carlton Books StaffISBN 1858688701 (1-85868-870-1)
Hardcover, Carlton Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Erotique Legs'Book summary:In this series, Objects of Desire, each book is individually celebrated with exquisite and erotic photography. [via]
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Essays of Four Decadesby Allen Tate, Louise CowanISBN 1882926293 (1-882926-29-3)
Hardcover, Isi Books
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Exodusby Leon UrisISBN 2221098625 (2-221-09862-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exodus'Book summary:Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era. Here is Exodus --one of the great best-selling novels of all time.
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury, Jacques Chambon, Henri RobillotISBN 2070415732 (2-07-041573-2)
Softcover, Gallimard
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A Fine Dark Lineby Joe R. LansdaleISBN 1931081662 (1-931081-66-2)
Hardcover, Subterranean
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Fortune's Worldby Michael CollinsISBN 1885941455 (1-885941-45-5)
Hardcover, Crippen & Landru Pub
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Girl in Hyacinth Blueby Susan VreelandISBN 1878448900 (1-878448-90-0)
Hardcover, Macmurray & Beck Communication
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue'Book summary:There are only 35 known Vermeers extant in the world today. In Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland posits the existence of a 36th. The story begins at a private boys' academy in Pennsylvania where, in the wake of a faculty member's unexpected death, math teacher Cornelius Engelbrecht makes a surprising revelation to one of his colleagues. He has, he claims, an authentic Vermeer painting, "a most extraordinary painting in which a young girl wearing a short blue smock over a rust-colored skirt sat in profile at a table by an open window." His colleague, an art teacher, is skeptical and though the technique and subject matter are persuasively Vermeer-like, Engelbrecht can offer no hard evidence--no appraisal, no papers--to support his claim. He says only that his father, "who always had a quick eye for fine art, picked it up, let us say, at an advantageous moment." Eventually it is revealed that Engelbrecht's father was a Nazi in charge of rounding up Dutch Jews for deportation and that the picture was looted from one doomed family's home:
That's when I saw that painting, behind his head. All blues and yellows and reddish brown, as translucent as lacquer. It had to be a Dutch master. Just then a private found a little kid covered with tablecloths behind some dishes in a sideboard cabinet. We'd almost missed him.
By the end of "Love Enough," this first of eight interrelated stories tracing the history of "Girl in Hyacinth Blue," the painting's fate at the hands of guilt-riddled Engelbrecht fils is in question. Unfortunately, there is no doubt about the probable destiny of the previous owners, the Vredenburg family of Rotterdam, who take center stage in the powerful "A Night Different From All Other Nights." Vreeland handles this tale with subtlety and restraint, setting it at Passover, the year before the looting, and choosing to focus on the adolescent Hannah Vredenburg's difficult passage into adulthood in the face of an uncertain future. In the next story, "Adagia," she moves even further into the past to sketch "how love builds itself unconsciously ... out of the momentous ordinary" in a tender portrait of a longtime marriage. Back and back Vreeland goes, back through other owners, other histories, to the very inception of the painting in the homely, everyday objects of the Vermeer household--a daughter's glass of milk, a son's shirt in need of buttons, a wife's beloved sewing basket--"the unacknowledged acts of women to hallow home." Girl in Hyacinth Blue ends with the painting's subject herself, Vermeer's daughter Magdalena, who first sends the portrait out into the world as payment for a family debt, then sees it again, years later at an auction.She thought of all the people in all the paintings she had seen that day, not just Father's, in all the paintings of the world, in fact. Their eyes, the particular turn of a head, their loneliness or suffering or grief was borrowed by an artist to be seen by other people throughout the years who would never see them face to face. People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her.
