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...And Ladies of the Clubby Helen Hoover SantmyerISBN 081420323X (0-8142-0323-X)
Hardcover, Ohio State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: '...And Ladies of the Club'Book summary:"A great novel that is American to its core...so gently memorable, so bursting with life, that those who abandon themselves to its pages will find it claiming a permanent place close to their hearts." --New York Daily News[via]"A warm, evocative, often hilarious picture of society, culture, politics and family life." --Atlanta Constitution
"A warmly human story...never flags from first page to last." --Publishers Weekly
A groundbreaking bestseller with two and a half million copies in print, "...And Ladies of the Club" centers on the members of a book club and their struggles to understand themselves, each other, and the tumultuous world they live in. A true classic, it is sure to enchant, enthrall, and intrigue readers for years to come.
"It is hard to think of a better place to spend the summer than in AHelen Hooven Santmyer's? world." --Cosmopolitan
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The Archer's Taleby Bernard CornwellISBN 0786238984 (0-7862-3898-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Asesinos: Mision-Jerusalem, Blanco-El Anticristoby Tim Lahaye, Jerry B. JenkinsISBN 0789907259 (0-7899-0725-9)
Softcover, Editorial Unilit
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asesinos: Mision-Jerusalem, Blanco-El Anticristo'Book summary:Raimundo cae en una trampa en Fran- cia y escapa a duras penas de un tiroteo y de aviones de combate de la Comunidad Global en Al Basra: El planea su participacion en el asesinato del anticristo. Mientras tanto, varios compiten por ese mismo privilegio... [via]
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Assassins: Assignment--Jerusalem, Target--Antichristby Tim Lahaye, Jerry B. JenkinsISBN 0842329277 (0-8423-2927-7)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Assassins: Assignment--Jerusalem, Target--Antichrist'Book summary:Is it right to kill Satan's hit man? Would it help God's work? This installment in the Left Behind series picks up with Rayford Steele--"believer" and international fugitive--as he struggles with a plan to assassinate Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia. Meanwhile, Carpathia has been busy rebuilding roads, airports, and a cellular/solar satellite phone system--all designed to help him become supreme ruler of the world--and even claim himself to be God. We also find ace reporter Buck Williams anonymously preaching to the masses of believers and converts through his cyberspace magazine The Truth. All the believers in the safe house, including Buck, Doc, Chloe, and Tsion, are suspicious of Hattie--former mistress of Carpathia--who claims to be a believer but may have already compromised their secret location when she tried to buy her way to Europe months before.
Fans of the series won't be disappointed. Jenkins's signature writing is at full force. Readers can count on a suspenseful plot, imaginative futuristic thinking, and familiar characters, all of which appear in the opening pages and are sustained until the last cliffhanger scene when God unleashes another earth-shattering disaster. [via]
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- Assassins: Assignment--Jerusalem, Target--Antichrist: ISBN 084232920X (0-8423-2920-X)
Hardcover, Tyndale House Pub - Assassins: Assignment--Jerusalem, Target--Antichrist: ISBN 0842365559 (0-8423-6555-9)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub - Assassins: Assignment--Jerusalem, Target--Antichrist: ISBN 0786229063 (0-7862-2906-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Assassins: Assignment--Jerusalem, Target--Antichrist: ISBN 0842329277 (0-8423-2927-7)
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- Assassins: Assignment--Jerusalem, Target--Antichrist: ISBN 084232920X (0-8423-2920-X)
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Blue Angelby Francine ProseISBN 0060882034 (0-06-088203-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Angel'Book summary:Francine Prose may never surpass Joyce Carol Oates in the Prolific Olympics, but she is one of those omnipresent writers whom failed writers hate. And surely she'll make new enemies with her hilarious and cruel 10th novel, Blue Angel, a satire of academia, specifically of English and writing departments. The setting is Euston College in rural Vermont, a place kids go to if they don't get into Bennington; a place where desperate novelists teach creative writing to rich kids who don't seem to read. Prose, who has taught at all the hotshot workshops, skewers both teachers and students in the way only a true insider could.
Swenson, her writing-teacher protagonist, once published a well-received novel but is now consumed by neuroses and repressed lust, and instead of writing tends to get drunk or morose, or both. But when a gifted student named Angela Argo enters his class, he feels like he is coming back to life. His resurrection into "believing" in writing again, and his eventual disappointment, form the core of the novel.
