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Abominable Manby Maj Sjowall, Per WahlooISBN 0394471660 (0-394-47166-0)
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Alias Graceby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385490445 (0-385-49044-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alias Grace'Book summary:In the astonishing new novel by the author of the bestsellers The Robber Bride, Cat's Eye, and The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood takes us back in time and into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, the wealthy Thomas Kinnear, and of Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence after a stint in Toronto's lunatic asylum, Grace herself claims to have no memory of the murders.
Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story, from her family's difficult passage out of Ireland into Canada, to her time as a maid in Thomas Kinnear's household. As he brings Grace closer and closer to the day she cannot remember, he hears of the turbulent relationship between Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery, and of the alarming behavior of Grace's fellow servant, James McDermott. Jordan is drawn to Grace, but he is also baffled by her. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend, a bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she a victim of circumstances?
Alias Grace is a beautifully crafted work of the imagination that reclaims a profoundly mysterious and disturbing story from the past century. With compassion, an unsentimental lyricism, and her customary narrative virtuosity, Margaret Atwood mines the often convoluted relationships between men and women, and between the affluent and those without position. The result is her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale--in short, vintage Atwood. [via] -
All the Dead Lie Downby Mary Willis WalkerISBN 0385478585 (0-385-47858-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the Dead Lie Down'Book summary:Quotations from Mother Goose and Macbeth (as well as the Emily Dickinson snippet of the title) provide the chapter headings in this engaging novel of suspense. The apparent peculiarity of such juxtaposition brings home the brutality of those childhood rhymes and the dangers of obsession and revenge. Both serve Mary Willis Walker's purpose well in setting up this tightly constructed mystery in which investigative journalist Molly Cates's own obsession with her father's untimely death from 30 years before gets mixed up in a current and far more dangerous scheme to release chemical gases into the Senate chamber of the Texas Capitol. The two plots, the first a traditional mystery, the second more a tale of suspense, are unconnected except for Cates's involvement; she is obviously central to one and initially only tangential to the other. Such a device would have proved unwieldy in less skillful hands, but in Walker's case the disparate strands are brought together beautifully, and Cates has a suitable sense of her own fallibility and the difficulty of harboring hate for the better part of a generation.
Walker's previous three novels have won six mystery-writers awards among them. All the Dead Lie Down is solid enough to continue the tradition set by the others. Within it there is much to relish: sensitive consideration of homelessness, thought-provoking questions about gun control, and a wry appreciation for the charm and arrogance of the Lone Star State and its citizens ("Texans do not scrimp on stars."). Indeed, Walker's sense of place--from Lubbock's dust and dry desolation to Austin's trendiness and political maneuvering--is sure and confident. There are moments when the worst of the perpetrators of the chemical weapons scare is portrayed simplistically, but this is more than made up for by the complexity of the other characters: the vagrants who discover the danger as well as the ghosts, both past and present, who haunt Molly in her investigations of her father's past. An excellent read, for even the most jaded of mystery lovers. [via]
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Ask for Me Tomorrowby Margaret MillarISBN 0394408837 (0-394-40883-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ask for Me Tomorrow'Book summary:Margaret Millar's husband, Kenneth, who wrote under the name of Ross Macdonald, received more attention for his Lew Archer books, but her equally noteworthy mysteries are among the best of the genre. This story of love and greed among the rich and eccentric citizens of a California city--very much like the Millars' beloved Santa Barbara--is full of the things that make her work memorable--a wickedly twisted plot, sly observations on all social levels, and a writing style that welcomes you to the party like an old friend with a sharp tongue. [via]
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Bag Menby John FloodISBN 0393039986 (0-393-03998-6)
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Black!by Clarence CooperISBN 039331541X (0-393-31541-X)
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Blackwaterby Joan Tate, Kerstin EkmanISBN 0385481780 (0-385-48178-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blackwater'Book summary:In 1974, after moving to the remote town of Blackwater in northern Sweden to live with her lover, Annie Raft stumbles upon a brutal double murder that remains unsolved for twenty years, until her daughter falls in love with the man Annie had seen leaving the scene of the crime. 25,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
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The Blue Hammerby Ross MacDonaldISBN 0394404254 (0-394-40425-4)
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Bread: An 87th Precinct Mystery Novelby Ed McBainISBN 0394485807 (0-394-48580-7)
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The Burning Manby Phillip MargolinISBN 0385480539 (0-385-48053-9)
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The Chamberby John GrishamISBN 0385424728 (0-385-42472-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chamber'Book summary:At first listen, the narration of this abridged version of John Grisham's The Chamber seems flat and uninvolved. But Michael Beck has chosen his vocal style well, purposely eschewing unnecessary adornment and allowing this searing indictment of racism and murder to unfold on its own terms. Beck uses character voices sparingly, adding subtle emphasis to the already charged plot. The story begins with a Klan-sponsored bombing and then traces a trail of rigged acquittals stretching over three decades, until a young lawyer with secrets of his own brings the case to a powerful conclusion. --George Laney Amazon.com [via]
China Menby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0394424638 (0-394-42463-8)
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Cogan's Tradeby George V. HigginsISBN 0394490576 (0-394-49057-6)
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Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 039440324X (0-394-40324-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Compiled here are over 50 of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and tales in one giant Kindle book. This includes an active table of contents to make finding stories easy.
