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All That Swaggerby Miles FranklinISBN 0207149984 (0-207-14998-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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All Things Wise And Wonderfulby James HerriotISBN 0312020317 (0-312-02031-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Things Wise And Wonderful'Book summary:James Herriot is probably the most beloved living writer. When All Things Bright and Beautiful was published three years ago, it became the number one best seller in the world, winning still new friends for the Yorkshire veterinarian whose first book All Creatures Great and Small had already been enjoyed by millions of readers.
In this, his third book, he takes up where he left off-- both in terms of the warmth, humor, and skill with which he writes, and in the story itself. It is World War Two and James has just been inducted into the RAF. We see him at training camp and we go back to Yorkshire-- on real trips as he breaks away to see Helen who is about to have a baby, and on trips of reverie as he recalls the Dales, the animals, and the Yorkshire people who have so enriched his life. We meet old friends again-- his partner Siegfried, the zany Tristan, the bon vivant Granville Bennett-- and scores of new folk, each with a story to tell. James Herriot is back, and, as one reviewer said of his work, "If ever you have loved a friend, human or otherwise, this is the book for you."
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0300098588 (0-300-09858-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Autobiography of Johann Wolfgang Von Goetheby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, John OxenfordISBN 0226300579 (0-226-30057-9)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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Being Alone with Oneselfby Charmian CliftISBN 0207166234 (0-207-16623-4)
Softcover, Angus & Robertson
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Boswell's London Journal: 1762-1763by Frederick A. PottleISBN 0300057350 (0-300-05735-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763by James Boswell, Frederick A. Pottle, Peter AckroydISBN 0300093012 (0-300-09301-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Castle to Castleby Louis Ferdinand CelineISBN 021851493X (0-218-51493-X)
Hardcover, Blond
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Chickenhawkby Us Games Systems IncISBN 0143035711 (0-14-303571-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Confessionsby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Patrick Coleman, Angela ScholarISBN 0192822756 (0-19-282275-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions'Book summary:In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the world of modern civilization. In trying to explain who he was and how he came to be the object of others' admiration and abuse, Rousseau analyses with unique insight the relationship between an elusive but essential inner self and the variety of social identities he was led to adopt. The book vividly illustrates the mixture of moods and motives that underlie the writing of autobiography: defiance and vulnerability, self-exploration and denial, passion, puzzlement, and detachment. Above all, Confessions is Rousseau's search, through every resource of language, to convey what he despairs of putting into words: the personal quality of one's own existence. [via]
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The Counterlifeby Philip RothISBN 0224028715 (0-224-02871-5)
Hardcover, Cape
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Dangling Manby Saul Bellow, J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0143039873 (0-14-303987-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fifth Chinese Daughterby Jade Snow Wong, Kathryn UhlISBN 0295968265 (0-295-96826-5)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Fire: From a Journal of Love The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1937by Anais NinISBN 0156003902 (0-15-600390-2)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Fish Whistleby Daniel Manus PinkwaterISBN 0201570009 (0-201-57000-9)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Flight to Italy: Dairy and Selected Lettersby T.J. Reed, Johann Wolfgang GoetheISBN 0192838865 (0-19-283886-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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From the Diary of a Snailby Gunter GrassISBN 0156339501 (0-15-633950-1)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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A Generous Orthodoxyby Brian D. McLarenISBN 0310258030 (0-310-25803-0)
Softcover, Youth Specialties
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A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calviniby Brian D. McLarenISBN 0310257476 (0-310-25747-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvini'Book summary:A confession and manifesto from a senior leader in the emerging church movement---A Generous Orthodoxy calls for a radical, Christ-centered orthodoxy of faith and practice in a missional, generous spirit. Brian McLaren argues for a post-liberal, post-conservative, post-protestant convergence, which will stimulate lively interest and global conversation among thoughtful Christians from all traditions. In a sweeping exploration of belief, author Brian McLaren takes us across the landscape of faith, envisioning an orthodoxy that aims for Jesus, is driven by love, and is defined by missional intent. A Generous Orthodoxy rediscovers the mysterious and compelling ways that Jesus can be embraced across the entire Christian horizon. Rather than establishing what is and is not 'orthodox,' McLaren walks through the many traditions of faith, bringing to the center a way of life that draws us closer to Christ and to each other. Whether you find yourself inside, outside, or somewhere on the fringe of Christianity, A Generous Orthodoxy draws you toward a way of living that looks beyond the 'us/them' paradigm to the blessed and ancient paradox of 'we.' [via]
