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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0766607135 (0-7666-0713-5)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0766607674 (0-7666-0767-4)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:(Please note that all Timeless Classic Books have been carefully formatted manually with full annotation and proper photo and/or illustration placement since our start in 2010/2011. Each cover is designed with paid or public domain artwork that is pertinent to the title. Each and ever cover is unique. None have ever been used twice.)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891-92) brings together the first twelve short stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. These follow Holmes's introduction in the first two novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four. [via]More editions of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:
After Many Daysby L.M. Montgomery, Rea WilmshurstISBN 0771061692 (0-7710-6169-2)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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After Many Days: Tales of Time Passedby L. M. Montgomery, Rea WilmshurstISBN 0771061714 (0-7710-6171-4)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart
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Akin to Anneby L.M. Montgomery, Rea WilmshurstISBN 0771061579 (0-7710-6157-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Akin to Anne'Book summary:Akin to Anne is storytelling at its bittersweet, poignant best. Admirers of Montgomerys work will treasure this spirited anthology, while students of Canadian literature will reclaim with joy this long-lost part of our rich literary heritage. [via]
The Alchemistby Paulo Coelho, Alan R. ClarkeISBN 0783811950 (0-7838-1195-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Along the Shoreby L.M. Montgomery, Rea WilmshurstISBN 0771061706 (0-7710-6170-6)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Among the Shadowsby L.M. Montgomery, Rea WilmshurstISBN 0771061528 (0-7710-6152-8)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Anne of Inglesideby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 0771061803 (0-7710-6180-3)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Anne of the Islandby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0770422047 (0-7704-2204-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of the Island'Book summary:New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and frivolous new pal Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises...including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson. But tears turn to laughter when Anne and her friends move into an old cottage and an ornery black cat steals her heart. Little does Anne know that handsome Gilbert Blythe wants to win her heart, too. Suddenly Anne must decide if she's ready for love... [via]
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Anne of Windy Poplarsby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0771061641 (0-7710-6164-1)
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Bearby Marian EngelISBN 0771099584 (0-7710-9958-4)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bear'Book summary:Bear, which won Marian Engel the Governor General's Award for fiction and remains her best-known novel, is a short, lyrical book with a simple, notorious plot. A solitary, reclusive woman works as an archivist for a Toronto-based Canadian history institute that receives a large and unusual bequest by a descendent of a notable military family: a remote house in northern Ontario, filled with an unknown quantity of books and manuscripts. Engel's heroine travels to the house, which is accessible only by water, and begins to catalogue the deceased colonel's collection. Along with the house, the protagonist encounters Homer Campbell, the capable, friendly manager of the local general store and gas station, and an aging black bear that was once a pet of the Institute's benefactor.
As Bear continues, its heroine's research among the house's antiquated library draws her into serious reflection on romantic literature, but most readers won't bother with this--it is the protagonist's sexual relations with her pet bear that are the most famous element of the novel. Engel is, happily, not particularly graphic in her treatment of this subject, but she does load it with a great deal of symbolism. Many readers will find that her novel tries too hard to be a parable of animalism, while others will simply dismiss this solipsistic love story (for that is what it is, after a fashion) as unbelievable. Nevertheless, anyone who is not adverse to this mode of didactic storytelling will find Bear to be an enjoyable--and unusual--read. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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Beekeeper's Apprenticeby Laurie R. KingISBN 0783819323 (0-7838-1932-3)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beekeeper's Apprentice'Book summary:In 1915, long since retired from his observations of criminal humanity, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. Never did he think to meet an intellect to match his ownuntil his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a very modern fifteen-year-old whose mental acuity is equaled only by her audacity, tenacity, and penchant for trousers and cloth caps.
