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And the Band Played onby Randy ShiltsISBN 0613298721 (0-613-29872-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And the Band Played on'Book summary:In the first major book on AIDS, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts examines the making of an epidemic. Shilts researched and reported the book exhaustively, chronicling almost day-by-day the first five years of AIDS. His work is critical of the medical and scientific communities' initial response and particularly harsh on the Reagan Administration, who he claims cut funding, ignored calls for action and deliberately misled Congress. Shilts doesn't stop there, wondering why more people in the gay community, the mass media and the country at large didn't stand up in anger more quickly. The AIDS pandemic is one of the most striking developments of the late 20th century and this is the definitive story of its beginnings. [via]
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Autism: Explaining the Enigmaby Uta FrithISBN 0631229019 (0-631-22901-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autism : Explaining the Enigma'Book summary:The updated edition of this classic account of autism includes a new chapter outlining recent developments in neuropsychological research and reviews the growing body of work on the neurophysiological basis of autism. [via]
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- Autism: Explaining the Enigma: ISBN 0631168249 (0-631-16824-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub - Autism: Explaining the Enigma: ISBN 0631158332 (0-631-15833-2)
Hardcover, Basil Blackwell - Autism: Explaining the Enigma: ISBN 0631229000 (0-631-22900-0)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub - Autism : Explaining the Enigma: ISBN 0631229019 (0-631-22901-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
- Autism: Explaining the Enigma: ISBN 0631168249 (0-631-16824-9)
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Autism in History : The Case of Hugh Blair of Borgueby Rab A. Houston, Uta FrithISBN 0631220895 (0-631-22089-5)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autism in History : The Case of Hugh Blair of Borgue'Book summary:This engaging story of an eighteenth century Scottish laird whose brief arranged marriage was annulled on the grounds of his mental capacity - which seen through modern eyes can be identified as autism. It is a story of villainy and innocence, and provides a fascinating historical context to which the latest theories on autism are applied. [via]
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Awakeningsby Oliver W. SacksISBN 0671648349 (0-671-64834-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Awakenings'Book summary:It hardly seems fair that so many great doctors are also great writers. Perhaps it's qualities like sensitivity, craft, and dedication that keep physicians like Oliver Sacks in hospitals all day and at writing desks all night; if nothing else, these qualities shine in books like Awakenings. This powerful set of case histories rises above its pathological foundation to find new literary territory, a medical-spiritual synthesis equally stimulating for the mind and the soul. It's no wonder Hollywood producers chose to turn it into a feature film--anyone can see the universal human struggle against bondage and despair in these pages.
The sleeping-sickness epidemic of 1918 caused hundreds of survivors to slip into a bizarre rigid paralysis with similarities to advanced Parkinson's disease. These patients, only occasionally able to communicate or move, were nearly all institutionalized for life, their ranks increasing every now and then with similarly afflicted men and women. Sacks came to work at a long-term care facility shortly before the first exciting results with L-dopa and Parkinson's in the late 1960s; his patients soon embarked on dramatic, difficult recoveries from up to 50 years of torpor. He documents their spiritual and medical obstacles with great care to portray their individual personalities, long suppressed but finally released. Though many great doctors are also great writers, few can compare with Oliver Sacks for expressing the relation of medicine to the human spirit. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Born on the Fourth of Julyby Ron KovicISBN 0671681494 (0-671-68149-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Cetagandaby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0671877011 (0-671-87701-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cetaganda'Book summary:Attending a diplomatic ceremony on Cetaganda, Miles and Cousin Ivan get into a heap of political trouble when the late empress's lifelong attendant is murdered, and Ivan gets involved with several beautiful and well-connected aliens. [via]
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Cetaganda: A Vprlpsogam Advemtireby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0671877445 (0-671-87744-5)
Softcover, Baen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cetaganda: A Vprlpsogam Advemtire'Book summary:Miles is stuck visiting Cetaganda with his doltish cousin Ivan, representing Barrayaran nobility at an Imperial funeral. Miles must have suspected that it wasn't going to be dull after the bogus docking instructions and the odd man who launched himself into their ship and started to pull a weapon on them. Three attacks and a mysterious murder later, Miles is juggling two emperors, two secret services, and a half-dozen traitors--nd that's not even counting the women. [via]
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The City Who Foughtby Anne McCaffreyISBN 067187599X (0-671-87599-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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A Civil Campaignby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0671578855 (0-671-57885-5)
Softcover, Baen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Civil Campaign'Book summary:If you relish costume adventure in an intergalactic society starring strong, convincing male and female characters, you'll adore the Vorkosigan Series. If you haven't met Miles Vorkosigan, whose brilliance, manic energy, and unstoppable determination make him a larger-than-life hero despite his dwarfish stature, pick up Komarr and A Civil Campaign. Read them, and then go back and catch the previous nine books (10 if you count Ethan of Athos, which features not Miles but his partner, Ellie Quinn); or read the series in order, starting with the romance of Miles's parents in Shards of Honor.
