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Abandon : A Romanceby Pico IyerISBN 037541505X (0-375-41505-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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An Affair to Remember: The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracyby Christopher P. AndersenISBN 0380731584 (0-380-73158-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Ain't Gonna Be the Same Fool Twiceby April SinclairISBN 0380727943 (0-380-72794-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Basin and Rangeby John A. McPheeISBN 0374516901 (0-374-51690-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Basin and Range'Book summary:One of the most valuable tools for the advancement of geological science has in fact been the humble road cut. United States Interstate 80 crosses the entire North American continent, in the process exposing hundreds of millions of years of geological history. In Basin and Range, McPhee, accompanied at times by Princeton geologist Kenneth S. Dreyfuss, demonstrates how the contorted and tilted rocks seen in these road cuts reveal how islands of the earth's crust have floated across the earth's surface, crashing and folding to form basin and range. This is a masterful and sometimes even poetic volume of popular writing about plate tectonics, communicating the profound satisfaction of using scientific research as a tool for understanding the world around us.
This is the first of four books on North American geology by McPhee, collectively entitled Annals of the Former World. The other volumes are In Suspect Terrain, Rising from the Plains, and Assembling California. [via]
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Beautiful Californiaby Dorothy KrellISBN 0376050322 (0-376-05032-2)
Hardcover, Lane Magazine & Book Co
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Because the Nightby James EllroyISBN 0380700638 (0-380-70063-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Blood On The Moonby James EllroyISBN 038069851X (0-380-69851-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood On The Moon'Book summary:Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can-t stand music, or any loud sounds. He-s got a beautiful wife, but he can-t get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He-s a thinking man-s cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent. Now, there-s something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of women committed over a period of twenty years. To solve the case, Hopkins will dump all the rules and risk his career to make the final link and get the killer. [via]
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The Bride of Johnny Mcallisterby Lori CopelandISBN 0380802481 (0-380-80248-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Brown's Requiemby James EllroyISBN 0380731770 (0-380-73177-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brown's Requiem'Book summary:Before he began to remap the geography of the crime novel and venture out into the darkest noir night of them all with L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, White Jazz, and American Tabloid, James Ellroy started his career with this powerful but basically straightforward book about Los Angeles private eye Fritz Brown. At first glance, the story of an investigation into a crooked golf tournament that opens up to include arson and murder could be just another work by any one of the dozens of good writers who have used Southern California as a metaphor for the decline and fall of civilization. But behind the terse prose, astute readers will soon begin to hear something else--the increasingly loud clamor of a cry of pain that will eventually become the barely manageable madness of Ellroy's later books. --Dick Adler [via]
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California Top 10 Garden GuideISBN 0376035293 (0-376-03529-3)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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The City of Falling Angelsby John BerendtISBN 0375435387 (0-375-43538-7)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City of Falling Angels'Book summary:Past Midnight: John Berendt on the Mysteries of Venice
Just as John Berendt's first book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, was settling into its remarkable four-year run on The New York Times bestseller list, he discovered a new city whose local mysteries and traditions were more than a match for Savannah, whose hothouse eccentricities he had celebrated in the first book. The new city was Venice, and he spent much of the last decade wandering through its canals and palazzos, seeking to understand a place that any native will tell you is easy to visit but hard to know. For travelers to Venice, whether by armchair or vaporetto, he has selected his 10 (actually 11) Books to Read on Venice. And he took the time to answer a few of our questions about his charming new book, The City of Falling Angels: Amazon.com: The lush, cloistered southern city of Savannah was the locale of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Venice, the setting for The City of Falling Angels, is vastly different. Was it the difference itself that drew you to Venice?
John Berendt: Savannah and Venice actually have quite a lot in common. Both are uniquely beautiful. Both are isolated geographically, culturally, and emotionally from the world outside. Venice sits in the middle of a lagoon; Savannah is surrounded by marshes, piney woods, and the ocean. Venetians think of themselves as Venetian first, Italian second; Savannahians rarely even venture forth as far as Atlanta or Charleston. So both cities offer a writer a rich context in which to set a story, and the stories provide readers a means of escape from their own environment into another world.
Amazon.com: I enjoyed your rather declarative author's note: that this is a work of nonfiction, and that you used everyone's real names. In your previous book you did use pseudonyms for some characters and you explained that you took a few small liberties in the service of the larger truth of the story. Why the change this time?
Berendt: When I wrote Midnight I thought I would do a few people the favor of changing their names for the sake of privacy. But when the book came out, several of the pseudonymous characters told me they wished I'd used their real names instead. So this time, no pseudonyms. As for the storytelling liberties I took in writing Midnight, they were minor and did not change the story, but my mention of it in the author's note caused some confusion, with the result that Midnight is sometimes referred to now as a novel, which it most certainly is not. Neither is The City of Falling Angels. In fact, I dispensed with the liberties this time and made it as close to the truth as I could get it.
Amazon.com: In The City of Falling Angels, a number of fascinating people serve as guides to the city, each with a different idea of the true nature of Venice. Who was your favorite?
