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3 Dollarsby Elliot PerlmanISBN 1878448889 (1-878448-88-9)
Hardcover, Macmurray & Beck Communication
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Animal Farmby Ian Woodldridge, George OrwellISBN 1854597892 (1-85459-789-2)
Softcover, Hern Books, Limited, Nick
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Anne of Green Gablesby L. M. MontgomeryISBN 1853261394 (1-85326-139-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
Another Orpheus and Other Storiesby Julie-Ann GledhillISBN 1871871220 (1-871871-22-0)
Softcover, Open Gate Pr
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Bad Haircut : Stories of the Seventiesby Tom PerrottaISBN 1882593057 (1-882593-05-7)
Hardcover, Bridge Works Publishing Company, Incorporated
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The Blind Riderby Juan Goytisolo, Peter R. BushISBN 1852428635 (1-85242-863-5)
Softcover, Serpent's Tail
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The Bookshop/the Gate of Angels/the Blue Flowerby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 1857152476 (1-85715-247-6)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library Ltd
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Borrowed Lightby Joolz DenbyISBN 1852429054 (1-85242-905-4)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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Brazzaville Beachby William BoydISBN 1856190269 (1-85619-026-9)
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Break It Downby Lydia DavisISBN 1852424214 (1-85242-421-4)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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Circles of Deceitby Nina BawdenISBN 1860494307 (1-86049-430-7)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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The Clerkenwell Talesby Peter AckroydISBN 1856197069 (1-85619-706-9)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clerkenwell Tales'Book summary:Peter Ackroyd opts for full immersion in The Clerkenwell Tales after dipping a toe, or ten, in the Middle Ages with Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination. The Clerkenwell Tales is a gripping novel about murder and religious and political intrigue in 14th century London. As hinted at in the title, a cap is generously doffed to The Canterbury Tales; several characters and chapter headings mimic Chaucer and, at least superficially, it takes the form of a series of interconnected tales.
Although this is a work of fiction, it is nonetheless as rich in historical material as, say, his evocative London: A Biography. Set in 1399, it's heavily underwired by events surrounding Henry Bolingbroke's usurpation of Richard II. On the whole an appendix, dubbed "The Author's Tale", keeps the Ye Olde London factoids from intruding on the yarn but there are moments, especially when he touches on Medieval customs and eating habits, where the research bubbles to the surface. However, like Hawksmoor and The House of John Dee, it's Ackroyd's judicious use of the more esoteric shards of the capital's past that really fuels the drama. This is, after all, Clerkenwell in the era of the mystery plays; a district inhabited by quack physicians, dung rakers, heretical sects and murderous clerics. (Think Umberto Eco in EC1.)
Clarice, the novel's demonic central force, is a sister of the House of St Mary beset by visions. "Some called her the mad nun ... others revered her as the Blessed Maid of Clerkenwell" but in this "turbulent time of a weak and wretched king" Clarice's prophecies of impending doom strike an ominous chord. Elsewhere in the City, a shadowy group of pre-eminent Londoners, known as Dominus, have long been plotting to dethrone Richard and install Henry. William Exmewe, an Austin Friar and Dominus member, has slowly nurtured a gang of lowly religious dissenters--the foreknown, or predestined ones--to, unknowingly, aid their cause. Believing themselves, as Christ's true followers, to be absolved from all sin, William has persuaded them to wage, essentially, a terrorist campaign to bring on God's day of judgement. The predestined ones will fire five churches, making five wounds upon London, mirroring the five wounds of Christ and the five circles of an ancient Christian symbol. (A mystical five-pointed pentagram was something of a motif in Hawksmoor.) Quite how these schemes (and counter schemes) pan out is best left unspoiled. Ackroyd fans and anyone who savours cunning, intellectually exhilarating mystery tales will not be disappointed. --Travis Elborough [via]
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Collected Shorter Fiction of Joseph Rothby Michael Hofmann, Joseph RothISBN 186207447X (1-86207-447-X)
Hardcover, Granta Books
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The Conformistby Alberto Moravia, Tami CalliopeISBN 1883642655 (1-883642-65-5)
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The Dark Towerby Stephen King, Michael WhelanISBN 1880418622 (1-880418-62-2)
Hardcover, Donald m Grant Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dark Tower'Book summary:At one point in this final book of the Dark Tower series>, the character Stephen King (added to the plot in Song of Susannah) looks back at the preceding pages and says "when this last book is published, the readers are going to be just wild." And he's not kidding.
