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The 25th Hourby David BenioffISBN 0452282950 (0-452-28295-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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All Quiet on the Western Frontby Erich Maria Remarque, A. W. WheenISBN 0449911497 (0-449-91149-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Quiet on the Western Front'Book summary:Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarques masterpiece of the German experience during World War I.
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . .
This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.
Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another . . . if only he can come out of the war alive.
The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure. The New York Times Book Review [via]More editions of All Quiet on the Western Front:
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Bleak Houseby Charles Dickens, Elizabeth McCrackenISBN 0451528697 (0-451-52869-7)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bleak House'Book summary:Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet. The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield, whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text, brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama. However, to abridge Dickens is, well, a Dickensian task, the results of which make for a story in which the author's convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in what seems to be a fast-forward format. Listeners must pay close attention in order to keep up with the multiple narratives and cast of curious characters, including the memorable Inspector Bucket and Mr. Guppy. Fortunately, the publisher provides a partial list of characters on the inside jacket. (Running time: 3 hours; 2 cassettes) [via]
The Boys on the Rockby John FoxISBN 0452257530 (0-452-25753-0)
Softcover, New American Library
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Breakfast at Tiffany'sby Truman CapoteISBN 0451166515 (0-451-16651-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'Book summary:In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.
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This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory, which the Saturday Review called one of the most moving stories in our language. It is a tale of two innocentsa small boy and the old woman who is his best friendwhose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.More editions of Breakfast at Tiffany's:
Cavedwellerby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452279690 (0-452-27969-0)
Softcover, Plume
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Charlie Brown Christmasby Charles ShulzISBN 0451123077 (0-451-12307-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0451522834 (0-451-52283-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Chronicles of Avonleaby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0451522338 (0-451-52233-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Cinderella Pactby Sarah StrohmeyerISBN 0451221249 (0-451-22124-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cinderella Pact'Book summary:[via]Soon to be a Lifetime movie called "Lying to be Perfect"
When Nola Devlin is turned down for her dream job because she's overweight, she decides to become thin-or, at least, pretend to be. The alter ego she creates-the thin, British, hip, and did we mention thin Belinda Apple-is a smashing success who is offered movie proposals, national television appearances and even dates...though no one's met her in person, of course.
Then Nola takes Belinda a bit too far, and is forced to join "The Cinderella Pact" and drop the pounds. As the weight comes off, however, Nola's problems begin to mount.
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Colour of Magicby Terry PratchettISBN 0451451120 (0-451-45112-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Contact Zeroby David WolstencroftISBN 0451412257 (0-451-41225-7)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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The Country Girlsby Edna O'BrienISBN 0452283434 (0-452-28343-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Country Girls'Book summary:Meet Kate and Baba, two young Irish country girls who have spent their childhood together. As they leave the safety of their convent school in search of life and love in the big city, they struggle to maintain their somewhat tumultuous relationship. Kate, dreamy and romantic, yearns for true love, while Baba just wants to experience the life of a single girl. Although they set out to conquer the world together, as their lives take unexpected turns, Kate and Baba must ultimately learn to find their own way.
"It's a difficult trip, this coming of age . . . O'Brien tells it with love and outrage, compassion and contempt." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
"A treasure . . . powerful . . . intelligent . . . ironic." (The New York Times Book Review) [via]More editions of The Country Girls:
Country Girls Trilogyby Edna O'BrienISBN 0452259266 (0-452-25926-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogueby Edna O'BrienISBN 0452263948 (0-452-26394-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue'Book summary:Delicious...whollv original...sensitive as a harp string...captures the vigilance of childhood and reproduces, eerily intact, its heightened sensations.[via]
NewsdayKate and Baba are two ambitious Irish country girls in search of life: romantic Kate seeks love, while pragmatic Baba will take whatever she can get. Together they set out to conquer Dublin and the world. Under the big citys bright lights, they spin their lives into a whirl of comic and touching misadventures, wild flirtations, and reckless passions. But love changes everything. And as their lives take unexpected and separate turns, Baba and Kate must ultimately learn to go it alone.
