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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0553212524 (0-553-21252-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive. So begins not only one of the great adventure classics by Jules Verne, the 'Father of Science Fiction', but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole. [via]
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 0553214500 (0-553-21450-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. [via]
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The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems With Annotations Lexical, Syntactic, Prosodic, and Referentialby John Milton, Burton Raffel, Raffel BurtonISBN 0553581104 (0-553-58110-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems With Annotations Lexical, Syntactic, Prosodic, and Referential'Book summary:Affordable, compact, and authoritative, this one-volume edition of The Annotated Milton encompasses the monumental sweep of John Miltons poetry. Here are Milton s early works, including his first great poem, On the Morning of Christs Nativity, the light and lyrical LAllegro and Il Penseroso, the masque Comus, and the lushly beautiful pastoral elegy Lycidas. Here, too, included in their entirety, are the three epic poems considered to be among the finest works in the English language: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
Fully annotated by Burton Raffel, this distinguished edition clarifies the complex allusions of Miltons verse and references the personal, religious, historical, and mythical influences that inspired the great blind poet of England, who ranks among the undisputed giants of world literature. [via]More editions of The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems With Annotations Lexical, Syntactic, Prosodic, and Referential:
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Beowulf and Other Old English Poemsby Constance R. HieattISBN 0553213474 (0-553-21347-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf and Other Old English Poems'Book summary:Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of the hero Beowulf, the loathsome man-eater Grendel, his vengeful water-hag mother, and a treasure-hoarding dragon. The earliest surviving epic poem in any modern European language. Beowulf is a stirring portrait of a heroic worldsomber, vast, and magnificent. [via]
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Black Mothby Georgette HeyerISBN 0553245910 (0-553-24591-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Brief History of Timeby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0553380168 (0-553-38016-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brief History of Time'Book summary:Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God." --Therese Littleton [via]
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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holesby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0553346148 (0-553-34614-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes'Book summary:Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God." --Therese Littleton [via]
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Brief History of Time/International Edby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0553173251 (0-553-17325-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brief History of Time/International Ed'Book summary:Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God." --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Cat Who Came in from the Coldby Deric LongdenISBN 0553089633 (0-553-08963-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Cavalier Caseby Antonia FraserISBN 0553295446 (0-553-29544-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Chief Inspector's Daughterby Sheila RadleyISBN 0553269429 (0-553-26942-9)
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A Cold Treacheryby Charles ToddISBN 0553586610 (0-553-58661-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Cold Treachery'Book summary:Integral to most crime tales is the unearthing of concealed and unfavorable facts about suspected malefactors. But the mother-son duo who write under the nom de plume "Charles Todd" are particularly adept, in their historical novels featuring Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, at exploiting painful secrets as tools in developing both character and plot. It's rare, in a Todd tale, that even the innocent should escape unscathed. The authors demonstrate their skills once more in A Cold Treachery, which sends the shell-shocked and lonely Rutledge to probe the winter massacre of a sheep-farming family in northern England, at the same time as he searches for the missing and only witness to that chilling savagery.
"It was beyond comprehension," we're told of the December 1919 violence, near the rustic Lake District town of Urskdale, that left Gerald and Grace Elcott and three of their progeny shot to death. A fourth child, 10-year-old Josh Robinson, is nowhere to be found. He's thought to have fled from the scene, only to have perished in a recent blizzard. Coming off the grim proceedings recalled in A Fearsome Doubt, Rutledge--shackled as always to the nattering ghost of Hamish MacLeod, a Scotsman he'd ordered executed on a World War I battlefield--must determine whether the murderer was a passing stranger, or a local who'd previously concealed his or her aptitude for barbarity--and might kill again. Gerald Elcott's less-successful brother, Paul, has ample motive (hes next in line to inherit their clan's farm), as does Grace's sister, Janet Ashton, who just happens to arrive in Urskdale with a gun in hand (supposedly to protect her sibling from Paul's anger). Yet there's another, more frightening possibility--that Josh, Gerald's stepson, upset by the breakup of his parents, committed these atrocities. Desperate for clues, and with his impatient superior threatening to replace him on this case, Rutledge still can't claim to know who, or what, was behind the carnage.
