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Anyone but Youby Jennifer CrusieISBN 037377138X (0-373-77138-X)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anyone but You'Book summary:Part basset, part beagle, all Cupid . . .
For Nina Askew, turning forty means freedom -- from the ex-husband, freedom from their stuffy suburban home, freedom to focus on what she wants for a change. And what she wants is something her ex always vetoed -- a puppy. A bouncy, adorable puppy. Instead she gets . . . Fred.
Overweight, middle-aged, a bit smelly and obviously depressed, Fred is light-years from perky. But he does manage to put Nina in the path of Alex Moore, her gorgeous, younger-by-a-decade neighbor.
Alex seems perfect -- he's a sexy, seemingly sane, surprisingly single E.R. doctor -- but the age gap convinces Nina that anyone but Alex would be better relationship material. But with every silver-haired stiff she dates, the more she suspects it's the young, dog-loving doc she wants to sit and stay. [via]
Arrowsmithby Sinclair LewisISBN 1417934549 (1-4179-3454-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arrowsmith'Book summary:Written at the height of his powers in the 1920s, the three novels in this volume continue the vigorous unmasking of American middle-class life begun by Sinclair Lewis in Main Street and Babbitt. In Arrowsmith (1925) Lewis portrays the medical career of Martin Arrowsmith, a physician who finds his commitment to the ideals of his profession tested by the cynicism and opportunism he encounters in private practice, public health work, and scientific research. The novel reaches its climax as its hero faces his greatest challenges amid a deadly outbreak of plague on a Caribbean island.
Elmer Gantry (1927) aroused intense controversy with its brutal depiction of a hypocritical preacher in relentless pursuit of worldly pleasure and power. Through his satiric exposé of American religion, Lewis captured the growing cultural and political tension in the 1920s between the forces of secularism and fundamentalism.
Dodsworth (1929) follows Sam Dodsworth, a wealthy, retired Midwestern automobile manufacturer, as he travels through Europe with his increasingly restless wife, Fran. The novel intimately explores the unraveling of their marriage, while pitting the proud heritage of European culture against the rude vigor of American commercialism. [via]More editions of Arrowsmith:
- Arrowsmith: ISBN 1931082081 (1-931082-08-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Arrowsmith: ISBN 0451526910 (0-451-52691-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Arrowsmith: ISBN 0451520548 (0-451-52054-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Arrowsmith: ISBN 0451522257 (0-451-52225-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Arrowsmith: ISBN 0151082162 (0-15-108216-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Arrowsmith: ISBN 1417934549 (1-4179-3454-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
- Arrowsmith: ISBN 1931082081 (1-931082-08-1)
Bad Case of Loving Youby Laney CairoISBN 1934166685 (1-934166-68-5)
Softcover, Torquere Pr
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The Beacon at Alexandriaby Gillian BradshawISBN 1569470103 (1-56947-010-3)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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Briefeby Thomas Mann, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Heinrich DeteringISBN 3100483235 (3-10-048323-5)
Hardcover, S. Fischer
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The Children's Hospitalby Chris AdrianISBN 1932416609 (1-932416-60-9)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children's Hospital'Book summary:A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, assailed by mysterious forces, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, Jemma Claflin, a medical student, finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny. Simultaneously epic and intimate, wildly imaginative and unexpectedly relevant, The Children's Hospital is a work of stunning scope, mesmerizing detail, and wrenching emotion.[via]More editions of The Children's Hospital:
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Cider House Rulesby John IrvingISBN 0345387651 (0-345-38765-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider House Rules'Book summary:First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch-saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. This is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted. [via]
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- Cider House Rules: ISBN 0345417941 (0-345-41794-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - Cider House Rules: ISBN 0679603352 (0-679-60335-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Cider House Rules: ISBN 0553258001 (0-553-25800-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Cider House Rules: ISBN 0786885238 (0-7868-8523-8)
Softcover, Hyperion Books - Cider House Rules: ISBN 0517615592 (0-517-61559-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Cider House Rules: ISBN 068803036X (0-688-03036-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Cider House Rules: ISBN 0688057624 (0-688-05762-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Cider House Rules: ISBN 0786226749 (0-7862-2674-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Cider House Rules: ISBN 0345387651 (0-345-38765-1)
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- Cider House Rules: ISBN 0345417941 (0-345-41794-1)
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The Cider House Rules: Here in St. Cloud'sby John Irving, Peter ParnellISBN 0822217252 (0-8222-1725-2)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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Confessions of a Surgeonby George Brown MairISBN 0860020630 (0-86002-063-0)
Hardcover, Luscombe : Mitchell Beazley
