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Alexander's Bridgeby Willa CatherISBN 0803258631 (0-8032-5863-1)
Softcover, Bison Books
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English LanguageISBN 0810700999 (0-8107-0099-9)
Softcover, Economics Pr
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American Slavery 1619-1877by Peter KolchinISBN 0809016303 (0-8090-1630-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Slavery 1619-1877'Book summary:A concise, engaging overview of American slavery from the beginning of the colonial era to emancipation and its aftermath. Kolchin takes a broad geographical perspective, putting American slavery in the context of a general trend toward use of forced labor on the periphery of an expanding Europe.This incisive synthesis fills a major gap for the general reader and for historians, who will find it both stimulating and appealing.[via]More editions of American Slavery 1619-1877:
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B Is for Burglarby Sue GraftonISBN 0805016325 (0-8050-1632-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'B Is for Burglar'Book summary:Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at the nervousness beneath her cool surface. It was a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone. There was an absent sister. A will to be settled--a matter of only a few thousand dollars. Mrs. Danziger did not look as if she needed a few thousand dollars. And she didn't seem like someone longing for a family reunion.[via]
Still, business was slow, and even a private investigator has bills to pay. Millhone took the job. It looked routine.
Elaine Boldt's wrappings were a good deal flashier than her sister's, but they signaled the same thing: The lady had money. A rich widow in her early forties, she owned a condo in Boca Raton and another in Santa Teresa. According to the manager of the California building, she was last seen draped in her $12,000 lynx coat heading for Boca Raton. According to the manager of the Florida building, she never got there. But someone else had and she was camping out illegally in Mrs. Boldt's apartment. The job was beginning to seem a bit less routine.
It turned tricky when Beverly Danziger ordered Millhone to drop the case and it took on an ominous quality when Aubrey Danziger surfaced, making all kinds of wild accusations about his wife. But it only became sinister when Millhone learned that just days before Elaine Boldt went missing, her next-door neighbor and bridge partner had been murdered and the killer was still at large.
A house destroyed by arson. A brutally murdered a woman. A missing lynx coat. An apartment burgled of valueless papers, another ransacked in a melée of mindless destruction. And more murder. As Millhone digs deeper into the case, she finds herself in a nightmarish hall of mirrors in which reality is distorted by illusion and nothing--except danger--is quite what it seems.More editions of B Is for Burglar:
The Beet Queen: A Novelby Louise ErdrichISBN 0805000585 (0-8050-0058-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christby Lew Wallace, James S. BellISBN 0802471013 (0-8024-7101-3)
Softcover, Moody Pub
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Collected Poems, 1912-1944by Hilda Doolittle, Louis MartzISBN 0811209717 (0-8112-0971-7)
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierceby Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Jerome HopkinsISBN 0803260717 (0-8032-6071-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1853-1854by Kenneth L. Holmes, David DuniwayISBN 0803272952 (0-8032-7295-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1853-1854'Book summary:We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made, wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train journey to Oregon. Some of the parties who traveled with Knight were propelled by religious motives. Hannah King, an Englishwoman and Mormon convert, was headed for Salt Lake City. Her cultured, introspective diary touches on the feelings of sensitive people bound together in a stressful undertaking. Celinda Hines and Rachel Taylor were Methodists seeking their new Canaan in Oregon.Also Oregon-bound in 1853 were Sarah (Sally) Perkins, whose minimalist record cuts deep, and Eliza Butler Ground and Margaret Butler Smith, sisters who wrote revealing letters after arriving. Going to California in 1854 were Elizabeth Myrick, who wrote a no-nonsense diary, and the teenage Mary Burrell, whose wit and exuberance prevail.[via]More editions of Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1853-1854:
Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1854-1860by Kenneth L. Holmes, David DuniwayISBN 0803272960 (0-8032-7296-0)
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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849by Kenneth L. Holmes, Anne M. ButlerISBN 0803272774 (0-8032-7277-4)
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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852 The Oregon Trailby Kenneth L. Holmes, David DuniwayISBN 0803272944 (0-8032-7294-4)
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Crossing the Waterby Sylvia PlathISBN 0809590581 (0-8095-9058-1)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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D Is for Deadbeatby Sue GraftonISBN 0805002480 (0-8050-0248-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Damnation of Theron Ware; Or, Illuminationby Harold Frederic, Charlyne Dodge, Stanton GarnerISBN 0803219679 (0-8032-1967-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Dancerby Colum McCannISBN 0805067922 (0-8050-6792-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dancer'Book summary:From the acclaimed author of This Side of Brightness, the epic life and times of Rudolf Nureyev, reimagined in a dazzlingly inventive masterpiece-published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Nureyev's death[via]
A Russian peasant who became an international legend, a Cold War exile who inspired millions, an artist whose name stood for genius, sex, and excess-the magnificence of Rudolf Nureyev's life and work are known, but now Colum McCann, in his most daring novel yet, reinvents this erotically charged figure through the light he cast on those who knew him.
