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The Accidental Touristby Anne TylerISBN 0816140553 (0-8161-4055-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, David PriceISBN 0831712112 (0-8317-1211-2)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) (often shortened to Huck Finn) by Mark Twain is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels ever written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [via]
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The American Yoga Association's New Yoga Challenge: Powerful Workouts for Flexibility, Strength, Energy, and Inner Discoveryby Alice ChristensenISBN 0809231751 (0-8092-3175-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin Franklin, Peter Conn, Amy GutmannISBN 0812219295 (0-8122-1929-5)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin'Book summary:Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity." The result is a classic of American literature.
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On the eve of the tercentenary of Franklin's birth, the university he founded has selected the Autobiography for the Penn Reading Project. Each year, for the past fifteen years, the University of Pennsylvania has chosen a single work that the entire incoming class, and a large segment of the faculty and staff, read and discuss together. For this occasion the University of Pennsylvania Press will publish a special edition of Franklin's Autobiography, including a new preface by University president Amy Gutmann and an introduction by distinguished scholar Peter Conn. The volume will also include four short essays by noted Penn professors as well as a chronology of Franklin's life and the text of Franklin's Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, a document resulting in the establishment of an institution of higher education that ultimately became the University of Pennsylvania.
No area of human endeavor escaped Franklin's keen attentions. His ideas and values, as Amy Gutmann notes in her remarks, have shaped the modern University of Pennsylvania profoundly, "more profoundly than have the founders of any other major university of college in the United States." Franklin believed that he had been born too soon. Readers will recognize that his spirit lives on at Penn today.
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The Best Short Stories Of Mark Twainby Mark Twain, Lawrence I. Berkove, Pete HamillISBN 0812971183 (0-8129-7118-3)
Softcover, Modern Library
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The Big Sleepby Raymond Chandler, Lou StoumenISBN 0865474028 (0-86547-402-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Big Sleep'Book summary:"His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock." Published in 1939, when Raymond Chandler was 50, this is the first of the Philip Marlowe novels. Its bursts of sex, violence, and explosively direct prose changed detective fiction forever. "She was trouble. She was tall and rangy and strong-looking. Her hair was black and wiry and parted in the middle. She had a good mouth and a good chin. There was a sulky droop to her lips and the lower lip was full." [via]
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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Boschby Henry MillerISBN 0811201074 (0-8112-0107-4)
Softcover, New Directions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch'Book summary:In his great triptych "The Millennium" Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise.
Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of California coast where he lived for fifteen years.
Big Sur is the portrait of a placeone of the most colorful in the U.S.and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (& writers who didn't write), mystics seeking truth in meditation (& the not-so-saintly looking for sex-cults or celebrity), sophisticated children & adult innocents; geniuses, cranks & the unclassifiable.
Henry Miller writes with a buoyancy & brimming energy that are infectious. He has a fine touch for comedy. But this is also a serious bookthe testament of a free spirit who has broken through the restraints & cliches of modern life to find within himself his own kind of paradise. [via]More editions of Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch:
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Bridge Of San Luis Reyby Thornton WilderISBN 0808576240 (0-8085-7624-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridge Of San Luis Rey'Book summary:This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary mate- rial, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.
"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714,the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipi-tated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world.
By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition.
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Caneby Jean ToomerISBN 0871401517 (0-87140-151-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cane'Book summary:A breakthrough in prose and poetical writing. . . . This book should be on all readers and writers desks and in their minds. Maya Angelou
First published in 1923, Jean Toomers Cane is an innovative literary workpart drama, part poetry, part fictionpowerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomers impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire; the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. This iconic work of American literature is published with a new afterword by Rudolph Byrd of Emory University and Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard University, who provide groundbreaking biographical information on Toomer, place his writing within the context of American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, and examine his shifting claims about his own race and his pioneering critique of race as a scientific or biological concept. [via] 
The Cask of Amontilladoby Edgar Allan Poe, Byron GlaserISBN 0871917734 (0-87191-773-4)
Hardcover, Creative Co
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Cat's Cradleby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0808520695 (0-8085-2069-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Cider House Rules: Here in St. Cloud'sby John Irving, Peter ParnellISBN 0822217252 (0-8222-1725-2)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twainby Mark Twain, Charles NeiderISBN 0808522760 (0-8085-2276-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain'Book summary:For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years.
Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, to the bitter vision of humankind in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, to the delightful hilarity of Is He Living or Is He Dead? Surging with Twain s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of in the words of H. L. Mencken the father of our national literature. [via]More editions of The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain:
Complete Short Stories of Twainby Mark TwainISBN 084880340X (0-8488-0340-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Dante Clubby Matthew PearlISBN 0812971043 (0-8129-7104-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dantes Inferno. Only an elite group of Americas first Dante scholarsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fieldscan solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dantes literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer. [via]More editions of The Dante Club:
The Diaries of Adam and Eveby Mark TwainISBN 0872910121 (0-87291-012-1)
Hardcover, Coronado Pr
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The Diary of Adam and Eveby Mark TwainISBN 0875293603 (0-87529-360-3)
Hardcover, Hallmark Cards
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0862277493 (0-86227-749-3)
Hardcover, Grandreams
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Dusk and Other Storiesby James Salter, James StalterISBN 0865473897 (0-86547-389-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Egyptologist: lby Arthur PhillipsISBN 0812972597 (0-8129-7259-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Egyptologist: l'Book summary:From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil.
Just as Howard Carter unveils the tomb of Tutankhamun, making the most dazzling find in the history of archaeology, Oxford-educated Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush is digging himself into trouble, having staked his professional reputation and his fiancées fortune on a scrap of hieroglyphic pornography. Meanwhile, a relentless Australian detective sets off on the case of his career, spanning the globe in search of a murderer. And another murderer. And possibly another murderer. The confluence of these seemingly separate stories results in an explosive ending, at once inevitable and utterly unpredictable.
Arthur Phillips leads this expedition to its unforgettable climax with all the wit and narrative bravado that made Prague one of the most critically acclaimed novels of 2002. Exploring issues of class, greed, ambition, and the very human hunger for eternal life, this staggering second novel gives us a glimpse of Phillipss range and maturityand is sure to earn him further acclaim as one of the most exciting authors of his generation.
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Eight Cousinsby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0816704627 (0-8167-0462-7)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eight Cousins'Book summary:Readhowyouwant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in large and super large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. Easyread books are available in 11pt and 13pt. Type. Easyread large books are available in 16pt, 16pt bold, and 18pt bold type. Easyread super large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold type. You choose the format that is right for you."eight cousins" is the story of an orphaned girl named rose campbell. After her father's death she has to live in the company of her seven male cousins and six rigid aunts. Her journey from a shy, weak little girl to a confident young woman is amazingly captivated. Alcott once again comes up with a charming narration with family values and closely bonded ties. Delightful!to find more titles in your format, search in books using easyread and the size of the font that makes reading easier and more enjoyable for you [via]
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Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hillby Louisa May AlcottISBN 080857311X (0-8085-7311-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Flags in the Dustby William Faulkner, Joseph Leo BlotnerISBN 0824068084 (0-8240-6808-4)
Hardcover, Garland Pub
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0812505018 (0-8125-0501-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Galapagosby Joan E. RatajackISBN 0831795964 (0-8317-9596-4)
Hardcover, Gallery Books
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The Golden Bowlby Henry JamesISBN 081256510X (0-8125-6510-X)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Grendelby John Champlin GardnerISBN 0808566482 (0-8085-6648-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grendel'Book summary:Grendel is a beautiful and heartbreaking modern retelling of the Beowulf epic from the point of view of the monster, Grendel, the villain of the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon epic. This book benefits from both of Gardner's careers: in addition to his work as a novelist, Gardner was a noted professor of medieval literature and a scholar of ancient languages. [via]
Ham on Ryeby Charles BukowskiISBN 0876855575 (0-87685-557-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ham on Rye'Book summary:Charles Bukowski's fourth novel, Ham on Rye, is the semi-autobiographical story of the early years of his alter ego Henry Chinaski. It is a finely written and honest account of the painful childhood of a boy marked out from his peers. Regularly beaten by his father, Chinaski is shown growing through his difficult and violent adolescence (struck with the worst case of acne his doctors have ever seen) through to the first jobs he can't and won't hold down. In this moving story of growing up Bukowski disciplines his muscular, concentrated writing and creates a novel that distils his poetry into the finest full-length piece of prose that he ever wrote. Bukowski is often good but in Ham on Rye he's great.
