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1967, the Last Good Yearby Pierre BertonISBN 0385256620 (0-385-25662-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
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Airwarby Edward JablonskiISBN 038514279X (0-385-14279-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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American Swastika/the Shocking Story of Nazi Collaborators in Our Midst from 1933 to the Present Dayby Charles HighamISBN 0385178743 (0-385-17874-3)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Ancient Egyptby Dan CohenISBN 0385245866 (0-385-24586-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Army of Childrenby Evan H. RhodesISBN 0385271719 (0-385-27171-9)
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Bill Moyers' World of Ideas Anthology Collection : Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Futureby Bill MoyersISBN 0385263465 (0-385-26346-5)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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Bill Moyers' World of Ideas : Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Futureby Bill MoyersISBN 0385262787 (0-385-26278-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Moralsby Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheISBN 0385092105 (0-385-09210-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Bruneval Raid: Flashpoint of the Radar Warby George Reid MillarISBN 0385095422 (0-385-09542-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Bud, Not Buddyby Christopher Paul CurtisISBN 0385323069 (0-385-32306-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Guided only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows--a small, blue poster that had mysteriously upset his mother shortly before she died--Bud sets off to track down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on. And, being 10, Bud-not-Buddy gets into all sorts of trouble along the way, barely escaping a monster-infested woodshed, stealing a vampire's car, and even getting tricked into "busting slob with a real live girl." Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, once again exhibits his skill for capturing the language and feel of an era and creates an authentic, touching, often hilarious voice in little Bud. (Ages 8 to 12) --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Burning Roadby Ann BensonISBN 0385332890 (0-385-33289-0)
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Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mileby John Hanson MitchellISBN 0385191944 (0-385-19194-4)
Hardcover, Anchor Press/Doubleday
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Children of the City: At Work and at Playby David NasawISBN 0385171641 (0-385-17164-1)
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Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant protrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young. [via]More editions of Children of the City: At Work and at Play:
Churchillby Martin GilbertISBN 0385155875 (0-385-15587-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Citizen Cohnby Nicholas Von HoffmanISBN 0385236905 (0-385-23690-5)
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The City of Joyby Dominique LapierreISBN 0385189524 (0-385-18952-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture, and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin Americaby Penny LernouxISBN 038513150X (0-385-13150-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Dealers and Dreamers: A New Look at the New Dealby Joseph P. LashISBN 0385187165 (0-385-18716-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Dictionary of Saintsby John J. DelaneyISBN 0385135947 (0-385-13594-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Driving Mr. Albertby Michael PaternitiISBN 038533303X (0-385-33303-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Driving Mr. Albert'Book summary:Driving Mr. Albert chronicles the adventures of an unlikely threesome--a freelance writer, an elderly pathologist, and Albert Einstein's brain--on a cross-country expedition intended to set the story of this specimen-cum-relic straight once and for all.
After Thomas Harvey performed Einstein's autopsy in 1955, he made off with the key body part. His claims that he was studying the specimen and would publish his findings never bore fruit, and the doctor fell from grace. The brain, though, became the subject of many an urban legend, and Harvey was transformed into a modern Robin Hood, having snatched neurological riches from the establishment and distributed them piecemeal to the curious and the faithful around the world.
The brain itself has seen better days, its chicken-colored chunks floating in a smelly, yellow, formaldehyde broth, yet its beatific presence in the book, riding serenely in the trunk of a Buick Skylark, encased in Tupperware, reflects the uncertainty of Einstein's life. Was he a sinner or a saint, a genius or just lucky? Harvey guards the brain as if it were his own. From time to time, he has given favored specialists a slice or two to analyze, but the results have been mixed. Physiologically, Einstein's brain may have been no different from anyone else's, but plenty of people would like the brain to be more than it is, including Paterniti:
I want to touch the brain. Yes, I've admitted it. I want to hold it, coddle it, measure its weight in my palm, handle some of its fifteen billion now-dormant neurons. Does it feel like tofu, sea urchin, bologna? What, exactly? And what does such a desire make me? One of a legion of relic freaks? Or something worse?