This edition includes the following stories:
The Angel of the Odd
The Assignation
The Balloon Hoax
Berenice
Bon-Bon
The Black Cat
The Business Man
The Cask of Amontillado
Colloquy of Monos and Una
Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
A Descent Into the Maelström
The Devil in the Belfry
Diddling
The Domain of Arnheim
Duc De L'Omelette
Eleonora
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of the Usher
Four Beasts in One
The Gold-Bug
Hop Frog
How to Write a Blackwood Article
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
King Pest
Landor's Cottage
Landscape Garden
Ligeia
Lionizing
Loss of Breath
Maelzel's Chess-Player
Man of the Crowd
Man that was Used Up
The Masque of the Red Death
Mellonta Tauta
Mesmeric Revelation
Metzengerstein
Morella
Ms. Found in a Bottle
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Mystification
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Oblong Box
The Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
The Power of Words
Predicament
The Premature Burial
The Purloined Letter
Shadow -- A Parable
Silence -- A Fable
Some Words with a Mummy
Spectacles
Sphinx
System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
A Tale of Jerusalem
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Tell Tale Heart
Thou Art the Man
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
Three Sundays in a Week
The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
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Cop Killerby Maj Sjowall, Per WahlooISBN 0394485319 (0-394-48531-9)
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Corner Boyby Herbert SimmonsISBN 0393314650 (0-393-31465-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Corner Boy'Book summary:Announcing the launch of Old School Books--a bold and innovative series that rediscovers the greatest (and toughest) African-American writers of our time.
Herbert Simmons' first novel, winner of the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship in 1957, relates the violent rise and fall of 18-years-old Jake Adams, whose Buick Dynaflow, custom-made suits, and attractiveness to women are all the fruits of his job pushing dope for the Organization. [via]More editions of Corner Boy:
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoevsky, George GibianISBN 0393956237 (0-393-95623-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:A Norton Critical Edition with the novel, letters from Dostoevsky and a collection of critical essays. [via]
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Timeby Mark HaddonISBN 0385659806 (0-385-65980-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'Book summary:Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christophers carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbors dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing.
Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents marriage. As he tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, we are drawn into the workings of Christophers mind.
