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Alice Adamsby Booth Tarkington, Arthur William Brown, Donald GrayISBN 0253215935 (0-253-21593-5)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice Adams'Book summary:Over the pictures, the vases, the old brown plush rocking-chairs and the stool, over the three gilt chairs, over the new chintz-covered easy chair and the gray velure sofaover everything everywhere, was the familiar coating of smoke and grime.... Yet here was not fault of housewifery; the curse could not be lifted, as the ingrained smudges permanent on the once white woodwork proved. The grime was perpetually renewed; scrubbing only ground it in. from the novel
This is the story of a middle-class family living in the industrialized "midland country" at the turn of the 20th century. It is against this dingy backdrop that Alice Adams seeks to distinguish herself. She goes to a dance in a used dress, which her mother attempts to renew by changing the lining and adding some lace. She adorns herself not with orchids sent by the florist but with a bouquet of violets she has picked herself. Because her family cannot afford to equip her with the social props or "background" so needed to shine in society, Alice is forced to make do. Ultimately, her ambitions for making a successful marriage must be tempered by the realities of her situation. Alice Adamss resiliency of spirit makes her one of Tarkingtons most compelling female characters.
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Anatomy of a Murderby Robert TraverISBN 0312033567 (0-312-03356-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anatomy of a Murder'Book summary:First published by St. Martin's in 1958, Robert Traver's Anatomy of a Murder immediately became the number-one bestseller in America, and was subsequently turned into the successful and now classic Otto Preminger film. For the twenty-fifth birthday of a work that is not only the most popular courtroom drama in American fiction, but one of the most popular novels of our time, St. Martin's is proud to introduce this special anniversary edition, with a new introduction by the author.[via]
A gripping tale of deceit, murder, and a sensational trial, Anatomy of a Murder is unmatched in the authenticity of its settings, events, and characters. This new edition should delight both loyal fans of the past and an entire new generation of readers.More editions of Anatomy of a Murder:
Armageddon Essays 1983 1987by Gore VidalISBN 023398156X (0-233-98156-X)
Hardcover, Andre Deutsch Ltd
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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel the Novel as Historyby Norman MailerISBN 0297176277 (0-297-17627-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel the Novel as History'Book summary:One of the first examples of "new journalism" daringly combines reportage with a novelistic style and garnered Mailer his first Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award in 1968.[via]More editions of The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel the Novel as History:
Arms of Nemesisby Steven SaylorISBN 0312081359 (0-312-08135-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Back Talk: Teaching Lost Selves to Speakby Joan Myers WeimerISBN 0226884155 (0-226-88415-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Bar Storiesby Nisa DonnellyISBN 0312025440 (0-312-02544-0)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Bar Stories : A Novel after Allby Nisa DonnellyISBN 0312037953 (0-312-03795-3)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Bechby John UpdikeISBN 0233962700 (0-233-96270-0)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Bloodstained Kingsby Tim WillocksISBN 0224041606 (0-224-04160-6)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Bullet Parkby John CheeverISBN 0224617184 (0-224-61718-4)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bullet Park'Book summary:Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named after a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully linked by the mysterious binding power of their names in Cheevers sharp and funny hymn to the dubious normality of the American suburbs. [via]
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Cellby Stephen KingISBN 0307391337 (0-307-39133-7)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cell'Book summary:A través de los teléfonos móviles se envía un mensaje que convierte a todos en esclavos asesinos. Pocos se escapan de su fuerza y estos tendrán que sobrevivir en un mundo totalmente transformado.
Clayton Riddell no tiene teléfono móvil, su esposa, Sharon, tampoco. Están separados pero en contacto constante por su hijo Johnny Gee. Sus padres le han regalado un móvil para cosas urgentes. Saben que muy a menudo no lo lleva encima y por eso le riñen.
El uno de octubre Clay viaja a Boston por una entrevista de trabajo y de repente cuando pasea por el parque es testigo de escenas espeluznantes, escenas totalmente inexplicables: gente en la calle que hablando por el móvil se convierten repentinamente en monstruos asesinos, atacan y matan a todos los de su alrededor. Los coches chocan entre sí. Es una escena de caos sangriento, incendios, alarmas.. . incomprensible. Ya no hay canales de radio ni televisión, ni servicios de ningún tipo. Nada que pueda poner orden. Clay entiende que todo ha sido causado por un mensaje a través de los móviles. Consigue refugiarse en un hotel junto con otro hombre Tom McCourt y una adolescente, Alice, los dos sin móvil. Deciden abandonar la ciudad para averiguar si la situación es la misma en el resto del país. Para Clay, lo más importante es localizar a su hijo que, espera que hoy no lleve su móvil encima.
