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About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memoryby Barry LopezISBN 186046565X (1-86046-565-X)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory'Book summary:"Read. Find out what you truly believe. Get away from the familiar." This advice, given to a father whose daughter wants to learn to write, is the organizing principle behind Barry Lopez's latest collection of essays and also the central theme behind his life as a writer. Author of 12 acclaimed books of nature writing, including the National Book Award-winning Arctic Dreams, Lopez is one of our most eloquent masters of the nearly lost art of paying attention. In this volume, a travelogue of journeys both inward and outward, he brings the same careful scrutiny to bear on the mystery of his own life and its interactions with the natural world.
Lopez has always been interested in tearing down artificial divides between nature and culture, landscape and identity, and nowhere does he do so more powerfully than in About This Life. These essays cover ground from the remote (in the group of travel essays entitled "Out of Country") to the familiar ("Indwelling"), the personal to the archetypal ("Remembrance" and "An Opening Quartet"). Whether he's joyriding around the world with air cargo, performing burials for animals found dead by the side of the road, or lamenting the commodification of the American landscape, Lopez writes with a surgeon's precision, a musician's ear, and a painter's eye for beauty found in unexpected places. [via]
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All of Usby Raymond CarverISBN 1860463649 (1-86046-364-9)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All of Us the Collected Poems'Book summary:In the late '70s and early '80s, Raymond Carver's spare, moving fiction had an impact on American letters like nothing before or since. But Carver began life as a poet, and it might be argued that in their striking rhythms, their almost lyric compression, his stories resemble nothing so much as narrative verse. In All of Us, his collected poems, we find what his widow, Tess Gallagher, calls "the spiritual current out of which he moved to write the short stories." Played out against the quintessential Carver emotional landscapes of loneliness and alcohol and not enough money, these poems seem to contain the seeds of his stories within them, sometimes caught in a single image, line, or idea. Any Carver aficionado will experience shivers of recognition while reading this volume: how the final moments of "My Dad's Wallet" ("our breath coming and going") transmute into the "human noise we sat there making" in "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"; the way the early poem "Distress Sale" resonates in the garage sale of his "Why Don't We Dance."
"The poems give themselves as easily and unselfconsciously as breath," Gallagher writes in her introduction, and it's true. But just because they are plainspoken, don't mistake these for the doodles of a fiction writer whiling away the time between stories. Carver's poems have a lyric momentum all their own, never more evident than in his final poems, written months and in some cases just weeks before his death; Carver seems to have broken away from everything but the simplest and most direct forms of expression. This is language burnished to its essentials, heartbreaking in its very clarity. Witness the final words he ever wrote, in "Last Fragment":
And did you get what
That much, surely, he did. Carver lived a decade longer than he had any right to expect, lived to give us some of his most powerful work: two of his three books of stories, almost all of these poems. Nearly dead from alcoholism, he was granted a 10-year reprieve--"pure gravy," he calls that time, in one poem--and so were we. --Mary Park [via]
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Henry Adams to Dorothy Parterby Library of AmericaISBN 1883011779 (1-883011-77-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Angels on Toastby Dawn PowellISBN 188364240X (1-883642-40-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1859987494 (1-85998-749-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square Books
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Arctic Dreamsby Barry Holstun LopezISBN 1860465838 (1-86046-583-8)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arctic Dreams'Book summary:Based on 15 extended trips to the Canadian far north over a five-year period, Arctic Dreams celebrates the mysteries of what documentarians fondly call "last frontiers." Such places are everywhere in danger of destruction in the interest of ever-elusive economic progress, but Lopez writes no jeremiads. Instead, he aims to foster a kind of learned understanding of wild places, in this case the vast, scarcely knowable northern landscape. Writing of the natural history of the Arctic and its inhabitants--narwhals, polar bears, beluga whales, musk oxen, and caribou among them--Lopez draws powerful lessons from the land and imparts them assuredly and gracefully. Arctic Dreams deservedly won a National Book Award in 1986 when it was first published. [via]
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Arrowsmithby Sinclair Lewis, Richard R. LingemanISBN 1931082081 (1-931082-08-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arrowsmith'Book summary:Written at the height of his powers in the 1920s, the three novels in this volume continue the vigorous unmasking of American middle-class life begun by Sinclair Lewis in Main Street and Babbitt. In Arrowsmith (1925) Lewis portrays the medical career of Martin Arrowsmith, a physician who finds his commitment to the ideals of his profession tested by the cynicism and opportunism he encounters in private practice, public health work, and scientific research. The novel reaches its climax as its hero faces his greatest challenges amid a deadly outbreak of plague on a Caribbean island.
