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About a Boyby Nick HornbyISBN 1573227331 (1-57322-733-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'About a Boy'Book summary:Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient and blithely living off his father's novelty song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children and he's increasingly left out in the cold. How can someone brilliantly equipped for meaningless relationships ensure that he'll continue to meet beautiful Julie Christie-like women and ensure that they'll throw him over before things get too profound? A brief encounter with a single mother sets Will off on his new career, that of "serial nice guy." As far as he's concerned--and remember, concern isn't his strong suit--he's the perfect catch for the young mother on the go. After an interlude of sexual bliss, she'll realise that her child isn't ready for a man in their life and Will can ride off into the Highgate sunset, where more damsels apparently await. The only catch is that the best way to meet these women is at single-parent get-togethers. In one of Nick Hornby's many hilarious (and embarrassing) scenes, Will falls into some serious misrepresentation at SPAT ("Single Parents-- Alone Together"), passing himself off as a bereft single dad: "There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word."
What interferes with Will's career arc, of course, is reality--in the shape of a 12-year-old boy who is in many ways his polar opposite. For Marcus, cool isn't even a possibility, let alone an issue. For starters, he's a victim at his new school. Things at home are pretty awful, too, since his musical-therapist mother seems increasingly in need of therapy herself. All Marcus can do is cobble together information with a mixture of incomprehension, innocence, self-blame and unfettered clear sight. As fans of Fever Pitch and High Fidelity already know, Hornby's insight into laddishness magically combines the serious and the hilarious. About a Boy continues his singular examination of masculine wish-fulfilment and fear. This time, though, the author lets women and children onto the playing field, forcing his feckless hero to leap over an entirely new--and entirely welcome--set of emotional hurdles. [via]
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Adam Bedeby George EliotISBN 1853261920 (1-85326-192-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adam Bede'Book summary:With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts University of Kent at Canterbury 'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...' Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis'. But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost. The movement of the narration between social realism and reflection on its own processes, the exploration of motives, and the constant authorial presence all bespeak an art that strives to connect the fictional with the actual. [via]
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Affinityby Sarah WatersISBN 1573228737 (1-57322-873-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Affinity'Book summary:Affinity is a tale of power and possession that Henry James himself might admire. In her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters explored secrets and longing--capping off this lesbian romp with a utopian-socialist vision. Her intricate follow-up is just as sensual but infinitely darker, its moral more difficult to descry. Its stylistic and psychological rewards, however, are visible at every turn, the author's persuasive imagination matched by her gift for storytelling.
In late September 1874, Margaret Prior makes her way through the pentagons of London's Millbank Prison, a place of fearful symmetry and endless corridors. This plain woman on the verge of 30 has come to comfort those behind bars, several of whom Waters brings to instant, sad life. And our Lady Visitor plans to take her role dead seriously, having recovered from two years of nervous indolence in her family's Chelsea house. One person, however, makes her job a passion. Opening an inspection slit (or "eye" as these devices are known), Margaret hears "a perfect sigh, like a sigh in a story." Peering inward, she's confronted by the most erotic of visions--a woman turned toward the sun, caressing her cheek with a forbidden violet: "As I watched, she put the flower to her lips, and breathed upon it, and the purple of the petals gave a quiver and seemed to glow..."
Selina Dawes may indeed have the face of a Crivelli angel, but this medium is in for fraud and assault, her last session having gone very badly indeed. Suffice it to say that the first full encounter between these two very different women is enthralling. "You think spiritualism a kind of fancy," Selina riddles. "Doesn't it seem to you, now you are here, that anything might be real, since Millbank is?" And soon enough Margaret receives several viable signs of the supernatural: a locket disappears from her room, flowers mysteriously appear, and her dazzling friend knows everything about her. Strangest of all, Selina seems to love her.
