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The Abyssby Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace FrickISBN 0374516669 (0-374-51666-9)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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Anagramsby Lorrie MooreISBN 0394552946 (0-394-55294-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anagrams'Book summary:In her first novel, Lorrie Moore deftly weaves a complex plot with sensitivity and wit. She is the author of two collections of stories and another novel, including "Self-Help", "Like Life" and "Who Will Run Frog Hospital". [via]
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Arundelby Kenneth Lewis RobertsISBN 0385040245 (0-385-04024-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Big Skyby A. B. GuthrieISBN 0395611539 (0-395-61153-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Black Trilliumby Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian MayISBN 0385261853 (0-385-26185-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Trillium'Book summary:Ruwenda is a pleasant, peaceful land-but the magic of its guardian, the Archimage Binah, is waning. Binah must pass along her protectorship to the triplet princess of Ruwenda. She bestows upon the infant girls the power of the rare and mystical Black Trillium-badge of the royal house, symbol of an ancient magic. While the sisters blossom into beautiful young women, neighboring Labornok use a dark magician to sunder Binah's protection. As invaders pour into Ruwenda, the Archimage orders the princesses to flee-and changes them to search for three magical talismans which when brought together will be their only chance to regain their kingdom and free its people. Each must accomplish her task separately-and to succeed, each must also confront and conquer the limits of her own soul. [via]
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The Blood of Othersby Simone de Beauvoir, Roger Senhouse, Yvonne MoyseISBN 0394724119 (0-394-72411-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Blood of Victory : A Novelby Alan FurstISBN 0375505741 (0-375-50574-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood of Victory : A Novel'Book summary:I.A. Serebin, an émigré writer who heads the International Russian Union and edits its literary magazine, is no stranger to war: "Two gangsters, one neighborhood, they fight," he comments at a dinner party on a yacht in the Istanbul harbor in the autumn of 1940. Istanbul, to which Serebin has come to say good-bye to a dying friend, is a haven for spies, arms dealers, diplomats, and intrigue. Like most of the author's protagonists, Serebin is a romantic, a reluctant hero who tries to believe that war will not really change anything: "Hold fast to life as it should be, the daily ritual, work, love, and then it will be" is his credo. After Paris falls to the Germans, he realizes that is impossible. When a French diplomat's wife, whom he met and bedded on the freighter that brought him to Turkey, puts him in touch with a Hungarian spy working with the British Secret Service, Serebin allows himself to be recruited for a mission to disrupt the flow of oil from Romania's Ploesti fields to German factories--something that has been tried by the British before, without success. Alan Furst, a master stylist whose novels are peopled with characters who remain in the reader's mind long after the last page is turned, evokes Istanbul's smoky, spicy, shadowy atmosphere with the same authenticity he brings to the settings of all his thrillers, most notably Paris. No one is better at describing both place and players in the period just before and during World War II; widely hailed as the successor to Eric Ambler and Graham Greene, Furst proves in his gripping, compulsively readable seventh novel what a contender he is for that title. --Jane Adams [via]
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Bones of the Earthby Michael SwanwickISBN 0380812894 (0-380-81289-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bones of the Earth'Book summary:Paleontologist Richard Leyster is studying the dinosaur-fossil discovery of a lifetime when a stranger comes into his office with an ice cooler and an offer: a mysterious and dangerous job that pays no better than Leyster's beloved current position at the Smithsonian. He rejects the offer and the stranger departs, leaving the cooler. Leyster opens the cooler and finds the head of a just-slain stegosaur. It really is an offer he can't refuse: a job that will allow him to study living dinosaurs. But the stranger has disappeared, and Leyster has no idea where to find him.
