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100 Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0899667031 (0-89966-703-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Absolution by Murderby Peter TremayneISBN 0750509295 (0-7505-0929-5)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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The Academic Commodore 64by Richard Mowe, Ron MummawISBN 0835900185 (0-8359-0018-5)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall Direct
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Academic Commodore 64'Book summary:Each title in this series of eight classic novels and Shakespearean plays includes the complete, original text and a detailed reading guide. Supportive Teacher's Resource Manuals include model lessons, cooperative learning activities, and reproducible writing process worksheets.
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All the King's Menby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0899662900 (0-89966-290-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Anne of Avonleaby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1416903283 (1-4169-0328-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Avonlea'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil. But an August afternoon, with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars, and a dancing slendor of red poppies outflaming against the dark coppice of young firs in a corner of the cherry orchard, was fitter for dreams than dead languages. The Virgil soon slipped unheeded to the ground, and Anne, her chin propped on her clasped hands, and her eyes on the splendid mass of fluffy clouds that were heaping up just over Mr. J. A. Harrison's house like a great white mountain, was far away in a delicious world where a certain school-teacher was doing a wonderful work, shaping the destinies of future statesmen, and inspiring youthful minds and hearts with high and lofty ambitions. [via]
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- Anne of Avonlea: ISBN 1421806592 (1-4218-0659-2)
Hardcover, 1st World Library - Anne of Avonlea: ISBN 1560547804 (1-56054-780-4)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr - Anne of Avonlea: ISBN 1561383686 (1-56138-368-6)
Hardcover, Courage Books - Anne of Avonlea: ISBN 0694015849 (0-694-01584-9)
Softcover, Harperfestival - Anne of Avonlea: ISBN 0812551966 (0-8125-5196-6)
Softcover, Tor Books - Anne of Avonlea: ISBN 081670466X (0-8167-0466-X)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - Anne of Avonlea: ISBN 0919155049 (0-919155-04-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Anne of Avonlea: ISBN 1416903283 (1-4169-0328-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
- Anne of Avonlea: ISBN 1421806592 (1-4218-0659-2)
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Anne of Geiersteinby Walter Scott, J. H. AlexanderISBN 074860586X (0-7486-0586-X)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Geierstein'Book summary:Anne of Geierstein (1829) is set in Central Europe in the fifteenth century. The novel illustrates the darkening of Scott's historical vision in the final part of his career.
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0765199793 (0-7651-9979-3)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstressby Ina Rilke, Sijie DaiISBN 0701169826 (0-7011-6982-6)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Bastard Kingby Jean PlaidyISBN 0709142234 (0-7091-4223-4)
Hardcover, Hale
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Ben and Meby Robert LawsonISBN 0881037540 (0-88103-754-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Blood Gamesby Chelsea Quinn YarbroISBN 0812528018 (0-8125-2801-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Games'Book summary:Blending the dark eroticism of the vampire with the suspenseful adventure in history's most exotic locales, Yarbro's Saint-Germain epic continues in this third book that takes place in the last chaotic days of Nero's Rome. [via]
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Caesarby Allan MassieISBN 0786701218 (0-7867-0121-8)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar'Book summary:Retelling the story of Caesar in a glamorous, sexually charged light, the third of the author's Roman novels depicts the downfall of a charismatic showman desperate for power and brings to life Cleopatra, Cicero, Brutus, and Anthony. [via]
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The Captive Queen of Scotsby Jean PlaidyISBN 140008251X (1-4000-8251-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Cien Anos De Soledadby Frederic SeamanISBN 0785950109 (0-7859-5010-9)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cien Anos De Soledad'Book summary:A dense jungle of magic and literary gusto, this book pulls you in and engulfs you with its richness and beauty. Saying it is a story of a family is like saying the New Testament is a book about a carpenter. Following the family here reveals the history of several generations, and the passions, thoughts, and myths of a labyrinth of people, related and not. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a gifted writer, and nowhere does he write with the fervor that he does in One Hundred Years of Solitude, a pleasurable ride unmatched in modern literature. [via]
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Cien Anos De Soledadby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 082882567X (0-8288-2567-X)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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Cliffscomplete Julius Caesarby Sidney Lamb, Diana SweeneyISBN 076458569X (0-7645-8569-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffscomplete Julius Caesar'Book summary:In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.[via]CliffsComplete Julius Caesar offers insight and information into a work that's rich both dramatically and thematically. Every generation since Shakespeare's time has been able to identify with some political aspect of the play.