After a journey through seven books and over 20 years, King's Constant Readers finally have the conclusion they've been both eagerly awaiting and silently dread ing. The tension in the Dark Tower series has built steadily from the beginning and, like in the best of King's novels, explodes into a violent, heart-tugging climax as Roland and his ka-tet finally near their goal. The body count in The Dark Tower is high. The gunslingers come out shooting and face a host of enemies, including low men, mutants, vampires, Roland's hideous quasi-offspring Mordred, and the fearsome Crimson King himself. King pushes the gross-out factor at times--Roland's lesson on tanning (no, not sun tanning) is brutal--but the magic of the series remains strong and readers will feel the pull of the Tower as strongly as ever as the story draws to a close. During this sentimental journey, King ties up loose ends left hanging from the 15 nonseries novels and stories that are deeply entwined in the fabric of Mid-World through characters like Randall Flagg (The Stand and others) or Father Callahan (Salem's Lot). When it finally arrives, the long-awaited conclusion will leave King's myriad fans satisfied but wishing there were still more to come.
In King's memoir On Writing, he tells of an old woman who wrote him after reading the early books in the Dark Tower series. She was dying, she said, and didn't expect to see the end of Roland's quest. Could King tell her? Does he reach the Tower? Does he save it? Sadly, King said he did not know himself, that the story was creating itself as it went along. Wherever that woman is now (the clearing at the end of the path, perhaps?), let's hope she has a copy of The Dark Tower. Surely she would agree it's been worth the wait. --Benjamin Reese
A King and His Tower
Over 30 years in the making, spanning seven volumes, Stephen King's epic quest for the Dark Tower has encompassed almost his entire body of fiction. Amazon.com editor Ben Reese caught up with King to chat about the then-unpublished volumes of his Dark Tower series, rumors of his retirement, and the horrors of genre classification. Authors on Stephen King
Mystery writer Michael Connelly thinks Stephen King's "one of the most generous writers I know of." Thriller author Ridley Pearson says, "King possesses an incredible sense of story..." Read our Stephen King testimonials to find out what else they and other authors had to say about the undisputed King of Horror.The Path to the Dark Tower
There are only seven volumes in Stephen King's Dark Tower series but more than a dozen of his novels and short stories are deeply entwined with the Mid-World universe. Take a look at the nonseries titles, from Salem's Lot to Everything's Eventual. Can you find the connections? History of an Alternate Universe
Robin Furth, an expert on Stephen King's Dark Tower universe if ever there was one, has created a timeline of Mid-World, the slowly crumbling world of gunslinger Roland Deschain. Read it and get up to speed on a world of adventure.Hail to the King
Fans applauded and critics howled when Stephen King was awarded the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Service to American Letters. In typical fashion, King accepted the honor with humility and urged recognition for other "popular" authors. Listen to a clip of his acceptance speech, then order the entire speech on audio CD. [via]More editions of The Dark Tower:
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The Dark Tower Vby Stephen KingISBN 1880418568 (1-880418-56-8)
Hardcover, Donald m Grant Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dark Tower V'Book summary:Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World, the almost timeless landscape that seems to stretch from the wreckage of civility that defined Roland's youth to the crimson chaos that seems the future's only promise. Readers of Stephen King's epic series know Roland well, or as well as this enigmatic hero can be known. They also know the companions who have been drawn to his quest for the Dark Tower: Eddie Dean and his wife, Susannah; Jake Chambers, the boy who has come twice through the doorway of death into Roland's world; and Oy, the Billy-Bumbler.
In this long-awaited fifth novel in the saga, their path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis, a tranquil valley community of farmers and ranchers on Mid-World's borderlands. Beyond the town, the rocky ground rises toward the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is slowly stealing the community's soul. One of the town's residents is Pere Callahan, a ruined priest who, like Susannah, Eddie, and Jake, passed through one of the portals that lead both into and out of Roland's world.
As Father Callahan tells the ka-tet the astonishing story of what happened following his shamed departure from Maine in 1977, his connection to the Dark Tower becomes clear, as does the danger facing a single red rose in a vacant lot off Second Avenue in midtown Manhattan. For Calla Bryn Sturgis, danger gathers in the east like a storm cloud. The Wolves of Thunderclap and their unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is to risk all, but these are odds the gunslingers are used to, and they can give the Calla-folken both courage and cunning. Their guns, however, will not be enough. [via]
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Death & the Penguinby Andrey KurkovISBN 1860469450 (1-86046-945-0)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Death and the Penguinby Andrey Kurkov, George BirdISBN 1860468357 (1-86046-835-7)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death and the Penguin'Book summary:The publication of Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov's debut novel, heralds a unique new voice in post-soviet satire. Set in the Ukraine in the years immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this dark, deadpan tale chronicles the journalistic career of Victor, who shares a flat with Misha, his depressed Penguin, rescued from the under-funded zoo in Kiev. Victor is asked to write obelisks, obituaries, for a prominent city paper about notable figures in the community, and quickly transforms himself from struggling writer to wealthy journalist. It soon becomes apparent that there is a more sinister motive at play, and Victor finds himself descending in a Kafkaesque realm of suspicion and unease.