Los tres emprenden su viaje a pie hacia la ciudad donde vive Johnny y su madre. Andan de noche cuando los locos no se mueven. De día se esconden en casas abandonadas. En su camino se encuentran con otros que se han salvado pero son pocos y descubren que los locos se han convertido en una especie de zombies telepáticos. Estos se juntan de día en grandes masas, llamados por música transmitida por altavoces, en estadios de deportes. De noche duermen. Están controlados por los sonidos. Andan y andan hacia un solo destino.
La mujer de Clay ha sido víctima de la gran destrucción pero su hijo parece haber sobrevivido y Clay y sus dos compañeros siguen su pista. Van de ciudad en ciudad, entre cadáveres y zombies asesinos, entre el caos y la destrucción, hasta llegar a la ciudad de su destino.
Y allí Clay encontrará a Johnny, no el Johnny de antes, pero quizás algún día aprenderá de nuevo a ser un niño normal . El mensaje de los móviles va perdiendo toda su fuerza pero...el mundo nunca volverá a ser lo mismo. [via]More editions of Cell:
Centaurby John UpdikeISBN 023396360X (0-233-96360-X)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Childhood and Other Neighborhoodsby Stuart DybekISBN 0226176584 (0-226-17658-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Christyby Catherine MarshallISBN 0310241634 (0-310-24163-4)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christy'Book summary:When Christy Huddleston leaves a life of privilege and ease to teach in the impoverished Smokey Mountains, her faith is severely tested by her pupils, the love of two men, and the curious customs of the mountain people in her community. Yet she grows to love these people and the simple, fulfilling lifestyle to be found in the heart of God's country. First released in 1967, Christy is based on the life of author Catherine Marshall's mother and was the inspiration for the recent television series of the same name. Beautifully told, this is a charming, timeless tale of love and faith that will appeal to romance readers of all ages. --Maudeen Wachsmith [via]
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Columbia Literary History of the United Statesby Emory ElliottISBN 0231058128 (0-231-05812-8)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Columbia Literary History of the United States'Book summary:For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties.
This comprehensive volume -- one of the century's most important books in American studies -- extensively treats Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Hemingway, and other long-cherished writers, while also giving considerable attention to recently discovered writers such as Kate Chopin and to literary movements and forms of writing not studied amply in the past. Informed by the most current critical and theoretical ideas, it sets forth a generation's interpretation of the rise of American civilization and culture.
The Columbia Literary History of the United States contains essays by today's foremost scholars and critics, overseen by a board of distinguished editors headed by Emory Elliott of Princeton University. These contributors reexamine in contemporary terms traditional subjects such as the importance of Puritanism, Romanticism, and frontier humor in American life and writing, but they also fully explore themes and materials that have only begun to receive deserved attention in the last two decades. Among these are the role of women as writers, readers, and literary subjects and the impact of writers from minority groups, both inside and outside the literary establishment.
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Confessions of Nat Turnerby William StyronISBN 0224613154 (0-224-61315-4)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Counterlifeby Philip RothISBN 0224028715 (0-224-02871-5)
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The Coupby John UpdikeISBN 0233970940 (0-233-97094-0)
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Couplesby John UpdikeISBN 0233960740 (0-233-96074-0)
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A Daughter of the Landby Gene Stratton-PorterISBN 0253211387 (0-253-21138-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Deliveranceby James DickeyISBN 0241019273 (0-241-01927-3)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deliverance'Book summary:The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.
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Dirty DozenISBN 0304359289 (0-304-35928-9)
Softcover, Cassell
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Dominicby Kathleen RobinsonISBN 0312063407 (0-312-06340-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiographyby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0252010477 (0-252-01047-7)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography'Book summary:Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book. The New Yorker
Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literatures most compelling and influential authors. Hurstons powerful novels of the Southincluding Jonahs Gourd Vine and, most famously, Their Eyes Were Watching Godcontinue to enthrall readers with their lyrical grace, sharp detail, and captivating emotionality. First published in 1942, Dust Tracks on a Road is Hurstons personal story, told in her own words. The Perennial Modern Classics Deluxe edition includes an all-new forward by Maya Angelou, an extended biography by Valerie Boyd, and a special P.S. section featuring the contemporary reviews that greeted the books original publication.
