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1066: The Year of the Conquestby David Armine HowarthISBN 0670696013 (0-670-69601-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Across Time and Death : The Extraordinary Search for My Past Life Familyby Jenny CockellISBN 0671889869 (0-671-88986-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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American Coloniesby Eric Foner, Alan TaylorISBN 0670872822 (0-670-87282-2)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Colonies'Book summary:In American Colonies award-winning historian Alan Taylor challenges the traditional Anglocentric focus of colonial history by exploring the multitude of cultural influences out of which "America" ultimately emerged. From the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait fifteen thousand years ago and the European expeditions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the nineteenth-century exploration and occupation of the Hawaiian Islands, Taylor traces the complex ecological, ethnic, and economic history and colonization of the New World from coast to coast, from the Canadian north to the Pacific rim.
Examining the repeatedly overlooked influence of the continent's natives upon the colonists and the resulting mutual dependence of the two, Taylor presents a unique and revelatory view of colonial North America. European colonists, African slaves, and native peoples met one another and interacted at a pace and intensity unparalleled in global history. The effects of this staggering confluence of cultural, ecological, military, diplomatic, and economic interests are still being felt in America today. This fascinating and involving history of the origins of the United States will provoke and appeal to all readers of American history.
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The Apple and the Arrowby Mary BuffISBN 0618128093 (0-618-12809-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Apple and the Arrow'Book summary:The year is 1291, and Walter is the twelve-year-old son of William Tell, the greatest bowman in the land of Uri. Walter lives happily in the remote heights of the Alpine Mountains, caring for his familys goat herd and practicing his marksmanship in the hopes of making his father proud. But as the end of the year approaches, Walters peaceful life is shaken as his country enters a revolution, and Walter must carry a secret that could threaten the life of the father he loves so dearly.[via]
More than seven hundred years have passed since the day Walter stood in the marketplace balancing an apple on his head while the Austrian tyrant Gessler commanded Walters father, William Tell, to take aim at the apple with his great crossbow. The dramatic tale of Williams arrest and escape and the daring revolt of the Swiss against the Austrians has become a legend around the world.More editions of The Apple and the Arrow:
Arctic Odyssey: The Diary of Diamond Jenness, Ethnologist With the Canadian Arctic Expedition in Northern Alaska and Canada, 1913-1916by Diamond Jenness, Stuart E. Jenness, Canadian Museum of CivilizationISBN 0660129051 (0-660-12905-1)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin Franklin, Lewis LearyISBN 0613124731 (0-613-12473-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin'Book summary:Franklins Autobiography is one of the most famous works in American literature. He started it as a private collection of anecdotes for his son, but soon it was transformed into a work of history, both personal and national, revealing Franklin as the man who, as Herman Melville said, possessed deep worldly wisdom and polished Italian tact, gleaming under an air of Arcadian unaffectedness. [via]
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The Bantam Medical DictionaryISBN 0553284983 (0-553-28498-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Bantam Medical Dictionaryby Laurence Urdang, Barbara Guidos, W. Leslie Alexander, J. A. D. Anderson, Rajesh Aggarwal, David AhearneISBN 0553587366 (0-553-58736-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Big Tree,by Mary BuffISBN 0670164259 (0-670-16425-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Blood Washes Blood: A True Story of Love, Murder and Redemption under the Sicilian Sunby Frank VivianoISBN 0671041592 (0-671-04159-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Charles Dickens' a Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0671006118 (0-671-00611-8)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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A Circle Of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne Jones, Agnes Poynter, And Louisa Baldwinby Judith FlandersISBN 0670886734 (0-670-88673-4)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Circle Of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne Jones, Agnes Poynter, And Louisa Baldwin'Book summary:Circle