Traversing America with Harvey and his sacred specimen, Paterniti seems to be awaiting enlightenment, much as Einstein did in his last days. But just as the great scientist failed to come up with a unifying theory, Paterniti's chronicle dissolves at times into overly sincere efforts to find importance where there may be none, and it walks a fine line between postmodern detachment and wide-eyed wonderment. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the book offers an engrossing portrait of postatomic America from what may be the ultimate late-20th-century road trip. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Driving Mr. Albert : A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brainby Michael PaternitiISBN 0385333005 (0-385-33300-5)
Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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Duel Between the First Ironcladsby William C. DavisISBN 0385098685 (0-385-09868-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Ebla: An Empire Rediscoveredby Paolo MatthiaeISBN 0385129041 (0-385-12904-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenmentby Henry S. CommagerISBN 0385116721 (0-385-11672-1)
Hardcover, Anchor Press/Doubleday
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Ester and Ruzya : How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peaceby Masha GessenISBN 0385336047 (0-385-33604-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ester and Ruzya : How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace'Book summary:In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys of survival. One, a Polish-born woman from Bialystok, where virtually the entire Jewish community would soon be sent to the ghetto and from there to Hitlers concentration camps, was determined not only to live but to live with pride and defiance. The other, a Russian-born intellectual and introvert, would eventually become a high-level censor under Stalins regime. At wars end, both women found themselves in Moscow, where informers lurked on every corner and anti-Semitism reigned. It was there that Ester and Ruzya would first cross paths, there that they became the closest of friends and learned to trust each other with their lives.
In this deeply moving family memoir, journalist Masha Gessen tells the story of her two beloved grandmothers: Ester, the quicksilver rebel who continually battled the forces of tyranny; Ruzya, a single mother who joined the Communist Party under duress and made the compromises the regime exacted of all its citizens. Both lost their first loves in the war. Both suffered unhappy unions. Both were gifted linguists who made their living as translators. And both had childrenEster a boy, and Ruzya a girlwho would grow up, fall in love, and have two children of their own: Masha and her younger brother.
With grace, candor, and meticulous research, Gessen peels back the layers of secrecy surrounding her grandmothers lives. As she follows them through this remarkable period in historyfrom the Stalin purges to the Holocaust, from the rise of Zionism to the fall of communismshe describes how each of her grandmothers, and before them her great-grandfather, tried to navigate a dangerous line between conscience and compromise.
Ester and Ruzya is a spellbinding work of storytelling, filled with political intrigue and passionate emotion, acts of courage and acts of betrayal. At once an intimate family chronicle and a fascinating historical tale, it interweaves the stories of two women with a brilliant vision of Russian history. The result is a memoir that reads like a noveland an extraordinary testament to the bonds of family and the power of hope, love, and endurance. [via]More editions of Ester and Ruzya : How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace:
Fairy Tales of Irelandby W. B. Yeats, Neil Philip, Patrick J. LynchISBN 0385302495 (0-385-30249-5)
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False Dawn: Women in the Age of the Sun Kingby Louis AuchinclossISBN 0385180217 (0-385-18021-7)
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A Few Great Captains: The Men and Events That Shaped the Development of U.S. Air Powerby Dewitt S. CoppISBN 0385133103 (0-385-13310-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost Storiesby Jack FinneyISBN 0385177216 (0-385-17721-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Foxfire 4: Fiddle Making, Springouses, Horse Trading, Sassafras Tea, Berry Buckets, Gardening, and Further Affairs of Plain Livingby Eliot WiggingtonISBN 0385120877 (0-385-12087-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Foxfire 4: Water Systems, Fiddle Making, Logging, Gardening, Sassafras Tea, Wood Carving, and Further Affairs of Plain Livingby Eliot WiggintonISBN 0385120869 (0-385-12086-9)
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France: A History in Artby Bradley SmithISBN 0385182112 (0-385-18211-2)
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From Here to Eternityby James JonesISBN 0385333641 (0-385-33364-1)
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Gods of Warby John TolandISBN 0385180071 (0-385-18007-1)
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Grimm's Tales for Young and Oldby Ralph ManheimISBN 0385189508 (0-385-18950-8)