Sadly, best known as the alcoholic inspiration for the film Barfly (an experience he reflected on in his book Hollywood), it is as a poet, rather than a drunk, that Bukowski should be best remembered. His bitter, caustic, direct, humane, damaged poetry reflects a life dominated by poverty and booze. His poetry stretches over many, many volumes but Bukowski also wrote great novels: all of them have many faults but the first four books he wrote shine for similar reasons. Post Office and Factotum both dissect, quite brilliantly, the life of an angry, poor man forced to do mindless jobs, pushed around and considered mindless by the fools who force him to do them. Women, as Roddy Doyle points out in his short introduction, continues the themes but focuses on the numerous women who share his hero's bed and bottle. --Mark Thwaite [via]
The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0837604583 (0-8376-0458-3)
Hardcover, Bentley Pub
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The Hidden Staircaseby SimonISBN 0811851397 (0-8118-5139-7)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Hope Leslie, Or, Early Times in the Massachusettsby Catharine Maria SedgwickISBN 0813512220 (0-8135-1222-0)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hope Leslie, Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts'Book summary:This is an eccentric and conspicuous novel that sensationalizes a conflict between English colonists and Native Americans. Sedgwicks firm feminist and patriotic approach is evident throughout the novel. The female characters are strongly built and the highly spirited heroine of the novel, Esther stands apart in her portrayal. Compelling! This EasyRead Edition has been optimized for readers with normal vision who prefer to enhance their reading pleasure. [via]
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Hyperbolic Manifolds and Holomorphic Mappingsby Shoshichi KobayashiISBN 082471380X (0-8247-1380-X)
Hardcover, M. Dekker
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The Innocents Abroadby Mark Twain, Jane JacobsISBN 0812967054 (0-8129-6705-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Innocents Abroad'Book summary:The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American New Barbarians and the European Old World provides much comic fodder for Mark Twainand a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully skewering the ethos of American tourism in Europe, Twains lively satire ultimately reveals just what it is that defines cultural identity. As Twain himself points out, Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all ones lifetime. And Jane Jacobs observes in her Introduction, If the reader is American, he may also find himself on a tour of his own psyche. [via]
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Jazzby Toni MorrisonISBN 0816156247 (0-8161-5624-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz'Book summary:Jazz embraces the vibrant music and lifestyle of 1920s Harlem, an urban renaissance of opportunity and glamour. A novel of murder, hard lives, and broken dreams, Jazz sways with a lyric medley of voices and human consciousness.
Narrated by the author, Toni Morrison, this is an intense but gratifying three hours of tape. Background jazz music enhances the feel of '20s Harlem, a city that attracted thousands of black southerners hoping for better lives. Joe Trace and his wife Violet were part of this migration; madly in love with each other and the idea of this urban mecca, they "traindanced into the city." But like so many of the marriages in Morrison's novels, this union crumbles, and the dreams for a better life fade away. Joe finds another, a love "that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going."
In Jazz, time ebbs and flows like human memory, traversing between recollections of the past and expectations for the future; likewise, jazz music is often wild and chaotic. Here Morrison once again exemplifies herself as both a superb writer and a masterful storyteller. [via]
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0812522974 (0-8125-2297-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Life on the Mississippiby Mark TwainISBN 0848806514 (0-8488-0651-4)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Love of the Last Tycoonby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0833502352 (0-8335-0235-2)
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Main Streetby Sinclair LewisISBN 0822007983 (0-8220-0798-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Main Street'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A novel of life in a quiet Midwestern town exposes the complacency and hypocrisy there. [via]
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Maltese Falconby Dashiell HammettISBN 0848824369 (0-8488-2436-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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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]
Nightwoodby Djuna Barnes, Jeanette Winterson, T. S. EliotISBN 0811216713 (0-8112-1671-3)
Softcover, New Directions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nightwood'Book summary:Nightwood is not only a classic of lesbian literature, but was also acknowledged by no less than T. S. Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th century. Eliot admired Djuna Barnes' rich, evocative language. Lesbian readers will admire the exquisite craftsmanship and Barnes' penetrating insights into obsessive passion. Barnes told a friend that Nightwood was written with her own blood "while it was still running." That flowing wound was the breakup of an eight-year relationship with the lesbian love of her life. [via]
Old Christmasby Washington IrvingISBN 0831765909 (0-8317-6590-9)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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An Old-fashioned Girlby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0816714622 (0-8167-1462-2)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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On the Banks of Plum Creekby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0808537989 (0-8085-3798-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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When the Ingalls family decides to move west to Minnesota, Laura is certain she won't like her new home. Her feelings quickly change as she and Mary make friends and Pa's wheat crop flourishes. Things take a turn for the worse when a cloud of grasshoppers destroys the crops and Pa is forced to leave to find work. Now it's Laura's chance to prove that she can help the family to survive.
