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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United Statesby National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United StatesISBN 0393326713 (0-393-32671-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States'Book summary:The result of months of intensive investigations and inquiries by a specially appointed bipartisan panel, The 9/11 Commission Report is one of the most important historical documents of the modern era. And while that fact alone makes it worth owning, it is also a chilling and valuable piece of nonfiction: a comprehensive and alarming look at one of the biggest intelligence failures in history and the events that led up to it. The commission traces the roots of al-Qaeda's strategies along with the emergence of the 19 hijackers and how they entered the United States and boarded airplanes. It details the missed opportunities of law enforcement officials to avert disaster. Using transcripts of cockpit voice recordings, the report describes events on board the planes along with the chaotic reaction on the ground from nearly every level of government. Going forward, the commission calls for a comprehensive overhaul of what it sees as a deeply flawed and disjointed intelligence-gathering operation. The creation of a post for a single National Security Director is recommended, along with the creation of a National Counterterrorism Center. The report finds fault with the approaches of both the Clinton and Bush administrations but, because they were a bipartisan panel and the problems described are so systemic and far-reaching, they stop short of assigning blame to any particular person or group. Credit must be given to how readable the report is. At more than 500 pages, the writing is clear and forceful and the information is made more accessible since it is fre from election politics and rancor. While the commission notes that future attacks are probably inevitable, a coordinated preventive effort along with a clear plan to respond with efficiency can offer Americans some hope in a post-9/11 world. --John Moe [via]
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Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: ISBN 0393326713 (0-393-32671-3)
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Against Interpretation: And Other Essaysby Susan SontagISBN 0385267088 (0-385-26708-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against Interpretation: And Other Essays'Book summary:The first collection of essays by the brilliant critic and writer to be published in book form, containing her best writings between 1961 and 1965. [via]
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American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made Itby Richard Hofstadter, Christopher LaschISBN 0394488806 (0-394-48880-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Americanaby Don DelilloISBN 0395120942 (0-395-12094-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Americans: The Colonial Experienceby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394705130 (0-394-70513-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Americans, the Colonial Experience'Book summary:The first book in a trilogy--and in many respects the best of the bunch--The Colonial Experience is an essential interpretation of how the habits of people who lived more than two centuries ago shaped the lives of modern Americans. Boorstin shows how an undiscovered continent shattered long-standing traditions and utopian fantasies with the hard demands of everyday life far from the sophisticated centers of European civilization: "Old categories were shaken up, and new situations revealed unsuspected uses for old knowledge," writes Boorstin. He starts with a series of penetrating essays on the Puritans of Massachusetts, the Quakers of Pennsylvania, the philanthropists of Georgia, and the planters of Virginia, then tackles a set of diffuse topics that range from astronomy to language to medicine in fascinating vignettes.
The Colonial Experience is must reading for anybody interested in the development of the American character. --John J. Miller [via]
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Americans: The National Experienceby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394703588 (0-394-70358-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Americans: The National Experience'Book summary:Daniel J. Boorstin, one of America's great historians, focuses on American ingenuity and emergent nationalism in this middle book of the Americans trilogy, dealing with a period extending roughly from the Revolution to the Civil War. Like its two companion volumes, The National Experience is a sometimes quirky look at how certain patterns of living helped shape the character of the United States. The book simply overflows with ideas, all of them introduced in entertaining chapters on subjects such as the New England ice industry and the boomtowns of the Midwest.
Boorstin is a delight to read, a genuine polymath whose wide-ranging interests and love of learning show up on every page. --John J. Miller [via]
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Black Like Me: Library Editionby John Howard GriffinISBN 0395251028 (0-395-25102-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Book of Danielby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0394462718 (0-394-46271-8)
Hardcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Daniel'Book summary:The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.
His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted.
Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new lifemarriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him.
In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different.
It is a confession of his most intimate relationshipswith his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him.
It is a book of memories: riding a bus with his parents to the ill-fated Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill; watching the FBI take his father away; appearing with Susan at rallies protesting their parents innocence; visiting his mother and father in the Death House.
It is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniels interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks.
It is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the caselawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself.
It is a book rich in characters, from elderly grand- mothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pen-tagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this countryits sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations.
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The Brethrenby John GrishamISBN 0385339674 (0-385-33967-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brethren'Book summary:John Grisham's novels have all been so systematically successful that it is easy to forget he is just one man toiling away silently with a pen, experimenting and improving with each book. While not as gifted a prose stylist as Scott Turow, Grisham is among the best plotters in the thriller business, and he infuses his books with a moral valence and creative vision that set them apart from their peers.