of Sisters is a new collective biography of the four Macdonald sisters, two of whom married the famous painters Edward Burne-Jones and Edward Poynter, while the other two married Lockwood Kipling and Alfred Baldwin and produced between them a poet laureate and a prime minister. The daughters of a Methodist preacher, the four sisters led diverse and cosmopolitan lifestyles by Victorian standards, even if they remained throughout the subordinate siblings and partners of their menfolk. The story of the Macdonald family has been told before--notably in Ina Taylor's Victorian Sisters (1987--and although Flanders' account is better written, with more colour and detail, and with a finer appreciation of both the Macdonald forebears and the upbringing of the four girls, the book does not really live up to its billing. The author promises a book about private women, domestic life and the rhythms of family, subjects on which some of the best Victorian historians around have been working for a generation--for example, Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall in their influential Family Fortunes (1986). But we do not really get this. Circle of Sisters becomes too easily a conventional account of famous fathers and sons (Rudyard Kipling gets more space than Alice his mother). It is readable and undemanding biography, but hardly amounts to challenging history. We simply never learn enough about what made the sisters tick as daughters, wives or mothers. --Miles Taylor [via]
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A Concise History of Scotlandby Fitzroy MacLeanISBN 0670236535 (0-670-23653-5)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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The Devil in the Shape of a Womanby Carol F. KarlsenISBN 0679721843 (0-679-72184-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil in the Shape of a Woman'Book summary:Confessing to "Familiarity with the Devils." Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens, was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. In 1662, Ann Cole was "taken with very strange Fits," and fueled an outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Hartford a generation before the notorious events in Salem took place. The witch-hunting hysteria that seized New England in the late seventeenth century still haunts us today. Why were these and other women likely witches? Why were certain people vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession? In this fascinating work, Professor Carol Karlsen of the University of Michigan draws a compelling, richly detailed portrait of the women who were persecuted as witches. And in what Kirkus Reviews calls "an enlightening contribution to U.S. historical studies." The Devil in the Shape of a Woman gives us an unforgettable look at a society in transition, where fears and witch hunts were manifestations of much deeper sexual, religious, and economic tensions. [via]
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Dictionary of Heraldry and Related Subjectsby A.G. PuttockISBN 0668065729 (0-668-06572-9)
Hardcover, Petersons
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Eb: A Boy...a Family...a Neighborhood...and a Lost Civilization...Memories of Growing Up in Brooklyn Ny in the '40s and '50sby Bert KempISBN 0595091091 (0-595-09109-1)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Everything Is Illuminatedby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0618173870 (0-618-17387-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything Is Illuminated'Book summary:The simplest thing would be to describe Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's accomplished debut, as a novel about the Holocaust. It is, but that really fails to do justice to the sheer ambition of this book. The main story is a grimly familiar one. A young Jewish American--who just happens to be called Jonathan Safran Foer--travels to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his search by Alex Perchov, a naïve Ukrainian translator, Alex's grandfather (also called Alex), and a flatulent mongrel dog named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. On their journey through Eastern Europe's obliterated landscape they unearth facts about the Nazi atrocities and the extent of Ukrainian complicity that have implications for Perchov as well as Safran Foer. This narrative is not, however, recounted from (the character) Jonathan Safran Foer's perspective. It is relayed through a series of letters that Alex sends to Foer. These are written in the kind of broken Russo-English normally reserved for Bond villains or Latka from Taxi. Interspersed between these letters are fragments of a novel by Safran Foer--a wonderfully imagined, almost magical realist, account of life in the shtetl before the Nazis destroyed it. These are in turn commented on by Alex, creating an additional metafictional angle to the tale.