Elmer Gantry (1927) aroused intense controversy with its brutal depiction of a hypocritical preacher in relentless pursuit of worldly pleasure and power. Through his satiric exposé of American religion, Lewis captured the growing cultural and political tension in the 1920s between the forces of secularism and fundamentalism.
Dodsworth (1929) follows Sam Dodsworth, a wealthy, retired Midwestern automobile manufacturer, as he travels through Europe with his increasingly restless wife, Fran. The novel intimately explores the unraveling of their marriage, while pitting the proud heritage of European culture against the rude vigor of American commercialism. [via]More editions of Arrowsmith:
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The Better of Mcsweeney'sby Dave EggersISBN 1932416331 (1-932416-33-1)
Softcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Better of Mcsweeney's'Book summary:This book collects some of the best stories from the first ten issues of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, the literary journal that has become one of the country's most important and influential publications. McSweeney's began as a small collection of work rejected by other magazines, but it soon began to publish pieces primarily written for the journal, and to attract some of the finest writers in the country. Contributors to Best of McSweeney's, Volume One include Jonathan Lethem, Glen David Gold, A. M. Homes, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers, Amanda Davis, George Saunders, Paul Collins, and William Vollmann, as well as many talented newcomers. Stories included here have been selected for The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories, and one was performed in a regional musical theater.[via]More editions of The Better of Mcsweeney's:
Big Clockby Kenneth FearingISBN 1854800426 (1-85480-042-6)
Softcover, Xanadu Pubns Ltd
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Big Woodsby William FaulknerISBN 1885106408 (1-885106-40-8)
Hardcover, Wilderness Adventures Pr
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Billy Budd & Other Storiesby Herman MelvilleISBN 185326749X (1-85326-749-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd & Other Stories'Book summary:Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of satanic treachery, tragedy and great pathos that explores human relationships and the inherently ambiguous nature of man-made justice. Tales such as Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning Rod Man, The Tartarus of Maids or I and My Chimney, show the timeless poetic power of Melville's writing as he consciously uses the disguise of allegory in various ways and to various ends. [via]
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Black No Moreby George S. SchuylerISBN 1874509638 (1-874509-63-8)
Softcover, X-Pr
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The Book of Angelsby Thomas E. KennedyISBN 1877655236 (1-877655-23-6)
Hardcover, Wordcraft of Oregon
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Call If You Need Meby William L. Stull, Raymond CarverISBN 1860467598 (1-86046-759-8)
Hardcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Call If You Need Me'Book summary:When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last stories in the collection entitled Elephant and his own collection of stories, Where I'm Calling from. Five previously unpublished stories have recently been discovered, and this new volume brings together all of his uncollected fiction, including a fragment of an unfinished novel, five early stories, and all of his non-fiction prose. Three of these late-found stories are fine examples of Carver's late, open style, while two date from his middle period. The non-fiction prose includes all of his essays, together with occasional commentary on his own fiction and poetry, writings on the American short story, and reviews of work by his contemporaries, among them Donald Barthelme, Richard Brautigan, Jim Harrison, Thomas McGuane and Richard Ford. Also included is Carver's latest essay "Friendship", about a London reunion with Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff. Call If You Need Me takes us into Carver's workshop, and alongside All of Us: The Collected Poems and Where I'm Calling from: The Selected Stories completes the picture of one of the most original writers in the English language of his generation. [via]
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Cathedralby Raymond CarverISBN 1860463878 (1-86046-387-8)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 1892295938 (1-892295-93-8)
Softcover, Green Integer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civil Disobedience'Book summary:One of the most important texts of American political thought, Civil Disobediance eloquently states a position that has influenced the thinking of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and many figures of the protests in the 1960s against the Vietnam War. Thoreau argues that "the progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual." "There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly."[via]
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Clay Wallsby Kim RonyoungISBN 1877946788 (1-877946-78-8)
Softcover, Permanent Pr Pub Co
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Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, the Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, the Devil Finds Work, Other Essaysby James Baldwin, Toni MorrisonISBN 1883011523 (1-883011-52-3)
