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Absolutely Normal Chaosby Sharon CreechISBN 0064406326 (0-06-440632-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Absolutely Normal Chaos'Book summary:Dear Mr. Birkway,
Here it is: my summer journal.
As you can see,
I got a little carried away.
The problem is this, though.
I don't want you to read it.Remember Mary Lou Finney from Walk Two Moons?Here's her complete, secret journal!
Mary Lou Finney is less than excited about her assignment to keep a journal over the summer. Boring! Then cousin Carl Ray comes to stay with her family, and what starts out as the dull dog days of summer quickly turns into the wildest roller-coaster ride of all time.
How was Mary Lou supposed to know what would happen with Carl Ray and the ring? Or with her boy-crazy best friend Beth Ann? Or with (sigh) the permanently pink Alex Cheevey? Suddenly a boring school project becomes a record of the most exciting, incredible, unbelievable summer of Mary Lou's life.
But what if her teacher actually does read her journal?
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The American Tradition in Literatureby Barbara Perkins, George B. PerkinsISBN 0070494215 (0-07-049421-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Annotated Charlotte's Webby E. B. White, Garth Williams, Peter F. NeumeyerISBN 0064461831 (0-06-446183-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Charlotte's Web'Book summary:When it was first published in 1994, The New York Times said: "The Annotated Charlotte's Web, a big, handsome facsimile of E. B. White's book, accompanied by Peter F. Neumeyer's notes and critical commentary, is just the right match of form and function. It is a conversation between the part of us that always reads for pure pleasure and the part that learned to read for intellectual enlightenment". More and more critical acclaim followed this comprehensive exploration of one of literature's best-loved classics. The Annotated Charlotte's Web includes information from White's original drafts, cross-references, letters, criticism, and literary-cultural commentary. For over forty years this great American novel has thrived without annotation. Now, however, these selected insights can bring us closer to the book's author, enrich our reading of the book itself, and shed a measure of light on the artistic process. [via]
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Anthology of American Literatureby Dana D. Nelson, James S. Leonard, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, David Bradley, Joseph Csicsila, George McMichaelISBN 0131987992 (0-13-198799-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anthology of American Literature'Book summary:This leading, two-volume anthology represents America's literary heritage from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Alice Walker. This anthology is best known for its solid headnotes and introductions as well as a balance approach to selections.
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Anthology of American Literatureby George McMichael, Dana D. Nelson, James S. Leonard, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, David BradleyISBN 0132216477 (0-13-221647-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anthology of American Literature'Book summary:This leading, two-volume anthology represents America's literary heritage from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Alice Walker. This anthology is best known for its solid headnotes and introductions as well as a balance approach to selections.
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Anthology of American Literature: Colonial Through Romanticby Leo Marx, George McMichael, David Smith, J. C. Levenson, David E. Smith, Mae Miller Claxton, Susan Bunn, McMichael George, Mae Claxton, George L. McMichaelISBN 0130838144 (0-13-083814-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anthology of American Literature: Colonial Through Romantic'Book summary:This leading, two-volume anthology represents America's literary heritage from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Alice Walker. The first volume covers Christopher Columbus through Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Additional Hopi and Navajo myths. Presents multiple selections by authors. Provides an expanded chronological chart. Presents many works in their entirety. For anyone interested in American Literature. [via]
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Anthology of American Literature: Realism to the Presentby Leo Marx, J. C. Levenson, David E. Smith, George L. McMichael, Mae Miller Claxton, Susan Bunn, George McMichaelISBN 0130838152 (0-13-083815-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Bad Beginningby Daniel Handler, Brett HelquistISBN 0064407667 (0-06-440766-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bad Beginning'Book summary:Hardcover Publisher: Harper Collins (1999) Language: English Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1" Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds [via]
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The Ballad of Lucy Whippleby Karen CushmanISBN 0064406849 (0-06-440684-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Basketball Diariesby Jim CarrollISBN 0140100180 (0-14-010018-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Meby Richard FarinaISBN 0140065369 (0-14-006536-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me'Book summary:This is the ultimate novel of college life during the first hallucinatory flowering of what has famously come to be known as The Sixties. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me follows haunted ur-hippy Gnossos Pappadopoulis upon return to his old university town that's just tilting into a new era, and Gnossos' involvement in a swirl of sixties-style drug taking and the search for love and the meaning of it all. It is a hilarious and haunting book. [via]
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Bloomabilityby Sharon CreechISBN 006440823X (0-06-440823-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bloomability'Book summary:Kidnapped!
The kidnappers are actually her Aunt Sandy and Uncle Max, but that doesn't matter to Domenica Santolina Doone, better known as Dinnie. She feels as if she's being taken out of the country against her will. Certainly no one asked her opinion. Dinnie is used to change-with her family constantly moving from state to state while her father searches for one new "opportunity" after another. But when her aunt and uncle whisk her away to an international school in Lugano, Switzerland, Dinnie feels that this might be one "opportunity"that isn't right for her.
Suddenly Dinnie's surrounded by kids from many different cultures, backgrounds, and beliefs. Home, and her first life, seem so far away. Can she adapt to a new country, a new home, and new friends? Or will it just be easier to close herself off-just survive-and never realize all the "bloomabilities" that are possible?