Under Holmess tutelage, Russell hones her talent for deduction, disguises, and danger: in the chilling case of a landowners mysterious fever and in a kidnapping in the wilds of Wales. But her ultimate challenge is yet to come. Soon the two sleuths are on the trail of a murderer whose machinations scatter meaningless clues&but whose objective is quite unequivocal: to end Russell and Holmess partnershipand their lives. [via]More editions of Beekeeper's Apprentice:
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The Bell Jarby Sylvia PlathISBN 0783819870 (0-7838-1987-0)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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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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The Black Arrow a Tale of Two Rosesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0766194779 (0-7661-9477-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Arrow a Tale of Two Roses'Book summary:1921. From the writer of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, comes another tale of adventure. This book involves a young Englishman, Dick Shelton, who, in his quest to avenge the death of his father, becomes involved in the band of the Black Arrow and the events of the War of the Roses. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. [via]
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Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer 1904by Geoffrey Chaucer, Percy MackayeISBN 0766171779 (0-7661-7177-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer 1904'Book summary:The illustrious work of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, are presented herein as a modern rendering into prose of the Prologue and ten tales. The barrier of obsolete speech is the occasion for this rendering of the Canterbury Tales in English, easily intelligible today. Mr. Mackaye presents a representative portion of Chaucer's unfinished masterpiece in such a form as shall best preserve for a modern reader the substance and style of the original. Handsomely illustrated. [via]
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Child of a Rainless Yearby Jane LindskoldISBN 0765348241 (0-7653-4824-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Christmas Letters: Library Editionby Debbie MacomberISBN 0778323498 (0-7783-2349-8)
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College of Magicsby Caroline StevermerISBN 0765342456 (0-7653-4245-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'College of Magics'Book summary:Teenager Faris Nallaneen is the heir to the small northern dukedom of Galazon. Too young still to claim her title, her despotic Uncle Brinker has ruled in her place. Now he demands she be sent to Greenlaw College. For her benefit he insists. To keep me out of the way, more like it![via]
But Greenlaw is not just any school-as Faris and her new best friend Jane discover. At Greenlaw students major in . . . magic.
But it's not all fun and games. When Faris makes an enemy of classmate Menary of Aravill, life could get downright . . . deadly.More editions of College of Magics:
Crimson Rosesby Grace Livingston HillISBN 0766182673 (0-7661-8267-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Dead Soulsby Clifford Odets, Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0766195732 (0-7661-9573-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:1923. Odets writes in his introduction that the brutal censorship imposed upon the great Russian Empire of Gogol's time by its feudal lords and masters is comparable in our time to only that imposed upon the peoples of certain Fascist states. Enlightenment was not then a word to utter lightly on a muddy street corner. But Gogol set out to enlighten the Russian people, and his method was curiously simple. Of his central character Tchitchikov, in Dead Souls he states, Him I have taken as a type to show forth the vices and failings, rather than the merits and virtues, of the commonplace Russian individual; and the characters which revolve around him have also been selected for the purpose of demonstrating our national weaknesses and shortcomings. [via]
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Deadhouse Gatesby Steven EriksonISBN 0765348799 (0-7653-4879-9)
Softcover, Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deadhouse Gates'Book summary:Steven Erikson returns to a world of awesome magic and harsh reality, unbelievable suffering and unexpected joy in Deadhouse Gates, the second tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Readers of the first book, Gardens of the Moon, will be familiar with some of the characters, including members of the Bridgeburners seeking to assassinate the Empress Laseen. But we also meet many new players, prominent among them participants in the Whirlwind, the prophesied revolt of the Seven Cities against the Malazan Empire. We follow the journeys and suffering of Felisin, a young girl betrayed into slavery by her sister, and of Coltaine, the Malazan Fist, who must lead his army across the desert while protecting 30,000 desperate refugees. We also come to know Duiker, the Imperial Historian, witness to events both inspirational and despicable.
Deadhouse Gates is a dark fantasy, with graphic and horrific violence. But the violence, often quite extreme, is not glorified--it's a direct consequence of the characters' decisions. The depth of historical background and complexity of plot separates Erikson's vision from most other large-scale fantasy series. His characters inhabit a world whose history stretches back tens of thousands of years, and the schemes they hatch are inspired by some ancient catastrophe as often as they're motivated by their own desires. The result is a novel that keeps the reader riveted for 900 pages, eager to find out what happens next. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccioby Giovanni Boccaccio, John PayneISBN 0766171418 (0-7661-7141-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio'Book summary:Here beginneth the book called Decameron and surnamed Prince Galahalt wherein are contained a hundred stories in the ten days told by seven ladies and three young men. [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis CaryISBN 0766181847 (0-7661-8184-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:1909. The Divine Comedy is the narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God. It is also an allegory, representing under the symbolism of the stages and experiences of the journey, the history of a human soul, painfully struggling from sin through purification to the Beatific Vision. [via]
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The Dosadi Experimentby Frank HerbertISBN 0765342537 (0-7653-4253-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dosadi Experiment'Book summary:Beyond the God Wall[via]
Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, conditioned by constant hunger and war-this is the Dosadi Experiment, and it has succeeded too well. For the Dosadi have bred for Vengeance as well as cunning, and they have learned how to pass through the shimmering God Wall to exact their dreadful revenge on the Universe that created them . . .More editions of The Dosadi Experiment:
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The Dragon Quintetby Tanith Lee, Mercedes Lackey, Michael Swanwick, Elizabeth Moon, Orson Scott CardISBN 0765349116 (0-7653-4911-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dragon Quintet'Book summary:Brand-new contributions to the hoard of dragon lore by five top fantasy authors.[via]
Orson Scott Card's "In the Dragon's House" is a gothic yarn about the mysterious dragon that lives in the wiring of an old house, noticed by a young boy who shares its body in dreams and feels its true size and power.
