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The Aeneid of Virgilby VirgilISBN 0553210416 (0-553-21041-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid of Virgil'Book summary:Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years. Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express. The Aeneid is a book for all the time and all people. [via]
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The Aeneid of Virgilby Allen MandlebaumISBN 0520045505 (0-520-04550-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid of Virgil'Book summary:This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains a new preface by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.[via]More editions of The Aeneid of Virgil:
Amos Fortune, Free Manby Elizabeth YatesISBN 0525255702 (0-525-25570-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Anne of Windy Poplarsby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553213164 (0-553-21316-4)
Softcover, Skylark
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Windy Poplars'Book summary:A Principal with Principles
Anne Shirley left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faced a new challenge: dealing head-on with the proud Pringle family.
But Anne found great allies in the two widows everyone called Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty, and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. Soon Anne would learn Summerside's strangest secrets . . . secrets that would make winning the support of the prickly Pringles only the first of her delicious triumphs.
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules VerneISBN 0553213563 (0-553-21356-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:Can Phileas Fogg travel round the world in eighty days? He bets all his money that he can, but he doesn't know that someone wants to stop him. Will he make it back to London in time? [via]
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- Round the World in Eighty Days: ISBN 0582426650 (0-582-42665-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Around the World in Eighty Days: ISBN 0603030130 (0-603-03013-0)
Hardcover, Dean & Son - Around the World in Eighty Days: ISBN 0553211455 (0-553-21145-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Around the World in Eighty Days: ISBN 0582096715 (0-582-09671-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley - Around the World in Eighty Days: ISBN 059043053X (0-590-43053-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - Around the World in Eighty Days: ISBN 0553213563 (0-553-21356-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
- Round the World in Eighty Days: ISBN 0582426650 (0-582-42665-0)
Beyond the Burning Timeby Kathryn LaskyISBN 0590473328 (0-590-47332-8)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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Beyond the Western Seaby AviISBN 0531095134 (0-531-09513-4)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Blue Doorby Ann RinaldiISBN 0590460528 (0-590-46052-8)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Door'Book summary:The final handcrafted installment by award-winning author Ann Rinaldi. "Whether they've covered the previous books or not, readers will enjoy this rip-roaring tale of adventure and suspense."-Kirkus[via]
Amanda Videau had no idea what adventures she'd find on the journey North. But she never expected this& After witnessing a crime, she goes into hiding, disguising herself as a worker in her great-grandfather's textile mill. For the first time in her life, Amanda must work to survive. And that means experiencing the horrible working conditions of the mill firsthand.
Now, as Amanda fights for her newfound rights, she must also try to heal generations of deep Chelmsford family wounds. And that means facing the man behind the blue door--the man who tore apart the family quilt so many years ago.-
The Book of Kellsby R.A. MacAvoyISBN 0553252607 (0-553-25260-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Kells'Book summary:An unusual and original work of fantasy from the acclaimed author of .A contemporary man, John Thornburn (a meek, non-violent and unpredictable artist) and woman, Derval (his tough, confrontational, strong and warrior-like lover) time travel to ancient Ireland to avenge a Viking attack. Packed with fascinating details of historical time and place in Irish history and delicately balanced on the border between realism and fantasy, the story centers around one of the most famous and beautiful illuminat [via]
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Bridge over the River Kwaiby Pierre Boulle, Xan FieldingISBN 0553248502 (0-553-24850-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridge over the River Kwai'Book summary:1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one prisoner, Colonel Nicholson, a proud perfectionist. Pitted against the warden, Colonel Saito, Nicholson will nevertheless, out of a distorted sense of duty, aid his enemy. While on the outside, as the Allies race to destroy the bridge, Nicholson must decide which will be the first casualty: his patriotism or his pride. [via]
