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3rd Degreeby James Patterson, Andrew GrossISBN 0316743860 (0-316-74386-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: '3rd Degree'Book summary:Detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant District Attorney Jill Bernhardt are enjoying a quiet afternoon in San Francisco when a townhouse across the street explodes in flames. A sinister note signed 'August Spies' is found at the scene of the disaster, and the body of an infant who was asleep in the house at the time of the explosion cannot be found. Soon a wave of violent incidents, all with links to political terrorism and involving 'August Spies,' sweeps through the city.An upcoming economic summit of the world's most powerful nations will surely be a target. And it's up to the Women's Murder Club to get to the bottom of the violence before it's too late. Delivering the breakneck pace and never-saw-it-coming plot twists that have made James Patterson the most addictive writer at work today, 3rd DEGREE is another searing and unforgettable thriller from the nation's #1 bestselling suspense writer. [via]
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All He Ever Wantedby Anita ShreveISBN 0316735736 (0-316-73573-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All He Ever Wanted'Book summary:Anita Shreve's All He Ever Wanted reads like Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own told from the perspective of the husband. The wife gains a measure of freedom, but how does the repressive, abandoned husband feel about that freedom? Set in the early 1900s in the fictional New England college town of Thrupp, and narrated by the pompous Nicholas Van Tassel, All He Ever Wanted is at once an academic satire, a period novel, and a tale of suspense. Shreve's ability to nimbly hop through genres brings a liveliness to this story of love gone depressingly wrong. Van Tassel is an undistinguished professor of rhetoric at Thrupp College and a confirmed bachelor when he meets--in no less flamy a scenario than a hotel fire--the arresting Miss Etna Bliss. Immediately smitten, he woos and wins her. At least, he persuades her to become his wife. But Van Tassel hasn't really won her. Etna keeps her secrets and her feelings to herself. The extent of her withholding only becomes clear after a couple of kids and a decade or so of marriage. Then we find out that she's been creating a secret haven for herself all along. Van Tassel is in turn revealed--through his own priggish, puffed-up sentences--as something of a monster. The book is cleverly done; watching Etna through Van Tassel's eyes is like looking at beautiful bird from a hungry cat's point of view. But Van Tassel's voice might be too well written; he's pedantic and dull and snarky all at once, and by the end we find that we, like Etna, can't bear his company a minute longer. --Claire Dederer [via]
Ancient Eveningsby Norman MailerISBN 0316544108 (0-316-54410-8)
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And No Birds Sangby Farley MowatISBN 0316586951 (0-316-58695-1)
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Aurora Dawnby Herman WoukISBN 0316955094 (0-316-95509-4)
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Barrel Feverby David SedarisISBN 0316779423 (0-316-77942-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barrel Fever'Book summary:A collection of stories and essays by humorist and NPR commentator David Sedaris based upon his own experiences and the hidden perversity that can be found in Anytown, U.S.A. Here are images and blasphemies that nice people don't dare look at--blatantly exposed and told with the clear, casual voice of intimate knowledge. Sedaris' humor is born of compassion and his tales range from the sharing of cheery Christmas letters featuring infanticide, to experiences of the Gay and Famous (Charlton Heston and Elizabeth Dole, for example), to the lives of siblings named Hope, Faith, Charity and Adolph and to alcoholics and chain smokers you can laugh with. [via]
Bed Riddance: A Posy for the Indisposedby Ogden NashISBN 0316598534 (0-316-59853-4)
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Ben and Meby Robert LawsonISBN 0316517305 (0-316-51730-5)
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Best-Loved PoemsISBN 0316853941 (0-316-85394-1)
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Best-Loved Poemsby Neil Philip, Isabelle BrentISBN 0316724386 (0-316-72438-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Best-Loved Poems'Book summary:[via]This collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English-language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to stuff-and-nonsense, and are presented in nine sections: Poems of Childhood and Youth; Poems of Love and Marriage; Poems of Life; Poems of Loss and Comfort; Poems of War and Peace; Poems to Read Aloud; Poems to Read Quietly; Poems of Animals and Nature; and Poems of Magic and Mystery. The anthology includes works by William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney, Robert Burns, T.S. Eliot, Rudyard Kipling and W.B. Yeats, and the poems have all been chosen and arranged by Neil Philip. The volume is illustrated throughout with watercolor borders and decorative motifs by Isabelle Brent.More editions of Best-Loved Poems:
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Black Noticeby Patricia CornwellISBN 0316646385 (0-316-64638-5)
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Blind Dateby Jerzy KosinskiISBN 0316502189 (0-316-50218-9)
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A Bloomsbury Album: Friends in Focusby Frances PartridgeISBN 0316692867 (0-316-69286-7)