Berendt: I don't have a favorite, but Count Girolamo Marcello is certainly a memorable, highly quotable commentator. "Everyone in Venice is acting," he told me. "Everyone plays a role, and the role changes. The key to understanding Venetians is rhythm, the rhythm of the lagoon, the water, the tides, the waves. It's like breathing. High water, high pressure: tense. Low water, low pressure: relaxed. The tide changes every six hours."
I nodded that I understood.
"How do you see a bridge?" he went on.
"Pardon me?" I asked, "A bridge?"
"Do you see a bridge as an obstacle--as just another set of steps to climb to get from one side of a canal to the other? We Venetians do not see bridges as obstacles. To us, bridges are transitions. We go over them very slowly. They are part of the rhythm. They are the links between two parts of a theater, like changes in scenery. Our role changes as we go over bridges. We cross from one reality ... to another reality. From one street ... to another street. From one setting ... to another setting."
Once I had absorbed that notion, Count Marcello continued: "Sunlight on a canal is reflected up through a window onto the ceiling, then from the ceiling onto a vase, and from the vase onto a glass. Which is the real sunlight? Which is the real reflection? What is true? What is not true? The answer is not so simple, because the truth can change. I can change. You can change. That is the Venice effect."
I was not terribly surprised when he later told me, "Venetians never tell the truth. We mean precisely the opposite of what we say."
Amazon.com: Now that you know Venice well enough to be a guide yourself, what would you say to a visitor looking for insight into the character of the city?
Berendt: Tourists generally shuffle along, on narrow streets so crowded as to be nearly impassable, between the major sights of St. Mark's Square, the Rialto Bridge, and the Accademia Museum. All you have to do is to step off these heavily traveled alleyways, and in a few moments you will find yourself in quiet, much emptier surroundings. This is more like the real Venice. Another thing to do is to go into the wine bars where Venetians stand around drinking and talking. They will very likely be speaking the Venetian dialect, so you won't be able to understand them, but you will get a sampling of the true Venetian ambiance enlivened by the pronounced sing-song rhythm of the language. I'd also suggest stopping someone in the street and asking for directions. Almost invariably, you will be rewarded with a genial smile and the instructions, Sempre diritto, meaning "Straight ahead." This will only leave you more confused, because when you attempt to follow a straight line, you will be confronted by more twists and turns and forks in the road than you thought possible, given the instructions. This is part of what Count Marcello described as "the Venice effect."
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Clandestineby James EllroyISBN 0380805294 (0-380-80529-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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A Cold Heartby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0375432051 (0-375-43205-1)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Connoisseurs' Handbook of the Wines of California and the Pacific Northwestby Norman Roby, Charles OlkenISBN 0375703292 (0-375-70329-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Control of Natureby John McPheeISBN 0374522596 (0-374-52259-6)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Control of Nature'Book summary:Master how-it-works writer John McPhee has instructed his readers in the arcana of how oranges are commercially graded, how mountains form, how canoes are built and oceans crossed. In The Control of Nature he turns his attention once more to geology and the human struggle against nature. In one sketch, he explores the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' unrealized plan to divert the flow of the Mississippi River into a tributary, the Atchafalaya, for flood control; in another, he looks at the ingenious ways in which an Icelandic engineer saved a southern harbor on that island from being destroyed by a lava flow; in a third, he examines a complex scheme to protect Los Angeles from boulders ejected from mountains by compression and tectonic movement. As always, McPhee combines a deep knowledge of his subject with a narrative approach that is wholly accessible; you may not have thought you were interested in earthquakes and flood control, but he gently leads you to take a passionate concern in such matters. [via]
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The Cottonmouth Clubby Lance MarcumISBN 0374315620 (0-374-31562-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Crossing to Safetyby Wallace Earle Stegner, Watkins, T. H. (AFT), Terry Tempest WilliamsISBN 037575931X (0-375-75931-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Dam!: Water, Power, Politics, And Preservation In Hetch Hetchy And Yosemite National Parkby John W. SimpsonISBN 0375422315 (0-375-42231-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Dear Irene, : An Irene Kelly Novelby Jan BurkeISBN 0380725568 (0-380-72556-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Demonsby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Joseph FrankISBN 0375411224 (0-375-41122-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Demons'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as The Possessed.
