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Alfie Gets in Firstby Shirley HughesISBN 0688070361 (0-688-07036-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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All Quiet on the Orient Express: A Novelby Magnus MillsISBN 0684871688 (0-684-87168-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Allingham Minibusby Margery AllinghamISBN 0688001785 (0-688-00178-5)
Hardcover, W. Morrow
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Angela's Ashesby Frank McCourtISBN 068487217X (0-684-87217-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angela's Ashes : A Memoir'Book summary:"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."
So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy -- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling-- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies.
Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors--yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.
Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. [via]
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules Verne, George M. Towle, Barry MoserISBN 0688075088 (0-688-07508-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:Translated by George Makepeace Towle. Afterword by Peter Glassman. Barry Moser's sixteen exquisite watercolors capture Verne's beloved novel of suspense in this deluxe gift edition that will be treasured for years to come. A "handsome new edition...The translation is clear and sprightly."--New York Times Book Review. [via]
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Black Dogby Stephen BoothISBN 068487301X (0-684-87301-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Book of Were-wolvesby Sabine Baring-GouldISBN 0685325954 (0-685-32595-4)
Hardcover, Gale Group
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The Catastrophistby Ronan BennettISBN 0684870363 (0-684-87036-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catastrophist : A Novel'Book summary:Perhaps it takes a writer with Ronan Bennett's peculiar personal history to write so compelling a novel about the place where politics and art intersect. By the time he was 23, Bennett, an Irish Catholic from Northern Ireland, had already spent five years in and out of various jails, charged with politically motivated crimes he'd never committed. He then traded in prison walls for the rarified halls of academia, studying for a Ph.D. in history before embarking on a new career as a fiction writer. Though at first The Catastrophist, set in the Congo during its bid for independence from Belgium, may seem a far cry from Belfast in the '70s, Bennett uses his hard-won wisdom to examine the role of the artist in a political conflict.
James Gillespie, a disillusioned Irish historian turned novelist, has arrived in the Congo on the eve of independence, hoping to reunite with his Italian lover, Ines. The two had once been passionately involved in Europe, but Ines's job as a journalist took her to the Congo, where her Communist leanings have kept her. Ines is an enthusiastic supporter of Patrice Lumumba, and her journalism reflects her bias. Gillespie, on the other hand, has a novelist's broader view, and his ability to see all facets of the issue simultaneously keeps him from choosing sides and drives a wedge between him and Ines. As she becomes more involved with Lumumba and his followers, he is befriended by an American CIA agent whom Ines suspects of being an enemy. When the political situation heats up, she puts herself increasingly in harm's way until, at last, Gillespie must put his own life on the line to save hers. Bennett does a stellar job of recreating the complicated web of political intrigue and shifting alliances at play in the Congo in 1959, but he really shines when exploring how personal relationships unravel under the strain of ideology. As Ines tells Gillespie shortly before she leaves him, his ability to see all points of view is a privilege few people can afford: "When you are on history's losing side, when you are poor and cursed to eat bread, to accept your enemy's point of view is to accept starvation and slavery." The Catastrophist is a love story, a historical novel, a troubling reflection on Africa's ongoing political upheaval. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Close Range: Wyoming Storiesby E. Annie ProulxISBN 0684867265 (0-684-86726-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Close Range: Wyoming Stories'Book summary:Pulitzer Prize-winner E. Annie Proulx forays through the underside of America's beloved Wild West in Close Range, a collection of stories about hardship and more hardship in Wyoming territory. Understanding that the West's infinite spaces tended to inspire neither introspection nor contemplation, but a violent and insatiable restlessness, Proulx's eight stories are dark reflections on the lives of a handful of characters striving to define themselves against the unforgiving landscapes. The three professional actors chosen to read the text give strong, resounding interpretations of the macabre tales. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes) --Natasha Senjanovich [via]
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Crystal Caveby Mary StewartISBN 0688013988 (0-688-01398-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crystal Cave'Book summary:Initially published nearly thirty years ago, Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave has been spellbinding readers and converting them into serious Arthurian buffs ever since. The first in a series of four books, this novel focuses on the early life of Merlin the magician, and the political developments of fifth-century Britain. Not for the fainthearted, this verbose text pays careful attention to historical details and methodical plot development.
