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2010: Odyssey Twoby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0345303067 (0-345-30306-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: '2010: Odyssey Two'Book summary:Arthur C. Clarke #1 Best Seller 2010 Odyssey Two [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Emory ElliottISBN 0192824414 (0-19-282441-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A reliable edition of Twain's great novel, joined with essays that will both provide background for the book and describe the debates Twain's work has sparked. [via]
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0312112254 (0-312-11225-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0312400292 (0-312-40029-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0312446489 (0-312-44648-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0194229769 (0-19-422976-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0195101405 (0-19-510140-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0192824414 (0-19-282441-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0312112254 (0-312-11225-4)
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195114094 (0-19-511409-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Peter StoneleyISBN 0192806823 (0-19-280682-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, first published in 1876, is Mark Twain's most popular novel. Its hero is a national icon, celebrated as a distinctively American figure both at home and abroad. As well as being a deft comedy and a powerful celebration of childhood, applauding Tom Sawyer's bold spirit, winsome smile, and inventive solutions to the problems of everyday life, it reflects how Twain was in the process of finding a distinctive voice with which he could express the conflicts he felt about coming of age in America. [via]
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- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0192833898 (0-19-283389-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0195853334 (0-19-585333-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0192828371 (0-19-282837-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 019422936X (0-19-422936-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0195101367 (0-19-510136-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0307671100 (0-307-67110-0)
Hardcover, Goldencraft - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0192806823 (0-19-280682-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0192833898 (0-19-283389-8)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195114051 (0-19-511405-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876'Book summary:Tom Sawyer: among America's undisputed contributions to the world's cast of unforgettable characters. [via]
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All Quiet on the Western Frontby Erich Maria Remarque, A. W. WheenISBN 0316739928 (0-316-73992-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Quiet on the Western Front'Book summary:Now repackaged--the timeless classic of World War I Germany that speaks to generation after generation. [via]
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Along Came a Spiderby James PattersonISBN 0316693642 (0-316-69364-2)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Along Came a Spider'Book summary:Along Came a Spider begins with the double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the secretary of the Treasury. And that's only the beginning! Gary Soneji is a murderous serial kidnapper who wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the female supervisor of the Secret Service who completes one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read. [via]
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Anatomy of a Murderby Robert TraverISBN 0312033567 (0-312-03356-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anatomy of a Murder'Book summary:A gripping tale of deceit, murder and a sensational trial, this courtroom classic is unmatched in its authenticity and vivid portrayls of its setting, events, and characters. Irresistibly absorbing, it has set the standard for all courtroom dramas to come. Reissue. [via]
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And Then There Were Noneby Agatha ChristieISBN 0312330871 (0-312-33087-1)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And Then There Were None'Book summary:First there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unkonwn to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal--and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. And only the dead are above suspicion.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm Xby Malcolm X, Alex HaleyISBN 0345339207 (0-345-33920-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Betty Blueby Philippe DjianISBN 0297794000 (0-297-79400-0)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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The Big Sleepby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0194242218 (0-19-424221-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Big Sleep'Book summary:"His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock." Published in 1939, when Raymond Chandler was 50, this is the first of the Philip Marlowe novels. Its bursts of sex, violence, and explosively direct prose changed detective fiction forever. "She was trouble. She was tall and rangy and strong-looking. Her hair was black and wiry and parted in the middle. She had a good mouth and a good chin. There was a sulky droop to her lips and the lower lip was full." [via]
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Breakfast of Championsby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224008889 (0-224-00888-9)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast of Champions'Book summary:"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
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The Children of Menby P. D. JamesISBN 0307275434 (0-307-27543-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children of Men'Book summary:Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race. [via]
