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10 Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Healthby Donald S. WhitneyISBN 1576830969 (1-57683-096-9)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
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The Bhagavad Gitaby A. M. Piatigorskii, J.A.B. Van BuitenenISBN 1852309172 (1-85230-917-2)
Hardcover, Thorsons Element
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The Bhagavad Gitaby Eknath EaswaranISBN 1590301900 (1-59030-190-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:Prince Arjuna faced a dilemma that many face sooner or later--whether or not to take action that is necessary yet morally ambiguous. The difference is that Arjuna's action was to wage war against his own family. With the armies arrayed, Arjuna loses his nerve. Krishna, his charioteer and incarnation of divine consciousness, begins to teach him the nature of God and of himself, that Arjuna can attain liberation through union with God, and that there are several available paths. And so the most famous and revered of all Hindu scriptures goes on to teach the paths of knowledge, of devotion, of action, and of meditation, becoming the seed for all the Hindu systems of philosophy and religion that followed. For all of its profundity, Eknath Easwaran manages to translate the Gita in easy prose that neither panders nor obscures. Coupled with his thorough introduction, Easwaran's version comes off on all the levels it should: as a guide to action, as devotional scripture, as a philosophical text, and as inspirational reading. So what does Arjuna finally do? He follows his dharma, of course, as we all must. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Bhagavad Gitaby PrabhavanandaISBN 1566198534 (1-56619-853-4)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:Uses the beauty of verse to express the highest truths of Vedanta. Includes an introduction to the Gita, and a study of non-violence versus the need to fight a just war. The critics have singled out this translation: The book is self-contained. A complete stranger to the Hindu Gospel can pick it up and in one or two evenings follow the poem from its terrific beginnings to its sublime end. -- New York Times [via]
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Bhagavadgitaby Nabar, Shanta TumkurISBN 1853261971 (1-85326-197-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavadgita'Book summary:Translated by Professor Vrinda Nabar and Professor Shanta Tumkur Arguably India's greatest gift to the world, The Bhagavadgita ('The Song of the Blessed') forms an episode in the sixth book of the Hindu epic The Mahabharata and is the supreme work of that religion. The Gita consists of the dialogue between Prince Arjuna and his mentor and friend, Lord Krishna, on the eve of the climactic battle of Kuruksetra. This discourse contains an exposition of the Hindu philosophy of Karma Yoga (disciplined action performed in the right spirit) as Prince Arjuna struggles with his understandable 'existential' anguish at having to join battle against his gurus and kinsmen. The Gita, although almost 2,500 years old, contains profound truths of great relevance to contemporary society in India and the West. [via]
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Bridge to Terabithiaby Katherine Paterson, Donna DiamondISBN 1557360103 (1-55736-010-3)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Cat's Eyeby Margaret AtwoodISBN 1853811262 (1-85381-126-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat's Eye'Book summary:Cat's Eye is one of Margaret Atwood's most intriguing novels, a ruminative, symbol-laced, and deceptively loose book that encompasses many of the concerns of her earlier works, compounding them with a new awareness of aging and the curious vagaries of memory. Its premise is simple enough: Elaine Risley, a successful painter living on the West Coast, returns to Toronto, the scene of her childhood and artistic development, for a retrospective of her work at an independent feminist gallery. As Risley arrives in Toronto, she begins to examine her past in that city, from her early girlhood through to the final days of her first marriage. Risley's memories dominate the book; her exhibition is a light but important counterpoint to all that has gone before it.