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The Great Brainby John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer MayerISBN 0142400580 (0-14-240058-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Guermantes Wayby Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, Mark TreharneISBN 0143039229 (0-14-303922-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Ross C. MurfinISBN 0312030266 (0-312-03026-6)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Heart of Darknessby Ross C. Murfin, Joseph ConradISBN 0312007612 (0-312-00761-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness'Book summary:If asked to describe the way in which the study of literature is changing, most of us willing to venture an answer would say that it is becoming more theortical. Without some kind of theoretical underpinning, literary criticism runs the riskof being impressionistic, even illogical [via]
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Heart of Darkness and Other Talesby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0192801724 (0-19-280172-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and Other Tales'Book summary:Set in an atmosphere of mystery, this novel tells of Marlow's journey up the Congo River to meet the remarkable Mr Kurtz. The other three tales also appraise the glamour and rapacity of imperial adventure and display insights into human nature and the bases of civilization. [via]
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The History of Pendennisby John Sutherland, William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 0192839594 (0-19-283959-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Pendennis'Book summary:One of the earliest and greatest of the Victorian Bildungsroman, this introspective novel treats London's bohemian and literary underworld and the romantic entanglements of its hero, Arthur Pendennis, with comic and uninhibited style. Son of a selfless widow, Pendennis moves from one disastrous romantic involvement to another on the fringes of the corrupt upper classes. Thackeray had slaved for ten years in this literary bohemia; the introduction considers the parallels between Thackeray's life and the novel, and examines the changes taking place in Victorian England throughout the years of the story. [via]
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The History of Pendennisby William Makepeace Thackeray, John SutherlandISBN 0192831682 (0-19-283168-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Homage to Cataloniaby George OrwellISBN 0156421178 (0-15-642117-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Proseby Alice WalkerISBN 0156028646 (0-15-602864-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flowerby Marcel Proust, James GrieveISBN 0143039075 (0-14-303907-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet A. Jacobs, L. Brent, Lydia Maria Francis ChildISBN 0156443503 (0-15-644350-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'Book summary:Not only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. It offers a unique perspective on the complex plight of the black woman as slave and as writer. In a story that merges the conventions of the slave narrative with the techniques of the sentimental novel, Harriet Jacobs describes her efforts to fight off the advances of her master, her eventual liaison with another white man (the father of two of her children), and her ultimately successful struggle for freedom. Jacobs' account of her experiences, and her search for her own voice, prefigure the literary and ideological concerns of generations of African-American women writers to come. [via]
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Jimmy Corriganby Chris WareISBN 0224063979 (0-224-06397-9)
Softcover, Jonathan Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jimmy Corrigan'Book summary:Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest comic/graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize. It is now available for the first time in paperback. [via]
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Joniby Joe Musser, Joni EarecksonISBN 0310239613 (0-310-23961-3)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joni'Book summary:The inspiring story of Joni Eareckson Tada for 8- to 14-year-olds. [via]
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Joni: An Unforgettable Storyby Joe Musser, Joni Eareckson Tada, Billy GrahamISBN 0310240018 (0-310-24001-8)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Lady Sings the Bluesby Billie Holiday, William DuftyISBN 021466872X (0-214-66872-X)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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Lake Wobegon Summer, 1956by Garrison KeillorISBN 0142000930 (0-14-200093-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lake Wobegon Summer, 1956'Book summary:The Doo Dads are singing "My Girl" on the radio and fourteen-year-old Gary is studying pictures of naked women, aware that Grandpa is looking down from heaven wondering how the boy turned out so badly. He has never so much as kissed a girl, except his rebellious cousin Kate, a sophisticate of seventeen who knows about The New Yorker and also how to swear and exhale smoke rings. But this is a summer of change for Gary: he fights back against his bullying born-again sister and his tyrannical teacher, and most significantly, he receives an Underwood typewriter-a typewriter that will help Gary believe he can become a writer. With his trademark gift for treading "a line delicate as a cobweb between satire and sentiment" (The Cleveland Plain Dealer), Keillor's touching and funny novel brilliantly captures a newly minted America and delivers an unforgettable comedy about the universal aspects of adolescence-from first loves to fear and fascination with bodily functions.[via]More editions of Lake Wobegon Summer, 1956:
