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After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropologyby Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Andrew Dawson, Allison James, Jennifer Lorna HockeyISBN 041515006X (0-415-15006-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology'Book summary:This collection addresses the theme of representation in anthropology. Its fourteen articles explore some of the directions in which contemporary anthropology is moving, following the questions raised by the "writing culture" debates of the 1980s.
It includes discussion of issues such as:
* the concept of caste in Indian society
* scottish ethnography
* how dreams are culturally conceptualised
* representations of the family
* culture as conservation
* gardens, theme parks and the anthropologist in Japan
* representation in rural Japan
* people's place in the landscape of Northern Australia
* representing identity of the New Zealand Maori. [via]More editions of After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology:
All the King's Menby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0553204548 (0-553-20454-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the King's Men'Book summary:This landmark book is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, one of the nation's most astounding politicians. All the King's Men tells the story of Willie Stark, a southern-fried politician who builds support by appealing to the common man and playing dirty politics with the best of the back-room deal-makers. Though Stark quickly sheds his idealism, his right-hand man, Jack Burden -- who narrates the story -- retains it and proves to be a thorn in the new governor's side. Stark becomes a successful leader, but at a very high price, one that eventually costs him his life. The award-winning book is a play of politics, society and personal affairs, all wrapped in the cloak of history. [via]
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The Americans: The Democratic Experienceby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394710118 (0-394-71011-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Americans: The Democratic Experience'Book summary:Daniel J. Boorstin describes a post-Civil War America united not by ideological conviction or religious faith but by common participation in ordinary living: "A new civilization found new ways of holding men together--less and less by creed or belief, by tradition or by place, more and more by common effort and common experience, by the apparatus of daily life, by their ways of thinking about themselves." This is not a familiar litany of names, dates, and places, but an anecdotal account that rises far above impressionism and paints a compelling portrait of the United States as it climbed to new heights. Sheer reading pleasure for lovers of history, this fittingly ambitious conclusion to the Americans trilogy won the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1973. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Americans Vol. 3: The Democratic Experienceby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394487249 (0-394-48724-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Anne Sexton: A Biographyby Diane Wood MiddlebrookISBN 0395353629 (0-395-35362-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Becoming Chloeby Catherine Ryan HydeISBN 0375832580 (0-375-83258-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Becoming Chloe'Book summary:Meet Jordy. Hes on his own in New York City. Nobody to depend on; nobody depending on him. And its been working fine.
Until this girl comes along. Shes 18 and blond and prettyher world should be perfect. But shes seen things no one should ever see in their whole lifethe kind of things that break a person. She doesnt seem broken, though. She seems . . . innocent. Like she doesnt know a whole lot. Only sometimes she does.
The one thing she knows for sure is that the world is an ugly place. Now her life may depend on Jordy proving her wrong. So they hit the road to discover the truthand theres no going back from what they find out.
This deeply felt, redemptive novel reveals both the dark corners and hidden joys of lifes journeyand the remarkable resilience of the human soul.
