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8 Books In 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love anby Jane AustenISBN 0954840119 (0-9548401-1-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: '8 Books In 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an'Book summary:Jane Austen's complete novels, collected together in one uniquely comprehensive volume. Comprises the complete text of: "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion", "Lady Susan", and "Love and Friendship". This is the only single-volume edition of Jane Austen's novels to contain not only the wickedly humorous "Lady Susan", but also the irrepressibly exuberant early work "Love and Friendship". This collection allows readers to explore the development of one of the English language's greatest writers, following her development from the farcical comedy of "Love and Friendship" and "Northanger Abbey", via her most popular work, "Pride and Prejudice", to the masterpiece "Emma", and the considered romance of "Persuasion". A unique collection of the finest and most perceptive love stories ever written. [via]
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Agnes Grayby Anne BronteISBN 1419105213 (1-4191-0521-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agnes Gray'Book summary:"Agnes Grey" is the story of its title character who takes up a position as a governess. Anne Bronte's first novel was based on her own experiences as a governess and depicts the loneliness and isolation of the position. Agnes Grey as governess of the Bloomfield and Murray households experiences hardship and humiliation as a result of the families' snobbery. "Agnes Grey is" as much an autobiographical account of Bronte's own experiences as it is an indictment of the shallowness of the upper class. [via]
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Anna Kareninaby Leo TolstoyISBN 1404360719 (1-4043-6071-9)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold Type. You choose the format that is right for you.
This is Volume Volume 3 of 7-Volume Set. To purchase the complete set, you will need to order the other volumes separately: to find them, search for the following ISBNs: 9781427038982, 9781427040480, 9781427040503, 9781427040510, 9781427040534, 9781427040558
A magnificent story, that amalgamates classical sensuality and rebelliousness against the prevailing customs, is presented here. This novel is a unique example of social realism that portrays the inevitable tragedy of a wilful woman, Anna Karenina, who transgresses the conventions of society and follows her own lead.
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1419107178 (1-4191-0717-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Anne Of Green Gablesby Kathleen Olmstead, Lucy CorvinoISBN 1402711301 (1-4027-1130-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Of Green Gables'Book summary:Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price.[via]
Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic tale, with its engaging heroine and evocative description of the Prince Edward Island landscape, never fails to delight youngsters. When Matthew Cuthbert goes to the train station to pick up the orphan he and his sister Marilla plan to adopt, he expects to meet a boy who can help on the family farm. Instead it's Anne--a talkative, dreamy, red-haired, freckle-faced 11-year-old little girl who transforms the Cuthberts' life forever and fills it with love and joy.More editions of Anne Of Green Gables:
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Anne of Green Gablesby Scott McKowenISBN 1402714513 (1-4027-1451-3)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.[via]
Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.
One things for certain, no house that Annes in will ever be dull. Thats what Marilla Cuthbert says about Anne, the lively red-headed orphan she and her brother Matthew adopt. For decades, girls have agreed, eagerly reading every book in Lucy Maud Montgomerys series that chronicles Annes coming of age.More editions of Anne of Green Gables:
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Anne's House of Dreamsby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 1406821721 (1-4068-2172-1)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne's House of Dreams'Book summary:The newlyweds, Anne and Gilbert, move into their house of dreams where they share joys and sorrows with special neighbors Captain Jim, Leslie Moore and Cornelia. The births of the first children a moving part of the story. Five 90-minute cassettes. [via]
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Belindaby Maria EdgeworthISBN 1419109561 (1-4191-0956-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 1400033411 (1-4000-3341-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beloved'Book summary:Toni Morrison gently reads her own Pulitzer Prize-winning work in the unabridged version of this riveting tale of ex-slave Sethe and the beloved ghost that haunts her. While Morrison makes occasional odd pauses in her reading, what is lost in smoothness is more than made up for in quiet intensity as the author reads words obviously deeply felt. Her intimate knowledge of the characters and their motivations lends this reading an authority that helps the listener sort out the breaks in time and dialogue in this complex story of a woman coming to terms with her enslaved past and the loss of her husband and baby daughter. (Running time: 12 hours, eight cassettes) --Kimberly Heinrichs [via]