Hardcover, Library of America
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Collected Stories & Later Writingsby Paul BowlesISBN 1931082200 (1-931082-20-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Complete Novelsby Carson McCullers, C. L. Barney DewsISBN 1931082030 (1-931082-03-0)
Hardcover, Library of America
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Complete Novels and Storiesby Kate Chopin, Sandra M. GilbertISBN 1931082219 (1-931082-21-9)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Novels and Stories'Book summary:From ruined Louisiana plantations to bustling, cosmopolitan New Orleans, Kate Chopin wrote with unflinching honesty about propriety and its strictures, the illusions of love and the realities of marriage, and the persistence of a past scarred by slavery and war. Her stories of fiercely independent women, culminating in her masterpiece The Awakening (1899), challenged contemporary mores as much by their sensuousness as their politics, and today seem decades ahead of their time. Now, The Library of America collects all of Chopin's novels and stories as never before in one authoritative volume.
The explosive novel At Fault (1890) centers on a love triangle between a strong-willed young widow, a stiff St. Louis businessman, and the man's alcoholic wife. In the story collections Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), Chopin transforms the local color sketch into taut, perfectly calibrated tales of post-Civil War bayou culture. In The Awakening, the now-classic novel that scandalized many of her contemporaries and effectively ended her writing career, Chopin tells the story of a restless, unsatisfied woman who embarks on a quixotic search for fulfillment.
The volume also includes all the stories not collected by Chopin, including those meant for "A Vocation and a Voice," a projected volume that her publisher canceled in 1900, and three stories that were found in 1992 in a long-lost cache of Chopin's papers. [via]More editions of Complete Novels and Stories:
Crime Novelsby Robert PolitoISBN 1883011469 (1-883011-46-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dark God of Eros: A William Everson Readerby William Everson, Albert GelpiISBN 1890771643 (1-890771-64-3)
Softcover, Heyday Books
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The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devils Dictionary and the American Heretics Dictionaryby Ambrose Bierce, Chaz Bufe, J. R. SwansonISBN 1884365353 (1-884365-35-3)
Softcover, See Sharp Pr
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Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poemsby J.D. McClatchyISBN 1931082359 (1-931082-35-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems'Book summary:A lively selection by J. D. McClatchy, the distinguished poet, critic, and editor, casts Millay's career in a new light. Here are familiar favorites alongside neglected gems: translations, a verse play, songs from her opera libretto The King's Henchman, and the complete sonnet sequence Fatal Interview. [via]
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The Empire of Ice Creamby Jeffrey FordISBN 1930846398 (1-930846-39-8)
Hardcover, Golden Gryphon Pr
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Everybody's Autobiographyby Gertrude SteinISBN 1878972081 (1-878972-08-1)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everybody's Autobiography'Book summary:Everybody's Autobiography is among the very best of Gertrude's writing--[it] speaks with the true and original voice of Gertrude Stein, without apparent art or bravado.--Janet HobhouseIn 1937, Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but this darker and more complex work was long misunderstood and neglected. An account of her experiences in the wake of having authored a bestseller, Everybody's Autobiography is as funny and engaging as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but it is also a searing meditation on the meaning of success and identity in America. Posing as the representative American, Stein transforms her story into history--responding to the tradition of Thoreau and Henry Adams, she writes: "I used to be fond of saying that America, which was supposed to be a land of success, was a land of failure. Most of the great men in America had a long life of early failure and a long life of later failure." Everybody's Autobiography is Stein at her most accessible and her most serious, and may yet prove to be among her most popular books. [via]
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The Fantasy Writer's Assistantby Jeffrey FordISBN 193084610X (1-930846-10-X)
Hardcover, Golden Gryphon Pr
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Folded Leafby William MaxwellISBN 1860465455 (1-86046-545-5)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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The Freshour Cylindersby Speer MorganISBN 1878448994 (1-878448-99-4)
Softcover, Macmurray & Beck Communication
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Freshour Cylinders'Book summary:WINNER OF THE 1999 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD
Tom Freshour needs a vacation. It's the dusty, hot summer of 1934, and he'd like to escape both the heat in western Arkansas and his cases at the county prosecutor's office for the calm and solitude of a fishing trip. But his old Ford won't start, and while it's being repaired, an eccentric and enigmatic collector of Indian artifacts is brutally murdered.