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Doktor Zhivagoby Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, E. B. Pasternak, V. M. BorisovISBN 5870870070 (5-87087-007-0)
Hardcover, Izd-vo Troika
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Dr. Dogby Babette ColeISBN 067988548X (0-679-88548-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 1853260614 (1-85326-061-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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E.M. Forster: A Passage to Indiaby Betty JayISBN 184046027X (1-84046-027-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'E.M. Forster: A Passage to India'Book summary:In this Readers' Guide, Betty Jay considers the establishment of Forster's reputation and the various attempts of critics to decipher the complex codes that are a feature of his novel. Successive chapters focus on debates around Forster's liberal-humanism, with essays from F. R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling and Malcolm Bradbury; on the indeterminacy and ambiguity of the text, with extracts from essays by Gillian Beer, Robert Barratt, Wendy Moffat and Jo-Ann Hoeppner Moran; and on the sexual politics of Forster's work, with writings from Elaine Showalter, Frances L. Restuccia and Eve Dawkins Poll. The Guide concludes with essays from Jeffrey Meyers and Jenny Sharpe, who read A Passage to India in terms of its engagement with British imperialism.[via]More editions of E.M. Forster: A Passage to India:
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El Doctor Zhivago / The Doctor Zhivagoby Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Max Hayward, Manya HarariISBN 1857150414 (1-85715-041-4)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Doctor Zhivago / The Doctor Zhivago'Book summary:Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with the new order and confronts the changes cruel experience has made in him and the anguish of being torn between the love of two women. [via]
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Five Star Girls' Basketball Drillsby Leigh Klein, Matt MasieroISBN 1930546602 (1-930546-60-2)
Softcover, Wish Pub
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Frakensteinby Mary W. ShellyISBN 846630407X (84-663-0407-X)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1566191416 (1-56619-141-6)
Softcover, Dorset Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 1587260883 (1-58726-088-3)
Softcover, Ann Arbor Media Group - Frankenstein: ISBN 1593080050 (1-59308-005-0)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 1593081154 (1-59308-115-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 1853260231 (1-85326-023-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 1593081618 (1-59308-161-8)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 1851960775 (1-85196-077-5)
Hardcover, Pickering & Chatto Publishers, Limited - Frankenstein: ISBN 1854771175 (1-85477-117-5)
Hardcover, Woodstock Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 1577656865 (1-57765-686-5)
Hardcover, Spotlight - Frankenstein: ISBN 3895080896 (3-89508-089-6)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft - Frankenstein: ISBN 1566191416 (1-56619-141-6)
Softcover, Dorset Pr
- Frankenstein: ISBN 1587260883 (1-58726-088-3)
Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lynd WardISBN 1850790701 (1-85079-070-1)
Hardcover, New Orchard Editions
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From Hellby Alan MooreISBN 1880325071 (1-880325-07-1)
Softcover, Borderlands Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Hell'Book summary:The mad, shaggy genius of the comics world dips deeply into the well of history and pulls up a cup filled with blood in From Hell. Alan Moore did a couple of Ph.D.'s worth of research into the Whitechapel murders for this copiously annotated collection of the independently published series. The web of facts, opinion, hearsay, and imaginative invention draws the reader in from the first page. Eddie Campbell's scratchy ink drawings evoke a dark and dirty Victorian London and help to humanize characters that have been caricatured into obscurity for decades. Moore, having decided that the evidence best fits the theory of a Masonic conspiracy to cover up a scandal involving Victoria's grandson, goes to work telling the story with relish from the point of view of the victims, the chief inspector, and the killer--the Queen's physician. His characterization is just as vibrant as Campbell's; even the minor characters feel fully real. Looking more deeply than most, the author finds in the "great work" of the Ripper a ritual magic working intended to give birth to the 20th century in all its horrid glory. Maps, characters, and settings are all as accurate as possible, and while the reader might not ultimately agree with Moore and Campbell's thesis, From Hell is still a great work of literature. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Galen and the Gateway to Medicineby Jeanne BendickISBN 1883937752 (1-883937-75-2)
Softcover, Bethlehem Books
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Going to the Hospitalby Fred Rogers, Jim JudkisISBN 0698115740 (0-698-11574-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hospitalby Lola M. SchaeferISBN 1575725193 (1-57572-519-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann/Raintree
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House of Godby Samuel ShemISBN 0385337388 (0-385-33738-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of God'Book summary:Now a classic! The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns -- they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. They came from the top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a year in the time-honored tradition, racing to answer the flash of on-duty call lights and nubile nurses. But only the Fat Man --the Clam, all-knowing resident -- could sustain them in their struggle to survive, to stay sane, to love-and even to be doctors when their harrowing year was done.