Mercedes Lackey's "Joust" tells the story of a slave boy who is chosen to care for a warrior's dragon--a dragon whose secrets may be the key to his freedom.
Tanith Lee's "Love in a Time of Dragons" is a fable is imbued with her signature atmosphere--Old World, moody, erotic--as a kitchen maid goes a-questing with a handsome champion to slay the local drakkor.
Elizabeth Moon's "Judgment" tells the tale of a young man forced by lies to flee his village . . . into an adventure of dwarfs and dragonspawn.
Michael Swanwick's "King Dragon" invokes a truly sinister and repellent creature--a being with the soul of a beast and the body of a machine--part metal, part devil . . . all merciless.More editions of The Dragon Quintet:
Emily of New Moonby L. M. Montgomery, Alice MunroISBN 0771099797 (0-7710-9979-7)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart
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Emily's Questby L. M. Montgomery, P. K. PageISBN 0771099819 (0-7710-9981-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily's Quest'Book summary:The third and final volume of Lucy Maud Montgomerys celebrated Emily trilogy, Emilys Quest is a vigorously drawn study of a woman coming to terms with love and her own ambition. In no other novel did Montgomery explore more fully the beauty, complexity, and wonder of love. In every detail, this mature novel, by one of the worlds best-loved authors, captures the drama and confusion of a young life on the brink.
Along with Emily of New Moon and Emily Climbs, Emilys Quest is an honest and poignant portrait of a singular woman. [via]More editions of Emily's Quest:
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Ender's Shadowby Orson Scott CardISBN 0765342405 (0-7653-4240-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ender's Shadow'Book summary:Ender's Shadow is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender's Game. By "parallel," Card means that Shadow begins and ends at roughly the same time as Game, and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, the two books tell an almost identical story of brilliant children being trained in the orbiting Battle School to lead humanity's fleets in the final war against alien invaders known as the Buggers. The most brilliant of these young recruits is Ender Wiggin, an unparalleled commander and tactician who can surely defeat the Buggers if only he can overcome his own inner turmoil.
Second among the children is Bean, who becomes Ender's lieutenant despite the fact that he is the smallest and youngest of the Battle School students. Bean is the central character of Shadow, and we pick up his story when he is just a 2-year-old starving on the streets of a future Rotterdam that has become a hell on earth. Bean is unnaturally intelligent for his age, which is the only thing that allows him to escape--though not unscathed--the streets and eventually end up in Battle School. Despite his brilliance, however, Bean is doomed to live his life as an also-ran to the more famous and in many ways more brilliant Ender. Nonetheless, Bean learns things that Ender cannot or will not understand, and it falls to this once pathetic street urchin to carry the weight of a terrible burden that Ender must not be allowed to know.
