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Absalom, Absalom!by William FaulknerISBN 0394747755 (0-394-74775-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkners epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him. 
The Ballad of Lucy Whippleby Karen CushmanISBN 0395728061 (0-395-72806-1)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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Cabin Faced Westby Jean Fritz, Feodor RojankovskyISBN 0399232230 (0-399-23223-0)
Hardcover, Coward Mc Cann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cabin Faced West'Book summary:"A satisfying story which conveys some of the loneliness, despair, and hardships of pioneer life" (Booklist) from the recipient of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for "substantial and lasting contribution to children's literature." [via]
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The Call of the Wildby Jack London, AviISBN 0439227143 (0-439-22714-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'Book summary:Savage struggles and timeless bonds between man, dog, and wilderness are played to their heart-rending extremes. 2 cassettes. [via]
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Call of the Wild and Selected Storiesby Jack LondonISBN 0451513835 (0-451-51383-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Call of the Wild and Selected Stories'Book summary:Buck, the dog hero, is sold into service in the Klondike. Abused by men and dogs, clubs and fangs, he becomes a ruthless fighter. A master that he deeply loves and respects saves him. But the actions of both humans and canines alike eventually force him to follow an instinct that he cannot resist. (Three CDs) [via]
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The Captain's and the King'sby Taylor CaldwellISBN 0449205622 (0-449-20562-2)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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Caravansby James A. MichenerISBN 0449213803 (0-449-21380-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caravans'Book summary:In this romantic adventure of wild Afghanistan, master storyteller James Michener mixes the allure of the past with the dangers of today. After an impetuous American girl, Ellen Jasper, marries a young Afghan engineer, her parents hear no word from her. Although she wants freedom to do as she wishes, not even she is sure what that means. In the meantime, she is as good as lost in that wild land, perhaps forever....
"An extraordinary novel....Brilliant."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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The Castle in the Forest: A Novelby Norman MailerISBN 0394536495 (0-394-53649-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Cater Street Hangmanby Anne PerryISBN 0449208672 (0-449-20867-2)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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Command a King's Shipby Alexander KentISBN 0399112782 (0-399-11278-2)
Hardcover, Coward Mc Cann
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoevsky, George GibianISBN 0393956237 (0-393-95623-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Set in Russia in the midst of its troubled transition to the modern age, this classic novel is the profound human drama of Raskolnikov, a sensitive intellectual driven by poverty and the belief of his exemption from moral law. Through his unforgettable gallery of characters, Dostoyevsky provides a provocative look at the human motivations of obsession and possession with unflinching philosophical and moral insight. A masterpiece of dramatic literature by one of the greatest novelist of all time. [via]
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- Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0451527232 (0-451-52723-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Crime And Punishment: ISBN 0451530063 (0-451-53006-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0393092925 (0-393-09292-5)
Softcover, Norton - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0394707214 (0-394-70721-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0440315557 (0-440-31555-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0451523350 (0-451-52335-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0393055345 (0-393-05534-5)
Hardcover, Norton - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0394604504 (0-394-60450-4)
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The Deerslayerby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0451524845 (0-451-52484-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deerslayer'Book summary:In this final volume in the Leatherstocking saga, the Indian-raised Deerslayer has become a man of courage and moral certainty-and he emerges from tribal warfare with nobility as pure and proud as the wilderness whose fierce beauty and freedom have claimed his heart. [via]
Duchess: A Novel of Sarah Churchillby Susan Holloway ScottISBN 0451218558 (0-451-21855-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Eye of the Needleby Ken FollettISBN 0451163486 (0-451-16348-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eye of the Needle'Book summary:One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin - code name: "The Needle" - who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life. Ken Follett's unsurpassed and unforgettable masterwork of suspense, intrigue, and dangerous machinations of the human heart. [via]
The Heaven Tree Trilogyby Edith Mary PargeterISBN 0446517089 (0-446-51708-9)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Hittyby Rachel FieldISBN 0440403375 (0-440-40337-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitty'Book summary:Hitty is a very special doll who belongs to Phoebe. Phoebe is proud of her beautiful doll and brings Hitty everywhere she goes. This is thrilling for Hitty, who finds herself involved in the most wonderful adventures both on land and at sea. She meets many people and makes new friends.