Discover what happens to Rome's highly ambitious leader and to those who conspire to remove him from the ranks and save valuable studying time all at once. Enhance your reading of Julius Caesar with these additional features:
- A summary and insightful commentary for each chapter
- Bibliography and historical background on the author, William Shakespeare
- A look at Early Modern England intellectual, religious, political, and social context
- Coverage of Shakespeare's source and the play's performance history
- A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
- Review questions, a quiz, discussion guide, and activity ideas
- A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Web sites
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Dawn's Early Lightby Elswyth ThaneISBN 0884119742 (0-88411-974-2)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dawn's Early Light'Book summary:Volume 1 of The Williamsburg Series [via]
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A Division of the Spoils: A Novelby Paul ScottISBN 0816138478 (0-8161-3847-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Dorothy Dunnett Companionby Elspeth MorrisonISBN 0718137752 (0-7181-3775-2)
Hardcover, Michael Joseph
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dorothy Dunnett Companion'Book summary:This is an encyclopaedic guide to the world Dorothy Dunnett describes, illuminating the tapestry of fact and allusion, of historial personages and places, events and politics, literary references and music that colour her books. It covers both her "Lymond" sequence, which explores the intricacies of 16th-century history, and the "House of Niccolo" series, set in the 15th-century world of trade and war and banking. Arranged alphabetically, this book provides a concise, complete yet idiosyncratic picture of the period. [via]
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The Exiledby Posie Graeme-EvansISBN 074344373X (0-7434-4373-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Exiled'Book summary:Anne de Bohun has a dark secret. A secret that threatens her life, and the future of the kingdom of England itself. Raised as a peasant girl, Anne's gift for healing saw her thrust into the dangerous heart of court affairs, and under the spell of the greatest love of her life, King Edward himself. Yet theirs is a forbidden passion, for Anne is the illegitimate daughter of Henry VI, the king usurped by the man she loves. Now exiled in Brugge, Anne struggles to find peace in a dangerous world of treachery and suspicion, where enemies masquerade as allies, and someone very powerful wants her dead. [via]
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The Feast of Rosesby Indu SundaresanISBN 0743456416 (0-7434-5641-6)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feast of Roses'Book summary:The love story of Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa, begun in the critically praised debut novel The Twentieth Wife, continues in Indu Sundaresan's The Feast of Roses. This lush new novel tells the story behind one of the great tributes to romantic love and one of the seven wonders of the world -- the Taj Mahal.
Mehrunnisa, better known as Empress Nur Jahan, comes into Jahangir's harem as his twentieth and last wife. Almost from the beginning of her royal life she fits none of the established norms of womanhood in seventeenth-century India.
Mehrunnisa is the first woman Jahangir marries for love, at the "old" age of thirty-four. He loves her so deeply that he eventually transfers his powers of sovereignty to her.
Power and wealth do not come easily to Mehrunnisa -- she has to fight for them. She has a formidable rival in the imperial harem, Empress Jagat Gosini, who has schemed and plotted against Mehrunnisa from early on. Mehrunnisa's problems do not just lie within the harem walls, but at court, too, as she battles powerful ministers for supremacy. These ministers, who have long had Emperor Jahangir's confidence and trust, consider Mehrunnisa a mere woman who cannot have a voice in the outside world.
Mehrunnisa combats all of this by forming a junta of sorts with three men she can rely on -- her father, her brother, and Jahangir's son Prince Khurram. She demonstrates great strength of character and cunning to get what she wants, sometimes at a cost of personal sorrow when she almost loses her daughter's love. But she never loses the love of the man who bestows this power upon her -- Emperor Jahangir. The Feast of Roses is a tale of this power and love, the story of power behind a veil. [via]
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Graniaby Morgan LlywelynISBN 0765318083 (0-7653-1808-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grania'Book summary:Grania is the basis of the new Broadway muscial The Pirate Queen.Here is an extraordinary novel about real-life Irish chieftain Grace O Malley. From Morgan Llywelyn, bestselling author of Lion of Ireland and the Irish Century novels, comes the story of a magnificent, sixteenth-century heroine whose spirit and passion are the spirit and passion of Ireland itself.
Grania (Gaelic for Grace) is no ordinary female. And she lives in extraordinary times. For even as Grania rises as her clan's unofficial head and breadwinner and learns to love a man, she enters a lifelong struggle against the English forces of Queen Elizabeth -- her nemesis and alter ego.
