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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 0812504208 (0-8125-0420-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:Tom Sawyer has an eye for adventure and is always getting into scrapes with his friends and partners in crime, Huck Finn and Joe Harper. His escapades often lead him into dangerous and desperate situations, but he always turns these to his advantage.[via]More editions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0753454785 (0-7534-5478-5)
Hardcover, Kingfisher Books - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0766607631 (0-7666-0763-1)
Hardcover, Modern Pub - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0743406354 (0-7434-0635-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 080490006X (0-8049-0006-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0816718601 (0-8167-1860-1)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0816725470 (0-8167-2547-0)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0762405422 (0-7624-0542-2)
Hardcover, Courage Books - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0812504208 (0-8125-0420-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0753454785 (0-7534-5478-5)
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Arms of Nemesisby Steven SaylorISBN 0804111278 (0-8041-1127-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arms of Nemesis'Book summary:"Entertaining...Saylor's sense of style and elegantly witty writing make the most of this genre transference."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
South of Rome on the Gulf of Puteoli stands the splendid villa of Marcus Crassus, Rome's wealthiest citizen. When the estate overseer is murdered, Crassus concludes that the deed was done by two missing slaves, who have probably run off to join the Spartacan Slave Revolt. Unless they are found within five days, Crassus vows to massacre his remaining ninety-nine slaves.
To Gordianus the Finder falls the fateful task of resolving this riddle from Hades. In a house filled with secrets, the truth is slow to emerge. And as the hour of the massacre approaches, Gordianus realizes that the labyrinthine path he has chosen just may lead to his own destruction...
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Brave the Wild Windby Johanna LindseyISBN 0816139091 (0-8161-3909-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American Westby Dee Alexander BrownISBN 0805066691 (0-8050-6669-1)
Softcover, Owl Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West'Book summary:First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson [via]
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Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West: ISBN 0805017305 (0-8050-1730-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the Americna West: ISBN 078578876X (0-7857-8876-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West: ISBN 0805010459 (0-8050-1045-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West: ISBN 0805066691 (0-8050-6669-1)
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The Canterbury Papersby Judith Koll HealeyISBN 0786265752 (0-7862-6575-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Catch-22by Joseph HellerISBN 0808514024 (0-8085-1402-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catch-22'Book summary:There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel's undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Heller's characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense.
Yossarian says, "You're talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."
"Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"
"To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
"I can't think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy."
"The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Mirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. It's a good thing, too. As long as there's a military, that engine of lethal authority, Catch-22 will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. It's an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book. [via]More editions of Catch-22:
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Child of the Prophecyby Juliet MarillierISBN 0765345013 (0-7653-4501-3)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Child of the Prophecy'Book summary:The powerful fantasy novel Child of the Prophecy successfully concludes Juliet Marillier's Sevenwaters Trilogy, which chronicles a fated family's three-generation struggle to preserve the failing magic of ancient Ireland.
The daughter of a forbidden romance, Fianne has been raised in isolation and trained in magic by her loving but remote druid-father, Ciaran, and her ruthless sorceress-grandmother, the Lady Oonagh. They send Fianne to Sweetwaters to live among relatives who had no knowledge of her existence and who may have instigated the death of her mother, their sister Niamh. Fianne has come to carry out her grandmother's long-planned vengeance on the clan--and on the Old Ones, who are the source of Ireland's mystic power. Despite her mother's death, Fianne is reluctant to harm her Sweetwaters kin. But if she lets them live, the Lady Oonagh will kill both her father and Darragh, the handsome young horse tamer who has captured Fianne's heart.
Child of the Prophecy works as a standalone novel, but readers will benefit by first reading its equally accomplished prequels, Daughter of the Forest and Son of the Shadows. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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A Comfortable Wifeby Stephanie LaurensISBN 0786242019 (0-7862-4201-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Confessionsby AugustineISBN 0785242252 (0-7852-4225-2)
Hardcover, STL
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions'Book summary:The premier line of Classic literature from the greatest Christian authors. The finest in quality and value.
