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The Disinheritedby Han OngISBN 0374280754 (0-374-28075-4)
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The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiologyby Peter SingerISBN 0374234965 (0-374-23496-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology'Book summary:This volume gathers nearly all of the poems from Heaney's first four collections: Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), and North (1975).[via]More editions of The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology:
From Tom Wolfe Purple Decades: 1960-1980by Thomas WolfeISBN 0374278393 (0-374-27839-3)
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The Great Plainsby Ian FrazierISBN 0374217238 (0-374-21723-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Plains'Book summary:With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier captures the essence of the Great Plains, driving 25,000 miles up and down and across this section of the country which most travelers fly over. [via]
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Leaps of Faithby Rachel KranzISBN 0374184445 (0-374-18444-5)
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The Lexus and the Olive Treeby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 0374185522 (0-374-18552-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lexus and the Olive Tree'Book summary:One day in 1992, Thomas Friedman toured a Lexus factory in Japan and marveled at the robots that put the luxury cars together. That evening, as he ate sushi on a Japanese bullet train, he read a story about yet another Middle East squabble between Palestinians and Israelis. And it hit him: Half the world was lusting after those Lexuses, or at least the brilliant technology that made them possible, and the other half was fighting over who owned which olive tree.
Friedman, the well-traveled New York Times foreign-affairs columnist, peppers The Lexus and the Olive Tree with stories that illustrate his central theme: that globalization--the Lexus--is the central organizing principle of the post-cold war world, even though many individuals and nations resist by holding onto what has traditionally mattered to them--the olive tree.
Problem is, few of us understand what exactly globalization means. As Friedman sees it, the concept, at first glance, is all about American hegemony, about Disneyfication of all corners of the earth. But the reality, thank goodness, is far more complex than that, involving international relations, global markets, and the rise of the power of individuals (Bill Gates, Osama Bin Laden) relative to the power of nations.
No one knows how all this will shake out, but The Lexus and the Olive Tree is as good an overview of this sometimes brave, sometimes fearful new world as you'll find. --Lou Schuler [via]
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalizationby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 0374192030 (0-374-19203-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization'Book summary:One day in 1992, Thomas Friedman toured a Lexus factory in Japan and marveled at the robots that put the luxury cars together. That evening, as he ate sushi on a Japanese bullet train, he read a story about yet another Middle East squabble between Palestinians and Israelis. And it hit him: Half the world was lusting after those Lexuses, or at least the brilliant technology that made them possible, and the other half was fighting over who owned which olive tree.
Friedman, the well-traveled New York Times foreign-affairs columnist, peppers The Lexus and the Olive Tree with stories that illustrate his central theme: that globalization--the Lexus--is the central organizing principle of the post-cold war world, even though many individuals and nations resist by holding onto what has traditionally mattered to them--the olive tree.
Problem is, few of us understand what exactly globalization means. As Friedman sees it, the concept, at first glance, is all about American hegemony, about Disneyfication of all corners of the earth. But the reality, thank goodness, is far more complex than that, involving international relations, global markets, and the rise of the power of individuals (Bill Gates, Osama Bin Laden) relative to the power of nations.
No one knows how all this will shake out, but The Lexus and the Olive Tree is as good an overview of this sometimes brave, sometimes fearful new world as you'll find. --Lou Schuler [via]
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The Life of Emily Dickinsonby Richard Benson SewallISBN 0374186960 (0-374-18696-0)
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Little Boys Come from the Starsby Val Vinokurov, Emmanuel Dongala, Joel RejouisISBN 0374184968 (0-374-18496-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Boys Come from the Stars'Book summary:It is even said-but I admit that it's difficult to believe, even though I got this from my uncle-that when Papa was born, you couldn't follow the World Cup or the Olympics live and that Coca-Cola had yet to spread the selling of soft drinks to our village.Michael Jackson had yet to become famous . . . If all this was really true, I wonder how men managed to fill up the twenty-four hours of the day, three hundred sixty-five days a year.
