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About Schmidtby Louis BegleyISBN 0449911160 (0-449-91116-0)
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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0448060043 (0-448-06004-3)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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American Tabloid : A Novelby James EllroyISBN 0449000907 (0-449-00090-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Tabloid : A Novel'Book summary:We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . .
Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . .
Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty . . .
Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . .
James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open. [via]More editions of American Tabloid : A Novel:
Anagramsby Lorrie MooreISBN 0446672726 (0-446-67272-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The Anatomy Lessonby Philip RothISBN 0449206149 (0-449-20614-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anatomy Lesson'Book summary:At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious afflictionpure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers grows into an addiction to vodka, marijuana, and Percodan.
The Anatomy Lesson is a great comedy of illness written in what the English critic Hermione Lee has described as "a manner at once...brash and thoughtful... lyrical and wry, which projects through comic expostulations and confessions...a knowing, humane authority." The third volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, The Anatomy Lesson provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roth's fiction as well as some of the fiercest.
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Ancient Eveningsby Norman MailerISBN 0446357693 (0-446-35769-3)
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Anne of Avonleaby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0448025442 (0-448-02544-2)
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery, Jody LeeISBN 0448060302 (0-448-06030-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary: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]
As Max Saw Itby Louis BegleyISBN 0449909476 (0-449-90947-6)
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The Black Dahliaby James EllroyISBN 0445405252 (0-445-40525-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Dahlia'Book summary:On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard; Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches-into a region of total of madness. [via]
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The Book of Lightsby Chaim PotokISBN 0449245691 (0-449-24569-1)
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The Bungalow Mysteryby Carolyn KeeneISBN 0448095033 (0-448-09503-3)
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Cinnamon Kissby Walter MosleyISBN 0446612723 (0-446-61272-3)
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The Clue in the Diaryby Carolyn KeeneISBN 0448095076 (0-448-09507-6)
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The Clue in the Jewel Boxby Carolyn KeeneISBN 0448095203 (0-448-09520-3)
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The Clue in the Old Stagecoachby Carolyn KeeneISBN 0448095378 (0-448-09537-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clue in the Old Stagecoach'Book summary:For cliffhanging suspense and thrilling action read THE NANCY DREW MYSTERY STORIES-the worlds most popular mystery series for young readers! Millions of fans have matched wits with Nancy Drew, helping her solve more than fifty baffling cases. [via]
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The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipesby Carolyn KeeneISBN 0448095416 (0-448-09541-6)
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Cyteenby C. J. CherryhISBN 0446671274 (0-446-67127-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cyteen'Book summary:Genetic manipulation, murder, intrigue and politics are just part of the story of a young scientist in this substantial book. C. J. Cherryh, who won the 1989 Hugo Award for this novel, following on her Hugo Award-winning Downbelow Station, offers another ambitious work. A geneticist is murdered by an adviser, but the scientist is replicated in the lab, leaving a prodigy who attempts to chart a different fate. The book is intense and complex yet always presented with the flow of true storytelling. [via]
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Cyteen Pt. 1: The Betrayalby C. J. CherryhISBN 0445204524 (0-445-20452-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cyteen Pt. 1: The Betrayal'Book summary:The first part of C.J. Cherryh's award-winning triad introduces the planet and complex politics of Cyteen, part of the Alliance/Union universe. Resources are limited and the scientific compound of Reseune, which produces computer-trained clones called azis, is a major power center. Reseune's lead scientist, the fierce and cruel Dr. Ariane Emory, has dominated Cyteen's political scene for decades. When she is assassinated, Reseune officials railroad a suspect and then experiment by creating a personal duplicate of Ariane. The bad news is, a clone isn't good enough. They want to recreate Dr. Emory's mind as well, and devise an artificial life for the little Ariane who'll be raised just like the original. [via]
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Daisy Fay and the Miracle Manby Fannie FlaggISBN 0446394521 (0-446-39452-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man'Book summary:A coming-of-age story set on the Gulf Coast follows the misadventures of Daisy Fay, a straight-shooting girl with an eye for the bizarre. By the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Reprint. 100,000 first printing. [via]
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The Dick Gibson Showby Stanley ElkinISBN 044695540X (0-446-95540-X)
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurantby Anne TylerISBN 0449911594 (0-449-91159-4)
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The Double Jinx Mysteryby Carolyn KeeneISBN 0448095505 (0-448-09550-5)
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The Einstein Intersectionby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0441196845 (0-441-19684-5)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Einstein's Dreamsby Alan LightmanISBN 0446670111 (0-446-67011-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Einstein's Dreams'Book summary:If you liked the eerie whimsy of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Steven Millhauser's Little Kingdoms, or Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, you will love Alan Lightman's ethereal yet down-to-earth book Einstein's Dreams. Lightman teaches physics and writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, helping bridge the light-year-size gap between science and the humanities, the enemy camps C.P. Snow famously called The Two Cultures.