In a sense, Cat's Eye is a feminist deconstruction of the artist's coming-of-age novel, but Risley's feminism is skeptical and detached. Her painful girlhood friendships haunt her through her middle age, and she has far more sympathy for men than she does for the women who have supported her career. As a result, Cat's Eye transcends orthodox feminism and rigorously examines troubling questions of gender, sexuality, and art from a wryly nonpartisan perspective. Fans of Atwood's more recent novels will love Cat's Eye, but it is a book that deserves the attention of her numerous detractors; perhaps it will encourage them to give her a second look. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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Catechism of the Catholic Churchby Catholic ChurchISBN 1574551094 (1-57455-109-4)
Hardcover, United States Catholic Conference
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catechism of the Catholic Church: Revised in Accordance With the Official Latin Text Promulgated by Pope John Paul II'Book summary:Catechism of the Catholic Church is the first new edition of the catechism in 400 years. Catechism means "instruction," and this text will remain the standard reference for Catholics for many future generations. It is the authoritative summary of Catholic belief regarding the Church creeds, sacraments, commandments, and prayers. To get some idea of the level of detail with which the Catechism engages Catholic doctrine, consider that 17 pages of explanation accompany the opening words of the Apostle's Creed ("I Believe in God the Father"). The book is exceptionally well organized, with line-by-line explanations of every conceivable aspect of orthodox Catholic belief. Extensive cross-referencing, indexing, footnotes, and "In Brief" summaries of each section further ease the project of finding the precise answers to any questions a reader might have. Even the layout of information on the page is easy on the eyes, with wide margins for readers who wish to make notes. Furthermore, the back cover features a true rarity in the annals of world literature: a blurb by the Pope. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Caucasiaby Danzy SennaISBN 1573220914 (1-57322-091-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caucasia: A Novel'Book summary:A young girl learns some difficult lessons in Danzy Senna's debut novel Caucasia. Growing up in a biracial family in 1970s Boston, Birdie has seen her family disintegrate due to the increasing racial tensions. Her father and older sister move to Brazil, where they hope to find true racial equality, while Birdie and her mother drift through the country, eventually adopting new identities (Sheila and Jesse Goldman) and settling in a small New Hampshire town.
Birdie/Jesse tries to find her niche in this new world of eye shadow and gossip and boys, but she also wants to remain true to herself and find a common ground between her white and black heritage. She sets out to find her sister and reconnect with that part of her that has been lost for so long; the search takes her far from the settled, safe life she had in New Hampshire to a far more ambiguous, and unsettled, existence, one in which her own definitions of herself become muddled, and her search for her sister leads ultimately to a search for her own true identity. [via]
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Complete Husbandby Lou PrioloISBN 1879737353 (1-879737-35-3)
Softcover, Calvary Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Husband'Book summary:What does it take to be a "Biblical Husband"? The Complete Husband by Lou Priolo is the ground-breaking book that Christian men have been waiting for.A In it, the author turns his years of biblical counseling wisdom to the subject of being a husband.A The author reminds his readers that pleasing their wives does not automatically equate to the sexual arena.A Men must think in terms of the whole relationship, and the whole person.A However, since he is aware that sexual relations is part of the blueprint God created for marriage, he devotes an entire chapter to the subject.A Above all, Priolo stresses that it is correct biblical thinking that leads to tender actions that in turn lead to complete fulfillment in the marriage bond.[via]More editions of Complete Husband:
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Black GarnettISBN 1593080816 (1-59308-081-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Crime and Punishment (1866) is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of great physical and psychological tension, pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocation of St Petersburg, it also has moments of wild humour. Dostoevsky's own harrowing experiences mark the novel. He had himself undergone interrogation and trial, and was condemned to death, a sentence commuted at the last moment to penal servitude. In prison he was particularly impressed by one hardened murderer who seemed to have attained a spiritual equilibrium beyond good and evil: yet witnessing the misery of other convicts also engendered in Dostoevsky a belief in the Christian idea of salvation through suffering. [via]
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Softcover, Wordsworth Edition - Crime And Punishment: ISBN 1566194334 (1-56619-433-4)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 1578400090 (1-57840-009-0)
Softcover, Acclaim Books - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 1561387142 (1-56138-714-2)
Hardcover, Courage Books - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 1593080816 (1-59308-081-6)
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Eleanor Rigbyby Douglas CouplandISBN 1582346437 (1-58234-643-7)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleanor Rigby'Book summary:Liz Dunn isn't morbid, she's just a lonely woman with a very pragmatic outlook on life. Overweight, underemployed, and living in a nondescript condo with nothing but chocolate pudding in the fridge, she has pretty much given up on anything interesting ever happening to her. Everything changes when she gets an unexpected phone call from a Vancouver hospital and a stranger takes on a very intimate place in her life. From here the plot of Douglas Coupland's Eleanor Rigby skyrockets into a very bizarre world, rife with reverse sing-alongs and apocalyptic visions of frantic farmers. The style and plot paths are very identifiably Coupland--slightly mystical, off-kilter, and very, very smart. Ultimately a novel about the burden of loneliness, Eleanor Rigby takes its characters through strange and sometimes nearly unimaginable predicaments.
