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The 13 Clocks
by James Thurber, Marc Simont

ISBN 1556111886 (1-55611-188-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
by William S. Burroughs

ISBN 1559702109 (1-55970-210-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 1419105523 (1-4191-0552-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by David Blair, Lewis Carroll, Graham Evernden

ISBN 1561382469 (1-56138-246-9)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub

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Our Miniature Edition "TM" collection continues to grow! Since 1989, when the first minis appeared, Running Press has offered an astonishing range of subjects, sure to find a place in any booklover's library! Visit the golf course for nine holes, head to the kitchen with the Silver Palate chefs, travel to the heavens above, or rediscover the wonders of nature in your own backyard. [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Richard Kelly, Lewis Carroll

ISBN 155111223X (1-55111-223-X)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

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Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 1417739428 (1-4177-3942-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Anagrams
by Lorraine Moore

ISBN 1555044727 (1-55504-472-7)
Softcover, J. Curley

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Angels & Demons
by Dan Brown

ISBN 1416524797 (1-4165-2479-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (Digital Fortress) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels & Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville's The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (but more accessible).
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society's ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared--only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra's daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.
Brown seems as much juggler as author--there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances--readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. "Brain candy" it may be, but my! It's tasty. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Angels in America
by Tony Kushner

ISBN 1559360615 (1-55936-061-5)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group

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The second half of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic Angels in America, Perestroika steers the characters introduced in Millennium Approaches from the opportunistic eighties to a new sense of community in the nineties. "Not only a stunning resolution of the resounding human drama of Millennium Approaches, but also a true millennial work of art."--Frank Rich, The New York Times
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Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 1419107178 (1-4191-0717-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Anne of Green Gables
by Greenwood, Barbara Greenwood

ISBN 1550133543 (1-55013-354-3)
Hardcover, Firefly Books Ltd

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The Art of Hunger
by Paul Auster

ISBN 1557130566 (1-55713-056-6)
Hardcover, Sun & Moon Pr

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The Book of Lies
by Felice Picano

ISBN 1555835929 (1-55583-592-9)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns

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A Boy's Will And North of Boston
by Robert Frost

ISBN 1420927302 (1-4209-2730-2)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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Brown's Requiem
by James Ellroy

ISBN 156287067X (1-56287-067-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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The Bungalow Mystery
by Carolyn Keene, Russell H. Tandy

ISBN 1557091579 (1-55709-157-9)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services

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Capitola The Madcap
by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

ISBN 1419111906 (1-4191-1190-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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Chicago Poems
by Carl Sandburg

ISBN 1417938293 (1-4179-3829-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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1916. Sandburg, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, was virtually unknown to the literary world when, in 1914, a group of his poems appeared in the nationally circulated Poetry magazine. His work found beauty and glory in the simple America that surrounded him: the farms, industry, landscape, culture, and most importantly, the American people. Chicago Poems was Sandburg's first published book of poems. Among the dozens of poems in this collection are such well-known verses as Chicago, Fog, To a Contemporary Bunkshooter, Who Am I? and Under the Harvest Moon as well as many others. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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The Clue in the Diary
by Carolyn Keene, Russell H. Tandy, Margaret Maron, Amanda Cross

ISBN 1557091617 (1-55709-161-7)
Hardcover, Applewood Books

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Nancy uses a lost diary to exonerate an innocent prisoner.
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The Clue in the Jewel Box
by Carolyn Keene

ISBN 155709277X (1-55709-277-X)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services

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In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of Nancy Drew, Applewood Books is pleased to release the 20th volume in its reproductions of the Original Nancy Drew-Just as You Remember Her. The Clue in the Jewel Box was ghostwritten by Mildred Wirt. It was first issued in January 1943. Its nostalgic dust jacket art and frontispiece were illustrated by Russell Tandy. In The Clue in the Jewel Box Nancy and her friends help Queen Madame Alexandra search for her missing grandson. With only an old photograph of the prince at four years of age, Nancy begins her search. She discovers a secret in a jewel box that helps reunite the royal family.
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Common Sense: Library Edition
by Thomas Paine

