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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Claude LaPointeISBN 0670869856 (0-670-86985-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:A classic American story is told once more as Tom Sawyer, a clever young boy from a small town in antebellum Missouri, and his friend, Huckleberry Finn, set out on many amusing adventures. [via]
The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Ted Lewin, Mark TwainISBN 0671437917 (0-671-43791-7)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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All That Glittersby Virginia AndrewsISBN 0671873199 (0-671-87319-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All That Glitters'Book summary:A royal fortune Millionaire hotel magnate Evan Tyler will stop at nothing to get revenge. So when the perfect opportunity arises--a chance to have Elena Royal, the daughter of his biggest competitor--he doesn't think twice. Evan plans not only to seduce family secrets from the sexy hotel heiress, he also plans to enjoy every second of it! But when the affair ends, Evan is forced to choose between payback or more pleasure in Elena's bed. Could this shrewd businessman negotiate a way to have both? [via]
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0670894788 (0-670-89478-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Leonard J. Kent and Nina Berberova [via]
The Backward Shadowby Lynne Reid BanksISBN 0671206710 (0-671-20671-0)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Bluest Eyeby Toni MorrisonISBN 0671742922 (0-671-74292-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bluest Eye'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 2000: Originally published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword written more than two decades later, the author expressed her dissatisfaction with the book's language and structure: "It required a sophistication unavailable to me." Perhaps we can chalk up this verdict to modesty, or to the Nobel laureate's impossibly high standards of quality control. In any case, her debut is nothing if not sophisticated, in terms of both narrative ingenuity and rhetorical sweep. It also shows the young author drawing a bead on the subjects that would dominate much of her career: racial hatred, historical memory, and the dazzling or degrading power of language itself.
Set in Lorain, Ohio, in 1941, The Bluest Eye is something of an ensemble piece. The point of view is passed like a baton from one character to the next, with Morrison's own voice functioning as a kind of gold standard throughout. The focus, though, is on an 11-year-old black girl named Pecola Breedlove, whose entire family has been given a cosmetic cross to bear:
You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.... And they took the ugliness in their hands, threw it as a mantle over them, and went about the world with it.
There are far uglier things in the world than, well, ugliness, and poor Pecola is subjected to most of them. She's spat upon, ridiculed, and ultimately raped and impregnated by her own father. No wonder she yearns to be the very opposite of what she is--yearns, in other words, to be a white child, possessed of the blondest hair and the bluest eye.This vein of self-hatred is exactly what keeps Morrison's novel from devolving into a cut-and-dried scenario of victimization. She may in fact pin too much of the blame on the beauty myth: "Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion." Yet the destructive power of these ideas is essentially colorblind, which gives The Bluest Eye the sort of universal reach that Morrison's imitators can only dream of. And that, combined with the novel's modulated pathos and musical, fine-grained language, makes for not merely a sophisticated debut but a permanent one. --James Marcus [via]
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Bodily Harmby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0671441531 (0-671-44153-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Cat-Nappers: A Jeeves and Bertie Storyby Pelham Grenville WodehouseISBN 0671219723 (0-671-21972-3)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat-Nappers: A Jeeves and Bertie Story'Book summary:Subjects: Wooster, Bertie (Fictitious character) --Fiction. Jeeves (Fictitious character) --Fiction. Valets--Fiction. [via]
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuffISBN 0670836400 (0-670-83640-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:The novel tells how Raskolnikov, a former student, murders an old woman moneylender and her unfortunate sister. The story is a detective novel, a religious epic and a study in criminal psychology as well as being an indictment of urban social conditions in 19th-century Russia. [via]
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Dark Angelby V. C. AndrewsISBN 067172939X (0-671-72939-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Angel'Book summary:At last, Heaven would find the happiness she longed for... free from the scorn and contempt of her past!
In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreamed of a wonderful new life of new friends, the best schools, beautiful clothes and most important, love. The pearls of culture, wisdom and breeding would now be hers. Soon she would make the Casteel name respectable, find her brothers and sisters, and have a family again.
