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1876by Gore VidalISBN 0434829633 (0-434-82963-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: '1876'Book summary:The more things change, the more they stay the same: "The last few days would have brought down any parliamentary government. As it is, the Grant Administration is a shambles, and there is even talk that the President may resign."
Charles Schuyler, the narrator of Burr, returns to the United States after an absence of nearly 40 years, with his widowed daughter, Emma, in tow. While they try to find a suitably rich husband for Emma among the New York social set, Charles concentrates on the scandals in Washington--including accusations of corruption and obstruction of justice against Ulysses S. Grant--and the presidential race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden (Tilden apparently, in fact, won the election, only to have it taken away because of electoral fraud). Cameo appearances by Chester A. Arthur, Mark Twain, Charles Nordhoff, and others enliven the proceedings. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: From the Winchester MSS. of Thomas Malory and Other Sourcesby John Steinbeck, Thomas Malory, Chase HortonISBN 0434740225 (0-434-74022-5)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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After Darkby Manly Wade WellmanISBN 0425071030 (0-425-07103-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Ammie, Come Homeby Barbara MichaelsISBN 0425099490 (0-425-09949-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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And Ladies of the Clubby Helen Hoover SantmyerISBN 0425174409 (0-425-17440-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: '...And Ladies of the Club'Book summary:Glowing with romance, alive with passion, here is the phenomenal novel that topped bestseller lists from coast to coast... a magnificent saga of love and life, war and peace, set in America's warmest and richest decades...filled with people you will never forget and stories you will always remember. If you read only one novel this year, let it be ."...AND LADIES OF THE CLUB." [via]
Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0436350009 (0-436-35000-9)
Hardcover, Secker and Warburg
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Ballerinaby Edward StewartISBN 0425062988 (0-425-06298-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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A Baroque Fableby Chelsea Quinn YarboISBN 0425090817 (0-425-09081-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Basilicaby William D. MontalbanoISBN 0399144188 (0-399-14418-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Be Buried in the Rainby Barbara MichaelsISBN 0425096343 (0-425-09634-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Becoming Naomi Leonby Pam Munoz RyanISBN 0439269970 (0-439-26997-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Becoming Naomi Leon'Book summary:The highly anticipated new novel from the Pura Belpre and Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author of ESPERANZA RISING.
Naomi Soledad León Outlaw has had a lot to contend with in her young life, her name for one. Then there are her clothes (sewn in polyester by Gram), her difficulty speaking up, & her status at school as "nobody special." But according to Gram's self-prophecies, most problems can be overcome with positive thinking. Luckily, Naomi also has her carving to strengthen her spirit. And life with Gram & her little brother, Owen, is happy & peaceful. That is, until their mother reappears after 7 years of being gone, stirring up all sorts of questions & challenging Naomi to discover who she really is. [via] -
Blacklistby Sara ParetskyISBN 0399150854 (0-399-15085-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blacklist'Book summary:Privilege, politics, and perfidy jointly propel the circuitous plot of Blacklist, Sara Paretsky's 11th novel featuring tenacious Chicago private-eye V.I. Warshawski. By the time this story runs its course, V.I. will have harbored an alleged Arab terrorist, resurrected the ghosts of America's 1950s anti-Communist hysteria, and questioned the integrity of a man she once admired "to the point of hero worship." In other words, it's a typical case for this hard-headed, sarcastic, and perpetually sleep-deprived sleuth.