Never underestimate the power of prayer. As Monica, the mother of St. Augustine, watched as her son and grandson were being baptized on that bright easter morning in A.D.387, she knew her lifelong prayers had been answered. Even though in his Confessions, Augustine wrote about his early life as an example of how sin grows and works within a person, he was looking back over those early years with the vision of a bishop of the church. Monica could not have known that those prayers would have presented to the church a man who would impact Christianity with the strength that Augustine did. [via]More editions of Confessions:
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Confessionsby Not AvailableISBN 0785242481 (0-7852-4248-1)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Never underestimate the power of prayer. As Monica, the mother of St. Augustine, watched as her son and grandson were being baptized on that bright easter morning in A.D.387, she knew her lifelong prayers had been answered. Even though in his Confessions, Augustine wrote about his early life as an example of how sin grows and works within a person, he was looking back over those early years with the vision of a bishop of the church. Monica could not have known that those prayers would have presented to the church a man who would impact Christianity with the strength that Augustine did. [via]More editions of Confessions:
The Confessions of Saint Augustineby Saint AugustineISBN 0804901902 (0-8049-0190-2)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Confessions of St. Augustineby Carolinne WhiteISBN 0802839282 (0-8028-3928-2)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of St. Augustine'Book summary:Augustine was one of the most remarkable figures of the early Christian church. Born in North Africa in A.D. 354, the son of a pagan farmer, he rose to become Bishop of Hippo and a hugely influential Christian writer, whose Confessions are still loved today for their humanity and spiritual depth.
In this gorgeously illustrated volume Oxford scholar Carolinne White presents fresh translations of choice passages from the Confessions. These extracts have been chosen to express Augustine's wisdom and his mystical yearning for God. Lively narrative and colorful anecdotes are interspersed with passages of great poetry in praise of God. In the process of describing his own failings, Augustine also gives relevant advice on how to live a Christian life.
In this first modern illustrated edition of the Confessions, Augustine's words are accompanied by beautiful medieval and Renaissance illuminations from manuscripts in the collection at the British Librarymaking this a volume to treasure for a lifetime. [via]
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The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Versionby AugustineISBN 0800787242 (0-8007-8724-2)
Softcover, Fleming H Revell Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version'Book summary:Confessions is one of the most moving diaries ever recorded of a man's journey to the fountain of God's grace. Writing as a sinner, not a saint, Augustine shares his innermost thoughts and conversion experiences and wrestles with the spiritual questions that have stirred the hearts of the thoughtful since time began. Starting with his childhood in Numidia, through his youth and early adulthood in Carthage, Rome, and Milan, readers will see Augustine as a human being, a fellow traveler on the road to salvation. Though staggering around potholes and roadblocks, all Chrisitians will find strength in Augustine's message: When the road gets rough, look to God! Previously released in 1977, this book invites readers to join Augustine in his quest that led him to be one of the most influential Christian thinkers in the history of the church. [via]
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Margaret BrantleyISBN 074348763X (0-7434-8763-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Enduring literature illuminated by practical scholarship dostoyevsky's penetrating study of a man for whom the distinction between right and wrong disappears, and a riveting portrait of guilt and retribution. Each enriched classic edition includes: a concise introduction that gives readers important background information a chronology of the author's life and work a timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context an outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations detailed explanatory notes critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction a list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience enriched classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in enriched classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. Series edited by cynthia brantley johnson [via]
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Crusader's Torchby Chelsea Quinn YarbroISBN 0812501780 (0-8125-0178-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Death Comes As Epiphanyby Sharan NewmanISBN 0765303744 (0-7653-0374-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Comes As Epiphany'Book summary:Entering the Convent of the Paraclete in order to conquer her natural willfulness, twelfth-century novice Catherine LeVendeur travels to the Great Abby of St. Denis, where she uncovers a plot involving stolen gems, mad monks, and murder. Reprint. AB. [via]
The Devil You Knowby Liz CarlyleISBN 074343787X (0-7434-3787-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Devil's Doorby Sharan NewmanISBN 0765310341 (0-7653-1034-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Don Quixoteby Miguel De Cervantes, Stephanie Kirk, Carlos Fuentes, Tobias George SmollettISBN 0812972104 (0-8129-7210-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote'Book summary:Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way across sixteenth-century Spain. Milan Kundera calls Cervantes the founder of the Modern Era and Lionel Trilling observes that it can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition reproduces the acclaimed Tobias Smollett translation; as Salman Rushdie declares, To my mind, this is the only English rendering of the Quixote that reads like a great novel, a novel of immense daring, much wildness and many colours. It releases Don Quixote from the grey academic prison of many more recent translations, unleashing him upon the English language in all his brilliant, foolish glory . This edition also contains new endnotes.