After their disappointing standalone, The Murder Stone, it's a relief to see the Todd pair return to the "gloomy, defeated and exhausted" postwar England of Ian Rutledge, where no end of dire dramas appear to lurk. Like its half-dozen predecessors, stretching back to A Test of Wills, A Cold Treachery satisfies with its copious period details, characters traumatized by fate and failures, and a bedeviled young protagonist who must solve other people's problems before his own. And even as Hamish seems here to slip further into the background, there's finally the prospect of Rutledge finding companionship of a more corporeal sort. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
Collected Longer Poemsby W. H. AudenISBN 0571083889 (0-571-08388-9)
Hardcover, Faber
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Cool Repentanceby Antonia FraserISBN 0553280724 (0-553-28072-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Corinthianby Georgette HeyerISBN 0553233084 (0-553-23308-4)
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The Cruel Seaby Nicholas MonsarratISBN 0553271288 (0-553-27128-8)
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Death and the Pregnant Virginby S.T. HaymonISBN 0553185136 (0-553-18513-6)
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Death of a Gluttonby M. C. BeatonISBN 0553409727 (0-553-40972-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Glutton'Book summary:Maria Worth has come to hate her partner, Peta Gore, who has become the bane of her otherwise successful business life. When Peta turns up at a gathering in a remote village, everyone bands together in mutual loathing - but does someone hate her enough to kill her? Hamish Macbeth investigates. [via]
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Death of a Godby S. T. HaymonISBN 0553272667 (0-553-27266-7)
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Death of a Pranksterby M. C. BeatonISBN 0553409697 (0-553-40969-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Delia Collection: Bakingby Delia SmithISBN 0563487364 (0-563-48736-4)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Delia Smith's Christmasby Delia SmithISBN 0563370645 (0-563-37064-5)
Softcover, Bbc Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Delia Smith's Christmas'Book summary:[via]This collection of Christmas recipes from Delia Smith includes five different Christmas cakes, a complete vegetarian menu, recipes for gifts such as chocolate truffles, and many traditional favorites. There are also ideas for festive occasions from drinks parties to dinner parties, with dishes such as Roast Goose with Potato, Sage and Apple Stuffing, Caramelized Orange Trifle, and a Terrine with Four Cheeses.More editions of Delia Smith's Christmas:
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Delia Smith's Christmas: 130 Recipes for Christmasby Delia SmithISBN 0563360488 (0-563-36048-8)
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Delia's How to Cook: Book 2by Delia SmithISBN 056338431X (0-563-38431-X)
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Dickens :Public Life and Private Passion: Public Life and Private Passionby Peter AckroydISBN 0563534737 (0-563-53473-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dickens :Public Life and Private Passion: Public Life and Private Passion'Book summary:In this remarkable new biography, Peter Ackroyd offers a different view of Dickens to that presented in his earlier study of the author. In that book, Ackroyd's attempts to mimic the voice of the great writer were highly controversial, though some saw the book as a radical re-invention of the biography form. There is no arguing with the brilliant achievement of the more straightforward Charles Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion, however; the picture of Dickens and his complicated private life that emerges is fastidiously detailed and powerfully evocative, while Ackroyd's customary skill at creating a panoply of the city of London is as dazzling as ever (London, is, in fact, the subject of another biography by the author, who is unquestionably the keenest chronicler of the city's colourful history). Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was outwardly a picture of Victorian rectitude, but whose love life was as complicated (and unconventional) as any modern writer. Dickens had everything--fame, success and riches--but he died harbouring a deep sadness he had experienced all his life. He was a man of mercurial character, had enormous vitality and humour, but he also had a sense of loss and longing that would constantly appear in his work. Like many eminent Victorians, he led a double life: although he insisted that nothing in the newspapers he edited should upset his middle-class readers, he regularly indulged in dubious night-time escapades with fellow author Wilkie Collins, and, for the last 13 years of his life, kept a secret mistress.
