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1984by George Orwell, Mike DeanISBN 0582777313 (0-582-77731-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Orwell's classic novel tells the story of a world where thoughts and actions are controlled by the all-seeing Big Brother. When Winston Smith rebels and searches for the truth he learns a painful lesson about his world and the people in it. Also a powerful film directed by Michael Radford. [via]
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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0590451790 (0-590-45179-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:When a huge, glowing sea monster attacks and wrecks several ships, Professor Arronaz joins a mission, headed by the mysterious Captain Nemo, to explore the ocean depths and suddenly finds himself a prisoner. Reprint. [via]
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Ah, Wilderness!by Eugene O'NeillISBN 0573605149 (0-573-60514-9)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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Anne of Green Gablesby Ian MontgomeryISBN 0582529824 (0-582-52982-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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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]
Anywhere But Hereby Mona SimpsonISBN 0571201377 (0-571-20137-7)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Beach Musicby Pat ConroyISBN 0553574574 (0-553-57457-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beach Music'Book summary:Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of
families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the dark memories that haunt generations, in a story
that spans South Carolina and Rome and reaches back into the unutterable terrors of the Holocaust.
Beach Music is about Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, trying to find peace after the recent trauma of his wife's
suicide. But his solitude is disturbed by the appearance of his sister-in-law, who begs him to return home, and of two school friends asking for his help in
tracking down another classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced. These requests launch Jack on a journey that encompasses the past and the present in both Europe and the American South, and that leads him to shocking--and ultimately liberating--truths.
Told with deep feeling and trademark Conroy humor, Beach Music is powerful and compulsively readable. It is another masterpiece in the legendary
list of classics that his body of work has already become.
PAT CONROY is the author of five previous books: The Boo, The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and
The Prince of Tides, the last four of which were made into feature films. [via]More editions of Beach Music:
The Belle of Amherstby William LuceISBN 057363033X (0-573-63033-X)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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Bellwetherby Connie WillisISBN 0553562967 (0-553-56296-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bellwether'Book summary:A sociologist who studies fads and a chaos theorist are brought together by a strange misdelivered package. This book has all the wit and clever writing that characterized Willis' earlier Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book. [via]
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Billy Budd, SailorISBN 0582342996 (0-582-34299-6)
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The Black Cat and Other Storiesby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0582417740 (0-582-41774-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Book of Enchantmentsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0590972189 (0-590-97218-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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Brave New Worldby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0582530334 (0-582-53033-4)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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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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The Brethrenby Nancy Taylor, John GrishamISBN 0582453526 (0-582-45352-6)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brethren'Book summary:John Grisham's novels have all been so systematically successful that it is easy to forget he is just one man toiling away silently with a pen, experimenting and improving with each book. While not as gifted a prose stylist as Scott Turow, Grisham is among the best plotters in the thriller business, and he infuses his books with a moral valence and creative vision that set them apart from their peers.
The Brethren is in many respects his most daring book yet. The novel grows from two separate subplots. In the first, three imprisoned ex-judges (the "brethren" in the title), frustrated by their loss of power and influence, concoct an elaborate blackmail scheme that preys on wealthy, closeted gay men. The second story traces the rise of presidential candidate Aaron Lake, a puppet essentially created by CIA director Teddy Maynard to fulfill Maynard's plans for restoring the power of his beleaguered agency.
Grisham's tight control of the two meandering threads leaves the reader guessing through most of the opening chapters how and when these two worlds will collide. Also impressive is Grisham's careful portraiture. Justice Hatlee Beech in particular is a fascinating, tragic anti-hero: a millionaire judge with an appointment for life who was rendered divorced, bankrupt, and friendless after his conviction for a drunk-driving homicide.