Merlin's childhood is formed by the absence of his reticent, convent-bound mother and his unnamed and unknown father. As the bastard grandson of a local king, Merlin is the object of both envy and ridicule. His strange powers and predictions earn him greater status as a pariah, and he leaves home as a preadolescent. Returning years later as a young man--empowered by self-knowledge and magic--Merlin finds himself caught in the currents of the shifting kingdoms.
As an established classic in this genre, and the first in a popular series, The Crystal Cave introduces this familiar character with fresh sensitivity. While readers looking for the romance of First Knight will be disappointed, those happy with tight writing and a complex story line will be satisfied. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien [via]
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Dead Man's Ransomby Ellis PetersISBN 0688041949 (0-688-04194-9)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Desireeby Anne Marie SelinkoISBN 0688014488 (0-688-01448-8)
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The Devil's Noviceby Ellis PetersISBN 0688032478 (0-688-03247-8)
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A Division of the Spoils: A Novelby Paul ScottISBN 0688029264 (0-688-02926-4)
Hardcover, Morrow
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Division of the Spoils: A Novel'Book summary:The great war is over, and India--the jewel in the British crown--has been deemed worthless: a bauble to be tossed to the winds. A colonial policeman corrupted by ambition, power, and hatred goes to shocking extremes of cruelty to perpetuate a disappearing way of life. [via]
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Doggerby Shirley HughesISBN 0688079806 (0-688-07980-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Don't Forget the Bacon!by Pat HutchinsISBN 0688067883 (0-688-06788-3)
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The Doorbell Rangby Pat HutchinsISBN 0688052517 (0-688-05251-7)
Hardcover, Greenwillow
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doorbell Rang'Book summary:Ma has made a dozen delicious cookies. It should be plenty for her two children. But then the doorbell rings -- and rings and rings.Each ring of the doorbell brings more friends to share the delicious cookies Ma has made."Refreshing, enjoyable and unpredictable." -- School Library Journal.
Also available in a Spanish-language edition, Llaman a la puerta.
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The Gabriel Houndsby Mary StewartISBN 0688016650 (0-688-01665-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gabriel Hounds'Book summary:It's all a grand adventure when Christy Mansel unexpectedly runs into her cousin Charles in Damascus. And being young, rich, impetuous, and used to doing whatever they please, they decide to barge in uninvited on their eccentric Great-Aunt Harrietdespite a long-standing family rule strictly forbidding unannounced visits. A strange new world awaits Charles and Christy beyond the gates of Dar Ibrahim"Lady Harriet's" ancient, crumbling palace in High Lebanonwhere a physician is always in residence and a handful of Arab servants attends to the odd old woman's every need.
But there is a very goodvery sinisterreason why guests are not welcome at Dar Ibrahim. And the young cousins are about to discover that, as difficult as it is to break into the dark, imposing edifice, it may prove even harder still to escape . . .
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A Good Man in Africaby William BoydISBN 0688008208 (0-688-00820-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Green Stickby Malcolm MuggeridgeISBN 0688009522 (0-688-00952-2)
Softcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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Harnessing Complexity : Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontierby Robert M. Axelrod, Michael D. CohenISBN 0684867176 (0-684-86717-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Hero and the Crownby Robin McKinleyISBN 0688025935 (0-688-02593-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hero and the Crown'Book summary:Robin McKinley's mesmerizing history of Damar is the stuff that legends are made of. The Hero and the Crown is a dazzling "prequel" to The Blue Sword.
Aerin is the only child of the king of Damar, and should be his rightful heir. But she is also the daughter of a witchwoman of the North, who died when she was born, and the Damarians cannot trust her.
But Aerin's destiny is greater than her father's people know, for it leads her to battle with Maur, the Black Dragon, and into the wilder Damarian Hills, where she meets the wizard Luthe. It is he who at last tells her the truth about her mother, and he also gives over to her hand the Blue Sword, Gonturan. But such gifts as these bear a great price, a price Aerin only begins to realize when she faces the evil mage, Agsded, who has seized the Hero's Crown, greatest treasure and secret strength of Damar.