In this final passage, Susan Vreeland might be describing her own masterpiece as well as Vermeer's. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Girl in Hyacinth Blue:
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A Girl of the Limberlostby Gene Stratton PorterISBN 1905432968 (1-905432-96-8)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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The Granta Book of the American Long Storyby Richard FordISBN 1862072779 (1-86207-277-9)
Softcover, Granta Books
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H. P. Lovecraft: Against The World, Against Lifeby Michel Houellebecq, Stephen KingISBN 1932416188 (1-932416-18-8)
Softcover, McSweeneys Books
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Hardballby Barbara D'AmatoISBN 1932325018 (1-932325-01-8)
Softcover, Crum Creek Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hardball'Book summary:A bomb explodes, taking the life of Louise Sugarman and injuring reporter Cat Marsala. As a controversial advocate for the decriminalization of drugs and for treating addiction as a medical problem, Sugarman has many enemies. Outraged by the attack, Cat resolves to find the killer. The investigation forces Cat to confront the issue and the people on both sides of the debate. This Mystery Company edition restores to print the 1990 novel that marked the debut of the Cat Marsala series. [via]
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Harp Of The Grey Roseby Charles De LintISBN 1931081875 (1-931081-87-5)
Hardcover, Subterranean
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The Huntersby James SalterISBN 1860465072 (1-86046-507-2)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Iron Dreamby SpinradISBN 1902002164 (1-902002-16-4)
Hardcover, C T Publishing
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Kirith Kirinby Jim GrimsleyISBN 1892065169 (1-892065-16-9)
Softcover, Meisha Merlin Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kirith Kirin'Book summary:Kirith Kirin is like no other fantasy that you have ever read. Jim Grimsley has created a fantasy that could have come right from our world where power and greed can tempt, and sometimes conquer, even the most rightist person and where knowing who your friends and enemies are can be very difficult if not impossible. Yet it is not our world. For in Kirith Kirin's world magic is real, immortals walk the land, and people are sometimes the playthings for the dark arts. The Blue Queen, upon resuming the throne while King Kirith Kirin's eternality is renewed in the Arthen forest, has partnered with a magician of the dark arts. No longer does she need to leave the throne to renew her eternal nature. Swayed by promises of the dark magician, she has claimed the throne forever and is extending her influence to the far corners of the world. Malleable grey clouds, sidewinding wind, and intelligent lightning bolts made the trip across the vast Girdle nearly impossible. Out of nowhere, the Blue Queen's Patrols made haste to kill the boy and the warrior before they could safely reach the deep forest of Arthen. Riding upon two magnificent stallions, one a royal Prince out of Queen Mnemarra, Jessex and his uncle Sivisal reached Arthen despite a deadly storm that reeked of magic. Thus begins Jessex's new life as he enters Arthen and moves into the royal court of Kirith Kirin. [via]
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The Last Kabbalist of Lisbonby Richard ZimlerISBN 1900850036 (1-900850-03-6)
Softcover, Arcadia Books Ltd
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Later Novels and Other Writingsby Raymond Chandler, Frank MacShaneISBN 1883011086 (1-883011-08-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Later Novels and Other Writings'Book summary:Raymond Chandler is arguably the best American pulp novelist. His prose is so acutely visual, his characters so raw and intense that it is small wonder that all but one of his books have been made into movies. And his hero Philip Marlowe has graduated into American legend. Together with its companion volume (Stories and Early Novels), Later Novels and Other Writings forms the most complete Chandler collection in print. In addition to his later novels, this collection contains selected essays and letters, biographical information, and textual as well as explanatory notes. As an added bonus, the editor has included Chandler's screenplay to Double Indemnity, the classic Billy Wilder film adapted from James M. Cain's novel. You're able to compare the script to the finished movie and have the rare opportunity to see how one major crime novelist altered and interpreted another. [via]
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Le Testament / the Testamentby John GrishamISBN 2266110594 (2-266-11059-4)
Softcover, Presse Pocket
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Sur le thème "l'argent rend fou, l'alcool aussi", John Grisham livre un nouveau best-seller. A mi-chemin entre le roman d'aventures et ses habituels thrillers inspirés de son expérience d'avocat, l'auteur de L'affaire Pélican tisse la toile d'un récit passionnant, marqué par les délires des familles légitimes et surtout par les personnalités de l'avocat alcoolique et de l'héritière, la seule justement à être désintéressée ! La description du Pantanal est hallucinante. --Bruno Ménard [via]
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollowby Washington IrvingISBN 1890517143 (1-890517-14-3)
Softcover, Varsitybooks.Com
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Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkleby Washington IrvingISBN 1905432100 (1-905432-10-0)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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Maltese Falconby Dashiell HammettISBN 1883402158 (1-883402-15-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maltese Falcon'Book summary:Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. In The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels (including The Dain Curse and The Glass Key), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the police, risking his reputation when a beautiful woman begs for his help, while knowing that betrayal may deal him a new hand in the next moment.