While presenting a warm but astringent portrait of the man who (along with George Eliot) can be classed as the greatest writer of his age, Ackroyd also masterfully recreates the relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, a strong and intelligent woman (herself the subject of a biography by Claire Tomalin, The Inviisble Woman who, like her lover, outwardly observed the proprieties while living her real life behind closed doors. Ackroyd also vividly conjures the reality of Victorian life, the issues that sparked Dickens' fervent call for social reform, and the great landmarks of the time, which profoundly affected his life and work. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Doomsday Bookby Connie WillisISBN 0553562738 (0-553-56273-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doomsday Book'Book summary:Connie Willis labored five years on this story of a history student in 2048 who is transported to an English village in the 14th century. The student arrives mistakenly on the eve of the onset of the Black Plague. Her dealings with a family of "contemps" in 1348 and with her historian cohorts lead to complications as the book unfolds into a surprisingly dark, deep conclusion. The book, which won Hugo and Nebula Awards, draws upon Willis' understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit. [via]
Down the Garden Pathby Dorothy CannellISBN 0553268953 (0-553-26895-3)
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The Far Pavilionsby M. M. KayeISBN 0553277359 (0-553-27735-9)
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Faro's Daughterby Georgette HeyerISBN 0553234447 (0-553-23444-7)
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Gathering Stormby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 0553132717 (0-553-13271-7)
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A Gentleman's Game: A Queen & Country Novelby Greg RuckaISBN 0553584928 (0-553-58492-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Gentleman's Game: A Queen & Country Novel'Book summary:Tara Chace may be the most dangerous woman alive. She can seduce you into believing shes the woman of your dreamsor kill you with the icy efficiency of an executioner. As the new head of Special Operations for British Intelligence, she no longer has to court death in the fieldshe wants to.
Throw away the old rules, the old school, the old-boy network. The world of international espionage is about to learn the hard way that spying is no longer merely&
A GENTLEMANS GAME
Greg Ruckas electrifying thrillers have pushed the boundaries of suspense fiction to where few have dared to go. Now, in A Gentlemans Game, one of the genres most fearless writers brings readers of international espionage his most
fearless heroine yet: a no-holds-barred woman whos as lethal as an assassins bullet.
When an unthinkable act of terror devastates London, nothing will stop Tara Chace from hunting down those responsible. Her job is simple: stop the terrorists before they strike a second time. To succeed, shell do anything and everything it takes. Shell have to kill again.
Only this time the personal stakes will be higher than ever before. For the terrorist counterstrike will require that Tara allow herself to be used as bait by the government she serves. This time shes turning her very life into a weapon that can be used only once. But as she and her former mentor race toward destiny at a remote terrorist training camp in Saudi Arabia, Tara begins to question just whos pulling the triggerand whos the real enemy. In this new kind of war, betrayal can take any form...including ones duty to queen and country.
Based on the graphic novel series that won the coveted Eisner Award, A Gentlemans Game is an electrifyingly realistic, headline-stealing thriller with an unforgettable protagonistone who redefines every rule she doesnt shatter. [via]More editions of A Gentleman's Game: A Queen & Country Novel:
The Golden Ball and Other Storiesby Agatha ChristieISBN 055335065X (0-553-35065-X)
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Henry VI. Part 1by William ShakespeareISBN 0553212931 (0-553-21293-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry IV. Part 1: Part 1'Book summary:Written between 1596 and 1597, Henry IV Part One represents Shakespeare's increasingly mature talent in staging the history of the early Tudor monarchy. Midway in the cycle of Shakespeare's History Plays, which begin with Richard II and ultimately culminate in his last play, Henry VIII, Henry IV Part One tells the story of the troubled reign of Henry IV following his deposition of Richard II. The historical action revolves around the attempt by Henry Percy (known as Hotspur) to overthrow Henry at the Battle of Shrewsbury. However, over half the play deals with the transformation of Henry's profligate son, Prince Hal (the future King Henry V), from tavern joker to national icon.
