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1984by George OrwellISBN 1421808323 (1-4218-0832-3)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:This is a play taken from Orwell's '1984'. It gives a little taste of the original text but is very good. It will make you want to read the original book all the way through. [via]
The Alhambraby Washington IrvingISBN 0912882484 (0-912882-48-4)
Hardcover, Fordham Univ Pr
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American Poetryby John HollanderISBN 094045078X (0-940450-78-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century Philip Freneau to Walt Whitmanby John HollanderISBN 0940450607 (0-940450-60-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Amphigorey Alsoby Edward GoreyISBN 0865530874 (0-86553-087-4)
Hardcover, Congdon & Weed
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Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller and the Alhambraby Washington Irving, Andrew B. MyersISBN 0940450593 (0-940450-59-3)
Hardcover, Library of America, The
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Bread Givers: A Novelby Anzia Yezierska, Alice Kessler-HarrisISBN 0892552905 (0-89255-290-5)
Softcover, Persea Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bread Givers: A Novel'Book summary:Persea's 25th anniversary edition of this classic of twentieth-century American literature. More than 250,000 copies sold. Set on New York's Lower East Side during the 1920s, this is the moving story of a young woman's struggle to free herself from the traditional female role in an Orthodox Jewish family and society. Sara Smolinksy, the youngest daughter of a rabbi, watches as her father marries off her sisters into dire circumstances, and she vows to escape this fate. She leaves home, takes a job as an ironer, and rents a room with a door: "This door was life. It was air. The bottom starting-point of becoming a person." Sara's rebellion and her struggle for self-fulfillment-for education, work, and a marriage based on love-resonates with a passionate intensity all can share. In this new edition, the original text is retained; the introduction is updated; and a new foreword is added describing the discovery of this important work and the relationship with Yezierska's daughter that followed. [via]
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Breathing Lessonsby Anne TylerISBN 0896218597 (0-89621-859-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Celestial Navigationby Anne TylerISBN 0893403202 (0-89340-320-2)
Hardcover, J. Curley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Celestial Navigation'Book summary:Jeremy Pauling is a bachelor with a passion for making sculptures out of odds and ends. He is also fearful of beautiful women, so when his new lodger, Mary, arrives, he is faced with a challenge he really cannot handle. From the author of THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST and BREATHING LESSONS. [via]
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Celestial Railroad and Other Storiesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0899667163 (0-89966-716-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Child of Godby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0880010657 (0-88001-065-7)
Softcover, Ecco Press
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The City and the Pillarby Gore VidalISBN 1400030374 (1-4000-3037-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City and the Pillar'Book summary:A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidals now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience.
Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in awful kid stuff, the experience forms Jims ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship. Along the way he struggles with what he feels is his unique bond with Bob and with his persistent attraction to other men. Upon finally encountering Bob years later, the force of his hopes for a life together leads to a devastating climax. The first novel of its kind to appear on the American literary landscape, The City and the Pillar remains a forthright and uncompromising portrayal of sexual relationships between men. [via]More editions of The City and the Pillar:
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Cold Sassy Treeby Olive Ann BurnsISBN 0899193099 (0-89919-309-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Sassy Tree'Book summary:The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward - the news is served up all over town with that afternoon's dinner. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal. Boggled by the sheer audacity of it all, and not a little jealous of his grandpa's new wife, Will nevertheless approves of this May-December match and follows its progress with just a smidgen of youthful prurience. As the newlyweds' chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his one-armed, renegade grandfather's second adolescence; meanwhile, he does some growing up of his own. He gets run over by a train and lives to tell about it; he kisses his first girl, and survives that too. Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny, resplendent novel - about a romance that rocks an entire town, about a boy's passage through the momentous but elusive year when childhood melts into adolescence, and about just how people lived and died in a small Southern town at the turn of the century. Inhabited by characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Cold Sassy, Georgia, is the perfect setting for the debut of a storyteller of rare brio, exuberance, and style.[via]More editions of Cold Sassy Tree:
Collected Travel Writingsby Henry James, Richard HowardISBN 0940450771 (0-940450-77-1)
Hardcover, Library of America
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Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and Americaby Henry James, Richard HowardISBN 0940450763 (0-940450-76-3)
Hardcover, Library of America, The
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Crossing to Safetyby Wallace Earle StegnerISBN 0896211827 (0-89621-182-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Doctor Sax and the Great World Snakeby Jack KerouacISBN 0972973303 (0-9729733-0-3)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake'Book summary:Jack Kerouac gives free reign to the powers of his soaring imagination in this previously unpublished screenplay adaptation of his mystical, vision-novel Doctor Sax. Basing the haunting tale in true reflections of his 1930's childhood growing up in the industrial milltown of Lowell, Massachusetts. Kerouac spins out a dark cosmology as "concentrations of evil" gather -- vampires, gnomes, spiders, werewolves of the soul, "leerers at the glad heart of others" -- aspiring to destroy mankind. Doctor Sax -- alchemist of the night and friend of the children -- is the caped crusader who stands against the darkness.