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The Hollow Hillsby Mary StewartISBN 0688001793 (0-688-00179-3)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hollow Hills'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. First book in the Merlin series. The spellbinding, suspenseful story of how Merlin helped Arthur become King of all Britain. [via]
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The Horn of Rolandby Ellis PetersISBN 0688003206 (0-688-00320-6)
Hardcover, Morrow
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Howl's Moving Castleby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0688062334 (0-688-06233-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howl's Moving Castle'Book summary:In the land of Ingary, such things as spells, invisible cloaks, and seven-league boots were everyday things. The Witch of the Waste was another matter.
After fifty years of quiet, it was rumored that the Witch was about to terrorize the country again. So when a moving black castle, blowing dark smoke from its four thin turrets, appeared on the horizon, everyone thought it was the Witch. The castle, however, belonged to Wizard Howl, who, it was said, liked to suck the souls of young girls.
The Hatter sisters--Sophie, Lettie, and Martha--and all the other girls were warned not to venture into the streets alone. But that was only the beginning.
In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. Destinies are intertwined, identities exchanged, lovers confused. The Witch has placed a spell on Howl. Does the clue to breaking it lie in a famous poem? And what will happen to Sophie Hatter when she enters Howl's castle?
Diana Wynne Jones's entrancing fantasy is filled with surprises at every turn, but when the final stormy duel between the Witch and the Wizard is finished, all the pieces fall magically into place. [via]
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An Ice-Cream Warby William BoydISBN 0688019048 (0-688-01904-8)
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In Search of Love and Beautyby Ruth Prawer JhabvalaISBN 0688020356 (0-688-02035-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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In Search of Your British and Irish Rootsby Angus BaxterISBN 0688013503 (0-688-01350-3)
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The Infernal Groveby Malcolm MuggeridgeISBN 0688009530 (0-688-00953-0)
Softcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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The Last Enchantmentby Mary StewartISBN 0688034810 (0-688-03481-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Enchantment'Book summary:Arthur Pendragon is King! Unchallenged on the battlefield, he melds the country together in a time of promise. But sinister powers plot to destroy Camelot, and when the witch-queen Morgause -- Arthur's own half sister -- ensnares him in an incestuous liaison, a fatal web of love, betrayal, and bloody vengeance is woven.
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The Last Great Dance on Earthby Sandra GullandISBN 0684856085 (0-684-85608-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Le Pere Goriot/Pbn 757by BalzacISBN 0685114864 (0-685-11486-4)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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Les Cigares Du Pharaonby HergeISBN 0685234096 (0-685-23409-6)
Hardcover, French & European Pubns
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Les Fleurs Du Malby Charles BaudelaireISBN 0685374092 (0-685-37409-2)
Hardcover, Distribooks Inc
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 0685113973 (0-685-11397-3)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. [via]
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Lie down with Lionsby Ken FollettISBN 0688058914 (0-688-05891-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lie down with Lions'Book summary:Ellis, the American. Jean-Pierre, the Frenchman. They were two men on opposite sides of the cold war, with a woman torn between them. Together, they formed a triangle of passion and deception, racing from terrorist bombs in Paris to the violence and intrigue of Afghanistan - to the moment of truth and deadly decision for all of them& "A deadly romantic triangle, a clandestine mission with global stakes, an exotic location, a plot as gripping and ingenious as Eye of the Needle ... engineered to perfection with breathless acceleration. I couldn't put it down!" - Los Angeles Times "Masterful... plot and counterplot, treachery, cunning and killing ... keep you on edge every moment" - Associated Press [via]
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Lost Horizonby James HiltonISBN 0688020070 (0-688-02007-0)
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Madam, Will You Talk?by Mary StewartISBN 0688020178 (0-688-02017-8)
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More Joy of Lexby Gyles BrandrethISBN 0688013384 (0-688-01338-4)
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More Joy of Lex: An Amazing and Amusing Z to A and A to Z of Wordsby Gyles BrandrethISBN 0688032575 (0-688-03257-5)
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Moving Mollyby Shirley HughesISBN 0688079849 (0-688-07984-9)
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The National Velvetby Enid Bagnold, Ted LewinISBN 0688057888 (0-688-05788-8)
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The New Confessionsby William BoydISBN 0688077617 (0-688-07761-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Confessions'Book summary:In this extraordinary novel, William Boyd presents the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and exhilarating life as one of the most unappreciated geniuses of the twentieth century is equal parts Laurence Stern, Charles Dickens, Robertson Davies, and Saul Bellow, and a hundred percent William Boyd.
