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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Donald McKayISBN 0448405601 (0-448-40560-1)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love. [via]More editions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
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Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian AndersenISBN 0448060051 (0-448-06005-1)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andersen's Fairy Tales'Book summary:Originally published in 1991, this collection of classic fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by internationally acclaimed artist Lisbeth Zwerger, has been expanded -- three stories added -- and completely redesigned.[via]More editions of Andersen's Fairy Tales:
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Angels Flightby Michael ConnellyISBN 0446607274 (0-446-60727-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angels Flight'Book summary:Michael Connelly, whose novel The Poet won the 1997 Anthony Award for Best Mystery, is already recognized as one of the smartest and most vivid scribes of the hard-boiled police procedural. Now, with his much-anticipated sixth Harry Bosch novel, Angels Flight, Connelly offers one of the finest pieces of mystery writing to appear in 1998. Bosch is awakened in the middle of the night and, out of rotation, he is assigned to the murder investigation of the high-profile African American attorney Howard Elias. When Bosch arrives at the scene, it seems that almost the entire LAPD is present, including the IAD (the Internal Affairs Division). Elias, who made a career out of suing the police, was sadistically gunned down on the Angels Flight tram just as he was beginning a case that would have struck the core of the department; not surprisingly, L.A.'s men and women in blue become the center of the investigation. Haunted by the ghost of the L.A. riots, plagued by incessant media attention, and facing turmoil at home, Bosch suddenly finds himself questioning friends and associates while working side by side with some longtime enemies.
Angels Flight is a detective's nightmare scenario and is disturbingly relevant to the racially tense last decade of the 20th century. Amidst the twists and turns of his complex narrative, Connelly affirms his rightful place among the masters of contemporary mystery fiction. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Bachman Booksby Stephen KingISBN 0451147367 (0-451-14736-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Bismarck:the Man and the Statesman: The Man and the Statesmanby A.J.P. TaylorISBN 0450001245 (0-450-00124-5)
Hardcover, New English Library
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Bismarck, the Man and the Statesmanby Alan John Percivale TaylorISBN 0450021688 (0-450-02168-8)
Hardcover, New English Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bismarck, the Man and the Statesman'Book summary:J.P.Taylor broke new ground in this study, first published in 1955, of one of the most influential figures in Germany's history. Treating Bismarck as a man of his times, he surveys his political policy and actions, as well as investigating the psychology of a man whose life and achievements continue to be a subject of controversy. [via]
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Carrieby Stephen KingISBN 0451157443 (0-451-15744-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roofby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0451171128 (0-451-17112-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Christineby Stephen KingISBN 0451160444 (0-451-16044-4)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christine'Book summary:Just Another Lovers Triangle, Right?[via]
It was love at first sight. From the moment seventeen-year-old Arnie Cunningham saw Christine, he knew he would do anything to possess her.
Arnies best friend, Dennis, distrusts herimmediately.
Arnies teen-queen girlfriend, Leigh, fears her the moment she senses her power.
Arnies parents, teachers, and enemies soon learn what happens when you cross her.
Because Christine is no lady. She is Stephen Kings ultimate, blackly evil vehicle of terror
Circusby Alistair MacLeanISBN 044920412X (0-449-20412-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Crystal Caveby Mary StewartISBN 0449206440 (0-449-20644-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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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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Cujoby Stephen KingISBN 0451161351 (0-451-16135-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cujo'Book summary:Cujo is so well-paced and scary that people tend to read it quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting the multifaceted story in which that scene is embedded. This is definitely a novel that rewards re-reading. When you read it again, you can pay more attention to the theme of country folk vs. city folk; the parallel marriage conflicts of the Cambers vs. the Trentons; the poignancy of the amiable St. Bernard (yes, the breed choice is just right) infected by a brain-destroying virus that makes it into a monster; and the way the "daylight burial" of the failed ad campaign is reflected in the sunlit Pinto that becomes a coffin. And how significant it is that this horror tale is not supernatural: it's as real as junk food, a failing marriage, a broken-down car, or a fatal virus. [via]
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Cyteenby C. J. CherryhISBN 0446671274 (0-446-67127-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cyteen'Book summary:Genetic manipulation, murder, intrigue and politics are just part of the story of a young scientist in this substantial book. C. J. Cherryh, who won the 1989 Hugo Award for this novel, following on her Hugo Award-winning Downbelow Station, offers another ambitious work. A geneticist is murdered by an adviser, but the scientist is replicated in the lab, leaving a prodigy who attempts to chart a different fate. The book is intense and complex yet always presented with the flow of true storytelling. [via]
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Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0448170159 (0-448-17015-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0448411105 (0-448-41110-5)
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Larry SchwingerISBN 0448405598 (0-448-40559-8)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:A new illustrated version of a classic vampire tale from the Illustrated Junior Library will take readers once again into the chilling presence of Count Dracula and the unfortunate mortals that he meets. [via]
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The Drawing of the 3by Stephen KingISBN 0451163524 (0-451-16352-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Drawing of the 3'Book summary:Dark Tower: the epic series from which Black House was built. [via]
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The Driftersby James A. MichenerISBN 0449213536 (0-449-21353-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Drifters'Book summary:In his triumphant best seller, James Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of six young runaways adrift in a world they have created out of dreams, drugs, and dedication to pleasure. With the sure touch of a master, Michener pulls us into the dark center of their private world, whether it's in Spain, Marrakech, or Mozambique, and exposes the naked nerve ends with shocking candor and infinite compassion.
