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Adventures With a Microscopeby Birger Richard HeadstromISBN 0486234711 (0-486-23471-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Adventures With Freshwater Animalsby Richard HeadstromISBN 0486244539 (0-486-24453-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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All About Lobsters, Crabs, Shrimps and Their Relativesby Richard HeadstromISBN 0486247953 (0-486-24795-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Anatomy of Melancholyby Robert BurtonISBN 0460008862 (0-460-00886-2)
Hardcover, Dent
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'Book summary:Partial Contents: Definition of Melancholy; Causes of Melancholy; Bad Diet; Passions and Perturbations of the Mind; Symptoms or Signs of Melancholy in the body; Prognosticks of Melancholy; Unlawful Cures Rejected; Lawful Cures; Diet Rectified; Deformity of Body, Sickness, Baseness of Birth; Against Poverty and Want and other Adversities; Against: Servitude, Loss of Liberty, Imprisonment, Sorrow for death of Friends, Vain Fear, Envy, Emulation, Hatred, Ambition, Self-love, and all other Affections; Against: Repulse, Abuses, Injuries, Disgraces, Slanders; Cure of Melancholy all over the Body; Love-Melancholy; Symptoms or Signs of Love-Melancholy; Symptoms of Jealously, fear, sorrow, suspicion; Cure of Jealously; Religious Melancholy. An outstanding analysis of what melancholy is, its kinds, causes, symptoms, prognosticks, and several cures for it; Philosophically, Medicinally, and Historically. [via]
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0451528824 (0-451-52882-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:Everyone's favorite redhead, the spunky Anne Shirley, begins her adventures at Green Gables, a farm outside Avonlea, Prince Edward Island. When the freckled girl realizes that the elderly Cuthberts wanted to adopt a boy instead, she begins to try to win them-and, consequently, the reader-over. [via]
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Atlas Shruggedby Ayn RandISBN 0452011876 (0-452-01187-6)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlas Shrugged'Book summary:Make this your next book club selection and everyone saves.[via]
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This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the worldand did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the worlds motorand the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story.Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human lifefrom the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboyto the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destructionto the philosopher who becomes a pirateto the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumphto the woman who runs a transcontinental railroadto the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.
You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions. This is a mystery story, not about the murderand rebirthof mans spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check.
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Brothers Karamazovby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Paretsky, Sara (AFT), Manuel Komroff, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0451530608 (0-451-53060-8)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothers Karamazov'Book summary:The Brothers Karamazov is considered a supreme achievement in literature. Published near the end of the 19th century, it is one of the great works of world-renowned author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Brothers Karamazov tackles some of the most existential and important themes known to humankind--the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith--just to name a few. Readers around the globe have found their lives transformed by this layered and complex book. A deeply spiritual work, The Brothers Karamazov is a work that every person should read. [via]
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The Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0486264726 (0-486-26472-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'Book summary:The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard and part Scotch shepherd, that was stolen, wound up in the Yukon Territory, and became leader of a wolf pack. [via]
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Candide and Other Talesby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0460019368 (0-460-01936-8)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, James Dean, Donald Roy HowardISBN 0451529685 (0-451-52968-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
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Softcover, Everyman - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0460103075 (0-460-10307-5)
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Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Canterbury Tales: ISBN 0460113070 (0-460-11307-0)
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Collected Poems, 1945-1990by R. S. ThomasISBN 0460860801 (0-460-86080-1)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Composing a Lifeby Mary C. BatesonISBN 0452265053 (0-452-26505-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Composing a Life'Book summary:This extraordinary book explores that act of creation that engages us all--the compostition of our lives. Through the comparative biographies of herself and four of her close friends, Mary Catherine Bateson provides a fascinating framework for her inquiry into the creative potential of complex lives, where energies are not narrowly focused toward a single ambition but rather are continually refocused and redefined.
Each of the women in "Composing a Life" faced discontinuity at periods in her life, yet was rich in professional achievement and personal relationships. Bateson's life-affirming conclusion is that life is an improvisational art form, and that the interruptions, conflicted priorities, and exigencies that are a part of all our lives can and should be seen as a source of wisdom. Important and empowering, "Composing a Life" will change lives.