And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddons choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing is a mind that perceives the world literally.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of the freshest debuts in years: a comedy, a heartbreaker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read. [via]More editions of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time:
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Daddy Coolby Donald GoinesISBN 0393316645 (0-393-31664-5)
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The Dead Pianoby Henry Van DykeISBN 0393315428 (0-393-31542-8)
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The Detective Is Deadby Bill JamesISBN 0393322467 (0-393-32246-7)
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The Digger's Gameby George V. HigginsISBN 0394483162 (0-394-48316-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Digger's Game'Book summary:Jerry "Digger" Doherty is an ex-con and proprietor of a workingman's Boston bar, who supplements his income with the occasional "odd job," like stealing live checks and picking up hot goods. His brothers a priest, his wifes a nag, and hes got a deadly appetite for martinis and gambling. But when the Digger looses eighteen grand in borrowed money on a trip to Vegas, he quickly finds himself in the sights of mob loneshark the Greek, who will have to make the Digger pay up one way or another. Luckilyif you call it luckthe Digger has been let in on a little job that can turn his gambling debt into a profit, as long as he can pull it off without getting killed. [via]
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A Dog's Ransomby Patricia HighsmithISBN 0393323366 (0-393-32336-6)
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Dogs of Godby Pinckney BenedictISBN 0385511132 (0-385-51113-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dogs of God'Book summary:Full of the intensity and vibrance of Appalachian speech, a tale set in rural West Virginia vividly captures the violence of a backwoodsman and drug lord named Tannhauser and the innocence of a young man named Goody. A first novel. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. [via]
The End of a Primitiveby Chester HimesISBN 0393315401 (0-393-31540-1)
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End of Lieutenant Boruvkaby Josef SkvoreckyISBN 0393027856 (0-393-02785-6)
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The Forgotten Man: An Elvis Cole Novelby Robert CraisISBN 0385504284 (0-385-50428-4)
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The Gaudyby John Innes MacKintosh StewartISBN 0393087123 (0-393-08712-3)
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Giveadamn Brownby Robert Deane PharrISBN 0393315398 (0-393-31539-8)
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Gospelby Bill JamesISBN 0393317811 (0-393-31781-1)
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Hail to the Chief: An 87th Precinct Mysteryby Ed McBainISBN 0394485815 (0-394-48581-5)
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A Hobby of Murderby E. X. FerrarsISBN 0385471688 (0-385-47168-8)
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Icarus : A Thrillerby Russell AndrewsISBN 0385498748 (0-385-49874-8)
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Intruder in the Dustby William FaulknerISBN 0394430743 (0-394-43074-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intruder in the Dust'Book summary:A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man.
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The Jones Menby Vern E. SmithISBN 0393317072 (0-393-31707-2)
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Kill Meby Bill JamesISBN 0393321665 (0-393-32166-5)
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King & Jokerby Peter DickinsonISBN 0394406036 (0-394-40603-6)
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The Lasko Tangentby Richard North Patterson, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0393011909 (0-393-01190-9)
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The Last Detectiveby Robert CraisISBN 0385504268 (0-385-50426-8)
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The Last Jurorby John GrishamISBN 0385510438 (0-385-51043-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Juror'Book summary:In 1970, small town newspaper The Clanton Times went belly up. With financial assistance from a rich relative, it's purchased by 23-year-old Willie Traynor, formerly the paper's cub reporter. Soon afterward, his new business receives the readership boost it needs thanks to his editorial efforts and coverage of a particularly brutal rape and murder committed by the scion of the town's reclusive bootlegger family. Rather than shy from reporting on the subsequent open-and-shut trial (those who oppose the Padgitt family tend to turn up dead in the area's swampland), Traynor launches a crusade to ensure the unrepentant murderer is brought to justice. When a guilty verdict is returned, the town is relieved to find the Padgitt family's grip on the town did not sway the jury, though Danny Padgitt is sentenced to life in prison rather than death. But, when Padgitt is released after serving less than a decade in jail and members of the jury are murdered, Clanton once again finds itself at the mercy of its renegade family.
When it comes, the dénouement is no surprise; The Last Juror is less a story of suspense than a study of the often idyllic southern town of Clanton, Mississippi (the setting for Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill). Throughout the nine years between Padgitt's trial and release, Traynor finds acceptance in Clanton, where the people "don't really trust you unless they trusted your grandfather." He grows from a long-haired idealist into another of the town's colorful characters--renovating an old house, sporting a bowtie, beloved on both sides of the color line, and the only person to have attended each of the town's 88 churches at least once. The Last Juror returns Grisham to the courtroom where he made his name, but those who enjoyed the warm sentiment of his recent novels (Bleachers, A Painted House) will still find much to love here. --Benjamin Reese [via]
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Le Testament / the Testamentby John GrishamISBN 0385493800 (0-385-49380-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Testament / the Testament'Book summary:Troy Phelan, a 78-year-old eccentric and the 10th-richest man in America, is about to read his last will and testament, divvying up an estate worth $11 billion. Phelan's three ex-wives, their grasping spawn, a legion of lawyers, several psychiatrists, and a plethora of sound technicians wait breathlessly, all eyes glued to digital monitors as they watch the old man read his verdict. But Phelan shocks everyone with a bizarre, last-gasp attempt to redistribute the spoils, setting in motion a legal morality tale of a contested will, sin, and redemption.