This strange, thoughtful and gentle novel will leave the reader satisfied and perplexed at its conclusion. Kurkov seems to question whether Victor or the Penguin is lonelier and more out of place in his environment. The Death in the title is ever present, though not in an oppressive way, but this also makes one want to question Victor's belief that a long hard life is better than a quick death. Many comparisons will undoubtedly be made between Kurkov's novel and the writing of other authors from the former Soviet republics to make it to print in the United Kingdom. Certainly it's fair to say that this belongs to the tradition of Russian satire made well known in this country by writers such as Mikhail Bulgakov and Venedikt Yarofeev. It is also interesting to read this alongside the works of contemporaries such as Evgenev Popov and Viktor Pelevin. However, where Pelevin drifts off into the fantastical and esoteric, Kurkov keeps it deadpan and very real. It is important to remember that many of the strange events that occur in this book are grounded in fact: amals really were given away by Kiev zoo--truth is often stranger than fiction. --Iain Robinson [via]
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Dinotopiaby James GurneyISBN 1878685899 (1-878685-89-9)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Dominoby Ross KingISBN 1856195295 (1-85619-529-5)
Hardcover, Sinclair-Stevenson
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The Drawing of the Threeby Stephen KingISBN 1880418398 (1-880418-39-8)
Hardcover, Donald m Grant Pub Inc
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Equal Ritesby Terry PratchettISBN 1856953874 (1-85695-387-4)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equal Rites'Book summary:The third Discworld novel.
They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
There are some situations where the correct response is to display the sort of ignorance which happily and wilfully flies in the face of the facts. In this case, the birth of a baby girl, born a wizard -- by mistake. Everybody knows that there's no such thing as a female wizard. But now it's gone and happened, there's nothing much anyone can do about it. Let the battle of the sexes begin. [via]More editions of Equal Rites:
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Eucalyptusby Murray BailISBN 1860464955 (1-86046-495-5)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eucalyptus'Book summary:"The idea that Holland's daughter was like the princess locked in the tower of a damp castle was of course false. After all, she was living on a property in western New South Wales."
Once upon a time, on a property in western New South Wales, a man named Holland plants hundreds of varieties of eucalyptus trees, then decrees that only the suitor who can name each and every one of them will be worthy to marry his beautiful daughter, Ellen. Men try and fail: there is the gentle schoolteacher who "had correctly named eighty-seven eucalypts and was doing it well when he went blank at the fatly handsome Jarrah up against the fence behind the house"; and the New Zealander who "came up against, and was defeated by, one of the many Stringybarks..." Old men, young men, commercial travelers, sheep-shearers--even a "smiling Chinaman ... all the way from Darwin." Not one is successful. Then, one day, along comes Mr. Roy Cave, a man renowned in the eucalyptus world, someone who "employed with lip-smacking relish the terms 'petiole,' 'inflorescences,' 'falacte' and 'lanceolate,' and he was also comfortable with 'sessile', 'fusiform' and 'conculorous.'"
Even in so wonderfully fractured a fairy tale as Murray Bail's Eucalyptus, it's obvious that Roy Cave is hardly the stuff romantic dreams are made of. Indeed, despite her father's warning to "beware of any man who deliberately tells a story," Ellen's Prince Charming turns out to be a mysterious young stranger who finds her wandering among her father's trees and spins her tale after tale, each one tied to a different kind of eucalypt. As the weeks go by, Mr. Cave continues to successfully identify every tree on the property, thus drawing ever closer to his prize. Meanwhile, Ellen's other suitor captures first her imagination and then her heart with stories of apprentice hairdressers who fall in love with plain-Jane heiresses; solicitors' daughters involved with married men; and lonely canary breeders who almost find happiness with spinster piano teachers. What all of these off-kilter stories have in common is a theme of missed opportunities, and lovers who realize too late that they were made for each other. Will Ellen, too, end up like one of these the sad-hearted heroines, or will her would-be lover find a way to thwart Mr. Cave's relentless victory march through the Eucalypts to claim her hand?
