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Angel of Hopeby Lurlene McDanielISBN 0553571486 (0-553-57148-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Anne's House of Dreamsby Lucy Maud Montgomery, Caroline ParryISBN 0553213180 (0-553-21318-0)
Softcover, Skylark
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne's House of Dreams'Book summary:The newlyweds, Anne and Gilbert, move into their house of dreams where they share joys and sorrows with special neighbors Captain Jim, Leslie Moore and Cornelia. The births of the first children a moving part of the story. Five 90-minute cassettes. [via]
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The Awakeningby Kate ChopinISBN 055321330X (0-553-21330-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses The Awakening , Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and "iridescent." This edition of The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin. "This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art." -- From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson. [via]
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Baby Alicia Is Dyingby Lurlene McDanielISBN 0553296051 (0-553-29605-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Bliss - the Screenplayby Peter Carey, Ray LawrenceISBN 0571137296 (0-571-13729-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preservedby P.V. GlobISBN 057108947X (0-571-08947-X)
Hardcover, Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved'Book summary:One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified the body as that of a two-thousand-year-old man, ritually murdered and thrown in the bog as a sacrifice to the goddess of fertility.
Written in the guise of a scientific detective story, this classic of archaeological history--a best-seller when it was published in England but out of print for many years--is a thoroughly engrossing and still reliable account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the European Iron Age.
Includes 76 black-and-white photographs. [via]More editions of The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved:
Brian's Song: Screenplayby William BlinnISBN 0553266187 (0-553-26618-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Cheaper by the Dozenby Frank B. Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth CareyISBN 0606196927 (0-606-19692-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Cheaper by the Dozenby Gilbreth, Frank B., Jr., Ernestine Gilbreth CareyISBN 0553272500 (0-553-27250-0)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Cold Mountainby Charles FrazierISBN 0613075080 (0-613-07508-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Mountain'Book summary:The hero of Charles Frazier's beautifully written and deeply-imagined first novel is Inman, a disillusioned Confederate soldier who has failed to die as expected after being seriously wounded in battle during the last days of the Civil War. Rather than waiting to be redeployed to the front, the soul-sick Inman deserts, and embarks on a dangerous and lonely odyssey through the devastated South, heading home to North Carolina, and seeking only to be reunited with his beloved, Ada, who has herself been struggling to maintain the family farm she inherited. Cold Mountain is an unforgettable addition to the literature of one of the most important and transformational periods in American history. [via]
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The Collected Poemsby Ted Hughes, Sylvia PlathISBN 0571118380 (0-571-11838-0)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems'Book summary:Sylvia Plath died in 1963, and even now her outsize persona threatens to bury her poetry--the numerous biographies and studies often drawing the reader toward anecdote and away from the work. It's a relief to turn to the poems themselves and once more be jolted by their strange beauty, hard-wrought originality, and acetylene anger. "It is a heart, / This holocaust I walk in, / O golden child the world will kill and eat." While the juvenilia and poems written before 1960 that Ted Hughes has included here prefigure Plath's later obsessions, they also enable us to witness her turn from thesaurus-heavy verse to stripped-down art as they gather power through raw simplicity. "The blood jet is poetry. / There is no stopping it," she declares in "Kindness." [via]
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The Colossusby Sylvia PlathISBN 0571098649 (0-571-09864-9)
Softcover, Faber and Faber Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Colossus'Book summary:Originally published in 1960, "The Colossus" was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published during her lifetime. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery that would later confirm her status as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. 'She steers clear of feminine charm, deliciousness, gentility, supersensitivity and the act of being poetess. She simply writes good poetry. And she does so with a seriousness that demands only that she be judged equally seriously ...There is an admirable no-nonsense air about this; the language is bare but vivid and precise, with a concentration that implies a good deal of disturbance with proportionately little fuss.' A. Alvarez, "The Observer". [via]
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Complete Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553609416 (0-553-60941-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Lowell BlairISBN 0553213504 (0-553-21350-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Edmund Dantes, unjustly convicted of aiding the exiled Napoleon, escapes after 14 years of imprisonment and seeks his revenge in Paris. [via]
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The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloudby Ben SherwoodISBN 0553383256 (0-553-38325-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death And Life Of Charlie St. Cloud'Book summary:The book that inspired the movie Charlie St. Cloud starring Zac Effron. An inspiring story about loss, love, and hope. [via]
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Death in Venice and Other Storiesby Thomas MannISBN 0553213334 (0-553-21333-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Venice and Other Stories'Book summary:This superb translation of Death in Venice and six other stories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, deserving to be the definitive text for English-speaking readers. These seven stories represent Manns early writing career and a level of literary quality Mann himself despaired of ever again matching. In these stories he began to grapple with themes that were to recur throughout his work. In Little Herr Friedemann, a characters carefully structured way of life is suddenly threatened by an unexpected sexual passion. In Gladius Dei, puritanical intellect clashes with beauty. In Tristan, Mann presents an ironic and comic account of the tension between an artist and bourgeois society.
