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Accounts of the Apparition of Mrs. Vealby Daniel Defoe, Manuel SchonhornISBN 0404701159 (0-404-70115-9)
Softcover, Ams Pr Inc
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American Fujiby Sara BackerISBN 0399146911 (0-399-14691-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Aquamarineby Carol AnshawISBN 0395877555 (0-395-87755-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aquamarine'Book summary:Olympic swimmer Jesse Austin is seduced and consequently edged out for a gold medal by her Australian rival. From there, Anshaw intricately traces three possible paths for Jesse, spinning exhilarating variations on the themes of lost love and parallel lives unlived. Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina, writes, "I found myself wishing I could buy a dozen copies and start a discussion group, just so I'd be able to debate all the questions this astonishing novel provokes." A Reader's Guide is available.[via]More editions of Aquamarine:
The Ballad of Lucy Whippleby Karen CushmanISBN 0395728061 (0-395-72806-1)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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Best American Essays 1995by Jamaica Kincaid, Robert AtwanISBN 0395691834 (0-395-69183-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Best American Essays 1995'Book summary:No collection of essays can match the Best American series for the variety of subjects explored, the first-rate quality of pieces, and the eclectic approaches to the genre gathered in its pages each year. With characteristic flair, it provides that rare and refreshing opportunity for readers to take stock of the year's most distinguished and provocative nonfiction. Continuing the celebrated tradition, the 1995 edition dazzles and surprises with its inventive, colorful cornucopia of essays drawn from periodicals across the country. Showcased here are the preeminent pieces from the Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker, from Harper's Magazine and The Alaska Quarterly Review, written by some of today's finest prose stylists, including Edward Hoagland, Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick, William Gass, John Edgar Wideman, and Joseph Brodsky. Guest editor Jamaica Kincaid, one of America's most illustrious storytellers and essayists, has culled her top twenty choices, assembling works of remarkable su [via]
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Best American Essays 1995by Robert Atwan, Jamaica KincaidISBN 0395691842 (0-395-69184-2)
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The Best American Short Stories 1995by Jane Smiley, Katrina KenisonISBN 0395711797 (0-395-71179-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories 1995'Book summary:Every autumn, readers of short stories eagerly look forward to the chance to discover their favorite writers and new talents in The Best American Short Stories. Last year's collection marched on to bestseller lists across the country and met with acclaim from critics who declared it "a brilliant work of art." Marking the eightieth anniversary of the series, the 1995 volume portrays the stunning range of American life in all its various colors, styles, regions, and concerns. This year's guest editor, Jane Smiley, selected stories without knowing their authors' identities. Drawn to tales with "a sharp taste," she gathered a piquant sampling of new voices as well as rich works by such masters as Don DeLillo, Ellen Gilchrist, Thom Jones, Joy Williams, Stephen Dobyns, Kate Braverman, and Jamaica Kincaid. Smiley was attracted to "an element of the exotic" in the tapestry of ordinary lives, and the stories in this collection reveal the powerful dramas constantly unfolding beneath the surface [via]
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The Best American Short Stories 1997by Annie Proulx, John Edgar Wideman, Katrina KenisonISBN 0395798655 (0-395-79865-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories 1997'Book summary:The preeminent short FIction series since 1915, The Best American Short Stories is the only volume that annually offers the finest works chosen by a distinguished best-selling guest editor. This year, E. Annie Proulx's selection includes dazzling stories by Tobias Wolff, Donald Hall, Cynthia Ozick, Robert Stone, Junot D'az, and T. Coraghessan Boyle, as well as an array of stunning new talent. In her fascinating introduction, Proulx establishes categories for the stories by subject matter, such as "Identifying the Stranger" and "Perceived Social Values." She writes that beyond their strength and vigor, these stories achieve "a certain intangible feel for the depth of human experience, not uncommonly expressed through a kind of dry humor." As ever, this year's volume surprises and rewards. [via]