If all this sounds a little daunting, don't be put off; Safran Foer is an extremely funny as well as intelligent writer who combines some of the best Jewish folk yarns since Isaac Bashevis Singer with a quite heartbreaking meditation on love, friendship, and loss. --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Family Fill-In Bookby Dian Dincin BuchmanISBN 0590464124 (0-590-46412-4)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Family History and Local History in Englandby David HeyISBN 0582494583 (0-582-49458-3)
Softcover, Longman
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A Family Place: A Hudson Vally Farm, Three Generations, Five Wars, One Familyby Leila PhilipISBN 0670030139 (0-670-03013-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family Historyby Helene StapinskiISBN 0679463062 (0-679-46306-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History'Book summary:Fans of Mary Karr's groundbreaking memoir The Liars' Club will relish the similarly funny, tough-minded tone of Helene Stapinski's recollections centering on her family's petty criminal history in the sordid precincts of Jersey City. But Stapinski is nobody's clone; her autobiography has a tart, distinctively urban Northeast flavor that will ring a bell with anyone familiar with America's aging, deteriorating cities. You can practically smell the soap suds from the local Colgate factory and the stink of the bone-rendering plant in nearby Newark; people didn't settle in Jersey City, writes Stapinski, "they settled for Jersey City ... they settled for less." She was 5 years old in 1970 when her Italian American grandfather was arrested for threatening to shoot her whole family, capping a long career that included armed robbery and beating his children. The Polish American relatives on her father's side included a bookie and an epileptic prone to fits of rage who nearly killed a sibling by breaking his back. None of this was a big deal in Jersey City, notes Stapinski, who deftly interweaves her family's story with the rancid saga of Hudson County's corrupt political machine. She fled to college in Manhattan and a career in journalism without ever really escaping the ties of blood and loyalty; her frank rendering of her mixed feelings as Jersey City was slowly upscaled reminds us what is gained and lost through gentrification. Stapinski's salty, savory account conveys the gritty, enduring legacy of Jersey City: "so tough, I was always prepared for what might come my way." --Wendy Smith [via]
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Genealogyby Henry GilfondISBN 053101455X (0-531-01455-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Generations: An American Familyby John EgertonISBN 067162833X (0-671-62833-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Homelands and Waterways : The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926by Adele Logan AlexanderISBN 0679442286 (0-679-44228-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Homeplaceby Anne Shelby, Wendy Anderson HalperinISBN 0531071782 (0-531-07178-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Library Publishing
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If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Islandby Ellen Levine, Wayne ParmenterISBN 0590438298 (0-590-43829-8)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Irelandby Paul JohnsonISBN 0586054537 (0-586-05453-7)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Italian Emigrants, Italian Immigrants: The Labella Family of Avigliano, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy and Port Chester, New York, United States of Americaby Tina Bochicchio WoetzelISBN 0595317006 (0-595-31700-6)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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The Jewish Family Bookby Sharon Strassfeld, Kathy GreenISBN 0553013394 (0-553-01339-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Lake Wobegon Daysby Garrison KeillorISBN 0670805149 (0-670-80514-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Lancastrians and Yorkists: The Wars of the Rosesby David R. CookISBN 058235384X (0-582-35384-X)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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Lineages and Liesby Jimmy FoxISBN 0595258999 (0-595-25899-9)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reasonby Michel FoucaultISBN 067972110X (0-679-72110-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Magdalena and Balthasar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in 16th Century Europe Revealed in the Letters of a Nuremberg Husband and Wifeby Steven OzmentISBN 0671624407 (0-671-62440-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Making of a Teacherby Taft B. BotnerISBN 053311098X (0-533-11098-X)
Hardcover, Vantage Pr
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Murder at Monticelloby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553572350 (0-553-57235-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder at Monticello'Book summary:Mrs. Murphy digs into Virginia historyand gets her paws on a killer.
The most popular citizen of Virginia has been dead for nearly 170 years. That hasn't stopped the good people of tiny Crozet, Virginia, from taking pride in every aspect of Thomas Jefferson's life. But when an archaeological dig of the slave quarters at Jefferson's home, Monticello, uncovers a shocking secret, emotions in Crozet run highdangerously high.
The stunning discovery at Monticello hints a hidden passions and age-old scandals. As postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and some of Crozet's Very Best People try to learn the identity of a centuries-old skeletonand the reason behind the murderHarry's tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy, and her canine and feline friends attempt to sniff out a modern-day killer. Mrs. Murphy and corgi Tee Tucker will stick their paws into the darker mysteries of human nature to solve murders old and newbefore curiosity can kill the catand Harry Haristeen. [via]More editions of Murder at Monticello:
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Murder at Monticello, Or, Old Sinsby Sneaky Pie Brown, Rita Mae Brown, Wendy WrayISBN 0553081403 (0-553-08140-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Oliver Twistby Charles DickensISBN 0553211021 (0-553-21102-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles Dickenss great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creationthrough the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, Nancy, the Artful Dodger, and the evil Bill Sikesof the vast London underworld of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes, and abandoned children. Victorian critics took Dickens to task for rendering this world in such a compelling, believable way, but readers over the last 150 years have delivered an alternative judgment by making this story of the orphaned Oliver Twist one of its authors most loved works.
This edition reprints the original Everymans introduction by G. K. Chesterton and includes twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank.