There is so much to love about Bail's novel that it's difficult to identify exactly which of its qualities make it such a complete delight. Is it Ellen's "speckled beauty ... so covered in small brown-black moles she attracted men, every sort of man"? Is it the detailed descriptions of the landscape? The way Bail uses them to comment on human nature, on the nature of storytelling and of language itself ("a paragraph is not so different from a paddock--similar shape, similar function")? Or is it the wacky charm of the Scheharezade-like suitor's urban tales? ("Still in the vicinity of low-height eucalypts he went on to mention, in a thoughtful voice, how in an outer suburb of Hobart an actuary with a well-known insurance company needed a stepladder to woo a widow who passed by his house every day.") Whatever the source of Bail's peculiar magic, Eucalyptus casts a spell that will carry readers from first page to last and leave them wishing for a thousand and one more stories just like it. --Alix Wilber [via]
Gambler's Roseby G.W. HawkesISBN 187844896X (1-878448-96-X)
Hardcover, Macmurray & Beck Communication
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George Beneath a Paper Moonby Nina BawdenISBN 1853814040 (1-85381-404-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Girl in Hyacinth Blueby Susan VreelandISBN 1878448900 (1-878448-90-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue'Book summary:There are only 35 known Vermeers extant in the world today. In Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland posits the existence of a 36th. The story begins at a private boys' academy in Pennsylvania where, in the wake of a faculty member's unexpected death, math teacher Cornelius Engelbrecht makes a surprising revelation to one of his colleagues. He has, he claims, an authentic Vermeer painting, "a most extraordinary painting in which a young girl wearing a short blue smock over a rust-colored skirt sat in profile at a table by an open window." His colleague, an art teacher, is skeptical and though the technique and subject matter are persuasively Vermeer-like, Engelbrecht can offer no hard evidence--no appraisal, no papers--to support his claim. He says only that his father, "who always had a quick eye for fine art, picked it up, let us say, at an advantageous moment." Eventually it is revealed that Engelbrecht's father was a Nazi in charge of rounding up Dutch Jews for deportation and that the picture was looted from one doomed family's home:
That's when I saw that painting, behind his head. All blues and yellows and reddish brown, as translucent as lacquer. It had to be a Dutch master. Just then a private found a little kid covered with tablecloths behind some dishes in a sideboard cabinet. We'd almost missed him.
By the end of "Love Enough," this first of eight interrelated stories tracing the history of "Girl in Hyacinth Blue," the painting's fate at the hands of guilt-riddled Engelbrecht fils is in question. Unfortunately, there is no doubt about the probable destiny of the previous owners, the Vredenburg family of Rotterdam, who take center stage in the powerful "A Night Different From All Other Nights." Vreeland handles this tale with subtlety and restraint, setting it at Passover, the year before the looting, and choosing to focus on the adolescent Hannah Vredenburg's difficult passage into adulthood in the face of an uncertain future. In the next story, "Adagia," she moves even further into the past to sketch "how love builds itself unconsciously ... out of the momentous ordinary" in a tender portrait of a longtime marriage. Back and back Vreeland goes, back through other owners, other histories, to the very inception of the painting in the homely, everyday objects of the Vermeer household--a daughter's glass of milk, a son's shirt in need of buttons, a wife's beloved sewing basket--"the unacknowledged acts of women to hallow home." Girl in Hyacinth Blue ends with the painting's subject herself, Vermeer's daughter Magdalena, who first sends the portrait out into the world as payment for a family debt, then sees it again, years later at an auction.She thought of all the people in all the paintings she had seen that day, not just Father's, in all the paintings of the world, in fact. Their eyes, the particular turn of a head, their loneliness or suffering or grief was borrowed by an artist to be seen by other people throughout the years who would never see them face to face. People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her.
In this final passage, Susan Vreeland might be describing her own masterpiece as well as Vermeer's. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Girl in Hyacinth Blue:
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Good Behaviourby Molly KeaneISBN 1860498345 (1-86049-834-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Behaviour'Book summary:Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon, unlovely daughter of the house, sex and love seem locked out by the rituals of good behaviour. But crumbling codes of conduct cannot hope to save the family. [via]
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The Good Soldierby Ford Madox Ford, Bill HutchingsISBN 1857543009 (1-85754-300-9)
Softcover, Carcanet Pr
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christby Jose SaramagoISBN 186046095X (1-86046-095-X)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Hearing Voicesby A. N. WilsonISBN 1856196801 (1-85619-680-1)
Hardcover, Sinclair-Stevenson
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 1853262404 (1-85326-240-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies and the cataclysmic behaviour this induced in some individuals. [via]
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Hide and Seek : A John Rebus Mysteryby Ian RankinISBN 1883402743 (1-883402-74-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The History of the Siege of Lisbonby Jose Saramago, Giovanni PontieroISBN 1860461328 (1-86046-132-8)
Softcover, Harvill
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The Hitman Diariesby Danny KingISBN 1852428287 (1-85242-828-7)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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The Huntersby James SalterISBN 1860465072 (1-86046-507-2)
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I, Claudius and Claudius the Godby Robert Graves, Richard FrancisISBN 1857542797 (1-85754-279-7)
Hardcover, Carcanet Press, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Claudius and Claudius the God'Book summary:This text re-edits "I Claudius" and "Claudius the God" as part of the 21-volume Robert Graves Programme. [via]
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If He Hollers Let Him Goby Chester B. HimesISBN 1852427043 (1-85242-704-3)
Softcover, Mercury Books
