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Ac/Dc: Hell Ain't No Bad Place to Beby Richard BuntonISBN 0711900825 (0-7119-0082-5)
Softcover, Beekman Books Inc
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Alice in the Knowby Phyllis Reynolds NaylorISBN 0689870922 (0-689-87092-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Among the Betrayedby Margaret Peterson HaddixISBN 068983909X (0-689-83909-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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What does it mean to save yourself?Nina Idi -- a third child in a society where families are allowed only two children -- has been betrayed by the boy she loved, and arrested by the Population Police for exposing other alleged third children. Angry and confused, Nina knows only one thing for sure: She is innocent of the charges. But now she is faced with the most difficult choice of her life: Get three other prisoners to admit they are shadow children and be spared herself, or refuse to cooperate and be killed.
The options are clear. The choice, Nina discovers, is not.... [via]
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At the Back of the North Wind ; [and], the Princess and the Goblin ; [and], the Princess and Curdieby George MacDonaldISBN 0706410548 (0-7064-1054-8)
Hardcover, Octopus Books Limited
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Blizzard's Wakeby Phyllis Reynolds NaylorISBN 0689852215 (0-689-85221-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Blood on His Handsby Willo Davis RobertsISBN 0689850824 (0-689-85082-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Celebration of Death: An Introduction to Some of the Buildings, Monuments, and Settings of Funerary Architecture in the Western European Traditionby James Stevens CurlISBN 0713473363 (0-7134-7336-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Chapman's Homer: The Odysseyby Homer, Allardyce Nicoll, George ChapmanISBN 0691048916 (0-691-04891-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey'Book summary:George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." The great critic George Saintsbury (1845-1933) wrote: "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language." This volume presents the original text of Chapman's translation of the Odyssey (1614-15), making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. The editor, Allardyce Nicoll, provides an introduction, textual notes, a glossary, and a commentary. Garry Wills's preface to the Odyssey explores how Chapman's less strained meter lets him achieve more delicate poetic effects as compared to the Iliad. Wills also examines Chapman's "fine touch" in translating "the warm and human sense of comedy" in the Odyssey.
[via]Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.
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Chicken Boyby Frances O'Roark DowellISBN 0689858167 (0-689-85816-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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With her remarkable ability to create characters you wish could be part of your life forever, Frances O'Roark Dowell introduces Tobin McCauley, Chicken Boy. [via]
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The Children of the Souls: A Tragedy of the First World Warby Jeanne MackenzieISBN 070112847X (0-7011-2847-X)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Churchyards of England and Wales: Brian Baileyby Brian J. BaileyISBN 0709029489 (0-7090-2948-9)
Hardcover, R. Hale
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Collected Poems of Wilfred Owenby Edmund Blunden, Wilfred Owen, C. Day LewisISBN 0701109084 (0-7011-0908-4)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen'Book summary:The very content of Owens poems was, and still is, pertinent to the feelings of young men facing death and the terrors of war. The New York Times Book Review
Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered the most important British poems of WWI. This definitive edition is based on manuscripts of Owens papers in the British Museum and other archives. [via]More editions of Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen:
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The Color of Absenceby James HoweISBN 0689856679 (0-689-85667-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color of Absence'Book summary:Virginia Euwer Wolff (Make Lemonade, Bat 6) sums up the essence of the 12 stories in The Color of Absence: "One of the things that interests me most about loss is that often, while we are being swept away by losing something, we are gaining something else that totally surprises us." A dozen young adult authors look at this paradox in all its guises as it touches young lives, in this collection of short fictional pieces edited by James Howe. Two of the stories are extraordinary--Wolff's own "Chair," which dramatizes the heartbreaking descent into Alzheimer's over three visits between an old man and his great-grandson, and Annette Curtis Klause's delicate and astonishingly moving tale of a vampire who rediscovers love through the affection and death of a small cat. Knowledgeable fans of young adult literature will be intrigued by the unlikely collaboration of Jacqueline Woodson and Chris Lynch in "The Rialto," an excerpt from a novel in progress. Walter Dean Myers, Avi, Angela Johnson, Norma Fox Mazer, Naomi Shihab Nye, and other authors explore losses ranging from a stolen bicycle to a father dying of AIDS. Young readers of a variety of ages and temperaments are sure to find at least a couple of stories here to touch their hearts. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, James Stern, Josef ScharlISBN 0710082053 (0-7100-8205-3)
