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The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton, Carol J. SingleyISBN 0395980798 (0-395-98079-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. [via]
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April Ladyby Georgette HeyerISBN 0399111360 (0-399-11136-0)
Hardcover, Putnam
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At Riskby Alice HoffmanISBN 0399133674 (0-399-13367-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Augustby Judith RossnerISBN 0395860067 (0-395-86006-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'August'Book summary:Originally published in 1983, this bestseller is a compelling portrait of a young woman's experience in psychotherapy. [via]
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The Awakeningby Kate ChopinISBN 0399500316 (0-399-50031-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Ballad of Peckham Ryeby Muriel SparkISBN 0399506500 (0-399-50650-0)
Hardcover, Perigee Books
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Bath Tangleby Georgette HeyerISBN 0399110305 (0-399-11030-5)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Beyond the Blue Mountainsby Jean PlaidyISBN 0399115994 (0-399-11599-4)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Birthrightby Nora RobertsISBN 0399149848 (0-399-14984-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Bitterroot Landingby Sheri ReynoldsISBN 039913994X (0-399-13994-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Black Swanby Philippa CarrISBN 0399135138 (0-399-13513-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Bookshopby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0395869463 (0-395-86946-3)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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The Bourne Identityby Robert LudlumISBN 0399900705 (0-399-90070-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bourne Identity'Book summary:The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum, Marek Publishers, 6th printing, 1980, ISBN # 0-399-90070-5, 523 pages. Description: Book; Black cloth with gold lettering to spine only, author's initials blind embossed on front board. Dust jacket; Green-to-blue gradated color with seashell and spike design to front panel, author's photo on back panel, DJ is price clipped, dated 8003. Condition: Book; Good reading copy. Tight and unmarked but considerable wear to gold lettering, all edges rubbed, some minor stains to both boards. Previous owner's name neatly inked to ffep. Dust jacket; Good. Bright but with some chips and small tears to top edge, lower edge of spine stained on the inside, leading edge of front panel has what looks like white paint smudges. Now protected in Brodart [via]
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. BensonISBN 0395978238 (0-395-97823-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:Based on the definitive Riverside Chaucer, this edition of The Canterbury Tales contains the complete text of all 24 Tales, thoroughly updated scholarship from the past 20 years, and extensive editorial support. This volume is ideal for instructors who want to assign only the Tales and have no need for the complete Chaucer. An overview briefly outlines the basic plot and main idea of each Tale, while a section on language and versification helps students with pronunciation. Explanatory notes provide information on sources, problematic passages, and critical interpretations. Additional pedagogy includes a glossary, a section on Chaucer's life, an index, a general bibliography, and a list of abbreviations. [via]
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Canterbury Tales and Related Readingsby Geoffery ChaucerISBN 0395893283 (0-395-89328-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin School
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The Canterbury Tales of Chaucerby Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas TyrwhittISBN 0404015506 (0-404-01550-6)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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The Chosenby Chaim PotokISBN 0395881455 (0-395-88145-5)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chosen'Book summary:The Chosen by Chaim Potok. Related readings include: Somewhere a Master by Elie Wiesel; In My Father's Court by Issac B. Singer; I Never Saw a Moor by Emily Dickinson; The Three Hermits by Leo Tolstoy; The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday; Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong; and New African by Andrea Lee. [via]
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The Comfortersby Muriel SparkISBN 0399509313 (0-399-50931-3)
Softcover, Perigee
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre DumasISBN 0396082556 (0-396-08255-6)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:For nineteen-year-old Edmond Dantes, life is sweet. Soon to be captain of his own sip, he is also about to be married to his true love, Mercedes. But suddenly everything turns sour. On the joyous day of his wedding he is arrested and--without a fair trial--condemned to solitary confinement in the miserable Chateau d'If! The charges? Faked! Edmond has been framed by a handful of powerful enemies. But why?[via]
While locked away, Edmond learns from another prisoner of a secret treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmond concocts a daring and audacious plan: escape and find the treasure! But it is years later--long after Edmond has transformed himself into the Count of Monte Cristo--that his plan for revenge begins to unfold.