Fans of Douglas Coupland's later novels, particularly Hey Nostradamus! and Miss Wyoming, are bound to like Eleanor Rigby. Like many of his novels, the journey is strange and unexpected but you come out at the other end with a snapshot of a sardonic and bizarre but ever-so-slightly hopeful place. --Victoria Griffith [via]
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Emmaby Jane Austen, Kristin Flieger SamuelianISBN 155111321X (1-55111-321-X)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Emma: ISBN 1593080891 (1-59308-089-1)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble - Emma: ISBN 1593081529 (1-59308-152-9)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Emma: ISBN 1853260282 (1-85326-028-2)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd - Emma: ISBN 1592640044 (1-59264-004-4)
Hardcover, Toby Pr - Emma: ISBN 1593083343 (1-59308-334-3)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Emma: ISBN 1576463338 (1-57646-333-8)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub - Emma: ISBN 1853810967 (1-85381-096-7)
Hardcover, Virago - Emma: ISBN 1857150368 (1-85715-036-8)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library - Emma: ISBN 155111321X (1-55111-321-X)
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Equal Affections/10923by David LeavittISBN 155584202X (1-55584-202-X)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicholson
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The First Five Years of Marriageby Wilford WootenISBN 1589970411 (1-58997-041-1)
Hardcover, Focus on the Family Pub
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From The Mixed-up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweilerby E. L. KonigsburgISBN 1557360367 (1-55736-036-7)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From The Mixed-up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler'Book summary:After reading this book, I guarantee that you will never visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or any wonderful, old cavern of a museum) without sneaking into the bathrooms to look for Claudia and her brother Jamie. They're standing on the toilets, still, hiding until the museum closes and their adventure begins. Such is the impact of timeless novels . . . they never leave us. E. L. Konigsburg won the 1967 Newbery Medal for this tale of how Claudia and her brother run away to the museum in order to teach their parents a lesson. Little do they know that mystery awaits! [via]
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Giant, Or, Waiting for the Thursday Boatby Robert Munsch, Gilles TiboISBN 1550370715 (1-55037-071-5)
Hardcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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Ginger Pyeby Eleanor EstesISBN 1557360561 (1-55736-056-1)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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The Great Gilly Hopkinsby Katherine PatersonISBN 1557360111 (1-55736-011-1)
Hardcover, Corban Productions
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Growing a Spiritually Strong Familyby Dennis Rainey, Barbara Rainey, Bruce NygrenISBN 1576737780 (1-57673-778-0)
Hardcover, Multnomah Pub
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Guiding Your Family in a Misguided Worldby Anthony T. EvansISBN 1561796735 (1-56179-673-5)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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The Half Brotherby Kenneth Steven, Lars Saabye ChristensenISBN 1559707151 (1-55970-715-1)
Hardcover, Arcade Pub
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The Half Brotherby Lars Saabye Christensen, Kenneth StevenISBN 1559707593 (1-55970-759-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Heart of Anger: Practical Help for the Prevention & Cure of Anger in Childrenby Lou Priolo, Jay Edward Adams, John Mac ArthurISBN 1879737280 (1-879737-28-0)
Softcover, Calvary Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Anger: Practical Help for the Prevention & Cure of Anger in Children'Book summary:Does your children ever speak to you in angry, disrespectful tones? Christian families, especially those in which children are home for most of the day, especially episodes of frustration and anger. This new book deals with anger's root causes, offering corrective advice from a biblical perspective. Pastor and radio teacher, John MacArthur, Jr. has said, "This book goes beyond the external manifestations of anger and deals with the internal source - the thoughts and intents of the heart. I know of no other book that addresses this problem with such practical and applicable biblical wisdom." [via]