Come along on an audio adventure, as young Jacky Duluoz leads you on an apocalyptic journey to confront the Wizard and the Great World Snake.
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- 2 CDS audio version of screenplay
- Unabridged original screenplay text
- 74 illustrations by Richard Sala
- Readers Include: . Jim Carroll . Graham Parker
. Ellis Paul . Lawrence Ferlinghetti
. Kate Pierson . Bill Janovitz
. Robert Creeley . Robert HunterMusic by Blue Note recording artist John Medeski [via]
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Edgar Allan Poe Essays and Reviews: Theory of Poetry, Reviews of British and Continental Authors, Reviews of American Authors and American Literaturby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0940450194 (0-940450-19-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edgar Allan Poe Essays and Reviews: Theory of Poetry, Reviews of British and Continental Authors, Reviews of American Authors and American Literatur'Book summary:The most complete collection of Poe's critical writings ever published, revealing his wit, uncompromising candor, and breadth of knowledge. Contains all his major writings on poetry, fiction, and the duties of a critic, along with his reviews of writers both known and unknown, and finally, his articles on a wealth of subjects, including South Sea exploration, geography, music, drama, cryptography, ancient languages, and modern critics. [via]
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Ellen Fosterby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0912697520 (0-912697-52-0)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ellen Foster'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1997: Kaye Gibbons is a writer who brings a short story sensibility to her novels. Rather than take advantage of the novel's longer form to paint her visions in broad, sweeping strokes, Gibbons prefers to concentrate on just one corner of the canvas and only a few colors to produce her small masterpieces. In Gibbons's case, her canvas is the American South and her colors are all the shades of gray.
In Ellen Foster, the title character is an 11-year-old orphan who refers to herself as "old Ellen," an appellation that is disturbingly apt. Ellen is an old woman in a child's body; her frail, unhappy mother dies, her abusive father alternately neglects her and makes advances on her, and she is shuttled from one uncaring relative's home to another before she finally takes matters into her own hands and finds herself a place to belong. There is something almost Dickensian about Ellen's tribulations; like Oliver Twist, David Copperfield or a host of other literary child heroes, Ellen is at the mercy of predatory adults, with only her own wit and courage--and the occasional kindness of others--to help her through. That she does, in fact, survive her childhood and even rise above it is the book's bittersweet victory. [via]
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Evangeline: A Tale of Acadieby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, C. Bruce FergussonISBN 155109116X (1-55109-116-X)
Hardcover, Nimbus Publishing, Limited
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Softcover, Down East Books - Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie: ISBN 0920852165 (0-920852-16-5)
Softcover, Down East Books - Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie: ISBN 0864924062 (0-86492-406-2)
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Factotumby Charles BukowskiISBN 0876852630 (0-87685-263-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Factotum'Book summary:Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour. "Factotum" follows Charles Bukowski's bestselling "Post Office", his highly autobiographical first novel. Bukowski's Beat Generation writing reflects his slum upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of low life urban America. He died in 1994 and is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinctive writers of the last fifty years. Neeli Cherkovski was a close friend of Bukowski and is the author of "Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski" (Random House, 1991). [via]
The Financierby Theodore DreiserISBN 1417905034 (1-4179-0503-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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George Orwell Complete & UnabridgedISBN 0905712048 (0-905712-04-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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The Gift of the Magi and Other Storiesby O. HenryISBN 0895772663 (0-89577-266-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Henry Adams: History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jeffersonby Henry Adams, Earl N. HarbertISBN 0940450348 (0-940450-34-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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History of the United States of America During the Administrations of James Madisonby Henry Adams, Earl N. HarbertISBN 0940450356 (0-940450-35-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Storiesby William H. GassISBN 0879233745 (0-87923-374-5)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories'Book summary:IN THIS SUITE of five short pieces -- one of the unqualified literary masterpieces of the American 1960s -- William Gass finds five beautiful forms in which to explore the signature theme of his fiction: the solitary souls poignant, conflicted, and doomed pursuit of love and community. In their obsessions, Gasss Midwestern dreamers are like the "grotesques" of Sherwood Anderson, but in their hyper-linguistic streams of consciousness, they are the match for Joyces Dubliners.
