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Angel Unaware: A Touching Story of Love and Lossby Dale Evans RogersISBN 0800754344 (0-8007-5434-4)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angel Unaware: A Touching Story of Love and Loss'Book summary:Written in a poignant, tender style, Angel Unaware is the compassionate story of Down's Syndrome child, Robin Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of Roy and Dale Evans Rogers. A timeless message of hope and faith for parents of Down's Syndrome children, as well as for those with other illnesses, this enduring classic has sold more than 500,000 copies since its first publication in 1953. [via]
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Animal Dreamsby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0816151598 (0-8161-5159-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesmanby Arthur Miller, Liza McAlister Williams, Kent PaulISBN 0812034104 (0-8120-3410-4)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman'Book summary:Arthur Miller's 1949 Death of a Salesman has sold 11 million copies, and Willy Loman didn't make all those sales on a smile and a shoeshine. This play is the genuine article--it's got the goods on the human condition, all packed into a day in the life of one self-deluded, self-promoting, self-defeating soul. It's a sturdy bridge between kitchen-sink realism and spectral abstraction, the facts of particular hard times and universal themes. As Christopher Bigsby's mildly interesting afterword in this 50th-anniversary edition points out (as does Miller in his memoir, Timebends), Willy is closely based on the playwright's sad, absurd salesman uncle, Manny. But of course Miller made Manny into Everyman, and gave him the name of the crime commissioner Lohmann in Fritz Lang's angst-ridden 1932 Nazi parable, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
The tragedy of Loman the all-American dreamer and loser works eternally, on the page as on the stage. A lot of plays made history around 1949, but none have stepped out of history into the classic canon as Salesman has. Great as it was, Tennessee Williams's work can't be revived as vividly as this play still is, all over the world. (This edition has edifying pictures of Lee J. Cobb's 1949 and Brian Dennehy's 1999 performances.) It connects Aristotle, The Great Gatsby, On the Waterfront, David Mamet, and the archetypal American movie antihero. It even transcends its author's tragic flaw of pious preachiness (which undoes his snoozy The Crucible, unfortunately his most-produced play).
No doubt you've seen Willy Loman's story at least once. It's still worth reading. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Best Cat in the Worldby Leslia Newman, Ronald HimlerISBN 0802852947 (0-8028-5294-7)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Cat in the World'Book summary:Even the best cat in the world doesn't live forever, and Victor is very sad when his beloved cat, Charlie, dies. His mother suggests getting a new cat, but Victor isn't so sure. Finally, when the vet tells Victor she has another cat that really needs a home, Victor agrees to give the new cat a chance. But the new cat, Shelley, isn't like Charlie. She doesn't look like Charlie, or act like Charlie, or like to do the things Charlie used to do. With all these differences, is there any chance that Victor can learn to accept and love Shelley? Leslea Newman's gentle story honors the full range of a child's feelings after losing a favorite pet, while Ron Himler's soft pencil and watercolor illustrations capture Victor's poignant emotions as well as the playful antics of his new kitten. [via]
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Biblical Perspectives on Deathby Lloyd R. BaileyISBN 0800615301 (0-8006-1530-1)
Hardcover, Fortress Press
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Birdby Angela JohnsonISBN 0803728476 (0-8037-2847-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Book of Comfortby Alvin N. RognessISBN 0806616776 (0-8066-1677-6)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Comfort'Book summary:For all those times when a friend or loved one needs words of assurance and encouragement -- The Comfort Series. The small format and price make these ideal gifts from a friend, pastor, counselor, Stephen minister, or lay visitor.
