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The Agony and the Ecstasyby Irving StoneISBN 0451171357 (0-451-17135-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Agony and the Ecstasy'Book summary:Fictional depiction of Michelangelo. Includes bibliography, glossary and a list of the artist's works. [via]
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The American Dream and Zoo Storyby Edward AlbeeISBN 0452278899 (0-452-27889-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Dream: And the Zoo Story'Book summary:The American Dream: The story of one of America's most dysfunctional families, it is a ferocious, uproarious attack on the substitution of artifical values for the real values- a startling tale of murder and morality that rocks middle-class ethics to its complacent foundations. The Zoo Story: A harrowing depiction of a young man alienated from the human race- a searing story of loneliness and the desperate need for recognition that builds to a violent, shattering climax. Together, these plays show men and women at their most hilarious, heartbreaking, and above all, human. [via]
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Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novelby Truman CapoteISBN 0452264839 (0-452-26483-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Aspern Papersby Henry Janes, Daniel AaronISBN 0460874926 (0-460-87492-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aspern Papers'Book summary:One in a series of classic novels from Henry James. [via]
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The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroixby Stephen KingISBN 0451190556 (0-451-19055-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix'Book summary:Time has run out for one of the inmates at the Cold Mountain penitentiary. Eduard Delacroix is set to take that final walk down the Green Mile. But first he must say good-bye--to the guards, to his fellow inmates, and to a strange creature that forever changed his life. Little does he know of the terrible fate that awaits him, and of a devilish plan of revenge.
Nothing you have ever read can prepare you for Stephen King's boldest exercise in terror, a multi-part serial audiobook that begins on Death Row and burrows inward to the most horrific secrets of the heart. Put yourself in Stephen King's hands, and feel the grip get tighter and tighter. [via]
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Basket Caseby Carl HiaasenISBN 044661193X (0-446-61193-X)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Basket Case'Book summary:Take one dead rock & roll star, his Courtney Love-type widow, the mysterious deaths of his former bandmates, and the lost tracks of a comeback album. Stir in Jack Tagger, a middle-aged investigative reporter obsessed with death since his banishment to the obit desk; a fetching young editor with a yen for our hero; and a boss looking for a reason to fire him. Put them in the hands of a master like Carl Hiaasen, who adds his trademark flourishes (who else would use a frozen lizard as a weapon?) to a creaky plot like this one, and the result is a winner. Florida is full of caper writers with journalistic credentials, and plenty of them have a deft hand with quirky characters, but no one in the genre is better than Hiaasen. --Jane Adams [via]
Bechby John UpdikeISBN 044900452X (0-449-00452-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Black and Blueby Anna QuindlenISBN 0440226104 (0-440-22610-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black and Blue'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1998: "The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old," begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. "Frannie, Frannie, Fran"--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen appliances--was a young, energetic nursing student when she met her husband-to-be at a local Brooklyn bar. She was instantly captivated by his dark, brooding looks and magnetic personality, but her fascination soon solidified into a marital prison sentence of incessant abuse and the destruction of her own identity. After an especially horrific beating and rape, Fran realizes that the next attack could be the last. Fearing her son would be left alone with Bobby, she escapes one morning with her child. Fran's salvation comes in the form of Patty Bancroft and Co., a relocation agency for abused women that touts better service than the witness protection program. Armed only with a phone number, a few hundred dollars, and the help of several anonymous volunteers, Fran begins a new life. The agency relocates her to Florida, where she becomes Beth Crenshaw, a recently divorced home-care assistant from Delaware. Fran and her son adapt, meeting challenges with unexpected resilience and resolve until their past returns to haunt them. Quindlen renders the intricacies of spousal abuse with eerie accuracy, taking the reader deep within the realm of dysfunctional human ties. However, her vivid descriptions of abuse, emotional disintegration, and acute loneliness at times numb the reader with their realism. [via]
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The Bondwoman's Narrativeby Henry Louis Gates, Hannah CraftsISBN 0446690295 (0-446-69029-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bondwoman's Narrative'Book summary:Few events are more thrilling than the discovery of a buried treasure. Some years ago, when scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. was leafing through an auction catalog, he noticed a listing for an unpublished, clothbound manuscript thought to date from the 1850s: "The Bondwoman's Narrative, by Hannah Crafts, a Fugitive Slave, Recently Escaped from North Carolina." Gates realized that, if genuine, this would be the first novel known to have been written by a black woman in America, as well as the only one by a fugitive slave. He bought the manuscript (there was no competing bid) and began the exhilarating task of confirming the racial identity of the author and the approximate date of composition (circa 1855-59). Gates's excited descriptions of his detective work in the introduction to The Bondwoman's Narrative will make you want to find promising old manuscripts of your own. He also proposes a couple candidates for authorship, assuming that Hannah Crafts was the real or assumed name of the author, and not solely a pen name.