But even in the world of the wealthy, there were strange forebodings, secrets best forgotten. And as Heaven reached out for love, she was slowly ensnared in a sinister web of cruel deceits and hidden passions! [via]
Darkest Hourby V. C. Andrews, Linda MarrowISBN 0671759329 (0-671-75932-9)
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 0671451065 (0-671-45106-5)
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Dawnby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0671670689 (0-671-67068-9)
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Different Seasonsby Stephen KingISBN 0670272663 (0-670-27266-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Different Seasons'Book summary:Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy's corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity.
These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont's 1994 The Shawshank Redemption (available as a screenplay, a DVD film, and an audiocassette), "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer's 1998 film Apt Pupil (also released in 1998 on audiocassette), and "The Body" into Rob Reiner's Stand by Me (1986).
The final novella, "Breathing Lessons," is a horror yarn told by a doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive under extraordinary circumstances. It's the tightest, most polished tale in the collection. --Fiona Webster [via]
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East of Eden: An Easy Guide to Car Maintenance And Repairby John SteinbeckISBN 0670287385 (0-670-28738-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'East of Eden: An Easy Guide to Car Maintenance And Repair'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California. [via]
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The English Patientby Michael OndaajeISBN 0676514200 (0-676-51420-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Patient'Book summary:Three people--nurse Hana, thief Caravaggio, and Kip--are brought together in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II by a nameless and hideously burned English patient. Reissue. Movie tie-in. 150,000 first printing. [via]
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyISBN 067187036X (0-671-87036-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit 451: A Novel'Book summary:In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman [via]
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Fahrenheit Four Hundred Fifty Oneby Ray BradburyISBN 0671239775 (0-671-23977-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit Four Hundred Fifty One'Book summary:In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman [via]
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Fallen Heartsby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0671729403 (0-671-72940-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fallen Hearts'Book summary:Proud and beautiful, Heaven came back to the hills -- to rise at last above her family's shame!
As Logan's bride, she would savor now the love she had sought for so long. And free from her father's clutches, she would live again in her backwoods town, a respected teacher and cherished wife. But after a wedding trip to Boston's Farthinggale Manor and a lavish, elegant party, Heaven and Logan are persuaded to stay...lured by Tony Tatterton's guile to live amidst the Tatterton wealth and privilege. Then the ghosts of Heaven's past rise up once more, writhing around her fragile happiness...threatening her precious love with scandal and jealousy, sinister passions and dangerous dreams! [via]
Fluddby Hilary MantelISBN 0670821187 (0-670-82118-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Garden of Shadowsby V. C. AndrewsISBN 067172942X (0-671-72942-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Garden of Shadows'Book summary:Olivia dreamed of a sun-filled love, a happy life. Then she entered Foxworth Hall...
V.C. Andrews' thrilling new novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions -- of the time before Flowers in the Attic began. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth's bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she had waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread...an evil that will threaten her children, two lovely boys and one very special, beautiful girl. For within one innocent child, a shocking secret lives...a secret that will taint the proud Foxworth name, and haunt all their lives forever! [via]
Gates of Paradiseby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0671729438 (0-671-72943-8)
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishingby Melissa BankISBN 067088300X (0-670-88300-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing'Book summary:Jane Rosenal, the narrator of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is wise beyond her years. Not that that's saying much--since none of her elders, with the exception of her father, is particularly wise. At the age of 14, Jane watches her brother and his new girlfriend, searching for clues for how to fall in love, but by the end of the summer she's trying to figure out how not to fail in love. At twice that age, Jane quickly internalizes How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, even though that retro manual is ruining her chances at happiness. In the intervening years, Melissa Bank's heroine struggles at love and work. The former often seems indistinguishable from the latter, and her experiences in book publishing inspire little in the way of affection. As Jane announces in "The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine": "I'd been a rising star at H----- until Mimi Howlett, the new executive editor, decided I was just the lights of an airplane."
