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  • 1984
    by George Orwell
    ISBN 1595404325 (1-59540-432-5)
    Softcover, 1st World Library

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    Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]

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  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    by Jules Verne
    ISBN 1853260312 (1-85326-031-2)
    Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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    Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive. So begins not only one of the great adventure classics by Jules Verne, the 'Father of Science Fiction', but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole. [via]

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  • Anne of Green Gables
    by L.M. Montgomery
    ISBN 1595401105 (1-59540-110-5)
    Softcover, Authorhouse

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    When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]

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  • The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
    by Norman Wirzba
    ISBN 1593760078 (1-59376-007-8)
    Softcover, Counterpoint

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    The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty-one essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. These essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, disease, and destructiveness of contemporary American culture. Why is agriculture becoming culturally irrelevant, and at what cost? What are the forces of social disintegration and how might they be reversed? How might men and women live together in ways that benefit both? And, how does the corporate takeover of social institutions and economic practices contribute to the destruction of human and natural environments? Through his staunch support of local economies, his defense of farming communities, and his call for family integrity, Berry emerges as the champion of responsibilities and priorities that serve the health, vitality, and happiness of the whole community of creation.
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  • The Awakening And Selected Short Fiction
    by Kate Chopin
    ISBN 1593080018 (1-59308-001-8)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, by Kate Chopin, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
    New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
     
    When it first appeared in 1899, Kate Chopins The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novels frank portrayal of a womans emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the authors reputation and career. Many years passed before this short, pioneering work was recognized as a major achievement in American literature.

    Set in and around New Orleans, The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother who, determined to control her own life, flouts convention by moving out of her husbands house, having an adulterous affair, and becoming an artist.

    Beautifully written, with sensuous imagery and vivid local descriptions, The Awakening has lost none of its power to provoke and inspire. Additionally, this edition includes thirteen of Kate Chopins magnificent short stories.
     
    Stories Included in the Volume:
    The Awakening
    Emancipation: A Life Fable
    A Shameful Affair
    At the Cadian Ball
    Désirées Baby
    A Gentleman of Bayou Têche
    A Respectable Woman
    The Story of an Hour
    Athénaïse
    A Pair of Silk Stockings
    Elizabeth Stocks One Story
    The Storm
    The Godmother
    A Little Country Girl

    Rachel Adams teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature at Columbia University.

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  • Axe Handles: Poems
    by Gary Snyder
    ISBN 1593760574 (1-59376-057-4)
    Softcover, Shoemaker & Hoard

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    The title poem of this collection may be Snyder's strongest poem of the 1980s, and this is high praise. Incorporating Snyder's familiar and welcome themes of nature, family and eastern philosophy, it is a passage into a world of insights, small epiphanies, the rhythms of nature and culture, speech and sky, revealing themselves between these lines. Do yourself a favor and take a look at Axe Handles. [via]

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  • Snyder, Gary: Back on the Fire: Essays
    Back on the Fire: Essays
    by Gary Snyder
    ISBN 1593761376 (1-59376-137-6)
    Hardcover, Shoemaker & Hoard

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  • Big Clock
    by Kenneth Fearing
    ISBN 1590171810 (1-59017-181-0)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

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    George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media conglomerate that bears a striking resemblance to Time, Inc. in the heyday of Henry Luce. One day, before heading home to his wife in the suburbs, Stroud has a drink with Pauline, the beautiful girlfriend of his boss, Earl Janoth. Things happen. The next day Stroud escorts Pauline home, leaving her off at the corner just as Janoth returns from a trip. The day after that, Pauline is found murdered in her apartment.

    Janoth knows there was one witness to his entry into Paulines apartment on the night of the murder; he knows that man must have been the man Pauline was with before he got back; but he doesnt know who he was. Janoth badly wants to get his hands on that man, and he picks one of his most trusted employees to track him down: George Stroud, who else?