Taking his inspiration from the biographical facts, McCann tells the story through a chorus of voices: there is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet teacher, who rescues her protégé from the stunted life of his town; Yulia, whose sexual and artistic ambitions are thwarted by her Soviet-sanctioned marriage; and Victor, the Venezuelan hustler, who reveals the lurid underside of the gay celebrity set. Spanning four decades and many worlds, from the horrors of Stalingrad to the wild abandon of New York in the eighties, Dancer is peopled by a large cast of characters, obscure and famous: doormen and shoemakers, Margot Fonteyn and John Lennon. And at the heart of the spectacle stands the artist himself, willful, lustful, and driven by a never-to-be-met need for perfection.
In ecstatic prose, McCann evokes the distinct consciousness of the man and the glittering reflection of the myth. The result is a monumental story of love, art, and exile.More editions of Dancer:
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Darconville's Catby Alexander TherouxISBN 0805043659 (0-8050-4365-9)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Day of the Locustby Nathanael WestISBN 0809438410 (0-8094-3841-0)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Day of the Locust #73 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time magazine included the novel in its list of 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005, and noted critic Harold Bloom included it in his list of canonical works in the book The Western Canon. [via]
Democracy: An American Novelby Henry AdamsISBN 0804901643 (0-8049-0164-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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E Is for Evidenceby Sue GraftonISBN 0805004599 (0-8050-0459-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Earthly Possessionsby Anne TylerISBN 0804108897 (0-8041-0889-7)
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Edna St. Vincent Millayby Edna st Vincent Millay, Frances Schoonmaker, Mike BryceISBN 0806959282 (0-8069-5928-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edna St. Vincent Millay'Book summary:"Well-written, engaging introduction...illuminates Millay's personal history and writing...luminous, evocative watercolors...A noteworthy addition to the poetry shelf...both informs and intrigues."--Booklist."Luminous, elegant illustrations bring these complex and insightful verses to life...all are fresh and alive and will draw readers into the book."--School Library Journal."A good assortment of Millay's poetry."--Kirkus. "The watercolor artwork creates atmospheric settings for her words."--Publishers Weekly.[via]More editions of Edna St. Vincent Millay:
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The Enchantment of Lily Dahlby Siri HustvedtISBN 0805055908 (0-8050-5590-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enchantment of Lily Dahl: A Novel'Book summary:Siri Hustvedt, whose debut novel The Blindfold was showered with critical acclaim, returns with The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, the coming of age story of a voluptuous and vacuous aspiring actress who lives in a small town in Minnesota. In addition to the Marilyn Monroe-esque title character, Hustvedt provides a bevy of quirky characters including Lily's former high school pal Martin Petersen, who is assembling a collection of corpse photographs, and Edward Shapiro, the college professor and painter whom Lily quickly beds. On top of that, Hustvedt layers on a nice little murder mystery, which Lily investigates and solves. [via]
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The Farmer's Daughtersby William Carlos WilliamsISBN 0811202283 (0-8112-0228-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Fool on the Hillby Matt RuffISBN 0802135358 (0-8021-3535-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fool on the Hill'Book summary:It is a literary event when a genuinely new fictional voice comes along. When that voice achieves its newness not through a certain formal facility but through the freshness of its vision, there is truly something to celebrate. Matt Ruff was only twenty-two when Fool on the Hill was first published, but with his novel he gave us a story that won over readers of every persuasion. Not your usual first effort, Fool on the Hill is a full-blown epic of life and death, good and evil, magic and love.[via]
Think of the imaginative daring of Mark Helprins Winters Tale. The zany popism of Tom Robbinss Another Roadside Attraction. The gnomish fantasies of J.R. Tolkien. Think of these and you begin to get some idea of one of the most remarkable first novels to come along in years.
