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Angela's Ashesby Frank McCourtISBN 068484267X (0-684-84267-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angela's Ashes'Book summary:Now a major motion picture from Paramount and Universal Pictures International.
The #1 national bestseller. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the ABBY Award.
" "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."
So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy -- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling -- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies.
Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors -- yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.
"Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. [via]
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- Angela's Ashes : A Memoir: ISBN 068487217X (0-684-87217-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Angela's Ashes: ISBN 0684874350 (0-684-87435-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Angela's Ashes: ISBN 0684843137 (0-684-84313-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Angela's Ashes: ISBN 0684872153 (0-684-87215-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Angela's Ashes: ISBN 068484267X (0-684-84267-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
- Angela's Ashes : A Memoir: ISBN 068487217X (0-684-87217-X)
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules Verne, George M. Towle, Barry MoserISBN 0688075088 (0-688-07508-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:Translated by George Makepeace Towle. Afterword by Peter Glassman. Barry Moser's sixteen exquisite watercolors capture Verne's beloved novel of suspense in this deluxe gift edition that will be treasured for years to come. A "handsome new edition...The translation is clear and sprightly."--New York Times Book Review. [via]
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Asylumby Patrick McGrathISBN 0679781382 (0-679-78138-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asylum'Book summary:The New Yorker review praised Patrick McGrath's "ornate, deadpan style . . . distinguished by its unusual seriousness, its lack of camp," and described Asylum as a "layered, implicating book, whose terrors and malignities aren't quite the ones we expect, and are a matter of mood and viewpoint as well as of plot." McGrath's fourth novel (his other three are also highly recommended) features a subtly deceptive narrator whose confident, musical voice seduces you--a voice that mirrors, in its meter, emotions ranging from lyrically obsessed, to meticulously fond, to cautious and stiff with horror. And the imagery is unforgettable: the grim architecture of the asylum; a ravaged human head with empty eye sockets; a drowning in a pool on a barren heath. [via]
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Ballet Shoesby Noel Streatfeild, Diane GoodeISBN 0679847596 (0-679-84759-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ballet Shoes'Book summary:Determined to make a name for themselves, three adopted sisters living in London train for the ballet and the stage and in the process discover that each has a special talent. [via]
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Biographia Literaria: Chapters 1-4, 14-22; Prefaces and Essays on Poetry, 1800-1815by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Walter Jackson BateISBN 0691018618 (0-691-01861-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Black Arrow : A Tale of the Two Rosesby Robert Louis Stevenson, N. C. WyethISBN 0684188775 (0-684-18877-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Black Beautyby Anna Sewell, Carol FennerISBN 0689842554 (0-689-84255-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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- Black Beauty: ISBN 0688147143 (0-688-14714-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers - Black Beauty: ISBN 0681006803 (0-681-00680-3)
Softcover, Longmeadow Pr - Black Beauty: ISBN 0694012432 (0-694-01243-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Black Beauty: ISBN 0681005866 (0-681-00586-6)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr - Black Beauty: ISBN 0681400587 (0-681-40058-7)
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Brief Livesby Anita BrooknerISBN 0679737332 (0-679-73733-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A City of Strangersby Robert BarnardISBN 068419192X (0-684-19192-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographia Literaria or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinionsby James Engell, W. Jackson BateISBN 0691098743 (0-691-09874-3)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donneby John Donne, Charles M. CoffinISBN 0679601023 (0-679-60102-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne'Book summary:This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", "The Extasie", and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie", "His Parting From Her", and "To His Mistris Going to Bed". Presented as well are Donne's satires, epigrams, verse letters, and holy sonnets, along with his most ambitious and important poems, the Anniversaries. In addition, there is a generous sampling of Donne's prose, including many of his private letters; B>Ignatius His Conclave, a satiric onslaught on the Jesuits; excerpts from Biathanatos, his celebrated defense of suicide; and his most famous sermons, concluding with the final "Death's Duell". "We have only to read [Donne]," wrote Virginia Woolf, "to submit to the sound of that passionate and penetrating voice, and his figure rises again across the waste of the years more erect, more imperious, more inscrutable than any of his time." [via]
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The Consolations of Philosophyby Alain De BottonISBN 0679779175 (0-679-77917-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Consolations of Philosophy'Book summary:"It is common," Alain de Botton writes in The Consolations of Philosophy, "to assume that we are dealing with a highly intelligent book when we cease to understand it. Profound ideas cannot, after all, be explained in the language of children." While his easygoing exploration of philosophers from Socrates to Nietzsche isn't exactly written for the Blue's Clues set, few readers will cease to understand it. Furthermore, it's a joy to read. De Botton's 1997 How Proust Can Change Your Life forged a new kind of lit crit: an exploration of Remembrance of Things Past, delivered in the sweet-gummed envelope of an advice book. He returns to the self-help format here, this time plundering the great thinkers to puzzle out the way we ought to live.