Disguised as the wealthy count, Edmond returns to his native land to find his enemies--and make them pay!More editions of Count of Monte Cristo:
The Courts of Love/the Story of Eleanor of Aquitaineby Victoria Holt, Jean Plaidy, Philippa CarrISBN 0399132945 (0-399-13294-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Crying Childby Barbara MichaelsISBN 0396063926 (0-396-06392-6)
Hardcover, Dodd, Mead
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Curtainby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396071910 (0-396-07191-0)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Curtain'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Hercule Poirot returns to the scene of his first great case to solve another, which could be his last if he does not watch his step. [via]
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Damascus Gateby Robert StoneISBN 0395665698 (0-395-66569-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Desolation Angelsby John KerouacISBN 0399503854 (0-399-50385-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desolation Angels'Book summary:With the publication of On the Road in 1957, Jack Kerouac became at once the spokesman and hero of the Beat Generation. Along with such visionaries as William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac changed the face of American literature, igniting a counterculture revolution that even now, decades later, burns brighter than ever in Desolation Angels.[via]
In one of the major cinematic events of 2012, Jack Kerouac's legendary Beat classic, On the Road, finally hits the big screen. Directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries; Paris, Je T'Aime) and with a cast of some of Hollywood's biggest young stars, including Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga), Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams (Julie & Julia, The Fighter), Tom Sturridge, and Viggo Mortensen (the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Road), the film will attract new fans who will be inspired by Kerouac's revolutionary writing.More editions of Desolation Angels:
The Divinerby Marilyn HarrisISBN 0399127399 (0-399-12739-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Double Playby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0399151885 (0-399-15188-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Enthusiasmby Polly ShulmanISBN 0399243895 (0-399-24389-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Executive Ordersby Tom ClancyISBN 0399142185 (0-399-14218-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Executive Orders'Book summary:Tom Clancy goes to the White House in this thriller of political terror and global disaster. The American political situation takes a disturbing turn as the President, Congress, and Supreme Court are obliterated when a Japanese terrorist lands a 747 on the Capitol. Meanwhile the Iranians are unleashing an Ebola virus threat on the country. Jack Ryan, CIA agent, is cast in the middle of this maelstrom. Because of a recent sex scandal, Ryan was appointed vice president, a slot he doesn't hold for long when he lands in the Chief Executive's chair. He goes after the Iranians and then tries to piece together the country and his life the only way he knows how--with a fury that we've grown accustomed to in Clancy's intricate, detailed, and accurate stories of warfare and intrigue. [via]
For Matrimonial Purposesby Kavita DaswaniISBN 0399150706 (0-399-15070-6)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tasha TudorISBN 0397321651 (0-397-32165-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0396082777 (0-396-08277-7)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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The Gate of Angelsby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0395848385 (0-395-84838-5)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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The Golden Childby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0395956196 (0-395-95619-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Child'Book summary:Penelope Fitzgerald's first novel is packed with institutional follies and fiercely territorial old trouts. Set in a London museum whose officers only appear august, The Golden Child literally proves that authorities are clowns and clowns authorities. As the book opens, all England is queuing up to see the golden treasure of the Garamantes--the remains of a young king who was interred complete with a trove of toys and goodies. Only the man who unearthed the kinglet back in 1913 refuses to go anywhere near the exhibit, despite his constant proximity: "Sir William, in extreme but clear-headed old age, and after a lifetime of fieldwork, had come to roost in the Museum itself." Meanwhile, everyone--from nations to corporations--wants a piece of the Golden Child. (The exhibit is even underwritten by a company that hopes its puff, "Silence is Golden," will give its cigarettes more positive associations.) What, then, if the relics are cursed--or fake?
As both possibilities grow increasingly likely, and the Museum risks ridicule, its director deputizes Waring Smith to transport the mummy's doll to an incorruptible expert. Too bad if Professor Semyonov is in Russia: this junior officer will simply have to smuggle the toy in! Suffice it to say that Waring's covert odyssey to Moscow is but one of The Golden Child's many witty--and enigmatic--episodes. Near the Kremlin, he comes upon a line that makes him think he's back at work. The citizens, though, have assembled for another mummy altogether:
The park statues were covered with shrouds of straw to protect them against the cold, but the human beings stood there, wiping the frozen drops from noses and eyelashes, waiting with immemorial patience to see what they had been told was worth seeing. In an hour and a half they would be filing past the embalmed head and hands, and the ghastly evening dress suit, of Lenin.
On the surface, Fitzgerald's 1977 novel is a bona fide mystery, complete with a body in the library and a spot of garroting. But adepts of this author will prize it for its pixilated cast of characters and for its gentle, perfect assaults on pretension--whether academic, journalistic, or even gustatory. As ever, Fitzgerald is drawn to explore the power--and sheer inconvenience--of the emotions. No wonder The Golden Child's mysteries go so far beyond those of its genre. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Golden Child:
The Grass Dancerby Susan PowerISBN 0399139117 (0-399-13911-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Here on Earthby Alice HoffmanISBN 0399143130 (0-399-14313-0)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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High Huntby David EddingsISBN 0399110550 (0-399-11055-0)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Hocus Pocusby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0399135243 (0-399-13524-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hocus Pocus'Book summary:Hocus Pocus is the fictional autobiography of a West Point graduate who was in charge of the humiliating evacuation of U.S. personnel from the Saigon rooftops at the close of the Vietnam War. Returning home from the war, he unknowingly fathered an illegitimate son. In 2001, the son begins a search for his father and catches up with him just in time to see him arrested for masterminding the prison break of 10,000 convicts.