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Hey Nostradamus!by Douglas CouplandISBN 1582344159 (1-58234-415-9)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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Jacob Have I Lovedby Katherine PatersonISBN 158118073X (1-58118-073-X)
Hardcover, Library Reproduction Services
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Julius, the Baby of the Worldby Kevin Henkes, Laura HamiltonISBN 1591125235 (1-59112-523-5)
Softcover, Live Oak Media
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Keeping Your Family Together When the World Is Falling Apartby Kevin LemanISBN 1561791806 (1-56179-180-6)
Hardcover, Tyndale House Pub
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Koala Louby Mem Fox, Pamela LoftsISBN 1862800022 (1-86280-002-2)
Hardcover, Ian Drakeford
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Lion, Witch, & Wardrobeby C. S. LewisISBN 156137704X (1-56137-704-X)
Softcover, Novel Units
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Little Lord FauntleroyISBN 1853261300 (1-85326-130-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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The Lost Language Of Cranesby David LeavittISBN 1582345732 (1-58234-573-2)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Language Of Cranes'Book summary:David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss.[via]
Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own crisis: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home. But the real threat to this family is Philip's father's own struggle with his latent homosexuality, realized only in his Sunday afternoon visits to gay porn theaters. Philip's admission to his parents and his father's hidden life provoke changes that forever alter the landscape of their worlds.More editions of The Lost Language Of Cranes:
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Man and Boyby Tony ParsonsISBN 1570717257 (1-57071-725-7)
Hardcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man and Boy'Book summary:Harry Silver has it all: a beautiful wife, a wonderful son, a great job in the media--but in one night he throws it all away.
Just yesterday Harry gave himself a shiny red sports car for his thirtieth birthday. Today he faces the baffling questions of a suddenly single dad:
--How do you wash a four-year-old's hair?
--Should he eat green spaghetti for breakfast?
--What do you tell his Mommy from the emergency room phone?In this poignant and witty novel, Harry has to bring up his child alone, look after his parents, work out his relationships and hold down a job.
As millions of women have discovered before him, that is not as simple as it may have seemed.
Man and Boy is by turns funny, sharp, warm and heart-wrenching. It is a brilliantly engaging novel from one of the most gifted and influential commentators writing today. [via]
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The Mill on the Flossby George EliotISBN 1853260746 (1-85326-074-6)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mill on the Floss'Book summary:Literary Studies, Classic Literature [via]
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No Great Mischiefby Alistair MacLeodISBN 1574904345 (1-57490-434-5)
Hardcover, Thomas t Beeler
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Great Mischief'Book summary:For the MacDonalds, the past is not a foreign country. This Cape Breton clan may have lived in the New World since 1779, when Calum Ruadh ("the red Calum") and his wife, 12 children, and dog landed. Scotland, however, remains their true home. So profound is their connection to their lost land that on brief visits they find themselves welcomed by strangers. When one descendent tells a Scotswoman that she's from Canada, she is offered a gentle rejoinder: "That may be.... But you are really from here. You have just been away for a while." In some ways this is unsurprising, since the MacDonalds either have deep black hair or their ancestor's coloring. And those with the latter have "eyes that were so dark as to be beyond brown and almost in the region of glowing black. Such individuals would manifest themselves as strikingly unfamiliar to some, and as eerily familiar to others." Another sport of nature? Many are fraternal twins, including Alistair MacLeod's narrator, Alexander, and his sister.
But No Great Mischief is far more than the straightforward saga of one family over the generations. Instead the author has created a painfully beautiful myth in which the long-ago is in many ways more present than modern existence. Even in the last decades of the 20th century, the MacDonalds fall into Gaelic--its inflections, rhythms, and song--with deep nostalgia. This is a family that is used to composing itself in the face of disaster. They often assure one another, "My hope is constant in thee," and in the light of their many losses, the clan must cling to its motto.