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Bridge to Terabithiaby Katherine PatersonISBN 0064471470 (0-06-447147-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridge to Terabithia'Book summary:The story starts out simply enough: Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade--he wants it so bad he can taste it. He's been practicing all summer, running in the fields around his farmhouse until he collapses in a sweat. Then a tomboy named Leslie Burke moves into the farmhouse next door and changes his life forever. Not only does Leslie not look or act like any girls Jess knows, but she also turns out to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. After getting over the shock and humiliation of being beaten by a girl, Jess begins to think Leslie might be okay.
Despite their superficial differences, it's clear that Jess and Leslie are soul mates. The two create a secret kingdom in the woods named Terabithia, where the only way to get into the castle is by swinging out over a gully on an enchanted rope. Here they reign as king and queen, fighting off imaginary giants and the walking dead, sharing stories and dreams, and plotting against the schoolmates who tease them. Jess and Leslie find solace in the sanctuary of Terabithia until a tragedy strikes and the two are separated forever. In a style that is both plain and powerful, Katherine Paterson's characters will stir your heart and put a lump in your throat. [via]
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The Broom of the Systemby David Foster WallaceISBN 0140098682 (0-14-009868-2)
Softcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Broom of the System'Book summary:[via]Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenores great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.
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Candyby Terry Southern, Mason HoffenbergISBN 0140070273 (0-14-007027-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candy'Book summary:Banned upon its initial publication, the now-classic Candy is a romp of a story about the impossibly sweet Candy Christian, a wide-eyed, luscious, all-American girl. Candy a satire of Voltaires Candide chronicles her adventures with mystics, sexual analysts, and everyone she meets when she sets out to experience the world.[via]More editions of Candy:
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Charlotte's Web: Library Editionby E. B. White, Garth Williams, Rosemary WellsISBN 0064410935 (0-06-441093-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlotte's Web: Library Edition'Book summary:An affectionate, sometimes bashful pig named Wilbur befriends a spider named Charlotte, who lives in the rafters above his pen. A prancing, playful bloke, Wilbur is devastated when he learns of the destiny that befalls all those of porcine persuasion. Determined to save her friend, Charlotte spins a web that reads "Some Pig," convincing the farmer and surrounding community that Wilbur is no ordinary animal and should be saved. In this story of friendship, hardship, and the passing on into time, E.B. White reminds us to open our eyes to the wonder and miracle often found in the simplest of things. [via]
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Chasing Redbirdby Sharon CreechISBN 0064406962 (0-06-440696-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chasing Redbird'Book summary:Zinny Taylor: Explorer
It started out as an ordinary summer. But the minute thirteen-year-old Zinny discovered the old, overgrown trail that ran through the woods behind her family's house, she realized that things were about to change.
Right from the start, Zinny knew that uncovering the trail would be more than just a summer project. It was her chance to finally make people notice her, and to have a place she could call her very own. But more than that, Zinny knew that the trail somehow held the key to all kinds of questions. And that the only way to understand her family, her Aunt Jessie's death, and herself was to find out where it went.
From Newbery Medal-winning author Sharon Creech comes an intricately woven tale of a young girl who sets out in search of her place in the worldand discovers it in her own backyard.
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The Cheer Leaderby Jill McCorkleISBN 0140082727 (0-14-008272-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Chromaby Frederick BarthelmeISBN 0140107533 (0-14-010753-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony BurgessISBN 0091683815 (0-09-168381-5)
Softcover, Hutchinson
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The Collected Stories of Peter Taylorby Peter Hillsman TaylorISBN 0140083618 (0-14-008361-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor'Book summary:In this collection of short fiction, one of the heralded masters of the form examines the lives of men and women in the 1930s and '40s Southa region and a time he knew well. Living in a well-ordered world that's beginning to lose its equilibrium, Taylor's fascinating characters struggle to come to terms with the constricting circumstances into which they were born. Delicately interweaving the joys and pains of these families, Peter Taylor goes beyond regionalism to the simple truths recognizable to people everywhere.[via]More editions of The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor:
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Cup of Goldby John SteinbeckISBN 0140042342 (0-14-004234-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cup of Gold'Book summary:This lush, lyrical fantasy is Steinbeck's sole work of historical fiction. Henry Morgan ruled the Spanish Main in the 1670s, ravaging the coasts of Cuba and America and striking terror wherever he went. His lust and greed knew no bounds, and he was utterly consumed by two passions; to possess the mysterious woman known as La Santa Roja, the Red Saint, and to conquer Panama and wrest 'the cup of gold' from Spanish hands. This work is a fantastic, swashbuckling stuff! [via]
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The Daydreamerby Ian McEwan, Anthony BrowneISBN 0064405761 (0-06-440576-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Digger's Gameby George V. HigginsISBN 0140102523 (0-14-010252-3)
Softcover, Select Penguin
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Edwin Mullhouseby Steven Millhauser, Jeffrey CartwrightISBN 0140077820 (0-14-007782-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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End Zoneby Don DelilloISBN 0140085688 (0-14-008568-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Every Visible Thing: A Novelby Lisa CareyISBN 0066212898 (0-06-621289-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Exterminator!by William S. BurroughsISBN 0140050035 (0-14-005003-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Fixerby Bernard MalamudISBN 0140027149 (0-14-002714-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Fools Crowby James WelchISBN 0140089373 (0-14-008937-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fools Crow'Book summary:[via]The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation.