    How does a man escape from himself? No book has ever dramatized that question to more perfect effect than The Big Clock, a masterpiece of American noir. [via]

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  • Davis, Lydia: Break It Down
    Break It Down
    by Lydia Davis
    ISBN 1852424214 (1-85242-421-4)
    Softcover, Serpents Tail

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  • Williams, John: Butcher's Crossing
    Butcher's Crossing
    by John Williams, Michelle Latiolais
    ISBN 1590171985 (1-59017-198-5)
    Softcover, New York Review of Books

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  • The Call of the Wild and White Fang
    by Jack London
    ISBN 1593080026 (1-59308-002-6)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    The Call of the Wild and White Fang, by Jack London, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
    All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
     
    Jack Londons two greatest novels, The Call of the Wild and White Fang—originally intended as companions—are here compiled in one volume. The Call of the Wild centers on a domesticated dog, Buck, who is kidnapped and sold to Klondike gold hunters. To survive Buck must listen to the Call and learn the ways of his wolf-ancestors, who guide him from within.

    White Fang tells the story of a half-wolf, half-dog nearly destroyed by the vicious cruelty of men. Brought to the very brink of his existence, White Fang is lucky enough to experience the one thing that can save him—human love.

    Adventurer and activist, philosopher and alcoholic, Jack London was a man of great contradictions and greater talent. Both of these novels are written in a simple, direct, and powerful style that decades of readers have admired and that writers have imitated.

     

    Tina Gianquitto holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Columbia University and currently teaches at The College of the Mines in Colorado.

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  • Bierce, Ambrose G.: Can Such Things Be?
    Can Such Things Be?
    by Ambrose G. Bierce
    ISBN 1587158647 (1-58715-864-7)
    Softcover, Wildside Pr

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  • Fearing, Kenneth: Clark Gifford's Body
    Clark Gifford's Body
    by Kenneth Fearing, Robert Polito
    ISBN 1590171829 (1-59017-182-9)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

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  • The Color of Water
    by James McBride
    ISBN 159448192X (1-59448-192-X)
    Softcover, Riverhead Books

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    Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.

    The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos" with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. "Mommy," a fiercely protective woman with "dark eyes full of pep and fire," herded her brood to Manhattan's free cultural events, sent them off on buses to the best (and mainly Jewish) schools, demanded good grades, and commanded respect. As a young man, McBride saw his mother as a source of embarrassment, worry, and confusionand reached thirty before he began to discover the truth about her early life and long-buried pain.

    In The Color of Water, McBride retraces his mother's footsteps and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her remarkable story. The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in Poland on April 1, 1921. Fleeing pogroms, her family emigrated to America and ultimately settled in Suffolk, Virginia, a small town where anti-Semitism and racial tensions ran high. With candor and immediacy, Ruth describes her parents' loveless marriage; her fragile, handicapped mother; her cruel, sexually-abusive father; and the rest of the family and life she abandoned.

    At seventeen, after fleeing Virginia and settling in New York City, Ruth married a black minister and founded the all- black New Brown Memorial Baptist Church in her Red Hook living room. "God is the color of water," Ruth McBride taught her children, firmly convinced that life's blessings and life's values transcend race. Twice widowed, and continually confronting overwhelming adversity and racism, Ruth's determination, drive and discipline saw her dozen children through collegeand most through graduate school. At age 65, she herself received a degree in social work from Temple University.

    Interspersed throughout his mother's compelling narrative, McBride shares candid recollections of his own experiences as a mixed-race child of poverty, his flirtations with drugs and violence, and his eventual self- realization and professional success. The Color of Water touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.