Einstein's Dreams became a bestseller by delighting both scientists and humanists. It is technically a novel. Lightman uses simple, lyrical, and literal details to locate Einstein precisely in a place and time--Berne, Switzerland, spring 1905, when he was a patent clerk privately working on his bizarre, unheard-of theory of relativity. The town he perceives is vividly described, but the waking Einstein is a bit player in this drama.
The book takes flight when Einstein takes to his bed and we share his dreams, 30 little fables about places where time behaves quite differently. In one world, time is circular; in another a man is occasionally plucked from the present and deposited in the past: "He is agonized. For if he makes the slightest alteration in anything, he may destroy the future ... he is forced to witness events without being part of them ... an inert gas, a ghost ... an exile of time." The dreams in which time flows backward are far more sophisticated than the time-tripping scenes in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, though science-fiction fans may yearn for a sustained yarn, which Lightman declines to provide. His purpose is simply to study the different kinds of time in Einstein's mind, each with its own lucid consequences. In their tone and quiet logic, Lightman's fables come off like Bach variations played on an exquisite harpsichord. People live for one day or eternity, and they respond intelligibly to each unique set of circumstances. Raindrops hang in the air in a place of frozen time; in another place everyone knows one year in advance exactly when the world will end, and acts accordingly.
"Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic," writes Lightman. "Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting.... In this world, artists are joyous." In another dream, time slows with altitude, causing rich folks to build stilt homes on mountaintops, seeking eternal youth and scorning the swiftly aging poor folk below. Forgetting eventually how they got there and why they subsist on "all but the most gossamer food," the higher-ups at length "become thin like the air, bony, old before their time."
There is no plot in this small volume--it's more like a poetry collection than a novel. Like Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, it's a mind-stretching meditation by a scientist who's been to the far edge of physics and is back with wilder tales than Marco Polo's. And unlike many admirers of Hawking, readers of Einstein's Dreams have a high probability of actually finishing it. [via]
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The End of Eternityby Isaac AsimovISBN 0449237044 (0-449-23704-4)
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 72by Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0446313645 (0-446-31364-5)
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The Feast of All Saintsby Anne RiceISBN 0449210634 (0-449-21063-4)
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The Future Homemakers of Americaby Laurie GrahamISBN 0446679364 (0-446-67936-4)
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Gertrude and Claudiusby John UpdikeISBN 0449006972 (0-449-00697-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gertrude and Claudius'Book summary:Borrowing a phrase from Hamlet for the title of his 1999 nonfiction collection, John Updike may perhaps have been dropping hints about his fictional work in progress. He has, in any case, now delivered Gertrude and Claudius--and his variation on what is arguably the Bard's greatest hit sits very handsomely in the Shakespearean shadows. As its title suggests, this is a prelude to the actual play, focusing not on the sulky star but on his mother and fratricidal stepfather (think of it as a Danish, death-struck version of The Parent Trap). Updike's great achievement here is to turn our customary sympathies on their heads. This time around, Gertrude is a decent, long-suffering wife, whose consciousness happens to be raised to the boiling point by her sexy brother-in-law. And Claudius, too, seems half a victim of this fatal attraction, with a strong neo-Platonic accent to his lust:
The amused play of her mouth and eyes, the casual music of her considerate voice, a glimpse of her bare feet and rosy morning languor were to him amorous nutrition enough: at this delicate stage the image of more would have revolted him.... What we love, he understood from the poetry of Provence, where his restless freelancing had more than once taken him, is less the gift bestowed, the moon-mottled nakedness and wet-socketed submission, than the Heavenly graciousness of bestowal.