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Behind the Smile: My Journey Out of Postpartum Depressionby Judith Moore, Marie Osmond, Marcia WilkieISBN 0446527769 (0-446-52776-9)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Behind the Smile: My Journey Out of Postpartum Depression'Book summary:More than one out of 10 new mothers experience post-partum depression (PPD), yet few women seek help. After Marie Osmond, beloved singer and TV talk show host, gave birth to her seventh child (four of her children are adopted), she became increasingly depressed. One night, she handed over her bank card to her babysitter, got in her car, and drove north-with no intention of returning until she had emerged from her crisis. After she went public with her own experiences with PPD on Oprah and Larry King Live, the response was overwhelming. Now collaborating with a doctor who helped her through her ordeal, Marie Osmond will share the fear and depression she overcame, and reveal how she put it all behind her and is moving on with her life. [via]
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Behind the Smile: My Journey out of Postpartum Depressionby Marie Osmond, Marcia Wilkie, Judith MooreISBN 044667852X (0-446-67852-X)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Behind the Smile: My Journey out of Postpartum Depression'Book summary:More than one out of 10 new mothers experience post-partum depression (PPD), yet few women seek help. After Marie Osmond, beloved singer and TV talk show host, gave birth to her seventh child (four of her children are adopted), she became increasingly depressed. One night, she handed over her bank card to her babysitter, got in her car, and drove north-with no intention of returning until she had emerged from her crisis. After she went public with her own experiences with PPD on Oprah and Larry King Live, the response was overwhelming. Now collaborating with a doctor who helped her through her ordeal, Marie Osmond will share the fear and depression she overcame, and reveal how she put it all behind her and is moving on with her life. [via]
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The Bottomsby Joe R. LansdaleISBN 0446677922 (0-446-67792-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bottoms'Book summary:Joe Lansdale, author of several horror novels, Westerns, and some outrageous thrillers, is something of a cult writer. The Bottoms, which may be the breakout book that moves Lansdale beyond the genre category, is a resonant and moving novel. Though there is a mystery at its core, it is at heart a coming-of-age story, with a more literary bent than Lansdale usually demonstrates.
Harry, an elderly man, tells the story of a series of events that occurred in his 11th year, when the mutilated, murdered bodies of Negro prostitutes began turning up in the county where his father was the local constable. Harry and Tom, his younger sister, find the first one. Only their father, Jacob Crane, seems to care about finding justice for the victims, who are dismissed out of hand as unimportant by the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan, which warns Jacob off any further investigations. Harry and Tom think they know who's responsible: the Goat Man, a creature who's said to lurk beneath the swinging bridge that crosses the Sabine River, where the first body was found. In fact, the Goat Man has something to do with the murders, and the secret of who he is and what he really did is the key to the unsolved slayings. But that takes second place to the artfully explicated character of Jacob and Harry's changing relationship with him in the course of the loss of his boyish innocence. This is a masterfully told story and a very good read. --Jane Adams [via]
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A Brilliant Madness: Living With Manic-Depressive Illnessby Patty DukeISBN 0553560727 (0-553-56072-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mindby Anthony StorrISBN 034536547X (0-345-36547-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disordersby Aaron T. BeckISBN 0452009286 (0-452-00928-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Colossusby Sylvia PlathISBN 0375704469 (0-375-70446-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Colossus'Book summary:With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death. Graceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in their imagery, and presenting layer after layer of meaning, the forty poems in The Colossus are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock. [via]
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- The Colossus and Other Poems: ISBN 0394704665 (0-394-70466-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Colossus: ISBN 0571098649 (0-571-09864-9)
Softcover, Faber and Faber Ltd - The Colossus: ISBN 0571081061 (0-571-08106-1)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber Ltd - The Colossus: ISBN 0375704469 (0-375-70446-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- The Colossus and Other Poems: ISBN 0394704665 (0-394-70466-5)
Diary : A Novelby Chuck PalahniukISBN 0385509472 (0-385-50947-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Esperanza Risingby Pam Munoz RyanISBN 043912042X (0-439-12042-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Esperanza Rising'Book summary:Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. [via]
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Ethan Fromeby Edith Wharton, Kristin O. Lauer, Cynthia Griffin WolffISBN 0393966356 (0-393-96635-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:Set against the bleak winter landscape of new england, ethan frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting mattie silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, edith wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In her introduction, the distinguished critic elaine showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success. About the series: for over 100 years oxford world's classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more [via]
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- Ethan Frome: ISBN 0451527666 (0-451-52766-6)
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - Ethan Frome: ISBN 0451522273 (0-451-52227-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Ethan Frome: ISBN 0451525809 (0-451-52580-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Ethan Frome: ISBN 0393966356 (0-393-96635-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Ethan Frome: ISBN 0451527666 (0-451-52766-6)
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Ethan Frome and Other Short Fictionby Edith WhartonISBN 0553212559 (0-553-21255-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction'Book summary:On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wifes orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives and he is tempted to make one final, desperate effort to escape his fate. In language that is spare, passionate, and enduring, Edith Wharton tells this unforgettable story of two tragic lovers overwhelmed by the unrelenting forces of conscience and necessity.