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In Youth Is Pleasure & I Left My Grandfather's Houseby William Burroughs, Denton WelchISBN 1878972138 (1-878972-13-8)
Softcover, Exact Change
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John Steinbeckby John SteinbeckISBN 1883011159 (1-883011-15-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Steinbeck'Book summary:This second volume in the authoritative edition of John Steinbeck (with "Novels and Stories, 1932-1937") features the Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece "The Grapes of Wrath" in a newly corrected text based on the author's manuscript, typescript, and galleys. "The Harvest Gypsies is Steinbeck's investigative report on migrant farm workers which laid the groundwork for the novel. "The Long Valley" displays his brilliance with short stories, including such classics as "The Chrysanthemums," "Flight," and "The Red Pony." "The Log from the Sea of Cortez," about a marine biological expedition, combines science, philosophy, and adventure. [via]
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Jorge Luis Borges: El Aleph/ Ficciones/ Antologia Poetica / El Aleph/ Fictions/ Poetic Anthologyby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 1853995908 (1-85399-590-8)
Softcover, Duckbacks
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Junglee Girlby Ginu KamaniISBN 1879960400 (1-879960-40-0)
Softcover, Aunt Lute Books
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"In these 11 short stories, characters span the gamut of women, the irony being that in India's sexually repressive traditional society, this pejorative term [junglee girl] could be applied to any self-aware woman. But Kamani, a gifted, savvy writer, combines such precarious, complex elements as class, caste, gender and eroticism into readable, imaginative and often hilarious tales."Publishers Weekly
"Kamani is a gifted writer able to tackle harsh, provocative subjects while maintaining a lyrical quality and an engrossing ambiguity."San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle Book Review
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It has been three years since the publication of Ginu Kamanis highly successful short story collection Junglee Girl, and thinking it might be interesting for readers to hear Ginu reflect on what the book has meant for her and what shes up to now, Aunt Lute dispatched staffer Livia Tenzer to interview Ginu.
Livia Tenzer: Did the publication of Junglee Girl cause any changes in your life?
Ginu Kamani: Not only has the book changed my life, but in many ways it has made my life. Beyond the physical fact of having a book out in print, and laying claim to the category "published author," what I deal with on a regular basis are the ripples that have spread out from negotiating intersections of culture, gender, sex and class in a public forum. Junglee Girl has very much fulfilled the role of the proverbial rock thrown into the bush, and has made room for me, as a thinker, doer, writer, on a spectrum of excavation, investigation, and aMore editions of Junglee Girl:
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Killing Mister Watsonby Peter MatthiessenISBN 1860464173 (1-86046-417-3)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killing Mister Watson'Book summary:By the author of "The Snow Leopard", "The Tree Where Man Was Born" and "On the River Styx", this novel is based around the circumstances of the death of a man in Florida 1910, who had terrorized his community in the Florida Everglades. It explores whether it was murder, exorcism or sacrifice. [via]
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A Land Apart from Timeby James GurneyISBN 1878685236 (1-878685-23-6)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Land Apart from Time'Book summary:Shipwrecked in the strange, unknown world of Dinotopia, a scientist and his young son, Will, discover a land in which humans and an ancient race of dinosaurs have lived together for centuries, in a fantasy tale complemented by vivid, full-color illustrations. 100,000 first printing. $125,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Last Chance Saloonby Marian KeyesISBN 185371965X (1-85371-965-X)
Hardcover, Poolbeg
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Lord of Chaosby Robert JordanISBN 1857232623 (1-85723-262-3)
Softcover, Little Brown Uk
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Maltese Falconby Dashiell HammettISBN 1883402158 (1-883402-15-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maltese Falcon'Book summary:Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. In The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels (including The Dain Curse and The Glass Key), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the police, risking his reputation when a beautiful woman begs for his help, while knowing that betrayal may deal him a new hand in the next moment.
Spade's partner is murdered on a stakeout; the cops blame him for the killing; a beautiful redhead with a heartbreaking story appears and disappears; grotesque villains demand a payoff he can't provide; and everyone wants a fabulously valuable gold statuette of a falcon, created as tribute for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Who has it? And what will it take to get it back? Spade's solution is as complicated as the motives of the seekers assembled in his hotel room, but the truth can be a cold comfort indeed.
Spade is bigger (and blonder) in the book than in the movie, and his Mephistophelean countenance is by turns seductive and volcanic. Sam knows how to fight, whom to call, how to rifle drawers and secrets without leaving a trace, and just the right way to call a woman "Angel" and convince her that she is. He is the quintessence of intelligent cool, with a wise guy's perfect pitch. If you only know the movie, read the book. If you're riveted by Chinatown or wonder where Robert B. Parker's Spenser gets his comebacks, read the master. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
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The Manchurian Candidateby Richard CondonISBN 1874061084 (1-874061-08-4)
Hardcover, No Exit Press
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Mister Sandmanby Barbara GowdyISBN 1883642337 (1-883642-33-7)
Hardcover, Pub Group West
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The Monkey's Maskby Dorothy Featherstone PorterISBN 1875657436 (1-875657-43-6)
Hardcover, Hyland House
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The Monkey's Maskby Dorothy PorterISBN 1852425490 (1-85242-549-0)
Softcover, Serpent's Tail Limited
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Mrs Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 1853261912 (1-85326-191-2)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs Dalloway'Book summary:As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.
