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ISBN 9780451200518 (0-451-20051-9, 0451200519)

by Agatha Christie

ISBN 0451200519 (0-451-20051-9)
Softcover, Signet

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Sensible Elspeth McGillicuddy is not given to hallucinations. Or is she? After she boards the Paddington Station train and becomes a witness to an apparent murder, no one believes her but her friend-the indomitable sleuth Miss Jane Marple. [via]

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ISBN 9780460871211 (0-460-87121-8, 0460871218)

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Agnes Grey and Poems

by Anne Bronte

ISBN 0460871218 (0-460-87121-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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ISBN 9780451528612 (0-451-52861-1, 0451528611)

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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy, David Magarshack

ISBN 0451528611 (0-451-52861-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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A direct and truthful transcript of life in Russia in the early 1800's. [via]

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ISBN 9780451528827 (0-451-52882-4, 0451528824)

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Anne of Green Gables

by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 0451528824 (0-451-52882-4)
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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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ISBN 9780451525345 (0-451-52534-5, 0451525345)

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Anne of the Island

by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 0451525345 (0-451-52534-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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This volume contains "Anne of The Island" and "Anne of Windy Willows". Anne is older now, and her friends are beginning to get married and move away; meanwhile her romance with Gilbert Blythe begins to blossom, and there are developments in her career as a schoolteacher. [via]

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ISBN 9780451523198 (0-451-52319-9, 0451523199)

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Anne's House of Dreams

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

ISBN 0451523199 (0-451-52319-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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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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ISBN 9780451191137 (0-451-19113-7, 0451191137)

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Anthem: Library Edition

by Ayn Rand

ISBN 0451191137 (0-451-19113-7)
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Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism have been wiped out. Despite such a restrictive environment, the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in him--a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, Equality 7-2521 dares to stand apart from the herd--to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love the woman of his choice. Now he has been marked for death for committing the ultimate sin. In a world where the great "we" reign supreme, he has rediscovered the lost and holy word--"I."

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At Bertram's Hotel

by Agatha Chritie

ISBN 0451199936 (0-451-19993-6)
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ISBN 9780452281431 (0-452-28143-1, 0452281431)

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Beauty's Punishment

by Anne Rice, A.N. Roquelaure

ISBN 0452281431 (0-452-28143-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The delicious and erotically charged sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice's (writing as A.N. Roquelaure) elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Now Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the Castle. Sold at auction, she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of "the village," as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission, and tenderness is turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the Guard. And once again Rice's fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart. Preceding the visceral eroticism of E.L. James Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You, and even more haunting than her own novel Belinda, this second installment is not to be missed.

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Beauty's Punishment

by Rice Anne

ISBN 0452266629 (0-452-26662-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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ISBN 9780452281455 (0-452-28145-8, 0452281458)

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Beauty's Release

by Anne Rice, A.N. Roquelaure

ISBN 0452281458 (0-452-28145-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The final book in Anne Rice's erotic Sleeping Beauty series

Before E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You,, there was Anne Rices provocative take on the timeless fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. In the final volume of Anne Rice's deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty's adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all Beauty's encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, rich prose that intensifies this exquisite rendition of Love's secret world, and makes the Beauty series and incomparable study of erotica. In it, Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquelaure, makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden regions of the psyche and the heart.

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Belinda

by Maria Edgeworth

ISBN 0460872281 (0-460-87228-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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Beloved

by Toni Morrison

ISBN 0451156595 (0-451-15659-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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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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ISBN 9780451528650 (0-451-52865-4, 0451528654)

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Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

ISBN 0451528654 (0-451-52865-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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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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ISBN 9780451199874 (0-451-19987-1, 0451199871)

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The Body in the Library

by Agatha Christie

ISBN 0451199871 (0-451-19987-1)
Softcover, Signet

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A Caribbean Mystery

by Agatha Christie

ISBN 0451199928 (0-451-19992-8)
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Chronicles of Avonlea

by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 0451522338 (0-451-52233-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Daughters of Sarah : Anthology of Jewish Women Writing in French

by Helen Epstein

ISBN 0452280184 (0-452-28018-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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ISBN 9780460874304 (0-460-87430-6, 0460874306)

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East Lynne

by Norman Page, Kamal Al-Solaylee, Henry Wood

ISBN 0460874306 (0-460-87430-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]

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ISBN 9780451221964 (0-451-22196-6, 0451221966)

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Echoes

by Maeve Binchy

ISBN 0451221966 (0-451-22196-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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"It was sometimes called the echo cave, and if you shouted your question loud enough in the right direction, you got an answer instead of an echo..."

Clare and David--divided as children by a rigid social code that branded her as shanty Irish and him as gentry...brought together as adults by a desire that knew no class, no barriers, only the urgent hunger of two people destined to love--and ready to defy a world determined to keep them apart.