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Black Beautyby Anna SewellISBN 1414213220 (1-4142-1322-0)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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Black Beauty is the classic horse story, a beautiful and touching tale told by the title character himself. Set in Victorian London, it follows Beauty's life and changing fortunes as he moves from owner to owner. As the horse encounters new experiences and new friends who reveal their own histories, the story quietly paints a fascinating portrait of how animals were treated during that era. -
Black Beautyby Scott McKowenISBN 1402714521 (1-4027-1452-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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The Bookshop/the Gate of Angels/the Blue Flowerby Penelope Fitzgerald, Frank KermodeISBN 1400041260 (1-4000-4126-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Cayman Islands: The Beach & Beyondby Martha K. SmithISBN 0965034909 (0-9650349-0-9)
Softcover, Cuchipanda Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cayman Islands: The Beach & Beyond'Book summary:From the author of the critically acclaimed "The Handmaid's Tale" comes this 2000 novel-within-a-novel centering on entangled relationships in 1930s-40s Ontario, Canada. [via]
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Chronicles of Avonleaby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 140682173X (1-4068-2173-X)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatovaby Anna Akhmatova, Judith HemschemeyerISBN 0939010135 (0-939010-13-5)
Hardcover, Zephyr Pr
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The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatovaby Roberta Reeder, Judith HemschemeyerISBN 0939010275 (0-939010-27-5)
Softcover, Zephyr Pr
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Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa CatherISBN 1417904232 (1-4179-0423-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Comes for the Archbishop'Book summary:1927. American novelist. In this work her focus falls on the Southwest. From the dust cover: Death Comes for the Archbishop is a very beautiful and harmonious piece of work. The whole narrative proceeds with the certainty and proportion of a great piece of music. The theme and its setting have been long and deeply considered; the farther we go the more the atmosphere pervades us; and a gradual knowledge of the character percolates as it were through the mere presentation of the scenes. The writing is as admirable as ever. Sir John Squire in the Observer. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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The Devil's Poolby George Sand, George B. IvesISBN 1406800341 (1-4068-0034-1)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Dive from Clausen's Pierby Ann PackerISBN 141040093X (1-4104-0093-X)
Softcover, Walker Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dive from Clausen's Pier'Book summary:Carrie Bell is the worst person in the world. Or so she would have you think. In the gripping, carefully paced debut novel of personal epiphany, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, by O. Henry Award winner Ann Packer, Carrie's very survival is dependent upon her leaving her fiancé, even after he dives into shallow water at a Memorial Day picnic and becomes paralyzed. Things hadn't been going so well for the Madison, Wisconsin, high school and college sweethearts. Carrie knew, deep down, that she wasn't going to become Mrs. Michael Mayer. But expectations and pressure from all sides--his family, her mother, her best friend Jamie, Mike's best friend Rooster--force Carrie to shut herself up in her room and sew outfits of her own design as if in a trance. Then one night she slips out of the only universe she's ever known. Many hours later she finds herself on the doorstep of a high school classmate living in Manhattan. Carrie's adventures in the city--quirky roommates and a new romance with an older, emotionally impenetrable man--confuse her in her quest both to forgive herself and to embark on a career in fashion design. Packer writes in a convincing voice and packs a lot into this novel; she infuses Carrie with enough humanity and smarts to choose her own version of "happily ever after." --Emily Russin [via]
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Early Novels and Storiesby Willa Cather, Sharon O BrienISBN 0940450399 (0-940450-39-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Novels and Stories'Book summary:"Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet." Willa Cather's remark describes her own reasons for re-creating in her powerful fiction the Nebraska frontier of her youth. The vast Great Plains, where the earth has only recently come beneath the plow and the sky is huge and open, mirrors the uniquely American ethic of her characters: their heroic aspirations and stoicism, their passion for creativity, their rebelliousness of spirit. This volume, the first in The Library of America's authoritative three-volume collected Cather, includes the story collection "The Troll Garden," her first work of fiction, along with the beloved novels "O Pioneers!," "The Song of the Lark," "My Antonia," and "One of Ours," which earned a Pulitzer Prize. [via]
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The Enchanted Aprilby Elizabeth Von ArnimISBN 1406510319 (1-4065-1031-9)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enchanted April'Book summary:The English in Italy [via]
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- The Enchanted April: ISBN 1406807192 (1-4068-0719-2)
