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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0883011042 (0-88301-104-2)
Softcover, Ags Pub
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 0891905081 (0-89190-508-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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All for Loveby John Dryden, William-Alan LandesISBN 0887342744 (0-88734-274-4)
Softcover, Players Pr
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All Passion Spentby Vita Sackville-WestISBN 0881847941 (0-88184-794-1)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Allingham Case-Bookby Margery AllinghamISBN 0881848891 (0-88184-889-1)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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American English, English American:a Two-Way Glossary: Of Words in Daily Use on Both Sides of the Atlanticby Anthea BickertonISBN 0902920138 (0-902920-13-8)
Hardcover, Abson Books
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Anne of the Five Townsby Arnold BennettISBN 089966282X (0-89966-282-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Are You Being Served?: The Inside Story of Britain's Funniest - And Public Television's Favorite - Comedy Seriesby Adrian Rigelsford, Anthony Brown, Geoff TibballsISBN 0912333049 (0-912333-04-9)
Softcover, Bay Soma Publishing
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The Ballad of the White Horseby G. K. Chesterton, Robert Austin, Bernadette SheridanISBN 0898708907 (0-89870-890-7)
Hardcover, Ignatius Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ballad of the White Horse'Book summary:This ballad needs no historical notes, for the simple reason that it does not profess to be historical. All of it that is not frankly fictitious, as in any prose romance about the past, is meant to emphasize tradition rather than history. King Alfred is not a legend in the sense that King Arthur may be a legend; that is, in the sense that he may possibly be a lie. But King Alfred is a legend in this broader and more human sense, that the legends are the most important things about him.The cult of Alfred was a popular cult, from the darkness of the ninth century to the deepening twilight of the twentieth. It is wholly as a popular legend that I deal with him here. I write as one ignorant of every-thing, except that I have found the legend of a King of Wessex still alive in the land. I will give three curt cases of what I mean. A tradition connects the ultimate victory of Alfred with the valley in Berkshire called the Vale of the White Horse, I have seen doubts of the tradition, which may be valid doubts. I do not know when or where the story started; it is enough that it started somewhere and ended with me; for I only seek to write upon a hearsay, as the old balladists did... [via]
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Best of Lewis Carrollby Lewis CarrollISBN 0890097003 (0-89009-700-3)
Hardcover, Book Sales, Incorporated
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Checkmateby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0899663192 (0-89966-319-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Checkmate'Book summary:The grand finale to Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles, "Checkmate" finds Francis Crawford returning to France to lead an army against England. But even as the soldier-scholar succeeds brilliantly on the battlefield, his haunted past becomes a subject of intense interest to forces in both the French and English courts. "Checkmate" is a masterly evocation of the intrigue and pageantry of sixteenth-century Europe--and a triumphant conclusion to the Lymond saga. 1 map. [via]
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China Courtby Rumer GoddenISBN 0907746160 (0-907746-16-0)
Softcover, Hollowbrook Pub
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bangby Ian Fleming, John BurninghamISBN 0884119831 (0-88411-983-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Chrom Yellowby Aldous HuxleyISBN 089966847X (0-89966-847-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Clive Barkers Books of Bloodby Clive Barker, J.K. Potter, Harry O. MorrisISBN 0910489149 (0-910489-14-9)
Hardcover, Scream Pr
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Cotillionby Helen BannermanISBN 0899661270 (0-89966-127-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books, Incorporated
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Crocodile on the Sandbankby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0922890366 (0-922890-36-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Dark Frontierby Eric AmblerISBN 0892964138 (0-89296-413-8)
Hardcover, Mysterious Pr
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Death in Ecstasyby Ngaio MarshISBN 0884114783 (0-88411-478-3)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Death in Zanzibarby Mary Margaret KayeISBN 089621446X (0-89621-446-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Death Of A Bore: A Hamish Macbeth Mysteryby M. C. BeatonISBN 0892967951 (0-89296-795-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Death of a Charming Manby M. C. BeatonISBN 0892965290 (0-89296-529-0)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Death of a Dentistby M. C. BeatonISBN 0892966432 (0-89296-643-2)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Dentist'Book summary:In this addition to Beaton's series featuring unassuming Scottish policeman Hamish Macbeth, Hamish finds himself precipitated by a vicious toothache into the world of Dr. Frederick Gilchrist. Gilchrist is a local dentist best known for his eagerness to replace healthy teeth with inexpensive dentures, and infamous for his hard hand on the drill. Maggie Bane, his lovely assistant with a harsh and unlovely voice, surprises Hamish with her hostility, but he is even more astonished to find the dentist's dead body reclining in his chair with mysterious drill marks on his teeth.