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El Dragon Rojoby Thomas Harris, Elisa Lopez BullrichISBN 0307344681 (0-307-34468-1)
Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori
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Estado De Miedo / State of Fearby Michael CrichtonISBN 0307376443 (0-307-37644-3)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Estado De Miedo / State of Fear'Book summary:Estado de miedo es una novela de denuncia que ya está causando mucha polémica en EEUU e Inglaterra. Michael Crichton dedicó tres años a la investigación de los datos y cifras que nos facilitan los investigadores científicos sobre el calentamiento global de la tierra, lo que llamamos el efecto invernadero. Cuestiona y descarta muchos de ellos. Según Crichton no hay pruebas claras de calentamiento global. Afirma que hay organizaciones que manipulan datos para probar lo que a ellos les interesa. Además hay personas dispuestas a convertirse en activistas, en ecoterroristas, incluso a provocar catástrofes para publicitar su causa y "confirmar" sus predicciones.
La novela es un thriller poderoso, convincente, fascinante y muy ágil. La historia es ficción pura pero lo que hay detrás es todo verdadero.
Para apoyar su tesis incluye al final del libro apéndices y una bibliografía amplísima que demuestran la seriedad y profundidad de la investigación. [via]More editions of Estado De Miedo / State of Fear:
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury, Alfredo CrespoISBN 0307347974 (0-307-34797-4)
Softcover, Plaza Y Janes Mexico
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit 451'Book summary:Fahrenheit 451 ofrece la historia de un sombrío y horroroso futuro. Montag, el protagonista, pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos cuya misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Porque en el país de Montag está terminantemente prohibido leer. Porque leer obliga a pensar, y en el país de Montag está prohibido pensar. Porque leer impide ser ingenuamente feliz, y en el país de Montag hay que ser feliz a la fuerza...
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The Fierce Disputeby Helen Hooven SantmyerISBN 0312011520 (0-312-01152-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Flaubert's Parrotby Julian BarnesISBN 0224022229 (0-224-02222-9)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flaubert's Parrot'Book summary:Just what sort of book is Flaubert's Parrot, anyway? A literary biography of 19th-century French novelist, radical, and intellectual impresario Gustave Flaubert? A meditation on the uses and misuses of language? A novel of obsession, denial, irritation, and underhanded connivery? A thriller complete with disguises, sleuthing, mysterious meetings, and unknowing targets? An extended essay on the nature of fiction itself?
On the surface, at first, Julian Barnes's book is the tale of an elderly English doctor's search for some intriguing details of Flaubert's life. Geoffrey Braithwaite seems to be involved in an attempt to establish whether a particularly fine, lovely, and ancient stuffed parrot is in fact one originally "borrowed by G. Flaubert from the Museum of Rouen and placed on his worktable during the writing of Un coeur simple, where it is called Loulou, the parrot of Felicité, the principal character of the tale."
What begins as a droll and intriguing excursion into the minutiae of Flaubert's life and intellect, along with an attempt to solve the small puzzle of the parrot--or rather parrots, for there are two competing for the title of Gustave's avian confrere--soon devolves into something obscure and worrisome, the exploration of an arcane Braithwaite obsession that is perhaps even pathological. The first hint we have that all is not as it seems comes almost halfway into the book, when after a humorously cantankerous account of the inadequacies of literary critics, Braithwaite closes a chapter by saying, "Now do you understand why I hate critics? I could try and describe to you the expression in my eyes at this moment; but they are far too discoloured with rage." And from that point, things just get more and more curious, until they end in the most unexpected bang.