His nickname is Matapari, which means "trouble." He is an African child of the '90s-brilliant, mischievous, postcolonial, postmodern-caught in the crossfire of a chaotically liberated African country. Matapari grows up in a world of talking drums, the Internet, and satellite TV, a world of dictators who remake themselves as democrats overnight. His uncle is a stooge for the dictator; his father is a scholarly recluse obsessed with proving that blacks played key roles in Western history. Matapari is a young man in the middle-but the shrewdness and wit with which he tells his often riotously funny story set him apart from his relatives and countrymen. Emmanuel Dongala uses the ingenious viewpoint of a child to show up the telltale world of adults-and to show how one preserves one's independence in a corrupt and violent society. [via]
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A Little Too Much Is Enoughby Kathleen TyauISBN 0374189501 (0-374-18950-1)
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A Little Tour in Franceby Henry James, Leon EdelISBN 0374189560 (0-374-18956-0)
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Looking for a Shipby John McPheeISBN 0374190771 (0-374-19077-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking for a Ship'Book summary:This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.[via]More editions of Looking for a Ship:
Looking Through Glassby Mukul KesavanISBN 0374190852 (0-374-19085-2)
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Loonglowby Helen EisenbachISBN 0374191131 (0-374-19113-1)
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Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biographyby Martha SaxtonISBN 0374192103 (0-374-19210-3)
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Loveby Peter Nadas, Imri GoldshtainISBN 0374192286 (0-374-19228-6)
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Love in the Ruinsby Walker PercyISBN 0374193029 (0-374-19302-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love in the Ruins'Book summary:[via]A great adventure . . . So outrageous and so real, one is left speechless. Chicago Sun TimesIn Walker Percys future America, the country is on the brink of disaster. With citizens violently polarized along racial, political, and social lines, and a fifteen-year war still raging abroad, America is crumbling quickly into ruin. The countrys one remaining hope is Dr. Thomas More, whose lapsometer is capable of diagnosing the spiritual afflictionsanxiety, depression, alienationdriving everyones destructive and disastrous behavior.But such a potent machine has its pitfalls. As Dr. More soon learns, in the wrong hands, the powerful lapsometer could lead to open warfare, pushing America into anarchy at full-speed.More editions of Love in the Ruins:
Lucinella: A Novelby Lore Groszmann SegalISBN 0374194254 (0-374-19425-4)
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Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhornby David HajduISBN 0374194386 (0-374-19438-6)
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Make Me Workby Ralph LombregliaISBN 0374200041 (0-374-20004-1)
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Mamzelle Dragonflyby Linda Coverdale, Raphael ConfiantISBN 0374199329 (0-374-19932-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mamzelle Dragonfly'Book summary:A nostalgic and erotic story that is also a deeply sophisticated look at modern Martinique[via]
A tree cannot keep secrets because its roots discreetly meet those of other trees and share its thoughts. Adelise, a young girl trapped working in the cane fields of Martinique, keeps confidence with the flowering mangrove in her backyard. Her strict and watchful mother says Adelise is a dragonfly, refusing to learn that life is not a game.
When she is transplanted to the dangerous and politically restive capital, Fort-de-France, her aunt introduces her to the unsavory business of nightlife among the Mulatto elite, and Adelise comes to rely even more on her elaborate system of wistful detachment from her body.