Bank's first collection has a beautiful, true arc, and all the sophistication and control her heroine could ever desire. In "The Floating House," Jane and her boyfriend, Jamie, visit his ex-girlfriend in St. Croix, and right from the start she can't stop mimicking her beautiful competitor, in a notably idiotic fashion. "I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive," she realizes--one of several thousand of Bank's ruefully funny phrases. But even as Jane clowns around, desperately trying to keep up appearances, she is so hyperaware it hurts. Again and again, the author explores the dichotomy between life as it happens and the rehearsed anecdote, the preferred outcome. In The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, even suburban quiet has "nothing to do with peace." Bank's much-anticipated debut merits all its buzz and, more to the point, transcends it. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Heart Songby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0671534726 (0-671-53472-6)
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The Hearts and Lives of Menby Fay WeldonISBN 0670820989 (0-670-82098-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Heavenby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0671729446 (0-671-72944-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heaven'Book summary:Of all the folks in the mountain shacks, the Casteels were the lowest -- the scum of the hills.
Heaven Leigh Casteel was the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite her ragged clothes and dirty face...despite a father meaner than ten vipers...despite her weary stepmother, who worked her like a mule. For her brother Tom and the little ones, Heaven clung to her pride and her hopes. Someday they'd get away and show the world that they were decent, fine and talented -- worthy of love and respect.
Then Heaven's stepmother ran off, and her wicked, greedy father had a scheme -- a vicious scheme that threatened to destroy the precious dream of Heaven and the children forever! [via]
Hidden Jewelby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0671873202 (0-671-87320-2)
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The Hotel New Hampshireby John IrvingISBN 0671687948 (0-671-68794-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hotel New Hampshire'Book summary:The first of my fathers illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels. So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they dream on in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.
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The Human Factorby Graham GreeneISBN 0671648500 (0-671-64850-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Human Factor'Book summary:A morally complex and mature work from a modern master[via]
IN THIS later novel by Graham Greene? featuring a new introduction?the author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psychologically astute character studies and exciting drama on an international stage. In The Human Factor A high- level operative of the British Secret Service acts as a double agent to benefit his family. 
J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooeyby J. D. SalingerISBN 0671008668 (0-671-00866-8)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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Jack London's the Call of the Wild and White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 0671006851 (0-671-00685-1)
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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journeyby Salman RushdieISBN 0670817570 (0-670-81757-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey'Book summary:In this timeless, haunting portrait of the people and the politics of Nicaragua, Rushdie brings to life the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution. [via]
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Jeeves and the Tie That Bindsby Pelham Grenville WodehouseISBN 0671210386 (0-671-21038-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jeeves and the Tie That Binds'Book summary:A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring the Junior Ganymede, a Market Snodsbury election, and the Observer crossword puzzle.
Jeeves, who has saved Bertie Wooster so often in the past, may finally prove to be the unwitting cause of this young master's undoing in Jeeves and the Tie that Binds. The Junior Ganymede, a club for butlers in London's fashionable West End, requires every member to provide details about the fellow he is working for. When information is inadvertently revealed to a dangerous source, it falls to Jeeves to undo the damage. [via]
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Kane & Abelby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 067125121X (0-671-25121-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kane & Abel'Book summary:They had only one thing in common...William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant - two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune. The marvellous story, spanning 60 years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save - and finally destroy - each other. [via]
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The Mammaries of the Welfare Stateby Upamanyu ChatterjeeISBN 0670879347 (0-670-87934-7)
Hardcover, Viking
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Melodyby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0671534718 (0-671-53471-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Melody'Book summary:Grieving over her beloved father's death, talented violinist Melody Logan is astonished when her depressive mother takes them to live at the Logan estate, where she learns a devastating secret about her parents. [via]
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Midnight Whispersby V. C. Andrews, Linda MarrowISBN 0671695169 (0-671-69516-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight Whispers'Book summary:Happy and innocent, Dawn's daughter Christie has grown up in the safest, most loving of homes...
Yet Christie can't help feeling as if a dark cloud hovers over Cutler's Cove...a cloud whose origins lie in her family's troubled history, and the many questions no one, not even Dawn, will answer. Only one person can always chase away her blues: Gavin, Daddy Jimmy's young and handsome stepbrother.