Although it may seem like Shadow is merely an attempt by Card to cash in on the success of his justly famous Ender's Game, that suspicion will dissipate once you turn the first few pages of this engrossing novel. It's clear that Bean has a story worth telling, and that Card (who started the project with a cowriter but later decided he wanted it all to himself) is driven to tell it. And though much of Ender's Game hinges on a surprise ending that Card fans are likely well acquainted with, Shadow manages to capitalize on that same surprise and even turn the table on readers. In the end, it seems a shame that Shadow, like Bean himself, will forever be eclipsed by the myth of Ender, because this is a novel that can easily stand on its own. Luckily for readers, Card has left plenty of room for a sequel, so we may well be seeing more of Bean in the near future. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Everything Must Goby Elizabeth FlockISBN 0778323234 (0-7783-2323-4)
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyISBN 077403288X (0-7740-3288-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit 451'Book summary:In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman [via]
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Gardens of the Moonby Steven EriksonISBN 0765348780 (0-7653-4878-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gardens of the Moon'Book summary:Sometimes books are big because the author doesn't know how to stop, and writes right over that line where more becomes less. Other books, though, are big because they have to be, because the story, the drama, and the characters are just too large to fit into a compact volume. Steven Erikson's Gardens of the Moon is that kind of big book. Gardens of the Moon, first volume in the Malazan Book of the Fallen, is an epic fantasy story of war, sorcery, politics, and revenge. There is an Empire that must be thwarted, as well as gods desperate to prove they still count for something in the world of human beings. The main story concerns intrigue surrounding the Malazan Empire's coming assault on the city of Darujhistan. Characters include Whiskeyjack, leader of a military band pushed to the edge; Baruk, an alchemist and leader of the mages of Darujhistan; and Sorry, a young woman possessed by a vicious killer.
Erikson brings a gritty realism to his fantasy that sets it apart from most others. Magic is difficult and dangerous, often harming its practitioners. Erikson's world has a long history of violence and struggle: people get dirty and tired, and there are not many lives without suffering. The realism makes the characters that much more sympathetic and their successes and failures more meaningful. Gardens of the Moon amply fulfills the main requirement of a big fantasy novel: the world it creates is so compelling that it pulls you right in and leaves you wanting more. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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The Golden Roadby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0770000770 (0-7700-0077-0)
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Gridlinkedby Neal AsherISBN 0765349051 (0-7653-4905-1)
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 0774032448 (0-7740-3244-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Hunt Beginsby Robert JordanISBN 0765348438 (0-7653-4843-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hunt Begins'Book summary:Since they were boys, Rand and his friends have heard the tales of the Great Hunt of the Horn. Fabulous tales of hunters and of a legendary horn that can raise the dead heroes of the ages.[via]
But no sooner is the horn found then it is stolen.
And in order to save Mat's life, Rand must find it.More editions of Hunt Begins:
In the Country of the Blindby Michael FlynnISBN 076534498X (0-7653-4498-X)
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Island of Dr Moreauby H. G. WellsISBN 0783880391 (0-7838-8039-1)
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, Sara Thomson, Richard LauterISBN 0766607216 (0-7666-0721-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:After her uncle dies, Jane Eyre is treated terribly by her aunt and cousins. Life is not any better at school. But her love learning helps Jane to persevere and become the first in her class. She takes a job with Mr Rochester, working as a governess.Once at his mansion, Jane's life is never the same again. Join Jane as she overcome her hardships and finds happiness. [via]
Jane of Lantern Hillby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0770423140 (0-7704-2314-0)
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A Journey to the Center of the Earthby Jules VerneISBN 0766612090 (0-7666-1209-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth'Book summary:In this fully dramatized adaptation of Jules Verne's classic, "Journey to the Center of the Earth", Leonard Nimoy, John de Lancie, and cast members from Star Trek feature films and all four TV series take you on an incredible journey.
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" is the story of Professor Lindenbrock, his nephew Axel and their quest for the secrets contained at the earth's core. Led by Hans, their Icelandic guide, Lindenbrock and Axel descend deeper into the planet than anyone has ever gone before... but will they make it back to the surface alive?
Featuring virtuoso performaces from the entire cast, riveting sound effects and original music, Alien Voices' production of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is an adventure in sound. [via]
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Jumperby Steven GouldISBN 0765342286 (0-7653-4228-6)
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The Jungle Bookby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0766612120 (0-7666-1212-0)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
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The Keepby F. Paul WilsonISBN 0765357054 (0-7653-5705-4)
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The Killing of Worldsby Scott WesterfeldISBN 0765347490 (0-7653-4749-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Killing of Worlds'Book summary:Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of Fine Prey, Polymorph, and Evolution's Darling, reached new heights of excitement in The Risen Empire, and left readers begging for more. Now he comes through with the dazzling payoff in book two of Succession, The Killing of Worlds.[via]
Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial frigate Lynx is a walking dead man. Unjustly held responsible for the death of the Child Empress, sister of the immortal Emperor, Zai has been sent to fight an unwinnable battle. The Lynx must stop a vastly superior Rix ship from reaching the planet Legis, a suicide mission that will almost certainly end in oblivion for Captain Zai and his crew.