If Gates is right (his introduction and appendix should convince just about everyone), The Bondwoman's Narrative is a tremendous discovery. But is it a lost masterpiece? No. The novel draws so heavily on the conventions of mid-19th-century fiction--by turns religious, gothic, and sentimental--that it does not have much flavor of its own. The beginning of chapter 13 is a close paraphrase (virtually a cribbing) of the opening of Dickens's Bleak House. This borrowing seems to have escaped Gates, although he does quote the assessment of one scholar, the librarian Dorothy Porter Wesley, who had owned the manuscript before he acquired it, that "the best of the writer's mind was religious and emotional and in her handling of plot the long arm of coincidence is nowhere spared." Although not a striking literary contribution, The Bondwoman's Narrative is well worth reading on historical grounds, especially since it was never published. As Gates argues, these pages provide our first "unedited, unaffected, unglossed, unaided" glimpse into the mind of a fugitive slave. --Regina Marler [via]
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The Bridges of Madison Countyby Robert James WallerISBN 0446364495 (0-446-36449-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Bridges of Madison County: The Filmby Robert James Waller, Ken ReganISBN 0446519979 (0-446-51997-9)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0451527038 (0-451-52703-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Call of the Wild and Selected Storiesby Jack LondonISBN 0451513835 (0-451-51383-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Call of the Wild and Selected Stories'Book summary:Buck, the dog hero, is sold into service in the Klondike. Abused by men and dogs, clubs and fangs, he becomes a ruthless fighter. A master that he deeply loves and respects saves him. But the actions of both humans and canines alike eventually force him to follow an instinct that he cannot resist. (Three CDs) [via]
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Ceremonyby Leslie Marmon SilkoISBN 0451138929 (0-451-13892-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ceremony'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A Navajo family on a New Mexico reservation struggles to survive in a world no longer theirs in the years just before and after World War II. [via]
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A Charmed Lifeby Mary McCarthyISBN 0452250854 (0-452-25085-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Chesapeakeby James A. MichenerISBN 0449211584 (0-449-21158-4)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chesapeake'Book summary:"Michener's most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope."
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"Brilliantly written."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Once again James A. Michener brings history to life with this 400-year saga of America's great bay and its Eastern Shore. Following Edmund Steed and his remarkable family, who parallel the settling and forming of the nation, CHESAPEAKE sweeps readers from the unspoiled world of the Native Americans to the voyages of Captain John Smith, the Revolutionary War, and right up to modern times. [via]More editions of Chesapeake:
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Coffey on the Mileby Stephen KingISBN 0451190572 (0-451-19057-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coffey on the Mile'Book summary:The Green Mile is creatively packaged as a six-part series of small paperbacks--serial fiction for a new age. The story, set during the Great Depression, tells of John Coffey, an African American convicted of rape and murder who awaits his death in a Southern prison. Coffey has strange powers, and the creepy characters in the prison have their own views of his gifts, and of God's. The mystery is enhanced by the succession of installments. [via]
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Coffey's Handsby Stephen KingISBN 0451190548 (0-451-19054-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coffey's Hands'Book summary:Paul Coffey, the brutal killer of two girls, reveals something extraordinary, and life on the Green Mile will never be the same again. [via]
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Dark Tower: The Gunslinger/the Drawing of the Three/the Waste Lands/Wizard and Glassby Stephen KingISBN 0451211243 (0-451-21124-3)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Tower: The Gunslinger/the Drawing of the Three/the Waste Lands/Wizard and Glass'Book summary:Set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, The Dark Tower features one of Stephen Kings most powerful creationsThe Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient myth to frontier Western legend. As Roland crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twisted image of our own, he moves ever closer to the Dark Tower of his dreamsand nightmares.[via]More editions of Dark Tower: The Gunslinger/the Drawing of the Three/the Waste Lands/Wizard and Glass:
Democracy: An American Novelby Henry AdamsISBN 0452009421 (0-452-00942-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Driftersby James A. MichenerISBN 0449213536 (0-449-21353-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Drifters'Book summary:In his triumphant best seller, James Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of six young runaways adrift in a world they have created out of dreams, drugs, and dedication to pleasure. With the sure touch of a master, Michener pulls us into the dark center of their private world, whether it's in Spain, Marrakech, or Mozambique, and exposes the naked nerve ends with shocking candor and infinite compassion.
