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Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardenerby M. C. BeatonISBN 0804113599 (0-8041-1359-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton, John UpdikeISBN 0804114811 (0-8041-1481-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Set in turn-of-the-century New York, Edith Wharton's classic novel The Age of Innocence reveals a society governed by the dictates of taste and form, manners and morals, and intricate social ceremonies. With amazing clarity and sensitivity, Edith Wharton re-creates an atmosphere in which subtle gestures and faint implications bespeak desire and emotion, in which beauty and innocence are valued above truth, and in which disturbing the social order disturbs the very foundations of one's identity.
Newland Archer, soon to marry the lovely May Welland, is a man torn between his respect for tradition and family and his attraction to May's strongly independent cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska. Plagued by the desire to live in a world where two people can love each other free from condemnation and judgment by the group, Newland views the artful delicacy of the world he lives in as a comforting security one moment, and at another, as an oppressive fiction masking true human nature.
The Age of Innocence is at once a richly drawn portrait of the elegant lifestyles, luxurious brownstones, and fascinating culture of bygone New York society and a compelling look at the conflict between human passions and the social tribe that tries to control them. [via]More editions of The Age of Innocence:
All for Love: A Tragedyby John DrydenISBN 0803253796 (0-8032-5379-6)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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The Americanby Henry JamesISBN 0804901767 (0-8049-0176-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American'Book summary:Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry Claire de Cintré, a scintillating and beautiful aristocrat, Christopher Newman comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family in a dramatic clash between the Old World and the New. A co-production with the BBC, starring Diana Rigg, Matthew Modine, and Brenda Fricker. [via]
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Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude and Outright Lunacyby Fergus FlemingISBN 0802137946 (0-8021-3794-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballardby J.G. BallardISBN 0805038760 (0-8050-3876-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Birthday Party and the Room: Two Playsby Harold PinterISBN 0802151140 (0-8021-5114-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Black Cauldronby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 080508049X (0-8050-8049-X)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Cauldron'Book summary:Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly Doli--all of whom become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain.
Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexander's beautifully written tales not only captured children's imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise. The Black Cauldron was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, The High King, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."
Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series to a new generation of young readers. Jackets have been handsomely redesigned while retaining the original art of Caldecott Medal-winning artist Evaline Ness. Each retypeset volume now includes a pronunciation guide prepared by Lloyd Alexander. A companion book of short stories, The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain, is also available in hardcover for the first time in twenty years.
In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children.[via]The Black Cauldron is a 1966 Newbery Honor Book. 
Black Girl, White Girlby Patricia MoyesISBN 0805011498 (0-8050-1149-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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A Breach of Promiseby Anne PerryISBN 0804118558 (0-8041-1855-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Breach of Promise'Book summary:The promises that are breached, broken, and never born in Anne Perry's rich and resonant new William Monk mystery all have to do with the roles and positions of women in Victorian society. At the center of the book is a rousing courtroom drama, as young Zillah Lambert--daughter of a wealthy, well-meaning northern businessman and his socially ambitious wife--sues an immensely gifted architect, Killian Melville. Melville, Zillah argues, failed to live up to his promise of marriage and thereby ruined her chances of making any sort of acceptable match. Private detective Monk is brought into the case by lawyer Oliver Rathbone when his client (Melville), facing financial and social ruin, still refuses to offer any reason for his dastardly conduct.
Monk's attentions are occupied elsewhere, too. Hester Latterly, the courageous nurse who worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, and whose favors Monk and Rathbone both desire, is looking after a British officer, Gabriel Sheldon, who was badly wounded and disfigured in India. Gabriel's wife, Perdita, is having trouble adjusting to her husband's broken body and spirit. "It was not Perdita's fault that she was confused and frightened," Monk muses. "She had been protected all her short life. She had not chosen to be, it was her assigned role." Monk has also promised a housemaid in the Sheldons' service that he will look for her two little nieces--deaf and deformed from birth--who were abandoned by their mother almost 20 years before. As the cases tangle and combine (perhaps a tad too coincidentally for some tastes, but, then again, real life is full of coincidences), Perry manages to show us the many ways in which women were made to pay for their place in a male-dominated society. She also delivers a touching and surprisingly suspenseful story. Other Monk books in paperback: The Silent Cry, Cain His Brother, Defend and Betray, Weighed in the Balance. --Dick Adler [via]
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Cain His Brotherby Anne PerryISBN 0804115079 (0-8041-1507-9)
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The Castle of Llyrby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 0805061339 (0-8050-6133-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexander's beautifully written tales not only captured children's imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise. The Black Cauldron was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, The High King, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."
Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series to a new generation of young readers. Jackets have been handsomely redesigned while retaining the original art of Caldecott Medal-winning artist Evaline Ness. Each retypeset volume now includes a pronunciation guide prepared by Lloyd Alexander. A companion book of short stories, The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain, is also available in hardcover for the first time in twenty years.
In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children. 
The Changelingby Thomas Middleton, William RowleyISBN 0803252811 (0-8032-5281-1)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Closerby Patrick MarberISBN 0802136451 (0-8021-3645-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Coconut Killingsby Patricia MoyesISBN 0805007547 (0-8050-0754-7)
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Collected Shorter Playsby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802150551 (0-8021-5055-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989by Samuel Beckett, S.E. GontarskiISBN 0802134904 (0-8021-3490-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989'Book summary:Although Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is best-known for his novels, such as the Molloy series, and his still frequently-performed plays like Waiting for Godot and Endgame, he is rarely thought of as a writer of short fiction and prose. Yet he wrote short works devotedly throughout his life; many critics count various Beckett short stories as masterpieces of the form, central to an appreciation of the writer's oeuvre. The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989, as the title suggests, collects all of the Nobel Prize-winner's shorter works, such as "First Love," and "The Lost Ones." [via]
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Complete Works: 2 The Caretaker, the DwarFs, the Collection, the Lover, Night School, R Evue Sketchesby Harold PinterISBN 0802132375 (0-8021-3237-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Daughters and Rebels: An Autobiographyby Jessica MitfordISBN 0805011722 (0-8050-1172-2)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Death and the Dutch Uncleby Patricia MoyesISBN 0805005064 (0-8050-0506-4)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Death Is Now My Neighborby Colin DexterISBN 0804115729 (0-8041-1572-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Death of a Gluttonby M. C. BeatonISBN 0804112126 (0-8041-1212-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Glutton'Book summary:There's not a cloud in Constable Hamish Macbeth's sky....
Just plenty of warm sunshine and not quite enough of beautiful Priscilla Halburton-Smythe.
But as eight hopeful members of the Checkmate Singles Club converge on Tommel Castle Hotel for a week of serious matchmaking, the clouds roll in. The four couples, carefully matched by dating director Maria Worth, immediately dislike each other. The arrival of Maria's gross, greedy partner, Peta, kills the last vestige of romance.
And as love goes out the window, murder comes in the door. Peta soon slurps up her last meal, and Hamish is left with a baffling puzzle: who shared the fateful outing that left Peta dead with a big red apple in her mouth? Surely not one of those singles.... [via]More editions of Death of a Glutton:
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Death of a Gossipby M. C. BeatonISBN 0804102260 (0-8041-0226-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Gossip'Book summary:When a famous gossip columnist is murdered at the local fishing school, no one is ready to talk. It's up to Hamish Macbeth, with the inspiring assistance of the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, to sniff out the right rat amid all the cunning anglers with secrets to hide. But someone has baited a hook for him . . . [via]
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Death of a Hussyby M. C. BeatonISBN 0804107688 (0-8041-0768-8)
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Death of a Pranksterby M. C. BeatonISBN 0804111022 (0-8041-1102-2)
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Death of an Old Goatby Robert BarnardISBN 0802753655 (0-8027-5365-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Death on the High C'sby Robert BarnardISBN 0802753981 (0-8027-5398-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Debt to Pleasureby John LanchesterISBN 0805051309 (0-8050-5130-9)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Debt to Pleasure'Book summary:A gorgeous, dark, and sensuous book that is part cookbook, part novel, part eccentric philosophical treatise, reminiscent of perhaps the greatest of all books on food, Jean-Anthelme Brillat Savarin's The Physiology of Taste. Join Tarquin Winot as he embarks on a journey of the senses, regaling us with his wickedly funny, poisonously opinionated meditations on everything from the erotics of dislike to the psychology of a menu, from the perverse history of the peach to the brutalization of the palate, from cheese as "the corpse of milk" to the binding action of blood. [via]