Raphaël Confiant's spare style is reminiscent of Christina Garcia's, and the ambivalent sensuality and fierce independence of his Caribbean heroine recall Edwidge Danticat's heroines. Mamzelle Dragonfly is that rare thing: a politically savvy novel that is also intimately affecting.More editions of Mamzelle Dragonfly:
The Men's Clubby Leonard MichaelsISBN 0374207828 (0-374-20782-8)
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Milosz's ABC'sby Czeslaw Milosz, Madeline G. LevineISBN 0374199779 (0-374-19977-9)
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Moghul Buffetby Cheryl BenardISBN 0374211795 (0-374-21179-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moghul Buffet'Book summary:An American businessman visiting Peshawar, Pakistan, vanishes from his hotel room. The only clue is an enigmatic message in blood scrawled on the Coke machine. A series of murders follows. But in a country where half the population is hidden beneath chadors, tracking a murderer can be difficult. [via]
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More Stories from My Father's Courtby Isaac Bashevis Singer, Curt LeviantISBN 0374213437 (0-374-21343-7)
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Moth Smokeby Mohsin HamidISBN 0374213542 (0-374-21354-2)
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Mother Loveby Candace FlyntISBN 0374213747 (0-374-21374-7)
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Mothersby Katrina KenisonISBN 0374213755 (0-374-21375-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mothers'Book summary:Mothers presents the whole range of maternal experiences, from pregnancy and birth to adolescence and adulthood. The mothers in these stories, often solely in charge of their families, sometimes feel inadequate to the task and occasionally resent their responsibilities--yet they are fiercely bound to their children. This book will speak powerfully to every woman about the challenges and transcendent joys of motherhood today. [via]
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A Mouth Like Yoursby Daniel DuaneISBN 0374217327 (0-374-21732-7)
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Moy Sand and Gravelby Paul MuldoonISBN 0374214808 (0-374-21480-8)
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My Year in the No-Man'S-Bayby Peter Handke, Krishna WinstonISBN 0374217556 (0-374-21755-6)
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The Mystery Guestby Gregoire Bouillier, lorin SteinISBN 0374185700 (0-374-18570-0)
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The Natural Disorder of Thingsby Abigail AsherISBN 0374219613 (0-374-21961-3)
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Never Eat Your Heart Outby Judith MooreISBN 0374220735 (0-374-22073-5)
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The Noodle Makerby Ma Jian, Flora Drew, Jian MaISBN 0374223076 (0-374-22307-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Noodle Maker'Book summary:"One of the most important and courageous voices in Chinese literature." --Gao Xingjian, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature[via]
From the highly acclaimed Ma Jian comes a satirical and powerfully written novel--excerpted in The New Yorker--about the absurdities and cruelties of life in post-Tianamen China.
Two men, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor, meet for dinner every week. During the course of one drunken evening, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln from an art school and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of police officers and Party secretaries while swooning to banned Western music; a heartbroken actress performs a public suicide by stepping into the jaws of a wild tiger, watched nonchalantly by her ex-lover. He is inspired by extraordinary characters, their lives pulled and pummeled by fate and politics, as if they were balls of dough in the hands of an all-powerful noodle maker.
Ma Jian's masterpiece allows us a humorous yet profound glimpse of those struggling to survive under a system that dictates their every move.More editions of The Noodle Maker:
Now You See It . . .: Stories from Cokesville, Paby Bathsheba MonkISBN 0374223300 (0-374-22330-0)
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On Grief and Reason: Essaysby Joseph BrodskyISBN 0374234159 (0-374-23415-9)
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On Photographyby Susan SontagISBN 0374226261 (0-374-22626-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Photography'Book summary:Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In these six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives. "Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites". (The Times). "A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselves". (Washington Post). "The most original and illuminating study of the subject". (New Yorker). One of America's best-known and most admired writers, Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004. Her books include four novels and numerous works of non-fiction, among them Regarding the Pain of Others, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, At the Same Time, Against Interpretation and Other Essays and Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963, all of which are published by Penguin. A further eight books, including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn and Where the Stress Falls, and the novels The Volcano Lover and The Benefactor, are available from Penguin Modern Classics. [via]
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Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996by Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374235171 (0-374-23517-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996'Book summary:For Seamus Heaney, "opened ground" is a necessity--a way of getting to the root of things. The book bearing that name spans three decades, beginning with "Digging," his exhilarating portrait of the artist as a young revolutionary. "Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun," Heaney boasts (although by the end of the poem, his weapon has metamorphosed into something closer to the spade his grandfather and father once relied upon). The last entry, the sonnet "Postscript," appears some 400 pages later, which makes Opened Ground a capacious selection of his work. But at this point Heaney requires the largest of hold-alls. There are beautiful, pastoral lyrics here, sequences such as "Glanmore Sonnets" and "Clearances," and a multitude of love poems, not solely to his wife but to his parents and children. And in Heaney's hands, small domestic moments and objects--a scrabble board, a swing, a kite, a bed sawn in half to get it downstairs--invariably become both reality and soaring myth.