Elizabeth intends to destroy Grania's piracy and shipping empire--and so subjugate Ireland once and for all. But Grania, aided by Tigernan, her faithful (and secretly adoring) lieutenant, has no choice but to fight back. The story of her life is the story of Ireland's fight for solidarity and survival--but it's also the story of Grania's growing ability to love and be strong at the same time.
Morgan Llywelyn has written a rich, historically accurate, and passionate novel of divided Ireland -- and of one brave woman who is Ireland herself.[via] 
Grania: She-King of the Irish Seasby Morgan LlywelynISBN 076530838X (0-7653-0838-X)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Happy Birthday, Samantha!by Valerie Tripp, Nancy Niles, Robert Grace, Dan AndreasenISBN 0937295353 (0-937295-35-3)
Softcover, Amer Girl Pub
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salemby Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox, Angela Y. Davis, Ann A. ScarboroISBN 0813913985 (0-8139-1398-5)
Hardcover, University Press of Virginia
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem'Book summary:This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Condé brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls "a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary Nanny of the maroons," who, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, is arrested for healing members of the family that owns her.
CARAF Books:Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
This book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agencY.
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Julius CaesarISBN 0789160838 (0-7891-6083-8)
Softcover, Perfection Learning
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Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Maurice Charney, William ShakepeareISBN 0789122502 (0-7891-2250-2)
Softcover, Perfection Learning
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Julius Caesar With Readers Guideby William ShakespeareISBN 0877208026 (0-87720-802-6)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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The Last Crossingby Guy VanderhaegheISBN 0802141757 (0-8021-4175-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Crossing'Book summary:Set in the late 19th century, The Last Crossing, Guy Vanderhaeghe's first novel since his acclaimed Englishman's Boy, is the story of three well-off English brothers: twins Simon and Charles Gaunt and their elder sibling, Addington, a former soldier and an arrogant scoundrel. At the behest of their dictatorial father, Charles and Addington travel the prairies of the U.S. and Canada in search of sensitive Simon, who has disappeared. Much of the novel concerns their journeys--bottles of port and claret rattling in their wagons--through Indian country with a cast of intricately drawn, fully realized characters. The small troupe is led through the whiskey-coloured light by Jerry Potts, a half-breed with one foot firmly in each world. The heart of the plot involves the love that Charles, a painter, feels for Lucy Stoveall, a simple but lovely country woman who accompanies them, secretly intent on avenging her sister's murder. However, the most intriguing character in this marvelous collection of all-too-human personalities is Custis Straw, a Bible-reading, heavy-drinking Civil War veteran who hides his tremendous dignity behind a bumbling facade, and who also loves Lucy.
Vanderhaeghe's rich language reveals a genuine feel for the prairies and their rough settlements: "a boom town draws rogues like a jam jar draws wasps," he writes, and describes "miles of wet plain patched with apple green, new penny copper, glints of silver." Though this is a Western in the traditional sense, Vanderhaeghe never sinks into parody. Rather, he uses the Western motif to reveal a number of profound universal truths about personal honour, and human failings and strengths. His humane character depictions reach emotional depths found in few novels today. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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The Last Kabbalist of Lisbonby Richard ZimlerISBN 0879518340 (0-87951-834-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon'Book summary:Richard Zimler's The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon is not a particularly religious novel, but it uses religion to great dramatic effect. Although its story takes place during the 16th- century slaughter of Jews in Portugal, and its main characters are Jewish mystics, Zimler is less interested in describing their spiritual lives than in plotting a fantastic murder mystery. The book purports to be a modern translation of a medieval manuscript telling the story of the murder of a great kabbalist in Lisbon named Abraham. Occasionally, the story invokes a bit of kabbalist wisdom that is every bit as luminous as the ancient texts that inspired this novel: "Books are created from holy letters," one character says. "Just as angels are, according to some. Viewed from this perspective--through a window of Kabbalah, if you like--an angel is nothing but a book given heavenly form." Such moments are too rare for the book to be very perceptive about the tradition to which its title alludes, but nevertheless, it's an absorbing and genuinely suspenseful story. -- Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Lion in the Valleyby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0812512421 (0-8125-1242-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lion in the Valley'Book summary:The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, and their precocious (some might say rambunctious) eight-year-old son, Ramses. The long-denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor has finally been granted, and the much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid is now theirs for the exploring.
Before the young family exchanges the relative comfort of Cairo for the more rudimentary quarters near the excavation site, they engage a young Englishman, Donald Fraser, as a tutor and companion for Ramses, and Amelia takes a wayward young woman, Enid Debenham, under her protective wing.