As Margaret records her weekly prison forays, her own past comes into focus, notably her plans to travel to Italy with her first love (who is now her sister-in-law). But her current journal, she convinces herself, is to be very different from her last one, which "took as long to burn as human hearts, they say, do take." Meanwhile, Waters offers a narrative two-for-one, placing Margaret's diary cheek by jowl with Selina's chronicle of her pre-Millbank existence. This dispassionate, staccato record initially suggests that we can separate truth from desire. Or can we? What Waters's haunting creation leaves us with is a more painful reality--that knowledge and belief are entirely different things. --Kerry Fried [via]
Amethystby Lauraine SnellingISBN 1594151369 (1-59415-136-9)
Softcover, Walker Large Print
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The Bishop's Daughterby Wanda E. BrunstetterISBN 1597890006 (1-59789-000-6)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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Blanketsby Craig ThompsonISBN 1594972230 (1-59497-223-0)
Hardcover, Public Square Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blankets'Book summary:Thompson's touching memoir chronicles the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers, and the emotional conflict engendered by the author's rigidly fundamentalist upbringing. Blankets is already regarded as the genre-defining masterwork of Thompson's generation. [A] masterly telling of a moving, deeply human story.... this is highly recommended for adult collections. --Library Journal. [via]
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Boo: A Novelby Rene GutteridgeISBN 1578565731 (1-57856-573-1)
Softcover, Waterbrook Pr
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Can You Keep a Secret?by Sophie KinsellaISBN 1587247089 (1-58724-708-9)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Can You Keep a Secret?'Book summary:Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: Secrets from her boyfriend: Ive always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur. Secrets she wouldnt share with anyone in the world: I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is. Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.&Until Emma comes face-to-face with Jack Harper, the companys elusive CEO, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her... [via]
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Celebrationby Mary Lee SettleISBN 1570030960 (1-57003-096-0)
Softcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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The Crimson Petal and the Whiteby Michel FaberISBN 1841953237 (1-84195-323-7)
Hardcover, Canongate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crimson Petal and the White'Book summary:Although it's billed as "the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century," The Crimson Petal and the White is anything but Victorian. It's the story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men. Michel Faber's dazzling second novel dares to go where George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and the works of Charles Dickens could not. We learn about the positions and orifices that Sugar and her clients favour, about her lingering skin condition, and about the suspect ingredients of her prophylactic douches. Still, Sugar believes she can make a better life for herself.
When she is taken up by a wealthy man, the perfumer William Rackham, her wings are clipped and she must balance financial security against the obvious servitude of her position. The physical risks and hardships of Sugar's life (and the even harder "honest" life she would have led as a factory worker) contrast--yet not entirely--with the medical mistreatment of her benefactor's wife, Agnes, and beautifully underscore Faber's emphasis on class and sexual politics.
In theme and treatment, this is a novel that Virginia Woolf might have written, had she been born 70 years later. The language, however, is Faber's own--brisk and elastic--and, after an awkward opening, the plethora of detail he offers (costume, food, manners, cheap stage performances, the London streets) slides effortlessly into his forward-moving sentences. When Agnes goes mad, for instance, "she sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a naked duck, limp and faintly steaming, spreads its pimpled legs on a draining board." Despite its 800-plus pages, The Crimson Petal and the White turns out to be a quick read, since it is truly impossible to put down. --Regina Marler, Amazon.com [via]
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The Dot and the Lineby Norton JusterISBN 1587170663 (1-58717-066-3)
Hardcover, Seastar Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dot and the Line'Book summary:Hardcover book, with dust jacket, 2001. [via]
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A Family of Strangersby SanchonaISBN 1594145431 (1-59414-543-1)
Hardcover, Thomson Gale
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Fruits Basket 1by Jake Forbes, Natsuki Takaya, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Alethea Nibley, Athena NibleyISBN 1591826039 (1-59182-603-9)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fruits Basket 1'Book summary:Tohru Honda was an orphan when one day fate kicked her out of the house and on to land belonging to the mysterious Sohma family. After stumbling upon the teenage squatter, the Sohmas invite Tohru to stay in their house in exchange for cooking and cleaning. Everything goes well until she discovers the Sohma family's secret, when hugged by members of the opposite sex, they turn into their Chinese Zodiac animal! [via]
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Fruits Basket 2by Natsuki Takaya, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Alethea Nibley, Athena NibleyISBN 1591826047 (1-59182-604-7)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fruits Basket 2'Book summary:Ever since Tohru Honda discovered the Zodiac secret of the Sohma clan, her eyes have been opened to a world of magic and wonder. But with such a great secret comes great responsibility. When her best friends Hana-chan and Uo-chan come to the Sohma house for a sleepover, Tohru has her work cut out for her keeping the "Cat" in the bag and the "Dog" on a leash. [via]
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Fruits Basket 4by Natsuki TakayaISBN 1591826063 (1-59182-606-3)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fruits Basket 4'Book summary:*Peaking at #1 in sales and consistently a strong seller, according to BookScan *Inspired the Hit Anime available on DVD! *The #1 Selling Shojo Manga in Japan! *The best-selling shojo in America *Part of YALSA's 2005 top ten Quick picks for Reluctant Young Adult ReadersElist!