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  • Common Sense: Library Edition
    by Thomas Paine
    ISBN 1591090199 (1-59109-019-9)
    Softcover, Booksurge Llc

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    "These are the times that try men's souls," begins Thomas Paine's first Crisis paper, the impassioned pamphlet that helped ignite the American Revolution. Published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, Common Sense sold 150,000 copies almost immediately. A powerful piece of propaganda, it attacked the idea of a hereditary monarchy, dismissed the chance for reconciliation with England, and outlined the economic benefits of independence while espousing equality of rights among citizens. Paine fanned a flame that was already burning, but many historians argue that his work unified dissenting voices and persuaded patriots that the American Revolution was not only necessary, but an epochal step in world history. [via]

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  • Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America
    by Thomas Paine
    ISBN 1596051434 (1-59605-143-4)
    Softcover, Cosimo Inc

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    "These are the times that try men's souls," begins Thomas Paine's first Crisis paper, the impassioned pamphlet that helped ignite the American Revolution. Published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, Common Sense sold 150,000 copies almost immediately. A powerful piece of propaganda, it attacked the idea of a hereditary monarchy, dismissed the chance for reconciliation with England, and outlined the economic benefits of independence while espousing equality of rights among citizens. Paine fanned a flame that was already burning, but many historians argue that his work unified dissenting voices and persuaded patriots that the American Revolution was not only necessary, but an epochal step in world history. [via]

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  • Berry, Wendell: A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural
    A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural
    by Wendell Berry
    ISBN 1593760140 (1-59376-014-0)
    Softcover, Shoemaker & Hoard

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  • Snyder, Gary: Danger on Peaks: Poems
    Danger on Peaks: Poems
    by Gary Snyder
    ISBN 1593760809 (1-59376-080-9)
    Softcover, Shoemaker & Hoard

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    In his first collection of new poems since Axe Handles (1983), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder shares 55 new poems and prose poems. As long-time readers will recognize, this collection is unique in Snyders oeuvre, finding the poet experimenting with a wide variety of styles, including an extended foray into the Japanese form haibun, “making it an American form, as Snyder himself remarks. Some of the poets most personal work is contained in two sections of poems exploring “intimate immediate life, gossip and insight. Danger on Peaks begins with the poets first climb of Mount St. Helens on August 13, 1945, and his learning on the morning after his descent about the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. The poet visits Mount St. Helens again in 2000 to view the blast site of the 1980 eruption. Then follow poems for the Buddhas of Bamiyan Valley and the World Trade towers. More than a mere gathering of unrelated poems, Danger on Peaks is a constructed work, where every part contributes to the whole.
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  • Ellison, Harlan: Deathbird Stories
    Deathbird Stories
    by Harlan Ellison
    ISBN 1587541017 (1-58754-101-7)
    Softcover, Olmstead Pr

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  • The Devil's Dictionary
    by Ambrose Bierce
    ISBN 1595479406 (1-59547-940-6)
    Softcover, Nuvision Pubns

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    The Devil's Dictionary is often considered Ambrose Bierce's most famous work. Portions of it were published in the San Francisco Wasp as a weekly column and in The Cynic's Word Book of 1906. Finally published in its entirety in 1911, the definitions found therein are as apt today as they were nearly a century ago. An example: "HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers." [via]

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  • Brown, Charles Brockden: Edgar Huntly Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-walker
    Edgar Huntly Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-walker
    by Charles Brockden Brown
    ISBN 1847029264 (1-84702-926-4)
    Softcover, Echo Library

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  • Epstein, Leslie: The Eighth Wonder of the World
    The Eighth Wonder of the World
    by Leslie Epstein
    ISBN 1590512502 (1-59051-250-2)
    Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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  • The English Breakfast Murder
    by Laura Childs
    ISBN 1587245485 (1-58724-548-5)
    Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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    Theodosia Browning has just been helping to shepherd hundreds of tiny sea turtles safely into the sea when she spots a dead body bobbing in the waves. It turns out to be local art dealer Harper Fisk, a man with an eye for fine antiques. [via]

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  • Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    ISBN 158715918X (1-58715-918-X)
    Hardcover, Wildside Pr

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    Longfellow? [via]

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  • Campbell, Eddie: The Fate of the Artist
    The Fate of the Artist
    by Eddie Campbell
    ISBN 1596431334 (1-59643-133-4)
    Softcover, First Second

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    In this pseudo-autobiography, the subject of the memoir has vanished without a trace. Through six separate threads, each on typographically and stylistically distinct, a private investigator tried to discover the artist's fate through false trails, family and daily life reenactments, and even an imaginary Sunday comic strip. As the narrative threads intersect and colllide in surprising ways, the reader is carried along on a fantastic journey through the life of the artist.