Spade's partner is murdered on a stakeout; the cops blame him for the killing; a beautiful redhead with a heartbreaking story appears and disappears; grotesque villains demand a payoff he can't provide; and everyone wants a fabulously valuable gold statuette of a falcon, created as tribute for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Who has it? And what will it take to get it back? Spade's solution is as complicated as the motives of the seekers assembled in his hotel room, but the truth can be a cold comfort indeed.
Spade is bigger (and blonder) in the book than in the movie, and his Mephistophelean countenance is by turns seductive and volcanic. Sam knows how to fight, whom to call, how to rifle drawers and secrets without leaving a trace, and just the right way to call a woman "Angel" and convince her that she is. He is the quintessence of intelligent cool, with a wise guy's perfect pitch. If you only know the movie, read the book. If you're riveted by Chinatown or wonder where Robert B. Parker's Spenser gets his comebacks, read the master. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
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The Man With the Golden Armby Nelson AlgrenISBN 1888363185 (1-888363-18-5)
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The Manchurian Candidateby Richard CondonISBN 1874061084 (1-874061-08-4)
Hardcover, No Exit Press
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Medieval in LAby Jim PaulISBN 1887178155 (1-887178-15-5)
Hardcover, Counterpoint
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Nashville 1864 : The Dying of the Lightby Madison JonesISBN 187994135X (1-879941-35-X)
Hardcover, Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
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Novels, 1930-1942by Dawn Powell, Tim PageISBN 1931082014 (1-931082-01-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Novels, 1942-1952by John Steinbeck, Robert DemottISBN 1931082073 (1-931082-07-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Novels, 1942-1952'Book summary:This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling.[via]
The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders. In Cannery Row (1945) Steinbeck paid tribute to his closest friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, in the central character of Doc, proprietor of the Western Biological Laboratory and spiritual and financial mainstay of a cast of philosophical drifters and hangers-on. The comic and bawdy evocation of the main street of Monterey's sardine-canning district has made this one of the most popular of all Steinbeck's novels. Steinbeck's long involvement with Mexican culture is distilled in The Pearl (1947). Expanding on an anecdote he had heard about a boy who found a pearl of unusual size, Steinbeck turned it into an allegory of the corrupting influence of sudden wealth. The Pearl appears here with the original illustrations by José Clemente Orozco.
Ambitious in scale and original in structure, East of Eden (1952) recounts the violent and emotionally turbulent history of a Salinas Valley family through several generations. Drawing on Biblical parallels, East of Eden is an epic that explores the writer's deepest and most anguished concerns within a landscape that for him had mythic resonance.More editions of Novels, 1942-1952:
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Pninby Vladimir NabokovISBN 1857152727 (1-85715-272-7)
Hardcover, Alfred A. Knopf
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The Princess Casamassimaby Henry JamesISBN 1857150503 (1-85715-050-3)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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The Return of Little Big Manby Thomas BergerISBN 1860466001 (1-86046-600-1)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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The Riders of the Purple Sageby Zane GreyISBN 1853265764 (1-85326-576-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories: Library Editionby Washington IrvingISBN 1883789400 (1-883789-40-0)
Hardcover, Black Dome Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories: Library Edition'Book summary:Washington Irving's story of a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains and awakens to find a changed world has been a classic of American Literature. This deluxe gift edition carefully reproduces thity-four of Arthir Rackham's enchanting and exquisuute paintings. [via]
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Shadow Hawkby Andre NortonISBN 1883937671 (1-883937-67-1)
Softcover, Bethlehem Books
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The Sheltering Skyby Paul Bowles, Daniel HalpernISBN 1931082197 (1-931082-19-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sheltering Sky'Book summary:Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important composer when at age 39 he published The Sheltering Sky and became recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period. From his base in Tangier he produced globally ranging novels, stories, and travel writings that set exquisite surfaces over violent undercurrents. His elegantly spare novels chart the unpredictable collisions between "civilized" exiles and a Morocco they never grasp, achieving effects of extreme horror and dislocation.
