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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Barry MoserISBN 0688107826 (0-688-10782-6)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:The extraordinary adventures of the world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes, as faithfully recounted by his comrade, Dr. Watson, have captivated readers of all ages for over a century. The stories' blend of heartpounding, fast-paced action and mind-boggling deductive reasoning is as riveting today as it was when first published.
This deluxe illustrated edition contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first twelve stories and includes such famous cases as "The Red-headed League," in which Holmes uncovers a well-concealed, devilishly clever criminal plot; "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," in which Holmes must trap a jewel thief--with astonishing results; "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," in which Holmes and Watson find themselves dealing with treachery, violence, and deadly snakes; and nine more equally thrilling and puzzling mysteries.
Magnificently illustrated with twelve powerful watercolors by award-winning artist Barry Moser, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes features the complete text of the original collection of Doyle's short stories and is an ideal introduction to the fascinating world of this mesmerizing detective.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Barry MoserISBN 068807510X (0-688-07510-X)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:Here is one of the great American novels, illustrated by one of this country's most distinguished artists.
Readers will enjoy the antics of that irrepressible boy-hero, Tom, who lies to his Aunt Polly and still is forgiven, wins the heart of Becky Thatcher by getting whipped at school, gets out of whitewashing a fence by tricking his friends into doing it, and has dangerous adventures with his sidekick Huckleberry Finn but emerges unscathed.
Barry Moser's seventeen unforgettable watercolors bring Mark Twain's beloved novel to life in this deluxe gift edition that readers will want to return to again and again.
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Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45by Alan ClarkISBN 0688042686 (0-688-04268-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Bartleby the Scrivenerby Herman MelvilleISBN 0684819104 (0-684-81910-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bartleby the Scrivener'Book summary:A lush edition of this short classic novel gains new perspective with the inclusion of black-and-white photographs depicting nineteenth-century Wall Street and the prison called the Tombs, where the story takes place. 15,000 first printing. [via]
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Beezus and Ramonaby Beverly Cleary, Tracy DockrayISBN 0688210767 (0-688-21076-7)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beezus and Ramona'Book summary:Nine-year-old Beezus Quimby has her hands full with her little sister, Ramona. Sure, other people have little sisters that bother them sometimes, but is there anyone in the world like Ramona? Whether she's taking one bite out of every apple in a box or secretly inviting 15 other 4-year-olds to the house for a party, Ramona is always making trouble--and getting all the attention. Every big sister can relate to the trials and tribulations Beezus must endure. Old enough to be expected to take responsibility for her little sister, yet young enough to be mortified by every embarrassing plight the precocious preschooler gets them into, Beezus is constantly struggling with her mixed-up feelings about the exasperating Ramona.
There's no one in the world like Beverly Cleary, either. This terrifically popular author of over two dozen children's books has withstood the test of time for generations, as her many awards, including the Newbery Medal, attest. Two books in the Ramona series, Ramona and Her Father and Ramona Quimby, Age 8, were also named Newbery Honor Books. Louis Darling's wonderful ink illustrations are the kind that will stay with a reader for a lifetime. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Bitter Medicineby Sara ParetskyISBN 0688064485 (0-688-06448-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Bloodingby Joseph WambaughISBN 0688086179 (0-688-08617-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blooding'Book summary:From the author of The Onion Field and Echos in the Darkness, the historic first use of genetic fingerprint to solve two savage murders in the English Midlands. [via]
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Bloodlineby Sidney SheldonISBN 068803196X (0-688-03196-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bloodline'Book summary:One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. The daughter of a rich and powerful father, Elizabeth Roffe is young, beautiful - and sole heir to a billion dollar fortune. Then tragedy strikes. Her father is killed in a freak accident and Elizabeth must take command of his mighty global empire, the pharmaceutical company Roffe and Sons. It makes Elizabeth the richest girl in the world. But someone, somewhere, is determined that she must die. From the backstreets of Istanbul to the upmarket offices of New York, Bloodline is a hypnotic tale of love and ambition, danger, intrigue and death. [via]
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got Thereby David BrooksISBN 0684853787 (0-684-85378-7)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There'Book summary:It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980s.
But now the bohemian and the bourgeois are all mixed up, as David Brooks explains in this brilliant description of upscale culture in America. It is hard to tell an espresso-sipping professor from a cappuccino-gulping banker. Laugh and sob as you read about the information age economy's new dominant class. Marvel at their attitudes toward morality, sex, work, and lifestyle, and at how the members of this new elite have combined the values of the countercultural sixties with those of the achieving eighties. These are the people who set the tone for society today, for you. They are bourgeois bohemians: Bobos.
Are you a Bobo?
Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature?
Does your newly renovated kitchen look like an aircraft hangar with plumbing? Did you select your new refrigerator on the grounds that mere freezing isn't cold enough?