What was stunning about the Proust book was de Botton's brazen annexing of a hallowed novelist to address lite emotional problems. That format is less arresting when applied to the philosophers, since which earnest philosophy major has not, from time to time, tried to apply the alpine heights of thought to his own humble worries? Usually, sophomoric attempts to turn to, say, Kant for advice on love tend to be unmitigated disasters. In de Botton's case, however, he is able to find consolation for a broken heart in Schopenhauer, consolation for inadequacy in Montaigne. Epicurus, usually associated with a love of luxury, is a solace for those of us without much money--and de Botton learns from him that "objects mimic in a material dimension what we require in a psychological one. We need to rearrange our minds but are lured towards new shelves. We buy a cashmere cardigan as a substitute for the counsel of friends."
Lest the reader become burdened by all this philosophizing, the book is peppered with illustrations--the section on Nietzsche of course includes a DC Comics drawing of Superman. And it's further leavened by the author's personal anecdotes and winning confessional tone. Early on, for instance, he admits his own gnawing need for popularity: "A desire to please led me to laugh at modest jokes like a parent on the opening night of a school play." Before he became a medicine man for the soul, de Botton was a first-rate novelist, and it shows in his writing. --Claire Dederer [via]
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De Profundisby Oscar WildeISBN 0679783210 (0-679-78321-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'De Profundis'Book summary:Written from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas's behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde's own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a bracingly honest account of ruinous attachment and a profound meditation on human suffering, De Profundis is a classic of gay literature. Richard Ellmann calls De Profundis "a love letter...One of the greatest, and the longest, ever written."
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 2 : The History of the Empire from A.D. 395 to 1185by Edward Gibbon, J. B. Bury, Gian Battista PiranesiISBN 067960149X (0-679-60149-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 2 : The History of the Empire from A.D. 395 to 1185'Book summary:"Gibbon is a kind of bridge that connects the ancient with the modern ages," noted Thomas Carlyle. "And how gorgeously does it swing across the gloomy and tumultuous chasm of these barbarous centuries." Indeed, Gibbon, the supreme historian of the Enlightenment--the illustrious scholar who envisioned history as a branch of literature--seemed almost predestined to write his monumental account of the Roman Empire's terrible self-destruction. "I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion," wrote the author in the famous epigram that summed up his towering achievement in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
"Gibbon is not merely a master of the pageant and the story; he is also the critic and the historian of the mind," said Virginia Woolf. "Without his satire, his irreverence, his mixture of sedateness and slyness, of majesty and mobility, and above all that belief in reason which pervades the whole book and gives it unity, an implicit if unspoken message, the Decline and Fall would be the work of another man....We seem as we read him raised above the tumult and the chaos into a clear and rational air."