At the same time, his Ireland is the site of "neighborly murders," and the past and larger world he confronts is one threatened by history and brutal sectarianism. Heaney has declared, "Fear is the emotion that the muse thrives on. That's always there"--and terror is pervasive in his "land of password, handgrip, wink and nod, / Of open minds as open as a trap." Many of his poems that explore the Troubles reflect his own considerable concern that he has long "confused evasion and artistic tact." Others might be termed self-reflexive, since Heaney uses them to unearth his own role. "Kinship" features a simple, brilliant (not to mention canine!) simile:
I step through origins
In a later poem, "From the Frontier of Writing," he compares the struggle for inspiration to being stopped at a roadblock: "And everything is pure interrogation / until a rifle motions you and you move / with guarded unconcerned acceleration." Heaney's gift is dazzling, and would be almost unbearable were it not matched by vigilance, self-doubt, and regret--and his longing for the day in which "justice can rise up / And hope and history rhyme." --Kerry Fried [via]
like a dog turning
its memories of wilderness
on the kitchen mat.
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Orangesby John McPheeISBN 0374226881 (0-374-22688-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oranges'Book summary:A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange pickers, orange packers, early settlers on Floridas Indian River, the first orange barons, modern concentrate makers, and a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Frostproof, Florida who may be the last of the individual orange barons. McPhees astonishing book has an almost narrative progression, is immensely readable, and is frequently amusing. Louis XIV hung tapestries of oranges in the halls of Versailles, because oranges and orange trees were the symbols of his nature and his reign. This book, in a sense, is a tapestry of oranges, toowith elements in it that range from the great orangeries of European monarchs to a custom of people in the modern Caribbean who split oranges and clean floors with them, one half in each hand.[via]More editions of Oranges:
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Out of Egypt: A Memoirby Andre AcimanISBN 0374228337 (0-374-22833-7)
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The Painted Wordby Tom WolfeISBN 0374228787 (0-374-22878-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Painted Word'Book summary:In 1975, after having put radical chic and '60s counterculture to the satirical torch, Tom Wolfe turned his attention to the contemporary art world. The patron saint (and resident imp) of New Journalism couldn't have asked for a better subject. Here was a hotbed of pretension, nitwit theorizing, social climbing, and money, money, money--all Wolfe had to do was sharpen his tools and get to work. He did! Much of The Painted Word is a superb burlesque on that modern mating ritual whereby artists get to despise their middle-class audience and accommodate it at the same time. The painter, Wolfe writes, "had to dedicate himself to the quirky god Avant-Garde. He had to keep one devout eye peeled for the new edge on the blade of the wedge of the head on the latest pick thrust of the newest exploratory probe of this fall's avant-garde Breakthrough of the Century.... At the same time he had to keep his other eye cocked to see if anyone in le monde was watching."