It doesn't help matters that the executor of the collector's estate is Rainy Davis, a beautiful, intelligent young archaeologist who's uncertain why she was appointed to oversee the estate of a man whom she'd met only once.
Nor does it help that the most formidable county judge has asked personally that Freshour take the case.
But Freshour agrees, drawing himself into a tense and violent investigation of murder, political scandal, and some very private affairs.
In this suspenseful literary mystery, Speer Morgan takes us back to the events surrounding the discovery and destruction of the Spiro Mound, the most significant pre-Columbian temple mound ever found in North America. Weaving history with the compelling story of murder, broken hearts, and greed, Morgan gives us one of the most engrossing, sexy, and suspenseful reads of the year.
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Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations, 1952-1998by Gary SnyderISBN 1887178902 (1-887178-90-2)
Hardcover, Counterpoint
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Girl in Hyacinth Blueby Susan VreelandISBN 1878448900 (1-878448-90-0)
Hardcover, Macmurray & Beck Communication
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue'Book summary:There are only 35 known Vermeers extant in the world today. In Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland posits the existence of a 36th. The story begins at a private boys' academy in Pennsylvania where, in the wake of a faculty member's unexpected death, math teacher Cornelius Engelbrecht makes a surprising revelation to one of his colleagues. He has, he claims, an authentic Vermeer painting, "a most extraordinary painting in which a young girl wearing a short blue smock over a rust-colored skirt sat in profile at a table by an open window." His colleague, an art teacher, is skeptical and though the technique and subject matter are persuasively Vermeer-like, Engelbrecht can offer no hard evidence--no appraisal, no papers--to support his claim. He says only that his father, "who always had a quick eye for fine art, picked it up, let us say, at an advantageous moment." Eventually it is revealed that Engelbrecht's father was a Nazi in charge of rounding up Dutch Jews for deportation and that the picture was looted from one doomed family's home:
That's when I saw that painting, behind his head. All blues and yellows and reddish brown, as translucent as lacquer. It had to be a Dutch master. Just then a private found a little kid covered with tablecloths behind some dishes in a sideboard cabinet. We'd almost missed him.
By the end of "Love Enough," this first of eight interrelated stories tracing the history of "Girl in Hyacinth Blue," the painting's fate at the hands of guilt-riddled Engelbrecht fils is in question. Unfortunately, there is no doubt about the probable destiny of the previous owners, the Vredenburg family of Rotterdam, who take center stage in the powerful "A Night Different From All Other Nights." Vreeland handles this tale with subtlety and restraint, setting it at Passover, the year before the looting, and choosing to focus on the adolescent Hannah Vredenburg's difficult passage into adulthood in the face of an uncertain future. In the next story, "Adagia," she moves even further into the past to sketch "how love builds itself unconsciously ... out of the momentous ordinary" in a tender portrait of a longtime marriage. Back and back Vreeland goes, back through other owners, other histories, to the very inception of the painting in the homely, everyday objects of the Vermeer household--a daughter's glass of milk, a son's shirt in need of buttons, a wife's beloved sewing basket--"the unacknowledged acts of women to hallow home." Girl in Hyacinth Blue ends with the painting's subject herself, Vermeer's daughter Magdalena, who first sends the portrait out into the world as payment for a family debt, then sees it again, years later at an auction.She thought of all the people in all the paintings she had seen that day, not just Father's, in all the paintings of the world, in fact. Their eyes, the particular turn of a head, their loneliness or suffering or grief was borrowed by an artist to be seen by other people throughout the years who would never see them face to face. People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her.