Still suffering from "exhaustion of the spirit" in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, V.I. is hired to find out who may be sneaking into a vacated suburban mansion. Geraldine Graham, the home's 91-year-old former owner, who still lives nearby, claims she's seen lights in the attic at night. Our heroine suspects this is simply a bid by the wealthy dowager for greater attention, but agrees to do some nocturnal prowling--only to stumble (literally) across the body of a dead black journalist, Marcus Whitby, in the estates ornamental pond and encounter a teenage girl fleeing the scene. The girl turns out to be Catherine Bayard, the granddaughter of Calvin Bayard, an unapologetically liberal book publisher who survived a hounding by the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee in the '50s without being blacklisted like so many of his authors. Digging deeper, V.I. learns that Whitby was doing research for a book about an African-American dancer and anthropologist who had enjoyed Bayard's support before she too was branded a Communist. Was Whitby killed en route to visit Bayard, one of Graham's neighbors--and a man who has strangely vanished from public view? And is there any connection between this murder and the disappearance of an Egyptian dishwasher, or the recent demise of a right-wing attorney and Bayard foe, in whose apartment V.I. is attacked by an intruder?
Except for a few astounding turns of luck (including the 11th-hour discovery of a revealing audiotape left in a car's player), Paretsky rolls out a credible yarn here, enriched by meticulous character development and an agreeably ambiguous conclusion. The author's intention to link McCarthy-era abuses with post-9/11 government assaults on civil rights is obvious, without being didactic, and it adds currency to a fictional investigation that's already rife with sex, betrayal, and long-held secrets among the rich. It's good to see that V.I. the P.I. hasn't lost the compassion or righteousness that first made her attractive two decades ago, in Indemnity Only. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
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The Bonesetter's Daughterby Amy TanISBN 0399146857 (0-399-14685-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'Book summary:At the beginning of Amy Tan's fourth novel, two packets of papers written in Chinese calligraphy fall into the hands of Ruth Young. One bundle is titled Things I Know Are True and the other, Things I Must Not Forget. The author? That would be the protagonist's mother, LuLing, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In these documents the elderly matriarch, born in China in 1916, has set down a record of her birth and family history, determined to keep the facts from vanishing as her mind deteriorates.
A San Francisco career woman who makes her living by ghostwriting self-help books, Ruth has little idea of her mother's past or true identity. What's more, their relationship has tended to be an angry one. Still, Ruth recognizes the onset of LuLing's decline--along with her own remorse over past rancor--and hires a translator to decipher the packets. She also resolves to "ask her mother to tell her about her life. For once, she would ask. She would listen. She would sit down and not be in a hurry or have anything else to do."
Framed at either end by Ruth's chapters, the central portion of The Bonesetter's Daughter takes place in China in the remote, mountainous region where anthropologists discovered Peking Man in the 1920s. Here superstition and tradition rule over a succession of tiny villages. And here LuLing grows up under the watchful eye of her hideously scarred nursemaid, Precious Auntie. As she makes clear, it's not an enviable setting:
I noticed the ripe stench of a pig pasture, the pockmarked land dug up by dragon-bone dream-seekers, the holes in the walls, the mud by the wells, the dustiness of the unpaved roads. I saw how all the women we passed, young and old, had the same bland face, sleepy eyes that were mirrors of their sleepy minds.
Nor is rural isolation the worst of it. LuLing's family, a clan of ink makers, believes itself cursed by its connection to a local doctor, who cooks up his potions and remedies from human bones. And indeed, a great deal of bad luck befalls the narrator and her sister GaoLing before they can finally engineer their escape from China. Along the way, familial squabbles erupt around every corner, particularly among mothers, daughters, and sisters. And as she did in her earlier The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan uses these conflicts to explore the intricate dynamic that exists between first-generation Americans and their immigrant elders. --Victoria Jenkins [via] -
The Bourne Identityby Robert LudlumISBN 0399900705 (0-399-90070-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bourne Identity'Book summary:The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum, Marek Publishers, 6th printing, 1980, ISBN # 0-399-90070-5, 523 pages. Description: Book; Black cloth with gold lettering to spine only, author's initials blind embossed on front board. Dust jacket; Green-to-blue gradated color with seashell and spike design to front panel, author's photo on back panel, DJ is price clipped, dated 8003. Condition: Book; Good reading copy. Tight and unmarked but considerable wear to gold lettering, all edges rubbed, some minor stains to both boards. Previous owner's name neatly inked to ffep. Dust jacket; Good. Bright but with some chips and small tears to top edge, lower edge of spine stained on the inside, leading edge of front panel has what looks like white paint smudges. Now protected in Brodart [via]
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Bud, Not Buddyby Not AvailableISBN 043940200X (0-439-40200-X)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bud, Not Buddy'Book summary:"It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud--"not Buddy"--Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes and Hoovervilles in 1930s Michigan. And the idea that's planted itself in his head is that Herman E. Calloway, standup-bass player for the Dusky Devastators of the Depression, is his father.
