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1876by Gore VidalISBN 0434829633 (0-434-82963-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: '1876'Book summary:The more things change, the more they stay the same: "The last few days would have brought down any parliamentary government. As it is, the Grant Administration is a shambles, and there is even talk that the President may resign."
Charles Schuyler, the narrator of Burr, returns to the United States after an absence of nearly 40 years, with his widowed daughter, Emma, in tow. While they try to find a suitably rich husband for Emma among the New York social set, Charles concentrates on the scandals in Washington--including accusations of corruption and obstruction of justice against Ulysses S. Grant--and the presidential race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden (Tilden apparently, in fact, won the election, only to have it taken away because of electoral fraud). Cameo appearances by Chester A. Arthur, Mark Twain, Charles Nordhoff, and others enliven the proceedings. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Amphigorey Tooby Edward John GoreyISBN 0399504206 (0-399-50420-6)
Softcover, Perigee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amphigorey Too'Book summary:Sept., 1977 G.P. Putnam/Berkley Windhover over-sized softcover, third printing. Humor and illustrations by wonderfully quirky Edward Gorey. [via]
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Anne Sexton: A Biographyby Diane Wood MiddlebrookISBN 0395353629 (0-395-35362-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Lettersby Lois Ames, Linda Gray SextonISBN 0395628806 (0-395-62880-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novelby Truman CapoteISBN 0394556453 (0-394-55645-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Art of Eating: Five Gastronomical Worksby M. F. K. FisherISBN 0394713990 (0-394-71399-0)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Eating: Five Gastronomical Works'Book summary:A collection of essays by one of America's best known food writers, that are often more autobiographical or historical than anecdotal musings on food preparation and consumption. The book includes culinary advice to World War II housewives plagued by food shortages, portraits of family members and friends (with all their idiosyncrasies) and notes on her studies at the University of Dijon, in France. Through each story she weaves her love of food and passion for cooking, and illustrates that our three basic needs as human beings--love, food and security--are so intermingled that it is difficult to think of one without the others. The book won the 1989 James Beard Cookbook Award. [via]
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Bagombo Snuff Boxby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0425174468 (0-425-17446-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bagombo Snuff Box'Book summary:From out of the blue, here's a new collection of Vonnegut fiction--his first magazine stories from the 1950s in book form at last, with some charming reminiscences (and three new endings for old stories) by the author. Vonnegut says these tales were meant to be as evanescent as lightening bugs, and that image captures their frail magic. They're like time travelers from an epoch when stories swarmed in mass-market magazines, before TV dawned and doomed them.
Later greatness glimmers here: the offbeat sci-fi of "Thanasphere" (in which an astronaut encounters dead souls in space) and the hero's bogus adventures in alien lands in "Bagombo Snuff Box" look forward to Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, as do the war stories "Souvenir," "Der Arme Dolmetscher," and "The Cruise of The Jolly Roger," which incorporate and amplify Vonnegut's actual war experiences. There's authentic midcentury news here, even in the gentle Saturday Evening Post social satire of "The No-Talent Kid," "Ambitious Sophomore," and "The Boy Who Hated Girls," which pretty much nail the high-school marching band experience. The pieces are peppered with odd, true observations and neat little turns of phrase: one incompetent kid in Lincoln High's band marches "flappingly, like a mother flamingo pretending to be injured, luring alligators from her nest."
You can't miss the ironic humor and the humane, death-haunted melancholy of the young war veteran and tyro writer. This collection beats his first novel, Player Piano, and anticipates the masterpiece Cat's Cradle, whose tiny chapters resemble short stories. Young Vonnegut is derivative, mostly of Saki and O. Henry, partly because he couldn't think of endings, and their switcheroos offered a handy model. But from the start, Vonnegut's idiosyncratic voice is unmistakable. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty/91124by Edmund WhiteISBN 0394564448 (0-394-56444-8)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beautiful Room Is Empty/91124'Book summary:When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink--The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age.
