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Alexander's Bridgeby Willa CatherISBN 0684819074 (0-684-81907-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexander's Bridge'Book summary:In this, Willa Cather's first novel, we find Bartley Alexander, a successful engineer torn bewteen his duties to his career and his wife, and his passion for an Irish actress. In the only critical edition available, we see how Cather uses urban settings and the figure of the bridge-builder to analyze America's emergence as an international, industrial power at the turn of the century. Both anxious and celebratory, Cather's novel anticipates The Great Gatsby in trying to reckon with the social and emotional costs of that emergence. [via]
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Behind a Maskby Louisa May Alcott, Madeleine B. SternISBN 0688003389 (0-688-00338-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Behind a Maskby Madeline SternISBN 0688033709 (0-688-03370-9)
Softcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Behind a Mask'Book summary:Six years before she wrote Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, in financial straits, entered "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," a novelette, in a newspaper contest. Not only did it win the $100 prize, but, published anonymously, it marked the first in the series of "blood & thunder tales" that would be her livelihood for years.
In Behind a Mask, editor Madeleine Stern introduces four Alcott thrillers: "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," "The Mysterious Key," "The Abbot's Ghost," and the title story, "Behind a Mask." First published in one volume in 1975, they are regarded as Alcott's finest work in this genre. [via]
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The Bible According to Mark Twain: Irreverent Writings on Eden, Heaven, and the Flood by America's Master Satiristby Mark Twain, Joseph B. McCullough, Howard G. BaetzholdISBN 0684824396 (0-684-82439-6)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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The Blackboard Jungleby Evan HunterISBN 0684866021 (0-684-86602-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Blue Swordby Robin McKinleyISBN 0688009387 (0-688-00938-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Sword'Book summary:When Harry Crewe's father dies, she leaves her Homeland to travel east, to Istan, the last outpost of the Homelander empire, where her elder brother is stationed.
Harry is drawn to the bleak landscape of the northeast frontier, so unlike the green hills of her Homeland. The desert she stares across was once a part of the great kingdom of Damar, before the Homelanders came from over the seas. Harry wishes she might cross the sands and climb the dark mountains where no Homelander has ever set foot, where the last of the old Damarians, the Free Hillfolk, still live. She hears stories that the Free Hillfolk possess strange powers -- that they work magic -- that it is because of this that they remain free of the Homelander sway.
When the king of the Free Hillfolk comes to Istan to ask that the Homelanders and the Hillfolk set their enmity aside to fight a common foe, the Homelanders are reluctant to trust his word, and even more reluctant to believe his tales of the Northerners: that they are demonkind, not human.
Harry's destiny lies in the far mountains that she once wished to climb, and she will ride to the battle with the North in the Hill-king's army, bearing the Blue Sword, Gonturan, the chiefest treasure of the Hill-king's house and the subject of many legends of magic and mystery. [via]
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The Book of Jesus: A Treasury of the Greatest Stories and Writings About Christby Calvin MillerISBN 0684831503 (0-684-83150-3)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Jesus: A Treasury of the Greatest Stories and Writings About Christ'Book summary:Written in the style of the bestselling The Book of Virtues, this essential volume for the modern Christian offers an all-embracing collection of the best stories, poems, essays, and songs about the life of Jesus Christ. National author pulbicity. [via]
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The Book of Were-wolvesby Sabine Baring-GouldISBN 0685325954 (0-685-32595-4)
Hardcover, Gale Group
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Brat Farrarby Josephine Tey, Robert BarnardISBN 0684803852 (0-684-80385-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brat Farrar'Book summary:Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the identity of Patrick Ashby, heir to the Ashby fortune who disappeared when he was 13. Just when it seems that Brat will pull off the deception, he discovers the truth about Patrick's disappearance, a dark secret that threatens to tear apart the family and jeopardize Brat's carefully laid plans. Called "the best of its kind" by the New Yorker, Josephine Tey's classic is a tale of unrelenting suspense and tension. [via]
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Caesar's Womenby Colleen McCulloughISBN 068809371X (0-688-09371-X)
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A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Textsby Leo Tolstoy, Peter SekirinISBN 0684837935 (0-684-83793-5)
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The Case for Christianityby C. S. LewisISBN 068482373X (0-684-82373-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Case for Christianity'Book summary:Clear and Compelling Reasoning From the Master Apologist
First delivered as an informal radio address during World War II to bring hope to an embattled public, "The Case for Christianity" is C.S. Lewis's artful and compelling argument for the reasonableness of Christian faith. Dividing his case into two parts, "Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe" and "What Christians Believe", Lewis uses all the powers of his formidable wit and logic and the strength of his convictions to shed light on this most important subject. [via]
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Case of the Queenly Contestantby Erle Stanley GardnerISBN 0688012809 (0-688-01280-9)
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A Chair for My Motherby Vera B. WilliamsISBN 0688040748 (0-688-04074-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Chair for My Mother'Book summary:The jar of coins is full. The day has come to buy the chair - the big, fat, comforable, wonderful chair they have been saving for. The chair that will replace the one that was burned up - along with everything else - in the terrible fire.