Guided only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows--a small, blue poster that had mysteriously upset his mother shortly before she died--Bud sets off to track down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on. And, being 10, Bud-not-Buddy gets into all sorts of trouble along the way, barely escaping a monster-infested woodshed, stealing a vampire's car, and even getting tricked into "busting slob with a real live girl." Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, once again exhibits his skill for capturing the language and feel of an era and creates an authentic, touching, often hilarious voice in little Bud. (Ages 8 to 12) --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Burning Plainby Michael NavaISBN 0399143106 (0-399-14310-6)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Cardinal of the Kremlinby Tom ClancyISBN 0425116840 (0-425-11684-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cardinal of the Kremlin'Book summary:Two men possess vital data on Russia's Star Wars missile defense system. One of them is CARDINAL--America's highest agent in the Kremlin--and he's about to be terminated by the KGB. The other is the one American who can save CARDINAL and lead the world to the brink of peace--or war. [via]
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Cathedralby Nelson DeMilleISBN 0440116201 (0-440-11620-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cathedral'Book summary:St Patrick's Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act - the seizure of Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan. The cops face a booby-trapped, perfectly laid out killing zone inside the church. The hostages face death. Flynn faces his own demons, in an electrifying duel of nerves, honor and betrayal... [via]
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The Confusionby Neal StephensonISBN 0434012386 (0-434-01238-6)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confusion'Book summary:Thrown back into a web of international intrigue, Eliza must contend with all manner of characters, including buccaneers, poisoners, Jesuits, financial manipulators, and ever the stray cryptographer or two.-In this hugely ambitious, profoundly compelling adventure, Neal Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery - men and women whose exploits defined an age known as the Baroque. [via]
The Custom of the Countryby Edith WhartonISBN 0425046087 (0-425-04608-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Divideby Nicholas EvansISBN 0399152067 (0-399-15206-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Dragon Mastersby Jack VanceISBN 0425082741 (0-425-08274-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Dragon Tearsby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0425208435 (0-425-20843-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Exit to Edenby Anne RamplingISBN 0440123925 (0-440-12392-5)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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A Fairy Tale: A Novelby S. SteinbergISBN 0440000114 (0-440-00011-4)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press
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The Fall of the House of Usherby Edgar Allen Poe, Jay GeldhofISBN 0425121402 (0-425-12140-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of the House of Usher'Book summary:This all-new adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's masterpiece of horror takes readers into the dark depths of the subconscious, unearthing hidden terrors of the human soul. [via]
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewaterby Kurt VonnegutISBN 044012929X (0-440-12929-X)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater'Book summary:God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is a comic masterpice. Eliot Rosewater, drunk, volunteer fireman, and president of the fabulously rich Rosewater foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature... with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. The result is Vonnegut's funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to. [via]
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God Knowsby Joseph HellerISBN 0440131855 (0-440-13185-5)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God Knows'Book summary:Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David -- yes, King David -- but as you've never seen him before. You already know David as the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon; now meet David as he really was: the cocky Jewish kid, the plagiarized poet, and the Jewish father. Listen as David tells his own story, a story both relentlessly ancient and surprisingly modern, about growing up and growing old, about men and women, and about man and God. It is quintessential Heller. [via]
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Going After Cacciatoby Tim O'BrienISBN 0440029481 (0-440-02948-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Going After Cacciato'Book summary:"In October, near the end of the month, Cacciato left the war."