In the world of Fool on the Hill dogs and cats can talk, a subculture of sprites lives in the shadows and underfoot (if youre the sensitive type, or drunk enough, you might see them cavorting across the lawn), and the Bohemians, a group of Harley- and horseback-riding students dedicated to all things unconventional, hold all-night revels for the glory of their cause.
Then there is Stephen Titus George, the novels youthful hero, who somehow finds himself the main player in a story that began well over a century ago. George is a mild-mannered flier of kites, a sometimes writer of bestselling fiction, and would-be knight looking for a maiden. George will find his girl and the century-old story will provide the proverbial dragon whose slaying will sanctify their love. But it will not be a sword that fells the foe but the transforming power of the imagination.More editions of Fool on the Hill:
Foundation's Edgeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0808522035 (0-8085-2203-5)
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Fridayby Robert HeinleinISBN 0808522000 (0-8085-2200-0)
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Frog : A Novelby Stephen DixonISBN 0805048839 (0-8050-4883-9)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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"G" Is for Gumshoeby Sue GraftonISBN 0805004610 (0-8050-0461-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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A rich, complex, and gripping tale in which Kinsey's grit is tested to its utmost as she unearths the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, comes face-to-face with the grisly fact of her own mortality. "G" is for guilt and guile, for greed and grief and the Grim Reaper. And "G" is for good: very, very good indeed.More editions of "G" Is for Gumshoe:
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The Great Brainby John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer MayerISBN 0803725906 (0-8037-2590-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Brain'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a. The Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. [via]
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The Greenlandersby Jane SmileyISBN 0804104530 (0-8041-0453-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greenlanders'Book summary:"Totally compelling...fsacinating....Sweeps the reader along...Jane Smiley is a true storyteller."
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A magnificent novel of fourteenth-century Greenland, here is a rich and fascinating detail about the day-to-day lives--the joys and innumerble hardships--of a remarkable people. It is also the compelling story of one family--the proud land-owner Asgeir Gunnarsson, his daughter Margret, whose willfull independence leads her into passionate adultery and exile, and his son Gunnar, whose quest for knowledge is at the compelling center of this unforgettable book. Echoing the simple power of the old Norse sagas, here is a novel that brings a remote civilization to life--and shows how it was very like our own. [via]More editions of The Greenlanders:
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H Is for Homicideby Sue GraftonISBN 080501084X (0-8050-1084-X)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'H Is for Homicide'Book summary:His name was Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, he'd been a claims adjustor for California Fidelity. Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work. And to any other. Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside California Fidelity's offices.To the cops, it looked like a robbery gone sour. To Kinsey Millhone, it looked like the cops were walking away from the case. She didn't like the idea that a colleague and sometime drinking companion had been murdered. Or the idea that his murderer was loose and on the prowl. It made her feel exposed. Vulnerable.Bibianna Diaz was afraid for her life. If there was one thing she knew for sure, it was that you didn't cross Raymond Maldonado and live to tell the tale. And Bibianna had well and truly crossed him, running out on his crazy wedding plans and going into hiding in Santa Teresa--light years away from the Los Angeles barrio that was home turf to Raymond and his gang. Now she needed money to buy time, to make sure she'd put enough space between them. And the quickest way she knew to get money was to work an insurance scam--just like the ones Raymond was running down in L.A. The trouble was, Bibianna picked California Fidelity as her mark. And it wasn't long before her name surfaced in one of Parnell Perkins's open files and Kinsey was on her case. But so, too, was her spurned suitor, Raymond Maldonado.He had a rap sheet as long as his arm, a hair-trigger temper that was best left untested, and an inability to take no for an answer. He also had Tourette's syndrome, which did nothing to smooth out the kinks in his erratic and often violent behavior. All in all, Raymond Maldonado was not someone to spend a lot of time hanging out with. Unfortunately for Kinsey, she didn't have a lot of choice in the mater. Not after the love-sick Raymond kidnapped Bibianna. Like it or not, Kinsey was stuck babysitting Bibianna along with Raymond and his macho crew. [via]