One passage perhaps best describes the overall effect of this extraordinary story: "You can define a net in one of two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally, you would say that it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string." Julian Barnes demonstrates that it is possible to catch quite an interesting fish no matter how you define the net. --Andrew Himes [via]
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Foundation and Earthby Isaac AsimovISBN 0246130474 (0-246-13047-4)
Hardcover, Grafton Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation and Earth'Book summary:The epic story of the Foundation is one of the great classics of science fiction by the Grand Master of the genre. Isaac Asimov's legendary saga, winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series, has enthralled generations of readers - and continues to amaze. All records of Earth have been removed systematically from the libraries of Foundation worlds. Now Councilman Golan Trevize and Professor Janov Pelorat traverse the galaxy in search of humanity's ancestral planet. On worlds beyond the Foundation's influence, superstition and taboo shroud the subject of their quest. To name Earth is to utter an obscenity. Fortunately, the space travellers find allies - and Pelorat finds a lover named Bliss - among the telepaths of the planet Gaia. As they near their destination, Bliss picks up thought waves of intelligent beings. What she cannot tell is whether or not those beings are human. [via]
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Fremderby Russell HobanISBN 0224043706 (0-224-04370-6)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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Generation Xby Douglas CouplandISBN 031205436X (0-312-05436-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Generation X'Book summary:Generation X should feel dated--its title is no longer a part of the zeitgeist, and the generation it defined has been irrevocably changed. Gen Xers--the post-boomers born in the 1960s and even the late '50s--are no longer the socially terrified twentysomethings that populate Douglas Coupland's first and finest novel. The economic boom of the late 1990s dragged them out of their McJobs and back into the corporate world, transforming them into younger versions of the yuppies that Coupland lampoons so well. Surprisingly, though, the culture that is described in Generation X has not changed all that much; it has simply been passed on, in an Internet-friendly form, to the latest crop of bright young things.
Those who missed Generation X when it first appeared may be surprised to find that most of the associations that have been tacked on to its catchphrase title are not present in the novel. Coupland's characters--Dag, Claire, and Andy, three young neurotics from "good" upper-middle-class homes--are not financially ambitious, but they are not slackers either. Rather than drearily complaining that there is nothing worth doing, they are trying very hard to make sense of their lives and their culture. They do this by telling stories to each other, desperately and sincerely. Andy likens his friends' need for storytelling to the proceedings of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting:
"Never be afraid to cough up a bit of diseased lung for the spectators," said a man who sat next to me at a meeting once, a man with skin like a half-cooked pie crust and who had five grown children who would no longer return his phone calls: "How are people ever going to help themselves if they can't grab onto a fragment of your own horror? People want that little fragment, they need it. That little piece of lung makes their own fragments less scary." I'm still looking for a description of storytelling as vital as this.
Storytelling is an ancient invention; Coupland simply restates its importance in a world of short attention spans and jump-cutting media. This side of Generation X hasn't aged at all and isn't likely to. And the other, better-known side of the novel--Coupland's razor-sharp cultural field guide--will remain relevant as long as university graduates still have to choose between economic uncertainty and corporate monoculture and still respond by refusing to grow up in conventional ways. Anyone who has avoided Generation X because of its unfortunate association with a few demographic buzzwords should consider giving Coupland a second look. --Jack Illingworth [via]More editions of Generation X:
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A Girl of the Limberlostby Gene S. Porter, Gene Stratton-Porter, Wladyslaw T. BendaISBN 0253133203 (0-253-13320-3)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Girl of the Limberlost'Book summary:Of all the books written by Hoosier writers, Gene Stratton-Porters A Girl of the Limberlost is unquestionably the most cherished: the timeless story of an impoverished young girl, Elnora Comstock, growing up on the edge of the Limberlost swamp. Elnora Comstock has served as a role model for successive generations of independent young readers.
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A Girl of the Limberlostby Gene Stratton-Porter, Wladyslaw T. BendaISBN 0253203317 (0-253-20331-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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God Knowsby Joseph HellerISBN 0224022881 (0-224-02288-1)
Hardcover, Cape
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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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The Golden Egg Bookby Margaret Wise BrownISBN 0307120457 (0-307-12045-7)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Ice-Shirtby William T. VollmannISBN 0233985069 (0-233-98506-9)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ice-Shirt'Book summary:The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland ?and from there to the place they call ?Vinland the Good.? The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.[via]As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples?and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise?he creates a tour-de-force of ?speculative history,? a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.