Delving deeper into the village's rural dish in search of the murderer, Macbeth uncovers long-buried relationships, an illicit local still, a robbery that is not what it appears, and the expected deceptions and partial truths his countrymen tell the police for reasons only a local character like Hamish can understand. Once again, he has occasion to contact his former love, the adamantine Priscilla Halburton-Smyth, and her friend, Sarah Hudson, even helps Hamish hack into police records for his investigation.
Macbeth's efforts bustle charmingly along against the background of quirky Scots dialect and rustic pubs. And Beaton's tangled web of a mystery is tidily resolved to the satisfaction of the locals and, surely, for all the devoted fans of this winning series. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
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Death of a Dustmanby M. C. BeatonISBN 0892966319 (0-89296-631-9)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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Death of a Gossipby M. C. BeatonISBN 0893409553 (0-89340-955-3)
Softcover, Chivers Press
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Death of a Villageby M. C. BeatonISBN 0892966777 (0-89296-677-7)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Death of an Addictby M. C. BeatonISBN 0892966750 (0-89296-675-0)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religionby David HumeISBN 091514445X (0-915144-45-X)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and the Posthumous Essays, of the Immortality of the Soul and of Suicideby David Hume, Richard H. PopkinISBN 0915144468 (0-915144-46-8)
Hardcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speechesby Edmund Burke, Peter J. StanlisISBN 0895264072 (0-89526-407-2)
Softcover, Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company
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Elric of Melniboneby Michael Moorcock, Roy Thomas, Rick OliverISBN 091541905X (0-915419-05-X)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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The Everlasting Manby Gilbert Keith ChestertonISBN 0898704448 (0-89870-444-8)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Everlasting Man'Book summary:This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does not deal directly with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own life; and about which I am already writing a more purely controversial volume. It is impossible, I hope, for any Catholic to write any book on any subject, above all this subject, without showing that he is a Catholic; but this study is not specially concerned with the differences between a Catholic and a Protestant. Much of it is devoted to many sorts of Pagans rather than any sort of Christians; and its thesis is that those who say that Christ stands side by side with similar myths, and his religion side by side with similar religions, are only repeating a very stale formula contradicted by a very striking fact. To suggest this I have not needed to go much beyond matters known to us all; I make no claim to learning; and have to depend for some things, as has rather become the fashion, on those who are more learned. As I have more than once differed from Mr. H. G. Wells in his view of history, it is the more right that I should here congratulate him on the courage and constructive imagination which carried through his vast and varied and intensely interesting work; but still more on having asserted the reasonable right of the amateur to do what he can with the facts which the specialists provide. [via]
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Fish Preferredby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0891902929 (0-89190-292-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Gate of Angelsby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 088184960X (0-88184-960-X)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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George Orwell Complete & UnabridgedISBN 0905712048 (0-905712-04-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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The Good Companionsby J. B. PriestleyISBN 089967044X (0-89967-044-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Great British Detectivesby Martin H. Greenberg, Edward D. HochISBN 0897332660 (0-89733-266-0)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Green for Dangerby Christianna BrandISBN 0881846120 (0-88184-612-0)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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The Heart of the Matter: Stamboul Train ; A Burnt-Out Case ; The Third Man ; The Quiet American ; Loser Takes All ; The Power and the Gloryby Graham GreeneISBN 0905712013 (0-905712-01-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann/Octopus
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Heretic's Apprenticeby Ellis PetersISBN 0892963816 (0-89296-381-6)
Hardcover, Mysterious Pr
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A Highland Christmasby M. C. BeatonISBN 0892966998 (0-89296-699-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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In This House of Bredeby Rumer GoddenISBN 0899668100 (0-89966-810-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Inside the Sasby Tony GeraghtyISBN 0898390397 (0-89839-039-7)