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Caxton's Malloryby William Matthews, Jamesw SpisakISBN 0520038258 (0-520-03825-8)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caxton's Mallory'Book summary:Caxton's Malory is the first scholarly edition since the nineteenth century of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Mort D'Arthur as it was printed by William Caxton in 1485. The first volume contains Caxton's text, illustrated with twenty-one beautiful woodcuts from William Copland's edition of 1557. The second volume contains the extensive critical apparatus.[via]More editions of Caxton's Mallory:
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Cider House Rulesby John IrvingISBN 0553258001 (0-553-25800-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider House Rules'Book summary:First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted. [via]
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Complete Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553609416 (0-553-60941-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Av... [via]
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Cry, the Beloved Countryby Alan PatonISBN 0582077877 (0-582-07787-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cry, the Beloved Country'Book summary:Set in the troubled South Africa of the 1940s, this is the deeply moving story of a Zulu pastor, his son, and a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Passionately African, yet timeless and universal, it is a work of searing beauty. [via]
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- Cry, the Beloved Country: ISBN 0582530091 (0-582-53009-1)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group - Cry, The Beloved Country: ISBN 0606326464 (0-606-32646-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Cry, The Beloved Country: ISBN 0613709810 (0-613-70981-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Cry, the Beloved Country: ISBN 0582077877 (0-582-07787-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
- Cry, the Beloved Country: ISBN 0582530091 (0-582-53009-1)
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Edmond RostandISBN 0553213601 (0-553-21360-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Dolleyby Rita Mae BrownISBN 055356949X (0-553-56949-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dolley'Book summary:She had the president's ear and the nation's heart.
She's the wife of the fourth president of the United States; a spirited charmer who adores parties, the latest French fashions, and the tender, brilliant man who is her husband. But while many love her, few suspect how complex Dolley Madison really is.
Only in the pages of her diaryas imagined by novelist Rita Mae Browncan Dolley fully reveal herself. And there we discover the real first ladyimpulsive, courageous, and wiseas she faces her harshest trial: in 1814, the United States is once more at war with mighty Britain, and her beloved James is the most hated man in America.
From the White House receptions she gaily presides over to her wild escape from a Washington under siege, Dolley gives us a legend ,made warmly human. For there has never been a first lady so testedèor one who came through the fire so brilliantly. [via] -
The Escape from Homeby AviISBN 0531088634 (0-531-08863-4)
Hardcover, Scholastic, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Escape from Home'Book summary:In 1851, Maura and Patrick O'Connell, driven from their Irish home by a cruel English landlord, join the landlord's younger son, Laurence Kirkle, fleeing an abusive family situation, on a journey that takes them to the port of Liverpool on the first step of their quest to reach America. [via]
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The First Circleby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0553246232 (0-553-24623-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Circle'Book summary:A major literary event 50 years in the making:In the First Circle is the first complete English translation of Nobel Prizewinner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns best novel (Washington Post). With an introduction by Edward Erickson, this work by the author of The Gulag Archipelago is the story of a brilliant mathematician who finds himself locked in a Moscow prison filled with the countrys brightest minds and must decide whether to aid Stalins repressive state. [via]
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0553246844 (0-553-24684-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravity's Rainbow'Book summary:Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.
Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone's privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
That's just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon's book. It's pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon's cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger's brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon's blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why Kekulé von Stradonitz's dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.