Using his famous brand of satire and wit, Vonnegut captures twenty-first century America as only he could foresee it. In Hocus Pocus, listeners will find a fresh novel, as fascinating and brilliantly offbeat as anything he's written. [via] 
In the Shadow of the Crownby Jean PlaidyISBN 0399134298 (0-399-13429-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Innocenceby Penelope FitzgeraldISBN 0395908728 (0-395-90872-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Insect Dreams : The Half Life of Gregor Samsaby Marc EstrinISBN 0399148361 (0-399-14836-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Interpreter of Maladies: Library Editionby Jhumpa Lahiri, Janet SilverISBN 039592720X (0-395-92720-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition'Book summary:Mr. Kapasi, the protagonist of Jhumpa Lahiri's title story, would certainly have his work cut out for him if he were forced to interpret the maladies of all the characters in this eloquent debut collection. Take, for example, Shoba and Shukumar, the young couple in "A Temporary Matter" whose marriage is crumbling in the wake of a stillborn child. Or Miranda in "Sexy," who is involved in a hopeless affair with a married man. But Mr. Kapasi has problems enough of his own; in addition to his regular job working as an interpreter for a doctor who does not speak his patients' language, he also drives tourists to local sites of interest. His fare on this particular day is Mr. and Mrs. Das--first-generation Americans of Indian descent--and their children. During the course of the afternoon, Mr. Kapasi becomes enamored of Mrs. Das and then becomes her unwilling confidant when she reads too much into his profession. "I told you because of your talents," she informs him after divulging a startling secret.
I'm tired of feeling so terrible all the time. Eight years, Mr. Kapasi, I've been in pain eight years. I was hoping you could help me feel better; say the right thing. Suggest some kind of remedy.
Of course, Mr. Kapasi has no cure for what ails Mrs. Das--or himself. Lahiri's subtle, bittersweet ending is characteristic of the collection as a whole. Some of these nine tales are set in India, others in the United States, and most concern characters of Indian heritage. Yet the situations Lahiri's people face, from unhappy marriages to civil war, transcend ethnicity. As the narrator of the last story, "The Third and Final Continent," comments: "There are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept." In that single line Jhumpa Lahiri sums up a universal experience, one that applies to all who have grown up, left home, fallen in or out of love, and, above all, experienced what it means to be a foreigner, even within one's own family. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition:
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Julius Caesar and Related Readingsby William ShakespeareISBN 0395775426 (0-395-77542-6)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
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Labyrinthby Kate MosseISBN 0399153446 (0-399-15344-6)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Labyrinth'Book summary:In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny. July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth; between the skeletons, a stone ring, and a small leather bag. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade to stamp out heresy that will rip apart southern France, Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father as he leaves to fight the crusaders. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. As crusading armies led by Church potentates and nobles of northern France gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take great sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe. In the present, another woman sees the find as a means to the political power she craves; while a man who has great power will kill to destroy all traces of the discovery and everyone who stands in his way. [via]
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The Lady in the Towerby Victoria Holt, Jean Plaidy, Philippa CarrISBN 0399131817 (0-399-13181-7)
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The Lost Language Of Cranesby David LeavittISBN 0395877334 (0-395-87733-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Macbeth and Related Readingsby William ShakespeareISBN 0395775531 (0-395-77553-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin School
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The Makioka Sistersby Jun Ichiro TanizakiISBN 0399505202 (0-399-50520-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Makioka Sisters'Book summary:The four Makioka sisters lead very complicated, strenuous lives, although on the surface nothing much ever happens to them. Part of a fading Japanese aristocracy in the years leading up to World War II, they cannot escape the wide net of the family name--something always brings them back to the reality of "being a Makioka." Running out of money, living in falling-apart houses, growing older beneath the sunlight of the modern world, they do their best to preserve the rituals of the past. The two older sisters work diligently to arrange a marriage for the third sister, Yukiko. Desperate to find someone to take care of her, they keep lowering their standards. One night they find themselves out with a drunk, selfish crackpot who has no money, but who is supposed to be related to a man who works for an important utility company. The fact that he is even a candidate for their sister's hand is a sign of how far they have fallen.