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Bookseller of Kabulby Asne SeierstadISBN 0316734500 (0-316-73450-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bookseller of Kabul'Book summary:With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. Invited to live with Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, and his family for months, this account of her experience allows the Khans to speak for themselves, giving us a genuinely gripping and moving portrait of a family, and of a country of great cultural riches and extreme contradictions. For more than 20 years, Sultan Khan has defied the authorities--whether Communist or Taliban--to supply books to the people of Kabul. He has been arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned, and has watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. Yet he had persisted in his passion for books, shedding light in one of the world's darkest places. This is the intimate portrait of a man of principle and of his family--two wives, five children, and many relatives sharing a small four-room house in this war ravaged city. But more than that, it is a rare look at contemporary life under Islam, where even after the Taliban's collapse, the women must submit to arranged marriages, polygamous husbands, and crippling limitations on their ability to travel, learn and communicate with others. [via]
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The Bounty Trilogyby Charles Nordhoff, James N. HallISBN 0316611662 (0-316-61166-2)
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Cactus Countryby Edward AbbeyISBN 0316848336 (0-316-84833-6)
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Chariots of the Godsby Erich Von DanikenISBN 0317199617 (0-317-19961-7)
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Cheap Livesby Antony SherISBN 0316914509 (0-316-91450-9)
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Child of Faerie, Child of Earthby Jane Yolen, Jane DyerISBN 0316957208 (0-316-95720-8)
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Cold Snapby Thom JonesISBN 0316472573 (0-316-47257-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Snap'Book summary:Thom Jones may be one of the few authors whose acknowledgments thank not only his dog, wife, and agent, but also Wyeth/Ayerst Laboratories and Stuart Pharmaceuticals, manufacturers of Effexor and Elavil--"drugs so good they feel illegal." Likewise, Cold Snap, Jones's second volume of short fiction, is so good these stories feel (but thankfully are not) illegal. In typically manic style they draw tragicomic portraits of boxers, Marines, and other assorted tough-guy types--even, in "Rocketfire Red," a part-Aborigine surfer girl turned drag racer and international model. Pitchman extraordinaire Ad Magic from The Pugilist at Rest returns, writing fraudulent but devastatingly effective direct-mail appeals for Global Aid even as he loses his mind on the combined effects of Dexedrine, paregoric, malaria, and a thumb smashed by Rwandan soldiers. In "Way Down Deep in the Jungle," another Africa story, cynical Dr. Koestler's baboon absconds with an entire bottle of whiskey, then entertains the natives with shockingly accurate imitations of the American smoking, masturbating, and moving his bowels. A plastic surgeon boxes his way through a fatal heart attack in "Ooh Baby Baby"; a diabetic with an amputated foot feeds a black widow spider in "Pickpocket"; the young Marine of "Pot Shack" compounds his foolishness in joining up ("Why did you join? Why did you join? Etc. Why did you fucking join?") by volunteering for recon, "where they take awful to a new level." It's the kind of fictional universe in which a manic doctor plays Russian roulette to cheer himself up, and the result is somehow, improbably, funny. But these stories go well beyond whistling in the dark. They are in fact a way to hold our 20th-century demons at bay, as the epigraph from 1 Samuel suggests: "Seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre: and when the evil spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well." May we all be well, and may Thom Jones play on. --Mary Park [via]
Conversations With Katherine Anne Porter: Refugee from Indian Creekby Enrique Hank LopezISBN 0316531995 (0-316-53199-5)
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Cooling Offby J. M. McCoolISBN 0316554367 (0-316-55436-7)
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Customs and Characters: Contemporary Portraitsby Peter QuennellISBN 0316728799 (0-316-72879-9)
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Dance to the Music of Timeby Anthony PowellISBN 0316715484 (0-316-71548-4)
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Demonologyby Rick MoodyISBN 0316592102 (0-316-59210-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Demonology'Book summary:Rick Moody is a traditionalist. Despite his page-long paragraphs, brand-name dropping, obsessive cataloguing of workplace ritual, seemingly random italicizing, and inevitable digs at "multinational entertainment providers," Moody makes classically beautiful short stories. His tools are those of any master storyteller: detail, catharsis, the right word at the right moment. Granted, the details can be unexpected: e.g., comparative values of different Pez dispensers. And his brand of catharsis can be mighty abrupt. "Now the intolerable part of this story begins," he warns us in the title story of Demonology, while "Hawaiian Night" includes the ominous spoiler, "Here comes tragedy." Yet his word choice is always immaculate.