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Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc - Oliver Twist: ISBN 058252279X (0-582-52279-X)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley - Oliver Twist: ISBN 0606097058 (0-606-09705-8)
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Oliver Twistby PenguinISBN 0582419492 (0-582-41949-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'Book summary:"Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]
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One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0679444653 (0-679-44465-3)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'Book summary:"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Hardcover, Demco Media - One Hundred Years of Solitude: ISBN 0606349154 (0-606-34915-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media - One Hundred Years of Solitude: ISBN 0613174186 (0-613-17418-6)
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Pawing Through the Pastby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553580256 (0-553-58025-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pawing Through the Past'Book summary:When a mystery author claims her cat as coauthor, it's a fairly safe bet that the team won't be producing disturbing psychological thrillers or hard-edged legal procedurals. And indeed, Rita Mae Brown and her cat, Sneaky Pie, have carved out a comfortable niche for themselves in the cozy category, spinning tales (Rest in Pieces; Murder, She Meowed; Cat on the Scent) around the goings-on in Crozet, a small Virginia town where everyone knows everyone else and recipes and gossip are exchanged over the post office counter. Mary Minor Haristeen ("Harry") is Crozet's postmistress and the proud owner of two cats, Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and one corgi, Tee Tucker--animals with an uncanny ability to sniff out secrets and hidden motives as well as mice and roast beef.
Pawing Through the Past capitalizes on the myriad subtle relationships that form the backbone of small-town culture, and which Brown and Sneaky Pie have carefully woven throughout the Mrs. Murphy series. In a nicely appropriate nod to that culture's rivalries and alliances, Brown has chosen a high school reunion--traditional hotbed of simmering unease--as her mise-en-scène. When each member of the Crozet High Class of 1980 receives an anonymous note stating, "You'll never get old," most take it as a joke or a compliment. But when the class womanizer turns up with a bullet between his eyes, and more notes--and more bodies--start appearing, Harry and her menagerie find themselves at the center of a revenge plot 20 years in the making.
Brown's latest is replete with the sly asides that have endeared her to animal lovers--"Cats are by instinct and inclination dedicated anarchists"--and with the naively humorous "conversations" between the animals themselves. When Pewter, watching a team of police officers wrestling a stiff corpse out of a dumpster, wonders, "Why don't they just break his arms and legs?" Murphy replies knowingly, "They'd pass out. Humans are touchy about their dead." Unfortunately, these favorable attributes can't quite mask an incoherent plot, nor Brown's awkwardly pompous social commentary: "By and large, the women looked better than the men, testimony to the cultural pressure for women to fuss over themselves." But Brown's legions of fans will doubtlessly forgive these shortcomings, concentrating instead on the antics of a memorable four-legged and furry trio. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontierby Joanna L. StrattonISBN 0671447483 (0-671-44748-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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These were women of relentless determination, whose tenacity helped them to conquer loneliness and privation. Their work was the work of survival, it demanded as much from them as from their men -- and at last that partnership has been recognized. "These voices are haunting" (New York Times Book Review), and they reveal the special heroism and industriousness of pioneer women as never before. [via]
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Rand McNally 2000 Road Atlas: United States, Canada, Mexicoby Rand McNally & CoISBN 0528841254 (0-528-84125-4)
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Rand McNally 2002 Road Atlas: United States, Canada, MexicoISBN 0528844318 (0-528-84431-8)
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Rand McNally 2003 Road Atlas: United States, Canada & MexicoISBN 0528844865 (0-528-84486-5)
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Rand McNally 2006 Road Atlas: United Statesby NISBN 052895797X (0-528-95797-X)
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Rand McNally 2006 U.S. Canada Mexico Road Atlas: Vinyl Coveredby NISBN 0528957937 (0-528-95793-7)
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Rand McNally 98 Deluxe Road Atlas & Travel Guide: United States, Canada, MexicoISBN 0528839152 (0-528-83915-2)
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Rand McNally 98 Road Atlas Deluxe: United States, Canada, MexicoISBN 0528839179 (0-528-83917-9)
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Rand McNally Arkansas/Mississippi: EasyfinderISBN 0528987992 (0-528-98799-2)
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Rand McNally Deluxe Road Atlas & Travel Guide 1999: United States Canada MexicoISBN 0528840363 (0-528-84036-3)
