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Bath Tangleby Georgette HeyerISBN 0373836112 (0-373-83611-2)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bath Tangle'Book summary:Lady Serena Carlow is an acknowledged beauty, but she's got a temper as fiery as her head of red hair. When her father dies unexpectedly, Serena discovers to her horror that she has been left a ward of Ivo Barrasford, marquis of Rotherham, a man whom Serena once jilted and who now has the power to give or withhold his consent to any marriage she might contemplate. With her father's heir eager to take over his inheritance--and Serena's lifelong home--she and her lovely young stepmother, Fanny, decide to move to Bath, where Serena makes an odd new friend and discovers an old love, Major Hector Kirkby. Before long, Serena, Fanny, Kirkby, and Rotherham are entangled in a welter of misunderstood emotions, mistaken engagements, and misdirected love.
Georgette Heyer's genius has always been in creating memorable characters, then placing them in a comedy of manners that is absolutely true to the Regency period. Bath Tangle is a delightful romp through the haute ton of early-19th-century England, and the battling, passionate, meant-for-each-other Ivo and Serena are one of her most successful romantic duos. [via]
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Bel Amiby Guy De Maupassant, Robert Lethbridge, Margaret MauldonISBN 0192836838 (0-19-283683-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bel Ami'Book summary:Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened "Bel-Ami" by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism.
Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behavior and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a novelist.
This new translation is complemented by fullest introduction and notes of any edition currently available. [via]More editions of Bel Ami:
The Black Iceby Michael ConnellyISBN 0316153826 (0-316-15382-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Ice'Book summary:Harry Bosch investigates the slaying of a narcotics officer, one in a series stretching from Hollywood's drug trade to dirt alleys south of the border. By the author of The Black Echo. Reprint. AB. K. PW. [via]
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The Blackwater Lightshipby Colm ToibinISBN 0330389858 (0-330-38985-8)
Hardcover, Picador
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blackwater Lightship'Book summary:In the opening pages of The Blackwater Lightship, a stranger drives up to Helen O'Doherty's Dublin house to tell her that her brother Declan is in the hospital and needs to see her. At his request, she joins him at the creepy seaside house of their grandmother--where, as children, they awaited news of their dying father. What's more, they're not the only guests. Paul and Larry, friends of Declan who have known about his HIV diagnosis far longer than his family, are the next to arrive. And then comes Helen's estranged mother Lily, whom she hasn't seen in years. Still angry over the emotional abandonment she suffered during her youth, Helen had refused even to invite Lily to her wedding. Now she must come to terms not only with the imminent death of her beloved brother but also with her mother and grandmother--all at once.
Colm Tóibín (The Story of the Night) delivers this unsentimental account of a troubled family in spare but suggestive language. He does allow his characters a few high-spirited remarks and the occasional outburst. Otherwise, though, he keeps his tone even, allowing for the perfect integration of a light, unforced symbolism. For Lily, broken hopes and dreams are bound up with the Blackwater Lightship, one of two lighthouses that once stood in the Irish Sea near Ballyconnigar. As a child, she believed that these would always be there:
Tuskar was a man and the Blackwater Lightship was a woman and they were both sending signals to each other and to other lighthouses, like mating calls. He was forceful and strong and she was weaker but more constant, and sometimes she began to shine her light before darkness had really fallen.
For Helen, on the other hand, it was the house itself that prompted her deepest, happiest fantasies. But now Lily has sold the property and shattered Helen's dream that "it would be her refuge, and that her mother, despite everything, would be there for her and would take her in and shelter her and protect her. She had never entertained this thought before; now, she knew that it was irrational and groundless, but nonetheless ... she knew that it was real and it explained everything." What Declan has done by drawing them all together at Granny's house is to enact this potent, poignant fantasy. Whether it has the power to reconstruct his family is another matter, but in any case, The Blackwater Lightship remains a gripping narrative, deftly delivered by a master storyteller. --Regina Marler [via]More editions of The Blackwater Lightship:
Bones of the Moonby Jonathan CarrollISBN 0312873123 (0-312-87312-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Border Crossingby Pat BarkerISBN 0312420196 (0-312-42019-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Border Crossing'Book summary:Out walking with his wife, Lauren, beside the river Tyne, Tom Seymour instinctively risks his life to save a young man who they happen to notice just before he jumps into the icy current. Tom's spontaneous act saves the life of someone whose past, as well as his future, he feels a sense of responsibility towards. Recently released from prison, and living under an assumed name, Danny Miller was tried for murder as a ten-year-old on the basis of Tom's testimony, and assessment of him as a psychologist and an expert witness. When Danny asks Tom to help him sort out his lifebeginning with his pastTom is drawn into a lonely, soul-searching reinvestigation of the child murderer's case.[via] 
Castle Rackrentby George Watson, Maria EdgeworthISBN 0192835637 (0-19-283563-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Published in 1800, Castle Rackrent is regarded as the first family saga and first regional novel in English. It chronicles the lives of four generations of 18th-century Irish landlords, and how their negligent behaviour towards life and money takes them to the edge of bankruptcy and ruin. A stimulating satire!
