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Across the Nightingale Floorby Lian HearnISBN 0606280049 (0-606-28004-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Agony and the Ecstasyby Irving StoneISBN 0854565612 (0-85456-561-2)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clayby Michael ChabonISBN 0679450041 (0-679-45004-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'Book summary:Like the comic books that animate and inspire it, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is both larger than life and of it too. Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages brimming with longing and hope. Samuel Klayman--self-described little man, city boy, and Jew--first meets Josef Kavalier when his mother shoves him aside in his own bed, telling him to make room for their cousin, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Prague. It's the beginning, however unlikely, of a beautiful friendship. In short order, Sam's talent for pulp plotting meets Joe's faultless, academy-trained line, and a comic-book superhero is born. A sort of lantern-jawed equalizer clad in dark blue long underwear, the Escapist "roams the globe, performing amazing feats and coming to the aid of those who languish in tyranny's chains!" Before they know it, Kavalier and Clay (as Sam Klayman has come to be known) find themselves at the epicenter of comics' golden age.
But Joe Kavalier is driven by motives far more complex than your average hack. In fact, his first act as a comic-book artist is to deal Hitler a very literal blow. (The cover of the first issue shows the Escapist delivering "an immortal haymaker" onto the Führer's realistically bloody jaw.) In subsequent years, the Escapist and his superhero allies take on the evil Iron Chain and their leader Attila Haxoff--their battles drawn with an intensity that grows more disturbing as Joe's efforts to rescue his family fail. He's fighting their war with brush and ink, Joe thinks, and the idea sustains him long enough to meet the beautiful Rosa Saks, a surrealist artist and surprisingly retrograde muse. But when even that fiction fails him, Joe performs an escape of his own, leaving Rosa and Sammy to pick up the pieces in some increasingly wrong-headed ways.
More amazing adventures follow--but reader, why spoil the fun? Suffice to say, Michael Chabon writes novels like the Escapist busts locks. Previous books such as The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys have prose of equal shimmer and wit, and yet here he seems to have finally found a canvas big enough for his gifts. The whole enterprise seems animated by love: for his alternately deluded, damaged, and painfully sincere characters; for the quirks and curious innocence of tough-talking wartime New York; and, above all, for comics themselves, "the inspirations and lucubrations of five hundred aging boys dreaming as hard as they could." Far from negating such pleasures, the Holocaust's presence in the novel only makes them more pressing. Art, if not capable of actually fighting evil, can at least offer a gesture of defiance and hope--a way out, in other words, of a world gone completely mad. Comic-book critics, Joe notices, dwell on "the pernicious effect, on young minds, of satisfying the desire to escape. As if there could be any more noble or necessary service in life." Indeed. --Mary Park [via]
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Arabellaby Georgette HeyerISBN 0848808118 (0-8488-0811-8)
Hardcover, Yestermorrow Inc
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A Body In The Bathhouse: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Novelby Lindsey DavisISBN 0892967714 (0-89296-771-4)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Body In The Bathhouse: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Novel'Book summary:AD75. As a passion for home improvement sweeps through the Roman Empire, Marcus Didius Falco struggles to deal with Gloccus and Cotta, a pair of terrible bath house contractors whose slow progress and bad workmanship have been causing him misery for months. They finally finish their contract, but leave Falco and his father with a ghastly smell from a hypocaust and some gruesome site debris. . . Far away in Britain, King Togidubnus of the Atrebates tribe is planning his own makeover. His huge new residence (known to us as Fishbourne Palace) will be spectacular - but the sensational refurbishment is behind time and over budget, its labour force is beset by 'accidents', corrupt practices are rife, and everyone loathes the project manager. The frugal Emperor Vespasian is paying for all this; he wants someone to investigate. Falco has a new baby, an new house, and he hates Britain. But his feud with Anacrites the Chief Spy has now reached a dangerous level, so with his own pressing reasons to leave Rome in a hurry, he accepts the task. A thousand miles from home, with only his family to support him, he starts restoring order to the chaotic building site. Then, while he searches the feuding workforce for Gloccus and Cotta, he realises that someone with murderous intentions is now after him . . . [via]
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The Book Thiefby Markus ZusakISBN 0786290218 (0-7862-9021-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book Thief'Book summary:'It's just a small story, really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, a Jewish fist fighter, and quite a lot of thievery ...' This work is narrated in the all-knowing matter-of-fact voice of Death, witnessing the story of the citizens of Himmel Street: When nine-year-old Liesel arrives outside the boxlike house of her new foster parents, she refuses to get out of the car. Liesel has been separated from her parents - 'Kommunists' - for ever, and at the burial of her little brother, she steals a gravedigger's instruction manual which she can't read. It is the beginning of her illustrious career. In the care of the Hubermans, Liesel befriends blond-haired Rudy Steiner, her neighbour obsessed with Jesse Owens. She also befriends the mayor's wife, who hides from despair in her library. Together Liesel and Rudy steal books - from Nazi book burning piles, from the mayor's library, from the richer people of Molching. In time, the family hide a Jewish boxer, Max, who reads with Liesel in the basement.. By 1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail. Liesel shares out her books in the air-raid shelters. But one day in the life of Himmel street, the wail of the sirens comes too late...A life-changing tale of the cruel twists of fate and the coincidences on which all our lives hinge, this is also a joyous look at the power of book to nourish the soul. Its uplifting ending will make all readers weep. [via]
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Caesar's Womenby Colleen McCulloughISBN 068809371X (0-688-09371-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Chesapeakeby James A. MichenerISBN 0812970438 (0-8129-7043-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chesapeake'Book summary:"Michener's most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope."