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Rand McNally Deluxe Road Atlas and Travel Guide 1995: United States, Canada, MexicoISBN 0528814265 (0-528-81426-5)
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Rand McNally Midsize Deluxe Road Atlas 2003: United States, Canada & MexicoISBN 0528844857 (0-528-84485-7)
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Rand McNally Road Atlas: United States, Canada, Mexicoby Rand McNallyISBN 0528839535 (0-528-83953-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rand McNally Road Atlas: United States, Canada, Mexico'Book summary:One of the world's bestselling publications and America's #1 selling road atlas, the Rand McNally "Road Atlas" offers the most current and accurate road navigating information available using state-of-the-art digital cartography. 380 province/country maps; 280 city maps; extensive travel-planning information including travel discount coupons. [via]
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Rand McNally Road Atlas: United States, Canada, Mexico, 1996ISBN 0528814680 (0-528-81468-0)
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The Road Atlas 2004 : United States, Canada, Mexicoby Rand McNally StaffISBN 0528845055 (0-528-84505-5)
Softcover, Rand McNally
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Sams Teach Yourself Today E-Genealogy: Finding Your Family Roots Onlineby Terri Stephens LambISBN 0672318164 (0-672-31816-4)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Scottish Clans and Tartansby Ian GrimbleISBN 0600319350 (0-600-31935-0)
Softcover, Hamlyn
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0553211765 (0-553-21176-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tale of Two Cities'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Hardcover, Random House Inc - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0671002740 (0-671-00274-0)
Softcover, Pocket Classics - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0671695835 (0-671-69583-5)
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This Sceptred Isle - The Dynastiesby Christopher LeeISBN 0563537485 (0-563-53748-5)
Hardcover, Bbc Pubns
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This Stubborn Soilby William A. OwensISBN 0679722270 (0-679-72227-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Time, Family and Community: Perspectives on Family and Community Historyby Michael DrakeISBN 0631192379 (0-631-19237-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Tracing Your Baltic, Scandinavian, Eastern European, & Middle Eastern Ancestry Onlineby Anne HartISBN 0595357733 (0-595-35773-3)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Tracing Your Family Treeby Stella ColwellISBN 0571135900 (0-571-13590-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Unnatural Deathby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 057500357X (0-575-00357-X)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Unto the Sonsby Gay TaleseISBN 0679410341 (0-679-41034-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new.
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Vietnam: A Historyby Stanley KarnowISBN 0670746045 (0-670-74604-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Voyages of Jacques Cartierby Richard HumbleISBN 0531142167 (0-531-14216-7)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europeby Steven E. OzmentISBN 0674951212 (0-674-95121-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Did husbands and wives love one another in Reformation Europe? Did the home and family life matter to most people? In this wide-ranging work, Steven Ozment has gathered the answers of contemporaries to these questions. His subject is the patriarchal family in Germany and Switzerland, primarily among Protestants. But unlike modern scholars from Philippe Arics to Lawrence Stone, Ozment finds the fathers of early modern Europe sympathetic and even admirable. They were not domineering or loveless men, nor were their homes the training ground for passive citizenry in an age of political absolutism. From prenatal care to graveside grief, they expressed deep love for their wives and children. Rather than a place where women and children were bullied by male chauvinists, the Protestant home was the center of a domestic reform movement against Renaissance antifeminism and was an attempt to resolve the crises of family life. Demanding proper marriages for all women, Martin Luther and his followers suppressed convents and cloisters as the chief institutions of womankind's sexual repression, cultural deprivation, and male clerical domination. Consent, companionship, and mutual respect became the watchwords of marriage. And because they did, genuine divorce and remarriage became possible among Christians for the first time.This graceful book restores humanity to the Reformation family and to family history.
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The Wimsey Family: A Fragmentary History Compiled from Correspondence with Dorothy L. Sayersby Dorothy L. Sayers, C. Wilfrid Scott-GilesISBN 0575023880 (0-575-02388-0)
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Zip Code Finder 1996ISBN 0528816012 (0-528-81601-2)
Softcover, Rand McNally
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Zip Code Finder 1997ISBN 0528815164 (0-528-81516-4)
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Rand McNally the Road Atlas: U.S./Canada/Mexico. Road Atlasesby NISBN 0528958267 (0-528-95826-7)
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