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, David CowardISBN 0192833952 (0-19-283395-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great literary adventures, indeed William Thackeray was so enthralled he began reading `at six one morning and never stopped till eleven at night'. The hero is Edmond Dant 'es, a young sailor who, falsely accused of treason, is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of Ch teau d'If. After staging a dramatic escape he sets out to discover the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo and catch up with his enemies. A novel of enormous tension and excitement, Monte Cristo is also a tale of obsession and revenge, with Dant 'es, believing himself to be an `Angel of Providence', pursuing his vengeance to the bitter end before realizing that he himself is a victim of fate. This new edition uses the classic, anonymous translation that has been in print since the nineteenth century. This book is intended for general readers; students of French literature. [via]
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Crashby J.G. BallardISBN 0312420331 (0-312-42033-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crash'Book summary:J. G. Ballard's graphic, violent novel is controversial wherever it is read, even on Amazon.com's own Web page! The book's characters are obsessed with automobile accidents and are determined to narrate the horrors of the car crash as luridly as possible. In the words of the novel's protagonist, the wounds caused by automobile collisions are "the keys to a new sexuality born from a perverse technology." Read this novel and learn why David Cronenberg, who had previously adapted Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch for the screen, fought to turn it into his latest film. [via]
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El Ventanalby Lemony Snicket, Nestor Busquets, Brett HelquistISBN 0307209377 (0-307-20937-7)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Ventanal'Book summary:Book 3 of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The Baudelaire children are sent to stay with a distant aunt who lives on a cliff's edge overhanging the aptly named Lake Lachrymose, a foreboding body of water serviced by the Fickle Ferry and filled with sharp-toothed leeches who have deadly appetites. [via]
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Empire Fallsby Richard RussoISBN 0307275132 (0-307-27513-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Hannibalby Thomas Harris, Jose Antonio SorianoISBN 0307344703 (0-307-34470-3)
Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hannibal'Book summary:Siete aos han pasado desde que Clarice Starling, agente del FBI, se entrevistara con el doctor Hannibal Lecter en un hospital de maxima seguridad. Su ayuda fue decisiva para que ella capturara al asesino en serie Buffalo Bill. Y siete aos han transcurrido desde que Hannibal el Canibal burlara la vigilancia y desapareciera dejando una sangrienta estela de victimas a su paso. Desde entonces el doctor Lecter ha podido dedicarse a disfrutar libremente de sus truculentos gustos. Sin embargo, cuando Clarice cae en desgracia en el FBI, el doctor Lecter sale de las sombras para ponerse en contacto con ella. Asi el reaviva la caza de la presa mas codiciada, y perversa mente del psiquiatra, es encargada del caso. Desde su lujosa mansion, el millonario Mason Verger, unica victima superviviente de El Canibal, se mantiene vivo, conectado a un respirador, con el unico objetivo de cobrarse una cruel venganza. Para ello debe conseguir lo que mas gusta a Hannibal, el cebo mas exquisito e inocente... Una de las novelas mas esperadas de la decada, HANNIBAL nos introduce en los meandros del pensamiento de este personaje hipnotico, ambiguo, capaz de las mas inimaginables vilezas y de los gestos mas sublimes, un ser que nos arrastra, aun a pesar nuestro, a los abismos del terror.
"UNA DE LAS NOVELAS MAS ATERRADORAS DE NUESTRO TIEMPO" [via]
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Home at the End of the Worldby Michael CunninghamISBN 0312202318 (0-312-20231-8)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Home at the End of the World'Book summary:From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise "their" child together and, with an odd friend, Alice, create a new kind of family. A Home at the End of the World masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.[via]More editions of Home at the End of the World:
The House of Mirthby Edith Wharton, Martha BantaISBN 0192835793 (0-19-283579-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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- The House of Mirth: ISBN 0312062346 (0-312-06234-6)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The House of Mirth: ISBN 0192829440 (0-19-282944-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The House of Mirth: ISBN 0312106335 (0-312-10633-5)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan - The House of Mirth: ISBN 0192835793 (0-19-283579-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- The House of Mirth: ISBN 0312062346 (0-312-06234-6)
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I Capture the Castleby Dodie SmithISBN 0312201656 (0-312-20165-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Capture the Castle'Book summary:Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain wants to become a writer. Trouble is, she's the daughter of a once-famous author with a severe case of writer's block. Her family--beautiful sister Rose, brooding father James, ethereal stepmother Topaz--is barely scraping by in a crumbling English castle they leased when times were good. Now there's very little furniture, hardly any food, and just a few pages of notebook paper left to write on. Bravely making the best of things, Cassandra gets hold of a journal and begins her literary apprenticeship by refusing to face the facts. She writes, "I have just remarked to Rose that our situation is really rather romantic, two girls in this strange and lonely house. She replied that she saw nothing romantic about being shut up in a crumbling ruin surrounded by a sea of mud."