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How Doctors Thinkby Jerome E. GroopmanISBN 0618610030 (0-618-61003-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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LA Montana Magicaby Thomas MannISBN 8495971232 (84-95971-23-2)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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M*A*S*Hby Richard HookerISBN 0671479989 (0-671-47998-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'M*A*S*H'Book summary:Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth.
The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained but, like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, "a few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees."
For fans of the movie and the series alike, here is the original version of that perfectly corrupt football game, those martini-laced mornings and sexual escapades, and that unforgettable foray into assisted if incompleted suicide--all as funny and poignant now as they were before they became a part of America's culture and heart. [via]
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Magic Mountainby Thomas Mann, John E. WoodsISBN 1857152891 (1-85715-289-1)
Hardcover, A.A. Knopf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic Mountain'Book summary:With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps-a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an "ordinary young man" who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas. [via]
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Mashby Richard HookerISBN 0688149553 (0-688-14955-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mash'Book summary:Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth.
The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained but, like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, "a few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees."
For fans of the movie and the series alike, here is the original version of that perfectly corrupt football game, those martini-laced mornings and sexual escapades, and that unforgettable foray into assisted if incompleted suicide--all as funny and poignant now as they were before they became a part of America's culture and heart. [via]
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The Medical Marriage: Sustaining Healthy Relationships for Physicians and Their Familiesby Wayne M. Sotile, Mary O. SotileISBN 1579470750 (1-57947-075-0)
Softcover, Amer Medical Assn
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Medical Marriage: Sustaining Healthy Relationships for Physicians and Their Families'Book summary:The Medical Marriage helps physicians families take a proactive approach to making medical marriage and family relationships work successfully. It identifies and explains the key issues, potential difficulties, and tensions that can characterize marriages and family relationships in which one or both partners are physicians. The book offers self-as sessment tools and case narratives to help readers indentify traits that are common to physician families and that can cause strain and tension in a marriage. [via]
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The Memory Keeper's Daughterby Kim EdwardsISBN 159413197X (1-59413-197-X)
Softcover, Large Print Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter'Book summary:Award-winning writer Kim Edwards's The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted family drama that explores every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by David Henry's fateful decision that long-ago winter night. A rich and deeply moving page-turner, The Memory Keeper's Daughter captures the way life takes unexpected turns and how the mysterious ties that hold a family together help us survive the heartache that occurs when long-buried secrets burst into the open. It is an astonishing tale of redemptive love. [via]
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Miss Dose the Doctor's Daughterby Allan Ahlberg, Faith JaquesISBN 0140323465 (0-14-032346-5)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miss Dose the Doctor's Daughter'Book summary:Each book in this series introduces the learner-reader to the eccentric adventures of a different family. The series is designed for use at home and in school and has been guided by the Education Adviser, Brian Thompson and written by the award-winning author, Allan Ahlberg. [via]
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The Mortal Immortalby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1892391015 (1-892391-01-5)
Softcover, Tachyon Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mortal Immortal'Book summary:This collection contains all five of Mary Shelley's supernatural stories, and will hopefully shed much needed light on an author often credited with writing the first science fiction novel. Here you will find the secrets of eternal youth, souls that exchange bodies, and ancient Englishmen and Romans newly thawed out of ice. In addition to several stories by Mary Shelley, this volume also features a brand new story by renowned science fiction author Michael Bishop. This work serves as a narrative introduction for this collection. Mary Shelley's considerable reputation rests squarely on the shoulders of her one great novel - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, published anonymously in 1818 and revised under her own byline in 1831. Her powerful tale of blasphemous creation is perhaps more familiar to modern readers through its many film adaptations as it is from the book itself. From Boris Karloff's electrifying performance as Frankenstein to Kenneth Branaugh's latest directorial rendering, the story has received numerous interpretations which have renewed interest in the book time and time again. However, Shelley's other works have not fared as well as Frankenstein. She wrote just a handful of novels, of which only The Last Man (1826) has remained sporadically in print, due to its great length and