"A superior, picaresque novel...and a revealing mirror held up to contemporary society."
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Dune Messiahby Frank HerbertISBN 0441172695 (0-441-17269-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune Messiah'Book summary:mass market paperback book [via]
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End of the Roadby John BarthISBN 044800240X (0-448-00240-X)
Softcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Eyes of the Dragonby Stephen KingISBN 0451166582 (0-451-16658-2)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eyes of the Dragon'Book summary:A kingdom is in turmoil as the old king dies and his successor must do battle for the throne. Pitted against an evil wizard and a would-be rival, Prince Peter makes a daring escape and rallies the forces of Good to fight for what is rightfully his. This is a masterpiece of classic dragons-and-magic fantasy that only Stephen King could have written! [via]
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Following The Equatorby Mark TwainISBN 0486261131 (0-486-26113-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Following The Equator'Book summary:Great writer's 1897 account of circumnavigating the globe by steamship. Brimming with ironic, tongue-in-cheek humor, the book describes shark fishing in Australia, riding the rails in India, tiger hunting, diamond mining in South Africa, much more; also peoples, climate, flora and fauna, customs, religion, politics, food, etc. 197 illustrations.[via]More editions of Following The Equator:
Four Playsby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0451529146 (0-451-52914-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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From Here to Eternityby James JonesISBN 0440327709 (0-440-32770-9)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Here to Eternity'Book summary:This is a long, satisfying, commanding novel of the soldiers who were poised on the brink of real manhood when World War II flung them unceremoniously into that abyss. Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt is the nonconformist hero who refuses to box at Schofield Barracks and is slowly destroyed by his own rebelliousness. Around him, others are fighing their own small battles--and losing. It's worth noting that Jones' 1951 audience was shocked by his frank language and the sexual preoccupations of his characters. [via]
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The Giverby Lois LowryISBN 0440237688 (0-440-23768-8)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Giver'Book summary:In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of Brave New World, in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to create a more stable society. Gradually Jonas learns just how costly this ordered and pain-free society can be, and boldly decides he cannot pay the price. [via]
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The Godfatherby Mario PuzoISBN 0451167716 (0-451-16771-6)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Godfather'Book summary:The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo's The Godfather that Corleone first appears. As Corleone's desperate struggle to control the Mafia underworld unfolds, so does the story of his family. The novel is full of exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. Filled with the requisite valor, love, and rancor of a great epic, The Godfather is the definitive gangster novel. [via]
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- The Godfather: ISBN 0451205766 (0-451-20576-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Godfather: ISBN 0451217403 (0-451-21740-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Godfather: ISBN 0449234088 (0-449-23408-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Godfather: ISBN 0451208447 (0-451-20844-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Godfather: ISBN 0451167716 (0-451-16771-6)
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- The Godfather: ISBN 0451205766 (0-451-20576-6)
Going to Meet the Manby James BaldwinISBN 0440329310 (0-440-32931-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Good Soldierby Ford Madox FordISBN 0451525531 (0-451-52553-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Goodbye Lookby Ross MacDonaldISBN 0446358940 (0-446-35894-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Timeby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0446314404 (0-446-31440-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The Green Mileby Stephen KingISBN 0451933028 (0-451-93302-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Mile'Book summary:When Stephen King originally wrote The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be one of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.
Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colourful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.
The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Gunslingerby Stephen KingISBN 0451210840 (0-451-21084-0)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gunslinger'Book summary:[via]Eerie, dreamlike, set in a world that is weirdly related to our own, The Gunslinger introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, of In-World that was, as he pursues his enigmatic antagonist to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea. Roland is a solitary figure, perhaps accursed, who with a strange singlemindedness traverses an exhausted, almost timeless landscape. The people he encounters are left behind, or worseleft dead. At a way station, however, he meets Jake, a boy from a particular time (1977) and a particular place (New York City), and soon the two are joinedkhef, ka, and ka-tet. The mountains lie before them. So does the man in black and, somewhere far beyond...the Dark Tower.
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- The Gunslinger: ISBN 0452284694 (0-452-28469-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Gunslinger: ISBN 0451160525 (0-451-16052-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Gunslinger: ISBN 0452261341 (0-452-26134-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Gunslinger: ISBN 0452279607 (0-452-27960-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Gunslinger: ISBN 0451210840 (0-451-21084-0)
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Hawaiiby James A. MichenerISBN 0449213358 (0-449-21335-8)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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Heat and Other Storiesby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452266467 (0-452-26646-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Human Comedyby William SaroyanISBN 0440339332 (0-440-33933-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Human Comedy'Book summary:The place is Ithaca, in California's San Joaquin Valley. The time is World War II. The family is the Macauley'sa mother, sister, and three brothers whose struggles and dreams reflect those of America's second-generation immigrants&In particular, fourteen-year-old Homer, determined to become one of the fastest telegraph messengers in the West, finds himself caught between reality and illusion as delivering his messages of wartime death, love, and money brings him face-to-face with human emotion at its most naked and raw.
Gentle, poignant and richly autobiographical, this delightful novel shows us the boy becoming the man in a world that even in the midst of war, appears sweeter, safer and more livable than out own. [via]More editions of The Human Comedy:
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet A. JacobsISBN 0451527526 (0-451-52752-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'Book summary:In one of the most significant slave narratives ever written, Harriet Jacobs, born a slave to mulatto parents in 1813 North Carolina, recounts her remarkable story. From her sale to an abusive master, to her bid for freedom as the lover of a white man, to her ultimate and harrowing emancipation, this work is an outstanding example of a woman's extraordinary courage--and one of the most provocative first-person accounts of slavery in American history.
Afterword by Myrlie Evers-Williams
"One of the major autobiographies of the Afro-American tradition."-- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. [via]More editions of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl:
The Jumping Frogby Mark TwainISBN 0486226867 (0-486-22686-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Lives of the Monster Dogsby Kirsten BakisISBN 0446674168 (0-446-67416-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives of the Monster Dogs'Book summary:A postmodern Mary Shelley, taking the parable of Frankenstein's monster several giant steps farther, might have written this fable of a novel about a tragic race of monster dogs--in this case, genetically and biomechanically engineered dogs (of several major breeds). Created by a German mad scientist in the 19th century, the monster dogs possess human intelligence, speak human language, have prosthetic humanlike hands and walk upright on hind legs. The dogs' descendants arrive in New York City in the year 2008, still acting like Victorian-era aristocrats. Most important, the monster dogs suffer humanlike frailties and, ultimately, real suffering more serious and affecting than the subject matter might at first glance suggest. [via]
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Lives of the Poets : A Novella and Six Storiesby E. L. DoctorowISBN 0452278791 (0-452-27879-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Marble Faunby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0452010128 (0-452-01012-8)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marble Faun'Book summary:This novel tells the story of Donarells, an Italian Count bearing an uncanny resemblance to the faun of Praxiteles, the sculptor Kenyon and two young art students, Miriam and Hilda. The author also wrote "Scarlet Letter". [via]
Memories of the Ford Administrationby John UpdikeISBN 0449912116 (0-449-91211-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Night Journeyby Stephen KingISBN 0451190564 (0-451-19056-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Journey'Book summary:Paul Edgecombe and his fellow guards take a huge gamble by taking convicted killer John Coffey away from Death Row in the dead of night to bring him to the bedside of a woman writhing in torment. [via]