Prose's gift for satire is stunning as she directs her caustic wit at all the current academic debates: sexual-harassment policies warning against all manner of "touching"; deconstructionists versus Old School fuddy-duddies; women's studies teachers who bring everything back to the phallocentric Man killing us all. But Blue Angel's best passages come when the author is describing truly rotten writers. Here's a Connecticut rich girl, a member of Swenson's workshop, who likes to write about all those poor unfortunate nonwhite people. Her story is called "First Kiss--Inner City Blues" and is written from the point of view of a Latino woman who lives in a trash-strewn neighborhood full of gunfire and bad people. Here's the opening line: "The summer heat sat on the hot city street, making it hard for it to breathe, especially for Lydia Sanchez." It's a sentence so bad, it's almost a revelation. --Emily White [via]
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By the Swordby Mercedes LackeyISBN 0886774632 (0-88677-463-2)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'By the Sword'Book summary:By the Sword features Kerowyn, the grand-daughter of the Sorceress Kethry from The Oathbound, Oathbreakers, and Oathblood. Granddaughter of the sorceress Kethry, daughter of a noble house, Kerowyn had been forced to run the family keep since her mother's untimely death. Yet now at last her brother was preparing to wed, and when his bride became the lady of the keep, Kerowyn could return to her true enjoyments - training horses and hunting. But all Kerowyn's hopes and plans were shattered when her ancestral home was attacked, her father slain, her brother wounded, and his fiance kidnapped. Driven by desperation and the knowledge that a sorcerer had led the attack, Kerowyn sought her grandmother Kethry's aid, a journey which would prove but the first step on the road to the fulfillment on her destiny. For facing her family's foes would transform Kerowyn into an outsider in her own land, a warrior bound to the spell blade Need, and a mercenary forced to choose between loyalty to her comrades in arms and the Herald of Valdemar, whom she had rescued and who in his turn had helped to awaken her to the true meaning of love and to her own unique powers of magic. This is a stand alone book: By the Sword is set between events covered in the Arrows of the Queen Trilogy and The Mage Winds Trilogy. [via]
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Cakes and Ale : Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboardby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0140185887 (0-14-018588-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Captain Bloodby Rafael Sabatini, Gary HoppenstandISBN 0142180106 (0-14-218010-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captain Blood'Book summary:Peter Blood is a physician and an English gentleman who becomes a pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels who were fighting the oppressive King James, Blood flees England and becomes enslaved on a Barbados plantation of buccaneers. When he escapes, no ship sailing the Spanish Main is safe from Blood and his companions. Abounding with adventure, color, romance, and strong social commentary on the evils of slavery and the dangers of intolerance, this classic adventure is a story about how oppression drives men to desperate actions, how fate plays a hand in everyone's life, and how love is ultimately the greatest power of all.[via]
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Centaur Aisleby Piers AnthonyISBN 0808522094 (0-8085-2209-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Centaur Aisle'Book summary:One of a series of novels about the enchanted world of Xanth, a land of magic and myth, of ogres, walking nightmares, wizards, magicians and nymphs. It is a land where anything can happen - and frequently does. [via]
Charmed Lifeby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0060298766 (0-06-029876-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Chrom Yellowby Aldous HuxleyISBN 089966847X (0-89966-847-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Cities of the Red Nightby William S. BurroughsISBN 0030539765 (0-03-053976-5)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities of the Red Night'Book summary:While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of Naked Lunch is the first of the trilogy with The Places of the Dead Roads and his final novel, The Western Plains.
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Crome Yellowby Aldous HuxleyISBN 1564783049 (1-56478-304-9)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crome Yellow'Book summary:The Crome of this novel's title is an English Country House in which most of the action occurs. Aldous Huxley's first novel, Crome Yellow, was published in 1921, and, as a comedy of manners and ideas, its relatively realistic setting and format may come as a surprise to fans of his later works such as Point Counter Point and Brave New World. Some who know only Brave New World may not know that as a 16-year-old planning to enter medicine, Aldous Huxley was stricken by a serious eye disease which left him temporarily blind, and which derailed what certainly would have been a prominent career as a physician or scientist. Crome Yellow has often been called "witty," as well as "talky," and it certainly owes as much to Vanity Fair as it may, surprisingly to some, owe to Tristram Shandy, although one might think that characters such as Mr. Barbecue-Smith and his remarkable writing theories could have some literary antecedents in Lawrence Sterne. Denis Smith, the protagonist of Crome Yellow, attempts to cross wits with the denizens of Crome, particularly Mr. and Mrs. Winbush and the remarkable Mr. Barbecue-Smith -- in pursuit of a star-crossed love, and in the face of another girl who possibly loves him. [via]
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- Crome Yellow: ISBN 1603129766 (1-60312-976-6)
Hardcover, Alan Rodgers Books - Crome Yellow: ISBN 0760760500 (0-7607-6050-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books - Crome Yellow: ISBN 0881845884 (0-88184-588-4)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub - Crome Yellow: ISBN 1564783049 (1-56478-304-9)
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- Crome Yellow: ISBN 1603129766 (1-60312-976-6)
Damascus Gateby Robert StoneISBN 0684859114 (0-684-85911-4)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Death & the Penguinby Andrey KurkovISBN 1860469450 (1-86046-945-0)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Death and the Penguinby Andrey Kurkov, George BirdISBN 1860468357 (1-86046-835-7)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death and the Penguin'Book summary:The publication of Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov's debut novel, heralds a unique new voice in post-soviet satire. Set in the Ukraine in the years immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this dark, deadpan tale chronicles the journalistic career of Victor, who shares a flat with Misha, his depressed Penguin, rescued from the under-funded zoo in Kiev. Victor is asked to write obelisks, obituaries, for a prominent city paper about notable figures in the community, and quickly transforms himself from struggling writer to wealthy journalist. It soon becomes apparent that there is a more sinister motive at play, and Victor finds himself descending in a Kafkaesque realm of suspicion and unease.
