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The 13 Clocks
by James Thurber

ISBN 0440405823 (0-440-40582-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel

ISBN 0439291496 (0-439-29149-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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Welcome to Wonderland! Lewis Carroll's timeless masterpiece is brought to life as never before in this pop-up extravaganza by J.Otto Seibold, the renowned artist of OLIVE, THE OTHER REINDEER.

You've never seen Alice like this before! Acclaimed artist J. Otto Seibold---the creator of OLIVE, THE OTHER REINDEER---brings readers a fantastical Wonderland filled with surprises.
Lewis Carroll's classic tale of magic and discovery comes to life in this pop-up extravaganza. Readers are invited to follow Alice on her journey, down the rabbit hole and through Wonderland, to meet all the colorful characters she encounters along the way. This exceptional interactive feast offers Alice fans of every age an unforgettable glimpse into the adventure and wild fun that is Wonderland.
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All the Little Live Things
by Wallace Earle Stegner

ISBN 043473702X (0-434-73702-X)
Hardcover, Heinemann

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The Amen Corner
by James Baldwin

ISBN 0440206626 (0-440-20662-6)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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One of James Baldwin's two plays produced on Broadway, The Amen Corner pulses with the music and energy of America's black church and bristles with the pain and anger of racial injustice. Ties in to the February mass market release of James Baldwin: Artist on Fire. HC: Doubleday. [via]
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- The Amen Corner: ISBN 0440206626 (0-440-20662-6)
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Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery, Anne Mazer

ISBN 0439295777 (0-439-29577-7)
Softcover, Scholastic, Incorporated

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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: ISBN 0440227879 (0-440-22787-9)
  Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Anubis Gates
by Tim Powers

ISBN 0441004016 (0-441-00401-6)
Softcover, Ace Books

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Author Tim Powers evokes 17th-century England with a combination of meticulously researched historic detail and imaginative flights in this sci-fi tale of time travel. Winner of the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award for best original science fiction paperback, this 1989 edition of the book that took the fantasy world by storm is the first hardcover version to be published in the United States. In his brief introduction, Ramsey Campbell sets The Anubis Gates in an adventure context, citing Powers's achievement of "extraordinary scenes of underground horror, of comedy both high and grotesque, of bizarre menace, of poetic fantasy."
The colonization of Egypt by western European powers is the launch point for power plays and machinations. Steeping together in this time-warp stew are such characters as an unassuming Coleridge scholar, ancient gods, wizards, the Knights Templar, werewolves, and other quasi-mortals, all wrapped in the organizing fabric of Egyptian mythology. In the best of fantasy traditions, the reluctant heroes fight for survival against an evil that lurks beneath the surface of their everyday lives. [via]
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- The Anubis Gates: ISBN 0441023827 (0-441-02382-7)
  Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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  Softcover, Ace Books
Bad Seed
by William March

ISBN 0440903858 (0-440-90385-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Bear and the Dragon
by Tom Clancy