The second volume contains chapters twenty-seven through forty-eight of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. [via]More editions of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 2 : The History of the Empire from A.D. 395 to 1185:
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Storiesby A. S. ByattISBN 0679762221 (0-679-76222-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Dreaming of the Bonesby Deborah CrombieISBN 0684801418 (0-684-80141-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Elizabeth I: War and Politics 1588-1603by Wallace T. MacCaffreyISBN 0691036519 (0-691-03651-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The English Patientby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0679745203 (0-679-74520-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Patient'Book summary:With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companions-and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. [via]
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An Excellent Mysteryby Ellis PetersISBN 0688062504 (0-688-06250-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Gallows Viewby Peter RobinsonISBN 0684192667 (0-684-19266-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gallows View'Book summary:After moving his family from London, Chief Inspector Alan Banks is feeling all too at home in the picturesque market town of Eastvale. A crime wave seems to have followed him north. Teenage thugs are burglarizing the homes of elderly women, culminating in murder. And a Peeping Tom is on the loose, menacing the women of Eastvale. [via]
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The Gift of Stonesby Jim CraceISBN 0684190702 (0-684-19070-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The God of Small Thingsby Arundhati RoyISBN 0679457313 (0-679-45731-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The God of Small Things'Book summary:"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. " The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale. . . . Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family--their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts). When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river "graygreen." With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it. The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it. The God of Small Things takes on the Big Themes--Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic. [via]
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Hexwoodby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0688124887 (0-688-12488-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hexwood'Book summary:Strange things begin to happen at Hexwood Farm as Ann Staveley watches person after person vanish into the old farmhouse and never reappear, but when she investigates, she discovers that the strangeness is spreading. By the author of Witch Week. [via]
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The Homeward Boundersby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0688006787 (0-688-00678-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Homeward Bounders'Book summary:Once he becomes a pawn in a game played by a powerful group he calls them, 12-year-old Jamie is repeatedly catapulted through space and time. [via]
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Hopeful Monsters : A Novelby Nicholas MosleyISBN 0679739297 (0-679-73929-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Hotel Pastisby Peter MayleISBN 0679751114 (0-679-75111-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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How Green Was My Valleyby Richard LlewellynISBN 0684825554 (0-684-82555-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Green Was My Valley'Book summary:Llewellyn's tale of a young man's coming-of-age in a small Welsh mining town--the basis for the beloved film of the same name--is "a beautiful story told in words which have Welsh music in them . . . a book which will live in the mind and memory of its readers" (Atlantic Monthly) [via]
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Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 0679600698 (0-679-60069-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Illustrated Tales from Shakespeareby Charles LambISBN 0681453338 (0-681-45333-8)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illustrated Tales from Shakespeare'Book summary:An adaptation of Shakespeare's classic plays based on the original stories of Charles and Mary Lamb offers prose editions of the Bard's great comedies, tragedies, and history plays, all lavishly illustrated in full color. [via]
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Incidents in the Rue Laugierby Anita BrooknerISBN 0679765123 (0-679-76512-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Rue Laugier'Book summary:Maud Gonthier yearns for an escape from the cocoon of the bourgeois modesty. The splendid, caddish David Tyler appears to offer one. In this stylish, deeply knowing novel by the author of Hotel du Lac, Maud's seduction creates a chemistry of longing, sensuality, and betrayal--with a surprising climax. 240 pp. [via]
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Indigo's Starby Hilary McKayISBN 0689865635 (0-689-86563-5)
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Jane Austenby Claire TomalinISBN 0679766766 (0-679-76676-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen'Book summary:At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in Englishbut her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did not survive her. Now acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin has filled the gaps in the record, creating a remarkably fresh and convincing portrait of the woman and the writer.
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While most Austen biographers have accepted the assertion of Jane's brother Henry that "My dear Sister's life was not a life of events," Tomalin shows that, on the contrary, Austen's brief life was fraught with upheaval. Tomalin provides detailed and absorbing accounts of Austen's ill-fated love for a young Irishman, her frequent travels and extended visits to London, her close friendship with a worldly cousin whose French husband met his death on the guillotine, her brothers' naval service in the Napoleonic wars and in the colonies, and thus shatters the myth of Jane Austen as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose knowledge of the world was limited to the view from a Hampshire village.More editions of Jane Austen:
Jane Austen: A Lifeby Claire TomalinISBN 0679446281 (0-679-44628-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Little Lord Fauntleroyby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles E. BrockISBN 0679444742 (0-679-44474-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Lord Fauntleroy'Book summary:The charming story of a 7-year-old turn-of-the-century American boy who lived on the edge of poverty in New York City and who suddenly inherits an English castle. 4 cassettes. [via]
Lost Horizonby James HiltonISBN 0688020070 (0-688-02007-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Horizon'Book summary:First published in 1933, Lost Horizon introduced readers to Shangri-La, the Tibetan utopia in which life is limitlessly extended. One woman and three men are kidnapped and brought to Shangri-La, hidden deep in the uncharted mountains of Tibet. In their extraordinary adventure, the travelers are transformed as they shed the trappings of their former day-to-day lives and reach greater spiritual and intellectual understanding of themselves and the world. [via]
Love in a Blue Timeby Hanif KureishiISBN 068484818X (0-684-84818-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Madam, Will You Talk?by Mary StewartISBN 0688020178 (0-688-02017-8)
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Milton: Poemsby John MiltonISBN 0679450998 (0-679-45099-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Miraclesby C. S. LewisISBN 0684823799 (0-684-82379-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miracles'Book summary:Can God Intervene in Our Lives?