    A master comics artist, here Eddie Campbell offers a complex, caustic, and surprising meditation on balancing the lonely life of the artist with the demands of everyday life.
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  • Ghost World/ Mundo fantasmal
    by Daniel Clowes
    ISBN 1594971102 (1-59497-110-2)
    Softcover, Public Square Books

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    Dan Clowes described the story in Ghost World as the examination of "the lives of two recent high school graduates from the advantaged perch of a constant and (mostly) undetectable eavesdropper, with the shaky detachment of a scientist who has grown fond of the prize microbes in his petri dish." From this perch comes a revelation about adolescence that is both subtle and coolly beautiful. Critics have pointed out Clowes's cynicism and vicious social commentary, but if you concentrate on those aspects, you'll miss the exquisite whole that Clowes has captured. Each chapter ends with melancholia that builds towards the amazing, detached, ghostlike ending. [via]

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  • Wharton, Edith: The Glimpses of the Moon
    The Glimpses of the Moon
    by Edith Wharton
    ISBN 159818301X (1-59818-301-X)
    Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books

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  • King, Danny: The Hitman Diaries
    The Hitman Diaries
    by Danny King
    ISBN 1852428287 (1-85242-828-7)
    Softcover, Serpents Tail

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  • Himes, Chester B.: If He Hollers Let Him Go
    If He Hollers Let Him Go
    by Chester B. Himes
    ISBN 1852427043 (1-85242-704-3)
    Softcover, Mercury Books

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  • Crowley, John: In Other Words
    In Other Words
    by John Crowley
    ISBN 159606062X (1-59606-062-X)
    Hardcover, Subterranean

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  • Indian Summer
    by William Dean Howells, Wendy Lesser
    ISBN 1590171098 (1-59017-109-8)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

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    One of the most charming and memorable romantic comedies in American literature, William Dean Howells's Indian Summer tells of a season in the life of Theodore Colville. Colville, just turned forty, has spent years as a successful midwestern newspaper publisher. Now he sells his business and heads for Italy, where as a young man he had dreamed of a career as an architect and fallen hopelessly in love. In Florence, Colville runs into Lina Bowen, sometime best friend of the woman who jilted him and the vivacious survivor of an unhappy marriage. He also meets her young visitor, twenty-year-old Imogene Grahamlovely, earnest to a fault, and brimming with the excitement of her first encounter with the great world.

    The drama that plays out among these three gifted and well-meaning people against the backdrop of Florence, the brilliance of their repartee, and the accumulating burden of their mutual misunderstandings make for a comedy of errors that is as winning as it is wise. [via]

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  • Jimmy Corrigan
    by Chris Ware
    ISBN 1594972079 (1-59497-207-9)
    Hardcover, Public Square Books

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    One of the most acclaimed graphic novels of all time, Chris Ware's epic story traces the lives of four generations of lonely, emotionally impaired everymen against the backdrop of Chicago's urban transformation over the course of the twentieth century. Winner of the American Book Award in 2001. [via]

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  • Ridge, John Rollin: Joaquin Murieta
    Joaquin Murieta
    by John Rollin Ridge, Paul Reilly
    ISBN 1591080002 (1-59108-000-2)
    Softcover, Poitin Pr

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  • King of the Jews
    by Leslie Epstein
    ISBN 1590510798 (1-59051-079-8)
    Softcover, Other Pr Llc

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    King of the Jews tells the darkly humorous story of I. C. Trumpelman, a man whose fancy determines the fate of others. Chosen as the head of a Judenrat, Trumpelman thrives on the power granted him and creates an authoritarian regime of his own within the ghetto. By turns a con man, charismatic leader and merciless dictator, Trumpelman reveals himself as an extraordinarily complex protagonist. King of the Jews continues to be an extraordinary vision of occupied Poland, and offers stunning insight through the trappings of history to questions of equal moral complexity today. [via]

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  • The Last Days: A Novel
    by Scott Westerfeld
    ISBN 159514062X (1-59514-062-X)
    Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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    Strange things are happening: old friends disappearing, angels (or devils) clambering on the fire escapes of New York City. But for Pearl, Moz, and Zahler, all that matters is the band. As the city reels under a mysterious epidemic, the three combine their talents with a vampire lead singer and a drummer whose fractured mind can glimpse the coming darkness. Will their music stave off the end? Or summon it?