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry JamesISBN 0861366018 (0-86136-601-8)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portrait of a Lady'Book summary:"The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama. [via]
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Post Officeby Charles BukowskiISBN 0876850867 (0-87685-086-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Post Office'Book summary:Henry Chinaski is a low-life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and race tracks. First published in 1971, this was Charles Bukowski's debut novel. [via]
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Primary Colors: A Novel of Politicsby Joe Klein, Klein, Joe (AFT)ISBN 0812976479 (0-8129-7647-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics'Book summary:A brilliant and penetrating look behind the scenes of modern American politics, Primary Colors is a funny, wise, and dramatic story with characters and events that resemble some familiar, real-life figures. When a former congressional aide becomes part of the staff of the governor of a small Southern state, he watches in horror, admiration, and amazement, as the governor mixes calculation and sincerity in his not-so-above-board campaign for the presidency.
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Princess Brideby William GoldmanISBN 0808586998 (0-8085-8699-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess Bride'Book summary:The Princess Bride is a true fantasy classic. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern's original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. Morgenstern's mostly complimentary views of the text. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. Goldman feels is a story that has everything: "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles."
Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.
Is The Princess Bride a critique of classics like Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers, that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you'll put it on your "keeper" shelf. --Nona Vero [via]
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Pudd'Nhead Wilsonby Mark Twain, F. M. Senior, C. H. Warren, Ron PowersISBN 0812966228 (0-8129-6622-8)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pudd'Nhead Wilson'Book summary:Featuring the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her masters baby, and the clever Puddnhead Wilson, an ostracized small-town lawyer, Twains darkly comic masterpiece is a provocative exploration of slavery and miscegenation. Leslie A. Fiedler described the novel as half melodramatic detective story, half bleak tragedy, noting that morally, it is one of the most honest books in our literature. Those Extraordinary Twins, the slapstick story that evolved into Puddnhead Wilson, provides a fascinating view of the authors process.
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0812504798 (0-8125-0479-8)
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Roughing Itby Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne ClemensISBN 0809531828 (0-8095-3182-8)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roughing It'Book summary:There is no nicer surprise for a reader than to discover that an acknowledged classic really does deliver the goods. Mark Twain's Roughing It is just such a book. The adventure tale is a delight from start to finish and is just as engrossing today as it was 125 years ago when it first appeared.
Roughing It tells the true-ish escapades of Twain in the American West. Although he clearly "speaks with forked tongue," Roughing It is informative as well as humorous. From stagecoach travel to the etiquette of prospecting, the modern reader gains considerable insight into that much-fictionalized time and place. Do you know about sagebrush, for example?
Sage-brush is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child, the mule. But their testimony to its nutritiousness is worth nothing, for they will eat pine knots, or anthracite coal, or brass filings, or lead pipe, or old bottles, or anything that comes handy, and then go off looking as grateful as if they had had oysters for dinner.
Roughing It is informally structured around the narrator's attempts to strike it rich. He meets a motley, colorful crew in the process; many mishaps occur, and it shouldn't surprise you that Twain does not emerge a man of means. But he withstands it all in such a relentless good humor that his misfortune inspires laughter. Roughing It is wonderful entertainment and reminds you how funny the world can be--even its grimmer districts--when you're traveling with the right writer. [via]More editions of Roughing It:
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Ruth Hall and Other Writingsby Fanny FernISBN 0813511682 (0-8135-1168-2)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ruth Hall and Other Writings'Book summary:Famous American Women Writers. [via]
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Ruth Hall and Other Writingsby Joyce W. Warren, Fanny FernISBN 0813511674 (0-8135-1167-4)
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The Secret Garden : A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Storyby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Louise Betts, Karen PrichettISBN 0816712042 (0-8167-1204-2)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Garden : A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Story'Book summary:This kindle book also includes bonus annotations:
- information on the historical context of the book
- biography of the author
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The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in autumn 1910; the book was first published in its entirety in 1911.
Its working title was Mistress Mary, in reference to the English nursery rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of children's literature.
The main character of this story is Mary Lennox. She has been born to rich British parents that are currently living in India. Her parents were busy with extravagent parties and left Mary with her ayah for most of the time. Orphaned by an outbreak of cholera, she is sent back to England to be cared for by her mother's sister's husband, Archibald Craven, a reclusive widower. Craven's wife, Lilian, passed away ten years earlier. He is still mourning that loss. To escape his sad memories, he constantly travels abroad, leaving the entire manor, including Mary, to be cared for by his housekeeper, Mrs. Medlock. The only person who has any time for the little girl is the chambermaid Martha Sowerby, who tells Mary about a locked up garden, surrounded by a wall that was the late Mrs. Craven's favorite place. No one has entered the garden since she died because Archibald locked its entrance and buried the key. He hasn't told anyone where it is.