This Library of America Bowles set, the first annotated edition, offers the full range of his achievement: the portrait of an outsider who was one of the essential American writers of the last century. In addition to his novels-The Sheltering Sky (1949), Let It Come Down (1952), The Spider's House (1955), Up Above the World (1966)-and his collected stories-including such classics as "A Distant Episode" and "Pages from Cold Point"-they contain his masterpiece of travel writing, Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963). Throughout, Bowles shows himself a master of gothic terror and a diabolically funny observer of manners as well as a prescient guide to everything from the roots of Islamist politics to the world of Moghrebi music. With a hallucinatory clarity as dry and unforgiving as the desert air, Bowles sends his characters toward encounters with unknown and terrifying forces both outside them and within them. [via]More editions of The Sheltering Sky:
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Something Wicked This Way Comesby Ray Bradbury, Joe MuznainiISBN 188736823X (1-887368-23-X)
Hardcover, Gauntlet Pr
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Sparrowhawk--Jack Frakeby Edward ClineISBN 1931561214 (1-931561-21-4)
Softcover, Macadam Cage Pub
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Sport and a Pastimeby James SalterISBN 1860463851 (1-86046-385-1)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937by John Steinbeck, Robert Demott, Elaine A. SteinbeckISBN 1883011019 (1-883011-01-9)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937'Book summary:For the first time in one volume, the early California writings of one of America's greatest novelists have been collected, including the seminal works, Tortilla Flat and Of Mice and Men, tracing his early growth and evolution. 20,000 first printing. [via]
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Swamp Foetus: A Collection of Short Storiesby Poppy Z. BriteISBN 1880325055 (1-880325-05-5)
Hardcover, Borderlands Pr
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A Tale of the Western Plainsby G. A. Henty, Alfred PearseISBN 1890623008 (1-890623-00-8)
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Tales and Sketchesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 1883011337 (1-883011-33-7)
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U. S. A.by John DOS Passos, Daniel Aaron, Townsend LudingtonISBN 1883011140 (1-883011-14-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'U. S. A.'Book summary:Unique for its epic scale and panoramic social sweep, Dos Passos' masterpiece comprises three novels--"The 42nd Parallel," "1919," and "The Big Money"--which create an unforgettable collective portrait of modern America. This one-volume edition includes detailed notes and a chronicle of the world events which serve as a backdrop. [via]
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The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 188937234X (1-889372-34-X)
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When I Lived in Modern Timesby Linda GrantISBN 1862074046 (1-86207-404-6)
Softcover, Granta Books
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Wieland, or the Transformationby James P. Lynch, C. B. BrownISBN 1931468028 (1-931468-02-8)
Softcover, Invisible College Pr Llc
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William Carlos Williams: Selected Poemsby Robert PinskyISBN 1931082715 (1-931082-71-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 1894998138 (1-894998-13-8)
Softcover, Jack Lake Prod Inc
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Michael ForemanISBN 186205343X (1-86205-343-X)
Hardcover, Pavilion Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:[via]When a cyclone whisked Dorothy far from the gray prairies of Kansas to the colorful Land of Oz, it not only set a courageous and determined little girl on a series of unforgettable adventuresit blew fresh air into childrens literature. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is what the author called "a modern fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartache and nightmares left out." It's now more than a hundred years since Dorothy and her endearing companionsher mischievous dog Toto, the brainless but practical-minded Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, and the kindly Tin Woodsman who longs for a heartfirst marched along the yellow brick road into storybook history. In this edition, Michael Foreman's bright, whimsical watercolors of Dorothy and her friends capture the enchanting essence of L. Frank Baum's "wondertale."More editions of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
World's End Iby Upton SinclairISBN 1931313016 (1-931313-01-6)
Softcover, Simon Pubns
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You Can't Winby Jack BlackISBN 1902593022 (1-902593-02-2)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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› Find signed collectible books: 'You Can't Win'Book summary:[via]The favorite book of William Burroughs. A journey into the hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still Wild West, becoming a highwayman and member of the yegg (criminal) brotherhood, getting hooked on opium, doing stints in jail or escaping, often with the assistance of crooked cops or judges. Our lost history revived.. With an introduction by Burroughs. A BookSense 77 selection.