"A major contibution to Native American literature." Wallace Stegner.
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Four Soulsby Louise ErdrichISBN 0066209757 (0-06-620975-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Souls'Book summary:A strange and compelling unkillable woman decides to leave home, and the story begins. Fleur Pillager takes her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength and walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her reservation. But revenge is never simple, and she quickly finds her intentions complicated by her own dangerous compassion for the man who wronged her.
The two narrators of Four Souls are from utterly different worlds. Nanapush, a "smart man and a fool," is both Fleur's savior and her conscience. He tells Fleur's story and tells his own. He would like a calm and discriminating love with his sweetheart, Margaret. He is old and would like to face death with his love beside him. Instead the two find themselves battling out their last years. When the childhood nemesis of Nanapush appears and casts his eye toward Margaret, Nanapush acts out an absurd revenge of his own and nearly ends up destroying everything. The other narrator, Polly Elizabeth Gheen, is a pretentious and vulnerable upper-crust fringe element, a hanger-on in a wealthy Minneapolis family, a woman aware of her precarious hold on those around her. To her own great surprise the entrance of Fleur Pillager into her household and her life effects a transformation she could never have predicted.
In the world of interconnected novels by Louise Erdrich, Four Souls is most closely linked to Tracks. All these works continue and elaborate the intricate story of life on a reservation peopled by saints and false saints, heroes and sinners, clever fools and tenacious women. Four Souls reminds us of the deep spirituality and the ordinary humanity of this world, and is as beautiful and lyrical as anything Louise Erdrich has written.
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The Friends of Eddie Coyleby George V. HigginsISBN 0140102329 (0-14-010232-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle'Book summary:George V. Higgins's first novel is like a blast of Atlantic air; the Boston prosecutor virtually reinvents the language of the crime novel with his unique ability to breathe life into the dialogue of the smalltime hoodlum and hustler. Trying to pull off one final score, career crook Eddie Coyle finds himself squeezed out of shape by the people above and below him. The explosive conclusion is inevitable yet fascinating. [via]
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The Game of Silenceby Louise ErdrichISBN 0064410293 (0-06-441029-3)
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A Handful of Dustby Evelyn WaughISBN 0140008225 (0-14-000822-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Handful of Dust'Book summary:"All over England people were waking up, queasy and despondent."
Few writers have walked the line between farce and tragedy as nimbly as Evelyn Waugh, who employed the conventions of the comic novel to chip away at the already crumbling English class system. His 1934 novel, A Handful of Dust, is a sublime example of his bleak satirical style: a mordantly funny exposé of aristocratic decadence and ennui in England between the wars.
Tony Last is an aristocrat whose attachment to an ideal feudal past is so profound that he is blind to his wife Brenda's boredom with the stately rhythms of country life. While he earnestly plays the lord of the manor in his ghastly Victorian Gothic pile, she sets herself up in a London flat and pursues an affair with the social-climbing idler John Beaver. In the first half of the novel Waugh fearlessly anatomizes the lifestyles of the rich and shameless. Everyone moves through an endless cycle of parties and country-house weekends, being scrupulously polite in public and utterly horrid in private. Sex is something one does to relieve the boredom, and Brenda's affair provides a welcome subject for conversation:
It had been an autumn of very sparse and meagre romance; only the most obvious people had parted or come together, and Brenda was filling a want long felt by those whose simple, vicarious pleasure it was to discuss the subject in bed over the telephone.
Tony's indifference and Brenda's selfishness give their relationship a sort of equilibrium until tragedy forces them to face facts. The collapse of their relationship accelerates, and in the famous final section of the book Tony seeks solace in a foolhardy search for El Dorado, throwing himself on the mercy of a jungle only slightly more savage than the one he leaves behind in England. For all its biting wit, A Handful of Dust paints a bleak picture of the English upper classes, reaching beyond satire toward a very modern sense of despair. In Waugh's world, culture, breeding, and the trappings of civilization only provide more subtle means of destruction. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of A Handful of Dust:
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Harriet the Spyby Louise FitzhughISBN 0064406601 (0-06-440660-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harriet the Spy'Book summary:More than 30 years before it was made into a movie, Harriet the Spy was a groundbreaking book: its unflinchingly honest portrayal of childhood problems and emotions changed children's literature forever. Happily, neither Fitzhugh's style has dated nor her themes become obsolete, and it is still recognized as one of the finest children's novels around. The fascinating story centres around an intensely curious and intelligent girl, Harriet, who literally spies on people and writes about them in her secret notebook, trying to make sense of life's absurdities. When her classmates find her notebook and read her painfully blunt comments about them, Harriet finds herself a lonely outcast. Fitzhugh's writing is astonishingly vivid, real and engaging, and Harriet, by no means a typical, lovable heroine, is one of literature's most unforgettable characters. (Ages 8 to 12) [via]
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Herzogby Saul BellowISBN 0140072705 (0-14-007270-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Hidden Canyon: A River Journeyby Edward Abbey, John BlausteinISBN 014004678X (0-14-004678-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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House Made of Dawnby N. Scott MomadayISBN 0072434201 (0-07-243420-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The House on Mango Streetby Sandra CisnerosISBN 0072435178 (0-07-243517-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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In Americaby Susan SontagISBN 0099473216 (0-09-947321-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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In the Country of Last Thingsby Paul AusterISBN 0140097058 (0-14-009705-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Country of Last Things'Book summary:In a distant and unsettling future, Anna Blume is on a mission in an unnamed city of chaos and disaster. Its destitute inhabitants scavenge garbage for food and shelter, no industry exists, and an elusive government provides nothing but corruption. Anna wades through the filth to find her long-lost brother, a one-time journalist who may or may not be alive.