ISBN 0425180964 (0-425-18096-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Power is delightful, and absolute power should be absolutely delightful--but not when you're the most powerful man on earth and the place is ticking like a time bomb. Jack Ryan, CIA warrior turned U.S. president, is the man in the hot seat, and in this vast thriller he's up to his nostrils in crazed Asian warlords, Russian thugs, nukes that won't stay put, and authentic, up-to-the-nanosecond technology as complex as the characters' motives are simple. Quick, do you know how to reprogram the software in an Aegis missile seekerhead? Well, if you're Jack Ryan, you'd better find someone who does, or an incoming ballistic may rain fallout on your parade. Bad for reelection prospects. "You know, I don't really like this job very much," Ryan complains to his aide Arnie van Damm, who replies, "Ain't supposed to be fun, Jack."
But you bet The Bear and the Dragon is fun--over 1,000 swift pages' worth. In the opening scene, a hand-launched RPG rocket nearly blows up Russia's intelligence chief in his armored Mercedes, and Ryan's clever spooks report that the guy who got the rocket in his face instead was the hoodlum "Rasputin" Avseyenko, who used to run the KGB's "Sparrow School" of female prostitute spies. Soon after, two apparent assassins are found handcuffed together afloat in St. Petersburg's Neva River, their bloated faces resembling Pokémon toys.
The stakes go higher as the mystery deepens: oil and gold are discovered in huge quantities in Siberia, and the evil Chinese Minister Without Portfolio Zhang Han San gazes northward with lust. The laid-off elite of the Soviet Army figure in the brewing troubles, as do the new generation of Tiananmen Square dissidents, Zhang's wily, Danielle Steel-addicted executive secretary Lian Ming, and Chester Nomuri, a hip, Internet-porn-addicted CIA agent posing in China as a Japanese computer salesman. He e-mails his CIA boss, Mary Pat "the Cowgirl" Foley, that he intends to seduce Ming with Dream Angels perfume and scarlet Victoria's Secret lingerie ordered from the catalog--strictly for God and country, of course. Soon Ming is calling him "Master Sausage" instead of "Comrade," but can anybody master Ming?
The plot is over the top, with devastating subplots erupting all over the globe and lurid characters scaring the wits out of each other every few pages, but Clancy finds time to insert hard-boiled little lessons on the vileness of Communism, the infuriating intrusions of the press on presidential power, the sexual perversions of Mao, the poor quality of Russian pistol silencers ("garbage, cans loaded with steel wool that self-destructed after less than ten shots"), the folly of cutting a man's throat with a knife ("they flop around and make noise when you do that"), and similar topics. Naturally, the book bristles like a battlefield with intriguingly intricate military hardware.
When you've got a Tom Clancy novel in hand, who needs action movies? --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Blood Countess
by Andrei Codrescu

ISBN 0440221919 (0-440-22191-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Book Finds: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare Books
by Ian C. Ellis

ISBN 0399532382 (0-399-53238-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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For the experienced collector or someone embarking on a new hobby, this newly revised and updated edition of Book Finds reveals the secrets of locating rare and valuable books. Includes information on first editions and reader's copies, auctions and catalogs, avoiding costly and common beginner mistakes, strategies of professional "book scouts," and buying and selling on the Internet.

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Children of Dune
by Frank Herbert

ISBN 0441104029 (0-441-10402-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The desert planet of Arrakis has begun to grow green and lush. The life-giving spice is abundant. The nine-year-old royal twins, possesing their father's supernatural powers, are being groomed as Messiahs.
But there are those who think the Imperium does not need messiahs...
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- Children of Dune: ISBN 0441104029 (0-441-10402-9)
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Defense
by Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN 0399500634 (0-399-50063-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Dessa Rose
by Sherley Anne Williams

ISBN 0425103374 (0-425-10337-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The Dice Man
by Luke Rhinehart

ISBN 0440319668 (0-440-31966-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Early Autumn
by Robert B. Parker

ISBN 0440122147 (0-440-12214-7)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.

With a contract out on his life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give a puny 15 year old a crash course in survival and to beat his dangerous opponents at their own brutal game. [via]
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Executive Orders
by Tom Clancy

ISBN 0425158632 (0-425-15863-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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The president is dead--and the weight, literally, of the world falls on jack ryan's shoulders, in tom clancy's newest and most extraordinary novel. I don't know what to do. Where's the manual, the training course, for this job? whom do i ask? where do i go? debt of honor ended with tom clancy's most shocking conclusion ever; a joint session of congress destroyed, the president dead, most of the cabinet and the congress dead, the supreme court and the joint chiefs likewise. Dazed and confused, the man who only minutes before had been confirmed as the new vice-president of the united states is told that he is now president. President john patrick ryan. And that is where executive orders begins. Ryan had agreed to accept the vice-presidency only as a caretaker for a year, and now, suddenly an incalculable weight has fallen on his shoulders. How do you run a government without a government? where do you even begin? with stunning force, ryan's responsibilities crush on him. He must calm an anxious and grieving nation, allay the skepticism of the world's leaders, conduct a swift investigation of the tragedy, and arrange a massive state funeral--all while attempting to reconstitute a cabinet and a congress with the greatest possible speed. But that is not all. Many eyes are on him now, and many of them are unfriendly. In beijing, tehran, and other world capitals, including washington d.c., there are those eager to take advantage where they may, some of whom bear a deep animus toward the united states--some of whom, from ryan's past, harbor intense animosity toward the new president himself. Soon they will begin to move on their opportunities; soon they will present jack ryan with a crisis so big even he cannot imagine it. Tom clancy has written remarkable novels before, but nothing comparable to the timeliness and drama of executive orders. Filled with the exceptional realism and intricate plotting that are his hallmarks, it attests to the words of the st. [via]
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The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin

ISBN 0440325420 (0-440-32542-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

ISBN 0425132153 (0-425-13215-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The world is going to end next Saturday, just before dinner, but it turns out there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race. Reprint. NYT. AB. [via]
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- Good Omens: ISBN 0441003257 (0-441-00325-7)
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

ISBN 0441008615 (0-441-00861-5)
Softcover, Ace Books

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Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time... [via]
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The Great Train Robbery
by Michael Crichton

ISBN 0440130999 (0-440-13099-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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"A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive.... [via]
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Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
by Mary Mapes Dodge

ISBN 0440434467 (0-440-43446-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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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: Conduct of life; Brothers and sisters; Skating races; Netherlands; Juvenile Fiction / General; Juvenile Fiction / Boys [via]
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The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
by Paul Theroux

ISBN 0399137262 (0-399-13726-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group

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The author of The Mosquito Coast recounts his journey to the islands of the Pacific, describing the people, landscape, and wildlife he encounters in New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Fiji. 100,000 first printing. $90,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories
by Saul Bellow

ISBN 0436039532 (0-436-03953-2)
Hardcover, Random House

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The House With a Clock in Its Walls
by John Bellairs

ISBN 0440437423 (0-440-43742-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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Lewis always dreamed of living in an old house full of secret passageways, hidden rooms, and big marble fireplaces. And suddenly, after the death of his parents, he finds himself in just such a mansion--his Uncle Jonathan's. When he discovers that his big friendly uncle is also a wizard, Lewis has a hard time keeping himself from jumping up and down in his seat. Unfortunately, what Lewis doesn't bank on is the fact that the previous owner of the mansion was also a wizard--but an evil one who has placed a tick-tocking clock somewhere in the bowels of the house, marking off the minutes until the end of the world. And when Lewis accidentally awakens the dead on Halloween night, the clock only ticks louder and faster. Doomsday draws near--unless Lewis can stop the clock!
This is a deliciously chilling tale, with healthy doses of humor and compassion thrown in for good measure. Edward Gorey's unmistakable pen and ink style (as seen in many picture books, including The Shrinking of Treehorn and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) perfectly complements John Bellairs's wry, touching story of a lonely boy, his quirky uncle, and the ghost of mansions past. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Hundred Secret Senses
by Amy Tan

ISBN 0399141146 (0-399-14114-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Kwan, a seventeen-year-old Chinese half-sister, turns young Olivia's world upside down with her stories of ghosts of another time, tales that have a profound impact on Olivia's life and imagination, until she discovers a way to reconcile the ghosts of the past with her dreams of the future. [via]
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I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson

ISBN 0425040534 (0-425-04053-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me up and Ship Me Home
by Tim O'Brien

ISBN 0440343119 (0-440-34311-9)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid; The Golden Apple; Leviathan
by Robert Shea, Robert A. Wilson

ISBN 0440539811 (0-440-53981-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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Product Description "The biggest sci-fi cult novel to come along since Dune."--The Village Voice. From the Publisher Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill. [via]
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Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes

ISBN 0440442508 (0-440-44250-8)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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This story of a tragically injured young silversmith who ends up hip-deep in the American Revolution is inspiring, exciting, and sad. Winner of the prestigious Newbery Award in 1944, Esther Forbes's story has lasted these 50-plus years by including adventure, loss, courage, and history in a wonderfully written, very dramatic package. It's probably not great for little guys but mature 11-year-olds or older will find it a great adventure. [via]
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Johnny Tremain
by Esther Hoskins Forbes, Lynd Ward