This is the story of the first hundred years of Hitty's life. And that's only the beginning for a doll as special as Hitty. [via]More editions of Hitty:
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Hollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920'sby Gore VidalISBN 0394576594 (0-394-57659-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920's'Book summary:Who could possibly resist a novel that begins as William Randolph Hearst falls on his behind? The fifth novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire sequence (sixth, however, in order of publication) begins on the eve of American involvement in the First World War and ends shortly after the mysterious death of Warren G. Harding and ascension of the taciturn Calvin Coolidge to the presidency. Balanced against Gore's descriptions of all these political machinations is the story of newspaper publisher Caroline Sanford's foray into film acting, which places her in proximity to the scandals involving Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and William Desmond Taylor. The cast of characters includes a young Franklin Delano Roosevelt--and his mistress, Lucy Mercer--and Vidal's maternal grandfather, Senator T.P. Gore. As always, the proceedings are enlivened by Vidal's caustic wit. --Ron Hogan [via]
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In Pursuit of the Green Lionby Judith M. RileyISBN 0440211034 (0-440-21103-4)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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King's Fifthby Scott O'Dell, Samuel BryantISBN 0395069637 (0-395-06963-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Kitchen God's Wifeby Amy TanISBN 0399135782 (0-399-13578-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Lady of Ch'Iao Kuo: Warrior of the Southby Laurence YepISBN 0439164834 (0-439-16483-4)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Lady's Maid: A Historical Novelby Margaret ForsterISBN 0449907155 (0-449-90715-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady's Maid: A Historical Novel'Book summary:In the author's biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning there is a shadowy portrayal of a young woman forced by poverty to become a lady's maid. Without her the Brownings' romantic story would have been impossible. This book is her fictional story. [via]
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The Lion of Justiceby Victoria Holt, Jean Plaidy, Philippa CarrISBN 0449243184 (0-449-24318-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Lorna Dooneby R. D. BlackmoreISBN 0396066046 (0-396-06604-6)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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Mansfield Parkby Jane Austen, Claudia L. JohnsonISBN 0393967913 (0-393-96791-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Mansfield Park: ISBN 0451526295 (0-451-52629-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0451523237 (0-451-52323-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0451525019 (0-451-52501-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0385487266 (0-385-48726-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0393967913 (0-393-96791-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Marie Antoinetteby Kathryn LaskyISBN 0439076668 (0-439-07666-8)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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The Mark of the Horse Lordby Rosemary SutcliffISBN 0440401615 (0-440-40161-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0394747232 (0-394-74723-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History'Book summary:Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one.
Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hoodby Howard PyleISBN 0451522842 (0-451-52284-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, of Great Renown, in Nottinghamshireby Howard PyleISBN 0451520076 (0-451-52007-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Middle Passageby Charles R. JohnsonISBN 0452266386 (0-452-26638-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Midnight's Childrenby Salman RushdieISBN 039451470X (0-394-51470-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight's Children'Book summary:Anyone who has spent time in the developing world will know that one of Bombay's claims to fame is the enormous film industry that churns out hundreds of musical fantasies each year. The other, of course, is native son Salman Rushdie--less prolific, perhaps than Bollywood, but in his own way just as fantastical. Though Rushdie's novels lack the requisite six musical numbers that punctuate every Bombay talkie, they often share basic plot points with their cinematic counterparts. Take, for example, his 1980 Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children: two children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947--the moment at which India became an independent nation--are switched in the hospital. The infant scion of a wealthy Muslim family is sent to be raised in a Hindu tenement, while the legitimate heir to such squalor ends up establishing squatters' rights to his unlucky hospital mate's luxurious bassinet. Switched babies are standard fare for a Hindi film, and one can't help but feel that Rushdie's world-view--and certainly his sense of the fantastical--has been shaped by the films of his childhood. But whereas the movies, while entertaining, are markedly mediocre, Midnight's Children is a masterpiece, brilliant written, wildly unpredictable, hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure.
Rushdie's narrator, Saleem Sinai, is the Hindu child raised by wealthy Muslims. Near the beginning of the novel, he informs us that he is falling apart--literally:
I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug--that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams. In short, I am literally disintegrating, slowly for the moment, although there are signs of an acceleration.