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Les Amants Mauditsby Katia GranoffISBN 2264002190 (2-264-00219-0)
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L' Arbre Genereuxby Shel SilversteinISBN 2211094155 (2-211-09415-5)
Hardcover, Archimede Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L' Arbre Genereux'Book summary:Métaphore de l'existence par les simples figures de l'arbre et de l'homme, L'Arbre généreux est l'histoire "d'un arbre qui aimait un petit garçon". Le petit garçon devient jeune homme, le jeune homme un adulte, l'adulte un vieillard. À chaque étape de son existence, l'homme trouve auprès de l'arbre le réconfort nécessaire lui permettant de poursuivre sa quête sur le chemin de la vie.
L'illustration pleine page monochrome joue de la disproportion de l'arbre et de l'enfant. Le trait discret de Silverstein, auteur et illustrateur américain, peut rappeler celui d'un Sempé ou d'un Piem. Quelques traits de plume suffisent à faire surgir sur la page l'intensité de la relation d'intimité entre le jeune garçon et l'arbre. Dans ce face-à-face, l'arbre est rendu aussi expressif que l'enfant. De fait, le lien qui unit l'enfant à l'arbre est profond, c'est-à-dire que cet attachement n'est pas seulement sensible, il est aussi le lieu d'une interrogation sur notre sort car l'arbre ne peut donner à l'homme que ce qu'il a. En retour, ce qui fait la grandeur de l'homme, c'est précisément la prise de conscience de cette richesse. Une très beau conte d'essence philosophique pour tous les publics. À partir de 5 ans. --Denis Gombert [via]
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La Firme / the Firmby John GrishamISBN 2266056921 (2-266-05692-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Firme / the Firm'Book summary:Le jeune juriste Mitchell Y. McDeere est récompensé de ses brillantes études à Harvard : à Memphis, le très sélect cabinet d'avocats Bendini, Lambert & Locke lui offre un véritable pont d'or pour l'engager. Son épouse Abby est ravie, même si la firme semble bien indiscrète sur leur vie privée et si Mitch doit travailler comme un forcené pour mériter son salaire mirobolant. Les choses se gâtent quand des collaborateurs meurent mystérieusement et qu'un agent du FBI apprend au jeune homme la terrifiante vérité sur les véritables activités du cabinet d'avocats. Il semble que l'on ne sorte de chez Bendini, Lambert & Locke que les pieds devant. Mitch devra courir vite pour sauver sa vie...
Incarné au cinéma par Tom Cruise dans La Firme, le personnage de Mitch McDeere est celui qui a révélé John Grisham au grand public. Vendu à plus de trois millions d'exemplaires aux États-Unis, ce roman a permis à l'auteur d'arrêter sa carrière de juriste pour se consacrer à l'écriture de best-sellers, comme L'Affaire Pélican, L'Associé, L'Idéaliste, Le Testament, La Loi du plus faible. Un suspense mené de main de maître. --Bruno Ménard [via]
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H. P. Lovecraft: Against The World, Against Lifeby Michel HouellebecqISBN 2268010856 (2-268-01085-6)
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Jean Paulhan Le Souterrainby Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle, Jacques BersaniISBN 2264000252 (2-264-00025-2)
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Laurier Blancby Janet FitchISBN 2253152897 (2-253-15289-7)
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LA Ligne Verteby Stephen KingISBN 2290301868 (2-290-30186-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Ligne Verte'Book summary:Octobre 1932, pénitencier d'État, Cold Mountain, Louisiane. Le bloc E, celui des condamnés à mort, reçoit un nouveau pensionnaire : John Caffey rejoint ceux qui attendent de franchir la ligne verte pour rencontrer la chaise électrique, Miss Cent Mille Volts. Mais Caffey n'est pas comme les autres. D'accord, on l'a retrouvé auprès des cadavres ensanglantés de deux petites filles, mais il est étrangement absent. Jusqu'au jour où Paul, le gardien-chef, tombe malade et alors une terrible vérité semble s'esquisser. Qui est ce prétendu meurtrier aux pouvoirs étranges ? Qui dresse Mister Jingles, l'étrange souris, bien trop intelligente ? Quand Paul commence à répondre à ces questions, il sent que personne dans le bloc E ne sortira indemne de la rencontre avec John Caffey.