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Grimm's Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Storiesby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Ralph ManheimISBN 0385110057 (0-385-11005-7)
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The Healer's Warby Elizabeth Ann ScarboroughISBN 0385248288 (0-385-24828-8)
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Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesisby Robert Graves, Raphael PataiISBN 0385263309 (0-385-26330-9)
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The History of Danish Dreamsby Peter HoegISBN 0385315910 (0-385-31591-0)
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A History of Philosophyby Frederick J. CoplestonISBN 0385230311 (0-385-23031-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Philosophy'Book summary:Here in one convenient volume are Volumes I, II, and III - complete and unabridged - of the acclaimed reference work that has dominated the field of philosophy for two decades. Volume I surveys the main currents in Greco-Roman thought from the pre-Socratics to Neoplatonism: e.g. Thales, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Zeno, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Medieval philosophy is the scope of Volume II, which includes the contributions of such eminent philosophers as Augustine, St. Justin Martyr, Clement, Origen, Boethius, Bonaventure, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and Duns Scotus. Volume III focuses on the philosophy of the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance through a close study of such thinkers as William of Ockham, Nicholas of Cusa, the speculative mystics, the political philosophers - e.g. Machiavelli and Thomas More - Francis Bacon, and Francis Suárez. These individual volumes have been hailed as "accurate and authoritative ... sufficiently complete syntheses ... warmly recmmended ... a remarkable achievement." Now available as a three-in-one paperback, it will be welcomed by students and scholars of ancient and medieval philosophy as a reference work that no library should be without. [via]
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How Democracies Perishby Jean-Francois RevelISBN 0385191200 (0-385-19120-0)
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I'll Be Home for Christmas : The Library of Congress Revisits the Spirit of Christmas During World War IIby Library of Congress Staff, Michael Shohl, Tom SpainISBN 038533463X (0-385-33463-X)
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Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphorsby Susan SontagISBN 0385267053 (0-385-26705-3)
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In Search of Ancient Astronomiesby E.C. KruppISBN 038511639X (0-385-11639-X)
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An Introduction to the New Testamentby Raymond E. BrownISBN 0385247672 (0-385-24767-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to the New Testament'Book summary:From its earliest days as a renegade religion in the Roman Empire through its various schisms and splits to present-day disagreements between Eastern Orthodox followers, Roman Catholics, and hundreds of different Protestant denominations, Christianity has been a source of great controversy--most of it centered on the reading of Scripture. There are those Christian conservatives who view the Bible as the literal word of God and the events detailed therein as historical fact. Other, more liberal Christians see the Good Book primarily as literature, a metaphor for how people should live. Mine the pages of the Biblical Archeological Review and you'll find scientists trying to prove or disprove the historical reality of Old and New Testament events and structures--everything from the Ark of the Covenant to King David's palace. In An Introduction to the New Testament, author Raymond E. Brown, a Catholic priest, ignores the swirl of conflict surrounding the Bible as historical artifact, concentrating instead on the message it contains.
Father Brown analyzes each of the 27 books in the New Testament, devoting painstaking attention to sources, dates, and authorship, as well as commentary on the spiritual, historical, and thematic aspects. He believes that modern-day Bible readers can only interpret it within its historical context. An Introduction to the New Testament, read with a Bible in hand, can only enrich and deepen your understanding of that germinal religious text. [via]
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Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasisby Harry ThurstonISBN 0385259697 (0-385-25969-7)
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Unfortunately, as Thurston makes clear, the oasis is in danger of encroaching elements, including a decrease in its life-giving water supply from the Nile as the population in the Nile valley grows. Thus, the author--an award-winning Canadian science and environmental writer--is able to use the Dakhleh oasis as a microcosm for environmental concerns in the rest of the world. "The DOP [Dakhleh Oasis Project] caught me by surprise," he writes. "It soon became apparent ... here, in a single, isolated place, was an opportunity to trace the entire history, not just of our genetic and cultural evolution, but of our relationship to the environment over hundreds of millennia...." In clear, sometimes poetic prose (he writes at one point of "multi-chambered ammonites, encased in mother-of-pearl shells") Thurston shares the significance of Dakhleh and its implications for the rest of humanity. The result is both a gripping adventure in what he calls "archaeology in action," and a cautionary tale for our times. --Shawn Conner [via]