A book of love and tenderness filled with the affirmation of life.
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A Chair for My Mother Big Bookby Vera B. WilliamsISBN 068812612X (0-688-12612-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Classical Gods and Heroes: Myths As Told by the Ancient Authorsby Rhoda A. HendricksISBN 0688052797 (0-688-05279-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classical Gods and Heroes: Myths As Told by the Ancient Authors'Book summary:All the wonder, terror and delight of Greek mythology springs forth from the pages of this unique and much-needed anthology. Rhonda Hendricks has not only selected from the works of the ancient authors the best -- and often earliest -- versions of these tales; she has also arranged them so as to give a cumulative view of classical mythology beginning with The Creation and The Birth of Zeus. Of particular interest are: The Ages of Mankind, The Birth of Athena, Oedipus the King, Heracles, Theseus, Jason and Medea, The Judgement of Paris, The Trojan Horse, Pygmalion, and Cupid and Psyche. These texts offer a new perspective on classical mythology and, by so doing, cast a new light on this cornerstone of Western culture. [via]
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Coat of Varnishby C.P. SnowISBN 0684190141 (0-684-19014-1)
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Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisationby Margaret MeadISBN 0688050336 (0-688-05033-6)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation'Book summary:Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike.
Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa. It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken where she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork. Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations. Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures. The "civilized" world, she taught us had much to learn from the "primitive." Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of her birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson.
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Cross Creekby Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsISBN 0684818795 (0-684-81879-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physicsby Gary ZukavISBN 0688084028 (0-688-08402-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics'Book summary:At an Esalen Institute meeting in 1976, tai chi master Al Huang said that the Chinese word for physics is Wu Li, "patterns of organic energy." Journalist Gary Zukav and the others present developed the idea of physics as the dance of the Wu Li Masters--the teachers of physical essence. Zukav explains the concept further:
The Wu Li Master dances with his student. The Wu Li Master does not teach, but the student learns. The Wu Li Master always begins at the center, the heart of the matter.... This book deals not with knowledge, which is always past tense anyway, but with imagination, which is physics come alive, which is Wu Li.... Most people believe that physicists are explaining the world. Some physicists even believe that, but the Wu Li Masters know that they are only dancing with it.
The "new physics" of Zukav's 1979 book comprises quantum theory, particle physics, and relativity. Even as these theories age they haven't percolated all that far into the collective consciousness; they're too far removed from mundane human experience not to need introduction. The Dancing Wu Li Masters remains an engaging, accessible way to meet the most profound and mind-altering insights of 20th-century science. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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The Darling Buds of Mayby H.E. BatesISBN 0688119603 (0-688-11960-3)
Hardcover, Morrow
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The Daughter of Timeby Josephine Tey, Robert BarnardISBN 0684803860 (0-684-80386-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Daughter of Time'Book summary:Josephine Tey re-creates one of history's most famous -- and vicious -- crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a new introduction by Robert Barnard Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains -- a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England's throne? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Little Princes in the Tower. The Daughter of Time is an ingeniously plotted, beautifully written, and suspenseful tale, a supreme achievement from one of mystery writing's most gifted masters. [via]
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Desireeby Anne Marie SelinkoISBN 0688014488 (0-688-01448-8)
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Egyptian Mummies: Unraveling the Secrets of an Ancient Artby Bob BrierISBN 0688102727 (0-688-10272-7)
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The English Spiritby Paul HandleyISBN 0687118042 (0-687-11804-2)
Hardcover, Abingdon Pr