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If Beale Street Could Talkby James BaldwinISBN 0307275930 (0-307-27593-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouacby Barry Gifford, Lawrence LeeISBN 0312015674 (0-312-01567-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Knaves Templarby Leonard D. TourneyISBN 0312049617 (0-312-04961-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Knaves Templar'Book summary:One by one, law students in the Inns of Court are killing themselves -- or so it seems to all but County Constable Matthew Stock. Matthew knows a murder when he sees it, and soon he's in pursuit of a ghostly killer who is not above trying his skills on Matthew himself. Meanwhile, Matthew's wife, Joan, follows her nose through the brawling, bawdy streets of Elizabethan London, looking for clues to help her husband outwit his murderous nemesis. But who will help her? [via]
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The Magnificent Ambersonsby Booth Tarkington, Arthur William BrownISBN 0253205468 (0-253-20546-8)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Magusby John FowlesISBN 0224013920 (0-224-01392-0)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Maya Stone Murdersby M. K. ShumanISBN 0312026080 (0-312-02608-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Medusa Frequencyby Russell HobanISBN 0224024647 (0-224-02464-7)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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No Name in the Streetby James BaldwinISBN 0307275922 (0-307-27592-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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No-No Boyby John OkadaISBN 0295955252 (0-295-95525-2)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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The Only Good Priestby Mark Richard ZubroISBN 0312070543 (0-312-07054-3)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Only Good Priest'Book summary:Father Sebastian, the only good priest everybody knows, is dead. Pastor of a parish outside Chicago, Father Sebastian was also involved in the gay community through his work with Faith, the gay Catholic organization the diocese is trying to drive out of the church.[via]
High school teacher Tom mason, who has gained some local notoriety from his involvement in a couple of murder cases, is asked by friends to look into the priest's death; was it murder? Along with his lover Scott Carpenter, a professional baseball player, Tom plunges into ecclesiastical intrigues, the hidden underground of gay Chicago and the tragedies caused by a hypocritical church. 
Optimist's Daughterby Eudora WeltyISBN 0233964312 (0-233-96431-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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The Oregon Trailby Francis Parkman, E.N. FeltskogISBN 029905070X (0-299-05070-X)
Hardcover, University of Wisconsin Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oregon Trail'Book summary:Francis Parkman was a 23-year-old scion of a prominent Boston family when he decided to write the history of the struggle of French and English for domination of the North American continent. In order to learn firsthand about the Indians of the Plains, he prepared himself with guides, supplies, and information, setting out from Westport, Missouri, in spring 1846 and returning that September. From that trip emerged one of the seminal books of American literature, The Oregon Trail.[via]More editions of The Oregon Trail:
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Paulby Walter WangerinISBN 0310243165 (0-310-24316-5)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Yet what do we know about the man, other than what's in the letters that have fashioned the Christian church for 2,000 years? Unless you are a theologian or historian, the answer probably is very little--until now. Walter Wangerin, the highly acclaimed scholar and writer, has breathed new life into this fiery, enigmatic, and passionate creature in what should be celebrated as a seriously good work of literature.
The novel, which combines expert knowledge and prophetic imagination, charts the first exhilarating and dangerous years of the church after the death of Christ. It is seen through the eyes of the witnesses--Priscilla, who meets Paul in Corinth; Barnabus, Timothy, and Titus, his companions; James and Simon Peter, the "pillar" of the first Christians; and Seneca, the great Roman writer, statesman, and adviser to Nero.
Wangerin serves up a feast of color and detail that brings the first century--and, even more impressively, the Bible--alive. Whatever your religious persuasion, this book serves as a fine companion to the one of the greatest yet most puzzling stories ever told. --Brian Draper, Amazon.co.uk [via]
Pilgermannby Russell HobanISBN 0224020722 (0-224-02072-2)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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The Poetry of Robert Frostby Robert FrostISBN 0224618148 (0-224-61814-8)
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The Poky Little Puppyby Janette Sebring Lowrey, Gustaf TenggrenISBN 0307021343 (0-307-02134-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Poky Little Puppyby Golden Books, Janette Sebring Lowrey, Gustaf TenggrenISBN 0307103285 (0-307-10328-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Political Poisonby Mark Richard ZubroISBN 0312093640 (0-312-09364-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Prague Orgyby Philip RothISBN 0224028154 (0-224-02815-4)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prague Orgy'Book summary:In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, an appealingly perverse kind of heroism.
The Prague Orgy, consisting of entries from protagonist Nathan Zuckerman's notebooks recording his sojourn among these outcast artists, completes the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman bound. It provides a startling ending to Roth's intricately designed magnum opus on the unforeseen consequences of art.