Expanded from his Hugo Award-winning story "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur," Michael Swanwick's Bones of the Earth is a time-travel novel as exciting as Jurassic Park and far more intelligent. In addition to the Hugo, Michael Swanwick has won the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. His previous books include the novels In the Drift, Vacuum Flowers, and Griffin's Egg, and his collections include Gravity's Angels, A Geography of Unknown Lands, and Moon Dogs, among others. --Cynthia Ward [via]
The Bridegroomby Ha JinISBN 0375724931 (0-375-72493-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bridegroom'Book summary:It's the little things that kill us, as that master of the miniature Ha Jin well knows. Not oppression in general, but the tea thrown at us by railroad policemen; not failure, but the old flame who fails to visit; not grief, but the peanuts our kindergarten teacher stole from our pockets. In The Bridegroom, such moments run surprisingly deep, as if they traced the grooves history has left on individual hearts. The book's 12 tales capture a China in transition, en route from Maoism to market-friendly socialism, from isolation to increasing contact with the West. "I never thought money could make so much difference," says the narrator of "An Entrepreneur's Story," who's been transformed from black-market lowlife to new-economy hero. He wins respect and gets the girl, but it all feels too easy somehow, and he revenges himself by lighting his kerosene stove with bank notes.
Other characters navigate this sea change with similar bewilderment. The professor mistaken for "The Saboteur" thinks news articles about the end of the cultural revolution mean he can reason with the police (wrong!), while the bridegroom of the title story is hauled off to jail for so-called hooliganism rooted in "Western capitalism and bourgeois lifestyle"--that is, loving other men. "What a wonderful husband he could have been if he were not sick," his father-in-law thinks. In the story that deals most explicitly with the conflict between East and West, an American chain named Cowboy Chicken sets up shop in Muji City. The new order isn't that different from the old one, thinks one of the Chinese workers: "We nicknamed Mr. Shapiro 'Party Secretary,' because just like a Party boss anywhere he didn't do any work. The only difference was that he didn't organize political studies or demand we report to him our inner thoughts." In the end, as often happens, greed begets revolution--but whose greed? When the workers at Cowboy Chicken go on strike, jealous of one of their coworker's paychecks, they're replaced by an African American woman who teaches English at a nearby college and her students, who sing "We Shall Overcome" while they wipe tables.
But as in Jin's National Book Award-winning novel, Waiting, even the broadest political and cultural ironies are painted with an extraordinarily light-handed brush. Despite their apparent simplicity, these stories run deep; it's as if some 19th century master had wandered into our midst, writing prose whose unruffled surface recalls the virtues of the very long view. Like Chekhov, another great miniaturist and the writer he most resembles, Jin understands that humor is compassion, that a well-honed appreciation for the absurd is sometimes the best and most honest way to honor failed lives. While his characters attempt to balance the needs of the self and the demands of the state, we see less what is foreign to us than what is native to the human heart. --Mary Park [via]
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The Bronze Bow: New Classic Collectionby Elizabeth George SpeareISBN 0395137195 (0-395-13719-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bronze Bow: New Classic Collection'Book summary:In this Newberry Medal-winning novel, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by only one passion: to avenge his father's death by crucifixion by driving the Roman legions from his land of Isreal. [via]
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Camp Concentrationby Thomas M. DischISBN 0375705457 (0-375-70545-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Child's Garden of Versesby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0394837398 (0-394-83739-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Clearingby Tim GautreauxISBN 0375414746 (0-375-41474-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Count Belisariusby Robert GravesISBN 0374517398 (0-374-51739-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Dead Fatherby Donald BarthelmeISBN 0374529256 (0-374-52925-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Der Richter Und Sein Henkerby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0395044995 (0-395-04499-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Devil's Larderby Jim CraceISBN 0374138591 (0-374-13859-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Larder'Book summary:In The Devil's Larder, Jim Crace has put together an odd and artful little volume that encompasses more of the human experience than it really ought to, given its size and scope. Crace presents us with 64 short fictions about food, which add up to a picture of life that is at once diabolical and innocent, creepily sexualized and free of judgment. In one fable, a mother and her small daughter twist their tongues together, ferreting out the food in each other's mouths: they want to know if food tastes the same from another person's tongue. A game of strip fondue ends with guests covered in burns where the molten cheese has fallen onto their naked flesh. "A gasp of pain. The whiff of sizzling flesh and hair and cheese." Flesh and cheese, that's the stuff. Crace shows us the odd outer limits of desire, and revels in the sheer weirdness of the daily act of eating. --Claire Dederer [via]