The Brethren is in many respects his most daring book yet. The novel grows from two separate subplots. In the first, three imprisoned ex-judges (the "brethren" in the title), frustrated by their loss of power and influence, concoct an elaborate blackmail scheme that preys on wealthy, closeted gay men. The second story traces the rise of presidential candidate Aaron Lake, a puppet essentially created by CIA director Teddy Maynard to fulfill Maynard's plans for restoring the power of his beleaguered agency.
Grisham's tight control of the two meandering threads leaves the reader guessing through most of the opening chapters how and when these two worlds will collide. Also impressive is Grisham's careful portraiture. Justice Hatlee Beech in particular is a fascinating, tragic anti-hero: a millionaire judge with an appointment for life who was rendered divorced, bankrupt, and friendless after his conviction for a drunk-driving homicide.
The book's cynical view of presidential politics and criminal justice casts a somewhat gloomy shadow over the tale. CIA director Teddy Maynard is an all-powerful demon with absolute knowledge and control of the public will and public funds. Even his candidate, Congressman Lake, is a pawn in Maynard's egomaniacal game of ad campaigns, illicit contributions, and international intrigue. In the end, The Brethren marks a transition in Grisham's career toward a more thoughtful narrative style with less interest in the big-payoff blockbuster ending. But that's not to say that the last 50 pages won't keep your reading light turned on late. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Bright Lights, Big Cityby Jay McInerneyISBN 0394726413 (0-394-72641-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bright Lights, Big City'Book summary:The hero of this novel is sleepwalking through his job on a chic New Yorker-style magazine by day; by night he pursues pleasure in the coke-fuelled clublands of Manhattan. But pleasure is elusive and his wife, a glamorous model, has left him. By the author of "Story of My Life". [via]
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The Brokerby John GrishamISBN 0385340540 (0-385-34054-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Broker'Book summary:Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as "the broker," Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could "open any door in Washington." That is, until he tried to broker a deal selling access to the world's most powerful satellite surveillance system to the highest bidder. When caught, Backman accepted prison as the one option that would keep him safe and alive, since the interested parties (the Israelis, the Saudis, the Russians, and the Chinese) were all itching to get their hands on his secrets at any cost. Little does he know that his own government has designs on accessing that information--or at least letting it die with him. Now, six years after his incarceration, the director of the CIA convinces a lame duck president to pardon Backman, and the broker becomes a free man--and an open target.
The Broker marries the best of John Grisham's many talents--his ability to immerse himself in the culture of small-town life (in this case, Bologna, Italy), and his uncanny mastery of the chase. The first half of the book focuses on Backman's transformation from infamous power broker to helpless victim in his own game. Upon his release from prison, Backman is taken into "protective custody" and whisked off to Italy where he is assigned a new identity, and a tutor to help him blend in. Sure he is on the run, but some readers may feel that Backman's time spent in Bologna is a bit too leisurely--readers join him on an almost cinematic tour through the Italian town, complete with language and history lessons. Impatient readers will be happy to know that the final half of the novel is classic Grisham--a fast-paced, thrilling cat and mouse chase pitting Backman against the numerous agencies that want him dead--as the broker makes a move to take back his life. --Daphne Durham
Grisham: The Books
- A Time to Kill, 1989
- The Firm, 1991
- The Pelican Brief, 1992
- The Client, 1993
- The Chamber, 1994
- The Rainmaker, 1995
- The Runaway Jury, 1996
- The Partner, 1997
- The Street Lawyer, 1998
- The Testament, 1999
- The Brethren, 2000
- A Painted House, 2001
- Skipping Christmas, 2001
- The Summons, 2002
- The King of Torts, 2003
- Bleachers, 2003
- The Last Juror, 2004
- The Broker, 2005
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The Cat in the Hat Party Editionby SeussISBN 0394892186 (0-394-89218-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat in the Hat Party Edition'Book summary:Translated by Carlos Rivera. [via]
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Hardcover, Random House Espanol - The Cat in the Hat Party Edition: ISBN 0394900014 (0-394-90001-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - The Cat in the Hat Party Edition: ISBN 0394892186 (0-394-89218-6)
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Cathedralby Raymond CarverISBN 0394712811 (0-394-71281-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Centaurby John UpdikeISBN 0394418816 (0-394-41881-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Centaur'Book summary:"A triumph of love and art." THE WASHINGTON POST
In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with his life. Interwoven with the myth of Chiron, the noblest centaur, and his relationship to the Titan Prometheus, "The Centaur" is one of Updike's most brilliant novels.
