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Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samuraiby Dave Lowry, Ron SureshaISBN 1570621152 (1-57062-115-2)
Softcover, Shambhala Pubns
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Best of ForeignerISBN 0793535174 (0-7935-3517-4)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Defenderby C. J. CherryhISBN 0756400201 (0-7564-0020-1)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Delivererby C. J. CherryhISBN 0756404142 (0-7564-0414-2)
Hardcover, Daw Books
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Destroyerby C. J. CherryhISBN 0756403332 (0-7564-0333-2)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Destroyer'Book summary:The first book in the new Foreigner trilogy from the Hugo Award-winning author
C.J. Cherryh, one of the most prolific and acclaimed science fiction writers in the world, now delivers the seventh book in her Foreigner series and the first book in the new Foreigner trilogy-the epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true science fiction odyssey. [via]-
Explorerby C. J. CherryhISBN 0756401313 (0-7564-0131-3)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Explorer'Book summary:The final installment to this sequence of the Hugo Award-winning author's most successful series. Explorer follows a human delegate trapped in a distant star system facing a potentially bellicose alien ship. [via]
Foreignerby C. J. CherryhISBN 0756402514 (0-7564-0251-4)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foreigner'Book summary:Two hundred years after a group of humans had lost a war to the atevi, Bren Cameron, the only human allowed into the atevi society, realizes that he must forge a bond between the two seemingly incompatible species. Reprint. PW. K. [via]
Inheritorby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886777283 (0-88677-728-3)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inheritor'Book summary:Six months after the return of the alien atevi to the human colony it had placed there two centuries earlier, the rise of a polarizing political faction threatens to send the fledgling planet into war, and three people become a society's only hope. [via]
Invaderby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886776872 (0-88677-687-2)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invader'Book summary:Nearly two centuries after a human colony is abandoned on an alien planet, the two races have reached a tenacious peace agreement, but when the human ship returns unexpectedly, both governments are thrown into chaos. [via]
Korea and Her Neighbours: A Narrative of Travel, With an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Countryby Isabella Lucy Bird BishopISBN 0804814899 (0-8048-1489-9)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Pninby Vladimir Nabokov, David LodgeISBN 1400041988 (1-4000-4198-8)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pnin'Book summary:Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader's deepest protective instinct. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, PNIN brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity. [via]
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- Pnin: ISBN 1857152727 (1-85715-272-7)
Hardcover, Alfred A. Knopf - Pnin: ISBN 0679723412 (0-679-72341-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books - Pnin: ISBN 0837604656 (0-8376-0465-6)
Hardcover, Bentley Pub - Pnin: ISBN 0385191162 (0-385-19116-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Pnin: ISBN 1400041988 (1-4000-4198-8)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
- Pnin: ISBN 1857152727 (1-85715-272-7)
Precursorby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886779103 (0-88677-910-3)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Precursor'Book summary:C.J. Cherryh creates thought-provoking stories of cultures in collision featuring well-drawn characters and plenty of intrigue. Precursor directly follows Inheritor in the Foreigner series (which includes Foreigner and Invader). The series introduces the atevi, aliens with a culture based on loyalty, legal assassination, and inborn mathematical gifts.
Two hundred years ago humans crash-landed on the atevi homeworld. The two races are nearly incompatible; peace is maintained by limiting contact to a single human diplomat, the paidhi. His name is Bren Cameron.
In the first trilogy, the starship Phoenix (the same ship that brought the human colonists) returned, fleeing alien attack in another sector. The Phoenix asked both atevi and human communities to help reopen the orbital station and rearm the ship. Bren coordinated an atevi shuttle-building program and trained the Phoenix representative, Jase Graham, in living on a planet and dealing with aliens. Now he faces family crises while ensuring that the atevi remain equal partners in the space effort. He must deal with the very different culture of the Phoenix crew and the alien space station environment while maintaining cooperation with the colonists and representing atevi interests.
