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1984by George OrwellISBN 0899663680 (0-89966-368-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary: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 Lines a Dayby Harry MathewsISBN 0916583414 (0-916583-41-4)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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American Woman's Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Scienceby StoweISBN 0917482042 (0-917482-04-2)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Woman's Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science'Book summary:The American Woman's Home, originally published in 1869, was one of the late nineteenth century's most important handbooks of domestic advice. The result of a collaboration by two of the era's most important writers, this book represents their attempt to direct women's acquisition and use of a dizzying variety of new household consumer goods available in the post-Civil War economic boom. It updates Catharine Beecher's influential Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) and incorporates domestic writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in The Atlantic in the 1860s. Today, the book can be likened to an anthology of household hints, with articles on cooking, decorating, housekeeping, child-rearing, hygiene, gardening, etiquette, and home amusements. The American Woman's Home, almost a bible on domestic topics for Victorian women, illuminates women's roles a century and a half ago and can be used for comparison with modern theories on the role of women in the home and in society. Illustrated with the original engravings, this completely new edition offers a lively introduction by Nicole Tonkovich and notes linking the text to important historical, social, and cultural events of the late nineteenth century. Nicole Tonkovich is associate professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego and the author of Domesticity with a Difference: The Nonfiction of Sarah Josepha Hale, Catharine Beecher, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fuller. "A valuable book made conveniently available." -Choice [via]
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American Women's Homeby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catharine E. BeecherISBN 0892570075 (0-89257-007-5)
Softcover, Amer Life Foundation
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery, Mick EllisonISBN 0895774348 (0-89577-434-8)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary: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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Archy and Mehitabelby Don MarquisISBN 0899665969 (0-89966-596-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Awakeby Dorianne LauxISBN 0918526779 (0-918526-77-9)
Softcover, Boa Editions
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Barking Man and Other Storiesby Madison Smartt BellISBN 089919835X (0-89919-835-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Beans of Egypt, Maineby Carolyn ChuteISBN 0899193625 (0-89919-362-5)
Softcover, Ticknor & Fields
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Best Loved ClassicsISBN 0895772884 (0-89577-288-4)
Softcover, Reader's Digest Association
Find This BookBook summary:Box set contains 10 paperback books as follows: [1] The adventures of Tom Sawyer / by Mark Twain -- [2] Oliver Twist / by Charles Dickens -- [3] Little women / by Louisa May Alcott -- [4] Treasure Island / by Robert Louis Stevenson -- [5] The red badge of courage / by Stephen Crane -- [6] The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / by Mark Twain -- [7] The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo -- [8] David Copperfield / by Charles Dickens -- [9] The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe / by Daniel Defoe -- [10] Jane Eyre / by Charlotte Bronte?. [via]
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The Big Skyby A. B. GuthrieISBN 0896216217 (0-89621-621-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Billy Budd, Foretopmanby Herman MelvilleISBN 0891908919 (0-89190-891-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Book of Ruthby Jane HamiltonISBN 0899197442 (0-89919-744-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Ruth'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, November 1996: The Book of Ruth is a virtuoso performance and that's precisely why it can be excruciating to read. Author Jane Hamilton leads us through the arid life of Ruth Grey, who extracts what small pleasures and graces she can from a tiny Illinois town and the broken people who inhabit it. Ruth's prime tormentor is her mother May, whose husband died in World War II and took her future with him. More poor familial luck has given Ruth a brother who is a math prodigy; Matt sucks up any stray attention like a black hole. Ruth is left to survive on her own resources, which are meager. She struggles along, subsisting on crumbs of affection meted out by her Aunt Sid and, later, her screwed-up husband Ruby. Hamilton has perfect pitch. So perfect that you wince with pain for confused but fundamentally good Ruth as she walks a dead-end path. The book ends with the prospect of redemption, thank goodness--but the tale is nevertheless much more bitter than sweet. [via]
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Bracebridge Hallby Washington IrvingISBN 0912882352 (0-912882-35-2)
Hardcover, Fordham Univ Pr
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Brave New Worldby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0899664237 (0-89966-423-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World'Book summary:"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come. [via]
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Bread Givers: A Novelby Anzia Yezierska, Alice Kessler-HarrisISBN 0892552905 (0-89255-290-5)