A beautiful portrait of the pain and joy of youth, the ruin of marriage gone wrong, and the ache of lost friendship and love, this trilogy of Edna OBriens remarkable early novels is more than just a harbinger of the stunning and masterly writer she has become.
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A Dangerous Womanby Mary McGarry MorrisISBN 0451182367 (0-451-18236-7)
Softcover, Signet
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Dead Runby P. J. TracyISBN 0451218159 (0-451-21815-9)
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The Deep End of the Oceanby Jacquelyn MitchardISBN 0451186923 (0-451-18692-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deep End of the Ocean'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1996: The horror of losing a child is somehow made worse when the case goes unsolved for nearly a decade, reports Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Jacquelyn Mitchard in this searing first novel. In it, 3-year-old Ben Cappadora is kidnapped from a hotel lobby where his mother is checking into her 15th high school reunion. His disappearance tears the family apart and invokes separate experiences of anguish, denial, and self-blame. Marital problems and delinquency in Ben's older brother (in charge of him the day of his kidnapping) ensue. Mitchard depicts the family's friction and torment--along with many gritty realities of family life--with the candor of a journalist and compassion of someone who has seemingly been there. International publishing and movie rights sold fast on this one: It's a blockbuster. [via]
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Dharma Bumsby Jack KerouacISBN 0451152751 (0-451-15275-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dharma Bums'Book summary:One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac. This book is a must-read for any serious Kerouac fan. [via]
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Don Quixoteby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Edward H. Friedman, Walter StarkieISBN 0451527860 (0-451-52786-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote'Book summary:While don quixote thinks of himself as a brave knight, his trusty sidekick, sancho panza, finds out the truth as they battle real and imaginary enemies [via]
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Don Quixoteby Miguel De Cervantes, Walter StarkieISBN 0451528905 (0-451-52890-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote'Book summary:Brimming with humor, rich in idealism and earthy common sense, this highly-esteemed translation and abridgement of the beloved masterpiece will enchant a new generation of readers.[via]
@DonQuixote People say that sleep deprivation, isolation, and too much reading have made me loopy. But I say nay! Nay!!!
I am going full-creeper and giving a girl I love a special secret nickname without her even knowing about it.
Ill call her Dulcinea. Get it? Like Dulce del Coochayyyy.
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Don Quixote of LA Manchaby Miguel De CervantesISBN 0451525078 (0-451-52507-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Dress Rehearsalby Jennifer O'ConnellISBN 0451213998 (0-451-21399-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Ecstasiaby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0451452607 (0-451-45260-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Fall of the House of Usher and Other Talesby Edgar Allan Poe, Marler, Regina (AFT), Stephen MarloweISBN 0451530314 (0-451-53031-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of the House of Usher And Other Tales'Book summary:Partial contents: The balloon-hoax -- The purloined letter -- The cask of Amontillado -- The masque of the red death. [via]
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Fall of the House of Usher And Other Tales: ISBN 0451530314 (0-451-53031-4)
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Fat Campby Deborah BlumenthalISBN 0451218655 (0-451-21865-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Food Of Loveby Anthony CapellaISBN 0452286557 (0-452-28655-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Food Of Love'Book summary:Laura Patterson is an American exchange student in Rome who, fed up with being inexpertly groped by her young Italian beaus, decides there's only one sure-fire way to find a sensual man: date a chef. Then she meets Tomasso, who's handsome, young -- and cooks in the exclusive Templi restaurant. Perfect. Except, unbeknownst to Laura, Tomasso is in fact only a waiter at Templi -- it's his shy friend Bruno who is the chef. But Tomasso is the one who knows how to get the girls, and when Laura comes to dinner he persuades Bruno to help him with the charade. It works: the meal is a sensual feast, Laura is utterly seduced and Tomasso falls in lust. But it is Bruno, the real chef who has secretly prepared every dish Laura has eaten, who falls deeply and unrequitedly in love. A delicious tale of Cyrano de Bergerac-style culinary seduction, but with sensual recipes instead of love poems. [via]