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The Diaries of Jane Somersby Doris Lessing, Jane SomersISBN 0394729552 (0-394-72955-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Dragon Waitingby John M. FordISBN 0380698870 (0-380-69887-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Edwin Mullhouseby Steven MillhauserISBN 0394480090 (0-394-48009-0)
Hardcover, Knopf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edwin Mullhouse'Book summary:Edwin Mullhouse, a novelist at 10, is mysteriously dead at 11. As a memorial, Edwin's bestfriend, Jeffrey Cartwright, decides that the life of this great American writer must be told. He follows Edwin's development from his preverbal first noises through his love for comic books to the fulfillment of his literary genius in the remarkable novel, Cartoons. [via]
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The Engineer of Human Soulsby Josef Skvorecky, Paul WilsonISBN 039450500X (0-394-50500-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest: A Novelby Po BronsonISBN 038073155X (0-380-73155-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Four Letters of Loveby Niall WilliamsISBN 0374158177 (0-374-15817-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamonby Jorge AmadoISBN 0380012057 (0-380-01205-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon'Book summary:The beloved Brazilian classic from the acclaimed author of "Dona Flor and her Two Husbands". One spring day in 1925, a disheveled Gabriela arrives in the seaside port of IlhEus and takes a job as cook in a local establishment in desperate need. Soon, the proprietor finds that he has the best business in town and that he employs the most sought-after woman. [via]
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A Gathering of Old Menby Ernest J. GainesISBN 0394725913 (0-394-72591-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Giraffe and the Pelly and Meby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0374326029 (0-374-32602-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Going Nativeby Stephen WrightISBN 0385313861 (0-385-31386-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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The Great Pursuitby Tom SharpeISBN 039472609X (0-394-72609-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Growth of the Soilby Knut HamsunISBN 0394717813 (0-394-71781-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Growth of the Soil'Book summary:The story of an elemental existence in rural Norway. [via]
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Heaven Centby Piers AnthonyISBN 0380752883 (0-380-75288-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heaven Cent'Book summary:Master magician Humphrey has disappeared, and Xanth's precocious shape-shifter, Prince Dolph, sets out to find him, accompanied by his skeletal sidekick, Marrow. Together, they embark on a series of adventures while searching for the fabled Heaven Cent, the magic coin that holds the secret to Humphrey's disappearance. The fabulous sequel to Vale of the Vole. Original. [via]
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The Holy Sinnerby Thomas MannISBN 0394717414 (0-394-71741-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Hop on Popby SeussISBN 0375834931 (0-375-83493-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hop on Pop'Book summary:Poor, long-suffering Dad deserves a little lift every once in a while, and who better to boost than Dr. Seuss? In this funky pop-up adaptation of the classic Hop on Pop, kids do their best to perk up Pop after a bad day. The furry yellow Seuss-critters know "it's best not to HOP on POP," but "we like to hop. / We like to hop / on top of Pop. / STOP!" Other, more human-looking children give their fathers gifts, such as "a set of Slim Jim Swim Fins" (pink, three-toed marvels), violin serenades, and for the man who has everything... "a Bright Dwight Bird-Flight Night-Sight Light." Clever paper engineering livens up this six-spread volume (not that anything by Dr. Seuss ever needed enlivening). Young readers will love making the gleeful characters hop on pop over and over, and will laugh to see the walrus (another less-than-welcome gift) licking one poor daddy's ear. It's hard to say who will enjoy this more: fathers or their well-meaning little urchins. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Hop on Pop: ISBN 0394900294 (0-394-90029-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Hop on Pop: ISBN 0394892224 (0-394-89222-4)
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Hop on Pop-Up!by Dr. SeussISBN 0375815473 (0-375-81547-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchardby Kiran DesaiISBN 0385493703 (0-385-49370-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Inconceivableby Ben EltonISBN 0385334656 (0-385-33465-6)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inconceivable'Book summary:Whenever Sam thinks about babies, he envisages rivers of vomit and sleepless nights. But wife Lucy can't walk past Mothercare without crying. What's more, she can't seem to conceive--not by traditional methods, anyway. Hippy confidante Drusilla suggests an array of New Age remedies, including the intimate use of nutmeg oil and al fresco lovemaking. As Lucy faces a possible verdict of infertility, her love for Sam enters tailspin, accelerated by the advent of arrogant actor Carl Phipps. Meanwhile Sam, desperate to escape his tedious BBC job, conceives the inconceivable--turning the intimacies of their battle for babies into an acclaimed movie script.