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a novel-pamphlet in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russiaa novel that is rivaled only by The Brothers Karamazov as Dostoevskys greatest. [via]More editions of Demons:
Doctor Deathby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0375430792 (0-375-43079-2)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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The Early Sunset Magazine, 1898-1928by Paul C. JohnsonISBN 0376081910 (0-376-08191-0)
Hardcover, California Historical Society
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El Pueblo Grande:Los Angeles from the Brush Huts of Yangna to the Skyscrapers of the Modern Megalopolis: Los Angeles from the Brush Huts of Yangna to the Skyscrapers of the Modern Megalopolisby John Downing WeaverISBN 0378023225 (0-378-02322-5)
Hardcover, Priv print
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Exploring Big Sur, Monterey, Carmel: Highway One Countryby Maxine Knox, Mary Dana RodriguezISBN 0378036823 (0-378-03682-3)
Hardcover, Ward Ritchie Press
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Flesh and Bloodby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0375431292 (0-375-43129-2)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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The Forgotten: A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus Novelby Faye KellermanISBN 0380730847 (0-380-73084-7)
Softcover, Avon Books
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From Tom Wolfe Purple Decades: 1960-1980by Thomas WolfeISBN 0374278393 (0-374-27839-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Ghost Towns of the Westby William Carter, Jack McDowellISBN 0376053127 (0-376-05312-7)
Hardcover, Lane Pub Co
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The Goodbye Lookby Ross MacDonaldISBN 0375708650 (0-375-70865-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Goodnight, Ireneby Jan BurkeISBN 0380722798 (0-380-72279-8)
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Guidebook to the Colorado Desert of Californiaby Choral PepperISBN 0378037625 (0-378-03762-5)
Hardcover, W. Ritchie Press
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The Happy Bottom Riding Club : The Life and Times of Pancho Barnesby Lauren KesslerISBN 037550124X (0-375-50124-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Heart of a Womanby Maya AngelouISBN 0375500723 (0-375-50072-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of a Woman'Book summary:Millions have read Maya Angelou's national bestseller The Heart of a Woman, and now you can hear her fascinating story in the author's own voice. Angelou exposes a turbulent period of her life as she struggles to raise a child, fulfill her goals as a writer, and fight for civil rights in an age of social injustice; Angelou's rich and resonating voice draws the listener into the unexpected details of her life. Working as a nightclub singer in Los Angeles, Angelou decides to move to New York with her son Guy in hopes of building stronger ties with the black art community. In an attempt to find stability for Guy and make a name for herself, her love life takes wild turns. Should she marry the bail bondsman who's as dry as stale bread or run away with the African freedom fighter? Her heart takes her to Africa, where her writing career blossoms but her marriage sours. The Heart of a Woman is filled with beautiful prose and songs; Angelou displays her music talent in several vignettes, most memorably in a scene with Billie Holiday: Angelou is performing at a nightclub when Holiday shrieks, "Stop her, stop her... she sounds like my mama!" [via]
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Heydayby Kurt AndersenISBN 0375504737 (0-375-50473-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Horse Heavenby Jane SmileyISBN 037540600X (0-375-40600-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Horse Heaven'Book summary:It takes a great deal of faith to gear a novel this horse-besotted to the general public. Horse love is one of those things either you get or you don't, and for the vast majority of the populace, horse stories tend to read like porn written for 13-year-old girls. The good news, then, is that while a love of all things equine is not a prerequisite for enjoying Jane Smiley's Horse Heaven, a love of human perversity is. Racing, after all, is at worst a dangerous, asset-devouring folly and at best an anachronism, as one of her horse trainers notes:
The Industry Leaders had made it their personal mission to bring horse racing to the attention of the general public, with the NFL as their model and television as their medium of choice, which was fine with Farley, though his own view was that horse racing out at the track, newspaper reading, still photography, placing bets in person, and writing thank-you notes by hand were all related activities, and football, ESPN, video, on-line betting, and not writing thank-you notes at all were another set of related activities.
A crucial piece of information for Smiley fans is that, among her many novels, Horse Heaven most resembles Moo. (And there's even a pig!) In fact, with these two books it appears that this versatile author has finally found a home in which to unpack her impressive gifts: that is, the sprawling, intricately plotted satirical novel. Her target in this case is not academia but horse racing--less commonly satirized but, here at least, just as fruitfully so. Wickedly knowing, dryly comic, the result is as much fun to read as it must have been to write.None of which means that Horse Heaven is a casual read. For starters, one practically needs a racing form to keep track of its characters, particularly when their stories begin to overlap and converge in increasingly unlikely and pleasing ways. Perhaps it says something about the novel that the easiest figures to follow are the horses themselves: loutish Epic Steam, the "monster" colt; the winsome filly Residual; supernaturally focused Limitless; and trembling little Froney's Sis. And that's not to forget Horse Heaven's single most prepossessing character, Justa Bob--a little swaybacked, a little ewe-necked, but possessed of a fine sense of humor and an abiding disdain for winning races by anything but a nose.
Then there are the humans, including but not limited to socialite Rosalind Maybrick, her husband Al (who manufactures "giant heavy metal objects" in "distant impoverished nationlike locations"), a Zen trainer, a crooked trainer, a rapper named Ho Ho Ice Chill, an animal psychic, and a futurist scholar, as well as attendant jockeys, grooms, and hangers-on. (Not to mention poor, ironically named Joy, a few years out of Moo U and still having problems relating.) It's a little frustrating to watch this cast come and go and fight for Smiley's attention; you glimpse them so vividly, and then they disappear for another hundred pages, and it breaks your heart.