The whole play is stolen from its kings and princes by Shakespeare's greatest comic creation, the "fat-kidneyed rascal" Sir John Falstaff, king of his own dominions--the taverns and brothels of London's Eastcheap district. The tavern scenes of the play are some of the most evocative accounts of 16th-century popular London life. They revolve around the comical but ultimately sinister relationship between Falstaff and his young apprentice Hal, who learns to "so offend to make offence a skill" as he learns the slippery ropes of realpolitik and kingship. The play is considered by many to be the liveliest and most profound of Shakespeare's History Plays, and remains one of its most popular examples. --Jerry Brotton [via]
Hinge of Fate: The Second World Warby Winston S. ChurchillISBN 0553132741 (0-553-13274-1)
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History of British Artby Andrew Graham-DixonISBN 0563370440 (0-563-37044-0)
Softcover, Bbc Pubns
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I, Richardby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 055338242X (0-553-38242-X)
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The Illustrated a Brief History of Timeby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0553103741 (0-553-10374-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated a Brief History of Time'Book summary:In the years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has established itself as a landmark volume in scientific
writing. It has also become an international publishing phenomenon, translated into forty languages and selling over nine million copies.The book was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe, but since then there have been extraordinary advances in the
technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions
in the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and revealed the wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected.Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these many observations, as well as his most recent research, for this revised and expanded edition Hawking has prepared a new introduction to the book, revised and updated the original chapters throughout, and written an entirely new chapter on the fascinating subject of wormholes and time travel.
In addition, to heighten understanding of complex concepts that readers may have found difficult to grasp despite the clarity and wit of Hawking's writing, this edition is magnificently enhanced throughout with more than 240 full-color illustrations, including satellite images, photographs made possible by spectacular new technological advances such as the Hubble telescope, and computer- generated images of three- and four-dimensional realities. Detailed captions clarify these illustrations, enabling readers to experience the vastness of intergalactic space, the nature of black holes, and the microcosmic world of
particle physics in which matter and antimatter collide.A classic work that now brings to the reader the latest understanding of cosmology, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time is the story of the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space. [via]
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In Search of the Dark Agesby Michael WoodISBN 0563534311 (0-563-53431-1)
Softcover, Bbc Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of the Dark Ages'Book summary:Accompanying the TV series of the same name, this is Michael Wood's account of what happened in Europe, and especially Britain, during the dark ages: Saxons, Vikings, Boudicea, Offa and Arthur are all covered. [via]
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The King Must Dieby Mary RenaultISBN 0553260650 (0-553-26065-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The King Must Die'Book summary:The story of the mythical hero Theseus, slayer of monsters, abductor of princesses and king of Athens. He emerges from these pages as a clearly defined personality; brave, aggressive and quick. The core of the story is Theseus' Cretan adventure.