Included with Ethan Frome are the novella The Touchstone and three short stories, The Last Asset, The Other Two, and Xingu. Together, this collection offers a survey of the extraordinary range and power of one of Americas finest writers. [via]More editions of Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction:
Families and How to Survive Themby Robin Skynner, John CleeseISBN 0413526402 (0-413-52640-2)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Follyby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553381512 (0-553-38151-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Folly'Book summary:"The thing about madness was, it just took so damn much energy, and it was so thoroughly tedious in the meantime." Master woodworker Rae Newborn knows madness intimately, with every bone, every pore, every particle of her being. At 52, with three suicide attempts, extended hospitalizations, the death of her husband and daughter, and a vicious attack behind her, Rae has come to Folly Island, far out in the Straits of Juan de Fuca, to rebuild her life by building a house:
She would pull herself together, she would go and rebuild Desmond's house, she would lift his walls and dwell within them quietly all the rest of her days. Everything that House was lay there waiting for her to take it up: House as shelter, House as permanence, House as a continuation and a legacy, comfort and challenge, safety and beauty, symbol and reality joined as one.
Bequeathed to Rae by Desmond Newborn, a great-uncle she never met, Folly Island is lovely indeed. But when Rae discovers Desmond's journal in the 70-year-old ruins of his house, she learns that Desmond had his own internal horrors to confront on the island. As she labors in solitude, her prickly nature deterring all but the most determined of her would-be neighbors, it's not just her well-being that's at stake. Rae must prove herself sane if she is to have any contact with her beloved granddaughter Petra. So when the "skin-crawling feeling of being watched" doesn't fade, she does her best to ignore it. But does paranoia have its roots in reality? And is Rae doomed to repeat her ancestor's tragic end?So effectively does King weave together past and present--the shrouded history of Desmond's life and death on Folly, and the tense, dusty, exhilaratingly panicky account of Rae's wrestling with old demons and new timber--that the future seems less important than the author might have wished. In other words, the eventual unmasking of Rae's watcher pales in comparison to the gradual revelation of Rae herself within King's haunted and haunting narrative. But with such a strong character and such moodily lovely prose, readers shouldn't miss the denouement-driven trappings of standard suspense. --Kelly Flynn [via]
The Golden Notebookby Doris May LessingISBN 0553262106 (0-553-26210-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Good Morning, Midnightby Jean RhysISBN 0393303942 (0-393-30394-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Harvesting the Heartby Jodi PicoultISBN 0606251189 (0-606-25118-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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How You Can Survive When They're Depressed: Living and Coping With Depression Falloutby Anne SheffieldISBN 0609804154 (0-609-80415-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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- How You Can Survive When They're Depressed : Living and Coping with Depression Fallout: ISBN 0517708663 (0-517-70866-3)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group - How You Can Survive When They're Depressed: Living and Coping With Depression Fallout: ISBN 0609804154 (0-609-80415-4)
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- How You Can Survive When They're Depressed : Living and Coping with Depression Fallout: ISBN 0517708663 (0-517-70866-3)
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I Never Promised You a Rose Gardenby Joanne GreenbergISBN 0451160312 (0-451-16031-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Never Promised You a Rose Garden'Book summary:Aided by a brilliant psychiatrist, and accompanied by her deeply concerned-and terrified-parents, Deborah must undertake a three-year struggle to resist the allure of madness, and rejoin the real world. Poignant and compelling, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a "convincing and emotionally gripping"* read that introduces an unforgettable young heroine-and stands as a modern classic on the topic of mental illness. [via]
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In the Still of the Nightby Jill ChurchillISBN 0380802457 (0-380-80245-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedomby Henri J.M. NouwenISBN 0385483481 (0-385-48348-1)
Softcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom'Book summary:The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom is a collection of passages from Henri Nouwen's journals, written during a period when his self-esteem evaporated, his energy to work disappeared, and God seemed entirely unreal. This is not a book to be read straight through: each short chapter takes time to digest, because, like the following passage, each of Nouwen's thoughts has the raw complexity of real honesty:
Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.