Would you spend a little more for socially conscious toothpaste -- the kind that doesn't actually kill germs, it just asks them to leave?
Do you work for one of those hip, visionary software companies where everybody comes to work in hiking boots and glacier glasses, as if a 400-foot wall of ice were about to come sliding through the parking lot?
Do youthink your educational credentials are just as good as those of the shimmering couples on the "New York Times" weddings page?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are probably a member of today's new upper class. [via]
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A Bridge Too Farby Cornelius RyanISBN 0684803305 (0-684-80330-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Bridge Too Far'Book summary:THE CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II
A Bridge Too Far is Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-Day.
In this compelling work of history, Ryan narrates the Allied effort to end the war in Europe in 1944 by dropping the combined airborne forces of the American and British armies behind German lines to capture the crucial bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem. Focusing on a vast cast of characters -- from Dutch civilians to British and American strategists to common soldiers and commanders -- Ryan brings to life one of the most daring and ill-fated operations of the war. A Bridge Too Far superbly recreates the terror and suspense, the heroism and tragedy of this epic operation, which ended in bitter defeat for the Allies.
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Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitzby Lucette Matalon Lagnado, Sheila Cohn DekelISBN 0688096956 (0-688-09695-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Cider House Rulesby John IrvingISBN 068803036X (0-688-03036-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider House Rules'Book summary:First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted. [via]
The Color of Her Pantiesby Piers AnthonyISBN 0688109160 (0-688-10916-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Cradle of Colonialismby George MasselmanISBN 0685698408 (0-685-69840-8)
Hardcover, Elliots Books
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Crystal Caveby Mary StewartISBN 0688013988 (0-688-01398-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crystal Cave'Book summary:Initially published nearly thirty years ago, Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave has been spellbinding readers and converting them into serious Arthurian buffs ever since. The first in a series of four books, this novel focuses on the early life of Merlin the magician, and the political developments of fifth-century Britain. Not for the fainthearted, this verbose text pays careful attention to historical details and methodical plot development.
Merlin's childhood is formed by the absence of his reticent, convent-bound mother and his unnamed and unknown father. As the bastard grandson of a local king, Merlin is the object of both envy and ridicule. His strange powers and predictions earn him greater status as a pariah, and he leaves home as a preadolescent. Returning years later as a young man--empowered by self-knowledge and magic--Merlin finds himself caught in the currents of the shifting kingdoms.
As an established classic in this genre, and the first in a popular series, The Crystal Cave introduces this familiar character with fresh sensitivity. While readers looking for the romance of First Knight will be disappointed, those happy with tight writing and a complex story line will be satisfied. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien [via]
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The Delta Starby Joseph WambaughISBN 0688019129 (0-688-01912-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Barry MoserISBN 0688139213 (0-688-13921-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:The punctured throat, the coffin lid slowly opening, the unholy shriek as the stake pierces the heart--these are just a few of the chilling images Bram Stoker unleashed upon the world with his 1897 masterpiece, Dracula. Inspired by the folk legend of nosferatu, the undead, Stoker created a timeless tale of gothic horror and romance that has enthralled and terrified readers ever since.
This illustrated edition does full justice to the clark splendor of Stoker's novel of the count who feeds off the blood of the living. Stark and powerful relief engravings from renowned illustrator Barry Moser bring to life the story's most unforgettable moments and characters: the ship of death that brings Dracula to English shores as it pitches upon the sea; the final terrible siege at his Transylvanian lair; and the faces of clever, loving Mina Harker, mad, ravenous Renfield, wise Professor Van Helsing, and of course, Count Dracula himself.