Inconceivable tells a poignant and heart-rending story with Elton's trademark wit, creating a novel that is entertaining and emotionally satisfying; as explosive as Popcorn and with the incendiary humour of Blast From the Past. It courageously tackles its central theme from both the male and the female points of view, and while delivering laughs on every page, it steers clear of laddish clichés. Lucy's tale, though pregnant with unfulfilled emotion, never stints on humour. "There seem," she fumes, "to be more urban myths attached to infertility than there are to ... film stars filling their bottoms with small animals."
Aside from the rich vein of gags about DIY conception (Sam has to leave a power lunch with the excuse: "Sorry, my wife is ovulating ..."), Elton also subjects the TV industry to relentless stand-up-style bombardment, giving birth to some brilliant asides which enrich the main story but never overpower it. Funny, tragic, true and ultimately heartwarming, this book should be available on the National Health Service. --Matthew Baylis [via]
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Judas Goatby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0395266823 (0-395-26682-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Kalkiby Gore VidalISBN 0394420535 (0-394-42053-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kalki'Book summary:Bestselling author Gore Vidal joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. To satisfy a public that longs for a savior, Vidal's eponymous hero of KALKI, born and bred in America's Midwest, establishes himself in Nepal, puts out the word that he is the last incarnation of the god Vishnu, and predicts an imminent apocalypse meant to cleanse the planet. [via]
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King Jesusby Robert GravesISBN 0374516642 (0-374-51664-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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L. A. Requiemby Robert CraisISBN 0385495838 (0-385-49583-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L. A. Requiem'Book summary:More than 10 years ago, I was shocked to learn that some puerile piece of fluff had won the Edgar for Best Paperback Original, when it was so obvious to me and virtually everyone else in the Western Hemisphere that the award should have gone to The Monkey's Raincoat, the book that introduced Elvis Cole, private eye, and is to this day one of the funniest books I've ever read.
The terrific Elvis Cole series has grown through the years, each book better than the last, but nothing prepared me for the quantum leap (yes, it's a cliché, but it belongs here) that Crais has made with L.A. Requiem. It's not as funny as the other books in the series, but it's a beautifully plotted detective story, rich with police procedure, and it will keep even the most sophisticated reader at sea right until the end. And that's what elevates this book to the level of literature.
This one is more about Joe Pike, Elvis's silent sidekick, than it is about Elvis. We learn, through Pike's own eyes, how his childhood made him the way he is today. It's also about a friendship so strong that it threatens Elvis's relationship with his beloved Lucy. It is a tender but dark book--a serial killer book--but it doesn't attempt to outgross the other serial killer books on the shelf. It is funny at times and chilling at other times, making it one of the rare books that can't help but linger in the memory long after it's been read and put away. --Otto Penzler [via]
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The Laughing Policemanby Maj Sjowall, Per WahlooISBN 0394723414 (0-394-72341-4)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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The Laughing Sutra: A Novelby Mark SalzmanISBN 039457009X (0-394-57009-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Licks of Loveby John UpdikeISBN 0375411135 (0-375-41113-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Los De Abajoby Mariano Azuela, John Eugene Englekirk, Lawrence Bayard KiddleISBN 0390043648 (0-390-04364-8)
Hardcover, Appleton-Century-Crofts
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Monkeysby Susan MinotISBN 0375708367 (0-375-70836-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monkeys'Book summary:NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this luminous story of family life--the first novel by Susan Minot, author of the highly acclaimed Evening --the seven Vincent children follow their Catholic mother to Mass and spend Thanksgiving with their father's aging parents who come from a world of New England priviledge. As they grow older, they meet with the perplexing lives of adults. Susan Minot writes with delicacy and a tremendous gift for the details that decorate domestic life, and when tragedy strikes she beautifully mines the children's tenderness for each other, and their aching guardianship of what they have. [via]
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Moominland Midwinterby Tove Jansson, Thomas WarburtonISBN 0374453039 (0-374-45303-9)