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King Ratby James ClavellISBN 0385333765 (0-385-33376-5)
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The Last Cow on the White House Lawn, and Other Little-Known Facts About the Presidencyby Barbara SeulingISBN 0385127243 (0-385-12724-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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A Letter to Mrs. Rooseveltby C. Coco De YoungISBN 0385326335 (0-385-32633-5)
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Life of Christ: Complete and Unabridgedby Fulton J. SheenISBN 0385132204 (0-385-13220-4)
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The Long Haul: An Autobiographyby Myles Horton, Judith Kohl, Herbert R. KohlISBN 0385263139 (0-385-26313-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Long Haul: An Autobiography'Book summary:In his own direct, modest, plain-spoken style, Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for more than sixty years, this school has touched the lives of so many people, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Pete Seeger. Filled with disarmingly honest insight and gentle humor, this is an inspiring hymn to the possibility of social change. [via]
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Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generationby Myra MacPhersonISBN 0385158424 (0-385-15842-4)
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The Making of Jazz: A Comprehensive Historyby James Lincoln CollierISBN 0385286686 (0-385-28668-6)
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The Making of the Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM and the Miracle of Production No. 1060by Aljean Harmetz, Margaret HamiltonISBN 0385297467 (0-385-29746-7)
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Mitla Passby Leon UrisISBN 0385187920 (0-385-18792-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mitla Pass'Book summary:Desperate to resurrect his career, after succumbing to the lure of Hollywood, Gideon Zadok travels to Israel, determined to find material for a new book. Once there, he finds Natasha Solomon, a survivor of the Holocaust, and her disturbed passion for him unleashes his own smouldering desires. Then, on the eve of the '56 Sinai War, he abandons her and joins the Israeli forces and is parachuted to the key junction of Mitla Pass, deep behind enemy lines. Amid the sounds of battle, Gideon wages a war no less violent within himself, as he strives to come to grips with the frightening power of love-hate. Breathtaking in scope and painfully human, "Mitla Pass" is the masterwork of a great novelist. [via]
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My Enemy the Queenby Victoria Holt, Jean Plaidy, Philippa Carr, Eleanor HibbertISBN 0385141114 (0-385-14111-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Mythologies of the Ancient Worldby Samuel N. Kramer, Noah KramerISBN 0385095678 (0-385-09567-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animalby Desmond MorrisISBN 0385334303 (0-385-33430-3)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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Noble Houseby James ClavellISBN 0385287372 (0-385-28737-2)
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The Originby Irving Stone, Jean StoneISBN 0385120648 (0-385-12064-8)
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Peopleby Peter SpierISBN 038524469X (0-385-24469-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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People of the Lake: Mankind and Its Beginningsby Richard E. LeakeyISBN 0385130252 (0-385-13025-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Photographs for the Tsar: The Pioneering Color Photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Commissioned by Tsar Nicholas IIby Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, Robert H. AllshouseISBN 0385271581 (0-385-27158-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Pioneer Years, 1895-1914: Memories of Settlers Who Opened the Westby Barry BroadfootISBN 0385099835 (0-385-09983-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Pirates and Outlaws of Canada 1610-1932by Harold Horwood, Edward ButtsISBN 0385183739 (0-385-18373-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Plague Talesby Ann BensonISBN 0385316518 (0-385-31651-8)
Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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The Practice of the Presence of Godby John J. Delaney, Nicolas HermanISBN 0385128614 (0-385-12861-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Prelude to Foundationby Isaac AsimovISBN 0385233132 (0-385-23313-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prelude to Foundation'Book summary:It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.
Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire... the man who holds the key to the future - an apocalyptic power to be know forever after as the Foundation.