New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) shows us a disturbing Hobbesian society in this dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel.
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In the Heart of the Valley of Loveby Cynthia KadohataISBN 0140134492 (0-14-013449-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemisonby Lois LenskiISBN 0064461629 (0-06-446162-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Invention of Solitudeby Paul AusterISBN 0140106286 (0-14-010628-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invention of Solitude'Book summary:Beginning with the deconstructed detective novels of the New York Trilogy, Paul Auster has proved himself to be one of the most adventurous writers in contemporary fiction. In book after book, he seems compelled to reinvent his style from scratch. Yet he always returns to certain preoccupations--most notably, solitude and coincidence--and these themes get a powerful workout in this early memoir. In the first half, "Portrait of an Invisible Man," Auster comes to terms with the death of his father, and as he investigates this elusive figure, he makes a rather shocking (and enlightening) discovery about his family's history. The second half, "The Book of Memory," finds the author on more abstract ground, toying with the entwined metaphors of coincidence, translation, solitude, and language. But here, too, the autobiographical element gives an extra kick to Auster's prose and keeps him from sliding off into armchair aesthetics. An eloquent, mesmerizing book. [via]
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Jrby William GaddisISBN 0140080392 (0-14-008039-2)
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Julie of the Wolvesby Jean Craighead George, John SchoenherrISBN 0064471462 (0-06-447146-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julie of the Wolves'Book summary:Miyax, like many adolescents, is torn. But unlike most, her choices may determine whether she lives or dies. At 13, an orphan, and unhappily married, Miyax runs away from her husband's parents' home, hoping to reach San Francisco and her pen pal. But she becomes lost in the vast Alaskan tundra, with no food, no shelter, and no idea which is the way to safety. Now, more than ever, she must look hard at who she really is. Is she Miyax, Eskimo girl of the old ways? Or is she Julie (her "gussak"-white people-name), the modernized teenager who must mock the traditional customs? And when a pack of wolves begins to accept her into their community, Miyax must learn to think like a wolf as well. If she trusts her Eskimo instincts, will she stand a chance of surviving? John Schoenherr's line drawings suggest rather than tell about the compelling experiences of a girl searching for answers in a bleak landscape that at first glance would seem to hold nothing. Fans of Jean Craighead George's stunning, Newberry Medal-winning coming-of-age story won't want to miss Julie (1994) and Julie's Wolf Pack (1998). (Ages 10 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Junkyby William S. Burroughs, Allen GinsbergISBN 0140043519 (0-14-004351-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Kon-Tikiby Thor HeyerdahlISBN 0137507380 (0-13-750738-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Le Testament / the Testamentby John GrishamISBN 0099245027 (0-09-924502-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Testament / the Testament'Book summary:Troy Phelan, a 78-year-old eccentric and the 10th-richest man in America, is about to read his last will and testament, divvying up an estate worth $11 billion. Phelan's three ex-wives, their grasping spawn, a legion of lawyers, several psychiatrists, and a plethora of sound technicians wait breathlessly, all eyes glued to digital monitors as they watch the old man read his verdict. But Phelan shocks everyone with a bizarre, last-gasp attempt to redistribute the spoils, setting in motion a legal morality tale of a contested will, sin, and redemption.
Our hero, Nate O'Riley--a washed-up, alcoholic litigator with two ruined marriages in his wake and the IRS on his tail--is dispatched to the Brazilian wetlands in search of a mysterious heir named in the will. After a harrowing trip upriver to a remote settlement in the Pantanal, he encounters Rachel Lane, a pure-hearted missionary living with an indigenous tribe and carrying out "God's work." Rachel's grave dedication and kindness impress the jaded lawyer, so much that a nasty bout of dengue fever leads him to a vision that could change his life.