"Well-formulated and passionate...offers nothing less than a radical rethinking of the concept of achievement." -- "San Francisco Chronicle"
"Bateson has written about women, but not just for women. Everyone can gain from this book."--Bill Moyers
"The best book since Gail Sheehy's Passages for turning life's discontinuities into growth." --Stewart Brand
"A literary form that reflects the way women commonly reason and talk." "The Boston Globe"
"Truth steams behind the quiet elegance of these passages." -- "The New York Times Book Review" [via]More editions of Composing a Life:
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Roger CelestinISBN 0451529707 (0-451-52970-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:[via]Wrongfully imprisoned for fourteen years, Edmond Dantes escapes to the island of Monte Cristo. What awaits him there is a fortune in gold-and a new identity with which to persue his revenge and redemption.
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyoder Dostoyevsky, Sidney MonasISBN 0451530063 (0-451-53006-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime And Punishment'Book summary:Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. [via]
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The Darwin Awards 3: Survival Of The Fittestby Wendy NorthcuttISBN 0452285720 (0-452-28572-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Darwin Awards 3: Survival Of The Fittest'Book summary:[via]Honoring those who improve our gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves fromit, The Darwin Awards III includes more than one hundred brand new, hilariously macabre mishaps and misadventures.
From a sheriff who inadvertently shot himself twice, to the insurance defrauder who amputated his leg with a chainsaw; from a farmer who avoided bee stings by sealing his head in a plastic bag to the man crushed by the branch he just trimmed, The Darwin Awards III proves again that when it comes to stupidity, no species does it like we do.
Featuring scientific and safety discussions and filled with illustrations depicting inspiring examples of evolution in action, The Darwin Awards III shows once more how uncommon common sense still is.
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, Ruth PiteISBN 0460875221 (0-460-87522-1)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This edition features all three parts of Dante's great poem about the journey of the soul - "Inferno", "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso" - with explanatory notes on each canto. It includes Botticelli's illustrations of "The Divine Comedy", drawn in the 1480s. [via]
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Dublinersby James Joyce, McCourt, Malachy (AFT), Edna O'BrienISBN 0451530411 (0-451-53041-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dubliners'Book summary:This short story collection draws a vivid portrait of joyce's dublin at the turn of the twentieth century, with rich imagery and characterization [via]
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Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Helen McNeilISBN 0460878956 (0-460-87895-6)
Softcover, Everyman
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The Essential Art Of Warby Sun-Tzu, Ralph D. Sawyer, Mei-Chun Lee SawyerISBN 0465072046 (0-465-07204-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Art Of War'Book summary:Ralph D. Sawyer is the preeminent scholar and translator on Sun-tzu's masterful work. More than 200,000 copies of his Sun-tzu Art of War and more than 55,000 copies of The Complete Art of War have been sold. The Art of War is the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare. The Essential Art of War brings Sun-tzu's classic work to a new, uninitiated readership. This clear and compact volume presumes no prior knowledge of the subject and presents only the material that is essential to understanding this text. Using his best-selling Art of War translation as the centerpiece, Sawyer has re-approached every chapter to include an introduction and closing commentary that deliver the key concepts. An introduction to the volume on the relevance of Sun-tzu's teachings, a chronology, historical background on the translation itself, and a bibliographic essay are also included. The Essential Art of War is presented in an attractive 208-page hardcover volume with foiled jacket, stamped case, and ribbon marker, in a convenient gift size.[via]More editions of The Essential Art Of War:
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The Essential Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard Wolf, Christopher BingISBN 0452269687 (0-452-26968-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Frankenstein'Book summary:Horror expert Wolf's sublime edition of this literary masterpiece features in-depth and extensive notes on all the novel's most interesting aspects, plus biographical information revealing how Mary Shelley's turbulent personal life influenced her work. Beautifully illustrated with original line drawings. [via]
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The Essential Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston Leroux, Leonard WolfISBN 0452273862 (0-452-27386-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Phantom Of The Opera'Book summary:This edition of Leroux's "The Phantom of the Opera" is fully annotated, and includes facts, bibliographical information and legends. It also features a full bibliography of works by and about Gaston Leroux, including critical works on "The Phantom of the Opera". [via]
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Falling Leavesby Adeline Yen MahISBN 0471247421 (0-471-24742-1)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Falling Leaves'Book summary:"Riveting. A marvel of memory. Poignant proof of the human will to endure." Amy Tan.
"Brilliant, compelling, and unforgettable. A heart-rending modern day Cinderella story set against the turbulence of 20th century China. Autobiography at its best." Nien Chang, author of Life and Death in Shanghai.
"Charged with emotion...A vivid portrait of the human capacity for meanness, maliceand love." Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans.