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Chief Joseph of the Nez Perceby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0394713567 (0-394-71356-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce'Book summary:Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce: A Poem, by Warren, Robert Penn [via]
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Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, Who Called Themselves the Nimipu, the Real People: A Poemby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0394530381 (0-394-53038-1)
Hardcover, Random House
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Child of Godby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0394487710 (0-394-48771-0)
Hardcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Child of God'Book summary:"Scuttling down the mountain with the thing on his back he looked like a man beset by some ghast succubus, the dead girl riding him with legs bowed akimbo like a monstrous frog." Child of God must be the most sympathetic portrayal of necrophilia in all of literature. The hero, Lester Ballard, is expelled from his human family and ends up living in underground caves, which he peoples with his trophies: giant stuffed animals won in carnival shooting galleries and the decomposing corpses of his victims. Cormac McCarthy's much-admired prose is suspenseful, rich with detail, and yet restrained, even delicate, in its images of Lester's activities. So tightly focused is the story on this one "child of God" that it resembles a myth, or parable. "You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you.... A race that gives suck to the maimed and the crazed, that wants their wrong blood in its history and will have it." [via]
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A Civil Actionby Jonathan Harr, Marty AsherISBN 0394563492 (0-394-56349-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Civil Action'Book summary:In America, when somebody does you wrong, you take 'em to court. W. R. Grace and Beatrice Foods had been dumping a cancer-causing industrial solvent into the water table of Woburn, Massachusetts, for years; in 1981, the families of eight leukemia victims sued. However, A Civil Action demonstrates powerfully that--even with the families' hotshot lawyers and the evidence on their side--justice is elusive, particularly when it involves malfeasance by megacorporations. Much of the legal infighting can cause the eyes to glaze. But the story is saved by great characters: the flawed, flamboyant Jan Schlichtmann and his group of bulldogs for the prosecution; Jerome Facher, the enigmatic lawyer for Beatrice, who proves to be more than a match; John J. Riley, the duplicitous, porcine tannery owner; and a host of others. It's impossible not to feel the drama of this methodical book, impossible not to grieve for the parents who lost children, and impossible not to share Schlichtmann's desperation as he runs out of money. A Civil Action reads like one long advertisement for a few well-placed Molotov cocktails. (But that wouldn't make for a very long book, now would it?) [via]
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The Clientby John GrishamISBN 038542471X (0-385-42471-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Client'Book summary:In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client -- even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom... or cost them both their lives. [via]
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The Complete Poemsby Anne SextonISBN 0395329353 (0-395-32935-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poems'Book summary:She drew her poems from a great depth in herself, and they continue to stir us...Her voice remains a distinctive one in American poetry of the past half century. -- J.D. McClatchy [via]
Contemporary American Poetryby A. PoulinISBN 0395286352 (0-395-28635-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Co
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Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395745322 (0-395-74532-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395050634 (0-395-05063-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395186188 (0-395-18618-8)
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Contemporary American Poetryby Michael Waters, A. PoulinISBN 039577800X (0-395-77800-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Coupby John UpdikeISBN 039450268X (0-394-50268-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Crossing to Safetyby Wallace StegnerISBN 0394562003 (0-394-56200-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crossing to Safety'Book summary:It's deceptively simple: two bright young couples meet during the Depression and form an instant and lifelong friendship. "How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these?" Larry Morgan, a successful novelist and the narrator of the story, poses that question many years after he and his wife, Sally, have befriended the vibrant, wealthy, and often troubled Sid and Charity Lang. "Where is the high life, the conspicuous waste, the violence, the kinky sex, the death wish?" It's not here. What is here is just as fascinating, just as compelling, as touching, and as tragic.