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Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failureby Paul AusterISBN 0805054898 (0-8050-5489-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure'Book summary:It's no wonder that Paul Auster (The Music of Chance, Leviathan, Mr. Vertigo) creates such singular characters. While his youth comprised a series of failures too unbelievable for fiction, it also equipped him with a range of experiences to draw from that most fiction writers only dream of. He worked with Bowery bums at a summer camp, had a childhood friend join the Weather Underground, and was a student at Columbia in 1968 at the height of the student uprisings there (and at which point, he boasts, he knew seven of the FBI's ten most wanted men). He worked on an oil tanker, for a French Mafia-style film producer in Paris, and for a rare-book organization in New York. He translated the North Vietnamese constitution from French into English (don't ask). His work brought him in contact to varying extents with Jean Genet, Mary McCarthy, Jerzy Kosinski, Sartre, Foucault, and John Lennon. The encounters and experiences must have been fascinating, failure aside, but Auster's prose here, sadly, lacks the tightness and luster of his fiction. The remainder--and major portion--of the volume consists of three plays, a baseball card game, and a detective novel, all written during this time. [via]
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0808598295 (0-8085-9829-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Throughout her career, Margaret Atwood has played with different literary genres in her novels--historical fiction (Alias Grace), pulp fiction (The Blind Assassin), the comedy of manners (The Robber Bride)--but no foray into genre fiction has been as successful as her turn to speculative fiction in The Handmaid's Tale. Published in 1985, it echoes Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, but a vibrant feminism drives Atwood's portrait of a futuristic dystopia. In the Republic of Gilead, we see a world devastated by toxic chemicals and nuclear fallout and dominated by a repressive Christian fundamentalism. The birthrate has plunged, and most women can no longer bear children. Offred is one of Gilead's Handmaids, who as official breeders are among the chosen few who can still become pregnant.
The Handmaid's Tale is an imaginatively audacious novel that is at once a page-turning psychological thriller, a moving love story, and a chilling warning about what might be waiting for us around the corner. What ultimately makes it stand out is Atwood's ability to balance a passionate political statement with finely wrought literary fiction. The Handmaid's Tale is a remarkable work by one of Canada's most inventive writers. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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The Happy Birthday of Deathby Gregory CorsoISBN 0811200272 (0-8112-0027-2)
Softcover, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Herby Lawrence FerlinghettiISBN 0811200426 (0-8112-0042-6)
Softcover, New Directions
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Hermetic Definitionby Hilda DoolittleISBN 0811204537 (0-8112-0453-7)
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I Is for Innocentby Sue GraftonISBN 0805010858 (0-8050-1085-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Illearth Warby Stephen R. DonaldsonISBN 0805012710 (0-8050-1271-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illearth War'Book summary:The second volume in the epic Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
Thomas Covenant found himself once again summoned to the Land. The Council of Lords needed him to move against Foul the Despiser who held the Illearth Stone, ancient source of evil power. But although Thomas Covenant held the legendary ring, he didn't know how to use its strength, and risked losing everything.... [via]More editions of The Illearth War:
Imaginationsby William Carlos WilliamsISBN 0811202291 (0-8112-0229-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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In the American Grainby William Carlos Williams, H. GregoryISBN 0811202305 (0-8112-0230-5)
Softcover, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on Itby Robert FulghumISBN 0804105820 (0-8041-0582-0)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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J Is for Judgmentby Sue GraftonISBN 0805019359 (0-8050-1935-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Jennie Gerhardtby Theodore Dreiser, Helen YglesiasISBN 0805206922 (0-8052-0692-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Johnny Got His Gunby Dalton TrumboISBN 0806512814 (0-8065-1281-4)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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Lancelotby Walker PercyISBN 0804103801 (0-8041-0380-1)
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heavenby Sherman AlexieISBN 0802141676 (0-8021-4167-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven'Book summary:When it was first published in 1993, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established Sherman Alexie as a stunning new talent of American letters. The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals, it remains one of his most beloved and widely praised books. In this darkly comic collection, Alexie brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and, most poetically, modern Indians and the traditions of the past. [via]
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Lord Foul's Baneby Stephen R. DonaldsonISBN 0805012729 (0-8050-1272-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Foul's Bane'Book summary:The first book in one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written, the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever.