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Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrativeby Herbert Mason, John H. MarksISBN 0451627180 (0-451-62718-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative'Book summary:Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death, loss and reparations within the stirring tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend. A finalist for the National Book Award, Mason's retelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece of style, and a labor of love that grew out of the poet's long affinity with the original. [via]
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Innkeeper's Songby Peter S. BeagleISBN 0451454146 (0-451-45414-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Jo's Boysby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0451520890 (0-451-52089-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyby Charles DickensISBN 0451516338 (0-451-51633-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas HardyISBN 0451525191 (0-451-52519-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:The Mayor of Casterbridge (1984) Signet Classic (Paperback) by Thomas Hardy, Rick Moody [via]
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Light a Penny Candleby Maeve BinchyISBN 0451203046 (0-451-20304-6)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Light a Penny Candle'Book summary:As a child, Elizabeth White was sent from her war-torn London home to a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It was there, in the crowded, chaotic O'Connor household, that she met Aisling-who would become her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly teaching her the intricacies of Catholicism. Aisling's boldness brought Elizabeth out of her proper shell; later, her support carried Elizabeth through the painful end of her parents' chilly marriage. In return, Elizabeth's friendship helped Aisling endure her own unsatisfying marriage to a raging alcoholic. Through the years, they always believed they could overcome any conflict, conquer any hardship. They believed they could survive anything, as long as they had each other. Now they're about to find out if they were right.[via]-
The Light Fantasticby Terry PratchettISBN 0451162412 (0-451-16241-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Light Fantastic'Book summary:The second Discworld novel.
When the very fabric of time and space are about to be put through the wringer -- in this instance by the imminent arrival of a very large and determinedly oncoming meteorite -- circumstances require a very particular type of hero. Sadly what the situation does not need is a singularly inept wizard, still recovering from the trauma of falling off the edge of the world. Equally it does not need one well-meaning tourist and his luggage which has a mind of its own. Which is a shame because that's all there is. [via]More editions of The Light Fantastic:
Live Baitby P. J. TracyISBN 0451214633 (0-451-21463-3)
Softcover, Signet
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The Lost Art of Keeping Secretsby Eva RiceISBN 0452288096 (0-452-28809-6)
Softcover, Plume
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Love Walked inby Marisa De Los SantosISBN 0452287898 (0-452-28789-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Walked in'Book summary:When Martin Grace enters the hip Philadelphia coffee shop Cornelia Brown manages, her life changes forever. But little does she know that her newfound love is only the harbinger of greater changes to come. Meanwhile, across town, Clare Hobbs-eleven years old and abandoned by her erratic mother-goes looking for her lost father. She crosses paths with Cornelia while meeting with him at the café, and the two women form an improbable friendship that carries them through the unpredictable currents of love and life. Love Walked In, the first novel by award-winning poet Marisa de los Santos, is bursting with keen insight and beautifully rendered prose. Invoking classic movies to illuminate the mystery and wonder of love in all its permutations, Love Walked In is an uplifting debut that marks the entrance of an enchanting literary voice. [via]
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The Man in the Iron Maskby Alexandre DumasISBN 0451525647 (0-451-52564-7)
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy, Jay Parini, John SutherlandISBN 0451527356 (0-451-52735-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'Book summary:Thomas Hardy's exploration of his most tragic hero, Michael Henchard, is the classic tale of over-ambition. From his drunken sale of his wife and baby at a country fair to his subjugation of a farming village, Henchard's life is an epic attempt to bring the world to heel as he hides even from himself all vestiges of emotional vulnerability. [via]
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Miranda's Vinesby Kimberly KafkaISBN 0452286174 (0-452-28617-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Monkeewrenchby P. J. TracyISBN 045121157X (0-451-21157-X)
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North and Southby John JakesISBN 0451200810 (0-451-20081-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North and South'Book summary:The bestselling saga that has sold more than 5 million copies.The books that inspired the smash-hit television miniseries. In the years before the Civil War, the Mains and Hazards achieve their triumphs and suffer their tragedies against the panorama of American history. [via]