When the infamous Akito makes an in-class appearance at the start of the school year, the Sohma family worries that his arrival will be an uncensored exercise of show-and-tell about Yuki's past. Meanwhile, when Ayame vows to rekindle his brothers' lost friendship, he begins to realize that you can choose your friends but you can't choose your family--especially when they're acting like animals! [via]
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Fruits Basket 5by Natsuki TakayaISBN 1591826071 (1-59182-607-1)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fruits Basket 5'Book summary:*Peaking at #1 in sales and consistently a strong seller, according to BookScan *Inspired the Hit Anime available on DVD! *The #1 Selling Shojo Manga in Japan! *The best-selling shojo in America *Part of YALSA's 2005 top ten 'Quick picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers' Elist!
The Sohma household takes to the lake for a vacation at their summerhouse. However, the peaceful silence is deafening, as Yuki and Kyo are once again not on speaking terms. Will Tohru's klutzy kindness get the dueling duo back to their old cat-and-mouse antics once again? [via]
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Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Radhika JonesISBN 1593080069 (1-59308-006-9)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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- Great Expectations: ISBN 1593081162 (1-59308-116-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Great Expectations: ISBN 1853260045 (1-85326-004-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Great Expectations: ISBN 158726398X (1-58726-398-X)
Hardcover, Ann Arbor Media Group - Great Expectations: ISBN 1592640109 (1-59264-010-9)
Hardcover, Toby Pr - Great Expectations: ISBN 1593081626 (1-59308-162-6)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Great Expectations: ISBN 1575457040 (1-57545-704-0)
Softcover, Reagent Pr - Great Expectations: ISBN 1578400112 (1-57840-011-2)
Softcover, Acclaim Books - Great Expectations: ISBN 1588550257 (1-58855-025-7)
Softcover, Cyber Classics Inc - Great Expectations: ISBN 1577656873 (1-57765-687-3)
Hardcover, Spotlight - Great Expectations: ISBN 1582790361 (1-58279-036-1)
Hardcover, Trident Pr Intl - Great Expectations: ISBN 1582790485 (1-58279-048-5)
Hardcover, Trident Reference Pub - Great Expectations: ISBN 1593080069 (1-59308-006-9)
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- Great Expectations: ISBN 1593081162 (1-59308-116-2)
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The Haunted Bookshopby Christopher MorleyISBN 1587155656 (1-58715-565-6)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Haunted Bookshop'Book summary:Comparison Of Cultures Of England And America By English Lad Who Emigrates To Maryland. [via]
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Heaven, Texasby Susan Elizabeth PhillipsISBN 1568956991 (1-56895-699-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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A Hero of Our Timeby Lermontov, Doris May Lessing, Hugh AplinISBN 184391106X (1-84391-106-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Hero of Our Time'Book summary:[via]Lermontovs only novel, A Hero of Our Time examines a weary and cynical man trapped in the futility of his age. Published in the early 19th century, it was to prove a hugely influential work for many subsequent Russian writers. Despite his obvious talents and natural abilities, Pecorin is restless and bored. In a quest for motivation and stimulation, he leaves behind the civilized world of society drawing rooms for the wilds of the Southern Caucasus. Rather than finding the impetus he so craves, he becomes increasingly alienated from those around him. Sickened by the condition of his times, he chooses to reject a life of morality. A probing study of a manand a societyin crisis, A Hero of Our Time was to become a seminal work of its era. Poet and novelist Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov was a leading figure in Russian Romantic literature.More editions of A Hero of Our Time:
The Inheritanceby Louisa May AlcottISBN 1568955057 (1-56895-505-7)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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The Lady and the Unicornby Tracy ChevalierISBN 1587246147 (1-58724-614-7)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady and the Unicorn'Book summary:If you think you wouldn't raise your skirts for a rakish legend about the purifying powers of a unicorn's horn, then maybe you aren't a 15th-century serving girl under the sway of a velvet-tongued court painter of ill repute. In keeping with her bestselling Girl with a Pearl Earring, and its Edwardian-era follow-up, Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier's tale of artistic creation and late-medieval amours, The Lady and the Unicorn is a subtle study in social power, and the conflicts between love and duty. Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous Lady and the Unicorn cycle, now in Paris's Musee National du Moyen-Age Thermes de Cluny). While Nicolas is measuring the walls, he meets a beautiful girl who turns out to be Jean Le Viste's daughter. Their passion is impossible for their world--so forbidden, given their class differences, that its only avenue of expression turns out to be those magnificent tapestries. The historical evidence on which this story is based is slight enough to allow the full play of Chevalier's imagination in this cleverly woven tale. --Regina Marler [via]
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Lady Be Goodby Susan Elizabeth PhillipsISBN 1568957335 (1-56895-733-5)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Be Good'Book summary:[A] sexy and whimsical modern fairy tale.
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The always-funny Susan Elizabeth Phillips&has the heat turned up all the way for this one.
Detroit Free Press
The only four-time recipient of the Romance Writers of Americas prestigious Favorite Book of the Year Award, the incomparable Susan Elizabeth Phillips is one of Americas most beloved authorsand Lady Be Good is one of the perennial New York Times bestsellers hottest, funniest, and most delightfully wild romance novels. The uproarious tale of a proper English headmistress hell-bent on destroying her reputation and a disgraced Texas athlete playboy determined to salvage his own, Lady Be Good is funny, sexy, and irrefutable proof of the Minneapolis Star-Tribunes assertion that Next to Tracy and Hepburn, no one does romantic comedy better than Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
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The Late Childby Larry McMurtryISBN 1568952465 (1-56895-246-5)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Les Liaisons Dangereusesby Choderlos De Laclos, Alfred MacAdam, Ernest Christopher DowsonISBN 1593082401 (1-59308-240-1)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'Book summary:[via]Les Liaisons Dangereuses, by Peirre Choderlos de Laclos, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Love . . . sex . . . seduction. Of the three, only the last matters. Love is a meaningless word, and sex an ephemeral pleasure, but seduction is an amusing game in which victory means power and the ability to humiliate ones enemies and revel with ones friends. So it is for the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, two supremely bored aristocrats during the final years before the French Revolution. Together they concoct a wildly wicked wager: If Valmont can successfully seduce the virtuous wife of a government official, Madame de Tourvel, then Madame Merteuil will sleep with him again. But Madame Merteuil also wants Valmont to conquer the young and innocent former convent schoolgirl, Cécile Volanges. Can he do both?
When Les Liaisons Dangereuses was first published in 1782, it both scandalized and titillated the aristocracy it was aimed against, who publicly denounced it and privately devoured it. Today we still recognize its relevance, for what could be more contemporary than its appalling image of everyday evil small, selfish, manipulative, and mean.Alfred Mac Adam, Professor at Barnard CollegeColumbia University, teaches Latin American and comparative literature. He is a translator of Latin American fiction and writes extensively on art.More editions of Les Liaisons Dangereuses:
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Making Historyby Stephen FryISBN 1569471509 (1-56947-150-9)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making History'Book summary:What if hitler had never been born?