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Of the Farmby John UpdikeISBN 0449214516 (0-449-21451-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Omensetter's Luckby William H. GassISBN 0452257859 (0-452-25785-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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A Patchwork Planetby Anne TylerISBN 0449003981 (0-449-00398-1)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Patchwork Planet'Book summary:Barnaby Gaitlin is one of Anne Tyler's most promising unpromising characters. At 30, he has yet to graduate from college, is already divorced, and is used to defeat. His mother thrives on reminding him of his adolescent delinquency and debt to his family, and even his daughter is fed up with his fecklessness. Still, attuned as he is to "the normal quota for misfortune," Barney is one of the star employees of Baltimore's Rent-a-Back, Inc., which pays him an hourly wage to help old people (and one young agoraphobe) run errands and sort out their basements and attics. Anne Tyler makes you admire most of these mothball eccentrics (though they're far from idealized) and hope that they can stave off nursing homes and death. There is, for example, "the unstoppable little black grandma whose children phoned us on an emergency basis whenever she threatened to overdo." And then there's Barnaby's new girlfriend's aunt, who will eventually accuse him of theft--"Over her forearm she carried a Yorkshire terrier, neatly folded like a waiter's napkin. 'This is my doorbell,' she said, thrusting him toward me. 'I'd never have known you were out here if not for Tatters.'" These people are wonderful creations, but their lives are more brittle than cuddly, Barnaby knows better than to think of them as friends, because they'll only die on him. Yet his job offers at least glimpses of roots and affection. Helping an old lady set up her Christmas tree (on New Year's Eve!) gives him the chance to hang a singular ornament--a snowflake "pancake-sized, slightly crumpled, snipped from gift wrap so old that the Santas were smoking cigarettes." And Barnaby himself is sharp and impatient at painful--and painfully funny--family dinners, apparently unable to keep his finger off the auto-self-destruct button every time his life improves. As much as his superb creator, he is a poet of disappointment, resignation, and minute transformation. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Pentimentoby Lillian HellmanISBN 0451154428 (0-451-15442-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Primary Colorsby AnonymousISBN 0446604275 (0-446-60427-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Primary Colors'Book summary:The famous -- or infamous -- roman a clef about the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign. You've read the hype; now read the book.
Primary Colors has its rich rewards as a savvy insider's look at life on the stump. But it travels far beyond mere gossip and expose and discovers a convincing world of its own, peopled by smart cookies, nutcases, and wheeler-dealers, whose public and private lives illuminate each other -- sometimes by casting dark shadows. This story spans the novelistic spectrum from bedroom farce to high moral drama, and it paints a picture of the political state of the nation so vivid and authentic that one finds in it the deepest kind of truth -- the kind of truth that only fiction can tell. [via]
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The Red Badge of Courage and Four Storiesby Stephen Crane, R. W. StallmanISBN 0451526473 (0-451-52647-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Roger's Versionby John UpdikeISBN 0449912183 (0-449-91218-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roger's Version'Book summary:As Roger Lambert tells it, he, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is buttonholed in his office by Dale Kohler, an earnest young computer scientist who believes that quantifiable evidence of Gods existence is irresistibly accumulating. The theological-scientific debate that ensues, and the wicked strategies that Roger employs to disembarrass Dale of his faith, form the substance of this novelthese and the current of erotic attraction that pulls Esther, Rogers much younger wife, away from him and into Dales bed. The novel, a majestic allegory of faith and reason, ends also as a black comedy of revenge, for this is Rogers versionRoger Chillingworths side of the triangle described by Hawthornes Scarlet Lettermade new for a disbelieving age. [via]
Rommel Drives on Deep into Egyptby Richard BrautiganISBN 0440374960 (0-440-37496-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Sby John UpdikeISBN 0449216527 (0-449-21652-7)
Softcover, Crest
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Sartorisby William FaulknerISBN 0451514122 (0-451-51412-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Shadows on the Hudsonby Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph ShermanISBN 0452280036 (0-452-28003-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadows on the Hudson'Book summary:Although Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated from Poland to the United States in 1935, the circumscribed world of the Polish Jews remained at the heart of his imagination. Beginning with his first major work, Satan in Goray (1935), he used the life of the shtetl as raw material, transforming its folkways, religious practices, superstitions, and sexual habits into superior works of art. From time to time, however, Singer turned his eye upon New World Jews like himself, recording their rapid or reluctant assimilation into the American mainstream. One such book is Shadows on the Hudson.