"A superior, picaresque novel...and a revealing mirror held up to contemporary society."
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Dude, Where's My Country?by Michael MooreISBN 0446693790 (0-446-69379-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dude, Where's My Country?'Book summary:he people of the United States, according to author and filmmaker Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine, Stupid White Men), have been hoodwinked. Tricked, he says, by Republican lawmakers and their wealthy corporate pals who use a combination of concocted bogeymen and lies to stay rich and in control. But while plenty of liberal scholars, entertainers, and pundits have made similar arguments in book form, Moore's Dude, Where's My Country? stands out for its thoroughly positive perspective. Granted, Moore is angry and has harsh words for George W. Bush and his fellow conservatives concerning the reasoning behind going to war in Iraq, the collapse of Enron and other companies, and the relationship between the Bushes, the Saudi Arabian government, and Osama bin Laden. But his book is intended to serve as a handbook for how people with liberal opinions (which is most of America, Moore contends, whether they call themselves "liberals" or not) can take back their country from the conservative forces in power. Moore uses his trademark brand of confrontational, exasperated humor skillfully as he offers a primer on how to change the worldview of one's annoying conservative blowhard brother-in-law, and he crafts a surprisingly thorough "Draft Oprah for President" movement. Refreshingly, Dude, Where's My Country? avoids being completely one-sided, offering up areas where Moore believes Republicans get it right as well as some cutting criticisms of his fellow lefties. Such allowances, brief though they may be, make one long for a political climate where the shouting polemicists on both sides would see a few more shades of gray. Dude, Where's My Country? is a little bit scattered, as Moore tries to cram opinions on Iraq, tax cuts, corporate welfare, Wesley Clark, and the Patriot Act into one slim volume--and the penchant to go for a laugh sometimes gets in the way of clear arguments. But such variety also gives the reader more Moore, providing a broader range of his bewildered, enraged, yet stalwartly upbeat point of view. --John Moe [via]
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The Eyes of the Dragonby Stephen KingISBN 0451166582 (0-451-16658-2)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eyes of the Dragon'Book summary:A kingdom is in turmoil as the old king dies and his successor must do battle for the throne. Pitted against an evil wizard and a would-be rival, Prince Peter makes a daring escape and rallies the forces of Good to fight for what is rightfully his. This is a masterpiece of classic dragons-and-magic fantasy that only Stephen King could have written! [via]
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Fallen Dragonby Peter F. HamiltonISBN 0446612634 (0-446-61263-4)
Softcover, Aspect
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Finity's Endby C. J. CherryhISBN 0446605603 (0-446-60560-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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For Those I Lovedby Martin Gray, May GalloISBN 0451069420 (0-451-06942-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Larry SchwingerISBN 0448409666 (0-448-40966-6)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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The Godfatherby Mario PuzoISBN 0451167716 (0-451-16771-6)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Godfather'Book summary:The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo's The Godfather that Corleone first appears. As Corleone's desperate struggle to control the Mafia underworld unfolds, so does the story of his family. The novel is full of exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. Filled with the requisite valor, love, and rancor of a great epic, The Godfather is the definitive gangster novel. [via]
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Gone With the Windby Margaret MitchellISBN 0446675539 (0-446-67553-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone With the Wind'Book summary:A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga. [via]
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Grosset's German Phrase Book and Dictionary,by Charles Alexander HughesISBN 0448006529 (0-448-00652-9)
Softcover, Putnam Pub Group
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H Is for Homicideby Sue GraftonISBN 0449219461 (0-449-21946-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'H Is for Homicide'Book summary:"THE LADY CAN WRITE . . .
