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Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminismby Bell HooksISBN 089608129X (0-89608-129-X)
Softcover, South End Pr
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"Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism is among America's most influential works. Prolific, outspoken, and fearless."-The Village Voice
"This book is a classic. It . . . should be read by anyone who takes feminism seriously."-Sojourner
"[Ain't I a Woman]should be widely read, thoughtfully considered, discussed, and finally acclaimed for the real enlightenment it offers for social change."-Library Journal
"One of the twenty most influential women's books of the last twenty years."-Publishers Weekly
"I met a young sister who was a feminist, and she gave me a book called Ain't I a Woman by a talented, beautiful sister named bell hooks-and it changed my life. It changed my whole perspective of myself as a woman."-Jada Pinkett-Smith
At nineteen, bell hooks began writing the book that forever changed the course of feminist thought. Ain't I a Woman remains a classic analysis of the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism within the women's movement, and black women's involvement with feminism.
bell hooks is the author of numerous critically acclaimed and influential books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. The Atlantic Monthly celebrates her as one of our nation's leading public intellectuals. [via]More editions of Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism:
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Behold the Manby Michael MoorcockISBN 0881843695 (0-88184-369-5)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Behold the Man'Book summary:An omnibus volume of three science fiction novels on the theme of messianic complexes, includes BEHOLD THE MAN, BREAKFAST IN THE RUINS and CONSTANT FIRE. [via]
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Bernie Wrightson's Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bernie WrightsonISBN 0887331939 (0-88733-193-9)
Softcover, Underwood Books
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Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bernie WrightsonISBN 0887331947 (0-88733-194-7)
Hardcover, Underwood Books
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Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychologyby Daniel DennettISBN 0897060024 (0-89706-002-4)
Softcover, Bradford Books
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre DumasISBN 0895263467 (0-89526-346-7)
Softcover, Gateway Books
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Cuckoo's Eggby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886773717 (0-88677-371-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Dark Ages: Life in the United States, 1945-1960by Marty JezerISBN 0896081281 (0-89608-128-1)
Hardcover, Pluto Press
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Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortalityby John PerryISBN 0915144530 (0-915144-53-0)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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The Dice Manby Luke RhinehartISBN 0879518642 (0-87951-864-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dice Man'Book summary:The cult classic that can still change your life! Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart -- and in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining, humorous, scary, shocking, subversive, The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time. [via]
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The Difference God Makes: Finding Your Identity in Christby Peter K. HaileISBN 0877848939 (0-87784-893-9)
Hardcover, InterVarsity Press
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Elective Affinitiesby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0895269562 (0-89526-956-2)
Softcover, Gateway Books
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The Enigma of Ethnicity: Another American Dilemmaby Wilbur ZelinskyISBN 0877457506 (0-87745-750-6)
Softcover, Univ of Iowa Pr
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Exile and Prideby Eli ClareISBN 0896086054 (0-89608-605-4)
Softcover, South End Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exile and Pride'Book summary:At long last, an essay on the politics and poetics of queer disability. Eli Clare, a poet with cerebral palsy, movingly describes her attempt to climb Mount Adams--not, she points out, as a "supercrip," like the boy without hands who bats .486 on his Little League team, but just as an impaired person who loves to hike: a story about ableism rather than disability. Avoiding easy answers and journalistic sunshine, she recounts the story of the fight for disabled access, touching on the history of the freak show. She tracks the origins of her own tenacity and self-knowledge to her rural Oregon upbringing and the conflicting personality of her father--who sexually abused her, but also taught her how to frame a house, how to use a chainsaw. "I think of the words crip, queer, freak, redneck," Clare remarks. "None of these are easy words. They mark the jagged edge between self-hatred and pride, the chasm between how the dominant culture views marginalized peoples and how we view ourselves, the razor between finding home, finding our bodies, and living in exile, living on the metaphoric mountain." --Regina Marler [via]
The Faded Sun Trilogy: Kesrith / Shon'Jir / Kutathby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886778697 (0-88677-869-7)
Softcover, Daw Books
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The Fixerby Bernard MalamudISBN 0881037990 (0-88103-799-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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"The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.
Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit.