Even at fifteen, David Power knew the echo would answer eleven-year-old Clare O'Brien's dearest wish, to win a school prize. But it was years before Dr. Power's cherished only son saw in the huckster's daughter the answer to his own heart's desire. Here in Castlebay, perched precariously on the seaside cliffs, the lines between them were clearly drawn. Clare's only hope is to leave the town where time stopped, propelled by scholarships to Dublin, fueled by her own drive and brilliance, far from the insular, gossipy world of Castlebay and those in its thrall... Angela O'Hara, beautiful, insolated, a teacher trapped in the convent school, who risks everything to help Clare escape... Gerry Doyle, the town charmer who finds in Clare the woman he vows to have at any price... Caroline Nolan, the beautiful, rich outsider who comes to plunder...

For Clare, that was before the wild freedom of Dublin, and love. And David. Before fate drove them back to Castlebay, and the past... [via]

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Evelina : Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World

by Fanny Burney, Katharine M. Rogers

ISBN 0451525604 (0-451-52560-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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One of the first novels of manners ever written traces the adventures of country-born Evelina as she tries to make it in London pursued by cads, is used by boorish relatives, and, finally, is redeemed by the noble Lord Orville. Reprint. [via]

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ISBN 9780451528568 (0-451-52856-5, 0451528565)

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Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 0451528565 (0-451-52856-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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Bathsheba, a willful English beauty of the nineteenth century, finally recognizes her true love in Gabriel. [via]

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ISBN 9780452282155 (0-452-28215-2, 0452282152)

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Girl With a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier

ISBN 0452282152 (0-452-28215-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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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]

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ISBN 9780449212608 (0-449-21260-2, 0449212602)

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The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

ISBN 0449212602 (0-449-21260-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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"Splendid."
NEWSWEEK
It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued if her ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she was an independent woman, had a job of her own, a husband and child. But all of that is gone now...everything has changed.
"Deserves the highest praise."
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Herland and Selected Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

ISBN 0451525620 (0-451-52562-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Indiana

by George Sand, Eleanor Hochman

ISBN 0451525728 (0-451-52572-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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A new translation of the irreverent and bohemian nineteenth-century French writer's first novel concerns the liaison between an intelligent woman trapped in a brutal marriage and a worldly young nobleman. Reprint. [via]

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ISBN 9780460050449 (0-460-05044-3, 0460050443)

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Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott

ISBN 0460050443 (0-460-05044-3)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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The final novel chronicling the adventures and misadventures of the March family, Jo's Boys is entertaining, surprising, and an overall joy to listen to.

Set ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits the one-time members of that ''wilderness of boys'' that once resided at Plumfield, the New England boarding school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo's boys -- including sailor Emil, promising musician Nat, and rebellious Dan -- are grown up and making their ways in the world with varying degrees of triumph and disaster. Jo herself remains at the center of this tale, holding her boys fast through shipwreck and storm, disappointment. . . and even murder. [via]

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ISBN 9780448424590 (0-448-42459-2, 0448424592)

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L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

by Jennifer Dussling, Lydia Halverson

ISBN 0448424592 (0-448-42459-2)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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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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ISBN 9780452285453 (0-452-28545-3, 0452285453)

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The Lady and the Unicorn

by Tracy Chevalier

ISBN 0452285453 (0-452-28545-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier's answer to the mystery behind one of the art world's great masterpieces-a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown-until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house-mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting-before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries-his finest, most intricate work-on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives-lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn , Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry-an extraordinary story exquisitely told. [via]

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ISBN 9780486230115 (0-486-23011-2, 0486230112)

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Lady Audley's Secret,

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Maxwell

ISBN 0486230112 (0-486-23011-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Great Victorian mystery classic, beautifully plotted, suspenseful; praised by Thackeray, Boucher, Starrett, others. What happened to beautiful, vicious Lady Audleys husband? New introduction by Norman Donaldson. "...a real find for the mystery buff."Savannah (GA) News.

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ISBN 9780452259751 (0-452-25975-4, 0452259754)

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Lives of Girls and Women

by Alice Munro, Del Jordan

ISBN 0452259754 (0-452-25975-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Lives of Girls and Women is nearly always recommended as an ideal introduction to Alice Munro. Everyone who preaches this doctrine knows that it is doing Munro a bit of a disservice: Lives of Girls and Women is her only novel, and it is certainly not her best work. Nonetheless, it is a seductive book, one that consistently turns dabblers into Munro devotees.