Letters from Italyby W. H. Auden, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Elizabeth MayerISBN 0146001982 (0-14-600198-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Life and Death in Shanghaiby Nien ChengISBN 0246129484 (0-246-12948-4)
Hardcover, Grafton
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A Life of Contrasts: The Autobiography of Diana Mosleyby Diane MosleyISBN 0241112818 (0-241-11281-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Life on the Mississippiby Mark TwainISBN 0192818481 (0-19-281848-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on the Mississippi'Book summary:Part travel book, part autobiography, and part social commentary, Life on the Mississippi is a memoir of the cub pilot's apprenticeship, a record of Twain's return to the river and to Hannibal as an adult, a meditation on the harsh vagaries of nature, and a study of the varied and sometimes violent activities engaged in by those who live on the river's shores. As Willie Morris notes in his introduction, it "is written with the flamboyance and affecting precision of a craftsman." Life on the Mississippi explores how a child learns to be an adult, and how an adult learns to understand what it was to be a child. It is a book about the South, about memory, about change, and, of course, about the Mississippi River and the world through which it snakes. "When the life of the river is rendered with Twain's brand of wry skepticism," writes Lawrence Howe in his afterword, "the Mississippi is, indeed, well worth reading about." [via]
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Life on the Mississippi (1883by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195114078 (0-19-511407-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Madeleine's World: A Biography of a Three-Year-Oldby Brian HallISBN 0142004480 (0-14-200448-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Me and My Little Brainby John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer MayerISBN 0142400645 (0-14-240064-5)
Softcover, Puffin
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Memoirs from the House of the Deadby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ronald Hingley, Jessie Senior CoulsonISBN 0192838687 (0-19-283868-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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More Adventures of the Great Brainby John Dennis Fitzgerald, Mercer MayerISBN 0142400653 (0-14-240065-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Mount Allegroby Jerre Gerlando MangioneISBN 0231053312 (0-231-05331-2)
Softcover, Columbia University Press
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My Brother Jackby George JohnstonISBN 0207166412 (0-207-16641-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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My Father and Myselfby J. R. AckerleyISBN 0156623250 (0-15-662325-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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My Life As an Explorerby Sven Anders HedinISBN 019585375X (0-19-585375-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Notebook of Malte Laurids Briggeby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0192818511 (0-19-281851-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Paper Bulletsby Kip FulbeckISBN 0295980796 (0-295-98079-6)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagonby Sei Shonagon, Ivan I. MorrisISBN 0231073372 (0-231-07337-2)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon'Book summary:The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is an immensely detailed account of court life in eleventh-century Japan. Written at the height of Heian culture, it is a classic text of great literary beauty, full of lively anecdotes, humorous observations, and subtle impressions. Sei Shonagon was a contemporary and erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the court life that Lady Shonagon captures so vividly in her diary. The Pillow Book contains her reflections on royal and religious ceremonies, nature, pilgrimage, conversation, and poetry. Lady Shonagon shares character sketches and the things she both loves and loathes. Her style is so eloquent, her wit so sharp, even the briefest fragments enchant us. There is no better introduction to the daily preoccupations of the Heian upper class, and Ivan Morris's notes and contextualization enrich the material for scholars and general readers.
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A River Runs through It, and Other Storiesby Norman MacLean, Annie ProulxISBN 0226500667 (0-226-50066-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A River Runs through It, and Other Stories'Book summary:Beginning with the memorable line, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing," Maclean paints an evocative portrait of the sons of a small-town Montana minister, two brothers headed in very different directions. Fly-fishing for trout is one thing that unites father and sons, and, in the end, it is the language of the river that provides understanding and acceptance in the most difficult of times.