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Food for Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feministsby Joanna KadiISBN 0896084892 (0-89608-489-2)
Softcover, South End Pr
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FrankensteinISBN 0883017040 (0-88301-704-0)
Softcover, Xs Books
Find This BookBook summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Hardcover, Courage Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 0883017040 (0-88301-704-0)
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0914061070 (0-914061-07-0)
Softcover, Orchises Pr
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Gay Relationshipsby John P. De CeccoISBN 0918393337 (0-918393-33-7)
Hardcover, Haworth Press, Incorporated, The
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0890845042 (0-89084-504-2)
Softcover, Bob Jones Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0891906797 (0-89190-679-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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Hallucinating Foucaultby Patricia DunckerISBN 0880014997 (0-88001-499-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hallucinating Foucault'Book summary:An intricate and self-reflective novel about that most delicate of relationships--meaning the one between writers and readers. The narrator, an anonymous graduate student, sets off on the trail of a French novelist named Paul Michel, who is currently confined to an asylum. Engineering his hero's release, the narrator finds himself enmeshed in bizarre love triangle, of which the three vertices are himself, the novelist, and the late Michel Foucault. Sex, it seems, can be made safe, but the oddball intimacy of reading cannot. [via]
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Homosexuality and Sexuality: Dialogues of the Sexual Revolutionby Lawrence MassISBN 0918393892 (0-918393-89-2)
Hardcover, Haworth Press, Incorporated, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homosexuality and Sexuality: Dialogues of the Sexual Revolution'Book summary:The interviews and conversations of Homosexuality and Sexuality: Dialogues of the Sexual Revolution survey a broad cross-section of the academic and scholarly opinions that have shaped contemporary thinking about homosexuality and sexuality. They also document some of the important changes that have taken place in the study of homosexuality and sexuality in our time. Author Lawrence D. Mass, the first physician to write for the gay press on a regular basis and the first writer to cover the AIDS epidemic in any press, has compiled an enlightening and challenging volume. Homosexuality and Sexuality includes the only currently available published interviews with such prominent psychiatrists, psychologists, sex researchers, educators, AIDS experts, and historians as William Masters and Virginia Johnson, John Money, Thomas Szasz, Mary Calderone, John McNeill, Donald Kritzman, Arnie Kantrowitz, and Martin Bauml Duberman. This readable book enables readers to go back in time and directly experience the controversies that surrounded the publication of such landmark, representative, or notorious studies as Masters and Johnson's Homosexuality in Perspective, Judd Marmor's Homosexual Behaviors, Charles Socarides's Homosexuality, the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association, John Money's Love and Love Sickness, Thomas Szasz's Sex By Prescription, or Richard Green's The Sissy Boy Syndrome. This landmark volume features groundbreaking discussions on some of the most critical, hotly debated topics in the fields of homosexuality and sexuality.
- Psychiatry Versus Sex Research--Six chapters that focus on the shift in the credibility of opinion about human sexual behavior, from psychiatry to sex research, that peaked in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Experts discuss homophobia, pseudoscience, pair bonding, paraphilia, sadomasochism, transvestism, and transsexualism.
- Gay Fantasies, Male Realities, and Bonding--Several chapters explore how sexual identity is manifest in various forms of pair and group bonding--how gay men relate to one another, in couples and collectively, as lovers, Catholics, Jews, and as circumcised and uncircumcised males.
- Interviews From the First Two Years of the AIDS Epidemic--Chapters include the first published interviews with leading AIDS researchers and observers and with a person with AIDS.
- Gay Youth, Gay History--Among the topics discussed are the homosexual emancipation movement in Germany, the Nazi persecutions of homosexuality, the uses of Nazi imagery in s-m pornography and public display, and the future of the gay liberation movement.Homosexuality and Sexuality is a major new volume that will be widely read in the gay community--by academicians, scholars, and historians of the gay liberation movement, the AIDS epidemic, and the sexual revolutions of our time. The volume will also be of interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, sex researchers, historians, or anyone who treats, counsels, studies, or simply wishes to know more about gay men and lesbians and their experiences.
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Identity Politics: Lesbian Feminism and the Limits of Communityby Shane PhelanISBN 0877229023 (0-87722-902-3)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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The Invention of Solitudeby Paul AusterISBN 0915342375 (0-915342-37-5)
Softcover, Sun
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0883012669 (0-88301-266-9)
Softcover, Ags Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:"Jane Eyre," Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane Eyre's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, "Jane Eyre" has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. "Jane Eyre" lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect. "At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë." -Virginia Woolf [via]
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The Joy Luck Clubby Amy TanISBN 0896219410 (0-89621-941-0)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Kitty's Special Jobby Claude Clement, Patricia Jensen, Olivier RaquoisISBN 0895774275 (0-89577-427-5)
Hardcover, Readers Digest Assn
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Graham RustISBN 0879237848 (0-87923-784-8)
Hardcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:A LITTLE PRINCESS is the story of Sara Crewe, a wealthy young student at a London boarding school. When tragedy suddenly strikes, Sara finds herself at the mercy of the cruel schoolmistress, Miss Minchen. Overwhelmed by terrible trials, Sara must find the strength to survive. But soon she finds hope in a wonderful secret -- a secret that magically transforms even the lowliest of beggars into true royalty.