Our hero, Nate O'Riley--a washed-up, alcoholic litigator with two ruined marriages in his wake and the IRS on his tail--is dispatched to the Brazilian wetlands in search of a mysterious heir named in the will. After a harrowing trip upriver to a remote settlement in the Pantanal, he encounters Rachel Lane, a pure-hearted missionary living with an indigenous tribe and carrying out "God's work." Rachel's grave dedication and kindness impress the jaded lawyer, so much that a nasty bout of dengue fever leads him to a vision that could change his life.
Back in the States, the legal proceedings drag on and Grisham has a high time with Phelan's money-hungry descendents, a regrettable bunch who squandered millions, married strippers, got druggy, and befriended the Mob. The youngest son, Ramble, is a multi-pierced, tattoo-covered malcontent with big dreams for his rock band, the Demon Monkeys. Will Nate get straight with Rachel's aid? Do the greedy heirs get theirs? What's the real legacy of a lifetime's work? The Testament is classic Grisham: a down-and-out lawyer, a lot of money, an action-packed pursuit, and the highest issues at stake. It's not just about great characters; it's about the question of what character is. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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Little Tales of Misogynyby Patricia HighsmithISBN 0393323374 (0-393-32337-4)
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The Locked Roomby Maj Sjowall, Per WahlooISBN 0394485335 (0-394-48533-5)
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Lostby Michael RobothamISBN 0385508662 (0-385-50866-2)
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Mama Black Widowby Iceberg SlimISBN 039331765X (0-393-31765-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mama Black Widow'Book summary:"One of the most exciting literary revival series since the rediscovery of Jim Thompson's novels" (Playboy), Old School Books "is subtly transforming the landscape of post-war black fiction" (Bomb).
"Mama Black Widow" is the nickname of Otis Tilson, a comely and tragic black queen adrift with his brothers and sisters in the dark ghetto world of pimpdom and violent crime. His story is told in the gut-level language of the homosexual underworld-an unforgettable testament of life lived on the margins of a racist and predatory urban hell. [via]More editions of Mama Black Widow:
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Man Walking on Eggshellsby Herbert SimmonsISBN 0393316181 (0-393-31618-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man Walking on Eggshells'Book summary:First published in 1962, this novel is one of the most lyrical and authentic portraits of a jazz musician ever published. Born into violence, in the midst of a destructive tornado that flattens sections of East St. Louis, Raymond Douglas overcomes obstacles of family and race to become a jazz trumpeter whose music touches greatness. Rave praise for the Old School Books Series: "One of the most exciting literary revival series since the rediscovery of Jim Thompson's novels. . ." --Digby Diehl, Playboy "If you can't get enough of Shaft, Foxy Brown (the original one) or Dolemite, then check Old School Books' new series of pulp novels featuring the boldest African-American authors of our time. These new cultural artifacts are fast-paced and hard. They take the brutality and ruin of the urban Black landscape and transform them into art. Each character in the series is searching for "old school" wisdom and never loses sight of the racial, political, and emotional context from which they came."--The Source "My endorsement of Old School Books is a hundred percent. This is the kind of publishing program that shows serious readers that publishing can still be more than just a business. This is a cultural service of the highest order. W.W. Norton and Company deserves a standing ovation. Congratulations."--Clarence Major, University of California, Davis "Glad to see that at least one publisher isn't afflicted with the bottom-line fever, the republishing of these old time classics proves that Norton is devoted to quality publishing. I'm especially glad to see John A. Williams' The Angry Ones used. It's as fresh as the day it was written."--Ishmael Reed, University of California, Berkeley "As of late, members of the pulp pantheon are finding themselves being revised by Hollywood, scrutinized by serious academics, and canonized by the Library of America, though they never completely went out of fashion. But a little-known subgenre [via]