As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.
Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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My Placeby Sally MorganISBN 1863682783 (1-86368-278-3)
Hardcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Place'Book summary:A book for everyone: a book with the form and texture of a novel and the complexity and pace of a mystery not solved until the final pages. It is wonderfully entertaining New York Times Book Review A triumphant story that makes you glad its been told. Times on Sunday In 1982, Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmothers birthplace. What started as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. My Place is a moving account of a search for truth into which a whole family is gradually drawn, finally freeing the tongues of the authors mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories. [via]
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The Napoleon of Notting Hillby G. K. ChestertonISBN 1853262803 (1-85326-280-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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Nervous Conditionsby Tsitsi DangarembgaISBN 187806777X (1-878067-77-X)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nervous Conditions'Book summary:Colonial Rhodesia in the early 1960s is the setting for this first novel. [via]
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The Outsiderby Albert CamusISBN 1857151399 (1-85715-139-9)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library Ltd
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Patty Jane's House of Curlby Lorna LandvikISBN 188259312X (1-882593-12-X)
Hardcover, Bridge Works Publishing Company, Incorporated
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Phantastes: A Faerie Romanceby George MacDonaldISBN 1881084221 (1-881084-22-1)
Hardcover, Johannesen
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Pharosby Alice ThompsonISBN 1860499538 (1-86049-953-8)
Hardcover, Virago
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The Piano Teacherby Joachim Neugroschel, Elfriede JelinekISBN 1852427507 (1-85242-750-7)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Piano Teacher'Book summary:The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek Deep passion, thwarted sexuality and love-hate for a mother dominate the life of Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds Walter Klemmer, music student and ladies' man. Jelinek's masterpiece, The Piano Teacher was for Publishers' Weekly "Brilliant and uncompromising." [via]
Pixel Juiceby Jeff NoonISBN 1862300887 (1-86230-088-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Rachel's Holidayby Marian KeyesISBN 1853718963 (1-85371-896-3)
Hardcover, Poolbeg
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rachel's Holiday'Book summary:Here's Rachel Walsh, twenty-seven and the miserable owner of size 8 feet. She has regular congress with Luke Costello, a man who wears his leather trousers tight. And she's fond - some might say too fond - of recreational drugs. Until she finds herself being frogmarched to the Cloisters - Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She's outraged. Surely she's not thin enough to be an addict? Heartsick and Luke-sick, she seeks redemption in the shape of Chris, a man with a past. A man who might be more trouble than he's worth. [via]
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Rings of Saturnby W. G. SebaldISBN 1860463991 (1-86046-399-1)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Rising of the Moonby Gladys MitchellISBN 1860490743 (1-86049-074-3)
Softcover, Little Brown Uk
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Rocket Cityby Cathryn AlpertISBN 1878448625 (1-878448-62-5)
Hardcover, Macadam Cage Pub
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Seville Communionby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 1860465536 (1-86046-553-6)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seville Communion'Book summary:Spain's Arturo Perez-Reverte continues his string of comfortably old-fashioned, modestly intellectual thrillers with a touching and suspenseful story of faith and duty, set in the timeless and enchanting city of Seville. "In Seville different histories were superimposed and interdependent," he writes, aided by Sonia Soto's seamless translation. "A rosary stringing together time, blood and prayers in different languages beneath a blue sky and wise sun that leveled everything over the centuries. Stone survivors that could still be heard. You just had to forget for a moment the camcorders, postcards, coaches full of tourists and cheeky young girls, and put your ear to the stones and listen." As in his previous surprise bestsellers--The Club Dumas and The Flanders Panel, both available in paperback--Perez-Reverte takes a supposedly cool observer and turns the person into a hot-blooded participant in the action. In The Seville Communion it's Father Lorenzo Quart, who works for an investigative branch of the Vatican that is referred to by an angry, upstaged Archbishop of Seville as "you and your mafiosi in Rome, playing God's police." Father Quart, a very attractive man with prematurely gray hair cropped short, wears expensive suits and has to fight off the women who test his vows of celibacy. His toughest challenge is a breathtaking, titled beauty named Macarena, whose banker husband is at the center of a plot to tear down a historic church. Two people have already been killed because of the intrigue, and more violence threatens as Father Quart is pursued by a trio of ineptly dangerous villains, straight out of Bogart's Beat the Devil, through the gorgeous streets of a city to die for. [via]
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The Shore and the Shelterby Keith McLeodISBN 1863682724 (1-86368-272-4)
Softcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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Silkby Guido Waldman, Alessandro BariccoISBN 186046310X (1-86046-310-X)
Softcover, Harvill Press
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Silkby Alessandro BariccoISBN 1860463665 (1-86046-366-5)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silk'Book summary:When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour leaves his small town and travels to Japan to obtain eggs for a fresh breeding of silk worms. There he falls in love with another man's concubine, and during subsequent visits their secret and silent affair develops. [via]
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Slow Emergenciesby Nancy HustonISBN 1883642639 (1-883642-63-9)
Hardcover, Pub Group West
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So Long, See You Tomorrowby William MaxwellISBN 1860464181 (1-86046-418-1)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Song of Susannahby Stephen King, Darrel AndersonISBN 1880418592 (1-880418-59-2)
Hardcover, Donald m Grant Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Song of Susannah'Book summary:The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower.