Crossing to Safety is about loyalty and survival in its most everyday form--the need to create bonds and the urge to tear them apart. Thirty-four years after their first meeting, when Larry and Sally are called back to the Langs' summer home in Vermont, it's as if for a final showdown. How has this friendship defined them? What is its legacy? Stegner offer answers in those small, perfectly rendered moments that make up lives "as quiet as these"--and as familiar as our own. --Sara Nickerson [via]
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Don't Know Much about History : Everything You Need to Know about American History but Never Learnedby Kenneth C. DavisISBN 0380712520 (0-380-71252-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Know Much about History : Everything You Need to Know about American History but Never Learned'Book summary:Finally, someone who tells history like it was, without the old textbook gloss that's put so many students into premature naptime and misinformed the few who stayed awake. Davis corrects the myths and misconceptions from Columbus up through the Clinton administration, and shows that truth is more entertaining than propaganda. [via]
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Empireby Gore Vidal, Edgar BoxISBN 0394561236 (0-394-56123-6)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire'Book summary:"Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of. And like the earlier novels in his historical cycle, Empire is a wonderfully vivid documentary drama." The New York Times Book Review
In this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Agea period of promise and possibility, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries. In a vivid and beathtaking work of fiction, where the fortunes of a sister and brother intertwine with the fates of the generation, their country, and some of the greatest names of their day, including President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, William and Henry James, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and the Whitneys, Gore Vidal sweeps us from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, from the salvaged republic of Lincoln to a nation boldly reaching for the world.
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Falconerby John CheeverISBN 0394410718 (0-394-41071-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Falconer'Book summary:Falconer is set in a nightmarish prison where a convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man. Out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, John Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction. Saul Bellow wrote, "Falconer is splendid. It is rough, it is elegant, it is pure. It is also indispensable, if you earnestly desire to know what is happening to the human soul in the U.S.A." Falconer continues twenty-five years after its initial publication to be the best-selling of John Cheever's novels. RosettaBooks is proud to publish three important books from the middle of John Cheever's productive career -- Bullet Park (1969), The World of Apples (1973) and Falconer (1977). [via]
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ; & But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: Two Novelsby Anita LoosISBN 0394714628 (0-394-71462-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhoodby Ann BrasharesISBN 0385909195 (0-385-90919-5)
Hardcover, Delacorte Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood'Book summary:Ages 12 and up. Best buds Tibby, Carmen, Lena and Bridget are back with their magical pair of shared jeans in Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood. Each summer brings new and difficult challenges, as the perennially separated friends discover afresh this last season before college. Tibby struggles with the idea of close friend Brian becoming her boyfriend, and their fragile relationship is soon tested by a tragedy in her immediate family. Carmen doesnt know how to react when she finds out that her middle-aged mom is pregnant, and Bridget is unpleasantly surprised to be reunited with the boy who broke her heart two summers ago. Finally, Lena, still coming to terms with the loss of her first love, tries to convince her strict father that art school is a better career path than Greek restaurant management. But through every crisis, each girl is assured of the love and support of the created sisterhood when she pulls on the denim armor of the cherished, and by now, a bit fragrant ("Rule # 1. You must never wash the Pants.") Traveling Pants.
Full of homey platitudes about life, love and the pursuit of perfect jeans, Girls in Pants occasionally reads like a lengthy Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul entry. But often thats precisely the kind of friendly reassurance female readers are looking for, and fans of the wildly popular series whove journeyed every summer with the "Septembers" will find much to laugh and cry about in this concluding volume. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Go Tell It on the Mountainby James BaldwinISBN 0385334575 (0-385-33457-5)
Softcover, Delta
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Go Tell It on the Mountain'Book summary:First published in 1953 when James Baldwin was nearly 30, Go Tell It on the Mountain is a young man's novel, as tightly coiled as a new spring, yet tempered by a maturing man's confidence and empathy. It's not a long book, and its action spans but a single day--yet the author packs in enough emotion, detail, and intimate revelation to make his story feel like a mid-20th-century epic. Using as a frame the spiritual and moral awakening of 14-year-old John Grimes during a Saturday night service in a Harlem storefront church, Baldwin lays bare the secrets of a tormented black family during the depression. John's parents, praying beside him, both wrestle with the ghosts of their sinful pasts--Gabriel, a preacher of towering hypocrisy, fathered an illegitimate child during his first marriage down South and refused to recognize his doomed bastard son; Elizabeth fell in love with a charming, free-spirited young man, followed him to New York, became pregnant with his son, and lost him before she could reveal her condition.
Baldwin lays down the terrible symmetries of these two blighted lives as the ironic context for John's dark night of the soul. When day dawns, John believes himself saved, but his creator makes it clear that this salvation arises as much from blindness as revelation: "He was filled with a joy, a joy unspeakable, whose roots, though he would not trace them on this new day of his life, were nourished by the wellspring of a despair not yet discovered."