ISBN 0440942500 (0-440-94250-0)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books

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This story of a tragically injured young silversmith who ends up hip-deep in the American Revolution is inspiring, exciting, and sad. Winner of the prestigious Newbery Award in 1944, Esther Forbes's story has lasted these 50-plus years by including adventure, loss, courage, and history in a wonderfully written, very dramatic package. It's probably not great for little guys but mature 11-year-olds or older will find it a great adventure. [via]
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Little Big Man
by Thomas Berger

ISBN 0440349761 (0-440-34976-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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'I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians from the age of ten.' So starts the story of Jack Crabb, the 111-year old narrator of Thomas Berger's masterpiece of American fiction. As a "human being", as the Cheyenne called their own, he won the name Little Big Man. He dressed in skins, feasted on dog, loved four wives and saw his people butchered by the horse soldiers of General Custer, the man he had sworn to kill. As a white man, Crabb hunted buffalo, tangled with Wyatt Earp, cheated Wild Bill Hickok and survived the Battle of Little Bighorn. Part-farcical, part-historical, the picaresque adventures of this witty, wily mythomaniac claimed the Wild West as the stuff of serious literature. [via]
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  Hardcover, Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence
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Mind-Body Problem
by Rebecca Goldstein

ISBN 0440356512 (0-440-35651-2)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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Missing Woman
by Michael Z. Lewin

ISBN 0425053911 (0-425-05391-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair
by Elizabeth McNeill

ISBN 0425103846 (0-425-10384-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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"Powerful. Horrifying. Erotic!" -- from cover [via]
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- Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair: ISBN 0425103846 (0-425-10384-6)
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Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin

ISBN 0440364353 (0-440-36435-3)
Hardcover, Dell Pub Co

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Northern Lights
by Tim O'Brien

ISBN 0440066646 (0-440-06664-6)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence

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The Nuclear Age
by Tim O'Brien

ISBN 0440215862 (0-440-21586-2)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon

ISBN 0440212561 (0-440-21256-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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In Outlander, a 600-page time-travel romance, strong-willed and sensual Claire Randall leads a double life with a husband in one century, and a lover in another. Torn between fidelity and desire, she struggles to understand the pure intent of her heart. But don't let the number of pages and the Scottish dialect scare you. It's one of the fastest reads you'll have in your library.
While on her second honeymoon in the British Isles, Claire touches a boulder that hurls her back in time to the forbidden Castle Leoch with the MacKenzie clan. Not understanding the forces that brought her there, she becomes ensnared in life-threatening situations with a Scots warrior named James Fraser. But it isn't all spies and drudgery that she must endure. For amid her new surroundings and the terrors she faces, she is lured into love and passion like she's never known before.
I was lame and sore in every muscle when I woke next morning. I shuffled to the privy closet, then to the wash basin. My innards felt like churned butter. It felt as though I had been beaten with a blunt object, I reflected, then thought that that was very near the truth. The blunt object in question was visible as I came back to bed, looking now relatively harmless. Its possessor [Jamie] woke as I sat next to him, and examined me with something that looked very much like male smugness."
Gabaldon creates characters that you'll remember, laugh with, cry with, and cheer for long after you've finished the book. --Candy Paape [via]
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Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
by Kurt Vonnegut

ISBN 0440369061 (0-440-36906-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonneguts singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth.

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Patriot Games
by Tom Clancy

ISBN 0425109720 (0-425-10972-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The bestselling author of Red Storm Rising and The Sum of All Fears brings Jack Ryan back in his to fight his deadliest battle yet.
From England to Ireland to America, an explosive wave of violence sweeps a CIA analyst and his family into the deadliest game of our time: international terrorism. An ultra-left-wing faction fo the IRA has targeted the CIA man for his act of salvation in an assasination attempt. And now he must pay ... with his life. [via]
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The Pelican Brief
by John Grisham