Subtract the poetry (and leave in the wet-socket business) and we're not too far from Rabbit Angstrom. As in the bulk of his fiction--and most conspicuously in the underrated In the Beauty of the Lilies--Updike sacrifices artistic firepower when he goes archaic on us. That explains why Gertrude and Claudius gets off to a wobbly start, with the author's medieval diction careening all over the page. But once his narrative gets up to speed, Updike dispenses one brilliant bit of perception after another. Note, for example, Ophelia's teeth, "given an almost infantile roundness by her low, palely pink gums, and tilted very slightly inward, so her smile imparted a glimmering impression of coyness, with even something light-heartedly wanton about it." Who else could make mere dentition such a window into the soul?Gertrude and Claudius also amounts to a running theological argument, in which men constantly impale themselves on metaphysical principle while the adulterous queen is willing "to accept the world at face value, as a miracle daily renewed." (That would explain Gertrude's snap diagnosis of her neurotic son: "Too much German philosophy.") A superlative satellite to Shakespeare's creation, Updike's novel is likely to retain a kind of subordinate rank, even within his own capacious body of work. Still, it's packed with enough post-Elizabethan insight about men and women, parents and children, to suggest that the play's not the thing--not always, anyway. --James Marcus [via]
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Gimpel the Fool and Other Storiesby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0449206777 (0-449-20677-7)
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0449212602 (0-449-21260-2)
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It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued if her ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she was an independent woman, had a job of her own, a husband and child. But all of that is gone now...everything has changed.
"Deserves the highest praise."
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Hans Brinkerby Mary Mapes Dodge, C. L. Baldridge, Hans Christian AndersenISBN 0448060116 (0-448-06011-6)
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Hanta Yoby Ruth Beebe HillISBN 0446321443 (0-446-32144-3)
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The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacificby Paul TherouxISBN 0449908585 (0-449-90858-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific'Book summary:"Possibly his best travel book...an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific Islands."
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Renowned travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux has been many places in his life and tried almost everything. But this trip in and around the lands of the Pacific may be his boldest, most fascinating yet. From New Zealand's rain forests, to crocodile-infested New Guinea, over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors, daring weather and coastlines, he travels by Kayak wherever the winds take him--and what he discovers is the world to explore and try to understand. [via]More editions of The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific:
The Hustlerby Walter TevisISBN 0446344389 (0-446-34438-9)
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I Will Fear No Evilby Robert Anson HeinleinISBN 0441359175 (0-441-35917-5)
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In the Beginningby Chaim PotokISBN 044900113X (0-449-00113-X)
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Kerouacby Ann ChartersISBN 0446813311 (0-446-81331-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kerouac'Book summary:[via]Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of his books have been in print internationally since his death in 1969, and his writing has been discovered and enjoyed by new readers throughout the world. Kerouac's view of the promise of America, the seductive and lovely vision of the beckoning open spaces of our continent, has never been expressed better by subsequent writers, perhaps because Kerouac was our last writer to believe in America's promise--and essential innocence--as the legacy he would explore in his autobiographical fiction.More editions of Kerouac:
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L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gablesby Jennifer Dussling, Lydia HalversonISBN 0448424592 (0-448-42459-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables'Book summary: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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The Land of Laughsby Jonathan CarrollISBN 0441469876 (0-441-46987-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Land of Laughs'Book summary:Thomas Abbey is a man stuck in a rut. An English teacher in a small Connecticut prep school, Abbey is in a crisis. His career is unfulfilling, he has no social or love life to speak of, and he cannot break out of the shadow of his famous father, the actor Stephen Abbey. To kick-start his life, he takes a sabbatical to work on a biography of his favorite writer, Marshall France. France's books were the only thing that kept Abbey sane during his childhood, and though he was renowned for his lyrical and imaginative children's books, nearly nothing was known about the writer's life.
Although Abbey has been warned that France's daughter Anna has blocked all previous attempts at her father's biography, he and Saxony Garder--an intense woman also obsessed with France's life--head to Galen, Missouri, with high hopes of breaking down Anna's resistance. They are surprised to find Anna the soul of small-town hospitality and quite excited about Abbey's proposal--even eager to get the project finished as soon as possible. Even stranger than Anna's behavior is the town of Galen itself. On the surface, all is as a small midwestern town should be. But the people of the town seem to know what their future holds--freak accidents and all--down to the hour and are as eager for Abbey to finish the biography as Anna is.