Softcover, Sunburst
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My Son's Storyby Nadine GordimerISBN 0374217513 (0-374-21751-3)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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The Mystery of the Cupboardby Lynne Reid BanksISBN 0380720132 (0-380-72013-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Natasha: And Other Storiesby David BezmozgisISBN 0374281416 (0-374-28141-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Lessby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 038511222X (0-385-11222-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Omertaby Mario PuzoISBN 0375502548 (0-375-50254-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Outlandish Companionby Diana GabaldonISBN 0385257392 (0-385-25739-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Outlandish Companion'Book summary:For nine years, four books, and nearly 4,000 pages, Diana Gabaldon has entranced readers with her talent for historical authenticity, dramatic plot lines, and strong characters in the Outlander series. Her superb writing has earned a loyal audience, but after a million and a half words, even the most fervent of fans may have a difficult time trying to recall the exact details of the secondary characters, let alone the obscure ones. Thankfully, Gabaldon's The Outlandish Companion is here to help.
Part crib notes and part trivia guide, this essential handbook includes synopses of the first four novels, a character guide, notes on plot development and research, answers to frequently asked questions, and teasers for the upcoming novels--there're even horoscope charts of the central characters, a list of fan Web sites, and choice recipes for the truly devoted.
Readers looking for a fix of Gabaldon's humorous voice or insight into her writing processes and characters will certainly be more than satisfied, but those looking for the next installment of Jamie and Claire's adventures will have to wait for The Fiery Cross, the fifth book in this bestselling series, expected sometime in late 1999 to early 2000. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien [via]
Raising the Stonesby Sheri S. TepperISBN 0385415117 (0-385-41511-7)
Softcover, Doubleday
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The Ritual Bathby Faye KellermanISBN 0380732661 (0-380-73266-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ritual Bath'Book summary:Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.
The crime was called in by Rina Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to discover that she is a calm and intelligent witness. She is also the only one in the sheltered community willing to speak of this unspeakable violation. As Rina tries to steer Decker through the maze of religious laws the two grow closer. But before they get to the bottom of this horrendous crime, revelations come to light that are so shocking that they threaten to come between the hard-nosed cop and the deeply religious woman with whom he has become irrevocably linked.
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Robert Louis Stevenson's a Child's Garden of Verses to Colorby Diane DegroatISBN 0394872754 (0-394-87275-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Rule Britanniaby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 0385020384 (0-385-02038-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rule Britannia'Book summary:Emma, who lives in Cornwall with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, wakes one morning to find that the world has apparently gone mad: no post, no telephone, no radio, a warship in the bay and American soldiers advancing across the field towards the house. The time is a few years in the future. England has withdrawn from the Common Market and, on the brink of bankruptcy, has decided that salvation lies in a union - political, military and economic - with the United States. Theoretically it is to be an equal partnership; but to some people it soon begins to look like a takeover bid. Daphne du Maurier is concerned not only with what would happen to this country under what is virtually occupation, but also with the effect on human relationships. In Emma, looking at it all with clear young eyes, Daphne du Maurier has drawn one of her most enchanting heroines; and this engrossing book shows once again what a versatile and perceptive writer she is. [via]
