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Anastasia at Your Serviceby Lois Lowry, Diane DegroatISBN 0395328659 (0-395-32865-9)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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Anastasia Has the Answersby Lois LowryISBN 0395417953 (0-395-41795-3)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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Anastasia Krupnikby Lois Lowry, Diane DegroatISBN 0395286298 (0-395-28629-8)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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Anastasia on Her Ownby Lois LowryISBN 0395381339 (0-395-38133-9)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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Anastasia's Chosen Careerby Lois LowryISBN 0395425069 (0-395-42506-9)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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Anastasia, Ask Your Analystby Lois LowryISBN 0395360110 (0-395-36011-0)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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Angelsby Denis JohnsonISBN 0394759877 (0-394-75987-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Anywhere But Hereby Mona SimpsonISBN 0394755596 (0-394-75559-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Aquamarineby Carol AnshawISBN 0395585627 (0-395-58562-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aquamarine'Book summary:Explores three hypothetical schemas that could have been the life of swimmer Jesse Austin if she had made different choices and had not been haunted by her loss in the Mexico City Olympics. 10,000 first printing. [via]
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Ballad of the Sad Cafeby Carson McCullersISBN 0395079829 (0-395-07982-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Belle of Amherstby William LuceISBN 0395249805 (0-395-24980-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Belle of Amherst: A Play Based on the Life of Emily Dickinsonby William LuceISBN 0395262534 (0-395-26253-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Beyond the Chocolate Warby Robert CormierISBN 0394873432 (0-394-87343-2)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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The Big Skyby A. B. GuthrieISBN 0395611539 (0-395-61153-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Blue Highways: A Journey into Americaby William Least Heat MoonISBN 0395585686 (0-395-58568-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Highways: A Journey into America'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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Breaking and Enteringby Joy WilliamsISBN 0394757734 (0-394-75773-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Bumblebee Flies Anywayby Robert CormierISBN 0394861205 (0-394-86120-5)
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The Butterflyby James M. CainISBN 0394750527 (0-394-75052-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditchby Jean Lee Latham, John O'Hara CosgraveISBN 0395137136 (0-395-13713-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carry On, Mr. Bowditch'Book summary:The story of a boy who had the persistence to master navigation in the days when men sailed by "log, lead, and lookout," and who authored The American Practical Navigator, "the sailor's Bible." [via]
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The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Fictionby Ann J. LaneISBN 0394739337 (0-394-73933-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Chocolate Warby Robert CormierISBN 0394828054 (0-394-82805-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chocolate War'Book summary:Does Jerry Renault dare to disturb the universe? You wouldn't think that his refusal to sell chocolates during his school's fundraiser would create such a stir, but it does; it's as if the whole school comes apart at the seams. To some, Jerry is a hero, but to others, he becomes a scapegoat--a target for their pent-up hatred. And Jerry? He's just trying to stand up for what he believes, but perhaps there is no way for him to escape becoming a pawn in this game of control; students are pitted against other students, fighting for honor--or are they fighting for their lives? In 1974, author Robert Cormier dared to disturb our universe when this book was first published. And now, with a new introduction by the celebrated author, The Chocolate War stands ready to shock a new group of teen readers. [via]
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The Complete Poemsby Anne SextonISBN 0395329353 (0-395-32935-3)
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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Complete Poetry and Selected Proseby Walt WhitmanISBN 0395051320 (0-395-05132-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Contemporary American Poetryby A. PoulinISBN 0395286352 (0-395-28635-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Co