"With intelligence, candor, humor--and anger--White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."--Washington Post book World
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Bechby John UpdikeISBN 0394745094 (0-394-74509-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melvilleby David S. ReynoldsISBN 039454448X (0-394-54448-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Best American Short Stories, 1989by Margaret Atwood, Shannon RavenelISBN 0395470986 (0-395-47098-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Big Skyby A. B. GuthrieISBN 0395611539 (0-395-61153-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Bonesetter's Daughterby Amy TanISBN 0399146857 (0-399-14685-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'Book summary:At the beginning of Amy Tan's fourth novel, two packets of papers written in Chinese calligraphy fall into the hands of Ruth Young. One bundle is titled Things I Know Are True and the other, Things I Must Not Forget. The author? That would be the protagonist's mother, LuLing, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In these documents the elderly matriarch, born in China in 1916, has set down a record of her birth and family history, determined to keep the facts from vanishing as her mind deteriorates.
A San Francisco career woman who makes her living by ghostwriting self-help books, Ruth has little idea of her mother's past or true identity. What's more, their relationship has tended to be an angry one. Still, Ruth recognizes the onset of LuLing's decline--along with her own remorse over past rancor--and hires a translator to decipher the packets. She also resolves to "ask her mother to tell her about her life. For once, she would ask. She would listen. She would sit down and not be in a hurry or have anything else to do."
Framed at either end by Ruth's chapters, the central portion of The Bonesetter's Daughter takes place in China in the remote, mountainous region where anthropologists discovered Peking Man in the 1920s. Here superstition and tradition rule over a succession of tiny villages. And here LuLing grows up under the watchful eye of her hideously scarred nursemaid, Precious Auntie. As she makes clear, it's not an enviable setting:
I noticed the ripe stench of a pig pasture, the pockmarked land dug up by dragon-bone dream-seekers, the holes in the walls, the mud by the wells, the dustiness of the unpaved roads. I saw how all the women we passed, young and old, had the same bland face, sleepy eyes that were mirrors of their sleepy minds.
Nor is rural isolation the worst of it. LuLing's family, a clan of ink makers, believes itself cursed by its connection to a local doctor, who cooks up his potions and remedies from human bones. And indeed, a great deal of bad luck befalls the narrator and her sister GaoLing before they can finally engineer their escape from China. Along the way, familial squabbles erupt around every corner, particularly among mothers, daughters, and sisters. And as she did in her earlier The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan uses these conflicts to explore the intricate dynamic that exists between first-generation Americans and their immigrant elders. --Victoria Jenkins [via] 
The Bourne Supremacyby Robert LudlumISBN 0394543963 (0-394-54396-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957by W. H. AudenISBN 0394720156 (0-394-72015-6)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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The Complete Tales of Uncle Remusby Joel Chandler Harris, Richard ChaseISBN 0395067995 (0-395-06799-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Complete Works of Nathanael Westby Nathanael WestISBN 0436566001 (0-436-56600-1)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Contemporary American Poetryby A. PoulinISBN 0395286352 (0-395-28635-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Co
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Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395432316 (0-395-43231-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395745322 (0-395-74532-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395050634 (0-395-05063-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395186188 (0-395-18618-8)
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Contemporary American Poetryby Michael Waters, A. PoulinISBN 039577800X (0-395-77800-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Damascus Gateby Robert StoneISBN 0395665698 (0-395-66569-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Don Quixote, Which Was a Dreamby Kathy AckerISBN 0394550188 (0-394-55018-8)
Softcover, Grove Press
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The Emperor Jones, "Anna Christie", the Hairy Apeby Eugene Gladstone O'NeillISBN 0394718550 (0-394-71855-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emperor Jones, "Anna Christie", the Hairy Ape'Book summary:A dramas of human beings at war with their own condition by the Nobel laureate. The protagonist of The Emperor Jones is a black Pullman proter who claws and cons his way to the throne of a Caribbean island. [via]
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Empireby Gore Vidal, Edgar BoxISBN 0394561236 (0-394-56123-6)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire'Book summary:"Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of. And like the earlier novels in his historical cycle, Empire is a wonderfully vivid documentary drama." The New York Times Book Review
In this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Agea period of promise and possibility, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries. In a vivid and beathtaking work of fiction, where the fortunes of a sister and brother intertwine with the fates of the generation, their country, and some of the greatest names of their day, including President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, William and Henry James, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and the Whitneys, Gore Vidal sweeps us from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, from the salvaged republic of Lincoln to a nation boldly reaching for the world.
