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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Meby Richard Farina, Thomas PynchonISBN 0140189300 (0-14-018930-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me'Book summary:This is the ultimate novel of college life during the first hallucinatory flowering of what has famously come to be known as The Sixties. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me follows haunted ur-hippy Gnossos Pappadopoulis upon return to his old university town that's just tilting into a new era, and Gnossos' involvement in a swirl of sixties-style drug taking and the search for love and the meaning of it all. It is a hilarious and haunting book. [via]
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The Black Bookby Orhan Pamuk, Guneli GunISBN 0156003295 (0-15-600329-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Book'Book summary:Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex, Alex and Michel (Ilanas Moroccan husband), Alex and his Mephistophelean Jerusalem lawyer a correspondence between mother and father, step-father and stepson, father and son, each pleading his or her own case.
The grasping, lyrical, manipulative, loving Ilana has stirred things up. Now, her former husband and her present husband have become rivals not only for her loyalty but for her sons as well.
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Claire se queda sola / Watermelonby Marian Keyes, Random House MondadoriISBN 8497593669 (84-9759-366-9)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Creationby Gore Vidal, Edgar BoxISBN 0345340205 (0-345-34020-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creation'Book summary:In 445 B.C., Cyrus Spitama, the grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, is the Persian ambassador to the city of Athens. He has a rather caustic appreciation of his situation: "I am blind. But I am not deaf. Because of the incompleteness of my misfortune, I was obliged yesterday to listen for nearly six hours to a self-styled historian whose account of what the Athenians like to call 'the Persian Wars' was nonsense of a sort that were I less old and more privileged, I would have risen to my seat at the Odeon and scandalized all Athens by answering him." Having thus dismissed Herodotus, Cyrus then dictates his life story to his nephew, Democritus, with similar disdain for the Greeks--whom we in the modern world have come to view as the progenitors of civilization, but whom Cyrus considers to be bad-smelling rabble.
Of course, Cyrus Spitama speaks with a very modern, ironic voice supplied to him by Gore Vidal--and the political intrigues in which Cyrus finds himself immersed are likewise familiar territory for fans of Vidal's historical fiction. But the narrator's delightfully wicked observations are the icing on a narrative of truly epic scope--out of his desire to understand the origins of the world, Cyrus undertakes journeys to India, where he encounters disciples of the Buddha, and China, where he engages Confucius in philosophical conversation while the great sage fishes by the riverside. Creation offers insights into classical history laced with scintillating wit and narrative brio. [via]
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Crystal Lineby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345384911 (0-345-38491-1)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crystal Line'Book summary:"A treat for long-time McCaffrey fans, a good read and a satisfying look at one of the most haunting facets of the crystal singers' profession."
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When Killashandra Ree joined the mysterious Heptite Guild, she knew that she would be forever changed. Crystal singing brought ecstasy and pain, near-eternal life...and gradual loss of memory. What she hadn't counted on was the loneliness she felt when her heart still remembered what her mind had forgotten. Fortunately, someone still cared enough to try to salvage what was left of Killashandra's mind. But she would have to learn to open herself--to another person, and to all her unpleasant memories.