slow, ornate and often tedious use of language. A precursor to such disaster novels as George R. Stewart's Earth Abides and Richard Jeffries' After London, The Last Man follows its protagonist Lionel Verney through a distant future world which has been depopulated by plague. The shorter works of Mary Shelley have remained even more obscure. During her lifetime, she published just over two-dozen stories, only three of which were of interest to readers of science fiction and fantasy. In addition to these three supernaturally-themed stories, two additional stories were published after Shelley's death. "Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman," was printed in a volume of reminisces by a magazine editor who had commissioned the story thirty years earlier. "Valerius: The Reanimated Roman," a story in a similar vein to "Roger Dodsworth," remained unpublished until 1976, when both stories were discovered by Charles E. Robinson, a Shelley scholar and professor of English at the University of Delaware. [via]
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Mountains Beyond Mountainsby Tracy KidderISBN 0375506160 (0-375-50616-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the Worldby Tracy KidderISBN 0812973011 (0-8129-7301-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World'Book summary:Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine , House , Among Schoolchildren , and Home Town . He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the "master of the non-fiction narrative." This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life's calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent book shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can be created, as Farmer-brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leader in international health and a doctor who finds time to make house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti-blasts through convention to get results. Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that "the only real nation is humanity" - a philosophy that is embodied in the small public charity he founded, Partners In Health. He enlists the help of the Gates Foundation, George Soros, the U.N.'s World Health Organization, and others in his quest to cure the world. At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope, and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb "Beyond mountains there are mountains": as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too. [via]
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Next! Pleaseby Christopher InnsISBN 1582460388 (1-58246-038-8)
Hardcover, Ten Speed Press
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Not As a Strangerby Morton ThompsonISBN 1568491182 (1-56849-118-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books, Incorporated
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Of Human Bondageby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 1414226500 (1-4142-2650-0)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Human Bondage'Book summary:[via]Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:One of the most widely read novels of the twentieth century, W. Somerset Maughams masterpiece Of Human Bondage gives a harrowing depiction of unrequited love. Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to travel, first to Heidelberg, and then to Paris, where he nurses ambitions of becoming a great artist. Philips youthful idealism erodes, however, as he comes face-to-face with his own mediocrity and lack of impact on the world. After returning to London to study medicine, he becomes wildly infatuated with Mildred, a vulgar, tawdry waitress, and begins a doomed love affair that will change the course of his life.
First published in 1915, the semi-autobiographical Of Human Bondage combines the values left over from the Victorian era with the prevailing irony and despair of the early twentieth century. Unsentimental yet bursting with deep feeling, Of Human Bondage remains Maughams most complete statement of the importance of physical and spiritual liberty, a theme that resounds more loudly than ever today.Carin Companick is a freelance writer and a specialist in the field of language proficiency assessment. She studied English literature at Haverford College and completed her graduate work in Victorian and modern literature at Columbia University. She lives and works in Princeton, New Jersey.More editions of Of Human Bondage:
- Of Human Bondage: ISBN 1414226527 (1-4142-2652-7)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com - Of Human Bondage: ISBN 1421979535 (1-4219-7953-5)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com - Of Human Bondage: ISBN 159308238X (1-59308-238-X)
Softcover, Fine Communications - Of Human Bondage: ISBN 1598184199 (1-59818-419-9)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books - Of Human Bondage: ISBN 0140185224 (0-14-018522-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Of Human Bondage: ISBN 037575315X (0-375-75315-X)
Softcover, Modern Library - Of Human Bondage: ISBN 0451525566 (0-451-52556-6)
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Pet Semataryby Stephen KingISBN 1568495455 (1-56849-545-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The Pursuit of Alice Thriftby Elinor LipmanISBN 0375724591 (0-375-72459-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Uppity Women of Medieval Timesby Vicki LeonISBN 1567312500 (1-56731-250-0)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uppity Women of Medieval Times'Book summary:Our age doesn't have a lock on outspoken women, as Vicki Leon proves in this impudent, flippant history of the Middle Ages. In the 1600s, Lady Castlehaven charged her husband with rape and had his connubial rights--and head--removed. Prioress Eglentyne, who appears in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, fell afoul of clerical colleagues by ignoring rules about "dress, dogs, dances" and worse yet, "wandering in the world." And let's not forget Isabel, Queen of Castile, patron of Columbus, and wife to Ferdinand. Her marriage motto was "They rule with equal rights and both excel, Isabel as much as Ferdinand, Ferdinand as much as Isabel." [via]