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"Brilliantly written."
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Once again James A. Michener brings history to life with this 400-year saga of America's great bay and its Eastern Shore. Following Edmund Steed and his remarkable family, who parallel the settling and forming of the nation, CHESAPEAKE sweeps readers from the unspoiled world of the Native Americans to the voyages of Captain John Smith, the Revolutionary War, and right up to modern times.
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The Confession of Brother Haluinby Ellis PetersISBN 0816148597 (0-8161-4859-7)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Dead Man's Ransomby Ellis PetersISBN 0786218290 (0-7862-1829-0)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Devil's Noviceby Ellis PetersISBN 0786216689 (0-7862-1668-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Novice'Book summary:In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice Meriet Aspley a disturbing presence. Meek and biddable by day, his sleep is rent with nightmares so violent as to earn him the nickname of "Devil's Novice". [via]
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A Dying Light in Cordubaby Lindsey DavisISBN 0892966645 (0-89296-664-5)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte, Frances McCarthyISBN 0812034481 (0-8120-3448-1)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights'Book summary:A guide to reading "Wuthering Heights" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]
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An Excellent Mysteryby Ellis PetersISBN 0786222697 (0-7862-2269-7)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Excellent Mystery'Book summary:In the year of our Lord 1141, August comes in golden as a lion, and two monks ride into the Benedictine abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul bringing with them disturbing news of war- and a mystery. The strangers tell how the strife between the Empress Maud and King Stephen has destroyed the town of Winchester and their priory. Now Brother Humilis, who is handsome, gaunt and very ill, and Brother Fidelis, youthful, comely- and mute- must seek refuge at Shrewsbury. From the moment he meets them, Brother Cadfael senses that they are bound by something deeper than their common vows. What the link is he can only guess; what it will lead to is beyond imagining. But as Brother Humilis's health fails, Brother Cadfael faces a poignant test of his discretion and his beliefs as he unravels a secret so great it can destroy a life, a future, and a holy order. [via]
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For the Rosesby Julie GarwoodISBN 067187098X (0-671-87098-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For the Roses'Book summary:Mary Rose Clayborne is as well-protected by her four adoptive brothers as any woman in Blue Belle, Montana could be--until Lord Harrison Stanford MacDonald comes to town and she finds herself falling in love. How can Mary Rose keep her family together and learn to accept Harrison's questionable past? This story of love and adventure in the Old West will keep you turning the pages. [via]
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Gentle Rogueby Johanna LindseyISBN 0727859978 (0-7278-5997-8)
Hardcover, Severn House Pub Ltd
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I Thee Wedby Amanda QuickISBN 0553574108 (0-553-57410-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Thee Wed'Book summary:Amanda Quick proves once again that opposites most definitely do attract in her new Regency romance, I Thee Wed. Sharp-witted lady's companion Emma Greyson has as much trouble holding a job as she does holding her tongue. But lack of references can't deter Emma; she just writes her own and finagles a new position. Her present employment brings Emma to a tedious house party in the country where she spends most of her time trying to dodge the lecherous groping of the gentlemen guests. In fact, to avoid just such an encounter Emma is forced to hide in a wardrobe. The only problem is that the space is already occupied--by mysterious financier Edison Stokes, no less! Stokes is on a quest to locate a volume of arcane potions that could prove deadly if it falls into the wrong hands, and he believes the text is in the possession of one of the partygoers. Emma soon finds herself the focus of another kind of attention, equally undesirable, when her highly developed intuition makes her susceptible to the powerful potions of the black arts. To protect her, Stokes hires Emma to be his assistant, but quickly realizes that keeping Emma out of danger is a full-time job. The only solution is to keep her close to him--very close to him. And neither Stokes nor Emma minds that at all! Bestselling author Amanda Quick keeps readers begging for more in this highly entertaining historical. --Alison Trinkle [via]
Last Act in Palmyraby Lindsey DavisISBN 0892966254 (0-89296-625-4)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Last Enchantmentby Mary StewartISBN 0606189955 (0-606-18995-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Enchantment'Book summary:Arthur Pendragon is King! Unchallenged on the battlefield, he melds the country together in a time of promise. But sinister powers plot to destroy Camelot, and when the witch-queen Morgause -- Arthur's own half sister -- ensnares him in an incestuous liaison, a fatal web of love, betrayal, and bloody vengeance is woven.