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The Best American Short Stories 2000by E.L. Doctorow, Katrina KenisonISBN 0395926866 (0-395-92686-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories 2000'Book summary:When a great annual collection comes out, it's hard to know the reason why. Was there a bumper crop of high-quality stories, or was this year's guest editor especially gifted at winnowing out the good ones? Either way, the 2000 edition of The Best American Short Stories is a standout in a series that can be uneven. Its editor, E.L. Doctorow, seems to have a fondness for the "what if?" story, the kind of tale that posits an imagination-prodding question and then attempts to answer it. Nathan Englander's "The Gilgul of Park Avenue" asks: What if a WASPy financial analyst, riding in a cab one day, discovers to his surprise that he is irrevocably Jewish? In "The Ordinary Son," Ron Carlson asks: What if you are the only average person in a family of certifiable geniuses? And Allan Gurganus's "He's at the Office" asks: What if the quintessential postwar American working man were forced to retire? This last story is narrated by the man's grown son, who at the story's opening takes his dad for a walk. Though it's the present day, the father is still dressed in his full 1950s businessman regalia, including camel-hair overcoat and felt hat. The two walk by a teenager. "The boy smiled. 'Way bad look on you, guy.'"
My father, seeking interpretation, stared at me. I simply shook my head no. I could not explain Dad to himself in terms of tidal fashion trends. All I said was "I think he likes you."
The exchange typifies the writing showcased in this anthology: in these stories, again and again, we find a breakdown of human communication that is sprightly, humorous, and devastatingly complete. A few more of the terrific stories featured herein: Amy Bloom's "The Story," a goofy metafiction about a villainous divorcee; Geoffrey Becker's "Black Elvis," which tells of, well, a black Elvis; and Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Third and Final Continent," a story of an Indian man who moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Like the collection itself, Lahiri's story amasses a lovely, funny mood as it goes along. --Claire Dederer [via]More editions of The Best American Short Stories 2000:
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The Best American Short Stories of the Centuryby John Updike, Katrina KenisonISBN 0395843677 (0-395-84367-7)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories of the Century'Book summary:At age 67, the perennially youthful John Updike may at last qualify as something of an elder statesman. But the Best American Short Stories annual--whose greatest hits package Updike has now assembled--is almost a generation older, having commenced publication in 1915. This staying power allows the hefty Best American Short Stories of the Century to perform double duty. It is, on the one hand, a priceless compendium of American manners and morals--a decade-by-decade survey of how we lived then, and how we live now. Yet Updike very consciously avoided the sociological angle in making his selection. "I tried not to select stories because they illustrated a theme or portion of the national experience," he writes in his introduction, "but because they struck me as lively, beautiful, believable, and, in the human news they brought, important." In this he succeeded: the 55 fictions that made the grade are most notable for their human (rather than merely historical) interest.
So who got in? There are a good number of cut-and-dried classics here, including Hemingway's "The Killers," Faulkner's "That Evening Sun Go Down," and Philip Roth's acidic spin on religious connivance, "Defender of the Faith." In other cases, major authors are represented by relatively minor works. Yet it's hard to quibble with the inclusion of Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, J.F. Powers, Eudora Welty--particularly when you take into account that their second-tier creations are fully the equal of anybody else's masterpieces. And the final third of the book really does constitute an honor roll of contemporary American fiction, with brilliant entries by Saul Bellow, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Tim O'Brien, Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, John Cheever, and Vladimir Nabokov. (For the latter, Updike actually succumbed to his own idolatry and bent the rules for admission--but nobody who reads the hallucinatory "That in Aleppo Once..." will regret it.) It goes without saying that fiction fans will be complaining about the editor's sins of omission well into the next century. But no matter how you slice it, this remains an elegant and essential advertisement for the short form. --James Marcus [via]
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The Best American Short Stories, 1999by Amy Tan, Katrina KenisonISBN 039592684X (0-395-92684-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories, 1999'Book summary:A great story gets its hooks into you right from the start; you know you're in the hands of a good writer when the very first sentence transports you wholly into another world. "Mother preferred Zulu servants." "It must be, Ruth thought, that she was going to die in the spring." "Who would have thought that a war of such proportions would bother to turn in its fury against the fools of Chelm?"