Defend and Betrayby Anne PerryISBN 080411188X (0-8041-1188-X)
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Endgameby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802150241 (0-8021-5024-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Endgame'Book summary:[via]Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. "Endgame, " originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.More editions of Endgame:
An Experiment in Loveby Hilary MantelISBN 080505202X (0-8050-5202-X)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Face of a Strangerby Anne PerryISBN 0804108587 (0-8041-0858-7)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Face of a Stranger'Book summary:His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life: his memory and his entire past have vanished. Trying as best he can to hide that fact, Monk returns to work and finds himself assigned to the burtal murder of Major the Honorable Joscelin Grey, Crimean war hero and popular man about town, in his rooms in fashionable Mecklenburg Square. The exhaulted status of the victim puts any representative of the police in the precarious position of having to pry into a noble family's secrets-which in itself will be difficult for Monk, as he's forgotten his professional skills along with everything else. But slowly the darkness begins to lighten as each new revelation leads Monk step by terrifying step to the answerw he seeks but dreads to find... [via]
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Fluddby Hilary MantelISBN 0805062734 (0-8050-6273-4)
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Fortune's Bastardby Robert ChalmersISBN 0802141609 (0-8021-4160-9)
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The Green Fairy Bookby Andrew LangISBN 080490197X (0-8049-0197-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Henry IVby William ShakespeareISBN 0804910189 (0-8049-1018-9)
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The Hiding Placeby Trezza AzzopardiISBN 0802138594 (0-8021-3859-4)
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The High Kingby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 0805061355 (0-8050-6135-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The High King'Book summary:In this fifth and final chronicle of Prydain the forces of good and evil meet in ultimate confrontation. [via]
In the Shape of a Boarby Lawrence NorfolkISBN 0802139671 (0-8021-3967-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Shape of a Boar'Book summary:Lawrence Norfolk's third novel takes the boar hunt as its central metaphor to discuss love, betrayal, fear and the annihilation of war. The first section begins in Ancient Greece with the hunt for the boar of Kalydon, then moves to Paris in the 1970s, where the poet, Sol Memel's life echoes the mythological prototypes.
When King Oeneus neglects to sacrifice animals to Artemis at the festival of First Fruits, she sends a boar of gigantic proportions and ferocious strength to destroy the land. The king's son, Meleager, gathers prize hunters to kill it. They form "a new, earth-bound constellation" as they converge around Mount Aracynthus, already "one another's quarry in a bloodless preparatory hunt". Their roll call creates "a palace of sound".
Norfolk's beautifully compelling prose establishes a phenomenal pace, mirroring the characters' charged drive towards their foretold destiny. He creates a dense geography of paths of sumac and oak, wild pear trees, brushwood, sedge, spurge, lentisc, wild olives and myrtle, until Greece itself emerges as a recurrent and potent character. The three strongest hunters, Meleager, Atalanta and her cousin Meilanion form a powerful triangle of desire, for victory and each other. As they move into the terrain of the boar, the narrative is as tense as any urban thriller chase. When victims of the boar are discovered gored by branches of a tree, Norfolk luxuriates in the violence, as though exorcising a part of himself. As Sol Memel suggests about the horrors of the Second World War: "Memories were violent from the inside out. People made them up because they had to."