In light of this unfortunate physical degeneration, Saleem has decided to write his life story, and, incidentally, that of India's, before he crumbles into "(approximately) six hundred and thirty million particles of anonymous, and necessarily oblivious, dust." It seems that within one hour of midnight on India's independence day, 1,001 children were born. All of those children were endowed with special powers: some can travel through time, for example; one can change gender. Saleem's gift is telepathy, and it is via this power that he discovers the truth of his birth: that he is, in fact, the product of the illicit coupling of an Indian mother and an English father, and has usurped another's place. His gift also reveals the identities of all the other children and the fact that it is in his power to gather them for a "midnight parliament" to save the nation. To do so, however, would lay him open to that other child, christened Shiva, who has grown up to be a brutish killer. Saleem's dilemma plays out against the backdrop of the first years of independence: the partition of India and Pakistan, the ascendancy of "The Widow" Indira Gandhi, war, and, eventually, the imposition of martial law.We've seen this mix of magical thinking and political reality before in the works of Günter Grass and Gabriel García Márquez. What sets Rushdie apart is his mad prose pyrotechnics, the exuberant acrobatics of rhyme and alliteration, pun, wordplay, proper and "Babu" English chasing each other across the page in a dizzying, exhilarating cataract of words. Rushdie can be laugh-out-loud funny, but make no mistake--this is an angry book, and its author's outrage lends his language wings. Midnight's Children is Salman Rushdie's irate, affectionate love song to his native land--not so different from a Bombay talkie, after all. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Moll Flandersby Daniel Defoe, Albert J. RiveroISBN 0393978621 (0-393-97862-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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- Moll Flanders: ISBN 0395051290 (0-395-05129-0)
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Moll Flanders: ISBN 039309412X (0-393-09412-X)
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Moll Flanders: ISBN 0394605306 (0-394-60530-6)
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Moll Flanders, an Authoritative Text: Backgrounds and Sources; Criticismby Daniel Defoe, Edward KellyISBN 039304291X (0-393-04291-X)
Softcover, Norton
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Moll Flanders/the Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famousby Daniel DefoeISBN 0451524594 (0-451-52459-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moll Flanders/the Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous'Book summary:The recent adaptation of Moll Flanders for Masterpiece Theater is a book-lover's dream: the dialogue and scene arrangement are close enough to allow the viewer to follow along in the book. The liberties taken with the tale are few (some years of childhood between the gypsies and the wealthy family are elided; Moll is Moll throughout the tale, rather than Mrs. Betty; Robert becomes Rowland, etc.) and the sets avoid the careless anachronism of the movie version released earlier this year.
The breasts, raised skirts, tumbling hair and heavy breathing on the small screen might catch you by surprise if you don't read the book carefully (as might Moll's abandonment of her children on more than one occasion). Unlike his near-contemporary John Cleland (_Fanny Hill_), Defoe was trying to keep out of jail, and so didn't dwell on the details of "correspondence" between Moll and her varied lovers. But on the page and on the screen, Moll comes across quite clearly as a woman who might bend, but refuses to break, and who is intent on having as good a life as she can get.
E. M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel considers Moll and her creator's art in some detail. While he finds much to criticize in Defoe's ability to plot (where did those last two children go, anyway?), he is as besotted with Moll as I am. Immoral? Sure -- but immortal, and never, ever dull. We hope at least a few of the viewers of the recent adaptation take a couple hours to discover the original, inimitable Moll Flanders. [via]
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Nory Ryan's Songby Patricia Reilly GiffISBN 0440418291 (0-440-41829-1)
Softcover, Yearling Books
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On Secret Serviceby John JakesISBN 0451204050 (0-451-20405-0)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Secret Service'Book summary:John Jakes is to historical American fiction what Stephen King is to horror: a one-man industry. Jakes, the author of over 60 books, including the eight-part Kent Family Chronicles, the North and South Trilogy, and innumerable short stories of the American West, returns to his well-trod Civil War stomping grounds in the engrossing On Secret Service. The story of a war within a war on various levels--the North v. the South, the Union's Pinkerton Detective Agency v. the Confederacy's agent provocateurs, youthful idealism v. youthful lust--On Secret Service chronicles the lives and times of four young Americans, from the war's early tremors in January 1861, through its bloody conclusion, Lincoln's assassination, and John Wilkes Booth's murder in May 1865.