Pynchon doesn't want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though. Gravity's Rainbow uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It's a trip, and it will last. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Grenadillo Box: A Novelby Janet GleesonISBN 0553813897 (0-553-81389-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Hornblower Companionby C. S. ForesterISBN 0523254407 (0-523-25440-7)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Horses of Heavenby Gillian BradshawISBN 0553297961 (0-553-29796-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0553213202 (0-553-21320-2)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Jane and the Wandering Eyeby Stephanie BarronISBN 0553578170 (0-553-57817-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane and the Wandering Eye'Book summary:It's evident from the opening lines of Jane and the Wandering Eye that author Stephanie Barron knows both her Regency-period England and her Jane Austen. In this novel, the famous author takes center stage and finds herself embroiled in nefarious doings--in this case, the murder of a theater manager. As in the series' other books, Jane herself tells the story through a series of journal entries, and it is in her heroine's voice that Barron's genius comes to light: the same sharp eye for detail and ironic understanding of human character that informed Miss Austen's novels are hard at work in this fictional account of her sideline occupation as a sleuth. Though the mystery at the heart of Jane and the Wandering Eye is hardly a nail-biter, the wonderful mix of fictional and historical characters--all rendered up with Austenian wit--that inhabit this murderous comedy of manners are what will keep readers going to the very last page--and coming back for more. [via]
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Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen'Book summary:Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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Jane Austen's Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0573018499 (0-573-01849-9)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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Jeffersonby Max ByrdISBN 0553379372 (0-553-37937-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jefferson'Book summary:In the magnificent tradition if Gore Vidal's Lincoln and Burr, Max Byrd reveals a Thomas Jefferson we've never met before... It is 1784, and Jefferson, the newly appointed American ambassador to the court of Louis Xvi and Marie-Antoinette had just arrived in Paris-a city adrift in intrigue, upheaval, and temptation that will challenge his principles, incite his passions, and change Thomas Jefferson forever... Through the eyes of his impressionable young secretary, William Short, we watch as the future president builds his dream of an America with fellow patriots John Adams and Ben Franklin, and as he struggles between political ambition and an unexpected crisis of the heart with a woman who has the power to destroy him. And we discover-behind the face the complex Virginian show the world-an enigmatic statesman who fights for individual liberty even as he keeps the slave, who champions freewill even a he denies it to his daughters, and who fights for individual liberty even as he keeps slaves, who champions free will even as he denied it to his daughters, and who holds men to the highest standards of honor-even as he embarks on a shadowy double life of his own...
From the Paperback edition. [via]
The Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Campby Barry DenenbergISBN 0590485318 (0-590-48531-8)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierceby Ann RinaldiISBN 0590510789 (0-590-51078-9)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0553213326 (0-553-21332-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Lady of the Sea : The Third of the Tristan and Isolde Novelsby Rosalind MilesISBN 0609609629 (0-609-60962-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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The Last Templarby Raymond KhouryISBN 0525949410 (0-525-94941-0)
Hardcover, E P Dutton
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Le Morte D'Arthurby Aubrey Beardsley, Thomas MaloryISBN 051747977X (0-517-47977-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Morte D'Arthur'Book summary:An illustrated presentation of the legendary deeds of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table follows Arthur's magical birth and accession to the throne as well as the stories of knights Sir Lancelot, Sir Tristram, and Sir Galahad. [via]
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Mitla Passby Leon UrisISBN 0553282808 (0-553-28280-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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My Heart Laid Bareby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0525944427 (0-525-94442-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Night Before Christmasby Clement Clarke Moore, John Steven GurneyISBN 059042758X (0-590-42758-X)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night Before Christmas'Book summary:The well-known poem about an important Christmas Eve visitor. [via]
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Hardcover, Scholastic - The Night Before Christmas: ISBN 0590450751 (0-590-45075-1)
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The Night Before Christmasby Clement C. Moore, Arthur RackhamISBN 0517060108 (0-517-06010-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night Before Christmas'Book summary:This timeless verse is brought back for a whole new generation, now at a sweet new size and classic price. Enjoy old memories and make new ones as you share this favorite Christmas tradition with the whole family. [via]
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- The Night Before Christmas: ISBN 0517185210 (0-517-18521-0)
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The Night Before Christmasby Bill BellISBN 0517223392 (0-517-22339-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night Before Christmas'Book summary:"'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there."Generations of children have thrilled to these words as their favorite holiday grows near. Clement C. Moore wrote this account of a man's encounter with St. Nicholas in 1822 to entertain his children. Since then, his charming descriptions have become the definitive portrait of Santa Claus, from his twinkling eyes to his droll little mouth to the belly that shakes like a "bowlful of jelly." In this edition, award-winning illustrator Bruce Whatley brings Moore's well-loved Christmas classic to life with his vivid pictures and unusual perspectives. Readers can practically look up Dasher and Dancer's noses at one point, in a near-3-D close-up image of Santa's flock of reindeer.