In the second section, the three mythic hunters are re-created in Sol and his two best friends, Ruth and Jakob, who've each escaped the Jewish ghetto in different ways. Here, the purpose of Norfolk's excessive classical footnotes becomes clear when Sol's masterpiece, Die Keilerjagd--The Hunt of the Boar is published with obsessive annotations by his old rival, Jakob, undermining Sol's integrity. Although the second half of the book is less clotted, the intensity of the hunt is diffused and much less gripping. In the Shape of a Boar is an ambitiously layered novel, in which the reader becomes complicit in the hunt for truth and the creation of evil. --Cherry Smyth [via]
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Innocenceby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0805003738 (0-8050-0373-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Italian Boy: A Tale Of Murder And Body Snatching In 1830s Londonby Sarah WiseISBN 0805078495 (0-8050-7849-5)
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Italian Neighborsby Tim ParksISBN 0802140343 (0-8021-4034-3)
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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journeyby Salman RushdieISBN 0805053115 (0-8050-5311-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Jewel That Was Oursby Colin DexterISBN 0804109818 (0-8041-0981-8)
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Johnny under Groundby Patricia MoyesISBN 0805002707 (0-8050-0270-7)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Last Seen Wearingby Colin DexterISBN 0804114919 (0-8041-1491-9)
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Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmarkby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0803258321 (0-8032-5832-1)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Many Deadly Returnsby Patricia MoyesISBN 0805005986 (0-8050-0598-6)
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Messenger of Truth: A Maisie Dobbs Novelby Jacqueline WinspearISBN 0805078983 (0-8050-7898-3)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Messenger of Truth: A Maisie Dobbs Novel'Book summary:[via]Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist--and World War I veteran--in the fourth entry in the bestselling series
London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nick's twin sister, Georgina, a wartime journalist and a infamous figure in her own right, isn't convinced.
When the authorities refuse to consider her theory that Nick was murdered, Georgina seeks out a fellow graduate from Girton College, Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, for help. Nick was a veteran of World War I, and before long the case leads Maisie to the desolate beaches of Dungeness in Kent, and into the sinister underbelly of the city's art world.
In Messenger of Truth, Maisie once again uncovers the perilous legacy of the Great War in a society struggling to recollect itself. But to solve the mystery of Nick's death, Maisie will have to keep her head as the forces behind the artist's fall come out of the shadows to silence her.
Following on the bestselling Pardonable Lies, Jacqueline Winspear delivers another vivid, thrilling, and utterly unique episode in the life of Maisie Dobbs.More editions of Messenger of Truth: A Maisie Dobbs Novel:
Moving Toyshopby Edmund CrispinISBN 0802754341 (0-8027-5434-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Murder a la Modeby Patricia MoyesISBN 0805007067 (0-8050-0706-7)
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Murder Fantasticalby Patricia MoyesISBN 0805005048 (0-8050-0504-8)
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Murder on a Mystery Tourby Marian BabsonISBN 0802756689 (0-8027-5668-9)
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Natural History of Religionby David HumeISBN 0804703337 (0-8047-0333-7)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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A Night to Rememberby Walter LordISBN 0805077642 (0-8050-7764-2)
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No Mans Landby Harold PinterISBN 0802151876 (0-8021-5187-6)
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Noel Coward: Private Lives-Blithe Spirit-Hay Feverby Noel Pierce CowardISBN 0802151086 (0-8021-5108-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Old Timesby Harold PinterISBN 0802150292 (0-8021-5029-2)
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Once in a House on Fireby Andrea AshworthISBN 0805057633 (0-8050-5763-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Once in a House on Fire'Book summary:In her engrossing memoir, Once in a House on Fire, Andrea Ashworth recalls growing up poor in a violent English household during the 1970s and 1980s. Ashworth's father drowned when she was just 5. Her mother then married a man who beat her frequently and made life miserable for the whole family. When Ashworth's mother finally got rid of him, she married a small-time criminal who also soon became violent. Throughout her childhood, the author struggled to protect her little sisters from their stepfathers and kept the family going when their mother could not function because of her injuries, depressions, and blinding headaches. Ashworth and her family moved around quite a bit, often living in other people's houses, sleeping in cots or on floors. They all suffered from the emotional and economic instability of their situation. Ashworth recalls the sunglasses her mother wore through cloudy dark English winters to conceal her bruised eyes. She also remembers sneaking out of the house one day to run through a rich neighborhood, where she paused occasionally to open the mailboxes of the wealthy and smell their comfort and safety.