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End Zoneby Don DelilloISBN 0395136458 (0-395-13645-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Farewell, My Lovelyby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394758277 (0-394-75827-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farewell, My Lovely'Book summary:Private Detective Philip Marlow is in trouble. He witnesses a murder and knows who the killer is, but for some reason the police don't want to find the murderer, so Marlowe decides to find out for himself. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]
Faulkner Readerby William FaulknerISBN 0394603990 (0-394-60399-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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From Here to Eternityby James JonesISBN 0440027519 (0-440-02751-9)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press
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A Gathering of Old Menby Ernest J. GainesISBN 0394725913 (0-394-72591-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ; & But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: Two Novelsby Anita LoosISBN 0394714628 (0-394-71462-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Giverby Lois LowryISBN 0395645662 (0-395-64566-2)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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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 Giver And Related Readingsby Not AvailableISBN 0395775299 (0-395-77529-9)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Giver And Related Readings'Book summary:From Wikipedia: The Giver is a dystopian children's novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "Sameness," a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of "Receiver of Memory," the person who stores all the past memories of the time before Sameness, in case they are ever needed to aid in decisions that others lack the experience to make. When Jonas meets the previous receiver-The "Giver"-he is confused in many ways. The Giver is also able to break some rules, such as turning off the speaker and lying to people of the community. As Jonas receives the memories from the Giver, he discovers the power of knowledge. The people in his community are happy because they don't know of a better life, but the knowledge of what they are missing out on could create major chaos. He faces a dilemma: Should he stay with the community, his family living a shallow life without love, color, choices, and knowledge, or should he run away to where he can live a full life? ~~~ Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersberg[1] on March 20, 1937) is an American author of children's literature. She began her career as a photographer and a freelance journalist during the early 1970s. Her work as a journalist drew the attention of Houghton Mifflin and they encouraged her to write her first children's book, A Summer to Die, which was published in 1977 (when Lowry was 40 years old). She has since written more than 30 books for children and published an autobiography. Two of her works have been awarded the prestigious Newbery Medal: Number the Stars in 1990, and The Giver in 1993. ~~~ As an author, Lowry is known for writing about difficult subject matters within her works for children. [via]
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The Godfatherby Mario PuzoISBN 0399103422 (0-399-10342-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Godfather'Book summary:The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo's The Godfather that Corleone first appears. As Corleone's desperate struggle to control the Mafia underworld unfolds, so does the story of his family. The novel is full of exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. Filled with the requisite valor, love, and rancor of a great epic, The Godfather is the definitive gangster novel. [via]
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The Good Soldierby Ford Madox FordISBN 0394713869 (0-394-71386-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Soldier'Book summary:Set just before World War I, The Good Soldier chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks, it also makes use of the device of the unreliable narrator as the main character gradually reveals a version of events that is quite different from what the introduction leads you to believe. The novel was loosely based on two incidents of adultery and on Ford's messy personal life. [via]
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Haircut and Other Storiesby Ring LardnerISBN 0394726103 (0-394-72610-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Hawthorne's Short Storiesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Newton ArvinISBN 0394700155 (0-394-70015-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Idaby Gertrude SteinISBN 039471797X (0-394-71797-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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In the Lake of the Woodsby Tim O'BrienISBN 0395488893 (0-395-48889-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Lake of the Woods'Book summary:Tim O'Brien has been writing about Vietnam in one way or another ever since he served there as an infantryman in the late 1960s. His earliest work on the subject, If I Die in a Combat Zone, was an intensely personal memoir of his own tour of duty; his books since then have featured many of the same elements of fear, boredom, and moral ambiguity but in a fictional setting. In 1994 O'Brien wrote In the Lake of the Woods, a novel that, while imbued with the troubled spirit of Vietnam, takes place entirely after the war and in the United States. The main character, John Wade, is a man in crisis: after spending years building a successful political career, he finds his future derailed during a bid for the U.S. Senate by revelations about his past as a soldier in Vietnam. The election lost by a landslide, John and his wife, Kathy, retreat to a small cabin on the shores of a Minnesota lake--from which Kathy mysteriously disappears.