Though it was hailed at publication for its groundbreaking use of black idiom, what is most striking about Go Tell It on the Mountain today is its structure and its scope. In peeling back the layers of these damaged lives, Baldwin dramatizes the story of the great black migration from rural South to urban North. "Behind them was the darkness," Baldwin writes of Gabriel and Elizabeth's lost generation, "nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" This is Baldwin's music--a music in which rhapsody is rooted anguish--and there is none finer in American literature. --David Laskin [via]
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God Knowsby Joseph HellerISBN 0394529197 (0-394-52919-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God Knows'Book summary:Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David -- yes, King David -- but as you've never seen him before. You already know David as the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon; now meet David as he really was: the cocky Jewish kid, the plagiarized poet, and the Jewish father. Listen as David tells his own story, a story both relentlessly ancient and surprisingly modern, about growing up and growing old, about men and women, and about man and God. It is quintessential Heller. [via]
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God's Graceby Bernard MalamudISBN 038064519X (0-380-64519-X)
Hardcover, Avon
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Gorky Parkby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 0394517482 (0-394-51748-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared DiamondISBN 0393317552 (0-393-31755-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies'Book summary:With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller; over 1.5 million copies sold; is now a major PBS special.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. 32 illustrations [via]
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Hatchetby Gary PaulsenISBN 0395732611 (0-395-73261-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hatchet'Book summary:The story of a young boy, the lone survivor of an airplane crash, who struggles to survive in the Canadian wilderness. [via]
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The Haunted Bookshopby Christopher MorleyISBN 0380626950 (0-380-62695-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Haunted Bookshop'Book summary:This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeares finesse to Oscar Wildes wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrims Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library. [via]
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I Sing the Body Electric!: And Other Storiesby Ray BradburyISBN 0380789620 (0-380-78962-0)
Softcover, Avon Books
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The Iceman Cometh: A Playby Eugene O'NeillISBN 039470018X (0-394-70018-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iceman Cometh: A Play'Book summary:The Place: Harry Hope's bar, a cheap gin-mill of the five-cent whiskey, last-resort variety situated downtown on the West Side of New York.
The Time: Salesman Hickey's birthday celebration, two days during the summer of 1912 -- a time when all tomorrows are forced abruptly to become today; when the delineation between hopes, dreams, and pipe dreams disintegrates; when "self-knowledge" destroys self-respect, compassion -- and life.
One of the last of Eugene O'Neill's plays, The Iceman Cometh stands today with Long Day's Journey into Night and A Moon for the Misbegotten as the supreme expression of his dramatic genius. [via]More editions of The Iceman Cometh: A Play:
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Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiahby Richard BachISBN 0385319258 (0-385-31925-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'Book summary:In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald Shimoda--former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar....
In Illusions, the unforgettable follow-up to his phenomenal bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings: that people don't need airplanes to soar...that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them... and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places--like hay fields, one-traffic-light midwestern towns, and most of all, deep within ourselves. [via]More editions of Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah:
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Intruder in the Dustby William FaulknerISBN 0394430743 (0-394-43074-3)
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of the Forgotten Colony That Shaped Americaby Russell ShortoISBN 0385503490 (0-385-50349-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America'Book summary:In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today.
In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New York State Library made an astounding discovery: 12,000 pages of centuries-old correspondence, court cases, legal contracts, and reports from a forgotten society: the Dutch colony centered on Manhattan, which predated the thirteen original American colonies. For the past thirty years scholar Charles Gehring has been translating this trove, which was recently declared a national treasure. Now, Russell Shorto has made use of this vital material to construct a sweeping narrative of Manhattans founding that gives a startling, fresh perspective on how America began.
In an account that blends a novelists grasp of storytelling with cutting-edge scholarship, The Island at the Center of the World strips Manhattan of its asphalt, bringing us back to a wilderness islanda hunting ground for Indians, populated by wolves and bearsthat became a prize in the global power struggle between the English and the Dutch. Indeed, Russell Shorto shows that Americas founding was not the work of English settlers alone but a result of the clashing of these two seventeenth century powers. In fact, it was AmsterdamEuropes most liberal city, with an unusual policy of tolerance and a polyglot society dedicated to free tradethat became the model for the city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan. While the Puritans of New England were founding a society based on intolerance, on Manhattan the Dutch created a free-trade, upwardly-mobile melting pot that would help shape not only New York, but America.