Told in letters, diary entries, and news clippings, Dracula maintains an uncanny power over the reader, not only in the chilling charisma of its oftimitated character, but in the pace and fury of its storytelling. Stoker's novel has inspired countless movies and stories. But the original Dracula, like its hero, has the power to live forever. [via]
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Echoes in the Darknessby Joseph WambaughISBN 0688068898 (0-688-06889-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Echoes in the Darkness'Book summary:On June 25, 1989, the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a hotel parking lot near Philadelphia's "Main Line." Her two children had vanished. The Main Line Murder Case burst upon the headlines--and wasn't resolved for seven years. Now, master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh reconstructs the case from its roots, recounting the details, drama, players and pawns in this bizarre crime that shocked the nation and tore apart a respectable suburban town. The massive FBI and state police investigation ultimately centered on two men. Dr. Jay C. Smith--By day he was principal of Upper Merion High School where Susan Reinert taught. At night he was a sadist who indulged in porno, drugs, and weapons. William Bradfield--He was a bearded and charismatic English teacher and classics scholar, but his real genius was for juggling women--three at a time. One of those women was Susan Reinert. How these two men are connected, how the brilliant murder was carried off, and how the investigators closed this astounding case makes for Wambaugh's most compelling book yet. [via]
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Fatal Voyage: A Novelby Kathy ReichsISBN 0684859726 (0-684-85972-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fatal Voyage: A Novel'Book summary:When forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan joins the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team mobilized to investigate an airplane crash in North Carolina's Smoky Mountains, she literally stumbles on a body part that doesn't match up with the remains of any of the plane's passengers. The leg she grabs out of the jaws of a coyote feeding on the carnage scattered around the site belongs to an unidentified elderly man, and seems to have no connection with the disaster. But an abandoned hunting lodge near the crash site does, although before Tempe can figure out exactly how they're linked, she's pulled off the DMORT unit and forced to stand idly by as her professional reputation goes up in flames. When Andrew Ryan, a detective familiar to readers of Kathy Reichs's earlier books (Deja Dead, Death du Jour, Deadly Decisions), appears on the scene, another mystery begins to unfold. There seems to be no trace of two men on the plane's manifest, Ryan's partner and his seatmate, a criminal who was being escorted back to Canada via Washington, D.C., the doomed flight's final destination, to stand trial for murder.
As usual, Reichs serves up a solid helping of forensic science as the DMORT operatives do their thing, and Tempe traces the remains of a man killed 40 years ago to a series of ritual murders of senior citizens, and further to those whose influence was responsible for her firing. Reichs keeps the narrative moving along despite the somewhat ponderous technical and scientific information; her pacing is brisk and her series heroine in fine form. Tempe's romantic life gets more interesting with every new adventure. A solid thriller that will please the best-selling author's regular readers and serve as a good introduction to new ones. --Jane Adams [via]
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Floating in My Mother's Palmby Ursula HegiISBN 0684854759 (0-684-85475-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Floating in My Mother's Palm'Book summary:Floating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her bestselling novel Stones from the River. Hanna's courageous voice evokes her unconventional mother, who swims during thunderstorms; the illegitimate son of an American GI, who learns from Hanna about his father; and the librarian, Trudi Montag, who lets Hanna see her hometown from a dwarf's extraordinary point of view. Although Ursula Hegi wrote Floating in My Mother's Palm first, it can be read as a sequel to Stones from the River. [via]
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From Time to Timeby Jack FinneyISBN 0684818442 (0-684-81844-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Time to Time'Book summary:The New York Times Bestseller -- Jack Finney's long-awaited sequel to his classic illustrated novel Time and Again.
Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time. This time Reuben Prien at the secret, government-sponsored Project wants Si to leave his home in the 1880s and visit New York in 1912. Si's mission: to protect a man who is traveling across the Atlantic with vital documents that could avert World War I. So one fateful day in 1912, Si finds himself aboard the world's most famous ship...the Titanic. [via]
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Gentlemen of War: The Amazing Story of Commander Karl Von Muller and the S M S Emdenby Dan Van Der VatISBN 0688031153 (0-688-03115-3)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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The German High Command at War: Hindenburg and Ludendorff Conduct World War Iby Robert B. AspreyISBN 0688128424 (0-688-12842-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordonby Stephen KingISBN 0684867621 (0-684-86762-1)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon'Book summary:Trisha McFarland is a plucky 9-year-old hiking with her brother and mom, who is grimly determined to give the kids a good time on their weekends together. Trisha's mom is recently divorced, and her brother is feuding with her for moving from Boston to small-town Maine, where classmates razz him. Trisha steps off the trail for a pee and a respite from the bickering. And gets lost.
Trisha's odyssey succeeds on several levels. King renders her consciousness of increasing peril beautifully, from the "first minnowy flutter of disquiet" in her guts to her into-the-wild tumbles to her descent into hallucinations, the nicest being her beloved Red Sox baseball pitcher Tom Gordon, whose exploits she listens to on her Walkman. The nature writing is accurate, tense, and sometimes lyrical, from the maddening whine of the no-see-um mosquito to the profound obbligato of the "Subaudible" (Trisha's dad's term for nature's intimations of God). Our identification with Trisha deepens as we learn about her loved ones: Dad, a dreamboat whose beer habit could sink him; loving but stubborn Mom; Trisha's best pal, Pepsi Robichaud, vividly evoked by her colorful sayings ("Don't go all GIRLY on me, McFarland!"). The personal associations triggered by a full moon, the running monologue with which she stays sane--we who have been lost in woods will recognize these things.
