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20,000 Leagues under the Seaby Jules Verne, Raymond James, Wayne GeehanISBN 0816718806 (0-8167-1880-6)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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2001by Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0816174865 (0-8161-7486-5)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: '2001'Book summary:When an enigmatic monolith is found buried on the moon, scientists are amazed to discover that it's at least 3 million years old. Even more amazing, after it's unearthed the artifact releases a powerful signal aimed at Saturn. What sort of alarm has been triggered? To find out, a manned spacecraft, the Discovery, is sent to investigate. Its crew is highly trained--the best--and they are assisted by a self-aware computer, the ultra-capable HAL 9000. But HAL's programming has been patterned after the human mind a little too well. He is capable of guilt, neurosis, even murder, and he controls every single one of Discovery's components. The crew must overthrow this digital psychotic if they hope to make their rendezvous with the entities that are responsible not just for the monolith, but maybe even for human civilization.
Clarke wrote this novel while Stanley Kubrick created the film, the two collaborating on both projects. The novel is much more detailed and intimate, and definitely easier to comprehend. Even though history has disproved its "predictions," it's still loaded with exciting and awe-inspiring science fiction. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Earle Hitchner, Paige Billin-FryeISBN 0816718628 (0-8167-1862-8)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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All Quiet on the Western Frontby Erich Maria Remarque, A. W. WheenISBN 0821223127 (0-8212-2312-7)
Hardcover, Bulfinch Pr
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The Amityville Horrorby Jay AnsonISBN 0816167095 (0-8161-6709-5)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Before Midnightby Rex StoutISBN 0816159858 (0-8161-5985-8)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Bell Jarby Cliffs Notes Staff, Jeanne InnessISBN 0822002264 (0-8220-0226-4)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bell Jar'Book summary:Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity. [via]
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Blood Dreamsby Jack MacLaneISBN 0821726803 (0-8217-2680-3)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Book of Merlynby Terence Hanbury WhiteISBN 0816165572 (0-8161-6557-2)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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The Boys from Brazilby Ira LevinISBN 0816163928 (0-8161-6392-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Circusby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0816163324 (0-8161-6332-4)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Circus'Book summary:Reissue of the classic tale of espionage set in Cold War Europe, where the worlds greatest circus acrobat must break into an impenetrable fortress, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Bruno Wildermann of the Wrinfield Circus is the worlds greatest trapeze artist, a clairvoyant with near-supernatural powers and an implacable enemy of the East European regime that arrested his family and murdered his wife.The CIA needs such a man, and recruits Bruno for an impossible raid - on the impreganble Lubylan fortress, where his family his held.Under cover of a circus tour, Bruno prepares to return to his homeland. But before the journey even begins a murderer strikes twice. Somewhere in the circus there is a communist agent with orders to stop Bruno at any cost& [via]
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Cliffsnotes Lord of the Fliesby D. M. CalandraISBN 0822007541 (0-8220-0754-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Comebackby Dick FrancisISBN 081615418X (0-8161-5418-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Crocodile on the Sandbankby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0816163014 (0-8161-6301-4)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Cujoby Stephen KingISBN 0816156670 (0-8161-5667-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Day of the Jackalby Frederick ForsythISBN 0816160325 (0-8161-6032-5)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Day of the Jackal'Book summary:It is 1963 and the Secret Army Organisation want to kill General de Gaulle, the President of France. They hire a professional assassin, a tall, cold Englishman who calls himself aA A the Jackal'. But in spite of his brilliant disguises and clever preparations, aA A the best detective in France', Claude Lebel is close on his heels. A blockbusting novel from one of the world's greatest thriller writers. This will enthral you from start to finish! Also a gripping film starring Edward Fox. [via]
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Death of an Expert Witnessby P. D. JamesISBN 0816155755 (0-8161-5575-5)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Dogs of Warby Frederick ForsythISBN 081616245X (0-8161-6245-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Don't Look Now: Selected Stories of Daphne Du Maurierby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 0816160198 (0-8161-6019-8)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Elephants Can Rememberby Agatha ChristieISBN 0816160864 (0-8161-6086-4)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinkerby Tobias Smollett, T.R. PrestonISBN 0820315370 (0-8203-1537-0)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Eye of the Needleby Ken FollettISBN 0816166552 (0-8161-6655-2)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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A