Hardcover, Battery Pr
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The Jerusalem Innby Martha GrimesISBN 0896216047 (0-89621-604-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Katherineby Anya SetonISBN 0899668143 (0-89966-814-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Katherine'Book summary:This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family. Set in the vibrant 14th century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II who ruled despotically over a court rotten with intrigue. Within this era of danger and romance, John of Gaunt, the king s son, falls passionately in love with the already married Katherine. Their well-documented affair and love persist through decades of war, adultery, murder, loneliness, and redemption. This epic novel of conflict, cruelty, and untamable love has become a classic since its first publication in 1954.[via]More editions of Katherine:
Killing Me Softlyby Nicci FrenchISBN 0892966971 (0-89296-697-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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A Letter Concerning Toleration: Humbly Submittedby John Locke, James TullyISBN 091514560X (0-915145-60-X)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmarkby Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylva NormanISBN 0900001518 (0-900001-51-8)
Softcover, Centaur Press
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Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snarkby Martin Gardner, Lewis Carroll, Charles Mitchell, Henry Holiday, James Tanis, Selwyn Hugh Goodacre, John DooleyISBN 091323236X (0-913232-36-X)
Hardcover, William Kaufmann, in cooperation with Bryn Mawr College Library
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Major Barbaraby Bernard Shaw, Elizabeth T. ForterISBN 0882950886 (0-88295-088-6)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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The Mamur Zapt and the Men Behindby Michael PearceISBN 0892964871 (0-89296-487-1)
Hardcover, Mysterious Pr
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The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egyptby Michael PearceISBN 0892965606 (0-89296-560-6)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Mrs. Miniverby Jan StrutherISBN 0884116778 (0-88411-677-8)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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News from Thrush Greenby Miss Read, John S. GoodallISBN 0897333349 (0-89733-334-9)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
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Northbridge Rectoryby Angela ThirkellISBN 0881847186 (0-88184-718-6)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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The Nursing Home Murderby Ngaio MarshISBN 0884114910 (0-88411-491-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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One Hundred and One Famous Poemsby Roy Jay CookISBN 0896092291 (0-89609-229-1)
Hardcover, Roth Pub
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One Virgin Too Manyby Lindsey DavisISBN 0892967161 (0-89296-716-1)
Hardcover, Mysterious Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Virgin Too Many'Book summary:Marcus Didius Falco is back in another lively first-century historical mystery. The Roman investigator, informer, and imperial spy's snappy patter, romantic leanings, strong sense of irony, and penchant for getting into interesting situations have won Lindsey Davis a growing number of fans. Flush with his earnings from an African adventure (Two for the Lions), Falco's just been rewarded for his service to the empire with an unusual bit of political patronage: he's been appointed to the largely ceremonial position of Procurator of the Sacred Poultry, meaning he's in charge of the care and feeding of a gaggle of sacred geese. This un-Falco-like upward mobility is an opportunity for Marcus to move his patrician wife, Helena Justina, and their toddler out of a tenement and into a home of their own. As much as Marcus scoffs at middle-class pretensions, he's not above leaving his seedy surroundings and providing his family with some of the finer things, if only to show his in-laws that he can. But when Helena's brother falls over a corpse that disappears before it can be identified, Falco tosses the geese some food and gets busy finding the connection between the dead man and a 6-year-old girl who's in line to be chosen as the new vestal virgin. That leads him into intrigue, danger, and a confrontation with a former vestal virgin that almost costs him his life. Well paced, with good dialogue, excellent plotting, and a cast of terrific characters surrounding Falco and Helena, including some familiar from earlier stories, One Virgin Too Many shows Davis in top form. Falco the family man is better company than ever. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Original Illustratedby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0890093911 (0-89009-391-1)
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Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0890090572 (0-89009-057-2)