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Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395432316 (0-395-43231-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395050634 (0-395-05063-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395186188 (0-395-18618-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395286352 (0-395-28635-2)
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Crashby J.G. BallardISBN 0394741099 (0-394-74109-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crash'Book summary:J. G. Ballard's graphic, violent novel is controversial wherever it is read, even on Amazon.com's own Web page! The book's characters are obsessed with automobile accidents and are determined to narrate the horrors of the car crash as luridly as possible. In the words of the novel's protagonist, the wounds caused by automobile collisions are "the keys to a new sexuality born from a perverse technology." Read this novel and learn why David Cronenberg, who had previously adapted Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch for the screen, fought to turn it into his latest film. [via]
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Deliveranceby James DickeyISBN 0395076137 (0-395-07613-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Double Indemnityby James M. CainISBN 0394725816 (0-394-72581-6)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Double Indemnity'Book summary:When smalltime insurance salesman Walter Huff meets seductive Phyllis Nirdlinger, the wife of one of his wealthy clients, it takes him only minutes to determine that she wants to get rid of her husband--and not much longer to decide to help her do it. Walter knows that accident insurance pays double indemnity on railroad mishaps, so he and Phyllis plot frantically to get Nirdlinger on--and off--a train without arousing the suspicions of the police, the insurance company, Nirdlinger's dishy daughter, her mysterious boyfriend, or Nirdlinger himself. This brief but complex novel is a perfect example of the ordinary-guy-gone-disastrously-wrong story that Cain always pulls off brilliantly. [via]
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Ellen Fosterby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0394757572 (0-394-75757-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ellen Foster'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1997: Kaye Gibbons is a writer who brings a short story sensibility to her novels. Rather than take advantage of the novel's longer form to paint her visions in broad, sweeping strokes, Gibbons prefers to concentrate on just one corner of the canvas and only a few colors to produce her small masterpieces. In Gibbons's case, her canvas is the American South and her colors are all the shades of gray.
In Ellen Foster, the title character is an 11-year-old orphan who refers to herself as "old Ellen," an appellation that is disturbingly apt. Ellen is an old woman in a child's body; her frail, unhappy mother dies, her abusive father alternately neglects her and makes advances on her, and she is shuttled from one uncaring relative's home to another before she finally takes matters into her own hands and finds herself a place to belong. There is something almost Dickensian about Ellen's tribulations; like Oliver Twist, David Copperfield or a host of other literary child heroes, Ellen is at the mercy of predatory adults, with only her own wit and courage--and the occasional kindness of others--to help her through. That she does, in fact, survive her childhood and even rise above it is the book's bittersweet victory. [via]
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End Zoneby Don DelilloISBN 0395136458 (0-395-13645-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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First Love and Other Sorrowsby Harold BrodkeyISBN 0394729706 (0-394-72970-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Fiskadoroby Denis JohnsonISBN 0394743679 (0-394-74367-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865by Van Wyck BrooksISBN 0395305225 (0-395-30522-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Follyby Susan MinotISBN 0395603390 (0-395-60339-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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A Gathering of Old Menby Ernest J. GainesISBN 0394725913 (0-394-72591-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Getting Evenby Woody AllenISBN 0394726405 (0-394-72640-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Getting Even'Book summary:After three decades of prodigious film work (and some unfortunate tabloid adventures as well), it's easy to forget that Woody Allen began his career as one heck of a great comedy writer. Getting Even, a collection of his late '60s magazine pieces, offers a look into Allen's bag of shtick, back when it was new. From the supposed memoirs of Hitler's barber: "Then, in January of 1945, a plot by several generals to shave Hitler's moustache in his sleep failed when von Stauffenberg, in the darkness of Hitler's bedroom, shaved off one of the Führer's eyebrows instead..."