Rose longs for suitors and new tea dresses while Cassandra scorns romance: "I know all about the facts of life. And I don't think much of them." But romantic isolation comes to an end both for the family and for Cassandra's heart when the wealthy, adventurous Cotton family takes over the nearby estate. Cassandra is a witty, pensive, observant heroine, just the right voice for chronicling the perilous cusp of adulthood. Some people have compared I Capture the Castle to the novels of Jane Austen, and it's just as well-plotted and witty. But the Mortmains are more bohemian--as much like the Addams Family as like any of Austen's characters. Dodie Smith, author of 101 Dalmations, wrote this novel in 1948. And though the story is set in the 1930s, it still feels fresh, and well deserves its reputation as a modern classic. --Maria Dolan [via]
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- I Capture the Castle: ISBN 031231616X (0-312-31616-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - I Capture the Castle: ISBN 0312993021 (0-312-99302-1)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press - I Capture the Castle: ISBN 0312974175 (0-312-97417-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - I Capture the Castle: ISBN 0312181108 (0-312-18110-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - I Capture the Castle: ISBN 0312201656 (0-312-20165-6)
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- I Capture the Castle: ISBN 031231616X (0-312-31616-X)
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J.R.R. Tolkienby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345340426 (0-345-34042-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.R.R. Tolkien'Book summary:Four book set includes the Hobbit and Complete Lord of the Rings; the Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of The King. [via]
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The Jungle Bookby Disney Staff, Rudyard KiplingISBN 0307003264 (0-307-00326-4)
Hardcover, Golden Books Publishing (Canada), Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Book'Book summary:Classic story The Jungle Book for young readers - illustrated. [via]
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The Jungle Booksby Rudyard Kipling, W.W. RobsonISBN 0192835033 (0-19-283503-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Books'Book summary:In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy. Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundred years. [via]
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LA Habitacion De Los Reptilesby Lemony Snicket, Nestor Busquets, Brett HelquistISBN 0307209350 (0-307-20935-0)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Habitacion De Los Reptiles'Book summary:Book 2 of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The three unluckiest children in the world return for another misfortunate adventure. The Baudelaire children survived their first encounter with the dastardly and scheming Olaf, but the Count doesn't give up easily. Nor does the Baudelaire luck ever seem to improve. [via]
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Mists of Avalonby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0345333853 (0-345-33385-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Morvern Callarby Alan WarnerISBN 0224040111 (0-224-04011-1)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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My Brilliant Careerby Miles FranklinISBN 0207186952 (0-207-18695-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Australia
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Brilliant Career'Book summary:Miles Franklin's classic and exuberant tale of a woman's journey toward self expression and freedom.
Miles Franklin was born in 1879 in rural Australia. My Brilliant Career, her first novel, was published to much excitement and acclaim. She moved to Sydney where she became involved in feminist and literary circles and then onto the USA in 1907.
My Brilliant Career was made into an award winning film starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill. [via]More editions of My Brilliant Career:
- My Brilliant Career: ISBN 0207197245 (0-207-19724-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Australia - My Brilliant Career: ISBN 0207128715 (0-207-12871-5)
Hardcover, Angus and Robertson - My Brilliant Career: ISBN 0207128812 (0-207-12881-2)
Hardcover, Angus and Robertson - My Brilliant Career: ISBN 0312555997 (0-312-55599-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - My Brilliant Career: ISBN 0207186952 (0-207-18695-2)
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- My Brilliant Career: ISBN 0207197245 (0-207-19724-5)
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Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinkingby Zoe HellerISBN 0312426097 (0-312-42609-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking'Book summary:Zoe Heller juggles journalism and novel-writing successfully in What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal and manages to say something interesting and complex about moral panics and the people who get caught up in them. Pottery teacher Sheba lets herself be talked into an affair with 15-year-old pupil Connolly; part of what is admirable about this novel is that there is no real attempt to extenuate this--it's wrong and she knows this from the start, enough to lie to herself and others about it. It's an abuse of her very limited power--he is one of the few of her pupils interested in art, not interested in perpetually disrupting her lessons.