The book's cynical view of presidential politics and criminal justice casts a somewhat gloomy shadow over the tale. CIA director Teddy Maynard is an all-powerful demon with absolute knowledge and control of the public will and public funds. Even his candidate, Congressman Lake, is a pawn in Maynard's egomaniacal game of ad campaigns, illicit contributions, and international intrigue. In the end, The Brethren marks a transition in Grisham's career toward a more thoughtful narrative style with less interest in the big-payoff blockbuster ending. But that's not to say that the last 50 pages won't keep your reading light turned on late. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Bridge to Terabithia: A Play with Musicby Stephanie S. Tolan, Katherine Paterson, Steve LiebmanISBN 0573650101 (0-573-65010-1)
Hardcover, S. French
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The Brothers Kby David J. DuncanISBN 0553563149 (0-553-56314-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Calling on Dragonsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0590484672 (0-590-48467-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Calling on Dragons'Book summary:Queen Cimorene, Morwen the witch, and a host of other characters once again foil the plots of the perfidious wizards. This time the dastardly wizards have stolen King Mendanbar's magic sword, vital to the health of the forest, right out of the castle armory. Morwen joins Cimorene, Kazul, Telemain, several cats, and Killer on a quest to retrieve the sword. Meanwhile, back at home, the forces of the wizards are gathering. [via]
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Cat on the Scentby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553575414 (0-553-57541-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat on the Scent'Book summary:The animals in Crozet, Virginia, are a lot smarter than the humans, which will come as no surprise to the devoted fans of Rita Mae Brown's mysteries featuring Mrs. Murphy the tiger cat, the luxury-loving feline known as Pewter, and Tee Tucker, a curious corgi. In their seventh outing, they're leaps and bounds ahead of Harry Haristeen, the spunky postmistress they call Mom. Long before anyone else knows what's going on, they've figured out the connection between the shot fired at wealthy Sir Henry Vane-Tempest during the reenactment of a Civil War battle and a missing airplane hidden in Tally Urquhart's barn. They're better at finding evidence trampled underfoot at a crime scene than any detective is, and they know just whose lap to drop it in. While they might not understand exactly why county commissioner Archie Ingram is so exercised about Vane-Tempest's plans for development in Albemarle County--particularly when it promises to make him as wealthy as the husband of the woman he loves--they've sniffed out the sexual shenanigans that threaten to derail the private pact between Crozet's leading citizens. If Harry and her friends knew what the animals know, there'd be no mystery about it; there'd only be a charming and lighthearted story of chicanery in the new Old South with plenty of local color, the scent of lilacs wafting through every page, and the deft prose of a writer on top of her game. But then, there'd be no raison d'etre for the liveliest scene in the book, wherein Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tee take a turbo-charged Porsche for a breakneck ride through Virginia's verdant hills and dales. By the end of the book, the only mystery is whether Harry and Fair, her favorite ex-husband, will manage to get back together again in the next installment--or the one after that--of this popular series. --Jane Adams [via]
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Charlotte's Web: Library Editionby E. B. WhiteISBN 059030271X (0-590-30271-X)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlotte's Web: Library Edition'Book summary:In his classic and beloved novel, E. B. White tells the memorable story of Wilbur, a little pig who becomes famous with the help of his clever friend Charlotte and their chatty animal neighbors. As the runt of the litter, Wilbur struggles to survive from the very beginning. Fern fights her father, Mr. Arable, to raise Wilbur and nurse him to health. Fern succeeds and Wilbur moves to the Zuckerman farm, where he learns the true meaning of friendship from the wise grey spider Charlotte. When it becomes apparent that Wilbur is being well fed for a reason, Charlotte and Wilbur are determined to foil Mr. Zuckerman's plans. With the help of Charlotte and her "terrific" webs, Templeton the rat, and other colorful barnyard friends, Wilbur becomes the prizewinning pig of the County Fair and the most famous pig ever.
Lessons of friendship, loyalty, and truth bind this story together and show readers that friends come in all shapes and sizes.
Illustrations by the artist Garth Williams bring to life these lovable characters. He is also the illustrator of E. B. White's Stuart Little.