First published in 1968, this book begins with a beguiling thirty-three page essay and has five fictions: the celebrated novella "The Pedersen Kid," "Mrs. Mean," "Icicles," "Order of Insects," and the title story. [via]
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The Leatherstocking Talesby James Fenimore Cooper, Blake NeviusISBN 0940450208 (0-940450-20-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollowby Washington Irving, Gris GrimlyISBN 1416906258 (1-4169-0625-8)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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Letters From An American Farmerby J. Hector John de CrevecoeurISBN 1419129805 (1-4191-2980-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Life in the Iron Millsby Tillie Olsen, Rebecca Harding DavisISBN 0935312390 (0-935312-39-0)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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Light Yearsby James SalterISBN 0865470642 (0-86547-064-2)
Hardcover, North Point Press
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Lottery and Other Storiesby Shirley JacksonISBN 0848803698 (0-8488-0369-8)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lottery and Other Stories'Book summary:The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery:" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate Jack son's remarkable range--from the hilarious to the truly horrible--and power as a storyteller.
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Loveby Toni MorrisonISBN 1400078474 (1-4000-7847-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Talesby Bret HarteISBN 1414263422 (1-4142-6342-2)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com
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The Magnificent Ambersonsby Booth TarkingtonISBN 142191347X (1-4219-1347-X)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Man Without a Countryby Edward HaleISBN 1419171720 (1-4191-7172-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man Without a Country'Book summary:First published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863 and written to inspire patriotism and combat Northern sympathy with the Confederacy during the Civil War, this classic story met with immediate praise and acceptance. It concerns the fate of Philip Nolan, a young army officer who was caught up in the eddies of the Aaron Burr affair of 1807, and the granting of his wish "to never hear the name of the United States again." [via]
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Mark Twainby Mark Twain, Louis J. BuddISBN 0940450364 (0-940450-36-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mark Twain'Book summary:A collection of Twain's writings from his later years includes first-rate pieces that should be better known, as well as previously uncollected works that reflect the inner workings of one of the keenest minds in American history. [via]
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Other Storiesby Charles BukowskiISBN 0872861562 (0-87286-156-2)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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My Kinsman Major Molineuxby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 1425456820 (1-4254-5682-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Kinsman Major Molineux'Book summary:THIS 34 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Garden of Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766148335. [via]
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Northwest Passageby Kenneth Lewis RobertsISBN 0892725427 (0-89272-542-7)
Softcover, Down East Books
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Novels and Social Writingsby Jack London, Donald PizerISBN 0940450062 (0-940450-06-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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O. Henry a La Carteby O. HenryISBN 0875293336 (0-87529-333-6)
Hardcover, Hallmark Cards, inc.
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Old Possums Book of Practical Catsby T. S. EliotISBN 1417617047 (1-4176-1704-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old Possums Book of Practical Cats'Book summary:An engaging collection of humorous poems. These verses, originally composed to amuse Eliots intimate friends, have proven irresistible to cat lovers, lovers of nonsense, and admirers of Eliot throughout the English-speaking world. Enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most...verses (Time). Drawings by Nicolas Bentley.[via]More editions of Old Possums Book of Practical Cats:
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Oregon Trailby Francis ParkmanISBN 1404322485 (1-4043-2248-5)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oregon Trail'Book summary:CONTENTS:
I THE FRONTIER
II BREAKING THE ICE
III FORT LEAVENWORTH
IV "JUMPING OFF"
V "THE BIG BLUE"
VI THE PLATTE AND THE DESERT
VII THE BUFFALO
VIII TAKING FRENCH LEAVE
IX SCENES AT FORT LARAMIE
X THE WAR PARTIES
XI SCENES AT THE CAMP
XII ILL LUCK
XIII HUNTING INDIANS
XIV THE OGALLALLA VILLAGR
XV THE HUNTING CAMP
XVI THE TRAPPERS
XVII THE BLACK HILLS
XVIII A MOUNTAIN HUNT
XIX PASSAGE OF THE MOUNTAINS
XX THE LONELY JOURNEY
XXI THE PUEBLO AND BENT'S FORT
XXII TETE ROUGE, THE VOLUNTEER
XXIII INDIAN ALARMS
XXIV THE CHASE
XXV THE BUFFALO CAMP
XXVI DOWN THE ARKANSAS
XXVII THE SETTLEMENTS
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an excerpt from CHAPTER I:
THE FRONTIER
Last spring, 1846, was a busy season in the City of St. Louis. Not only were emigrants from every part of the country preparing for the journey to Oregon and California, but an unusual number of traders were making ready their wagons and outfits for Santa Fe. Many of the emigrants, especially of those bound for California, were persons of wealth and standing. The hotels were crowded, and the gunsmiths and saddlers were kept constantly at work in providing arms and equipments for the different parties of travelers. Almost every day steamboats were leaving the levee and passing up the Missouri, crowded with passengers on their way to the frontier.