The other bone Wolfe has to pick is with the proliferation of art theory, particularly the sort purveyed by postwar colossi like Harold Rosenberg, Clement Greenberg, and Leo Steinberg. Decades after the heyday of abstract expressionism, these guys make pretty easy targets. What could be more absurd, after all, than endless Jesuitical disputes about the flatness of the picture plane? So most of them get a highly comical spanking from the author. It's worth pointing out, of course, that Wolfe paints with a broad (as it were) brush. If he's skewering the entire army of artistic pretenders in a single go, there's no room to admit that Jasper Johns or Willem DeKooning might actually have some talent. But as he would no doubt admit, The Painted Word isn't about the history of art. It's about the history of taste and middlebrow acquisition--and nobody has chronicled these two topics as hilariously or accurately as Tom Wolfe. --James Marcus [via]
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Paradise Travelby Katherine Silver, Jorge Franco RamosISBN 0374229775 (0-374-22977-5)
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Passage to Araratby Michael J. ArlenISBN 0374229899 (0-374-22989-9)
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The Perpetual Orgyby Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen LaneISBN 0374230773 (0-374-23077-3)
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A Philip Roth Readerby Philip RothISBN 0374231702 (0-374-23170-2)
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Piano Piecesby Russell ShermanISBN 0374232067 (0-374-23206-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Piano Pieces'Book summary:Russell Sherman has been hailed as "that rarest of performers--a thinking man's virtuoso" (Chicago Tribune), and Piano Pieces is his scintillating excursion into the world of piano and its multiple spheres of affect and influence. From pithy reflections on tone, technique, and the thorny matter of thumbs to ruminations on how such a machine could be the voice and repository of priceless human messages both lyrical and complex, Piano Pieces examines the current status of music, piano-playing, and pedagogy through the noisy filter of contemporary culture.[via]More editions of Piano Pieces:
Pieces of Lifeby Mark SchorerISBN 0374232806 (0-374-23280-6)
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Poems and Fragmentsby Jim Powell, SapphoISBN 0374253935 (0-374-25393-5)
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The Poets' Danteby Rachel Jacoff, Peter S. HawkinsISBN 0374235368 (0-374-23536-8)
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Poppa Johnby Larry WoiwodeISBN 0374236305 (0-374-23630-5)
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Positively Fifth Streetby James McManusISBN 0374236488 (0-374-23648-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Positively Fifth Street'Book summary:In 2000, novelist and poet James McManus was sent to Las Vegas, innocently enough, by Harper's magazine to write a story about the World Series of Poker held annually at Binion's Horseshoe. But then, as so often happens on trips to Sin City, something kind of ... happened. Rather than becoming an objective report, McManus's article evolved into a memoir as he put his entire advance on the line, got lucky with his cards and won a spot in the competition, and came much closer than anyone expected to winning the darn thing. The result, Positively Fifth Street, is just as dazzling, exciting, and disturbing as Vegas itself.
McManus details his battles not only against his opponents but also against "Bad Jim," the portion of his own personality that needs to get in on a poker game in spite of both common and fiscal sense. Besides telling his own story, he relates the considerably more unpleasant tale of Ted Binion, whose grisly death was blamed on Binion's former stripper-girlfriend and her ex-linebacker beau. In the hands of a lesser author, the pursuit of these separate through lines of poker and the seedy personal lives of wealthy casino heirs may have lead readers to wish the author had picked just one subject. But under McManus's careful watch, they're really pretty similar: steeped in adrenaline, mystery, deception, and skating on thrillingly thin ice. Each story underscores the other, a neat little "narrative as metaphor" device, while also painting a vivid picture of Vegas casino life. Poker, as anyone who has lost at it will tell you, is an intricate game and it's nice to see a top-notch author and player relate its finer points in an entertaining style that will appeal even to non-players. The author's hilariously self-aware and at times self-loathing style make Positively Fifth Street a fun read. But beyond that, his account of nearly winning the biggest poker tournament in the world and subsequently watching as the verdicts are announced for Binion's accused murderers makes for a great story. Even if it wasn't the one he was sent there to write. --John Moe [via]
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The Purple Decadesby Tom Wolfe, Joe David BellamyISBN 0374239282 (0-374-23928-2)
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The Purple Decades: A Readerby Tom WolfeISBN 0374239274 (0-374-23927-4)
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Pushkin's Buttonby Serena VitaleISBN 0374239355 (0-374-23935-5)
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A Reading Diaryby Alberto ManguelISBN 0374247420 (0-374-24742-0)
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The Rehearsalby Sarah WillisISBN 0374248613 (0-374-24861-3)
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Road Songby Natalie KuszISBN 0374251215 (0-374-25121-5)
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The Road to Many a Wonderby David WagonerISBN 0374251274 (0-374-25127-4)
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Roundsby Frederick BuschISBN 0374252580 (0-374-25258-0)
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Sakuranby Edward ToloskoISBN 0374253676 (0-374-25367-6)
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japanby Giles MiltonISBN 0374253854 (0-374-25385-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan'Book summary:Samurai William tells how, in 1598, William Adams, an English seaman of humble origin, sailed out of Rotterdam on a Danish ship en route to the East Indies. After 20 months at sea in which they survived a series of disasters, starvation and disease, Adams and a few remaining sailors floated into a harbour on the island of Kyushu in southwestern Japan. Though not the first Westerner to reach Japan--Portuguese traders and Jesuit monks from Spain had arrived about 60 years earlier--Adams was the first Englishman to arrive. The impact this one man would have on future relations between East and West is the subject of this engrossing book.