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Orthodoxyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0898705525 (0-89870-552-5)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orthodoxy'Book summary:If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Our Jubilee Is Deathby Leo BruceISBN 0897332296 (0-89733-229-6)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Pacific Bounty: Hawaii Cooks With Roy Yamaguchiby Roy Yamaguchi, Marty WentzelISBN 0912333235 (0-912333-23-5)
Softcover, Kqed
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A Personal Recordby Joseph ConradISBN 0910395462 (0-910395-46-2)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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The Pied Piper of Hamelinby Robert Browning, Jane E. CookISBN 0914108034 (0-914108-03-4)
Softcover, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University
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Pilgrims Innby Elizabeth GoudgeISBN 0892838302 (0-89283-830-2)
Softcover, Servant Pubns
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The Potter's Fieldby Ellis PetersISBN 0892964197 (0-89296-419-7)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Potter's Field'Book summary:The year is 1143 and this is the 17th chronicle of Brother Cadfael of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury. Once again, the gentle monk is forced to leave the tranquility of his herb garden and use his knowledge of the human nature to solve a murder--this one frighteningly close to home. 2 cassettes. [via]
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The Provincial Lady in Americaby Margaret Freeman, E.M. DelafieldISBN 0897331109 (0-89733-110-9)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Provincial Lady in America'Book summary:The third in the delightful "Provincial Lady" series finds our pungently witty English lady travelling the United States. Her two earlier books were set in Devonshire and London respectively, where she set down her observations of life and letters as they affected her and her menage of husband, two children and assorted servants, friends and acquaintances.
In this volume she comes to America on a literary tour. She visits New York, Cleveland, Chicago and the World's Fair of 1932, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, among other cities-confiding to her diary as she goes her shrewd and barbed thoughts and queries. Here is no British What's-Wrong-with-America, but rather a delightful See-Yourselves-as-the-Others-See-You: a challenge to the American sense of humor.
Readers of Diary of a Provincial Lady and The Provincial Lady in London will be further amused and charmed by their favorite diarist's trans-Atlantic adventures. [via]
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A Rare Benedictineby Ellis PetersISBN 0892963972 (0-89296-397-2)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Rare Benedictine'Book summary:Peters has gained worldwide praise for her meticulous re-creations of 12th-century monastic life. Here, her chronicles continue with a Christmas story, a tale of robbery and attempted murder, and a narrative of Brother Cadfael's early years. [via]
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The Readers Guide to the Classic British Mysteryby Susan Prince OleskiwISBN 0892969687 (0-89296-968-7)
Hardcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The Red Roomby Nicci FrenchISBN 0892967307 (0-89296-730-7)
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Scaramoucheby Rafael SabatiniISBN 0895263106 (0-89526-310-6)
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The Second Mouseby Archer MayorISBN 0892960728 (0-89296-072-8)
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Selected Writings and Speechesby Edmund Burke, Peter J. StanlisISBN 0895268345 (0-89526-834-5)
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Simon the Coldheartby Georgette HeyerISBN 0899661181 (0-89966-118-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Singing in the Shroudsby Ngaio MarshISBN 0884114945 (0-88411-494-5)
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The Summer of the Danesby Ellis PetersISBN 0892964480 (0-89296-448-0)
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The Tale of Benjamin Bunnyby Beatrix Potter, Tim KirkISBN 0893754854 (0-89375-485-4)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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The Tale of Peter Rabbitby Beatrix Potter, Margot AppleISBN 0893751022 (0-89375-102-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'Book summary:The quintessential cautionary tale, Peter Rabbit warns naughty children about the grave consequences of misbehaving. When Mrs. Rabbit beseeches her four furry children not to go into Mr. McGregor's garden, the impish Peter naturally takes this as an open invitation to create mischief. He quickly gets in over his head, when he is spotted by farmer McGregor himself. Any child with a spark of sass will find Peter's adventures remarkably familiar. And they'll see in Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail that bane of their existence: the "good" sibling who always does the right thing. One earns bread and milk and blackberries for supper, while the obstinate folly of the other warrants medicine and an early bedtime.