In one of these, the Radnor, since snagged and lost, my friend and relative, Quincy A. Shaw, and myself, left St. Louis on the 28th of April, on a tour of curiosity and amusement to the Rocky Mountains. The boat was loaded until the water broke alternately over her guards. Her upper deck was covered with large weapons of a peculiar form, for the Santa Fe trade, and her hold was crammed with goods for the same destination. There were also the equipments and provisions of a party of Oregon emigrants, a band of mules and horses, piles of saddles and harness, and a multitude of nondescript articles, indispensable on the prairies. Almost hidden in this medley one might have seen a small French cart, of the sort very appropriately called a "mule-killer" beyond the frontiers, and not far distant a tent, together with a miscellaneous assortment of boxes and barrels. The whole equipage was far from prepossessing in its appearance; yet, such as it was, it was destined to a long and arduous journey, on which the persevering reader will accompany it.
The passengers on board the Radnor corresponded with her freight. In her cabin were Santa Fe traders, gamblers, speculators, and adventurers of various descriptions, and her steerage was crowded with Oregon emigrants, "mountain men," negroes, and a party of Kansas Indians, who had been on a visit to St. Louis.
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Prose and Poetry: Maggie A Girl of the Streets/the Red Badge of Courage/Stories, Sketches, and Journalism/Poetryby Stephen Crane, J. C. LevensonISBN 0940450178 (0-940450-17-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays and Lecturesby Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel PorteISBN 0940450151 (0-940450-15-1)
Hardcover, Library of America
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Relationships: A Mess Worth Makingby Paul David Tripp, Timothy S. LaneISBN 0977080765 (0-9770807-6-5)
Hardcover, New Growth Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Relationships: A Mess Worth Making'Book summary:Hope for messy, conflict-ridden relationships. Your best friend is suddenly cool and distant. Your spouse can t stop complaining about your bad habits. Your son refuses to talk to you. What are you supposed to do? Plans A, B, and C might be to shut down, lash out, or get out. But consider Plan D: Recognize that God has the last word on those messy, conflict-ridden relationships. He can use them to make you into someone who can give and receive love with God and others. Impossible? Idealistic? Not really. In Relationships: A Mess Worth Making, Tim Lane and Paul Tripp show you how God does it, and how it can happen for you. They help you tackle the stubborn problems that plague many close relationships. They show you the deeper issues that drive our reactions, choices, and behaviors. And they show you how God steps in to help you build relationships that are all he intended them to be. [via]
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Revenge of the Lawn : Stories 1962-1970by Richard BrautiganISBN 0862417236 (0-86241-723-6)
Softcover, Rebel Incorporated
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Side Effectsby Woody AllenISBN 0848803655 (0-8488-0365-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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So Long, See You Tomorrowby William MaxwellISBN 0879237546 (0-87923-754-6)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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Soldiers' Payby William FaulknerISBN 0871401665 (0-87140-166-5)
Softcover, Liveright Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soldiers' Pay'Book summary:Faulkner's first novel, published in 1926, is one of the most memorable works to emerge from the First World War.
