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Ada: Or, Ardor a Family Chronicle
by Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN 0679725229 (0-679-72522-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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On the country estate of his art-collecting uncle, Van Veen meets Ada, his beautiful cousin. Their relationship flourishes, but both were born into one of America's illustrious families, a vast over-extended empire, and this causes problems for the lovers. [via]
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- Ada: Or, Ardor a Family Chronicle: ISBN 0297179357 (0-297-17935-7)
  Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Ada or Ardor a Family Chronicle: ISBN 0679725229 (0-679-72522-9)
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The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN 1406501336 (1-4065-0133-6)
Softcover, Dodo Pr

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The Blithedale Romance, considered one of Hawthorne's major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against an experiment in communal living. From mesmerism to illicit love, The Blithedale Romance represents one of Hawthorne's best and most sharply etched works, one that Henry James called his "brightest" and "liveliest" novel, and that Roy Male, acclaimed Americanist scholar, said is "one of the most underrated works in American fiction."

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition is set from the definitive Ohio State University Press Centenary edition of the novel. [via]
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Dune
by Frank Herbert

ISBN 0399128964 (0-399-12896-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.
The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.
Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [via]
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- Dune: ISBN 0399128964 (0-399-12896-4)
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Dune: La Batalla De Corrin
by Frank Herbert

ISBN 0441013597 (0-441-01359-7)
Softcover, Ace Books

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This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.
The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.
Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Empire Falls
by Richard Russo

ISBN 0375726403 (0-375-72640-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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Like most of Richard Russo's earlier novels, Empire Falls is a tale of blue-collar life, which increasingly resembles a kind of high-wire act performed without the benefit of any middle-class safety nets. This time, though, the author has widened his scope, producing a comic and compelling ensemble piece. There is, to be sure, a protagonist: fortysomething Miles Robey, proprietor of the local greasy spoon and the recently divorced father of a teenage daughter. But Russo sets in motion a large cast of secondary characters, drawn from every social stratum of his depressed New England mill town. We meet his ex-wife Janine, his father Max (another of Russo's cantankerous layabouts), and a host of Empire Grill regulars. We're also introduced to Francine Whiting, a manipulative widow who owns half the town--and who takes a perverse pleasure in pointing out Miles' psychological defects.
Miles does indeed have a tendency to take it on the chin. And his role as Mr Nice Guy thrusts him into all sorts of clashes with his not-so-nice contemporaries, even as the reader patiently waits for him to blow his top. It would be impossible to summarise Russo's multiple plot lines here. Suffice it to say that he touches on love and marriage, lust and loss and small-town economics, with more than a soupcon of class resentment stirred into the broth. This is, in a sense, an epic of small and large frustrations: "After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble?" Yet Russo's comedic timing keeps the novel from collapsing into an orgy of breast-beating, and his dialogue--snappy and natural and efficiently poignant--is itself sufficient cause to put Empire Falls on the map. --Bob Brandeis, Amazon.com [via]
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg

ISBN 1400064627 (1-4000-6462-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again...

"Airplanes and television have removed the Threadgoodes from the Southern scene. Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved a whole community of them in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure. Idgie Threadgoode is a true original: Huckleberry Finn would have tried to marry her!"
--Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird

"A real novel and a good one... [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller."
--The New York Times

"It's very good, in fact, just wonderful."
--Los Angeles Times

"Funny and macabre."
--The Washington Post

"Courageous and wise."
--Houston Chronicle [via]
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Illustrated Dune
by Frank Herbert

ISBN 0425038912 (0-425-03891-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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New, unused, never read condition+ [via]
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Lake Wobegon Days
by Garrison Keillor

ISBN 0670805149 (0-670-80514-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA

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One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. Keillor's tales present a wryly affectionate and humorous chronicle of an imaginary town in the American Midwest. [via]
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- Lake Wobegon Days: ISBN 0896216861 (0-89621-686-1)
  Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Little Men
by Louisa May Alcott

ISBN 1404314512 (1-4043-1451-2)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com

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Please, sir, is this Plumfield? asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him. "Yes. Who sent you?" "Mr. Laurence. I have got a letter for the lady." "All right; go up to the house, and give it to her; she'll see to you, little chap." The man spoke pleasantly, and the boy went on, feeling much cheered by the words. Through the soft spring rain that fell on sprouting grass and budding trees, Nat saw large square house before him a hospitable-looking house, with an old-fashioned porch, wide steps, and lights shining in many win-dows. Neither curtains nor shutters hid the cheerful glimmer; and, pausing a moment before he rang, Nat saw many little shadows dancing on the walls, heard the pleasant hum of young voices, and felt that it was hardly possible that the light and warmth and comfort within could be for a homeless "little chap" like him. [via]
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Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
by Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens

ISBN 0448110180 (0-448-11018-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place. [via]
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Look Homeward Angel
by Thomas Wolfe