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The Principal Cause of Deathby Mark Richard ZubroISBN 031207767X (0-312-07767-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Professor of Desireby Philip RothISBN 0224015656 (0-224-01565-6)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Professor of Desire'Book summary:As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes. Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will beor how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage a trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure: where we seek it; why we flee it; and how we struggle to make a truce between dignity and desire. Philip Roth is a great historian of modern eroticism. . . . [He] speaks of a sexuality that questions itself; it is still hedonism, but it is problematic, wounded, ironic hedonism. His is the uncommon union of confession and irony. Infinitely vulnerable in his sincerity and infinitely elusive in his irony. Milan Kundera A thoughtful . . . elegant novel. . . . A fine display of literary skills. The New York Times Book Review [via]
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Rabbit Reduxby John UpdikeISBN 0233957049 (0-233-95704-9)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Roman Blood: A Novel of Ancient Romeby Steven SaylorISBN 0312064543 (0-312-06454-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roman Blood: A Novel of Ancient Rome'Book summary:[Library Edition Audiobook CD in Vinyl case.]
[Read by Scott Harrison]
In Rome, 80 B.C., on a warm spring morning, Gordianus the Finder receives a summons to the house of a then-unknown young advocate and orator, Cicero. Ambitious and brilliant, the twenty-six-year-old Cicero is about to argue his first important case. his client is a wealthy farmer, one Sextus Roscius of the town of Ameria, who stands accused of the most unforgivable act in Ancient Rome: the murder of his father.
Hired by Cicero to investigate the charges, Gordianus sets out to discover the truth in a case-and a society-rife with deceit, betrayal, and conspiracy. As he draws nearer to the truth, the conspiracy looms ever larger until Gordianus begins to perceive the hand of the dictator Sulla himself. Playing for stakes much higher than he bargained for, Gordianus finds that not only is he himself endangered, but so are all those around him as well. [via]More editions of Roman Blood: A Novel of Ancient Rome:
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The Ruinsby Scott SmithISBN 030727828X (0-307-27828-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ruins'Book summary:First Vintage books mass market edition, August 2007. English fiction. They met Mathias on a day trip to Cozumel. They'd hired a guide to take them snorkeling over a local wreck. [via]
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S.by John UpdikeISBN 0233982558 (0-233-98255-8)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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› Find signed collectible books: 'S.'Book summary:In a moment of sudden inspiration Sarah Worth - S - has walked out on her husband to join the Ashram Arhat. Famous for his transcendent wisdom and divine immobility, the Arhat has transferred his ahram from India to Arizona, where he and his enthusiastic entourage are attempting to make the desert fruitful. [via]
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The Shell Seekersby Rosamunde PilcherISBN 0312010583 (0-312-01058-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shell Seekers'Book summary:Set in London and Cornwall between World War II and the present, this is the story of the Keeling family, and of the passions and heart-break that have held them together for three generations--a story of life, hope, children and death. [via]
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A Simple Suburban Murderby Mark Richard ZubroISBN 0312039336 (0-312-03933-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Slapstickby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224013424 (0-224-01342-4)
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Sorry Nowby Mark Richard ZubroISBN 0312082991 (0-312-08299-1)
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Spoon River Anthologyby Edgar Lee Masters, John E. HallwasISBN 0252063635 (0-252-06363-5)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spoon River Anthology'Book summary:"Provides a wealth of information that frames specific historical, biographical, and autobiographical background for names, persons, places, and situations alluded to and invoked by the epitaphs in the Anthology. Hallwas brings to bear on the text and its history a detailed overview of previous scholarship, and a knowledge of Illinois history in particular, that will be invaluable for anyone not only writing on Masters, but working in American studies generally."-John Hollander, New Republic "The single most widely read book of American poetry."-James Hurt, Illinois Authors "Hallwas's reading of Spoon River is undoubtedly the best and the one the poet intended...This presentation will reinstate [Spoon River Anthology] as one of the central works of the modern canon...The painstaking, critical and devoted introduction is indispensable for an understanding of this seminal work of poetry."-Karl Shapiro, Chicago Tribune "The finest offering of Spoon River Anthology to date ...should be in all academic and public libraries."--Library Journal Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) was, along with Carl Sandburg and Vachel Lindsay, once of the three important poets of the Chicago Renaissance. John E. Hallwas, a professor of English at Western Illinois University, has written or edited more than a dozen books related to Illinois history and literature, including Studies in Illinois Poetry. [via]