Renouant avec la tradition des feuilletonistes, Stephen King, le prolifique auteur de fantastique, propose un récit troublant, initialement en six volumes, entre roman noir et conte de fées, dont a été tiré un film, La Ligne verte, avec Tom Hanks. --Lisa B. [via]
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Le Magicien D'Ozby L. Frank Baum, Yvette MetralISBN 2277216526 (2-277-21652-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Magicien D'Oz'Book summary:« Dorothée poussa un cri d'admiration et regarda autour d'elle, ses yeux s'écarquillaient à chaque merveille qu'elle découvrait... » C'est vers un pays bien étrange et merveilleux que Dorothée et Toto, son petit chien, se trouvent emportés par un cyclone. Mais malgré la beauté des lieux, la fillette n'a qu'une envie : rentrer chez elle au plus tôt. Lorsqu'elle apprend que seul le Grand Magicien de ce fabuleux pays d'Oz peut l'aider, elle part à sa recherche. En chemin, l'Épouvantail, le Bûcheron-en-fer-blanc et le Lion Poltron qu'elle rencontre décident de l'accompagner jusqu'à la mystérieuse Cité d'Émeraude. Et là? Le Grand Oz qu'ils découvrent ensemble se révélera encore plus énigmatique qu'ils ne l'imaginaient... Sur les traces de Dorothée, Lisbeth Zwerger nous emporte dans le monde enchanteur du célèbre « Magicien d'Oz » qu'elle réinvente aujourd'hui pour nous. Et grâce aux lunettes vertes qui accompagnent ce livre, l'illusion devient parfaite. Ses illustrations, à la fois magiques et capricieuses, nous livrent une approche nouvelle et fantastique de ce conte moderne de Lyman Frank Baum, un grand classique de la littérature enfantine américaine. [via]
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Mortelles Decisionsby Kathy ReichsISBN 2266129627 (2-266-12962-7)
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LA Petite Fille Qui Aimait Tom Gordonby Stephen KingISBN 225315136X (2-253-15136-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Petite Fille Qui Aimait Tom Gordon'Book summary:« Le monde a des dents, et quand l'envie le prend de mordre, il ne s'en prive pas. Trisha McFarland avait neuf ans lorsqu'elle s'en aperçut. Ce fut un matin, au début du mois de juin. A dix heures, elle était assise à l'arrière de la Dodge Caravan de sa mère, vêtue de son maillot d'entraînement bleu roi de l'équipe des Red Sox (avec 36 GORDON inscrit dans le dos), et jouait avec Mona, sa poupée. A dix heures trente, elle était perdue dans la forêt. A onze heures, elle s'efforçait de ne pas céder à la panique, de ne pas se direJe suis en danger,de chasser de sa tête l'idée que les gens qui se perdent dans la forêt s'en tirent quelquefois avec de graves blessures, que quelquefois même ils en meurent. » [via]
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Prisonniers Du Tempsby Micheal CrichtonISBN 2266115227 (2-266-11522-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prisonniers Du Temps'Book summary:601pages. poche. Broché. Au beau milieu du désert d'Arizona, un couple trouve sur la route un vieil homme en robe de bure. Il n'a plus sa tête, parle sans cesse d'écume quantique et ses doigts semblent gelés. Il meurt quelques heures plus tard à l'hôpital de Gallup. On ne retrouve sur lui que le plan d'un monastère français du XIVème siècle et un objet fabriqué par la société ITC -entreprise de haute technologie spécialisée dans la recherche en physique quantique -pour laquelle il travaillait. ITC est dirigée par Robert Doniger, un brillant -et non moins arrogant -physicien qui, depuis quinze ans, est à la pointe des recherches, et dont la plus récente et secrète entreprise est de recréer, grâce à une équipe de chercheurs, une communauté médiévale du XIVème siècle en Dordogne. Quelle n'est pas l'extrême surprise de ces historiens de l'université de Yale lorsqu'ils vont comparer le plan des fondations du monastère trouvé sur le vieillard et les résultats de leurs propres investigations: celui-là est plus riche d'informations que toutes leurs recherches! Mais ce n'est que la première de leurs surprises: quelques jours plus tard sont mis au jour des parchemins remontant à six cent cinquante ans: l'un d'entre eux, daté très précisément du 4 juillet 1357, dit "A l'aide". Il est signé par le professeur Johnson, leur propre directeur de recherches, parti deux jours plus tôt rencontrer Robert Doniger. [via]