Any reader who needs a smart and sassy P.I. would do well to hire Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone. . . . H' is for Homicide continues to show the author in strong storytelling form. . . . [It] finds Kinsey Millhone working on a case involving the death of a claims adjuster for a California insurance company. The story takes her into the Los Angeles barrio in pursuit of a violent criminal, into jails and hospitals, and into a grungy bar named the Meat Locker. . . . Count on Millhone not only to corner the murderer but also to make a statement against the foibles of the insurance game."
--The New York Times
"The eighth in Grafton's bestselling series is perhaps the wildest ride yet. . . . Grafton's skill with dialogue, her vivid characterizations and California scenery are priceless. . . . There are moments when the tension becomes so unbearable that you are tempted to skip paragraphs out of self-preservation."
--USA Today
"One of the best . . . A vivid, funny portrait of life in an ethnic underworld, viewed without judgment. Suspense there is, plentifully, and a final suggestion that Kinsey will be exploring different mischiefs next time. Outstanding."
--Los Angeles Times
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Hammer of Edenby Ken FollettISBN 0449004589 (0-449-00458-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0449212602 (0-449-21260-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:"Splendid."
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It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is only valued if her ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she was an independent woman, had a job of her own, a husband and child. But all of that is gone now...everything has changed.
"Deserves the highest praise."
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The Hollow Hillsby Mary StewartISBN 0449206459 (0-449-20645-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hollow Hills'Book summary:A magnificent tale realized by premier novelist, Mary Stewart, here is the spellbinding, suspenseful story of how Merlin, the Enchanter, helped Arthur become king of all Britain, in an extraordinary story that brings the legend Merlin and his protege Arthur to glowing life.
"Enthralling."
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, Kathy MitchellISBN 0448060310 (0-448-06031-0)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned bt the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester. [via]
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The Last Enchantmentby Mary StewartISBN 0449206467 (0-449-20646-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Enchantment'Book summary:With the great sword Caliburn in his hand and Merlin the enchanter at his side, Arthur comes out of hiding to claim the crown he was born to wear. Merlin, Arthur's protector, sees the glories and horrors that await the new king...and to save him Merlin musters all his power to weave one last enchantment. He is showing signs of age and he gradually realises he is losing his powers of prophecy and clairvoyance to a younger generation. But he is able to accept this because he knows that they will be at the service of his beloved monarch whose fabled victories, marriage and the building of Camelot shine through these pages. [via]
The Last Immortalby J.O. JeppsonISBN 0449243850 (0-449-24385-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 0449300021 (0-449-30002-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, J. J. GrandvilleISBN 0448221934 (0-448-22193-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Adventures of 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]
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The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0448060213 (0-448-06021-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of 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]
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Message in a Bottleby Nicholas SparksISBN 0446606812 (0-446-60681-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Message in a Bottle'Book summary:If you thought The Notebook was a tearjerker, get out the hankies, pull up a chair, and get ready to have your heart monkey-wrenched by Nicholas Sparks's second star-crossed love story, Message in a Bottle. When Theresa Osborne takes a much-needed summer holiday at Cape Cod, she finds a lot more than a break from the hustle and bustle. On an early-morning jog along Cape Cod Bay, she comes across a corked bottle with a scrolled-up message inside that reads, "My Dearest Catherine, I miss you, my darling, as I always do, but today is especially hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together..." It bobbles around in the same vein for several more paragraphs and ends with "...am alone on the pier and I do not care what others think as I bow my head and cry and cry and cry. Garret."