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Don Quixote of the Mancha: Harvard Classics 1909by Miguel De Cervantes, Thomas SheltonISBN 0766181804 (0-7661-8180-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote of the Mancha: Harvard Classics 1909'Book summary:Edited by Charles W. Eliot. Contents: The First Part of the Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight. The present volume contains the whole of the first part of the novel, which is complete in itself. The second part, issued in 1615, the year before his death, is of a nature of a sequel, and is generally regarded as inferior. In writing his great novel, Cervantes set out to parody the romances of chivalry. With reference to the fiction of the Middle Ages, it is a triumphant satire; with reference to modern novels, it is the first and the most widely enjoyed. [via]
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Emily of New Moonby L. M. Montgomery, Alice MunroISBN 0771099797 (0-7710-9979-7)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart
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Enchantedby Elizabeth LowellISBN 0786202238 (0-7862-0223-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Enemy of Godby Bernard CornwellISBN 0786211008 (0-7862-1100-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The English Patientby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0771068867 (0-7710-6886-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Patient'Book summary:Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as World War II ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. In lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael Ondaatje weaves these characters together, pulls them tight, then unravels the threads with unsettling acumen.
A book that binds readers of great literature, The English Patient garnered the Booker Prize for author Ondaatje. The poet and novelist has also written In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid; two collections of poems, The Cinnamon Peeler and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do; and a memoir, Running in the Family. [via]
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Enigmaby Robert HarrisISBN 0804115486 (0-8041-1548-6)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enigma'Book summary:literate and savvy . . . Brims with wartime intrigue."--the washington post book worldengland 1943. Much of the infamous nazi enigma code has been cracked. But shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by nazi u-boats, has masked the germans' movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of allied vessels. Feeling that the blood of allied sailors is on their hands, a top-secret team of british cryptographers works feverishly around the clock to break shark. And when brilliant mathematician tom jericho succeeds, it is the stuff of legend. . . ."a tense and thoughtful thriller."--san francisco chronicleuntil the unthinkable happens: the germans have somehow learned that shark has been cracked. And they've changed the code. . . ."suspenseful and fascinating."--the orlando sentinelas an allied convoy crosses the u-boat infested north atlantic . . . As jericho's ex-lover claire disappears amid accusations that she is a nazi collaborator . . . As jericho strains his last resources to break shark again, he cannot escape the ultimate truth: there is a traitor among them. . . . "gripping . . . Captivating ."--new york daily news"elegantly researched . . . Readers will find themselves perfectly placed to experience one of britain's finest hours."--people"satisfying . . . Harris does a crackerjack job here, playing his characters' lives off historical events in surprising ways."--entertainment weekly"suspenseful . . . Fiendishly clever."--detroit free press [via]
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Ex Librisby Ross KingISBN 0802733573 (0-8027-3357-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Face of a Strangerby Anne PerryISBN 0804108587 (0-8041-0858-7)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Face of a Stranger'Book summary:His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life: his memory and his entire past have vanished. Trying as best he can to hide that fact, Monk returns to work and finds himself assigned to the burtal murder of Major the Honorable Joscelin Grey, Crimean war hero and popular man about town, in his rooms in fashionable Mecklenburg Square. The exhaulted status of the victim puts any representative of the police in the precarious position of having to pry into a noble family's secrets-which in itself will be difficult for Monk, as he's forgotten his professional skills along with everything else. But slowly the darkness begins to lighten as each new revelation leads Monk step by terrifying step to the answerw he seeks but dreads to find... [via]
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Fatherlandby Robert HarrisISBN 0812977211 (0-8129-7721-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fatherland'Book summary:Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb.