No Great Mischief begins with Alexander's visit to Toronto, where his eldest brother now subsists on a diet of drink and memories. The narrator, a successful orthodontist, doesn't have much to do with the former but is unable (or unwilling) to escape the latter. As the novel proceeds, Alexander fills in his family history, including such key episodes as his great-great-grandfather's self-exile from Scotland. Though Calum Ruadh had intended to leave his dog behind, it broke away and tried to catch up with him. MacLeod piercingly captures the animal's struggle as her master first tries to make her head for shore and then--realizing she won't desert him--spurs her on. Throughout No Great Mischief various people recall this incident, an emblem of intensity, hope, and dependence. A descendant of the bitch is also on hand when Alexander's parents and one of his brothers disappear under the ice on a cold spring night. She persists in searching for her people and tries to protect their lighthouse from the new keeper, receiving in return "four bullets into her loyal waiting heart." When Alexander's grandfather hears of her death, he uses a phrase that becomes one of the book's litanies, "It was in those dogs to care too much and to try too hard."
This is a MacDonald characteristic as well. A good deal of No Great Mischief's strength stems from scenes of longing and despair--for those who die for a lost cause, whether in 1692 when one leader is killed ("the redness of his hair dyed forever brighter by the crimson of his blood") or in an Ontario uranium mine where one brother is decapitated. MacLeod evokes his clan, and the elemental beauty of their landscape, in quiet, precise language that gains power with each repetition. (A sentence such as "All of us are better when we're loved" comes to acquire a near proverbial ring.) If he occasionally tips his hand too much, pressing home his point that present-day prosperity isn't all it's cracked up to be, no matter. I doubt that this inspired and elegiac novel will ever leave those who are lucky enough to read it--proving after all the persistence of the clann Chalum Ruaidh. --Kerry Fried [via]
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No Greater Joyby Michael Pearl, Debi PearlISBN 1892112019 (1-892112-01-9)
Softcover, No Greater Joy Ministries
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Over the River and Through the Woodby Lydia Maria Child, Christopher MansonISBN 1558589597 (1-55858-959-7)
Softcover, North South Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Over the River and Through the Wood'Book summary:"Recalling a simpler time, this book captures the poem's sense of excitement and celebration. Readers who join the family en route to Grandfather's house will observe many details about life in the 19th century. . . . Manson's woodcuts, painted in the colors of a snowy evening, lovingly depict the wintry countryside".--"School Library Journal". Full-color illustrations.[via]More editions of Over the River and Through the Wood:
Portnoy's Complaintby Philip RothISBN 156849324X (1-56849-324-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Princess Academyby Shannon HaleISBN 1599900734 (1-59990-073-4)
Softcover, Bloomsbury USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess Academy'Book summary:Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage girl must attend and learn how to become a princess.[via]
Miri soon finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires to be chosen and win the heart of her childhood best friend. But when bandits seek out the academy to kidnap the future princess, Miri must rally the girls together and use a power unique to the mountain dwellers to save herself and her classmates. -
Queen Of Dreamsby Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniISBN 158724859X (1-58724-859-X)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen Of Dreams'Book summary:Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother living in Berkeley, California, is struggling to keep her footing with her family and with a world in alarming transition. Her mother is a dream teller, born with the ability to share and interpret the dreams of others. This gift fascinates Rakhi but also isolates her from her mother's past. Rakhi's solace comes in the discovery, after her mother's death, of her dream journals, which open the long-closed door to her past.