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Shatterdayby Harlan EllisonISBN 0395285879 (0-395-28587-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shatterday'Book summary:Mercurial, belligerent, passionately in love with language and wild ideas, Harlan Ellison has, for half a century, steadily gathered to himself and his thirty-seven books an undeniably fanatical readership. Winner of more awards for imaginative literature than any other living writer, he is the only scenarist ever to win the Writers Guild of America award three times for outstanding teleplay. Though his contemporary fantasies have been compared favorably with the dark visions of Borges, Barthelme, Poe and Kafka, Ellison resists categorization with a vehemence that alienates critics and reviewers seeking easy pigeonholes for an extraordinary writer. The San Francisco Chronicle writes, "The categories are too small to describe Harlan Ellison. Lyric poet, satirist, explorer of odd psychological corners, moralist, purveyor of pure horror and black comedy; he is all these and more." In this, his thirty-seventh book, setting down as never before the mortal dreads we all share, Harlan Ellison has put together his best work to date: sixteen uncollected stories (half of which are award-winners), totaling a marvel-filled 105,000 words and including a brand-new novella, his longest work in over a dozen years. "Harlan Ellison is the dark prince of American letters, cutting through our corrupted midnight fog with a switchblade prose. He simply must be read." --Pete Hamill "Ellison writes with sensitivity as well as guts--a rare combination." --Leslie Charteris, creator of The Saint [via]
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The Sibyl in Her Graveby Sarah L. CaudwellISBN 0385299346 (0-385-29934-6)
Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sibyl in Her Grave'Book summary:For mystery lovers and literary connoisseurs alike, 2000 was a year of loss. Gone are two masters of language, one with over 30 works to his credit (George V. Higgins), the other with only four (Sarah Caudwell). It is some comfort that each gave readers one last glimpse of literary skill before passing on: Higgins (At End of Day) captured the way people really speak; Caudwell captured the way many people would dearly love to speak. Her first three novels (The Shortest Way to Hades, Thus Was Adonis Murdered, The Sirens Sang of Murder) brought readers into the elegant, urbane world of Hilary Tamar, Oxford fellow and mentor to London barristers Cantrip, Selena, Ragwort, and Julia. Caudwell's last work, The Sibyl in Her Grave, continues the intoxicating blend of dry humor and genteel manners that marked her as a successor to Dorothy Sayers.
The sibyl of the title is the psychic counselor Isabella del Comino, who descends in a flurry of bad taste to the Sussex village of Parsons Haver. With an aviary of ravens, a frumpy niece, and a penchant for combining divinations and blackmail, her sudden death comes as a relief to the village's disgruntled inhabitants, including Julia's redoubtable Aunt Regina. Regina has enough to worry about: she and two friends pooled their resources and invested in equities--and made a killing. But now the tax man is demanding his share, and the money has already been spent. When she asks Julia for legal advice, Julia and her colleagues discover that both Regina's fiscal success and Isabella's death are connected to an insider-trading scandal brewing with Julia's biggest clients. Unraveling that connection, of course, is a task that falls to Hilary.
Hilary, who "labors always in the service of Scholarship," is a triumph of authorial ambiguity. After four novels, readers will be left wondering, apparently unto eternity, whether Professor Tamar is a man or a woman. Take it as a political statement if you will--or simply as another little mystery, courtesy of an author who reveled in the power of words to clarify, outline, elucidate, and obscure. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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The Sirian Experimentsby Doris LessingISBN 0394512316 (0-394-51231-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Sirian Experimentsby Doris May LessingISBN 0394751957 (0-394-75195-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sirian Experiments'Book summary:The third in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle "Canopus in Argos: Archives". It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history. [via]
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Skelligby David AlmondISBN 038532653X (0-385-32653-X)
Hardcover, Delacorte Pr
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Sky Coyoteby Kage BakerISBN 0380731800 (0-380-73180-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sky Coyote'Book summary:Kage Baker's first novel, In the Garden of Iden, was a smart, funny, top-drawer read. Fans will be happy to find out that Baker avoids a sophomore slump with Sky Coyote, the second novel of the Company, and another superbly witty and intelligent book. Baker switches focus in this sequel to Joseph, the immortal cyborg who rescued Iden's heroine, Mendoza, from the dungeons of the Spanish Inquisition. Joseph and Mendoza work for Dr. Zeus, otherwise known as the Company, a 24th-century operation devoted to getting rich off the past. To accomplish this, the Company turns orphans and refugees from the past into super-smart, nigh invincible cyborgs and sends them on missions to save or hide precious paintings, cultural treasures, and genetic information useful to the future world.