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Ernest Hemingway on Writingby Ernest Hemingway, Larry W. PhillipsISBN 0684854295 (0-684-85429-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ernest Hemingway on Writing'Book summary:"Throughout Ernest Hemingway's career as a writer," says Larry W. Phillips in his introduction to Ernest Hemingway on Writing, "he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing." Hemingway seems to have courted bad luck. Phillips has amassed a slender book's worth of Hemingway's reflections on writing, culled from letters, books, interviews, speeches, and an unpublished manuscript. These musings are arranged into topics such as "Advice to Writers," "Working Habits," and "Obscenity" (of which there is plenty here). Sometimes ponderous, other times offhand, these thoughts form a portrait of a man driven to create not solely the best writing he could, but the best writing, period. Hemingway craved exactness, both in his work and in the work of others; he strove to make every word necessary. "Eschew the monumental," he wrote to Maxwell Perkins in 1932. "Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones." His aim? Mere perfection. "I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit," he confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. "I try to put the shit in the wastebasket." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Ernest Hemingway on Writingby Larry PhillipsISBN 0684181193 (0-684-18119-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ernest Hemingway on Writing'Book summary:"Throughout Ernest Hemingway's career as a writer," says Larry W. Phillips in his introduction to Ernest Hemingway on Writing, "he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing." Hemingway seems to have courted bad luck. Phillips has amassed a slender book's worth of Hemingway's reflections on writing, culled from letters, books, interviews, speeches, and an unpublished manuscript. These musings are arranged into topics such as "Advice to Writers," "Working Habits," and "Obscenity" (of which there is plenty here). Sometimes ponderous, other times offhand, these thoughts form a portrait of a man driven to create not solely the best writing he could, but the best writing, period. Hemingway craved exactness, both in his work and in the work of others; he strove to make every word necessary. "Eschew the monumental," he wrote to Maxwell Perkins in 1932. "Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones." His aim? Mere perfection. "I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit," he confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. "I try to put the shit in the wastebasket." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novelby Marianne WigginsISBN 0684869691 (0-684-86969-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel'Book summary:This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of things unseen that would transfigure our unquestioned trust in a safe future.
Fos has returned to Tennessee from the trenches of France. Intrigued with electricity, bioluminescence, and especially x-rays, he believes in science and the future of technology. On a trip to the Outer Banks to study the Perseid meteor shower, he falls in love with Opal, whose father is a glassblower who can spin color out of light.
Fos brings his new wife back to Knoxville where he runs a photography studio with his former Army buddy Flash. A witty rogue and a staunch disbeliever in Prohibition, Flash brings tragedy to the couple when his appetite for pleasure runs up against both the law and the Ku Klux Klan. Fos and Opal are forced to move to Opal's mother's farm on the Clinch River, and soon they have a son, Lightfoot. But when the New Deal claims their farm for the TVA, Fos seeks work at the Oak Ridge Laboratory -- Site X in the government's race to build the bomb.
And it is there, when Opal falls ill with radiation poisoning, that Fos's great faith in science deserts him. Their lives have traveled with touching inevitability from their innocence and fascination with "things that glow" to the new world of manmade suns.
Hypnotic and powerful, Evidence of Things Unseen constructs a heartbreaking arc through twentieth-century American life and belief. [via]
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Fairy Folk Tales of Irelandby W. B. YeatsISBN 0684829525 (0-684-82952-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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Fall of the Roman Empireby Michael GrantISBN 0684829568 (0-684-82956-8)
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The Franchise Affairby Josephine TeyISBN 0684842564 (0-684-84256-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Franchise Affair'Book summary:Though Josephine Tey is not, perhaps, as well known as Agatha Christie, her contribution to the Golden Age of mysteries is unquestioned. In contrast to Christie, Tey rejected formulas and long-running series in favor of experimentation with new settings and odd conjunctions of character and subject matter. Her historical tale The Daughter of Time is frequently cited as one of the greatest mysteries of all time.
The Franchise Affair resembles some of the best work of Poe in its introduction of an apparently inhuman evil in an otherwise sedate country setting. Robert Blair, a lawyer who prides himself on his ability to avoid work of any significance, is interrupted one evening by a phone call from Marion Sharpe. Ms. Sharpe and her mother live in a run-down estate known as the Franchise, and their lives drew little attention until Betty Kane charged them with an unthinkable crime. Ms. Kane, having disappeared for a month, now says that she was held captive in the attic of the Franchise during her entire absence. While her story seems absurd, her recollection of minute details about the interior of the house sway even Scotland Yard. Blair--who Ms. Sharpe has chosen for her defense because, as she says, he is "someone of my own sort"--must dust off his neurons and undertake some serious sleuthing if his client is to beat these serious charges. As with all fine mysteries, one has the sense of being in a sea of clues with a solution just out of reach. The Franchise Affair is a classic mystery, and also a superb record of country life in early twentieth century England. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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From Time to Timeby Jack FinneyISBN 0684818442 (0-684-81844-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Time to Time'Book summary:The New York Times Bestseller -- Jack Finney's long-awaited sequel to his classic illustrated novel Time and Again.
Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time. This time Reuben Prien at the secret, government-sponsored Project wants Si to leave his home in the 1880s and visit New York in 1912. Si's mission: to protect a man who is traveling across the Atlantic with vital documents that could avert World War I. So one fateful day in 1912, Si finds himself aboard the world's most famous ship...the Titanic. [via]
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Storyby Dave EggersISBN 0684863472 (0-684-86347-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Story'Book summary:Dave Eggers is a terrifically talented writer; don't hold his cleverness against him. What to make of a book called A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Based on a True Story? For starters, there's a good bit of staggering genius before you even get to the true story, including a preface, a list of "Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of This Book," and a 20-page acknowledgements section complete with special mail-in offer, flow chart of the book's themes, and a lovely pen-and-ink drawing of a stapler (helpfully labeled "Here is a drawing of a stapler:").
But on to the true story. At the age of 22, Eggers became both an orphan and a "single mother" when his parents died within five months of one another of unrelated cancers. In the ensuing sibling division of labor, Dave is appointed unofficial guardian of his 8-year-old brother, Christopher. The two live together in semi-squalor, decaying food and sports equipment scattered about, while Eggers worries obsessively about child-welfare authorities, molesting babysitters, and his own health. His child-rearing strategy swings between making his brother's upbringing manically fun and performing bizarre developmental experiments on him. (Case in point: his idea of suitable bedtime reading is John Hersey's Hiroshima.)
The book is also, perhaps less successfully, about being young and hip and out to conquer the world (in an ironic, media-savvy, Gen-X way, naturally). In the early '90s, Eggers was one of the founders of the very funny Might Magazine, and he spends a fair amount of time here on Might, the hipster culture of San Francisco's South Park, and his own efforts to get on to MTV's Real World. This sort of thing doesn't age very well--but then, Eggers knows that. There's no criticism you can come up with that he hasn't put into A.H.W.O.S.G. already. "The book thereafter is kind of uneven," he tells us regarding the contents after page 109, and while that's true, it's still uneven in a way that is funny and heartfelt and interesting.
All this self-consciousness could have become unbearably arch. It's a testament to Eggers's skill as a writer--and to the heartbreaking particulars of his story--that it doesn't. Currently the editor of the footnote-and-marginalia-intensive journal McSweeney's (the last issue featured an entire story by David Foster Wallace printed tinily on its spine), Eggers comes from the most media-saturated generation in history--so much so that he can't feel an emotion without the sense that it's already been felt for him. What may seem like postmodern noodling is really just Eggers writing about pain in the only honest way available to him. Oddly enough, the effect is one of complete sincerity, and--especially in its concluding pages--this memoir as metafiction is affecting beyond all rational explanation. --Mary Park [via]
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Hero and the Crownby Robin McKinleyISBN 0688025935 (0-688-02593-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hero and the Crown'Book summary:Robin McKinley's mesmerizing history of Damar is the stuff that legends are made of. The Hero and the Crown is a dazzling "prequel" to The Blue Sword.
Aerin is the only child of the king of Damar, and should be his rightful heir. But she is also the daughter of a witchwoman of the North, who died when she was born, and the Damarians cannot trust her.
But Aerin's destiny is greater than her father's people know, for it leads her to battle with Maur, the Black Dragon, and into the wilder Damarian Hills, where she meets the wizard Luthe. It is he who at last tells her the truth about her mother, and he also gives over to her hand the Blue Sword, Gonturan. But such gifts as these bear a great price, a price Aerin only begins to realize when she faces the evil mage, Agsded, who has seized the Hero's Crown, greatest treasure and secret strength of Damar.
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History of the Conquest of Mexico and History of the Conquest of Peruby William H. PrescottISBN 0685285669 (0-685-28566-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Honorary Consulby Graham GreeneISBN 0684871254 (0-684-87125-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Honorary Consul'Book summary:Set in a provincial Argentinean town, The Honorary Consul takes place in that bleak country of exhausted passion, betrayal, and absurd hope that Graham Greene has explored so precisely in such novels as The Power and the Glory and The Comedians.