Garret may eat quiche, but no bother--before you can say "Look! I found two more letters!" Theresa is hot on his trail and determined to find this mysterious yet sensitive message-in-a-bottle man. She finds him at a sleepy North Carolina port, working on his beloved sailboat, The Happenstance. From there, a romance buds and blossoms into a colorful bouquet of emotional baggage. Theresa has problems with her past--or, more accurately, her past is a problem. She is so scarred from her "I'm a super churchgoing guy now that I've run out on my wife" ex-husband that she hasn't tried to date since her divorce some three or four years before. And who is Catherine? And what's Garret's bag, anyway? When Theresa finds out, she plunges to the depths of her soul and uncorks a whopper of a secret about herself, bringing Garret to terms with who he really is.
Message in a Bottle has the earmarks of sentimental tongue-wagging at its finest and should please romantics and cynics alike--it's sure to bring romantics to their knees, while cynics will be slapping theirs in laughter. --Rebekah Warren [via]
The Naked God Pt. I: Flightby Peter F. HamiltonISBN 0446608971 (0-446-60897-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Native Tongues: The Book of Language Factsby Charles BerlitzISBN 0448123363 (0-448-12336-3)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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The Neutronium Alchemistby Peter F. HamiltonISBN 0446605468 (0-446-60546-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The New Age Baby Name Bookby Sue BrowderISBN 0446606073 (0-446-60607-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Age Baby Name Book'Book summary:The New Age Baby Name Book is the quirky naming guide that has outlasted the trendiness of New Age. It has a total of 20,000 names including classic, popular, offbeat & even gender-neutral that are taken from dozens of cultures & traditions. [via]
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The Night in Lisbonby Ralph Manheim, Erich Maria RemarqueISBN 0449912434 (0-449-91243-4)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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Night Shiftby Stephen KingISBN 0451170113 (0-451-17011-3)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Shift'Book summary:From the depths of darkness, where hideous rats defend their empire, to dizzying heights, where a beautiful girl hangs by a hair above a hellish fate, this chilling collection of twenty short stories will plunge readers into the subterranean labyrinth of the most spine-tingling, eerie imagination of our time. [via]
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The Ninjaby Eric LustbaderISBN 0449209164 (0-449-20916-4)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ninja'Book summary:"Totally absorbing...as gripping a tale of hatred and revenge as you will read...It is superb."
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This is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can't forget and the one he can't control and between a past he can't escape and a destiny he can't avoid.
A sprawling erotic thriller that swings from postwar Japan to present-day New York in a relentless saga of violence and terror elaborately designed for the most savage vengeance of all... [via]More editions of The Ninja:
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The Notebookby Nicholas SparksISBN 0446676098 (0-446-67609-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Notebook'Book summary:"Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love." Anyway, head elsewhere for Great Literature, but if you're in the market to get your heartstrings plucked, look no further. The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she hook up with Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago? We're not telling, but you have two guesses and the first one doesn't count. Decades later, after Allison develops Alzheimer's, her beau uses "the notebook" to read her the story of the great love she's plumb forgot. The Notebook--film rights already sold, thank you very much--is a little glazed doughnut of a book: sticky- sweet, satisfying, not much nourishment. But who cares? Take an extra vitamin and indulge. [via]
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nestby Ken KeseyISBN 0451163966 (0-451-16396-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest'Book summary:An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results. With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers. [via]
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The Oracle Glassby Judith M. RileyISBN 0449910067 (0-449-91006-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Other Side of Midnightby Sidney SheldonISBN 0446674680 (0-446-67468-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Pilgrim of Hateby Ellis PetersISBN 0449212238 (0-449-21223-8)
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, Julie DowningISBN 0448060329 (0-448-06032-9)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark TwainISBN 0448129426 (0-448-12942-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Raven in the Foregateby Ellis PetersISBN 0449212254 (0-449-21225-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Raven in the Foregate'Book summary:[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.]
[Read by Vanessa Benjamin]
A Mediaeval 'Whodunnit'
It is Christmas, A.D. 1141, Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross, also known as the Foregate. The new priest is a man of presence, learning, and discipline, but he lacks humility and the common touch. When he is found drowned in the millpond, suspicion is cast upon a young man who arrived with the priest's train and was sent to work in Brother Cadfael's garden. Indeed, he is soon discovered to be an impostor. To Brother Cadfael, now falls the familiar task of sorting out the complicated strands of innocence and guilt. [via]More editions of The Raven in the Foregate:
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The Road Backby A. W. Wheen, Erich Maria RemarqueISBN 0449912469 (0-449-91246-9)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road Back'Book summary:The sequel to the masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front, The Road Back is a classic novel of the slow return of peace to Europe in the years following World War I.