The main players are Lon Price, the ardent abolitionist and rising-star operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, and Margaret Miller, the beautiful, initially vacuous daughter of the South whose chief concern is that the war be over quickly so as not to interfere with Washington's upcoming social season. After a chance encounter in a Washington park, they are as repulsed by each other's political views as they are drawn together by an undeniable physical chemistry. As hostilities increase, the Pinkertons are pledged to the service of the Union and Lon becomes, ipso facto, a charter member in the U.S. Secret Service. When Margaret's stridently pro-slavery father is gunned down by a Pinkerton operative at a clandestine "Secesh" meeting, Margaret throws off her socialite mantle and vows revenge. She pledges allegiance to the South's most notorious female spy, the wealthy, well-connected, and equally well-endowed Rose Greenhow.
A parallel relationship develops between Margaret's unlikely best friend, the boyishly slight Hanna Siegel, a devout abolitionist who longs to prove herself on the battlefield, and the conflicted Captain Frederick Dasher, late of West Point, now of the First Virginia Cavalry, and protégé to Brigadier General "Jeb" Stuart. Played out before a scrim of battles, lives, fortunes, and reputations won and irreparably lost, Lon, Margaret, Hanna, and Fred cat-and-mouse their way through America's costliest war.
While the respective outcomes are somewhat predictable, what is not predictable is the degree to which the reader is captivated by Jakes's encyclopedic command of historical fact and his unmatched storytelling. The mingling of well-drawn fictional characters with nicely fleshed-out historical figures raises to rare levels circumstances that would, in lesser hands, seem mere contrivances. --Michael Hudson [via]
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The Palaceby Chelsea Quinn YarbroISBN 0446610992 (0-446-61099-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Palace'Book summary:The anticipated paperback release of the second title in Yarbro's long-running Saint-Germain series featuring immortal vampire Francesco Ragoczy da San Germano. Secluded in his Renaissance Florence palace, he falls for a beautiful courtesan and loses all desire for isolation. [via]
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The Plague Talesby Ann BensonISBN 0440225108 (0-440-22510-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Pyratesby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0452257646 (0-452-25764-6)
Softcover, New American Library
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The Queen's Secretby Jean PlaidyISBN 0449220087 (0-449-22008-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Raj Quartetby Paul ScottISBN 0434681121 (0-434-68112-1)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solutionby Henry F. Ledgard, Nicholas MeyerISBN 0393311198 (0-393-31119-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Shakespeare Stealerby Gary BlackwoodISBN 0439113105 (0-439-11310-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare Stealer'Book summary:High jinks and high adventure fill every page of this exciting, panoramic novel set in Shakespeare's time. Widge, our hero, is a young orphan indentured to a cold, unscrupulous master because the young boy has a special talent--the ability to write a secret shorthand. The master is bent on getting hold of the script of Hamlet at any cost, so it becomes Widge's task to transcribe it--or else. This picaresque tale follows Widge as he hightails his way into the very heart of the Globe Theatre and Shakespeare's company of players. As full of twists as a London alleyway, this entertaining novel is rich in period details, colorful characters, villainy, drama, and chuckles. Swordplay and wordplay share the stage with pure fun, all of which will keep readers rapt to the final scene. [via]
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She Who Remembersby Linda L. ShulerISBN 0451160533 (0-451-16053-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'She Who Remembers'Book summary:She stood apart for her unusual blue eyes. But to the clan who took her in-and the man who saved her-she was born for a special destiny. [via]
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She Who Remembersby Linda Lay ShulerISBN 0451211448 (0-451-21144-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Ship Feverby Andrea BarrettISBN 0393316009 (0-393-31600-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ship Fever'Book summary:In 1764, two Englishwomen set out to prove that swallows--contrary to the great Linnaeus's belief--do not hibernate underwater. But they must be patient and experiment in secret, such actions being inappropriate for the female of the species. In 1862, a hopeless naturalist heads off for yet another journey, though he can't seem to rid his conscience of the thousands of animals that have already died in his service. In 1971, a pregnant young woman, ill at ease with her socially superior husband and his stepchildren, hears of a Tierra del Fuegan taken hostage by the commander of the Beagle in 1835. This unwilling specimen was, we read, "captured, exiled, re-educated; then returned, abused by his family, finally re-accepted. Was he happy? Or was he saying that as a way to spite his captors? Darwin never knew."