Was she murdered? Did she run away? Instead of answering these questions, O'Brien raises even more as he slowly reveals past lives and long-hidden secrets. Included in this third-person narrative are "interviews" with the couple's friends and family as well as footnoted excerpts from a mix of fictionalized newspaper reports on the case and real reports pertaining to historical events--a mélange that lends the novel an eerie sense of verisimilitude. If Kathy's disappearance is at the heart of this work, then John's involvement in a My Lai-type massacre in Vietnam is its core, and O'Brien uses it to demonstrate how wars don't necessarily end when governments say they do. In the Lake of the Woods may not be true, but it feels true--and for Tim O'Brien, that's true enough. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Kalkiby Gore VidalISBN 043482965X (0-434-82965-X)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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The Lady in the Lakeby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394758250 (0-394-75825-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady in the Lake'Book summary:A beautiful, historically accurate edition of the modern classic first published in 1943 reproduces the original and offers an alternative for those who love great old books and want to relive Philip Marlowe's strange and puzzling search for the missing woman. [via]
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Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Storiesby E. L. DoctorowISBN 0394525302 (0-394-52530-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories'Book summary:Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In The Writer in the Family, a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative through letters. In Wili, an early-twentieth-century idyll is destroyed by infidelity. In The Foreign Legation, a girl and an act of political anarchy collide with devastating results. These and other stories flow into the novella Lives of the Poets, in which the images and themes of the earlier stories become part of the narrators unsparing confessions about his own mind, offering a rare look at the creative process and its connection to the heart.
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Magnetic Fieldby Ron LoewinsohnISBN 0394531051 (0-394-53105-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0394747232 (0-394-74723-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History'Book summary:Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one.
Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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More Die of Heartbreakby Saul BellowISBN 0440201101 (0-440-20110-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Morte D'Urbanby J.F. PowersISBN 0394741358 (0-394-74135-8)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writingsby Carson McCullersISBN 0395109531 (0-395-10953-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Mosquito Coastby Paul TherouxISBN 0395318378 (0-395-31837-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mosquito Coast'Book summary:Allie Fox hates America and everything about the twentieth century. He takes his wife and two sons to the Honduran jungle to live a better, simpler life but when he starts to go mad, life for his family becomes much more frightening than ever before ... Tragedy and farce in the jungle. Harrison Ford starred in the smash-hit film. [via]
Myra Breckinridge ; Myronby Gore Vidal, Edgar BoxISBN 0394754441 (0-394-75444-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Necessary Angelby Wallace StevensISBN 0394702786 (0-394-70278-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Nine Plays of Eugene O'Neillby Eugene O'NeillISBN 0394604164 (0-394-60416-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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October Lightby John GardnerISBN 0394740580 (0-394-74058-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Opus Pistorumby Henry MillerISBN 0394533747 (0-394-53374-7)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Otter Nonsenseby Norton Juster, Eric CarleISBN 039920931X (0-399-20931-X)
Softcover, Horizon Book Promotions
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Painted Birdby Jerzy N. KosinskiISBN 0394604334 (0-394-60433-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Painted Bird'Book summary:Many writers have portrayed the cruelty people inflict upon each other in the name of war or ideology or garden-variety hate, but few books will surpass Kosinski's first novel, The Painted Bird, for the sheer creepiness in its savagery. The story follows an abandoned young boy who wanders alone through the frozen bogs and broken towns of Eastern Europe during and after World War II, trying to survive. His experiences and actions occur at and beyond the limits of what might be called humanity, but Kosinski never averts his eyes, nor allows us to. [via]
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The Phantom Tollboothby Norton Juster, Jules FeifferISBN 0394820371 (0-394-82037-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Phantom Tollbooth'Book summary:"It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "[T]here's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored, bored young protagonist who can't see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll, and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull.
Norton Juster received (and continues to receive) enormous praise for this original, witty, and oftentimes hilarious novel, first published in 1961. In an introductory "Appreciation" written by Maurice Sendak for the 35th anniversary edition, he states, "The Phantom Tollbooth leaps, soars, and abounds in right notes all over the place, as any proper masterpiece must." Indeed.
As Milo heads toward Dictionopolis he meets with the Whether Man ("for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be"), passes through The Doldrums (populated by Lethargarians), and picks up a watchdog named Tock (who has a giant alarm clock for a body). The brilliant satire and double entendre intensifies in the Word Market, where after a brief scuffle with Officer Short Shrift, Milo and Tock set off toward the Mountains of Ignorance to rescue the twin Princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Anyone with an appreciation for language, irony, or Alice in Wonderland-style adventure will adore this book for years on end. (Ages 8 and up) [via]
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Softcover, Random House Inc - The Phantom Tollbooth: ISBN 0394915003 (0-394-91500-3)
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Playbackby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394757661 (0-394-75766-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Playback'Book summary:Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it.