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Leper of Saint Gilesby Ellis PetersISBN 0786213752 (0-7862-1375-2)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Love Only Onceby Johanna LindseyISBN 0727840967 (0-7278-4096-7)
Hardcover, Severn House Publishers, Limited
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The Magic of Youby Johanna LindseyISBN 0783818394 (0-7838-1839-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Marchby Geraldine BrooksISBN 0670033359 (0-670-03335-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'March'Book summary:As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the war, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. Riveting and elegant as it is meticulously researched, March is an extraordinary novel woven out of the lore of American history.
From Louisa May Alcotts beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, who has gone off to war, leaving his wife and daughters to make do in mean times. To evoke him, Brooks turned to the journals and letters of Bronson Alcott, Louisa Mays fathera friend and confidant of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. In her telling, March emerges as an idealistic chaplain in the little known backwaters of a war that will test his faith in himself and in the Union cause as he learns that his side, too, is capable of acts of barbarism and racism. As he recovers from a near mortal illness, he must reassemble his shattered mind and body and find a way to reconnect with a wife and daughters who have no idea of the ordeals he has been through.
Spanning the vibrant intellectual world of Concord and the sensuous antebellum South, March adds adult resonance to Alcotts optimistic childrens tale to portray the moral complexity of war, and a marriage tested by the demands of extreme idealismand by a dangerous and illicit attraction. A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brookss place as an internationally renowned author of historical fiction. [via]
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The Mask of Apolloby Mary RenaultISBN 0553242806 (0-553-24280-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Mason and Dixonby Thomas PynchonISBN 0805058370 (0-8050-5837-0)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mason and Dixon'Book summary:A sprawling, complex, and comic work from one of the country's most celebrated and idiosyncratic authors, Mason & Dixon is Thomas Pynchon's Most Magickal reinvention of the 18th-century novel. It follows the lifelong partnership and adventures of the English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon (of Mason-Dixon Line fame) as they travel the world mapping and measuring through an uncharted pre-Revolutionary America of Native Americans, white settlers, taverns, and bawdy establishments of ill-repute. Fans of the postmodern master of paranoia will recognize Pynchon's personality in the novel's first phrase: "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs," a brief echo of the rockets that curve across the skies in the writer's masterpiece Gravity's Rainbow. [via]
The Masqueradersby Georgette HeyerISBN 0891907823 (0-89190-782-3)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Poe Shadowby Matthew PearlISBN 1400061032 (1-4000-6103-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Potter's Fieldby Ellis PetersISBN 0892964197 (0-89296-419-7)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Potter's Field'Book summary:The year is 1143 and this is the 17th chronicle of Brother Cadfael of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury. Once again, the gentle monk is forced to leave the tranquility of his herb garden and use his knowledge of the human nature to solve a murder--this one frighteningly close to home. 2 cassettes. [via]
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Recklessby Amanda QuickISBN 055329315X (0-553-29315-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reckless'Book summary:Reckless--Phoebe Layton had always imagined Gabriel Banner a brave and valiant knight, which was why she went to him when she was in desperate need of help. but when she lures her shining knight to a lonely midnight rendezvous, Phoebe finds herself sparring with a dangerously desirable man who is nothing like the hero of her dreams. She fears she's made a dreadful mistake when Gabriel sweeps her into his arms and passionately embraces her. Yet it's a kiss that seals her fate. Now Gabriel must possess her -- even if he has to slay a dragon to do it!