But there are certainly worse problems a novel could have than characters to whom you grow overattached. A plot this convoluted would be one, if only it weren't so hard to stop reading. There are elements of magic realism, astounding coincidences, unabashed anthropomorphism. (At one point--while Justa Bob throws himself against his stall in sorrow at leaving his owner's tiny, wordless mother behind--this reviewer cried, "Shameless!" even as she began to tear up.) Improbably, it all works. Horse Heaven is a great, joyous, big-hearted entertainment, a stakes winner by any measure, and for both horse lovers and fans of Smiley's dry, character-based wit, a cause for celebration on par with winning the Triple Crown. --Mary Park [via]
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Hot Toddy: The True Story of Hollywood's Most Shocking Crime The Murder of Thelma Toddby Andy EdmondsISBN 038071132X (0-380-71132-X)
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The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translationby Dante Alighieri, Robert Pinsky, Nicole PinskyISBN 0374524521 (0-374-52452-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation'Book summary:The one quality that all classic works of literature share is their timelessness. Shakespeare still plays in Peoria 400 years after his death because the stories he dramatized resonate in modern readers' hearts and minds; methods of warfare have changed quite a bit since the Trojan War described by Homer in his Iliad, but the passions and conflicts that shaped such warriors as Achilles, Agamemnon, Patroclus, and Odysseus still find their counterparts today on battlefields from Bosnia to Afghanistan. Likewise, a little travel guide to hell written by the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri in the 13th century remains in print at the end of the 20th century, and it continues to speak to new generations of readers. There have been countless translations of the Inferno, but this one by poet Robert Pinsky is both eloquent and tailored to our times.
Yes, this is an epic poem, but don't let that put you off. An excellent introduction provides context for the work, while detailed notes on each canto are a virtual who's who of 13th-century Italian politics, culture, and literature. Best of all, Pinsky's brilliant translation communicates the horror, despair, and terror of hell with such immediacy, you can almost smell the sulfur and feel the heat from the rain of fire as Dante--led by his faithful guide Virgil--descends lower and lower into the pit. Dante's journey through Satan's kingdom must rate as one of the great fictional travel tales of all time, and Pinsky does it great justice. [via]
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The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translationby Robert Pinsky, Nicole Pinsky, Alighieri Dante, Michael MazurISBN 0374525315 (0-374-52531-5)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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Yes, this is an epic poem, but don't let that put you off. An excellent introduction provides context for the work, while detailed notes on each canto are a virtual who's who of 13th-century Italian politics, culture, and literature. Best of all, Pinsky's brilliant translation communicates the horror, despair, and terror of hell with such immediacy, you can almost smell the sulfur and feel the heat from the rain of fire as Dante--led by his faithful guide Virgil--descends lower and lower into the pit. Dante's journey through Satan's kingdom must rate as one of the great fictional travel tales of all time, and Pinsky does it great justice. [via]
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Island of the Sequined Love Nunby Christopher MooreISBN 0380792737 (0-380-79273-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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John Barleycornby Jack LondonISBN 0375757929 (0-375-75792-9)
Softcover, Modern Library
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Jupiter's Bonesby Faye KellermanISBN 0380730820 (0-380-73082-0)
Softcover, Avon Books
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Babyby Tom WolfeISBN 0374504687 (0-374-50468-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Katwalkby Karen KijewskiISBN 0380711877 (0-380-71187-7)
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A thirty-something California bartender-turned-P.I.--a curious lady with nine lives, nerves of iron. . .and a passion for justice.
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A murderer has struck home--and Kat Colorado is taking it personally. Her cousin Johnny has been found stabbed to death in he parking lot of the Homestead Cafe. And now Kat's on the prowl--trailing a killer through a dangerous world of shady real estate shenanigans and teenage hookers. And she's about to uncover a closetful of sordid family secrets almost certain to get an overly inquisitive Kat skinned.When Sam, the estranged, deadbeat husband of nationally known advice columnist Charity Collins, ran off to Vegas with $200,000 of their money, Charity turned to Kat Colortado for help. Now Sam's twisted trail of glitz and grime is leading the inquisitively lady P.I. through dangerous territory--and into a rats' nest of sleazy deals, heavy-hitting mobsters and contract killings. But Kat's got a job to do and she's not about to walkaway--even though prowling the low liife has put her at the top of a syndicate hit list. [via]
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Knopf CityMap Guide to San Franciscoby Knopf Guides StaffISBN 0375709843 (0-375-70984-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Knopf CityMap Guide to San Francisco'Book summary:This opening fold-out contains a general map of San Francisco to help you visualize the 8 large districts discussed in this guide, and 4 pages of valuable information, handy tips and useful addresses.
Discover San Francisco through 8 districts and 8 maps
Marina/ Fishermans Wharf/ Russian Hill
North Beach/ Financial District/ Chinatown
Embarcadero/ Union Square/ South of Market
Nob Hill/ Pacific Heights/ Civic Center
Haight Ashbury/ Castro/ The Mission
The Presidio/ Richmond/ Lincoln Park
For each district there is a double-page of addresses (restaurants listed in ascending order of price pubs, bars, music venues and stores) followed by a fold-out map for the relevant area with the essential places to see (indicated on the map by a star *). These places are by no means all that San Francisco has to offer but to us they are unmissable. The grid-referencing system (A B2) makes it easy for you to pinpoint addresses quickly on the map.