As far as plot goes, The Land of Laughs doesn't break any new ground--it is a riff on a very old literary theme--and the more interesting issues the story raises--fate, free will, and the creative power of the written word--receive only a glancing blow as the story careens to its somewhat unsatisfying Gothic ending. That said, Carroll does show a good ear for dialogue and a deft hand at creating complex characters and quietly ominous moods. And the story--hoary plot line and all--immediately grabs you and doesn't let go. If you already know Jonathan Carroll from his other novels, you will want to add this reissue of his first novel to your library. And if you haven't yet been introduced to this inventive author, The Land of Laughs is the perfect place to begin. --Perry M. Atterberry [via]
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Letting Goby Philip RothISBN 0449207285 (0-449-20728-5)
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The Lilies of the Fieldby William Edmund BarrettISBN 0446315001 (0-446-31500-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lilies of the Field'Book summary:One of the most beloved of modern classics returns with a beautiful new cover. The enchanting story of two unlikely friends, a black ex-GI and the head of a group of German nuns, The Lilies of the Field tells the story of their impossible dream--to build a chapel in the desert. [via]
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Lovingkindnessby Anne RoipheISBN 0446673889 (0-446-67388-9)
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The Man Who Was Lateby Louis BegleyISBN 0449909115 (0-449-90911-5)
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Marry Me: A Romanceby John UpdikeISBN 0449912159 (0-449-91215-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marry Me: A Romance'Book summary:Updike's eighth novel, subtitled "A Romance" because, he says, "People don't act like that any more," centers on the love affair of a married couple in the Connecticut of 1962. Unfortunately, this is a couple whose members are married to other people. Suburban infidelity is familiar territory by now, but nobody knows it as well as Updike, and the book is written with the author's characteristic poetic sensibility and sly wit. [via]
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The Middleman and Other Storiesby Bharati MukherjeeISBN 0449217183 (0-449-21718-3)
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Millroy the Magicianby Paul TherouxISBN 0449911977 (0-449-91197-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Mind of My Mindby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0446361887 (0-446-36188-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Missing Womanby Michael Z. LewinISBN 0446400262 (0-446-40026-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistressby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0441536999 (0-441-53699-9)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Morgan's Passingby Anne TylerISBN 0449911721 (0-449-91172-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Oprah Reading Group 20ISBN 0446789291 (0-446-78929-1)
Softcover, Warner Books Inc
Find This BookBook summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, December 1998: A funny thing happens to Novalee Nation on her way to Bakersfield, California. Her ne'er-do-well boyfriend, Willie Jack Pickens, abandons her in an Oklahoma Wal-Mart and takes off on his own, leaving her with just 10 dollars and the clothes on her back. Not that hard luck is anything new to Novalee, who is "seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty-seven pounds overweight--and superstitious about sevens.... For most people, sevens were lucky. But not for her," Billie Letts writes. "She'd had a bad history with them, starting with her seventh birthday, the day Momma Nell ran away with a baseball umpire named Fred..."
Still, finding herself alone and penniless in Sequoyah, Oklahoma is enough to make even someone as inured to ill fortune as Novalee want to give up and die. Fortunately, the Wal-Mart parking lot is the Sequoyah equivalent of a town square, and within hours Novalee has met three people who will change her life: Sister Thelma Husband, a kindly eccentric; Benny Goodluck, a young Native American boy; and Moses Whitecotton, an elderly African American photographer. For the next two months, Novalee surreptitiously makes her home in the Wal-Mart, sleeping there at night, exploring the town by day. When she goes into labor and delivers her baby there, however, Novalee learns that sometimes it's not so bad to depend on the kindness of strangers--especially if one of them happens to be Sam Walton, the superchain's founder.
Where the Heart Is oddly mixes heart-warming vignettes and surprising, brutal violence. Novalee's story is juxtaposed with occasional chapters chronicling Willy Jack's downward spiral into prison, disappointment, and degradation. And even in Sequoyah, sudden storms, domestic violence, kidnapping, and deadly fires punctuate Novalee's progress from homeless, unwed teen mom to successful, happy member of the community. This is not a subtle book; there's never any doubt that our heroine will make a home for herself and her baby or that Willy Jack will get what he deserves for abandoning them. Still, Billie Letts has created several memorable characters, and there's always room for another novel that celebrates the life-affirming qualities of reading, the importance of education, and the power of love to change lives. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Our Literary Heritage: A Pictorial History of the Writer in Americaby Van Wyck Brooks, Otto BettmannISBN 044822061X (0-448-22061-X)
Hardcover
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Presumed Innocentby Scott TurowISBN 0446359866 (0-446-35986-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Promiseby Chaim PotokISBN 0449001164 (0-449-00116-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Young Reuven Malter is unsure of himself and his place in life. An unconventional scholar, he struggles for recognition from his teachers. With his old friend Danny Saunders--who himself had abandoned the legacy as the chosen heir to his father's rabbinical dynasty for the uncertain life of a healer--Reuvan battles to save a sensitive boy imprisoned by his genius and rage. Painfully, triumphantly, Reuven's understanding of himself, though the boy change, as he starts to aproach the peace he has long sought.... [via] 
Ravenmockerby Jean HagerISBN 0446401072 (0-446-40107-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Reservation Bluesby Sherman AlexieISBN 0446672351 (0-446-67235-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reservation Blues'Book summary:The life of Spokane Indian Thomas Builds-the-Fire irrevocably changes when blues legend Robert Johnson miraculously appears on his reservation and passes the misfit storyteller his enchanted guitar. Inspired by this gift, Thomas forms Coyote Springs, an all-Indian Catholic band who find themselves on a magical tour that leads from reservation bars to Seattle and New York--and deep within their own souls. [via]
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Saint Maybeby Anne TylerISBN 0449911608 (0-449-91160-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saint Maybe'Book summary:9 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list!