Bright colors and clever details (one remaining leaf hangs from a tree outside the window, mice curl tightly together in a nest on a high shelf, reindeer peek mischievously over the rooftop at the unsuspecting narrator...) make this a holiday book the whole family will return to year after year. (Ages 3 to 10) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Night Before Christmas der Fun Libby Clement C. MooreISBN 051732105X (0-517-32105-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Nine Days Queenby BradfordISBN 0590716174 (0-590-71617-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Book Service
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Northanger Abbeyby Barbara M. Benedict, Deirdre Le FayeISBN 0521824192 (0-521-82419-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0553211978 (0-553-21197-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Of Mice and Menby John SteinbeckISBN 055327824X (0-553-27824-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Mice and Men'Book summary:Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck, one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, offers a powerful but tragic tale in "Of Mice and Men". 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place'. George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California's Salinas Valley, they get work on a ranch. If they can just stay out of trouble, George promises Lennie, then one day they might be able to get some land of their own and settle down some place. But kind-hearted, childlike Lennie is a victim of his own strength. Seen by others as a threat, he finds it impossible to control his emotions. And one day not even George will be able to save him from trouble. "Of Mice and Men" is a tragic and moving story of friendship, loneliness and the dispossessed. "A thriller, a gripping tale that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick". ("New York Times"). Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works are published by Penguin and include "Cannery Row", "The Pearl", "The Winter of Our Discontent" and "The Grapes of Wrath". [via]
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Pedro's Journalby Pam Conrad, Peter KoeppenISBN 0590462067 (0-590-46206-7)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Pioneersby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0553214179 (0-553-21417-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pioneers'Book summary:From its remarkable first scene--in which a gunshot finds an unintended target--to its fiery climax in the woods of New York State, The Pioneers is a rich chronicle of early frontier life filled with action, adventure, romance, and history. It is also the work that established James Fenimore Cooper as the first great American novelist. The first installment if what would later become the famous Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers introduces readers to the colorful and enduring character of frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Forced by a local landowner to obey new hunting laws, Natty Bumppo rebels and finds allies in the landowner's daughter and a mysterious young stranger. Against the backdrop of the changing seasons, a varied cast of unforgettable characters is caught up in a drama that illuminates the essence of the American character and the conflict between a restlessly expanding society and the unspoiled wilderness that was here before us all. [via]
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Rilla of Inglesideby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553269224 (0-553-26922-4)
Softcover, Skylark
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rilla of Ingleside'Book summary:Anne's children were almost grown up, except for pretty, high-spirited Rilla. No one could resist her bright hazel eyes and dazzling smile. Rilla, almost fifteen, can't think any further ahead than going to her very first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse and getting her first kiss from handsome
Kenneth Ford. But undreamed-of challenges await the irrepressible Rilla when the world of Ingleside becomes endangered by a far-off war. Her brothers go off to fight, and Rilla brings home an orphaned newborn in a soup tureen. She is swept into a drama that tests her courage and leaves her changed forever. [via]More editions of Rilla of Ingleside:
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Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Rilla of Ingleside: ISBN 0518180832 (0-518-18083-2)
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Round the World in Eighty Daysby Penguin, H. E. PalmerISBN 0582427207 (0-582-42720-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Round the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:The year is 1872 and Mr Phileas Fogg is leading his usual quiet life. He has kept to the same exact routine for many years. However, in a discussion he says that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days and to prove it, he sets off himself. At first, all goes well but then all sorts of problems start and what about the detective Fix who seems determined to stop Fogg? [via]
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Savannah: Or a Gift for Mr. Lincolnby John JakesISBN 0525948031 (0-525-94803-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Servant's Taleby Margaret Frazer, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress), Jove BooksISBN 0515111635 (0-515-11163-5)
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Shamanby Noah GordonISBN 0525935541 (0-525-93554-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shaman'Book summary:When his political opinions force him to flee his native Scotland, Dr. Rob J. Cole heads to the American West, where he tends to the country's native American population and falls in love with a healer. 40,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthurby Thomas Malory, Keith BainesISBN 0517020602 (0-517-02060-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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A Song for Arbonneby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0517593122 (0-517-59312-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Song for Arbonne'Book summary:Facing conquest by the neighboring Gorhaut--ruled by a dour, crusading, misogynist lord--the men and women of Arbonne find that their fates lie in the hands of a rough-hewn mercenary captain. 25,000 first printing. [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0553211684 (0-553-21168-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'Book summary:Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended, and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy is edited by Rex Gibson, Director, Shakespeare and Schools Project. [via]
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Tom Jonesby Henry Fielding, Janet McAlpinISBN 0582364140 (0-582-36414-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tom Jones'Book summary:Tom Jones isn't a bad guy, but boys just want to have fun. Nearly two and a half centuries after its publication, the adventures of the rambunctious and randy Tom Jones still makes for great reading. I'm not in the habit of using words like bawdy or rollicking, but if you look them up in the dictionary, you should see a picture of this book. [via]
Trade Windby M. M. KayeISBN 0553253115 (0-553-25311-5)
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A Treasury of American Poetryby Allen Mandelbaum, Robert D. RichardsonISBN 0517221535 (0-517-22153-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Treasury of American Poetry'Book summary:A comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American Poetry features the work of some 150 of our nation's finest writers. It includes selections from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Gertrude Stein, as well as significant works of lesser-known American poets.