When You Are Suffering -- When You're Sick -- When Grief Won't Let You Go -- When Death ls at the Door -- When Prayers Go Unanswered -- When Suffering Seems Meaningless -- When Memories Haunt You [via]
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The Book of Illusions : A Novelby Paul AusterISBN 0805054081 (0-8050-5408-1)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Broken as Things Are: A Novelby Martha WittISBN 080507595X (0-8050-7595-X)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Brothers Karamazov: Library Editionby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0809598604 (0-8095-9860-4)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brothers Karamazov: Library Edition'Book summary:The Brothers Karamazov was Fyodor Dostoevsky's last and greatest work, telling the tales the three brothers and their father, Fyodor it is, among many other things, a tale of patricide -- a love-hate struggle with profound psychological and spiritual implications. It is a search for faith, for God -- driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge, the Karamozov brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father. Exploring the secret depths of humanity's struggles and sins, Dostoevsky unfolds a grand epic which attempts to venture into mankind's darkest heart, and grasp the true meaning of existence. [via]
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The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novelby Robin Feuer MillerISBN 0805781188 (0-8057-8118-8)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel'Book summary:[via]Fyodor Dostoevsky completed his final novel The Brothers Karamazovin 1880. A work of universal appeal and significance, his exploration of good and evil immediately gained an international readership and today remains harrowingly alive in the face of our present day worries, paradoxes, and joys, observes Dostoevsky scholar Robin Feuer Miller. In this engaging and original book, she guides us through the complexities of Dostoevskys masterpiece, offering keen insights and a celebration of the authors unparalleled powers of imagination.
Millers critical companion to The Brothers Karamazov explores the novels structure, themes, characters, and artistic strategies while illuminating its myriad philosophical and narrative riddles. She discusses the historical significance of the book and its initial reception, and in a new preface discusses the latest scholarship on Dostoevsky and the novel that crowned his career.
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The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0808514032 (0-8085-1403-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]
Cloverby Dori SandersISBN 0816150486 (0-8161-5048-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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A Cry of Absence: Reflections for the Winter of the Heartby Martin E. MartyISBN 080284328X (0-8028-4328-X)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurantby Anne TylerISBN 080410882X (0-8041-0882-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant'Book summary:"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell.... [via]More editions of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant:
Disease, Pain and Sacrifice: Toward a Psychology of Sufferingby David BakanISBN 0807029718 (0-8070-2971-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Meby Jon KatzISBN 0812966902 (0-8129-6690-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Durable Goodsby Elizabeth BergISBN 081296814X (0-8129-6814-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Durable Goods'Book summary:On the hot Texas army base she calls home, Katie spends the lazy days of her summer waiting: waiting to grow up; waiting for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her; waiting for her breasts to blossom; waiting for the beatings to stop. Since their mother died, Katie and her older sister, Diane, have struggled to understand their increasingly distant, often violent father. While Diane escapes into the arms of her boyfriend, Katie hides in her room or escapes to her best friends houseuntil Katies admiration for her strong-willed sister leads her on an adventure that transforms her life.
Written with an unerring ability to capture the sadness of growth, the pain of change, the nearly visible vibrations that connect people, this beautiful novel by the bestselling author of Open House reminds us how wonderfuland woundinga deeper understanding of life can be. [via]More editions of Durable Goods:
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Emigrantsby Michael Hulse, W. G. SebaldISBN 0811213668 (0-8112-1366-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emigrants'Book summary:A meditation on memory and loss. Sebald re-creates the lives of four exiles--five if you include his oblique self-portrait--through their own accounts, others' recollections, and pictures and found objects. But he brings these men before our eyes only to make them fade away, "longing for extinction." Two were eventual suicides, another died in an asylum, the fourth still lived under a "poisonous canopy" more than 40 years after his parents' death in Nazi Germany.
Sebald's own longing is for communion. En route to Ithaca (the real upstate New York location but also the symbolic one), he comes to feel "like a travelling companion of my neighbor in the next lane." After the car speeds away--"the children pulling clownish faces out of the rear window--I felt deserted and desolate for a time." Sebald's narrative is purposely moth-holed (butterfly-ridden, actually--there's a recurring Nabokov-with-a-net type), an escape from the prison-house of realism. According to the author, his Uncle Ambros's increasingly improbable tales were the result of "an illness which causes lost memories to be replaced by fantastic inventions." Luckily for us, Sebald seems to have inherited the same syndrome. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Emigrantsby W. G. Sebald, Michael HulseISBN 0811213382 (0-8112-1338-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emigrants'Book summary:In this remarkable work of fiction, W.G. Sebald explores the power of memory as he traces the lives of four people uprooted by war and prejudice. Each of the stories reflect the tragic impact of World War II on the survivors, who struggle with a loss of home, a loss of language, and a loss of self. Through memories, each person attempts to make sense of their histories and bridge the chasm the war ripped in their lives. Combined with each story are photographs that purport to show the subjects of the stories. The combination of photographs, biography, and autobiography combine to form a meditative, lyrical story that is at once powerful and introspective. [via]
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Endingby Hilma WolitzerISBN 080410509X (0-8041-0509-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Eva Moves the Furniture : A Novelby Margot LiveseyISBN 0805068015 (0-8050-6801-5)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Faith of the Fallenby Terry GoodkindISBN 081257639X (0-8125-7639-X)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faith of the Fallen'Book summary:Fantasy series fans may argue over the relative merits of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth, George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire, and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, but in a world of middle books that go nowhere and endless waits between episodes, Goodkind is certainly still serving up some of the best fantasy on today's menu.