    Set against the gritty apocalypse that began in Peeps, The Last Days is about five teenagers who find themselves creating the soundtrack for the end of the world.

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  • Snyder, Gary: Left Out in the Rain: Poems
    Left Out in the Rain: Poems
    by Gary Snyder
    ISBN 1593760906 (1-59376-090-6)
    Softcover, Shoemaker & Hoard

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  • Bellamy, Edward: Looking Backward
    Looking Backward
    by Edward Bellamy
    ISBN 1846379687 (1-84637-968-7)
    Softcover, Echo Library

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  • Looking Backward, 2000-1887
    by Edward Bellamy
    ISBN 1594084882 (1-59408-488-2)
    Hardcover, Cork Hill Press

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    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]

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  • Keillor, Garrison: Love Me
    Love Me
    by Garrison Keillor
    ISBN 159413037X (1-59413-037-X)
    Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning

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  • Wilson, Edmund: The Memoirs of Hecate County
    The Memoirs of Hecate County
    by Edmund Wilson, Louis Menand
    ISBN 1590170938 (1-59017-093-8)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

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  • The Memory Keeper's Daughter
    by Kim Edwards
    ISBN 159413197X (1-59413-197-X)
    Softcover, Large Print Pr

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    On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret.But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that long-ago winter night. [via]

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  • Mrs Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf
    ISBN 1853261912 (1-85326-191-2)
    Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd

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    As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.

    As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.

    Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
    by Robert G. O'Meally, Frederick Douglass
    ISBN 1593080417 (1-59308-041-7)
    Softcover, Barnes & Noble

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    Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
    New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
     
    No book except perhaps Uncle Toms Cabin had as powerful an impact on the abolitionist movement as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. But while Stowe wrote about imaginary characters, Douglasss book is a record of his own remarkable life.

    Born a slave in 1818 on a plantation in Maryland, Douglass taught himself to read and write. In 1845, seven years after escaping to the North, he published Narrative, the first of three autobiographies. This book calmly but dramatically recounts the horrors and the accomplishments of his early yearsthe daily, casual brutality of the white masters; his painful efforts to educate himself; his decision to find freedom or die; and his harrowing but successful escape.

    An astonishing orator and a skillful writer, Douglass became a newspaper editor, a political activist, and an eloquent spokesperson for the civil rights of African Americans. He lived through the Civil War, the end of slavery, and the beginning of segregation. He was celebrated internationally as the leading black intellectual of his day, and his story still resonates in ours.



    Robert OMeally is Zora Neale Hurston Professor of Literature at Columbia University and the Director of Columbia Universitys Center for Jazz Studies. He wrote the introduction and notes to the Barnes & Noble classics edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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  • Swados, Harvey: Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn
    Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn
    by Harvey Swados, Grace Paley, Robin Swados
    ISBN 1590170849 (1-59017-084-9)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

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  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde
    ISBN 1593080255 (1-59308-025-5)
    Softcover, Barnes & Noble

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    A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."

    As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]

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  • The Pleasure of My Company
    by Steve Martin
    ISBN 1587244810 (1-58724-481-0)
    Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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  • Snyder, Gary: The Practice of the Wild: Essays
    The Practice of the Wild: Essays
    by Gary Snyder
    ISBN 1593760167 (1-59376-016-7)
    Softcover, Counterpoint

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  • Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
    by Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens
    ISBN 1592241549 (1-59224-154-9)
    Hardcover, Wildside Pr

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  • Queen Of Dreams
    by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    ISBN 158724859X (1-58724-859-X)
    Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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    Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother living in Berkeley, California, is struggling to keep her footing with her family and with a world in alarming transition. Her mother is a dream teller, born with the ability to share and interpret the dreams of others. This gift fascinates Rakhi but also isolates her from her mother's past. Rakhi's solace comes in the discovery, after her mother's death, of her dream journals, which open the long-closed door to her past.