On the planet Legis below, a Rix compound mind--a massive emergent AI formed from every computer on the planet--as been isolated by their Imperial blockade. But the mind has guided a lone Rix commando, Herd, to the planet's frozen north, and will soon order a desperate attempt to seize a polar communications array and break the blockade. Herd is a single warrior against an Imperial army, but moving silently behind her is the intelligence of an entire planet.
Ten light-years away, Captain Zai's true love, the psychic (some say mad) Senator Nara Oxham is engaged in a deadly game of political intrigue. From her position on the Emperor's War Council, Senator Oxham must find a way to forestall the Emperor's final solution if the blockade is broken: a nuclear strike to destroy the compound mind, which will also kill millions of Imperial citizens. She suspects that the Emperor has a hidden weakness discovered, by the mind, a secret so dangerous to his immortal dynasty that to prevent its discovery the Emperor is willing to countenance the ultimate crime. . . .
The killing of worlds.
With this powerful conclusion to the first story arc of Succession, Scott Westerfeld confirms 0his stature as one of the leading writers of high space opera.More editions of The Killing of Worlds:
Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0783813538 (0-7838-1353-8)
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The Kommandant's Girlby Pam JenoffISBN 0778323420 (0-7783-2342-0)
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A Letter of Maryby Laurie R. KingISBN 0783880677 (0-7838-8067-7)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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The Life of the World to Comeby Kage BakerISBN 0765354322 (0-7653-5432-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Limit of Visionby Linda NagataISBN 0765342111 (0-7653-4211-1)
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Little Princeby Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Katherine WoodsISBN 0783815484 (0-7838-1548-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Prince'Book summary:You could be excused for thinking that this book is one containing a simple story for young children about a Little Prince. How wrong you would be! This is far from the truth: it is much more. It is a complex story containing lots of ambiguities about a child with golden hair. These are all eruditely discussed before the actual story begins, in a section entitled "How It All Began". "Is The Little Prince a story written for children or is it a meditation intended for adults?"
The Art of Living is discussed, along with a system of values, and the train of thought behind them is the unifying element. You are invited to "look at the book, and allow yourself to travel from one image to the next... " It was written and published more than 50 years ago in the USA, and the author was a Frenchman who illustrated the book himself; it was later translated by Kathryn Woods. The Little Prince is still very popular and has now been translated into many languages. Shortly after it was first written, the author died--disappearing together with his plane somewhere over the Mediterranean. This Gift edition contains all the original illustrations, plus some more original drawings that came to light later and have been published here for the first time.--Susan Naylor
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Lucy Gets Her Life Backby Stef Ann HolmISBN 0778323447 (0-7783-2344-7)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Lyre of Orpheusby Robertson DaviesISBN 0771599196 (0-7715-9919-6)
Hardcover, Macmillan of Canada
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The Man in the Brown Suitby Agatha ChristieISBN 0766194140 (0-7661-9414-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man in the Brown Suit'Book summary:1924. How odd, Anne Beddingfeld thought, that the stranger caught her eye, recoiled in horror, and fell to his death on the rails of Hyde Park Underground Station. Odder still was a doctor in a brown suit who pronounced him dead and vanished into the crowd. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. [via]
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Memories of Iceby Steven EriksonISBN 0765348802 (0-7653-4880-2)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memories of Ice'Book summary:The third tale from the Mazalan Book of the Fallen, Memories of Ice is a convoluted military fantasy even more dense than its two predecessors. A deranged and not necessarily human prophet has set a cannibal rabble to conquer a continent, and various armies and wizards are out to stop him--but their reasons for doing this are many, various and often conflicting. The previous two books Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates were full of mysteries, some of them answered here--Erikson's is a world in which gods ascend from humanity to replace gods that fall or are overthrown and in which the world and the supernatural warrants that surround it are full of relics of past gods and past cultures. Young officer Paran tries to make sense of the return of his dead beloved as one of the four souls of a magical child; his commander Whiskeyjack tries to do the right thing as both soldier and human being; the scout Toc tries to survive hideous torture and pass on information he only partly knows. Erikson creates an impressive dark world of brutality and sudden beauty in which dizzying vistas of times past suddenly open; his work repays the concentration needed to follow his complex plotting and sentences. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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The Miracleby Irving WallaceISBN 0765353334 (0-7653-5333-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Mistress Patby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 0770422462 (0-7704-2246-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0766607194 (0-7666-0719-4)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
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The Moorby Laurie R. KingISBN 0783801629 (0-7838-0162-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Mother of Kingsby Poul AndersonISBN 0765345021 (0-7653-4502-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Mothers and Sonsby Colm ToibinISBN 0771085311 (0-7710-8531-1)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mothers and Sons'Book summary:The nine stories in Mothers and Sons examine in depth some of the ways that the bond that is forged--or not--between mothers and their sons is altered, re-formed, or broken forever. In The Master, his fictionalized life of Henry James, Toíbín made the reader see and understand the writer more fully than ever before. Similarly, these new stories look at relationships between fully formed adults and, with a few deft strokes, make clear what their mutual history has brought them to. In most cases, they must deal with loss, while trying to grasp the complexities of that sometimes precarious balance between a mother and her son.