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Roman Bloodby Steven SaylorISBN 0804110395 (0-8041-1039-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roman Blood'Book summary:"Remarkable...Takes the reader deep into the political, legal and family arenas of Ancient Rome, providing a stirring blend of history and mystery, well seasoned with conspiracy, passion and intrigue."
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One unseasonably warm spring morning in 80 B.C., Gordianus the Finder is summoned to investigate a murder. Sextus Roscius is accused of killing his own father. This, in a society rife with deceit, betrayal, and conspiracy, where neither citizen nor slave can be trusted to speak the truth. But even Gordianus is not prepared for the spectacularly dangerous fireworks that will attend the resolution of this ugly, delicate case.... [via]More editions of Roman Blood:
Saint Peter's Fairby Ellis PetersISBN 0688006671 (0-688-00667-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Scandalby Amanda QuickISBN 0553289322 (0-553-28932-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Shelters of Stoneby Jean M. AuelISBN 055328942X (0-553-28942-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shelters of Stone'Book summary:Jean Auel's fifth novel about Ayla, the Cro-Magnon cavewoman raised by Neanderthals, is the biggest comeback bestseller in Amazon.com history. In The Shelters of Stone, Ayla meets the Zelandonii tribe of Jondalar, the Cro-Magnon hunk she rescued from Baby, her pet lion. Ayla is pregnant. How will Jondalar's mom react? Or his bitchy jilted fiancée? Ayla wows her future in-laws by striking fire from flint and taming a wild wolf. But most regard her Neanderthal adoptive Clan as subhuman "flatheads." Clan larynxes can't quite manage language, and Ayla must convince the Zelandonii that Clan sign language isn't just arm-flapping. Zelandonii and Clan are skirmishing, and those who interbreed are deemed "abominations." What would Jondalar's tribe think if they knew Ayla had to abandon her half-breed son in Clan country? The plot is slow to unfold, because Auel's first goal is to pack the tale with period Pleistocene detail, provocative speculation, and bits of romance, sex, tribal politics, soap opera, and homicidal wooly rhino-hunting adventure. It's an enveloping fact-based fantasy, a genre-crossing time trip to the Ice Age. --Tim Appelo [via]
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- Shelters of Stone: ISBN 0553382616 (0-553-38261-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Shelters of Stone: ISBN 0609610597 (0-609-61059-7)
Hardcover, Crown Pub - Shelters of Stone: ISBN 060629046X (0-606-29046-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Shelters of Stone: ISBN 055328942X (0-553-28942-X)
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- Shelters of Stone: ISBN 0553382616 (0-553-38261-6)
Something Wonderfulby Judith McNaughtISBN 0671737635 (0-671-73763-5)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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St. Peter's Fairby Ellis PetersISBN 0786210745 (0-7862-1074-5)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'St. Peter's Fair'Book summary:MysteryLarge Print EditionStylishly authentic . . . a graceful and informative case for Peters engaging herb-gardening monk. Kirkus ReviewsThe great annual Fair of Saint Peter at Shrewsbury, a high point in the citys calendar, attracts merchants from far and wide to do business. But when an unseemly quarrel breaks out between the local burghers and the monks from the Benedictine monastery as to who shall benefit from the levies the fair provides, a riot ensues. Afterwards a merchant is found dead, and Brother Cadfael is summoned from his peaceful herb garden to test his detective skills once more. [via]
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Tender Rebel: Library Editionby Johanna LindseyISBN 0816147345 (0-8161-4734-5)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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The Tiger in the Wellby Philip PullmanISBN 0679826718 (0-679-82671-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tiger in the Well'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In London in 1881, 24-year-old Sally finds her young daughter and her possessions assailed by an unknown enemy, while a shadowy figure known as the Tzaddik involves her in his plot to defraud and exploit the hordes of Jewish immigrants pouring into the country. [via]
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To Say Nothing of the Dogby Connie WillisISBN 0553575384 (0-553-57538-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Say Nothing of the Dog'Book summary:To Say Nothing of the Dog is a science-fiction fantasy in the guise of an old-fashioned Victorian novel, complete with epigraphs, brief outlines, and a rather ugly boxer in three-quarters profile at the start of each chapter. Or is it a Victorian novel in the guise of a time-traveling tale, or a highly comic romp, or a great, allusive literary game, complete with spry references to Dorothy L. Sayers, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Conan Doyle? Its title is the subtitle of Jerome K. Jerome's singular, and hilarious, Three Men in a Boat. In one scene the hero, Ned Henry, and his friends come upon Jerome, two men, and the dog Montmorency in--you guessed it--a boat. Jerome will later immortalize Ned's fumbling. (Or, more accurately, Jerome will earlier immortalize Ned's fumbling, because Ned is from the 21st century and Jerome from the 19th.)