But there is danger and deception in the wind that blows across the hot Egyptian sands. A brazen kidnapping attempt, a gruesome murder, and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and deathall serve to alert Amelia to the likely presence of her arch nemesis, the "Master Criminal," notorious looter of the living and the dead. But it is far more than ill-gotten riches that motivate the man known as Sethos. The evil genius has a score to settle with the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice . . . and he's got her dead-on in his sights.
Replete with edge-of-the-seat suspense and scrupulous archaeological and historical detail, all delivered in Amelia Peabody's unique, wry voice, Lion in the Valley is a classic installment in Elizabeth Peters's beloved mystery-adventure series.
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Lyddieby Katherine PatersonISBN 1560546166 (1-56054-616-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Molly's Surpriseby Valerie TrippISBN 0937295256 (0-937295-25-6)
Softcover, Amer Girl Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Molly's Surprise'Book summary:Even though he is away serving in an English hospital during World War II, Molly's father finds a way to make the family Christmas very special. [via]
Mr. Darcy's Daughtersby Elizabeth AstonISBN 0743243978 (0-7432-4397-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 081615483X (0-8161-5483-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Passionby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0802135226 (0-8021-3522-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Passion'Book summary:In 1985 Jeanette Winterson won the Whitbread Award for best first fiction for the semi-autobiographical Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, an often wry exploration of lesbian possibility bumping up against evangelical fanaticism. She was 25. Two years later, The Passion, her third novel, appeared, the fantastical tale of Henri--Napoleon's cook--and Villanelle, a Venetian gondolier's daughter who has webbed feet (previously an all-male attribute), works as a croupier, picks pockets, cross-dresses, and literally loses her heart to a beautiful woman. Written in a lyrical and jolting combination of fairy tale diction and rhythm and the staccato, the book would be a risky proposition in lesser hands. Winterson has said that she wanted to look at people's need to worship and examine what happens to young men in militaristic societies. The question was, how to do so without being polemical and didactic? Only she could have come up with such an exquisite answer. In the end, Henri, incarcerated on an island of madmen, becomes aware that his passion, "even though she could never return it, showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else." [via]
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People of the Earthby W. Michael GearISBN 0812507428 (0-8125-0742-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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People of the Mistby Kathleen O'Neal GearISBN 0812515609 (0-8125-1560-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'People of the Mist'Book summary:With People of the Mist, the Gears take us to the Chesapeake Bay of six hundred years ago, when the unprovoked and brutal murder of a young woman on the eve of her wedding threatens to turn the entire Algonquin Nation against itself in a brutal war that could destroy them as a people.[via]
No ordinary woman, Red Knot was the heir to the Greenstone clan and the future leader of the independent villages. Her death has shattered all alliances and left a power void which several ambitious clan chiefs see as their destiny to fill. The very air vibrates with the drums and war cries of the rallying warriors.
Into the eye of this brewing storm steps the bitter old man they call The Panther. Feared as a sorcerer, The Panther is the only one with the power to demand to be heard by all. But as he digs deeper into the ever-thickening web of lies surrounding the murder, and uncovers darker, more deeply rooted secrets, he fears there may be no words to stop the impending bloodshed.More editions of People of the Mist:
Push Not the River: A Novel Inspired by a True Storyby James Conroyd MartinISBN 0738831409 (0-7388-3140-9)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corporation
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Rebeccaby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 0895776278 (0-89577-627-8)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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A Respectable Tradeby Philippa GregoryISBN 0743272544 (0-7432-7254-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War IIby Jeff ShaaraISBN 0739326694 (0-7393-2669-4)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II'Book summary:A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, and World War I. Now he embarks upon his most ambitious epic, a trilogy about the military conflict that defined the twentieth century. The Rising Tide begins a staggering work of fiction bound to be a new generations most poignant chronicle of World War II. With you-are-there immediacy, painstaking historical detail, and all-inclusive points of view, Shaara portrays the momentous and increasingly dramatic events that pulled America into the vortex of this monumental conflict.
As Hitler conquers Poland, Norway, France, and most of Western Europe, England struggles to hold the line. When Germanys ally Japan launches a stunning attack on Pearl Harbor, America is drawn into the war, fighting to hold back the Japanese conquest of the Pacific, while standing side-by-side with their British ally, the last hope for turning the tide of the war.