This strange, thoughtful and gentle novel will leave the reader satisfied and perplexed at its conclusion. Kurkov seems to question whether Victor or the Penguin is lonelier and more out of place in his environment. The Death in the title is ever present, though not in an oppressive way, but this also makes one want to question Victor's belief that a long hard life is better than a quick death. Many comparisons will undoubtedly be made between Kurkov's novel and the writing of other authors from the former Soviet republics to make it to print in the United Kingdom. Certainly it's fair to say that this belongs to the tradition of Russian satire made well known in this country by writers such as Mikhail Bulgakov and Venedikt Yarofeev. It is also interesting to read this alongside the works of contemporaries such as Evgenev Popov and Viktor Pelevin. However, where Pelevin drifts off into the fantastical and esoteric, Kurkov keeps it deadpan and very real. It is important to remember that many of the strange events that occur in this book are grounded in fact: amals really were given away by Kiev zoo--truth is often stranger than fiction. --Iain Robinson [via]
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The Deerslayerby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0140390618 (0-14-039061-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deerslayer'Book summary:The last of the five Leatherstocking tales recalls Natty Bumppo's adventures as a young man among the Delaware Indians of New York [via]
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A Density of Soulsby Christopher RiceISBN 0786886463 (0-7868-8646-3)
Softcover, Miramax
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Density of Souls'Book summary:Take the sensuous, fecund New Orleans setting, add a generous helping of tangled Southern family history, and season liberally with a sensitive teenage boy rejected by his friends and frightened of his own homoerotic impulses and you wouldn't be surprised to discover that the novel containing all of the above was written by someone named Rice. But a few paragraphs into the first page, it's clear that Anne Rice's son's first novel isn't about vampires or witches and does not otherwise read like one of her exceedingly popular books. The only family resemblance is in the setting, the sexual orientation of the lovingly described male characters, and the scent of overripe magnolias.
There's murder, suicide, and madness at the heart of this rather clumsy coming-of-age story, which focuses on the youthful friendship of Stephen Conlin, Meredith Ducote, Greg Darby, and Brandon Charbonnet. This friendship is destroyed by a sexual incident that takes place just before the foursome enters Cannon, an exclusive prep school. There, Stephen is ostracized by his former friends, now the most popular kids on campus, who'd just as soon forget their own complicity in the event. Envy, passion, and rage drive the narrative, but the emotions are as juvenile as the characters, and the long passages depicting the rituals and cruelties of high school, from pep rallies to football games, slow down the pace without really illuminating character or motivation. The novel reads like a roman à clef. Rice might have been wiser to tell someone else's story rather than his own. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Divinersby Margaret LaurenceISBN 0771047487 (0-7710-4748-7)
Hardcover, McClelland and Stewart
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Falling Freeby Lois McMaster Bujold, Suford Lewis, James A. McMasterISBN 1886778531 (1-886778-53-1)
Hardcover, Nesfa Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Falling Free'Book summary:When humanoids are genetically produced for capital gain, what are their human rights?
Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong, and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was to teach welding to a secretly produced batch of humanoid workers genetically engineered with two additional arms instead of legs to be ideally suited to working in free fall. Could he just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless megacorporation? Leo hadn't anticipated a situation where the right thing to do was neither safe nor in the rules.
Leo adopted a thousand quaddies. Now all he had to do was teach them to be free.
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Falsa Memoria / False Memoryby Dean Koontz, Random House Mondadori, Jose Antonio SorianoISBN 8497595467 (84-9759-546-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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From Time to Timeby Jack FinneyISBN 0684818442 (0-684-81844-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Time to Time'Book summary:The New York Times Bestseller -- Jack Finney's long-awaited sequel to his classic illustrated novel Time and Again.
Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time. This time Reuben Prien at the secret, government-sponsored Project wants Si to leave his home in the 1880s and visit New York in 1912. Si's mission: to protect a man who is traveling across the Atlantic with vital documents that could avert World War I. So one fateful day in 1912, Si finds himself aboard the world's most famous ship...the Titanic. [via]
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George's Marvelous Medicineby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0141301112 (0-14-130111-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'George's Marvelous Medicine'Book summary:George is alone in the house with Grandma, the most horrid, grouchy old grandma ever. He has the brilliant idea to brew a special grandma medicine--a remedy to make the old bird sing with bright spirits. Grandma and George are in for a big surprise when they see the results of his marvelous mixture! [via]
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The Glass Books of the Dream Eatersby Gordon DahlquistISBN 1596061057 (1-59606-105-7)
Hardcover, Subterranean
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The Grand Sophyby Georgette HeyerISBN 0061004669 (0-06-100466-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writingsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0075536307 (0-07-553630-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings'Book summary:Introduction and Commentaries by Richard Quintana [via]
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The House of the Deadby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0140444564 (0-14-044456-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of the Dead'Book summary:In January, 1850, Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in "The House of the Dead", were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account, he recounts his soul-destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov: the daily battle for survival, the wooden plank beds, the cabbage soup swimming with cockroaches, his strange 'family' of boastful, ugly, cruel convicts. Yet "The House of the Dead" is far more than a work of documentary realism: it is also a powerful novel of redemption, describing one man's spiritual and moral death and the miracle of his gradual reawakening. [via]
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I Never Promised You a Rose Gardenby Hannah GreenISBN 0805008721 (0-8050-0872-1)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Never Promised You a Rose Garden'Book summary:[via]The classic novel about a young womans struggle against madness, now a Holt Paperback, with a new afterword by the author
Hailed by The New York Times as "convincing and emotionally gripping" upon its publication in 1964, Joanne Greenbergs semiautobiographical novel stands as a timeless and unforgettable portrayal of mental illness. Enveloped in the dark inner kingdom of her schizophrenia, sixteen-year-old Deborah is haunted by private tormentors that isolate her from the outside world. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a mental hospital where she will spend the next three years battling to regain her sanity with the help of a gifted psychiatrist. As Deborah struggles toward the possibility of the "normal" life she and her family hope for, the reader is inexorably drawn into her private suffering and deep determination to confront her demons.
A modern classic, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden remains every bit as poignant, gripping, and relevant today as when it was first published.
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Intruder in the Dustby William FaulknerISBN 0075536625 (0-07-553662-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreamsby Sylvia PlathISBN 1568493851 (1-56849-385-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams'Book summary:"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.... If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine."-- Sylvia Plath, from Notebooks, February 1956
Renowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This collection of short stories, essays, and diary excerpts highlights her fierce concentration on craft, the vitality of her intelligence, and the yearnings of her imaginaton. Featuring an introduction by Plath's husband, the late British poet Ted Hughes, these writings also reflect themes and images she would fully realize in her poetry. Jonny Panic and the Bible of Dreams truly showcases the talent and genius of Sylvia Plath.
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Killashandraby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0893661872 (0-89366-187-2)
Hardcover, Washington Ave Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killashandra'Book summary:Aware that her presence on Ballybran constitutes a threat to her lover, Killashandra goes undercover to find a much-needed crystal. 2 cassettes. [via]
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Last Picture Showby Larry McMurtryISBN 0684853868 (0-684-85386-8)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Picture Show'Book summary:In The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry introduced characters who would show up again in later novels, Texasville and Duane's Depressed. This first volume of the trilogy drops the reader into the one-stoplight town of Thalia, Texas, where Duane Moore, his buddy Sonny, and his girlfriend Jacy are all stumbling along the rocky road to adulthood. Duane wants nothing more than to marry Jacy; Sonny wants what Duane has; and Jacy wants to get the hell out of Thalia any way she can. This is not a novel of big ideas or defining moments; over the course of a year Duane and Jacy make up and break up, Sonny begins an affair with his high-school football coach's wife, and the only movie house in town closes its doors forever. Yet it is out of these small-town experiences--a nude swimming party in Wichita, a failed sexual encounter during a senior trip, a botched elopement, an enlistment--that McMurtry builds his tale and reveals his characters' hearts. No epiphanies here, just a lot of hard-won experience that leaves none of his protagonists particularly wiser, though they're all a little sadder by the end. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Life on the Mississippiby Mark TwainISBN 1582182647 (1-58218-264-7)
Hardcover, Digital Scanning Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on the Mississippi'Book summary:Mark Twain's own story of his youthful years as a cub-pilot on a steamboat plowing up and down the Mississippi River. [via]
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Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Life on the Mississippi: ISBN 0848806514 (0-8488-0651-4)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd - Life on the Mississippi: ISBN 0895772752 (0-89577-275-2)
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The Livingby Annie DillardISBN 006092411X (0-06-092411-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Living'Book summary:Listening to Lawrence Luckinbill read Annie Dillard's historical novel The Living takes a little getting used to. The very first sentence reveals a pronounced and distracting lisp, but don't let that dissuade you from continuing. Luckinbill's voice also exhibits a simple honesty, a gruffness that is perfectly suited to the steely pioneer spirit of Dillard's story. Surprisingly quickly, the vocal idiosyncrasy fades away, leaving only the emotional resonance of Luckenbill's obviously heartfelt connection to this powerful tale.