--Michael Joseph Gross [via]More editions of The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom:
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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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Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 0375757414 (0-375-75741-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jude the Obscure'Book summary:The text reprinted in this volume is based on Hardys final revision for the 1912 Wessex Edition and includes his Preface and Postscript.
The novel is fully annotated and is accompanied by Hardys map of Wessex and a plan of late Victorian Oxford (the Christminster of the novel).
The textual history of Jude the Obscureincluding an account of the surviving manuscript showing Hardys major change of intention during its composition, of the pressure to bowdlerize the novel, and of the subsequent restoration and revisionsis traced in a series of extracts from Hardys writings as well as from those of his contemporaries and of modern scholars Richard Little Purdy, John Paterson, and Robert C. Slack.
Selections from Hardys poems, autobiography, letters, and journalistic writings provide a background to the novel. Autobiographical elements and the social climate of the period in which Hardy lived and wrote are discussed by C. J. Weber and W. R. Rutland, and Hardys use of locale is explored in a section prepared specially for this edition.
"Contemporary Reception" provides a selection of reviews. "Modern Criticism" is provided by Irving Howe, Arthur Mizener, A. Alvarez, J. I. M. Stewart, Harvey Curtis Webster, D. H. Lawrence, Albert J. Guerard, Robert Gittings, Frederick P. W. McDowell, and Emma Clifford.
A Selected Bibliography is included. [via]More editions of Jude the Obscure:
- Jude the Obscure: ISBN 039397278X (0-393-97278-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0395051916 (0-395-05191-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0451527259 (0-451-52725-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0486452433 (0-486-45243-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0333168976 (0-333-16897-6)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0393090892 (0-393-09089-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0451523709 (0-451-52370-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0460017098 (0-460-01709-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0460875671 (0-460-87567-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0333168860 (0-333-16886-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0393044734 (0-393-04473-4)
Hardcover, Norton - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0394604628 (0-394-60462-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Jude the Obscure: ISBN 0375757414 (0-375-75741-4)
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- Jude the Obscure: ISBN 039397278X (0-393-97278-X)
Kings in Disguiseby James Vance, Dan Burr, Alan MooreISBN 0393328481 (0-393-32848-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Learned Optimism: The Skill to Conquer Life's Obstacles, Large and Smallby Martin E. SeligmanISBN 0394579151 (0-394-57915-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Leaving Las Vegasby John O'Brien, Mike FiggisISBN 057117969X (0-571-17969-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Letters from the Underworldby Feodor DostoevskyISBN 0460006541 (0-460-00654-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from the Underworld'Book summary:This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher. [via]
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The Lost Soul Companion: A Book of Comfort and Constructive Advice for Struggling Artists, Black Sheep,Square Pegs, and Other Free Spiritsby Susan M. BrackneyISBN 0440509211 (0-440-50921-1)
Softcover, Dell Books
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A Million Little Piecesby James FreyISBN 0385507755 (0-385-50775-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Million Little Pieces'Book summary:News from Doubleday & Anchor Books
The controversy over James Frey's A Million Little Pieces has caused serious concern at Doubleday and Anchor Books. Recent interpretations of our previous statement notwithstanding, it is not the policy or stance of this company that it doesnt matter whether a book sold as nonfiction is true. A nonfiction book should adhere to the facts as the author knows them.It is, however, Doubleday and Anchor's policy to stand with our authors when accusations are initially leveled against their work, and we continue to believe this is right and proper. A publisher's relationship with an author is based to an extent on trust. Mr. Frey's repeated representations of the book's accuracy, throughout publication and promotion, assured us that everything in it was true to his recollections. When the Smoking Gun report appeared, our first response, given that we were still learning the facts of the matter, was to support our author. Since then, we have questioned him about the allegations and have sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished.