To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to Susannah...and terrifying to the "daughter of none" who shares her body and mind.
Saving the Tower depends not only on rescuing Susannah but also on securing the vacant lot Calvin Tower owns before he loses it to the Sombra Corporation. Enlisting the aid of Manni senders, the remaining ka-tet climbs to the Doorway Cave...and discovers that magic has its own mind. It falls to the boy, the billy bumbler, and the fallen priest to find Susannah-Mia, who in a struggle to cope -- with each other and with an alien environment -- "go todash" to Castle Discordia on the border of End-World. In that forsaken place, Mia reveals her origins, her purpose, and her fierce desire to mother whatever creature the two of them have carried to term.
Eddie and Roland, meanwhile, tumble into western Maine in the summer of 1977, a world that should be idyllic but isn't. For one thing, it is real, and the bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called Salem's Lot, a writer who turns out to be as shocked by them as they are by him. [via]
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South of the Border, West of the Sunby Haruki MurakamiISBN 1860465943 (1-86046-594-3)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'South of the Border, West of the Sun'Book summary:In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the arc of an average man's life from childhood to middle age, with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment, becomes the kind of exquisite literary conundrum that is Haruki Murakami's trademark. The plot is simple: Hajime meets and falls in love with a girl in elementary school, but he loses touch with her when his family moves to another town. He drifts through high school, college, and his 20s, before marrying and settling into a career as a successful bar owner. Then his childhood sweetheart returns, weighed down with secrets:
When I went back into the bar, a glass and ashtray remained where she had been. A couple of lightly crushed cigarette butts were lined up in the ashtray, a faint trace of lipstick on each. I sat down and closed my eyes. Echoes of music faded away, leaving me alone. In that gentle darkness, the rain continued to fall without a sound.
Murakami eschews the fantastic elements that appear in many of his other novels and stories, and readers hoping for a glimpse of the Sheep Man will be disappointed. Yet South of the Border, West of the Sun is as rich and mysterious as anything he has written. It is above all a complex, moving, and honest meditation on the nature of love, distilled into a work with the crystal clarity of a short story. A Nat "King" Cole song, a figure on a crowded street, a face pressed against a car window, a handful of ashes drifting down a river to the sea are woven together into a story that refuses to arrive at a simple conclusion. The classic love triangle may seem like a hackneyed theme for a writer as talented as Murakami, but in his quietly dazzling way, he bends us to his own unique geometry. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of South of the Border, West of the Sun:
Speaking French in Kansas and Other Storiesby Robert DayISBN 1878434144 (1-878434-14-4)
Softcover, Cottonwood Pr
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Sport and a Pastimeby James SalterISBN 1860463851 (1-86046-385-1)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937by John Steinbeck, Robert Demott, Elaine A. SteinbeckISBN 1883011019 (1-883011-01-9)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937'Book summary:For the first time in one volume, the early California writings of one of America's greatest novelists have been collected, including the seminal works, Tortilla Flat and Of Mice and Men, tracing his early growth and evolution. 20,000 first printing. [via]
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Tales of Mystery and Imaginationby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 1853260134 (1-85326-013-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'Book summary:Award-winning fantasy illustrator Gary Kelley writes, "I have selected three of Edgar Allan Poe's best short stories.... I chose 'The Fall of the House of Usher' for its classic Gothic images and its dark, melancholic central characters, including the house itself. 'The Black Cat' is ... appealing to me for its use of mystery and foreboding that takes us to a horrifying climax. 'The Cask of Amontillado' ... my personal favorite, [is] a simple narrative of revenge set in the contrasting worlds of carnival and catacomb." Click on the book's cover for a closer look, but the reproduction doesn't really do justice to the richness of color in Kelley's shadowy, atmospheric paintings. (The cat's eye is green, and its tongue is pink.) This gorgeous edition has 20 full- and double-page paintings, including a melancholy portrait of Poe; each page of text is surrounded by subtle decorative frames. The images of Roderick and Madeleine Usher are especially effective. [via]
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia WoolfISBN 1853260916 (1-85326-091-6)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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A Tongue in Yer Heidby James RobertsonISBN 1873631359 (1-873631-35-9)
Hardcover, B & W Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tongue in Yer Heid'Book summary:This anthology brings together 28 stories by living writers, from traditional folktales to stories dealing with domestic violence and poverty. The book's introduction defines Scots in the widest possible terms, and argues that this anthology is a sign of the vigour of the language. [via]
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Too Little, Too Lateby Colette CaddleISBN 1853716936 (1-85371-693-6)
Hardcover, Poolbeg
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A Very Long Engagementby Sebastien JaprisotISBN 1860463614 (1-86046-361-4)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Very Long Engagement'Book summary:January 1917: five French soldiers are marched to their own front lines where they will be tossed out into no man's land with their hands tied behind their backs and left for the Germans to shoot. They were, in civilian life, variously a pimp, a mechanic, a farmer, a carpenter, and a fisherman; now they are condemned because each had sought to leave the war by shooting himself in the hand. Taken to a godforsaken trench nicknamed Bingo Crépuscule, the five are reluctantly sent out into the darkness; days later, five bodies are recovered and the families are notified, merely, that the men died in the line of duty.