In Tim O'Brien's novel Going After Cacciato the theater of war becomes the theater of the absurd as a private deserts his post in Vietnam, intent on walking 8,000 miles to Paris for the peace talks. The remaining members of his squad are sent after him, but what happens then is anybody's guess: "The facts were simple: They went after Cacciato, they chased him into the mountains, they tried hard. They cornered him on a small grassy hill. They surrounded the hill. They waited through the night. And at dawn they shot the sky full of flares and then they moved in.... That was the end of it. The last known fact. What remained were possibilities."
It is these possibilities that make O'Brien's National Book Award-winning novel so extraordinary. Told from the perspective of squad member Paul Berlin, the search for Cacciato soon enters the realm of the surreal as the men find themselves following an elusive trail of chocolate M&M's through the jungles of Indochina, across India, Iran, Greece, and Yugoslavia to the streets of Paris. The details of this hallucinatory journey alternate with feverish memories of the war--men maimed by landmines, killed in tunnels, engaged in casual acts of brutality that would be unthinkable anywhere else. Reminiscent of Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Going After Cacciato dishes up a brilliant mix of ferocious comedy and bleak horror that serves to illuminate both the complex psychology of men in battle and the overarching insanity of war. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Green Brainby Frank HerbertISBN 0425076768 (0-425-07676-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Brain'Book summary:In an overpopulated world seeking living room in the jungles, the International Ecological Organization was systematically exterminating the voracious insects that made these areas uninhabitable. Using deadly foamal bombs and newly developed vibration weapons, men like Joao Martinho and his coworkers fought to clear the green hell of the Mato Grosso.But somehow those areas that had been completely cleared were becoming reinfested, despite the impenetrable vibration barriers. And tales were coming out of the jungles-tales of insects mutated to incredible sizes, of creatures who seemed to be men but whose eyes gleamed with the chitinous sheen of insects...[via]More editions of The Green Brain:
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Heretics of Dune/300842by Frank HerbertISBN 0425076695 (0-425-07669-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heretics of Dune/300842'Book summary:With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. In this, the fifth and most spectacular Dune book of all, the planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love... [via]
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Hocus Pocusby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0425130215 (0-425-13021-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hocus Pocus'Book summary:Paperback Publisher: Berkley Books; paperback / softback edition (1991) Language: English [via]
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The Holcroft Covenantby Robert LudlumISBN 0399900012 (0-399-90001-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Holcroft Covenant'Book summary:The Fourth Reich is waiting to be born. The only man who can stop it is about to sign its birth certificate. In 1945 the children of the Third Reich were secretly hidden all over the world-to be concealed until the 1970's, when they would come of age. Then the most elaborate plans and $780 million in a Swiss bank would be waiting. There would even be an unsuspecting outsider to set the plan into action. that outsider is Noel Holcroft, the American son of a high-ranking Nazi. He's just been shown an amazing document, the Holcroft Covenant. If he signs, it will be his own death warrant and a devastating threat to the security of the world.
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Honey in the Hornby Harold Lenior DavisISBN 0404200745 (0-404-20074-5)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Idoruby William GibsonISBN 0425158640 (0-425-15864-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Idoru'Book summary:Colin Laney is a data analyst with a talent for seeing patterns, or nodes, as he calls them, in the flow of information that is cyberspace. Chia McKenzie is a young member of the fan club for the Japanese pop supergroup Lo/Rez. When a rumour involving the lead singer of Lo/Rez and an idoru, a Japanese virtual-reality singing idol, brings both Laney and Chia to Tokyo, the resulting web of events involves Russian criminals, Japanese schoolgirls, and illegal nanotechnology. And it's all set in a Tokyo that is literally growing and changing around the characters, rising from the rubble of a major earthquake.