Softcover, Echo Library - Enchanted April: ISBN 1419160915 (1-4191-6091-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co - The Enchanted April: ISBN 1421959100 (1-4219-5910-0)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com - Enchanted April: ISBN 1421959097 (1-4219-5909-7)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com - The Enchanted April: ISBN 1406510319 (1-4065-1031-9)
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Evelinaby Fanny BurneyISBN 1404359893 (1-4043-5989-3)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evelina'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the Worldby Fanny BurneyISBN 1406800910 (1-4068-0091-0)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas HardyISBN 1404362983 (1-4043-6298-3)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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The Female Quixoteby Charlotte LennoxISBN 1419162128 (1-4191-6212-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow Is Enufby Ntozake ShangeISBN 0915288133 (0-915288-13-3)
Hardcover, Shameless Hussy Press
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Further Chronicles of Avonleaby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 1406821748 (1-4068-2174-8)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Further Chronicles of Avonleaby L. M. MontgomeryISBN 1421976897 (1-4219-7689-7)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Further Chronicles of Avonlea'Book summary:Further Chronicles of Avonlea. [via]
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Girl with a Pearl Earringby Tracy ChevalierISBN 141774829X (1-4177-4829-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'Book summary:With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.
Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:
I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.
In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton [via]More editions of Girl with a Pearl Earring:
Haunted Poolby George SandISBN 0915288265 (0-915288-26-5)
Softcover, Dancing Cane Productions
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Heidiby Johanna Spyri, Scott McKowenISBN 1402726015 (1-4027-2601-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidi'Book summary:Johanna Spyri's classic story of a young orphan sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Swiss Alps is retold in it's entirety in this beautifully bound hardcover edition. Heidi has charmed and intrigued readers since it's original publication in 1880. Much more than a children's story, the narrative is also a lesson on the precarious nature of freedom, a luxury too often taken for granted. Heidi almost loses her liberty as she is ripped away from the tranquility of the mountains to tend to a sick cousin in the city. Happily, all's well that ends well, and the reader is left with only warm, fuzzy thoughts. Spryi's story will never grow wearisome--and this is a very appealing edition. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
The House on Mango Streetby Sandra CisnerosISBN 0934770204 (0-934770-20-4)
Softcover, Arte Publico Press
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Indianaby George SandISBN 1419126423 (1-4191-2642-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Indiana'Book summary:I was just going to do it, monsieur; but I saw a woman meet him. At that moment I said to myself: 'Perhaps it's monsieur and madame, who have taken a fancy to walk a bit before daybreak;' and I went back to bed. But this morning I heard Lelievre talking about a thief whose tracks he had seen in the park, and I said to myself: 'There's something under this. [via]
Jane Austen's Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love and Friendshipby Jane AustenISBN 095484016X (0-9548401-6-X)
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Jo's Boysby Louisa May AlcottISBN 1404310797 (1-4043-1079-7)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jo's Boys'Book summary:Large Format for easy reading. By the author of Little Women and Little Men. Takes us back to Plumfield school, where the boys have moved away and returned, and matured and grown, and draws the final curtain on the March Family Saga. [via]
Lady Audley's Secretby Mary E. Braddon, Christina TumminelloISBN 0971336342 (0-9713363-4-2)
Softcover, Chatterley Pr Intl
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Lady Susanby Jane AustenISBN 1419129112 (1-4191-2911-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Mary Bartonby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 1404370269 (1-4043-7026-9)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man implicated in the murder, through her adolescence, when she suffers the advances of the mill owner, and later through love and marriage. Set in Manchester, between 1837-42, it paints a powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England. [via]
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Murder at the Vicarageby Agatha ChristieISBN 1417617659 (1-4176-1765-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder at the Vicarage'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. St. Mary Mead, a peaceful village where nothing ever happens, livens up considerably when the unpopular magistrate Colonel Protheroe is found dead, and Miss Marple discovers that a number of people wanted him dead. [via]
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Novels: The House of Mirth; The Reef; The Custom of the Country; The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton, R. W. B. LewisISBN 0940450313 (0-940450-31-3)
Hardcover, Library of America, The