The Seeker of Truth and his Mother Confessor sweetie are both looking a little worse for the wear after their chime-hunt in Soul of the Fire. To top that off, Lord Rahl finds himself a reluctant prophet with the vision that their cause, the fight for freedom against the Imperial Order, is essentially sunk. (Chalk that up to part of the Wizard's First Rule: people really are stupid.) The two lovers soon find themselves separated, Richard off to the Old World thanks to treacherous Sister of the Dark Nicci, and Kahlan left behind, forced to betray Richard and his prophecy by raising an army to fend off the approaching armies of Emperor Jagang.
Whether it's fair or not, Goodkind will likely get beaten up a bit for visiting the trough once too often, à la Jordan. But fear not: Faith of the Fallen does progress at a good clip, and its conclusion--while by no means a final payout--should satisfy. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Father Loss : Daughters Discuss the Man That Got Awayby Elyce WakermanISBN 0805001670 (0-8050-0167-0)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Hannah's Daughtersby Betty RossISBN 0800714520 (0-8007-1452-0)
Hardcover, F.H. Revell
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling, Jim DaleISBN 0807282073 (0-8072-8207-3)
Softcover, Listening Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'Book summary:What makes the Harry Potter series so successful? Maybe it's the fact that J.K. Rowling doesn't write children's books, she writes children's stories, more in the tradition of the Brothers Grimm than Dr. Seuss. The exploits of Harry and his friends captivate even the shortest attention spans by engaging the imagination with vivid characters and fast-moving action, instead of trying to merely catch the eye with colorful pictures or pop-up effects. Not surprisingly, the Potter tales sound wonderful read aloud, and adapt to the audiobook format extremely well. Broadway actor Jim Dale's impressive vocal range gives each character in the book its own distinctive voice--a considerable task, given the pantheon of witches, warlocks, ghosts, ghouls, dwarves, and elves that Harry encounters in his second outing. And thankfully, since the book is read unabridged, no one's favorite character is omitted. Engaging for children without being childish, the audio version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is worthy addition to the deservedly popular series. (Running time: 9 hours, 7 CDs) --Andrew Nieland [via]
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He Drown She in the Seaby RajneeshISBN 0802142605 (0-8021-4260-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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He Drown She In The Seaby Shani MootooISBN 0802117988 (0-8021-1798-8)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Healing Life's Hurts: Healing Memories Through Five Stages of Forgivenessby Matthew LinnISBN 0809120593 (0-8091-2059-3)
Softcover, Paulist Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Healing Life's Hurts: Healing Memories Through Five Stages of Forgiveness'Book summary:A volume of practical wisdom which applies the five stages of Kübler-Ross to the healing process. [via]
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Helping Children Grieve: When Someone They Love Diesby Theresa HuntleyISBN 0806642653 (0-8066-4265-3)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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Hugs on the Windby Marsha Diane Arnold, Vernise Elaine Pelzel, Elsa WarnickISBN 0810959682 (0-8109-5968-2)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hugs on the Wind'Book summary:A lyrical, luminous picture book about missing a loved one.
Little Cottontail misses his grandfather and the hugs, smiles, and jokes they shared. As he plays in the meadow, he thinks of ways that the wind, stars, stream, and trees can help him send hugs, kisses, and other messages to his grandfather. The text is careful to leave open the question of whether grandfather is deceased or just living far away, making the book meaningful to any small child who misses a loved one.