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Collected Stories.by Katherine Anne PorterISBN 0151189927 (0-15-118992-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Stories.'Book summary:495 pages - Including Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; The Leaning Tower, & Four Additional Stories. [via]
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porterby Katherine Anne PorterISBN 0156188767 (0-15-618876-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter'Book summary:Porters reputation as one of americancas most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.[via]More editions of The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter:
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Complete Shorter Fictionby Oscar Wilde, Ian SmallISBN 0141439696 (0-14-143969-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Short Fiction'Book summary:For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and "The Canterville Ghost;" such well-known fairy tales as "The Happy Prince," "The Young King," and "The Fisherman and his Soul;" an imaginary portrait of the dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets entitled "The Portrait of Mr. W.H.;" and the parables Wilde referred to as "Poems in Prose," including "The Artist," "The House of Judgment," and "The Teacher of Wisdom." [via]
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- Complete Shorter Fiction: ISBN 0192833766 (0-19-283376-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Complete Shorter Fiction: ISBN 0192815008 (0-19-281500-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Complete Shorter Fiction: ISBN 0192510010 (0-19-251001-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Complete Short Fiction: ISBN 0141439696 (0-14-143969-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Complete Shorter Fiction: ISBN 0192833766 (0-19-283376-6)
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The Concrete Blondeby Michael ConnellyISBN 0316153834 (0-316-15383-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Concrete Blonde'Book summary:They called him the Dollmaker-the serial killer who stalked Los Angeles and left a grisly calling card on the faces of his female victims. With a single faultless shot, Detective Harry Bosch thought he had ended the city's nightmare... But then the dead man's widow sues Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong man-an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker's macabre signature... Now, for the second time, Harry must hunt down a death-dealer who is very much alive, before he strikes again. It's a blood-tracked quest that will take Harry from the hard edges of the L.A. night to the last place he ever wanted to go-the darkness of his own heart.[via] 
Dangling Manby Saul Bellow, J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0143039873 (0-14-303987-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dark Rivers of the Heartby Dean KoontzISBN 034539657X (0-345-39657-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Delta Weddingby Eudora WeltyISBN 0156252805 (0-15-625280-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Delta Wedding'Book summary:A vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit of a young relative, Laura McRaven, and the familys preparations for her cousin Dabneys wedding.[via]More editions of Delta Wedding:
The Devil's Arithmeticby Jane YolenISBN 0142401099 (0-14-240109-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Devil's Arithmetic, 3.99 Promoby Jane YolenISBN 0142404373 (0-14-240437-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Devil's Cubby Georgette HeyerISBN 0373835639 (0-373-83563-9)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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Doctor Deathby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345467477 (0-345-46747-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Dr. Deathby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345413881 (0-345-41388-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Death'Book summary:Dr. Eldon Mate, a.k.a. Dr. Death, has been the bane of the Los Angeles D.A.'s existence, the bête noir of all opposed to assisted suicide, and the angel of mercy to countless "travelers" who have gone to their reward via Mate's good offices. He's also turned up in the back of his van, attached to his own death-dealing "Humanitron" machine and too far away from most of his blood and a certain external organ.
Enter Milo Sturgis, L.A.'s only openly gay homicide detective, and for the 14th time in 15 years (1985's Edgar-winning When the Bough Breaks through 1999's Monster), enter also his good friend, child psychologist and LAPD consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Unbeknownst to Sturgis, however, is a potentially case-stymieing doctor-patient conflict of interest. One of Delaware's young patients' mother was either the beneficiary or victim of Dr. Death's services, depending upon your point of view. The father, Richard Doss, is firmly in the latter camp, giving Delaware ample pause:
After hearing the details of the murder, I felt better. The butchery didn't seem like Richard's style. Though how sure of that could I be? Richard hadn't disclosed any more about himself than he'd wanted to. In control, always in control. One of those people who crowds every room he enters. Maybe that had been part of what led his wife to seek out Eldon Mate.