He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself. Yet he was tempted to believe, to fight for the Land, to be the reincarnation of its greatest hero....
THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER
Book One: LORD FOUL'S BANE
Book Two: THE ILLEARTH WAR
Book Three: THE POWER THAT PRESERVES
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Lord of the Barnyardby Tristan EgolfISBN 0802136729 (0-8021-3672-9)
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A Lost Ladyby Willa Cather, Frederick M. Link, Kari Ronning, Charles W. MignonISBN 0803264305 (0-8032-6430-5)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Love in the Ruinsby Walker PercyISBN 080410378X (0-8041-0378-X)
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Madame De Treymesby Edith WhartonISBN 0808404865 (0-8084-0486-5)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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The Middleman and Other Storiesby Bharati MukherjeeISBN 0802136508 (0-8021-3650-8)
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More Adventures of the Great Brainby John Dennis Fitzgerald, Mercer MayerISBN 0803725914 (0-8037-2591-4)
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Morgan's Passingby Anne TylerISBN 0804108811 (0-8041-0881-1)
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
Morgan Gower works at Cullen's hardware store in north Baltimore. He has seven daughters and a warmhearted wife, but as he journeys into the gray area of middle age, he finds his household growing tedious. Then Morgan meets two lovely young newlyweds under some rather extreme circumstances--and all three discover that no one's heart is safe.... [via]More editions of Morgan's Passing:
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O Is for Outlawby Sue GraftonISBN 0805059555 (0-8050-5955-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'O Is for Outlaw'Book summary:Wise-cracking, staunchly independent, and chronically curious, Grafton's gritty gumshoe Kinsey Millhone is back. This time, the alphabet series star will take on the toughest case to date: her past. What begins as a random phone call from a "storage space scavenger" (someone who buys the contents of defaulted storage units) leads Kinsey to a box of old papers and personal effects that her ex-husband, Mickey Magruder, left behind. Inside, she finds a 15-year-old unsent letter from a bartender that, among other things, reveals her former hubby was having an affair. The letter also contains details about the murder of a transient--a crime for which Mickey was blamed. Although never convicted, Mickey was ruined--losing his job, wife, and friends. But 15 years later, Kinsey realizes that foul play may have been involved in the murder, a deadly temptation for her.
Die-hard fans will especially enjoy Kinsey's self-disclosure--something she's infamous for not doing--about her childhood, the fate of her parents, and the randy details of her first marriage. A very vulnerable and interesting side to Kinsey's character is also revealed when her obsessive-compulsive fact-finding bent is mixed up with matters of the heart.