In Stephen Fry's most seriously ambitious novel to date, he creates a futuristic fantasy that becomes a thriller with a funny streak. Tackling one of history's darkest episodes, he poses the question: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, no doubt. Michael Young, an earnest young history graduate student, has just finished his dissertation, an exploration into the roots of evil and the early life of Adolf Hitler. When he meets up with an aging German physicist, they concoct an idealistic experiment that involves time travel to prevent the conception of the Fhrer. It will change the course of history, but will it create a better world? With characteristic brilliance and wit, Fry presents a thought-provoking alternate history that is both trenchant and deeply affecting. [via]
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The Master And Margaritaby Mikhail Bulgakov, Edward KempISBN 1840024488 (1-84002-448-8)
Softcover, Oberon Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master And Margarita'Book summary:[via]A mysterious stranger and his retinue have astonished the locals of Stalins Moscow with the magic show to end all magic shows and have quite literally set the town alight. But whats the real purpose behind their visit?
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The Mermaid Chairby Sue Monk KiddISBN 1585476323 (1-58547-632-3)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mermaid Chair'Book summary:Sue Monk Kidd's The Mermaid Chair is the soulful tale of Jessie Sullivan, a middle-aged woman whose stifled dreams and desires take shape during an extended stay on Egret Island, where she is caring for her troubled mother, Nelle. Like Kidd's stunning debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, her highly anticipated follow up evokes the same magical sense of whimsy and poignancy.
While Kidd places an obvious importance on the role of mysticism and legend in this tale, including the mysterious mermaid's chair at the center of the island's history, the relationships between characters is what gives this novel its true weight. Once she returns to her childhood home, Jessie is forced to confront not only her relationship with her estranged mother, but her other emotional ties as well. After decades of marriage to Hugh, her practical yet conventional husband, Jessie starts to question whether she is craving an independence she never had the chance to experience. After she meets Brother Thomas, a handsome monk who has yet to take his final vows, Jessie is forced to decide whether passion can coexist with comfort, or if the two are mutually exclusive. As her soul begins to reawaken, Jessie must also confront the circumstances of her father's death, a tragedy that continues to haunt Jessie and Nelle over thirty years later.
By boldly tackling such major themes as love, betrayal, grief, and forgiveness, The Mermaid Chair forces readers to question whether moral issues can always be interpreted in black or white. It is this ability to so gracefully present multiple sides of a story that reinforces Kidd's reputation as a well-respected modern literary voice. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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Middlemarchby George Eliot, Lynn Sharon SchwartzISBN 1593080239 (1-59308-023-9)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. [via]
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, John CrowtherISBN 1586638483 (1-58663-848-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeare's more romantic and enchanting plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale with confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena escape parental control and the "sharp Athenian law" of their elders by eloping into the forest outside the city. Unfortunately they stumble into civil war in fairyland, where King Oberon and Queen Titania fight over possession of a beautiful young Indian "changeling" boy. The appearance of the "rude mechanicals", a group of Athenian workers, including the weaver Nick Bottom, compounds the confusion. Chaos, confusion and "shaping fantasies" reign before the final settlement of the play, but underneath all the hilarity many critics have discerned more ambivalent attitudes towards coercive parental control, bestial sexuality and the destructive power of desire. These approaches in no way detract from the exquisite lyricism of many sections of the play, but make it a more complex and effective comedy than has often been appreciated. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 1853260304 (1-85326-030-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 1578400104 (1-57840-010-4)
Softcover, Acclaim Books - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 1580495141 (1-58049-514-1)
Softcover, Prestwick House Inc - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 1586638483 (1-58663-848-3)
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Midsummer Night's Dreamby Harold BloomISBN 1594480095 (1-59448-009-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Not perhaps since Samuel Johnson in the mid eighteenth centruy has a critic explained to ta genera audience as ably as Mr. Bloom does how much Shakespeare matters to our sens of who we are [via]
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Workbook for Studentsby Fredi Olster, Rick HamiltonISBN 157525042X (1-57525-042-X)
Softcover, Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Workbook for Students'Book summary:Conceived and written by two classically trained American stage actors, these workbooks are a student's gateway to Shakespeare. The side-by-side presentation of the original language and a "translation" into the vernacular allows the student grades 7 and up to quickly understand and appreciate the play.