In King's revealing Amazon.com interview, he said the one book he wishes he'd written was Lord of the Flies. When Trisha confronts a vision of buzzing horror in the middle of the woods, King creates his strongest echo yet of the central passage of Golding's novel. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Glitter Domeby Joseph WambaughISBN 0688002072 (0-688-00207-2)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Gone with the Windby Margaret MitchellISBN 0684826259 (0-684-82625-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone with the Wind'Book summary:An anniversary edition of Margaret Mitchell's timeless classic. [via]
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Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Lutherby Roland H. BaintonISBN 0687168953 (0-687-16895-3)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther'Book summary:Here is an outstanding modern contribution to religious literature - a vivid portrait of the man who, because of his unshakable faith in his God, helped to bring about the Protestant Reformation.
This is an authoritative, unforgettable biography of Martin Luther, the great religious leader, who entered a monastery as a youth and who, as a man, shattered the structure of the medieval church. Luther spoke out against the corrupt religious practices that then existed. His demand that the authority for doctrine and practice be Scriptures--rather than Popes or Councils--echoed around the world and ignited the Great Reformation. Accused of heresy and threatened with excommunication and death, Luther maintained his bold stand and refused to recant. In his crusade to eliminate religious abuses, he did more than any other man to establish the Protestant faith.
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The Hollow Hillsby Mary StewartISBN 0688001793 (0-688-00179-3)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hollow Hills'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. First book in the Merlin series. The spellbinding, suspenseful story of how Merlin helped Arthur become King of all Britain. [via]
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Innocent Bloodby P. D. JamesISBN 0684165910 (0-684-16591-0)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Innocent Blood'Book summary:Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir.
"As a crime novel," wrote the London Times, Innocent Blood is "the peak of the art." "Flawlessly crafted...profoundly, masterfully moving," Cosmopolitan concurred. [via]
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Jesus and the Wordby Rudolf BultmannISBN 0684175967 (0-684-17596-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Jonathan Livingston Seagullby Richard BachISBN 0684846845 (0-684-84684-5)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull'Book summary:"Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again," writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. "For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight." Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes the story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds your ambition threatening. (At one point our beloved gull is even banished from his flock.) By not compromising his higher vision, Jonathan gets the ultimate payoff: transcendence. Ultimately, he learns the meaning of love and kindness. The dreamy seagull photographs by Russell Munson provide just the right illustrations--although the overall packaging does seem a bit dated (keep in mind that it was first published in 1970). Nonetheless, this is a spirituality classic, and an especially engaging parable for adolescents. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Last Days of the Third Reich: The Collapse of Nazi Germany, May 1945by James LucasISBN 0688066380 (0-688-06638-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Last Enchantmentby Mary StewartISBN 0688034810 (0-688-03481-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Enchantment'Book summary:Arthur Pendragon is King! Unchallenged on the battlefield, he melds the country together in a time of promise. But sinister powers plot to destroy Camelot, and when the witch-queen Morgause -- Arthur's own half sister -- ensnares him in an incestuous liaison, a fatal web of love, betrayal, and bloody vengeance is woven.
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Les Fleurs Du Malby Charles BaudelaireISBN 0685374092 (0-685-37409-2)
Hardcover, Distribooks Inc
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 0685113973 (0-685-11397-3)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. [via]
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Lines and Shadowsby Joseph WambaughISBN 0688026192 (0-688-02619-2)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave FlaubertISBN 0685349004 (0-685-34900-4)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madame Bovary'Book summary:Flaubert avait beau affirmer qu'il désirait faire du style le coeur d'un "livre sur rien", son premier roman n'en est pas moins un récit, un roman de la "fatalité", comme le souligne innocemment Charles Bovary, sans même savoir qu'il s'agit d'une fatalité d'ordre narratologique qui imbrique imperceptiblement les éléments du texte pour rendre l'issue inévitable. Tableau des Moeurs de province, Madame Bovary dépeint avec tant d'efficacité la dynamique de la frustration que le mélange d'ennui profond, d'apathie et d'exaltation romanesque qui caractérise son héroïne a donné naissance au terme de bovarysme. De Tostes à Yonville-l'Abbaye, Emma Bovary traîne sa morne existence jalonnée d'adultères. Certes, ses échappées à bord de l'Hirondelle, l'express qui relie Yonville à Rouen, pimentent sa vie. Mais elle est conduite par Hivert, vouée au retour ironique et incontournable. Quelles que soient les tentatives d'évasion, le bovarysme triomphe. Dans le portrait de cette petite bourgeoise normande, Flaubert a poussé l'écriture objective, neutralité indispensable afin de se fondre dans les personnages, au point de rendre si vivantes les aspirations d'Emma que le roman lui valut un procès. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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Moonlight Becomes Youby Mary Higgins ClarkISBN 0684831279 (0-684-83127-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Wayby Bill BrysonISBN 0688078958 (0-688-07895-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way'Book summary:Who would have thought that a book about English would be so entertaining? Certainly not this grammar-allergic reviewer, but The Mother Tongue pulls it off admirably. Bill Bryson--a zealot--is the right man for the job. Who else could rhapsodize about "the colorless murmur of the schwa" with a straight face? It is his unflagging enthusiasm, seeping from between every sentence, that carries the book.