ISBN 1419113682 (1-4191-1368-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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"These are the times that try men's souls," begins Thomas Paine's first Crisis paper, the impassioned pamphlet that helped ignite the American Revolution. Published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, Common Sense sold 150,000 copies almost immediately. A powerful piece of propaganda, it attacked the idea of a hereditary monarchy, dismissed the chance for reconciliation with England, and outlined the economic benefits of independence while espousing equality of rights among citizens. Paine fanned a flame that was already burning, but many historians argue that his work unified dissenting voices and persuaded patriots that the American Revolution was not only necessary, but an epochal step in world history. [via]
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The Confidence-Man
by Herman Melville

ISBN 1425008003 (1-4250-0800-3)
Softcover, ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited

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The Days That Shook The World
by John Reed

ISBN 1419158724 (1-4191-5872-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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This was followed by the dispersal of the Soviet at Kaluga. The Bolsheviki, having secured a majority in the Soviet, set free some political prisoners. With the sanction of the Government Commissar the Municipal Duma called in troops from Minsk, and bombarded the Soviet headquarters with artillery. The Bolsheviki yielded, but as they left the building Cossacks attacked them. [via]
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Deception Point
by Dan Brown

ISBN 1416524800 (1-4165-2480-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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Penzler Pick, December 2001: In the world of page-turning thrillers, Dan Brown holds a special place in the hearts of many of us. After his first book, Digital Fortress, almost passed me by, he wrote Angels and Demons, which was probably one of the half-dozen most exciting thrillers of last year. It is a pleasure to report that his new book lives up to his reputation as a writer whose research and talent make his stories exciting, believable, and just plain unputdownable.
The time is now and President Zachary Herney is facing a very tough reelection. His opponent, Senator Sedgwick Sexton, is a powerful man with powerful friends and a mission: to reduce NASA's spending and move space exploration into the private sector. He has numerous supporters, including many beyond the businesses who will profit from this because of the embarrassment of 1996, when the Clinton administration was informed by NASA that proof existed of life on other planets. That information turned out to be premature, if not incorrect. (This story is true; I repeat, Dan Brown's research is very, very good.) The embattled president is assured that a rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice will prove to have far-reaching implications on America's space program. The find, however, needs to be verified.
Enter Rachel Sexton, a gister for the National Reconnaissance Office. Gisters reduce complex reports into single-page briefs, and in this case the president needs that confirmation before he broadcasts to the nation, probably ensuring his reelection. It's tricky because Rachel is the daughter of his opponent. Rachel is thrilled to be on the team traveling to the Arctic circle. She is a realist about her father's politics and has little respect for his stand on NASA, but Senator Sexton cannot help but have a problem with her involvement.
Adventure, romance, murder, skullduggery, and nail-biting tension ensue. By the end of Deception Point, the reader will be much better informed about how our space program works and how our politicians react to new information. Bring on the next Dan Brown thriller! --Otto Penzler [via]
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Democracy in America
by Alexis De Tocqueville

ISBN 1425557309 (1-4255-5730-9)
Softcover, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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Early Autumn
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 1560542861 (1-56054-286-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Equal Affections/10923
by David Leavitt

ISBN 155584202X (1-55584-202-X)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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The Fountains of Neptune
by Rikki Ducornet

ISBN 1564780058 (1-56478-005-8)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr

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Gender and Community Policing: Walking the Talk
by Susan L. Miller

ISBN 1555534139 (1-55553-413-9)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England

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While traditional policing celebrated male officers as masculine crime fighters who were tough, aloof, and physically intimidating, policewomen were characterized as too soft and emotional for patrol assignments and were relegated to roles focusing on children, other women, or clerical tasks. With the advent of community policing, women's perceived skills are finally finding a legitimate place in police work, and law enforcement structures now encourage such previously undervalued feminine traits as trust, cooperation, compassion, interpersonal communication, and conflict resolution.

In this illuminating study of gender and community policing, Susan L. Miller draws on a combination of survey data, forthright interviews with a diverse mix of police officers, and extensive fieldwork conducted in a midwestern city where community policing has been practiced for over a decade. She describes the differences and similarities in policing styles of male and female officers, considers the relationships that develop between neighborhood police on foot and patrol officers in squad cars, and explores the interactions between neighborhood officers and community members.