Transportation and hotels in San Francisco
The last fold-out consists of a transportation map and 4 pages of practical information that include a selection of hotels.
A thematic index lists all the sites and addresses featured in this guide. [via]More editions of Knopf CityMap Guide to San Francisco:
Love and Friendshipby Alison LurieISBN 0380719452 (0-380-71945-2)
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Lucky Manby Michael J. FoxISBN 0375431411 (0-375-43141-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucky Man'Book summary:The same sharp intelligence and self-deprecating wit that made Michael J. Fox a star in the Family Ties TV series and Back to the Future make this a lot punchier than the usual up-from-illness celebrity memoir. Yes, he begins with the first symptoms of Parkinson's disease, the incurable illness that led to his retirement from Spin City (and acting) in 2000. And yes, he assures us he is a better, happier person now than he was before he was diagnosed. In Fox's case, you actually might believe it, because he then cheerfully exposes the insecurities and self-indulgences of his pre-Parkinson's life in a manner that makes them not glamorous but wincingly ordinary and of course very funny. ("As for the question, 'Does it bother you that maybe she just wants to sleep with you because you're a celebrity?' My answer to that one was, 'Ah...nope.'") With a working-class Canadian background, Fox has an unusually detached perspective on the madness of mass-media fame; his description of the tabloid feeding frenzy surrounding his 1988 wedding to Tracy Pollan, for example, manages to be both acid and matter-of-fact. He is frank but not maudlin about his drinking problem, and he refreshingly notes that getting sober did not automatically solve all his other problems. This readable, witty autobiography reminds you why it was generally a pleasure to watch Fox onscreen: he's a nice guy with an edge, and you don't have to feel embarrassed about liking him. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Coveby Christopher MooreISBN 0380792745 (0-380-79274-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove'Book summary:Reading a Christopher Moore novel is a little like eating a potato chip--it's hard to stop at just one. And you don't have to look beyond the titles to understand the allure; who could pass up a book called Practical Demonkeeping or Island of the Sequined Love Nun? Each of Moore's tales skewers a particular literary genre. In Coyote Blue he nailed New Age fascination with Native American religion; in Blood-Sucking Fiends: A Love Story he put a new twist on the classic vampire tale. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove is a companion piece to his first novel, the hilariously twisted horror story Practical Demonkeeping, and readers of that book will recognize the setting, Pine Cove, California. In addition, Moore includes plenty of his patented weird sex, occasional gross-out death, several off-kilter but nonetheless affecting love stories, and some fabulous secondary characters such as Mavis Sand:
Mavis first began augmenting her parts in the fifties, first out of vanity: breasts, eyelashes, hair. Later, as she aged and the concept of maintenance eluded her, she began having parts replaced as they failed, until almost half of her body weight was composed of stainless steel (hips, elbows, shoulders, finger joints, rods fused to vertebrae five through twelve), silicon wafers (hearing aids, pacemaker, insulin pump), advanced polymer resins (cataract replacement lenses, dentures), Kevlar fabric (abdominal wall reinforcement), titanium (knees, ankles), and pork (ventricular heart valve).
In a nutshell, the plot revolves around a gigantic prehistoric lizard whose slumber deep beneath the ocean surface is interrupted by a radioactive leak from a nearby power plant. At the same time, a woman in Pine Cove hangs herself; the local psychiatrist (who has been prescribing antidepressants to everyone in town with gay abandon) decides the suicide was her fault and yanks everyone's medication; and an elderly black blues singer named Catfish Jefferson arrives to perform at the Head of the Slug saloon. Into this already strange brew mix one schizoid former B-movie starlet, a pot-head town constable, a bereaved local artist, a biologist tracking anomalous behavior in rats, a crooked sheriff, and a pharmacist with a bizarre sexual fixation on sea mammals, and you have a recipe for the kind of madness Moore does so well. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove:
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Lying Awakeby Mark SalzmanISBN 0375706062 (0-375-70606-2)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lying Awake'Book summary:In his third novel, Lying Awake, Mark Salzman breaks the primary rule of fiction by creating a protagonist who has virtually no external life. Sister John of the Cross, a middle-aged nun cloistered in a Carmelite monastery in contemporary Los Angeles, languished for years in a spiritual drought--"her prayers empty and her soul dry"--until she suddenly received God's grace in the form of intense mystical visions. So vivid have her visions become that they burn a kind of afterglow into her mind that she transcribes into crystalline (and highly popular) verse. The only downside is that they are accompanied by excruciating headaches that cause her to black out.