Like Goodnight Moon and The Snowy Day, Hugs on the Wind celebrates a child's special connection to the world around him, and the power of nature to comfort. [via]More editions of Hugs on the Wind:
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If God Is So Good, Why Do I Hurt So Bad?by David B. BiebelISBN 0800731085 (0-8007-3108-5)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If God Is So Good, Why Do I Hurt So Bad?'Book summary:When his son died of a rare genetic disorder, David B. Biebel heard the well-meaning advice of his friends and family, but still struggled with one question: why? Why did this happen and why is speaking the truth about pain and suffering so hard? In this powerful book, Biebel leaves behind the typical but ineffective words of comfort and instead offers the unvarnished truth about illness, death, divorce, financial ruin, and more. His Christian perspective, real life examples, and keen insight will help readers sort through their pain and see the value in their trials. Through it all they'll discover that God is more loving, understanding, and forgiving than they could ever imagine. [via]
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J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. Salinger, Joseph ClaroISBN 0812034074 (0-8120-3407-4)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, Anna Claybourne, Bob HarveyISBN 0794506585 (0-7945-0658-5)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each titleoffering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.[via]
This edition of Jane Eyre includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Madeleine Robins.
Penniless, orphaned, locked away in a prison-like boarding school, Jane Eyre has one chance for happiness: in the great mansion of Thornfield, as governess to a little French girl, the adopted ward of an eccentric millionaire...
Edward Rochester is troubled, cynical, moody--but funny, brilliant, giving, and sensitive; little Adele is a delight; Thornfield has all the beauty Jane could ever want. Life should be perfect...
But Jane Eyre and her decades-older employer are falling desperately in love--
And Thornfield holds a living horror that can, with no warning, destroy Edward, Jane, Adele..A murderous secret ready to devour Jane Eyre's dreams, hopes--even her life. -
Lament for a Sonby Nicholas WolterstorffISBN 080280294X (0-8028-0294-X)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lament for a Son'Book summary:To those who are left behind, the death of a friend or family member is a beginning as much as an end. For the author of this book, who lost his 25-year-old son Eric in a mountain climbing accident, it meant the start of a long, unwanted journey to come to terms with his grief -- and the "unanswered questions" of his wounded spirit. Lament for a Son avoids easy answers about suffering. Its honest depiction of one man's struggle will help open the floodgates for those who cannot find words for their own pain.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
A true gift to those who grieve and those who, in love, reach out to comfort.
Walter Wangerin
Wolterstorff inquires us Job inquired. He is honest and utterly resistant to cheap answers about death...and to any answers at all...He looks, without foolish giddiness or delusion, but in faith, to the day that Death shall be overcome -- and he takes his place beside all who suffer. A miracle. [via]
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0812522974 (0-8125-2297-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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This edition of The Last of the Mohicans includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Richard S. Wheeler.
Betrayed--trapped in a death-ravaged alien land--beautiful, innocent sisters Cora and Alice Munro, singer David Gamut, and Major Duncan Heyward are running blind through a murderous nightmare where capture, torture, and bloody enemies lurk in every tree, every shadow--
Their only chance lies with three strangers who emerge from the wildlands: Hawkeye, the lethal manhunter who has turned his back on the world; Great Serpent, self-exiled lord of a doomed nation; and Bounding Elk, a young warrior of nearly superhuman grace, speed and strength. And the destinies of refugees and heroes will explode beside a holy lake, when the savage armies of terror must face and fight a living legend--
For one of these seven is the lost godking of the Mohicans....More editions of The Last of the Mohicans:
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyby Charles Dickens, Michael SlaterISBN 0812211359 (0-8122-1135-9)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'Book summary:The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is closely modelled on the eighteenth-century novels that Charles Dickens loved as a child, such as Robinson Crusoe, in which the fortunes of a hero shape the plot. The likeable young Nicholas, left penniless on the death of his father, sets off in search of better prospects. His meandering route to happiness includes work as a teacher at Dotheboys Hall, where the brutal Wackford Squeers ill-treats his impoverished pupils, and a spell as an actor with the absurdly melodramatic Crummles troupe.Nicholas's many adventures give Dickens the freedom to follow the eccentricities of a vivid gallery of characters, exploring themes of class, love, and self-awareness with exuberant comedy and biting satire.[via]More editions of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby:
Living a Year of Kaddishby Ari GoldmanISBN 0805211314 (0-8052-1131-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Looking Glass Warsby Frank BeddorISBN 0803731531 (0-8037-3153-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Love Medicineby Louise ErdrichISBN 080502798X (0-8050-2798-X)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Medicine'Book summary:Expanded to include never-before-published chapters, this collection of interrelated stories of love, betrayal, mystery, and madness concerns men and woman bound by blood, legend, tradition, and need. 10,000 first printing. [via]
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Nicholas Nickleby: Library Editionby Charles DickensISBN 0809594536 (0-8095-9453-6)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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This edition of Nicholas Nickleby includes a Foreword and Biographical Note.