Then, in one harsh night, Christie's world is changed forever. She is shocked to discover her Uncle Philip's unbrotherly love for her mother but even worse is the way he now looks at Christie, his eyes bright with tortured passion. Fleeing to New York City, she finds her real father...a pathetic, helpless has-been. Desperate and heartbroken, she turns to Gavin, who travels with her to The Meadows, the plantation where Christie was born. In Gavin's arms, in the first, tender moments of true love, Christie finds a refuge from her painful memories. But The Meadows is blighted by its own dark secrets -- and all too soon Christie is torn from Gavin's embrace. Now as black storms of evil gather around her, Christie must struggle to break the cruel bonds of the past...to defy the curse that has haunted Cutler's Cove for generations.... [via]
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0671028359 (0-671-02835-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Herman Melville's peerless allegorical masterpiece is the epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who swears vengeance on the mammoth white whale that has crippled him. Often considered to be the Great American Novel, Moby-Dick is at once a starkly realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure, and a searing drama of heroic courage, moral conflict, and mad obsession. It is world-renowned as the greatest sea story ever told.
Moby-Dick, widely misunderstood in its own time, has since become an indubitable classic of American literature. [via]
Mockery Birdby Gerald DurrellISBN 0671441310 (0-671-44131-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Monarch Notes on Dickens' David Copperfieldby Prentice Hall General Reference and Travel StaffISBN 0671006096 (0-671-00609-6)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monarch Notes on Dickens' David Copperfield'Book summary:Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]
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Monarch Notes on Of Mice and Menby John SteinbeckISBN 0671006932 (0-671-00693-2)
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Monarch Notes on Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Charles LeavittISBN 067100879X (0-671-00879-X)
Hardcover, Peterson's
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My Sweet Audrinaby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0671729462 (0-671-72946-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Sweet Audrina'Book summary:A stand-alone mystery thriller from the bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic. MY SWEET AUDRINA The house in the wood was picturesque and charming. The family who lived there were happy and affluent. So what was the secret of the room -- empty of everything but the rocking chair? Audrina wanted to be as good as her sister. Audrina knew her parents could not love her as they loved her sister. Her sister was perfect, much loved -- and dead. But how did she die? Who was Audrina and who did she have to become? What was the secret that everyone knew? Everyone except sweet Audrina! The haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and terrible family secrets. [via]
Nice Workby David LodgeISBN 0670828068 (0-670-82806-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Of Human Bondageby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0671479067 (0-671-47906-7)
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Of Mice and Menby John SteinbeckISBN 0670520713 (0-670-52071-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Mice and Men'Book summary:Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck, one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, offers a powerful but tragic tale in "Of Mice and Men". 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place'. George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California's Salinas Valley, they get work on a ranch. If they can just stay out of trouble, George promises Lennie, then one day they might be able to get some land of their own and settle down some place. But kind-hearted, childlike Lennie is a victim of his own strength. Seen by others as a threat, he finds it impossible to control his emotions. And one day not even George will be able to save him from trouble. "Of Mice and Men" is a tragic and moving story of friendship, loneliness and the dispossessed. "A thriller, a gripping tale that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick". ("New York Times"). Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works are published by Penguin and include "Cannery Row", "The Pearl", "The Winter of Our Discontent" and "The Grapes of Wrath". [via]
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Oliviaby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0671007610 (0-671-00761-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Olivia'Book summary:Destined to take over the million-dollar family business, responsible Olivia anticipates the downfall of her petted younger sister Belinda, a free spirit who sets off a generations-long path of deception that haunts the Logan clan. [via]
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One Fat Englishmanby K. AmisISBN 0671671197 (0-671-67119-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Fat Englishman'Book summary:Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to offend all he meets and to seduce every woman he encounters. But his American hosts seem made of sterner stuff. Who will be Roger's undoing? Irving Macher, the young author of an annoyingly brilliant first novel? Father Colgate, the priest who suggests that Roger's soul is in torment? Or will it be his married ex-lover Helene? One thing is certain - Roger is heading for a terrible fall. Outrageously funny and irreverent, "One Fat Englishman" (1963) is a devastating satire on Anglo-American relations. [via]
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Haby Roddy DoyleISBN 0670853453 (0-670-85345-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha'Book summary:In Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, an Irish lad named Paddy rampages through the streets of Barrytown with a pack of like-minded hooligans, playing cowboys and Indians, etching their names in wet concrete, and setting fires. Roddy Doyle has captured the sensations and speech patterns of preadolescents with consummate skill, and managed to do so without resorting to sentimentality. Paddy Clarke and his friends are not bad boys; they're just a little bit restless. They're always taking sides, bullying each other, and secretly wishing they didn't have to. All they want is for something--anything--to happen.