On the far side of the great, muddy river that separates the two countries lies Paraguay, a brutal dictatorship shaken by sporadic revolutionary activity; on the near side, a torpid city whose only visible cultural institution is a brothel. The foreigners of the city are refugees, each washed up on the banks of the Paraná by some inner disaster or defeat: Dr. Eduardo Plarr, a physician, whose English father has vanished into a Paraguayan prison, and for whom "caring is the only dangerous thing"; Humphries, a teacher of English, who has touched bottom and accepted it; Charley Fortnum, the Honorary Consul, who at the age of sixty-one, sustained by drink and his disputed status as British Consul, still retains enough hope and illusion to marry a twenty-year-old girl from Señora Sanchez' brothel...
With gathering force, Graham Greene draws his characters into the political chaos that lies beneath the surface of South American life. Fortnum is kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries who have mistaken him for the American Ambassador. Realizing their error, they threaten to execute him anyway if their demands are not met. Plarr, torn between his instinctive feeling for the revolutionaries -- one of whom is an old friend -- and his ambiguous relationship with Fortnum, whose wife he has taken as a lover, becomes involved in a tragicomedy that leads inexorably to a meaningless death.
At the center of The Honorary Consul is Plarr, a brilliant Graham Greene creation, perhaps the most moving and convincing figure in his fiction. Plarr is a man so cut off from human feeling, so puzzled by the emotional needs of men like Fortnum, that he is paradoxically vulnerable, chillingly exposed, and required in the end to pay with his life for the illusions that other people believe in and that he himself cannot share.
In the men and women who surround Plarr -- Clara, who has moved from the brothel to Charley Fortnum's bedroom; Father Rivas, the revolutionary priest who dominates those near him, despite his unsanctified marriage and belief in political terror; Saavedra, the Argentinean novelist, whose work lugubriously mirrors the world around him; Aquino, the poet-turned-revolutionary; Colonel Perez, the cheerfully efficient chief of police -- Graham Greene has created a world peculiarly his own. It is a world illuminated by that special passion for the complexities of love, faith, compassion, and betrayal that lies at the very heart of his work. [via]
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Hudson River Bracketedby Edith WhartonISBN 0684184931 (0-684-18493-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Invasion of the Body Snatchersby Jack FinneyISBN 0684852586 (0-684-85258-6)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'Book summary:On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell discovered an insidious, horrifying plot. Silently, subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms were taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, his friends, his family, the woman he loved -- the world as he knew it.
First published in 1955, this classic thriller of the ultimate alien invasion and the triumph of the human spirit over an invisible enemy inspired three major motion pictures. [via]
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Jewish-American Literature: An Anthologyby Abraham ChapmanISBN 0686951328 (0-686-95132-8)
Softcover, Anti Defamation League of Bnai
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Kaffir Boyby Mark MathabaneISBN 0684848287 (0-684-84828-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kaffir Boy'Book summary:Kaffir Boy does for apartheid-era South Africa what Richard Wright's Black Boy did for the segregated American South. In stark prose, Mathabane describes his life growing up in a nonwhite ghetto outside Johannesburg--and how he escaped its horrors. Hard work and faith in education played key roles, and Mathabane eventually won a tennis scholarship to an American university. This is not, needless to say, an opportunity afforded to many of the poor blacks who make up most of South Africa's population. And yet Mathabane reveals their troubled world on these pages in a way that only someone who has lived this life can. [via]
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King Arthur and the Round Tableby Hudson TalbottISBN 0688113400 (0-688-11340-0)
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Le Noeud De Viperesby Francois MauriacISBN 0685239047 (0-685-23904-7)
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Les Cigares Du Pharaonby HergeISBN 0685234096 (0-685-23409-6)
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Letters and Papers from Prisonby Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard BethgeISBN 0684838273 (0-684-83827-3)
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What is bothering me incessantly is the question what Christianity really is, or indeed who Christ really is, for us today. The time when people could be told everything by means of words, whether theological or pious, is over, and so is the time of inwardness and conscience--and that means the time of religion in general. We are moving towards a completely religionless time; people as they are now simply cannot be religious any more. Even those who honestly describe themselves as "religious" do not in the least act up to it, and so they presumably mean something quite different by "religious."