Frances Hodgson Burnett said, With the best that was in me, I have tried to write more happiness into the world. In this illustrated edition, Kathryn Lindskoog has slightly updated the language in order to add to that happiness today. [via]
Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0882332287 (0-88233-228-7)
Softcover, Ardis
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Mary Shelley's Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0877547467 (0-87754-746-7)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'Book summary:Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein is remembered as a novel valuable in itself and prophetic of an intellectual world to come. It is seen as depicting a Prometheanism that is still with us. In this text noted critics examine subjects surrounding the novel such as creation as catastrophe, Frankenstein as the negative Oedipus, and a piece by Joyce Carol Oates on Frankenstein?s fallen angel.
The title, Mary Wollsonecraft Shelleys Frankenstein, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Mary Wollsonecraft Shelleys Frankenstein through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Mary Wollsonecraft Shelley, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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Merton's Palace of Nowhereby Jim FinleyISBN 0877930414 (0-87793-041-4)
Softcover, Ave Maria Pr
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Merton's Palace of Nowhere: A Search for God Through Awareness of the True Selfby James FinleyISBN 0877931593 (0-87793-159-3)
Softcover, Ave Maria Pr
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Minima Moraliaby Theodor W. AdornoISBN 0902308955 (0-902308-95-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Oedipus Rexby Sophocles, William-Alan Landed, E.H. PlumptreISBN 0887342515 (0-88734-251-5)
Softcover, Players Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oedipus Rex'Book summary:'Sophocles, in a play that won only second prize, created a masterpiece that in the eyes of posterity has overshadowed every other achievement in the field of ancient drama. In it he played on certain latent terrors that are part of man's nature in all kinds of societies and at all epochs; terrors whose influence may pervade our lives in ways we scarcely guess ...' These words come from the Introduction to Dr Dawe's edition of Oedipus Rex. In an attempt to analyse why this play 'Has exercised such a powerful and long-lasting fascination on the human mind' Dr Dawe devotes his Introduction to an examination of the content of the story and to the technique displayed by Sophocles in the unfolding of the plot. The commentary deals authoritatively with problems of language and expression. This is an edition for classical scholars, undergraduates, and students in the upper forms of schools. The Introduction requires no knowledge of Greek and may be read by anyone interested in Greek literature and drama. [via]
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Oedipus, the King ; And Antigoneby SophoclesISBN 0882950940 (0-88295-094-0)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oedipus, the King ; And Antigone'Book summary:Translated and edited by Peter D Arnott, this classic and highly popular edition contains two essential plays in the development of Greek tragedy -- Oedipus the King and Antigone -- for performance and study. The editor's introduction contains a brief biography of the playwright and a description of Greek theatre. Also included are a list of principal dates in the life of Sophocles and a bibliography. [via]
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Oliver Twistby Charles DickensISBN 0881033693 (0-88103-369-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...and soft-hearted a mood by the very first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion; and I wish I were a young fellow that I might avail myself on the spot of such a favourable opportunity for doing so, as the present. You are as great a boy as poor Brittles himself, returned Rose, blushing. Well, said the doctor, laughing heartily, that is no very ditficult matter. But to return to this boy: the great point of our agreement is yet to come. He will wake in an hour or so, I dare say; and although I have told that thick-headed constablefellow down stairs that he mustnt be moved or spoken to, on peril of his life, I think we may converse with him without, danger. Now, I make this stipulation---that I shall examine him in your presence, and that if from what he says, we judge, and I can show to the satisfaction of your cool reason, that he is a real and thorough bad one (which is more than possible), he shall be left to his fate, without any further interference on my part, at all events. Oh no, aunt l entreated Rose. Oh yes, aunt! said the doctor. Is it a bargain? _ He cannot be hardened in vice, said Rose; it is impossible. Very good, retorted the doctor; then so much th6 more reason for acceding to my proposition. Finally the treaty was entered into, and the parties thereto sat down to wait with some impatience until Oliver should awake. The patience of the two ladies was destined to undergo a longer trial than Mr. Losberne had led them to expect, for hour alter hour passed on, and still Oliver slumbered heavily. It was evening, indeed, before th_e kind-hearted doctor brought... [via]
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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nestby Ken KeseyISBN 088103715X (0-88103-715-X)
Hardcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0893759953 (0-89375-995-3)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Lifeby Erving GoffmanISBN 0879510145 (0-87951-014-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Really Reading Gertrude Stein: A Selected Anthology With Essays by Judy Grahnby Judy GrahnISBN 0895943816 (0-89594-381-6)