After landing, Adams spent some time in prison and was nearly executed before he made an unlikely ally in Tokugawa Ieyasu, a powerful feudal lord who would later become shogun of Japan. Intrigued by the outside world and impressed with the sailor's navigational abilities, Ieyasu commissioned Adams to oversee the construction of some ships to be used for both trade and exploration. In time, Adams mastered the language and complex social customs of Japan, began teaching the shogun about geometry and mathematics and served as a translator and political counsellor to Ieyasu. For his service, he was awarded great wealth, land holdings and even a lordship, making him the first foreigner ever to be honoured as a samurai. When news of his high standing reached England, a small crew of Englishmen were sent to Japan to use Adams's political connections to open trade between the two countries.
Giles Milton, author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg does a masterful job of covering Adams's remarkable life. His narrative moves along briskly as he recounts harrowing sea adventures, fascinating details about Japanese culture and the attempts of various countries, including Holland, Portugal, Spain and England, to gain a foothold in Japan to exploit the rich trade possibilities. Samurai William is an impressive achievement and a thoroughly entertaining read. --Shawn Carkonen, Amazon.com [via]
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Sea Grapesby Derek WalcottISBN 0374255245 (0-374-25524-5)
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Selected Poemsby Robert LowellISBN 0374258694 (0-374-25869-4)
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Six Out Sevenby Jess MowryISBN 0374220832 (0-374-22083-2)
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The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960-1972by Edmund Wilson, Lewis M. DabneyISBN 0374265542 (0-374-26554-2)
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Skateawayby Michael Grant JaffeISBN 0374265712 (0-374-26571-2)
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The Skin Of The Skyby Elena Poniatowska, Deanna HeikkinenISBN 0374265755 (0-374-26575-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Skin Of The Sky'Book summary:The Skin of the Sky is the fascinating and haunting story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant Mexican astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother, brothers, and sisters on their mother's farm on a small plot of land outside Mexico City. When Lorenzo's mother dies, his father brings the children to live with him in the capital. Thrust into a privileged world, the children struggle to adjust, and an angry Lorenzo turns to the study of the stars to find solace. He pursues his studies at Harvard, then returns to Mexico, where he attempts to do first-world scientific research in a third-world country. A complex and contradictory man, Lorenzo strives to make his country a better place for all her people, especially the very poor and disenfranchised.[via]
Setting traditional beliefs against technological progress, and personal sacrifice against professional achievement, The Skin of the Sky details the efforts of a country to join the twenty-first century, and paints the portrait of a lonely man who can find true contentment and satisfaction only in the stars.More editions of The Skin Of The Sky:
Slaves in the Familyby Edward BallISBN 0374265828 (0-374-26582-8)
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The Smile of the Lambby David GrossmanISBN 0374266395 (0-374-26639-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Smile of the Lamb'Book summary:A provocative story of an idealistic young Israeli soldier serving in the occupied West Bank, his wife who works in a juvenile psychiatric center, and the terrible price they pay when personal desires clash with the forces of history. Grossman captures the terror and tragedy of one of the most explosive issues of our time and cuts to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [via]
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So Forth: Poemsby Joseph BrodskyISBN 0374266417 (0-374-26641-7)
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Stick Out Your Tongueby Ma Jian, Flora Drew, Jian MaISBN 0374269882 (0-374-26988-2)
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The Summer of the Great-Grandmotherby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374271747 (0-374-27174-7)