Idoru is not William Gibson's best novel, but it is a good example of his primary strength: creating worlds that don't so much show the future as expose the world we already live in, a world of computers, information, mega-corporations, pop art, tabloids, and rock & roll. Idoru works not only on its own terms but also as a set-up for Gibson's next novel, All Tomorrow's Parties. Gibson broadens his perspective by including a wider range of characters than in his earlier novels, but mainly Idoru moves Gibson's work forward by pushing further into his familiar territory. It is the work not of a writer who is discovering new topics, but of one who is re-examining his old ones, bringing greater depth and maturity to his art in the process. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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Illustrated Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0425038912 (0-425-03891-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illustrated Dune'Book summary:New, unused, never read condition+ [via]
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Jailbirdby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440154731 (0-440-15473-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jailbird'Book summary:Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government. . .and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate's least known co-conspirator. But the humor turns dark when Vonnegut shines his spotlight on the cold hearts and calculated greed of the mighty, giving a razor-sharp edge to an unforgettable portait of power and politics in our times. [via]
The Lazarus Effectby J. T. Edson, Frank Herbert, Bill RansomISBN 0425097900 (0-425-09790-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollowby Washington Irving, Will MosesISBN 0399226877 (0-399-22687-7)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'Book summary:Richly detailed folk illustrations capturing the world of the eighteenth-century Hudson River valley accompany an entertaining version of Washington Irving's classic tale of romantic schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his terrifying encounter with the Headless Horseman. [via]
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Lincolnby Gore VidalISBN 0434830771 (0-434-83077-1)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lincoln'Book summary:Lincoln is a masterwork of historical fiction, in which Gore Vidal combines a comprehensive knowledge of Civil War America with 20th-century literary technique, probing the minds and motives of the men surrounding Abraham Lincoln, including personal secretary John Hay and scheming cabinet members William Seward and Salmon P. Chase, as well as his wife, Mary Todd. It is a book monumental in scope that never loses sight of the intimate and personal in its depiction of the power struggles that accompanied Lincoln's efforts to preserve the Union at all costs--efforts in which the eradication of slavery was far from the president's main objective. As usual, there's plenty of room for Vidal's wickedly humorous deflation of American icons, including a comic interlude in a Washington bordello in which Lincoln's former law partner informs Hay that Lincoln had contracted syphilis as a young man and had, just before marrying Mary Todd, suffered what can only be described as a nervous breakdown. (Protestors should note that Vidal is only passing along what that former partner had written in his own biography of Lincoln.) Don't be intimidated by the size of Lincoln; if you like historical fiction, you should read this book at the first opportunity. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Love and Warby John JakesISBN 0440150167 (0-440-15016-7)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Marathon Manby William GoldmanISBN 0440155029 (0-440-15502-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Matarese Circleby Robert LudlumISBN 0399900438 (0-399-90043-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Maydayby Thomas BlockISBN 0425047296 (0-425-04729-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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McNally's Puzzleby Lawrence SandersISBN 0425157466 (0-425-15746-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Memoirs of an American Citizenby Robert HerrickISBN 0403030919 (0-403-03091-9)
Hardcover, Scholarly Press
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Moonflashby Patricia A. McKillipISBN 0425084574 (0-425-08457-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moonflash'Book summary:Kyreol's small world begins at the Face, a high rock cliff, and ends at Fourteen Falls, a series of rapids. Each year, her people celebrate Moon-Flash-a spark of light that seems to come from and go into the moon, a symbol of life and joy. When a mysterious stranger arrives, Kyreol wants to know more about him, as well as the Moon-Flash, and soon she and her childhood friend Terje leave their home to look for answers. Those answers will pluck Kyreol from Riverworld and transform her life forever-by fast-forwarding her into a future she can barely comprehend. This omnibus edition combines the acclaimed Patricia A. McKillip's two science-fiction novels, Moon-Flash and The Moon and the Face-at the request of Firebird readers. [via]