Softcover, Persea Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bread Givers: A Novel'Book summary:Persea's 25th anniversary edition of this classic of twentieth-century American literature. More than 250,000 copies sold. Set on New York's Lower East Side during the 1920s, this is the moving story of a young woman's struggle to free herself from the traditional female role in an Orthodox Jewish family and society. Sara Smolinksy, the youngest daughter of a rabbi, watches as her father marries off her sisters into dire circumstances, and she vows to escape this fate. She leaves home, takes a job as an ironer, and rents a room with a door: "This door was life. It was air. The bottom starting-point of becoming a person." Sara's rebellion and her struggle for self-fulfillment-for education, work, and a marriage based on love-resonates with a passionate intensity all can share. In this new edition, the original text is retained; the introduction is updated; and a new foreword is added describing the discovery of this important work and the relationship with Yezierska's daughter that followed. [via]
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The Call of the Wildby Jack London, Jack White Fang LondonISBN 0895772116 (0-89577-211-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Chromosby Felipe AlfauISBN 091658352X (0-916583-52-X)
Hardcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Chronicling the West: Thirty Years of Environmental Writingby Michael FromeISBN 0898864755 (0-89886-475-5)
Softcover, Mountaineers Books
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Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry: Volumes 3, 4, and 5by Micahel SpivakISBN 0914098829 (0-914098-82-9)
Hardcover, Publish or Perish
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Couplesby John UpdikeISBN 0912604107 (0-912604-10-7)
Hardcover, Halty Ferguson
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Cup of Goldby John SteinbeckISBN 0897830032 (0-89783-003-2)
Hardcover, Larlin Corp
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Daphne's Bookby Mary Downing HahnISBN 0899191835 (0-89919-183-5)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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The Dead Get by With Everythingby Bill HolmISBN 0915943557 (0-915943-55-7)
Softcover, Milkweed Editions
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Deadeye Dickby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0896214230 (0-89621-423-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Devil's Dictionaryby Ambrose Bierce, Ferebe StreettISBN 0916144348 (0-916144-34-8)
Hardcover, Stemmer House
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The Doll in the Gardenby Mary Downing HahnISBN 0899198481 (0-89919-848-1)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doll in the Garden'Book summary:When Ashley discovers a turn-of-the-century doll it is just the first of several puzzling events that lead her through the hedge and into a twilight past where she meets Louise, an ailing child whose beloved doll has mysteriously disappeared.[via]More editions of The Doll in the Garden:
The Ebbing Tideby Elisabeth OgilvieISBN 0892722185 (0-89272-218-5)
Softcover, Down East Books
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Ellen Fosterby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0912697520 (0-912697-52-0)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ellen Foster'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1997: Kaye Gibbons is a writer who brings a short story sensibility to her novels. Rather than take advantage of the novel's longer form to paint her visions in broad, sweeping strokes, Gibbons prefers to concentrate on just one corner of the canvas and only a few colors to produce her small masterpieces. In Gibbons's case, her canvas is the American South and her colors are all the shades of gray.
In Ellen Foster, the title character is an 11-year-old orphan who refers to herself as "old Ellen," an appellation that is disturbingly apt. Ellen is an old woman in a child's body; her frail, unhappy mother dies, her abusive father alternately neglects her and makes advances on her, and she is shuttled from one uncaring relative's home to another before she finally takes matters into her own hands and finds herself a place to belong. There is something almost Dickensian about Ellen's tribulations; like Oliver Twist, David Copperfield or a host of other literary child heroes, Ellen is at the mercy of predatory adults, with only her own wit and courage--and the occasional kindness of others--to help her through. That she does, in fact, survive her childhood and even rise above it is the book's bittersweet victory. [via]
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Evangeline: A Tale of Acadieby Henry Wadsworth LongfellowISBN 0920852130 (0-920852-13-0)
Softcover, Down East Books
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Facing the Musicby Larry BrownISBN 0912697911 (0-912697-91-1)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enufby Ntozake ShangeISBN 0915288133 (0-915288-13-3)
Hardcover, Shameless Hussy Press
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The Galton Caseby Ross MacDonaldISBN 0893403342 (0-89340-334-2)
Softcover, J. Curly
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George Orwell Complete & UnabridgedISBN 0905712048 (0-905712-04-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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The Good Thiefby Marie HoweISBN 0892551275 (0-89255-127-5)
Softcover, Persea Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Thief'Book summary:The heralded debut collection of poems by the author of What the Living Do (Norton, 1997). Selected by Margaret Atwood as a winner in the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, this unique collection was the first sounding of a deeply authentic voice. Howe's early writings concern relationship, attachment, and loss, in a highly original search for personal transcendence. Many of the thirty-four poems in The Good Thief appeared in such prestigious journals and periodicals as The Atlantic, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Agni Review, and The Partisan Review. [via]
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He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village: The Dimensions of a Haida Mythby Gary SnyderISBN 0912516380 (0-912516-38-0)
Softcover, Grey Fox Pr
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Hemingway Readerby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0891906657 (0-89190-665-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Here to Get My Baby Out of Jailby Louise ShiversISBN 089587282X (0-89587-282-X)