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Les Refuges De Pierreby Jean AuelISBN 2258058376 (2-258-05837-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Refuges De Pierre'Book summary:Dans ce cinquième volet de la saga préhistorique « Les Enfants de la Terre », Ayla donne naissance à un enfant très attendu et prend conscience du rôle qu'elle est appelée à jouer dans la destinée des Zelandonii, la tribu de Jondalar. Après un long voyage épique à travers l'Europe, Ayla et Jondalar arrivent à l'emplacement de la Neuvième Caverne, un camp de l'âge de pierre situé dans ce qu'on appellera bien plus tard le Périgord. C'est là que Jondalar retrouve la tribu qui l'a vu naître, et qui se réjouit de son retour. L'accueil fait à Ayla est plus mitigé. Cette femme parle avec un accent curieux et, surtout, elle est suivie par un loup et deux chevaux sur lesquels elle exerce un pouvoir troublant. Mais, si la jeune femme étonne les Zelandonii, ceux-ci la surprennent tout autant par leur façon de vivre dans leurs confortables abris-sous-roche et par la splendeur des peintures dont ils ornent leurs grottes. Plongée dans cet univers étranger, Ayla parviendra-t-elle à gagner la confiance des membres de la tribu de Jondalar ? [via]
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyISBN 3257208626 (3-257-20862-6)
Softcover, Diogenes Verlag AG
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Der Talentierte Mister Ripleyby Patricia HighsmithISBN 3257204817 (3-257-20481-7)
Softcover, Diogenes Verlag AG
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Der Talentierte Mister Ripley'Book summary:Aus der Amazon.de-Redaktion Anthony Minghellas eindrucksvolle Verfilmung von Patricia Highsmiths Der talentierte Mr. Ripley, die seit einigen Wochen in den Kinos zu sehen ist, bietet eine gute Gelegenheit, noch einmal den ersten Auftritt Tom Ripleys, einer der faszinierendsten Gestalten der Kriminalliteratur, nachzulesen. Patricia Highsmith veröffentlichte ihren ersten Ripley-Roman 1955 und beschrieb einen ehrgeizigen, aber mittellosen Mann, der unerwartet Gelegenheit erhält, das Leben zu führen, von dem er geträumt hat. Er wird vom reichen Fabrikanten Greenleaf beauftragt, dessen Sohn Dickie in Italien aufzustöbern und nach Hause zurückzuholen. Ripley findet Dickie, denkt jedoch nicht im Traum daran, ihn tatsächlich zurückzubringen, sondern gewinnt nach und nach dessen Sympathie. Er genießt das schöne Leben im Schlepptau von Dickie und dessen attraktiver Freundin Marge, bis -- ja bis ein Streit ihn mit Greenleaf entzweit und Ripleys Traum in Gefahr gerät. Tom Ripley plant den perfekten Mord, um in die Rolle seines "Freundes" schlüpfen zu können. Mit großer Meisterschaft hat Patricia Highsmith ihren Anti-Helden konstruiert und vor allem seine Psyche bis ins letzte Detail ausgefeilt. Aus einer Figur auf dem Papier wurde ein Mensch mit seinen Zweifeln, seinen Träumen, seiner Niedertracht, Eifersucht, kriminellen Energie und -- seinem Charme und seiner Liebenswürdigkeit. Ripley war geboren. Die Leser freuten sich über mehrere Wiedersehen in weiteren Romanen der Autorin. [via]
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! El Gato Con Sombrero Viene De Nuevoby Yanitzia Canetti, SeussISBN 1930332432 (1-930332-43-2)
Hardcover, Lectorum Pubns
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Book Details:- Format: Hardcover
- Publication Date: 1/1/2004
- Pages: 63
- Reading Level: Age 6 and Up
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Huevos Verdes Con Jamon / Green Eggs And Hamby Aida E. Marcuse, Seuss, Marcuse AidaISBN 1880507013 (1-880507-01-3)
Hardcover, Lectorum Pubns
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