What Connie Willis soon makes clear is that genre can go to the dogs. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a fine, and fun, romance--an amused examination of conceptions and misconceptions about other eras, other people. When we first meet Ned, in 1940, he and five other time jumpers are searching bombed-out Coventry Cathedral for the bishop's bird stump, an object about which neither he nor the reader will be clear for hundreds of pages. All he knows is that if they don't find it, the powerful Lady Schrapnell will keep sending them back in time, again and again and again. Once he's been whisked through the rather quaint Net back to the Oxford future, Ned is in a state of super time-lag. (Willis is happily unconcerned with futuristic vraisemblance, though Ned makes some obligatory references to "vids," "interactives," and "headrigs.") The only way Ned can get the necessary two weeks' R and R is to perform one more drop and recuperate in the past, away from Lady Schrapnell. Once he returns something to someone (he's too exhausted to understand what or to whom) on June 7, 1888, he's free.
Willis is concerned, however, as is her confused character, with getting Victoriana right, and Ned makes a good amateur anthropologist--entering one crowded room, he realizes that "the reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over." Though he's still not sure what he's supposed to bring back, various of his confederates keep popping back to set him to rights. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a shaggy-dog tale complete with a preternaturally quiet, time-traveling cat, Princess Arjumand, who might well be the cause of some serious temporal incongruities--for even a mouser might change the course of European history. In the end, readers might well be more interested in Ned's romance with a fellow historian than in the bishop's bird stump, and who will not rejoice in their first Net kiss, which lasts 169 years! [via]
Venetiaby Georgette HeyerISBN 0708902405 (0-7089-0240-5)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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When Christ and His Saints Sleptby Not AvailableISBN 0606296506 (0-606-29650-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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When Christ and His Saints Sleptby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 0805010157 (0-8050-1015-7)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BrontëISBN 0553196332 (0-553-19633-2)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wuthering Heights'Book summary:"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being." Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte, who died a year after its publication, at the age of thirty. A brooding Yorkshire tale of a love that is stronger than death, it is also a fierce vision of metaphysical passion, in which heaven and hell, nature and society, are powerfully juxtaposed. Unique, mystical, with a timeless appeal, it has become a classic of English literature. [via]
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- Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0553212583 (0-553-21258-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 058233098X (0-582-33098-X)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0582419441 (0-582-41944-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 061808486X (0-618-08486-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0747587507 (0-7475-8750-7)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0794505732 (0-7945-0573-2)
Softcover, Edc Pub - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0812505166 (0-8125-0516-6)
Softcover, Tor Books - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0531169650 (0-531-16965-0)
Hardcover, Franklin Watts - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0679405437 (0-679-40543-7)
Hardcover, Everymans Library - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0708989500 (0-7089-8950-0)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0809598981 (0-8095-9898-1)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0880299185 (0-88029-918-5)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0895771594 (0-89577-159-4)
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Los Refugios De Piedraby Jean M. AuelISBN 0743233573 (0-7432-3357-3)
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Los Refugios de Piedra comienza cuando Ayla y Jondalar terminan su épico viaje a través de Europa en compañía de sus amigos, los animales Lobo, Relinchona y Corredor, y son bienvenidos por los zelandones, la gente del pueblo de Jondalar. Ayla se siente fascinada por la gente de la Novena Cueva de los zelandones. Y en Zelandoni, la líder espiritual de la Novena Cueva, y quien inició a Jondalar en el Regalo del Placer, descubre a una compañera con poderes curativos con quien compartir sus conocimientos y habilidades.
Pero en tanto que Ayla y Jondalar se preparan para convertirse formalmente en pareja durante los Encuentros de Verano, se presentan dificultades. No todos los zelandones los reciben con agrado. Algunos temen la influencia de Ayla y detestan su relación con aquellos a quienes llaman cabezas chatas, y ella llama los del Clan. Algunos hasta se oponen a que forme pareja con Jondalar y hacen evidente su disgusto. Ayla tiene que recurrir a todas sus habilidades, inteligencia, conocimientos e instintos para poder hallar el camino en esta complicada sociedad, prepararse para el nacimiento de su hijo, y decidir si está dispuesta a aceptar nuevos desafíos y desempeñar un papel significativo en el destino de los zelandones. [via]
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