We bear a responsibility for what we publish, and apologize to the reading public for any unintentional confusion surrounding the publication of A Million Little Pieces.
Note: The following editorial reviews were written before the recent revelations by James Frey and the publisher.
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The electrifying opening of James Frey's debut memoir, A Million Little Pieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states, without ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he starts to use again, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox confronting "The Fury" head on:I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.
One of the more harrowing sections is when Frey submits to major dental surgery without the benefit of anesthesia or painkillers (he fights the mind-blowing waves of "bayonet" pain by digging his fingers into two old tennis balls until his nails crack). His fellow patients include a damaged crack addict with whom Frey wades into an ill-fated relationship, a federal judge, a former championship boxer, and a mobster (who, upon his release, throws a hilarious surf-and-turf bacchanal, complete with pay-per-view boxing). In the book's epilogue, when Frey ticks off a terse update on everyone, you can almost hear the Jim Carroll Band's brutal survivor's lament "People Who Died" kicking in on the soundtrack of the inevitable film adaptation.
The rage-fueled memoir is kept in check by Frey's cool, minimalist style. Like his steady mantra, "I am an Alcoholic and I am a drug Addict and I am a Criminal," Frey's use of repetition takes on a crisp, lyrical quality which lends itself to the surreal experience. The book could have benefited from being a bit leaner. Nearly 400 pages is a long time to spend under Frey's influence, and the stylistic acrobatics (no quotation marks, random capitalization, left-aligned text, wild paragraph breaks) may seem too self-conscious for some readers, but beyond the literary fireworks lurks a fierce debut. --Brad Thomas Parsons
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Morality for Beautiful Girlsby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 0613647866 (0-613-64786-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Morality For Beautiful Girlsby R. A. McCall SmithISBN 0375423893 (0-375-42389-3)
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Mrs Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 060621562X (0-606-21562-X)
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Narcissus and Goldmundby Hermann HesseISBN 0553275860 (0-553-27586-0)
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Nine Storiesby J. D. SalingerISBN 0316769568 (0-316-76956-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nine Stories'Book summary:In the J.D. Salinger benchmark "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymour Glass floats his beach mate Sybil on a raft and tells her about these creatures' tragic flaw. Though they seem normal, if one swims into a hole filled with bananas, it will overeat until it's too fat to escape. Meanwhile, Seymour's wife, Muriel, is back at their Florida hotel, assuring her mother not to worry--Seymour hasn't lost control. Mention of a book he sent her from Germany and several references to his psychiatrist lead the reader to believe that World War II has undone him.