Even though the idea of writing jokes about old Adolf--or addled rabbis, or Maatjes herring--isn't nearly as fresh as it used to be, Getting Even still delivers plenty of laughs. At his best, Woody can achieve a level of transcendent craziness that no other writer can match. If you're looking for a book to dip into at random, or a gift for someone who's seen Sleeper 13 times, Getting Even is a dead lock. [via]
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Gilgameshby John Gardner, John Maier, Richard A. HenshawISBN 0394740890 (0-394-74089-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gilgamesh'Book summary:The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principal theme of the poem is a familiar one: man's persistent and hopeless quest for immortality. It tells of the heroic exploits of an ancient ruler of the walled city of Uruk named Gilgamesh. Included in its story is an account of the Flood that predates the Biblical version by centuries. Gilgamesh and his companion, a wild man of the woods named Enkidu, fight monsters and demonic powers in search of honor and lasting fame. When Enkidu is put to death by the vengeful goddess Ishtar, Gilgamesh travels to the underworld to find an answer to his grief and confront the question of mortality. [via]
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The Gold Cellby Sharon OldsISBN 0394747704 (0-394-74770-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gold Cell'Book summary:A new collection by the much praised poet whose second book THE DEAD AND THE LIVING, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. [via]
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The Golden Gateby Vikram SethISBN 0394750632 (0-394-75063-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Great Jones Streetby Don DelilloISBN 0395155665 (0-395-15566-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Herlandby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0394736656 (0-394-73665-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticismby John UpdikeISBN 0394724976 (0-394-72497-6)
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I Am the Cheeseby Robert CormierISBN 0394834623 (0-394-83462-3)
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Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphorsby Susan SontagISBN 0394728440 (0-394-72844-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors'Book summary:This text is an examination of the fantasies concocted around conditions such as cancer and tuberculosis in our cultural history. The author argues that illness is not a metaphor and that the most truthful way of regarding illness - and the healthiest way of being ill - is to resist such thinking. Her examples of metaphors and images of illness are taken from medical and psychiatric thinking as well as from sources ranging from Greek and medieval writings to Dickens, Thomas Mann, Henry James, Frank Lloyd Wright, Auden and others. "AIDS and its Metaphors", the sequel to "Illness as Metaphor", is written in the light of the AIDS crisis. Sontag states that our metaphors for AIDS and its effects may be damaging because they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms, and therefore threaten not only the victims of the disease but all of society. [via]
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In the Lake of the Woodsby Tim O'BrienISBN 0395488893 (0-395-48889-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Lake of the Woods'Book summary:Tim O'Brien has been writing about Vietnam in one way or another ever since he served there as an infantryman in the late 1960s. His earliest work on the subject, If I Die in a Combat Zone, was an intensely personal memoir of his own tour of duty; his books since then have featured many of the same elements of fear, boredom, and moral ambiguity but in a fictional setting. In 1994 O'Brien wrote In the Lake of the Woods, a novel that, while imbued with the troubled spirit of Vietnam, takes place entirely after the war and in the United States. The main character, John Wade, is a man in crisis: after spending years building a successful political career, he finds his future derailed during a bid for the U.S. Senate by revelations about his past as a soldier in Vietnam. The election lost by a landslide, John and his wife, Kathy, retreat to a small cabin on the shores of a Minnesota lake--from which Kathy mysteriously disappears.
Was she murdered? Did she run away? Instead of answering these questions, O'Brien raises even more as he slowly reveals past lives and long-hidden secrets. Included in this third-person narrative are "interviews" with the couple's friends and family as well as footnoted excerpts from a mix of fictionalized newspaper reports on the case and real reports pertaining to historical events--a mélange that lends the novel an eerie sense of verisimilitude. If Kathy's disappearance is at the heart of this work, then John's involvement in a My Lai-type massacre in Vietnam is its core, and O'Brien uses it to demonstrate how wars don't necessarily end when governments say they do. In the Lake of the Woods may not be true, but it feels true--and for Tim O'Brien, that's true enough. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Iron and Silkby Mark SalzmanISBN 0394755111 (0-394-75511-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iron and Silk'Book summary:In 1982, Salzman flew off to teach English in Changsha, China. He writes of bureaucrats, students and Cultural Revolution survivors, stripping none of their complexity and humanity. He's gentle with their idiocies, saving his sharpest barbs for himself (it's his pants that split from zipper to waist whilst demonstrating martial arts in Canton). Though dribs of history and drabs of classical lore seep through, this is mostly a personal tale, noted by the Los Angeles Times for "the charmingly unpretentious manner in which it penetrates a China inaccessible to other foreigners." [via]
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Island of the Blue Dolphinsby Scott O'DellISBN 0395069629 (0-395-06962-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Island of the Blue Dolphins'Book summary:Scott O'Dell won the Newbery Medal for Island of the Blue Dolphins in 1961, and in 1976 the Children's Literature Association named this riveting story one of the 10 best American children's books of the past 200 years. O'Dell was inspired by the real-life story of a 12-year-old American Indian girl, Karana. The author based his book on the life of this remarkable young woman who, during the evacuation of Ghalas-at (an island off the coast of California), jumped ship to stay with her young brother who had been abandoned on the island. He died shortly thereafter, and Karana fended for herself on the island for 18 years.