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The Clientby John Grisham, Janet McAlpinISBN 0582417775 (0-582-41777-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Client'Book summary:With her sparkling voice and superb acting ability, Blair Brown gives an impressive reading of this John Grisham blockbuster. The story hinges on a young boy who gets an unwanted earful of murder, politics--and dangerous secrets about both--from a conscience-stricken mob lawyer bent on suicide. "I can tell you where the body is... the most notorious undiscovered corpse of our time." Just the kind of information most children don't need, especially when the snakeskin-wearing hit man finds out what he knows. Aside from musical cues scattered as superfluously as laugh tracks on a sitcom, the production quality is stellar, preserving the crispness of Blair's voice and the nuances of her excellent interpretation. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes) --George Laney [via]
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Collected Poems, 1909-1962by T. S. EliotISBN 0571055494 (0-571-05549-4)
Hardcover, Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems, 1909-1962'Book summary:'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted HughesPoet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes his verse from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as The Waste Land and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. [via]
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Complete Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553609416 (0-553-60941-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Dark Force Risingby Timothy ZahnISBN 0553560719 (0-553-56071-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Dealing With Dragonsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0590457225 (0-590-45722-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Duckyby Ann M. MartinISBN 0590298399 (0-590-29839-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Dying for Chocolateby Diane Mott DavidsonISBN 0553560247 (0-553-56024-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dying for Chocolate'Book summary:The caterermeet goldy bear: a bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life has become a recipe for disaster. She's got an abusive ex-husband who's into making tasteless threats, a rash of mounting bills that are taking a huge bite out of her budget, and two enticing men knocking on her door.the dishnow determined to take control of her life, goldy moves her business and her son to ritzy aspen meadow country club, where she accepts a job as a live-in cook. But just as she's beginning to think she's got it made--catering decadent dinners and posh society picnics and enjoying the favors of philip miller, a handsome local shrink, and tom shulz, her more-than-friendly neighborhood cop--the dishy doctor inexplicably drives his bmw into an oncoming bus.the unsavory killerconvinced that philip's bizarre death was no accident, goldy decides to do a little investigating of her own. But sifting through the unpalatable secrets of the dead doc's life will toss her into a case seasoned with unexpected danger and even more unexpected revelations--the kind that could get a caterer and the son she loves. . .killed [via]
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dreamby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0586081321 (0-586-08132-1)
Hardcover, Paladin
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For the Relief of Unbearable Urgesby Nathan EnglanderISBN 0571201318 (0-571-20131-8)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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The Fortress of Solitudeby Jonathan LethemISBN 0571219330 (0-571-21933-0)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fortress of Solitude'Book summary:From the funked-up, messed up Brooklyn of the 1970s to the present day, this novel spans 30 years in the life of two best friends, Dylan and Mingus, their families and an entire neighbourhood. From their stories comes the history of soul music, graffiti art, comic books and experimental film. [via]
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Four Films of Woody Allenby Woody AllenISBN 0571118240 (0-571-11824-0)
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A Gathering of Old Menby Ernest J. GainesISBN 0606010270 (0-606-01027-0)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Gathering of Old Men'Book summary:Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man.
"Poignant, powerful, earthy...a novel of Southern racial confrontation in which a group of elderly black men band together against whites who seek vengeance for the murder of one of their own."--Booklist
"A fine novel...there is a denouement that will shock and move readers as much as it does the characters."--Philadelphia Inquirer [via]More editions of A Gathering of Old Men:
The Golden Gateby Vikram SethISBN 0571139671 (0-571-13967-1)
Hardcover, Faber
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Horse Heavenby Jane SmileyISBN 0571205607 (0-571-20560-7)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Island of the Blue Dolphinsby Scott O'DellISBN 0590221655 (0-590-22165-5)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Jane and the Man of the Clothby Stephanie BarronISBN 0553574892 (0-553-57489-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manorby Stephanie BarronISBN 0553575937 (0-553-57593-7)