ISBN 0743297318 (0-7432-9731-8)
Softcover, Scribner

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The classic first novel from one of America's greatest men of letters
"I don't know yet what I am capable of doing," wrote Thomas Wolfe at the age of twenty-three, "but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it." Six years later, with the publication of Look Homeward, Angel, Wolfe gave the world proof of his genius, and he would continue to do so throughout his tumultuous life.
Look Homeward, Angel is the coming-of-age story of Eugene Gant, whose restlessness and yearning to experience life to the fullest take him from his rural home in North Carolina to Harvard. Through his rich, ornate prose and meticulous attention to detail, Wolfe evokes the peculiarities of small-town life and the pain and upheaval of leaving home. Heavily autobiographical, Look Homeward, Angel is Wolfe's most turbulent and passionate work, and a brilliant novel of lasting impact. [via]
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Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West

ISBN 0811202151 (0-8112-0215-1)
Softcover, New Directions

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Two short novels, one set in New York and the other in Hollywood, dramatically depict the extremes of the human condition and the destructive forces pervading modern American life. [via]
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Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd

ISBN 0670032379 (0-670-03237-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic. --Regina Marler [via]
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- Secret Life of Bees: ISBN 0670894605 (0-670-89460-5)
  Hardcover, Penguin USA
- Secret Life of Bees: ISBN 0670032379 (0-670-03237-9)
  Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
Selected Poems
by Charles Tomlinson, William Carlos Williams

ISBN 0811209571 (0-8112-0957-1)
Hardcover, New Directions

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Selected Poems
by William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson

ISBN 081120958X (0-8112-0958-X)
Softcover, New Directions

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The Short Stories
by Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 0684803348 (0-684-80334-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. This collection, "The Short Stories," originally published in 1938, is definitive. Among these forty-nine short stories are Hemingway's earliest efforts, written when he was a young foreign correspondent in Paris, and such masterpieces as "Hills Like White Elephants, " "The Killers, " "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, " and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Set in the varied landscapes o Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style - from the plain, bald language of his first story, "Up in Michigan, " to the seamless prose and spare, eloquent pathos of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" to the expansive solitude of the Big Two-Hearted River stories. These stories showcase the singular talent of a master, the most important American writer of the twentieth century. [via]
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- The Short Stories: ISBN 0684837862 (0-684-83786-2)
  Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
by Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 0684718065 (0-684-71806-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. This collection, The Short Stories, originally published in 1938, is definitive. Among these forty-nine short stories are Hemingway's earliest efforts, written when he was a young foreign correspondent in Paris, and such masterpieces as "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Killers," "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber," and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain, bald language of his first story, "Up in Michigan," to the seamless prose and spare, eloquent pathos of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" to the expansive solitude of the Big Two-Hearted River stories. These stories showcase the singular talent of a master, the most important American writer of the twentieth century. [via]
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- The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: ISBN 0684151553 (0-684-15155-3)
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
by Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 0684804441 (0-684-80444-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Hemingway Short Stories [via]
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Sophie's Choice
by William Styron

ISBN 0679736379 (0-679-73637-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Set in Brooklyn in 1947, this is the story of Sophie, a Polish Catholic immigrant who is haunted by her memories of the concentration camp in wartime Europe, and the terrible choice she was forced to make. [via]
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Spoon River Anthology
by Edgar Lee Masters

ISBN 1420925970 (1-4209-2597-0)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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"Provides a wealth of information that frames specific historical, biographical, and autobiographical background for names, persons, places, and situations alluded to and invoked by the epitaphs in the Anthology. Hallwas brings to bear on the text and its history a detailed overview of previous scholarship, and a knowledge of Illinois history in particular, that will be invaluable for anyone not only writing on Masters, but working in American studies generally."-John Hollander, New Republic "The single most widely read book of American poetry."-James Hurt, Illinois Authors "Hallwas's reading of Spoon River is undoubtedly the best and the one the poet intended...This presentation will reinstate [Spoon River Anthology] as one of the central works of the modern canon...The painstaking, critical and devoted introduction is indispensable for an understanding of this seminal work of poetry."-Karl Shapiro, Chicago Tribune "The finest offering of Spoon River Anthology to date ...should be in all academic and public libraries."--Library Journal Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) was, along with Carl Sandburg and Vachel Lindsay, once of the three important poets of the Chicago Renaissance. John E. Hallwas, a professor of English at Western Illinois University, has written or edited more than a dozen books related to Illinois history and literature, including Studies in Illinois Poetry. [via]
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Spoon River Anthology
by Spoon River Anthology

ISBN 1414236824 (1-4142-3682-4)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com

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Then Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN 1414506732 (1-4145-0673-2)
Softcover, Pavilion Pr

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What Maisie Knew
by Henry James

ISBN 1421994240 (1-4219-9424-0)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com

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What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself becomes the pretext for all sorts of adult sexual intrigue.

In this classic tale of the death of childhood, there is a savage comedy that owes much to Dickens. But for his portrayal of the child's capacity for intelligent `wonder', James summons all the subtlety he devotes elsewhere to his most celebrated adult protagonists. Neglected and exploited by everyone around her, Maisie inspires James to dwell with extraordinary acuteness on the things that may pass between adult and child. In addition to a new introduction, this edition of the novel offers particularly detailed notes, bibliography, and a list of variant readings. [via]
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Masculino Que Ninguno: Una Perspectiva Sociopersonal De Genero, El Poder Y La Violencia
by Felix A. Roman Tirado, Colectivo e Ideologias y Vivencias de los Generos (Puerto Rico)

ISBN 0965017761 (0-9650177-6-1)
Hardcover, Colectivo e Ideologias y Vivencias de los Generos

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