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Knowledge of Angelsby Jill Paton WalshISBN 0553374753 (0-553-37475-3)
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Last Seen Aliveby Dorothy SimpsonISBN 0553277731 (0-553-27773-1)
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Last Seen Wearing : An Inspector Morse Mysteryby Colin DexterISBN 0553280031 (0-553-28003-1)
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A Letter of Maryby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553577808 (0-553-57780-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Letter of Mary'Book summary:Sherlock Holmes and his scholarly companion Mary Russell are caught up in an exciting mystery when an archaeologist leaves them with a treasured find, a papyrus supposedly written by Mary Magdalene. When the archaeoligist winds up dead and someone attempts to make off with the artifact, Holmes and Russel become embroiled in a rollicking story filled with political intrigue and highbrow sleuthing. The level of writing hasn't been higher in this Laurie King series. [via]
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The Lost Girlby D. H. Lawrence, Jeffrey MeyersISBN 0553214489 (0-553-21448-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Girl'Book summary:Under-appreciated until now, The Lost Girl is perhaps D.H. Lawrence's most beautiful, thoroughly contemporary, love story. This captivating novel charts the journey of a woman caught between two worlds and two lives-one mired in dreary, industrial England and a life of convention, the other set in the vibrant Italian landscape holding the promise of sensual liberation. Alvina Houghton is fading into spinsterhood when she meets Naples-born Cicio, a vaudeville dancer who draws her into a dance of seduction, reawakening her desire as she defies her stifling upper-class life. [via]
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The Mask of Apolloby Mary RenaultISBN 0553242806 (0-553-24280-6)
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The Moorby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553579525 (0-553-57952-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moor'Book summary:Longtime fans of Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, might think that their favorite sleuth met his fate at the hands of Dr. Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Anyone who believes that, however, obviously hasn't read Laurie R. King's delightful series featuring Holmes and his wife(!), Mary Russell. In The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Holmes succumbs to the Oxford scholar's charms; now, in The Moor, fourth in the series, Holmes and Russell are summoned to Devonshire to solve a tin miner's mysterious death. Lonely Dartmoor provides plenty of opportunities for King to both relate the haunting legends of that part of the world and offer some amusing revisions to one of Holmes's most famous cases, The Hound of the Baskervilles. Though Holmes purists might resent the liberties taken with their hero, readers in search of a strong female protagonist, some fascinating local history, and spooky ambience will enjoy The Moor. [via]
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A Most Contagious Gameby Catherine AirdISBN 0553240838 (0-553-24083-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Mum's The Wordby Dorothy CannellISBN 0553286862 (0-553-28686-2)
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Murder in Outlineby Anne MoriceISBN 0553256475 (0-553-25647-5)
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Murder on a Mystery Tourby Marian BabsonISBN 0553277235 (0-553-27723-5)
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Murder Post-Datedby Anne MoriceISBN 0553256521 (0-553-25652-1)
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My Lord Johnby Georgette HeyerISBN 0553248758 (0-553-24875-8)
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Neuroticaby Sue MargolisISBN 0553581066 (0-553-58106-6)
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A Night to Rememberby Walter LordISBN 0553278274 (0-553-27827-4)
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The Occasions of Poetryby Clive Wilmer, Thom GunnISBN 0571117333 (0-571-11733-3)
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One Across, Two Downby Ruth RendellISBN 055325975X (0-553-25975-X)
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Passing Strangeby Catherine AirdISBN 055324079X (0-553-24079-X)
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The Philosophy of Modern Artby Herbert ReadISBN 0571065066 (0-571-06506-6)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0553212540 (0-553-21254-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Powder and Patchby Georgette HeyerISBN 0553235796 (0-553-23579-6)
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The Praise Singerby Mary RenaultISBN 0553244000 (0-553-24400-0)
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The Raj at Table: A Culinary History of the British in Indiaby David BurtonISBN 0571143903 (0-571-14390-3)
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Reel Murderby Marian BabsonISBN 0553273612 (0-553-27361-2)
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The Riddle of the Third Mileby Colin DexterISBN 0553273639 (0-553-27363-9)
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Salomeby Oscar Wilde, Aubrey BeardsleyISBN 0571143504 (0-571-14350-4)
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Selected Essaysby T. S. EliotISBN 0571047920 (0-571-04792-0)
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Separate Peaceby John KnowlesISBN 055323224X (0-553-23224-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Separate Peace'Book summary:Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happened between them at school one summer during the early years of World War II is the subject of A Separate Peace. A great bestseller for over thirty years--one of the most starkly moving parables ever written of the dark forces that brood over the tortured world of adolescence. [via]
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Seventy-Seven Clocksby Christopher FowlerISBN 0553587153 (0-553-58715-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seventy-Seven Clocks'Book summary:The odd couple of detectionthe brilliant but cranky detectives of Londons Peculiar Crimes Unitreturn in a tense, atmospheric new thriller that keeps you guessing until the final page. This time Bryant and May are up against a series of bizarre murders that defy human understandingand a killer no human hand may be able to stop.