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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreamsby Sylvia PlathISBN 0571111203 (0-571-11120-3)
Hardcover, Faber
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Julie of the Wolvesby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0590134701 (0-590-13470-1)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julie of the Wolves'Book summary:Winner of the Newbery MedalLost on the TundraTo her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. When the village is no longer safe for her, Miyax runs away. But she soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass to guide her.Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, and she grows to love them as though they were family. With their help, and drawing on her father's teachings, Miyax struggles day by clay to survive. But the time comes when she must leave the wilderness and choose between the old ways and the new. Which will she choose? For she is not Miyax of the Eskimos - but Julie of the Wolves.Faced with the prospect of a disagreeable arranged marriage or a journey across the barren Alaskan tundra, 13-year-old Miyax chooses the tundra. She finds herself caught between the traditional Eskimo ways and the modern ways of the whites. Miyax, or Julie as her pen pal Amy calls her, sets out alone to visit Amy in San Francisco, a world far away from Eskimo culture and the frozen land of Alaska.During her long and arduous journey, Miyax comes to appreciate the value of her Eskimo heritage, learns about herself, and wins the friendship of a pack of wolves. After learning the language of the wolves and slowly earning their trust, Julie becomes a member of the pack.Since its first publication, Julie of The Wolves, winner of the 1973 Newbery Medal, has found its way into the hearts of millions of readers. [via]
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Last Commandby Timothy ZahnISBN 0553564927 (0-553-56492-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Le Testament / the Testamentby John Grisham, Karen HolmesISBN 0582437067 (0-582-43706-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The League of Frightened Menby Rex StoutISBN 0553762982 (0-553-76298-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Legacy of the Darkswordby Margaret WeisISBN 055357812X (0-553-57812-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the Africanby Olaudah Equiano, Paul EdwardsISBN 0582030706 (0-582-03070-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Long Winterby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0590300946 (0-590-30094-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Lord of the Fliesby William GoldingISBN 0606001964 (0-606-00196-4)
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The Man in the High Castleby Philip K. DickISBN 0575019581 (0-575-01958-1)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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The Midwifeby Gay CourterISBN 0595282806 (0-595-28280-6)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Might As Well Be Deadby Rex StoutISBN 0553763032 (0-553-76303-2)
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Murder on the Prowlby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553575406 (0-553-57540-6)
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Murder She Meowedby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553572377 (0-553-57237-7)
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Music of Changeby Paul AusterISBN 0571203035 (0-571-20303-5)
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My Brother Sam Is Deadby Christopher Collier, James Lincoln CollierISBN 059042792X (0-590-42792-X)
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Native Sonby Wright, Paul GreenISBN 0573612919 (0-573-61291-9)
Softcover, S. French
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Adapted from the classic novel by Richard WrightDrama
Characters: 15 male, 14 female (w/doubling)
Multiple Sets
The story of Bigger Thomas, a black youth seeking his identity in the white world. This adpatation was originally produced by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
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Our TownISBN 0573613494 (0-573-61349-4)
Hardcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
Find This BookBook summary:Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prizewinning drama of life in the town of Grover 's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.
It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly the great American play." In addition, Tappan Wilder has written an eye-opening new Afterword, which includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.
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Out Of The Dustby Karen HesseISBN 0590371258 (0-590-37125-8)
Softcover, Little Apple
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out Of The Dust'Book summary:Like the Oklahoma dust bowl from which she came, 14-year-old narrator Billie Jo writes in sparse, free-floating verse. In this compelling, immediate journal, Billie Jo reveals the grim domestic realities of living during the years of constant dust storms: That hopes--like the crops--blow away in the night like skittering tumbleweeds. That trucks, tractors, even Billie Jo's beloved piano, can suddenly be buried beneath drifts of dust. Perhaps swallowing all that grit is what gives Billie Jo--our strong, endearing, rough-cut heroine--the stoic courage to face the death of her mother after a hideous accident that also leaves her piano-playing hands in pain and permanently scarred.