Through unforgettable battle scenes in the unforgiving deserts of North Africa and the rugged countryside of Sicily, Shaara tells this story through the voices of this conflicts most heroic figures, some familiar, some unknown. As British and American forces strike into the soft underbelly of Hitlers Fortress Europa, the new weapons of war come clearly into focus. In North Africa, tank battles unfold in a tapestry of dust and fire unlike any the world has ever seen. In Sicily, the Allies attack their enemy with a barely tested weapon: the paratrooper. As battles rage along the coasts of the Mediterranean, the momentum of the war begins to shift, setting the stage for the massive invasion of France, at a seaside resort called Normandy.
More than an unprecedented and intimate portrait of those who waged this astonishing global war, The Rising Tide is a vivid gallery of characters both immortal and unknown: the as-yet obscure administrator Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose tireless efficiency helped win the war; his subordinates, clashing in both style and personality, from George Patton and Mark Clark to Omar Bradley and Bernard Montgomery. In the desolate hills and deserts, the Allies confront Erwin Rommel, the battlefield genius known as the Desert Fox, a wounded beast who hands the Americans their first humiliating defeat in the European theater of the war. From tank driver to paratrooper to the men who gave the commands, Shaaras stirring portrayals bring the heroic and the tragic to life in brilliant detail.
A new level of accomplishment from this already acclaimed author, The Rising Tide will leave readers eager for the next volume of this superb saga of the war that saved and changed the world. [via]More editions of The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II:
Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Menby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 1555460631 (1-55546-063-1)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men'Book summary:Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the King's Men is one of the undisputed classics of American literature. Fifty years after the novel's publication, Warren's characters still stand as powerful representations of the moral dilemmas faced by individuals in positions of power. All the King's Men had its genesis in Warren's stage play Proud Flesh, unpublished in his lifetime. He also wrote a subsequent unpublished play titled Willie Stark: His Rise and Fall and a later dramatic version of the novel that shared the title All the King's Men.[via]This volume is the first to collect all three dramatic texts and to publish Proud Flesh and Willie Stark. Proud Flesh is particularly fascinating for what it reveals about the development of All the King's Men and Warren's changing perceptions of its characters and themes. The other plays, as post-novel writings, provide a forum for Warren to clarify his intentions in the novel. The editors' introduction to this collection reviews the composition history of the works and their relationship to the novel and to each other.
The new perspectives on Warren's writing presented in Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men": Three Stage Versions provide a glimpse into a creative mind struggling with a compelling story and offer readers another way of looking at this American classic. This book is an essential reference in Warren studies that will give students of All the King's Men another context from which to consider Warren's novel.
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The Robsart Mysteryby Fiona BuckleyISBN 0752807269 (0-7528-0726-9)
Hardcover, Orion
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Samantha Saves the Dayby Valerie Tripp, Dan Andreasen, Robert GraceISBN 0937295418 (0-937295-41-8)
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Sarah Bishopby Scott O'DellISBN 0808557785 (0-8085-5778-5)
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Servant of the Bonesby Anne RiceISBN 0963192566 (0-9631925-6-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Servant of the Bones'Book summary:Her first book since Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, genji, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to the Europe of the Black Death and to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction. [via]
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Soldier of the Mistby Gene WolfeISBN 0812558154 (0-8125-5815-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Song of Troyby Colleen McCulloughISBN 0752817639 (0-7528-1763-9)
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To Shield the Queenby Fiona BuckleyISBN 0743489071 (0-7434-8907-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Shield the Queen'Book summary:Loyal Servant. Devoted Friend. Perfect target.
Rumor has linked Queen Elizabeth I to her Master of Horse, Robin Dudley. And what rumors, at that: but for his ailing wife, Amy, Dudley would wed her majesty, the gossipmongers are whispering. To quell idle tongues, Elizabeth dispatches Ursula Blanchard to tend to the sick woman's needs. But not even Ursula can prevent the "accident" that takes Amy's life. Did she fall or was she pushed? Was Ursula a pawn of Dudley and the Queen?