"Fascinating and heart-rending stuff...a harrowing story of emotional cruelty." The Times of London
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The emotionally wrenching yet ultimately uplifting memoir of a Chinese woman struggling to win the love and acceptance of her family.
In this compelling memoir that scaled bestseller lists in England, Australia, and Hong Kong, Adeline Yen Mah chronicles her painful childhood growing up in a wealthy yet abusive Chinese family. The unwanted daughter scorned by her family, young Adeline dreamed of freedom and independence, ultimately escaping to the West to launch a successful career in medicine.
When Adeline's mother died giving birth to her, she was deemed bad luck and ostracized by her family. Then her father took a beautiful Eurasian bride and Adeline soon fell victim to the wrath of her stepmother. Treated as a pariah, she was shuttled off to boarding schools, bullied by her siblings, and deprived of the beautiful clothes and things given to the rest of the family.
Moving from Shanghai and Hong Kong to London and the United States, Falling Leaves is an enthralling saga of a prosperous Chinese family set against a background of changing political times and the collision of East and West. Written in haunting prose, it evokes all the suspense and emotional force of a satisfying novel. [via]
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Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas HardyISBN 0451528565 (0-451-52856-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Far from the Madding Crowd'Book summary:Set in his fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremendous success of Far from the Madding Crowd persuaded Hardy to give up his first profession, architecture, to concentrate on writing fiction. The story of the ill-fated passions of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors offers a spectacle of country life brimming with an energy and charm not customarily associated with Hardy. ("When Farmer Oak smiled, " the novel begins, "the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears. . . .")
----The text is based on the authoritative Wessex Edition of 1912, revised and corrected by Hardy himself.
----This edition is the companion volume to the Mobil Masterpiece Theatre WGBH television presentation broadcast on PBS. It stars Paloma Baeza as Bathsheba Everdene, Nathaniel Parker as Gabriel Oak, Nigel Terry as Mr. Boldwood, and Jonathan Firth as Frank Troy. Adapted by Philomena
McDonagh, Far from the Madding Crowd is directed by Nick Renton.
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesignedthe series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. [via]More editions of Far from the Madding Crowd:
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Lifeby Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiISBN 0465024114 (0-465-02411-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life'Book summary:The author of Flow explains how to improve the quality of readers' lives through a series of stimulating challenges, demonstrating how the use of tasks requiring high degrees of skill and commitment can enhance and enrich one's everyday routine. [via]
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The Forest and the Seaby Marston BatesISBN 0451603168 (0-451-60316-8)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forest and the Sea'Book summary:Softcover, 1964 Time Incorporated, printing no info. Time Reading Program Special Edition, Introduction and cover design, New Introduction by Loren Eiseley. 272 pages. Marston Bates Copyright 1960. Cover is clean, lifts a little, rubbed. Cover design is not distorted by rubbing. 1st edition, 1st printing (assumed), Out of Print. [via]
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Fountainheadby Ayn RandISBN 0452273331 (0-452-27333-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fountainhead'Book summary:An early Ayn Rand novel about perseverance and determination . [via]
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Fourteen: Growing Up Alone in a Crowdby Stephen ZanichowskyISBN 0465094015 (0-465-09401-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fourteen: Growing Up Alone in a Crowd'Book summary:Born eighth in a family on its way to becoming almost twice that size, Stephen Zanichkowsky immediately learned that his life was not going to be easy. Instead, he and his siblings fended for themselves to avoid the wrath of their father and the heartbreaking emotional distance of their mother. Silence and terror ruled. A brother was taken away by the family one day, never to return. A sister was born with a mental deficiency that was never explained. As the years went by, each child left home as soon as he or she turned 18, creating unaccustomed "space" by skipping the others' weddings and graduations. Here, Zanichkowsky embarks on a journey back to the family's Lithuanian Catholic roots in Brooklyn and follows its members on a tortured climb to suburban comfort that, for him, culminates in his escape from home and the draft. Along the way, he seeks answers to lifelong questions: why was his father so angry and uncontrollable?; and why did his parents continue to have children when they didn't have enough love, patience, or money to spread around? Forty years later after leaving home, Zanichkowsky reaches out to his siblings - most of them divorced or living alone - and discovers a group of people still learning how to form relationships with others. In the process, the boy that once retreated into his own world emerges, whole and self-possessed. [via]
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Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligencesby Howard GardnerISBN 0465025102 (0-465-02510-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences'Book summary:[via]First published in 1983 and now available with a new introduction by the author, Gardner's trailblazing book revolutionized the worlds of education and psychology by positing that rather than a single type of intelligence, we have several--most of which are neglected by standard testing and educational methods.More editions of Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences:
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Philip GoodenISBN 0460875280 (0-460-87528-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create lifeand the monster that became his legacy.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
" A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
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" Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
" A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the readers 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 worlds finest books to their full potential.