Softcover, John F Blair Pub
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High Tide at Noonby Elisabeth OgilvieISBN 0892722169 (0-89272-216-9)
Softcover, Down East Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Tide at Noon'Book summary:The struggles, hardship, and joy of one woman's life on a Maine island are brought to life in this haunting and enduringly popular trilogy, the first three books of the Bennett's Island series. Elisabeth Ogilvie tells the story of Joanna Bennett and her colorful life on Bennett's Island with a sensitivity and truthfulness born of her own early years on isolated Criehaven, the real Bennett's Island. [via]
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How I Found Americaby Anzia Yezierska, Vivian GornickISBN 0892552980 (0-89255-298-0)
Softcover, Persea Books
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Individually, each of these 27 stories is authentic and immediate, as memorable as family history passed from one generation to the next; taken together, they comprise a vivid, enduring portrait of the struggles of immigrant Jewsparticularly womenon New York's Lower East Side. [via] -
Hungry Hearts and Other Storiesby Anzia YezierskaISBN 0892550937 (0-89255-093-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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I Am Lavina Cummingby Susan Lowell, Paul MirochaISBN 0915943778 (0-915943-77-8)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Am Lavina Cumming'Book summary:Drawn from the writings of the author's grandmother, the story of ten-year-old Lavina, who leaves her Arizona home in 1905 when her mother dies and heads to Santa Cruz, incorporates Indian folklore and tales of the pioneers. [via]
I Am Legendby Richard MathesonISBN 0899668380 (0-89966-838-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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I'm Nobody! Who Are You?by Emily Dickinson, Rex SchneiderISBN 0916144224 (0-916144-22-4)
Softcover, Pathway Book Service
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I'm Nobody! Who Are You? : Poems of Emily Dickinson for Young Peopleby Emily Dickinson, Rex Schneider, Richard B. SewallISBN 0916144216 (0-916144-21-6)
Hardcover, Stemmer House Publishers, Incorporated
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Interview With the Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 0899667813 (0-89966-781-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The Invention of Solitudeby Paul AusterISBN 0915342375 (0-915342-37-5)
Softcover, Sun
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The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthologyby William Kittredge, Annick SmithISBN 0917298160 (0-917298-16-0)
Hardcover, Montana Historical Society Press
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Locosby Felipe AlfauISBN 0916583309 (0-916583-30-9)
Hardcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Lydia Baileyby Kenneth Lewis RobertsISBN 0892725141 (0-89272-514-1)
Softcover, Down East Books
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The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Breakby Steven SherrillISBN 0895871971 (0-89587-197-1)
Hardcover, John F Blair Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break'Book summary:In this debut novel, Steven Sherrill follows the minotaur--a mythological creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull--through two weeks of his life as a cook at a steakhouse in the contemporary American South. Once a devourer of virgins and lads, time and circumstances have diminished his power considerably.
Through the Minotaur's experiences, Sherrill spotlights the alienation and loneliness that are part of our society. During the two-week period we follow the Minotaur, we meet memorable characters along the way from his co-workers at the restaurant to his neighbors at the trailer park. Sherrill also manages to make mundane doings--kitchen work, car repair, personal grooming--interesting and even exciting at times. By the end of the novel, the reader is pulling for the Minotaur to find the brief moment of happiness that he has sought for so many centuries. [via]
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The Mountains of Californiaby John MuirISBN 0898154464 (0-89815-446-4)
Softcover, Ten Speed Press
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On Bread and Poetry: A Panel Discussion Between Gary Snyder, Lew Welch and Philip Whalenby Gary SnyderISBN 0912516275 (0-912516-27-5)
Softcover, Grey Fox Pr
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Passage Through Indiaby Gary SnyderISBN 0912516801 (0-912516-80-1)
Softcover, Grey Fox Pr
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Peyton Placeby Grace MetaliousISBN 0899668615 (0-89966-861-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peyton Place'Book summary:Peyton Place, published in 1956, has sold over 10,000,000 copies world-wide and remains the fourth biggest selling novel of all time. Its sequel, Return to Peyton Place, published in 1959, was a national best-seller for many, many months. Considered scandalous it its time of publication, Peyton Place, stirred controversy with its explicit for the time depictions of sex and sins in a small New England town. Today, the once shocking novel and its sequel seem tame, and are taught in college English courses as classics of their time, well-written and honest in the evocation of the passions, jealousies, and secrets of small-town America. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0893759953 (0-89375-995-3)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Rabble in Armsby Kenneth Lewis RobertsISBN 0892723866 (0-89272-386-6)
Softcover, Down East Books
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Raneyby Clyde EdgertonISBN 0912697172 (0-912697-17-2)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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Red Ribbon on a White Horseby Anzia YezierskaISBN 0892551240 (0-89255-124-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Riverfinger Womenby Elana Nachman/DykewomonISBN 0913780316 (0-913780-31-6)
Hardcover, Daughters, inc.