The story hinges on Sister John's discovery that her visions are in fact the result of mild epileptic seizures. As she learns from her neurologist, temporal-lobe epilepsy commonly brings about "hypergraphia (voluminous writing), an intensification but also a narrowing of emotional response, and an obsessive interest in religion and philosophy." Dostoyevsky, the classic victim of this condition, wrote of his raptures: "There are moments, and it is only a matter of five or six seconds, when you feel the presence of eternal harmony.... If this state were to last more than five seconds, the soul could not endure it and would have to disappear." An exact description of Sister John's visions. The question she now faces is whether to go ahead with surgery--and risk obliterating both her spiritual life and her art--or cling to a state of grace that may actually be a delusion ignited by an electrochemical imbalance.
Using a very limited palette, Mark Salzman creates an austere masterpiece. The real miracle of Lying Awake is that it works perfectly on every level: on the realistic surface, it captures the petty squabbles and tiny bursts of radiance of life in a Los Angeles monastery; deeper down it probes the nature of spiritual illumination and the meaning and purpose of prayer in everyday life; and, at bottom, there lurks a profound meditation on the mystery of artistic inspiration. Salzman made a highly auspicious debut in 1986 with Iron and Silk, a memoir of his years in China, and since then he has dramatically changed key in every book--most recently from the absurdist American suburban chronicle of Lost in Place to the artistic-crisis-cum-courtroom-drama novel The Soloist. Lying Awake is quieter and more sober than Salzman's previous narratives, but it is also more accomplished, more thought-provoking, and more highly crafted. --David Laskin [via]
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A Man in Full Pt. 1: A Novelby Tom WolfeISBN 0374270325 (0-374-27032-5)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Mendoza in Hollywoodby Kage BakerISBN 0380819007 (0-380-81900-7)
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Milk and Honeyby Faye KellermanISBN 0380732688 (0-380-73268-8)
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Miss Wyomingby Douglas CouplandISBN 0375707239 (0-375-70723-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miss Wyoming'Book summary:The eponymous heroine of Miss Wyoming is one Susan Colgate, a teen beauty queen and low-rent soap actress. Dragooned into show business by her demonically pushy, hillbilly mother, Susan has hit rock bottom by the time Douglas Coupland's seventh book begins. But when she finds herself the sole survivor of an airplane crash, this "low-grade onboard celebrity" takes the opportunity to start all over again:
She felt like a ghost. She tried to find her bodily remains there in the wreckage and was unable to do so.... Then she was lost in a crowd of local onlookers and trucks, parping sirens and ambulances. She picked her way out of the melee and found a newly paved suburban road that she followed away from the wreck into the folds of a housing development. She had survived, and now she needed sanctuary and silence.
She's not, of course, the only Hollywood burnout who'd like to vanish into thin air. Her opposite number, a producer of big-budget, no-brainer action flicks named John Johnson, stages a similar disappearing act. After a near-death experience, in the course of which he is treated to a vision of Susan's face, he roams the western badlands. And even after his return to L.A., Johnson is determined to unravel the mystery of this woman's fate.Throughout, Coupland displays his usual gift for capturing the absurdities of modern existence. The distinctive minutiae of our age--junk mail and fast food, sitcoms and Singapore slings, and the "shop fronts bigger and brighter and more powerful than they needed to be"--come to vivid, funny life in this author's hands. And while Susan and John occupy center stage, Coupland is just as generous with his peripheral characters. A scriptwriter and his supernaturally intelligent girlfriend, a recluse who spends his evening generating Internet rumours--all manage to be blessed and cursed, numbed by their pointless existences but full of humanity when put to the test. Picture Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut collaborating on a Tinseltown version of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and you come halfway to grasping Coupland's brand of thoughtful, supremely funny storytelling. --Matthew Baylis [via]
Monsterby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0375408681 (0-375-40868-1)
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The Moon by Nightby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374350493 (0-374-35049-3)
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My Last Movie Star : A Novel of Hollywoodby Martha SherrillISBN 0375759492 (0-375-75949-2)
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Nancy Silverton's Pastries from the LA Brea Bakeryby Nancy Silverton, Teri Gelber, LA Brea Bakery, Steven RothfeldISBN 0375501932 (0-375-50193-2)
Hardcover, Villard Books
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Nowhere Cityby Allison LurieISBN 0380700700 (0-380-70070-0)
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The Nudist on the Late Shift : And Other True Tales of Silicon Valleyby Po BronsonISBN 0375502777 (0-375-50277-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nudist on the Late Shift : And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley'Book summary:Perhaps more than anywhere else, Silicon Valley in the latter part of the 20th century has come to represent the essence of the American dream. Its economy has resembled the various rushes and booms of the 1800s. The Valley is a unique place in a unique time, where just about anyone with a good idea, an aptitude for hard work, and a boatload of luck has a chance to make it big--really big. In The Nudist on the Late Shift, Po Bronson intends to capture the spirit of the Valley, leading us through a series of vignettes that takes us from a "near brush with sudden wealth" to a $400 million buyout; from life on the edge with a group of Java programmers to the plight of a futurist writer with the looming deadline for a 9,000-word article. For Bronson, the appeal of the Valley is this:
Every generation that came before us had to make a choice in life between pursuing a steady career and pursuing wild adventures. In Silicon Valley, that trade-off has been recircuited. By injecting mind-boggling risk into the once stodgy domain of gray-suited business, young people no longer have to choose. It's a two-for-one deal: the career path has become an adventure into the unknown.