August 1919: Mathilde Donnay receives a letter from a dying man. In it, the former soldier tells her that he met her beloved fiancé, the fisherman Manech, shortly before he died. Mathilde goes to meet Sergeant Daniel Esperanza at his hospital and there hears the story of the execution. She also receives a package with a photograph of the men and copies of their last letters. As Mathilde reads and rereads the letters and goes over Esperanza's tale, she begins to suspect that perhaps the story didn't end quite so neatly. And so begins her very long investigation into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of five condemned prisoners--one of whom, at least, might not really be dead.
In Mathilde Donnay, Sebastien Japrisot has created one of the most compelling and delightful heroines in modern fiction. Though confined to a wheelchair since childhood, "Mathilde has other lives, varied and quite beautiful ones." She paints, cares for her pets, enjoys a rich fantasy life, and is relentless in her search for the truth about Manech's death. But she is by no means the only vibrant personality leaping off Japrisot's pages. This author has a remarkable ability to draw even minor characters in three dimensions with economy and wit. Take Mathilde's mother, for instance, caught in mid-card game: "At bridge, manille, bezique, Mama is a dirty rotten swine. Not only is she an ace with the pasteboards, but she throws her opponents off their mettle by insulting or making fun of them." And even the characters we meet only through other people's memories--the condemned men--are so fully realized that you find yourself torn over which one you hope may have survived. As Mathilde comes ever closer to solving the mystery of what happened at Bingo Crépuscule that January morning in 1917, Sebastien Japrisot proves himself a master storyteller and A Very Long Engagement a near perfect novel. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Vivaldi And The Number 3: And Other Impossible Storiesby Ron Butlin, John SibbaldISBN 1852428422 (1-85242-842-2)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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A Watch in the Nightby A. N. WilsonISBN 1856196852 (1-85619-685-2)
Hardcover, Sinclair-Stevenson
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Watermelonby Marian KeyesISBN 1853715085 (1-85371-508-5)
Softcover, Dufour Editions
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Loveby Raymond CarverISBN 1860465013 (1-86046-501-3)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Pleaseby Raymond CarverISBN 1860466044 (1-86046-604-4)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Wizard and Glassby Stephen King, Dave McKeanISBN 188041838X (1-880418-38-X)
Hardcover, Donald m Grant Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wizard and Glass'Book summary:Frank Muller, the recognized virtuoso of audiobook narration (The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption), takes on Stephen King's Goliath tale of sorcerers, time travelers, and sci-fi love. Totaling more than 27 hours and spanning 18 cassettes, Wizard and Glass requires the listener to love Muller's Hannibal Lecter-like voice--either that or suffer in audio hell for the equivalent of three full working days. While some might find his breathy staccatos irritating at best, others will find his voice the perfect accompaniment to King's creepy characters and nightmarish plots. (Running time: 27 hours, 18 cassettes) [via]
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reisby Jose SaramagoISBN 1860465021 (1-86046-502-1)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis'Book summary:The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practicing medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. He longs for the unattainably aristocratic Marcenda, but it is Lydia, the hotel chamber maid who makes and shares his bed. His old friend, the poet Fernando Pessoa, returns to see him, still wearing the suit he was buried in six weeks earlier. It is 1936, the clouds of Fascism are gathering ominously above them, so they talk; a wonderful, rambling discourse on art, truth, poetry, philosophy, destiny and love. [via]
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Yesterday Morningby Diana AthillISBN 1862075514 (1-86207-551-4)
Softcover, Granta Books
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