All seven of these stories are accomplished and memorable, but it is Death in Venice that truly forms the centerpiece of the collection. The themes that Mann weaves through the shorter pieces come to a climax in this stunning novella, one of the most hauntingly magnificent tales of art and self-destruction ever written. [via]More editions of Death in Venice and Other Stories:
Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Storiesby Leo TolstoyISBN 0606122478 (0-606-12247-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0553212710 (0-553-21271-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:This classic, spine-tingling gothic horror novel has become part of the Apple Classics line just in time to coincide with the all-new Dracula movie premiering in August 1992, starring Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, and Anthony Hopkins. Young Adult. [via]
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Equal Ritesby Terry PratchettISBN 0575039507 (0-575-03950-7)
Hardcover, Victor Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equal Rites'Book summary:The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did before he died was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic world of magic, he failed to check on the newborn baby's sex. From the author of GUARDS! GUARDS!, WYRD SISTERS, and HOGFATHER. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 055321201X (0-553-21201-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mary Lennox is a pale, sickly child when she goes to live with her uncle in a big, old house in the country. In the grounds, there is a garden, which has high walls all around it and no door. Mary becomes very curious about the garden but how can she get into it? And will it help her? [via]
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Softcover, Addison-Wesley - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0590240773 (0-590-24077-3)
Softcover, Scholastic - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0606036482 (0-606-03648-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 055321201X (0-553-21201-X)
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- Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0582426596 (0-582-42659-6)
Hans Andersen, His Classic Fairy Talesby Michael Foreman, Erik Christian Haugaard, H.C. AndersenISBN 0575021888 (0-575-02188-8)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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How to Go on Living When Someone You Love Diesby Therese A. RandoISBN 0553352695 (0-553-35269-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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I'm Here to Help : A Guide for Caregivers, Hospice Workers, and Volunteersby M. Catherine RayISBN 0553377973 (0-553-37797-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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In Cold Bloodby Truman CapoteISBN 0606207201 (0-606-20720-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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In Lane Three, Alex Archerby Tessa DuderISBN 0553290207 (0-553-29020-7)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Jitterbug Perfumeby Tom RobbinsISBN 0553348981 (0-553-34898-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jitterbug Perfume'Book summary:A story beginning in the forests of ancient Bohemia and ending at nine o'clock tonight, Paris time. The hero is a janitor with a missing bottle which is embossed with the image of a goat-horned god and is said to contain the remaining drops of the secret essence of the universe. [via]
Johnny and the Deadby Terry PratchettISBN 0552527408 (0-552-52740-8)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Judeby Thomas HardyISBN 0553211919 (0-553-21191-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jude'Book summary:In 1895 Hardys final novel, the great tale of Jude the Obscure, sent shock waves of indignation rolling across Victorian England. Hardy had dared to write frankly about sexuality and to indict the institutions of marriage, education, and religion. But he had, in fact, created a deeply moral work. The stonemason Jude Fawley is a dreamer; his is a tragedy of unfulfilled aims. With his tantalizing cousin Sue Bridehead, the last and most extraordinary of Hardys heroines, Jude takes on the worldand discovers, tragically, its brutal indifference.