A fast, fun read, O Is for Outlaw is packed with Grafton's clear, colorful imagery and signature metaphors: "Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered, but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed." --Rebekah Warren [via]
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O-Zoneby Paul TherouxISBN 0804101515 (0-8041-0151-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fishby SeussISBN 0808525255 (0-8085-2525-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish'Book summary:"Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head?" Such are the profound, philosophical queries posed in this well-loved classic by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel. While many rhymes in this couplet collection resemble sphinx-worthy riddles, Seuss's intention is clear: teach children to read in a way that is both entertaining and educational. It matters little that each wonderful vignette has nothing to do with the one that follows. (We move seamlessly from a one-humped Wump and Mister Gump to yellow pets called the Zeds with one hair upon their heads.) Children today will be as entranced by these ridiculous rhymes as they have been since the book's original publication in 1960--so amused and enchanted, in fact, they may not even notice they are learning to read! (Ages 4 to 8) [via]
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for a Floating Lady, Waspby Steve MartinISBN 0802135234 (0-8021-3523-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for a Floating Lady, Wasp'Book summary:Ever wonder what it would have been like if wild and crazy Steve Martin had written an episode of "The Twilight Zone"? Well, wonder no more. The zany actor/comedian made playwright rookie of the year with this, the script of his first comedy, set in a bar in 1904 Paris. Two of the regulars, twentysomethings Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, argue about the art of physics and the physics of art as they try to impress and bed a pretty girl. And then the space/time/culture continuum ruptures, and they're joined by a figure from the future who seems to be . . . Elvis Presley! Read for yourself why the show's been done Off-Broadway and at regionals around the country. [via]
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Pierreby Herman MelvilleISBN 0810114127 (0-8101-1412-7)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Pierre, Or, the Ambiguitiesby Herman MelvilleISBN 0810102676 (0-8101-0267-6)
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The Public Burningby Robert CooverISBN 0802135277 (0-8021-3527-7)
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The Real Life of Sebastian Knightby Vladimir Nabokov, C. BrennerISBN 0811203271 (0-8112-0327-1)
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Rip Van Winkle & Other Stories: Library Editionby Washington Irving, Arthur RackhamISBN 0803712642 (0-8037-1264-2)
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Rootsby Alex HaleyISBN 0808511033 (0-8085-1103-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roots'Book summary:From Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. It's hard to believe that it has been 30 years since Alex Haley's groundbreaking historical novel (based on his own family's history) was first published and became a worldwide phenomenon. Millions have read the story of the young African boy named Kunte Kinte, who in the late 1700s was kidnapped from his homeland and brought to the United States as a slave. Haley follows Kunte Kinte's family line over the next seven generations, creating a moving historical novel spanning 200 years..... Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. [via]
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Saint Maybeby Anne TylerISBN 0804108749 (0-8041-0874-9)
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The Second Comingby Walker PercyISBN 0804105421 (0-8041-0542-1)
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Selected Poemsby Thomas Hood, Louis Lohr MartzISBN 0811210650 (0-8112-1065-0)
Hardcover, New Directions Pub Corp
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Selected Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Robert N. LinscottISBN 0808577395 (0-8085-7739-5)
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Sexusby Henry MillerISBN 0802151809 (0-8021-5180-9)
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45by Barbara TuchmanISBN 0802138527 (0-8021-3852-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45'Book summary:Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 in 1972. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache to China in 1935-39 and commander of United States forces and allied chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942-44, to explore the history of China from the revolution of 1911 to the turmoil of World War II, when China's Nationalist government faced attack from Japanese invaders and Communist insurgents. Her story is an account of both American relations with China and the experiences of one of our men on the ground. In the cantankerous but level-headed "Vinegar Joe," Tuchman found a subject who allowed her to perform, in the words of The National Review, "one of the historian's most envied magic acts: conjoining a fine biography of a man with a fascinating epic story."[via]More editions of Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45:
Stone Junctionby Jim DodgeISBN 0802135854 (0-8021-3585-4)
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The Streetby Ann PetryISBN 0807063576 (0-8070-6357-6)
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Tarzan of the Apesby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0809599813 (0-8095-9981-3)
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Ten Little Indiansby Sherman AlexieISBN 080214117X (0-8021-4117-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Little Indians'Book summary:Sherman Alexie, a gifted poet and storyteller, plows familiar yet fertile ground in his third collection of short stories, Ten Little Indians. The book contains nine stories populated by at least one American Indian (usually of Alexie's Spokane heritage, and mostly living in Seattle), but "little" is a bit of a misnomer; the book addresses human (not necessarily Indian), rituals, ceremony, love, loss, insecurity over life choices, and personal sacrifices. A lot of intense basketball is played, too.