Back in the States, the legal proceedings drag on and Grisham has a high time with Phelan's money-hungry descendents, a regrettable bunch who squandered millions, married strippers, got druggy, and befriended the Mob. The youngest son, Ramble, is a multi-pierced, tattoo-covered malcontent with big dreams for his rock band, the Demon Monkeys. Will Nate get straight with Rachel's aid? Do the greedy heirs get theirs? What's the real legacy of a lifetime's work? The Testament is classic Grisham: a down-and-out lawyer, a lot of money, an action-packed pursuit, and the highest issues at stake. It's not just about great characters; it's about the question of what character is. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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Less Than Zeroby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0140088946 (0-14-008894-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Less Than Zero'Book summary:Clay comes home to L.A. for Christmas vacation and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs. Morally barren, ethically bereft and tinged with implicit violence, "Less Than Zero" is a shocking coming-of-age novel about the casual nihilism that comes with youth and money. "An extraordinarily accomplished first novel." - "New Yorker." "One of the most disturbing novels I've read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." - Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times." "The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation." - "USA Today." "Remarkable. A killer - sexy, sassy, sad." - "Village Voice." [via]
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The Little Disturbances of Manby Grace PaleyISBN 0140075577 (0-14-007557-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heavenby Sherman AlexieISBN 007243418X (0-07-243418-X)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Education
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Love In The Asylumby Lisa CareyISBN 006621288X (0-06-621288-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love In The Asylum'Book summary:Can love save those who believe they are beyond redemption? That is the question at the heart of this eagerly anticipated new novel by the acclaimed author of In the Country of the Young and The Mermaids Singing, an utterly remarkable tale of salvation at the last possible moment in the last place imaginable.
Alba Elliot is tired of being crazy. In and out of Abenaki Mental Hospital more than a dozen times in ten years, fed up with diagnoses that come without cures and a life organized by a days-of-the-week pill case, the twenty-five-year-old children's book writer is waiting for a miracle.
Oscar Jameson, a thirty-year-old drug addict enrolled in the rehab program by his frustrated brother, is not looking for anything so profound. Oscar doesn't believe he has a problem, despite the fact that his "recreation" has cost him everything.
He resents the counselors, the other addicts, and his brother, all of whom insist he belongs there. The only activity Oscar looks forward to is the spirited, sarcastic conversations that have begun with Alba on the hospital lawn.
And so two damaged souls forge a connection.
To call it love would be courting disaster since no bright future could possibly exist between a suicidal manic-depressive and a self-deluding junkie.
Then one day, in the back pages of a hospital library book, Alba finds a letter written seventy years earlier but never sent. Mary Doherty, who was committed by her husband and taken from her children, left behind secret missives about the atrocities done to her and her belief in an ancient healing power. As Alba pieces together Mary's heartbreaking chronicle, she begins to set her hopes on a different kind of medicine.
Brought together by chance, influenced by forces as beautiful and powerful as they are unforeseen, Alba and Oscar will slowly rise from the ashes of despair and self-destruction and, in the midst of righting an old wrong, begin to heal their battered spirits. A superbly crafted, poignant narrative of tragedy and triumph, Lisa Carey's moving third novel is a testament to the surprising resilience of the human heart.
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Love Medicineby Louise ErdrichISBN 0072434198 (0-07-243419-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Medicine'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The lives and destinies of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in an authentic tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love. [via]
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Maggie Cassidyby Jack KerouacISBN 0070342032 (0-07-034203-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Masters of Atlantisby Charles PortisISBN 0070505039 (0-07-050503-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Measure of My Daysby Florida Pier Scott-MaxwellISBN 0140051643 (0-14-005164-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Mrs Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 0099470454 (0-09-947045-4)
Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs Dalloway'Book summary:As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.
As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.
Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slaveby Frederick DouglassISBN 0131166158 (0-13-116615-8)
Softcover, Pearson Prentice Hall
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On the Yardby Malcolm BralyISBN 0140044558 (0-14-004455-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Once There Was a Warby John SteinbeckISBN 0140042911 (0-14-004291-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Once There Was a War'Book summary:Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's bracing from-the-frontlines account of World War II-now with a new cover and introduction[via]
In 1943 John Steinbeck was on assignment for The New York Herald Tribune, writing from Italy and North Africa, and from England in the midst of the London blitz. In his dispatches he focuses on the human-scale effect of the war, portraying everyone from the guys in a bomber crew to Bob Hope on his USO tour and even fighting alongside soldiers behind enemy lines. Taken together, these writings create an indelible portrait of life in wartime.More editions of Once There Was a War:
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The Oranging of America and Other Storiesby Max AppleISBN 0140058494 (0-14-005849-4)
Softcover, Penguin
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Ozma of Ozby L. Frank Baum, John R. NeillISBN 0064409627 (0-06-440962-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ozma of Oz'Book summary:Dorothy is blown overboard from her uncle's ship and lands in the realm of Ev, where, with her old friends, she meets Hungry Tiger, Tik-Tok the mechanical man, Billina the talking chicken and Princess Langwidere who has thirty heads. Join Dorothy and her friends as they try to free the Queen of Ev from the cruel Nome King's enchantment. [via]
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Paradiseby Donald BarthelmeISBN 0140103589 (0-14-010358-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise'Book summary:"No other word for it: a charming book."Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek
Simon, a middle-aged architect separated from his wife, is given the chance to live out a stereotypical male fantasy: freed from the travails of married life, he ends up living with three nubile lingerie models who use him as a sexual object.
Set in the 1980s, there's a further tension between Simon's desire to exploit this stereotypical fantasy and his (as well as the author's) desire to treat the women as human beings, despite the women's claims that Simon can't distinguish between their personalities.