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane Austen, Margaret DrabbleISBN 0451526368 (0-451-52636-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovichby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0451527097 (0-451-52709-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich'Book summary:The extraordinary "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" is one of the most significant and outspoken literary documents ever to come out of Soviet Russia. A brutal depiction of life in a Stalinist camp and a moving tribute to man's triumph of will over relentless dehumanization, this is Alexander Sotzhenitsyn's first novel to win international acclaim. The Soviet Union eventually revoked the author's citizenship and had him deported, and he only returned recently after the collapse of the U.S.S.R. [via]
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovichby Ralph Parker, Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0451523105 (0-451-52310-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich'Book summary:A graphic picture of life in a Stalinist work camp. [via]
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Other Voices, Other Roomsby Truman CapoteISBN 0451161890 (0-451-16189-0)
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The Other Womanby Jane GreenISBN 0452287146 (0-452-28714-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Paradiseby Toni MorrisonISBN 0452280397 (0-452-28039-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, January 1998: Toni Morrison's Paradise takes place in the tiny farming community of Ruby, Oklahoma, which its residents proudly proclaim "the one all-black town worth the pain." Settled by nine African American clans during the 1940s, the town represents a small miracle of self-reliance and community spirit. Readers might be forgiven, in fact, for assuming that Morrison's title refers to Ruby itself, which even during the 1970s retains an atmosphere of neighborliness and small-town virtue. Yet Paradises are not so easily gained. As we soon discover, Ruby is fissured by ancestral feuds and financial squabbles, not to mention the political ferment of the era, which has managed to pierce the town's pious isolation. In the view of its leading citizens, these troubles call for a scapegoat. And one readily exists: the Convent, an abandoned mansion not far from town--or, more precisely, the four women who occupy it, and whose unattached and unconventional status makes them the perfect targets for patriarchal ire. ("Before those heifers came to town," the men complain, "this was a peaceable kingdom.") One July morning, then, an armed posse sets out from Ruby for a round of ethical cleansing.
Paradise actually begins with the arrival of these vigilantes, only to launch into an intricate series of flashbacks and interlaced stories. The cast is large--indeed, it seems as though we must have met all 360 members of Ruby's populace--and Morrison knows how to imprint even the minor players on our brains. Even more amazing, though, are the full-length portraits she draws of the four Convent dwellers and their executioners: rich, rounded, and almost painful in their intimacy. This richness--of language and, ultimately, of human understanding--combats the aura of saintliness that can occasionally mar Morrison's fiction. It also makes for a spectacular piece of storytelling, in which such biblical concepts as redemption and divine love are no postmodern playthings but matters of life and (in the very first sentence, alas) death. [via]
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Patty Jane's House of Curlby Lorna LandvikISBN 0449911004 (0-449-91100-4)
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A Place Apartby Paula FoxISBN 0451149440 (0-451-14944-0)
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Primaveraby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0451453239 (0-451-45323-9)
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The Privilege Of Youth: A Teenager's Storyby Dave PelzerISBN 0452286298 (0-452-28629-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Ralph's Partyby Lisa JewellISBN 0452281636 (0-452-28163-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ralph's Party'Book summary:"Lisa Jewell pulls off a rare trick which even the likes of Helen Fielding and Nick Hornby couldn't quite manage. She has written a book about relationships, which appeals in equal measure to men and women."-The Times (London)
Meet the residents of the London brownstone on 31 Almanac Road who together weave a tangled web of romance. Ralph, a ne'er-do-well artist, suddenly realizes he's head over heels in love with his new flatmate Jem, the most fun and sensible girl he's ever encountered. Unfortunately, Ralph's best friend, Smith, has already won Jem's affections, although Smith has not entirely given up his passion for the femme fatale, Cheri, who lives upstairs. Across the hall, Karl and Siobhan have been happily unmarried for years, until Karl gets a smashing job as a London rush-hour DJ and momentarily gets tempted into Cheri's cozy lair. These six star-crossed tenants become more enamored, and more confused, as the story progresses-until their true destinies are revealed on one crucial night-the evening of the extravaganza that is . . . Ralph's party. This wonderfully hip new novel was an instant popular success when it was first published in England, and American readers are sure to be captivated by the debut of a talented new writer. [via]More editions of Ralph's Party:
Return to the Secret Gardenby Susan MoodyISBN 0451192281 (0-451-19228-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0451527011 (0-451-52701-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Scarlet Featherby Maeve BinchyISBN 0451203771 (0-451-20377-1)
Softcover, Signet
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The Secret History of the Pink Carnationby Lauren WilligISBN 045121742X (0-451-21742-X)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 0451525892 (0-451-52589-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via] -
Someone Like Youby Cathy KellyISBN 0452283388 (0-452-28338-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Someone Like You'Book summary:Cathy Kelly has enjoyed unprecedented success in the UK and her native Ireland. Building on the popularity of her "Dear Cathy" advice column, Kelly brings to her fiction a warmth and humor that speaks to women everywhere.[via]
Hannah, Emma, and Leonie, three women at critical turning points in their lives, meet on holiday and find themselves changing in unexpected ways. Hannah, young, beautiful and reeling from the betrayal of a lover, decides to throw herself into her career and embrace the single life. Emma, married for two years and hoping to start a family, constantly questions her ability to be a parent, while still allowing her own parents to interfere in her life. Leonie, generously proportioned and equally big-hearted, wonders if she'll ever find love with three teenage children in tow.
Someone Like You is a celebration of life and friendship, firmly establishing Cathy Kelly as a captivating new voice in contemporary women's fiction.More editions of Someone Like You:
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The Sparrowby Mary Doria RussellISBN 0449912558 (0-449-91255-8)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sparrow'Book summary:In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question the meaning of being "human." When the lone survivor of the expedition, Emilio Sandoz, returns to Earth in 2059, he will try to explain what went wrong... Words like "provocative" and "compelling" will come to mind as you read this shocking novel about first contact with a race that creates music akin to both poetry and prayer. [via]
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The Story Girlby L. M. Montgomery, Mary Rubio, Elizabeth WaterstonISBN 0451525329 (0-451-52532-9)
Softcover, University of Wales Press
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens, Wilson, A. N. (AFT), Frederick BuschISBN 0451530578 (0-451-53057-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0451526562 (0-451-52656-2)
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Tar Babyby Toni MorrisonISBN 0451182383 (0-451-18238-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tar Baby'Book summary:Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes: Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to her freedom she is a threat to his identity... [via]
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Barbara Rosen, William RosenISBN 0451526899 (0-451-52689-9)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Unfastened Heartby Lane Von HerzenISBN 0452272904 (0-452-27290-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Waiting To Exhaleby Terry McMillanISBN 045121529X (0-451-21529-X)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting To Exhale'Book summary:[via]From the critically acclaimed author of A Day Late and a Dollar Short and The Interruption of Everything, a wise, earthy story of a friendship between four African American women who lean on each other while "waiting to exhale": waiting for that man who will take their breath away.
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White Fang and Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0451525582 (0-451-52558-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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A Wild Sheep Chaseby Haruki Murakami, Alfred T. BirnbaumISBN 0452265169 (0-452-26516-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wild Sheep Chase'Book summary:Murakami has crafted a taut and suspenseful novel that is equal parts detective story, fantasy, and Kafkaesque allegory. In a Japan of the imagination, an advertising executive is sent on a harrowing journey in pursuit of a mythical sheep reported to embody an irresistible will to absolute power. [via]
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, Brenda WineappleISBN 0451527283 (0-451-52728-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Regina BarrecaISBN 0451530292 (0-451-53029-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte, Alice HoffmanISBN 0451529251 (0-451-52925-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Your Oasis on Flame Lakeby Lorna LandvikISBN 0449912787 (0-449-91278-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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