Beatrix Potter's animal stories have been a joy to generations of young readers. Her warm, playful illustrations in soft colors invite children into the world of words and flights of fancy. Once there, she gently and humorously guides readers along the path of righteousness, leaving just enough room for children to wonder if that incorrigible Peter will be back in McGregor's garden tomorrow. (Ages Baby to Preschool) [via]
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The Theory of Moral Sentimentsby Adam SmithISBN 0895263637 (0-89526-363-7)
Hardcover, Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company
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The Three Coffinsby John Dickson CarrISBN 0899660487 (0-89966-048-7)
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The Tough Guide to Fantasylandby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0886778328 (0-88677-832-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tough Guide to Fantasyland'Book summary:Suffering from a bit of deja vu after reading your umpteenth fantasy trilogy? Seen too many magic swords, musical elves and warring wizards? Then you're ready for the funniest and most complete "tourist's" guide to Fantasyland's standard character types, plot elements, and settings ever devised.
Diana Wynne Jones describes (starting, of course, with a map) every sword-and-sorcery cliché in wickedly accurate detail, arranged alphabetically. Elves sing in beautiful, unearthly voices about how much better things used to be. Swords with Runes may kill dragons or demons, or have powers like storm-raising, but they are not much use when you're attacked by bandits. You can only have an Axe if you're a Northern Barbarian, a Dwarf, or a Blacksmith. Jones also tackles hard-hitting questions: how does Fantasyland's ecology work when there are few or no bacteria and insects and vast tracts of magically irradiated wastelands? Why doesn't the economy collapse when pirates and bandits are so active and there is no perceptible industry?
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland (U.K. Edition) was a 1997 Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominee. It's a good companion to Jones's Dark Lord of Derkholm, a fantasy about what happens when your land is turned into a theme park for questing tourist parties. Fans of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books will enjoy both. --Nona Vero [via]
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Traditional British Balladsby Bartlett J. WhitingISBN 0882950169 (0-88295-016-9)
Softcover, Davidson Incorporated, Harlan
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Tudor Englandby Stanley Thomas BindoffISBN 0883070227 (0-88307-022-7)
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0895773473 (0-89577-347-3)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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The Uses of Literacyby Richard HoggartISBN 0887388922 (0-88738-892-2)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Uses of Literacy'Book summary:This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in response to mass media. First published in 1957, it mapped out a new methodology in cultural studies based around interdisciplinarity and a concern with how texts-in this case, mass publications-are stitched into the patterns of lived experience. Mixing personal memoir with social history and cultural critique, The Uses of Literacy anticipates recent interest in modes of cultural analysis that refuse to hide the author behind the mask of objective social scientific technique. In its method and in its rich accumulation of the detail of working-class life, this volume remains useful and absorbing.
Hoggart's analysis achieves much of its power through a careful delineation of the complexities of working-class attitudes and its sensitivity to the physical and environmental facts of working-class life. The people he portrays are neither the sentimentalized victims of a culture of deference nor neo-fascist hooligans. Hoggart sees beyond habits to what habits stand for and sees through statements to what the statements really mean. He thus detects the differing pressures of emotion behind idiomatic phrases and ritualistic observances.
Through close observation and an emotional empathy deriving, in part, from his own working-class background, Hoggart defines a fairly homogeneous and representative group of working-class people. Against this background may be seen how the various appeals of mass publications and other artifacts of popular culture connect with traditional and commonly accepted attitudes, how they are altering those attitudes, and how they are meeting resistance. Hoggart argues that the appeals made by mass publicists-more insistent, effective, and pervasive than in the past-are moving toward the creation of an undifferentiated mass culture and that the remnants of an authentic urban culture are being destroyed.
In his introduction to this new edition, Andrew Goodwin, professor of broadcast communications arts at San Francisco State University, defines Hoggart's place among contending schools of English cultural criticism and points out the prescience of his analysis for developments in England over the past thirty years. He notes as well the fruitful links to be made between Hoggart's method and findings and aspects of popular culture in the United States.
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The Valley of Fear: Library Editionby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0899662323 (0-89966-232-3)
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We Think the World of Youby AckerleyISBN 0916870367 (0-916870-36-7)
Softcover, Daedalus Books
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The White Cottage Mysteryby Margery AllinghamISBN 088184666X (0-88184-666-X)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 091406116X (0-914061-16-X)
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