Sky Coyote begins in pre-Columbian Mexico, where Joseph and Mendoza are reunited at New World One, an extravagant Company retreat. When European explorers are scheduled to arrive in the New World, the Company dismantles operations, and Joseph is sent to California in 1699 to save a Chumash village lock, stock, and barrel, before Europeans arrive with smallpox and slavery. To prep the Native Americans for their voyage to a Company enclave in Australia, Joseph poses as Uncle Sky Coyote, a trickster-god of the Chumash, and tells them he's there to save them from certain doom at the hands of white men. But can Joseph convince the wary, savvy Chumash labor unions, lodges, and entrepreneurs that he has their best interests at heart, all without screwing up history? And will he patch things up with Mendoza, who still hasn't forgiven him for everything that happened in 1500s England? Kage Baker delivers a terrific story and a worthy sequel with Sky Coyote. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Songs of the Kingsby Barry UnsworthISBN 0393322831 (0-393-32283-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Stories and Prose Poemsby Aleksandr Isaevich SolzhenitsynISBN 0374270333 (0-374-27033-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Story of the Stoneby Barry HughartISBN 0385246366 (0-385-24636-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of the Stone'Book summary:Set in a mythical, medieval China where folklore and history are indistinguishable, a dead monk, an ancientand now missingmanuscript, and a ghostly murderer entice the venerable Master Li and his faithful companion Number Ten Ox into the Valley of Sorrows for a deadly and uproarious confrontation with the long-dead Laughing Prince. [via]
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Taming a Sea-Horseby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0385294611 (0-385-29461-1)
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Three Kingdomsby Kuan-Chung LoISBN 0394407229 (0-394-40722-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Three Kingdoms : A Historical Novelby Luo Guanzhong, Moss RobertsISBN 0394733932 (0-394-73393-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Kingdoms : A Historical Novel'Book summary:Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on histories, dramas, and poems portraying the crisis to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has become the Chinese national epic. This abridged edition captures the novel's intimate and unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted, and how wars are planned and fought. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to be widely influential in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, and remains a great work of world literature. [via]
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Time Catby Lloyd Alexander, Bill SokolISBN 0380001950 (0-380-00195-0)
Hardcover, Avon/Books
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Total Recallby Sara ParetskyISBN 0385313667 (0-385-31366-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Total Recall'Book summary:Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski returns in an exceptionally well-plotted thriller that focuses attention on V.I.'s longtime friend Lotty Herschel. In a handful of chapters that punctuate the contemporary narrative, the Austrian-born physician tells her own story. More than just a device to draw the many threads of this complex novel together, Lotty's history illuminates the depth and complexity of a character that readers of Sara Paretsky's many books-- like V.I. herself--only thought they knew.
At a conference on the recovery of Holocaust assets, a man named Paul Radbuka surfaces, claiming to be part of the past that Lotty left buried in war-torn Europe half a century ago. The aging Lotty is emotionally shattered. She has never talked to V.I. about those years following her escape from Austria--her youth as an orphaned teenager in England and the brilliant medical career that ultimately brought her to America. But Radbuka's claims have such a dramatic effect on her that V.I. feels compelled to investigate him. Radbuka's early life in a concentration camp has recently come back to him, aided by the ministrations of a recovered-memory therapist. Now he's demanding that Lotty and her friend Max, another émigré, acknowledge his connection to them, something neither is prepared to do. Is Radbuka really who he claims to be? And if he's the impostor Lotty says he is, why is she so terrified of him?