The story moves from the halls of power in London and The Hague to bloody naval encounters on the high seas. The characters in the sagathe men and women who played a part in Manhattans foundingrange from the philosopher Rene Descartes to James, the Duke of York, to prostitutes and smugglers. At the heart of the story is a bitter power struggle between two men: Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony, and a forgotten American hero named Adriaen van der Donck, a maverick, liberal-minded lawyer whose brilliant political gamesmanship, commitment to individual freedom, and exuberant love of his new country would have a lasting impact on the history of this nation. [via]More editions of The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America:
Jrby William GaddisISBN 0394495500 (0-394-49550-0)
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Le Testament / the Testamentby John GrishamISBN 0385339585 (0-385-33958-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Testament / the Testament'Book summary:Troy Phelan, a 78-year-old eccentric and the 10th-richest man in America, is about to read his last will and testament, divvying up an estate worth $11 billion. Phelan's three ex-wives, their grasping spawn, a legion of lawyers, several psychiatrists, and a plethora of sound technicians wait breathlessly, all eyes glued to digital monitors as they watch the old man read his verdict. But Phelan shocks everyone with a bizarre, last-gasp attempt to redistribute the spoils, setting in motion a legal morality tale of a contested will, sin, and redemption.
Our hero, Nate O'Riley--a washed-up, alcoholic litigator with two ruined marriages in his wake and the IRS on his tail--is dispatched to the Brazilian wetlands in search of a mysterious heir named in the will. After a harrowing trip upriver to a remote settlement in the Pantanal, he encounters Rachel Lane, a pure-hearted missionary living with an indigenous tribe and carrying out "God's work." Rachel's grave dedication and kindness impress the jaded lawyer, so much that a nasty bout of dengue fever leads him to a vision that could change his life.
Back in the States, the legal proceedings drag on and Grisham has a high time with Phelan's money-hungry descendents, a regrettable bunch who squandered millions, married strippers, got druggy, and befriended the Mob. The youngest son, Ramble, is a multi-pierced, tattoo-covered malcontent with big dreams for his rock band, the Demon Monkeys. Will Nate get straight with Rachel's aid? Do the greedy heirs get theirs? What's the real legacy of a lifetime's work? The Testament is classic Grisham: a down-and-out lawyer, a lot of money, an action-packed pursuit, and the highest issues at stake. It's not just about great characters; it's about the question of what character is. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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The Long Goodbyeby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0394757688 (0-394-75768-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Long Goodbye'Book summary:Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe. [via]
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The Member of the Weddingby Carson McCullersISBN 0395079810 (0-395-07981-0)
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Mexico City Bluesby Jack KerouacISBN 0394172876 (0-394-17287-6)
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A Million Little Piecesby James FreyISBN 0385507755 (0-385-50775-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Million Little Pieces'Book summary:News from Doubleday & Anchor Books
The controversy over James Frey's A Million Little Pieces has caused serious concern at Doubleday and Anchor Books. Recent interpretations of our previous statement notwithstanding, it is not the policy or stance of this company that it doesnt matter whether a book sold as nonfiction is true. A nonfiction book should adhere to the facts as the author knows them.It is, however, Doubleday and Anchor's policy to stand with our authors when accusations are initially leveled against their work, and we continue to believe this is right and proper. A publisher's relationship with an author is based to an extent on trust. Mr. Frey's repeated representations of the book's accuracy, throughout publication and promotion, assured us that everything in it was true to his recollections. When the Smoking Gun report appeared, our first response, given that we were still learning the facts of the matter, was to support our author. Since then, we have questioned him about the allegations and have sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished.
We bear a responsibility for what we publish, and apologize to the reading public for any unintentional confusion surrounding the publication of A Million Little Pieces.
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The electrifying opening of James Frey's debut memoir, A Million Little Pieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states, without ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he starts to use again, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox confronting "The Fury" head on:I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.
One of the more harrowing sections is when Frey submits to major dental surgery without the benefit of anesthesia or painkillers (he fights the mind-blowing waves of "bayonet" pain by digging his fingers into two old tennis balls until his nails crack). His fellow patients include a damaged crack addict with whom Frey wades into an ill-fated relationship, a federal judge, a former championship boxer, and a mobster (who, upon his release, throws a hilarious surf-and-turf bacchanal, complete with pay-per-view boxing). In the book's epilogue, when Frey ticks off a terse update on everyone, you can almost hear the Jim Carroll Band's brutal survivor's lament "People Who Died" kicking in on the soundtrack of the inevitable film adaptation.