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Meaning of Night: A Confessionby Michael CoxISBN 0393062031 (0-393-06203-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meaning of Night: A Confession'Book summary:The following work, printed here for the first time, is one of the lost curiosities of nineteenth-century literature. It is a strange concoction, being a kind of confession, often shocking in it's frank, conscienceless brutality and explicit sexuality, that also has a strongly novelistic flavour, indeed it appears in the hand-list that accompanies the Duport papers in the Cambridge University Library with the annotation (Fiction). Many of the presented facts-names, places, events that I have been able to check are verifiable; others appear dubious at best or have been deliberately falsified, distorted, or simply invented. As to the author, despite his desire to confess all to posterity, his own identity remains a tantalizing mystery. His name as given here, Edward Charles Glyver, does not appear in the Eton Lists of the period, and I hae been unable to trace it or any of his pseudonyms in any other source, including the London Post-Office Directories for the relevant years. Perhaps, after we have read these confessions, this should not surprise us; yet it is strange that someone who wished to lay his soul bare in this way chose not to reveal his real name. I simply do not know how to account for this, but note the anomaly in the hope that further research, perhaps by other scholars, may unravel the mystery. [via]
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Mermaids on the Golf Courseby Patricia HighsmithISBN 0393324567 (0-393-32456-7)
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Murder at the Savoyby Maj Sjowall, Per WahlooISBN 0394470818 (0-394-47081-8)
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A Painted Houseby John GrishamISBN 038550120X (0-385-50120-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Painted House'Book summary:Ever since he published The Firm in 1991, John Grisham has remained the undisputed champ of the legal thriller. With A Painted House, however, he strikes out in a new direction. As the author is quick to note, this novel includes "not a single lawyer, dead or alive," and readers will search in vain for the kind of lowlife machinations that have been his stock-in-trade. Instead, Grisham has delivered a quieter, more contemplative story, set in rural Arkansas in 1952. It's harvest time on the Chandler farm, and the family has hired a crew of migrant Mexicans and "hill people" to pick 80 acres of cotton. A certain camaraderie pervades this bucolic dream team. But it's backbreaking work, particularly for the 7-year-old narrator, Luke: "I would pick cotton, tearing the fluffy bolls from the stalks at a steady pace, stuffing them into the heavy sack, afraid to look down the row and be reminded of how endless it was, afraid to slow down because someone would notice."
What's more, tensions begin to simmer between the Mexicans and the hill people, one of whom has a penchant for bare-knuckles brawling. This leads to a brutal murder, which young Luke has the bad luck to witness. At this point--with secrets, lies, and at least one knife fight in the offing--the plot begins to take on that familiar, Grisham-style momentum. Still, such matters ultimately take a back seat in A Painted House to the author's evocation of time and place. This is, after all, the scene of his boyhood, and Grisham waxes nostalgic without ever succumbing to deep-fried sentimentality. Meanwhile, his account of Luke's Baptist upbringing occasions some sly (and telling) humor:
I'd been taught in Sunday school from the day I could walk that lying would send you straight to hell. No detours. No second chances. Straight into the fiery pit, where Satan was waiting with the likes of Hitler and Judas Iscariot and General Grant. Thou shalt not bear false witness, which, of course, didn't sound exactly like a strict prohibition against lying, but that was the way the Baptists interpreted it.
Whether Grisham will continue along these lines, or revert to the judicial shark tank for his next book, is anybody's guess. But A Painted House suggests that he's perfectly capable of telling an involving story with nary a subpoena in sight. --James Marcus [via] 
A Pair for the Queenby Barbara ComfortISBN 0393046273 (0-393-04627-3)
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Panicking Ralphby Bill JamesISBN 0393323064 (0-393-32306-4)
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Pay Days: A Harpur and Iles Mysteryby Bill JamesISBN 0393042146 (0-393-04214-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pay Days: A Harpur and Iles Mystery'Book summary:A tale of fear, greed, and murder by "one of the kings of the dark hill" (Val McDermid).
Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his brilliant, amoral superior ACC Desmond Iles face a dilemma that's both political and personal when they suspect a police officer of taking bribes from underworld criminals Panicking Ralph Ember and Top Banana Mansel Shale. Is Nivette doing some unauthorized undercover workas Harpur himself often doesor is he really bent? It's a question of intense interest not only to Harpur and Iles but also to Ember and Shale, and searching for the answer entails several break-ins to Nivette's house to look for, take, or plant the evidence.
Meanwhile, the body of a pusher, Victor Goussard ("Slow Victor"), is found trussed up on a deserted boat in the city harborand then it disappears. His lover frantically, unwisely, starts to ask questions down at the docks; a snoopy television reporter sees a breaking story; and Ember, terrified of exposure, plots the murder of a man who knows too much. Harpur is fast on the trail to make the connections and prevent another crime, but it's a race against timeand treachery. [via]More editions of Pay Days: A Harpur and Iles Mystery:
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The Pelican Briefby John GrishamISBN 0385421982 (0-385-42198-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pelican Brief'Book summary:John Grisham's head was full of movies when he wrote The Pelican Brief, which is such a brisk page-turner you could use it to dry your hair. He had Julia Roberts in mind for the heroine, Darby Shaw, a brilliant Tulane law student who comes up with an ingenious theory to explain the baffling assassinations of two Supreme Court justices in one day. They were shot and strangled by ace international terrorist Khamel, who loves the film Three Days of the Condor, but government gumshoes don't get what connects the deaths. Silly government guys! They died so the conservative president, who just wants to be left alone to play golf, will appoint new, conservative justices who will help out a case involving an industrialist who is the enemy of pelicans and other living things. It's all spelled out for them in Darby's brief. She likes to do legal feats to impress her boyfriend, her boyish law prof Thomas (who, like Grisham, prefers to shave at most once a week, and is cool, smart, and antiauthoritarian). The prof likes to paint her toes red, in homage to Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham. (Sarandon also starred in the film version of Grisham's The Client.)
But when Thomas gets splattered by a car bomb meant for Darby, she escapes the hospital and hooks up with a Washington Post reporter, Gray Grantham, who sleuths like the guys in All the President's Men.
Grisham wishes he hadn't written The Pelican Brief quite so quickly (his first novel, A Time to Kill, went through dozens of drafts), but Pelican's very breathlessness contributes to its dreamy, cinematic chase-o-rama atmosphere. [via]
The People Who Knock on the Doorby Patricia HighsmithISBN 0393322432 (0-393-32243-2)
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, Michael Patrick GillespieISBN 0393927547 (0-393-92754-7)
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The Poison Oracleby Peter DickinsonISBN 0394491084 (0-394-49108-4)
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Portrait of a Young Man Drowningby Charles PerryISBN 0393314626 (0-393-31462-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portrait of a Young Man Drowning'Book summary:This riveting tale of compulsion and murder bears comparison in its inexorability to Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me.
Set in the world of Brooklyn gangsters and juvenile delinquents, Portrait of a Young Man Drowning reveals a character caught in a whirlpool of street crime and Oedipal passion, driven by circumstances beyond his control into acts of self-destruction and twisted sexuality. [via]More editions of Portrait of a Young Man Drowning:
The Rat on Fireby George V. HigginsISBN 0394424093 (0-394-42409-3)
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A Red Deathby Walter MosleyISBN 0393029980 (0-393-02998-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Red Death'Book summary:It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow "Easy Rawlins."