From his birth in 1899, Todd was doomed. Emerging from his angst-filled childhood, he rushes into the throes of the twentieth century on the Western Front during the Great War, and quickly changes his role on the battlefield from cannon fodder to cameraman. When he becomes a prisoner of war, he discovers Rousseau's Confessions, and dedicates his life to bringing the memoir to the silver screen. Plagued by bad luck and blind ambition, Todd becomes a celebrated London upstart, a Weimar luminary, and finally a disgruntled director of cowboy movies and the eleventh member of the Hollywood Ten. Ambitious and entertaining, Boyd has invented a most irresistible hero.
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Night Skyby Clare FrancisISBN 0688026338 (0-688-02633-8)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Sky'Book summary:In the brutal chaos of WW2, three people find their lives inextricably interwoven in a web of courage, betrayal and love. They are a young Englishwoman, a vicious Parisian pimp-turned-Nazi collaborator and a German scientist. [via]
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Of Time and the Riverby Thomas WolfeISBN 0684867850 (0-684-86785-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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On the Yankee Stationby William BoydISBN 0688031110 (0-688-03111-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Yankee Station'Book summary:A collection of short stories from the author of THE BLUE AFTERNOON. Boyd writes about adolescent sex in a Scottish public school for boys, the seedy underworld of modern America, and murder in a quiet Devon cottage. Includes two stories which feature Morgan Leafy, Boyd's hero from A GOOD MAN IN AFRICA. First published in 1981. [via]
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On Wings of Eaglesby Ken FollettISBN 0688023711 (0-688-02371-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Wings of Eagles'Book summary:On Wings of Eagles is the account of an incredible rescue by a Green Beret colonel and a group of corporate executives hastily trained into a fighting team. When Ross Perot, millionaire head of the Dallas-based company EDS, discovered that two of his key men in Iran had been jailed, he turned to the one man in America who could help. Colonel 'Bull' Simons, famed World War II and Vietnam commando, agreed to do what the US government could not -- go in and get the men out. This is the stuff of Follet's fiction -- a secret penetration into a dangerous territory; a dramatic jailbreak; a harrowing overland escape to the Turkish border -- and all the more extraordinary because it is fact. [via]
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Paper Moneyby Ken FollettISBN 068805840X (0-688-05840-X)
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Pilgrim of Hateby Ellis PetersISBN 0688049648 (0-688-04964-8)
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A Prayer for Owen Meanyby John IrvingISBN 0688077080 (0-688-07708-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Prayer for Owen Meany'Book summary:Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mum with a baseball and believes--correctly, it transpires--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John Irving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery O'Connor's work. Irving fans will find much that is familiar: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and beast, the Garp-like unknown father of the narrator (Owen's orphaned best friend), the rough comedy. The scene of doltish Dr Dolder, Owen's shrink, drunkenly driving his VW down the school's marble steps is a marvellous set piece. So are the Christmas pageants Owen stars in. But it's all, as Highlights magazine used to put it, "fun with a purpose". When Owen plays baby Jesus in the pageants, and glimpses a tombstone with his death date while enacting A Christmas Carol, the slapstick doesn't change the fact that he was born to be martyred. The book's countless subplots add up to a moral argument, specifically an indictment of American foreign policy--from Vietnam to the Contras.