Although Ashworth's story is all about loneliness and love gone wrong, the surprising thing is that this book is not always terribly sad-- there are interludes when the children have fun and in those sunny moments it seems probable that all of them, especially Andrea, will survive more or less intact. Ashworth recalls the details of her childhood vividly, in brief scenes. In one of those scenes, two sisters race down a cobbled street at breakneck speed. Each of them has one roller skate on--they are sharing. Ashworth's writing is crisp, her dialogue right to the point. This book is reminiscent of Frank Conroy's Stop-Time and Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, both classic memoirs of adolescence. --Jill Marquis [via]
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One for the Roadby Harold PinterISBN 0802151884 (0-8021-5188-4)
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Raffles the Amateur Cracksmanby HornungISBN 0803208693 (0-8032-0869-3)
Softcover, University of Nebraska Press
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The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays: And Other Playsby Tom StoppardISBN 0802135617 (0-8021-3561-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays: And Other Plays'Book summary:Culled from nearly 20 years of the playwright's career, a showcase for Tom Stoppard's dazzling range and virtuosic talent, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard's sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. They include The Real Inspector Hound, After Margritte, Dirty Linen, New-Found-Land, Dogg's Hamlet, and Cahoot's Macbeth.[via]More editions of The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays: And Other Plays:
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The Riddle of the Third Mileby Colin DexterISBN 0804114889 (0-8041-1488-9)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riddle of the Third Mile'Book summary:"[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited, and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot."
--The New York Times Book Review
Inspector Morse isn't sure what to make of the truncated body found dumped in the Oxford Canal, but he suspects it may be all that's left of an elderly Oxford don last seen boarding the London train several days before. Whatever the truth, the inspector knows it won't be simple--it never is. As he retraces Professor Browne-Smith's route through a London netherworld of topless bars and fancy bordellos, his forebodings are fulfilled. The evidence mounts; so do the bodies. So Morse downs another pint, unleashes his pit bull instincts, and solves a mystery that defies all logic.
"[Dexter] is a magician with character, story construction, and the English language. . . . Colin Dexter and Morse are treasures of the genre."
--Mystery News
"It is a delight to watch this brilliant, quirky man deduce."
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The Roverby Joseph ConradISBN 0805062637 (0-8050-6263-7)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rover'Book summary:A nautical psychological thriller from one of literature's giants.[via]
From Joseph Conrad, one of the modern masters of literature, comes this tale of intrigue in the opening days of the Napoleonic wars. Peyrol, a French pirate from the Indian seas, returns to his home country to find himself threatened by both British and French forces. His flight through Imperial France, his daring mission carrying dispatches through the British blockade, and his doomed love affair with the daughter of a French sailor are all related in Conrad's irresistibly atmospheric and suspenseful style.More editions of The Rover:
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Scotland: The Story of a Nationby Magnus MagnussonISBN 0802139329 (0-8021-3932-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scotland: The Story of a Nation'Book summary:Near Stirling, Scotland, stands a memorial to the warrior William Wallace, put to death at the orders of the English king Edward I in 1305. Within that memorial stands a glass case, and inside of it stands a broadsword 1.7 meters long. Legend has it that the hero himself wielded the weapon, and so "Wallace's Sword" it is.
Magnus Magnusson, a native of Iceland who has long lived in and written about Scotland, may spoil it for some readers when he writes that Wallace's Sword probably wasn't Wallace's. To use it, Wallace would have had to have stood at least 6-foot-6 in height and to have lived two centuries later. The business of the sword is just one of the "cherished conceptions" about Scottish history that Magnusson picks apart and then, corrected and improved, restores. At other turns he considers the true identity of the legendary king Macbeth (and entertains some surprising but plausible theories about the king's alter ego); reconstructs decisive battles such as Otterburn, Flodden, and Glencoe; and looks closely at the complicated negotiations (and, many would say, treacheries) that led to the union with England of 1707. Magnusson closes with an account of modern independence movements and the recent return of some measure of national autonomy, opening a "new chapter in a nation's story, which the people of Scotland are now beginning to write."