The 21 fictions featured in The Best American Short Stories 1999 have very little in common--but whether they're about ranchers or commuters, romantic seekers or New Age pilgrims, what they do share is a sense of urgency. In each of them, there's a kind of voice that announces its need to be heard. "I'm not a bad guy," pleads the narrator of "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars," and even though he cheats on his girlfriend, by the end of Junot Díaz's story you might be tempted to agree anyway. (Especially considering the charming way he turns Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener into a verb--as in, "A lot of the time she Bartlebys me, says, 'No, I'd rather not.'") "Real Estate," by that master of bittersweet comedy Lorrie Moore, starts by repeating "Ha! Ha! Ha!" for two solid pages but becomes a rueful take on marriage, house-hunting, and even death: "The body, hauling sadnesses, pursued the soul, hobbled after. The body was like a sweet dim dog trotting lamely toward the gate as you tried slowly to drive off, out the long driveway. Take me, take me too, barked the dog."
Other standouts in this collection include Alice Munro's "Save the Reaper," a kind of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" where no one is killed or saved; Rick Bass's haunting evocation of winter in the north country, "The Hermit's Story"; and Tim Gautreax's "The Piano Tuner," about a manic-depressive Creole princess playing cocktail piano in a motel lounge. (This is one tale that truly does end with a bang, not a whimper.) Taken together, they are ample evidence that the American short story is alive, well, and eminently able to--in the words of guest editor Amy Tan--"help us live interesting lives." --Chloe Byrne [via]
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Bitterroot Landingby Sheri ReynoldsISBN 0425150445 (0-425-15044-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bitterroot Landing'Book summary:English book, Signature edition. Part one. For as long as I can remember, I've searched for things to worship, bits of rock, storm fronts, bugs with turquoise glitter on their wings. [via]
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Blue Highwaysby William Least Heat MoonISBN 0395925029 (0-395-92502-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Highways'Book summary:First published in 1982, William Least Heat-Moon's account of his journey along the back roads of the United States (marked with the color blue on old highway maps) has become something of a classic. When he loses his job and his wife on the same cold February day, he is struck by inspiration: "A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity."
Driving cross-country in a van named Ghost Dancing, Heat-Moon (the name the Sioux give to the moon of midsummer nights) meets up with all manner of folk, from a man in Grayville, Illinois, "whose cap told me what fertilizer he used" to Scott Chisholm, "a Canadian citizen ... [who] had lived in this country longer than in Canada and liked the United States but wouldn't admit it for fear of having to pay off bets he made years earlier when he first 'came over' that the U.S. is a place no Canadian could ever love." Accompanied by his photographs, Heat-Moon's literary portraits of ordinary Americans should not be merely read, but savored. [via]
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The Book of Ruth : A Novelby Jane HamiltonISBN 0395866502 (0-395-86650-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Ruth : A Novel'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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Cat Who Could Read Backwardsby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 039914286X (0-399-14286-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Cat Who Said Cheeseby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0399140751 (0-399-14075-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Cat Who Sang for the Birdsby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0399143335 (0-399-14333-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat Who Sang for the Birds'Book summary:The 20th addition to the marvelous, bestselling "Cat Who . . . " mystery series finds Lilian Jackson Braun in fine form. It's spring in Moose County and newspaper columnist Jim Qwilleran and his remarkable felines, Koko and Yum Yum, are caught up in intrigue once again, this time investigating the death of an elderly woman in a suspicious fire and the mysterious break-in at the newly opened art museum (Mystery/Detective) [via]