Bryson displays an encyclopedic knowledge of his topic, and this inevitably encourages a light tone; the more you know about a subject, the more absurd it becomes. No jokes are necessary, the facts do well enough by themselves, and Bryson supplies tens per page. As well as tossing off gems of fractured English (from a Japanese eraser: "This product will self-destruct in Mother Earth."), Bryson frequently takes time to compare the idiosyncratic tongue with other languages. Not only does this give a laugh (one word: Welsh), and always shed considerable light, it also makes the reader feel fortunate to speak English. [via]
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The Mysteries Of Pittsburghby Michael ChabonISBN 0688076327 (0-688-07632-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh'Book summary:hardcover gilt emblem. lettering first ed. [via]
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Mysterious Islandby Jules Verne, N. C. WyethISBN 0684189577 (0-684-18957-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mysterious Island'Book summary:The five castaways, having landed from a balloon on an island in the Pacific, begin their struggle for survival and the adventures that will lead them to the mysterious Captain Nemo.
Verne's remarkable novel, originally published in 1875 and by Scribners in 1918 with N.C. Wyeth's magnificent illustrations, is the latest of the Scribner Illustrated Classics to be reissued. The original canvases have been newly photographed and reproduced with exceptional fidelity for this edition, and the text has been reset in the original typeface. [via]
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Notes from a Small Islandby Bill BrysonISBN 0688147259 (0-688-14725-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from a Small Island'Book summary:Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa. Righting that error, he spent 20 years in England before deciding to repatriate: "I had recently read that 3.7 million Americans according to a Gallup poll, believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me." That comic tone enlivens this account of Bryson's farewell walking tour of the countryside of "the green and kindly island that had for two decades been my home." [via]
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The Old Man and the Seaby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684801221 (0-684-80122-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Man and the Sea'Book summary:Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work: "The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords." Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame:
Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.
If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator: "The old man was dreaming about the lions." Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career. --James Marcus [via]More editions of The Old Man and the Sea:
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The Other Side of Midnightby Sidney SheldonISBN 068800220X (0-688-00220-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Side of Midnight'Book summary:One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. A gripping, glamorous novel of scorching sensuality and heart-stopping evil. A beautiful French actress whose craving for passion and vengeance takes her from the gutters of Paris to the bedroom of a powerful billionaire; a dynamic Greek tycoon who never forgets an insult, never forgives an injury; and a handsome war hero lured from his wife by another woman. From Paris to Washington, Hollywood to the islands of Greece, The Other Side of Midnight is the story of four star-crossed lives enmeshed in a deadly ritual of passion, intrigue, and corruption. [via]
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Out of Indiaby Ruth Prawer JhabvalaISBN 0688063829 (0-688-06382-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of India'Book summary:'To live in India and be at peace, one must to a very considerable extent become Indian, and adopt Indian attitudes, habits, beliefs!' 'But how is this possible?' Ruth Prawer Jhabvala asks in a brilliant and candid introduction. 'Should one want to try to become something other than what one is?' Both the European and the Indian characters search for answers to these questions in fifteen acclaimed stories from the author's four previous collections. [via]
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Patton: The Man Behind the Legend 1885 1945by Martin BlumensonISBN 0688137954 (0-688-13795-4)
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Pilgrim of Hateby Ellis PetersISBN 0688049648 (0-688-04964-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pilgrim of Hate'Book summary:Pilgrims are gathering from far and wide to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the translation of Saint Wilfred's bones to the Benedictine Abbey at Shrewsbury. In distant Winchester, a knight, supporter of the Empress Maud, has been murdered -- not apparently an event of importance to those seeking miraculous cures at the saint's shrine. But among the throng some strange customers indeed begin to puzzle Brother Cadfael -- and as the story unfolds it becomes evident that the murder is a much less remote affair than it first seemed. [via]
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The Pollen Roomby Zoe Jenny, Elizabeth GaffneyISBN 0684854589 (0-684-85458-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pollen Room'Book summary:In Swiss writer Zoë Jenny's haunting debut novel, The Pollen Room, an absent mother poisons her daughter's world, down to its very air. Always on her way out the door, trailing scarves, hair, and discarded blossoms in her wake, Lucy is so distracted, unmaternal, and alluring that it's hard to say whether she makes things worse for the narrator--her daughter, Jo--when she's around or when she's gone. Jo never gives up hope for Lucy, meaning she gets endlessly pummeled. When Lucy takes off permanently with her lover Alois, abandoning her 5-year-old daughter to the reckless care of her father, Jo must spend nights entirely alone in the house while her father drives a delivery truck. For the adolescent girl, reunited with Lucy in Alois's house after his suspicious death, it is another deeper, fresher hell to watch her mother--at the first sign of recovered energy--begin to plan her escape into the arms of another new man. Jo, to the contrary, can't flee anywhere. She barely gets out of bed. Her landscape, though, is in constant motion--particularly when she's outdoors, or with Lucy.