Precursor ends abruptly. Are the aliens coming? Will the Phoenix crew, colonists, and atevi be able to protect their system together? Will Bren be able to retain any of his humanity? If you enjoy stories that make you think about how space travel and contact with aliens would really play out, treat yourself to this meaty SF series. --Nona Vero [via]
Pretenderby C. J. CherryhISBN 0756404088 (0-7564-0408-8)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Shantaramby Gregory David RobertsISBN 0312330537 (0-312-33053-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shantaram'Book summary:Crime and punishment, passion and loyalty, betrayal and redemption are only a few of the ingredients in Shantaram, a massive, over-the-top, mostly autobiographical novel. Shantaram is the name given Mr. Lindsay, or Linbaba, the larger-than-life hero. It means "man of God's peace," which is what the Indian people know of Lin. What they do not know is that prior to his arrival in Bombay he escaped from an Australian prison where he had begun serving a 19-year sentence. He served two years and leaped over the wall. He was imprisoned for a string of armed robberies peformed to support his heroin addiction, which started when his marriage fell apart and he lost custody of his daughter. All of that is enough for several lifetimes, but for Greg Roberts, that's only the beginning.
He arrives in Bombay with little money, an assumed name, false papers, an untellable past, and no plans for the future. Fortunately, he meets Prabaker right away, a sweet, smiling man who is a street guide. He takes to Lin immediately, eventually introducing him to his home village, where they end up living for six months. When they return to Bombay, they take up residence in a sprawling illegal slum of 25,000 people and Linbaba becomes the resident "doctor." With a prison knowledge of first aid and whatever medicines he can cadge from doing trades with the local Mafia, he sets up a practice and is regarded as heaven-sent by these poor people who have nothing but illness, rat bites, dysentery, and anemia. He also meets Karla, an enigmatic Swiss-American woman, with whom he falls in love. Theirs is a complicated relationship, and Karlas connections are murky from the outset.
Roberts is not reluctant to wax poetic; in fact, some of his prose is downright embarrassing. Throughought the novel, however, all 944 pages of it, every single sentence rings true. He is a tough guy with a tender heart, one capable of what is judged criminal behavior, but a basically decent, intelligent man who would never intentionally hurt anyone, especially anyone he knew. He is a magnet for trouble, a soldier of fortune, a picaresque hero: the rascal who lives by his wits in a corrupt society. His story is irresistible. Stay tuned for the prequel and the sequel. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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A Son of the Circusby John IrvingISBN 0345389964 (0-345-38996-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Son of the Circus'Book summary:"A SON OF THE CIRCUS IS COMIC GENIUS....GET READY FOR IRVING'S MOST RAUCOUS NOVEL TO DATE."
--The Boston Globe
"Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay by maverick foes of tradition, educated in Vienna, married to an Austrian and long a resident of Toronto, is a 59-year-old without a country, culture or religion to call his own....The novel may not be 'about' India, but Irving's imagined India, which Daruwalla visits periodically, is a remarkable achievement--a pandemonium of servants and clubmen, dwarf clowns and transvestite whores, missionaries and movie stars. This is a land of energetic colliding egos, of modern media clashing with ancient cultures, of broken sexual boundaries."
--New York Newsday
"HIS MOST DARING AND MOST VIBRANT NOVEL...The story of circus-as-India is told with gusto and delightful irreverence."
--Bharati Mukherjee
The Washington Post Book World
"Ringmaster Irving introduces act after act, until three (or more) rings are awhirl at a lunatic pace....[He] spills characters from his imagination as agilely as improbable numbers of clowns pile out of a tiny car....His Bombay and his Indian characters are vibrant and convincing."
--The Wall Street Journal
"IRRESISTIBLE...POWERFUL...Irving's gift for dialogue shines."
--Chicago Tribune
From the Paperback edition. [via]More editions of A Son of the Circus:
- A Son of the Circus: ISBN 0345417992 (0-345-41799-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - A Son of the Circus: ISBN 0345394755 (0-345-39475-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - A Son of the Circus: ISBN 0679434968 (0-679-43496-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - A Son of the Circus: ISBN 0345389964 (0-345-38996-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
- A Son of the Circus: ISBN 0345417992 (0-345-41799-2)
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