Maybe. But the fact is that there's no shortage of motivated suspects from both within and without the late doctor's circle of influence. And as usual, Jonathan Kellerman (himself a child psychologist and recognized authority in childhood psycho-pathology) guides Delaware's engaging first-person narrative with expertise, keeps Detective Sturgis real, and rudders his taut story to its satisfying end with sharp, true-to-the-ear dialogue. With Dr. Death, Kellerman's legion of Delaware fans will be very well pleased, and first-timers will almost certainly join the legion. --Michael Hudson [via]-
A Drink Before the Warby Dennis LehaneISBN 0156029022 (0-15-602902-2)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Drink Before the War'Book summary:Taking on a seemingly simple assignment to pinpoint the whereabouts of a cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential State House documents, private investigators Patrick and Angela uncover a ring of extortion, assassination, and child prostitution. [via]
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The Earth Will Shakeby Robert Anton WilsonISBN 0312941285 (0-312-94128-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Emerald City of Ozby L. Frank Baum, John R. NeillISBN 0345334647 (0-345-33464-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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A Fairly Honourable Defeatby Iris Murdoch, Peter J. ReedISBN 0141186178 (0-14-118617-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Fairly Honourable Defeat'Book summary:In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties. As puppet master, Julius artfully plays on the human tendency to embrace drama and intrigue and to prefer the distraction of confrontations to the difficult effort of communicating openly and honestly. [via]
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The Fallsby Ian RankinISBN 0312982402 (0-312-98240-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Falls'Book summary:Ian Rankin's John Rebus, arguably the most realistic detective in crime fiction, is a brilliant but troubled man. When a young woman goes missing near his native Edinburgh, Scotland, Rebus finds himself just one small cog in the huge wheel of an inquiry set in motion by her powerfully rich father. Struggling to deal with both his own often-terrifying inner demons as well as the monstrous bureaucracy of the investigative team, Rebus finds himself drawn again and again into the case, desperately searching for the girl's salvation, as well as his own.[via]
In time Rebus uncovers two leads: one, a carved wooden doll stuffed tightly into a tiny casket, and the other the missing girl's possible involvement in a dark, disturbing Internet-based role-playing game. He enlists the help of the tech-savvy DC Siobhan Clarke, who is young enough to know her way around the net, but who may not be old and wise enough to avoid potentially deadly pitfalls and traps. Meanwhile, Rebus tracks down stories of similar caskets and dolls turning up in the area deep into Edinburgh's past, some stretching back to a time when body-snatchers turned into brutal killers.
As Rebus and Clarke delve deeper and deeper into these perilous and obscure worlds, ancient and modern evils begin to converge and soon Rebus finds he's besieged by an impenetrable mass of secrets, lies, and deadly deceit that only he can make sense of. In The Falls, a brilliant addition to an award-winning series, both John Rebus and his creator, Ian Rankin, are at the top of their intense and satisfying form.-
Farmer in the Skyby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0345324382 (0-345-32438-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farmer in the Sky'Book summary:Bill knew his destiny lay in the stars, but how was he to get there?
George Lerner was shipping out for Ganymede to join the fledgling colony, and Bill wanted to go along. But his father would not hear of it -- far too dangerous a mission!
Bill finally talked his way aboard the colony ship Mayflower -- and discovered his father was right! [via]More editions of Farmer in the Sky:
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First Men in the Moonby H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder, Steve Mclean, China MievilleISBN 0141441089 (0-14-144108-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Men in the Moon'Book summary:[via]When penniless businessman Mr. Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr. Cavor, an absentminded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford that the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by money, and Cavor by the desire for knowledge, the two embark on the expedition. But neither are prepared for what they finda world of freezing nights, boiling days, and sinister alien life, in which they may be trapped forever.