This massive novel originally was serialized in the Yiddish-language Jewish Daily Forward in 1957. Now it has finally been translated into English--in a capable version by Joseph Sherman--and Singer fans should be very grateful. Center stage is occupied by Boris Makaver, a master builder equally devoted to I-beams and the Talmud, and Anna, his much-married daughter. Fanning out from this duo, however, is a small universe of refugees, all of them served up with Singer's customary brio. (Here's a comical snapshot of a shyster named Hertz Grein: "His nose had a Jewish hook, but then had second thoughts and straightened itself out. His lips were thin, and his blue eyes revealed a curious mixture of bashfulness, sharpness, and something else that was hard to define. Margolin used to say that he looked like a Yeshiva boy from Scandinavia.") As the subplots pile up in an unruly heap, the novel sometimes reveals its installment-plan origins. Still, Singer puts his large cast through some wonderful paces, and the endless talk--for these are characters who truly come alive through the medium of rapid, contentious, Yiddish-accented conversation--allows the author to speculate about destiny, identity, and freedom without slowing his story a whit. As Singer said more than once, "Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?" [via]
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The Souls of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 0451526031 (0-451-52603-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Souls of Black Folk'Book summary:William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true.
With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T. Washington and Others," where Du Bois criticizes his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races," he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens." The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.... One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Thanks to W.E.B. Du Bois' commitment and foresight--and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem--black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown, and beige reflections. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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The Spinoza of Market Streetby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0449213102 (0-449-21310-2)
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The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Editionby Stephen KingISBN 0451169530 (0-451-16953-0)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition'Book summary:In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Tennessee Williams: Four Plays - Summer and Smoke/Orpheus Descending/Suddenly Last Summer/Period of Adjustment/4 Plays in 1 Bookby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0451525124 (0-451-52512-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Theory of the Leisure Classby Thorstein VeblenISBN 0451627415 (0-451-62741-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theory of the Leisure Class'Book summary:The Theory of the Leisure Class is a work by Thorstein Veblen now brought to you in this new edition of the timeless classic. [via]
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Thoreau: On Man and Natureby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0442824289 (0-442-82428-9)
Hardcover, Peter Pauper Pr
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Two Years Before the Mastby Richard Henry DanaISBN 0451527593 (0-451-52759-3)
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We Have Always Lived in the Castleby Shirley JacksonISBN 0445083212 (0-445-08321-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twainby Alex Ayres, Mark TwainISBN 0452010586 (0-452-01058-6)
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Without Feathersby Woody AllenISBN 0446890359 (0-446-89035-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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World's Fairby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0452275725 (0-452-27572-5)
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You Must Remember Thisby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452280192 (0-452-28019-2)
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Zombieby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452275008 (0-452-27500-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zombie'Book summary:A hero who gets into the mind of a serial killer is a fixture of television crime shows, but such stories are usually disappointing, because the viewer knows it's just a gimmick. Not so with this unusual little novel, which The New York Times called a "note-perfect, horror-comic ventriloquization of a half-bright, infantile serial killer." Joyce Carol Oates has so convincingly written through the voice of a killer, you will feel nervous while reading at how familiar, how human, he is. Part of how she achieves the effect is through sparing use of bizarre capitalization (e.g., "MOON" and "FRAGMENT") and crude drawings done with a felt-tip pen. But the language is what makes it come alive, as in such weird statements as "My whole body is a numb tongue." This book was winner of the 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. [via]
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Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogueby Philip RothISBN 0449210901 (0-449-21090-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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