When Alexie is at his best, his stories function at a profoundly sad level, where broken down characters are broken down even more, but are fierce-willed enough to attempt Phoenix-like transitions. Unfortunately, the weakest stories appear first, where characters and situations seem far too contrived or forced, the dialogue wooden, and questions or exclamatory sentences appear annoyingly in bunches. In the last half of the book, a married couple, once intensely in love but now lost in life's routines, deal with infidelity ("Do You Know Where I Am?"); a bright basketball prospect attempts a comeback--twenty years after giving up the game ("Whatever Happened to Frank Snake Church?"); and a transient Indian finds his grandmother's regalia in a pawn shop and seeks to quickly raise the lofty purchase price (<"What You Pawn I Will Redeem"). Brilliant turns of phrase abound, such as ceremonies being "pitiful cries to a disinterested God," or when a gym rat plays against "Basketball-Democrats who came to the court alone and ran with anybody and Basketball-Republicans who traveled in groups of five and only ran with each other." Ten Little Indians is an uneven collection, but contains some significant, memorable stories. --Michael Ferch [via]
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The Thanatos Syndromeby Walker PercyISBN 0804102201 (0-8041-0220-1)
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Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphsby William T. VollmannISBN 0802133959 (0-8021-3395-9)
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This Boy's Lifeby Tobias WolffISBN 0802136680 (0-8021-3668-0)
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The Ticket That Explodedby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802151507 (0-8021-5150-7)
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The Tie That Bindsby Kent HarufISBN 0805018697 (0-8050-1869-7)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Turtle Islandby Gary SnyderISBN 0811205460 (0-8112-0546-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiographyby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0804901570 (0-8049-0157-0)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkleby Thomas Locker, Washington IrvingISBN 0803705212 (0-8037-0521-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Way It Wasn'tby Martin Harry Greenberg, Robert SilverbergISBN 0806517697 (0-8065-1769-7)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way It Wasn't'Book summary:The Way It Wasn't takes an amusing, intellectually stimulating excursion into speculative history. Here are thirteen memorable stories by renowned science fiction writers, telling what things might be like if... Elvis Presley weren't the "King" but the President of the United States ("Ike at the Mike" by Howard Waldrop)... The Black Death had killed the entire population of Europe in the fourteenth century ("Lion Time in Timbuctoo" by Robert Silverberg)... John F. Kennedy had survived the 1963 shooting in Dallas ("The Winterberry" by Nicholas A. DiChario). Included, too, is fascinating short fiction by Mike Resnick, Susan Shwartz, Larry Niven, Pamela Sargent, Fritz Leiber, Greg Bear, Barry N. Malzberg, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Benford and Kim Stanley Robinson. After reading these stories - some of the most compelling examples of alternate history anywhere - your mind will keep spinning the question "What If...?" [via]
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The West Point Atlas of American Wars: 1689-1900by Vincent J. Esposito, United States Military Academy Dept. of Military Art and EngineeringISBN 0805033912 (0-8050-3391-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The West Point Atlas of American Wars: 1900-1918by Vincent J. Esposito, United States Military Academy Dept. of Military Art and EngineeringISBN 0805053050 (0-8050-5305-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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A Wonder Bookby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 080490118X (0-8049-0118-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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World Enough and Time: A Romantic Novelby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0807124788 (0-8071-2478-8)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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World of Our Fathersby Irving Howe, Kenneth LiboISBN 080520928X (0-8052-0928-X)
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