In this final passage, Susan Vreeland might be describing her own masterpiece as well as Vermeer's. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Girl in Hyacinth Blue:
Glimpses of the Moonby Edith WhartonISBN 1901285561 (1-901285-56-1)
Softcover, Pushkin Pr Ltd
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The Granta Book of the American Long Storyby Richard FordISBN 1862072779 (1-86207-277-9)
Softcover, Granta Books
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The High Sierra of Californiaby Gary Snyder, Tom KillionISBN 1890771996 (1-890771-99-6)
Softcover, Heyday Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The High Sierra of California'Book summary:Combining the dramatic and meticulous work of printmaker Tom Killion--accented by quotes from John Muir--and the journal writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder, The High Sierra of California is a tribute to the bold, jagged peaks that have inspired generations of naturalists, artists, and writers.
For over thirty years, Tom Killion has been backpacking the High Sierra, making sketches of the region stretching from Yosemite south to Whitney and Kaweah Crest, which he calls ''California's backbone.'' Using traditional Japanese and European woodcut techniques, Killion has created stunning visual images of the Sierra that focus on the backcountry above nine thousand feet, accessible only on foot.
Accompanying these riveting images are the journals of Gary Snyder, chronicling more than forty years of foot travels through the High Sierra backcountry. ''Athens and Rome, good-bye!'' writes Snyder, as he takes us deep into the mountains on his daily journeys around Yosemite and beyond.
Originally printed in a limited, handmade, letterpress edition, The High Sierra of California is now available in an affordable, full-color trade edition.
Winner of the California Book Award Medal [via]
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The Huntersby James SalterISBN 1860465072 (1-86046-507-2)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorismsby James RichardsonISBN 1931337217 (1-931337-21-7)
Softcover, Ausable Pr
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Jephte's Daughterby Naomi RagenISBN 1902881508 (1-902881-50-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jephte's Daughter'Book summary:A modern classic of Jewish-American literature, a remarkable journey into the shrouded world of Chassidic women. Naomi Ragen's first novel has been called "one of the 100 most important" Jewish books. Abraham Ha-Levi is a wealthy American businessman and the last male survivor of an important Orthodox Jewish family. He decides it's time he finally honoured his religious and cultural inheritance and so forces his 18-year old daughter - the beautiful and intelligent Batsheva - into an arranged marriage. Her new husband is a devout Torah scholar who lives in Jerusalem. Batsheva finds herself plunged into a new life and a strange land, among people who follow their religious laws to the letter. Then she realises that her husband's piety is merely a mask for his cruelty. A magnificent book that builds up momentum compellingly [via]
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Kon-Tikiby Thor HeyerdahlISBN 1885283105 (1-885283-10-5)
Hardcover, Adventure Library
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Lord of Chaosby Robert JordanISBN 1857232623 (1-85723-262-3)
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Magic for Beginnersby Shelley Jackson, Kelly LinkISBN 1931520151 (1-931520-15-1)
Hardcover, Small Beer Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic for Beginners'Book summary:[via]Best of the Decade: Salon, The A.V. Club
"If I had to pick the most powerfully original voice in fantasy today, it would be Kelly Link. Her stories begin in a world very much like our own, but then, following some mysterious alien geometry, they twist themselves into something fantastic and, frequently, horrific. You wont come out the same person you went in."Lev Grossman, The Week
"Highly original."Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Dazzling."Entertainment Weekly (grade: A, Editors Choice)
"Darkly playful."Michael Chabon
Best of the Year: Time Magazine, Salon, Boldtype, PopMatters.
Kelly Links engaging and funny stories riff on haunted convenience stores, husbands and wives, rabbits, zombies, weekly apocalyptic poker parties, witches, and cannons. Includes Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winners. A Best of the Year pick from TIME, Salon.com, and Book Sense. Illustrated by Shelley Jackson.
Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short fiction Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebula, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question Why do you want to go through the world? ( Because you cant go through it. )
Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press, co-edit the fantasy half of The Years Best Fantasy and Horror, and play ping-pong. In 1996 they started the occasional zine Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet.
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The Man Who Planted Treesby Jean Giono, Michael McCurdyISBN 1890132322 (1-890132-32-2)
Softcover, University of Toronto Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Planted Trees'Book summary:Jean Gionos unforgettable story is of Elzéard Bouffier, a tireless shepherd who plants one hundred acorns a day over a span of thirty years. In doing so, Bouffier not only transforms the countryside, but revitalizes his community and teaches us about hope, humanity, and our own ability to create change in the world around us.
This timeless classic has sold over a quarter of a million copies and inspired countless numbers of people around the world to take action and plant trees. On National Arbor Day, April 29, 2005, Chelsea Green is releasing a special twentieth anniversary edition with a new foreword by Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a new afterword by Andy Lipkis, founder of the Los Angeles based TreePeople. [via]
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Hardcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co - The Man Who Planted Trees: ISBN 1860461174 (1-86046-117-4)
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The Marrow of Traditionby Charles Waddell ChesnuttISBN 1874509123 (1-874509-12-3)
Softcover, X-Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marrow of Tradition'Book summary:One of the most significant novels in American literature, "The Marrow of Tradition" is based on the Wilmington, North Carolina, Massacre of 1898. Called a "race riot" by the inflammatory Southern press and engineered by white Democrats who had seen their political slip into the hands of Republicans, many of whom were black, it was in fact a coup that restored power to the Democrats by subverting the principles of free democratic election. Some of Charles Chestnutt's relatives lived through the violence, and their accounts inspired this powerful and passionate novel. [via]
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Mercy Mercy Meby Elena GeorgiouISBN 1891305247 (1-891305-24-7)
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snowby Peter HoegISBN 1860461670 (1-86046-167-0)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow: The Making of a Filmby Karin Trolle, Peter Heg, Bille AugustISBN 1860463711 (1-86046-371-1)
Hardcover, Harvill Press
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Narrative of the Life & Times of Frederick Douglassby Frederick DouglassISBN 1930097115 (1-930097-11-5)
Softcover, Lushena Books
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Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; My First Summer in the Sierra; The Mountains of California; Stickeen; Selected Essaysby John Muir, William CrononISBN 1883011248 (1-883011-24-8)
Hardcover, Library of America
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New York Mosaicby Isabel BoltonISBN 1883642892 (1-883642-89-2)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Novels, 1930-1942by Dawn Powell, Tim PageISBN 1931082014 (1-931082-01-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Pandoraby Anne RiceISBN 1890885029 (1-890885-02-9)
Hardcover, B E Trice Pub
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Parable of the Sowerby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 1888363258 (1-888363-25-8)
Hardcover, Seven Stories Press
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Parable of the Talentsby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 1888363819 (1-888363-81-9)
Hardcover, Seven Stories Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parable of the Talents'Book summary:Octavia Butler tackles the creation of a new religion, the making of a god, and the ultimate fate of humanity in her Earthseed series, which began with Parable of the Sower, and now continues with Parable of the Talents. The saga began with the near-future dystopian tale of Sower, in which young Lauren Olamina began to realize her destiny as a leader of people dispossessed and destroyed by the crumbling of society. The basic principles of Lauren's faith, Earthseed, were contained in a collection of deceptively simple proverbs that Lauren used to recruit followers. She teaches that "God is change" and that humanity's ultimate destiny is among the stars.