"A novel that attests once again to Ms. Tyler's enormous gifts as a writer."
--THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Captivating . . . . Compelling . . . . There is a kind of magic at work in this novel."
--THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
In 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore. Then, in the blink of an eye, a single tragic event occurs that will transform their lives forever--particularly that of seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe, the youngest son, who blames himself for the sudden "accidental" death of his older brother.
Depressed and depleted, Ian is almost crushed under the weight of an unbearable, secret guilt. Then one crisp January evening, he catches sight of a window with glowing yellow neon, the CHURCH OF THE SECOND CHANCE. He enters and soon discovers that forgiveness must be earned, through a bit of sacrifice and a lot of love...
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Sam's Letters To Jenniferby James PattersonISBN 0446613347 (0-446-61334-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Scarlettby Alexandra RipleyISBN 0446363251 (0-446-36325-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Scarlett Pt. B: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Windby Alexandra RipleyISBN 0446517186 (0-446-51718-6)
Hardcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The Seanceby Isaac B. SingerISBN 0449243648 (0-449-24364-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Secret of the Wooden Ladyby Carolyn KeeneISBN 0448095270 (0-448-09527-0)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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Selected Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorneby Alfred KazinISBN 0449300129 (0-449-30012-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Self-Helpby Lorrie MooreISBN 0446671924 (0-446-67192-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The Shape Changerby Keith LaumerISBN 044176102X (0-441-76102-X)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Shepherd of the Hillsby H. WrightISBN 0448010569 (0-448-01056-9)
Hardcover, Price Stern Sloan
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The Sign of the Twisted Candlesby Carolyn KeeneISBN 0448095092 (0-448-09509-2)
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A Slipping-Down Lifeby Anne TylerISBN 0449001024 (0-449-00102-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Slow Waltz in Cedar Bendby Robert James WallerISBN 0446601640 (0-446-60164-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Time and Againby Jack FinneyISBN 0446786365 (0-446-78636-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Trust Me: Short Storiesby John UpdikeISBN 0449214982 (0-449-21498-2)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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The Underground Manby Ross MacDonaldISBN 0446359017 (0-446-35901-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Where the Heart Isby Billie LettsISBN 0446603651 (0-446-60365-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Heart Is'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, December 1998: A funny thing happens to Novalee Nation on her way to Bakersfield, California. Her ne'er-do-well boyfriend, Willie Jack Pickens, abandons her in an Oklahoma Wal-Mart and takes off on his own, leaving her with just 10 dollars and the clothes on her back. Not that hard luck is anything new to Novalee, who is "seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty-seven pounds overweight--and superstitious about sevens.... For most people, sevens were lucky. But not for her," Billie Letts writes. "She'd had a bad history with them, starting with her seventh birthday, the day Momma Nell ran away with a baseball umpire named Fred..."
Still, finding herself alone and penniless in Sequoyah, Oklahoma is enough to make even someone as inured to ill fortune as Novalee want to give up and die. Fortunately, the Wal-Mart parking lot is the Sequoyah equivalent of a town square, and within hours Novalee has met three people who will change her life: Sister Thelma Husband, a kindly eccentric; Benny Goodluck, a young Native American boy; and Moses Whitecotton, an elderly African American photographer. For the next two months, Novalee surreptitiously makes her home in the Wal-Mart, sleeping there at night, exploring the town by day. When she goes into labor and delivers her baby there, however, Novalee learns that sometimes it's not so bad to depend on the kindness of strangers--especially if one of them happens to be Sam Walton, the superchain's founder.
Where the Heart Is oddly mixes heart-warming vignettes and surprising, brutal violence. Novalee's story is juxtaposed with occasional chapters chronicling Willy Jack's downward spiral into prison, disappointment, and degradation. And even in Sequoyah, sudden storms, domestic violence, kidnapping, and deadly fires punctuate Novalee's progress from homeless, unwed teen mom to successful, happy member of the community. This is not a subtle book; there's never any doubt that our heroine will make a home for herself and her baby or that Willy Jack will get what he deserves for abandoning them. Still, Billie Letts has created several memorable characters, and there's always room for another novel that celebrates the life-affirming qualities of reading, the importance of education, and the power of love to change lives. --Alix Wilber [via]
A Wonder Bookby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 044805485X (0-448-05485-X)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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