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Old New Yorkby Edith WhartonISBN 0425046125 (0-425-04612-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old New York'Book summary:Edith Wharton (1862-1937), the grande dame of American literature, was also a subtle and spirited critic of its society. These novellas, set in the New York of the mid-1800s are united by Edith Wharton's compassionate and ironic vision. From Lewis Raycie, son of complacent plutocrats, who returns from his Grand Tour with Renaissance masterpieces only to be ridiculed and disinherited, to Lizzie Hazeldean, seen leaving a hotel with a man who is not her husband - honourable but unconventional people are sacrificed to the constraints of a society where appearances count for more than genuine goodness. Here is a fascinating insight into the world from which Edith Wharton came. [via]
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On the Occasion of My Last Afternoonby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0399142991 (0-399-14299-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Out Of The Dustby Karen HesseISBN 0439771277 (0-439-77127-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out Of The Dust'Book summary:Like the Oklahoma dust bowl from which she came, 14-year-old narrator Billie Jo writes in sparse, free-floating verse. In this compelling, immediate journal, Billie Jo reveals the grim domestic realities of living during the years of constant dust storms: That hopes--like the crops--blow away in the night like skittering tumbleweeds. That trucks, tractors, even Billie Jo's beloved piano, can suddenly be buried beneath drifts of dust. Perhaps swallowing all that grit is what gives Billie Jo--our strong, endearing, rough-cut heroine--the stoic courage to face the death of her mother after a hideous accident that also leaves her piano-playing hands in pain and permanently scarred.
Meanwhile, Billie Jo's silent, windblown father is literally decaying with grief and skin cancer before her very eyes. When she decides to flee the lingering ghosts and dust of her homestead and jump a train west, she discovers a simple but profound truth about herself and her plight. There are no tight, sentimental endings here--just a steady ember of hope that brightens Karen Hesse's exquisitely written and mournful tale. Hesse won the 1998 Newbery Award for this elegantly crafted, gut-wrenching novel, and her fans won't want to miss The Music of Dolphins or Letters from Rifka. (Ages 9 and older) --Gail Hudson [via]
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Peregrineby Avram DavidsonISBN 0425048292 (0-425-04829-2)
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Practical Magicby Alice HoffmanISBN 0425190374 (0-425-19037-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Practical Magic'Book summary:For most adults, fairy tales are among the childish things we've put away. Alice Hoffman, however, feels differently. Practical Magic starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries, Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town, ever since their ancestor arrived, rich, independent, and soon accused of theft: "And then one day, a farmer winged a crow in his cornfield, a creature who'd been stealing from him shamelessly for months. When Maria Owens appeared the very next morning with her arm in a sling and her white hand wound up in a white bandage, people felt certain they knew the reason why." The aunts are daily ostracized by the same upstanding citizens who sneak to their house at night for magical love cures. To the sisters they are for the most part benevolently absent, though their bell, book, and candle routine makes life a torment for Gillian, beautiful and blonde and lazy, and Sally, who's all too responsible. But when one of the aunts' cures works too well, ending as a curse, the dangers of real love become all too clear. In Hoffman's world being bewitched, bothered, and bewildered is no mere metaphor--and neither is desire. The elbows of one enamored man pucker a linoleum counter, another walks around with singed cuffs. It's difficult to catch the author's power in brief quotes. She needs space and increment to build her exquisite variations of vision and reality, her matter-of-fact announcements of the preternatural. Practical Magic again and again makes one recall the thrill of hearing at bedtime, "Now will I a tale unfold..." --Kerry Fried [via]
Prince of Lost Placesby Kathy HepinstallISBN 0425193780 (0-425-19378-0)
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The Professor of Lightby Marina Tamar BudhosISBN 0399144730 (0-399-14473-0)
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Random Windsby Belva PlainISBN 0440071240 (0-440-07124-0)
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The Rapture of Canaanby Sheri ReynoldsISBN 0425162443 (0-425-16244-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rapture of Canaan'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1997: Members of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty Baptizing Wind spend their days and nights serving the Lord and waiting for the Rapture--that moment just before the Second Coming of Christ when the saved will be lifted bodily to heaven and the damned will be left behind to face the thousand years of tribulation on earth. The tribulation, according to Grandpa Herman, founder of Fire and Brimstone, will be an ugly time: "He said that we'd run out of food. That big bugs would chase us around and sting us with their tails . . . He said we'd turn on the faucet in the bathroom and find only blood running out . . . He said evil multitudes would come unto us and cut off our limbs, and that we wouldn't die . . . And then he'd say, 'But you don't have to be left behind. You can go straight to Heaven with all of God's special children if you'll only open your hearts to Jesus . . .'"