Employing a variety of forms, Barthelme gracefully plays with this setup, creating a story that's not just funnyalthough it's definitely thatbut actually quite melancholy, as Simon knows that the women's departure is inevitable, that this "paradise" will come to an end, and that he'll be left with only an empty house, booze, and regrets about chances not taken. [via]More editions of Paradise:
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Paris Troutby Pete DexterISBN 0140122060 (0-14-012206-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris Trout'Book summary:In this novel of social drama, a casual murder in the small Georgia town of Cotton Point just after World War II and the resulting court case cleave open the ugly divisions of race and class. The man accused of shooting a black girl, a storekeeper named Paris Trout, has no great feeling of guilt, nor fear that the system will fail to work his way. Trout becomes an embarrassment to the polite white society that prefers to hold itself high above such primitive prejudice. But the trial does not allow any hiding from the stark reality of social and racial tensions. Dexter, a former newspaper columnist, is also the author of Deadwood and God's Pocket. Paris Trout won the 1988 National Book Award. [via]
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Picture of Dorian Grayby College Entrance Examination BoardISBN 0140006168 (0-14-000616-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: '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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Pilgrim at Tinker Creekby Annie DillardISBN 0072434171 (0-07-243417-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'Book summary:Through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, Annie Dillard shares her keen observations, poetic sensibilities, introspective reflections, and reverence for her surroundings to show us the world outside as we have never seen it before, in this winner of the 1975 Pulitizer Prize for nonfiction.. [via]
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The Professor of Desireby Philip RothISBN 0140076778 (0-14-007677-8)
Softcover, Penguin
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The Rules of Attractionby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0140112286 (0-14-011228-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rules of Attraction'Book summary:The author of Less Than Zero delivers a startling novel about three students entangled in a loveless sexual triangle. Wealthy upperclass students, they indulge in a routine of happy hours, parties, late night drinking bouts, drug abuse, and casual sex fueled by a desperate desire for love. [via]
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Sabbaticalby John BarthISBN 0140066195 (0-14-006619-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Servant's Taleby Paula FoxISBN 0140083863 (0-14-008386-3)
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Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Objectby Laurie ColwinISBN 0140074147 (0-14-007414-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Solo Facesby James SalterISBN 0140055649 (0-14-005564-9)
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Sons and Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0140042172 (0-14-004217-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons and Lovers'Book summary:Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."
Of course, Mrs. Morel takes neither of her two elder sons (the first of whom dies early, which further intensifies her grip on Paul) as a literal lover, but nonetheless her psychological snare is immense. She loathes Paul's Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will oust her: "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him." Meanwhile, Paul plays his part with equal fervor, incapable of committing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother suffering, then he hated her--and he easily hated her." Soon thereafter he even confesses to his mother: "I really don't love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you."
The result of all this is that Paul throws Miriam over for a married suffragette, Clara Dawes, who fulfills the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him, as ever, without a complete relationship to challenge his love for his mother. As Paul voyages from the working-class mining world to the spheres of commerce and art (he has fair success as a painter), he accepts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out of him. Life for her was rich with promise. She was to see herself fulfilled... All his work was hers."
The cycles of Paul's relationships with these three women are terrifying at times, and Lawrence does nothing to dim their intensity. Nor does he shirk in his vivid, sensuous descriptions of the landscape that offers up its blossoms and beasts and "shimmeriness" to Paul's sensitive spirit. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth. Few books tell such whole, complicated truths about the permutations of love as resolutely without resolution. It's nothing short of searing to be brushed by humanity in this manner. --Melanie Rehak [via]
Sport and a Pastimeby James SalterISBN 0140056386 (0-14-005638-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Stones for Ibarraby Harriet DoerrISBN 0140075623 (0-14-007562-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Street Lawyerby John GrishamISBN 0099244926 (0-09-924492-6)
Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd
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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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Stuart Littleby E. B. White, Garth Williams, Rosemary WellsISBN 0064410927 (0-06-441092-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stuart Little'Book summary:How terribly surprised the Little family must have been when their second child turned out to be a small mouse. Apparently familiar with the axiom that "when in New York City, anything can happen," the Littles accept young Stuart into their family unquestioningly--with the exception of Snowbell the cat who is unable to overcome his instinctive dislike for the little mouse. They build him a bed from a matchbox, and supply him with all of the accoutrements a young mouse could need. Mrs. Little even fashions him a suit, because baby clothes would obviously be unsuitable for such a sophisticated mouse. In return, Stuart helps his tall family with errant Ping-Pong balls that roll outside of their reach.