"It would be pretty creepy up here alone at night, don't you think?" I asked her. She looked over at me as if I'd said something completely irrelevant, and suddenly the ground seemed to buck under my feet as if I were riding on the back of an unbroken beast. The sky threatened to open wide, and I felt the hardness of the earth beneath me. I tried to concentrate on the mole under the left corner of Lucy's mouth, but her face broke up into pieces as she leaned over me, peering into my eyes.
Translated from the German by Paris Review editor Elizabeth Gaffney, The Pollen Room charts Jo's suffocating life with an uncommon, unflinching eye. Time passes, and Jo's world simply does not rebuild itself. But readers will find their own worlds enlarged by the sustained lyricism and honesty in Zoë Jenny's writing. --Jean Lenihan [via]More editions of The Pollen Room:
Postmortemby Patricia CornwellISBN 0684191415 (0-684-19141-5)
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A Prayer for Owen Meanyby John IrvingISBN 0688077080 (0-688-07708-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Prayer for Owen Meany'Book summary:Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mum with a baseball and believes--correctly, it transpires--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John Irving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery O'Connor's work. Irving fans will find much that is familiar: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and beast, the Garp-like unknown father of the narrator (Owen's orphaned best friend), the rough comedy. The scene of doltish Dr Dolder, Owen's shrink, drunkenly driving his VW down the school's marble steps is a marvellous set piece. So are the Christmas pageants Owen stars in. But it's all, as Highlights magazine used to put it, "fun with a purpose". When Owen plays baby Jesus in the pageants, and glimpses a tombstone with his death date while enacting A Christmas Carol, the slapstick doesn't change the fact that he was born to be martyred. The book's countless subplots add up to a moral argument, specifically an indictment of American foreign policy--from Vietnam to the Contras.
The book's mystic religiosity is steeped in Robertson Davies' Deptford trilogy, and the fatal baseball relates to the fatefully misdirected snowball in the first Deptford novel, Fifth Business. Tiny, symbolic Owen echoes the hero of Irving's teacher Günter Grass's The Tin Drum--the two characters share the same initials. A rollicking entertainment, Owen Meany is also a meditation on literature, history and God. --Tim Appelo [via]
Prince of Chaosby R. ZelaznyISBN 0688087272 (0-688-08727-2)
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Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabiaby Jean P. SassonISBN 0688116752 (0-688-11675-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia'Book summary:A Saudi Arabian princess describes the inequities for women in her country, discussing arranged marriages for child brides, the murder of female babies, and her own life in the shadow of men. 100,000 first printing. $85,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild Alt. First serial, Cosmopolitan. Tour. [via]
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Question Questby Piers AnthonyISBN 0688108989 (0-688-10898-9)
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Ramona and Her Fatherby Beverly Cleary, Alan TiegreenISBN 0688221149 (0-688-22114-9)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ramona and Her Father'Book summary:Second grade is not turning out the way it should for Ramona Quimby. Her dad has lost his job, her mom has found a full-time job, and her big sister Beezus has "reached a difficult age." In her inimitable way, Ramona decides to take charge. She practices TV commercials in hopes of earning a million dollars, but only ends up insulting her teacher and getting into a prickly mess with some burrs. Then she embarks on a campaign to make her father stop smoking. Mr. Quimby manages to hold up under all these strains, but the challenge is on for the whole family to prove their mettle.
Once again, Beverly Cleary proves her own mettle in this touching and hilarious Newbery Honor Book. Beloved author of over two dozen children's books, and recipient of many awards, including another Newbery Honor for Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and a Newbery Medal for Dear Mr. Henshaw, Cleary's instinct for children's jumbled emotions is flawless. Alan Tiegreen's adroit line drawings perfectly complement Cleary's style; it's hard to imagine one without the other. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Ramona Foreverby Beverly Cleary, Alan TiegreenISBN 0688037852 (0-688-03785-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ramona Forever'Book summary:Misunderstandings abound in Ramona Quimby's life. Even at the ripe old age of 8, she continues to find herself in trouble when she least expects it. It's a time of many changes: Ramona's friend Howie's rich uncle comes to visit from Saudi Arabia, her mother seems suspiciously fatter, and Aunt Beatrice begins dating a mystery man. It's more important than ever for Ramona and her big sister Beezus to be good, but there are so many opportunities to mess up!