The most powerful expression of Hardys philosophy, and a profound exploration of mans essential loneliness, Jude the Obscure is a great and beautiful book. His style touches sublimity. T. S. Eliot [via]More editions of Jude:
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King Learby William Shakespeare, David M. BevingtonISBN 0553212974 (0-553-21297-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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The Kite Runner: Bookclub-in-a-box Presents the Discussion Companion for Khaled Hosseini's Novelby Khaled HosseiniISBN 0606308857 (0-606-30885-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Le Testament / the Testamentby John Grisham, Karen HolmesISBN 0582437067 (0-582-43706-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Life Expectancyby Dean KoontzISBN 0553588249 (0-553-58824-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Expectancy'Book summary:With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacya story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between.
Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his stroke.
What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandsonfive dates whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face. The first is to occur in his twentieth year; the second in his twent-third year; the third in his twenty-eighth; the fourth in his twenty-ninth; the fifth in his thirtieth.
Rudy is all too ready to discount his father's last words as a dying man's delusional rambling. But then he discovers that Josef also predicted the time of his grandson's birth to the minute, as well as his exact height and weight, and the fact that Jimmy would be born with syndactylythe unexplained anomal of fused digitson his left foot. Suddenly the old man's predictions take on a chilling significance.
What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points, the path he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each crisis he faces, he will move closer to a fate he could never have imagined. For who Jimmy Tock is and what he must accomplish on the five days when his world turns is a mystery as dangerous as it is wondrousa struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive, only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through. [via]
Life of Piby Yann MartelISBN 0606284001 (0-606-28400-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Childrenby Bryan Mellonie, Robert R. IngpenISBN 0553344021 (0-553-34402-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0553212036 (0-553-21203-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Love Storyby Erich SegalISBN 0553275283 (0-553-27528-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Story'Book summary:This is the wonderful, tumultuous, heartfelt story of Oliver Barrett IV and Jenny Cavilleri--the story of a rich Harvard jock and a wisecracking Radcliffe music major who have nothing in common but love . . . and everything else to share but time. Funny and flip, sad and poignant, Erich Segal's magnificent novel will grab you, hold you, and stay with you forever. You, like more than twenty million others, will fall in love with Love Story. [via]
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The Neverending Storyby Michael EndeISBN 0606028064 (0-606-02806-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Notebookby Nicholas SparksISBN 0606191267 (0-606-19126-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Notebook'Book summary:"Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love." Anyway, head elsewhere for Great Literature, but if you're in the market to get your heartstrings plucked, look no further. The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she hook up with Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago? We're not telling, but you have two guesses and the first one doesn't count. Decades later, after Allison develops Alzheimer's, her beau uses "the notebook" to read her the story of the great love she's plumb forgot. The Notebook--film rights already sold, thank you very much--is a little glazed doughnut of a book: sticky- sweet, satisfying, not much nourishment. But who cares? Take an extra vitamin and indulge. [via]
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Odd Thomasby Dean KoontzISBN 0553384287 (0-553-38428-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Odd Thomas'Book summary:"The dead don't talk. I don't know why." But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it's a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Odd's otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo's sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it's different. A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world's worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd's deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15. Today is August 14. In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock 'n' Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present, fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmares-and a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart that even in the darkness must persevere. From the Hardcover edition. [via]
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Of Mice and Menby John SteinbeckISBN 055327824X (0-553-27824-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Mice and Men'Book summary:Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck, one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, offers a powerful but tragic tale in "Of Mice and Men". 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place'. George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California's Salinas Valley, they get work on a ranch. If they can just stay out of trouble, George promises Lennie, then one day they might be able to get some land of their own and settle down some place. But kind-hearted, childlike Lennie is a victim of his own strength. Seen by others as a threat, he finds it impossible to control his emotions. And one day not even George will be able to save him from trouble. "Of Mice and Men" is a tragic and moving story of friendship, loneliness and the dispossessed. "A thriller, a gripping tale that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick". ("New York Times"). Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works are published by Penguin and include "Cannery Row", "The Pearl", "The Winter of Our Discontent" and "The Grapes of Wrath". [via]
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Open Mind, Discriminating Mind: Reflections on Human Possibilitiesby Charles T. TartISBN 0595138616 (0-595-13861-6)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Othelloby William Shakespeare, David M. Bevington, David Scott KastanISBN 0553213024 (0-553-21302-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:If anything, Othello has increased its stature as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies ever since it was first written, between 1603 and 1604, due to the victimisation suffered by its tragic hero, Othello, as a result of his skin colour. Othello is a "noble Moor", a North African Muslim who has converted to Christianity and is deemed one of the Venetian state's most reliable soldiers. However, his ensign Iago harbours an obscure hatred against his general, and when Othello secretly marries the beautiful daughter of the Venetian senator Brabanzio, Iago begins his subtle campaign of vilification, which will inevitably lead to the deaths of more than just Othello and Desdemona.