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Ramona the Pestby Beverly Cleary, Louis DarlingISBN 1557361584 (1-55736-158-4)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Reviving Opheliaby Mary Bray PipherISBN 1594481881 (1-59448-188-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reviving Ophelia'Book summary:At adolescence, says Mary Pipher, "girls become 'female impersonators' who fit their whole selves into small, crowded spaces." Many lose spark, interest, and even IQ points as a "girl-poisoning" society forces a choice between being shunned for staying true to oneself and struggling to stay within a narrow definition of female. Pipher's alarming tales of a generation swamped by pain may be partly informed by her role as a therapist who sees troubled children and teens, but her sketch of a tougher, more menacing world for girls often hits the mark. She offers some prescriptions for changing society and helping girls resist. [via]
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, John CrowtherISBN 1586638459 (1-58663-845-9)
Softcover, Spark Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex Love, sex and death are the components of Shakespeare's classic story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family and convention. It encompasses great love, high drama, low comedy and a tragic ending. Romeo and Juliet is a pure tragedy of youth told in verse that is both youthful and intense. The loveliness and the music of the poetry make believable the otherwise commonplace afflictions of blighted love. [via]
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Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Romeo and Juliet: ISBN 1578400023 (1-57840-002-3)
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Romeo and Julietby John Russell BrownISBN 1557833850 (1-55783-385-0)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Sandman Libraryby Neil GaimanISBN 1563892871 (1-56389-287-1)
Hardcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sandman Library'Book summary:This is the conclusion to the much talked about Sandman series. It may be best to start your Sandman acquaintance with earlier episodes, but The Wake stands as one of Neil Gaiman's strongest and most consistent Sandman volumes to date. [via]
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Sex, Romance And The Glory Of God: What Every Christian Husband Needs To Knowby C. J. MahaneyISBN 1581346247 (1-58134-624-7)
Hardcover, Good News Pub
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She Calls Me Daddyby Robert WolgemuthISBN 1561796522 (1-56179-652-2)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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Silas Marnerby George ElliotISBN 1591940486 (1-59194-048-6)
Softcover, Townsend Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silas Marner'Book summary:This Townsend Library classic has been carefully edited to be more accessible to today's students. It includes a background note about the book, an author's biography, and a lively afterword. Acclaimed by educators nationwide, the Townsend Library is helping millions of young adults discover the pleasure and power of reading. [via]
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby George EliotISBN 1853262218 (1-85326-221-8)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe'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. [via]
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Softcover, Prestwick House Inc - Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe: ISBN 1562650211 (1-56265-021-1)
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Something Goodby Robert Munsch, Michael MartchenkoISBN 1550371002 (1-55037-100-2)
Softcover, Annick Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Something Good'Book summary:Tyya's dad won't buy anything good at the store - no ice cream, no candy, no cookies. But when the saleslady puts a price sticker on Tyya's nose, Daddy is finally forced to buy something good.
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Something Goodby Michael Martchenko, Robert MunschISBN 1550373900 (1-55037-390-0)
Softcover, Annick Pr
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Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life/Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Healthby Donald S. WhitneyISBN 1576833305 (1-57683-330-5)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life/Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health'Book summary:Now, for the first time, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health and Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life are conveniently packaged together, giving you two excellent resources at a great value. In Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health, best-selling author Don Whitney poses ten probing questions that will help you look beyond your spiritual activity to assess the true state of your spiritual health. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life will guide you through a carefully selected array of disciplines such as Scripture meditation, prayer, worship, fasting, solitude, and journaling. Both books will help you deepen your walk with God and develop a character more like Christs. [via]
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The Story of the Treasure Seekersby Edith NesbitISBN 1598189638 (1-59818-963-8)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of the Treasure Seekers'Book summary:"This is the story of the different ways we looked for treasure, and I think when you have read it you will see that we were not lazy about the looking." This novel, the first in what is often called "the Bastable Saga" begins the story of these six children -- Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius Bastable. When their mother dies and their father's business fails, the children embark on a series of adventures. Says Oswald (the book's narrator) at the start: "I'll tell you what, we must go and seek for treasure: it is always what you do to restore the fallen fortunes of your House." [via]