C.S. Lewis trains his impeccable logic on the question of miracles, setting up a philosophical framework for the proposition that supernatural events can happen in this world. Focusing his inquiry on the feasibility of miracles in general, rather than on anecdotal evidence for specific miracles, Lewis builds a solid and compelling argument for the acceptance of divine intervention. [via]
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Morbid Taste for Bonesby Ellis PetersISBN 0688033741 (0-688-03374-1)
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Mourn Not Your Deadby Deborah CrombieISBN 0684801310 (0-684-80131-0)
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My Idea of Fun: A Cautionary Taleby Will SelfISBN 0679750932 (0-679-75093-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Ogre Downstairsby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0679818391 (0-679-81839-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Other Peopleby Martin AmisISBN 0679735895 (0-679-73589-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Other People'Book summary:She wakes in an emergency room in a London hospital, to a voice that tells her: "You're on your own now. Take care. Be good." She has no knowledge of her name, her past, or even her species. It takes her a while to realize that she is human -- and that the beings who threaten, befriend, and violate her are other people. Some of whom seem to know all about her.
In this eerie, blackly funny, and sometimes disorienting novel, Martin Amis gives us a mystery that is as ambitious as it is intriguing, an investigation of a young woman's violent extinction that also traces her construction of a new and oddly innocent self. [via]More editions of Other People:
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Perelandraby C. S. LewisISBN 0684833654 (0-684-83365-4)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perelandra'Book summary:Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which Perelandra is the second volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of the moral concerns. For the trilogy's central figure, C. S. Lewis created perhaps the most memorable character of his career, the brilliant, clear-eyed, and fiercely brave philologist Dr. Elwin Ransom. Appropriately, Lewis modeled Dr. Ransom after his dear friend J. R. R. Tolkien, for in the scope of its imaginative achievement and the totality of its vision of not one but two imaginary worlds, the Space Trilogy is rivaled in this century only by Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Readers who fall in love with Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Namia as children unfailingly cherish his Space Trilogy as adults; it, too, brings to life strange and magical realms in which epic battles are fought between the forces of light and those of darkness. But in the many layers of its allegory, and the sophistication and piercing brilliance of its insights into the human condition, it occupies a place among the English language's most extraordinary works for any age, and for all time.
In Perelandra, Dr. Ransom is recruited by the denizens of Malacandra, befriended in Out of the Silent Planet, to rescue the edenic planet Perelandra and its peace-loving populace from a terrible threat: a malevolent being from another world who strives to create a new world order, and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so. [via]
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Portrait of a Marriageby Nigel NicolsonISBN 0689105746 (0-689-10574-6)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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Portrait of a Marriage: V. Sackville-West and Harold Nicolsonby Nigel NicolsonISBN 0689705972 (0-689-70597-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Princess and the Goblinby George MacDonald, Jessie Willcox SmithISBN 0688066046 (0-688-06604-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess and the Goblin'Book summary:As always with George MacDonald, everything here is more than meets the eye: this in fact is MacDonald's grace-filled vision of the world. Said to be one of J.R.R. Tolkien's childhood favorites, The Princess and the Goblin is the story of the young Princess Irene, her good friend Curdie--a minor's son--and Irene's mysterious and beautiful great great grandmother, who lives in a secret room at the top of the castle stairs. Filled with images of dungeons and goblins, mysterious fires, burning roses, and a thread so fine as to be invisible and yet--like prayer--strong enough to lead the Princess back home to her grandmother's arms, this is a story of Curdie's slow realization that sometimes, as the princess tells him, "you must believe without seeing." Simple enough for reading aloud to a child (as I've done myself more than once with my daughter), it's rich enough to repay endless delighted readings for the adult. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Providenceby Anita BrooknerISBN 0679738142 (0-679-73814-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Providence'Book summary:Kitty Maule longs to be "totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful." She is instead clever, reticent, self-possessed, and striking. For years. Kitty has been tactfully courting her colleague Maurice Bishop, a detached, elegant English professor. Now, running out of patience, Kitty's amorous pursuit takes her from rancorous academic committee rooms and lecture halls to French cathedrals and Parisian rooming houses, from sittings with her dress-making grandmother to seances with a grandmotherly psychic. Touching, funny, and stylistically breathtaking, Providence is a brightly polished gem of romantic comedy. [via]
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Rainbow's Endby Martha GrimesISBN 0679441883 (0-679-44188-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rainbow's End'Book summary:"Once again, Grimes hooks her readers with the engaging Jury and friends and with skillful tucking of hints into unexpected corners."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
When three women die of "natural causes" in London and the West Country, there appears to be no connection--or reason to suspect foul play. But Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury has other ideas, and before long he's following his keen police instincts all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
There, in the company of a brooding thirteen-year-old girl and her pet coyote, he mingles with an odd assortment of characters and tangles with a twisted plot that stretches from England to the American Southwest. And while his good friend Melrose Plant pursues inquiries in London, Jury delves deeper into the more baffling elements of the case, discovering firsthand what the guide books don't tell you: that the Land of Enchantment is also a landscape ripe with tragedy, treachery, and murder.