The book's mystic religiosity is steeped in Robertson Davies' Deptford trilogy, and the fatal baseball relates to the fatefully misdirected snowball in the first Deptford novel, Fifth Business. Tiny, symbolic Owen echoes the hero of Irving's teacher Günter Grass's The Tin Drum--the two characters share the same initials. A rollicking entertainment, Owen Meany is also a meditation on literature, history and God. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Pride and Promiscuity : The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austenby Dennis Ashton, Arielle EckstutISBN 068487265X (0-684-87265-X)
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The Queen's Bastardby Robin MaxwellISBN 068485760X (0-684-85760-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Queen's Bastard'Book summary:Historians have long whispered that Elizabeth "the Virgin Queen's" passionate, lifelong affair with Robin Dudley, Earl of Leicester, may have led to the birth of a son, Arthur Dudley. In this exquisite sequel to The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, Robin Maxwell fashions a stunning fictional account of the child switched at birth by a lady-in-waiting who foresaw the deleterious political consequences of a royal bastard.
Set against the sweeping, meticulously rendered backdrop of court intrigues, international scandals, and England's battle against the Spanish Armada, The Queen's Bastard deftly juxtaposes Elizabeth and Leicester's tumultuous relationship with the memoirs of the adventurous son lost to them -- yet ultimately discovered. [via]
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Rage of Angelsby Sidney SheldonISBN 0688036872 (0-688-03687-2)
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The Rainbird Patternby Victor CanningISBN 0688001556 (0-688-00155-6)
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Rainbow's Endby Ellis PetersISBN 0688035183 (0-688-03518-3)
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The Raj Quartetby Paul ScottISBN 0688033377 (0-688-03337-7)
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The Rose Rentby Ellis PetersISBN 0688069827 (0-688-06982-7)
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Saint Peter's Fairby Ellis PetersISBN 0688006671 (0-688-00667-1)
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Scarecrowsby Robert WestallISBN 0688006124 (0-688-00612-4)
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Silent Night : The Story of the World War I Christmas Truceby Stanley WeintraubISBN 0684872811 (0-684-87281-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Single and Singleby John Le CarréISBN 0684859262 (0-684-85926-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Single and Single'Book summary:On a Turkish hillside, ex-Communist mobsters shatter the skull of a corrupt English lawyer. In a sleepy English village, the authorities ask a lonely children's magician how come £5,000,030 sterling just got anonymously deposited in his baby daughter's bank account. With machine-like logic and soulful literary magic, John le Carré links these two events in Single & Single, a stay-up-all-night thriller.
The magician is Oliver Single, the tormented son of Tiger Single, a rogue banker the Financial Times calls "the knight errant of Gorbachev's New East." In fact, Tiger is sinking his fangs into that crucial one-tenth of world trade free of pesky regulations--illegal drugs--and secretly selling donated disaster-relief blood. Mum's the word in Tiger's mob: as the lawyer's executioner notes, "Is not convenient to hear that American capitalists are bleeding poor nations literally."
Oliver comes in from the cold to help spymaster Brock track Tiger down. That £30 sterling signified Judas's silver, but Oliver yearns to save Tiger's life, too. Le Carré wizardly juggles dozens of characters in a zigzag, globetrotting plot. You-are-there realism, narrative drive, pitch-perfect dialog--why can't movies be this good? Like lightning, le Carré's metaphors both dazzle and blazingly illuminate the world.