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothingby Judy Blume, Roy DotyISBN 1557360154 (1-55736-015-4)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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To Own a Dragon: Reflections On Growing Up Without A Fatherby John MacMurray, Donald MillerISBN 1576837319 (1-57683-731-9)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Own a Dragon: Reflections On Growing Up Without A Father'Book summary:Good dads are almost as rare as fire-breathing dragons--or at least it seems. New from Donald Miller, author of the critically acclaimed Blue Like Jazz, comes a gut-wrenching honest look at growing up without a father. In his uniquely compelling style, Miller (and John MacMurray--the man who taught Donald many of the lessons his dad never did) reflects on what it is a father might have told him about identity, women, money, spirituality, fatherhood and more. Through Millers personal narrative and MacMurrays wisdom, children of absent fathers will discover how to pick up the broken pieces of a fatherless childhood...and put them back together. [via]
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Jonnie Patricia MobleyISBN 1885564112 (1-885564-11-2)
Softcover, Lorenz Educational Pub
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The Unthinkable Thoughts Of Jacob Greenby Joshua BraffISBN 1565124200 (1-56512-420-0)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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The Wake Bk. Xby Neil Gaiman, Bob Kahan, Michael Zulli, Jon J. Muth, Mikal GilmoreISBN 1563892790 (1-56389-279-0)
Softcover, DC Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wake Bk. X'Book summary:This is the conclusion to the much talked about Sandman series. It may be best to start your Sandman acquaintance with earlier episodes, but The Wake stands as one of Neil Gaiman's strongest and most consistent Sandman volumes to date. [via]
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The Way of All Fleshby Samuel ButlerISBN 1853262285 (1-85326-228-5)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way of All Flesh'Book summary:This work is Samuel Butler's only novel. It is a semi-autobiographical account of Victorian upbringing, which is revealing about the habits of mind. It tells of Ernest Pontifex, his clergyman father, his mother who stoops to every kind of betrayal and his odious brother and sister. [via]
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What Katy Did at Schoolby Susan Coolidge, Kathleen LucasISBN 1594624720 (1-59462-472-0)
Softcover, Standard Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Katy Did at School'Book summary:Dr Carr's mind is firmly made up. Katy and her little sister Clover are to spend a whole year away at boarding school. A strange place, far from home, but on arrival the girls have an inkling that it might turn out to be rather different from their expectations. One thing is for sure, it certainly isn't going to be dull with a girl like Rose Red as an ally. [via]
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What Katy Did at School & What Katy Did Nextby Susan CoolidgeISBN 1840224371 (1-84022-437-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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What the Bible Says About Child Trainingby J. Richard FugateISBN 1889700134 (1-889700-13-4)
Softcover, Foundation for Biblical Res
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Where the Red Fern Growsby Wilson RawlsISBN 155736057X (1-55736-057-X)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth Gaskell, Amy M. KingISBN 1593082576 (1-59308-257-6)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wives and Daughters'Book summary:[via]Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell, 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:Tremendously popular in her lifetime, Elizabeth Gaskell has often been overshadowed by her contemporaries the Brontës and George Eliot. Yet the reputation of her long-neglected masterpiece Wives and Daughters continues to grow, fulfilling Henry Jamess prophecy that the novel would continue for years to come to be read and relished . . .so delicately, so elaborately, so artistically, so truthfully, and heartily is the story wrought out.
An enchanting tale of romance, scandal, and intrigue in the gossipy English town of Hollingford around the 1830s, Wives and Daughters tells the story of Molly Gibson, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a widowed country doctor. When her father remarries, she forms a close friendship with her new stepsisterthe beautiful and worldly Cynthiauntil they become love rivals for the affections of Squire Hamleys sons, Osbourne and Roger. When sudden illness and death reveal some secrets while shrouding others in even deeper mystery, Molly feels that the world is out of joint and it is up to hertrusted by all but listened to by noneto set it right.Amy M. King is Assistant Professor of English at St. Johns University in New York City and the author of Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel (Oxford University Press, 2003).
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El Pollo De Los Domingosby Patricia Polacco, Alejandra Lopez VarelaISBN 1880507315 (1-880507-31-5)
Hardcover, Lectorum Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Pollo De Los Domingos'Book summary:To thank Miss Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, three children sell decorated eggs to buy her a beautiful Easter hat. [via]
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