- First time in Penguin Classics
- Includes a newly established text, a full biographical essay on Wells, suggestions for further reading, and detailed notes
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Fleshmarket Alley: An Inspector Rebus Novelby Ian RankinISBN 0316010405 (0-316-01040-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fleshmarket Alley: An Inspector Rebus Novel'Book summary:On a notorious street where propriety and decadence clash, in the basement of a newly renovated bar, the bones of a woman and child are discovered beneath a cement floor. It's an unusually gruesome find, even for Fleshmarket Alley. When Inspector John Rebus is called to investigate, every fact he finds unleashes a host of new questions. Are the bones those of a mother and child? Are they actual human remains or fakes? Were they planted there - and if so, why?It could be nothing more than a ruthless and enterprising pub owner looking to create a local legend that will help lure trade. Or it could be something far worse - something as grisly as the death of a recent immigrant found brutally murdered at a local housing project, or the murder of Donald Cruikshank, a recently paroled rapist whose body is found just as a young woman goes missing. The missing girl is a friend of Inspector Rebus's colleague Detective Siobhan Clarke, and Siobhan is shocked to find herself in the same intricate web of murderers as Rebus - all somehow tied to that pile of bones under Fleshmarket Alley.In a race to stop the killings before more bodies turn up - even as the possibility of romantic entanglements distracts and entices them - Rebus and Siobhan plumb the darkest corners of their beloved city and confront the lawless, conscienceless men who dwell there. Writing with the unstoppable narrative force that has made him one of the bestselling writers in the world, Edgar Award-winner Ian Rankin delivers his most explosive and surprising mystery yet. [via]
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Freddy and Frederickaby Mark HelprinISBN 0143037250 (0-14-303725-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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From the Corner of His Eyeby Dean KoontzISBN 0375430946 (0-375-43094-6)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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A Happy Deathby Albert CamusISBN 0241020999 (0-241-02099-9)
Hardcover, Hamilton
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The Ice-Shirtby William T. VollmannISBN 0233985069 (0-233-98506-9)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ice-Shirt'Book summary:The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland ?and from there to the place they call ?Vinland the Good.? The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.[via]As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples?and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise?he creates a tour-de-force of ?speculative history,? a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.
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In a Glass Darklyby Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert TracyISBN 0192839470 (0-19-283947-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Italian Folktalesby Italo Calvino, George MartinISBN 0156454890 (0-15-645489-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Italian Folktales'Book summary:Chosen as one of the New York Timess ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino into the ranks of the great folklorists. Introduction by the Author; illustrations. Translated by George Martin. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via] -
The Ivory and the Hornby Charles De LintISBN 0312855737 (0-312-85573-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ivory and the Horn'Book summary:A collection of tales focuses on the magical city of Newford and includes ""Our Lady of the Harbour,"" a retelling of ""The Little Mermaid,"" and ""Winter Was Hard,"" which describes androgynous, pixie-like creatures known as gemmin. [via]
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La Princesse De Clevesby Madame De LafayetteISBN 0192826875 (0-19-282687-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Lady of Qualityby Georgette HeyerISBN 0370014790 (0-370-01479-0)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady of Quality'Book summary:A woman of independent means and spirit, stunning Annis Wynchwood has no yearning for wedlock, and has dashed the hopes of many lordly suitors. But never has she encountered such a rakish specimen as notorious Oliver Carleton. And when a femme comes face-to-face with a most incorrigible rogue, there ensues a tug-of-war that only love can overcome. [via]
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The Last Gentlemanby Walker PercyISBN 0312243081 (0-312-24308-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Gentleman'Book summary:Will Barrett is a 25-year-old wanderer from the South living in New York City, detached from his roots and with no plans for the future, until the purchase of a telescope sets off a romance and changes his life forever.[via] 
The Light of Dayby Graham SwiftISBN 0241142040 (0-241-14204-0)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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Little Kingdomsby Steven MillhauserISBN 0375701435 (0-375-70143-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Kingdoms'Book summary:Cartoons that draw their creator into another world; demonic paintings that exert a sinister influence on our own. Fairy tales that express the secret losses and anxieties of their tellers. These are the elements that Steven Millhauser employs to such marvelousand often disquietingeffect in Little Kingdoms, a collection whose three novellas suggest magical companion pieces to his acclaimed longer fictions.