Lucid, witty, and unafraid of controversy, Magnusson's book does a fine job of condensing a complex history, stretching out for 10 millennia, into a single volume. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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A Sea of Wordsby Dean King, John B. Hattendorf, J. Worth EstesISBN 0805066152 (0-8050-6615-2)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sea of Words'Book summary:A companion reference for fans of the popular historical fiction series includes more than two thousand cross-referenced terms, diagrams, maps, and accompanying short essays. Original. 25,000 first printing. [via]
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- A Sea of Words: ISBN 0805038167 (0-8050-3816-7)
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Softcover, Henry Holt & Co - A Sea of Words: ISBN 0805038124 (0-8050-3812-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - Sea of Words: ISBN 0805051155 (0-8050-5115-5)
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The Secret History : A Novelby Donna TarttISBN 0804111359 (0-8041-1135-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret History : A Novel'Book summary:Truly deserving of the accolade "Modern Classic", Donna Tartt's novel "The Secret History" is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and for ever. "It takes my breath away". (Ruth Rendell). "Enthralling ...image the plot of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment crossed with the story of Euripides' "Bacchae" set against the backdrop of Bret Easton Ellis' "The Rules of Attraction"...forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled...ferociously well-paced...remarkably powerful". ("The New York Times"). Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and educated at the University of Mississippi and Bennington College. She is a novelist, essayist, and critic and author of "The Little Friend". "The Secret History" has been translated into twenty-four languages. [via]
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A Six-Letter Word for Deathby Patricia MoyesISBN 0805002448 (0-8050-0244-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Smackby Melvin BurgessISBN 080505801X (0-8050-5801-X)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smack'Book summary:Like so many teenagers, Tar and Gemma are fed up with their parents. Tar's family is alcoholic and abusive, and Gemma feels her home life is cramped by too many restrictions. The young, British couple runs away to Bristol in search of freedom, and finds it in the form of a "squat." This vacant building is also occupied by two slightly older teens who share everything with Tar and Gemma (including their heroin habits). For a while, everything is parties and adventures, but slowly Tar and Gemma find themselves growing more and more dependent on the drug--whose strict mandates are even less forgiving than those of the parents they fled. As Gemma says, "You take more and more, and more often. Then you get sick of it and give up for a few days. And that's the really nasty thing because then, when you're clean, that's when it works so well."
With Smack, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for Fiction, Melvin Burgess brilliantly sketches a gradual descent into drug addiction. There is no preaching here, just the artful revelation of cold, hard facts. Burgess's use of the first-person voice--for not only the main characters but those in the background as well--brings you into the mind of every character in this homeless, hooked culture, offering a (sometimes terrible) glimpse of the motivations and transitions of each person. (Tar's personality changes dramatically over the course of the book, from sweet-natured, lonely boy to hard-edged, hit-seeking addict.) More subtle and less graphic than Beauty Queen, Linda Glovach's tale of a girl's downward spiral into heroin addiction, Smack will linger in the your mind long after its haunting conclusion has been reached. (Ages 13 and older) --Brangien Davis [via]
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Spiesby Michael FraynISBN 0805070583 (0-8050-7058-3)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Sweet Smell of Psychosisby Will Self, Martin RowsonISBN 0802136478 (0-8021-3647-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sweet Smell of Psychosis'Book summary:The Sweet Smell of Psychosis (very loosely based on Alexander Mackendrick's searing '50s movie Sweet Smell of Success) is the kind of mordant fable that Will Self could toss off in his sleep. But although it doesn't stretch Self's considerable talents, it is still a wonderfully poisonous entertainment.
Richard Hermes is a tiny cog in the London media machine, a hack whose only distinction is a tenuous position at the edge of the most powerful clique in town. At its heart is the loathsome Bell, a sort of malevolent anti-Oprah whose media omnipresence has given him enormous power.
...one of Bell's most sycophantic acolytes had established--through certain arcane statistical computations--that there must, logically, be at least two hundred thousand people in Britain who did nothing else but listen to Bell's voice, watch Bell's face, or read his words, for every waking hour of their lives.