Miller confronts such questions as how police reconcile incompatible images of masculinity and femininity; how actions of neighborhood police officers compare with those of traditional rapid response patrol officers; how community police cope with resistance from the rank and file; and how gender and gender-role expectations shape police activities and the evaluation of new skills.

Gender and Community Policing provides both a feminist framework for community policing and a fresh examination of how race, gender, and sexual orientation affect police image, identity, and methods. [via]
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Generation X
by Douglas Coupland

ISBN 1417706643 (1-4177-0664-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Hans Brinker Or The Silver Skates A Story Of Life In Holland
by Mary Mapes Dodge, Allen B. Doggett

ISBN 1417941278 (1-4179-4127-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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1914. Dodge, American author of children's books and first editor of St. Nicholas magazine, wrote the classic Hans Brinker. It is the story of a poverty-stricken brother and sister in the beautiful land of windmills, tulips, and wooden shoes. An exciting story about championship skating, hunger, hardship, adventure and buried gold, it is packed with secrets, mysteries, surprises, and determination that enables him to obtain help for his sick father. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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The Hustler
by Walter Tevis

ISBN 1560254734 (1-56025-473-4)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr

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Italian Hours
by Henry James

ISBN 1421997452 (1-4219-9745-2)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com

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Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
by Barry Gifford, Lawrence Lee

ISBN 1560257393 (1-56025-739-3)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr

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Killing Mister Watson
by Peter Matthiessen

ISBN 1560540990 (1-56054-099-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Lanterns and Lances: Variety Encounters w/ Women Men Other chldr As Well As Some Less Confusing Creat
by James Thurber

ISBN 1556112998 (1-55611-299-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Listening Woman
by Tony Hillerman

ISBN 1562870599 (1-56287-059-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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Lucky: A Memoir
by Alice Sebold

ISBN 1417616172 (1-4176-1617-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The author describes the circumstances of her rape as an 18-year-old college freshman, the arrest and trial of her attacker, and her struggle to reclaim her shattered life. [via]
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The Magic Kingdom
by Stanley Elkin

ISBN 1560250186 (1-56025-018-6)
Softcover, Timber Press, Incorporated

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Main Traveled Roads
by Hamlin Garland

ISBN 1417930918 (1-4179-3091-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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Mary Reilly
by Valerie Martin

ISBN 1560540311 (1-56054-031-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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May I Feel Said He
by E. E. Cummings, Mary Tiegreen, Linda Sunshine, Marc Chagall

ISBN 1556704224 (1-55670-422-4)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc

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An ecstatic tribute to the power of love and a humorous salute to the mating rituals between men and women, this poem, originally published in cummings' No Thanks collection, is one of the poet's best-loved works. Chagall's floating lovers and violin-playing horses provide the perfect complement to cummings' whimsical verse. 21 color illustrations. [via]
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The Mezzanine
by Nicholson Baker

ISBN 1555842585 (1-55584-258-5)
Hardcover, Grove Pr

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In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying ones shoes, The Mezzanine at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry. At first glance, The Mezzanine appears to be a book about nothing. In reality, it is a brilliant celebration of things, simultaneously demonstrating the value of reflection and the importance of everyday human experiences. Captures the spirit of American corporate life and invests it with a passion and sympathy that is entirely unexpected. The Seattle Times A constant delight . . . among the years best. The Boston Globe Baker writes with appealing charm . . . [He] clowns and shows off . . . rambles and pounces hard; he says acute things, extravagant things, terribly funny things. Los Angeles Times Book Review [via]
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Modern Instance
by John Dryden, William Dean Howells

ISBN 1419102397 (1-4191-0239-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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She stopped. Bartley looked at her a moment, and then caught her to him and fell a-laughing over her, till it seemed as if he never would end. "And you thought--you thought," he cried, trying to get his breath,--"you thought you were Eily, and I was Hardress Cregan! Oh, I see, I see!" He went on making a mock and a burlesque of her tragical hallucination till she laughed with him at last. When he put his hand up to turn out the gas, he began his joking afresh. The real thing for Hardress to do, he said, fumbling for the key, is to blow it out. [via]
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Pet Sematary
by Stephen King