Sheba is not alone in abusing power, though, and Heller forces us to confront this unpleasant truth about the moralising, managerial headmaster, the husband freed by Sheba's action to seduce his own very slightly older students, and the relatives who never liked her much and can now disown her. Above all, she devotes most of the novel to Barbara, the older colleague who becomes Sheba's confidante and slowly manipulates the situation to make Sheba entirely dependent on her. This is a brilliantly gloomy study in obsession--and the obsession in question is not actually Sheba's with her underage lover. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Notre-Dame De Parisby Victor Hugo, Alban KrailsheimerISBN 019283701X (0-19-283701-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notre-Dame De Paris'Book summary:At the center of Hugo's classic novel are three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, including the underworld of beggars and petty criminals whose assault on the cathedral is one of the most spectacular set-pieces of Romantic literature.
Alban Kraisheimer's new translation offers a fresh approach to this monumental work by France's most celebrated Romantic authors. [via]More editions of Notre-Dame De Paris:
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O Pioneers!by Willa Cather, Marilee LindemannISBN 0192832166 (0-19-283216-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'O Pioneers!'Book summary:O Pioneers!, Willa Cather's second novel, tells the story of an immigrant family's struggle to save their Nebraska farm. Cather's placement of a strong and capable woman at the center of the story, her realistic depiction of life on the midwestern prairie, and her vivid portrayal of the immigrant experience at the turn of the century make O Pioneers! a true American classic. [via]
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Ordinary Peopleby Judith GuestISBN 0345335058 (0-345-33505-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Orlando: A Biographyby Virginia WoolfISBN 0192834738 (0-19-283473-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orlando: A Biography'Book summary:Virginia Woolf's "biography" tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the 16th century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the life that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virginia Woolf's own day-to-day existence; it is also Woolf's light-hearted and light-handed teasing out of the assumptions that lie behind the normal conventions for writing about a fictional or historical life. [via]
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Perfumeby Patrick SuskindISBN 0307277763 (0-307-27776-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perfume'Book summary:An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passionhis sense of smellleads to murder.
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.
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The Prestigeby Christopher PriestISBN 0312858868 (0-312-85886-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prestige'Book summary:The Washington Post called this "a dizzying magic show of a novel, chock-a-block with all the props of Victorian sensation fiction: seances, multiple narrators, a family curse, doubles, a lost notebook, wraiths, and disembodied spirits; a haunted house, awesome mad-doctor machinery, a mausoleum, and ghoulish horrors; a misunderstood scientist, impossible disappearances; the sins of the fathers visited upon their descendants." Winner of the 1996 World Fantasy Award, The Prestige is even better than that, because unlike many Victorians, Priest writes crisp, unencumbered prose. And anyone who's ever thrilled to the arcing electricity in the "It's alive!" scene in Frankenstein will relish the "special effects" by none other than Nikola Tesla. [via]
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A River Runs through It, and Other Storiesby Norman MacLean, Annie ProulxISBN 0226500667 (0-226-50066-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A River Runs through It, and Other Stories'Book summary:Beginning with the memorable line, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing," Maclean paints an evocative portrait of the sons of a small-town Montana minister, two brothers headed in very different directions. Fly-fishing for trout is one thing that unites father and sons, and, in the end, it is the language of the river that provides understanding and acceptance in the most difficult of times.
A River Runs Through It is arguably the best piece of fly-fishing literature ever written, and the paperback edition includes two great non-fly fishing stories. [via]
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- A River Runs through It, and Other Stories: ISBN 0226500721 (0-226-50072-1)
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane Austen, James KinsleyISBN 0192827618 (0-19-282761-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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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 neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior 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. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic 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 [via] 
Shoeless Joeby W. P. KinsellaISBN 0345309219 (0-345-30921-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Supertoys Last All Summer Long: And Other Stories of Future Timeby Brian W. AldissISBN 0312280610 (0-312-28061-0)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long: And Other Stories of Future Time'Book summary:Blame it on taxes. According to SFWA Grand Master Brian Aldiss, that's the main reason he sold the movie rights to the Pinocchio-android tale "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" to Stanley Kubrick back in 1982. Bound here along with two followup short stories and nine unrelated short pieces from more recent years, "Supertoys" was to be the source material for Kubrick's last movie. Of course, Kubrick died, and then Steven Spielberg inherited the rights, intending to follow through on Kubrick's original vision.