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  • Crumb, Robert: R Crumb Handbook
    R Crumb Handbook
    by Robert Crumb, Pete Poplaski
    ISBN 1840727160 (1-84072-716-0)
    Hardcover, Mq Pubns

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  • Irving, Washington: Rip Van Winkle
    Rip Van Winkle
    by Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Peter Glassman
    ISBN 1587170396 (1-58717-039-6)
    Hardcover, North-South Books, Incorporated

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  • Snyder, Gary: Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
    Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
    by Gary Snyder
    ISBN 1593760159 (1-59376-015-9)
    Softcover, Shoemaker & Hoard

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  • Fante, John: The Road to Los Angeles
    The Road to Los Angeles
    by John Fante
    ISBN 1841950491 (1-84195-049-1)
    Hardcover, Rebel Inc. Classics

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  • Robinson Crusoe
    by Daniel Defoe
    ISBN 1593080115 (1-59308-011-5)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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    Widely regarded as the first English novel, Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular and influential adventure stories of all time. This classic tale of shipwreck and survival on an uninhabited island was an instant success when first published in 1719 and has inspired countless imitations.

    In his own words, Robinson Crusoe tells of the terrible storm that drowned all his shipmates and left him marooned on a deserted island. Forced to overcome despair, doubt, and self-pity, he struggles to create a life for himself in the wilderness. From practically nothing, Crusoe painstakingly learns how to make pottery, grow crops, domesticate livestock, and build a house. His many adventures are recounted in vivid detail, including a fierce battle with cannibals and his rescue of Friday, the man who becomes his trusted companion.

    Full of enchanting detail and daring heroics, Robinson Crusoe is a celebration of courage, patience, ingenuity, and hard work.

    L. J. Swingle is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Kentucky, where his primary field of study is the intellectual contexts of British Romanticism as reflected in the works of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets and novelists.

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  • Romeo and Juliet
    by William Shakespeare, Cedric Watts
    ISBN 1840224339 (1-84022-433-9)
    Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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    This series offers students and teachers the power and eloquence of Shakespeare's plays with tools that can help make his work more accessible and meaningful. Each volume provides the complete play text side-by-side with explanatory notes. In addition, there is a general introduction to the life and work of Shakespeare, a brief treatment of an aspect of his language, background material on the Globe Theatre, as well as specific information on the play itself. Comprehensive questions and writing asssignments for each act enhance understanding of the play. [via]

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  • Hand, Elizabeth: Saffron And Brimstone: Strange Stories
    Saffron And Brimstone: Strange Stories
    by Elizabeth Hand
    ISBN 1595820965 (1-59582-096-5)
    Softcover, Dh Pr

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  • Epstein, Leslie: San Remo Drive
    San Remo Drive
    by Leslie Epstein
    ISBN 1590510674 (1-59051-067-4)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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  • Secret Agent
    by Joseph Conrad
    ISBN 159688083X (1-59688-083-X)
    Softcover, Large Print Book Co

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    Verloc is the proprietor of rundown shop in Soho and a double agent, hired as a spy by a foreign embassy while working as an inform-er to Scotland Yard. His shop is the meeting place for political fanatics and revolutionaries, including an American terrorist known as the Professor and a Russian agent provocateur. The embassy involves Verloc in an attempted bombing of the famed Greenwich Observatory that goes tragically wrong for both Verloc and his brother-in-law. This novel reveals the dark vein of irony that runs through all of Conrad s major works. The Alfred Hitchcock film, The Sabotage. [via]

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  • The Secret Agent : A Simple Tale
    by Joseph Conrad
    ISBN 1853260657 (1-85326-065-7)
    Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited

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    With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain 'Then the vision of an enormous town prented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for any passion, variety enough there for any setting, darkness enough to bury five millions of lives.' Conrad's 'monstrous town' is London, and his story of espionage and counter-espionage, anarchists and embassies, is a detective story that becomes the story of Winnie Verloc's tenacity in maintaining her devotion to her peculiar and simple-minded brother, Stevie, as they pursue their very ordinary lives above a rather dubious shop in the back streets of Soho. [via]

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  • Abraham, Pearl: The Seventh Beggar
    The Seventh Beggar
    by Pearl Abraham
    ISBN 1594481555 (1-59448-155-5)
    Softcover, Riverhead Books

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  • Sons and Lovers
    by D. H. Lawrence
    ISBN 1593080131 (1-59308-013-1)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    With an introduction and notes by Dr Howard J Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury, this semi-autobiographical novel explores the emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and the suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. It is a pre-Freudian exploration of love and possessiveness. [via]

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  • Standing By Words: Essays
    by Wendell Berry
    ISBN 1593760558 (1-59376-055-8)
    Softcover, Shoemaker & Hoard

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    In these six essays, award-winning author Wendell Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics, from conversation to advertising, and he shows how the ever widening cleft between words and their referents mirrors the increasing isolation of individuals from their communities and of their communities from the land. From the essay, Standing by Words, Berry writes, “Two epidemic illnesses of our time—upon both of which virtual industries of cures have been founded—are the disintegration of communities and the disintegration of persons. That these two are related (that private loneliness, for example, will necessarily accompany public confusion) is clear enough. What seems not so well understood, because not so much examined, is the relation between these disintegrations and the disintegration of language. My impression is that we have seen, for perhaps a hundred and fifty years, a gradual increase in language that is either meaningless or destructive of meaning. And I believe that this increasing unreliability of language parallels the increasing disintegration, over the same period, of persons and communities. Out-of-print for more than fifteen years, Standing by Words offers a masterfully written argument for the literary tradition.
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  • Williams, John: Stoner
    Stoner
    by John Williams, John McGahern
    ISBN 1590171993 (1-59017-199-3)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

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  • Stuart Little
    by E. B. White, Hector Silva, Garth Williams
    ISBN 1594375542 (1-59437-554-2)
    Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc

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    How terribly surprised the Little family must have been when their second child turned out to be a small mouse. Apparently familiar with the axiom that "when in New York City, anything can happen," the Littles accept young Stuart into their family unquestioningly--with the exception of Snowbell the cat who is unable to overcome his instinctive dislike for the little mouse. They build him a bed from a matchbox, and supply him with all of the accoutrements a young mouse could need. Mrs. Little even fashions him a suit, because baby clothes would obviously be unsuitable for such a sophisticated mouse. In return, Stuart helps his tall family with errant Ping-Pong balls that roll outside of their reach.

    E. B. White takes Stuart on a hero's quest across the American countryside, introducing the mouse--and the reader--to a myriad of delightful characters. Little finds himself embroiled in one adventure after another from the excitement of racing sailboats to the unseen horrors of substitute teaching. This is a story of leaving home for the first time, of growing up, and ultimately of discovering oneself. At times, doesn't everyone feel like the sole mouse in a family--and a world--of extremely tall people? (Ages 9 to 12) [via]

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  • Wallant, El: The Tenants of Moonbloom
    The Tenants of Moonbloom
    by El Wallant, Dave Eggers
    ISBN 1590170709 (1-59017-070-9)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

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  • To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf
    ISBN 1853260916 (1-85326-091-6)
    Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd

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    To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. [via]

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  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
    by Jules Verne, Victoria Blake
    ISBN 1593083025 (1-59308-302-5)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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    Widely regarded as the father of modern science fiction, Jules Verne wrote more than seventy books and created hundreds of memorable characters. His most popular novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, is not only a brilliant piece of scientific prophecy, but also a thrilling story with superb, subtle characterizations.