Suddenly Ursula finds herself at the center of the scandal, trying to protect Elizabeth as she loses her heart to a Frenchman who may be flirting with sedition against her Queen. She can trust no one, neither her lover nor her monarch, as she sets out to find the truth in a glittering court that conceasls a wellspring of blood and lies. [via]
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The Towers of Silence: A Novelby Paul ScottISBN 081613846X (0-8161-3846-X)
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William ShakespeareISBN 1402206879 (1-4022-0687-9)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the imagination in the process. [via]
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Twenty and Tenby Claire Huchet Bishop, William Pene DuboisISBN 0844661686 (0-8446-6168-6)
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Underworldby Don DelilloISBN 1416548645 (1-4165-4864-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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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 Voyage of the Narwhalby Andrea BarrettISBN 0786217510 (0-7862-1751-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage of the Narwhal'Book summary:In Andrea Barrett's extraordinary novel of Arctic and personal exploration, maps are deceitful, ice all-powerful, and reputation more important than truth or human lives. When the Narwhal sets sail from Philadelphia in May 1855, its ostensible goal is to find the crew of a long-vanished expedition--or at least their relics--and be home before winter. Of course, if the men can chart new coasts and stock up on specimens en route, so much the better. And then there's the keen prospect of selling their story, fraught with danger and discovery, to a public thirsting for excitement. Zeke Voorhees, the Narwhal's young commander, is so handsome that he makes women stare and men "hum with envy"--perhaps not the best qualification for his post--but he seems loved by all. Only his brother-in-law-to-be, a naturalist, quietly mistrusts him, though he's determined to stand by the youth for his sister Lavinia's sake. At 40, eternal low-profiler Erasmus Darwin Wells has one disastrous expedition behind him and is praying for another scientific chance. He is, however, familiar with the physical risks they're taking, as well as the "long stretches when nothing happened except that one's ties to home were imperceptibly dissolved and one became a stranger to one's life."
And what of the women left behind? Lavinia knows little of the dangers of ice (though she's well schooled in isolation) and lives only for Zeke's return. Her companion, Alexandra Copeland, is less sanguine. Even after she's been given a secret career break--ghosting for an ailing engraver--she knows how invisible she is and how threatening her family's "dense net of obligations" will always be. Though they get less page time, Barrett is in fact as concerned with these women as she is with her seafarers. Like the heroines of her National Book Award-winning
There is tyranny on board the Narwhal as well, as Zeke alternates between good will and paranoia, his closest companion an arctic fox he has "civilized" and who sits on his shoulder "like a white epaulet." (Alas, Sabine, like many of the men, is not to survive the journey.) Encounters with the Esquimaux--who might know more about the lost expedition than they're willing to share--not having gone according to plan, Zeke determines in late August to head for Smith Sound rather than home, despite the crew's protests. By mid-September, however, the craft is ice-locked, and it's clear they'll have to "winter over." At first the men make the best of their situation, magically sculpting cottages, castles, palaces, even a whale--and offering informal seminars in butchery, Bible studies, and basic navigation. However, as the weather worsens and Zeke grows increasingly despotic, morale plummets.
Barrett excels in both physical and social description, writing with a naturalist's precision and a passionate imagination. With quick strokes (backed up by intense research), she can fill us in on some sensible but threatening Esquimaux footgear: "All five were dressed in fur jackets and breeches, with high boots made from the leg skins of white bears. The men's feet, Erasmus saw, were sheltered by the bears' feet, with claws protruding like overgrown human toenails. Walking, the men left bear prints on the snow." The author also shines in panoramic scenes--her descriptions of the Arctic can only be called magnificent--and in small, precarious, personal moments. When Erasmus eventually returns to Philadelphia, minus his toes and his future brother-in-law, a grieving Lavinia takes to her bed. Eventually, however, she relents: "Lavinia stared straight ahead. Straight at Erasmus, her right hand tucked in her lap while her left turned a silver spoon back to front, front to back, the reflections melting, re-forming, and melting again.... Lavinia said softly, 'I forgive you.' Everyone knew she was speaking to Erasmus."
The Voyage of the Narwhal is full of blood-freezing surprises, a score of indelible characters, and heart-stopping mysteries. As Erasmus watches Alexandra draw landscapes he has seen before but missed something in, each pencil stroke is "like a chisel held to a cleavage plane: tap, tap, and the rock split into two sharp pieces, the world cracked and spoke to him." Readers of Andrea Barrett's novel will experience this sensation again and again. Packed with harsh truths about the not-always-true art of discovery, it is also among the most emotionally wrenching, subtle works of the century. --Kerry Fried [via]
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William Shakespeare's Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Michael SpringISBN 0812034236 (0-8120-3423-6)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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The Winter Queenby Boris Akunin, Andrew BromfieldISBN 1400060494 (1-4000-6049-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Winter's Taleby Mark HelprinISBN 0756785391 (0-7567-8539-1)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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The World Is Not Enoughby Zoe Oldenbourg, Willard R. TraskISBN 0786704896 (0-7867-0489-6)
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