Dillard's finely crafted prose and Luckinbill's sincere voice carry you back to the early days of American expansion, into the truly Wild West and the stone-hard life these settlers would be forced to endure. "She had cried out to God all day and maybe all night, too, that he would lend her strength to bear affliction and go on. She was not aware that underneath she prayed another prayer as if to a power above God, or at least to his better nature, that he was finished with the worst of it." Of course, God isn't finished, and neither are these brave souls. Dillard opens their world slowly, stretching the horizon generation by generation, tethering the fate of one small family to that of the struggling town that they are helping to build and, ultimately, to the inexorable rise of the emerging nation. (Running time: six hours, four cassettes) --George Laney [via]
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Lord of Emperorsby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0061020028 (0-06-102002-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of Emperors'Book summary:One of the world's foremost masters of fantasy, Guy Gavriel Kay has thrilled readers around the globe with his talent for skillfully interweaving history and myth, colorful characterization, and a rich sense of time and place. Now, in Lord of Emperors, the internationally acclaimed author of The Lions of Al-Rassan continues his most powerful work.
In Sailing to Sarantium, the first volume in the Sarantine Mosaic, renowned mosaicist Crispin--beckoned by an imperial summons of the Emperor Valerius--made his way to the fabled city of Sarantium. A man who lives only for his craft, who cares little for ambition, less for money, and nothing for intrigue, Crispin now wants only to confront the challenges of his art high upon a dome that will become the emperor's magnificent sanctuary and legacy.
But Crispin's desire for solitude will not be fulfilled. Beneath him the city swirls with rumors of war and conspiracy, while otherworldly fires mysteriously flicker and disappear in the streets at night. Valerius is looking west to Crispin's homeland of Varena to assert his power--a plan that may have dire consequences for the family and friends Crispin left behind. But loyalty to his homeland comes at a high price, for Crispin's fate has become entwined with that of Valerius and his empress, as well as the youthful Queen Gisel, his own monarch who is an exile in Sarantium herself. And now another voyager arrives in Sarantium, a physician determined to earn his fortune amid the shifting currents of loyalty, intrigue, and violence.
Drawing from the twin springs of history and legend, Lord of Emperors is also a deeply moving exploration of art, power, and the ways in which people from all walks of life seek to leave an impressionthat endures long after thery're gone. It confirms Kay's place as one of the most esteemed masters of fantasy. [via]
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Maniac Mageeby Jerry SpinelliISBN 0064404242 (0-06-440424-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maniac Magee'Book summary:Maniac Magee is a folk story about a boy, a very excitable boy. One that can outrun dogs, hit a home run off the best pitcher in the neighborhood, tie a knot no one can undo. "Kid's gotta be a maniac," is what the folks in Two Mills say. It's also the story of how this boy, Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee, confronts racism in a small town, tries to find a home where there is none and attempts to soothe tensions between rival factions on the tough side of town. Presented as a folk tale, it's the stuff of storytelling. "The history of a kid," says Jerry Spinelli, "is one part fact, two parts legend, and three parts snowball." And for this kid, four parts of fun. Maniac Magee won the 1991 Newbery Medal. [via]
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Mark Twainby Mark TwainISBN 0940450070 (0-940450-07-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mark Twain'Book summary:Here for the first time in one volume are the most famous and characteristic of Mark Twain's works. Through each of them runs the powerful and majestic Mississippi. The river represented for Twain the complex and contradictory possibilities in his own and the nation's life: the place where civilization's comforts meet the violence and promise of freedom of the frontier. It was the place, too, where Twain's youthful innocence confronted the grim reality of slavery. The nostalgic re-creation of childhood in "Tom Sawyer"--"simply a hymn put into prose form to give it a worldly air," said Twain--and the richly anecdotal memoir of his days as a riverboat pilot in "Life on the Mississippi" give way to the realism and often dark comedy of "Huckleberry Finn" and the troubled exploration of slavery in his mystery, "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Together, these four books trace the central trajectory of his life and career, and they can be read as a single masterpiece. [via]
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Middle Passageby Charles JohnsonISBN 0684855887 (0-684-85588-7)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middle Passage'Book summary:In this savage parable of the African American experience, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave eking out a living in New Orleans in 1830, hops aboard a square rigger to evade the prim Boston schoolteacher who wants to marry him. But the Republic turns out to be a slave clipper bound for Africa. Calhoun, whose master educated him as a humanist, becomes the captain's cabin boy, and though he hates himself for acting as a lackey, he's able to help the African slaves recently taken aboard to stage a revolt before the rowdy, drunken crew can spring a mutiny. Middle Passage won the 1990 National Book Award. [via]
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The Mississippi Pilotby Mark TwainISBN 3829050372 (3-8290-5037-2)
Hardcover, Konemann
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Momoby Michael EndeISBN 0140079165 (0-14-007916-5)
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The Museum at Purgatory: A Wondrous Strange Tale from the Author of Griffin and Sabineby Nick BantockISBN 006095793X (0-06-095793-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Museum at Purgatory: A Wondrous Strange Tale from the Author of Griffin and Sabine'Book summary:Nick Bantock first burst onto the literary scene in 1991 with his remarkable illustrated novel Griffin & Sabine--which was as much art as it was artifice. While chronicling the correspondence between two mysterious lovers, Bantock peppered his book with visual delights--macabre post cards, intricately designed stamps, exquisite envelopes that open to disclose hand-written letters. Sabine's Notebook and The Golden Mean soon followed to complete the trilogy. In many respects, The Museum at Purgatory resembles its predecessors, mixing metaphysics and art in a way meant to both puzzle and delight its readers. The narrator offers the basic premise early on: "My name is Non, and as Curator of the Museum here at Purgatory I am required by statute to facilitate, without judgment, the progress of all collectors assigned to these halls. It is my responsibility to act as their souls' guardian, as well as preserver of their accumulated treasures." Non then goes on to give a brief overview of the layout of Purgatory, a city that "takes a meditative, non-partisan view of reality" and where visitors are "faced with fundamental questions of self-worth" that must be resolved before they can move on.