Farewell to Armsby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0816159718 (0-8161-5971-8)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Farewell to Arms'Book summary:As a youth of 18, Ernest Hemingway was eager to fight in the Great War. Poor vision kept him out of the army, so he joined the ambulance corps instead and was sent to France. Then he transferred to Italy where he became the first American wounded in that country during World War I. Hemingway came out of the European battlefields with a medal for valor and a wealth of experience that he would, 10 years later, spin into literary gold with A Farewell to Arms. This is the story of Lieutenant Henry, an American, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. The two meet in Italy, and almost immediately Hemingway sets up the central tension of the novel: the tenuous nature of love in a time of war. During their first encounter, Catherine tells Henry about her fiancé of eight years who had been killed the year before in the Somme. Explaining why she hadn't married him, she says she was afraid marriage would be bad for him, then admits:
I wanted to do something for him. You see, I didn't care about the other thing and he could have had it all. He could have had anything he wanted if I would have known. I would have married him or anything. I know all about it now. But then he wanted to go to war and I didn't know.
The two begin an affair, with Henry quite convinced that he "did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards." Soon enough, however, the game turns serious for both of them and ultimately Henry ends up deserting to be with Catherine.Hemingway was not known for either unbridled optimism or happy endings, and A Farewell to Arms, like his other novels (For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, and To Have and Have Not), offers neither. What it does provide is an unblinking portrayal of men and women behaving with grace under pressure, both physical and psychological, and somehow finding the courage to go on in the face of certain loss. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Four Past Midnightby Stephen KingISBN 0816151784 (0-8161-5178-4)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Giverby Lois LowryISBN 0821924060 (0-8219-2406-0)
Hardcover, Emc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Giver'Book summary:In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of Brave New World, in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to create a more stable society. Gradually Jonas learns just how costly this ordered and pain-free society can be, and boldly decides he cannot pay the price. [via]
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Great Tales of Suspenseby Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, W. Irving, A. Bierce, H. WellISBN 0816714665 (0-8167-1466-5)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Halloween IIby Jack MartinISBN 082171080X (0-8217-1080-X)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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HamletISBN 0816768129 (0-8167-6812-9)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Hamletby J. K. LowersISBN 0822000180 (0-8220-0018-0)
Softcover, Cliff Notes
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, Robert D ShepherdISBN 0821916335 (0-8219-1633-5)
Hardcover, Emc Pub
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The Honourable Schoolboyby John Le CarreISBN 0816165394 (0-8161-6539-4)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 0816156522 (0-8161-5652-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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In the Frameby Dick FrancisISBN 0816157839 (0-8161-5783-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0821916459 (0-8219-1645-9)
Hardcover, Emc Pub
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Jane Eyreby Diana StewartISBN 0817216618 (0-8172-1661-8)
Hardcover, Heinemann/Raintree
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester. [via]
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Johnny Got His Gunby Dalton TrumboISBN 0818401109 (0-8184-0110-9)
Hardcover, Carol Pub Group
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Journey to the Center of the Earthby Jules Verne, Raymond James, Wayne GeehanISBN 0816718687 (0-8167-1868-7)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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The Jungle Bookby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0816725535 (0-8167-2553-5)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0816728917 (0-8167-2891-7)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:Kipling began these stories in Vermont, to amuse his daughter when they were living in his wife's home town. The comic explanations, such as "how the camel got his hump" and "how the whale got his throat", are complemented by the author's illustrations, with their extensive and ridiculous captions. [via]
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis Stevenson, Joanne Mattern, Steven PartonISBN 0816728623 (0-8167-2862-3)
Hardcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Longshotby Dick FrancisISBN 0816154171 (0-8161-5417-1)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0816704635 (0-8167-0463-5)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Moby Dick [Paperback] Melville (Author) [via]
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The Mysterious Affair at Stylesby Agatha ChristieISBN 081616343X (0-8161-6343-X)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Mysterious Islandby Jules Verne, Arthur B. Evans, Sidney KravitzISBN 0819565598 (0-8195-6559-8)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mysterious Island'Book summary:First new unabridged translation since 1876 of one of Verne's best-known novels. [via]