The rage-fueled memoir is kept in check by Frey's cool, minimalist style. Like his steady mantra, "I am an Alcoholic and I am a drug Addict and I am a Criminal," Frey's use of repetition takes on a crisp, lyrical quality which lends itself to the surreal experience. The book could have benefited from being a bit leaner. Nearly 400 pages is a long time to spend under Frey's influence, and the stylistic acrobatics (no quotation marks, random capitalization, left-aligned text, wild paragraph breaks) may seem too self-conscious for some readers, but beyond the literary fireworks lurks a fierce debut. --Brad Thomas Parsons
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More Die of Heartbreakby Saul BellowISBN 0385318774 (0-385-31877-4)
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The Norton Anthology of American LiteratureISBN 0393987167 (0-393-98716-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This BookBook summary:Firmly grounded in the core strengths that have made it the best-selling undergraduate survey in the field, The Norton Anthology of American Literature has been revitalized in this Seventh Edition through the collaboration between three new period editors and five seasoned ones.
Under Nina Baym's direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and the entire apparatus to make the Shorter Edition an even better teaching tool for the one-semester and brief two-semester courses. [via]More editions of The Norton Anthology of American Literature:
The Norton Anthology of American Literatureby Nina BaymISBN 0393977943 (0-393-97794-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of American Literature'Book summary:A survey of American literature from its 16th-century origins to its flourishing present, this sixth edition offers the work of 242 writers - 30 newly included - representing the extraordinary wealth and diversity of American literature. Among the many works included in their entirety are Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", Thoreau's "Walden", Douglass's "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", Clemens's "Huckleberry Finn", Chopin's "The Awakening", Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying", "Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire", Larsen's "Quicksand", Ginsberg's "Howl", Mamet's "Glengarry, Glen Ross" and Parks's "The America Play". Informative introductions, headnotes, footnotes and bibliographies accompany the text. [via]
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Notes from a Small Islandby Bill BrysonISBN 0380727501 (0-380-72750-1)
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October Countryby Ray BradburyISBN 0380973871 (0-380-97387-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Postman Always Rings Twice'Book summary:Penzler Pick, April 2000: It is sometimes easy to trace a literary genre to its source, and James M. Cain's first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, is the noir novel that paved the way for all the noir fiction that followed. The famous film starring Lana Turner and John Garfield is notoriously dark, but the novel is even more full of despair and devoid of hope. It is a short book--little more than a novella--but its searing characterization and depiction of tawdry greed and lust is branded into every reader's memory.
Frank Chambers, a drifter, is dropped from the back of a truck at a rundown rural diner. When he spots Cora, the owner's wife, he instantly decides to stay. The sexy young woman, married to Nick, a violent and thuggish boor, is equally attracted to the younger man and sees him as her way out of her hopeless, boring life. They begin a clandestine affair and plot to kill Nick, beginning their own journey toward destruction.
Horace McCoy, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, and the other notable noir writers never achieved Cain's spare brilliance. Virtually all of his major works have been filmed, though several Hollywood studios refused to make the films, directors refused to be involved, and actors turned down roles because of their repugnance at the lack of morality inherent in all Cain's characters. Reading him may not be fit for a Sunday school class, but once you begin you will be unable to resist continuing, like picking at a painful scab or watching a tarantula inside a glass dome. --Otto Penzler [via]
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Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, the Pill Versus the Springhill Mind Disaster, and in Watermelon Sugarby Richard BrautiganISBN 0395500761 (0-395-50076-1)
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Rising Sunby Michael CrichtonISBN 0394589424 (0-394-58942-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rising Sun'Book summary:During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners.
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsby Ann BrasharesISBN 0385730586 (0-385-73058-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'Book summary:They were just a soft, ordinary pair of thrift-shop jeans until the four girls took turns trying them on--four girls, that is, who are close friends, about to be parted for the summer, with very different sizes and builds, not to mention backgrounds and personalities. Yet the pants settle on each girl's hips perfectly, making her look sexy and long-legged and feel confident as a teenager can feel. "These are magical Pants!" they realize, and so they make a pact to share them equally, to mail them back and forth over the summer from wherever they are. Beautiful, distant Lena is going to Greece to be with her grandparents; strong, athletic Bridget is off to soccer camp in Baja, California; hot-tempered Carmen plans to have her divorced father all to herself in South Carolina; and Tibby the rebel will be left at home to slave for minimum wage at Wallman's.