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The Old English Baron/the Castle of Otrantoby Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, Laura L. RungeISBN 0967912121 (0-9679121-2-1)
Softcover, College Pub
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Orlando: A Biographyby Virginia Woolf, Stuart Nelson ClarkeISBN 0951975609 (0-9519756-0-9)
Hardcover, S.N. Clarke
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Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 1417687703 (1-4176-8770-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Professorby Charlotte BronteISBN 1419179136 (1-4191-7913-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Queen Of Dreamsby Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniISBN 1400030447 (1-4000-3044-7)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen Of Dreams'Book summary:From the bestselling author of Sister of My Heart comes a spellbinding tale of mothers and daughters, love and cultural identity. Rakhi, a young painter and single mother, is struggling to come to terms with her relationship with ex-husband Sonny, a hip Bay Area DJ, and with her dream-teller mother, who has rarely spoken about her past or her native India. Rakhi has her hands full, juggling a creative dry spell, raising her daughter, and trying to save the Berkeley teahouse she and her best friend Belle own. But greater challenges are to come. When a national tragedy turns her world upside down and Rakhi needs her mothers strength and wisdom more than ever, she loses her in a freak car accident. But uncovering her mothers dream journals allows Rakhi to discover her mothers long-kept secrets and sacrificesand ultimately to confront her fears, forge a new relationship with her father, and revisit Sonnys place in her heart. [via]
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Quentinsby Maeve BinchyISBN 1410401626 (1-4104-0162-6)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quentins'Book summary:Maeve Binchy delivers a timely and topical tale on the fickle nature of docu-soaps in Quentins. In an age where everyday people are becoming overnight celebrities via the medium of television, Ella Brady is a documentary filmmaker who wants to bring the tale of the eponymous Dublin restaurant to the screen. Quentin's has had its fair share of ups and downs over the years and has become the meeting point for a lot of characters, including some familiar faces from previous Binchy novels. As Ella makes more and more headway with her documentary, the secrets, betrayals and stories of love that emerge make her question whether or not she wants to bring the tale of Quentin's to the screen after all; especially as she is also forced to confront a devastating dilemma from her own past.
Regarded by many as the true queen of the romantic Irish drama, Binchy has once again produced another fine page-turner that will please her army of loyal fans and hopefully win her many more. She has a real eye for character and exploring the often painful choices people are forced to make in their everyday lives. This is a tale of normal people, ordinary folk and the heartaches that have made them who they are. Fans will welcome the return of some familiar Binchy characters and Ella is a strong, likeable heroine, a woman who, in exploring the lives of these people, is forced to consider some choices she has made in her own life. So make a reservation at Quentin's, sit back and relax--you'll be in very good company. --Jane Warren [via]
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Rainbow Valleyby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1406821764 (1-4068-2176-4)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rainbow Valley'Book summary:It was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four Winds Harbour was mirroring back the clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a sly, jovial wind came piping down the red harbour road along which Miss Cornelia's comfortable, matronly figure was making its way towards the village of Glen St. Mary. Miss Cornelia was rightfully Mrs. Marshall Elliott, and had been Mrs. Marshall Elliott for thirteen years, but even yet more people referred to her as Miss Cornelia than as Mrs. Elliott. The old name was dear to her old friends, only one of them contemp-tuously dropped it. Susan Baker, the gray and grim and faithful handmaiden of the Blythe family at Ingleside, never lost an opportunity of calling her "Mrs. Marshall Elliott," with the most killing and pointed emphasis, as if to say "You wanted to be Mrs. and Mrs. you shall be with a vengeance as far as I am concerned." [via]
Raisin in the Sunby Lorraine HansberryISBN 0971075689 (0-9710756-8-9)
Hardcover, Everbind/Marco Book Co
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Red Tentby Anita DiamantISBN 1417616466 (1-4176-1646-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Tent'Book summary:The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and only daughter, Dinah. Told in the voice of Jacob's daughter Dinah (who only received a glimpse of recognition in the Book of Genesis), we are privy to the fascinating feminine characters who bled within the red tent. In a confiding and poetic voice, Dinah whispers stories of her four mothers, Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, and Bilhah--all wives to Jacob, and each one embodying unique feminine traits. As she reveals these sensual and emotionally charged stories we learn of birthing miracles, slaves, artisans, household gods, and sisterhood secrets. Eventually Dinah delves into her own saga of betrayals, grief, and a call to midwifery.