The story of a wounded veterans homecoming, it is partly autobiographical, filled with hope, dark laughter, and despair. [via]More editions of Soldiers' Pay:
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A Sport and a Pastimeby James Salter, James StalterISBN 0865472106 (0-86547-210-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sport and a Pastime'Book summary:A Sport and a Pastime is an astonishing performance, the classic novel from a remarkable writer whose sentences bristle with a singular passion. Salter chronicles a love affair between a young shopgirl and an American college dropout against the backdrop of provincial France. The narrator's cool distillation of events-real or imagined-makes the book both lyrical and tightly, dangerously pitched.[via]More editions of A Sport and a Pastime:
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Stowe:Three Novels : Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folksby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kathryn K. SklarISBN 0940450011 (0-940450-01-1)
Hardcover, Library of America, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stowe:Three Novels : Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks'Book summary:Described by Henry James as "much less a book than a state of vision," "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is probably the most influential work of fiction in American history. Stowe's moving Christian epic turned millions of Americans against slavery, bringing the "peculiar institution" immeasurably closer to its fiery destruction. In "The Minister's Wooing" and "Oldtown Folks," Stowe examines the interplay of religion, domesticity, and women's roles and choices in the shaping of American culture. [via]
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Stranger in a Strange Landby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0848805224 (0-8488-0522-4)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Tehanuby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 1416509623 (1-4165-0962-3)
Softcover, Pocket Star
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tehanu'Book summary:Ursula K. LeGuin follows her classic trilogy from Earthsea with a magical tale that won the 1991 Nebula Award for Science Fiction. Unlike the tales in the trilogy, this novel is short and concise, yet it is by no means simplistic. Promoted as a children's book because of the awards garnered in that category by her previous work, Tehanu transcends classification and shows the wizardry of female magic. The story involves a middle-age widow who sets out to visit her dying mentor and eventually cares for his favorite student. [via]
Titanby Theodore DreiserISBN 1417909153 (1-4179-0915-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Under the Lilacsby Louisa May AlcottISBN 1419191918 (1-4191-9191-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Lilacs'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - From the gate to the porch went a wide walk, paved with smooth slabs of dark stone, and bordered with the tall bushes which met overhead, making a green roof. All sorts of neglected flowers and wild weeds grew between their stems, covering the walls of this summer parlor with the prettiest tapestry. A board, propped on two blocks of wood, stood in the middle of the walk, covered with a little plaid shawl much the worse for wear, and on it a miniature tea-service was set forth with great elegance. [via]
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Until I Find Youby John IrvingISBN 1400063833 (1-4000-6383-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Until I Find You'Book summary:At over 800 pages, John Irving's Until I Find You is a daunting proposition at best. Anyone who finishes it will have acquired forearm muscles, sore shoulders, and not much else. The story is self-indulgent, repetitive and, ultimately, boring, that cardinal sin that readers can't forgive. Longtime Irving readers have stayed with him through a few hits and a miss or two, but this is an all-time low. We are accustomed to Irving's work as quirky, bizarre, and off-the-wall and have forgiven all by calling such high-jinks and characters "imaginative" or "absolutely original." The only thing original about this tome is the descent into soft porn.
Jack Burns, the hero of the tale, is four years old when it all begins. He is the illegitimate son of Daughter Alice, a tattoo artist and, guess what, daughter of a tattoo artist. She takes Jack on a pilgrimage to find his womanizing father, William, a church organist and "ink addict." By seeking out church organs and tattoo parlors, she expects to find him. She doesn't, and by now we have spent more than a hundred pages in Northern European cities doing an imitation of Groundhog Day. Same story, different day: a little prostitution for Alice, a few questions asked; alas, no daddy.
Alice and Jack return to Toronto so that Jack may enter a previously all-girls school, which will admit little boys for the first time. There begins another 200 pages of the girls and the teachers abusing Jack, over and over again. By now, he is five and is, for some unfathomable reason, eminently interesting to girls and women. His "friend" Emma keeps careful track of "the little guy," as she calls Jack's penis, looking for signs of life. The worst part of all this is that none of it is funny or sad or even clever. There are wrestling vignettes, of course, and prep school tedium, but no bears. Maybe bears would have saved it. There were funny parts in The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules as well as poignant, horrific parts in both of those and other Irving novels. This story is flat. The voice never changes; it just drones on.