Over the summer the Pants come to represent the support of the sisterhood, but they also lead each girl into bruising and ultimately healing confrontations with love and courage, dying and forgiveness. Lena finds her identity in Greece and the courage not to reject love; Bridget gets in over her head with an older camp coach; Carmen finds her father ensconced with a new fiancée and family; and Tibby unwillingly takes on a filmmaking apprentice who is dying of leukemia. Each girl's story is distinct and engrossing, told in a brightly contemporary style. Like the Pants, the reader bounces back and forth among the four unfolding adventures, and the melange is spiced with letters and witty quotes. Ann Brashares has here created four captivating characters and seamlessly interwoven their stories for a young adult novel that is fresh and absorbing. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Something Happenedby Joseph HellerISBN 0394465687 (0-394-46568-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Something Happened'Book summary: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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The Song of the Larkby Willa CatherISBN 0395345308 (0-395-34530-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Song of the Lark'Book summary:Perhaps Willa Cather's most autobiographical work, The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young woman's awakening as an artist against the backdrop of the western landscape. Thea Kronborg, an aspiring singer, struggles to escape from the confines her small Colorado town to the world of possibility in the Metropolitan Opera House. In classic Cather style, The Song of the Lark is the beautiful, unforgettable story of American determination and its inextricable connection to the land.[via]
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Three Junesby Julia GlassISBN 0385721420 (0-385-72142-0)
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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Bookby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0394568311 (0-394-56831-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book'Book summary:Driven by his dream to write and stage an epic stage production of interwoven Chinese novelsWittman Ah Sing, a Chinese-American hippie in the late '60s.From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]
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Trout Fishing in Americaby Richard BrautiganISBN 0385290837 (0-385-29083-7)
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Trying to Save the Piggy Sneedby JohnISBN 0394280105 (0-394-28010-5)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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The Twenty-Seventh Cityby Jonathan FranzenISBN 038070840X (0-380-70840-X)
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The Unredeemed Captive : A Family Story from Early Americaby John Putnam DemosISBN 0394557824 (0-394-55782-4)
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The Victimby Saul BellowISBN 0380003341 (0-380-00334-1)
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Vox : A Novelby Nicholson BakerISBN 0394589955 (0-394-58995-5)
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The Waste Landby T. S. Eliot, Michael NorthISBN 0393974995 (0-393-97499-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land'Book summary:The text of Eliots 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliots own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.
For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition (Boni & Liveright), with Eliots notes at the end. "Contexts" provides readers with invaluable materials on The Waste Lands sources, composition, and publication history. "Criticism" traces the poems reception with twenty-five reviews and essays, from first reactions through the end of the twentieth century. Included are reviews published in the Times Literary Supplement, along with selections by Virginia Woolf, Gilbert Seldes, Edmund Wilson, Elinor Wylie, Conrad Aiken, Charles Powell, Gorham Munson, Malcolm Cowley, Ralph Ellison, John Crowe Ransom, I. A. Richards, F. R. Leavis, Cleanth Brooks, Delmore Schwartz, Denis Donoghue, Robert Langbaum, Marianne Thormählen, A. D. Moody, Ronald Bush, Maud Ellman, and Tim Armstrong. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included. [via]More editions of The Waste Land:
Where the Red Fern Growsby Wilson RawlsISBN 0385323301 (0-385-32330-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Book Details:- Format: Hardcover
- Publication Date: 1/1/2000
- Pages: 328
- Reading Level: Age 12 and Up
The Witch of Blackbird Pondby Elizabeth George SpeareISBN 0395071143 (0-395-07114-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond'Book summary:Forced to leave her sunny Caribbean home for the bleak Connecticut Colony, Kit Tyler is filled with trepidation. As they sail up the river to Kit's new home, the teasing and moodiness of a young sailor named Nat doesn't help. Still, her unsinkable spirit soon bobs back up. What this spirited teenager doesn't count on, however, is how her aunt and uncle's stern Puritan community will view her. In the colonies of 1687, a girl who swims, wears silk and satin gowns, and talks back to her elders is not only headstrong, she is in grave danger of being regarded as a witch. When Kit befriends an old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, it is more than the ascetics can take: soon Kit is defending her life. Who can she count on as she confronts these angry and suspicious townspeople?
A thoroughly exciting and rewarding Newbery Medal winner and ALA Notable Children's Book, Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond brings this frightening period of witch hysteria to life. Readers will wonder at the power of the mob mentality, and the need for communities in desperate times--even current times--to find a scapegoat. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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