V.I.'s efforts to pin down Radbuka's identity dovetail with another case, that of a client with a beef against an insurance company that's trying to keep the state legislature from passing a Holocaust Asset Recovery Act. It's a little too tidy for coincidence, but since it gives Paretsky a chance to show off her knowledge of Chicago politics, the reader is delighted to accept it. While it's Lotty's voice that brings the dead to life and the past into the present, it's V.I.'s dogged perseverance and abiding affection for her friend that drive this powerful, brilliantly executed novel to a conclusion. This is one of Paretsky's strongest outings in years. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Underdogsby Mariano Azuela, Ilan Stavans, E. Munguia, Beth JorgensenISBN 0375759425 (0-375-75942-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Underdogs'Book summary:Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmers part in the rebellion against Porfirio Díaz, and his subsequent loss of belief in the cause when the revolutionary alliance becomes factionalized. Azuelas masterpiece is a timeless, authentic portrayal of peasant life, revolutionary zeal, and political disillusionment. [via]
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The Unicorn Huntby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0375704817 (0-375-70481-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unicorn Hunt'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 Niccolo 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.
Scotland, 1468: a nation at the edge of Europe, a civilization on the threshold of the Modern Age. Merchants, musicians, politicians, and pageantry fill the court of King James III. In its midst, Nicholas seeks to avenge his bride's claim that she carries the bastard of his archenemy, Simon St. Pol. When she flees before Nicholas can determine whether or not the rumored child is his ownor exists at allNicholas gives chase. So begins the deadly game of cat and mouse that will lead him from the infested cisterns of Cairo to the misted canals of Venice at carnival. Breathlessly paced, sparkling with wit. The Unicorn Hunt confirms Dorothy Dunnett as the genre's finest practitioner.
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The Unknown Shoreby Patrick O'BrianISBN 039331538X (0-393-31538-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unknown Shore'Book summary:An immediate precursor to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series, displaying all the splendid prose and attention to detail that O'Brian's readers expect.
Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore George Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O'Brian returns to this rich source and mines it brilliantly for another, quite different tale of exploration and adventure.
The Wager was parted from Anson's squadron in the fierce storms off Cape Horn and struggled alone up the coast of Chile until she was driven against the rocks and sank. The survivors were soon involved in trouble of every kind. A surplus of rum, a disappearing stock of food, and a hard, detested captain soon drove them into drunkenness, mutiny, and bloodshed. After many months of privation, a handful of men made their way northward under the guidance of a band of Indians, at last finding safety in Valparaiso.
This saga of survival is the background to the adventures of two young men aboard the Wager: midshipman Jack Byron and his friend Tobias Barrow, an alarmingly naive surgeon's mate. Patrick O'Brian's many devoted readers will take particular interest in this story, as Jack and Toby form a kind of blueprint for Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, the famed heroes of the great Aubrey/Maturin series to come.
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The Visitorby Sheri S. TepperISBN 0380821001 (0-380-82100-1)
Softcover, Eos
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Visitor'Book summary:Do people change their ways? The Visitor explores this question on a number of levels in a postapocalyptic setting. Centuries after a catastrophic asteroid strike on Earth, survivors have rebuilt a society of religious conservatism and repression. Past technology is remembered as magic, and violent sorcery is a common political tool. Young Dismé Latimer is only concerned with surviving her abusive childhood until she discovers the journal of ancestor Nell Latimer, a scientist chosen to survive the asteroid and preserve as much human knowledge as possible. As the forces of good and evil, of science and magic, begin to converge and conflict, Dismé learns the truth about the world that came before and begins to understand that she, like Nell, has a role to play in the current preservation of Earth.
Tepper's writing is always skillful and eminently readable, and she's not afraid to tackle big ideas as well as individual stories of growth and change. Although the novel loses some focus toward the end, it paints a compelling picture of a society on the point of disintegration and graphically demonstrates how humans who are unaware of their own history are in fact likely to repeat it. --Roz Genessee [via]
The Voice of the Nightby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0385152582 (0-385-15258-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Waste Land and Other Writingsby T. S. EliotISBN 0375759344 (0-375-75934-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Writings'Book summary:Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
First published in 1922, The Waste Land, T. S. Eliots masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliots poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a potent new poetic language. As Kenneth Rexroth wrote, Eliot articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression. As commanding as his verse, Eliots criticism also transformed twentieth-century letters, and this Modern Library edition includes a selection of Eliots most important essays. [via]More editions of The Waste Land and Other Writings:
The Wilt Alternativeby Tom SharpeISBN 0394726219 (0-394-72621-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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