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Cat Who Saw Starsby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0399144315 (0-399-14431-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat Who Saw Stars'Book summary:A new caper from "a master of mystery who knows exactly when to let the cat out of the bag." --People Quill is determined to dispel rumors circulating in Moose County, "four hundred miles north of everywhere," that extraterrestrial beings may be responsible for the disappearance of a stray backpacker. Koko, on the other hand, is spending hours on the porch in the dark, watching the sky for stars--or something! Throw in some highly innovative plans for this year's 4th of July parade, a dogcart race, and the recent knitting craze in Moose County, and Quill and the cats have some serious sorting out to do..and readers yet another purrfectly delightful Cat Who..mystery to enjoy! [via]
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The Cat Who Wasn't Thereby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0399137807 (0-399-13780-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Complete Poemsby Anne SextonISBN 0395957761 (0-395-95776-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poems'Book summary:She drew her poems from a great depth in herself, and they continue to stir us...Her voice remains a distinctive one in American poetry of the past half century. -- J.D. McClatchy [via]
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Contemporary American Poetryby A. PoulinISBN 0395745322 (0-395-74532-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Contemporary American Poetryby Michael Waters, A. PoulinISBN 039577800X (0-395-77800-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Crocodile on the Sandbankby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0396070809 (0-396-07080-9)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crocodile on the Sandbank'Book summary:Elizabeth Peters's unforgettable heroine Amelia Peabody makes her first appearance in this clever mystery. Amelia receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way through Rome to Egypt, she meets Evelyn Barton-Forbes, a young woman abandoned by her lover and left with no means of support. Amelia promptly takes Evelyn under her wing, insisting that the young lady accompany her to Egypt, where Amelia plans to indulge her passion for Egyptology. When Evelyn becomes the target of an aborted kidnapping and the focus of a series of suspicious accidents and mysterious visitations, Amelia becomes convinced of a plot to harm her young friend. Like any self-respecting sleuth, Amelia sets out to discover who is behind it all. [via]
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Death by Darjeelingby Laura ChildsISBN 0425179451 (0-425-17945-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Dessa Roseby Sherley Anne WilliamsISBN 0425103374 (0-425-10337-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Devil's Dictionaryby Ambrose BierceISBN 0425125238 (0-425-12523-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Dictionary'Book summary:Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (born June 24, 1842, Horse Cave Creek, Meigs County, Ohio, USA - date of death uncertain, possibly December 1913 or early 1914, presumably in Mexico) was an American satirist, critic, poet, short story writer, editor, and journalist [via]
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The Devil's Dreamby Lee SmithISBN 0399137459 (0-399-13745-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Dream'Book summary:Musically inclined early on--despite the warnings of religious zealot Bailey patriarch, Moses--Kate Bailey and her brood experience joy and heartbreak over the years, culminating in a final gathering at the Opryland Hotel. 40,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0399128964 (0-399-12896-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune'Book summary:This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.
The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.
Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Electionby Tom PerrottaISBN 0425167283 (0-425-16728-3)
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The Friday Book: Essay and Other Nonfictionby John BarthISBN 0399512098 (0-399-51209-8)
Softcover, Putnam
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From a Sealed Room : A Novelby Rachel KadishISBN 0399143009 (0-399-14300-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From a Sealed Room : A Novel'Book summary:There is one window partially open across the room. A strip of tape hangs from the frame, as if someone had started to peel it away but become absentminded. The other window is sealed on all sidesand I wonder why they haven't bothered to unseal the windows. It's as if they never really left this room, as if someone still lives here, secretive and quiet, awaiting the next war. As if once the windows have been sealed, you never really leave. Both humorous and redemptive, From a Sealed Room explores the lives of three women trapped within the walls of war, the memory of unbearable pasts and the sense of unlivable presents. Tami approaches crisis with her son, Dov, against the backdrop of their sealed room--the room in which the family slept during the Iraqi Scud attacks. Maya is an American student caught in a physically abusive relationship with an Israeli man. Shifra is isolated in her apartment, alone with her memories of pre World War II Poland and her apocalyptic visions. Their painful and graceful stories intertwine as the women begin to break free of their circumstances, their sealed rooms. Ultimately, each character must make her own choice whether to risk unsealing a window or door, or even stepping outside into uncertain daylight. [via]
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From a Sealed Roomby Rachel KadishISBN 042517641X (0-425-17641-X)
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The Godfatherby Mario PuzoISBN 0399103422 (0-399-10342-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Godfather'Book summary:The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo's The Godfather that Corleone first appears. As Corleone's desperate struggle to control the Mafia underworld unfolds, so does the story of his family. The novel is full of exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. Filled with the requisite valor, love, and rancor of a great epic, The Godfather is the definitive gangster novel. [via]
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A Handful of Dustby Evelyn WaughISBN 0412505703 (0-412-50570-3)
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Heath Anthology of American Literatureby Richard Yarborough, Paul LauterISBN 0395868238 (0-395-86823-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Here on Earthby Alice HoffmanISBN 0425167313 (0-425-16731-3)
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The Hundred Secret Sensesby Amy TanISBN 0399141146 (0-399-14114-6)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hundred Secret Senses'Book summary:Kwan, a seventeen-year-old Chinese half-sister, turns young Olivia's world upside down with her stories of ghosts of another time, tales that have a profound impact on Olivia's life and imagination, until she discovers a way to reconcile the ghosts of the past with her dreams of the future. [via]
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Hunts in Dreamsby Tom DruryISBN 039594113X (0-395-94113-X)
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I Am Legendby Richard MathesonISBN 0425040534 (0-425-04053-4)
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I Am Mordredby Nancy Springer, Michael Green, Bryan LeisterISBN 0399231439 (0-399-23143-9)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Am Mordred'Book summary:King Arthur has fascinated young people for centuries, and since fantasy literature has become a passion for so many bright teens, a whole body of writing has developed that reimagines Arthurian stories in ways that make them psychologically relevant today--without losing the magical resonance of Camelot. In I Am Mordred, Nancy Springer, known both for her fantasy writing and the realistic novel Toughing It, brings the central father-son conflict of the Arthurian saga vividly alive. Teen fantasy fans will be familiar with the background events: the young King Arthur, unaware, bedded his half sister Morgause and conceived the child Mordred, who according to the wizard Merlin, was fated to destroy his father and the kingdom. Goaded by Merlin, Arthur attempted to have the baby killed, but was foiled by the intervention of the good sorceress Nyneve and the evil sorceress Morgan le Fay. Years later Mordred arrives at Camelot and becomes a knight of the Round Table. Springer focuses on Mordred at age 15, as he struggles against his destined fate of killing the king and father he both loves and hates. In an adventure story festooned with the golden bells of enchantment, Mordred undertakes a quest in the Forest Perilous to save Arthur's life and his own soul, but ultimately fails. Springer brings the story to a moving and ingenious conclusion in which the prophecy is fulfilled--and simultaneously overcome. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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I Am Morgan Le Fayby Nancy SpringerISBN 0399234519 (0-399-23451-9)
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I Married a Communistby Philip RothISBN 0395933463 (0-395-93346-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Illustrated Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0425038912 (0-425-03891-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illustrated Dune'Book summary:New, unused, never read condition+ [via]