Moody's collection is framed by two stories in which the narrator ruminates over his dead sister. In the first, "The Mansion on the Hill," he speaks directly to the departed:
You were a fine sister, but you changed your mind all the time, and I had no idea if these things I'd attributed to you in the last year were features of the you I once knew, or whether, in death, you had become the property of your mourners, so that we made of you a puppet.
The story promptly turns into a revenge fantasy, with an absurd climax wherein the narrator attacks his sister's former fiancé. "Demonology" deals with the actual circumstances of her death. First we see her tucking the kids into bed prior to her fatal seizure: "And my sister kissed her daughter multiply, because my niece is a little impish redhead, and it's hard not to kiss her." Moody then switches tone smoothly and beautifully as the medics work on the dead woman: "Her body jumped while they shocked her--she was a revenant in some corridor of simultaneities--but her heart wouldn't start." A writer who pins down such fluidities can get up to all the experimentation he likes. We'll go along willingly. --Claire Dederer [via] 
The Devil and Sonny Listonby Nick ToschesISBN 0316897752 (0-316-89775-2)
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A Dream of Dracula:in Search of the Living Dead: In Search of the Living Deadby Leonard WolfISBN 0316951188 (0-316-95118-8)
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Echo Parkby Michael ConnellyISBN 0316734950 (0-316-73495-0)
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The End of the Battleby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926205 (0-316-92620-5)
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The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waughby Donat GallagherISBN 0316926434 (0-316-92643-4)
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Evelyn Waugh: A Biographyby Christopher SykesISBN 0316826006 (0-316-82600-6)
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Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brainby H. G. WellsISBN 0316930318 (0-316-93031-8)
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The Fall of Japanby Keith WheelerISBN 0316850586 (0-316-85058-6)
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First Fictionby Kathy Kiernan, Michael M. MooreISBN 0316492043 (0-316-49204-3)
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Gods and Myths of Northern Europeby Hilda Roderick Ellis DavidsonISBN 0317530267 (0-317-53026-7)
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Handling Sinby Michael MaloneISBN 0316544558 (0-316-54455-8)
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Hard Revolutionby George PelecanosISBN 0316608971 (0-316-60897-1)
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The Heartbreakerby Susan HowatchISBN 0316860174 (0-316-86017-4)
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The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novelby Luis Alberto UrreaISBN 0316745464 (0-316-74546-4)
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In Search of Moby Dickby Tim SeverinISBN 0316645958 (0-316-64595-8)
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Jack & Jill: A Novelby James PattersonISBN 0316693715 (0-316-69371-5)
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The Jesterby James Patterson, Andrew GrossISBN 0316602051 (0-316-60205-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jester'Book summary:Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh discovers that his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted by knights in search of a relic worth more than any throne in Europe. Only by taking on the role of a jester is he able to infiltrate his enemy's castle, where he thinks his wife is captive.
With the unstoppable pace and plot of a page-turning Alex Cross novel, THE JESTER is a breathtakingly romantic, pulse-pounding adventure-one that could only be conjured by the mind of James Patterson. Everyone who has ever hoped for good to defeat evil or for love to conquer all will not be able to stop turning the pages of this masterful novel of virtue, laughter-yes, laughter-and suspense. [via]
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Kiss the Girlsby James PattersonISBN 0316693707 (0-316-69370-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kiss the Girls'Book summary:In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. Washington D.C.Us Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing--and they are working coast to coast. [via]
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The Librarian Who Measured the Earthby Kathryn Lasky, Kevin HawkesISBN 0316515264 (0-316-51526-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Librarian Who Measured the Earth'Book summary:A colorfully illustrated biography of the Greek philosopher and scientist Eratosthenes, who compiled the first geography book and accurately measured the globe's circumference. [via]
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The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblowerby Cyril Northcote ParkinsonISBN 0316692476 (0-316-69247-6)