A Civil Campaign opens where Komarr ends, with Miles determined to court Ekaterin. Unfortunately, his approach is described as "General Romeo Vorkosigan, the one-man strike force." By his father. The potential for comic disaster increases when Miles's clone brother Mark arrives. He's brought a brilliant but scatterbrained scientist who's created a bug producing a perfect food: bug butter. They set up a lab in the basement of Vorkosigan House. Mark has also found a nice Barrayaran girl--she even likes the bugs--with whom he got together on the sexually liberated world of Beta. But now Kareen's living at home. Naturally, disaster strikes, repeatedly and on all fronts.
Bujold unfolds her comedy of manners while continuing to explore familiar themes: the difficulties in becoming a strong adult woman in a patriarchy, the need for trust and honesty in relationships between the sexes, the difference between appearance and identity, and the impact of advanced biotechnologies on society. A Civil Campaign is a sure-fire Hugo and Nebula nominee, likely to add another statue to Bujold's already full shelf. It's charming, touching, and quite funny too. --Nona Vero [via]
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Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaningby Jean Shinoda BolenISBN 0684835304 (0-684-83530-4)
Softcover, Scribner
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Crow Boyby Taro YashimaISBN 0670249319 (0-670-24931-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disabilityby Nancy L. EieslandISBN 0687108012 (0-687-10801-2)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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Epilepsy You're Not Alone: A Personal View on How to Cope With the Disorderby Stacey ChillemiISBN 0595195261 (0-595-19526-1)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Ethan Fromeby Edith WhartonISBN 0684515652 (0-684-51565-2)
Softcover, Stationery Office, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:First published in 1911, ethan frome is widely regarded as edith wharton's most revealing novel and her finest achievement in fiction. Set in the bleak, barren winter landscape of new england, it is the tragic tale of a simple man, bound to the demands of his farm and his tyrannical, sickly wife, zeena, and driven by his star-crossed love for zeena's young cousin, mattie silver. "in its spare, chilling creation of rural isolation, hardscrabble poverty and wintry landscape," writes alfred kazin in his afterword, "ethan frome overwhelms the reader as a drama of irresistible necessity." an exemplary work of literary realism in setting and character, ethan frome stands as one of the great classics of twentieth-century american literature [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0582426596 (0-582-42659-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'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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- Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0679423095 (0-679-42309-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0681303840 (0-681-30384-0)
Hardcover, Xs Books - 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 0670899119 (0-670-89911-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0681400560 (0-681-40056-0)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr - Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0582426596 (0-582-42659-6)
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- Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden: ISBN 0679423095 (0-679-42309-5)
Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Shirley Hughes, Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0670825719 (0-670-82571-9)
Hardcover, Kestrel Pr
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie FlaggISBN 0679744959 (0-679-74495-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe'Book summary:The remarkable novel of two Southern friendships--the basis of the hit film--available for the first time in large print. [via]
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Gathering Blueby Lois LowryISBN 0618055819 (0-618-05581-9)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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The Green Mileby Stephen KingISBN 0671041789 (0-671-04178-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Mile'Book summary:Read this history-making serial novel -- from cliffhanger to cliffhanger -- in its entirety. When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller list -- simultaneously -- and delighted millions of fans the world over. Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs...and yours. [via]
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The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novelby Stephen KingISBN 0671032658 (0-671-03265-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel'Book summary:This novel taps into what Stephen King does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The charming narrator is an old man looking back on the events, decades later. Maybe it's a little too cute, maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. As Time magazine put it, "Like the best popular art, The Green Mile has the courage of its cornier convictions ... the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel work as well as it finally does." And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome can be easily skipped by the squeamish. The Green Mile was nominated for a 1997 Bram Stoker Award. [via]