    The year is 1866 and the Pacific Ocean is being terrorized by a deadly sea monster. The U.S. government dispatches marine-life specialist Pierre Aronnax to investigate aboard the warship Abraham Lincoln. When the ship is sunk by the mysterious creature, he and two other survivors discover that the monster is in fact a marvelous submarinethe Nautiluscommanded by the brilliant but bitter Captain Nemo. Nemo refuses to let his guests return to land, but instead taking them on a series of fantastic adventures in which they encounter underwater forests, giant clams, monster storms, huge squid, treacherous polar ice andmost spectacular of allthe magnificent lost city of Atlantis!

    Victoria Blake is a freelance writer. She has worked at the Paris Review and contributed to the Boulder Daily Camera, small literary presses in the United States, and English-language publications in Bangkok, Thailand. She currently lives and works in San Diego, California.

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  • Two Years Before the Mast
    by Richard Henry Dana
    ISBN 1589761022 (1-58976-102-2)
    Softcover, Narrative Pr

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    Avast there all you Patrick O'Brian fans! Here is a personal narrative of the seaman's life in the age of sail: 1815-1882, and a classic of nautical literature. Dana was a Harvard student recovering from the measles when he decided it would be more interesting to do so at sea as a common sailor. In 1834 he joined a two-year voyage rounding Cape Horn to deliver cargo to California. All the color and detail of daily life at sea as well as descriptions of various ports. Rousing! [via]

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  • Dana, Richard H.: Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
    Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
    by Richard H. Dana, Anne Spencer
    ISBN 1593082703 (1-59308-270-3)
    Softcover, Fine Communications

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  • Typee
    by Herman Melville
    ISBN 1853262307 (1-85326-230-7)
    Softcover, Wordsworth Edition

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    Melville's first novel, "Typee" is a tale of adventure set in the primitive islands of the South Seas in the mid 19th century, based on the author's own experience. [via]

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  • The Unpossessed
    by Tess Slesinger, Elizabeth Hardwick
    ISBN 1590170148 (1-59017-014-8)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

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    Tess Slesinger's 1934 novel, The Unpossessed details the ins and outs and ups and downs of left-wing New York intellectual life and features a cast of litterateurs, layabouts, lotharios, academic activists, and fur-clad patrons of protest and the arts. This cutting comedy about hard times, bad jobs, lousy marriages, little magazines, high principles, and the morning after bears comparison with the best work of Dawn Powell and Mary McCarthy. [via]

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  • Thoreau, Henry David: Walking
    Walking
    by Henry David Thoreau
    ISBN 1596058811 (1-59605-881-1)
    Softcover, Cosimo Inc

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  • Hall, Oakley: Warlock
    Warlock
    by Oakley Hall, Robert Stone
    ISBN 1590171616 (1-59017-161-6)
    Softcover, New York Review of Books

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  • The Waste Land and Other Poems
    by T. S. Eliot, Randy Malamud
    ISBN 1593082797 (1-59308-279-7)
    Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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    After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.

    In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]

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  • Schuyler, James: What's for Dinner?
    What's for Dinner?
    by James Schuyler, James McCourt
    ISBN 1590171675 (1-59017-167-5)
    Softcover, Random House Inc

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  • Flanagan, Thomas: The Year Of The French
    The Year Of The French
    by Thomas Flanagan, Seamus Deane
    ISBN 159017108X (1-59017-108-X)
    Softcover, New York Review of Books

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    • La Caseta Magica
      by Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer, Alberto Jiménez Rioja
      ISBN 1587171090 (1-58717-109-0)
      Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC

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      Norton Juster's timeless, best-selling novel will reach an even wider readership with this outstanding Spanish translation. Milo thinks that just about everything is a big waste of time--when he even bothers to think at all. But he starts to see life in a whole new way after a mysterious gift transports him to the Lands Beyond. Accompanied by the ticking watchdog Tock and the boastful Humbug, Milo embarks on an unforgettable quest to rescue Princesses Rhyme and Reason and restore common sense to the Kingdom of Wisdom. [via]

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