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Daughter of the Forestby Juliet MarillierISBN 0312875304 (0-312-87530-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daughter of the Forest'Book summary:At the heart of this surprisingly accomplished first novel, first book of the Sevenwaters trilogy, is a retelling of an ancient Celtic legend. Marillier's story, however, is much more than a slightly disguised fairy tale. Young Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Irish Lord Colum of Sevenwaters, a domain well protected from invading Saxons and Britons by dense forest where, legend says, fey Deirdre, the Lady of the Forest, walks the woodland paths at night. Colum is first and foremost a warrior, bent on maintaining his lands against all outsiders. Not all of his sons are so bound to the old ways, and that family friction leads to outright disobedience when Sorcha and her brother Finbar help a Briton captive escape from Colum's dungeon. Soon after, Colum brings home a new wife who ensorcels everyone she can't otherwise manipulate. By her spell Sorcha's brothers are cursed to become swans. Only Sorcha, hiding deep in the forest, can break the spell by painfully weaving shirts of starwort nettle--but then Sorcha is captured by Britons and taken away across the sea. Determined to break the curse despite her captivity, Sorcha continues to work, little expecting that ultimately she will have to chose between saving her brothers and protecting the Briton lord who has defended her throughout her trials. Marillier's writing is deft and heartfelt, bypassing the usual bombast of fantasy fireworks for a rich, magical story of loyalty and love. --Charlene Brusso [via]
Deep Secretby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0312868596 (0-312-86859-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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El Cuarto Protocolo / The Fourth Protocolby Frederick Forsyth, J. Ferrer AleuISBN 8497595122 (84-9759-512-2)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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El Ultimo Hombreby David Baldacci, Merce Diago, Abel DebrittoISBN 8466606599 (84-666-0659-9)
Hardcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Ultimo Hombre'Book summary:Web London, a member of the FBI's elite hostage rescue team, roars into a darkened alley one night with his team members, only to be ambushed seconds later. For reasons he can't understand, London is the sole survivor. As the FBI conducts their investigation, the cloud of suspicion surrounding London grows. Riddled with questions and guilt, he seeks the help of psychiatrist Claire Daniels. In a search for the truth that will take him from the battlegrounds of inner city Washington to the affluence of Virginia horse country, this tenderhearted hero sets out to discover what really happened that deadly night, as forces from all sides try to stop him.[via]More editions of El Ultimo Hombre:
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Elvenbaneby Andre Norton, Mercedes LackeyISBN 0312851065 (0-312-85106-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elvenbane'Book summary:The exhilirating story of the Elvenbane unfurls as an adventurous tale destined for bestseller status. It begins with the cruel, all-powerful elvenlords, whose magic created wondrous cities, but whose great pride drove them to take pleasure in the pain and humiliation of their human and halfblood slaves. But on the horizon is the One--the mythic leader of future revolt. [via]
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The Empire Strikes Backby Donald F. Glut, George LucasISBN 034540078X (0-345-40078-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Empire Strikes Back'Book summary:Perhaps you think the Star Wars trilogy cannot be fully realized with audio alone. You think you'd miss the stunning visuals, the emotions of the actors, and the special effects. You think it would be a disappointment. As Yoda might say, "So impossible is it? So certain are you?" This production of The Empire Strikes Back was created by the same team that produced National Public Radio's amazingly successful presentation of Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama in 1981. Presented in 10 episodes, the longer format allows for a great expansion of the story and new scenes--though purists may be disappointed by the slight but significant change in the story line while the Rebels are on Hoth. Once again, Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels are on hand to reprise their roles as Luke Skywalker and C-3PO, and this time they are joined by Billy Dee Williams reprising his part as Lando Calrissian. A fine cast performs the rest of the roles, notably John Lithgow as Yoda and the very compelling Perry King as the "slimy, double-crossing, no good swindler" Han Solo. Sound effects and John Williams's score from the movie have been remixed to help create a convincing soundscape--so good, you can really "see" the movie by listening to it. The Empire Strikes Back: The Original Radio Drama will thrill all Star Wars fans, whether or not they enjoy audiobooks. (Running time: 5 hours, 5 cassettes) --C.B. Delaney [via]