Beverly Cleary has somehow managed to remember the intricate workings of a young girl's mind and heart. With several dozen children's books and many awards under her belt, she is one of America's most beloved authors. Winner of the Newbery Medal for Dear Mr. Henshaw, as well as the Newbery Honor for Ramona and Her Father and Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Cleary balances raucously funny childhood adventures with poignantly real circumstances and emotions. Alan Tiegreen's clever line drawings have faithfully accompanied many of Cleary's books over the years. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
The Raven in the Foregateby Ellis PetersISBN 0688065589 (0-688-06558-9)
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Raymond Chandler's Philip Marloweby Michael LarkISBN 0684829339 (0-684-82933-9)
Softcover, Fireside
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe'Book summary:Remember those great film adaptations of Raymond Chandler's work? Who could forget Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep or Dick Powell playing the same character in Farewell, My Lovely? In Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: The Little Sister, illustrator Michael Lark has given us a brand-new incarnation of Chandler's famous fictional detective, a "comic book" version of Chandler's 1949 mystery. When Orfamay Quest hires Marlowe to find her missing brother, the case at first seems pretty straightforward, but--beset by mobsters, blackmailers, and murder--Marlowe soon discovers that a missing person is the least of his troubles.
The Little Sister was not one of Raymond Chandler's best efforts, but Michael Lark has effectively tailored the text to clarify the original story, emphasizing through his "comic noir" artwork the dark, dangerous environs, both physical and psychological, in which Philip Marlowe still moves. [via]
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Replayby Ken GrimwoodISBN 068816112X (0-688-16112-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Replay'Book summary:Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again -- in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle -- each time starting from scratch at the age of eighteen to reclaim lost loves, remedy past mistakes, or make a fortune in the stock market. A novel of gripping adventure, romance, and fascinating speculation on the nature of time, Replay asks the question: "What if you could live your life over again?"
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, N. C. WyethISBN 0684179466 (0-684-17946-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
The Sands of Timeby Sidney SheldonISBN 0688065716 (0-688-06571-6)
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. LewisISBN 0684831171 (0-684-83117-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Screwtape Letters'Book summary:This adaptation of C.S. Lewis's biting satire received a 1999 Grammy nomination for best spoken-word performance, and it's easy to see why--the story fits the format perfectly. It's relatively brief (the unabridged reading takes a mere four hours), and contains only one character--the demon Screwtape, who writes letters to his novice nephew Wormwood, instructing him on how to best tempt his "patient" (a wayward soul on earth) into the bosom of "our Lord below."
Obviously, the book wasn't written with former Monty Python John Cleese in mind, but it's hard to imagine a better Screwtape. Cleese's voice provides the perfect vehicle for Lewis's dry, razor-edged wit. His uncanny comic timing and ability to milk each phrase for maximum effect betray an infectious enthusiasm for the story. It's clear that he's having a great time reading, and it's impossible not to laugh along with him. This inspired pairing of two of the 20th century's greatest wits makes for a meditation on the dark side of spiritual guidance that's as relevant and funny today as it was in Lewis's war-torn England. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --Andrew Neiland [via]
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The Secrets of Harry Brightby Joseph WambaughISBN 0688059589 (0-688-05958-9)
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The Serpent's Toothby Diana L. PaxsonISBN 0688083390 (0-688-08339-0)
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The Shipping Newsby Annie ProulxISBN 068485791X (0-684-85791-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shipping News'Book summary:This darkly comic, wonderfully inventive work, winner of the 1993 National Book Award, transforms the lore of Newfoundland--including shipwrecks, nautical knot-tying, horrid weather and family legend--into brilliant literary art. It is the story of the rebirth of Quoyle, a hulking, inarticulate, misery-ridden widower who flees upstate New York to take up residence in Newfoundland. The island of his forebears, Newfoundland is a dreary rock in the north Atlantic beset by lousy weather. Proulx lovingly recreates this hardscrabble location in her vivid, distinctive prose and populates it with a cast of amusing, richly human characters. Quoyle, a "third-rate newspaperman," makes a hit with his "Shipping News" column, while his anguish at the loss of his faithless wife is slowly transformed by the strengthening ties that bind him to the place and to his fellow Newfoundlanders. [via]
St. Camberby Katherine KurtzISBN 0685006905 (0-685-00690-5)
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The Stories of Eva Lunaby Isabel AllendeISBN 0684873591 (0-684-87359-1)
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Summer of the Red Wolf: A Novelby Morris L. WestISBN 0688025617 (0-688-02561-7)
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Tearing the Silence: Being German in Americaby Ursula HegiISBN 068484611X (0-684-84611-X)
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Theory of Social & Economic Organizationby Max WeberISBN 0684836408 (0-684-83640-8)
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Thomas Mann: A Biographyby Ronald HaymanISBN 0684193191 (0-684-19319-1)