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Robinson CrusoeISBN 0907785743 (0-907785-74-3)
Hardcover, Sai Publications
Find This BookBook summary:Son of a middle-class Englishman, Robinson Crusoe takes to the sea to find adventure. And find it he does when on one of his voyages he is shipwrecked on a deserted South American island for thirty-five years. After scavenging his broken ship for useful items, he had only his skills and ingenuity to keep him alive as there was to be no one else on the island for the next twenty-four years. In the middle of that twenty-fourth year he rescued a native about to be eaten by cannibals who were using his island for a place of feasting. Crusoe named this man Friday, after the day of his rescue. Friday became his faithful servant and friend, even returning with him to England after their deliverance by an English ship. Listeners will enjoy Crusoe's determination for survival against all odds and admire the spirituality that gave him the strength to survive. A hero through the ages, he richly deserves the admiration that has endured over three centuries. [via]
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-GlandorfISBN 0895984326 (0-89598-432-6)
Softcover, Perfection Form Co
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The Second Mouseby Archer MayorISBN 0892960728 (0-89296-072-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Seventeen Syllables and Other Storiesby King-Kok Cheung, Hisaye YamamatoISBN 0913175145 (0-913175-14-5)
Softcover, Kitchen Table/Women of Color Pr
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Sons and Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0899664008 (0-89966-400-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons and Lovers'Book summary:Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."
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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Spirit of the Borderby Zane GreyISBN 0891907556 (0-89190-755-6)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Springer's Progressby David MarksonISBN 0916583570 (0-916583-57-0)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Springer's Progress'Book summary:Here comes Lucien Springer. Age: forty-seven. Still handsome though muchly vodka'd novelist, currently abashed by acute creative dysfunction. Sole preoccupation amid these artistic doldrums: pursuit of fair women. Springer is a randy incorrigible who is guided by only one inflexible precept: no protracted affairs. And thus he has slyly sustained eighteen years of marriage
Enter, then, Jessica Cornford. Age: almost half of Lucien's. Lush of body and roguish of mind. Whereupon what begins as bawdy interlude becomes perhaps the most untidy extramarital letch in literature.
Rabelaisian yet uncannily wise, both ribald and bittersweet, Springer's Progress is that rarest of gifts, a mature love story. It is an also exuberant linguistic romp, a novel saturated with irrepressible wordplay and outrageous literary thieveries. Contemplating his own work, Lucien Springer modestly restricts his ambition to "a phrase or three worth some lonely pretty girl's midnight underlining." For the discerning reader, David Markson has contrived a hundred of them. [via]
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Star Roverby Jack LondonISBN 0911842314 (0-911842-31-4)
Softcover, Valley of the Sun Pub Co
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Stones for Ibarraby Harriet DoerrISBN 0896215350 (0-89621-535-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Storm Tideby Elisabeth OgilvieISBN 0892722177 (0-89272-217-7)
Softcover, Down East Books
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Tell My Horseby Zora N. HurstonISBN 0913666335 (0-913666-33-5)
Softcover, Turtle Island Books
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Time and Againby Jack FinneyISBN 0899684033 (0-89968-403-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Tomorrow Will Be Betterby Betty SmithISBN 0892440554 (0-89244-055-4)
Hardcover, Queens House
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0895773473 (0-89577-347-3)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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Two Years Before the Mastby Richard Henry DanaISBN 0895776316 (0-89577-631-6)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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Ugh Ugh Oceanby Sherman AlexieISBN 0914610007 (0-914610-00-7)
Softcover, Hanging Loose Pr
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The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0894712330 (0-89471-233-0)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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The Waste Land and Other Poemsby T. S. EliotISBN 0899668984 (0-89966-898-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Poems'Book summary: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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Watership Downby Richard George AdamsISBN 0901720313 (0-901720-31-3)
Hardcover, Rex Collings Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watership Down'Book summary:Watership Down has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it's often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn't cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams's bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most great novels, Watership Down is a rich story that can be read (and reread) on many different levels. The book is often praised as an allegory, with its analogs between human and rabbit culture (a fact sometimes used to goad skeptical teens, who resent the challenge that they won't "get" it, into reading it), but it's equally praiseworthy as just a corking good adventure.
The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching, involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside, complete with its own folk history and language (the book comes with a "lapine" glossary, a guide to rabbitese). As much about freedom, ethics, and human nature as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates, Watership Down will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come. --Paul Hughes [via]
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Waterby Michael DorrisISBN 0896211150 (0-89621-115-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 091406116X (0-914061-16-X)
Softcover, Orchises Pr
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You Can't Go Home Againby Thomas WolfeISBN 0899662943 (0-89966-294-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Anne, la Maison aux Pignons Vertsby L. M. MontgomeryISBN 0920304508 (0-920304-50-8)
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