As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth -- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
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Fathers of the Church: Saint Augustine Confessionsby St. AugustineISBN 0813200210 (0-8132-0021-0)
Hardcover, Catholic Univ of Amer Pr
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Fathers of the Church: Saint Augustine Letters Volume 5by Wilfrid ParsonsISBN 0813200326 (0-8132-0032-6)
Hardcover, Catholic Univ of Amer Pr
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A Flame in Byzantiumby Chelsea Quinn YarbroISBN 0812528042 (0-8125-2804-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie FlaggISBN 0804115613 (0-8041-1561-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Gaudy Nightby Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 081613040X (0-8161-3040-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Golden Oceanby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0754020207 (0-7540-2020-7)
Softcover, Chivers
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Good Earthby Pearl S. BuckISBN 0743272935 (0-7432-7293-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Earth'Book summary:The story begins on the wedding day of farmer Wang Lung and follows his simple, often one-sided view of the Chinese culture, times, and his connection with the land. The land is a recurring theme throughout the novel, seemingly nurtured by the apparent protagonists, rejected and ruined by the antagonists. The author uses the House of Hwang, a nearby house of nobles, to contrast and predict their rise and fall. As the House of Hwang meets its slow and desperate end, Wang Lung rises.
However, as the weather turns disastrous for farming, Wang Lung's family has to flee to the city to scrape out a meager living. Upon returning home, the family fares better. Wang Lung eventually becomes a prosperous man, his rise contrasting with the downfall of the Hwang family, who lose their connection to the land. At the end of the novel, when Wang Lung is an old man, he overhears his sons plotting to sell some of the land, thus showing the end of the cycle of wealth and downfall. [via]
The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0804901120 (0-8049-0112-0)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Hearts Aflameby Johanna LindseyISBN 0816144222 (0-8161-4422-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Henry Vby William ShakespeareISBN 0743484878 (0-7434-8487-8)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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" Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
" Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
" Scene-by-scene plot summaries
" A key to famous lines and phrases
" An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
" An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
" Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Michael Neill
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. [via]
Here Lies the Librarianby Richard PeckISBN 0803730802 (0-8037-3080-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hummingbirdby Lavyrle SpencerISBN 0816152950 (0-8161-5295-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Interpretation of Murderby Jed RubenfeldISBN 0805080988 (0-8050-8098-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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KindredISBN 0807083690 (0-8070-8369-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
Find This BookBook summary:Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin. [via]
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Kindredby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0807083054 (0-8070-8305-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kindred'Book summary:Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. With more than 100,000 copies in print, Kindred is a classic timetravel novel by an acclaimed African-American science fictionwriter. [via]
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London's Perfect Scoundrelby Suzanne EnochISBN 0786257911 (0-7862-5791-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'London's Perfect Scoundrel'Book summary:Book 2 in the Lessons in Love series
A New York Times Bestseller
The town gossips call him "Saint" -- but the Marquis of St. Aubyn has well earned his reputation as London's perfect scoundrel. Evelyn Ruddick knows she should avoid him at all costs . . . but the strikingly beautiful lady wants to aid the children of the Heart of Hope Orphanage, and he heads the board of trustees. Evie is determined to teach the charming, arrogant man a lesson in compassion, but it won't be so easy -- especially since his touch is setting her desire aflame, making Evie yearn to submit to his passionate instruction.