In fairness, Aldiss has never seen his original story--nor the two pieces added later, "Supertoys When Winter Comes" and "Supertoys in Other Seasons"--as a Pinocchio fable at all. As he recounts in the wry, revealing foreword to this collection, "I could not or would not see the parallels between David, my five-year-old android, and the wooden creature who becomes human.... Never consciously rewrite old fairy stories." But the interpretation of the stubbornly eccentric Kubrick prevailed until Aldiss was "wheeled out of the picture."
These three excellent stories occupy just the first 35 pages of this compilation, but they accurately capture one of the great voices of British SF at his prime, with a plaintive, thoughtfully nuanced story about existence and the meaning of being human. The remaining tales range from intriguing to distractingly strident to borderline mawkish, but make no mistake about what's the main attraction here. In fact, the foreword alone, with Kubrick exposed at his curmudgeonly worst ("[To Aldiss:] You seem to have two modes of writing--brilliant and not so damned good"), makes this a collection worth picking up. --Paul Hughes [via]
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens, Andrew SandersISBN 0192833901 (0-19-283390-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tale of Two Cities'Book summary:Dickens' second historical novel, which he considered "the best story I have written," provides a highly-charged examination of human suffering and human sacrifice. Private experience and public history paralled one another as the political activities and personal responsibilities of these fictional characters, during the French Revolution, draw them into the Paris of the Terror. [via]
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Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Casebookby Arthur PollardISBN 0333215133 (0-333-21513-3)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale Hurston, Jerry PinkneyISBN 0252017781 (0-252-01778-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'Book summary:At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her stories appeared in major magazines, she consulted on Hollywood screenplays, and she penned four novels, an autobiography, countless essays, and two books on black mythology. Yet by the late 1950s, Hurston was living in obscurity, working as a maid in a Florida hotel. She died in 1960 in a Welfare home, was buried in an unmarked grave, and quickly faded from literary consciousness until 1975 when Alice Walker almost single-handedly revived interest in her work.
Of Hurston's fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God is arguably the best-known and perhaps the most controversial. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either:
It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.
One person the citizens of Eaton are inclined to judge is Janie Crawford, who has married three men and been tried for the murder of one of them. Janie feels no compulsion to justify herself to the town, but she does explain herself to her friend, Phoeby, with the implicit understanding that Phoeby can "tell 'em what Ah say if you wants to. Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."Hurston's use of dialect enraged other African American writers such as Wright, who accused her of pandering to white readers by giving them the black stereotypes they expected. Decades later, however, outrage has been replaced by admiration for her depictions of black life, and especially the lives of black women. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston breathes humanity into both her men and women, and allows them to speak in their own voices. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma LetleyISBN 0192833804 (0-19-283380-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Treasure Island'Book summary:[via]This abridged classic tells the story of a young boy, Jim Hawkins, as he recounts his hunt for buried teasure and his fight with pirates led by one-legged Long John Silver and his famous parrot, Captain Flint. It is one of a series of shortened classic stories ranging from chilling tales to gripping adventures.More editions of Treasure Island:
- Treasure Island: ISBN 0237522829 (0-237-52282-9)
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Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, And Life's Greatest Lessonby Mitch AlbomISBN 0307275639 (0-307-27563-9)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, And Life's Greatest Lesson'Book summary:No one but Mitch Albom could have read Tuesdays with Morrie so effectively. As the author of this inspirational true story, Albom uses verbal inflection in exactly the right places to evoke humor, empathy, and emotion. It's an honest reading, and the underlying timbre of private memory pushes it past mere recitation to pure storytelling.
The titular Morrie was Morrie Schwartz, Albom's university professor 20 years before the events being narrated. An accidental viewing of an interview with Morrie on Nightline led Albom to become reunited with his old teacher, friend, and "coach" at a time when Albom, a successful sportswriter, was struggling to define dissatisfactions with his own life and career. Morrie, on the other hand, after a rich life filled with friends, family, teaching, and music, was dying from Lou Gehrig's disease, a crippling illness that diminished his activities daily. Albom was one of hundreds of former students and acquaintances who traveled great distances to visit Morrie in the final months of his life.