There are other signs in this remarkable, utterly compelling Japanese epic. At one point, a flood overwhelms their small town of Osaka. The youngest sister, Taeko, is having tea at the impeccably decorated home where her sewing teacher, Mrs. Tamaki, lives with her son Hiroshi. When the rain first appears beneath the door,
the three were still rather enjoying themselves, shouting at each other in the best of spirits. They all had a good laugh when Hiroshi, reaching to grab the briefcase in which he had brought home his school books, bumped his head on the bobbing radio. But after perhaps a half hour, there came a moment when the three fell silent. Almost immediately, Taeko remembered afterwards, the water was above her waist. As she clutched at a curtain, a picture fell from over her head; the curtain had probably brushed against it. It was a picture Mrs. Tamaki was especially fond of.
Junichiro Tanizaki wrestled throughout his career with the idea of a country where tribes of aristocrats live as relics, grasping at the past through gestures, manners, small and intricate private laws. The narrative suspense of The Makioka Sisters is rooted in this single-minded nostalgia, this strict attention to the details of domestic life as the outer world becomes more and more incomprehensible. Pages are devoted to musing about whether Yukiko should "risk" meeting a potential husband when there is a spot above her eye--maybe she should play it safe and go to the doctor about it; maybe the potential husband will interpret it as bad luck. Tanizaki manages to make the struggle over this small, dark spot wildly compelling. I could not sleep until I discovered its fate.If epic literature is based in the dramatic and forward-moving narrative of a male hero's journey, The Makioka Sisters is a female epic of inaction--trying to figure out what to wear, crying for no reason at the same time every afternoon. With each perilous, pathetic step, the sisters are heroes setting out for the new world. They're like Odysseus, except without the ship and without the sea. --Emily White [via]
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmareby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0399501517 (0-399-50151-7)
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Man Without Qualitiesby Robert MusilISBN 0399501525 (0-399-50152-5)
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The Mysterious Affair at Stylesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396087035 (0-396-08703-5)
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Naked Came the Manateeby Tananarive Due, James W. Hall, Les Standiford, Elmore Leonard, Dave Barry, Edna Buchanan, Paul Levine, John Dufresne, Vicki Hendricks, Brian Antoni, Carolina Hospital, Evelyn Mayerson, Carl HiaasenISBN 0399141928 (0-399-14192-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Came the Manatee'Book summary:Dave Barry starts the madness in Naked Came the Manatee, introducing a 102-year-old environmentalist named Coconut Grove and a manatee saddled with one of Barry's favorite monikers, Booger. Carl Hiaasen closes down the party, and in between, 11 of Florida's literati, including Elmore Leonard, John Dufresne, and Edna Buchanan, make twisted offerings to the affair: three severed heads, all bearing a remarkable resemblance to Fidel Castro; four murders; some sex; some espionage; even an appearance by Jimmy Carter and one by Castro himself.
Originally published as a serial novel in the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine, Naked Came the Manatee resembles a literary game of telephone, with each writer contributing a chapter and passing it on to the next, who then makes the most of what he or she is given. The result is a novel with wildly fluctuating styles and more crazy plot curves than a daytime drama, but thanks to these 13 masters of the craft this roller coaster of a book is almost as much fun to read as it obviously was to write. [via]
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The Namesakeby Jhumpa LahiriISBN 0395927218 (0-395-92721-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Namesake'Book summary:Any talk of The Namesake--Jhumpa Lahiri's follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, Interpreter of Maladies--must begin with a name: Gogol Ganguli. Born to an Indian academic and his wife, Gogol is afflicted from birth with a name that is neither Indian nor American nor even really a first name at all. He is given the name by his father who, before he came to America to study at MIT, was almost killed in a train wreck in India. Rescuers caught sight of the volume of Nikolai Gogol's short stories that he held, and hauled him from the train. Ashoke gives his American-born son the name as a kind of placeholder, and the awkward thing sticks.
Awkwardness is Gogol's birthright. He grows up a bright American boy, goes to Yale, has pretty girlfriends, becomes a successful architect, but like many second-generation immigrants, he can never quite find his place in the world. There's a lovely section where he dates a wealthy, cultured young Manhattan woman who lives with her charming parents. They fold Gogol into their easy, elegant life, but even here he can find no peace and he breaks off the relationship. His mother finally sets him up on a blind date with the daughter of a Bengali friend, and Gogol thinks he has found his match. Moushumi, like Gogol, is at odds with the Indian-American world she inhabits. She has found, however, a circuitous escape: "At Brown, her rebellion had been academic ... she'd pursued a double major in French. Immersing herself in a third language, a third culture, had been her refuge--she approached French, unlike things American or Indian, without guilt, or misgiving, ore expectation of any kind." Lahiri documents these quiet rebellions and random longings with great sensitivity. There's no cleverness or showing-off in The Namesake, just beautifully confident storytelling. Gogol's story is neither comedy nor tragedy; it's simply that ordinary, hard-to-get-down-on-paper commodity: real life. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Northern Lightsby Nora RobertsISBN 0399152059 (0-399-15205-9)
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Pale Fireby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0399504583 (0-399-50458-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pale Fire'Book summary:Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet Pale Fire is more outrageously hilarious, and its narrative convolutions make the earlier book seem as straightforward as a fairy tale. Here's the plot--listen carefully! John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists of both that poem and an extensive commentary on it by the poet's crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.