In "The Little Kingdom of J. Franklin Payne," a gentle eccentric constructs an elaborate alternate universe that is all the more appealing for being transparently unreal. "The Princess, the Dwarf, and the Dungeon" is at once a gothic tale of nightmarish jealousy and a meditation on the human need for exaltation and horror. And "Catalogue of the Exhibition" introduces us to the oeuvre of Edmund Moorash, a Romantic painter who might have been imagined by Nabokov or Poe. Exuberantly inventive, as mysterious as dreams, these novellas will delight, mesmerize, and transport anyone who reads them. [via]More editions of Little Kingdoms:
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The Magic Labyrinthby Philip Jose FarmerISBN 0345419707 (0-345-41970-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic Labyrinth'Book summary:At the end of The Fabulous Riverboat, Sam Clemens finally set out in the great iron riverboat Not for Hire to reach the headwaters of the massive river on whose shores humanity has been resurrected. After 33 years on the river, Clemens and his crew--including the giant subhuman Joe Miller--are finally near the end of their journey, and only one obstacle remains: the evil Earthly king, John Lackland. John is waiting just upriver in the Rex Grandissimus, the first riverboat that Sam constructed and the one that John and his crew hijacked, and he's hell-bent on sinking Sam's boat (and vice versa). Complicating the battle is the fact that both ships likely contain agents of the Ethicals, the group of advanced beings who created Riverworld for reasons unknown. One or more of the Ethicals themselves may even be on board, as are various humans that the rebel Ethical, known as the Mysterious Stranger (but known to Clemens simply as X), enlisted in his cause, which may or may not lead to humanity's salvation.
The battle is set to take place along the shores populated by members of the Church of the Second Chance, a group that believes they must attain ethical perfection in order to proceed to the next phase of existence. The Second Chancers are not violent, but their charismatic leader, La Viro, may attempt to sink one or both of the iron ships in order to prevent the battle. Among the Second Chancers is former Nazi officer Hermann Goring, who had a run-in with Sir Richard Francis Burton in the first Riverworld novel, To Your Scattered Bodies Go. Burton and his companions--among them several people who were contacted by the Mysterious Stranger--are reluctantly serving on John's boat in order to reach the headwaters of the river. But will any of the humans working for X survive the coming battle? And if so, how can they possibly hope to penetrate the tower in the North Sea where the Ethicals are thought to reside? And what could lowly humans hope to do against a race so advanced that they can reshape entire planets and resurrect all of humanity? --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the Cityby Italo CalvinoISBN 0156572044 (0-15-657204-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Night and Dayby Virginia Woolf, Suzanne RaittISBN 0192837842 (0-19-283784-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night and Day'Book summary:Set in London before World War I, this novel explores the truth of feelings and particularly the nature of love. It is, in that sense, a love story, but in the hands of Virginia Woolf, it transcends conventional romance to pose a series of crucial questions about women, intellectual freedom, and marriage.[via]-
Night Flightby De Saint ExuperyISBN 0156656051 (0-15-665605-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Flight'Book summary:In this gripping novel, Saint-Exupéry tells about the brave men who piloted night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina in the early days of commercial aviation. Preface by André Gide. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.[via]More editions of Night Flight:
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No Nameby Wilkie Collins, Virginia BlainISBN 019283388X (0-19-283388-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Name'Book summary:Condemned by Victorian critics as immoral, but regarded today as a novel of outstanding social insight, No Name shows William Wilkie {ollins as the height of his literary powers. It is the story of two sisters, Magdalen and Norah, who discover after the deaths of their dearly beloved parents that the parents were not married at the time of their births. Disinherited and ousted from their estate, they must fend for themselves and either resign themselves to their fate or determine to recover their wealth by whatever means. [via]
Out of the Deepsby John WyndhamISBN 034527217X (0-345-27217-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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A Planet Called Treasonby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312613954 (0-312-61395-4)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Poor Thingsby Alasdair GrayISBN 0151730768 (0-15-173076-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officerby Alasdair GrayISBN 0156000687 (0-15-600068-7)
Softcover, Thomson Learning EMEA, Limited
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Princesse De Cleves:The Princesse De Montpensier; The Comtesse De Tendeby Terence Cave, LA FayetteISBN 0192837265 (0-19-283726-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farmby Kate Douglas WigginISBN 0307122123 (0-307-12212-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'Book summary:Author Jack London wrote Kate Douglas Wiggin a letter about her classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm from the headquarters of the First Japanese Army in Manchuria in 1904: "May I thank you for Rebecca?... I would have quested the wide world over to make her mine, only I was born too long ago and she was born but yesterday.... Why could she not have been my daughter? Why couldn't it have been I who bought the three hundred cakes of soap? Why, O, why?" Mark Twain called Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm "beautiful and warm and satisfying."