In Parable of the Talents, the seeds of change that Lauren planted begin to bear fruit, but in unpredictable and brutal ways. Her small community is destroyed, her child is kidnapped, and she is imprisoned by sadistic zealots. She must find a way to escape and begin again, without family or friends. Her single-mindedness in teaching Earthseed may be her only chance to survive, but paradoxically, may cause the ultimate estrangement of her beloved daughter. Parable of the Talents is told from both mother's and daughter's perspectives, but it is the narrative of Lauren's grown daughter, who has seen her mother made into a deity of sorts, that is the most compelling. Butler's writing is simple and elegant, and her storytelling skills are superb, as usual. Fans will be eagerly awaiting the next installment in what promises to be a moving and adventurous saga. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Philosopher's Clubby Kim AddonizioISBN 1880238039 (1-880238-03-9)
Softcover, Boa Editions
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Pinkerton's Sisterby Peter RushforthISBN 1931561990 (1-931561-99-0)
Hardcover, Macmurray & Beck Communication
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A Place in Spaceby Gary SnyderISBN 1887178279 (1-887178-27-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Plays, Prose Writings & Poemsby Oscar WildeISBN 1857150422 (1-85715-042-2)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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Pninby Vladimir NabokovISBN 1857152727 (1-85715-272-7)
Hardcover, Alfred A. Knopf
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Richard Matheson's I Am Legendby Steve Niles, Elman BrownISBN 1932382089 (1-932382-08-9)
Hardcover, Diamond Book Distributors
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Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories: Library Editionby Washington IrvingISBN 1883789400 (1-883789-40-0)
Hardcover, Black Dome Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories: Library Edition'Book summary:Washington Irving's story of a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains and awakens to find a changed world has been a classic of American Literature. This deluxe gift edition carefully reproduces thity-four of Arthir Rackham's enchanting and exquisuute paintings. [via]
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Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 1903436419 (1-903436-41-9)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
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The Sacrifice of Tamarby Naomi RagenISBN 1902881524 (1-902881-52-4)
Softcover, Toby Pr
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The Sheltering Skyby Paul Bowles, Daniel HalpernISBN 1931082197 (1-931082-19-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sheltering Sky'Book summary:Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important composer when at age 39 he published The Sheltering Sky and became recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period. From his base in Tangier he produced globally ranging novels, stories, and travel writings that set exquisite surfaces over violent undercurrents. His elegantly spare novels chart the unpredictable collisions between "civilized" exiles and a Morocco they never grasp, achieving effects of extreme horror and dislocation.
This Library of America Bowles set, the first annotated edition, offers the full range of his achievement: the portrait of an outsider who was one of the essential American writers of the last century. In addition to his novels-The Sheltering Sky (1949), Let It Come Down (1952), The Spider's House (1955), Up Above the World (1966)-and his collected stories-including such classics as "A Distant Episode" and "Pages from Cold Point"-they contain his masterpiece of travel writing, Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963). Throughout, Bowles shows himself a master of gothic terror and a diabolically funny observer of manners as well as a prescient guide to everything from the roots of Islamist politics to the world of Moghrebi music. With a hallucinatory clarity as dry and unforgiving as the desert air, Bowles sends his characters toward encounters with unknown and terrifying forces both outside them and within them. [via]More editions of The Sheltering Sky:
So Long, See You Tomorrowby William MaxwellISBN 1860464181 (1-86046-418-1)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Something Wicked This Way Comesby Ray Bradbury, Joe MuznainiISBN 188736823X (1-887368-23-X)
Hardcover, Gauntlet Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'Book summary:A masterpiece of modern Gothic literature, Something Wicked This Way Comes is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small Midwestern town with the arrival of a "dark carnival" one Autumn midnight. How these two innocents, both age 13, save the souls of the town (as well as their own), makes for compelling reading on timeless themes. What would you do if your secret wishes could be granted by the mysterious ringmaster Mr. Dark? Bradbury excels in revealing the dark side that exists in us all, teaching us ultimately to celebrate the shadows rather than fear them. In many ways, this is a companion piece to his joyful, nostalgia-drenched Dandelion Wine, in which Bradbury presented us with one perfect summer as seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old. In Something Wicked This Way Comes, he deftly explores the fearsome delights of one perfectly terrifying, unforgettable autumn. --Stanley Wiater [via]
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Sons and Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1857150228 (1-85715-022-8)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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Of course, Mrs. Morel takes neither of her two elder sons (the first of whom dies early, which further intensifies her grip on Paul) as a literal lover, but nonetheless her psychological snare is immense. She loathes Paul's Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will oust her: "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him." Meanwhile, Paul plays his part with equal fervor, incapable of committing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother suffering, then he hated her--and he easily hated her." Soon thereafter he even confesses to his mother: "I really don't love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you."