Hardcover, Routledge and Kegan Paul
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The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination ; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym ; The Raven and Other Poemsby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0706415523 (0-7064-1552-3)
Hardcover, Octopus Books
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The Courage to Grieveby Judy TatelbaumISBN 0690019300 (0-690-01930-0)
Hardcover, Lippincott & Crowell
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Death and the Afterlife in Modern Franceby Thomas A. KselmanISBN 0691008892 (0-691-00889-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death and the Afterlife in Modern France'Book summary:Although today in France church attendance is minimal, when death occurs many families still cling to religious rites. In exploring this common reaction to one of the most painful aspects of existence, Thomas Kselman turns to nineteenth-century French beliefs about death and the afterlife not only to show how deeply rooted the cult of the dead is in one Western society, but how death and the behavior of mourners have been politicized in the modern world. Drawing on sermons preached in rural and urban parishes, folktales, and accounts of seances, the author vividly re-creates the social and cultural context in which most French people responded to death and dealt with anxieties about the self and its survival. Inspired mainly by Catholicism, beliefs about death provided a social basis for moral order throughout the nineteenth century and were vulnerable to manipulation by public officials and clergy. Kselman shows, however, that by mid-century the increase in urbanization, capitalism, family privacy, and expressed religious differences generated diverse attitudes toward death, causing funerals to evolve from Catholic neighborhood rituals into personalized symbolic events for Catholics and dissenters alike--the civil burial of Victor Hugo being perhaps the greatest symbol of rebellion. Kselman's discussion of the growth of commercial funerals and innovations in cemetery administration illuminates a new struggle for control over funeral arrangements, this time involving businessmen, politicians, families, and clergy. This struggle in turn demonstrates the importance of these events for defining social identity. [via]
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Dicey's Songby Cynthia VoigtISBN 0689851316 (0-689-85131-6)
Softcover, Simon Pulse
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Letting GoThe four Tillerman children finally have a home at their grandmother's rundown farm on the Maryland shore. It's what Dicey has dreamed of for her three younger siblings, but after watching over the others for so long, it's hard to let go. Who is Dicey, if she's no longer the caretaker for her family?
Dicey finds herself in new friends, in a growing relationship with her grandmother, and in the satisfaction of refinishing the old boat she found in the barn. Then, as Dicey experiences the trials and pleasures of making a new life, the past comes back with devastating force, and Dicey learns just how necessary -- and painful -- letting go can be. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 0691019134 (0-691-01913-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Divine Comedy: Paradiso/Text and Commentary, Part 1 and 2by Charles SingletonISBN 0691019142 (0-691-01914-2)
Softcover, Bollingen Foundation
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The Divine Comedy: Paradiso/Text, Part 1by Charles S. SingletonISBN 0691019126 (0-691-01912-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The English Way of Death: The Common Funeral Since 1450by Julian LittenISBN 0709070977 (0-7090-7097-7)
Softcover, Robert Hale Ltd
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The Fallenby Celia ThomsonISBN 0689866585 (0-689-86658-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Faust I & IIby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Stuart AtkinsISBN 069103656X (0-691-03656-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust I & II'Book summary:Green Spain, as Northern Spain is often known, offers the visitor a great variety of landscapes: lush forests, deep-green valleys, soaring high mountain scenery, and exquisite beaches. For those looking for more than sun and sand, cultural highlights such as Santiago de Compostela, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao are contrasted with the wonderful national parks that can be found in the Central and Eastern Pyrenees. But the best beaches and most charming villages are not neglected. Everything is depicted in the glorious visual style for which Eyewitness Travel Guides are known. [via]
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Firewingby Kenneth OppelISBN 0689869886 (0-689-86988-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Firewing'Book summary:The forest heaves and splits in a terrible quake, and Griffin, a newborn Silverwing bat, is sucked down a fissure deep into the earth. Shade, Griffin's father, soon realizes that his son has been drawn into the Underworld, and embarks on the most dangerous of journeys to rescue him. Shade knows he must find Griffin quickly -- legend dictates that if the living stumble into the land of the dead, they have only a short time before death claims them, too. But something else is hunting Griffin -- a deadly foe Shade hoped he would never see again. Who will find Griffin first? And who will survive to embark on the perilous journey back to the land of the living?