In other words, this stopping place between heaven and hell is one big analyst's couch. Non's introduction to Purgatory scans like the overly formal, academic language one finds on informational panels in natural history museums--no doubt Bantock's intention. Unfortunately, this can become wearing after a while, and it isn't until the second half of the book when Non tells his own story (as opposed to the histories of the various "collections" under his care) that the prose loosens up somewhat.
But it's the illustrations that make Bantock's books special; it's unfortunate that several of them look as if they've escaped from a Dorling Kindersley guidebook--photographs of objects on stark backgrounds with a caption explaining their significance or use. Yet this museum contains some lovely examples of its author's art. As always, his stamps and postcards are exquisite--and how many cards are postmarked Nirvana or bear stamps from Inferno? This book may not equal the mystery or sheer beauty of the Griffin & Sabine trilogy, but Nick Bantock fans will still find plenty to intrigue and amuse. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Mysterious Islandby Jules VerneISBN 1406501646 (1-4065-0164-6)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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Nerilka's Storyby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0893661880 (0-89366-188-0)
Hardcover, Washington Ave Books Inc
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Notes from the Underground & the Doubleby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0939495155 (0-939495-15-5)
Hardcover, North Books
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Once upon a More Enlightened Time : More Politically Correct Bedtime Storiesby James Finn GarnerISBN 0028604199 (0-02-860419-9)
Hardcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Once upon a More Enlightened Time : More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'Book summary:Another enlightened collection from the bestselling author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. Garner continues his mission to liberate our classic fairy tales from archaic, sexist, ageist, classist, lookist, and environmentally unsound prejudices with a new collection of humorous tales for readers of evolved consciousness. 13 line drawings. [via]
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The Puppet Mastersby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 156723156X (1-56723-156-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Rings of Saturnby W. G. SebaldISBN 1860463991 (1-86046-399-1)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rings of Saturn'Book summary:In August 1992, W.G. Sebald set off on a walking tour of Suffolk, one of England's least populated and most striking counties. A long project--presumably The Emigrants, his great anatomy of exile, loss, and identity--had left him spent. Initially his tour was a carefree one. Soon, however, Sebald was to happen upon "traces of destruction, reaching far back into the past," in a series of encounters so intense that a year later he found himself in a state of collapse in a Norwich hospital.
The Rings of Saturn is his record of these travels, a phantasmagoria of fragments and memories, fraught with dizzying knowledge and desperation and shadowed by mortality. As in The Emigrants, past and present intermingle: the living come to seem like supernatural apparitions while the dead are vividly present. Exemplary sufferers such as Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement people the author's solitude along with various eccentrics and even an occasional friend. Indeed, one of the most moving chapters concerns his fellow German exile--the writer Michael Hamburger.
"How is it that one perceives oneself in another human being, or, if not oneself, then one's own precursor?" Sebald asks. "The fact that I first passed through British customs thirty-three years after Michael, that I am now thinking of giving up teaching as he did, that I am bent over my writing in Norfolk and he in Suffolk, that we both are distrustful of our work and both suffer from an allergy to alcohol--none of these things are particularly strange. But why it was that on my first visit to Michael's house I instantly felt as if I lived or had once lived there, in every respect precisely as he does, I cannot explain. All I know is that I stood spellbound in his high-ceilinged studio room with its north-facing windows in front of the heavy mahogany bureau at which Michael said he no longer worked because the room was so cold, even in midsummer..."
Sebald seems most struck by those who lived or live quietly in adversity, "the shadow of annihilation" always hanging over them. The appropriately surnamed George Wyndham Le Strange, for example, remained on his vast property in increasing isolation, his life turning into a series of colorful anecdotes. He was "reputed to have been surrounded, in later years, by all manner of feathered creatures: by guinea fowl, pheasants, pigeons and quail, and various kinds of garden and song birds, strutting about him on the floor or flying around in the air. Some said that one summer Le Strange dug a cave in his garden and sat in it day and night like St. Jerome in the desert."