According to this deranged annotator, he had urged Shade to write about his own homeland--the northern kingdom of Zembla. It soon becomes clear that this fabulous locale may well be a figment of Kinbote's colorfully cracked, prismatic imagination. Meanwhile, he manages to twist the poem into an account of Zembla's King Charles--whom he believes himself to be--and the monarch's eventual assassination by the revolutionary Jakob Gradus.
In the course of this dizzying narrative, shots are indeed fired. But it's Shade who takes the hit, enabling Kinbote to steal the dead poet's manuscript and set about annotating it. Is that perfectly clear? By now it should be obvious that Pale Fire is not only a whodunit but a who-wrote-it. There isn't, of course, a single solution. But Nabokov's best biographer, Brian Boyd, has come up with an ingenious suggestion: he argues that Shade is actually guiding Kinbote's mad hand from beyond the grave, nudging him into completing what he'd intended to be a 1,000-line poem. Read this magical, melancholic mystery and see if you agree. --Tim Appelo [via]
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A Pale View of Hillsby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0399127186 (0-399-12718-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pale View of Hills'Book summary:As she considers her daughter's suicide, a Japanese woman living alone in England finds herself retreating into the past and reliving one hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends tried to rebuild their lives after the war. From the author of AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD, THE REMAINS OF THE DAY and THE UNCONSOLED. [via]
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The People's Choiceby Jeff GreenfieldISBN 0399138129 (0-399-13812-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The People's Choice'Book summary:What happens if the President-elect dies two days after his victory, but before the electoral college meets? The rules fly out the window, as we see in this cautionary tale by Jeff Greenfield. As power plays, bidding wars, and media frenzy fly like confetti at a victory parade, the fate of the presidency rests on the shoulders of 538 obscure shopkeepers, civil servants, retirees, and party faithfuls--including an office manager from Michigan who's a little tired of being told what to do by men in blue suits. Maybe, she thinks, it's time to do something about it. The Republic may never be the same. [via]
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Picture Thisby Joseph HellerISBN 0399133550 (0-399-13355-0)
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Practical Magicby Alice HoffmanISBN 0399140557 (0-399-14055-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Practical Magic'Book summary:For most adults, fairy tales are among the childish things we've put away. Alice Hoffman, however, feels differently. Practical Magic starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries, Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town, ever since their ancestor arrived, rich, independent, and soon accused of theft: "And then one day, a farmer winged a crow in his cornfield, a creature who'd been stealing from him shamelessly for months. When Maria Owens appeared the very next morning with her arm in a sling and her white hand wound up in a white bandage, people felt certain they knew the reason why." The aunts are daily ostracized by the same upstanding citizens who sneak to their house at night for magical love cures. To the sisters they are for the most part benevolently absent, though their bell, book, and candle routine makes life a torment for Gillian, beautiful and blonde and lazy, and Sally, who's all too responsible. But when one of the aunts' cures works too well, ending as a curse, the dangers of real love become all too clear. In Hoffman's world being bewitched, bothered, and bewildered is no mere metaphor--and neither is desire. The elbows of one enamored man pucker a linoleum counter, another walks around with singed cuffs. It's difficult to catch the author's power in brief quotes. She needs space and increment to build her exquisite variations of vision and reality, her matter-of-fact announcements of the preternatural. Practical Magic again and again makes one recall the thrill of hearing at bedtime, "Now will I a tale unfold..." --Kerry Fried [via]
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0395775566 (0-395-77556-6)
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Editionby Muriel SparkISBN 0397002327 (0-397-00232-7)
Hardcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Edition'Book summary:At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther, andmost importantin her dedication to "her girls," the students she selects to be her crème de la crème. Fanatically devoted, each member of the Brodie setEunice, Jenny, Mary, Monica, Rose, and Sandyis "famous for something," and Miss Brodie strives to bring out the best in each one. Determined to instill in them independence, passion, and ambition, Miss Brodie advises her girls, "Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth, and Beauty come first. Follow me."