The result of all this is that Paul throws Miriam over for a married suffragette, Clara Dawes, who fulfills the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him, as ever, without a complete relationship to challenge his love for his mother. As Paul voyages from the working-class mining world to the spheres of commerce and art (he has fair success as a painter), he accepts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out of him. Life for her was rich with promise. She was to see herself fulfilled... All his work was hers."
The cycles of Paul's relationships with these three women are terrifying at times, and Lawrence does nothing to dim their intensity. Nor does he shirk in his vivid, sensuous descriptions of the landscape that offers up its blossoms and beasts and "shimmeriness" to Paul's sensitive spirit. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth. Few books tell such whole, complicated truths about the permutations of love as resolutely without resolution. It's nothing short of searing to be brushed by humanity in this manner. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Sport and a Pastimeby James SalterISBN 1860463851 (1-86046-385-1)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Stories, Essays & Memoirby Eudora WeltyISBN 1883011558 (1-883011-55-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Tales and Sketchesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 1883011337 (1-883011-33-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Roomsby Gertrude SteinISBN 1931243425 (1-931243-42-5)
Hardcover, Green Integer
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Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937-1955by Tennessee Williams, Mel Gussow, Kenneth HoldichISBN 1883011868 (1-883011-86-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Tennessee Williams: Plays 1957-1980by Tennessee Williams, Mel Gussow, Kenneth HoldichISBN 1883011876 (1-883011-87-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Theodore Roethke Selected Poemsby Theodore Roethke, Edward HirschISBN 1931082782 (1-931082-78-2)
Hardcover, Library of America
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Jonnie Patricia MobleyISBN 1885564112 (1-885564-11-2)
Softcover, Lorenz Educational Pub
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The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 188937234X (1-889372-34-X)
Hardcover, Sweetwater Pr
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Veniss Undergroundby Jeff VandermeerISBN 1894815645 (1-894815-64-5)
Softcover, Prime Books
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Violinby Anne RiceISBN 1890885002 (1-890885-00-2)
Hardcover, B E Trice Pub
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Vladimir Nabokovby Brian BoydISBN 1883011191 (1-883011-19-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vladimir Nabokov'Book summary:The second in Library of America's three-volume collection of Vladimir Nabokov's novels, Novels 1955-1962 contains his most acclaimed and popular works. The short, often anthologized Pnin is included, as is Pale Fire, Nabokov's most elaborate fictional joke: it's a novel masquerading as a 999-line poem accompanied by a professorial pedant's extensive annotations. But this deluxe volume is most valuable for its inclusion of Lolita alongside the screenplay that Nabokov wrote for Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick's film is quite different from the version Nabokov intended, and Novels 1955-1962 offers the opportunity to compare Lolita's two Nabokovian incarnations with Kubrick's film and with the recent, very controversial movie directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Jeremy Irons. [via]
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Walt Whitmanby Walt Whitman, Harold BloomISBN 1931082324 (1-931082-32-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walt Whitman'Book summary:Harold Bloom, author of The Western Canon and one of the world's most renowned literary critics, surveys Walt Whitman's vast poetic work, from early notebook fragments of Song of Myself to the late poems of Good-bye My Fancy. [via]
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The Way Home: Selected Longer Proseby Harry MathewsISBN 1900565056 (1-900565-05-6)
Softcover, Atlas Pr
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William Carlos Williams: Selected Poemsby Robert PinskyISBN 1931082715 (1-931082-71-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Yosemiteby John Muir, Galen RowellISBN 193023807X (1-930238-07-X)
Softcover, Yosemite Assn
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You Can't Winby Jack BlackISBN 1902593022 (1-902593-02-2)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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› Find signed collectible books: 'You Can't Win'Book summary:[via]The favorite book of William Burroughs. A journey into the hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still Wild West, becoming a highwayman and member of the yegg (criminal) brotherhood, getting hooked on opium, doing stints in jail or escaping, often with the assistance of crooked cops or judges. Our lost history revived.. With an introduction by Burroughs. A BookSense 77 selection.
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