"RAINBOW'S END is itself a literary rainbow. It's the skillful blend of mystery and comedy and pathos, a Martha Grimes trademark, that makes this visit with Richard Jury and company so memorable and satisfying."
--Mostly Murder
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Rob Royby Walter ScottISBN 0679443622 (0-679-44362-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rob Roy'Book summary:This novel, first published in 1817, achieved a huge success and helped establish the historical novel as a literary form. In rich prose and vivid description, Rob Roy follows the adventures of a businessman's son, Frank Osbaldistone, who is sent to Scotland and finds himself drawn to the powerful, enigmatic figure of Rob Roy MacGregor, the romantic outlaw who fights for justice and dignity for the Scots. This is an incomparable portrait of the haunted Highlands and Scotland's glorious past. [via]
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Rose Cottageby Mary StewartISBN 0688155847 (0-688-15584-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rose Cottage'Book summary:With its pretty thatched roof and rustic English setting, Rose Cottage is the picture of tranquility. But when Kate Herrick returns to her childhood home, she discovers a web of intrigue as tangled as the rambling roses in its garden.
It is the summer of 1947. Kate, widowed in the war and settled in London, travels to Rose Cottage to retrieve some family papers hidden there years before by her grandmother. The tiny dwelling seems much as she remembers it, but she discovers the papers are missing, and the village is alive with rumors of mysterious night time prowlers, ghosts, and witchcraft.
Seeking the truth about her humble beginnings, Kate uncovers a story of family bitterness, jealousy, and revenge. But all finally ends well as Kate achieves a reconciliation with her mother who was thought to be dead, learns the identity of her real father, and finds romance where she least expected it. [via]
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Saffy's Angelby Hilary McKayISBN 0689849346 (0-689-84934-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saffy's Angel'Book summary:Whitbread Book Award-winning author Hilary McKay is no stranger to high praise, but for Saffy's Angel she really deserves the top honours. This heavenly little book tells the story of Cadmium, Saffron, Indigo and Rose--siblings who are each as colourful as their exotic names suggest.
Close-knit and divinely eccentric, the family (under the not-so-stable guidance of their mother Eve and their weary father, Bill) chug along quite nicely until one day Saffron discovers she was adopted by the family following the death of her mother, Eve's twin sister. As Saffron tries to come to terms with the shocking news, her grandfather dies and bequeaths her a stone angel in his will. But where is it? Saffron, her remarkable family and her new found friend, Sarah, embark on a search that sees Saffy heading for Sienna in Italy while her brother and sisters determine to leave no stone unturned in their quest for the cherub they know will make all the difference in the world to their beloved adopted sister.
Saffy's Angel is written with a simple, understated elegance that allows the reader access to the kind of family we would all, secretly, love to belong to. Each character is drawn with an enviable artistry coupled with, one suspects, a tongue-in the cheek that adds a sharp realistic air to a modern household with a heart of pure, old-fashioned gold. And it is these fabulous characters who lead the unfurling of the story, easing the reader through the pages with an irresistible wit and warmth that smartly avoids cosiness but nonetheless leaves a soothing rosy glow.