E. B. White takes Stuart on a hero's quest across the American countryside, introducing the mouse--and the reader--to a myriad of delightful characters. Little finds himself embroiled in one adventure after another from the excitement of racing sailboats to the unseen horrors of substitute teaching. This is a story of leaving home for the first time, of growing up, and ultimately of discovering oneself. At times, doesn't everyone feel like the sole mouse in a family--and a world--of extremely tall people? (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Tales of a 4th Grade Nothingby Ian SerraillierISBN 0099504014 (0-09-950401-4)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing'Book summary:Passed on from babysitters to their young charges, from big sisters to little brothers, and from parents to children, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and its cousins (Superfudge, Fudge-a-mania, and Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great) have entertained children since they first appeared in the early 1970s. The books follow Peter Hatcher, his little brother Fudgie, baby sister Tootsie, their neighbor Sheila Tubman, various pets, and minor characters through New York City and on treks to suburbs and camps.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is the first of these entertaining yarns. Peter, because he's the oldest, must deal with Fudgie's disgusting cuteness, his constant meddling with Peter's stuff, and other grave offenses, one of which is almost too much to bear. All these incidents are presented with the unfailing ear and big-hearted humor of the masterful Judy Blume. Though some of her books for older kids have aroused controversy, the Hatcher brothers and their adventures remain above the fray, where they belong. (Peter's in fourth grade, so the book is suitable for kids ages 8 and older.) [via]
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The Tie That Bindsby Kent HarufISBN 0140084665 (0-14-008466-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Two Princesses of Bamarreby Gail Carson LevineISBN 006440966X (0-06-440966-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Two Princesses of Bamarre'Book summary:After stealing the hearts of middle-grade girls with her delightful Newbery Honor-winning Cinderella retelling, Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine here creates a fairy tale of her own and gives it a characteristic grrrl-power twist. Twelve-year-old Addie admires her older sister Meryl, who aspires to rid the kingdom of Bamarre of gryphons, specters, and ogres. Addie, on the other hand, is fearful even of spiders and depends on Meryl for courage and protection. Waving her sword Bloodbiter, the older girl declaims in the garden from the heroic epic of Drualt to a thrilled audience of Addie, their governess, and the young sorcerer Rhys. But when Meryl falls ill with the dreaded Gray Death, Addie must gather her courage and set off alone on a quest to find the cure and save her beloved sister. Addie takes the seven-league boots and magic spyglass left to her by her mother and the enchanted tablecloth and cloak given to her by Rhys--along with a shy declaration of his love. She prevails in encounters with tricky specters (spiders too) and outwits a wickedly personable dragon in adventures touched with romance and a bittersweet ending. Young fans of princess stories will gobble this one up. (Ages 10 to 14) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Visions of Codyby Jack KerouacISBN 0070342016 (0-07-034201-6)
Hardcover, McGraw Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visions of Cody'Book summary:Kerouac's most radical experiment in language and storytelling is Visions of Cody, an "enormous paean" to that singular and influential figure Neal Cassady. A fusion of radical improvisation, bold reportate, and oracular voice, it is his ultimate version of the On the Road story. 2 cassettes. [via]
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The Wandererby David Diaz, Sharon CreechISBN 0064410323 (0-06-441032-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wanderer'Book summary:"I am not always such a dreamy girl, listening to the sea calling me. My father calls me Three-sided Sophie: one side is dreamy and romantic; one is logical and down-to-earth; and the third side is hardheaded and impulsive."
Thirteen-year-old Sophie, skipping between "dreamland or earthland or muleland," hears the sea calling her. Much to the concern of her adopted parents, she decides to join her uncles and male cousins on a sailing voyage from Connecticut across the Atlantic to England (and her grandfather Bompie) on a 45-foot sailboat. Not only does she want to make the trip, she feels she has to.
This perilous cross-Atlantic journey will make young readers feel the wind in their hair and the salt spray on their face. Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech (Walk Two Moons) describes the sailing experience with astonishing precision--from the smell of the sea to the intricate workings of The Wanderer itself.
Along the way, Sophie proves her bravery and competence to the rather grumpy all-male crew; intrigues and captivates her cousin Cody with her beautiful, odd stories of Bompie that always somehow end in underwater disaster and apple pie; and spills her heart into a daily journal. Readers get another angle on her, too, as Cody keeps a log that alternates with hers. He grows to know, and like, and wonder about, his new cousin Sophie along with the reader, and as her mysterious past reveals itself bit by bit, we are all right there on the edge of our seats, ready for the boom to crash over to the other side.
Sophie's adventures take her not only straight into perilous waves higher than buildings, but deep into her hidden past. This profound, suspenseful novel will pull you into its swift current and barely let you surface for breath. (Ages 9 to 13) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Watership Downby Richard George AdamsISBN 0140039589 (0-14-003958-9)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watership Down'Book summary:Watership Down has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it's often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn't cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams's bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most great novels, Watership Down is a rich story that can be read (and reread) on many different levels. The book is often praised as an allegory, with its analogs between human and rabbit culture (a fact sometimes used to goad skeptical teens, who resent the challenge that they won't "get" it, into reading it), but it's equally praiseworthy as just a corking good adventure.