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The Empire Strikes Backby George Lucas, Donald F. GlutISBN 0345320220 (0-345-32022-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Empire Strikes Back'Book summary:Perhaps you think the Star Wars trilogy cannot be fully realized with audio alone. You think you'd miss the stunning visuals, the emotions of the actors, and the special effects. You think it would be a disappointment. As Yoda might say, "So impossible is it? So certain are you?" This production of The Empire Strikes Back was created by the same team that produced National Public Radio's amazingly successful presentation of Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama in 1981. Presented in 10 episodes, the longer format allows for a great expansion of the story and new scenes--though purists may be disappointed by the slight but significant change in the story line while the Rebels are on Hoth. Once again, Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels are on hand to reprise their roles as Luke Skywalker and C-3PO, and this time they are joined by Billy Dee Williams reprising his part as Lando Calrissian. A fine cast performs the rest of the roles, notably John Lithgow as Yoda and the very compelling Perry King as the "slimy, double-crossing, no good swindler" Han Solo. Sound effects and John Williams's score from the movie have been remixed to help create a convincing soundscape--so good, you can really "see" the movie by listening to it. The Empire Strikes Back: The Original Radio Drama will thrill all Star Wars fans, whether or not they enjoy audiobooks. (Running time: 5 hours, 5 cassettes) --C.B. Delaney [via]
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The Empire Strikes Backby Ralph McQuarrie, George Lucas, Donald F. GlutISBN 0345288319 (0-345-28831-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Empire Strikes Back'Book summary:Perhaps you think the Star Wars trilogy cannot be fully realized with audio alone. You think you'd miss the stunning visuals, the emotions of the actors, and the special effects. You think it would be a disappointment. As Yoda might say, "So impossible is it? So certain are you?" This production of The Empire Strikes Back was created by the same team that produced National Public Radio's amazingly successful presentation of Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama in 1981. Presented in 10 episodes, the longer format allows for a great expansion of the story and new scenes--though purists may be disappointed by the slight but significant change in the story line while the Rebels are on Hoth. Once again, Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels are on hand to reprise their roles as Luke Skywalker and C-3PO, and this time they are joined by Billy Dee Williams reprising his part as Lando Calrissian. A fine cast performs the rest of the roles, notably John Lithgow as Yoda and the very compelling Perry King as the "slimy, double-crossing, no good swindler" Han Solo. Sound effects and John Williams's score from the movie have been remixed to help create a convincing soundscape--so good, you can really "see" the movie by listening to it. The Empire Strikes Back: The Original Radio Drama will thrill all Star Wars fans, whether or not they enjoy audiobooks. (Running time: 5 hours, 5 cassettes) --C.B. Delaney [via]
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The Forestby Edward RutherfurdISBN 0345441788 (0-345-44178-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forest'Book summary:With such novels as Sarum and Russka, Edward Rutherfurd has laid claim to James Michener's longtime turf: the immensely researched, meticulously detailed epic of place, in which the characters tend to play second fiddle to the setting. The Forest is the most ambitious example yet of Rutherfurd's art. This time the location is that bosky patch of English real estate known as the New Forest. Other writers have tackled the area before. But The Forest is surely the definitive chronicle, with all the local stories, legends, and apocrypha woven into an irresistible narrative--think of Thomas Hardy's power and drama filtered through a very modern sensibility.
Opening with the assassination of King William II in 1099, the book covers nearly a millennium's worth of history. Rutherfurd creates generation after generation of adroitly realized characters, the best of whom defy our generic expectations: the canny Brother Adam, for example, is that rarest of literary creatures, a virtuous man who doesn't end up being simply bland and anodyne. Rutherfurd may be at his best when dealing with big-canvas events like the bloody Monmouth Rebellion of 1685. But he's no slouch at detailing more microcosmic conflicts, like this head-butting contest between two buck deer:
Her buck had hit firmer ground and his feet suddenly got a purchase on the grass. His hindquarters shivering, he dug in. She saw the shoulders rise and his neck bear down. And now the interloper was slipping on the wet leaves. Slowly, cautiously, their antlers locked, the two straining bucks began to turn. Now they were both on grass. Suddenly the interloper disengaged. He gave his head a twist. The jagged spike was aiming at the buck's eye.