When his father dies suddenly, Nicholas Nickleby must decide on his future. Unfortunately, Nicholas has very few prospects...and even less money! Luckily, his Uncle Ralph has pulled some strings at a school called Dotheboys Hall and Nicholas is hired on as a teacher. However, the naive and kindhearted Nicholas discovers that the headmaster, a sniveling worm by the name of Wackford Squeers, is a blackhearted, malicious bully who treat the boys in his care abominably. He'd like to leave, but then his uncle will cut off all support for his mother and sister. Should Nicholas tough it out? Or will he seek his fortune elsewhere?More editions of Nicholas Nickleby: Library Edition:
Nightwoodby Djuna Barnes, Jeanette Winterson, T. S. EliotISBN 0811216713 (0-8112-1671-3)
Softcover, New Directions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nightwood'Book summary:Nightwood is not only a classic of lesbian literature, but was also acknowledged by no less than T. S. Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th century. Eliot admired Djuna Barnes' rich, evocative language. Lesbian readers will admire the exquisite craftsmanship and Barnes' penetrating insights into obsessive passion. Barnes told a friend that Nightwood was written with her own blood "while it was still running." That flowing wound was the breakup of an eight-year relationship with the lesbian love of her life. [via]
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The Old Man and the Seaby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0808519328 (0-8085-1932-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Man and the Sea'Book summary:Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work: "The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords." Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame:
Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.
If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator: "The old man was dreaming about the lions." Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career. --James Marcus [via]More editions of The Old Man and the Sea:
Ordinary Peopleby Judith GuestISBN 0816132070 (0-8161-3207-0)
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A Path Through Suffering: Discovering the Relationship Between God's Mercy and Our Painby Elisabeth ElliotISBN 0802727166 (0-8027-2716-6)
Softcover, Walker Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Path Through Suffering: Discovering the Relationship Between God's Mercy and Our Pain'Book summary:In A Path Through Suffering, Elisabeth Elliot plots the treacherous passage through pain, grief, and loss--a journey most of us will make many times in our lives. There is only one reliable path, she says, and if you walk it your sorrows will be transformed. [via]
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Pet Semataryby Stephen KingISBN 0816137560 (0-8161-3756-0)
Softcover, G.K. Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pet Sematary'Book summary:Renowned for its superior productions, BBC radio may have outdone itself by adapting Stephen King's Pet Sematary to audio. A clamorous cacophony of talking, whining, whistling, and howling, Pet Sematary is a quick, entertaining earful for those who don't have other auditory distractions to contend with, such as a car full of talking whining, whistling, howling children. However, the melodramatic prose marries well with the acting; such is the case when one reader--whose voice bears an uncanny resemblance to Kramer's from Seinfeld--tells another about the effects of the Pet Sematary: "Heroin makes junkies feel good when they put it in their arms, but all the time it's poisoning their mind and body--this place can be like that and don't you ever forget it!" (Running time: three hours, two cassettes) [via]
Phoenix Risingby Karen HesseISBN 0805031081 (0-8050-3108-1)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Professor's Houseby Willa Cather, James Woodress, Frederick M. Link, Kari RonningISBN 0803214286 (0-8032-1428-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Professor's House'Book summary:The scholarly edition of The Professor's House incorporates into its textual analysis findings from a recently discovered and significantly reworked draft of the novel. Willa Cather's perennial claims that there were no extant drafts make this discovery especially important to Cather scholars.[via]Written in 1925, when she was fifty-two years old, The Professor's House was Cather's seventh novel. Cather explained that in this novel she had attempted two structural experiments. The first experiment she took from the practice of early French and Spanish novelists of inserting a "nouvelle into the roman," hence the first-person "Tom Outland's Story" wedged between the other two parts of the novel. Second, she compared the novel's structure to a sonata form in music, with the center section in significant contrast to the surrounding sections
Behind the understated prose relating the story of Professor Godfrey St. Peter, who, despite his success, experiences at midcareer a profound disappointment with life, is the fierce account of how he decides to continue living despite those disappointments. Tom Outland's thrilling tale of a long-lost civilization is both an ironic contrast to the professor's staid outer life and a mirror of the imaginative interior life he experiences in his attic study.