Like Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine, what makes Bronson's book work is a talent for narrative. He presents compelling stories about those who make it--for example, Ben Chiu (Killerapp.com, C/NET) and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail)--as well as those whom we'll never hear of again: the database salesman working on the "hockey stick" at the close of the quarter and the "kiss-ass entrepreneur" who's taken up COBOL programming to make ends meet. The Nudist on the Late Shift is for anyone who has wondered what life on the modern frontier is like--and for those who are already there, the reflection might be revealing. --Harry C. Edwards [via]More editions of The Nudist on the Late Shift : And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley:
The Pump House Gangby Tom WolfeISBN 0374238642 (0-374-23864-2)
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The Purple Decadesby Tom Wolfe, Joe David BellamyISBN 0374239282 (0-374-23928-2)
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The Purple Decades: A Readerby Tom WolfeISBN 0374239274 (0-374-23927-4)
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Rageby Jonathan KellermanISBN 037543481X (0-375-43481-X)
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The Ritual Bathby Faye KellermanISBN 0380732661 (0-380-73266-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ritual Bath'Book summary:Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.
The crime was called in by Rina Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to discover that she is a calm and intelligent witness. She is also the only one in the sheltered community willing to speak of this unspeakable violation. As Rina tries to steer Decker through the maze of religious laws the two grow closer. But before they get to the bottom of this horrendous crime, revelations come to light that are so shocking that they threaten to come between the hard-nosed cop and the deeply religious woman with whom he has become irrevocably linked.
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Sacred and Profaneby Faye KellermanISBN 038073267X (0-380-73267-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacred and Profane'Book summary:Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker had grown very close to Rina's young sons, Sammy and Jake, as he had to their mother, and he looked forward to spending a day of his vacation camping with the boys. A nice reprieve from the grueling work of a homicide cop-until Sammy stumbles upon a gruesome sight...
Two human skeletons, charred beyond recognition, are identified by a forensic dentist as teenage girls--and for Decker, the father of a sixteen-year-old daughter, vacation time is over. Throwing himself professionally and emotionally into the murder case, he launches a very personal investigation: a quest that pulls him deep into the crack dens of Hollywood Boulevard and painfully close to the children of the streets and a nightmare world he must make his own. [via]
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Safe Harbourby Danielle SteelISBN 0375728287 (0-375-72828-7)
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Seizure of Powerby Czeslaw MiloszISBN 0374257884 (0-374-25788-4)
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Serpent's Toothby Faye KellermanISBN 0380726254 (0-380-72625-4)
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Sky Coyoteby Kage BakerISBN 0380731800 (0-380-73180-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sky Coyote'Book summary:Kage Baker's first novel, In the Garden of Iden, was a smart, funny, top-drawer read. Fans will be happy to find out that Baker avoids a sophomore slump with Sky Coyote, the second novel of the Company, and another superbly witty and intelligent book. Baker switches focus in this sequel to Joseph, the immortal cyborg who rescued Iden's heroine, Mendoza, from the dungeons of the Spanish Inquisition. Joseph and Mendoza work for Dr. Zeus, otherwise known as the Company, a 24th-century operation devoted to getting rich off the past. To accomplish this, the Company turns orphans and refugees from the past into super-smart, nigh invincible cyborgs and sends them on missions to save or hide precious paintings, cultural treasures, and genetic information useful to the future world.
Sky Coyote begins in pre-Columbian Mexico, where Joseph and Mendoza are reunited at New World One, an extravagant Company retreat. When European explorers are scheduled to arrive in the New World, the Company dismantles operations, and Joseph is sent to California in 1699 to save a Chumash village lock, stock, and barrel, before Europeans arrive with smallpox and slavery. To prep the Native Americans for their voyage to a Company enclave in Australia, Joseph poses as Uncle Sky Coyote, a trickster-god of the Chumash, and tells them he's there to save them from certain doom at the hands of white men. But can Joseph convince the wary, savvy Chumash labor unions, lodges, and entrepreneurs that he has their best interests at heart, all without screwing up history? And will he patch things up with Mendoza, who still hasn't forgiven him for everything that happened in 1500s England? Kage Baker delivers a terrific story and a worthy sequel with Sky Coyote. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Snow Falling on Cedarsby David GuttersonISBN 037570437X (0-375-70437-X)
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Stalkerby Faye KellermanISBN 0380817691 (0-380-81769-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalker'Book summary:Faye Kellerman's latest thriller features Cynthia Decker, daughter of Peter Decker, familiar to readers of the author's previous novels featuring the L.A. detective and his Orthodox Jewish wife Rina Lazarus. In Kellerman's earlier books, we've met Cynthia briefly as a difficult adolescent upset by her parents' divorce and later as an Ivy League college student with an interest in following her overly protective father into the family business: solving crimes. Now Cynthia's a young L.A. cop who's the subject of what at first seems like innocent-enough teasing from her colleagues. They think she's snooty and standoffish and riding on her father's reputation. Actually, she's all of those things, which makes for a somewhat less than sympathetic heroine:
Beaudry said, "Every time we start shooting the bull, talking about the day, you say things like, 'Yeah, my father once had a case like that.'"