In Sebald's eyes, even the everyday comes to seem extraterrestrial--a vision intensified in Michael Hulse's beautiful rendition. His complex, allusive sentences are encased in several-pages-long paragraphs--style and subject making for painful, exquisite reading. Though most often hypersensitive to human (and animal) suffering and making few concessions to obligatory cheeriness, Sebald is not without humor. At one point, paralyzed by the presence of the past, he admits: "I bought a carton of chips at McDonald's, where I felt like a criminal wanted worldwide as I stood at the brightly lit counter, and ate them as I walked back to my hotel." The Rings of Saturn is a challenging nocturne, and the second of Sebald's four books to appear in English. The excellent news is that his novel Vertigo is already slated for translation. --Kerry Fried [via]
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River Kingby Alice HoffmanISBN 0786227885 (0-7862-2788-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'River King'Book summary:There are two things any reader can count on when coming to Alice Hoffman: her prose and a remarkable empathy for those who live on the fringes of society. In her 13th novel, the author turns both to good account. Set in a tony private school located in a small New England town, The River King traces an intricate weave of intersecting lives over the course of a year. The Haddan School, founded in 1858, has long been the scene of tragedy and wonder: during its first year a tremendous storm flooded the grounds, and more than a century later "frogs can be found in the plumbing; linens and clothes stored in closets have a distinctly weedy odor, as if each article had been washed in river water and never thoroughly dried." Then there are the glorious roses planted by Annie Howe, a villager who married the headmaster and later hanged herself; these flowers have an unusual effect on sensitive girls. "When such girls walked past the brittle canes in the gardens behind St. Anne's, they felt something cold at the base of their spines, a bad case of pins and needles, as though someone were issuing a warning: be careful who you choose to love and who loves you in return."
A cogent warning indeed, for as in all of Hoffman's novels, the question of whom one chooses to love and who loves in return is the crux of the matter. The River King revolves around triangles. First there is Betsy Chase, a young photography teacher at the Haddan School who has gotten herself engaged--almost accidentally--to a fellow faculty member, even as she is inexorably drawn to Abel Grey, a town policeman. Then there are Carlin Leander, a scholarship student, and her best friend, Gus Pierce. While Carlin is able to fit in, even attracting the interest of the most popular boy on campus, Gus is a defiant outcast, a tall skinny kid in a long black overcoat "who viewed his own life as a prison sentence and experienced his existence much as a condemned man might." Carlin's romance with the charismatic, cruel Harry McKenna creates a rupture between her and Gus, and fuels a mean-spirited practical joke with horrific consequences. In the aftermath of tragedy, each character's heart, conscience, and courage is tested in unexpected ways.
Hoffman spins her web of love and heartbreak and transcendence with a sure hand, and in the process creates characters so palpably human in all their petty flaws and small instances of heroism that one almost expects them to step out of the book and into the room. Indeed, if there is a flaw in The River King, it is that Alice Hoffman doesn't always trust the magic inherent in her characters, relying a little too heavily at times on somewhat precious invocations of the otherworldly. But this is a minor defect in an otherwise satisfying novel, one that will keep the reader spellbound by its emotional complexity and compelling story. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Rose in Bloomby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140374515 (0-14-037451-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rose in Bloom'Book summary:After two years travelling around the world, Rose Campbell has a lot of strong opinions. Before thoughts of marriage, she would like to be independent. However, even her closest friend seems to be acting differently. The author has also written "Little Women". [via]
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Sex and the Cityby Candace BushnellISBN 0871136422 (0-87113-642-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sex and the City'Book summary:The "Sex and the City" columnist for the New York Observer documents the social scene of modern-day Manhattan. The reader gets an introduction to "Modelizers," the men who only have eyes for models, as well as a more common species, the "Toxic Bachelor." Reading like a society novel gone downtown and askew, Sex and the City is a comically sordid look at status and ambition and the many characters consumed by the sexual politics of the '90s. [via]
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Shutter Islandby Dennis LehaneISBN 0688163173 (0-688-16317-3)
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Thank You, Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 1585674346 (1-58567-434-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thank You, Jeeves'Book summary:A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster seeks refuge in Lord Chuffington's cottage, but the peace is soon shattered with the arrival of an ex-fiancee, Pauline Stoker, and her father. From the author of RING FOR JEEVES and JOY IN THE MORNING. [via]
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Titheby Holly BlackISBN 0689867042 (0-689-86704-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tithe'Book summary:Sixteen-year-old Kaye Fierch is not human, but she doesn't know it. Sure, she knows she's interacted with faeries since she was little--but she never imagined she was one of them, her blond Asian human appearance only a magically crafted cover-up for her true, green-skinned pixie self. First-time author Holly Black explores Kaye's self-discovery and dual worlds in her riveting, suspenseful novel Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale. The book has its faults: it slips into shock-value mode; the descriptions are often overwritten (sunset on the water looks like the sun slit his wrists in a bathtub); the language is overly, unnecessarily explicit; and the writing often unpolished. Still, the story's pull is undeniable, and readers under its spell will be hard-pressed to put the book down.