In the first story, "The Use of Reason," a lifelong burglar is nearly brought down by his mother, who talks too much when she drinks in her local pub. In "A Song," Noel, on the town with a group of his musician friends, ends up in the same bar as his estranged mother, who is asked to sing. She sings an Irish ballad about love and treachery and he is convinced that she is singing directly to him. In "A Priest in the Family," Molly's son Frank is accused of abuse, but no one has the courage to tell her until it is almost time for the trial. Her reaction is not entirely predictable. "Three Friends" takes place after a young man attends his mother's funeral. He joins his friends for a night of carousing and drugs ending with a late-night swim, where he is emboldened to make an overt sexual pass at one of his buddies, with interesting results. The final story, "A Long Winter," is set in Spain in a remote village. Miquel's mother drinks. Everyone knows it but Miquel. His father pours out her supply of booze and she leaves the house. So far it's a simple story. It doesn't stay that way. Each of these stories has its own gravitas, its own sadness, and that laser-beam of insight that is Toíbín's trademark. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Moving Marsby Greg BearISBN 0765318237 (0-7653-1823-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moving Mars'Book summary:In this 1995 Nebula Award-winning novel, a revolution is transforming the formerly passive Earth-colony of Mars. While opposing political factions on Mars battle for the support of colonists, scientists make a staggering scientific breakthrough that at once fuels the conflict and creates a united Mars front, as the technically superior Earth tries to take credit for it. Backed against a wall, colonial leaders are forced to make a monumental decision that changes the future of Mars forever. [via]
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New Springby Robert JordanISBN 0765345455 (0-7653-4545-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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One for the Moneyby Janet EvanovichISBN 0783811861 (0-7838-1186-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One for the Money'Book summary:Stephanie Plum is so smart, so honest, and so funny that her narrative charm could drive a documentary on termites. But this tough gal from New Jersey, an unemployed discount lingerie buyer, has a much more interesting story to tell: She has to say that her Miata has been repossessed and that she's so poor at the moment that she just drank her last bottle of beer for breakfast. She has to say that her only chance out of her present rut is her repugnant cousin Vinnie and his bail-bond business. She has to say that she blackmailed Vinnie into giving her a bail-bond recovery job worth $10,000 (for a murder suspect), even though she doesn't own a gun and has never apprehended a person in her life. And she has to say that the guy she has to get, Joe Morelli, is the same creep who charmed away her teenage virginity behind the pastry case in the Trenton bakery where she worked after school.
If that hard-luck story doesn't sound compelling enough, Stephanie's several unsuccessful attempts at pulling in Joe make a downright hilarious and suspenseful tale of murder and deceit. Along the way, several more outlandish (but unrelentingly real) characters join the story, including Benito Ramirez, a champion boxer who seems to be following Stephanie Plum wherever she goes.