Includes extensive instruction about Shakespearean English and character analyses, stage directions and other performance information that will make these books indispensable to the teacher and beginning student of Shakespeare for either English or theater curricula. [via]
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My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Timeby Liz JensenISBN 1596911883 (1-59691-188-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time'Book summary:A thrillingly imagined rollercoaster of a novel bursting with sex, time travel, and true love.[via]
Charlotte Schleswig, the delightful narrator of Liz Jensen's latest novel, supports herself and the lumpen Fru Schleswig (who may or may not be her mother) as a prostitute in 1890s Copenhagen. While she is no small success at the trade, she leaps at a new job opportunity for herself and Fru Schleswig, as cleaning ladies for the wealthy widow Krak. But mysteries abound at Fru Krak's dark old mansion. The basement appears to be haunted, townspeople claim to have seen the dead Professor Krak walking the streets as a ghost, and there are stories of desperate souls who paid the professor a visit and never emerged. In fact, as Charlotte will discover, there is a simple explanation for all this: the basement is home to a time machine. When their cunning investigations land them in trouble, Charlotte and Fru Schleswig find themselves catapulted through time and space to modern-day London, and there their adventures truly begin.
With the minxy, intrepid Charlotte, Liz Jensen introduces a heroine every bit as memorable as Louis Drax. And with My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time, she delivers yet another outlandishly entertaining novel, in which the seemingly insurmountable obstacle of spacetime proves no match for human ingenuity and earthly passion.More editions of My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time:
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The Night Watchby Sarah WatersISBN 1594482306 (1-59448-230-6)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night Watch'Book summary:Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners-three women and a young man with a past-whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in tragedy, stunning surprise and exquisite turns, only to change irreversibly in the shadow of a grand historical event. [via]
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Precious Baneby Bryony Lavery, Byrony LaveryISBN 1840023864 (1-84002-386-4)
Softcover, Oberon Books Ltd
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The Puritansby Jack CavanaughISBN 1589190653 (1-58919-065-3)
Softcover, Riveroak Pub
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The Quilter's Daughterby Wanda E. BrunstetterISBN 1593107145 (1-59310-714-5)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Quilter's Daughter'Book summary:Abby Miller leaves her successful quilt shop and patient fiance in Ohio to help her newly remarried and now pregnant mother in Lancaster County. While she's away, Abby's world is shattered in one fell swoop. How can God make anything good come out of this tragedy? With shaken faith, Abby is forced to look for answers away from friends and family. Will she find them in the ashes of the past, in her love of quilting, or in the heart of an overlooked Amish man? Can her faith withstand the flames of tragedy? [via]
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Redeeming Loveby Francine RiversISBN 1590525132 (1-59052-513-2)
Softcover, Multnomah Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Redeeming Love'Book summary:In this splendid retelling of the biblical story of Hosea, bestselling author Francine Rivers pens a heartbreaking romance between a prostitute and the upright and kind farmer who marries her; the story also functions as a reminder of God's unconditional love for his people. Redeeming Love opens with the Gold Rush of 1850 and its rough-and-tumble atmosphere of greed and desire. Angel, who was sold into prostitution as a child, has learned to distrust all men, who see her only as a way to satisfy their lust. When the virtuous and spiritual-minded Michael Hosea is told by God to marry this "soiled dove," he obeys, despite his misgivings. As Angel learns to love him, she begins to hope again but is soon overwhelmed by fear and returns to her old life. Rivers shines in her ability to weave together spiritual themes and sexual tension in a well-told story, a talent that has propelled her into the spotlight as one of the most popular novelists in the genre of Christian fiction. This is one of her best. --Cindy Crosby [via]
The Reefby Romesh GunesekeraISBN 1573225339 (1-57322-533-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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A Room With a Viewby E. M. ForsterISBN 1566191440 (1-56619-144-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Room With a View'Book summary:[via]A Room with a View, by E. M. Forster, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:A charming tale of the battle between bourgeois repression and radical romanticism, E. M. Forsters third novel has long been the most popular of his early works. A young girl, Lucy Honeychurch, and her chaperonproducts of proper Edwardian Englandvisit a tempestuous, passionate Italy. Their room with a view allows them to look into a world far different from their own, a world unconcerned with convention, unfettered by social rituals, and unafraid of emotion. Soon Lucy finds herself bound to an obviously unsuitable man, the melancholic George Emerson, whose improper advances she dare not publicize. Back home, her friend and mentor Charlotte Bartlett and her mother, try to manipulate her into marriage with the more appropriate but smotheringly dull Cecil Vyse, whose surname suggests the imprisoning effect he would have on Lucys spirit.