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Uppity Women of Medieval Times: Vicki Leonby Vicki LeonISBN 1573240397 (1-57324-039-7)
Softcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uppity Women of Medieval Times: Vicki Leon'Book summary:Our age doesn't have a lock on outspoken women, as Vicki Leon proves in this impudent, flippant history of the Middle Ages. In the 1600s, Lady Castlehaven charged her husband with rape and had his connubial rights--and head--removed. Prioress Eglentyne, who appears in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, fell afoul of clerical colleagues by ignoring rules about "dress, dogs, dances" and worse yet, "wandering in the world." And let's not forget Isabel, Queen of Castile, patron of Columbus, and wife to Ferdinand. Her marriage motto was "They rule with equal rights and both excel, Isabel as much as Ferdinand, Ferdinand as much as Isabel." [via]
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Cementerio De Animales/pet Cemetaryby Stephen KingISBN 8497930991 (84-9793-099-1)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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La Doctora Maisyby Lucy Cousins, Ernestina LoyoISBN 9709705091 (970-9705-09-1)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns
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Frakensteinby Mary W. ShellyISBN 8440619537 (84-406-1953-7)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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El Medicoby Noah GordonISBN 8495501015 (84-95501-01-5)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Medico'Book summary:This dazzling epic describes an 11th century man's passion to defeat illness and death, to alleviate the pain of his fellowman and to share the near-mystical gift of healing that has been bestowed upon him. His journey leads him through the brutality and ignorance of England and the sensual turbulence and splendor of Persia. There he meets Avicena, a legendary master who is experimenting with the first tools of modern medicine. A millennium has elapsed since then, but the narrative talent of Noah Gordon makes this startling journey a unique experience which brings the story to life.
Blurb in Spanish: Esta deslumbrante epopeya describe la pasión de un hombre del siglo XI por vencer la enfermedad y la muerte, aliviar el dolor de sus semejantes e impartir el don de sanar, casi místico, que le ha sido otorgado. Esta pasión le lleva desde la brutalidad y la ignorancia de la Inglaterra de su época a la sensual turbulencia y el esplendor de la Persia remota, donde conoce al legendario maestro Avicena, que está experimentando con las primeras armas de la medicina moderna. Nueve siglos han transcurrido desde aquel entonces, pero el talento narrativo de Noah Gordon hace de este viaje iniciático una experiencia única, que convierte la historia en vida real. [via]
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El Medico / The Physicianby Noah GordonISBN 8466616381 (84-666-1638-1)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Medico / The Physician'Book summary:In this detailed recreation of medieval England, Rob Cole leaves poor, disease-ridden London to make his way across the land by hustling, juggling, and peddling cures to the sick. Along the route of his travels, Rob discovers mystical ways of healing. A dream to become a physician begins to consume him, and ultimately compels him through a perilous, unheard-of journey to Persia, and to the Arab universities whose knowledge will shape his destiny.[via]More editions of El Medico / The Physician:
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La Montana Magica/The Magic Mountainby Thomas MannISBN 8435016269 (84-350-1626-9)
Softcover, Edhasa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Montana Magica/The Magic Mountain'Book summary:La acción de esta novela transcurre en un sanatorio de tuberculosos de Zauberberg, donde coinciden dos primos de caracteres muy distintos. És esta una novela de detalles más que de trama: el conocimiento de Claudia Chauchat o de una pareja de peculiares y enfrentados pensadores, los pequeños conflictos generados por la convivencia, el goteo constante de fallecimientos... El interés de la novela reside en la perfecta reproducción de la vida interior, afectiva e intelectual, de la amplia galería de personajes que despliega Mann ante los ojos del lector, todos ellos perfectamente individualizados e interesantes por sí mismo. "La montaña mágica" se cuenta entre las diez mejores obras literarias del siglo XX.
A hospital of tuberculosis patients in the mountains is the place chosen by the author to reflect the events that had a great effect on the first-quarter century European society. The characters synthesize the social trends and contradictions of that period. [via]More editions of La Montana Magica/The Magic Mountain:
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Principes De Maineby John IrvingISBN 8472239373 (84-7223-937-3)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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L'Abyssinby Jean-Christophe RufinISBN 2070406970 (2-07-040697-0)
Softcover, Sodis
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L'Oeuvre De Dieu, LA Part Du Diableby John IrvingISBN 2020257807 (2-02-025780-7)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Sauver Ispahan: Romanby Jean-Christophe RufinISBN 2070753530 (2-07-075353-0)
Hardcover, Gallimard
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Briefeby Thomas Mann, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Heinrich DeteringISBN 3100483227 (3-10-048322-7)
Hardcover, S. Fischer
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Gottes Werk Und Teufels Beitragby John IrvingISBN 3257218370 (3-257-21837-0)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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