Such talk of damnation weighs heavy on the mind of Ninah Huff, the 15-year-old narrator of Sheri Reynolds's second novel, The Rapture of Canaan. To distract her from sinful thoughts about her prayer partner James, Ninah puts pecan shells in her shoes and nettles in her bed. But concentrating on the Passion of Jesus cannot, in the end, deter Ninah and James from their passion for each other, and the consequences prove both tragic and transforming for the entire community.
The Rapture of Canaan is a book about miracles, and in writing it, Reynolds has performed something of a miracle herself. Although the church's beliefs and practices may seem extreme (sleeping in an open grave, mortifying the flesh with barbed wire), its members are complex and profoundly sympathetic as they wrestle with the contradictions of Fire and Brimstone's theology, the temptations of the outside world, and the frailties of the human heart. [via]
The Red Ponyby John Steinbeck, Paine Michael JohnISBN 0435270338 (0-435-27033-8)
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Resurrection Dayby Brendan DuboisISBN 0399144986 (0-399-14498-6)
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Rich Friendsby Jacqueline BriskinISBN 0440073677 (0-440-07367-7)
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Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories: Library Editionby Washington Irving, Jeffrey BushISBN 0425122581 (0-425-12258-1)
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranesby Eleanor Coerr, Ronald HimlerISBN 0399237992 (0-399-23799-2)
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Seventh Heavenby Alice HoffmanISBN 0425188485 (0-425-18848-5)
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Shattered Silkby Barbara Michaels, Mercer WarrinerISBN 0425104761 (0-425-10476-1)
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A Slipping Down Lifeby Anne Tyler ModarressiISBN 0425103625 (0-425-10362-5)
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Solsticeby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0425092046 (0-425-09204-6)
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Stand and Deliverby Andre NortonISBN 0440082331 (0-440-08233-1)
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Stranger in a Strange Landby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0425052168 (0-425-05216-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stranger in a Strange Land'Book summary:Stranger in a Strange Land, winner of the 1962 Hugo Award, is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars. Michael is raised by Martians, and he arrives on Earth as a true innocent: he has never seen a woman and has no knowledge of Earth's cultures or religions. But he brings turmoil with him, as he is the legal heir to an enormous financial empire, not to mention de facto owner of the planet Mars. With the irascible popular author Jubal Harshaw to protect him, Michael explores human morality and the meanings of love. He founds his own church, preaching free love and disseminating the psychic talents taught him by the Martians. Ultimately, he confronts the fate reserved for all messiahs.
The impact of Stranger in a Strange Land was considerable, leading many children of the 60's to set up households based on Michael's water-brother nests. Heinlein loved to pontificate through the mouths of his characters, so modern readers must be willing to overlook the occasional sour note ("Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it's partly her fault."). That aside, Stranger in a Strange Land is one of the master's best entertainments, provocative as he always loved to be. Can you grok it? --Brooks Peck [via]
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The Sum of All Fearsby Tom ClancyISBN 0425184226 (0-425-18422-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sum of All Fears'Book summary:Once again, Tom Clancy manages to add new twists to the alternate U.S. history he initiated in The Hunt for Red October. In The Sum of All Fears, the centre of conflict is that perpetual hot spot, the Middle East, where a nuclear weapon falls into the hands of terrorists just as peace finally seems possible. Clancy realistically paints an almost unthinkable scenario--the bomb is planted on American soil in the midst of an escalation in tension with the Soviet Union; the terrorists hope to rekindle cold war animosity and prevent reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.