Marvellous stuff from a marvellous author who has the potential to knock even the queen of children's fiction, Jacqueline Wilson, off her perch, this sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking book is a must-read. And don't be put off by the pinkness of the packaging: it might look terribly girly, but at the heart of the matter is a fantastically straightforward, deeply satisfying, superior read for anyone who has a heart and a few hours to spare. Suitable for ages 10 and over. --Susan Harrison [via]
Selected Short Stories of D. H. Lawrenceby D. H. Lawrence, James WoodISBN 0679603271 (0-679-60327-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Shuttlecockby Graham SwiftISBN 0679739335 (0-679-73933-5)
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Single and Singleby John Le CarréISBN 0684859262 (0-684-85926-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Single and Single'Book summary:On a Turkish hillside, ex-Communist mobsters shatter the skull of a corrupt English lawyer. In a sleepy English village, the authorities ask a lonely children's magician how come £5,000,030 sterling just got anonymously deposited in his baby daughter's bank account. With machine-like logic and soulful literary magic, John le Carré links these two events in Single & Single, a stay-up-all-night thriller.
The magician is Oliver Single, the tormented son of Tiger Single, a rogue banker the Financial Times calls "the knight errant of Gorbachev's New East." In fact, Tiger is sinking his fangs into that crucial one-tenth of world trade free of pesky regulations--illegal drugs--and secretly selling donated disaster-relief blood. Mum's the word in Tiger's mob: as the lawyer's executioner notes, "Is not convenient to hear that American capitalists are bleeding poor nations literally."
Oliver comes in from the cold to help spymaster Brock track Tiger down. That £30 sterling signified Judas's silver, but Oliver yearns to save Tiger's life, too. Le Carré wizardly juggles dozens of characters in a zigzag, globetrotting plot. You-are-there realism, narrative drive, pitch-perfect dialog--why can't movies be this good? Like lightning, le Carré's metaphors both dazzle and blazingly illuminate the world.
Ex-spy le Carré was there when the Berlin Wall went up, and his spy craft is legendarily realistic. His female spy/love interest is less so--the opposite of a femme fatale, she might be termed a "deus sex machina." But the book's crucial father-son relationship is quite real, because, like the irresistible villain of A Perfect Spy, Tiger is based on le Carré's own con-man dad. The cold war is over, but le Carré is hot. And he will endure. --Tim Appelo [via]
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A Song of Stoneby Iain M. BanksISBN 0684855364 (0-684-85536-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Song of Stone'Book summary:This brutal tale starts in a bleak, brutal European any-war. Abel and Morgan live in a forboding castle, alone and isolated, until the conflict intrudes on their numb lives in the form of a cruel mercenary lieutenant and her violent, ravaging men who take up residence. From there, the tale disintegrates into darkness and atrocity, punctuated by Abel's memories of earlier joy and pain. Iain Banks pushes the story steadily downward, dragging the morbidly fascinated reader into the depths of human despair. Gang rape, torture, and incest are seen through Abel's uncaring eyes--this book is not for the squeamish. And although Banks strives for a Passion play in the end, what's missing is even the tiniest kernel of real redemption. Fans of The Wasp Factory and Banks's other non-science fiction works will find familiar details here, but A Song of Stone stands alone as a fable of hopelessness. --Therese Littleton [via]
Space Trilogyby C. S. LewisISBN 068483118X (0-684-83118-X)
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Sugar and Other Storiesby A. S. ByattISBN 0679742271 (0-679-74227-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Tailor of Panamaby John Le CarreISBN 0679774130 (0-679-77413-0)
Softcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tailor of Panama'Book summary:John le Carré, the greatest spy novelist of the Cold War era, continues his post-Cold War quest to define the genre he helped perfect. The classic spy novel was essentially a story of good (England, the United States) vs. evil (Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union), in which good more or less prevailed. The Tailor of Panama is something else entirely: a spy novel with no spies in which the bad guys reap most of the rewards. It is also a viciously funny satire. The novel is set in Panama, where a plot is in place to make void the Panama Treaty, which would return control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanians in 1999. At the center of events is Harry Pendel, the tailor of the title. Coerced into working for British Intelligence, he concocts out of whole cloth a left-wing movement with the goal of luring the American military to do the dirty work--invade Panama à la 1989 and nullify the treaty. From the characters to the setting, le Carré has succeeded in setting new parameters for an old genre. [via]