Bestial behavior? Perhaps. Yet the level of human folly and brutality scattered throughout The Forest makes the foregoing passage resemble an outtake from Bambi--and gives this sylvan saga a very memorable edge. --Barry Forshaw [via]-
Good Faithby Jane SmileyISBN 0375412174 (0-375-41217-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Faith'Book summary:Jane Smiley brings her extraordinary gifts-comic timing, empathy, emotional wisdom, an ability to deliver slyly on big themes and capture the American spirit-to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about what happens when the American Dream morphs into a seven-figure American Fantasy.Joe Stratford is someone you like at once. He makes an honest living helping nice people buy and sell nice houses. His not-very-amicable divorce is finally settled, and he's ready to begin again. It's 1982. He is pretty happy, pretty satisfied. But a different era has dawned; Joe's new friend, Marcus Burns from New York, seems to be suggesting that the old rules are ready to be repealed, that now is the time you can get rich quick. Really rich. And Marcus not only knows that everyone is going to get rich, he knows how. Because Marcus just quit a job with the IRS.But is Joe ready for the kind of success Marcus promises he can deliver? And what's the real scoop on Salt Key Farm? Is this really the development opportunity of a lifetime?And then there's Felicity Ornquist, the lovely, feisty, winning and married daughter of Joe's mentor and business partner. She has finally owned up to her feelings for Joe: she's just been waiting for him to be available. The question Joe asks himself, over and over, is, Does he have the gumption? Does he have the smarts and the imagination and the staying power to pay attention-to Marcus and to Felicity-and reap the rewards? Good Faith captures the seductions and illusions that can seize America during our periodic golden ages every Main Street an El Dorado . To follow Joe as he does deals and is dealt with in this newly liberated world of anything goes is a roller-coaster ride through the fun park of the 1980s. It is Jane Smiley in top form.4/2003 [via]
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Goodbye Mr Chipsby Hilton, H. M. Brock, Edward WeeksISBN 0316010138 (0-316-01013-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goodbye Mr Chips'Book summary:Mr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster. [via]
The History of the Siege of Lisbonby Jose Saramago, Giovanni PontieroISBN 0156006243 (0-15-600624-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Siege of Lisbon'Book summary:"If proofreaders were given their freedom and did not have their hands and feet tied by a mass of prohibitions more binding than the penal code, they would soon transform the face of the world, establish the kingdom of universal happiness, giving drink to the thirsty, food to the famished, peace to those who live in turmoil, joy to the sorrowful ... for they would be able to do all these things simply by changing the words ..." The power of the word is evident in Portuguese author José Saramago's novel, The History of the Siege of Lisbon. His protagonist, a proofreader named Raimundo Silva, adds a key word to a history of Portugal and thus rewrites not only the past, but also his own life.
Brilliantly translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero, The History of the Siege of Lisbon is a meditation on the differences between historiography, historical fiction, and "stories inserted into history." The novel is really two stories in one: the reimagined history of the 1147 siege of Lisbon that Raimundo feels compelled to write and the story of Raimundo's life, including his unexpected love affair with the editor, Maria Sara. In Saramago's masterful hands, the strands of this complex tale weave together to create a satisfying whole. [via]
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Hotel Worldby Ali SmithISBN 0241141095 (0-241-14109-5)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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La Ciudad De Las Bestias / City of the Beastsby Isabel AllendeISBN 950072278X (950-07-2278-X)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Lancelotby Walker PercyISBN 0312243073 (0-312-24307-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lancelot'Book summary:"A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil . . . Convincing and chilling." The New York Times Book Review
Lancelot Andrewes Lamar, a disenchanted liberal lawyer, finds himself confined in a "nuthouse" with memories that don't seem worth remembering until a visit from an old friend and classmate gives him the opportunity to recount his journey of dark violence. It began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter. That discovery touched off his obsession to reverse the degeneration of modern America and begin a new age of chivalry and romance. With ever-increasing fury, Lancelot would become a shining knight -- not of romance, but of revenge . . . [via]
Lives of the Monster Dogsby Kirsten BakisISBN 0374189870 (0-374-18987-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Lost Boysby Orson Scott CardISBN 0061091316 (0-06-109131-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Boys'Book summary:Everything seems to be going well for the Fletchers, a Mormon family that has recently moved to a small North Carolina town, but trouble begins when seven-year-old Stevie begins to withdraw into his own world. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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Memoir from Antproof Caseby Mark HelprinISBN 0151000972 (0-15-100097-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoir from Antproof Case'Book summary:From the bestselling author of A Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War comes a work of astounding prose. Helprin combines adventure, satire, flights of transcendence, and high comedy with memories of a place that no longer exists to tell the story of a man who, in the face of the world's cruelty, refuses to stop loving. [via]