ISBN 1416524347 (1-4165-2434-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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Renowned for its superior productions, BBC radio may have outdone itself by adapting Stephen King's Pet Sematary to audio. A clamorous cacophony of talking, whining, whistling, and howling, Pet Sematary is a quick, entertaining earful for those who don't have other auditory distractions to contend with, such as a car full of talking whining, whistling, howling children. However, the melodramatic prose marries well with the acting; such is the case when one reader--whose voice bears an uncanny resemblance to Kramer's from Seinfeld--tells another about the effects of the Pet Sematary: "Heroin makes junkies feel good when they put it in their arms, but all the time it's poisoning their mind and body--this place can be like that and don't you ever forget it!" (Running time: three hours, two cassettes) [via]
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The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan

ISBN 1557480990 (1-55748-099-0)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc

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The Pilgrim's Progress has been printed, read, and translated more often than any book other than the Bible. People of all ages have found delight in the simple, earnest story of Christian, the Pilgrim, as he makes his way to the Celestial City. Readers will find this book both entertaining and life-changing. [via]
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by Dan Larsen, John Bynyan

ISBN 1557481695 (1-55748-169-5)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc

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Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come
by John Bunyan

ISBN 1418110345 (1-4181-1034-5)
Hardcover, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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Poems
by Emily Dickinson

ISBN 1414230222 (1-4142-3022-2)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com

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Pollyanna
by Eleanor H. Porters

ISBN 1557482969 (1-55748-296-9)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc

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She's no ordinary girl and she plays a game, the Glad Game. Once she gets you playing, well, you'll feel better about everything. [via]
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Quinn's Book
by William Kennedy

ISBN 1555048056 (1-55504-805-6)
Softcover, John Curley & Assoc

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Readings
by Sven Birkerts

ISBN 1555972837 (1-55597-283-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Sven Birkerts got his start as an expert appraiser of such European imports as Robert Musil, Hermann Broch, and Witold Gombrowicz. Yet he soon expanded his scope to literature of all stripes, and turned out to be a particularly pungent critic of American fiction. His thoughts on individual writers were invariably eloquent and refreshingly cant-free. But Birkerts also had a gift for cultural trend-spotting: his superb deflation of Gordon Lish and his acolytes was the high point of his first collection, An Artificial Wilderness. More recently, however, he has mutated into something of a gloom-and-doom specialist. First came The Gutenberg Elegies, in which Birkerts defended the printed word against all electronic comers (i.e., CD-ROMS, audiobooks, and the Internet). Then he edited an anthology of essays by like-minded technophobes--although to be fair, at least a few participants confessed to a secret online addiction.
Now Birkerts has published Readings, which resembles a greatest-hits package but is heavily skewed toward the author's Chicken Little side. In the first essay, for example, he ponders the "millennial warp"--his sense "that our old understandings of time--and, therefore, of life itself--are in many ways useless." "The Idea of the Internet" is a eulogy to the solitary self, soon to be engulfed by the "massive electronic nervous system" of the Net. It's not that these aren't provocative ideas. The problem is that when the author diverts his attention from a particular text, his customarily lucid prose can turn to sociological fudge. The good news, however, is that Readings does contain a generous helping of vintage Birkerts. There are shrewd and enlightening pieces on Rilke, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Don DeLillo, as well as such deep-focus delights as "When Lightning Strikes." And in an essay on Seamus Heaney's sonnet sequence "Clearances," Birkerts puts his finger on one of the primary rewards of literature: "Reading the end of the poem, I feel as though some obstacle in my own life has been removed." Even better, he conveys why--and a critic who can so eloquently analyze his own sense of elation is one we'd better listen to. --James Marcus [via]
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Requiem for a Dream
by Hubert Selby

ISBN 1560252480 (1-56025-248-0)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr

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Over twenty years after its first publication in 1978, Requiem for a Dream makes it to the big screen in a major motion picture starring Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Jared Leto, and Christopher McDonald. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the highly acclaimed director of Pi, the movie was released in November 2000. In this searing novel, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of uncut heroin and getting rich. But their habit gets the better of them, consumes them and destroys their dreams. "Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists. His work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Dostoevsky's....To understand Selby's work is to understand the anguish of America." -- The New York Times Book Review
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The Rise of David Levinsky
by Abraham Cahan

ISBN 1419180630 (1-4191-8063-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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The Sand Pebbles
by Richard McKenna, Robert Shenk