Hardcover, Ten Speed Pr
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Religious Conversion and Personal Identity: How and Why People Changeby V. Bailey GillespieISBN 0891350187 (0-89135-018-7)
Hardcover, Religious Education Press
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Remains of the Dayby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0886192196 (0-88619-219-6)
Hardcover, Lester & Orpen Dennys
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Shedding Silenceby Janice MirikitaniISBN 089087493X (0-89087-493-X)
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Skin Deep: Women Writing on Color, Culture, and Identityby Elena FeatherstonISBN 0895947080 (0-89594-708-0)
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Solaris: Romanby Stanisaw LemISBN 0899683517 (0-89968-351-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Sophocles' Oedipus the Kingby Sirish Rao, Gita Wolf-Sampath, Indrapramit RoyISBN 0892367644 (0-89236-764-4)
Hardcover, J Paul Getty Museum Pubns
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The Southern Mystiqueby Howard ZinnISBN 0896086801 (0-89608-680-1)
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Split Image: African Americans in the Mass Mediaby Jannette L. Dates, William BarlowISBN 0882581791 (0-88258-179-1)
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The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990sby Karin Aguilar-San JuanISBN 0896084760 (0-89608-476-0)
Softcover, South End Pr
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The Strangerby Albert CamusISBN 0881032476 (0-88103-247-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stranger'Book summary:The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its time. Alienation, the fear of anonymity, spiritual doubt--all could have been given a purely modern inflection in the hands of a lesser talent than Camus, who won the Nobel Prize in 1957 and was noted for his existentialist aesthetic. The remarkable trick of The Stranger, however, is that it's not mired in period philosophy.
The plot is simple. A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. The trial's proceedings are absurd, a parsing of incidental trivialities--that Meursault, for instance, seemed unmoved by his own mother's death and then attended a comic movie the evening after her funeral are two ostensibly damning facts--so that the eventual sentence the jury issues is both ridiculous and inevitable.
Meursault remains a cipher nearly to the story's end--dispassionate, clinical, disengaged from his own emotions. "She wanted to know if I loved her," he says of his girlfriend. "I answered the same way I had the last time, that it didn't mean anything but that I probably didn't." There's a latent ominousness in such observations, a sense that devotion is nothing more than self-delusion. It's undoubtedly true that Meursault exhibits an extreme of resignation; however, his confrontation with "the gentle indifference of the world" remains as compelling as it was when Camus first recounted it. --Ben Guterson [via]
A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0883011344 (0-88301-134-4)
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This Bridge Called My Backby Cherrie MoragaISBN 0913175188 (0-913175-18-8)
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Colorby Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, Johnetta Tinker, Toni Cade BambaraISBN 091317503X (0-913175-03-X)
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Time Out of Jointby Philip K. DickISBN 0881843520 (0-88184-352-0)
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True Heroism in a World of Celebrity Counterfeitsby Dick KeyesISBN 0891098925 (0-89109-892-5)
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0914061704 (0-914061-70-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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The Victorian Chaise Loungeby Marghanita LaskiISBN 0897330978 (0-89733-097-8)
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We Can Build Youby Philip K. DickISBN 0879977930 (0-87997-793-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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We, the Dangerousby Janice MirikitaniISBN 089087767X (0-89087-767-X)
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World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Madeby Irving HoweISBN 0883658828 (0-88365-882-8)
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0880299185 (0-88029-918-5)
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Wyrmsby Orson Scott CardISBN 0877958947 (0-87795-894-7)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 091406116X (0-914061-16-X)
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You Are Specialby Max Lucado, Sergio MartinezISBN 0891079319 (0-89107-931-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'You Are Special'Book summary:Every day the small wooden people called Wemmicks do the same thing: stick either gold stars or gray dots on one another. The pretty ones--those with smooth wood and fine paint--always get stars. The talented ones do, too. Others, though, who can do little or who have chipped paint, get ugly gray dots. Like Punchinello.
In this heartwarming children's tale from the best-selling pen of author Max Lucado, Eli the woodcarver helps Punchinello understand how special he is--no matter what other Wemmicks may think. It's a vital message for children everywhere: that regardless of how the world evaluates them, God cherishes each of them, just as they are.
This tale originally appeared within one of the chapters in the award-winning children's bestseller Tell Me the Secrets.
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