Needful Thingsby Stephen KingISBN 0816154775 (0-8161-5477-5)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Night Shiftby Stephen KingISBN 0816156875 (0-8161-5687-5)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Nightmares & Dreamscapesby Stephen KingISBN 0816158827 (0-8161-5882-7)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Odessa Fileby Elick MollISBN 0816160694 (0-8161-6069-4)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Ozma Of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0816707960 (0-8167-0796-0)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Pleading Guiltyby Scott TurowISBN 0816157472 (0-8161-5747-2)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Postern of Fateby Agatha ChristieISBN 0816161976 (0-8161-6197-6)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Quartet in Autumnby Barbara PymISBN 0816166617 (0-8161-6661-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The R Documentby Irving WallaceISBN 0816164045 (0-8161-6404-5)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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A River Runs Through Itby Norman MacLeanISBN 0816157359 (0-8161-5735-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A River Runs Through It'Book summary:Beginning with the memorable line, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing," Maclean paints an evocative portrait of the sons of a small-town Montana minister, two brothers headed in very different directions. Fly-fishing for trout is one thing that unites father and sons, and, in the end, it is the language of the river that provides understanding and acceptance in the most difficult of times.
A River Runs Through It is arguably the best piece of fly-fishing literature ever written, and the paperback edition includes two great non-fly fishing stories. [via]
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The Russia Houseby John Le CarreISBN 0816148856 (0-8161-4885-6)
Softcover, G.K. Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Russia House'Book summary:When London publisher Barley Blair receives an important smuggled document from Moscow, the English spymasters are forced to use him to establish the document's veracity. His collusion with Katya, the Moscow intermediary, may represent the way of the future, to the distaste of espionage professionals on both sides. [via]
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Salems Lotby Stephen KingISBN 0816156867 (0-8161-5686-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salems Lot'Book summary:Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.
Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Scandal in Fair Havenby Carolyn G. HartISBN 0816174067 (0-8161-7406-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Seawitchby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0816165386 (0-8161-6538-6)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Seeing Eyeby Jack EllisISBN 0821750771 (0-8217-5077-1)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Shiningby Stephen KingISBN 0816156859 (0-8161-5685-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shining'Book summary:Danny is only five years old, but he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of an old hotel, his visions grow out of control. Cut off by blizzards, the hotel seems to develop an evil force, and who are the mysterious guests in the supposedly empty hotel? [via]
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The Shoes of the Fishermanby Morris WestISBN 0816151415 (0-8161-5141-5)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Sign of Fourby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0816708517 (0-8167-0851-7)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sandby Samuel R. Delany, Carl FreedmanISBN 0819567140 (0-8195-6714-0)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand'Book summary:Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues--technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism--have only become more pressing with the passage of time.
The novel's topic is information itself: What are the repercussions, once it has been made public, that two individuals have been found to be each other's perfect erotic object out to "point nine-nine-nine and several nines percent more"? What will it do to the individuals involved, to the city they inhabit, to their geosector, to their entire world society, especially when one is an illiterate worker, the sole survivor of a world destroyed by "cultural fugue," and the other is--you! [via]More editions of Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand:
Straightby Dick FrancisISBN 0816149917 (0-8161-4991-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Strangerby Albert Camus, Kate GriffithISBN 0819121428 (0-8191-2142-8)
Softcover, University Press of America
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A Stranger Is Watchingby Mary Higgins ClarkISBN 0816165971 (0-8161-6597-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Study in ScarletISBN 0816708509 (0-8167-0850-9)
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Sweet and Lowby Emma LathenISBN 0816162611 (0-8161-6261-1)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0821927361 (0-8219-2736-1)
Hardcover, Emc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'Book summary:At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her stories appeared in major magazines, she consulted on Hollywood screenplays, and she penned four novels, an autobiography, countless essays, and two books on black mythology. Yet by the late 1950s, Hurston was living in obscurity, working as a maid in a Florida hotel. She died in 1960 in a Welfare home, was buried in an unmarked grave, and quickly faded from literary consciousness until 1975 when Alice Walker almost single-handedly revived interest in her work.