The pleasures of Letters and Papers from Prison, however are not all so profound. Occasionally, Bonhoeffer's letters burst into song--sometimes with actual musical notations, other times with unforgettable phrases. Looking forward to seeing his best friend, Bonhoeffer writes, "To meet again is a God." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]More editions of Letters and Papers from Prison:
Little Wizard Stories of Ozby L. Frank Baum, John R. NeillISBN 0688121268 (0-688-12126-8)
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Macbettby Eugene IonescoISBN 0685342557 (0-685-34255-7)
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Madam, Will You Talk?by Mary StewartISBN 0688020178 (0-688-02017-8)
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The Man in the Queueby Josephine Tey, Robert BarnardISBN 0684815028 (0-684-81502-8)
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Mansions of the Godsby Albert Uderzo, Goscinny, R. & Uderzo, M.ISBN 0686562100 (0-686-56210-0)
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The Mastersby Charles Percy SnowISBN 0684718979 (0-684-71897-9)
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The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony, and Other Storiesby Franz Kafka, Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0684800705 (0-684-80070-5)
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Miraclesby C. S. LewisISBN 0684823799 (0-684-82379-9)
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C.S. Lewis trains his impeccable logic on the question of miracles, setting up a philosophical framework for the proposition that supernatural events can happen in this world. Focusing his inquiry on the feasibility of miracles in general, rather than on anecdotal evidence for specific miracles, Lewis builds a solid and compelling argument for the acceptance of divine intervention. [via]
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Miss Pym Disposesby Josephine TeyISBN 0684847515 (0-684-84751-5)
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The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boysby Carole Kismaric, Marvin HeifermanISBN 0684846896 (0-684-84689-6)
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The Mystery of the Cupboardby Lynne Reid Banks, Tom NewsomISBN 0688121381 (0-688-12138-1)
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Of Time and the Riverby Thomas WolfeISBN 0684867850 (0-684-86785-0)
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On Death and Dyingby Elisabeth Kubler-RossISBN 0684839385 (0-684-83938-5)
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Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century : A Book by and for Womenby Boston Women's Health Collective StaffISBN 0684842319 (0-684-84231-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century : A Book by and for Women'Book summary:In a major update of the book that helped to launch the women's health movement, Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century updates the classic with chapters on such issues as online health resources, AIDS, and managed care. At the same time, it expands its appeal by addressing the concerns of an increasingly diverse readership, from lesbians to women of color, from women with disabilities to women of all age groups.
Yet the book, by the nonprofit Boston Women's Health Book Collective, remains true to the spirit of those empowering discussions women were first having in the 1960s and 1970s about their bodies: "As the millennium approaches, our original goals for this book remain as important as ever: to fit as much information about women's health between the covers of this book as we can, providing women with tools to enable all of us to take charge of our health and lives; to support women and men who work for progressive change; and to work to create a just society in which good health is not a luxury or a privilege but a human right."
By updating and continuing to tackle such topics as body image, sexuality, contraception, childbearing, breast cancer, and the politics of women's health, this edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves keeps giving women the power and the knowledge to take charge of their own health. It remains a valuable resource for women of all ages and backgrounds. [via]
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The Pat Hobby Storiesby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arnold GingrichISBN 0684804425 (0-684-80442-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pat Hobby Stories'Book summary:A fascinating study in self-satire that brings to life the Hollywood years of F. Scott Fitzgerald
The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. "This was not art" Pat Hobby often said, "this was an industry" where whom "you sat with at lunch was more important than what you dictated in your office."
The Pat Hobby sequence, as Arnold Gingrich writes in his introduction, is Fitzgerald's "last word from his last home, for much of what he felt about Hollywood and about himself permeated these stories." [via]
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The Pied Piper of Hamelinby Robert Browning, Anatoly IvanovISBN 0688038107 (0-688-03810-7)
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The Pillars of the Earthby Ken FollettISBN 0688046592 (0-688-04659-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pillars of the Earth'Book summary:Dust jacket notes: "Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known. Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time - the twelfth century; the place - feudal England; and the subject - the building of a glorious cathedral. The author has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape. Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters - into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life. The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king. At once a sensuous and endearing love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age, The Pillars of the Earth is without a doubt Ken Follett's masterpiece." [via]
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A Prayer for Owen Meanyby John IrvingISBN 0688077080 (0-688-07708-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Prayer for Owen Meany'Book summary:Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mum with a baseball and believes--correctly, it transpires--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John Irving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery O'Connor's work. Irving fans will find much that is familiar: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and beast, the Garp-like unknown father of the narrator (Owen's orphaned best friend), the rough comedy. The scene of doltish Dr Dolder, Owen's shrink, drunkenly driving his VW down the school's marble steps is a marvellous set piece. So are the Christmas pageants Owen stars in. But it's all, as Highlights magazine used to put it, "fun with a purpose". When Owen plays baby Jesus in the pageants, and glimpses a tombstone with his death date while enacting A Christmas Carol, the slapstick doesn't change the fact that he was born to be martyred. The book's countless subplots add up to a moral argument, specifically an indictment of American foreign policy--from Vietnam to the Contras.