A colorful gallery of characters, including Georges riotously funny father, Lucys sullen brother, the novelist Eleanor Lavish, and the reverend Mr. Beebe, line up on either side, and A Room with a View unfolds as a delightfully satiric comedy of manners and an immensely satisfying love story.Radhika Jones is a freelance writer and a Ph.D. candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 1573920479 (1-57392-047-9)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane Austen, Laura EngelISBN 1593080492 (1-59308-049-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly", she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon, however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr Willoughby, a new neighbour. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behaviour begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. misfortunes and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber, Amazon.com [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
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The Shipping Newsby Annie ProulxISBN 1568950691 (1-56895-069-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shipping News'Book summary:In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's not brilliant or witty or talented, and he's not the kind of person who typically assumes the central position in a novel. But Proulx creates a simple and compelling tale of Quoyle's psychological and spiritual growth. Along the way, we get to look in on the maritime beauty of what is probably a disappearing way of life. [via]
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Shopgirlby Steve MartinISBN 1587240122 (1-58724-012-2)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Sons and Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1593080131 (1-59308-013-1)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons and Lovers'Book summary:With an introduction and notes by Dr Howard J Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury, this semi-autobiographical novel explores the emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and the suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. It is a pre-Freudian exploration of love and possessiveness. [via]
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Sparknotes a Midsummer Night's Dreamby William ShakespeareISBN 1586634046 (1-58663-404-6)
Softcover, Spark Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sparknotes a Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Get your "A" in gear!
They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes" has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'" motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:
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Sparrow Nightsby David GilmourISBN 1582432031 (1-58243-203-1)
Hardcover, Counterpoint
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The Storekeeper's Daughterby Wanda BrunstetterISBN 1593104464 (1-59310-446-4)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy WoodISBN 1593080557 (1-59308-055-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tale of Two Cities'Book summary:[via]A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into one of historys most explosive erasthe French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, Dickens vividly captures the terror and upheaval of that tumultuous period. At the center is the novels hero, Sydney Carton, a lazy, alcoholic attorney who, inspired by a woman, makes the supreme sacrifice on the bloodstained streets of Paris.One of Dickenss most exciting novels, A Tale of Two Cities is a stirring classic of love, revenge, and resurrection.
Gillen DArcy Wood received his Ph.D in English from Columbia University in 2000 and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 17601860.
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Tender Is The Night, 1934by F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 1853260975 (1-85326-097-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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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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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, David GalefISBN 1593082282 (1-59308-228-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess of the D'urbervilles'Book summary:Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic.
It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her search for respectability her fortunes fluctuate wildly, and the story assumes the proportions of a Greek tragedy. It explores Tess's relationships with two very different men, her struggle against the social mores of the rural Victorian world which she inhabits and the hypocrisy of the age. [via]More editions of Tess of the D'Urbervilles:
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Tipping the Velvetby Sarah WatersISBN 1573221368 (1-57322-136-8)
Softcover, Tarcher/Putnam
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tipping the Velvet: A Novel'Book summary:The heroine of Sarah Waters's audacious first novel knows her destiny, and seems content with it. Her place is in her father's seaside restaurant, shucking shellfish and stirring soup, singing all the while. "Although I didn't long believe the story told to me by Mother--that they had found me as a baby in an oyster-shell, and a greedy customer had almost eaten me for lunch--for eighteen years I never doubted my own oysterish sympathies, never looked far beyond my father's kitchen for occupation, or for love." At night Nancy Astley often ventures to the nearby music hall, not that she has illusions of being more than an audience member. But the moment she spies a new male impersonator--still something of a curiosity in England circa 1888--her years of innocence come to an end and a life of transformations begins.