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Long Way Round : Chasing Shadows Across the Worldby Ewan McGregor, Charley BoormanISBN 0316731706 (0-316-73170-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Long Way Round : Chasing Shadows Across the World'Book summary:Poring over a map one day, Ewan McGregorfilm star and bike nutnoticed it was possible to ride all the way around the world, with just one short hop across the Bering Strait. So he called Charley Boorman, his best friend, fellow actor, and bike nut. From London to New York, Ewan and Charley rode their BMWs through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. Exhaustion, injury, and accidents tested their strength, as did treacherous roads and weather. They were pursued by paparazzi in Kazakhstan, courted by men with guns in the Ukraine, and served bulls' testicles for supper by Mongolian nomads. Yet despite the many obstacles, they managed to ride over 20,000 miles in four months. As they traveled, they documented their trip, taking photos and writing diaries.[via]More editions of Long Way Round : Chasing Shadows Across the World:
Make-Believe Town: Essays and Remembrancesby David MametISBN 0316550353 (0-316-55035-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Make-Believe Town: Essays and Remembrances'Book summary:Playwright David Mamet has forged a considerable reputation, particularly in the theaters of New York and London, for dialogue that is austere, sharp, complex, sophisticated and realistic, a skill that transferred successfully to Hollywood with the movie version of his play Glengarry Glen Ross. His first collection of essays, The Cabin, gave Mamet enthusiasts the chance to see more directly what the author thinks about the world. This second miscellaneous collection of 24 essays again gives a lively scattershot view of his concerns and obsessions: sketches of friends; a memoir of child abuse; an essay on anti-semitism; thoughts on an early job writing pornography captions; much about the theater, including his beginnings on Broadway. Definitely a clue to the mind behind the dramatic art. [via]
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Man Who Cried I Amby John A. WilliamsISBN 0316941433 (0-316-94143-3)
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Marjorie Morningstarby Herman WoukISBN 0316955132 (0-316-95513-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marjorie Morningstar'Book summary:A starry-eyed young beauty, Marjorie Morgenstern is nineteen years old when she leaves New York to accept the job of her dreams-working in a summer-stock company for Noel Airman, its talented and intensely charismatic director. Released from the social constraints of her traditional Jewish family, and thrown into the glorious, colorful world of theater, Marjorie finds herself entangled in a powerful affair with the man destined to become the greatest-and the most destructive-love of her life.Rich with humor and poignancy, Marjorie Morningstar is a classic love story, one that spans two continents and two decades in the life of its heroine. This unforgettable paean to youthful love and the bittersweet sorrow of a first heartbreak endures as one of Herman Wouk's most beloved creations.[via]More editions of Marjorie Morningstar:
Mary Shelley: Romance and Realityby Emily W. SunsteinISBN 0316822469 (0-316-82246-9)
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Moonheartby Charles De LintISBN 0317633112 (0-317-63311-2)
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The Mouse That Roaredby Leonard Patrick O'Connor WibberleyISBN 0316938726 (0-316-93872-6)
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The Night Before Christmasby Clement Clarke Moore, Tasha TudorISBN 0316832715 (0-316-83271-5)
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O'Neill, Son and Artistby Louis SheafferISBN 0316783366 (0-316-78336-6)
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Of a Fire on the Moonby Norman MailerISBN 0316544116 (0-316-54411-6)
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The Old Dog Barks Backwards.by Ogden NashISBN 0316598046 (0-316-59804-6)
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Old Dogs and Childrenby Robert InmanISBN 0316418978 (0-316-41897-8)
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfoldby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926221 (0-316-92622-1)
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The Pugilist at Restby Thom JonesISBN 0316473049 (0-316-47304-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pugilist at Rest'Book summary:Thom Jones's first collection of stories is a revelation. In prose that sounds like nobody else, Jones channels a variety of distinctively different voices, from the lustful book editor of "Unchain My Heart" to the epileptic, amnesiac adman of the Dostoevskian fable "A White Horse." There's not a miss among these tales, but two in particular stand out: the title story, about a boxer and Vietnam vet who has plumbed the vicious depths of his own soul, and the almost unbearably intense chronicle of a woman fighting a losing battle with cancer, "I Want to Live!" "The world is replete with badness," says the aging fighter of "A Pugilist at Rest"; yet, as the narrator of "I Want to Live!" discovers, there is nothing stronger than the human will to go on, to persist--even in the face of the hell that exists right here on earth. It's not all gloom, doom, and napalm, however. There's also the surreal, Gogol-esque humor of "The Black Lights," in which the pysch-ward protagonist insists his only problem is epilepsy, yet hallucinates a giant, shuddering rabbit caught under his bed at night ("It's that rabbit on the Br'er Rabbit molasses jar. That rabbit with buckles on his shoes! Bow tie. Yaller teeth! Yaller! Yaller!") Then, too, Jones creates images of startling, surreal clarity amid the horror, like the dying lieutenant who remains on one knee even after being shot, "his remaining arm extended out to the enemy, palm upward in the soulful, heartrending gesture of Al Jolson doing a rendition of 'Mammy.'" Take a decidedly grim world-view, add a dose of existential slapstick, some Schopenhauer, an encyclopedic knowledge of pharmaceuticals, and a soundtrack by the Doors, and you have what may be the darkest, funniest, most urgent fictional debut in years. --Mary Park [via]