Jack becomes an actor. First, he is a boy in drag because he is so pretty, then he takes transvestite parts. He and Emma, now a published novelist, live together in LA, which provides endless opportunity for name-dropping. His career eventually takes off and he gets recognition and awards, but still no daddy. Irving, it turns out, never knew his father, either. Perhaps this exercise will exorcise that demon once and for all and Irving's next book will be about something more compelling than a little boy's penis and his trashy mother's antics. If you do make it through to the book's snapper of an ending, you deserve to find out what it is on your own. Call it a reward. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Up above the Worldby Paul BowlesISBN 0880010088 (0-88001-008-8)
Softcover, Ecco Press
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiographyby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 1406509841 (1-4065-0984-1)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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White Oleanderby Janet FitchISBN 1410400816 (1-4104-0081-6)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Oleander'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1999: Astrid Magnussen, the teenage narrator of Janet Fitch's engrossing first novel, White Oleander, has a mother who is as sharp as a new knife. An uncompromising poet, Ingrid despises weakness and self-pity, telling her daughter that they are descendants of Vikings, savages who fought fiercely to survive. And when one of Ingrid's boyfriends abandons her, she illustrates her point, killing the man with the poison of oleander flowers. This leads to a life sentence in prison, leaving Astrid to teach herself the art of survival in a string of Los Angeles foster homes.
As Astrid bumps from trailer park to tract house to Hollywood bungalow, White Oleander uncoils her existential anxieties. "Who was I, really?" she asks. "I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was telling that day. There were so many missing pieces." Fitch adroitly leads Astrid down a path of sorting out her past and identity. In the process, this girl develops a wire-tight inner strength, gains her mother's white-blonde beauty, and achieves some measure of control over their relationship. Even from prison, Ingrid tries to mold her daughter. Foiling her, Astrid learns about tenderness from one foster mother and how to stand up for herself from another. Like the weather in Los Angeles--the winds of the Santa Anas, the scorching heat--Astrid's teenage life is intense. Fitch's novel deftly displays that, and also makes Astrid's life meaningful. --Katherine Anderson [via]
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White-Jacket, or the World in a Man-Of-Warby Herman MelvilleISBN 1421923017 (1-4219-2301-7)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Wittgenstein's Mistressby David MarksonISBN 0916583503 (0-916583-50-3)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wittgenstein's Mistress'Book summary:An unusual experimental novel about a women who believes she is alone on the earth. She breaks down the components of her troubled past and so "deconstructs" both her own narrative and the putative "reality" of the history of the world. The author has written a biography of Malcolm Lowry. [via]
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Yage Lettersby William BurroughsISBN 0872860043 (0-87286-004-3)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yage Letters'Book summary:The Yage Letters: an early epistolary novel by William S. Burroughs, whose 1952 account of himself as Junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee, ended "Yage may be the final fix." In letters to Allen Ginsberg, an unknown young poet in New York, his journey to the Amazon jungle is recorded, detailing picaresque incidents of search for telepathic-hallucinogenic-mind-expanding drug Yage (Ayahuasca, or Banisteriopsis Caapé) used by Amazon Indian doctors for finding lost objects, mostly bodies and souls. Author and recipient of these letters met again in New York, Xmas 1953, pruned and edited the writings to form a single book. Correspondence contains first seeds of later Burroughsian fantasy in Naked Lunch. Seven years later Ginsberg in Peru writes his old guru an account of his own visions and terrors with the same drug, appealing for further counsel. Burroughs' mysterious reply is sent. The volume concludes with two epilogues: a short note from Ginsberg on his return from the Orient years later reassuring Self that he is still here on earth, and a final poetic cut-up by Burroughs, "I Am Dying Meester?"
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The Yage Letters Reduxby William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Oliver HarrisISBN 0872864480 (0-87286-448-0)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yage Letters Redux'Book summary:[via]In January 1953, William S. Burroughs began an expedition into the jungles of South America to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. From the notebooks he kept and the letters he wrote home to Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs composed a narrative of his adventures that later appeared as The Yage Letters. For this edition, Oliver Harris has gone back to the original manuscripts and untangled the history of the text, telling the fascinating story of its genesis and cultural importance. Also included in this edition are extensive materials, never before published, by both Burroughs and Ginsberg.
William S. Burroughs is widely recognized as one of the most influential and innovative writers of the twentieth century. His books include Junky, Naked Lunch, and The Wild Boys.
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The Year of Magical Thinkingby Joan DidionISBN 1400078431 (1-4000-7843-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Year of Magical Thinking'Book summary:From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage-and a life, in good times and bad-that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later-the night before New Year's Eve-the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." [via]
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