An extraordinary play, both for its dramatic economy and power as well as its remarkable language, from Othello's bombastic "traveller's history" to Desdemona's elegiac "willow song", the play raises uncomfortable questions about ongoing questions of not only racial identity but also sexuality, as Othello and Desdemona's sexual relationship becomes the voyeuristic site of Iago's attempt to destroy them. Particularly fascinated with the question of what it means to "see", Othello also contains one of the greatest tragic death scenes in all of Shakespeare, with Othello's final identification with "a malignant and a turbaned Turk". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Our TownISBN 0573613494 (0-573-61349-4)
Hardcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
Find This BookBook summary:Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prizewinning drama of life in the town of Grover 's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.
It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly the great American play." In addition, Tappan Wilder has written an eye-opening new Afterword, which includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.
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The Paradisoby Dante AlighieriISBN 0553212044 (0-553-21204-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paradiso'Book summary:This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's vision now becomes accessible to the modern reader in this highly acclaimed, superb dual language edition. With extensive notes and commentary. [via]
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Paulaby Isabel AllendeISBN 0613027698 (0-613-02769-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paula'Book summary:"Listen, Paula. I am going to tell you a story so that when you wake up you will not feel so lost." So says Chilean writer Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits) in the opening lines of the luminous, heart-rending memoir she wrote while her 28-year-old daughter Paula lay in a coma. In its pages, she ushers an assortment of outrageous relatives into the light: her stepfather, an amiable liar and tireless debater; grandmother Meme, blessed with second sight; and delinquent uncles who exultantly torment Allende and her brothers. Irony and marvelous flights of fantasy mix with the icy reality of Paula's deathly illness as Allende sketches childhood scenes in Chile and Lebanon; her uncle Salvatore Allende's reign and ruin as Chilean president; her struggles to shake off or find love; and her metamorphosis into a writer. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Kieran McGovern, Oscar WildeISBN 0582418089 (0-582-41808-9)
Softcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0553212540 (0-553-21254-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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The Prince of Tidesby Pat ConroyISBN 0553268880 (0-553-26888-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince of Tides'Book summary:PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born.
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The Purgatorioby Dante AlighieriISBN 055321344X (0-553-21344-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Purgatorio'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition. [via]
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0553210114 (0-553-21011-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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A Rose for Melindaby Lurlene McDanielISBN 0553570900 (0-553-57090-0)
Softcover, Starfire
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The Savage God: A Study of Suicideby A. AlvarezISBN 055320906X (0-553-20906-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Savage God: A Study of Suicide'Book summary:"To write a beautiful book about suicide . . . to transform the subject into something beautifulthis is the forbidding task that A. Alvarez set for himself. . . . He has succeeded."New York Times
"Suicide," writes the notes English poet and critic A. Alvarez, "has permeated Western culture like a dye that cannot be washed out." Although the aims of this compelling, compassionate work are broadly cultural and literary, the narrative is rooted in personal experience: it begins with a long memoir of Sylvia Plath, and ends with an account of the author's own suicide attempt. Within this dramatic framework, Alvarez launches his enquiry into the final taboo of human behavior, and traces changing attitudes towards suicide from the perspective of literature. He follows the black thread leading from Dante through Donne and the romantic agony, to the Savage God at the heart of modern literature. [via]More editions of The Savage God: A Study of Suicide:
Saving Jessicaby Lurlene McDanielISBN 0553567217 (0-553-56721-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. LewisISBN 0553214438 (0-553-21443-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Screwtape Letters'Book summary:This adaptation of C.S. Lewis's biting satire received a 1999 Grammy nomination for best spoken-word performance, and it's easy to see why--the story fits the format perfectly. It's relatively brief (the unabridged reading takes a mere four hours), and contains only one character--the demon Screwtape, who writes letters to his novice nephew Wormwood, instructing him on how to best tempt his "patient" (a wayward soul on earth) into the bosom of "our Lord below."