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The Geometry of Art and Lifeby Matila Costiescu GhykaISBN 0486235424 (0-486-23542-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Goal-free Living: How to Have the Life You Want Now!by S. ShapiroISBN 0471772801 (0-471-77280-1)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meetby William Damon, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Howard GardnerISBN 0465026087 (0-465-02608-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet'Book summary:What does it mean to carry out "good work"? What strategies allow people to maintain moral and ethical standards at a time when market forces have unprecedented power and work life is being radically altered by technological innovation? These questions lie at the heart of this eagerly awaited new book. Focusing on genetics and journalism-two fields that generate and manipulate information and thus affect our lives in myriad ways-the authors show how in their quest to build meaningful careers successful professionals exhibit "humane creativity," high-level performance coupled with social responsibility. Over the last five years the authors have interviewed over 100 people in each field who are engaged in cutting-edge work, probing their goals and visions, their obstacles and fears, and how they pass on their most cherished practices and values. They found sharp contrasts between the two fields. Until now, geneticists' values have not been seriously challenged by the demands of their work world, while journalists are deeply disillusioned by the conflict between commerce and ethics. The dilemmas these professionals face and the strategies they choose in their search for a moral compass offer valuable guidance on how all persons can transform their professions and their lives. Enlivened with stories of real people facing hard decisions, Good Work offers powerful insight into one of the most important issues of our time and, indeed, into the future course of science, technology, and communication.[via]More editions of Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet:
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0460050184 (0-460-05018-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:A retelling of the classic fantasy adventure, illustrated in colour by Gennady Spirin. [via]
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accentsby Julia AlvarezISBN 0452268060 (0-452-26806-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Eagerly embracing their new American culture in Miami, the four Garcia women iron their hair, smoke cigarettes, date American men, forget their Spanish, and lose their accents, all in their journey toward adulthood. [via]
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King Solomon's Ringby Konrad LorenzISBN 0452011752 (0-452-01175-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Solomon's Ring'Book summary:King Solomon´s Ring by Konrad Z. Lorenz. New Light on Animal Ways. Illustrated by the autor. Foreword by Julian Huxley. Traslate fron German by Marjorie Kerr Wilson. 202 pages. @1952 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Apollo Edition 1961. [via]
Leaving Homeby Garrison KeillorISBN 0451821971 (0-451-82197-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Leisure: The Basis of Cultureby Josef PieperISBN 0451626362 (0-451-62636-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living Worldby Ian StewartISBN 0471296511 (0-471-29651-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Lifescripts: What to Say to Get What You Want in Life's Toughest Situationsby Stephen M. Pollan, Mark LevineISBN 0471631019 (0-471-63101-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lifescripts: What to Say to Get What You Want in Life's Toughest Situations'Book summary:Excerpt from Lifescript #1: Asking for a Salary Increase
Icebreaker: Id like to thank you for the opportunity you and the company have given me. I recognize that youve been very influential in my growth and advancement. However, I have a problem that I need your help with.
Pitch #1: What has happened is that Ive been concentrating solely on my professional growth and havent been paying any attention to my stream of income . . .
Pitch #2: I think my salary no longer reflects my contribution to the company . . .
Pitch #3: I think my salary no longer matches my job responsibilities . . .
Whether you need to ask your boss to stop micromanaging, terminate a subordinate, confront a peer, or cold call a potential client, Lifescripts gives you the most effective approachand the actual wordsto use.
The bestselling guide to self-improvement and success, Lifescripts has been completely revised and updated, taking a sharp self-help focus and adding more than 50 scripts that help you prepare for difficult conversations both inside and outside the office. Each of the 109 Lifescripts gives you a plan that leads to the desired result regardless of the obstacles thrown in your path. You get an icebreaker opener, a pitch, an answer to every question, and a defense for every attack. Youll also find strategic pointers on attitude, timing, preparation, and behavior.