The book's mystic religiosity is steeped in Robertson Davies' Deptford trilogy, and the fatal baseball relates to the fatefully misdirected snowball in the first Deptford novel, Fifth Business. Tiny, symbolic Owen echoes the hero of Irving's teacher Günter Grass's The Tin Drum--the two characters share the same initials. A rollicking entertainment, Owen Meany is also a meditation on literature, history and God. --Tim Appelo [via]
Pride and Promiscuity : The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austenby Dennis Ashton, Arielle EckstutISBN 068487265X (0-684-87265-X)
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Problem of Painby C. S. LewisISBN 0684823837 (0-684-82383-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Problem of Pain'Book summary:The Problem of Pain answers the universal question, "Why would an all-loving, all-knowing God allow people to experience pain and suffering?" Master Christian apologist C.S. Lewis asserts that pain is a problem because our finite, human minds selfishly believe that pain-free lives would prove that God loves us. In truth, by asking for this, we want God to love us less, not more than he does. "Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved; that the mere 'kindness' which tolerates anything except suffering in its object is, in that respect at the opposite pole from Love." In addressing "Divine Omnipotence," "Human Wickedness," "Human Pain," and "Heaven," Lewis succeeds in lifting the reader from his frame of reference by artfully capitulating these topics into a conversational tone, which makes his assertions easy to swallow and even easier to digest. Lewis is straightforward in aim as well as honest about his impediments, saying, "I am not arguing that pain is not painful. Pain hurts. I am only trying to show that the old Christian doctrine that being made perfect through suffering is not incredible. To prove it palatable is beyond my design." The mind is expanded, God is magnified, and the reader is reminded that he is not the center of the universe as Lewis carefully rolls through the dissertation that suffering is God's will in preparing the believer for heaven and for the full weight of glory that awaits him there. While many of us naively wish that God had designed a "less glorious and less arduous destiny" for his children, the fortune lies in Lewis's inclination to set us straight with his charming wit and pious mind. --Jill Heatherly [via]
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Ralph S. Mouseby Beverly Cleary, Paul O. ZelinskyISBN 0688014526 (0-688-01452-6)
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The Roman Emperors: A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of Imperial Rome A.D. 31-A.D. 476by Michael GrantISBN 0684183889 (0-684-18388-9)
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Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societiesby Margaret MeadISBN 0688060161 (0-688-06016-1)
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The Shipping Newsby Annie ProulxISBN 068485791X (0-684-85791-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shipping News'Book summary:This darkly comic, wonderfully inventive work, winner of the 1993 National Book Award, transforms the lore of Newfoundland--including shipwrecks, nautical knot-tying, horrid weather and family legend--into brilliant literary art. It is the story of the rebirth of Quoyle, a hulking, inarticulate, misery-ridden widower who flees upstate New York to take up residence in Newfoundland. The island of his forebears, Newfoundland is a dreary rock in the north Atlantic beset by lousy weather. Proulx lovingly recreates this hardscrabble location in her vivid, distinctive prose and populates it with a cast of amusing, richly human characters. Quoyle, a "third-rate newspaperman," makes a hit with his "Shipping News" column, while his anguish at the loss of his faithless wife is slowly transformed by the strengthening ties that bind him to the place and to his fellow Newfoundlanders. [via]
The Singing Sandsby Josephine Tey, Robert BarnardISBN 0684818922 (0-684-81892-2)
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The Soul of Battle : From Ancient Times to the Present Day, Three Great Liberators Who Vanquished Tyrannyby Victor Davis HansonISBN 0684845024 (0-684-84502-4)
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Stories of F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0684717379 (0-684-71737-9)
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Strangers and Brothersby Charles Percy SnowISBN 0684183749 (0-684-18374-9)
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Therese Desqueyrouxby Francois MauriacISBN 0686554795 (0-686-55479-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Therese Desqueyroux'Book summary:La justice, c'est une chose ; la vengeance, c'en est une autre. Thérèse a voulu empoisonner son mari, elle a échoué, et le scandale a été étouffé : on ne joue pas avec l'honneur d'une famille si respectable. Mais ce qui se passe après, c'est bien pire que toutes les condamnations. Son mari se fait son juge, son bourreau, et décide de la séquestrer purement et simplement. Il ne peut pas la supprimer, il ne peut pas non plus la souffrir. Il peut en revanche l'enfermer. Ce sera l'occasion pour Thérèse de penser à son geste, puisque de toute façon elle n'a plus que ça à faire...