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Prince Jackby Frank SpieringISBN 0385125372 (0-385-12537-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Quilters: Women and Domestic Artby Patricia J. Cooper, Norma Bradley AllenISBN 0385116853 (0-385-11685-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art An Oral Historyby Patricia Cooper, Norma Bradley AllenISBN 0385120397 (0-385-12039-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Salt Book: Lobstering, Sea Moss Pudding, Stone Walls, Rum Running, Maple Syrup, Snowshoes, and Other Yankee Doingsby Pamela WoodISBN 0385114230 (0-385-11423-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Saucerful of Secretsby Nicholas SchaffnerISBN 0385306849 (0-385-30684-9)
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Ship: Illustrated Historyby Bjorn LandstromISBN 0385098235 (0-385-09823-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ship: Illustrated History'Book summary:This is the story of the ship - a journey of six thousand years on all the waters of the world. The Ship takes us from Queen Hatshepsut's obelisk vessels and the papyrus rafts of the Nile into the Mediterranean of the classic times, into the world of the Phoenicians, the Greeks, and the Romans. Beyond the Pillars of Hercules the horizon stretches to distant lands: The Ship takes us with Columbus' Santa Maria to the Indies, into the great age of seafaring. Captain Cook, the East Indiamen, Nelson and the Victory, the graceful clippers, the first steam-propelled vessels, Mississippi paddle-wheelers, the Monitor and the Merrimack, icebreakers, aircraft carriers, tugs, whalers, and nuclear-powered submarines - Bjorn Landstrom knows them all, making his knowledge live in superb illustrations and informative text. Based on facts gathered from hundreds of books, from numerous journeys, from study in museums and libraries, and from communication with authorities in many countries, The Ship is the most comprehensive and exhaustive pictorial history of the ship ever published. The Ship is an experience for all who love ships and the sea, a goldmine of maritime and social history. Over 800 illustrations, with 160 pages in full color ind 160 pages in two-color. [via]
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The Sot-Weed Factorby John BarthISBN 0385240880 (0-385-24088-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Spectacle of Empire: Style, Effect and the Pax Britannicaby Jan MorrisISBN 0385181167 (0-385-18116-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Star Spangled Bannerby Francis Scott Key, Peter SpierISBN 0385094582 (0-385-09458-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Star-Spangled Bannerby Peter SpierISBN 0385234015 (0-385-23401-5)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Sun Shines Brightby Isaac AsimovISBN 0385171455 (0-385-17145-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Swastika at War: A Photographic Record of the War in Europe as Seen by the Cameramen of the German Magazine Signalby Tom Hartman, Robert HuntISBN 0385111509 (0-385-11150-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Tales of Times Squareby Josh Alan FriedmanISBN 0385294603 (0-385-29460-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Teheran Contractby Gayle Rivers, James HudsonISBN 0385172001 (0-385-17200-1)
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There Was a Timeby Roy BonisteelISBN 0385252986 (0-385-25298-6)
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The Tigris Expedition: In Search of Our Beginningsby Thor HeyerdahlISBN 0385173571 (0-385-17357-1)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Tulip Feverby Deborah MoggachISBN 0385334923 (0-385-33492-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tulip Fever'Book summary:Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever takes place in 17th-century Amsterdam, where roguish Rembrandt wannabes like Jan van Loos are just waiting to fall into ticklish situations. In this case, a paunchy merchant named Cornelis Sandvoort wanders into the artist's studio, hoping to impress posterity with a portrait of himself and his young wife. Apart from the fat commission, which van Loos can use, there is the bride to consider. Beautiful and bored, Sophia is easily swayed by his youthful passion--but this time, the raffish van Loos actually falls in love with one of his sexual conquests. The two carry out their affair with increasing doses of rashness and deception, meanwhile becoming dependent on the complicity of a servant, the astonishing gullibility of the old man, and the fast cash to be made on the tulip-bulb exchange.
The plot of Moggach's 13th novel neatly matches the speculative frenzy of the period, careening from one improbable thrill to the next. It was, to be sure, a time of stunning economic lunacy, when a single Semper Augustus bulb could be sold for "six fine horses, three oxheads of wine, a dozen sheep, two dozen silver goblets and a seascape by Esaias van de Velde." The author expertly dabs in this sort of period detail, and her chapter epigraphs quote some charming 17th-century Dutch sources on morals and conventional wisdom. Indeed, it's these quasi-surreal touches--whales washing up on the coast, chimney pots toppling into the street, women rubbing goose fat into their hands--that make the lovers' overheated sentiments so plausible. "For centuries to come," the narrator says, "people will gaze at these paintings and wonder what is about to happen." Tulip Fever gives us the chance to do exactly that. --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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Union Pacific: The Rebirth 1894-1969by Maury KleinISBN 0385177356 (0-385-17735-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Vienneseby Paul HofmannISBN 0385239750 (0-385-23975-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Viennese: Splendor, Twilight, and Exileby Paul HofmannISBN 0385239742 (0-385-23974-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Vulgar Favors : Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U. S. Historyby Maureen OrthISBN 0385332866 (0-385-33286-6)
Hardcover, Dell Publishing
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Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tearsby Jerry EllisISBN 0385308264 (0-385-30826-4)
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places : A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peaceby Le Ly Hayslip, Jay WurtsISBN 0385247583 (0-385-24758-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Parisby Susan Mary AlsopISBN 0385156359 (0-385-15635-9)
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Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame: The Story of the Japanese Canadians in World War IIby Barry BroadfootISBN 038512550X (0-385-12550-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
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