The war hangs over these wry stories of loss and occasionally unsuppressed rage. Salinger's children are fragile, odd, hypersmart, whereas his grown-ups (even the materially content) seem beaten down by circumstances--some neurasthenic, others (often female) deeply unsympathetic. The greatest piece in this disturbing book may be "The Laughing Man," which starts out as a man's recollection of the pleasures of storytelling and ends with the intersection between adult need and childish innocence. The narrator remembers how, at nine, he and his fellow Comanches would be picked up each afternoon by the Chief--a Staten Island law student paid to keep them busy. At the end of each day, the Chief winds them down with the saga of a hideously deformed, gentle, world-class criminal. With his stalwart companions, which include "a glib timber wolf" and "a lovable dwarf," the Laughing Man regularly crosses the Paris-China border in order to avoid capture by "the internationally famous detective" Marcel Dufarge and his daughter, "an exquisite girl, though something of a transvestite." The masked hero's luck comes to an end on the same day that things go awry between the Chief and his girlfriend, hardly a coincidence. "A few minutes later, when I stepped out of the Chief's bus, the first thing I chanced to see was a piece of red tissue paper flapping in the wind against the base of a lamppost. It looked like someone's poppy-petal mask. I arrived home with my teeth chattering uncontrollably and was told to go straight to bed." [via]
Norwegian Woodby Haruki Murakami, Jay RubinISBN 0375704027 (0-375-70402-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Norwegian Wood'Book summary:In 1987, when Norwegian Wood was first published in Japan, it promptly sold more than 4 million copies and transformed Haruki Murakami into a pop-culture icon. The horrified author fled his native land for Europe and the United States, returning only in 1995, by which time the celebrity spotlight had found some fresher targets. And now he's finally authorized a translation for the English-speaking audience, turning to the estimable Jay Rubin, who did a fine job with his big-canvas production The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Readers of Murakami's later work will discover an affecting if atypical novel, and while the author himself has denied the book's autobiographical import--"If I had simply written the literal truth of my own life, the novel would have been no more than fifteen pages long"--it's hard not to read as at least a partial portrait of the artist as a young man.
Norwegian Wood is a simple coming-of-age tale, primarily set in 1969-70, when the author was attending university. The political upheavals and student strikes of the period form the novel's backdrop. But the focus here is the young Watanabe's love affairs, and the pain and pleasure and attendant losses of growing up. The collapse of a romance (and this is one among many!) leaves him in a metaphysical shambles:
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it.
This account of a young man's sentimental education sometimes reads like a cross between Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Stephen Vizinczey's In Praise of Older Women. It is less complex and perhaps ultimately less satisfying than Murakami's other, more allegorical work. Still, Norwegian Wood captures the huge expectation of youth--and of this particular time in history--for the future and for the place of love in it. It is also a work saturated with sadness, an emotion that can sometimes cripple a novel but which here merely underscores its youthful poignancy. --Mark Thwaite [via]More editions of Norwegian Wood:
Notes from Undergroundby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michael R. KatzISBN 0393976122 (0-393-97612-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from Underground'Book summary:A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating the author's thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above all, humanity.[via]More editions of Notes from Underground:
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Notes from Underground White Nights the Dream of a Ridiculous Man and Selections from the House of the Deadby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0451523768 (0-451-52376-8)
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Out of Her Mindby Rebecca ShannonhouseISBN 0375755020 (0-375-75502-0)
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpentersby J. D. SalingerISBN 0553248995 (0-553-24899-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters'Book summary:The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS in 1955, SEYMOUR ? An Introduction in 1959. Whatever their differences in mood or effect, they are both very much concerned with Seymour Glass, who is the main character in my still-uncompleted series about the Glass family. It struck me that they had better be collected together, if not deliberately paired off, in something of a hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly or undesirably close contact with new material in the series. There is only my word for it, granted, but I have several new Glass stories coming along ? waxing, dilating ? each in its own way, but I suspect the less said about them, in mixed company, the better. Oddly, the joys and satisfactions of working on the Glass family peculiarly increase and deepen for me with the years. I can't say why, though. Not, at least, outside the casino proper of my fiction. [via]