Janet Evanovich shares an authentic feel for the streets of Trenton in her debut mystery (she developed her talents in a string of romance novels before creating Ms. Plum), and her tough, frank, and funny first-person narrator offers a winning mix of vulgarity and sensitivity. Evanovich is certainly among the best of the new voices to emerge in the mystery field of the 1990s. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Pat of Silver Bushby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0770422470 (0-7704-2247-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Psychohistorical Crisisby Donald KingsburyISBN 0765341956 (0-7653-4195-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Psychohistorical Crisis'Book summary:A loving homage to Asimov, and dialogue with him--a triumph of galactic-scaled SF that is destined to be recognized as a classic in its own right[via]
Eron Osa had faced the ultimate penalty. Not death, but the removal of his fam. Without the augmentation of his brain by his electronic familiar, he can barely function amidst the bewildering complexities of everyday life on Splendid Wisdom. Here, on the capital world of the galaxy's Second Empire, everyone from the meanest citizen to the ruling Pscholars has depended upon a fam since childhood. Without one, simply navigating the streets and levels of the planetary megalopolis is a paralyzing challenge. Lost along with such everyday survival skills were many of Eron's memories and his professional knowledge. The crime he committed must have been terrible to warrant such a dreadful punishment. If only he could remember what it was!More editions of Psychohistorical Crisis:
The R Documentby Irving WallaceISBN 0765354470 (0-7653-5447-0)
Softcover, Forge
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Rainbow Valleyby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0770422683 (0-7704-2268-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rainbow Valley'Book summary:Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert, and is the mother of 6 children. [via]
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The Relicby Lincoln Child, Preston DouglasISBN 0765354942 (0-7653-5494-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Relic'Book summary:A series of bizarre and brutal murders is taking place in the halls of the New York Museum of Natural History, only days before a massive exhibition is set to open. Margo Green knows that the killer is something not human, something that's not even supposed to exist. Where did it come from, how did it get into the museum, and how can it be stopped? [via]
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Rilla of Inglesideby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0770421857 (0-7704-2185-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rilla of Ingleside'Book summary:Anne's children are almost grown up, except for pretty, highspirited Rilla. No one can resist her bright hazel eyes and dazzling smile. Rilla, almost fifteen, can't think any further ahead than going to her very first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse and getting her first kiss from handsome Kenneth Ford. But undreamed-of challenges await the irrepressible Rilla when the world of Ingleside is endangered by a far-off war. Her brothers go off to fight, and Rilla brings home an orphaned newborn in a soup tureen. She is swept into a drama that tests her courage and changes her forever. [via]
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The Risen Empireby Scott WesterfeldISBN 076534467X (0-7653-4467-X)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Risen Empire'Book summary:From the acclaimed author of Fine Prey, Polymorph, and Evolution's Darling (Philip K. Dick Award special citation and a New York Times Notable Book) comes a sweeping epic, The Risen Empire, Scott Westerfeld's dazzling hardcover debut.[via]
The undead Emperor ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. Because he can grant a form of eternal life, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power has been absolute. He and his sister, the Child Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshipped as living gods. No one could touch them.
Not until the Rix, machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods: AI compound minds of planetary extent. The Rix are cool, relentless fanatics, and their only goal is to propagate such AIs throughout the galaxy. They seek to end, by any means necessary, the Emperor's prolonged tyranny of one, and supplant it with an eternal cybernetic dynasty of their own. They begin by taking the Child Empress hostage. Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is tasked with her rescue.
Separated by light years, bound by an unlikely love, Zai and pacifist Senator Nara Oxham must each, in their own way, face the challenge of the Rix, as they hold the fate of the empire in their hands. The Risen Empire is the first great space opera of the 21st century.More editions of The Risen Empire:
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The Roverby Mel OdomISBN 0765341948 (0-7653-4194-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rover'Book summary:Edgewick Lamplighter (Wick to his friends) is a humble librarian in the isolated halls of Greydawn Moors until dreams of wanderlust and a bit of dereliction in his duties result in his being shanghaied to a far-off land.[via]
Captured by pirates, sold into slavery, and adopted by a gang of thieves, Wick soon finds himself with more adventures than even a halfling librarian can imagine.
Rival gangs, goblin marauders, evil wizards, and monstrous dragons are soon after the wee adventurer and his newfound allies in a tale of treasures and treachery, magic and mystery, where even a little guy can rise to the occasion and save the day.More editions of The Rover:
The Secret of Lifeby Paul J. Mc AuleyISBN 076534193X (0-7653-4193-X)
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Shadow Puppetsby Orson Scott CardISBN 0765340054 (0-7653-4005-4)
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Silent in the Graveby Deanna RaybournISBN 0778324109 (0-7783-2410-9)
Hardcover, Harlequin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silent in the Grave'Book summary:These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of Psalms, are the last threat that the darling of London society, Sir Edward Grey, receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry agent he has retained for his protection, Sir Edward collapses and dies at his London home, in the presence of his wife, Julia, and a roomful of dinner guests.
Prepared to accept that Edward's death was due to a long-standing physical infirmity, Julia is outraged when Brisbane visits and suggests that Sir Edward has been murdered. It is a reaction she comes to regret when she discovers the damning paper for herself, and realizes the truth.