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Love Me Foreverby Johanna LindseyISBN 0783815018 (0-7838-1501-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Me Forever'Book summary:Lachlan MacGregor, laird of clan MacGregor, needs a wealthy wife so he can restore his impoverished clan. Kimberly Richards has been ordered by her father to find a husband--but not a Scotsman. Lachlan barely notices Kimberly at their first encounter. He only has eyes for the woman with whom he believes himself to be in love. When circumstance bring Kimberly and Lachlan together repeatedly, they soon become enamored with each other. Kimberly decides he will do as a husband, until others interfere. This is yet another adventurous romp sure to please Lindsey fans. [via]
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Mairelon the Magicianby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0765342324 (0-7653-4232-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mairelon the Magician'Book summary:Kim doesn't hesitate when a stranger offers her a small fortune to break into the travelling magician's wagon in search of a silver bowl. Kim isn't above a bit of breaking-and-entering. Having grown up a waif in the dirty streets of London-disguised as a boy!-has schooled her in one hard lesson: steal from them before they steal from you.[via]
But there is something odd about this magician. He isn't like the other hucksters and swindlers that Kim is used to. When he catches her in the act, Kim thinks she's done for.
Until he suggests she become his apprentice. Kim wonders how tough it could be faking a bit of hocus pocus.
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The Mammoth Book Of New Historical Whodunnitsby Mike AshleyISBN 0786715715 (0-7867-1571-5)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnitsby Mike AshleyISBN 0786700246 (0-7867-0024-6)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Music & Silenceby Rose TremainISBN 0743418263 (0-7434-1826-3)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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My Seductionby Connie BrockwayISBN 0743463226 (0-7434-6322-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Once a Princessby Johanna LindseyISBN 0816153132 (0-8161-5313-2)
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovichby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0808514466 (0-8085-1446-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich'Book summary:Solzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. The simply told story of a typical, grueling day of the titular character's life in a labor camp in Siberia, is a modern classic of Russian literature and quickly cemented Solzhenitsyn's international reputation upon publication in 1962. It is painfully apparent that Solzhenitsyn himself spent time in the gulags--he was imprisoned for nearly a decade as punishment for making derogatory statements about Stalin in a letter to a friend. [via]
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Critical Companionby Alexis KlimoffISBN 0810112140 (0-8101-1214-0)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Point Of Honourby Madeleine E. RobinsISBN 0812570499 (0-8125-7049-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Point Of Honour'Book summary:Miss Sarah Tolerance ran away with her brother's fencing master when she was sixteen. Now he's dead and she's back in England, and a Fallen Woman. But she refuses to follow the Fallen Women who have gone before her and become a courtesan. Sarah is a straight shooter, with her pistol as well as her wit, and her mind is as sharp as the blade of her sword. She's clever and discreet--she has reinvented herself as a private investigator.[via]
Miss Tolerance is an Agent of Inquiry, the sole one of her kind in London in this year of 1810, with mad King George III on the throne and Queen Charlotte acting as Regent. Sarah's position in society allows her to float between social layers, unearth secrets, find things that were lost, and lose things too dangerous to be kept.
An agent of the Earl of Versellion has asked her to find a fan that the Earl's father gifted to a lady with brown eyes. When Sarah discovers the secret of the fan, both she and the Earl are targeted by ruthless killers. They realize the fan has a second secret, one that will affect the fate of England itself, and they must decipher it.
Sarah's life is getting more and more complicated-and she's growing closer and closer to the Earl. To save England and herself, she must decide whether to be guided by her heart... or her conscience.More editions of Point Of Honour:
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Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0783884680 (0-7838-8468-0)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Prestigeby Christopher PriestISBN 0765317346 (0-7653-1734-6)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prestige'Book summary:The Washington Post called this "a dizzying magic show of a novel, chock-a-block with all the props of Victorian sensation fiction: seances, multiple narrators, a family curse, doubles, a lost notebook, wraiths, and disembodied spirits; a haunted house, awesome mad-doctor machinery, a mausoleum, and ghoulish horrors; a misunderstood scientist, impossible disappearances; the sins of the fathers visited upon their descendants." Winner of the 1996 World Fantasy Award, The Prestige is even better than that, because unlike many Victorians, Priest writes crisp, unencumbered prose. And anyone who's ever thrilled to the arcing electricity in the "It's alive!" scene in Frankenstein will relish the "special effects" by none other than Nikola Tesla. [via]
Prisoner of My Desireby Johanna LindseyISBN 0816154600 (0-8161-5460-0)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Queen Margot or Marguerite De Valoisby Alexandre DumasISBN 0786880821 (0-7868-8082-1)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Rilla of Inglesideby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0770421857 (0-7704-2185-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rilla of Ingleside'Book summary:Anne's children are almost grown up, except for pretty, highspirited Rilla. No one can 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 is 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 changes her forever. [via]
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Rob Royby Walter ScottISBN 0812580435 (0-8125-8043-5)
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Scaramoucheby Rafael SabatiniISBN 081180190X (0-8118-0190-X)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Secret Fireby Johanna LindseyISBN 0786207256 (0-7862-0725-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Shannaby Kathleen E. WoodiwissISBN 0816136920 (0-8161-3692-0)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shanna'Book summary:A pact is sealed in secret behind the foreboding walls of Newgate Prison. In return for a night of unparalleled pleasure, a dashing condemned criminal consents to wed a beautiful heiress, thereby rescuing her with his name from an impending and abhorred arranged union. But in the fading echoes of hollow wedding vows, a solemn promise is broken, as a sensuous free spirit takes flight to a lush Caribbean paradise, abandoning the stranger she married to face the gallows unfulfilled.