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Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemisonby Lois LenskiISBN 0397300727 (0-397-30072-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison'Book summary:In this classic Newbery Honor Award book, Lois Lenski authentically reconstructs the fascinating story of Mary Jemison's capture, flight, and early years with the Seneca Indians. Lenski has brought her special gifts for research, for writing, and for drawing to this true American story of a white girl's life among Native Americans. [via]
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Insect Dreams : The Half Life of Gregor Samsaby Marc EstrinISBN 0399148361 (0-399-14836-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Jules Verne Omnibus 20000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0397000316 (0-397-00031-6)
Hardcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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The Kitchen God's Wifeby Amy TanISBN 0399135782 (0-399-13578-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Local Girlsby Alice HoffmanISBN 0425174344 (0-425-17434-4)
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Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, E. L. EpsteinISBN 0399501487 (0-399-50148-7)
Softcover, Perigee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Flies'Book summary:William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Louisaby Simone ZelitchISBN 0399146598 (0-399-14659-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Love Poemsby Anne Sexton, Diane Wood MiddlebrookISBN 039595777X (0-395-95777-X)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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The Man in the High Castleby Philip K. DickISBN 0425101436 (0-425-10143-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man in the High Castle'Book summary:It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war - and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake. [via]
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Moon Is a Harsh Mistressby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0399105565 (0-399-10556-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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My Mother Said I Never Shouldby Charlotte KeatleyISBN 0413684709 (0-413-68470-9)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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The Namesakeby Jhumpa LahiriISBN 0395927218 (0-395-92721-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Namesake'Book summary:Any talk of The Namesake--Jhumpa Lahiri's follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, Interpreter of Maladies--must begin with a name: Gogol Ganguli. Born to an Indian academic and his wife, Gogol is afflicted from birth with a name that is neither Indian nor American nor even really a first name at all. He is given the name by his father who, before he came to America to study at MIT, was almost killed in a train wreck in India. Rescuers caught sight of the volume of Nikolai Gogol's short stories that he held, and hauled him from the train. Ashoke gives his American-born son the name as a kind of placeholder, and the awkward thing sticks.
Awkwardness is Gogol's birthright. He grows up a bright American boy, goes to Yale, has pretty girlfriends, becomes a successful architect, but like many second-generation immigrants, he can never quite find his place in the world. There's a lovely section where he dates a wealthy, cultured young Manhattan woman who lives with her charming parents. They fold Gogol into their easy, elegant life, but even here he can find no peace and he breaks off the relationship. His mother finally sets him up on a blind date with the daughter of a Bengali friend, and Gogol thinks he has found his match. Moushumi, like Gogol, is at odds with the Indian-American world she inhabits. She has found, however, a circuitous escape: "At Brown, her rebellion had been academic ... she'd pursued a double major in French. Immersing herself in a third language, a third culture, had been her refuge--she approached French, unlike things American or Indian, without guilt, or misgiving, ore expectation of any kind." Lahiri documents these quiet rebellions and random longings with great sensitivity. There's no cleverness or showing-off in The Namesake, just beautifully confident storytelling. Gogol's story is neither comedy nor tragedy; it's simply that ordinary, hard-to-get-down-on-paper commodity: real life. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Old New Yorkby Edith WhartonISBN 0425046125 (0-425-04612-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old New York'Book summary:Edith Wharton (1862-1937), the grande dame of American literature, was also a subtle and spirited critic of its society. These novellas, set in the New York of the mid-1800s are united by Edith Wharton's compassionate and ironic vision. From Lewis Raycie, son of complacent plutocrats, who returns from his Grand Tour with Renaissance masterpieces only to be ridiculed and disinherited, to Lizzie Hazeldean, seen leaving a hotel with a man who is not her husband - honourable but unconventional people are sacrificed to the constraints of a society where appearances count for more than genuine goodness. Here is a fascinating insight into the world from which Edith Wharton came. [via]
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Otter Nonsenseby Norton Juster, Eric CarleISBN 039920931X (0-399-20931-X)
Softcover, Horizon Book Promotions
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Pale Fireby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0399504583 (0-399-50458-3)
Softcover, Perigee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pale Fire'Book summary:Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet Pale Fire is more outrageously hilarious, and its narrative convolutions make the earlier book seem as straightforward as a fairy tale. Here's the plot--listen carefully! John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists of both that poem and an extensive commentary on it by the poet's crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.