In this riveting companion to the acclaimed novels Silverwing and Sunwing, Kenneth Oppel creates a story that will resonate with readers of all ages -- a glorious fantasy adventure in which the living and the dead struggle for the sake of eternity. [via]
Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Agesby Patrick J. GearyISBN 0691008620 (0-691-00862-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Future of Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia in America: An Argument Against Legalizationby Neil GorsuchISBN 0691124582 (0-691-12458-2)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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A Girl of the Limberlostby Gene Stratton-Porter, Marc D. FalkoffISBN 0694012866 (0-694-01286-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Goodbye Mousieby Robie H. Harris, Jan OrmerodISBN 0689871341 (0-689-87134-1)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Zilpha Keatley SnyderISBN 0689839618 (0-689-83961-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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Gwen Harwood: Collected Poems 1943-1995by Gwen Harwood, Gregory Kratzmann, Alison HoddinottISBN 0702233528 (0-7022-3352-8)
Softcover, Univ of Queensland Pr
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Hallowe'En Partyby Agatha ChristieISBN 070891666X (0-7089-1666-X)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Hamlet in Purgatoryby Stephen GreenblattISBN 0691102570 (0-691-10257-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet in Purgatory'Book summary:Stephen Greenblatt sets out to explain his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the rise and fall of Purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative institution--as well as a capacious new reading of the power of Hamlet.
In the mid-sixteenth century, English authorities abruptly changed the relationship between the living and dead. Declaring that Purgatory was a false "poem," they abolished the institutions and banned the practices that Christians relied on to ease the passage to Heaven for themselves and their dead loved ones. Greenblatt explores the fantastic adventure narratives, ghost stories, pilgrimages, and imagery by which a belief in a grisly "prison house of souls" had been shaped and reinforced in the Middle Ages. He probes the psychological benefits as well as the high costs of this belief and of its demolition.
With the doctrine of Purgatory and the elaborate practices that grew up around it, the church had provided a powerful method of negotiating with the dead. The Protestant attack on Purgatory destroyed this method for most people in England, but it did not eradicate the longings and fears that Catholic doctrine had for centuries focused and exploited. In his strikingly original interpretation, Greenblatt argues that the human desires to commune with, assist, and be rid of the dead were transformed by Shakespeare-consummate conjurer that he was-into the substance of several of his plays, above all the weirdly powerful Hamlet. Thus, the space of Purgatory became the stage haunted by literature's most famous ghost.
This book constitutes an extraordinary feat that could have been accomplished by only Stephen Greenblatt. It is at once a deeply satisfying reading of medieval religion, an innovative interpretation of the apparitions that trouble Shakespeare's tragic heroes, and an exploration of how a culture can be inhabited by its own spectral leftovers.
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Hole in the Skyby Pete HautmanISBN 068984428X (0-689-84428-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Honey, I Love and Other Love Poemsby Eloise Greenfield, Diane Dillon, Leo DillonISBN 0690013345 (0-690-01334-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems'Book summary:Each of these sixteen "love poems" is spoken straight from the heart of a child. Riding on a train, listening to music, playing with a friend...each poem elicits a new appreciation of the rich content of everyday life. And each poem is accompanied by a beautiful drawing, both portrait and panorama, that deepens the insights contained in the singing words.
For the first time Eloise Greenfield and Diane and Leo Dillon have combined teir rich talents to bring children a book that shows them the joys that come from seeing with a poet's eyes--the eyes of love.Notable Children's Books of 1978 (ALA) [via]
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Winner, 1990 Recognition of Merit Award (George C. Stone Center for Children's Books, Claremont, CA)More editions of Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems:
If You Come Softlyby Jacqueline WoodsonISBN 0698118626 (0-698-11862-6)
Softcover, Puffin
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In Ruinsby Christopher WoodwardISBN 070116896X (0-7011-6896-X)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Insider's Towns: England and Walesby John TimpsonISBN 0711704198 (0-7117-0419-8)
Hardcover, British Tourist Authority
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Italian Memorial Sculpture 1820-1940: A Legacy Of Loveby Sandra Beresford, Franco Sborgi, Francesca Bregoli, James Stevens Curl, Robert W. Fichter, Fred S. Licht, Robert FreidusISBN 071122384X (0-7112-2384-X)
Hardcover, Antique Collectors Club Ltd
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The Little Match Girlby Anthea Bell, H. C. Andersen, Kveta PacovskaISBN 0698400275 (0-698-40027-5)
Hardcover, Minedition
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The Little Match Girlby H. C. Andersen, Rachel IsadoraISBN 0698114175 (0-698-11417-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Little Women ; [and], Good Wives ; [and], Little Menby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0706408101 (0-7064-0810-1)
Hardcover, Octopus Books Limited