Ex-spy le Carré was there when the Berlin Wall went up, and his spy craft is legendarily realistic. His female spy/love interest is less so--the opposite of a femme fatale, she might be termed a "deus sex machina." But the book's crucial father-son relationship is quite real, because, like the irresistible villain of A Perfect Spy, Tiger is based on le Carré's own con-man dad. The cold war is over, but le Carré is hot. And he will endure. --Tim Appelo [via]
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A Song of Stoneby Iain BanksISBN 0684857251 (0-684-85725-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Staying Onby Paul ScottISBN 0688032052 (0-688-03205-2)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Tale of Time Cityby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0688073158 (0-688-07315-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Ten Rillington Placeby Ladovic KennedyISBN 0685032647 (0-685-03264-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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This Rough Magicby Mary StewartISBN 0688026141 (0-688-02614-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Rough Magic'Book summary:When Lucy's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. But the peaceful idyll does not last long. A series of incidents, seemingly unconnected - but all surrounded in mystery - throws Lucy's life into a dangerous spin, as fear, danger and death - as well as romance - supplant the former tranquillity. [via]
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A Time to Dance, No Time to Weepby Rumer GoddenISBN 0688074219 (0-688-07421-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Towers of Silence: A Novelby Paul ScottISBN 068800105X (0-688-00105-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Towers of Silence: A Novel'Book summary:The third novel of a quartet set in India which began with "The Jewel in the Crown". As the war enters its last bitter stage, the English wives, daughters, mothers and widows of officers embroiled in the ongoing conflict gather in Pankot, their old beliefs and assumptions seriously threatened. [via]
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German-English Textby Ludwig WittgensteinISBN 0686770382 (0-686-77038-2)
Softcover, Brill Academic Pub
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Two Under the Indian Sunby Rumer Godden, Jon GoddenISBN 0688074227 (0-688-07422-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Under the Indian Sun'Book summary:In 1914, following the outbreak of war, sisters John and Rumer Godden left London to return to their home in East Bengal. Two Under the Indian Sun is the story of the five years that followed, in the village of Narayangunj - on a bustling river that feeds the great Brahmaputra. Jon and Rumer Godden capture all the colors, sounds, and scents of exotic India, and brig to life again the people who befriended them. Two Under the Indian Sun is Imperial India remembered, seen with the honesty and clarity of children's eyes. [via]
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The United Methodist Hymnal: Book of United Methodist WorshipISBN 0687431328 (0-687-43132-8)
Hardcover, Abingdon Pr
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United Methodist Hymnal Book of United Methodist Worship: Pew Bright RedISBN 0687431344 (0-687-43134-4)
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Up and Upby Shirley HughesISBN 068806261X (0-688-06261-X)
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The Very Worst Monsterby Pat HutchinsISBN 0688040101 (0-688-04010-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Vladimir Nabokov, His Life, His Work, His World: A Tributeby Peter QuennellISBN 0688036376 (0-688-03637-6)
Hardcover, Morrow
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Where's the Baby?by Pat HutchinsISBN 0688059333 (0-688-05933-3)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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Whirlwindby James ClavellISBN 0688066631 (0-688-06663-1)
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The White Companyby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0688078176 (0-688-07817-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Wicked Dayby Mary StewartISBN 0688025072 (0-688-02507-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wicked Day'Book summary:Born of an incestuous relationship between King Arthur and his half sister, the evil sorceress Morgause, the bastard Mordred is reared in secrecy. Called to Camelot by events he cannot deny, Mordred becomes Arthurs most trusted counselor -- a fateful act that leads to the "wicked day of destiny" when father and son must face each other in battle.
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Wildfire at Midnightby Mary StewartISBN 0688027709 (0-688-02770-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversationby Deborah Tannen, Maria GuarnashaelliISBN 0688078222 (0-688-07822-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including eight months at number one, You Just Don't Understand is a true cultural and intellectual phenomenon. This is the book that brought gender differences in ways of speaking to the forefront of public awareness. With a rare combination of scientific insight and delightful, humorous writing, Tannen shows why women and men can walk away from the same conversation with completely different impressions of what was said.
Studded with lively and entertaining examples of real conversations, this book gives you the tools to understand what went wrong -- and to find a common language in which to strengthen relationships at work and at home. A classic in the field of interpersonal relations, this book will change forever the way you approach conversations.
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You'll Soon Grow into Them, Titchby Pat HutchinsISBN 0688017703 (0-688-01770-3)
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenanceby Robert M. PirsigISBN 0688032079 (0-688-03207-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'Book summary:In his now classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. It scores high on both counts.
Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.
In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Valuesby Robert M. PirsigISBN 0688002307 (0-688-00230-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values'Book summary:In his now classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. It scores high on both counts.
Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.
In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Las Cenizas De Angela: Una Memoria/Angela's Ashes a Memoirby Frank McCourtISBN 0684859335 (0-684-85933-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Las Cenizas De Angela: Una Memoria/Angela's Ashes a Memoir'Book summary:En cada pagina abunda el incomparable sentido del humor y la compasion de Frank McCourt. Con todas las cualidades de una obra clasica, "Las cenizas de Angela" esta ahora disponible en edicion rustica en espanol. Esta autobiografia ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y de gran exito de ventas internatcional trasciende las fronteras culturales y linguisticas con su narracion sobre la infancia, la pobreza y las relaciones familiares. [via]
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