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Taking Care of Mrs. Carrollby Paul MonetteISBN 0312015151 (0-312-01515-1)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Terroristby John UpdikeISBN 0307264653 (0-307-26465-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Texasby James A. Michener, Charles ShawISBN 0292780710 (0-292-78071-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Third Man Out: A Donald Strachey Mysteryby Richard Stevenson, J. FordISBN 0312089066 (0-312-08906-6)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Transparent Thingsby Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0297765140 (0-297-76514-0)
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Trinityby Leon UrisISBN 0233968342 (0-233-96834-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trinity'Book summary:The "terrible beauty" that is Ireland comes alive in this mighty epic that re-creates that Emerald's Isle's fierce struggle for independence. Trinity is a saga of glories and defeats, triumphs and tragedies, lived by a young Catholic rebel and the beautiful and valiant Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join him. Leon Uris has painted a masterful portrait of a beleaguered people divided by religion and wealth--impoverished Catholic peasants pitted against a Protestant aristocracy wielding power over life and death. [via]
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Understand Your Bible from Adam to Zion: A Clear Explanation of God's Wordby Alister E. McGrathISBN 0310240042 (0-310-24004-2)
Softcover, Zondervan
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The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Propby Robert CooverISBN 0246639822 (0-246-63982-2)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis
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Utzby Bruce ChatwinISBN 0224026089 (0-224-02608-9)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Waters of Kronosby Conrad RichterISBN 027102240X (0-271-02240-X)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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White Fangby Pauline FrancisISBN 0237525321 (0-237-52532-1)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square Books
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Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead?by Mark Richard ZubroISBN 0312038879 (0-312-03887-9)
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Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead? : A Mysteryby Mark Richard ZubroISBN 0312059965 (0-312-05996-5)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Kathy MitchellISBN 0307171159 (0-307-17115-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Presa / Preyby Michael Crichton, Carlos Milla SolerISBN 0307209423 (0-307-20942-3)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Presa / Prey'Book summary:In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles micro-robots
has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. Every attempt to destroy it has failed, and we
are the prey. Michael Crichton's most compelling novel yet tells the story of a mechanical plague and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it.
Drawing on up-to-the-minute scientific fact, Prey takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and
artificial distributed intelligence in a story of breathtaking suspense. Prey is a novel you can't put down. [via]More editions of Presa / Prey:
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Rescate en el Tiempo (1999 - 1357)by Michael CrichtonISBN 0307376362 (0-307-37636-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rescate en el Tiempo (1999 - 1357)'Book summary:Robert Dolinger es el joven dueño de una empresa de investigación científica llamada ITC ubicada en Nueva México. Se le reconoce como genio, extremadamente exigente y con una capacidad enorme de trabajo. ITC también está financiando varias costosas excavaciones arqueológicas por diferentes partes del mundo. Al principio de la novela sabemos que ITC necesita otra gran cantidad de dinero para seguir adelante con sus investigaciones y para conseguirlo se necesitan pruebas de los adelantos en sus proyectos para enseñar a los posibles inversionistas. Robert decide que las excavaciones que se están llevando a cabo en la región de la Dordogne en Francia son las más avanzadas y allí envía a Diane, una de sus ayudantes para que consiga estas pruebas.
Un grupo de expertos americanos está excavando el castillo de Castelgard y todos sus alrededores. Diane les informa que ITC quiere que vayan más de prisa y que empiecen ya la reconstrucción de los edificios. El profesor Johnson, el responsable de los trabajos, le contesta que es totalmente imposible, que todavía no saben lo suficiente para hacerlo con autenticidad. Pero, es evidente que ITC sabe mucho más que los historiadores de cómo era Castelgard, tiene planos del monasterio, de todo ¿Pero cómo?
Johnson acompaña a Diana a ITC para informarse y lo que descubre ni no lo habría soñado. ITC ha desarrollado un sistema de viajar hacia atrás en el tiempo. El método está basada en la física cuántica, descompone la materia del lugar de origen y lo recompone en el tiempo elegido. Miembros del equipo de ITC ya han viajado al Castelgard de hace 600 años y por lo tanto saben exactamente como eran la ciudad, el castillo, el monasterio...
Mientras tanto en Francia los arqueólogos descubren una pila de documentos dentro de las excavaciones y sobre uno está escrito en su letra un mensaje escrito por Johnson, " Ayúdame, 7.4.1357". Todos los tests demuestran que es auténtico, fue escrito en el año que pone.
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Sin Remordimientosby Tom ClancyISBN 0307347966 (0-307-34796-6)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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El escritor toma sus argumentos por asalto y los conquista con la eficiencia de un batallón de comandos.
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Todo Es Eventual / Everything's Eventualby Stephen KingISBN 030727375X (0-307-27375-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Un Mal Principioby Nestor Busquets, Brett HelquistISBN 0307209342 (0-307-20934-2)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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