Meanwhile, Billie Jo's silent, windblown father is literally decaying with grief and skin cancer before her very eyes. When she decides to flee the lingering ghosts and dust of her homestead and jump a train west, she discovers a simple but profound truth about herself and her plight. There are no tight, sentimental endings here--just a steady ember of hope that brightens Karen Hesse's exquisitely written and mournful tale. Hesse won the 1998 Newbery Award for this elegantly crafted, gut-wrenching novel, and her fans won't want to miss The Music of Dolphins or Letters from Rifka. (Ages 9 and older) --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Partnerby John GrishamISBN 0582434068 (0-582-43406-8)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Partner'Book summary:The man they were to kidnap in Brazil had not always been called Silva. As a lawyer, Patrick S. Lanigan, his previous life had ended in a car crash in 1992. But six weeks after his death, $90 million disappeared from his law firm. It was then that his partners knew he was still alive. An unputdownable thriller by the current master of the genre, John Grisham. [via]
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The Pelican Briefby Robin Waterfield, John GrishamISBN 0582417961 (0-582-41796-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pelican Brief'Book summary:John Grisham's head was full of movies when he wrote The Pelican Brief, which is such a brisk page-turner you could use it to dry your hair. He had Julia Roberts in mind for the heroine, Darby Shaw, a brilliant Tulane law student who comes up with an ingenious theory to explain the baffling assassinations of two Supreme Court justices in one day. They were shot and strangled by ace international terrorist Khamel, who loves the film Three Days of the Condor, but government gumshoes don't get what connects the deaths. Silly government guys! They died so the conservative president, who just wants to be left alone to play golf, will appoint new, conservative justices who will help out a case involving an industrialist who is the enemy of pelicans and other living things. It's all spelled out for them in Darby's brief. She likes to do legal feats to impress her boyfriend, her boyish law prof Thomas (who, like Grisham, prefers to shave at most once a week, and is cool, smart, and antiauthoritarian). The prof likes to paint her toes red, in homage to Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham. (Sarandon also starred in the film version of Grisham's The Client.)
But when Thomas gets splattered by a car bomb meant for Darby, she escapes the hospital and hooks up with a Washington Post reporter, Gray Grantham, who sleuths like the guys in All the President's Men.
Grisham wishes he hadn't written The Pelican Brief quite so quickly (his first novel, A Time to Kill, went through dozens of drafts), but Pelican's very breathlessness contributes to its dreamy, cinematic chase-o-rama atmosphere. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Kieran McGovern, Oscar WildeISBN 0582418089 (0-582-41808-9)
Softcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary: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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Raisin in the Sunby Lorraine HansberryISBN 0573614636 (0-573-61463-6)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Raisin in the Sun'Book summary:Drama / 7m, 3f, 1 boy / Int. This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husband's insurance money comes through, Mama dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans, however: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school. The tensions and prejudice they face form this seminal American drama. Sacrifice, trust and love among the Younger family and their heroic struggle to retain dignity in a harsh and changing world is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration. This Thirtieth Anniversary edition was revised by the late author's husband and executor, Robert Nemiroff in 1989. Winner of the NY Drama Critic's Award as Best Play of the Year "Pivotal play in the history of the American Black theatre." - Newsweek "A milestone in the American Theatre." - Ebony [via]
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Rip Van Winkleby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0582030463 (0-582-03046-3)
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Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories: Library Editionby Washington IrvingISBN 0590401106 (0-590-40110-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories: Library Edition'Book summary:One of America's favorite legends is adapted by an award-winning illustrator and author for a new, visually breathtaking storybook. Locker magnificently portrays the beauty of the rugged Catskill Mountains, where Rip Van Winkle awoke after 20 years to find a vastly changed world. NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies. [via]
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Robin Hoodby D.K. SwanISBN 0582421195 (0-582-42119-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0590418416 (0-590-41841-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryby Mildred D. TaylorISBN 0590982079 (0-590-98207-9)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 0582527295 (0-582-52729-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Deadby Tom StoppardISBN 0571081827 (0-571-08182-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'Book summary:"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. The National Theatre production in April 1967 made Tom Stoppard's reputation virtually overnight. Its wit, stagecraft and verbal verve remain as exhilarating as they were then and the play has become a contemporary classic. "One of the most original and engaging of post-war plays". ("Daily Telegraph"). [via]