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Loose Threadsby Lorie Ann GroverISBN 0689844190 (0-689-84419-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Lord of the Fliesby William G. GoldingISBN 0698102193 (0-698-10219-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Flies'Book summary:Lord of the Flies , William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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The Mill on the Flossby George EliotISBN 0701112468 (0-7011-1246-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United Statesby Shai Joshua LaviISBN 0691102635 (0-691-10263-5)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Mrs Dallowayby Virginia Woolf, G. Patton WrightISBN 0701209933 (0-7012-0993-3)
Hardcover, The Hogarth Press
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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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Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairsby Tomie De PaolaISBN 0698118367 (0-698-11836-7)
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Notes from Undergroundby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0690588216 (0-690-58821-6)
Hardcover, T. Y. Crowell Co
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The Odysseyby Homer, E. V. RieuISBN 0713904550 (0-7139-0455-0)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Oliver Twist ; Great Expectations ; A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0706416716 (0-7064-1671-6)
Hardcover, Octopus Books
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The Oresteiaby Aeschylus, Robert FaglesISBN 0704501031 (0-7045-0103-1)
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The Oresteia (458 BC):
Agamemnon Translated by E. D. A. Morshead
The Libation Bearers (also known as Choephoroi) Translated by E. D. A. Morshead
The Eumenides (also known as The Furies) Translated by E. D. A. MorsheadThe Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. Though originally written as tetralogy, it is the only surviving example of a trilogy of ancient Greek plays; the fourth play, Proteus, a satyr play that would have been performed as finale, has not survived. The Oresteia was originally performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize. Overall, this trilogy emblemizes the shift from a monarchal system of vendetta in Argos to a democratic system of litigation in Athens.
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Painted Love Lettersby Catherine BatesonISBN 0702232890 (0-7022-3289-0)
Softcover, University of Queensland Press
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Paradisoby Dante Alighieri, Charles Southward SingletonISBN 0691018448 (0-691-01844-8)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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Pleasure and Wayward Distraction: The Joy Division and New Order Storyby Brian EdgeISBN 0711905274 (0-7119-0527-4)
Softcover, Omnibus Pr
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A Pocket Guide: Discovering Welsh Gravesby Keith SpenceISBN 0708317928 (0-7083-1792-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Revenger's Tragedyby Brian Gibbons, TourneurISBN 0713632321 (0-7136-3232-1)
Hardcover, A & C Black
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Revenger's Tragedyby Tourneur, Brian GibbonsISBN 0713666641 (0-7136-6664-1)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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sombre background; although fashionably Italianate in appearance, the
play is concerned with substantial issues in the Britain of King James
I. The new king's court became notorious for luxuriousness, spectacular
masques and torchlight revels; and poets and playwrights attacked the
rumoured sexual and political corruption in high places. By 1607
revenge tragedy had already developed as a hybrid form incorporating
complex intrigue plots and elements of farce, including, as here,
elements of horror. The hero Vindice is eloquent and engagingly witty;
but as a poet he sees the skull beneath the skin, and as a revenger he
carries out some of the cruellest killings in all English Renaissance
tragedy. As the introduction demonstrates, the play proves highly
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Shelf Lifeby Gary PaulsenISBN 0689841809 (0-689-84180-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Silent to the Boneby E. L. KonigsburgISBN 0689867158 (0-689-86715-8)
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E.L. Konigsburg, brilliant Newbery Medal-winning author of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and The View from Saturday, has honed her skills to a fine point. Her keen understanding of young people is matched by her ability to create suspenseful, page-turning masterpieces. This beautifully written story is darker than some of her others, with a remarkably true glimpse into a young man's inner world. (Ages 10 to 14) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIIIby David StarkeyISBN 069401043X (0-694-01043-X)
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Henry took his first bride, Catherine of Aragon, when he was seventeen. They lasted twenty-four years together, but Catherine suffered through many miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir. Henry then fell in love with Anne Boleyn, the mother of Elizabeth I. Their relationship transformed England forever, but Henry had Anne beheaded and married his next wife, Jane Seymour, on the very day of Anne's execution. At last, Seymour gave birth to Henry's longed-for son, Edward VI. What followed was a farcical beauty contest which ended in the King's brief marriage to the "mare of Flanders," Anne of Cleves. Finally, there were the two Catherines: Catherine Howard, the flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the aging king and who was the second bride to lose her head; and Catherine Parr, the shrewd, religiously radical bluestocking who outlived him.