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A Healing Homiletic: Preaching and Disabilityby Kathy BlackISBN 0687002915 (0-687-00291-5)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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Heidiby Johanna Spyri, Jessie Willcox SmithISBN 0688145191 (0-688-14519-1)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidi'Book summary:Johanna Spyri's classic story of a young orphan sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Swiss Alps is retold in it's entirety in this beautifully bound hardcover edition. Heidi has charmed and intrigued readers since it's original publication in 1880. Much more than a children's story, the narrative is also a lesson on the precarious nature of freedom, a luxury too often taken for granted. Heidi almost loses her liberty as she is ripped away from the tranquility of the mountains to tend to a sick cousin in the city. Happily, all's well that ends well, and the reader is left with only warm, fuzzy thoughts. Spryi's story will never grow wearisome--and this is a very appealing edition. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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- Heidi: ISBN 0590420461 (0-590-42046-1)
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Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Heidi: ISBN 0671437909 (0-671-43790-9)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub - Heidi: ISBN 0681007664 (0-681-00766-4)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr - Heidi: ISBN 0681400609 (0-681-40060-9)
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Helen Kellerby Margaret DavidsonISBN 0590424041 (0-590-42404-1)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Helen Keller'Book summary:The bestselling biography of Helen Keller and how, with the commitment and lifelong friendship of Anne Sullivan, she learned to talk, read, and eventually graduate from college with honors. [via]
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Helen Keller : A Lifeby Dorothy HerrmannISBN 0679443541 (0-679-44354-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Hooway for Wodney Watby Helen Lester, Lynn MunsingerISBN 061821612X (0-618-21612-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hooway for Wodney Wat'Book summary:Poor Rodney Rat can't pronounce his R's and the other rodents tease him mercilessly. But when Camilla Capybara joins Rodney's class and announces that she is bigger, meaner, and smarter than any of the other rodents, everyone is afraid. It seems she really is bigger, meaner, and smarter than all of the rest of them. Until our unwitting hero, Wodney Wat, catches Camilla out in a game of Simon Says. Read along with Wodney as he surprises himself and his classmates by single-handedly saving the whole class from the big bad bully. Children will delight as shy Rodney Rat triumphs over all and his tiny voice decides the day, R's or no R's.[via]More editions of Hooway for Wodney Wat:
How It Feels to Live With a Physical Disabilityby Jill KrementzISBN 0671723715 (0-671-72371-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Human Disability and the Service of God: Reassessing Religious Practiceby Nancy L. Eiesland, Don E. SaliersISBN 0687273161 (0-687-27316-1)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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Inside Outby Ann M. MartinISBN 059043621X (0-590-43621-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Island of the Colorblindby Oliver SacksISBN 0679451145 (0-679-45114-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Joshby Caroline JanoverISBN 0595313817 (0-595-31381-7)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Kissing Doorknobsby Terry Spencer HesserISBN 0613230094 (0-613-23009-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blindby Margaret DavidsonISBN 059044350X (0-590-44350-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind'Book summary:A poignant story of the man who developed the Braille system of printing for the blind. [via]
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Mirror Danceby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0671876465 (0-671-87646-5)
Softcover, Baen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mirror Dance'Book summary:Miles Vorkosigan faces more than his share of troubles as the protagonist in Mirror Dance. Not only is he deformed and undersized but he has a cloned brother who gets into a jam in the free enterprise plague spot known as Jackson's Whole. Miles tries to help his brother but ends up injured, placed on cryogenic suspension and then lost in intergalactic limbo. And that's just in the first 100 pages. The following 300 pages add a wealth more to this fantastic tale that's both humorous and finely written. Mirror Dance won the 1995 Hugo Award for Science Fiction. [via]
The Music of Light: The Extraordinary Story of Hikari and Kenzaburo Oeby Lindsley CameronISBN 0684824094 (0-684-82409-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normalby Alice Domurat DregerISBN 0674018257 (0-674-01825-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Of Us: Conjoined Twins And The Future Of Normal'Book summary:Must children born with socially challenging anatomies have their bodies changed because others cannot be expected to change their minds? One of Us views conjoined twinning and other "abnormalities" from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics. Anatomy matters, Alice Domurat Dreger tells us, because the senses we possess, the muscles we control, and the resources we require to keep our bodies alive limit and guide what we experience in any given context. Her deeply thought-provoking and compassionate work exposes the breadth and depth of that context--the extent of the social frame upon which we construct the "normal." In doing so, the book calls into question assumptions about anatomy and normality, and transforms our understanding of how we are all intricately and inextricably joined.