Resistanceby Anita Shreve, Michael PietschISBN 0316789844 (0-316-78984-4)
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Resurrection Men: Inspector Rebus Novelby Ian RankinISBN 0316608491 (0-316-60849-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Resurrection Men: Inspector Rebus Novel'Book summary:Rebus is back. Resurrection Men, the 13th DI Rebus novel, finds Ian Rankins doughty detective off the case. He explodes at his superior DCS Gill Templar over the increasingly frustrating murder inquiry into the savage killing of an Edinburgh art dealer and his punishment is a spell cooling his heels at the Scottish Police College in central Scotland. Rebus balks at his "retraining" but hes not alone: hes part of an ill-assorted group of similar officers--all with an attitude problem and a dislike of the institution they find themselves in. Given an old unsolved case to work on the group is obliged to polish up their teamwork while supervisors assess the reprobates. But some of the team have secrets not unconnected to the case theyve been handed and Rebus finds that anything goes when it comes to keeping the past obscured.
This is Rankin in top form with Rebus rejuvenated by the edgy new milieu hes dropped into. Complicating things, the Scottish Crime Squad asks Rebus to act as a link to someone who can deliver the inside dirt on an old nemesis, gangster "Big Ger" Cafferty. In Edinburgh, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke has to take over the case of the murdered art dealer and, like Rebus, finds herself getting closer to the unpleasant Mr Cafferty. Forget the miscast John Hannah in the TV movies, this is the real Rebus: gritty, idiomatic and etched in prose that wastes nae a word in its redefining of the crime novel. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Room for a Single Ladyby Clare BoylanISBN 0316639869 (0-316-63986-9)
Hardcover, Little, Brown and Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room for a Single Lady'Book summary:To Eugene, girls are like money - they have to be saved. His daughters, Bridie, Kitty and Rose, seem doomed to a Victorian childhood. But as their fortunes decline and the family are forced to take in lodgers, eccentric outsiders introduce the girls to new experiences and the liberal 1960s. [via]
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Roses Are Redby James PattersonISBN 0316693251 (0-316-69325-1)
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A Salty Piece of Landby Jimmy BuffettISBN 0316743763 (0-316-74376-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Salty Piece of Land'Book summary:Handle: The #1 bestseller Jimmy Buffett flies back into view with a delectable new collection of tales from his carefree and adventurous world. Description: The beloved traveler/troubadour offers up a plate of stories--some real, some imagined, some where it's impossible to say--from his world of seaplanes, tropical isles, and wayward adventures. A Salty Piece of Land is a rollicking story collection that belongs as much on a bookshelf as it does atop the liquor cabinet. It has been five years since Jimmy's last book, and fans of his previous bestsellers, A Pirate Looks at Fifty, Where's Joe Merchant, and Tales From Margaritaville--not to mention the millions of fans of his songs and concerts--are sure to flock to his newest hit. This fall, as the temperatures drop and the sun gets scarce, A Salty Piece of Land is going to be the book that takes readers away from the snowdrifts and to a warm beach, cold beer, and some of the wildest characters ever to dip their toe in the ocean. This irresistible collection will be the next in an impressive line of bestsellers for the inimitable Jimmy Buffett. [via]
Sea Glassby Anita ShreveISBN 0316707821 (0-316-70782-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sea Glass'Book summary:From its opening pages, Anita Shreve's Sea Glass surrounds the reader in the surprisingly rich feeling of the New Hampshire coast in winter. Vividly evoking the life of the coastal community at the beginning of the Great Depression, Sea Glass shifts through the multiple points of view of six principal characters; it's a skillfully created story of braided lives that bounces easily (even inevitably) from character to character. We learn how these lives come together following the stock market crash of 1929 and about the struggles of mill workers on the starkly beautiful New Hampshire coast during the following year. At the novel's center is the story of Honora Beecher, a young newlywed who compulsively collects sea glass along the beach as she collects unexpected friendship in her new beachside community, and Francis, a boy who discovers a father figure in the towering character of McDermott, an Irish mill worker, at a time when he most needs direction. Each character finds unexpected new purpose beyond the struggle to survive during that turbulent year among the dunes. First their lives barely touch, then they intersect, and finally they become inextricably bound. By the powerful and unexpected final scenes of the story, every point of view, every brilliant shard of life depends deeply on all the others. It is a very satisfying read--confidently told and deeply felt--with as many subtle colors and reflections as the sea glass that permeates the narrative. --Paul Ford [via]