Determined to bring her husband's murderer to justice, Julia engages the enigmatic Brisbane to help her investigate Edward's demise. Dismissing his warnings that the investigation will be difficult, if not impossible, Julia presses forward, following a trail of clues that lead her to even more unpleasant truths, and ever closer to a killer who waits expectantly for her arrival. [via]
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Sister Aliceby Robert ReedISBN 0765341476 (0-7653-4147-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Alice'Book summary:"An epic tale of visionary futures and scientific speculation."[via]
--Library Journal
Millions of years from now, humanity will be on the brink of self-destruction. The world's great leaders have created an elite group who, by their superior wisdom and abilities, keep the peace, maintain progress, and otherwise safeguard humanity's future. Genetically enhanced, they are the carriers of Earth's greatest talents, a force unlike any in the history of mankind.
For ten million years, the Families dominated the galaxy. But then Alice, a brilliant scientist of the Chamberlain family, took part in an attempt to create a new galaxy. Her experiment unleashed vast forces that the family could not control, causing a catastrophe that killed untold billions of people on many worlds.
Before she was punished for her role in the debacle, Alice visited Ord, a younger Chamberlain. Only he, of all the people in the galaxy, knows what Alice tells him. Her words launch him upon a quest that will take him across the vast reaches of space. He must discover his own true nature, and somehow restore the family honor. Sister Alice is his epic story.More editions of Sister Alice:
The Skinnerby Neal Asher, Neal L. AsherISBN 0765350483 (0-7653-5048-3)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Smilla's Sense of Snowby Peter HoegISBN 0770426182 (0-7704-2618-2)
Softcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smilla's Sense of Snow'Book summary:In this international bestseller, Peter Høeg successfully combines the pleasures of literary fiction with those of the thriller. Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Her childhood in Greenland gives her an appreciation for the complex structures of snow, and when she notices that the boy's footprints show he ran to his death, she decides to find out who was chasing him. As she attempts to solve the mystery, she uncovers a series of conspiracies and cover-ups and quickly realizes that she can trust nobody. Her investigation takes her from the streets of Copenhagen to an icebound island off the coast of Greenland. What she finds there has implications far beyond the death of a single child. The unusual setting, gripping plot, and compelling central character add up to one of the most fascinating and literate thrillers of recent years. [via]
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A Tangled Webby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0770422454 (0-7704-2245-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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That Camden Summerby Lavyrle SpencerISBN 0783816065 (0-7838-1606-5)
Softcover, G K Hall & Co
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Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 078381884X (0-7838-1884-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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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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The Things They Carriedby Tim O'BrienISBN 0767902890 (0-7679-0289-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Things They Carried'Book summary:"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."
A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Three Men in a Boatby Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 0765341611 (0-7653-4161-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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So begin the hilarious misadventures of a merry, but scandalously lazy band of well-to-do young men-and a plucky and rather world-weary fox terrier named Montmorency-on an idyllic cruise along the River Thames. Feeling seedy, muses one of them dreamily, "What we want is rest." What they find instead is one hapless catastrophe after another. Soggy weather, humiliating dunkings, the irritating behavior of small boats and the "contrariness of teakettles" are just a few of the barbarisms our genteel heroes are forced to endure. But which a delighted reader can only sing, Hooray!
First published in 1889, Three Men in a Boat was an instant success, and Jerome has been compared to comic master P.G. Wodehouse.More editions of Three Men in a Boat:
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, Barbara GreenISBN 0766607224 (0-7666-0722-4)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
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The Visionby Heather GrahamISBN 0778323218 (0-7783-2321-8)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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What's Bred in the Boneby Robertson DaviesISBN 0771596847 (0-7715-9684-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan of Canada
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Whole Wide Worldby Paul J. McAuleyISBN 0765340275 (0-7653-4027-5)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0766607712 (0-7666-0771-2)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
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The Wizard of Oz: Easy Pianoby Carol CuellarISBN 0769200958 (0-7692-0095-8)
Softcover, Alfred Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz: Easy Piano'Book summary:Dan Coates applies his popular Easy Piano arrangements to the delightful score from this timeless movie classic. Here's a collector's item for players of all ages. Songs include: Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
* If Only I Had a Brain
* If I Were the King of the Forest
* Over the Rainbow
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The Wordby Irving WallaceISBN 0765351129 (0-7653-5112-9)
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