But Ruark Beauchamp's destiny is now eternally intertwined with that of the tempestuous, intoxicating Shanna. He will be free . . . and he will find her. For no iron ever forged can imprison his resolute passion. And no hangman's noose will deny Ruark the ecstasy that is rightfully his.
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Sharpe's Trafalgarby Bernard CornwellISBN 078623699X (0-7862-3699-X)
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The Singing Swordby Jack WhyteISBN 0765304589 (0-7653-0458-9)
Softcover, Forge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Singing Sword'Book summary:We know the legends: Arthur brought justice to a land that had known only cruelty and force; his father, Uther, carved a kingdom out of the chaos of the fallen Roman Empire; the sword Excalibur, drawn from stone by England's greatest king.[via]
But legends do not tell the whole tale. Legends do not tell of the despairing Roman soldiers, abandoned by their empire, faced with the choice of fleeing back to Rome, or struggling to create a last stronghold against the barbarian onslaughts from the north and east. Legends do not tell of Arthur's great-grandfather, Publius Varrus, the warrior who marked the boundaries of a reborn empire with his own shed blood; they do not tell of Publius's wife, Luceiia, British-born and Roman-raised, whose fierce beauty burned pale next to her passion for law and honor.
With The Camulod Chronicles, Jack Whyte tells us what legend has forgotten: the history of blood and violence, passion and steel, out of which was forged a great sword, and a great nation. The Singing Sword continues the gripping epic begun in The Skystone: As the great night of the Dark Ages falls over Roman Britain, a lone man and woman fight to build a last stronghold of law and learning--a crude hill-fort, which one day, long after their deaths, will become a great city . . . known as Camelot.More editions of The Singing Sword:
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Small Islandby Andrea LevyISBN 0755307518 (0-7553-0751-8)
Softcover, Review
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Small Island'Book summary:Andrea Levy's award-winning novel, Small Island, deftly brings two bleak families into crisp focus. First a Jamaican family, including the well-intentioned Gilbert, who can never manage to say or do exactly the right thing; Romeo Michael, who leaves a wake of women in his path; and finally, Hortense, whose primness belies her huge ambition to become English in every way possible. The other unhappy family is English, starting with Queenie, who escapes the drudgery of being a butcher's daughter only to marry a dull banker. As the chapters reverse chronology and the two groups collide and finally mesh, the book unfolds through time like a photo album, and Levy captures the struggle between class, race, and sex with a humor and tenderness that is both authentic and bracing. The book is cinematic in the best way--lighting up London's bombed-out houses and wartime existence with clarity and verve while never losing her character's voice or story. --Meg Halverson [via]
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Things Fall Apartby Chinua AchebeISBN 0808592777 (0-8085-9277-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Things Fall Apart'Book summary:One of Chinua Achebe's many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two years before Nigeria declared independence from Great Britain, the book eschews the obvious temptation of depicting pre-colonial life as a kind of Eden. Instead, Achebe sketches a world in which violence, war, and suffering exist, but are balanced by a strong sense of tradition, ritual, and social coherence. His Ibo protagonist, Okonkwo, is a self-made man. The son of a charming ne'er-do-well, he has worked all his life to overcome his father's weakness and has arrived, finally, at great prosperity and even greater reputation among his fellows in the village of Umuofia. Okonkwo is a champion wrestler, a prosperous farmer, husband to three wives and father to several children. He is also a man who exhibits flaws well-known in Greek tragedy:
Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand. His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children. Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo's fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father.