ISBN 0440214041 (0-440-21404-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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In suburban Georgetown, a killer's Reeboks whisper on the floor of a posh home. In a seedy D.C. porno house, a patron is swiftly garroted to death. The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief. To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it's political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder-a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds that there is only one person-an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate-she can trust to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darby's brief-someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime. [via]
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A Place to Come to
by Robert Penn Warren

ISBN 0440359996 (0-440-35999-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Pollyanna
by Eleanor H. Porter

ISBN 0440459850 (0-440-45985-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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The classic tale of how one little girl makes all the difference in a turn-of-the-century Vermont town turned sour by her rich aunt. A Dell Yearling Classic. [via]
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The Price: A Play
by Arthur Miller

ISBN 043628006X (0-436-28006-X)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg

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The Purple Decades
by Tom Wolfe

ISBN 042506266X (0-425-06266-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.
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Rainbow Six
by Tom Clancy

ISBN 0399143904 (0-399-14390-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group

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For many readers, Jack Ryan embodies the essence of the modern American hero. Morally centered, disciplined, humble yet powerful, Ryan (and his onscreen incarnations in Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford) has made Tom Clancy one of the most popular writers in the world. But as Clancy has constructed the Ryan mythology, he has quietly established Ryan's shadow double, John Clark. Appearing in The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present Danger, and Without Remorse, Clark has many of Jack Ryan's most appealing traits, but he is also a darker figure embodying the more paranoid sensibilities of the late '90s. As is made clear from the opening pages of Rainbow Six, ex-Navy SEAL Clark and his colleagues believe violent, deadly force to be the best deterrent for terrorism.
Clark (a.k.a. Rainbow Six) has left the CIA to create an England-based organization code-named "Rainbow." Its mission: deploy an elite squad of American operatives combined with handpicked British, French, and German agents to stop terrorism in its tracks. Rainbow's emergence could not be more timely: in quick succession, the force diffuses three attempted terrorist actions. But Clark becomes suspicious when Russian agents suddenly show interest in Rainbow's work.
Rainbow Six appeals on all the levels that Clancy fans could hope for. The Rainbow operatives, from Navy SEALs to German mountain-leader school graduates, are rendered to inspire with their physical and mental prowess. The book is infatuated with the latest gadgets for scrambling, transmitting, and decoding secrets. And, in a carefully woven narrative that simultaneously traces the Rainbow team, a former KGB agent named Popov, the Australian Olympic security team, and a sinister group of American scientists, Clancy artfully reveals the mystery of "Shiva" at the center of the novel. How does Clark measure up against Jack Ryan? He may be the perfect hero for a world with hidden villains. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Rapture of Canaan
by Sheri Reynolds

ISBN 0425162443 (0-425-16244-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1997: Members of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty Baptizing Wind spend their days and nights serving the Lord and waiting for the Rapture--that moment just before the Second Coming of Christ when the saved will be lifted bodily to heaven and the damned will be left behind to face the thousand years of tribulation on earth. The tribulation, according to Grandpa Herman, founder of Fire and Brimstone, will be an ugly time: "He said that we'd run out of food. That big bugs would chase us around and sting us with their tails . . . He said we'd turn on the faucet in the bathroom and find only blood running out . . . He said evil multitudes would come unto us and cut off our limbs, and that we wouldn't die . . . And then he'd say, 'But you don't have to be left behind. You can go straight to Heaven with all of God's special children if you'll only open your hearts to Jesus . . .'"
Such talk of damnation weighs heavy on the mind of Ninah Huff, the 15-year-old narrator of Sheri Reynolds's second novel, The Rapture of Canaan. To distract her from sinful thoughts about her prayer partner James, Ninah puts pecan shells in her shoes and nettles in her bed. But concentrating on the Passion of Jesus cannot, in the end, deter Ninah and James from their passion for each other, and the consequences prove both tragic and transforming for the entire community.
The Rapture of Canaan is a book about miracles, and in writing it, Reynolds has performed something of a miracle herself. Although the church's beliefs and practices may seem extreme (sleeping in an open grave, mortifying the flesh with barbed wire), its members are complex and profoundly sympathetic as they wrestle with the contradictions of Fire and Brimstone's theology, the temptations of the outside world, and the frailties of the human heart. [via]
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Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories: Library Edition
by Washington Irving, Jeffrey Bush