The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching, involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside, complete with its own folk history and language (the book comes with a "lapine" glossary, a guide to rabbitese). As much about freedom, ethics, and human nature as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates, Watership Down will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come. --Paul Hughes [via]
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We Are Still Marriedby Garrison KeillorISBN 0140131566 (0-14-013156-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Are Still Married'Book summary:"Garrison Keillor made it possible, after twenty years of black humor...to be both funny and nice, hip and winsome, scathing and loving, all in the flick of a single many-barbed quip--The Washington Post Book World"Keillor's literary style is as flexible and assured as his vocal delivery. It can slip from mood to mood so subtly and quickly you're never quite sure where you are.... [His] writing has the silvery slip of running water, so graceful and easy it's hard to believe it can carry so much that is jagged and unresolved. His integrity lies in his not smoothing away those rough edges in the swift current of his prose; they're bruisingly, sometimes cuttingly there." -The Village Voice [via]
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We Have Always Lived in the Castleby Shirley JacksonISBN 0140071075 (0-14-007107-5)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle'Book summary:Visitors call seldom at Blackwood House. Taking tea at the scene of a multiple poisoning, with a suspected murderess as one's host, is a perilous business. For a start, the talk tends to turn to arsenic. "It happened in this very room, and we still have our dinner in here every night," explains Uncle Julian, continually rehearsing the details of the fatal family meal. "My sister made these this morning," says Merricat, politely proffering a plate of rum cakes, fresh from the poisoner's kitchen. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel, is full of a macabre and sinister humor, and Merricat herself, its amiable narrator, is one of the great unhinged heroines of literature. "What place would be better for us than this?" she asks, of the neat, secluded realm she shares with her uncle and with her beloved older sister, Constance. "Who wants us, outside? The world is full of terrible people." Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic, burying talismanic objects beneath the family estate, nailing them to trees, ritually revisiting them. She has made "a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us" against the distrust and hostility of neighboring villagers.
Or so she believes. But at last the magic fails. A stranger arrives--cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune. He disturbs the sisters' careful habits, installing himself at the head of the family table, unearthing Merricat's treasures, talking privately to Constance about "normal lives" and "boy friends." Unable to drive him away by either polite or occult means, Merricat adopts more desperate methods. The result is crisis and tragedy, the revelation of a terrible secret, the convergence of the villagers upon the house, and a spectacular unleashing of collective spite.
The sisters are propelled further into seclusion and solipsism, abandoning "time and the orderly pattern of our old days" in favor of an ever-narrowing circuit of ritual and shadow. They have themselves become talismans, to be alternately demonized and propitiated, darkly, with gifts. Jackson's novel emerges less as a study in eccentricity and more--like some of her other fictions--as a powerful critique of the anxious, ruthless processes involved in the maintenance of normality itself. "Poor strangers," says Merricat contentedly at last, studying trespassers from the darkness behind the barricaded Blackwood windows. "They have so much to be afraid of." --Sarah Waters [via]
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The Western Landsby William S. BurroughsISBN 0140094563 (0-14-009456-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Western Lands'Book summary:Burroughs's eagerly awaited final novel in the trilogy begun with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads is a profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on mortality, loneliness, nuclear peril, and the inextinguishable hope for life after death. [via]
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The White House Messby Christopher BuckleyISBN 0140097937 (0-14-009793-7)
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Will's Boy: A Memoirby Wright MorrisISBN 0140062017 (0-14-006201-7)
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William Dean Howells' the Rise of Silas Laphamby William Dean HowellsISBN 0130245895 (0-13-024589-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Wishby Gail Carson LevineISBN 0064473619 (0-06-447361-9)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wish'Book summary:Ah, the ancient mysteries of life. Why are the popular people popular? What's different about them--what makes them special? In The Wish, award-winning author Gail Carson Levine (Ella Enchanted, Dave at Night) explores the age-old question with a simple premise: a girl who is granted one wish by an old lady on the subway wishes to be "the most popular kid at Claverford." As is the fate of many who are granted only one wish, Wilma doesn't think through her wish carefully enough. While she is now adored by boys and girls alike, she is a mere three weeks away from graduating from Claverford. At Elliott, her next school, she'll be back to her lowly, oft-ridiculed self. Tension builds for Wilma until her graduation-night dance, the night before her popularity--and maybe even her relationship with her wonderful new boyfriend--will invariably come to a screeching halt. This fun, witty, insightful novel thoroughly examines the nature of "popularity," and what it means to be true to yourself. It's not just because of the old woman's spell that Wilma ponders, "'To thine own self be true.' But who was mine own self? That's what I wanted to know." Wilma is a funny, smart, no-more-awkward-than-most character with whom young readers of all social echelons will identify completely. When her popularity runs out (and the spell does end), her true friendships remain, and she's left standing on her feet. (Ages 9 to 12) --Karin Snelson [via]
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WLT: A Radio Romanceby Garrison KeillorISBN 0140103805 (0-14-010380-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'WLT: A Radio Romance'Book summary:In the spring of 1926, the Soderbjerg brothers, Ray and Roy, plunge into radio and launch station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) to rescuer their failing restaurant and become the Sandwich Kings of South Minneapolis. For the next quarter century, the Friendly Neighbor station produces a dazzling array of shows and stars, including Leo LaValley, Dad Benson, Wingo Beals, Slim Graves and Little Buddy, chain-smoking child star Marjery Moore, and blind baseball announcer Buck Steller.[via]Francis With, a shy young man from North Dakota, entranced by radio, gets into WLT through his uncle Art and quickly becomes the Soderbjerg's right hand. Soon Francis is a budding announcer adored by Lily Dale, the crippled nightingale of WLT kept hidden from her fans, whose firing contributes to the downfall of the station. And then comes television.
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Wolf Willowby Wallace StegnerISBN 0140134395 (0-14-013439-5)
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World's Endby T. C. BoyleISBN 0140097600 (0-14-009760-0)
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