Obviously, the book wasn't written with former Monty Python John Cleese in mind, but it's hard to imagine a better Screwtape. Cleese's voice provides the perfect vehicle for Lewis's dry, razor-edged wit. His uncanny comic timing and ability to milk each phrase for maximum effect betray an infectious enthusiasm for the story. It's clear that he's having a great time reading, and it's impossible not to laugh along with him. This inspired pairing of two of the 20th century's greatest wits makes for a meditation on the dark side of spiritual guidance that's as relevant and funny today as it was in Lewis's war-torn England. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --Andrew Neiland [via]
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The Secret Garden: A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Storyby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0590433466 (0-590-43346-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Garden: A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Story'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Somewhere Between Life and Deathby Lurlene McDanielISBN 0553283499 (0-553-28349-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Somewhere Between Life and Death'Book summary:The celebration isn't supposed to end in tragedy. The night of their high-school drama group's cast party starts out as fun for sisters Amy and Erin.
Their lives come crashing down when Amy takes the car to get more food and has a horrible accident. Erin and her family pray for Amy to awaken from her coma. But as the monitor bleeps and the respirator hisses, Amy lies somewhere between life and death.
Erin and her parents must find the courage to accept the fact that Amy's life-support system will never bring her back. When she dies, can the family give some meaning to her senseless death? Can Amy's dying become the hope for someone else's living? [via]More editions of Somewhere Between Life and Death:
Sophie's Choiceby William StyronISBN 0553277499 (0-553-27749-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Spoon River Anthologyby Edgar Lee Masters, Charles AidmanISBN 0573615705 (0-573-61570-5)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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Timbuktu: A Novelby Paul AusterISBN 0571203299 (0-571-20329-9)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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The Time Capsuleby Lurlene McDanielISBN 0553494317 (0-553-49431-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Time Capsule'Book summary:In first grade, twins Alexis and Adam wrote down what they wanted to be when they grew up and put it in their teachers time capsule. Now entering their senior year in high school, they are surprised to find out what they wrote: Alexis wanted to help people and Adam wanted to be a fireman. But that was before Adam got sick and their family fell apart. Adams leukemia is now in remission but, sadly, so is the twins family. Their mother and father are always workingnot only dont they have time for Alexis and Adam, they dont have time for each other. Alexis cant even convince them to take a weekend off for one last family vacation to Disney World.
No one is prepared when Adam gets sick again, but this time Alexis is not alone. Adams illness reunites the family. And Alexis discovers that the time capsule predictions werent so far off the mark.
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Toning the Sweepby Angela JohnsonISBN 0590481428 (0-590-48142-8)
Softcover, Point
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The Trialby Franz KafkaISBN 0613175638 (0-613-17563-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trial'Book summary:A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life--including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door--becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral. [via]
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Where the Red Fern Growsby Wilson RawlsISBN 0553274295 (0-553-27429-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Red Fern Grows'Book summary:Author Wilson Rawls spent his boyhood much like the character of this book, Billy Colman, roaming the Ozarks of northeastern Oklahoma with his bluetick hound. A straightforward, shoot-from-the-hip storyteller with a searingly honest voice, Rawls is well-loved for this powerful 1961 classic and the award-winning novel Summer of the Monkeys. In Where the Red Fern Grows, Billy and his precious coonhound pups romp relentlessly through the Ozarks, trying to "tree" the elusive raccoon. In time, the inseparable trio wins the coveted gold cup in the annual coon-hunt contest, captures the wily ghost coon, and bravely fights with a mountain lion. When the victory over the mountain lion turns to tragedy, Billy grieves, but learns the beautiful old Native American legend of the sacred red fern that grows over the graves of his dogs. This unforgettable classic belongs on every child's bookshelf. (Ages 9 and up) [via]
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With You and Without Youby Ann M. MartinISBN 0590436252 (0-590-43625-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'With You and Without You'Book summary:A twelve-year-old faces the fact that her father is dying, and then his death, but dealing with the emptiness afterwards is hardest of all. [via]
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Wyrd Sistersby Terry PratchettISBN 0552144304 (0-552-14430-4)
Softcover, Transworld Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wyrd Sisters'Book summary:Three witches decide to right the wrongs of a Discworld kingdom. [via]
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