And yet Achebe manages to make this cruel man deeply sympathetic. He is fond of his eldest daughter, and also of Ikemefuna, a young boy sent from another village as compensation for the wrongful death of a young woman from Umuofia. He even begins to feel pride in his eldest son, in whom he has too often seen his own father. Unfortunately, a series of tragic events tests the mettle of this strong man, and it is his fear of weakness that ultimately undoes him.Achebe does not introduce the theme of colonialism until the last 50 pages or so. By then, Okonkwo has lost everything and been driven into exile. And yet, within the traditions of his culture, he still has hope of redemption. The arrival of missionaries in Umuofia, however, followed by representatives of the colonial government, completely disrupts Ibo culture, and in the chasm between old ways and new, Okonkwo is lost forever. Deceptively simple in its prose, Things Fall Apart packs a powerful punch as Achebe holds up the ruin of one proud man to stand for the destruction of an entire culture. --Alix Wilber [via]
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To Pleasure A Princeby Sabrina JeffriesISBN 0743477715 (0-7434-7771-5)
Softcover, Pocket Star
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Pleasure A Prince'Book summary:Bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries pens the sizzling story of one of three half-noble half brothers, who makes a most unwelcome entrance into society... and a most unexpected match.
Beautiful Lady Regina Tremaine has turned down so many suitors that she's called La Belle Dame Sans Merci. The truth: she won't marry because she carries a dark secret. She sees no good reason, however, why her brother shouldn't court the lovely Louisa North -- even if the girl's brother, the notorious "Dragon Viscount," objects.
Marcus North, Viscount Draker -- bastard son of the Prince of Wales -- is rumored to be a monster who holds women captive in his dark castle to have his way with them. He has been exiled from polite society for years. But when Lady Regina makes a plea on her brother's behalf, Marcus proposes an outrageous deal: her brother can court Louisa so long as Marcus can court Regina. Can the beauty and the beast survive a proper courtship when the devastatingly improper passion between them threatens to cause the scandal of the century? [via]
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A Tree Grows in Brooklynby Betty SmithISBN 0808514628 (0-8085-1462-8)
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Witch Childby Celia ReesISBN 0763618292 (0-7636-1829-2)
Softcover, Candlewick Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Witch Child'Book summary:During the witch hunts of the mid-1600s, many young Englishwomen died on the gallows, innocent victims of false or hysterical accusations of witchcraft. But what of those women who actually claimed the name "witch" as their own? In the pages of her secret journal, Mary Nuttall reveals what it is like to live in a climate of mistrust and piety in which differences are dangerous and rumors can kill, where she must hide her heritage as a healer and pagan. With a sure hand, she describes her beloved grandmother's trial and hanging as a witch, her own rescue by a mysterious noblewoman, and her eventual passage to the New World and the forest settlement of Beulah. There Mary falls under a curtain of suspicion when she willingly chooses to explore the dark woods shunned by the fearful colonists and makes friends with some of the spiritual native people. When several girls in the community begin to shriek and swoon, and the same minister who damned Mary's grandmother comes to search for signs of witchcraft, Mary is subjected to close and deadly scrutiny.
Breaking with most historical fiction about witchcraft (such as Elizabeth Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond), British author Celia Rees raises the stakes and the tension by placing a real witch at the center of her story. Witch Child is an engrossing, suspenseful novel that will cast a spell over both readers of historical fiction and fans of witchcraft series from Circle of Three to Sweep. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Wounded Kneeby Dee Brown, Amy EhrlichISBN 0805027009 (0-8050-2700-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wounded Knee'Book summary:First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson [via]
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