The Sheep Queenby Thomas SavageISBN 0316610909 (0-316-61090-9)
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Ship of Foolsby Katherine Anne PorterISBN 0316713902 (0-316-71390-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ship of Fools'Book summary:The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Germany. Passengers include a Spanish noblewoman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, a pair of Mexican Catholic priests. This ship of fools is a crucible of intense experience, out of which everyone emerges forever changed. Rich in incident, passion, and treachery, the novel explores themes of nationalism, cultural and ethnic pride, and basic human frailty that are as relevant today as they were when the book was first published in 1962. [via]
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Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mineby Thom JonesISBN 0316472409 (0-316-47240-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine'Book summary:Welcome back to the world of boot camp, boxing gyms, psych wards, and pharmaceutical highs. Once again, Thom Jones seems less to write fiction than to allow his characters to pour their stories directly into the reader's ear. Here the cast includes some of the usual suspects--jittery fighters, Marines, Vietnam vets--as well as some new but equally quirky voices, from a nebbishy vice principal to a 92-year-old woman. First seen in Jones's debut collection, The Pugilist at Rest, the crack Marine recon team Break On Thru makes several more sorties--most notably in "Fields of Purple Forever," in which the civilian Sergeant Ondine takes up swimming much the same way Odysseus, say, took up sailing: "Ondine a night swimmer and he all over the night. Captain of the night. I swim in the fields of purple. Nothing and no one can harm me forever." "Tarantula" chronicles the rise and fall of John Harold Hammermeister, vice principal of W.E.B. Du Bois High School, where the students fail to be impressed by his caged spider and the frustrated janitors prove his undoing. "My Heroic Mythic Journey" follows the downward career arc of its boxer protagonist, who becomes featherweight champion of the world only to fall for a "bleach-bottle blond with a cheating heart" and a loaded .38. Most winning of all is the elderly narrator of "Daddy's Girl," who manages to preserve her faith even with two dead husbands, countless family tragedies, and eyelids growing up into her eyes: "You have to believe like a little child. Believe it because it's impossible." Only the overlong concluding story, "You Cheated, You Lied," disappoints; as chaotic as the main characters' mood swings, it follows two crazy teenagers in love and off their medication. But this tale is an exception in an otherwise noteworthy collection. Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine only confirms Jones's place as one of the most original American writers at work today. --Mary Park [via]
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The Tapestriesby Kien NguyenISBN 0316735604 (0-316-73560-4)
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Tourist in Africaby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926507 (0-316-92650-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tourist in Africa'Book summary:This is the last tranche of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order. In this brilliant travel diary Evelyn Waugh captures a portrait of Africa and the Levant as it was emerging from the shadow of WW II and into the post-colonial order. He reports on Port Said, Aden, Kenya, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika, Rhodesia, Mozambique, Bechuanaland and South Africa. Waugh was no defender of the established order, but nor did he succumb to hype, either. He knew the emergers were going to get something far different from what they expected. [via]
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The Truth About Lorin Jonesby Alison LurieISBN 0316537209 (0-316-53720-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Truth About Lorin Jones'Book summary:This is another novel by the author of "Foreign Affairs". [via]
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Versaillesby Kathryn DavisISBN 0316737615 (0-316-73761-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Versailles'Book summary:Wittily entertaining and astonishingly wise, this novel of the life of Marie Antoinette finds the characters struggling to mind their step in the great ballroom of the world. [via]
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Verses from 1929 onby Ogden NashISBN 0316598283 (0-316-59828-3)
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The Villageby David MametISBN 0316543381 (0-316-54338-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Village'Book summary:One of America's most explosively talented playwrights offers a forceful novel, full of incisive dialogue and striking interior monologues, about life in a secluded, mysterious, and complex New England town. A first novel. 25,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
When the Going Was Goodby Evelyn WaughISBN 0316926477 (0-316-92647-7)
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Whisper to the Earthby David IgnatowISBN 0316414948 (0-316-41494-8)
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Witnesses from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tellby Christopher Joyce, Eric StoverISBN 0316473995 (0-316-47399-5)
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