Despite such a dramatic story line, Clancy doesn't neglect the individuals who drive his tale. Jack Ryan's problems are as much domestic as they are part of the international crisis that is the ostensible narrative: National Security Director Elizabeth Elliot has the president's ear, and she has convinced him that Ryan's ethics are questionable. She hints at marital infidelity and an insider-trading scandal. Of course, both accusations are false, but her arguments have enough evidence behind them (some photographs of an innocent embrace with a friend for example) to cause a strain in the Ryans' marriage and a flurry of media attention. While "Mr Clark" tracks the terrorists, he also provides some needed intelligence to heal the Ryan family.
The Sum of All Fears is the stuff of nightmares but contains enough verisimilitude to terrify sober minds. Ryan has developed into a complex protagonist, just as Clancy's writing has matured. Ryan is plagued by stress and self-doubts that test even his dauntless moral compass and make him a more interesting subject for readers' attention. Those fascinated by military hardware, from nuclear submarines to atomic weapons, will find almost enough here to start their own army. And Clancy's understanding of international politics seems chillingly correct. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
The Tangent Factorby Lawrence SandersISBN 0425100626 (0-425-10062-6)
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The Tangent Objectiveby Lawrence SandersISBN 0425103315 (0-425-10331-5)
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The Tenth Commandmentby Lawrence SandersISBN 0425050017 (0-425-05001-7)
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Theftby Saul BellowISBN 043603963X (0-436-03963-X)
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Timequakeby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0425164349 (0-425-16434-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Timequake'Book summary:Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a confident final trot 'round the track by one of the greats of postwar American literature. After 40 years of practice, Vonnegut's got his schtick down cold, and it's a pleasure--if a slightly tame one--to watch him go through his paces one more time.
Timequake's a mongrel; it is half novel, half memoir, the project of a decade's worth of writer's block, a book "that didn't want to be written." The premise is standard-issue Vonnegut: "...a timequake, a sudden glitch in the space-time continuum, made everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during past decades, for good or ill, a second time..." Simultaneously, the author's favorite tricks are on display--frequent visits with the shopworn science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a Hitchcockian appearance by the author at the book's end, and frequent authorial opining on love, war, and society. [via]
The Tomorrow Fileby Lawrence SandersISBN 0425081796 (0-425-08179-6)
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Vanity of Duluozby Jack KerouacISBN 0399503862 (0-399-50386-2)
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We Are All Fine Hereby Mary GutersonISBN 0425207676 (0-425-20767-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Are All Fine Here'Book summary:A thoroughly irresistible debut novel about a discontented woman (married, with a teenage son, and fast approaching middle age) who dallies in her past-with startling, humorous, and bittersweet consequences.
Julia has been married to Jim for fifteen years, but she has never really stopped thinking about the man who came before: Ray, the love of her life. Pushing forty, trapped in a job she doesn't care for, growing ever more distant from her son, and fed up with her husband's flirtation with a much younger coworker, Julia accompanies Ray to a wedding of friends and has a quick tryst in the bathroom. Several weeks later, she learns she's pregnant, and because she's also recently slept with Jim-a rare event of late-she can't be quite certain of the baby's paternity.
How Julia deals with this knotty problem (and with her prickly mother, her childless sister, her best friend, her husband's family, not to mention all the men in her life) is the core of this laugh-out-loud and wholly recognizable, unforgettable, and intelligent swift gulp of a novel-which also delivers unexpected heart. [via]-
White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 0439236193 (0-439-23619-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Fang'Book summary:With an introduction from award winning K.A. Applegate, White Fang is one of London's classic tales of survival and one of his most popular stories. White Fang is part dog, part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the law of the North--kill or be killed. [via]
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Without Remorseby Tom ClancyISBN 0425143325 (0-425-14332-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Without Remorse'Book summary:This harrowing #1 bestseller is an unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness. Without mercy. Without guilt. Without remorse. [via]
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Paul GrangerISBN 043923641X (0-439-23641-X)
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