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Metro Girlby Janet EvanovichISBN 0060584017 (0-06-058401-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metro Girl'Book summary:Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, "Wild" Bill. Leave it to the maverick of the family to get Barney involved with high-speed car chases, a search for sunken treasure, and Sam Hooker, a NASCAR driver who's good at revving a woman's engine. Engaged in a deadly race, Bill has "borrowed" Hooker's sixty-five-foot Hatteras and sailed off into the sunset...just when Hooker has plans for the boat. Hooker figures he'll attach himself to Barney and maybe run into scumbag Bill. And better yet, maybe he'll get lucky in love with Bill's sweetie pie sister. The pedal will have to go to metal if Barney and Hooker want to be the first to cross the finish line, save Bill, Hooker's boat...and maybe the world. [via]
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The Miracle Life of Edgar Mintby Brady UdallISBN 0375719180 (0-375-71918-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint'Book summary:If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head. As formative events go, nothing else comes close. With these words Edgar Mint, half-Apache and mostly orphaned, makes his unshakable claim on our attention. In the course of Brady Udall's high-spirited, inexhaustibly inventive novel, Edgar survives not just this bizarre accident, but a hellish boarding school for Native American orphans, a well-meaning but wildly dysfunctional Mormon foster-family, and the loss of most of the illusions that are supposed to make life bearable. What persists is Edgar's innate goodness, his belief in the redeeming power of language, and his determination to find and forgive the man who almost killed him. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint is a miracle of storytelling, bursting with heartache and hilarity and inhabited by characters as outsized as the landscape of the American West. [via]
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A Month in the Countryby J. L. CarrISBN 0312546807 (0-312-54680-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Moonlight and Vinesby Charles De LintISBN 031286518X (0-312-86518-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moonlight and Vines'Book summary:Imagine a city--cold, hard, concrete jungle on the surface, but, down that dark alley or disused cemetery, magic has begun to unravel the gray fabric of realism. Charles de Lint succumbs to his fascination with the outsider in all of us, and writes of lonesome goth kids, newbie lesbians, strippers, Gypsies, angels of death and mercy, and even vampires and ghosts in a style that is remarkably refreshing after so much sword-and-bodice formula fantasy. Moonlight and Vines is a medley of fairy tales for the alternative crowd, with most of his city grrrls and boys sporting combat boots and wounded souls. De Lint crafts his stories with soft edges but indelible images:
I can feel a foreign vibe in my apartment, a quivering in the air from Teresa having been there.... My furniture, the posters and prints on my walls, my knickknacks, all seemed subtly changed, a little stiff from the awareness of her looking at them. It takes a while for the room to settle down into its familiar habits. The fridge muttering to itself in the kitchen. The pictures in their frames letting out their stomachs and hanging slightly askew once more.
Hardcore horror/fantasy enthusiasts might find the author's habit of imbuing each protagonist with a sense of wonder and self-discovery slightly saccharine and hackneyed after the umpteenth happy ending, but longtime de Lint fans will be delighted. --Jhana Bach [via]More editions of Moonlight and Vines:
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Niccolo Risingby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0375704779 (0-375-70477-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Niccolo Rising'Book summary:With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire.
Niccolò Rising, Book One of the series, finds us in Bruges, 1460. Jousting is the genteel pastime, and successful merchants are, of necessity, polyglot. Street smart, brilliant at figures, adept at the subtleties of diplomacy and the well-timed untruth, Dunnett's hero rises from wastrel to prodigy in a breathless adventure that wins him the hand of the strongest woman in Bruges and the hatred of two powerful enemies. From a riotous and potentially murderous carnival in Flanders, to an avalanche in the Alps and a pitched battle on the outskirts of Naples, Niccolò Rising combines history, adventure, and high romance in the tradition stretching from Alexandre Dumas to Mary Renault. [via]More editions of Niccolo Rising:
Odessa Fileby Frederick ForsythISBN 0091130204 (0-09-113020-4)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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On the Black Hillby Bruce ChatwinISBN 0140068961 (0-14-006896-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Owl Serviceby Alan GarnerISBN 0152017984 (0-15-201798-4)