Munro follows the late childhood and adolescence of Del Jordan, an intelligent girl growing up in Jubilee, Ontario (one of the most palpable fictional towns in all of Canadian fiction) in the 1940s. Del is ordinary enough--she doesn't fit into her community, but this is the lot of any gifted child in a small, working-class town. Her father raises silver foxes for a living, her mother (a tentative feminist living in a decidedly traditionalist community) drives the back roads trying to sell encyclopedias to farmers. Del's passage through the usual travails of growing up (family deaths, lost friends, the awkward beginnings of sexuality) is rendered with extraordinary skill. It is easy to find compassionate writers, but the Munro of Lives of Girls and Women is a much more valuable find: a writer blessed with empathy, humour, and even cruelty. She can lovingly eviscerate her characters when it is necessary, yet never slips into the lazy shorthand of caricature. Some of her short story collections are better made (Open Secrets and Who Do You Think You Are?, for example), but the scope of Lives of Girls and Women makes it one of Munro's most memorable books. --Jack Illingworth [via]

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ISBN 9780460875547 (0-460-87554-X, 046087554X)

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Mary Barton

by Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan Shelston

ISBN 046087554X (0-460-87554-X)
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Mary Barton(1848),subtitled 'A Tale of Manchester Life',is the first novel by Mrs Gaskell(1810-65).The entirely working-class cast of characters in this novel was then an innovation.The background story is Manchester in the 'hungry forties'and the acute poverty of the unemployed mill-hands. Mary Batson,daughter of an embittered worker,wins the attention of Henry Carson,son of one of the employers.But a group of workmen plot his murder as a warning to his class,and it falls upon Mary's father to perform the deed.Suspicion lies with Mary's working class admirer,Jed,who is tried for his life.Finally,John Barton is driven by guilt to confess. [via]

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The Masque of the Black Tulip

by Lauren Willig

ISBN 0451220048 (0-451-22004-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Metropolitan Life **

by Fran Lebowitz

ISBN 0449200892 (0-449-20089-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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The Mirror Crack'D

by Agatha Christie

ISBN 0451199898 (0-451-19989-8)
Softcover, Signet

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The Moving Finger: A Miss Marple Mystery

by Agatha Christie

ISBN 0451201167 (0-451-20116-7)
Softcover, Signet

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Murder at the Vicarage

by Agatha Christie

ISBN 0451201159 (0-451-20115-9)
Softcover, Signet

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With over two billion copies of her books in print, Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time. Her impressive legacy endures with the publication of this 70th anniversary edition of the first Miss Marple novel.

One of the most beloved sleuths in mystery fiction, Miss Marple has an uncanny knack for solving the most baffling crimes. In Murder at the Vicarage, a handsome painter is rumored to be a master of the torrid love affair. But shortly after he's found dallying with another man's wife, a body is discovered in the vicarage--and all manner of suspicious signs mark this lothario as a murderer. Only the indomitable Miss Marple can uncover the truth behind the scandal....

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Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie

ISBN 0451201191 (0-451-20119-1)
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Nancy Drew

by Carolyn Keene

ISBN 0448416735 (0-448-41673-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Nemesis

by Agatha Christie

ISBN 0451200187 (0-451-20018-7)
Softcover, Signet

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A Pocket Full of Rye

by Agatha Christie

ISBN 0451199863 (0-451-19986-3)
Softcover, Signet

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Pride of Kings

by Judith Tarr

ISBN 0451458478 (0-451-45847-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Professor and Emma

by Charlotte Bronte

ISBN 0460004174 (0-460-00417-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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ISBN 9780451209900 (0-451-20990-7, 0451209907)

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Quentins

by Maeve Binchy

ISBN 0451209907 (0-451-20990-7)
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In Maeve Binchy's timely and topical tale, Quentins, Ella Brady is a documentary filmmaker who wants to bring the tale of the eponymous Dublin restaurant to the screen. Quentins 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 Quentins 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 Quentins, sit back, and relax--you'll be in very good company. --Jane Warren, Amazon.co.uk [via]

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Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff

ISBN 0452267765 (0-452-26776-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.

Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."

"The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic." This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. [via]

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A Raisin in the Sun and the Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window: And, the Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

by Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff

ISBN 0452259428 (0-452-25942-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Romola

by George Eliot

ISBN 0460875639 (0-460-87563-9)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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Set in the late 15th-century Italy, in the Renaissance Florence of Macchiavelli and the Medicis, this story reconstructs a turning-point in the intellectual history of Europe by charting the career and martyrdom of the charismatic religious leader Savanarola. This is a study edition. [via]

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Sappho

by Robert Chandler

ISBN 046087943X (0-460-87943-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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Scarlet Feather

by Maeve Binchy

ISBN 0451203771 (0-451-20377-1)
Softcover, Signet

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Orczy

ISBN 0451527623 (0-451-52762-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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An Englishman assumes many disguises in order to rescue members of the French royalty from the terrorists during the French Revolution. [via]