Richard is drawn deeper into Bell's web in pursuit of the gorgeous Ursula Bentley, but he can't keep up with the clique's colossal appetite for controlled substances. He soon begins to slide into drug-addled madness, and Self once again demonstrates his uncanny ability to render altered states in perfectly crafted prose. In fact, much of the pleasure that The Sweet Smell of Psychosis has to offer comes not from the story of Richard's inevitable fall, but from Self's deft and playful way with words. Few writers in English are able to use such beautiful language to describe the most revolting things. Whether he's writing about an excruciating hangover or Bell's naked body ("each pap sporting a twistle of black, black hair",) Self's decadent language begs to be savored, even read out loud. Martin Rowson, the Hogarth to Self's Swift, provides some remarkable illustrations to accompany the text. Rowson's work (most recently showcased in his comic-book version of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman) is grim and shadowy, but filled with detail and twisted humor. Together, he and Self have created an elegant billet-aigre to London's dark underbelly, a cautionary tale that takes pleasure in its own unpleasantness. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of The Sweet Smell of Psychosis:
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Taran Wandererby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 0805061347 (0-8050-6134-7)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Taran Wanderer'Book summary:The fourth book of the Prydain cycle tells of the adventures that befell Taran when he went in search of his birthright and the truth about himself. [via]
Temples of Delightby Barbara TrapidoISBN 0802133223 (0-8021-3322-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Tono-bungayby H. G. WellsISBN 0803297017 (0-8032-9701-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tono-bungay'Book summary:Tono-Bungay (1909), the bridge between H.G. Wells 's comic novels and his novels of ideas, was regarded by Wells himself as perhaps his most ambitious work of fiction. It was, he said, "the novel as I imagined it, on Dickens-Thackeray lines." The hero-narrator, George Ponderevo, begins life in the servants' hall of a great house, Bladesover, earns a pharmaceutical society scholarship, and is apprenticed to his uncle Edward Ponderevo, a druggist in a small country town. Uncle Teddy concocts a patent medicine, Tono-Bungay ("The Secret of Vigour"), and together they build the colossal Tono-Bungay property "out of human hope and a credit for bottles and printing." The meteoric career of Uncle Teddy, Napoleon of commerce and precursor of twentieth-century hucksters, is narrated against the background of his nephew's life.[via] 
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boysby Will SelfISBN 0802137024 (0-8021-3702-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0804900124 (0-8049-0012-4)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. [via]
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Twice in a Blue Moonby Patricia MoyesISBN 0805029486 (0-8050-2948-6)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Twisted Rootby Anne PerryISBN 0804119368 (0-8041-1936-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Under the Frog: A Novelby Tibor FischerISBN 0805052453 (0-8050-5245-3)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Frog: A Novel'Book summary:Shortlisted for the Booker Prize[via]
Tibor Fischer's brilliant and hilarious first novel follows the fortunes and picaresque adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956.More editions of Under the Frog: A Novel:
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The Way Through the Woodsby Colin DexterISBN 0804111421 (0-8041-1142-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way Through the Woods'Book summary:"Cunning...Your imagination will be frenetically flapping its wings until the very last chapter."
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Morse is enjoying a rare if unsatisfying holiday in Dorset when the first letter appears in THE TIMES. A year before, a stunning Swedish student disappeared from Oxfordshire, leaving behind a rucksack with her identification. As the lady was dishy, young, and traveling alone, the Thames Valley Police suspected foul play. But without a body, and with precious few clues, the investigation ground to a halt. Now it seems that someone who can hold back no longer is composing clue-laden poetry that begins an enthusiastic correspondence among England's news-reading public. Not one to be left behind, Morse writes a letter of his own--and follows a twisting path through the Wytham Woods that leads to a most shocking murder. [via]More editions of The Way Through the Woods:
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Weighed in the Balanceby Anne PerryISBN 0804115621 (0-8041-1562-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Weighed in the Balance'Book summary:Set in the mid-1800s, this mystery brings the passionate and exotic aristocrats of a tiny German kingdom into contact with Victorian England, in particular with William Monk, the darkly romantic hero of Anne Perry's historical series. Countess Zorah Rostova first approaches Sir Oliver Rathbone with a story of murder, accusing the woman for whom an exiled prince has renounced his crown of killing him. Rathbone hires Monk to investigate, and both men are bewitched by the alluring women in the prince's court-in-exile. In pursuit of the truth, Monk follows a trail from England to Venice and then to the kingdom of Felzburg, a journey that teaches him much about the political intrigue in central Europe during those turbulent times. [via]
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Westward Hoby Charles KingsleyISBN 0804901848 (0-8049-0184-8)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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