Talking It overby Julian BarnesISBN 0679736875 (0-679-73687-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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That Hideous Strengthby C. S. LewisISBN 0684833670 (0-684-83367-0)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'That Hideous Strength'Book summary:The final book in C.S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. Finding himself in a world of superior alien beings and scientific experiments run amok, Dr. Ransom struggles with questions of ethics and morality, applying age-old wisdom to a brave new universe dominated by science. His quest for truth is a journey filled with intrigue and suspense. [via]
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This Rough Magicby Mary StewartISBN 0688026141 (0-688-02614-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Rough Magic'Book summary:When Lucy's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. But the peaceful idyll does not last long. A series of incidents, seemingly unconnected - but all surrounded in mystery - throws Lucy's life into a dangerous spin, as fear, danger and death - as well as romance - supplant the former tranquillity. [via]
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The Tiger in the Wellby Philip PullmanISBN 0679826718 (0-679-82671-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tiger in the Well'Book summary:Sally, now 25, is comfortably settled with her child, Harriet, her work, and her London friends. But when a complete stranger claims to be both her husband and Harriet's father, Sally's whole world comes crashing down around her. With nowhere to turn, she escapes with Harriet into the slums of London's East End--and finds help in some unexpected quarters.
"Pullman is fast becoming a modern-day Dickens for young adults. The setting is the same, the strong eye for characters is there, as are the brooding atmosphere, the social conscience, and the ability to spin plot within plot. Sally Lockhart is now a young woman, left alone with a toddler. Nothing prepares her for the shock of receiving a summons from a man she has never even heard of, suing for divorce and the custody of her beloved Harriet. Sally struggles against the net closing around her, seeking to find out who is persecuting her and why. The writing style is lively and direct, and there's lots of action. This is a suspense novel with a conscience, and a most enjoyable one."--School Library Journal. [via] 
Trafalgar: Countdown to Battle, 1803-1805by Alan SchomISBN 0689120559 (0-689-12055-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Untouchableby John BanvilleISBN 0679767479 (0-679-76747-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Untouchable'Book summary:A brilliant, engaging, and highly literate espionage-cum-existential novel, John Banville's The Untouchable concerns the suddenly-exposed double agent Victor Maskell, a character based on the real Cambridge intellectual elites who famously spied on the United Kingdom in the middle of the 20th century. But Maskell--scholar, adventurer, soldier, art curator, and more--respected and still living in England well past his retirement from espionage, looked like he was going to get away with it when suddenly, in his 70s and sick with cancer, he is unmasked. The question of why, and by whom is not as important for Maskell as the larger question of who finally he himself really is, why he spied in the first place, and whether his many-faceted existence adds up to an authentic life. [via]
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The Virgin in the Iceby Ellis PetersISBN 0688016723 (0-688-01672-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Virgin in the Ice'Book summary:In the winter of 1139, raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester, among them an orphaned boy and his beautiful 18-year-old sister. Traveling with a young nun, they set out for Shrewsbury, but disappear somewhere in the wild countryside. Now, Brother Cadfael embarks on a dangerous quest to find them. Previously out of print. [via]
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Wednesday's Childby Peter RobinsonISBN 0684196441 (0-684-19644-1)
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Wordsworthby William WordsworthISBN 067944369X (0-679-44369-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wordsworth'Book summary:Volume: 1 Publisher: London : Methuen Publication date: 1908 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. [via]
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The Works of Rudyard Kiplingby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0681103744 (0-681-10374-4)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
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Las Cenizas De Angela: Una Memoria/Angela's Ashes a Memoirby Frank McCourtISBN 0684859335 (0-684-85933-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Las Cenizas De Angela: Una Memoria/Angela's Ashes a Memoir'Book summary:En cada pagina abunda el incomparable sentido del humor y la compasion de Frank McCourt. Con todas las cualidades de una obra clasica, "Las cenizas de Angela" esta ahora disponible en edicion rustica en espanol. Esta autobiografia ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y de gran exito de ventas internatcional trasciende las fronteras culturales y linguisticas con su narracion sobre la infancia, la pobreza y las relaciones familiares. [via]
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