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymourby J. D. SalingerISBN 0316769517 (0-316-76951-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour'Book summary:The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS in 1955, SEYMOUR ? An Introduction in 1959. Whatever their differences in mood or effect, they are both very much concerned with Seymour Glass, who is the main character in my still-uncompleted series about the Glass family. It struck me that they had better be collected together, if not deliberately paired off, in something of a hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly or undesirably close contact with new material in the series. There is only my word for it, granted, but I have several new Glass stories coming along ? waxing, dilating ? each in its own way, but I suspect the less said about them, in mixed company, the better. Oddly, the joys and satisfactions of working on the Glass family peculiarly increase and deepen for me with the years. I can't say why, though. Not, at least, outside the casino proper of my fiction. [via]
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Raise High the Roof beam, Carpenters And Seymour: An Introductionby J. D. SalingerISBN 0606288384 (0-606-28838-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Raise High the Roof beam, Carpenters And Seymour: An Introduction'Book summary:The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS in 1955, SEYMOUR ? An Introduction in 1959. Whatever their differences in mood or effect, they are both very much concerned with Seymour Glass, who is the main character in my still-uncompleted series about the Glass family. It struck me that they had better be collected together, if not deliberately paired off, in something of a hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly or undesirably close contact with new material in the series. There is only my word for it, granted, but I have several new Glass stories coming along ? waxing, dilating ? each in its own way, but I suspect the less said about them, in mixed company, the better. Oddly, the joys and satisfactions of working on the Glass family peculiarly increase and deepen for me with the years. I can't say why, though. Not, at least, outside the casino proper of my fiction. [via]
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Rapid Relief from Emotional Distress : A New, Clinically Proven Method for Getting over Depression and Other Emotional Problems Without Prolonged or Expensive Therapyby Gary Emery, James CampbellISBN 0449902498 (0-449-90249-8)
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If you're depressed, lonely, guilty, anxious, or otherwise emotionally ill, you don't have to be. The first step is to realize that you do have power over the way you feel. The second step is to master the simple, no-nonsense, five-minute strategies in this uniquely helpful and ground-breaking book.
Rapid Cognitive Therapy has been tested and proven effective. It is based on the ACT Formula: Accept your current reality. Choose to create what you want in your life. Take action to create it.
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Featuring 38 tests and exercises to help you pinpoint your problems and find immediate relief. [via]More editions of Rapid Relief from Emotional Distress : A New, Clinically Proven Method for Getting over Depression and Other Emotional Problems Without Prolonged or Expensive Therapy:
Return to Earthby Wayne Warga, Edwin E. AldrinISBN 0394488326 (0-394-48832-6)
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Seabiscuit: Library Editionby Laura HillenbrandISBN 0613647874 (0-613-64787-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seabiscuit: Library Edition'Book summary:He didn't look like much. With his smallish stature, knobby knees, and slightly crooked forelegs, he looked more like a cow pony than a thoroughbred. But looks aren't everything; his quality, an admirer once wrote, "was mostly in his heart." Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of the horse who became a cultural icon in Seabiscuit: An American Legend.
Seabiscuit rose to prominence with the help of an unlikely triumvirate: owner Charles Howard, an automobile baron who once declared that "the day of the horse is past"; trainer Tom Smith, a man who "had cultivated an almost mystical communication with horses"; and jockey Red Pollard, who was down on his luck when he charmed a then-surly horse with his calm demeanor and a sugar cube. Hillenbrand details the ups and downs of "team Seabiscuit," from early training sessions to record-breaking victories, and from serious injury to "Horse of the Year"--as well as the Biscuit's fabled rivalry with War Admiral. She also describes the world of horseracing in the 1930s, from the snobbery of Eastern journalists regarding Western horses and public fascination with the great thoroughbreds to the jockeys' torturous weight-loss regimens, including saunas in rubber suits, strong purgatives, even tapeworms.
Along the way, Hillenbrand paints wonderful images: tears in Tom Smith's eyes as his hero, legendary trainer James Fitzsimmons, asked to hold Seabiscuit's bridle while the horse was saddled; critically injured Red Pollard, whose chest was crushed in a racing accident a few weeks before, listening to the San Antonio Handicap from his hospital bed, cheering "Get going, Biscuit! Get 'em, you old devil!"; Seabiscuit happily posing for photographers for several minutes on end; other horses refusing to work out with Seabiscuit because he teased and taunted them with his blistering speed.