As the teasing escalates, Cindy's stalked, threatened, and finally frightened, although it pains her to admit it. There's a killer on the loose, and even if she's not the best cop on the force, she knows enough to turn to her father for help. But first, she has a brief affair with one of the men under his command. It seems a little too obvious a ploy for Daddy's attention and hardly adds to her character--we already know she's immature and a bit of a bitch. But at least this maneuver brings Peter back on the scene, allowing Kellerman to hit her stride as she gets back to a character who holds the reader's interest because he's more than two-dimensional. Sadly, Cindy's not quite ready for prime time; perhaps she'll grow up in her next outing. Or better yet, Kellerman will bring us more adventures by Peter and Rina. --Jane Adams [via]"I'm trying to relate."
"It pisses people off. It makes them think that their experiences are nothin' special. Everyone wants to feel special. You already feel special because you've got all this college. You gotta remember that the average Joe on the force is a high school graduate, maybe a couple of years at a junior college like me. If you're real smart, okay, you do a four-year state, then enter the academy with the idea of doing the gold."
"Like my dad--"
"Stop mentioning your dad. He isn't a legend, Decker, he's a pencil pusher."
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State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Workby Barbara IsenbergISBN 0380810727 (0-380-81072-7)
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Sweet Dreams, Ireneby Jan BurkeISBN 0380723506 (0-380-72350-6)
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Sympathy for the Devilby Jerrilyn FarmerISBN 0380795965 (0-380-79596-5)
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Thin Red Lineby James JonesISBN 0380003090 (0-380-00309-0)
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Till Death Do Us Partby Rochelle Majer KrichISBN 0380765330 (0-380-76533-0)
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To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essaysby Czeslaw MiloszISBN 0374528594 (0-374-52859-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays'Book summary:A comprehensive selection of essays--some never before translated into English--by the Nobel Laureate.[via]
To Begin Where I Am brings together a rich sampling of poet Czeslaw Milosz's prose writings. Spanning more than a half century, from an impassioned essay on human nature, wartime atrocities, and their challenge to ethical beliefs, written in 1942 in the form of a letter to his friend Jerzy Andrzejewski, to brief biographical sketches and poetic prose pieces from the late 1990s, this volume presents Milosz the prose writer in all his multiple, beguiling guises. The incisive, sardonic analyst of the seductive power of communism is also the author of tender, elegiac portraits of friends famous and obscure; the witty commentator on Polish complexes writes lyrically of the California landscape. Two great themes predominate in these essays, several of which have never appeared before in English: Milosz's personal struggle to sustain his religious faith, and his unswerving allegiance to a poetry that is "on the side of man."More editions of To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays:
Trainby Pete DexterISBN 037571409X (0-375-71409-X)
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True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hallby Mark SalzmanISBN 0375727612 (0-375-72761-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall'Book summary:When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeless most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goesexpecting the worstand is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks is an account of Salzmans first years teaching at Central. Through it, we come to know his students as he did: in their own words.
At times impossible and at times irresistible, they write with devastating clarity about their pasts, their fears, their confusions, their regrets, and their hopes. They write about what led them to crime and to gangs, about love for their mothers and anger toward their (mostly absent) fathers, about guilt for the pain they have caused, and about what it is like to be facing life in prison at the age of seventeen. Most of all, they write about trying to find some reason to believe in themselvesand othersin spite of all that has gone wrong.
Surprising, charming, upsetting, enlightening, and ultimately hopefuldriven by the insight and humor of Salzmans voice and by the intelligence, candor, and strength of his students, whose writing appears throughout the bookTrue Notebooks is itself a reward of the self-expression Mark Salzman teaches: a revelatory meditation on the process, power, and meaning of writing. [via]More editions of True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall:
Twistedby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0375432396 (0-375-43239-6)
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace Thackery, Joanna TrollopeISBN 0375757260 (0-375-75726-0)
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--Robert Louis Stevenson
"The lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeers shows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his own nature in the persons of his heroes, was responding to that craving for action, strength and generosity which is a fact in all periods and all places."
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Veronicaby Mary GaitskillISBN 037572785X (0-375-72785-X)
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Virgin Timeby Patricia HamplISBN 0374284407 (0-374-28440-7)
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Visions From San Francisco Bayby Czeslaw Milosz, Richard LourieISBN 0374517630 (0-374-51763-0)
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War and Peaceby Leo Tolstoy, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0375760644 (0-375-76064-4)
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The War Between the Tatesby Alison LurieISBN 0380711354 (0-380-71135-4)
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Where to Take Your Children in Northern Californiaby Davis Dutton, Tedi PilgreenISBN 0378037420 (0-378-03742-0)
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