"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence:" -- Ross Macdonald [via]More editions of Playback:
Pylonby William FaulknerISBN 0394747410 (0-394-74741-0)
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Red Dragonby Thomas HarrisISBN 0440206154 (0-440-20615-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Dragon'Book summary:Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas's Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs. As in Silence, the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist Lecter for clues to catching a killer on the loose.
The sleuth, Will Graham, actually quit the FBI after nearly getting killed by Lecter while nabbing him, but fear isn't what bugs him about crime busting. It's just too creepy to get inside a killer's twisted mind. But he comes back to stop a madman who's been butchering entire families. The FBI needs Graham's insight, and Graham needs Lecter's genius. But Lecter is a clever fiend, and he manipulates both Graham and the killer at large from his cell.
That killer, Francis Dolarhyde, works in a film lab, where he picks his victims by studying their home movies. He's obsessed with William Blake's bizarre painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, believing there's a red dragon within him, the personification of his demonic drives. Flashbacks to Dolarhyde's terrifying childhood and superb stream-of-consciousness prose get us right there inside his head. When Dolarhyde does weird things, we understand why. We sympathize when the voice of the cruel dead grandma who raised and crazed him urges him to mayhem--she's way scarier than that old bat in Psycho. When he falls in love with a blind girl at the lab, we hope he doesn't give in to Grandma's violent advice.
This book is awesomely detailed, ingeniously plotted, judiciously gory, and fantastically imagined. If you haven't read it, you've never had the creeps. --Tim Appelo [via]
Roger's Versionby John UpdikeISBN 0394554353 (0-394-55435-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Running Dogby Don DelilloISBN 0394741218 (0-394-74121-8)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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S.by John UpdikeISBN 0394568354 (0-394-56835-4)
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Sabbath's Theaterby Philip RothISBN 0395739829 (0-395-73982-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Same Doorby John UpdikeISBN 0394747631 (0-394-74763-1)
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Selections from Ralph Waldo Emersonby Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 0395051126 (0-395-05112-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Shawlby Cynthia OzickISBN 0394579763 (0-394-57976-3)
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Spanking the Maidby Robert CooverISBN 0394525612 (0-394-52561-2)
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The Sportswriterby Richard FordISBN 0394743253 (0-394-74325-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Spyby James Fenimore Cooper, James P. ElliottISBN 0404644546 (0-404-64454-6)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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The Sunlight Dialoguesby John GardnerISBN 0394743946 (0-394-74394-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sunlight Dialogues'Book summary:[via]John Gardners sweeping portrait of the collision of opposing philosophical perspectives in 1960s America, centering on the appearance of a mysterious stranger in a small upstate New York townOne summer day, a countercultural drifter known only as the Sunlight Man appears in Batavia, New York. Jailed for painting the word LOVE across two lanes of traffic, the Sunlight Man encounters Fred Clumly, a sixty-four-year-old town sheriff. Throughout the course of this impressive narrative, the dialogue between these two men becomes a microcosm of the social unrest that epitomized America during this significant historical periodand culminates in an unforgettable ending.Beautifully expansive and imbued with exceptional social insight, The Sunlight Dialogues is John Gardners most ambitious work andestablished him as one of the most important fiction writers in postWorld War II America.This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.More editions of The Sunlight Dialogues:
Suttreeby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0394741455 (0-394-74145-5)
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Theftby Saul BellowISBN 043603963X (0-436-03963-X)
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The Theory of the Leisure Class: With an Introd. by John Kenneth Galbraithby Thorstein VeblenISBN 0395140080 (0-395-14008-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Under the Roofs of Parisby Yuri SalzmanISBN 0394620305 (0-394-62030-5)
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Vanity of Duluozby Jack KerouacISBN 0399503862 (0-399-50386-2)
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Vox : A Novelby Nicholson BakerISBN 0394589955 (0-394-58995-5)
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World's Fairby E. L. DoctorowISBN 0394525280 (0-394-52528-0)
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The Young Lionsby Irwin ShawISBN 0440197945 (0-440-19794-5)
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