Tipping the Velvet, all 472 pages of it, is as saucy, as tantalizing, and as touching as the narrator's first encounter with the seductive but shame-ridden Miss Kitty Butler. And at first even Nancy's family is thrilled with her gender-bending pal, all but her sister, best friend, and bedmate, Alice, "her eyes shining cold and dull, with starlight and suspicion." Not to worry. Soon Nancy and Kitty are off to London, their relationship close though (alas for our heroine) sisterly. We know that bliss will come, and it does, in an exceptionally charged moment. A lesser author would have been content to stop her story there, but Waters has much more in mind for her buttonholing heroine, and for us. In brief, her Everywoman with a sexual difference goes from success onstage to heartbreak to a stint as a male prostitute (necessity truly is the mother of invention) to keeping house for a brother and sister in the Labour movement. And did I mention her long stint as a plaything in the pleasure palace of a rich Sapphist extraordinaire? Diana Lethaby is as cruel as she is carnal, and even the well-concealed Cavendish Ladies' Club isn't outré enough for her. Kitting Nancy out in full, elegant drag, she dares the front desk to turn them away. "We are here," she mocks, "for the sake of the irregular."
Only after some seven years of hard twists and sensual turns does Nancy conclude that a life of sensation is not enough. Still, Tipping the Velvet is so entertaining that readers will wish her sentimental--and hedonistic--education had taken twice as long. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Vampire Lovesby Joann SfarISBN 1596430931 (1-59643-093-1)
Softcover, First Second
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vampire Loves'Book summary:Meet Ferdinand, a vampire who bites his victims with only one tooth in order to pass as a mosquito, who loves the music of dead singers, and who has no end of trouble trying to make sense of his relationships--some with the living, some with the undead. Vampire Loves follows the strange and comically romantic adventures of Ferdinand and his friends as they flirt with, seduce, cheat on, break up and make up with all manner of strange creatures, including ghosts, other vampires, tree-folk, and golems. Edgy, charming, and filled with Joann Sfar's inimitable blend of tenderness, comedy, melancholy, and philosophy, the four stories in this volume are drawn as much from the Jewish mysticism of eastern Europe as from twenty-first-century Goth culture.[via]
At once silly and serious, wild and poetic, Joann Sfar's disquieting tales are filled with intelligence and rich humanity. Vividly illustrated and sensitively written, Vampire Loves is alive with color, wisdom, and humor.More editions of Vampire Loves:
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, Bruce L. R. SmithISBN 1593082967 (1-59308-296-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:[via]The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:One of three masterpieces from Henry Jamess final, major phase, The Wings of the Dove dramatizes the conflict between nineteenth-century values and twentieth-century passions. Born to wealth and privilege, Kate Croys mother threw it all away to marry a penniless opium addict. After her mothers death, Kate is offered an opportunity to return to the opulent lifestyle her mother gave upon one condition. Kate must renounce the man she loves: the witty, good-looking, but poor, Merton Densher. Reluctantly agreeing, Kate finds herself becoming friends with the worlds richest orphan, Millie Theale. When Kate learns that Millie is dying, she devises a plan of dizzying possibility for herself and Merton that should solve all their problems, but instead leads them down a path strewn with tragic, unexpected consequences.
First published in 1902, this rich and intriguing novel has lost none of its fascination and relevance a century later.Bruce L. R. Smith is a Fellow of the Heyman Center for the Humanities of Columbia University. He has served as Professor of Public Law and Government at Columbia, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and as an official in the U. S. State Department. He is the author or editor of sixteen scholarly books, and lectures widely on public affairs and literary topics.
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Fruits Basket 1by Natsuki TakayaISBN 1594973148 (1-59497-314-8)
Softcover, Public Square Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fruits Basket 1'Book summary:Tohru Honda, an orphaned high school freshman, is invited to stay with the mysterious Sohma family in exchange for cooking and cleaning. She soon discovers the family's great secret. . .its members are possessed by the spirits of the Chinese Zodiac, and when they are hugged by members of the opposite sex, they transform into their Zodiac animal! Charming. . .Highly recom-mended. -Library Journal. [via]
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