According to this deranged annotator, he had urged Shade to write about his own homeland--the northern kingdom of Zembla. It soon becomes clear that this fabulous locale may well be a figment of Kinbote's colorfully cracked, prismatic imagination. Meanwhile, he manages to twist the poem into an account of Zembla's King Charles--whom he believes himself to be--and the monarch's eventual assassination by the revolutionary Jakob Gradus.
In the course of this dizzying narrative, shots are indeed fired. But it's Shade who takes the hit, enabling Kinbote to steal the dead poet's manuscript and set about annotating it. Is that perfectly clear? By now it should be obvious that Pale Fire is not only a whodunit but a who-wrote-it. There isn't, of course, a single solution. But Nabokov's best biographer, Brian Boyd, has come up with an ingenious suggestion: he argues that Shade is actually guiding Kinbote's mad hand from beyond the grave, nudging him into completing what he'd intended to be a 1,000-line poem. Read this magical, melancholic mystery and see if you agree. --Tim Appelo [via]
Paradiseby Donald BarthelmeISBN 0399129219 (0-399-12921-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Pattern Recognitionby William GibsonISBN 0399149864 (0-399-14986-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Q Is for Quarryby Sue GraftonISBN 0399149155 (0-399-14915-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Q Is for Quarry'Book summary:Private investigator Kinsey Millhone has served Sue Grafton well through 16 letters of the alphabet in a perennially popular series that occasionally breaks new ground but more often traverses familiar territory, as is the case here. Two old, ailing cops--one retired, the other disabled--try to breathe some life into an 18-year-old mystery that haunts them both for different reasons. They enlist Kinsey's help in identifying the victim, a young woman who was murdered and left for dead in the old quarry of the title. Neither they nor Kinsey expect that reopening an old case will incite the killer to strike again--not once, but twice. And while the real case of the still-unidentified victim that inspired this fictionalized scenario continues to languish in the cold case file in the Santa Barbara sheriff's office, Grafton's solution is as plausible as any. While the unlikely trio of Millhone and her cranky geezer sidekicks offers a few chuckles, the inner reaches of Kinsey's soul remain largely inaccessible to her as well as to the reader, which will probably not bother most of Kinsey's or Grafton's many admirers. --Jane Adams [via]
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Red Dragonby Thomas HarrisISBN 039912442X (0-399-12442-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Dragon'Book summary:Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas's Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs. As in Silence, the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist Lecter for clues to catching a killer on the loose.
The sleuth, Will Graham, actually quit the FBI after nearly getting killed by Lecter while nabbing him, but fear isn't what bugs him about crime busting. It's just too creepy to get inside a killer's twisted mind. But he comes back to stop a madman who's been butchering entire families. The FBI needs Graham's insight, and Graham needs Lecter's genius. But Lecter is a clever fiend, and he manipulates both Graham and the killer at large from his cell.
That killer, Francis Dolarhyde, works in a film lab, where he picks his victims by studying their home movies. He's obsessed with William Blake's bizarre painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, believing there's a red dragon within him, the personification of his demonic drives. Flashbacks to Dolarhyde's terrifying childhood and superb stream-of-consciousness prose get us right there inside his head. When Dolarhyde does weird things, we understand why. We sympathize when the voice of the cruel dead grandma who raised and crazed him urges him to mayhem--she's way scarier than that old bat in Psycho. When he falls in love with a blind girl at the lab, we hope he doesn't give in to Grandma's violent advice.