Six Wives is a masterful work of history that intimately examines the rituals of diplomacy, marriage, pregnancy and religion that were part of daily life for women at the Tudor Court. Weaving new facts and fresh interpretations into a spellbinding account of the emotional drama surrounding Henry's six marriages, David Starkey reveals the central role that the queens played in determining policy. With an equally keen eye for romantic and political intrigue, he brilliantly recaptures the story of Henry's wives and the England they ruled.
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Six Wives :the Queens of Henry VIII: The Queens of Henry VIIIby David StarkeyISBN 0701172983 (0-7011-7298-3)
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The Slave Dancerby Paula Fox, Eros KeithISBN 0689845057 (0-689-84505-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Sonnetsby William ShakespeareISBN 0708945163 (0-7089-4516-3)
Softcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Sophie's Masterpieceby Eileen Spinelli, Jane DyerISBN 0689866801 (0-689-86680-1)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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Soul in the Stone: Cemetery Art from America's Heartlandby John Gary BrownISBN 0700606343 (0-7006-0634-3)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novelby Anthony HorowitzISBN 0698119320 (0-698-11932-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Horowitz knows that his main character, 14-year-old Alex Rider, is a normal teenager and he never forgets this when he thrusts his young hero into the thick of several truly edge-of-seat scenarios. There is humour alongside the action too--some great characters and cutting one-liners--that helps to ensure that entertainment is high on the agenda throughout.
Orphan Alex thought he knew his Uncle Ian Rider--until the elusive banker is killed in a tragic car accident. Immediately, Alex's life starts to get stranger by the day as his guardian's friends and colleagues start showing up and contradicting everything Alex thought he knew about the man he'd called Dad for so long. Maybe Ian Rider was not a banker after all? Surely the bullet holes in his Uncle's totalled car reveal that he had not died in an accident, but was murdered? Everything is explained when Alex decides to track down Ian Rider's real employers, but Alex is in for a surprise when they decide to contact him. The truth is hard to take, but maybe by following in his uncle's secret footsteps he might get the chance for revenge.
Apart from a slightly over-the-top finale involving a helicopter and the roof of London's Science Museum, Stormbreaker is a refreshingly energetic yarn that is required reading for fans of the contemporary thriller. --John McLay [via]
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Survivors & Other Poemsby Tadeusz RozewiczISBN 069106315X (0-691-06315-X)
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The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial: A Handbookby Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-MitfordISBN 0714113441 (0-7141-1344-1)
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The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial: A Handbookby British Museum, Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-MitfordISBN 0714113301 (0-7141-1330-1)
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Tehanuby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0689845332 (0-689-84533-2)
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The Thousand Nights and One Nightby E. Powys Mathers, MardrusISBN 0710208693 (0-7102-0869-3)
Hardcover, Marboro Books
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Timpson's Towns: England and Walesby John TimpsonISBN 0711706824 (0-7117-0682-4)
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Tombs of Atuanby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0689845359 (0-689-84535-9)
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In this second book of Le Guin's Earthsea series, readers will meet Tenar, a priestess to the "Nameless Ones" who guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan. Only Tenar knows the passageways of this dark labyrinth, and only she can lead the young wizard Sparrowhawk, who stumbles into its maze, to the greatest treasure of all. Will she? [via]
Turn! Turn! Turn!by Pete Seeger, Wendy Anderson HalperinISBN 0689852355 (0-689-85235-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Wavesby Virginia WoolfISBN 0701209984 (0-7012-0998-4)
Softcover, Hogarth
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The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel. It consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never hear him speak through his own voice. The monologues that span the characters' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset.
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The Wisdom of the Serpentby Joseph L. Henderson, Maud OakesISBN 0691020647 (0-691-02064-7)
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"This is a classic work in analytical psychology that offers crucial insights on the meaning of death symbolism (and its inevitably accompanying rebirth and resurrection symbolism) as part of the great theme of initiation, of which [Henderson] is the world's foremost psychological interpreter. This material is really the next step after the hero myth that Joseph Campbell has made so popular, and provides an understanding of how not to use the hero myth in an inflated way as a psychology of mastery, but as an attainment progressively to be died beyond. [Henderson] is helped by the presence of Maud Oakes, who is a trained anthropologist with exquisite taste in her choice of mythic materials and respect for their original contexts."--John Beebe
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