The 14 Tuesday visits that followed their reunion took Albom--and will take listeners with him--on a journey of reawakening to life's best rewards. The story is told in a journalistic style that never crosses into pathos. That a professional writer can write well is not surprising, but Albom also reads well, with clear enunciation and a talent for mimicry. Another reader might have interpreted the professor's aphorisms as droll humor or wrung a wrong note at an inappropriate moment, making the story a maudlin tearjerker; instead it is read for what it is, a tribute to a remarkable teacher. (Running time: four hours, three cassettes) --Brenda Pittsley [via]
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Turn of the Screwby Henry James, Tim LustigISBN 0192834045 (0-19-283404-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories'Book summary:Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as "the most hopelessly evil story we have ever read," The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous of ghostly tales and certainly the most eerily equivocal. This new edition includes three rarely reprinted ghost stories from the 1890s, "Sir Edmund Orme," "Owen Wingrave," and "The Friends of the Friends," as well as relevant extracts from James's notebooks and journals. [via]
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Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan - Turn of the Screw: ISBN 0312122608 (0-312-12260-8)
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Turn of the Screwby Peter G. Beidler, Henry JamesISBN 0312080832 (0-312-08083-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turn of the Screw'Book summary:Henry James' short novels provide an overview of his entire career and serve as an excellent introduction to his singular art and imagination. This collection includes The Turn of the Screw, Daisy Miller, The Beast in the Jungle, An International Episode, The Aspern Papers and The Altar of the Dead. Major course adoption potential. [via]
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The Turn of the Screw: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticismby Peter G. Beidler, Henry JamesISBN 0312406916 (0-312-40691-6)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Turn of the Screw: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism'Book summary:This volume presents the text of the New York Edition of Jamess classic 1898 short novel along with critical essays that read The Turn of the Screw from contemporary reader-response, psychoanalytic, gender, and Marxist perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined. As in the first edition, the text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. Two of the six essays are new to the second edition, as is a selection of cultural documents and illustrations.[via]More editions of The Turn of the Screw: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism:
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Vanity Fairby John Sutherland, William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 019281642X (0-19-281642-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:This edition of one of the greatest social satires of the English language reproduces the text of the Oxford Thackeray and includes all of Thackeray's own illustrations. [via]
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace Thackery, John SutherlandISBN 0192834436 (0-19-283443-6)
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What Was She Thinkingby Zoe HellerISBN 0312421990 (0-312-42199-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Rescate en el Tiempo (1999 - 1357)by Michael CrichtonISBN 0307376362 (0-307-37636-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rescate en el Tiempo (1999 - 1357)'Book summary:Robert Dolinger es el joven dueño de una empresa de investigación científica llamada ITC ubicada en Nueva México. Se le reconoce como genio, extremadamente exigente y con una capacidad enorme de trabajo. ITC también está financiando varias costosas excavaciones arqueológicas por diferentes partes del mundo. Al principio de la novela sabemos que ITC necesita otra gran cantidad de dinero para seguir adelante con sus investigaciones y para conseguirlo se necesitan pruebas de los adelantos en sus proyectos para enseñar a los posibles inversionistas. Robert decide que las excavaciones que se están llevando a cabo en la región de la Dordogne en Francia son las más avanzadas y allí envía a Diane, una de sus ayudantes para que consiga estas pruebas.
Un grupo de expertos americanos está excavando el castillo de Castelgard y todos sus alrededores. Diane les informa que ITC quiere que vayan más de prisa y que empiecen ya la reconstrucción de los edificios. El profesor Johnson, el responsable de los trabajos, le contesta que es totalmente imposible, que todavía no saben lo suficiente para hacerlo con autenticidad. Pero, es evidente que ITC sabe mucho más que los historiadores de cómo era Castelgard, tiene planos del monasterio, de todo ¿Pero cómo?
Johnson acompaña a Diana a ITC para informarse y lo que descubre ni no lo habría soñado. ITC ha desarrollado un sistema de viajar hacia atrás en el tiempo. El método está basada en la física cuántica, descompone la materia del lugar de origen y lo recompone en el tiempo elegido. Miembros del equipo de ITC ya han viajado al Castelgard de hace 600 años y por lo tanto saben exactamente como eran la ciudad, el castillo, el monasterio...
Mientras tanto en Francia los arqueólogos descubren una pila de documentos dentro de las excavaciones y sobre uno está escrito en su letra un mensaje escrito por Johnson, " Ayúdame, 7.4.1357". Todos los tests demuestran que es auténtico, fue escrito en el año que pone.
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