ISBN 1557504466 (1-55750-446-6)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr

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The Shining
by Stephen King

ISBN 1417618256 (1-4176-1825-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, but his five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them. [via]
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The Sign of the Twisted Candles
by Carolyn Keene, Russell H. Tandy, Carolyn G. Hart

ISBN 1557091633 (1-55709-163-3)
Hardcover, Applewood Books

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Nancy, as mediator in a generation-old feud, divulges an unknown birthright.
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Song of Myself
by Walt Whitman

ISBN 142092706X (1-4209-2706-X)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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Sons And Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence

ISBN 1417906898 (1-4179-0689-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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1913. Controversial English novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist, Lawrence is known for his frequently misunderstood, but basically idealistic theories about sexual relations and for his interest in primitive religions and nature mysticism. Lawrence regarded sex, the primitive subconscious, and nature as cures for what he considered modern man's maladjustment to industrial society. His philosophy, life history and prejudices are inextricably entwined in his writings. Sons and Lovers is a partly autobiographical novel which deals with the author's boyhood and adolescence as the son of a coal miner. [via]
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Specimen Days
by Walt Whitman

ISBN 1419148524 (1-4191-4852-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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A Swiftly Tilting Planet
by Madeleine L'Engle

ISBN 1560547103 (1-56054-710-3)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr

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Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

ISBN 1421807114 (1-4218-0711-4)
Hardcover, 1st World Publishing, Incorporated

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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 - - I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale. When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative. [via]
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Tehanu
by Ursula K. Le Guin

ISBN 141650964X (1-4165-0964-X)
Softcover, Pocket Star

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Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle
Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world and its wizards are losing their magic. Despite being wearied with age, Ged Sparrowhawk -- Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord -- embarks on a daring, treacherous journey, accompanied by Enlad's young Prince Arren, to discover the reasons behind this devastating pattern of loss. Together they will sail to the farthest reaches of their world -- even beyond the realm of death -- as they seek to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it.
With millions of copies sold worldwide, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere, alongside the works of such beloved authors as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. [via]
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Tender Buttons
by Gertrude Stein

ISBN 1557130930 (1-55713-093-0)
Softcover, Sun & Moon Pr

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / Gay; Poetry / General; Fiction / Gay; Poetry / American / General; [via]
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Varieties of Religious Experience
by William James

ISBN 142190585X (1-4219-0585-X)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com

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"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. It would seem, therefore, as a psychologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities."
When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on "natural religion," he defined religion as "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine." Considering religion, then, not as it is defined by--or takes place in--the churches, but as it is felt in everyday life, he undertook a project that, upon completion, stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, not only as a vitally serious contemplation of spirituality, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience, it is easy to see why. Applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which "the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions." It's an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance--indeed, respect--the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades. [via]
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Vittorio, the Vampire: New Tales of the Vampires
by A. Rice

ISBN 1417671416 (1-4176-7141-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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The Wept of Wish-ton-wish
by James Fenimore Cooper

ISBN 141918766X (1-4191-8766-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN 1421922010 (1-4219-2201-0)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com

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The Wonderful O
by James Thurber, Marc Simont

ISBN 1556111894 (1-55611-189-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Work: A Story of Experience
by Louisa May Alcott

ISBN 1419194909 (1-4191-9490-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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Xenocide
by Orson Scott Card

ISBN 1417646519 (1-4176-4651-9)
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Orson Scott Card's Xenocide is a space opera with verve. In this continuation of Ender Wiggin's story, the Starways Congress has sent a fleet to immolate the rebellious planet of Lusitania, home to the alien race of pequeninos, and home to Ender Wiggin and his family. Concealed on Lusitania is the only remaining Hive Queen, who holds a secret that may save or destroy humanity throughout the galaxy. Familiar characters from the previous novels continue to grapple with religious conflicts and family squabbles while inventing faster-than-light travel and miraculous virus treatments. Throw into the mix an entire planet of mad geniuses and a self-aware computer who wants to be a martyr, and it's hard to guess who will topple the first domino. Due to the densely woven and melodramatic nature of the story, newcomers to Ender's tale will want to start reading this series with the first books, Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. --Brooks Peck [via]
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