This book is awesomely detailed, ingeniously plotted, judiciously gory, and fantastically imagined. If you haven't read it, you've never had the creeps. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Return of the Wolfby Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, Jared Taylor WilliamsISBN 039584519X (0-395-84519-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories: Library Editionby Washington Irving, Jeffrey BushISBN 0425122581 (0-425-12258-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryby Mildred D. TaylorISBN 0395775302 (0-395-77530-2)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Brian GibbonsISBN 0416178502 (0-416-17850-2)
Hardcover, Chapman & Hall
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Sabbaticalby John BarthISBN 0399127178 (0-399-12717-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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See You Around, Sam!by Lois Lowry, Diane DegroatISBN 0395816645 (0-395-81664-5)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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Sent for You Yesterdayby John Edgar WidemanISBN 0395877296 (0-395-87729-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sent for You Yesterday'Book summary:Reimagining the black neighborhood of his youth Homewood, Pittsburgh -Wideman creates a dazzling and evocative milieu. From the wild and uninhibited 1920s to the narcotized 1970s, "he establishes aamythological and symbolic link between character and landscape, language and plot, that in the hands of a less visionary writer might be little more than stale sociology" (New York Times Book Review).[via]More editions of Sent for You Yesterday:
The Shrinking Manby Richard MathesonISBN 0425040216 (0-425-04021-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Sixty Storiesby Donald BarthelmeISBN 0399126597 (0-399-12659-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sixty Stories'Book summary:This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we know it--and wrote many of the most beautiful sentences in the English language. Due to the unfortunate discontinuance of many of Barthelme's titles, 60 Stories now stands as one of the broadest overviews of his work, containing selections from eight previously published books, as well as a number of other short works that had been otherwise uncollected. [via]
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The Stars My Destinationby Alfred BesterISBN 0425055248 (0-425-05524-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stars My Destination'Book summary:When it comes to pop culture, Alfred Bester (1913-1987) is something of an unsung hero. He wrote radio scripts, screenplays, and comic books (in which capacity he created the original Green Lantern Oath). But Bester is best known for his science-fiction novels, and The Stars My Destination may be his finest creation. First published in 1956 (as Tiger! Tiger!), the novel revolves around a hero named Gulliver Foyle, who teleports himself out of a tight spot and creates a great deal of consternation in the process. With its sly potshotting at corporate skullduggery, The Stars My Destination seems utterly contemporary, and has maintained its status as an underground classic for forty years. (Bester fans should also note that Vintage has reprinted The Demolished Man, which won the very first Hugo Award in 1953.) [via]
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The Story of a Million Yearsby David HuddleISBN 0395966051 (0-395-96605-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Three Complete Novelsby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0399141278 (0-399-14127-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia Woolf, Sandra KempISBN 0415016630 (0-415-01663-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 039577537X (0-395-77537-X)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
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The Walking Tourby Kathryn DavisISBN 0395945410 (0-395-94541-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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What Dreams May Comeby Richard MathesonISBN 0425042022 (0-425-04202-2)
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William Golding's Lord of the Fliesby William GoldingISBN 0399506438 (0-399-50643-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Golding's Lord of the Flies'Book summary:Lord of the Flies , William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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The Witch of Blackbird Pondby Elizabeth George Speare, Barry MoserISBN 0395913675 (0-395-91367-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond'Book summary:Forced to leave her sunny Caribbean home for the bleak Connecticut Colony, Kit Tyler is filled with trepidation. As they sail up the river to Kit's new home, the teasing and moodiness of a young sailor named Nat doesn't help. Still, her unsinkable spirit soon bobs back up. What this spirited teenager doesn't count on, however, is how her aunt and uncle's stern Puritan community will view her. In the colonies of 1687, a girl who swims, wears silk and satin gowns, and talks back to her elders is not only headstrong, she is in grave danger of being regarded as a witch. When Kit befriends an old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, it is more than the ascetics can take: soon Kit is defending her life. Who can she count on as she confronts these angry and suspicious townspeople?
A thoroughly exciting and rewarding Newbery Medal winner and ALA Notable Children's Book, Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond brings this frightening period of witch hysteria to life. Readers will wonder at the power of the mob mentality, and the need for communities in desperate times--even current times--to find a scapegoat. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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