A River Runs Through It is arguably the best piece of fly-fishing literature ever written, and the paperback edition includes two great non-fly fishing stories. [via]
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryby Mildred D. Taylor, Jerry PinkneyISBN 0142401129 (0-14-240112-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry'Book summary:In all Mildred D. Taylor's unforgettable novels she recounts "not only the joy of growing up in a large and supportive family, but my own feelings of being faced with segregation and bigotry." Her Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry tells the story of one African American family, fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s. Nine-year-old Cassie Logan, growing up protected by her loving family, has never had reason to suspect that any white person could consider her inferior or wish her harm. But during the course of one devastating year when her community begins to be ripped apart by angry night riders threatening African Americans, she and her three brothers come to understand why the land they own means so much to their Papa. "Look out there, Cassie girl. All that belongs to you. You ain't never had to live on nobody's place but your own and long as I live and the family survives, you'll never have to. That's important. You may not understand that now but one day you will. Then you'll see."
Twenty-five years after it was first published, this special anniversary edition of the classic strikes as deep and powerful a note as ever. Taylor's vivid portrayal of ugly racism and the poignancy of Cassie's bewilderment and gradual toughening against social injustice and the men and women who perpetuate it, will remain with readers forever. Two award-winning sequels, Let the Circle Be Unbroken and The Road to Memphis, and a long-awaited prequel, The Land, continue the profoundly moving tale of the Logan family. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Slaughter House Fiveby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224618016 (0-224-61801-6)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slaughter House Five'Book summary:Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.
Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor. [via]
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Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhoodby Koren ZailckasISBN 0143036475 (0-14-303647-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sophie's Choiceby William StyronISBN 0224017578 (0-224-01757-8)
Hardcover, Cape
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A Sounding of Women: Autobiographies from Unexpected Placesby Martha Coonfield WardISBN 0205270158 (0-205-27015-8)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Swann's Wayby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 0141180587 (0-14-118058-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way'Book summary:Swann's Way begins with one of the most famous incidents in all of literature -- the taste of a madeleine and tea that reawakens the elusive childhood memories of the narrator, Marcel. An image of Charles Swann, a wealthy and fashionable neighbor, precipitates Marcel's recollection of Swann's marriage to Odette de Crecy, a beautiful, manipulative woman far beneath him in social standing, and of the jealousy, aroused by Odette's many affairs with both men and women, that eventually destroys Swarm. Marcel recounts, too, his own initiation into the aesthetic pleasures and sexual intrigues of belle-epoque Paris. The themes introduced in Swann's Way -- the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories -- form the threads that unite all the volumes of Remembrance of Things Past. [via]
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Three Men in a Boatby Geoffrey Harvey, Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 0192880330 (0-19-288033-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Men in a Boat'Book summary:This volume stands as the only available critical edition of two of the most popular classics in English literature. Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford, providing along the way brilliant snap-shots of London's playground in the late 1880s. In Three Men on the Bummel, the three Englishmen escape from the claustrophobia of suburban life some ten years later to go on a cycling tour in the Black Forest of Germany. [via]
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia Woolf, Mark HusseyISBN 0156030470 (0-15-603047-0)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To the Lighthouse'Book summary:"Radiant as [To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality."-Eudora Welty, from the Introduction The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. [via]
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- To the Lighthouse: ISBN 0156907399 (0-15-690739-9)
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Hardcover, Harcourt - To the Lighthouse: ISBN 0192818163 (0-19-281816-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - To the Lighthouse: ISBN 0151907366 (0-15-190736-6)
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Travels With Charleyby John SteinbeckISBN 0142000701 (0-14-200070-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels With Charley'Book summary:In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. A picaresque tale, this chronicle of their trip meanders through scenic backroads and speeds along anonymous superhighways, moving from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Travels with Charley in Search of America is animated by Steinbeck's attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature-to weather, geography, the cycle of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way. Travels with Charley in Search of America, originally published in 1962, provides an intimate and personal look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life-a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. It was written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South-which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand-and is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. [via]
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Trouble in Lotus Landby Nadia Wheatley, Charmian CliftISBN 0207166226 (0-207-16622-6)
Hardcover, Angus & Robertson
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Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, And Life's Greatest Lessonby Mitch AlbomISBN 0307275639 (0-307-27563-9)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, And Life's Greatest Lesson'Book summary:No one but Mitch Albom could have read Tuesdays with Morrie so effectively. As the author of this inspirational true story, Albom uses verbal inflection in exactly the right places to evoke humor, empathy, and emotion. It's an honest reading, and the underlying timbre of private memory pushes it past mere recitation to pure storytelling.