From the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to the Romantic Era and the Gilded and Modern Ages, this unrivaled anthology also presents a memorable array of rare ballads, songs, hymns, spirituals, and carols that echo through our nation's history. Highlights include Native American poems, African American writings, and the works of Quakers, colonists, Huguenots, transcendentalists, scholars, slaves, politicians, journalists, and clergymen.
These discerning selections demonstrate that the American canon of poetry is as diverse as the nation itself, and constantly evolving as we pass through time. Most important, this collection strongly reflects the peerless stylings that mark the American poetic experience as unique. Here, in one distinguished volume, are the many voices of the New World. [via]More editions of A Treasury of American Poetry:
Twas the Night Before Christmasby Clement Clarke Moore, Jessie Willcox SmithISBN 0517081369 (0-517-08136-9)
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Watery Graveby Bruce AlexanderISBN 0614130239 (0-614-13023-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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We Speak No Treasonby Rosemary H. JarmanISBN 0515083380 (0-515-08338-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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West to a Land of Plentyby Jim MurphyISBN 0590738887 (0-590-73888-7)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'West to a Land of Plenty'Book summary:The first humorous book in the Dear America series follows an Italian girl's immigrant family as they move from New York City to a utopian community in the frontier West. [via]
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Where the Red Fern Growsby Wilson RawlsISBN 0553274295 (0-553-27429-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Red Fern Grows'Book summary:Author Wilson Rawls spent his boyhood much like the character of this book, Billy Colman, roaming the Ozarks of northeastern Oklahoma with his bluetick hound. A straightforward, shoot-from-the-hip storyteller with a searingly honest voice, Rawls is well-loved for this powerful 1961 classic and the award-winning novel Summer of the Monkeys. In Where the Red Fern Grows, Billy and his precious coonhound pups romp relentlessly through the Ozarks, trying to "tree" the elusive raccoon. In time, the inseparable trio wins the coveted gold cup in the annual coon-hunt contest, captures the wily ghost coon, and bravely fights with a mountain lion. When the victory over the mountain lion turns to tragedy, Billy grieves, but learns the beautiful old Native American legend of the sacred red fern that grows over the graves of his dogs. This unforgettable classic belongs on every child's bookshelf. (Ages 9 and up) [via]
With All Dispatchby Alexander KentISBN 0515103306 (0-515-10330-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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El Diario De Pedroby Pam Conrad, Leda Schiavo, Peter KoeppenISBN 0590474022 (0-590-47402-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Diario De Pedro'Book summary:A Spanish edition of a fictional log kept by the Santa Maria's ship boy recounts his adventures at sea, his homesickness, his fears of the treacherous voyage, and his dreams of the new world. [via]
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Josefina Aprende Una Leccion/Josefina Learns a Lessonby Valerie Tripp, Jean-Paul Tibbles, Vinetas Susan McAlileyISBN 061305279X (0-613-05279-X)
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Una Sorpresa Para Josefinaby Valerie Tripp, Susan McAliley, Jean-Paul Tibbles, Jose MorenoISBN 0613059085 (0-613-05908-5)
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