And they do. But one of them will betray her.
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Rainbow Sixby Tom ClancyISBN 0399143904 (0-399-14390-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rainbow Six'Book summary:For many readers, Jack Ryan embodies the essence of the modern American hero. Morally centered, disciplined, humble yet powerful, Ryan (and his onscreen incarnations in Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford) has made Tom Clancy one of the most popular writers in the world. But as Clancy has constructed the Ryan mythology, he has quietly established Ryan's shadow double, John Clark. Appearing in The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present Danger, and Without Remorse, Clark has many of Jack Ryan's most appealing traits, but he is also a darker figure embodying the more paranoid sensibilities of the late '90s. As is made clear from the opening pages of Rainbow Six, ex-Navy SEAL Clark and his colleagues believe violent, deadly force to be the best deterrent for terrorism.
Clark (a.k.a. Rainbow Six) has left the CIA to create an England-based organization code-named "Rainbow." Its mission: deploy an elite squad of American operatives combined with handpicked British, French, and German agents to stop terrorism in its tracks. Rainbow's emergence could not be more timely: in quick succession, the force diffuses three attempted terrorist actions. But Clark becomes suspicious when Russian agents suddenly show interest in Rainbow's work.
Rainbow Six appeals on all the levels that Clancy fans could hope for. The Rainbow operatives, from Navy SEALs to German mountain-leader school graduates, are rendered to inspire with their physical and mental prowess. The book is infatuated with the latest gadgets for scrambling, transmitting, and decoding secrets. And, in a carefully woven narrative that simultaneously traces the Rainbow team, a former KGB agent named Popov, the Australian Olympic security team, and a sinister group of American scientists, Clancy artfully reveals the mystery of "Shiva" at the center of the novel. How does Clark measure up against Jack Ryan? He may be the perfect hero for a world with hidden villains. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Rapture of Canaanby Sheri ReynoldsISBN 039914112X (0-399-14112-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rapture of Canaan'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1997: Members of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty Baptizing Wind spend their days and nights serving the Lord and waiting for the Rapture--that moment just before the Second Coming of Christ when the saved will be lifted bodily to heaven and the damned will be left behind to face the thousand years of tribulation on earth. The tribulation, according to Grandpa Herman, founder of Fire and Brimstone, will be an ugly time: "He said that we'd run out of food. That big bugs would chase us around and sting us with their tails . . . He said we'd turn on the faucet in the bathroom and find only blood running out . . . He said evil multitudes would come unto us and cut off our limbs, and that we wouldn't die . . . And then he'd say, 'But you don't have to be left behind. You can go straight to Heaven with all of God's special children if you'll only open your hearts to Jesus . . .'"
Such talk of damnation weighs heavy on the mind of Ninah Huff, the 15-year-old narrator of Sheri Reynolds's second novel, The Rapture of Canaan. To distract her from sinful thoughts about her prayer partner James, Ninah puts pecan shells in her shoes and nettles in her bed. But concentrating on the Passion of Jesus cannot, in the end, deter Ninah and James from their passion for each other, and the consequences prove both tragic and transforming for the entire community.
The Rapture of Canaan is a book about miracles, and in writing it, Reynolds has performed something of a miracle herself. Although the church's beliefs and practices may seem extreme (sleeping in an open grave, mortifying the flesh with barbed wire), its members are complex and profoundly sympathetic as they wrestle with the contradictions of Fire and Brimstone's theology, the temptations of the outside world, and the frailties of the human heart. [via]
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Red Dragonby Thomas HarrisISBN 039912442X (0-399-12442-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Dragon'Book summary:Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas's Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs. As in Silence, the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist Lecter for clues to catching a killer on the loose.
The sleuth, Will Graham, actually quit the FBI after nearly getting killed by Lecter while nabbing him, but fear isn't what bugs him about crime busting. It's just too creepy to get inside a killer's twisted mind. But he comes back to stop a madman who's been butchering entire families. The FBI needs Graham's insight, and Graham needs Lecter's genius. But Lecter is a clever fiend, and he manipulates both Graham and the killer at large from his cell.
That killer, Francis Dolarhyde, works in a film lab, where he picks his victims by studying their home movies. He's obsessed with William Blake's bizarre painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, believing there's a red dragon within him, the personification of his demonic drives. Flashbacks to Dolarhyde's terrifying childhood and superb stream-of-consciousness prose get us right there inside his head. When Dolarhyde does weird things, we understand why. We sympathize when the voice of the cruel dead grandma who raised and crazed him urges him to mayhem--she's way scarier than that old bat in Psycho. When he falls in love with a blind girl at the lab, we hope he doesn't give in to Grandma's violent advice.