From dealing with human resources to confronting a backstabber to closing a deal, Lifescripts provides a road map to navigate successfully through the most perplexing, problematic dialogues you may face in the course of your life. [via]
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Susan StraightISBN 0451529308 (0-451-52930-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Lawrence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever. Good Wives takes up the story of the March sisters, some three years later, when, as young adults, they must face up to the inevitable trials and traumas of everyday life in their search for individual happiness. [via]
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Little Women and Good Wivesby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0460871412 (0-460-87141-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave Flaubert, Mildred Marmur, Robin MorganISBN 0451528204 (0-451-52820-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a womans gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity. Neither Emma, nor her lovers, nor Homais, the man of science, escapes the authors searing castigation; and it is the books final profound irony that only Charles, Emmas oxlike, eternally deceived husband, emerges with a measure of human grace through his stubborn and selfless love. With its rare formal perfection, Madame Bovary represents, as Frank OConnor has declared, possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed; undoubtedly the most beautifully written novel&a book that invites superlatives&the most important novel of the century.
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The Mammyby Brendan O'CarrollISBN 0452281032 (0-452-28103-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Middlemarchby George EliotISBN 0451529170 (0-451-52917-0)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:Dorethea aspires to a high spiritual life, but is stifled by her enviroment. [via]
Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0460011790 (0-460-01179-0)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:'Command the murderous chalices!...Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow - Death to Moby Dick!'. So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession - the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of 'some unknown but still reasoning thing'. Uncowed by natural disasters, ill omens, even death, Ahab urges his ship towards 'the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale'. [via]
The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0460011987 (0-460-01198-7)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0451528336 (0-451-52833-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James Joyce, Langdon HammerISBN 0451530152 (0-451-53015-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:A masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce's semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artist's life. "I will not serve," vows Dedalus, "that in which I no longer believe....and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can." To Dedalus, the artist is like God-one who "remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails." Joyce's rendering of the impressions of childhood broke ground in the use of language. "He took on the almost infinite English language," Jorge Luis Borges once said. "He wrote in a language invented by himself....Joyce brought a new music to English." As a bold literary experiment, this classic has had a huge and lasting influence on the contemporary novel. @Bildungsroman I'm in college. Cool. But I live at home with mom. That doesn't make me a tool, does it? Nah, I'm totally cool. Look, I've got this cool tweed hat. Yeah, I'm cool. Totally. From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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The Purgatorioby Dante AlighieriISBN 0451627148 (0-451-62714-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Purgatorio'Book summary:In The Inferno Dante described his journey to the depths of evil, to the recognition of the true nature of sin. In The Purgatorio he now describes his journey to the renunciation of sin, accepting his suffering in preparation for his entrance into the presence of God. This brilliant translation of Dantes soaring canticle crystallizes the power and beauty inherent in the great poets immortal conception of the aspiring soul. [via]
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The Rainbowby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0451530306 (0-451-53030-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Lifeby Richard Dawkins, Lalla WardISBN 0465069908 (0-465-06990-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life'Book summary:Nearly a century and a half after Charles Darwin formulated it, the theory of evolution is still the subject of considerable debate. Oxford scientist Richard Dawkins is among Darwin's chief defenders, and an able one indeed-- witty, literate, capable of turning a beautiful phrase. In River Out of Eden he introduces general readers to some fairly abstract problems in evolutionary biology, gently guiding us through the tangles of mitochondrial DNA and the survival-of-the- fittest ethos. (Superheroes need not apply: Dawkins writes, "The genes that survive . . . will be the ones that are good at surviving in the average environment of the species.") Dawkins argues for the essential unity of humanity, noting that "we are much closer cousins of one another than we normally realize, and we have many fewer ancestors than simple calculations suggest." [via]
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Edward FitzgeraldISBN 048626467X (0-486-26467-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'Book summary:One of the best-known, most often quoted English classics. Edward FitzGerald's free translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyám (10481122), Persian mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. The 5th edition incorporates FitzGerald's handwritten changes in the 4th edition, and is traditionally printed with the 1st edition. Notes explaining Persian names and unfamiliar terms.[via]More editions of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Other Persian Poemsby Omar Khayyam, ArberryISBN 0460019961 (0-460-01996-1)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Bird Parliamentby Tony BriggsISBN 0460879545 (0-460-87954-5)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Sea Around Usby Rachel L. CarsonISBN 0451624831 (0-451-62483-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Selected Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 0486264661 (0-486-26466-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. "The Snake," "Hope," "The Chariot," many more, display unflinching honesty, psychological penetration, and technical adventurousness that have delighted and impressed generations of poetry lovers. Includes 3 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Selected Poems:
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Sons And Loversby D. H. Lawrence, Jackson, Dennis (AFT)ISBN 0451530004 (0-451-53000-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons And Lovers'Book summary:Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."