Easy is out of " the hurting business" and into the housing (and the favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. FBI Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist union organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin... [via]More editions of A Red Death:
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Red Dustby Gillian SlovoISBN 0393323994 (0-393-32399-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Dust'Book summary:"Perhaps the most important piece of fiction yet to emerge from the new South Africa."San Francisco Chronicle
"Written with the pace of a thriller"Times Literary Supplement. Red Dust is set in a rural South African town, where three people are about to meet their past. Sarah Barcant has left her law career in New York to assist an old friend as prosecutor on a Truth Commission hearing. Dirk Hendricks, a former police deputy, is being taken in handcuffs to the station where he once worked. There he will confront Alex Mpondo, the man he had tortured, who is now an MP. [via]More editions of Red Dust:
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The Red Screamby Mary Willis WalkerISBN 038546858X (0-385-46858-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Scream'Book summary:In this 1995 winner of the Edgar Award for best mystery novel, crime reporter Molly Cates has chronicled the exploits of Louie Bronk, a brutal serial killer scheduled for execution, for her first book. With his execution just a few days away, Molly decides to write the closing chapter on her disturbing relationship with the man known as the Texas Scalper. Strangely, both her boss and the husband of the woman whose murder got Bronk the death penalty pressure her to back off the story. When she receives a chilling anonymous letter and another body is found, she begins to suspect that Bronk is not the killer at all. Her quest for the truth, she discovers, not only discredits her work, but places her own life on the line. [via]
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RL's Dreamby Walter MosleyISBN 0393038025 (0-393-03802-5)
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Roses, Rosesby Bill JamesISBN 0393319253 (0-393-31925-3)
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S. R. O.by Robert Deane PharrISBN 0393317064 (0-393-31706-4)
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The Sceneby Clarence CooperISBN 0393314634 (0-393-31463-4)
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The School on 103rd Streetby Roland S. JeffersonISBN 0393316629 (0-393-31662-9)
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Six Out Seven : A Novelby Jess MowryISBN 0385475349 (0-385-47534-9)
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Small G: A Summer Idyllby Patricia HighsmithISBN 0393327035 (0-393-32703-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Small G: A Summer Idyll'Book summary:COMPLETED JUST MONTHS before Patricia High-smith's death in 1995, "Small g explores the labyrinthine intricacies of love, sexuality, and jealousy in a style and form few knew were part of her range. The story opens in Zurich with the brutal murder of Petey Ritter. We then jump six months ahead to Jakob's, a louche bar known for its mixture of gay, straight, and bisexual clientele, where Petey's lover Rickie is recovering slowly, spending time at the bar with his dancing dog, Lulu. They share Jakob's with the club-footed Renate, a possessive seamstress, and her beautiful apprentice Luisa. Then the impressionable and beautiful Teddie Stevenson arrives. Luisa and Rickie both fall in love with him--but Renate and her henchman Willi conspire to break Teddies spell by force. Renate in turn becomes the subject of a counterconspiracy hatched by Rickie and Luisa, with hilarious and unexpected results. [via]
So Long As You Both Shall Liveby Ed McBainISBN 0394485831 (0-394-48583-1)
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The Standoffby Chuck HoganISBN 0385477163 (0-385-47716-3)
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Stayby Nicola GriffithISBN 0385503008 (0-385-50300-8)
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The Street Lawyerby John GrishamISBN 0385490992 (0-385-49099-2)
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Sunset Limitedby James Lee BurkeISBN 0385488424 (0-385-48842-4)
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The Theban Mysteriesby Amanda CrossISBN 0394411080 (0-394-41108-0)
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Thy Brother Deathby E. X. FerrarsISBN 0385470924 (0-385-47092-4)
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The Treatment : A Novelby Mo HayderISBN 0385496958 (0-385-49695-8)
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Under the Snow : A Novel by the Author of Blackwaterby Kerstin Ekman, Joan TateISBN 0385488661 (0-385-48866-1)
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Walking Deadby Peter DickinsonISBN 0394420101 (0-394-42010-1)
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The West End Horrorby Nicholas MeyerISBN 0393311538 (0-393-31153-8)
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White Butterflyby Walter MosleyISBN 039303366X (0-393-03366-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Butterfly'Book summary:Andrew Vachss called Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley's debut mystery featuring Easy Rawlins, a tough black private detective in L.A.'s Watts section, "the most self-assured, uniquely-voiced first novel I've ever read." The Wall Street Journal said of its sequel, A Red Death: "Remarkable...proves Mr. Mosley's debut was no fluke." Readers and critics agree that Walter Mosley is writing novels fit to stand alongside the giants of the L.A. hardboiled tradition.
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Yesterday Will Make You Cryby Chester HimesISBN 039331829X (0-393-31829-X)
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