This book is awesomely detailed, ingeniously plotted, judiciously gory, and fantastically imagined. If you haven't read it, you've never had the creeps. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Reluctant Queenby Jean PlaidyISBN 0399136096 (0-399-13609-6)
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The Return of the Kingby J. R. R. Tolkien, Alan LeeISBN 0395647401 (0-395-64740-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of the King'Book summary:As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, Aragorn is revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient kings. Gandalf miraculously returns and defeats the evil wizard, Saruman. Sam leaves his master for dead after a battle with the giant spider, Shelob; but Frodo is still alive -- in the hands of the Orcs. And all the while the armies of the Dark Lord are massing -- and the One Ring comes ever closer to the Cracks of Doom. [via]
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The Riverside Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans, Heather Dubrow, Charles H. Shattuck, William T. Liston, Frank Kermode, Hallett Smith, Anne Barton, Harry Levin, Herschel Baker, Marie Edel, Joseph Jay TobinISBN 0395754909 (0-395-75490-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riverside Shakespeare'Book summary:After more than a generation and despite its many imitators, The Riverside Shakespeare remains the Shakespeare of choice for scholars and general readers alike. Recently revised to reflect the last quarter century of literary scholarship, it is now available in a deluxe edition - two volumes, bound in full cloth, in a handsome, four-color slipcase. The new, revised version of The Riverside Shakespeare retains all the features that made the first edition so popular - the invaluable notes, the wide-ranging introduction, and the brilliant critical prefaces to the individual works. Additions include the history play Edward IIIand the poem "A Funeral Elegy," both recently claimed for Shakespeare by computer-aided textual analysis. The original appendices have been updated and expanded and are joined by two new essays, "Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Criticism" and "Shakespeare's Plays in Performance: From 1970," the latter accompanied by eight pages of full-color photographs. [via]
Saving Fish From Drowningby Amy TanISBN 0399153012 (0-399-15301-2)
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The Sea King's Daughterby Barbara MichaelsISBN 0396072089 (0-396-07208-9)
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Second Natureby Alice HoffmanISBN 0399139087 (0-399-13908-7)
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Shatteredby Dick FrancisISBN 0399146601 (0-399-14660-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shattered'Book summary:After 41 novels, most writers run out of energy before the final gallop. But Dick Francis's latest thriller is as good as his earliest. Perhaps it's because this one is dedicated to the Queen Mother, who celebrated her centennial in 2000, and who, like her famously horsey daughter, shares Francis's passion for the races. Or maybe he's just found his stride again, after a few less-than-outstanding starts. Here he does one of his best tricks: lures you into a somewhat arcane area you might know little about and explicates it so brilliantly that you don't even realize how much you've learned (in this case, about glass blowing) while a mystery is unraveled, a crime is solved, and the hero gets the girl.
This time the mise en scène is the glass blowing studio owned by Gerard Logan, friend of the late Martin Stukely, a jockey who takes a fatal fall at the Cheltenham steeplechase during the last race of the century. Still mourning Martin, Gerard is savagely beaten, his workshop ransacked, and his life threatened by a gang of thugs. Investigating, Gerard discovers that the gang includes a domineering woman who's the daughter of Martin's valet and a scientist who's stolen valuable data from the laboratory that formerly employed him. They believe Gerard has possession of a videotape entrusted to him by Martin before his death and that the secrets on the tape are worth Gerard's life.
It's a good set up, with just enough of the usual horse lore and a pleasant love story involving Gerard and a pretty policewoman, neither of which overshadow the taut pacing and the well-worked-out plot. Francis's protagonists may be accidental heroes, but they're not antiheroes; they're usually eminently decent, likable men, and their sense of self is always interesting. Here's Gerard at home, in a break from the action, thinking about the new woman in his heart in a typical Francis love scene:
I walked deliberately through all the rooms, thinking about Catherine, wondering both if she would like the place, and whether the house would accept her in return. Once in the past the house had delivered a definite thumbs-down, and once I'd been given an ultimatum to smother the pale plain walls with brightly patterned paper as a condition of marriage, but to the horror of her family I'd backed out of the whole deal, and, as a result, I now used the house as arbiter and had disentangled myself from a later young woman who'd begun to refer to her and me as "an item" and to reply to questions as "we." We think. No, we don't think.
And, a few pages later,The speed of development of strong feeling for one another didn't seem to me to be shocking but natural, and if I thought about the future it unequivocally included Catherine Dodd. "If you want to cover the pale plain walls with brightly patterned paper, go ahead," I said.