ISBN 0425122581 (0-425-12258-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Ripley's Game
by Patricia Highsmith

ISBN 0434335142 (0-434-33514-2)
Hardcover, Random House

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Roots
by Alex Haley

ISBN 0440174643 (0-440-17464-3)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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Roots are important to any life. [via]
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The Rule Of Four
by Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason

ISBN 0440241359 (0-440-24135-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Four-a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery.It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to finish their theses. And two students, Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, are a hair's breadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili-a renowned text attributed to an Italian nobleman, a work that has baffled scholars since its publication in 1499. For Tom, their research has been a link to his family's past-and an obstacle to the woman he loves. For Paul, it has become an obsession, the very reason for living. But as their deadline looms, research has stalled-until a long-lost diary surfaces with a vital clue. And when a fellow researcher is murdered just hours later, Tom and Paul realize that they are not the first to glimpse the Hypnerotomachia 's secrets. Suddenly the stakes are raised, and as the two friends sift through the codes and riddles at the heart of the text, they are beginnning to see the manuscript in a new light-not simply as a story of faith, eroticism and pedantry, but as a bizarre, coded mathematical maze. And as they come closer and closer to deciphering the final puzzle of a book that has shattered careers, friendships and families, they know that their own lives are in mortal danger. Because at least one person has been killed for knowing too much. And they know even more.From the streets of fifteenth-century Rome to the rarified realm of the Ivy League, from a shocking 500 year-old murder scene to the drama of a young man's coming of age, The Rule of Four takes us on an entertaining, illuminating tour of history-as it builds to a pinnacle of nearly unbearable suspense.From the Hardcover edition. [via]
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A Slipping Down Life
by Anne Tyler Modarressi

ISBN 0425103625 (0-425-10362-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Slouching Toward Bethlehem
by Joan Didion

ISBN 0440080274 (0-440-08027-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Something Happened
by Joseph Heller

ISBN 044018133X (0-440-18133-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened.
Something Happened is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controversial second novel satirizing business life and American culture. The story is told as if the reader was overhearing the patter of Bob Slocum's brain -- recording what is going on at the office, as well as his fantasies and memories that complete the story of his life. The result is a novel as original and memorable as his Catch-22. [via]
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Soul on Ice
by Eldridge Cleaver

ISBN 044021128X (0-440-21128-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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The Summons
by John Grisham

ISBN 0440241073 (0-440-24107-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Law professor Ray Atlee and his prodigal brother, Forrest, are summoned home to Clanton, Mississippi, by their ailing father to discuss his will. But when Ray arrives the judge is already dead, and the one-page document dividing his meager estate between the two sons seems crystal clear. What it doesn't mention, however, is the small fortune in cash Ray discovers hidden in the old man's house--$3 million he can't account for and doesn't mention to brother Forrest, either.
Ray's efforts to keep his find a secret, figure out where it came from, and hide it from a nameless extortioner, who seems to know more about it than he does, culminate in a denouement with an almost biblical twist. It's a slender plot to hang a thriller on, and in truth it's not John Grisham's best in terms of pacing, dramatic tension, and interesting characters (except for Harry Rex, a country lawyer who was the judge's closest friend and in many ways is the father Ray wishes he'd had. He's so vivid he jumps off the page). But Grisham's legions of fans are likely to enjoy The Summons even if it lacks the power of some of his classic earlier books, like The Firm, The Brethren, and The Testament. --Jane Adams [via]
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet
by Madeleine L'Engle