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The Three Musketeersby Alexandre Dumas, Thomas Kidd, Lowell BairISBN 0688145833 (0-688-14583-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Three Musketeers'Book summary:The Three Musketeers has transported readers to an exciting world of crossed swords and daring deeds for over one hundred fifty years. Now this deluxe edition -- featuring the complete text and fifteen vivid full-color plates from acclaimed artist Tom Kidd-brings all the drama and excitement to life for today's readers. [via]
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Time and Againby Jack FinneyISBN 0684801051 (0-684-80105-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time and Again'Book summary:An anniversary edition of a timeless classic tells what happens when Simon Morley is selected by a secret government agency to test Einstein's theory of the past co-existing with the present and is transported back to 1880s New York. Reissue. NYT. [via]
A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulgeby Charles B. MacDonaldISBN 0688151574 (0-688-15157-4)
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Tis: A Memoirby Frank McCourtISBN 0684864495 (0-684-86449-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: ''Tis: A Memoir'Book summary:'Tis a blessing that the author narrates his own work. McCourt follows up his Audie Award-winning performance in Angela's Ashes with another brilliant reading as he chronicles his return to post-World War II New York. Like all good storytellers, McCourt has good stories to tell; 'Tis pulses with grim adversity and quiet triumphs--character-shaping moments that gain the listener's empathy. What makes McCourt a great storyteller is his ability to give these moments just the right amount of humor and perspective. His lyrical tones are wise but not weary; he's survived life's challenges to tell his tale. And while it may be trite to credit McCourt's verbal skills to his Irish heritage, these war stories were undoubtedly polished amongst friends in the pubs. 'Tis is Grammy material, and a perfect example of how an author's voice can enhance the written word. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes) --Rob McDonald [via]
Too Many Menby Lily BrettISBN 0688177557 (0-688-17755-7)
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, N. C. WyethISBN 0684171600 (0-684-17160-0)
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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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Underworldby Don DelilloISBN 0684842696 (0-684-84269-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Underworld'Book summary:While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the cold war and American culture, compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and people both wondrous and horrifying. Underworld opens with a breathlessly graceful prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. Written in what DeLillo calls "super-omniscience" the sentences sweep from young Cotter Martin as he jumps the gate to the press box, soars over the radio waves, runs out to the diamond, slides in on a fast ball, pops into the stands where J. Edgar Hoover is sitting with a drunken Jackie Gleason and a splenetic Frank Sinatra, and learns of the Soviet Union's second detonation of a nuclear bomb. It's an absolutely thrilling literary moment. When Bobby Thomson hits Branca's pitch into the outstretched hand of Cotter--the "shot heard around the world"--and Jackie Gleason pukes on Sinatra's shoes, the events of the next few decades are set in motion, all threaded together by the baseball as it passes from hand to hand.
"It's all falling indelibly into the past," writes DeLillo, a past that he carefully recalls and reconstructs with acute grace. Jump from Giants Stadium to the Nevada desert in 1992, where Nick Shay, who now owns the baseball, reunites with the artist Kara Sax. They had been brief and unlikely lovers 40 years before, and it is largely through the events, spinoffs, and coincidental encounters of their pasts that DeLillo filters the Cold War experience. He believes that "global events may alter how we live in the smallest ways," and as the book steps back in time to 1951, over the following 800-odd pages, we see just how those events alter lives. This reverse narrative allows the author to strip away the detritus of history and pop culture until we get to the story's pure elements: the bomb, the baseball, and the Bronx. In an epilogue as breathless and stunning as the prologue, DeLillo fast-forwards to a near future in which ruthless capitalism, the Internet, and a new, hushed faith have replaced the Cold War's blend of dread and euphoria.
Through fragments and interlaced stories--including those of highway killers, artists, celebrities, conspiracists, gangsters, nuns, and sundry others--DeLillo creates a fragile web of connected experience, a communal Zeitgeist that encompasses the messy whole of five decades of American life, wonderfully distilled. [via]
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The White Ravenby Diana L. PaxsonISBN 0688074960 (0-688-07496-0)
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Would Be Invaldi Le Malade Imaginaireby MoliereISBN 0685342425 (0-685-34242-5)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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Ramona y Su Madreby Beverly ClearyISBN 0688154662 (0-688-15466-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ramona y Su Madre'Book summary:Ramona Quimby, uno de los personajes más queridos de la literatura infantil, siente que verdaderamente nadie la quiere. ¿Por qué será que su madre no tiene tiempo para darse cuenta de que su hija de siete años y medio se comporta como una persona mayor?...bueno por lo menos cuando no se halla ocupada exprimiendo el tubo de pasta dentífrica o cuando va a la escuela en pijama. [via]
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