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The Rubber Bandby Rex StoutISBN 0553763091 (0-553-76309-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Searching for Dragonsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0590457217 (0-590-45721-7)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Searching for Dragons'Book summary:Expected by his advisors to take a princess as his bride, young King Mendanbar declines, until he meets Princess Cimerone, a young woman who once ran off with dragons in order to avoid an unwanted betrothal. Reprint. K. SLJ. AB. [via]
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The Secret AgentISBN 0582417694 (0-582-41769-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
Find This BookBook summary:Mr Verloc is an anarchist and wants to see a revolution in Britain, but he also wants to live a quiet life looking after his shop. Then Mr Vladimir orders him to bomb the Greenwich Observatory in London. Will Mr Verloc do the job, and what happens if it all goes wrong? "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]
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The Shape Of Thingsby Neil LabuteISBN 0571212468 (0-571-21246-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shape Of Things'Book summary:A startling dissection of cruelty and artistic creation from the author of In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors[via]
In a modern version of Adam's seduction by Eve, The Shape of Things pits gentle, awkward, overweight Adam against experienced, analytical, amoral Evelyn, a graduate student in art. After a chance meeting at a museum, Evelyn and Adam embark on an intense relationship that causes shy and principled Adam to go to extraordinary lengths, including cosmetic surgery, and a betrayal of his best friend, to improve his appearance and character. In the process, Evelyn's subtle and insistent coaching results in a reconstruction of Adam's fundamental moral character. Only in a final and shocking exhibition does Evelyn reveal the nature of her interest in Adam, of her detached artist's perspective and sense of authority--to her, Adam is no more than "flesh.... one of the most perfect materials on earth. Natural, beautiful, and malleable." Labute's latest work is an intense and disturbing study not only of the uses of power within human relationships, but also of the ethics involved in the relationship of art and life. To what extent is an artist licensed to shape and change her medium or to alter the work of another artist? What is acceptable artistic material? At what point does creation become manipulation, and at what point does creation destroy? Or, is the new Adam, handsome and confident if heart broken, an admirable result of the most challenging artistic endeavor? The Shape of Things challenges society's most deeply entrenched ideas about art, manipulation, and love.More editions of The Shape Of Things:
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Sixth Grade Secretsby Louis SacharISBN 0590460757 (0-590-46075-7)
Softcover, Apple
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When Laura Sibbie starts a secret club at school, makes the other members them give her something totally embarrassing as "insurance," to make sure they don't tell anyone else about the club. She promises to keep the insurance secret, unless someone blabs. Gabriel, who never tells on anybody, would be a perfect member of Pig City. He wants to join, too. But when Laura asks him, something goes terribly wrong. Now there are two secret clubs in Mr. Doyle's class, and guess who's the head of the new one-Gabriel! Each club is determined to topple the other, and nobody's secrets are safe. -
Snow Falling on Cedarsby PenguinISBN 058241928X (0-582-41928-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Falling on Cedars'Book summary:Fighting the distrust and prejudice of his neighbors on a remote island in Puget Sound, a Japanese-American man who spent time in an internment camp during World War II, finds himself on trial for murder. The histories of the accused and the victim, both fishermen and residents of the small town of San Piedro, unfold as newspaperman Ishmael Chambers embarks on a quest for the truth. Lonely and war-scarred, Chambers strives for justice and inner strength, while coming to terms with his ill-fated love for Hatsue Miyamoto, the wife of the accused. Evocative and beautifully written, Snow Falling on Cedars won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. [via]
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Sons and Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0582416965 (0-582-41696-5)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons and Lovers'Book summary:This moving story describes life in a coalminer's family around the beginning of the twentieth century. It follows the emotional development of Paul Morel, torn between his passionate love for his mother and his romantic friendships with two young women, Miriam and Clara. D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930) is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Many regard Sons and Lovers as his greatest masterpiece. [via]
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Star Wars: Heir to the Empireby Mike BaronISBN 0553634852 (0-553-63485-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Wars: Heir to the Empire'Book summary:Here is a special 20th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel that reignited the entire Star Wars publishing phenomenonfeaturing an Introduction and annotations from award-winning author Timothy Zahn, exclusive commentary from Lucasfilm and Del Rey Books, and a brand-new novella starring the ever-popular Grand Admiral Thrawn. The biggest event in the history of Star Wars books, Heir to the Empire follows the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia after they led the Rebel Alliance to victory in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.