Who is this beguiling creature? The irrepressible 10-year-old Rebecca Rowena Randall burst into the world of children's book characters (and her new life in Maine) in 1903 when storybook girls were gentle and proper. A "bird of a very different feather," she had "a small, plain face illuminated by a pair of eyes carrying such messages, such suggestions, such hints of sleeping power and insight, that one never tired of looking into their shining depths.... " Soon enough, she wins over her prim Aunt Miranda, the whole town, and thousands of readers everywhere with her energetic, indomitable spirit. This beautiful trade edition features the artwork of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm's original illustrator Helen Mason Grose, with 6 full- color plates and 32 pen-and-ink drawings. (Ages 9 and older) [via]
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farmby Susan K. Harris, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Shawn ThomsonISBN 0143039202 (0-14-303920-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'Book summary:Author Jack London wrote Kate Douglas Wiggin a letter about her classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm from the headquarters of the First Japanese Army in Manchuria in 1904: "May I thank you for Rebecca?... I would have quested the wide world over to make her mine, only I was born too long ago and she was born but yesterday.... Why could she not have been my daughter? Why couldn't it have been I who bought the three hundred cakes of soap? Why, O, why?" Mark Twain called Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm "beautiful and warm and satisfying."
Who is this beguiling creature? The irrepressible 10-year-old Rebecca Rowena Randall burst into the world of children's book characters (and her new life in Maine) in 1903 when storybook girls were gentle and proper. A "bird of a very different feather," she had "a small, plain face illuminated by a pair of eyes carrying such messages, such suggestions, such hints of sleeping power and insight, that one never tired of looking into their shining depths.... " Soon enough, she wins over her prim Aunt Miranda, the whole town, and thousands of readers everywhere with her energetic, indomitable spirit. This beautiful trade edition features the artwork of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm's original illustrator Helen Mason Grose, with 6 full- color plates and 32 pen-and-ink drawings. (Ages 9 and older) [via]
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Red Squareby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 0345384733 (0-345-38473-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Rolling Stonesby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 034532451X (0-345-32451-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald, Edmund J. SullivanISBN 0312695276 (0-312-69527-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Shadows in Bronzeby Lindsey DavisISBN 0345374266 (0-345-37426-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Skystoneby Jack WhyteISBN 0312860919 (0-312-86091-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Skystone'Book summary:How do you find a new way to approach a story as familiar as any in the English language? If you're Jack Whyte, you begin your retelling of the Arthurian saga by taking one giant step backward to the latter days of the Roman Empire in Britain, sometime between the first breaching of Hadrian's Wall and the legendary days of King Arthur. Publius Varrus is the last legionnaire in Britain, and The Skystone is in many ways his story. He is a common man with aristocratic friends, and successful both as a soldier and an ironsmith. As the Roman world slowly crumbles around them, and Publius becomes involved in a political and personal vendetta, he and his friends seek to establish a refuge, a valley where the old Roman virtues will be kept alive and the empire's many faults be avoided.
A finely crafted historical novel, The Skystone pays close attention to the details of everyday life in fourth-century Britain. As the first book in Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, it makes few allusions to the usual details of the Arthurian legends until Publius comes into contact with a sword, a stone, a lake, and a Celtic tribe who name themselves Pendragon. Greg L. Johnson [via]
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The Stone Raftby Jose Saramago, Giovanni PontieroISBN 0156004011 (0-15-600401-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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The Sun, the Moon, and the Starsby Steven BrustISBN 0312860390 (0-312-86039-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Survival of the Fittestby Jonathan KellermanISBN 0345458842 (0-345-45884-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Survival of the Fittest'Book summary:Legendary L.A. psychologist-turned-novelist Kellerman raids real life when inventing the adventures of his psychologist sleuth, Dr. Alex Delaware, and some of the scariest parts of Survival of the Fittest are historical. Eugenicists lurk behind a murder spree Alex must solve, and he notes that the eugenics movement involved one elite U.S. college professor who advocated castration of ethnically lesser men, a forced sterilization ordered by Supreme Court Justice Holmes that Hitler used as a precedent to sterilize millions, and the pre-Holocaust coinage of the phrase "final solution."