"Like any sisters who live together and share a husband, my mother and aunties spun a sticky web of loyalties and grudges," Anita Diamant writes in the voice of Dinah. "They traded secrets like bracelets, and these were handed down to me the only surviving girl. They told me things I was too young to hear. They held my face between their hands and made me swear to remember." Remembering women's earthy stories and passionate history is indeed the theme of this magnificent book. In fact, it's been said that The Red Tent is what the Bible might have been had it been written by God's daughters, instead of her sons. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Rilla of Inglesideby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1406821772 (1-4068-2177-2)
Softcover, Echo Library
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The Rover Or The Banished Cavaliersby Aphra BehnISBN 1419181211 (1-4191-8121-1)
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Scarlet Featherby Maeve BinchyISBN 141761711X (1-4176-1711-X)
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby Emmuska OrczyISBN 1404332154 (1-4043-3215-4)
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Shirleyby Charlotte BronteISBN 1419147099 (1-4191-4709-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shirley'Book summary:Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us. I make this trite remark, because I happen to know that Messrs Helstone and Moore trotted forth from the mill-yard gates at the head of their very small company, in the best possible spirits. [via]
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fanby Lisa SeeISBN 1400060281 (1-4000-6028-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Flower and the Secret Fan'Book summary:Lily is haunted by memoriesof who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.
In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu ( womens writing ). Some girls were paired with laotongs, old sames, in emotional matches that lasted throughout their lives. They painted letters on fans, embroidered messages on handkerchiefs, and composed stories, thereby reaching out of their isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments.
With the arrival of a silk fan on which Snow Flower has composed for Lily a poem of introduction in nu shu, their friendship is sealed and they become old sames at the tender age of seven. As the years pass, through famine and rebellion, they reflect upon their arranged marriages, loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive. But when a misunderstanding arises, their lifelong friendship suddenly threatens to tear apart.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of human relationships: female friendship. [via]More editions of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan:
The Solitary Summerby Elizabeth Von ArnimISBN 1421801248 (1-4218-0124-8)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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The Song of the Larkby Willa CatherISBN 1406794090 (1-4067-9409-0)
Softcover, Read Books
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In this semiautobiographical portrait of a young artist in the making, Willa Cather takes us into the heart of a woman coming to know her deepest self.
Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, has dreams and gifts that her humble hometown will not satisfy. With the support of a few allies who recognize her rare qualities, she follows her ambitions to the big city, determined to be an opera diva. As she moves through a series of music teachers in Chicago, Thea finds that the attitudes and standards of those around her rarely match her own. It is only when she reconnects with pure nature in a brilliant Arizona desert canyon that Thea rediscovers the sensuous, mystical openness that is the source of her art. Realizing she must protect this experience at all costs, she resolves to shed all relationships that don't serve her higher purpose. [via]-
The Story Girlby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1406821799 (1-4068-2179-9)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Story of an African Farmby Olive SchreinerISBN 1406801747 (1-4068-0174-7)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Stowe:Three Novels : Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folksby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kathryn K. SklarISBN 0940450011 (0-940450-01-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stowe:Three Novels : Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks'Book summary:Described by Henry James as "much less a book than a state of vision," "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is probably the most influential work of fiction in American history. Stowe's moving Christian epic turned millions of Americans against slavery, bringing the "peculiar institution" immeasurably closer to its fiery destruction. In "The Minister's Wooing" and "Oldtown Folks," Stowe examines the interplay of religion, domesticity, and women's roles and choices in the shaping of American culture. [via]
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hallby Anne BronteISBN 1419184970 (1-4191-8497-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia WoolfISBN 140679239X (1-4067-9239-X)
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The Uncollected Critical Writingsby Edith WhartonISBN 0940450534 (0-940450-53-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Vanishing Actsby Jodi PicoultISBN 1416506705 (1-4165-0670-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Washingtonienneby Jessica CutlerISBN 1401308473 (1-4013-0847-3)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 091406116X (0-914061-16-X)
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Anne, la Maison aux Pignons Vertsby L. M. MontgomeryISBN 0920304508 (0-920304-50-8)
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