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The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

by Lauren Willig

ISBN 045121742X (0-451-21742-X)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Shirley

by Charlotte Bronte

ISBN 0460002880 (0-460-00288-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; every parish has one or more of them; they are young enough to be very active, and ought to be doing a great deal of good. But not of late years are we about to speak; we are going back to the beginning of this century: late years -- present years are dusty, sunburned, hot, arid; we will evade the noon, forget it in siesta, pass the midday in slumber, and dream of dawn. If you think, from this prelude, that anything like a romance is preparing for you, reader, you never were more mistaken. Do you anticipate sentiment, and poetry, and reverie? Do you expect passion, and stimulus, and melodrama? Calm your expectations; reduce them to a lowly standard. Something real, cool and solid lies before you; something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto. It is not positively affirmed that you shall not have a taste of the exciting. . . . [via]

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Sleeping Murder

by Agatha Christie

ISBN 0451200195 (0-451-20019-5)
Softcover, Signet

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Originally published the year of Agatha Christie's death, Sleeping Murder is a novel as legendary as its lead character and its creator...A novel that adheres to the classic mystery formula, and transcends it... A novel that is a must for every mystery reader, marking the final bow of Christie's beloved sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. Now Sleeping Murder is back in a special trade edition, sure to delight old and new fans alike....

"Agatha Christie makes us feel Miss Marple's shiver." --New York Times

"Has all the virtues of Agatha Christie's work; a coherant plot, firm andpurposeful narration, anda pleasant style." --Times Literary

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The Song of the Lark

by Willa Cather

ISBN 0451525337 (0-451-52533-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]

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]

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Statistics for Decisions; An Elementary Introduction

by Gerald E. Thompson

ISBN 046001417X (0-460-01417-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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The Professor [via]

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ISBN 9780451525321 (0-451-52532-9, 0451525329)

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The Story Girl

by L. M. Montgomery, Mary Rubio, Elizabeth Waterston

ISBN 0451525329 (0-451-52532-9)
Softcover, University of Wales Press

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Storytellers; Orphans; Cousins; Prince Edward Island; Juvenile Fiction / General; Juvenile Fiction / Family / General; [via]

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They Do It With Mirrors

by Agatha Christie

ISBN 0451199901 (0-451-19990-1)
Softcover, Signet

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Thread Of Grace

by Mary Doria Russell

ISBN 0449004139 (0-449-00413-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God.

It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it becomes overnight an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to survive.

Mary Doria Russell sets her first historical novel against this dramatic background, tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters. Through them, she tells the little-known but true story of the network of Italian citizens who saved the lives of forty-three thousand Jews during the war's final phase. The result of five years of meticulous research, A Thread of Grace is an ambitious, engrossing novel of ideas, history, and marvelous characters that will please Russell's many fans and earn her even more.

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To See You Again : A True Story of Love in a Time of War

by Betty Schimmel, Joyce Gabriel

ISBN 0452280710 (0-452-28071-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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"A memoir of the human heart . . . a drama of the highest order as well as an important document of twentieth-century history."--Faye Kellerman

Betty Markowitz and Richie Kovacs fell in love as teenagers in Budapest amid the terror and uncertainty of a world at war. They planned their future together, secure in the belief that their love could survive anything, even Hitler. Then, in March 1944, the Germans invaded Hungary.

Here is the moving and dramatic account of one woman's courage in the face of war, and of a love that spanned three decades. From the agony of separation to the horrors of a concentration camp, from her marriage to Otto Schimmel, an Auschwitz survivor who promised her a new life in America, through the joy and struggle of raising a family, Betty never forgot her first love. Then, in 1975, she returned to Budapest and saw someone across a crowded room . . .

To See You Again is Betty Schimmel's wrenching memoir of survival and sacrifice, of love lost and love found. A true story that unfolds with all the suspense of a novel, it is one that will not soon be forgotten. [via]

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

ISBN 0451523024 (0-451-52302-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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From back cover: A powerful indictment of slavery by America's first major woman novelist, Uncle Tom's Cabin was hailed by Tolstoy as "one of the greatest productions of the human mind". [via]

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Uncle Tom's Cabin and Frederick Douglass

by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Christopher Bigsby

ISBN 0460871390 (0-460-87139-0)
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Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]

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Uncle Tom's Cabin : Or, Life among the Lowly

by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Darryl Pinckney

ISBN 0451526708 (0-451-52670-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Arguably the most influential novel in American history, Uncle Tom's Cabin fanned the embers of the struggle between free states and slave states into the fire of the Civil War-and is as powerful and relevant today as when it was first published a century and a half ago. [via]

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Villette: Library Edition

by Charlotte Bronte

ISBN 0451529227 (0-451-52922-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallet. [via]

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