Softcover, Harcourt Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Owl Service'Book summary:Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a stack of grimy old plates. Alison and her stepbrother, Roger, discover that the flowery patterns on the plates, when traced onto paper, can be fitted together to create owls--owls that disappear when no one is watching. With each vanished owl, strange events begin to happen . As the kids uncover the mystery of the owl service, they become trapped within a local legend, playing out roles in a tragic love story that has repeated itself for generations . . . and has always ended in disaster.[via]More editions of The Owl Service:
- The Owl Service: ISBN 0152056181 (0-15-205618-1)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - The Owl Service: ISBN 0345290445 (0-345-29044-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Owl Service: ISBN 0006742947 (0-00-674294-7)
Hardcover, Collins - The Owl Service: ISBN 0152017984 (0-15-201798-4)
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A Pair of Blue Eyesby Thomas Hardy, Pamela DalzielISBN 0140435298 (0-14-043529-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pair of Blue Eyes'Book summary:Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. [via]
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- A Pair of Blue Eyes: ISBN 0333177649 (0-333-17764-9)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square - A Pair of Blue Eyes: ISBN 0140432663 (0-14-043266-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA - A Pair of Blue Eyes: ISBN 0192816845 (0-19-281684-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - A Pair of Blue Eyes: ISBN 0192834827 (0-19-283482-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - A Pair of Blue Eyes: ISBN 0312594666 (0-312-59466-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - A Pair of Blue Eyes: ISBN 0333177584 (0-333-17758-4)
Hardcover, Macmillan - A Pair of Blue Eyes: ISBN 0140435298 (0-14-043529-8)
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A Pair of Blue Eyesby Alan Manford, Thomas Hardy, Tim DolinISBN 0192840738 (0-19-284073-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selectedstoriesby James M. Cain, Robert PolitoISBN 037541438X (0-375-41438-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selectedstories'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)These three classics from the master of the noir novel, along with five otherwise unavailable short stories, are electric with the taut narrative voice, the suspense, and the explosive violence and eroticism that were James M. Cains indelible hallmarks.The Postman Always Rings Twice, Cains first novelthe subject of an obscenity trial in Boston, the inspiration for Camuss The Strangeris the fever-pitched tale of a drifter who stumbles into a job, into an erotic obsession, and into a murder. Double Indemnitywhich followed Postman so quickly, Cains readers hardly had a chance to catch their breathis a tersely narrated story of blind passion, duplicity, and, of course, murder. Mildred Pierce, a work of acute psychological observation and devastating emotional violence, is the tale of a woman with a taste for shiftless men and an unreasoned devotion to her monstrous daughter. All three novels were immortalized in classic Hollywood films. Also included here are five masterful stories Pastorale, The Baby in the Icebox, Dead Man, Brush Fire, The Girl in the Storm that have been out of print for decades. [via]
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A Princess Of Marsby Edgar Burroughs, John SeelyeISBN 0143104888 (0-14-310488-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Princess Of Mars'Book summary:Although Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is justifiably famous as the creator of Tarzan of the Apes, that uprooted Englishman was not his only popular hero. Burroughs's first sale (in 1912) was A Princess of Mars, opening the floodgates to one of the must successful--and prolific--literary careers in history. This is a wonderful scientific romance that perhaps can be best described as early science fiction melded with an epic dose of romantic adventure. A Princess of Mars is the first adventure of John Carter, a Civil War veteran who unexpectedly find himself transplanted to the planet Mars. Yet this red planet is far more than a dusty, barren place; it's a fantasy world populated with giant green barbarians, beautiful maidens in distress, and weird flora and monstrous fauna the likes of which could only exist in the author's boundless imagination. Sheer escapism of the tallest order, the Martian novels are perfect entertainment for those who find Tarzan's fantastic adventures aren't, well, fantastic enough. Although this novel can stand alone, there are a total of 11 volumes in this classic series of otherworldly, swashbuckling adventure. --Stanley Wiater [via]
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Booksby Azar NafisiISBN 0375504907 (0-375-50490-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books'Book summary:An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officially banned by the government, the women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing photocopied pages of the illegal novels. For two years they met to talk, share, and "shed their mandatory veils and robes and burst into color." Though most of the women were shy and intimidated at first, they soon became emboldened by the forum and used the meetings as a springboard for debating the social, cultural, and political realities of living under strict Islamic rule. They discussed their harassment at the hands of "morality guards," the daily indignities of living under the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime, the effects of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, love, marriage, and life in general, giving readers a rare inside look at revolutionary Iran. The books were always the primary focus, however, and they became "essential to our lives: they were not a luxury but a necessity," she writes.