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The Riverby Tricia WastvedtISBN 0802170072 (0-8021-7007-2)
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Alan DurbandISBN 0812035720 (0-8120-3572-0)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Romeo and Julietby Margaret Early, William ShakespeareISBN 0810937999 (0-8109-3799-9)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Romeo And Juliet: Internet Referencedby William Shakespeare, Jana Costa, Anna ClaybourneISBN 0794512402 (0-7945-1240-2)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo And Juliet: Internet Referenced'Book summary:Product Details Reading level: Ages 7 and up Hardcover: 64 pages Publisher: Usborne Pub Ltd; New edition (June 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0794512402 ISBN-13: 978-0794512408 Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces [via]
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Sarah, Plain and Tallby Patricia MacLachlanISBN 0808599852 (0-8085-9985-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sarah, Plain and Tall'Book summary:MacLachlan, author of Unclaimed Treasures, has written an affecting tale for children. In the late 19th century a widowed midwestern farmer with two children--Anna and Caleb--advertises for a wife. When Sarah arrives she is homesick for Maine, especially for the ocean which she misses greatly. The children fear that she will not stay, and when she goes off to town alone, young Caleb--whose mother died during childbirth--is stricken with the fear that she has gone for good. But she returns with colored pencils to illustrate for them the beauty of Maine, and to explain that, though she misses her home, "the truth of it is I would miss you more." The tale gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love. [via]
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Solaris: Romanby Stanisaw LemISBN 0802755267 (0-8027-5526-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Songdogsby Colum McCannISBN 0805041044 (0-8050-4104-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Sorrows of Young Wertherby Burton Pike, Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0812969901 (0-8129-6990-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Stopping for Death: Poems of Death and Lossby Carol Ann Duffy, Trisha RaffertyISBN 0805047174 (0-8050-4717-4)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Study Tipsby William H. Armstrong, M. Willard LampeISBN 0812023668 (0-8120-2366-8)
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Study Tips: How to Study Effectively and Get Better Gradesby William H. Armstrong, M. Willard LampeISBN 0812044886 (0-8120-4488-6)
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The Sufferings of Young Wertherby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0804461902 (0-8044-6190-2)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Lifeby C. S. LewisISBN 0802725368 (0-8027-2536-8)
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Tender Is The Night, 1934by F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0808514601 (0-8085-1460-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tender Is The Night, 1934'Book summary:In the wake of World War I, a community of expatriate American writers established itself in the salons and cafes of 1920s Paris. They congregated at Gertrude Stein's select soirees, drank too much, married none too wisely, and wrote volumes--about the war, about the Jazz Age, and often about each other. F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, were part of this gang of literary Young Turks, and it was while living in France that Fitzgerald began writing Tender Is the Night. Begun in 1925, the novel was not actually published until 1934. By then, Fitzgerald was back in the States and his marriage was on the rocks, destroyed by Zelda's mental illness and alcoholism. Despite the modernist mandate to keep authors and their creations strictly segregated, it's difficult not to look for parallels between Fitzgerald's private life and the lives of his characters, psychiatrist Dick Diver and his former patient turned wife, Nicole. Certainly the hospital in Switzerland where Zelda was committed in 1929 provided the inspiration for the clinic where Diver meets, treats, and then marries the wealthy Nicole Warren. And Fitzgerald drew both the European locale and many of the characters from places and people he knew from abroad.
In the novel, Dick is eventually ruined--professionally, emotionally, and spiritually--by his union with Nicole. Fitzgerald's fate was not quite so novelistically neat: after Zelda was diagnosed as a schizophrenic and committed, Fitzgerald went to work as a Hollywood screenwriter in 1937 to pay her hospital bills. He died three years later--not melodramatically, like poor Jay Gatsby in his swimming pool, but prosaically, while eating a chocolate bar and reading a newspaper. Of all his novels, Tender Is the Night is arguably the one closest to his heart. As he himself wrote, "Gatsby was a tour de force, but this is a confession of faith." [via]
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The Time in Betweenby David BergenISBN 0812972473 (0-8129-7247-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 080491009X (0-8049-1009-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0804901384 (0-8049-0138-4)
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Venus Trines at Midnight: Astrological Verses about Lions, Rams, Bulls, Twins, Archers, and Other Sun Signs and Youby Linda GoodmanISBN 0800879449 (0-8008-7944-9)
Hardcover, Taplinger Pub Co
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What Happens When You Die: From Your Last Breath to the First Spadefulby Robert HatchISBN 0806516674 (0-8065-1667-4)
Softcover, Birch Lane Pr
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What I Lovedby Siri HustvedtISBN 0805071709 (0-8050-7170-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What I Loved'Book summary:A powerful and heartbreaking novel that chronicles the epic story of two families, two sons, and two marriages[via]
What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship.
Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the evolution of the growing involvement between his family and Bill's-an intricate constellation of attachments that includes the two men; their wives, Erica and Violet; and their children, Matthew and Mark. The families live in the same building in New York, share a house in Vermont during the summer, keep up a lively exchange of thoughts and ideas, and find themselves permanently altered by one another. Over the years, they not only enjoy love but endure loss-in one case sudden, incapacitating loss; in another, a different kind, one that is hidden and slow-growing, and which insidiously erodes the fabric of their lives.
Intimate in tone and seductive in its complexity, the novel moves seamlessly from inner worlds to outer worlds, from the deeply private to the public, from physical infirmity to cultural illness. Part family novel, part psychological thriller, What I Loved is a beautifully written exploration of love, loss, and betrayal-and of a man's attempt to make sense of the world and go on living.More editions of What I Loved:
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When Bad Things Happen to Good Peopleby Harold S. KushnerISBN 0805237739 (0-8052-3773-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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When Bad Things Happen to Good People: 20th Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface by the Authorby Harold S. KushnerISBN 0805241930 (0-8052-4193-0)
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When Life Falls Apartby Warren WiersbeISBN 080078653X (0-8007-8653-X)
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When Loved Ones Are Called Homeby Herbert WerneckeISBN 0801095131 (0-8010-9513-1)
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When Your Parent Diesby Ron KlugISBN 0806642637 (0-8066-4263-7)
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A Widow for One Year: A Novelby John IrvingISBN 0812968573 (0-8129-6857-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Widow for One Year: A Novel'Book summary:John Irving fans will not be startled to find that A Widow for One Year is a sprawling farce-tragedy crawling with characters who are writers. In the opening scene, 4-year-old Ruth Cole walks in on her melancholy mother, Marion, who is in flagrante with 16-year-old Eddie, the driver for drunken Ted (Ruth's dad and Marion's estranged, womanizing husband).
Eddie spends the rest of his life obsessively writing novels like Sixty Times, his roman à clef about his 60 seductions by Marion. Ted is a failed novelist who gets rich and famous writing creepy children's stories based on tales he tells Ruth (such as The Mouse Crawling Between the Walls). Marion abandons Ruth, Ted, and Eddie and becomes a successful pseudonymous novelist. And Ruth becomes the most richly celebrated writer of them all because of her early training by Ted, who not only told her stories, but also helped her craft narratives to explain their home's many photographs of her brothers, who died in a gory car wreck the year before she was born. Grief over the boys is why Ruth's mother does not dare to love her.
Ruth, Irving's first female main character, works brilliantly, first as an imaginative, almost Salingeresque child coming to terms with her bewildering family, then as a grownup striving to understand her mother's motives--or at least to track her down. Ted is a mordantly funny caricature, interestingly sinister and plausibly self-justifying when most inexcusable. Eddie is a lovable schlemiel, yet not too sentimentally drawn. And what set pieces Irving can write! The story of the boys' death is horrific and effective in dramatizing the character of Ted, who narrates it. Ted's attempted murder by a spurned lover is as hilarious as the VW-down-the-marble-stairway scene in A Prayer for Owen Meany (which has been adapted by Disney Studios), though not quite on a par with the celebrated "Pension Grillparzer" episode in The World According to Garp (reissued in a 20th anniversary edition by Modern Library).
Irving has the effrontery to get away with practically any scene that comes into his head--Ruth winds up an eyewitness to a hooker's murder in Amsterdam, a Dutch detective starts tracking her down (just as Ruth is hunting Marion), and the multiple plot strands all converge in a finale that neatly echoes the opening scene. It's all done with the outrageously coincidental yet minutely realistic brio of Charles Dickens, with a sad, self-conscious jokiness like that of Irving's mentor, Kurt Vonnegut. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Writing As a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Livesby Louise DesalvoISBN 0807072435 (0-8070-7243-5)
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