After four grueling years, the Great War has finally ended. Now Ernst and the few men left from his company cannot help wondering what will become of them. The town they departed as eager young men seems colder, their homes smaller, the reasons their comrades had to die even more inexplicable.
For Ernst and his friends, the road back to peace is more treacherous than they ever imagined. Suffering food shortages, political unrest, and a broken heart, Ernst undergoes a crisis that teaches him what there is to live forand what he has that no one can ever take away.
The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure. The New York Times Book Review [via]More editions of The Road Back:
Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0448054671 (0-448-05467-1)
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The Satan Bugby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0449203948 (0-449-20394-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Scarlet Cloakby Ellalice Tate, Jean PlaidyISBN 0449222403 (0-449-22240-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Seeing a Large Catby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0446605573 (0-446-60557-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Spark of Lifeby Erich Maria RemarqueISBN 0449912515 (0-449-91251-5)
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0450018431 (0-450-01843-1)
Hardcover, New English Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Strong Poisonby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0450549720 (0-450-54972-0)
Hardcover, New English Library
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The Swiss Family Robinsonby J.D. WyssISBN 0448168901 (0-448-16890-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Tale of Peter Rabbitby Beatrix Potter, Alex ViningISBN 0448435217 (0-448-43521-7)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'Book summary:The quintessential cautionary tale, Peter Rabbit warns naughty children about the grave consequences of misbehaving. When Mrs. Rabbit beseeches her four furry children not to go into Mr. McGregor's garden, the impish Peter naturally takes this as an open invitation to create mischief. He quickly gets in over his head, when he is spotted by farmer McGregor himself. Any child with a spark of sass will find Peter's adventures remarkably familiar. And they'll see in Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail that bane of their existence: the "good" sibling who always does the right thing. One earns bread and milk and blackberries for supper, while the obstinate folly of the other warrants medicine and an early bedtime.
Beatrix Potter's animal stories have been a joy to generations of young readers. Her warm, playful illustrations in soft colors invite children into the world of words and flights of fancy. Once there, she gently and humorously guides readers along the path of righteousness, leaving just enough room for children to wonder if that incorrigible Peter will be back in McGregor's garden tomorrow. (Ages Baby to Preschool) [via]
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre Dumas, Norman Price, Jacques Le Clercq, E. C. Van SwearingenISBN 0448060248 (0-448-06024-8)
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Three Musketeers Specialby Alexandre DumasISBN 0448424460 (0-448-42446-0)
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Time and Againby Jack FinneyISBN 0446786365 (0-446-78636-5)
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The Time Machine and the War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0449300439 (0-449-30043-9)
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Scientific visionary. Social prophet. Master storyteller. Few novelists have captivated generations of readers like H. G. Wells. In enduring, electrifying detail, he takes us to dimensions of time and space that have haunted our dreams for centuries -- and shows us ourselves as we really are.
The time machine
In the heart of Victorian England, an inquisitve gentleman known only as the Time Traveler constructs an elaborate invention that hurtles him hundreds of thousands of years into the future. There he finds himself in the violent center of the ultimate conflict between beings of light and creatures of darkness.
The war of the worlds
Martians invade Great Britain, laying waste turn-of-the-century London. This tale of conquest by superior beings with superadvanced technology is so nightmarishly real that an adaptation by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater sent hundreds of impressionable radio listeners into panicked flight forty years after the story's original publication. [via]More editions of The Time Machine and the War of the Worlds:
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, Norman PriceISBN 0448405628 (0-448-40562-8)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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Wartime Liesby Louis BegleyISBN 0449001172 (0-449-00117-2)
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White Ninjaby Eric LustbaderISBN 0449904946 (0-449-90494-6)
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White Ninjaby Eric Van LustbaderISBN 0449218511 (0-449-21851-1)
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
Nicholas Linnear is helpless as he watches his love and his life careen out of control. He has discovered that he is shiro nive , a life of honor and truth amidst greed and corruption. And through it all, stalks a perverse madman through the seamy streets and bureaucratic mazes of Tokyo, destroying anyone who stands in his way, with deadly precision and otherworldly cunning. And the one man who can stop him, Nichaolas Linnear, is shiro ninja. [via]More editions of White Ninja:
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