Of course, Mrs. Morel takes neither of her two elder sons (the first of whom dies early, which further intensifies her grip on Paul) as a literal lover, but nonetheless her psychological snare is immense. She loathes Paul's Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will oust her: "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him." Meanwhile, Paul plays his part with equal fervor, incapable of committing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother suffering, then he hated her--and he easily hated her." Soon thereafter he even confesses to his mother: "I really don't love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you."
The result of all this is that Paul throws Miriam over for a married suffragette, Clara Dawes, who fulfills the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him, as ever, without a complete relationship to challenge his love for his mother. As Paul voyages from the working-class mining world to the spheres of commerce and art (he has fair success as a painter), he accepts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out of him. Life for her was rich with promise. She was to see herself fulfilled... All his work was hers."
The cycles of Paul's relationships with these three women are terrifying at times, and Lawrence does nothing to dim their intensity. Nor does he shirk in his vivid, sensuous descriptions of the landscape that offers up its blossoms and beasts and "shimmeriness" to Paul's sensitive spirit. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth. Few books tell such whole, complicated truths about the permutations of love as resolutely without resolution. It's nothing short of searing to be brushed by humanity in this manner. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Tar Babyby Toni MorrisonISBN 045225258X (0-452-25258-X)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tar Baby'Book summary:Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes: Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to her freedom she is a threat to his identity... [via]
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The Think and Grow Rich Action Packby Napoleon HillISBN 0452266602 (0-452-26660-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Think and Grow Rich Action Pack'Book summary:Published around the world, this book has become an undisputed classic in the field of motivational literature. Inspired by Andrew Carnegie, it has been cited by many as the "calling card" that propelled countless numbers to fame and fortune and is the standard against which all other motivational material is measured. Think and Grow Rich and The Think and Grow Rich Action Pack have single-handedly changed the lives of millions of men, women and young adults and produced a legacy of achievement that includes many of today's and yesterday's leaders in business, government and civic organizations.[via]"I knew Napoleon Hill in 1922 when I was a student in Salem College in the town of my birth. Mr. Hill came to our campus as the commencement speaker that year. As I listened to him, I heard something other than the words he spoke. I felt the substancethe wisdomand the spirit of a man and his philosophy. Mr. Hill said "the most powerful instrument we have in our hand is the power of the mind.' Napoleon Hill compiled this philosophy of American achievement for the benefit of all people. I strongly commend this philosophy to you for achievement and service in your chosen field." Senator Jennings Randolph, West Virginia
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Thinking Metricby Thomas F. Gilbert, Marilyn B. GilbertISBN 0471299014 (0-471-29901-4)
Hardcover, Wiley
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This Book Will Change Your Life: 365 Daily Instructions for Hysterical Livingby Ben Carey, Henrik DelehagISBN 0452284899 (0-452-28489-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Book Will Change Your Life: 365 Daily Instructions for Hysterical Living'Book summary:[via]Is the year ahead looking much the same as the last? Another 365-day grind of meetings, dinner dates, and deadlines? If so, try this book.
Part instruction manual, part therapy, part religious cult, part sheer anarchy, This Book Will Change Your Life will help you poke a stick in the spokes of your routine.
It's not the soft-hearted kind of book that's interested in what you have to say; rather it contains 365 daily orders, each one of which could turn your humdrum existence into a daily free-fall.
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Walden And Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau, Miller, Perry (AFT), W.S. MerwinISBN 0451529456 (0-451-52945-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. His simple but profound musingsas well as Civil Disobedience, his protest against the government's interference with civil libertyhave inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature.
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Wellsprings of Lifeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0451616197 (0-451-61619-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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A Wild Sheep Chaseby Haruki Murakami, Alfred T. BirnbaumISBN 0452265169 (0-452-26516-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wild Sheep Chase'Book summary:Murakami has crafted a taut and suspenseful novel that is equal parts detective story, fantasy, and Kafkaesque allegory. In a Japan of the imagination, an advertising executive is sent on a harrowing journey in pursuit of a mythical sheep reported to embody an irresistible will to absolute power. [via]
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte, Alice HoffmanISBN 0451529251 (0-451-52925-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wuthering Heights'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]
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Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Wuthering Heights: ISBN 0460012436 (0-460-01243-6)
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