Though sometimes her prose takes on a distinctly purple hue ("His history had the ethereal quality of hoofprints in windblown snow"; "The California sunlight had the pewter cast of a declining season"), Hillenbrand has crafted a delightful book. Wire to wire, Seabiscuit is a winner. Highly recommended. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Seabiscuit: An American Legendby Laura HillenbrandISBN 0345465083 (0-345-46508-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seabiscuit: An American Legend'Book summary:He was a cultural icon. A world-class athlete. A champion who triumphed over terrible handicaps to become a legend of the racetrack. No other racehorse has rivaled Seabiscuit's fame or his sway over the nation's imagination. Now Laura Hillenbrand unfolds the spellbinding story of this marvelous animal, the world he lived in, and the men who staked their lives and fortunes on his dazzling career. A riveting tale of grit, grace, luck, and an underdog's stubborn determination, Seabiscuit is an American classic. [via]
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A Spot of Botherby Mark HaddonISBN 0385520514 (0-385-52051-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Spot of Bother'Book summary:George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not at quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood, or manly bonhomie. He does not understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely. Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored.
At 61, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels and listening to a bit of light jazz. Then his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting re-married, to the deeply inappropriate Ray. Her family is not pleased as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has stranglers hands. Katie cant decide if she loves Ray, or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob, and her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned, which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husbands ex-colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials.
Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind.
The way these damaged people fall apart and come together as a family is the true subject of Haddons disturbing yet amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.
A SPOT OF BOTHER is Mark Haddons unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME. Here the madness literally of family life proves rich comic fodder for Haddons crackling prose and bittersweet insights into misdirected love. [via]More editions of A Spot of Bother:
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnesby Chris CrutcherISBN 044021906X (0-440-21906-X)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Steppenwolfby Hermann HesseISBN 0553279904 (0-553-27990-4)
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Tiltby Elizabeth BurnsISBN 0425195929 (0-425-19592-9)
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Understanding Depression: What We Know and What You Can Do About Itby J. Raymond Depaulo, Leslie Alan HorvitzISBN 0471430307 (0-471-43030-7)
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Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depressionby Meri Nana-Ama DanquahISBN 0345432134 (0-345-43213-4)
Softcover, One World
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You Can Feel Good Again: Common-Sense Therapy for Releasing Depression and Changing Your Lifeby Richard CarlsonISBN 0452272424 (0-452-27242-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'You Can Feel Good Again: Common-Sense Therapy for Releasing Depression and Changing Your Life'Book summary:Everybody knows the idiom dont sweat the small stuff. And thanks to Richard Carlson, lifetime expert in happiness and stress reduction, it has become part of our culture, as he has used years of experience and practice to make this phrase a reality.[via]
In You Can Feel Good Again, there is one simple message: changing your thinking changes your life. With this self-help book full of practical advice, Carlson offers a common sense method that allows anyone to release unhappiness and negativity related to present circumstances or past events, and return to a natural state of well-being in the present. You Can Feel Good Again is full of Richard Carlson's humor, wisdom, and thoughtful guidance--a genuine tool to foster the realization that happiness and contentment are truly "one thought away."
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Esperanza Renace/Esperanza Risingby Pam Munoz Ryan, Nuria MolineroISBN 0439398851 (0-439-39885-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Esperanza Renace/Esperanza Rising'Book summary:A Mexican "Grapes of Wrath," based on a family story, from the award-winning author of Riding Freedom.[via]
Esperanza Ortega tiene todos los tesoros que una chica pueda desear: hermosos vestidos, una linda casa llena de sirvientes en México, y la promesa de que un día llegará a presidir el Rancho como su mamá. Pero una tragedia inesperada destruye ese sueño, obligando a Esperanza y a su madre a escapar a California dónde tendrán que trabajar en una finca junto a otros mexicanos. Allí tendrá que olvidar su pasado y enfrentarse a las nuevas realidades de su vida: trabajo duro, aceptación y dificultades económicas. Esperanza descubrirá que la verdadera riqueza está en la familia y la comunidad.More editions of Esperanza Renace/Esperanza Rising:
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