Five years after the Death Star was destroyed and Darth Vader and the Emperor were defeated, the galaxy is struggling to heal the wounds of war, Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting twins, and Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of new Jedi Knights.
But thousands of light-years away, the last of the Emperors warlordsthe brilliant and deadly Grand Admiral Thrawnhas taken command of the shattered Imperial fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the New Republic. For this dark warrior has made two vital discoveries that could destroy everything the courageous men and women of the Rebel Alliance fought so hard to create.
The explosive confrontation that results is a towering epic of action, invention, mystery, and spectacle on a galactic scalein short, a story worthy of the name Star Wars. [via]More editions of Star Wars: Heir to the Empire:
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The Street Lawyerby Michael Dean, John GrishamISBN 0582434041 (0-582-43404-1)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Street Lawyer'Book summary:John Grisham is back with his latest courtroom conundrum, The Street Lawyer. This time the lord of legal thrillers dives deep into the world of the homeless, particularly their barely audible legal voice in a world dominated by large, all-powerful law firms. Our hero, Michael Brock, is on the fast track to partnership at D.C.'s premier law firm, Sweeny & Drake. His dream of someday raking in a million-plus a year is finally within reach. Nothing can stop him, not even 90-hour workweeks and a failing marriage--until he meets DeVon Hardy, a.k.a. "Mister," a Vietnam vet with a grudge against his landlord--and a few lawyers to fry. Hardy, with no clear motive, takes Brock and eight of his colleagues hostage in a boardroom, demanding their tax returns and interrogating them with a conviction that would have put perpetrators of the Spanish Inquisition to shame. Hardy, a man of few words and a lot of ammunition, mumbles cryptically, "Who are the evictors?" as he points a .44 automatic within inches of Brock's face. The violent outcome of the hostage situation triggers an abrupt soul-searching for the young lawyer, and Hardy's mysterious question continues to haunt him. Brock learns that Hardy had been in and out of homeless shelters most of his life, but he had recently begun paying rent in a rundown building; that means he has legal recourse when a big money-making outfit such as Sweeny & Drake boots him with no warning. When Brock realizes that his profession caters to the morally challenged, he sets out on an aimless search through the dicier side of D.C., ending up at the 14th Street Legal Clinic. The clinic's director, a gargantuan man named Mordecai Green, woos Brock to the clinic with a $90,000 cut in pay and the chance to redeem his soul. Brock takes it--and some of the story's credibility along with it; it's hard to believe that a Yale graduate who sacrificed everything--including his marriage--to succeed in the legal profession would quickly jump at the opportunity for low-paying, charitable work. However, Brock's search for corruption in the swanky upper echelons of Sweeny & Drake (via the toughest streets of D.C.) is filled with colorful characters and realistic, gritty descriptions. In the The Street Lawyer, Grisham once again defends the voiceless and powerless. In the words of Mordecai Green, "That's justice, Michael. That's what street law is all about. Dignity." [via]
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Swordspointby Ellen KushnerISBN 0553585495 (0-553-58549-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swordspoint'Book summary:The classic forerunner to The Fall of the Kings now with three bonus stories.
Hailed by critics as a bravura performance (Locus) and witty, sharp-eyed, [and] full of interesting people (Newsday), this classic melodrama of manners, filled with remarkable plot twists and unexpected humor, takes fantasy to an unprecedented level of elegant writing and scintillating wit. Award-winning author Ellen Kushner has created a world of unforgettable characters whose political ambitions, passionate love affairs, and age-old rivalries collide with deadly results.