The titular Morrie was Morrie Schwartz, Albom's university professor 20 years before the events being narrated. An accidental viewing of an interview with Morrie on Nightline led Albom to become reunited with his old teacher, friend, and "coach" at a time when Albom, a successful sportswriter, was struggling to define dissatisfactions with his own life and career. Morrie, on the other hand, after a rich life filled with friends, family, teaching, and music, was dying from Lou Gehrig's disease, a crippling illness that diminished his activities daily. Albom was one of hundreds of former students and acquaintances who traveled great distances to visit Morrie in the final months of his life.
The 14 Tuesday visits that followed their reunion took Albom--and will take listeners with him--on a journey of reawakening to life's best rewards. The story is told in a journalistic style that never crosses into pathos. That a professional writer can write well is not surprising, but Albom also reads well, with clear enunciation and a talent for mimicry. Another reader might have interpreted the professor's aphorisms as droll humor or wrung a wrong note at an inappropriate moment, making the story a maudlin tearjerker; instead it is read for what it is, a tribute to a remarkable teacher. (Running time: four hours, three cassettes) --Brenda Pittsley [via]
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Typeeby Herman Melville, Ruth BlairISBN 0192823078 (0-19-282307-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 0192818368 (0-19-281836-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette: Library Edition'Book summary:'I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. Thus was George Eliot's response to Charlotte Bronte's dramatic Gothic exploration of a woman's rebellion against her constricting social environment. Set in a Belgian girls' school, it tells of Lucy Snowe's attraction to fiery, autocratic master Paul Emmanuel and headmistress, Madame Beck's jealous interference in their romance. The novel's blend of sombre vision and ironic and exuberant comedy make it especially appealing to the modern reader. [via]
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Villette: Library Editionby Margaret Smith, Charlotte Bronte, Herbert Rosengarten, Tim DolinISBN 0192839640 (0-19-283964-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette: Library Edition'Book summary:First published in 1853, Villette draws from Charlotte Brontë's experiences in Brussels in the 1840's. In this emotionally charged tale, we see Lucy Snowe's response to the challenges of her restrictive social environment as she flees from her unhappy past in England to a new life as a teacher at Madame Beck's school in Villette.
This new edition features the definitive Clarendon edition of Villette which is derived from the earliest printings of Brontë's great work. The text is supplemented with a newly commissioned introduction, which gives a thorough and in depth analysis of the context of this fine example of the nineteenth century novel. [via]More editions of Villette: Library Edition:
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trailby Bill BrysonISBN 0307279464 (0-307-27946-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail'Book summary:excellent condition [via]
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The Way of All Fleshby Samuel Butler, Michael MasonISBN 0192829807 (0-19-282980-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way of All Flesh'Book summary:The Way of All Flesh (1903) "exploded like a bomb" in Edwardian drawing rooms. Based on Samuel Butler's own life and published posthumously, it offers a scathing indictment of Victorian bourgeois values as personified in five generations of the Pontifex family.
Butler's satire centers on Ernest Pontifex, an orthodox young man who suddenly sees the falseness of the rules and expectations forced on him by parents and teachers, an epiphany which leads him to renounce the moral, religious, and social values he once held. [via]More editions of The Way of All Flesh:
Westward Ha!, Or, Around the World in Eighty Clichesby S. J. PerelmanISBN 0306802295 (0-306-80229-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Wind, Sand and Starsby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0156027496 (0-15-602749-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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A Year in the Maine Woodsby Bernd HeinrichISBN 0201489392 (0-201-48939-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Year in the Maine Woods'Book summary:Heinrich's dream was to focus on one small place and get to know it in intimate detail. He cut the logs for a cabin in the woods, dragging them into place with oxen, and then, alone except for his pet raven Jack, without electricity or running water, settled in to rediscover the meaning of peace and quiet and harmony with nature--rediscovering what it means to be alive. [via]
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Youthby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0142002003 (0-14-200200-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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