The novel begins in a bar in Philly, where Kaye's alcoholic rock-singer mother's boyfriend tries to kill her. For their own safety, mother and daughter quickly move back to grandma's on the New Jersey shore where Kaye grew up. This ugly turn of events was all rigged by the Faerie world, as it turns out, a world Black describes in deliciously vivid, if rather overblown, detail. Kaye, a drinking, smoking, foul-mouthed high school dropout in the land of mortals, soon finds herself embroiled--as a human sacrifice, no less--in a battle between Faerieland's Seelie and more malevolent Unseelie courts. The beautiful, mysterious knight Roiben, torn between worlds himself, falls in love with Kaye--the brave, clever changeling--against his better judgment. Throughout the electrifying journey to the horrific underworld of this modern faerie fantasy, teen readers will relate to a hard-luck tough girl who feels alienated, discovers her best qualities in the worst of circumstances, and finally finds a place between worlds where she can feel at home. (Ages 13 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Winter Queenby Boris Akunin, Andrew BromfieldISBN 1400060494 (1-4000-6049-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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LA Despedida/the Farewell Partyby Milan KunderaISBN 8472232328 (84-7223-232-8)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Despedida/the Farewell Party'Book summary:En un balneario algo trasnochado convergen temporalmente ocho personas cuyas circustancias se van entretejiendo paulatinamente hasta formar, con la precision de una telarana, una trama en la que todos, directa o indirectamente, acaban viendose atrapados : el musico celebre y la hermosa enfermera que quiere quedarse embarazada ; la celosisima esposa del musico y el joven mecanico enamorado de la enfermera ; el ex convicto, victima de las purgas de su pais, que va a despedirse de la muy cerebral Olga ; el ginecologo, con sus fanfarrones proyectos demograficos ; el rico excentrico, una version de santo moderno. La despedida tiene la ligereza y la magia de un vals, de «un sueno de una noche de verano». Pero, tras esta forma intencionadamente frivola, se oculta la pregunta mas grave : merece el hombre vivir en esta tierra ? Acaso no hay que «liberar el planeta de la garras del hombre» ? En este sentido, cuesta imaginar algo mas glacial y mas profundo que la aparente ligereza de Kundera. [via]
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La isla misteriosa/ The Mysterious Islandby Julio VerneISBN 8497862759 (84-9786-275-9)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La isla misteriosa/ The Mysterious Island'Book summary:Aimed at young readers, this adventure-themed collection of adapted classic books will entertain youngsters with characters and storylines that seek to foster their love for reading. These classics are a great way for young readers to start building their very own library.[via]Orientado al público infantil-juvenil, esta colección de obras clásicas de aventura busca entretener a lectores jóvenes con personajes e historias que fomentarán su amor por la lectura. Estos libros clásicos son la manera perfecta para que los jóvenes empiecen su propia biblioteca.More editions of La isla misteriosa/ The Mysterious Island:
Media Vidaby V.S. NaipaulISBN 8483069660 (84-8306-966-0)
Hardcover, Debate Editorial
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Die Ringe des Saturnby SebaldISBN 3596136555 (3-596-13655-5)
Softcover, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Die Ringe des Saturn'Book summary:Ein Reisebericht besonderer Art. Zu Fuß ist Sebald in der englischen GrafschaftSuffolk unterwegs, einem nur dünn besiedelten Landstrich an der englischenOstküste. Im August, ein Monat, der seit altersher unter dem Einfluß desSaturn stehen soll, wandert Sebald durch die violette Heidelandschaft,besichtigt verfallene Landschlösser, spricht mit alten Gutsbesitzern undstößt auf seinemWeg immer wieder auf die Spuren oft wundersamer Geschichten.So erzählt er von den Glanzzeiten viktorianischer Schlösser, berichtetaus dem Leben Joseph Conrads, erinnert an die unglaubliche Liebe des Vicomtede Chateaubriand oder spürt dem europäischen Seidenhandel bis China nach.Mit klarer und präziser Sprache protokolliert er jedoch auch die stillenKatastrophen, die sich mit dem gewaltsamen Eingriff der Menschen in diesenabgelegenen Landstrich vollzogen. So verwandelt sich der Fußmarsch letztlichin einen Gang durch eine Verfallsgeschichte von Kultur und Natur, die Sebaldmit einer faszinierenden Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit nachzeichnet. Und ganz nebenbeientsteht eine liebevolle Hommage an den Typus des englischen Exzentrikers. [via]
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Die Ringe Des Saturn: Eine Englische Wallfahrtby Winfried Georg SebaldISBN 3821844485 (3-8218-4448-5)
Hardcover, Eichborn
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Berenice Procuraby L. A. Garcia-RozaISBN 8535907203 (85-359-0720-3)
Hardcover, Companhia das Letras
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Azazelby B. AkuninISBN 5815900494 (5-8159-0049-4)
Hardcover, Zakharov
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