ISBN 0440901588 (0-440-90158-8)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry, whom readers first met in A Wrinkle in Time, has a little task he must accomplish. In 24 hours, a mad dictator will destroy the universe by declaring nuclear war--unless Charles Wallace can go back in time to change one of the many Might-Have-Beens in history. In an intricately layered and suspenseful journey through time, this extraordinary young man psychically enters four different people from other eras. As he perceives through their eyes "what might have been," he begins to comprehend the cosmic significance and consequences of every living creature's actions. As he witnesses first-hand the transformation of civilization from peaceful to warring times, his very existence is threatened, but the alternative is far worse.
The Murry family, also appearing in A Wind in the Door and Many Waters, acts as a carrier of Madeleine L'Engle's unique message about human responsibility for the world. Themes of good versus evil, time and space travel, and the invincibility of the human spirit predominate. Even while she entertains, L'Engle kindles the intellect, inspiring young people to ask questions of the world, and learn by challenging. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Talisman
by Stephen King, Peter Straub

ISBN 0425105334 (0-425-10533-4)
Softcover, Southgate Publishers

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The story of Jack Sawyer, a thirteen year old boy from New Hampshire who encounters a frightening adventure with the talisman as he travels across the United States. [via]
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The Tenants
by Bernard Malamud

ISBN 0413449009 (0-413-44900-9)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen Ltd

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These Restless Heads: A Triology of Romantics
by James Branch Cabell

ISBN 0403005418 (0-403-00541-8)
Hardcover, Scholarly Press

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A Time to Kill
by John Grisham

ISBN 0440211727 (0-440-21172-7)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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This addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who kills the white druggies who raped his child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is John Grisham's first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it for three years and every detail shines like pebbles at the bottom of a swift, sunlit stream. Grisham is a born legal storyteller and his dialogue is pitch perfect.
The plot turns with jeweled precision. Carl Lee Hailey gets an M-16 from the Chicago hoodlum he'd saved at Da Nang, wastes the rapists on the courthouse steps, then turns to attorney Jake Brigance, who needs a conspicuous win to boost his career. Folks want to give Carl Lee a second medal, but how can they ignore premeditated execution? The town is split, revealing its social structure. Blacks note that a white man shooting a black rapist would be acquitted; the KKK starts a new Clanton chapter; the NAACP, the ambitious local reverend, a snobby, Harvard-infested big local firm, and others try to outmaneuver Jake and his brilliant, disbarred drunk of an ex-law partner. Jake hits the books and the bottle himself. Crosses burn, people die, crowds chant "Free Carl Lee!" and "Fry Carl Lee!" in the antiphony of America's classical tragedy. Because he's lived in Oxford, Mississippi, Grisham gets compared to Faulkner, but he's really got the lean style and fierce folk moralism of John Steinbeck. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Timebends: A Life
by Arthur Miller

ISBN 0413414809 (0-413-41480-9)
Hardcover, Methuen

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The Tokyo-Montana Express
by Richard Brautigan

ISBN 0440087708 (0-440-08770-8)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence

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The Varieties of Religious Experience
by William James, Eugene Taylor, Mickey James

ISBN 0415278090 (0-415-27809-0)
Hardcover, Routledge

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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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Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition
by Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan

ISBN 041527544X (0-415-27544-X)
Softcover, Routledge

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This sourcebook includes the full text of Song of Myself.
Since 1855, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself has been enjoyed, debated, parodied and imitated by readers, critics and artists crossing national and linguistic boundaries. Many argue that it is the most influential poem ever written by an American.
This sourcebook and critical edition provides easy access to:
*information on the contexts of Whitman's work, including biographical details and a chronology
*an overview of the critical reception of the poem and extracts from important criticism, reprinted with clear introductory headnotes
*key passages from the original 1855 edition, with commentary and annotation
*the full 'final' 1881 edition of the poem.
Cross-references link the critical, contextual and textual sections of the volume, encouraging an integrated understanding of this creative and controversial text. Complementing a wealth of material with suggestions for further reading, this volume is ideal for readers with no knowledge of the poem, or for those returning anew to a favourite text. [via]
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We Who Are About to
by Joanna Russ

ISBN 0440194288 (0-440-19428-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Why Are We in Vietnam?
by Norman Mailer

ISBN 0425033066 (0-425-03306-6)
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The Wonderful O
by James Thurber, Marc Simont

ISBN 0440405793 (0-440-40579-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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