A mysterious stranger in outlandish Edwardian garb defaces a painting in the National Gallery. Then a guest at the exclusive Savoy Hotel is fatally bitten by what appears to be a marshland snake. An outbreak of increasingly bizarre crimes has hit Londonand, fittingly, come to the attention of the Peculiar Crimes Unit.
Art vandalism, an exploding suspect, pornography, rat poison, Gilbert and Sullivan musicals, secret societies&and not a single suspect in sight. The killer theyre chasing has a dark history, a habit of staying hidden, and time itself on his side. Detectives John May and Arthur Bryant may have finally met their match, and this time theyre really working against the clock&. [via]More editions of Seventy-Seven Clocks:
Shake Hands Foreverby Ruth RendellISBN 0553259709 (0-553-25970-9)
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The Singing Detectiveby Dennis PotterISBN 0571145906 (0-571-14590-6)
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Six Feet Underby Dorothy SimpsonISBN 0553251929 (0-553-25192-9)
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A Small Town in Germanyby John Le CarreISBN 0553286196 (0-553-28619-6)
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The Tailor of Gloucesterby Beatrix Potter, Allen AtkinsonISBN 0553152203 (0-553-15220-3)
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The Tale of Benjamin Bunnyby Beatrix Potter, Allen AtkinsonISBN 0553152033 (0-553-15203-3)
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The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duckby Beatrix PotterISBN 0553152513 (0-553-15251-3)
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The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisherby Beatrix PotterISBN 0553152211 (0-553-15221-1)
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Tale of Mrs Tiggy Winkleby Beatrix Potter, Allen AtkinsonISBN 0553152041 (0-553-15204-1)
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Tale of Squirrel Nutkinby Beatrix Potter, Allen AtkinsonISBN 055315205X (0-553-15205-X)
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The Tale of Two Bad Miceby Beatrix PotterISBN 055315219X (0-553-15219-X)
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The Thin Womanby Dorothy CannellISBN 0553291955 (0-553-29195-5)
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The Third Manby Graham Greene, Carol ReedISBN 0571126340 (0-571-12634-0)
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A Traveller in Timeby Alison UttleyISBN 0571061826 (0-571-06182-6)
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Troilus and Cressidaby William ShakespeareISBN 0563200049 (0-563-20004-9)
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The Under Dog and Other Storiesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0553350706 (0-553-35070-6)
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Wake the Deadby Dorothy SimpsonISBN 0553562525 (0-553-56252-5)
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The Widows Clubby Dorothy CannellISBN 0553277944 (0-553-27794-4)
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The Wild Islandby Antonia FraserISBN 0553293249 (0-553-29324-9)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writingsby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 055321375X (0-553-21375-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings'Book summary:Known primarily for her classic and haunting story "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an enormously influential American feminist and sociologist. Her early-twentieth-century writings continue to inspire writers and activists today. This collection includes selections from both her fiction and nonfiction work.
In addition to the title story, there are seven short stories collected here that combine humor, anger, and startling vision to suggest how women's "place" in society should be changed to benefit all. The nonfiction selections are from Gilman's The Man-Made World: Our Androcentric Culture and her masterpiece, Women And Economics, which was translated into seven languages and established her international reputation as a theorist.
Also included in a delightful excerpt from Gilman's utopian novel, Herland, an acidly funny tale about three American male explorers who stumble into an all-female society and begin their odyssey by insisting, "This is a civilized country . . . there must be men." Gilman's analyses of economic and women's issues are as incisive and relevant today as they were upon their original publication. This volume is an unprecedented opportunity to rediscover a powerful American writer. [via]More editions of The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings:
Your Royal Hostageby Antonia FraserISBN 0553280198 (0-553-28019-8)
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