Threaded into the memoir are trenchant discussions of the work of Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, and other authors who provided the women with examples of those who successfully asserted their autonomy despite great odds. The great works encouraged them to strike out against authoritarianism and repression in their own ways, both large and small: "There, in that living room, we rediscovered that we were also living, breathing human beings; and no matter how repressive the state became, no matter how intimidated and frightened we were, like Lolita we tried to escape and to create our own little pockets of freedom," she writes. In short, the art helped them to survive. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Resurrectionby Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary EdmondsISBN 0140441840 (0-14-044184-0)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Sarah, Plain and Tallby Patricia MacLachlanISBN 0064402053 (0-06-440205-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sarah, Plain and Tall'Book summary:MacLachlan, author of Unclaimed Treasures, has written an affecting tale for children. In the late 19th century a widowed midwestern farmer with two children--Anna and Caleb--advertises for a wife. When Sarah arrives she is homesick for Maine, especially for the ocean which she misses greatly. The children fear that she will not stay, and when she goes off to town alone, young Caleb--whose mother died during childbirth--is stricken with the fear that she has gone for good. But she returns with colored pencils to illustrate for them the beauty of Maine, and to explain that, though she misses her home, "the truth of it is I would miss you more." The tale gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love. [via]
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Saving Faithby David BaldacciISBN 0375408665 (0-375-40866-5)
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Richard HosleyISBN 0140714251 (0-14-071425-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Taming of the Shrewby MorrisISBN 0174434812 (0-17-443481-2)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contextsby William Shakespeare, Frances E. DolanISBN 0312108362 (0-312-10836-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts'Book summary:This teaching edition of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew responds to the needs of instructors using a variety of approaches to Shakespeare, including feminist, historical, and cultural studies approaches. The play is accompanied by four sets of primary documents and illustrations thematically arranged to offer a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeare's work within that culture. The texts include facsimiles of period documents, excerpts of conduct literature on marriage and on wife and servant beating, sermons, popular ballads, literary works offering alternative endings to Shakespeare's play, and documents on women's legal status. The primary documents contextualize the play's treatment of assertive women, marital conflict, and domestic disorder and violence.Editorial features designed to help students read the play in light of the historical documents include an intelligent and engaging general introduction, and introduction to each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling), and an extensive bibliography.[via]More editions of The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts:
Twenty Years Afterby Alexandre Dumas, David CowardISBN 0192838431 (0-19-283843-1)
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The Vanby Roddy DoyleISBN 0140171916 (0-14-017191-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Van'Book summary:Roddy Doyles acclaimed Booker Prize-nominated novel, a darker portrayal of midlife crisis and an expansively farcical chain of misadventures (The New York Times Book Review)[via]
Jimmy Rabitte, Sr., is unemployed, spending his days alone and miserable. When his best friend, Bimbo, also gets laid off, they keep busy by being miserable together. Things seem to look up when they buy a decrepit fish-and-chips van and go into business, selling cheap grub to the drunk and the hungryand keeping one step ahead of the environmental health officers.
Set during the heady days of Irelands brief, euphoric triumphs in the 1990 World Cup, The Van is a tender and hilarious tale of male friendship and family life.
Welcome to Temptationby Jennifer CrusieISBN 0312974256 (0-312-97425-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Welcome to Temptation'Book summary:Prepare to be absolutely charmed by Jennifer Crusie's riotous tale of two slightly twisted sisters and a town chock full of hunks, coots, and petty politics in Welcome to Temptation.
Sophie and Amy Dempsey are just two wedding filmers trying to hop to the next level of their careers when they agree to produce a documentary of aging film star Clea Whipple's return to her hometown of Temptation, Ohio. And when the local mayor, Phin Tucker, and the police chief, Wes Mazur, proffer themselves as willing subjects for quick flings, Sophie and Amy aren't the type to object. But things are never easy in rural Ohio, and what starts off as an esoteric art film project soon evolves into potential porn--and that's just the relationships, let alone the documentary. Clea's husband Zane turns belly-up, the race for mayor turns dirty, and Sophie and Phin turn on the heat full steam.