O'Dell tells the miraculous story of how Karana forages on land and in the ocean, clothes herself (in a green-cormorant skirt and an otter cape on special occasions), and secures shelter. Perhaps even more startlingly, she finds strength and serenity living alone on the island. This beautiful edition of Island of the Blue Dolphins is enriched with 12 full-page watercolor paintings by Ted Lewin, illustrator of more than 100 children's books, including Ali, Child of the Desert. A gripping story of battling wild dogs and sea elephants, this simply told, suspenseful tale of survival is also an uplifting adventure of the spirit. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Jrby William GaddisISBN 0394731425 (0-394-73142-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jr'Book summary:A signed 1st edition of the author's scarce second novel. [via]
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Knight's Gambitby William FaulknerISBN 0394727290 (0-394-72729-0)
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Kon-Tikiby Thor HeyerdahlISBN 039486364X (0-394-86364-X)
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The Long Goodbyeby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394757688 (0-394-75768-8)
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Looking Backward, 2000-1887by Edward BellamyISBN 0395052149 (0-395-05214-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Losing Battlesby Eudora WeltyISBN 0394726685 (0-394-72668-5)
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Love Poemsby Anne SextonISBN 0395081831 (0-395-08183-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Poems'Book summary:Collection of poems celebrating love and sensuality. The speaker dwells with husband and children in an affluent New England town just after the death of JFK. [via]
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Lust & Other Storiesby Susan MinotISBN 0395488885 (0-395-48888-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lust & Other Stories'Book summary:For all the New York chic which surrounds them, the situations and dilemmas of Susan Minot's women could hardly be more classical. The women know they are going to lose and several of them try to guard themselves against attachment, to stay free, but their hearts are not in it. They know there is not much they can so about it, once a look, a touch, a night out changes everything. It's a bleak situation, but talking about it doesn't appear to help, and writing about it doesn't either, beyond a certain point, soon reached. the terseness of these laconic tales has its own telling decorum' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. [via]
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Manhattan Transferby John DOS PassosISBN 0395574234 (0-395-57423-4)
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Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0394747232 (0-394-74723-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History'Book summary:Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one.
Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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The Midwifeby Gay CourterISBN 0395294630 (0-395-29463-0)
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Mildred Pierceby James M. CainISBN 0394725824 (0-394-72582-4)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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New York Jewby Alfred KazinISBN 039472867X (0-394-72867-X)
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Norwoodby Charles PortisISBN 0394729315 (0-394-72931-5)
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October Lightby John GardnerISBN 0394740580 (0-394-74058-0)
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The Patron Saint of Liarsby Ann PatchettISBN 039561306X (0-395-61306-X)
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The Phantom Tollboothby Norton Juster, Jules FeifferISBN 0394820371 (0-394-82037-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Phantom Tollbooth'Book summary:"It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "[T]here's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored, bored young protagonist who can't see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll, and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull.
Norton Juster received (and continues to receive) enormous praise for this original, witty, and oftentimes hilarious novel, first published in 1961. In an introductory "Appreciation" written by Maurice Sendak for the 35th anniversary edition, he states, "The Phantom Tollbooth leaps, soars, and abounds in right notes all over the place, as any proper masterpiece must." Indeed.
As Milo heads toward Dictionopolis he meets with the Whether Man ("for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be"), passes through The Doldrums (populated by Lethargarians), and picks up a watchdog named Tock (who has a giant alarm clock for a body). The brilliant satire and double entendre intensifies in the Word Market, where after a brief scuffle with Officer Short Shrift, Milo and Tock set off toward the Mountains of Ignorance to rescue the twin Princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Anyone with an appreciation for language, irony, or Alice in Wonderland-style adventure will adore this book for years on end. (Ages 8 and up) [via]
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Softcover, Random House Inc - The Phantom Tollbooth: ISBN 0394915003 (0-394-91500-3)
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Playbackby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394757661 (0-394-75766-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Playback'Book summary:Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it.