Many of the characters who populate Andrea Barrett's National Book Award-winning collection, Ship Fever, feel similarly displaced in the world. They long to prove themselves in both science and love, but are often thwarted by gender, social position, or the prevailing order. In "The Behavior of the Hawkweeds," the wife of a genetics professor has learned that each narrative of discovery is matched by one, if not more, "in which science is not just unappreciated, but bent by loneliness and longing." Barrett's astonishing tales of ambition and isolation convey the meaning and feeling behind the patterns--scientific and emotional--but slip free of easy closure. The two women in "Rare Bird," like the swallows, depart England for more conducive climes, or so the brother of one believes. The reader is left to hope, and imagine. Much has been made of Andrea Barrett's interlacing of history, knowledge, and fact--and rightly so. But equal attention should be paid to the brilliant serenity and exactitude of her style. --Kerry Fried [via]
Shroud for the Archbishopby Peter TremayneISBN 0451193008 (0-451-19300-8)
Softcover, Signet
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Simon the Coldheartby Georgette HeyerISBN 0449208486 (0-449-20848-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Sloop of Warby Alexander KentISBN 0399109757 (0-399-10975-7)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Smoke In The Wind: A Mystery of Ancient Irelandby Peter TremayneISBN 0451215532 (0-451-21553-2)
Softcover, Signet
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Soldier's Heartby Gary PaulsenISBN 0440228387 (0-440-22838-7)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soldier's Heart'Book summary:In spare, almost biblical prose, Gary Paulsen writes of the horrors of combat in a Civil War novella that puts a powerful, more contemporary spin on Stephen Crane's classic The Red Badge of Courage. Based on the life of a real boy, it tells the story of Charley Goddard, who lies his way into the Union Army at the age of 15. Charley has never been anyplace beyond Winona, Minnesota, and thinks war would be a great adventure. And it is--at first--as his regiment marches off through cheering crowds and pretty, flag-waving girls. But then comes the battle. Charley screams, "Make it stop now!" disbelieving that anything so horrible could be real. Paulsen is unsparing in the details of what actually happens on the battlefield: the living men suddenly blown into pieces, the agony and fear, the noise and terror, the stinking corpses. After many battles, Charley is wounded and sent home an old man before he is 20, his will to live destroyed by combat fatigue--leaving him with a "soldier's heart." Paulsen has received the Margaret A. Edwards Award, the ALAN Award, and several Newbery Honor awards for previous work, but this superb, small masterpiece transcends any of his earlier titles in its remarkable, memorable intensity and power. (Ages 12 to 15) --Patty Campbell [via]
Stand into Dangerby Alexander KentISBN 0399125396 (0-399-12539-6)
Hardcover, Putnan
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Streams to the River, River to the Seaby Scott O'DellISBN 0395404304 (0-395-40430-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Suffer Little Childrenby Peter TremayneISBN 0451195574 (0-451-19557-4)
Softcover, Signet
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The The Monk Who Vanishedby Peter TremayneISBN 0451206266 (0-451-20626-6)
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"[Sister Fidelma] does not disappoint." (Publishers Weekly) [via]More editions of The The Monk Who Vanished:
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Voices After Midnightby Richard PeckISBN 0440403782 (0-440-40378-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Then he finds that his younger brother, Luke, hears them, too, and even their older sister Heidi's afraid to stay in the house alone.
As Chad and Luke explore the house, they begin to slip in and out of their own time, back to the winter of 1888. Are the voices they hear crying out for help? Will Chad ignore the voices or plunge into the unknown danger of one handred years before? [via]More editions of Voices After Midnight:
The Waterworksby E. L. DoctorowISBN 0451185633 (0-451-18563-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbitby Judith KerrISBN 0440490170 (0-440-49017-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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When My Name Was Keokoby Linda Sue ParkISBN 0440419441 (0-440-41944-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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White Fang and Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0451525582 (0-451-52558-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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