Throughout the novel, Paddy teeters on the nervous verge of adolescence. In one scene, Paddy tries to make his little brother's hot water bottle explode, but gives up after stomping on it just one time: "I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen." Paddy Clarke senses that his world is about to change forever--and not necessarily for the better. When he realizes that his parents' marriage is falling apart, Paddy stays up all night listening, half-believing that his vigil will ward off further fighting. It doesn't work, but it is sweet and sad that he believes it might. Paddy's logic may be fuzzy, but his heart is in the right place. --Jill Marquis [via]
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The Pearlby John SteinbeckISBN 0670545759 (0-670-54575-9)
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 0671015389 (0-671-01538-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:Autobiographical novel by James Joyce, published serially in The Egoist in 1914-15 and in book form in 1916; considered by many the greatest bildungsroman in the English language. The novel portrays the early years of Stephen Dedalus, who later reappeared as one of the main characters in Joyce's Ulysses (1922). Each of the novel's five sections is written in a third-person voice that reflects the age and emotional state of its protagonist, from the first childhood memories written in simple, childlike language to Stephen's final decision to leave Dublin for Paris to devote his life to art, written in abstruse, Latin-sprinkled, stream-of-consciousness prose. The novel's rich, symbolic language and brilliant use of stream-of-consciousness foreshadowed Joyce's later work. The work is a drastic revision of an earlier version entitled Stephen Hero and is the second part of Joyce's cycle of works chronicling the spiritual history of humans from Adam's Fall through the Redemption. The cycle began with the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and continued with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (1939). [via]
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Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man Text and Criticismby James JoyceISBN 0670566489 (0-670-56648-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man Text and Criticism'Book summary:Autobiographical novel by James Joyce, published serially in The Egoist in 1914-15 and in book form in 1916; considered by many the greatest bildungsroman in the English language. The novel portrays the early years of Stephen Dedalus, who later reappeared as one of the main characters in Joyce's Ulysses (1922). Each of the novel's five sections is written in a third-person voice that reflects the age and emotional state of its protagonist, from the first childhood memories written in simple, childlike language to Stephen's final decision to leave Dublin for Paris to devote his life to art, written in abstruse, Latin-sprinkled, stream-of-consciousness prose. The novel's rich, symbolic language and brilliant use of stream-of-consciousness foreshadowed Joyce's later work. The work is a drastic revision of an earlier version entitled Stephen Hero and is the second part of Joyce's cycle of works chronicling the spiritual history of humans from Adam's Fall through the Redemption. The cycle began with the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and continued with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (1939). [via]
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Rembrandt's Hatby Bernard MalamudISBN 0671787357 (0-671-78735-7)
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The Rules of Attractionby Bret Easton EllisISBN 067162234X (0-671-62234-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rules of Attraction'Book summary:Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan eighties, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the futureor even the presentwho become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturing and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives. Lauren changes boyfriends every time she changes majors and still pines for Victor, who split for Europe months ago, and she might or might not be writing anonymous love letters to ambivalent, hard-drinking Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren, even if he ends up in bed with half the campus and with Paul, Laurens ex, who is forthrightly bisexual and whose passion masks a shrewd pragmatism. They waste time getting wasted and race from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Dressed to Get Screwed parties to drinks at the End of the World. The Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance. [via]
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The Satanic Versesby Salman RushdieISBN 0670825379 (0-670-82537-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Satanic Verses'Book summary:No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie's powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner. [via]
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Seeds of Yesterdayby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0671729489 (0-671-72948-9)
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Shampoo Planetby Douglas CouplandISBN 0671755064 (0-671-75506-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shampoo Planet'Book summary:An amazing visionary first novel about today's disenfranchised, MTV twenty-something generation and their baby boom parents, by the author of the hugely successful Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture--a Tom Robbins for the '90s who has made the cynical post-Reagan era his own. A 20-year-old's journey around America, Canada, and Paris helps him deal with the bewildering influences that confront him. [via]
A Spy in the House of Loveby Anais Nin, Julie RubensteinISBN 0671871390 (0-671-87139-0)
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Surfacingby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0671214500 (0-671-21450-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surfacing'Book summary:First published in 1972, Surfacing was Margaret Atwood's second novel, following the critically acclaimed The Edible Woman. Atwood had already made her mark as a one of the most exciting new voices in Canadian poetry, winning the Governor General's Award in 1966 for The Circle Game, while her groundbreaking book of criticism, Survival, had started the process of redefining the meaning of Canadian literature.