Besides a truly horrifying theme, Survival of the Fittest boasts sharp but not arch dialogue; savvy psychological insights into stressed-out cops, suicides' loved ones, and malevolent therapists; and a sense of place so vivid that the Los Angeles Times has rated Kellerman the most evocative L.A. author since Raymond Chandler.
The plot's as twisty as a canyon road, and it's great fun to ride along with Dr. Alex and his sidekick, the burly, gay LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, as they dodge large red herrings and strive to find out why mildly handicapped kids are suffering "gentle strangulation" by killers who sign their handiwork with the mysterious letters DVLL, and what the devil this has to do with the high-IQ group Meta. Bonus for Kellerman fans: his Israeli serial killer catcher, Daniel Sharavi, star of his 1988 bestseller The Butcher's Theater, joins the sleuth team. But in the gory finale, Dr. Alex faces absolute evil all alone. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Tales from Margaritavilleby Jimmy BuffettISBN 0156026988 (0-15-602698-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales from Margaritaville'Book summary:Margaritaville may not appear on a map, but it does exist--at least in the brilliantly creative, sometimes slightly skewed imagination of Jimmy Buffett. Tales from Margaritaville is a collection of short stories (some purely fiction, some based in truth) so vividly packed with restless dreamers, wild wanderers, and pure gypsy souls that just reading it is a wild adventure. Travel along with a cowboy named Tully Mars, as he heads from Heartache, Wyoming, to Graceland, and relive the autobiographical odyssey of a third-generation sailor and first-rate musical outlaw. With unforgettable stories that present the true roamer's twin loves--the sea and the road--Tales from Margaritaville is one "smooth sailing book of infinite imagination" (Chicago Sun-Times).[via]More editions of Tales from Margaritaville:
Tales from Margaritaville: Fictional Facts and Factual Fictionsby Jimmy BuffettISBN 0151879834 (0-15-187983-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt Education
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The Towers of the Sunsetby L.E. ModesittISBN 0312852975 (0-312-85297-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Towers of Trebizondby Rose MacaulayISBN 0374278547 (0-374-27854-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Treasonby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312921098 (0-312-92109-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a ''rad''--radical regenerative--a freak who can regenerate injured flesh and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. On a planet without hard metals, or the means of escape, iron offers the promise of freedom through the chance to build a spacecraft. But it is a promise which may never be fulfilled, as Lanik uncovers a treacherous conspiracy beyond his imagination. Now charged with a mission of conquest--and exile--Lanik devises a bold and dangerous plan to break the vicious chain of rivalry and bloodshed that enslaves the people of Treason. [via] 
Tunnel in the Skyby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0345466233 (0-345-46623-3)
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But something had gone wrong. Terribly wrong. What was to have been a standard ten-day survival test had suddenly become an indefinite life-or-death nightmare.
Now they were stranded somewhere in the universe, beyond contact with Earth . . . at the other end of a tunnel in the sky. This small group of young men and women, divested of all civilized luxuries and laws, were being forced to forge a future of their own . . . a strange future in a strange land where sometimes not even the fittest could survive!
". . . fascinating . . . ingenious . . . this a book in the grand tradition of high literature!"
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Veronicaby Mary GaitskillISBN 0375421459 (0-375-42145-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Water Musicby T. C. BoyleISBN 0316104671 (0-316-10467-1)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Water Music'Book summary:Twenty five years ago, T.C. Boyle published his first novel, Water Musica funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle's tremendous gifts as a storyteller. Set in the late eighteenth century, Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, through London's seamy gutters and Scotland's scenic highlandsto their grand meeting in the heart of darkest Africa. There they join forces and wend their hilarious way to the source of the Niger.[via]More editions of Water Music:
When the Emperor Was Divine : A Novelby Julie OtsukaISBN 0375414290 (0-375-41429-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Yarrowby Charles De LintISBN 0312863934 (0-312-86393-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Cat Midhir had made a reputation as the author of popular fantasy novels. But the secret that her fans didn't know was that her Otherworld was no fantasy. Then, one night, a thief stole her dreams. Since then, she's been trapped in the everyday. And the Others are coming to find her...
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reisby Jose Saramago, Giovanni PontieroISBN 0156996936 (0-15-699693-6)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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