Mary finds the key to the secret garden hidden in a box in the house. A robin shows her where the door is hidden beneath overgrown ivy. Once inside, she discovers that although the roses seem lifeless, some of the other flowers have survived. She decides to tend the garden herself. Mary wants to keep her new found garden a secret, but she knows she needs help tending it. She gets this help from Martha's brother Dickon. He seems to have a connection with all wild animals and plants. Mary gives him money to buy gardening implements and he shows her that the roses, though neglected, are not dead. When Mary's uncle briefly meets with her for the first time since her arrival, Mary asks him for permission to claim her own garden from any abandoned part of the grounds, and he acquiesces. Thanks to her new-found interests and activities, Mary herself begins to blossom, becoming more healthy looking and more pleasant to be around.
Some nights, Mary hears someone weeping in another part of the house. When she asks questions, the servants become evasive. They tell her that she is hearing things, like a servant with a toothache. Shortly after her uncle's visit, she goes exploring and discovers her uncle's son, Colin, a lonely, bedridden boy as petulant and disagreeable as Mary used to be. His father shuns him because the child closely resembles his mother. Mr. Craven is a mild hunchback, and both he and Colin are morbidly convinced that the boy will develop the same condition. The servants have been keeping Mary and Colin a secret from one another because Colin doesn't like strangers staring at him and is prone to terrible tantrums.
Mr. Craven has been traveling through Europe, but is inspired to rush home after hearing the voice of his dead wife in a dream and receiving a letter from Mrs. Sowerby (Martha's and Dickon's mother, who also knows the secret) telling him, "I think your lady would ask you to come if she was here." He arrives while the children are outdoors and finds himself drawn toward the secret garden. As he approaches nearer, he is astonished to hear their voices inside the walls; Colin bursts out of the garden door toward him, actually winning a footrace against Mary and Dickon. The story's heartwarming ending has Colin able to walk, Archibald smiling again, and Mary has a family and friends who love her. [via]More editions of The Secret Garden : A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Story:
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Stranger in a Strange Landby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0808520873 (0-8085-2087-3)
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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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To Build a Fire and Other Storiesby Jack LondonISBN 0812565169 (0-8125-6516-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Tortilla Flatby John SteinbeckISBN 0816159017 (0-8161-5901-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tortilla Flat'Book summary:Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America?s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers?and to the many who revisit them again and again."[via]More editions of Tortilla Flat:
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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992by Anna Deavere SmithISBN 0822218410 (0-8222-1841-0)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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A View from the Bridgeby Arthur MillerISBN 0822212099 (0-8222-1209-9)
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, Amy BloomISBN 0812967194 (0-8129-6719-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune. In this witty tragedy of treachery, self-deception, and betrayal, Henry James weaves together three ill-fated and wholly human destinies unexpectedly linked by desire, greed, and salvation. As Amy Bloom writes in her Introduction, The Wings of the Dove is a novel of intimacy. . . . [James] gives us passion, he gives us love in its terrible and enchanting forms. [via]
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0812523350 (0-8125-2335-0)
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Ray BradburyISBN 081297011X (0-8129-7011-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Arbor Alma/the Giving Treeby Shel SilversteinISBN 0865164991 (0-86516-499-1)
Hardcover, Bolchazy Carducci Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arbor Alma/the Giving Tree'Book summary:An evocative parable, The Giving Tree-the story of a lifelong relationship between a boy and the tree who happily responds to the boy's every need -is retold in Latin in Arbor alma. This edition features the original artwork of Shel Silverstein and a translation in a style that echoes the spirit of The Giving Tree.
The Giving Tree is Shel Silverstein's simple yet profound telling of a lifelong relationship between a boy and a nurturing tree. The boy becomes an old man, and, from branches to trunk, diminishes the tree's stature with his requests-or does he? This tender tale has invited generations of readers, young and old, to ponder what it means to give and what, to receive.
The Giving Tree is here rendered in exquisite Latin, a language whose own simple grandeur complements that of Silverstein's original story and illustrations. Arbor Alma adds one more dimension to this multifaceted classic. This Latin-language edition is a welcome, all-occasion gift, a delightful way to revisit a treasured tale, and an enjoyable way to refresh your high school Latin.
*originally published in English by HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1964.
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Exquisite Latin translation in a style that echoes the spirit of the original
Original artwork of Shel Silverstein
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Octavus Octopus: Octavus the Octopus - ISBN 0865166986For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient Greek books. From Dr. Seuss books in Latin to Plato's Apology, Bolchazy-Carducci's titles help readers learn about ancient Rome and Greece; the Latin and ancient Greek languages are alive and well with titles like Cicero's De Amicitia and Kaegi's Greek Grammar. We also feature a line of contemporary eastern European and WWII books.
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