Celui que l'on désigne souvent comme le chef de file des écrivains catholiques a bien des comptes à régler avec la foi et la morale : chacun de ses romans repose la question du bien et du mal, dans une société de plus en plus torturée et de plus en plus noire, à l'image du coeur des hommes. Thérèse Desqueyroux n'échappe pas à la règle, et l'enfermement de l'héroïne donne lieu à certaines des plus belles pages de François Mauriac. --Karla Manuele [via]
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This Earth of Mankindby Pramoedya Ananta ToerISBN 0688093736 (0-688-09373-6)
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This Rough Magicby Mary StewartISBN 0688026141 (0-688-02614-1)
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Three Novels of F. Scott Fitzgeraldby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0684717662 (0-684-71766-2)
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Tiger Flowerby Robert VavraISBN 0688028411 (0-688-02841-1)
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German-English Textby Ludwig WittgensteinISBN 0686770382 (0-686-77038-2)
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True at First Lightby Ernest Hemingway, Patrick HemingwayISBN 0684865726 (0-684-86572-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'True at First Light'Book summary:Ernest Hemingway's final posthumous work bears the rather awkward designation "a fictional memoir" and arrives under a cloud of controversial editing and patching--but all of that ends up being beside the point. Though this account of a 1953 safari in Kenya lacks the resolution and clarity of the best Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms) it is "real" Hemingway nonetheless. Let scholars work out where memoir leaves off and fiction begins: for the common reader, the prose alone casts an irresistible spell.
In True at First Light the glory days of the "great white hunters" are over and the Mau Mau rebellion is violently dislodging European farmers from Kenya's arable lands. But to the African gun bearers, drivers, and game scouts who run his safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, Hemingway remains a lordly figure--almost a god. Two parallel quests propel the narrative: Mary, Hemingway's fourth and last wife, doggedly stalks an enormous black-maned lion that she is determined to kill by Christmas, while Hemingway becomes increasingly obsessed with Debba, a beautiful young African woman. What makes the novel especially strange and compelling is that Mary knows all about Debba and accepts her as a "supplementary wife," even as she loses no opportunity to rake her husband over the coals for his drinking, lack of discipline in camp, and condescending protectiveness.
As usual with Hemingway, atmosphere and attitude are far more important than plot. Mary at one point berates her husband as a "conscience-ridden murderer," but this is precisely the moral stance that gives the hunting scenes their tension and beauty. "I was happy that before he died he had lain on the high yellow rounded mound with his tail down," Hemingway writes of "Mary's lion," "and his great paws comfortable before him and looked off across his country to the blue forest and the high white snows of the big Mountain."
Passages like these--and there are many of them--redeem the book's rambling structure and occasional lapses into self-indulgent posturing. Joan Didion dismissed True at First Light in The New Yorker as "words set down but not yet written," but this fails to acknowledge the power of these words. The value of True at First Light lies in its candor, its nakedness: it provides a rare opportunity to watch a master working his way toward art. --David Laskin [via]
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Varieties of Religious Experienceby William JamesISBN 0684842971 (0-684-84297-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Varieties of Religious Experience'Book summary:"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. It would seem, therefore, as a psychologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities."
When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on "natural religion," he defined religion as "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine." Considering religion, then, not as it is defined by--or takes place in--the churches, but as it is felt in everyday life, he undertook a project that, upon completion, stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, not only as a vitally serious contemplation of spirituality, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience, it is easy to see why. Applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which "the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions." It's an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance--indeed, respect--the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades. [via]
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Village in the Treetopsby Jules VerneISBN 0685066118 (0-685-06611-8)
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Westward Ho!by Charles Kingsley, N. C. WyethISBN 0684194449 (0-684-19444-9)
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The Whipping Boyby Sid Fleischman, Juvenile Collection (Library of Congress), Peter SisISBN 0688062164 (0-688-06216-4)
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Your God Is Too Smallby J. B. PhillipsISBN 0684846969 (0-684-84696-9)
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Zeo. Herriman's Krazy and Ignatzby HerrimanISBN 0685473686 (0-685-47368-6)
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Henry Hugginsby Beverly Cleary, Louis Darling, Argentina PalaciosISBN 0688020143 (0-688-02014-3)
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Ramona la Chincheby Beverly Cleary, Argentina Palacios, Louis Darling, Tracy DockrayISBN 0688027830 (0-688-02783-0)
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