It may be Francis's English reticence that keeps him, mercifully, from spoiling a good mystery with what other writers consider the obligatory sex scene, or it just may be the mastery of his form that few of his peers approach. In every page of this terrific new book, he's at the top of it. --Jane Adams [via]She laughed. "I like the peace of pale walls. Why should I want to change them?"
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Shoeless Joeby W.P. Kinsella, John RadziewiczISBN 0395957737 (0-395-95773-7)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Skin Tightby Carl HiaasenISBN 0399134891 (0-399-13489-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skin Tight'Book summary:"Good, mean fun...A twisting, high-speed ride on a roller coaster without brakes."
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Somebody wants Mick Stranahan dead, and the list of possible players is long: the plastic surgeon with the extremely shaky hands, the sleazy lawyer who advertises, the TV host whose taste for sensationalism is exceeded only by his vanity, and the hit man whose skin problems could fill a comprehensive (if bizarre) medical textbook.
The whole thing is downright harrowing. It's Hiaasen at his best. And his best is very, very good.
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Slippageby Harlan EllisonISBN 0395924820 (0-395-92482-0)
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Smart Womenby Judy BlumeISBN 0399128409 (0-399-12840-9)
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Take Joy: The Tasha Tudor Christmas Bookby Tasha TudorISBN 039920766X (0-399-20766-X)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0396085350 (0-396-08535-0)
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The Toll-gateby Georgette HeyerISBN 0399110291 (0-399-11029-1)
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Tourist Seasonby Carl HiaasenISBN 0399131450 (0-399-13145-0)
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Tricky Businessby Dave BarryISBN 0399149244 (0-399-14924-4)
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Turtle Moonby Alice HoffmanISBN 0399137203 (0-399-13720-3)
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Two Towersby J. R. R. Tolkien, Alan LeeISBN 0395647398 (0-395-64739-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Towers'Book summary:Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest. They have lost the wizard Gandalf in a battle in the Mines of Moria. And Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. Now Frodo and Sam continue the journey alone down the great river Anduin -- alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. [via]
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Vanity of Duluozby Jack KerouacISBN 0399503862 (0-399-50386-2)
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We Are All Fine Hereby Mary GutersonISBN 039915230X (0-399-15230-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Are All Fine Here'Book summary:A thoroughly irresistible debut novel about a discontented woman (married, with a teenage son, and fast approaching middle age) who dallies in her past-with startling, humorous, and bittersweet consequences.
Julia has been married to Jim for fifteen years, but she has never really stopped thinking about the man who came before: Ray, the love of her life. Pushing forty, trapped in a job she doesn't care for, growing ever more distant from her son, and fed up with her husband's flirtation with a much younger coworker, Julia accompanies Ray to a wedding of friends and has a quick tryst in the bathroom. Several weeks later, she learns she's pregnant, and because she's also recently slept with Jim-a rare event of late-she can't be quite certain of the baby's paternity.
How Julia deals with this knotty problem (and with her prickly mother, her childless sister, her best friend, her husband's family, not to mention all the men in her life) is the core of this laugh-out-loud and wholly recognizable, unforgettable, and intelligent swift gulp of a novel-which also delivers unexpected heart. [via]More editions of We Are All Fine Here:
While England Sleepsby David LeavittISBN 0395752868 (0-395-75286-8)
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The White Boy Shuffleby Paul BeattyISBN 0395742803 (0-395-74280-3)
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The Witch of Blackbird Pondby Elizabeth George Speare, Barry MoserISBN 0395913675 (0-395-91367-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond'Book summary:Forced to leave her sunny Caribbean home for the bleak Connecticut Colony, Kit Tyler is filled with trepidation. As they sail up the river to Kit's new home, the teasing and moodiness of a young sailor named Nat doesn't help. Still, her unsinkable spirit soon bobs back up. What this spirited teenager doesn't count on, however, is how her aunt and uncle's stern Puritan community will view her. In the colonies of 1687, a girl who swims, wears silk and satin gowns, and talks back to her elders is not only headstrong, she is in grave danger of being regarded as a witch. When Kit befriends an old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, it is more than the ascetics can take: soon Kit is defending her life. Who can she count on as she confronts these angry and suspicious townspeople?
A thoroughly exciting and rewarding Newbery Medal winner and ALA Notable Children's Book, Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond brings this frightening period of witch hysteria to life. Readers will wonder at the power of the mob mentality, and the need for communities in desperate times--even current times--to find a scapegoat. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Without Remorseby Tom ClancyISBN 0399138250 (0-399-13825-0)
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The Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar Wilde, Wilde, J. Barbey d'AurevillyISBN 0404069606 (0-404-06960-6)
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