In Surfacing, poetry and prose brilliantly come together in a heart-wrenching novel that focuses on a woman's desperate attempt to put the ghosts of her past to rest. With three friends, she's returned to the remote cabin in Northern Quebec where she spent her childhood. She's overwhelmed, almost to the point of emotional paralysis, by memories of her father and his death by drowning, her failed marriage and painful divorce, and an abortion that haunts her waking dreams. While she appears to be ambivalent about the landscape, it is the landscape that in fact will provide her with the means of healing herself and her broken spirit. Like Atwood's poetry of this period, Surfacing is a deeply psychological novel. Atwood uses the recurring image of surfacing from beneath the waves of an icy northern lake as a symbol of this woman's struggle to regain control of her life, to refuse to be a victim of her past. Surfacing is a poignant novel filled with the power of the Canadian wilderness to cleanse the soul, an image of the wilderness that has remained a preoccupation for Atwood throughout her writing career. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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Surrender the Pinkby Carrie FisherISBN 067166641X (0-671-66641-X)
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This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth PrigozyISBN 0671535552 (0-671-53555-2)
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Tortilla Flatby John SteinbeckISBN 0670721093 (0-670-72109-3)
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0670869201 (0-670-86920-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Treasure Island'Book summary:Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Unfinished Symphonyby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0671534734 (0-671-53473-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unfinished Symphony'Book summary:Melody Logan had only just found a safe harbor when a new storm set her adrift all over again....
Melody had always believed her mother, Haille, and dear stepdaddy had died in tragic accidents -- that's why she'd come to stay with her secretive Logan relatives on Cape Cod. But then a friend recognized Haille's picture in a catalog and kindled Melody's hopes. Maybe her mother hadn't perished in a fire in California after all, but was in some desperate trouble that kept her out of reach....
Melody's dream of finding her mother seemed as flimsy as the scrap of paper that was her only clue. And despite the pampered life Melody was offered as a guest in a Beverly Hills mansion, nothing could soften the blow of the moment she stood face-to-face with her mother and saw her eyes turn dark and cold as stones. Melody knew there must be a reason why her mother pretended at first not to recognize her -- and why she'd even faked her own death. Though Melody's beloved Cary beckoned from Cape Cod, she felt in her heart that her mother needed her now more than ever. And beneath her mother's unkept promises and tattered fantasies, Melody hoped to unearth the truth about her own past, and find her way to a safer, better place...where she could embrace a bright new future of her own. [via]
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V.C. Andrewsby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0671967800 (0-671-96780-0)
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Web of Dreamsby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0671729497 (0-671-72949-7)
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The Woman Who Walked Into Doorsby Roddy DoyleISBN 0670867756 (0-670-86775-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Who Walked Into Doors'Book summary:Roddy Doyle follows Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, winner of the Booker Prize, and The Commitments with another remarkable book that readers will find funny, sexy, and sad. He takes an unflinching look at the life of Paula Spencer as she struggles to regain her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem. Capturing both her vulnerability and her strength, Doyle gives Paula a voice that is real and unforgettable. [via]
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Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0670825859 (0-670-82585-9)
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BrontëISBN 0671014803 (0-671-01480-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wuthering Heights'Book summary:The classic tale of love and loss reintroduces readers to the brooding Heathcliff, the tragic Catherine Earnshaw, Hindley, and others as they face their own demons on the Yorkshire moors. Reissue. [via]
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