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On the treacherous streets of Riverside, a man lives and dies by the sword. Even the nobles on the Hill turn to duels to settle their disputes. Within this elite, dangerous world, Richard St. Vier is the undisputed master, as skilled as he is ruthless--until a death by the sword is met with outrage instead of awe, and the city discovers that the line between hero and villain can be altered in the blink of an eye. [via]More editions of Swordspoint:
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Talking to Dragonsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0590484753 (0-590-48475-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talking to Dragons'Book summary:The conclusion to the acclaimed Enchanted Forest Chronicles features a courageous but clueless young hero, a dragon with an attitude, and a short-tempered fire-witch, in a delightful fantasy of magic powers and evil wizards. Reprint. VY. [via]
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Timbuktu: A Novelby Paul AusterISBN 0571203299 (0-571-20329-9)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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To Say Nothing of the Dogby Connie WillisISBN 0553575384 (0-553-57538-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Say Nothing of the Dog'Book summary:To Say Nothing of the Dog is a science-fiction fantasy in the guise of an old-fashioned Victorian novel, complete with epigraphs, brief outlines, and a rather ugly boxer in three-quarters profile at the start of each chapter. Or is it a Victorian novel in the guise of a time-traveling tale, or a highly comic romp, or a great, allusive literary game, complete with spry references to Dorothy L. Sayers, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Conan Doyle? Its title is the subtitle of Jerome K. Jerome's singular, and hilarious, Three Men in a Boat. In one scene the hero, Ned Henry, and his friends come upon Jerome, two men, and the dog Montmorency in--you guessed it--a boat. Jerome will later immortalize Ned's fumbling. (Or, more accurately, Jerome will earlier immortalize Ned's fumbling, because Ned is from the 21st century and Jerome from the 19th.)
What Connie Willis soon makes clear is that genre can go to the dogs. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a fine, and fun, romance--an amused examination of conceptions and misconceptions about other eras, other people. When we first meet Ned, in 1940, he and five other time jumpers are searching bombed-out Coventry Cathedral for the bishop's bird stump, an object about which neither he nor the reader will be clear for hundreds of pages. All he knows is that if they don't find it, the powerful Lady Schrapnell will keep sending them back in time, again and again and again. Once he's been whisked through the rather quaint Net back to the Oxford future, Ned is in a state of super time-lag. (Willis is happily unconcerned with futuristic vraisemblance, though Ned makes some obligatory references to "vids," "interactives," and "headrigs.") The only way Ned can get the necessary two weeks' R and R is to perform one more drop and recuperate in the past, away from Lady Schrapnell. Once he returns something to someone (he's too exhausted to understand what or to whom) on June 7, 1888, he's free.
Willis is concerned, however, as is her confused character, with getting Victoriana right, and Ned makes a good amateur anthropologist--entering one crowded room, he realizes that "the reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over." Though he's still not sure what he's supposed to bring back, various of his confederates keep popping back to set him to rights. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a shaggy-dog tale complete with a preternaturally quiet, time-traveling cat, Princess Arjumand, who might well be the cause of some serious temporal incongruities--for even a mouser might change the course of European history. In the end, readers might well be more interested in Ned's romance with a fellow historian than in the bishop's bird stump, and who will not rejoice in their first Net kiss, which lasts 169 years! [via]
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia WoolfISBN 0582097142 (0-582-09714-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Tom Robbinsby Tom RobbinsISBN 0553675958 (0-553-67595-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Too Many Cooksby Rex StoutISBN 0553763067 (0-553-76306-7)
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: Level 1, Penguin Readersby Jules VerneISBN 0582854946 (0-582-85494-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: Level 1, Penguin Readers'Book summary:A huge and dangerous sea monster is terrifying sailors. But Aronnax and his friends discover that the 'monster' is really the Nautilus, a submarine with a mysterious captain. Captain Nemo takes the three men on a miraculous journey beneath the oceans of the world - but there is no escape from the submarine. [via]
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Villa Incognitoby Tom RobbinsISBN 0553803328 (0-553-80332-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Where There's a Willby Rex StoutISBN 0553763016 (0-553-76301-6)
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Wild Ducks Flying Backward: The Short Story Writings Of Tom Robbinsby Tom RobbinsISBN 0553804510 (0-553-80451-0)
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William Golding's Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, Nigel WilliamsISBN 0571160565 (0-571-16056-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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You Can't Go Home Againby Thomas WolfeISBN 0606010041 (0-606-01004-1)
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