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Partial Seizure Disorders: A Guide for Parents and Familiesby Mitzi WaltzISBN 0596500033 (0-596-50003-3)
Softcover, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
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Partnershipby Anne McCaffrey, Margaret BallISBN 0671721097 (0-671-72109-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0606342397 (0-606-34239-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Richard IIIby William ShakespeareISBN 061317478X (0-613-17478-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Richard III'Book summary:"Now is the winter of our discontent," intones Richard, Duke of Gloucester at the beginning of Shakespeare's Richard III, one of his most abidingly popular plays, and one of the most chilling portrayals of political tyranny ever seen on stage. Richard emerges from the chaos which surrounds the reign of Henry VI, already dramatised by Shakespeare earlier in his career, determined to become king by removing his elder brother Edward IV by convincing him that their brother Clarence is plotting against the crown. The deaths of both Clarence and Edward take Richard inexorably towards the crown, and the series of murders and conspiracies that Richard masterminds confirms his claim that "I am determined to prove a villain". Richard's political and sexual charisma are truly chilling, and his seduction of Lady Anne, over her husband's corpse is one of the most disturbing scenes in Shakespeare. At another level, the play is also a strongly anti-Yorkist play, which has a vested interest in portraying Richard as such as vicious tyrant before seeing him toppled, ushering in a period of rule which prefigured the Tudor dynasty of which Elizabeth I was herself a part. The play has had a deep and lasting influence on audiences and writers; Brecht rewrote the play as The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, while both Laurance Olivier and Ian Mckellen have produced memorable film versions of Richard III, the latter updating the play into a 1930s fascist state ruled over by a Richard akin to Oswald Mosley. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journeyby Rachel SimonISBN 0618045996 (0-618-04599-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey'Book summary:Rachel Simons sister Beth is a spirited woman who lives intensely and often joyfully. Beth, who has mental retardation, spends her days riding the buses in her Pennsylvania city. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. One day, Beth asked Rachel to accompany her on the buses for an entire year. This wise, funny, deeply affecting book is the chronicle of that remarkable time. Rachel, a writer and college teacher whose hyperbusy life camouflaged her emotional isolation, had much to learn in her sisters extraordinary world. These are life lessons from which every reader can profit: how to live in the moment, how to pay attention to what really matters, how to change, how to loveand how to slow down and enjoy the ride.[via]
Elegantly woven throughout the odyssey are riveting memories of terrifying maternal abandonment, fierce sisterly loyalty, and astonishing forgiveness. Rachel Simon brings to light the almost invisible world of mental retardation, finds unlikely heroes in everyday life, and, without sentimentality, portrays Beth as the endearing, feisty, independent person she is. This heartwarming book about the unbreakable bond between two very different sisters takes the reader on an inspirational journey at once unique and universal.More editions of Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey:
Saffy's Angelby Hilary McKayISBN 0613975006 (0-613-97500-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Secret Gardenby James Howe, Nancy CarpenterISBN 0679947515 (0-679-94751-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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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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Shadow Syndromes : Recognizing and Coping with the Hidden Psychological Disorders That Can Influence Your Behavior and Silently Determine the Course of Your Lifeby C. Johnson, John J. RateyISBN 0679439684 (0-679-43968-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Ship Who Sangby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0613175050 (0-613-17505-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ship Who Sang'Book summary:Helva had been born human, but only her brain had been saved and implanted into the titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner, to soar with her through the daring adventures and exhilarating escapades in space. [via]
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The Ship Who Searchedby Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes LackeyISBN 0671721291 (0-671-72129-1)
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Ship Who Wonby Anne McCaffrey, Jody L. NyeISBN 0671876570 (0-671-87657-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ship Who Won'Book summary:Like Helva, the Ship Who Sang (and Nancia from PartnerShip and Tia from The Ship Who Searched), Carialle was born so physically disadvantaged that her only chance for life was as a shellperson. And like those others, Carialle decided she would strap on a spaceship. Now she is on a mission to search the galaxy for intelligent beings. [via]
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The Shipping Newsby Annie ProulxISBN 0671510053 (0-671-51005-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shipping News'Book summary:In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's not brilliant or witty or talented, and he's not the kind of person who typically assumes the central position in a novel. But Proulx creates a simple and compelling tale of Quoyle's psychological and spiritual growth. Along the way, we get to look in on the maritime beauty of what is probably a disappearing way of life. [via]
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby George EliotISBN 0679420304 (0-679-42030-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Introduction by Rosemary Ashton
The isolated, misanthropic, miserly weaver Silas Marner is one of George Eliots greatest creations, and his presence casts a strange, otherworldly glow over the moral dramas, both large and small, that take place in the pastoral landscape that surrounds him.
When Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he vows to turn his back upon the world. He moves to the village of Raveloe, where he remains an outsider and an object of suspicion until an extraordinary sequence of events, including the theft of his gold and the appearance of a tiny, golden-haired child in his cottage, transforms his life. Part beautifully realized rural portraiture and part fairy tale, the story of Marners redemption and restoration to humanity has long been George Eliots most beloved and widely read work. [via]More editions of Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe:
The Silent Boyby Lois LowryISBN 0618282319 (0-618-28231-9)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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Simple Simonby Ryne Douglas PearsonISBN 0688142966 (0-688-14296-6)
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Slow Manby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0670034592 (0-670-03459-2)
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The Sound and the Furyby William FaulknerISBN 0679732241 (0-679-73224-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sound and the Fury'Book summary:The ostensible subject of The Sound and the Fury is the dissolution of the Compsons, one of those august old Mississippi families that fell on hard times and wild eccentricity after the Civil War. But in fact what William Faulkner is really after in his legendary novel is the kaleidoscope of consciousness--the overwrought mind caught in the act of thought. His rich, dark, scandal-ridden story of squandered fortune, incest (in thought if not in deed), madness, congenital brain damage, theft, illegitimacy, and stoic endurance is told in the interior voices of three Compson brothers: first Benjy, the "idiot" man-child who blurs together three decades of inchoate sensations as he stalks the fringes of the family's former pasture; next Quentin, torturing himself brilliantly, obsessively over Caddy's lost virginity and his own failure to recover the family's honor as he wanders around the seedy fringes of Boston; and finally Jason, heartless, shrewd, sneaking, nursing a perpetual sense of injury and outrage against his outrageous family.
If Benjy's section is the most daringly experimental, Jason's is the most harrowing. "Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say," he begins, lacing into Caddy's illegitimate daughter, and then proceeds to hurl mud at blacks, Jews, his sacred Compson ancestors, his glamorous, promiscuous sister, his doomed brother Quentin, his ailing mother, and the long-suffering black servant Dilsey who holds the family together by sheer force of character.
Notoriously "difficult," The Sound and the Fury is actually one of Faulkner's more accessible works once you get past the abrupt, unannounced time shifts--and certainly the most powerful emotionally. Everything is here: the complex equilibrium of pre-civil rights race relations; the conflict between Yankee capitalism and Southern agrarian values; a meditation on time, consciousness, and Western philosophy. And all of it is rendered in prose so gorgeous it can take your breath away. Here, for instance, Quentin recalls an autumnal encounter back home with the old black possum hunter Uncle Louis:
And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless October, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dogs and to the echo of Louis' voice dying away. He never raised it, yet on a still night we have heard it from our front porch. When he called the dogs in he sounded just like the horn he carried slung on his shoulder and never used, but clearer, mellower, as though his voice were a part of darkness and silence, coiling out of it, coiling into it again. WhoOoooo. WhoOoooo. WhoOooooooooooooooo.
What Faulkner has created is a modernist epic in which characters assume the stature of gods and the primal family events resonate like myths. It is The Sound and the Fury that secures his place in what Edmund Wilson called "the full-dressed post-Flaubert group of Conrad, Joyce, and Proust." --David Laskin [via]More editions of The Sound and the Fury:
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Stones from the Riverby Ursula HegiISBN 068484477X (0-684-84477-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stones from the River'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1997: Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River clamors for comparisons to Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum; her protagonist Trudi Montag--like the unforgettable Oskar Mazerath--is a dwarf living in Germany during the two World Wars. To its credit, Stones does not wilt from the comparison. Hegi's book has a distinctive, appealing flavor of its own. Stone's characters are off-center enough to hold your attention despite the inevitable dominance of the setting: There's Trudi's mother, who slowly goes insane living in an "earth nest" beneath the family house; Trudi's best friend Georg, whose parents dress him as the girl they always wanted; and, of course, Trudi herself, whose condition dooms her to long for an impossible normalcy. Futhermore, the reader's inevitable sympathy for Trudi, the dwarf, heightens the true grotesqueness of Nazi Germany. Stones from the River is a nightmare journey with an unforgettable guide. [via]
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Theftby Peter CareyISBN 0571231497 (0-571-23149-7)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life With Autismby Temple GrandinISBN 0679772898 (0-679-77289-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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To Elvis With Loveby Lena CanadaISBN 0590057790 (0-590-05779-0)
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An Unquiet Mindby Kay R. JamisonISBN 0679763309 (0-679-76330-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Unusual Life of Tristan Smithby Peter CareyISBN 0679760369 (0-679-76036-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Voices That Care: Stories And Encouragements for People With AIDS/Hiv And Those Who Love Themby Neal HitchensISBN 0671882309 (0-671-88230-9)
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When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deafby Harlan L. LaneISBN 0679720235 (0-679-72023-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Worst Speller in Jr. Highby Caroline JanoverISBN 0595153283 (0-595-15328-3)
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