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Sweeney Astrayby Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374272212 (0-374-27221-2)
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Table of Contentsby John A. McPheeISBN 0374272417 (0-374-27241-7)
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Take This Manby Frederick BuschISBN 0374272468 (0-374-27246-8)
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Tales of Student Lifeby Hermann HesseISBN 0374272484 (0-374-27248-4)
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Talking Dirty to the Gods: Poemsby Yusef KomunyakaaISBN 0374272557 (0-374-27255-7)
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The Taxiby Violette LeducISBN 0374272530 (0-374-27253-0)
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Ten Women Who Shook the Worldby Sylvia BrownriggISBN 0374272891 (0-374-27289-1)
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That Mighty Sculptor, Timeby Marguerite Yourcenar, Walter KaiserISBN 0374273588 (0-374-27358-8)
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The Thirties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Periodby Edmund Wilson, Leon EdelISBN 0374275726 (0-374-27572-6)
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Thirty Secondsby Michael J. ArlenISBN 0374275769 (0-374-27576-9)
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This Is the Lifeby Joseph O'NeillISBN 0374275904 (0-374-27590-4)
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The Throne of Labdacusby Gjertrud SchnackenbergISBN 0374276862 (0-374-27686-2)
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Tide Runningby Oonya KempadooISBN 0374277575 (0-374-27757-5)
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To the Finland Stationby Edmund WilsonISBN 0374278334 (0-374-27833-4)
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Tonguecatby Peter Verhelst, Sherry MarxISBN 0374278431 (0-374-27843-1)
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The Torch in My Earby Elias Canetti, Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0374278474 (0-374-27847-4)
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Two; a Phallic Novelby Alberto MoraviaISBN 0374280053 (0-374-28005-3)
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Two Fablesby Roald Dahl, Graham DeanISBN 0374280185 (0-374-28018-5)
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Two Murders in My Double Lifeby Josef SkvoreckyISBN 0374280258 (0-374-28025-8)
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Typicalby Padgett PowellISBN 0374280223 (0-374-28022-3)
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Under the Sign of Saturnby Susan SontagISBN 0374280762 (0-374-28076-2)
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Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New Yorkby Edmund WilsonISBN 0374281890 (0-374-28189-0)
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Valverde's Gold: In Search of the Last Great Inca Treasureby Mark HonigsbaumISBN 0374191700 (0-374-19170-0)
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Varieties of Disturbance: Storiesby Lydia DavisISBN 0374281734 (0-374-28173-4)
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Without End: New and Selected Poemsby Clare Cavanagh, Adam Zagajewski, C.K. Williams, Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin IvryISBN 0374220964 (0-374-22096-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Without End: New and Selected Poems'Book summary:The best work of one of Poland's greatest younger poets[via]
I love to swim in the sea, which keeps
talking to itself
in the monotone of a vagabond
who no longer recalls
exactly how long he's been on the road.
Swimming is like prayer:
palms join and part,
join and part
almost without end.
--from "On Swimming"
This selection draws from Adam Zagajewski's English-language collections, both in and out of print; it also includes work from his early books, Communiqué and Butcher Shop, as well as new poems that are among Zagajewski's most refreshing and rewarding: meditations on human frailty and vigor, they are vividly imagined, of great clarity of thought and scrupulous attention to the natural world. In Clare Cavanagh's lucid, graceful translations these poems share the vocation that allows us, in Zagajewski's words, "to experience astonishment and to stop still in that astonishment for a long moment or two."More editions of Without End: New and Selected Poems:
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