"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence:" -- Ross Macdonald [via]More editions of Playback:
Playersby Don DelilloISBN 0394723821 (0-394-72382-1)
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Postman Always Rings Twiceby James M. CainISBN 0394725832 (0-394-72583-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Postman Always Rings Twice'Book summary:Penzler Pick, April 2000: It is sometimes easy to trace a literary genre to its source, and James M. Cain's first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, is the noir novel that paved the way for all the noir fiction that followed. The famous film starring Lana Turner and John Garfield is notoriously dark, but the novel is even more full of despair and devoid of hope. It is a short book--little more than a novella--but its searing characterization and depiction of tawdry greed and lust is branded into every reader's memory.
Frank Chambers, a drifter, is dropped from the back of a truck at a rundown rural diner. When he spots Cora, the owner's wife, he instantly decides to stay. The sexy young woman, married to Nick, a violent and thuggish boor, is equally attracted to the younger man and sees him as her way out of her hopeless, boring life. They begin a clandestine affair and plot to kill Nick, beginning their own journey toward destruction.
Horace McCoy, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, and the other notable noir writers never achieved Cain's spare brilliance. Virtually all of his major works have been filmed, though several Hollywood studios refused to make the films, directors refused to be involved, and actors turned down roles because of their repugnance at the lack of morality inherent in all Cain's characters. Reading him may not be fit for a Sunday school class, but once you begin you will be unable to resist continuing, like picking at a painful scab or watching a tarantula inside a glass dome. --Otto Penzler [via]
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The Prince of Tidesby Pat ConroyISBN 0395353009 (0-395-35300-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince of Tides'Book summary:In his most brilliant and powerful novel, Pat Conroy tells the story of Tom Wingo, his twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the family into which they were born. Set in New York City and the lowcountry of South Carolina, the novel opens when Tom, a high school football coach whose marriage and career are crumbling, flies from South Carolina to New York after learning of his twin sister's suicide attempt. Savannah is one of the most gifted poets of her generation, and both the cadenced beauty of her art and the jumbled cries of her illness are clues to the too-long-hidden story of her wounded family. In the paneled offices and luxurious restaurants of New York City, Tom and Susan Lowenstein, Savannah's psychiatrist, unravel a history of violence, abandonment, commitment, and love. And Tom realizes that trying to save his sister is perhaps his last chance to save himself. With passion and a rare gift of language, the author moves from present to past, tracing the amazing history of the Wingos from World War II through the final days of the war in Vietnam and into the 1980s, drawing a rich range of characters: the lovable, crazy Mr. Fruit, who for decades has wordlessly directed traffic at the same intersection in the southern town of Colleton; Reese Newbury, the ruthless, patrician land speculator who threatens the Wingos' only secure worldly possession, Melrose Island; Herbert Woodruff, Susan Lowenstein's husband, a world-famous violinist; Tolitha Wingo, Savannah's mentor and eccentric grandmother, the first real feminist in the Wingo family. Pat Conroy reveals the lives of his characters with surpassing depth and power, capturing the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina lowcountry and a lost way of life. His lyric gifts, abundant good humor, and compelling storytelling are well known to readers of The Great Santini and The Lords of Discipline. The Prince of Tides continues that tradition yet displays a new, mature voice of Pat Conroy, signaling this work as his greatest accomplishment.[via]More editions of The Prince of Tides:
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The Rain in the Treesby W.S. MerwinISBN 0394758587 (0-394-75858-7)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rain in the Trees'Book summary:A literary event -- a new volume of poems by one of the masters of modern poetry -- The Rain in the Trees is W. S. Merwin's first book since the publication five years ago of his Opening the Hand.
Almost no other poet of our time has been able to voice in so subtle a fashion such a profound series of comments on the passing of history over the contemporary scene. To do this, he seems to have reinvented the poem -- so that the experience of reading Merwin is unlike the reading of any other poetry. In such famous books as The Lice, The Moving Target and (most recently) Opening the Hand, he has produced a body of work of great profundity and power made from the simplest and most beautiful poetic speech.
The poems in this new book are concerned with intimacy and wholeness, and are made of the relations with people, with places, past and present, and with history and how the world endures it.