With hot sex, clever characters, and Crusie's trademark wit, Welcome to Temptation will keep your eyes glued to the page and your stomach aching with laughter. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien [via]
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie Warby Max BrooksISBN 0307346617 (0-307-34661-7)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War'Book summary:Soon to be a major motion picture!
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.
Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, By excluding the human factor, arent we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isnt the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as the living dead?
Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.
Eyewitness reports from the first truly global war
I found Patient Zero behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although hed rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was cursed. I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boys skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse. Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of China
Shock and Awe? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy cant be shocked and awed? Not just wont, but biologically cant! Thats what happened that day outside New York City, thats the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldnt shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! Theyre not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid! Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkers
Two hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth. General Travis DAmbrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe [via]More editions of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War:
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Ciudad de Huesosby Michael Connelly, Javier Guerero GimenoISBN 8466613463 (84-666-1346-3)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ciudad de Huesos'Book summary:On New Year's Day, detective Harry Bosch fields a call that a dog has found a bone that is believed to be humana chance discovery that leads him to evidence of a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. Digging through police reports and hospital records, and tracking down street kids and runaways from the 1970s, Bosch finds a family ripped apart by an absence and a trail into a violent, terrifying world. As the case takes him deeper into the past, and he fights to keep control in a lawless and brutal showdown, the investigation races to a shocking conclusion and leaves Bosch on the brink of an unimaginable decision. Harry Bosch recibe la orden de acudir a visitar a un doctor que insiste en que ha encontrado un hueso humano cuando paseaba con su perra por las colinas de Hollywood. Acompañado de un equipo de antropólogos forenses, Bosch descubre que el hueso pertenece al esqueleto de un niño que fue asesinado casi tres décadas atrás. Despierta no sólo la conmoción general, sino un inusitado interés dentro del propio equipo de investigadores. A Bosch no le gusta un asunto que, más allá de las típicas complicaciones policiales, denota claros paralelismos con su propia infancia tortuosa. En este escenario, Harry Bosch, cansado de esta lucha que parece no tener fin, tomará una drástica decisión vital.[via]More editions of Ciudad de Huesos:
El Coleccionista De Huesos/the Bone Collectorby Jeffrey DeaverISBN 8466305130 (84-663-0513-0)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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El Evangelio Segun Jesucristoby Jose SaramagoISBN 9707100419 (970-710-041-9)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Evangelio Segun Jesucristo/the Gospel According to Jesus Christby Jose Saramago, Basilio LosadaISBN 8466300651 (84-663-0065-1)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Los Infortunios De La Virtud/ The Misfortunes of Virtueby Marques de SadeISBN 8497643674 (84-9764-367-4)
Softcover, Edimat Libros
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Justina / Justine: O Los Infortunios de la Virtud / Or the Misfortunes of Virtueby Marques de Sade, Isabel BrouardISBN 8437605180 (84-376-0518-0)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Lucy Sullivan se casa / Lucy Sullivan is Getting Marriedby Marian KeyesISBN 8497594029 (84-9759-402-9)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucy Sullivan se casa / Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married'Book summary:Sin embargo, la señora Nolan, experta echadora de cartas, le ha pronosticado un inminente matrimonio. Sus entrañables compañeras de fatigas reciben la noticia con consternación: la anunciada boda de Lucy puede poner fin a las alegres andanzas del grupo, a sus borracheras, sus comilonas, su incansable e infructuosa búsqueda de hombres. Lucy se apresura a tranquilizarlas: aparte del ligero inconveniente de que no hay ningún príncipe azul en su vida, tiene ya suficientes problemas familiares y personales como para pensar demasiado en el tema. ¿Se cumplirá el vaticinio de la adivina? [via]
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El Pais De Las Ultimas Cosasby Paul Auster, Maria Eugenia CiocchiniISBN 8433920987 (84-339-2098-7)
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El Plan Infinito / the Infinite Planby Isabel AllendeISBN 9500707241 (950-07-0724-1)
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O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo: Romanceby Jose SaramagoISBN 9722105248 (972-21-0524-8)
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