Of Hurston's fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God is arguably the best-known and perhaps the most controversial. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either:
It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.
One person the citizens of Eaton are inclined to judge is Janie Crawford, who has married three men and been tried for the murder of one of them. Janie feels no compulsion to justify herself to the town, but she does explain herself to her friend, Phoeby, with the implicit understanding that Phoeby can "tell 'em what Ah say if you wants to. Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."Hurston's use of dialect enraged other African American writers such as Wright, who accused her of pandering to white readers by giving them the black stereotypes they expected. Decades later, however, outrage has been replaced by admiration for her depictions of black life, and especially the lives of black women. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston breathes humanity into both her men and women, and allows them to speak in their own voices. --Alix Wilber [via]
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A Thief in a Kiltby Sandy BlairISBN 0821779966 (0-8217-7996-6)
Softcover, Zebra Books
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Third Omni Book of Science Fictionby Ellen DatlowISBN 0821713191 (0-8217-1319-1)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp - Third Omni Book of Science Fiction: ISBN 0821715755 (0-8217-1575-5)
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- The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction: ISBN 0821713205 (0-8217-1320-5)
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, Earle Hitchner, Marie De JohnISBN 0816718784 (0-8167-1878-4)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Treasure Island'Book summary:Treasure Island, written by legendary author Robert Louis Stevenson is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Treasure Island is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Robert Louis Stevenson is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books International and beautifully produced, Treasure Island would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library. [via]
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules Verne, Raymond James, Wayne GeehanISBN 0816718792 (0-8167-1879-2)
Hardcover, Troll Communications Llc
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The Ugly Americanby William J. Lederer, Eugene BurdickISBN 0816159386 (0-8161-5938-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Under the Lilacsby Louisa May AlcottISBN 081671472X (0-8167-1472-X)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Upstairs, Downstairsby John HawkesworthISBN 081616794X (0-8161-6794-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Vets Might Flyby James HerriotISBN 0816152225 (0-8161-5222-5)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Way to Dusty Deathby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0816161690 (0-8161-6169-0)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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The Window at the White Catby Mary Roberts RinehartISBN 0821757946 (0-8217-5794-6)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0816725659 (0-8167-2565-9)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Editionby Shawn St. JeanISBN 0821416545 (0-8214-1654-5)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition'Book summary:Scholars have argued for decades over which constitutes the best possible version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's much-anthologized story The Yellow Wall-Paper. Most editions have been based on the1892 New England Magazine publication rather than the handwritten manuscript at Radcliffe College. Publication of the unedited manuscript in 1994 sparked controversy over which of the two was definitive. Since then, scholars have discovered half a dozen parent texts for later twentieth-century printings, including William Dean Howells' version from 1920 and the 1933 Golden Book version. While traditional critical editions gather evidence and make an argument for adopting one text as preferable to others, "This volume offers both Gilman scholars and scholars of textual studies a unique and helpful means of engaging with a work that exists in multiple forms, and includes some insightful new readings of this much-analyzed story," saus Charlotte Rich, editor of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newsletter. Shawn St. Jean's The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition offers instead both manuscript and magazine, critically edited and printed in parallel for the first time. When viewed as part of a process beginning with writing and ending with bibliographic coding, new significance appears in such facets as the magazine's accompanying illustrations, its lineation and paragraphing, Gilman's choice of minor pronouns, and her original handwritten ending. This critical edition of The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman includes a full and nontraditional apparatus for ease of use by students and scholars to study the more than 400 variants between the two. Four new essays, written especially for this volume, explore the implications of this multitext model. Shawn St.Jean, an independent scholar in Brockport, New York, has previously published on Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Studies in Bibliography, Feminist Studies, and Studies in Short Fiction. He is the author of Pagan Dreiser: Songs from American Mythology. [via]
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