Merwin can now rightfully be called a master, and this book shows in every way why this is the case. [via]More editions of The Rain in the Trees:
Ratner's Starby Don DelilloISBN 0394744950 (0-394-74495-0)
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Running Dogby Don DelilloISBN 0394741218 (0-394-74121-8)
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Scarlet Letter and Other Tales of the Puritansby Hawthorne LevinISBN 0395051533 (0-395-05153-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Selected Poems of Anne Sextonby Anne SextonISBN 0395477824 (0-395-47782-4)
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Shameby Salman RushdieISBN 0394726650 (0-394-72665-0)
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Sleepless Nightsby Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0394743636 (0-394-74363-6)
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The Sportswriterby Richard FordISBN 0394743253 (0-394-74325-3)
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The Stars at Noonby Denis JohnsonISBN 0394754271 (0-394-75427-1)
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Stepping on the Cracksby Mary Downing HahnISBN 0395585074 (0-395-58507-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stepping on the Cracks'Book summary:In 1944, when her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret changes her mind about the school bully, Gordy, after she discovers he is hiding his own brother, a deserter.[via]More editions of Stepping on the Cracks:
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The Stories of John Cheeverby John CheeverISBN 0394747992 (0-394-74799-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stories of John Cheever'Book summary:Think of John Cheever's fiction, and a whole world springs to mind--a world of leafy suburbs, summer houses, commuter trains, boarding schools, and inevitably, his own chosen territory, the cocktail hour among WASPs. But it's a mistake to approach Cheever as if he were merely some sort of anthropologist documenting the customs of an obscure and vanishing tribe. Nostalgia and class issues aside, his true subject is the darkness hidden beneath the surface of postwar American life. A case in point is his famous story "The Swimmer," in which an ebullient Neddy Merrill decides to swim home across the backyard pools of his neighbors. In the course of his journey, however, summer gives way to autumn, his neighbors turn against him, there are troubling intimations of disgrace and financial ruin, and he arrives to find his house both locked and empty.
Though these stories deal with bright, prosperous, ostensibly happy people, a cold wind blows through them. Age, illness, financial embarrassment, sex, alcohol, death--all of these threaten his suburban Eden. (Is it himself Cheever is mocking in his ironic "The Worm in the Apple"? "Everyone in the community with wandering hands had given them both a try but they had been put off. What was the source of this constancy? Were they frightened? Were they prudish? Were they monogamous? What was at the bottom of this appearance of happiness?") Inanimate objects carry the residue of their past owners' unhappiness and cruelty ("Seaside Houses," "The Lowboy"); expatriates long for but cannot quite find their way home ("The Woman Without A Country," "Boy in Rome"); children vanish or turn out badly (too many stories to count).
All of this is conveyed in prose both graceful and tender. No one is better than Cheever at describing a character's appearance: "He was a cheerful, heavy man with a round face that looked exactly like a pudding. Everyone was glad to see him, as one is glad to see, at the end of a meal, the appearance of a bland, fragrant, and nourishing dish made of fresh eggs, nutmeg, and country cream." Given his uncanny eye (and ear) for realistic description, it's easy to forget how experimental Cheever could be. His later stories pioneered authorial intrusions in the best postmodern style, and from the beginning, he wrote what would much later be called magical realism. (Think of the sinister broadcasts in "The Enormous Radio," or the phantom love interest in "The Chimera.") A literary event at its publication and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Stories of John Cheever remains a stunning and enormously influential book. --Mary Park [via]
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Story of Hiawathaby Longfellow HwISBN 0394806611 (0-394-80661-1)
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Three Films of Woody Allen : Broadway Danny Rose, Zelig, the Purple Rose of Cairoby Woody AllenISBN 0394753046 (0-394-75304-6)
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Transformationsby Anne SextonISBN 039512722X (0-395-12722-X)
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Typical Americanby Gish JenISBN 0395546893 (0-395-54689-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Typical American'Book summary:A Chinese American's tale of boom and bust and the changes that take their toll. [via]
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The Witch of Blackbird Pondby Elizabeth George SpeareISBN 0395071143 (0-395-07114-3)
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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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World Enough and Time: A Romantic Novelby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0394728181 (0-394-72818-1)
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