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The Accidental Touristby Anne TylerISBN 0425092917 (0-425-09291-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Accidental Tourist'Book summary:" A beautiful new trade edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller " "Indisputably her best book." (Washington Post) " Also her most famous book-basis for the hugely successful film starring William Hurt, Geena Davis, and Kathleen Turner [via]
Airportby Arthur HaileyISBN 0425176088 (0-425-17608-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Airport'Book summary:In a raging blizzard, a stricken aeroplane is struggling against all odds to reach its destination. For seven suspense-filled hours a blocked runway, a suicide, a mass demonstration, a stowaway, a pregnancy and a psychotic with a home-made bomb, bring the plot to a shattering conclusion. [via]
Auto Focusby Robert GraysmithISBN 0425189023 (0-425-18902-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Barrytown Trilogyby Roddy DoyleISBN 0436201216 (0-436-20121-6)
Hardcover, Secker and Warburg
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Barrytown Trilogy'Book summary:Together in one volume, this book contains Roddy Doyle's trilogy about the Rabbitte family of Barrytown, north Dublin. "The Commitments" was a major film of 1991, "The Snapper" is currently being filmed and "The Van" was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize. [via]
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Before and Afterby Rosellen BrownISBN 0440216540 (0-440-21654-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Boys from Brazilby Ira LevinISBN 0440107601 (0-440-10760-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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The Call of the Wildby Jack London, AviISBN 0439227143 (0-439-22714-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Cayby Theodore TaylorISBN 044022912X (0-440-22912-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Clear and Present Dangerby Tom ClancyISBN 0425122123 (0-425-12212-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clear and Present Danger'Book summary:CIA man Jack Ryan, hero of Patriot Games, finds that he will probably never have a boring summer: The sudden and surprising assassination of three American officials in Colombia. Many people in many places, moving off on missions they all mistakenly thought they understood. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected finish lines were things that, once decided, were better left unseen. Tom Clancy's new thriller is based on America's war on drugs... and the covert--and shocking--U.S. response. [via]
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0440315557 (0-440-31555-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Ernest J. Simmons [via]
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Dead Man's Follyby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425174735 (0-425-17473-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Demon Seedby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0425158594 (0-425-15859-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Demon Seed'Book summary:In a chilling novel of artificial intelligence by the author of cold fire and twilight eyes, a computer with human-like qualities develops criminal obsessions and a capacity for violence. Reprint [via]
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Der Prozessby Franz KafkaISBN 0435385011 (0-435-38501-1)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Der Tod in Venedigby Thomas Mann, A. W. HornseyISBN 0435385801 (0-435-38580-1)
Hardcover, Heinemann Educational
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Dr. Noby Ian FlemingISBN 0425086798 (0-425-08679-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. No'Book summary:M called this case a soft option. Bond can't quite agree. The tropical island is luxurious, the seductive Honey Rider is beautiful and willing, but they are both part of the empire of Dr. No . . . The doctor is a worthy adversary, with a mind as hard and cold as his solid steel hands. Dr. No's obsession is power. His only gifts are strictly pain-shaped. [via]
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Fail Safeby Eugene Burdick, Harvey WheelerISBN 044012459X (0-440-12459-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fail Safe'Book summary:Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination -- Moscow.
In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev." Not far away, in the War Room at the Pentagon, the secretary of defense and his aides watch with growing anxiety as the luminous blips crawl across a huge screen map. High over the Bering Strait in a large Vindicator bomber, a colonel stares in disbelief at the attack code number on his fail-safe box and wonders if it could possibly be a mistake.
First published in 1962, when America was still reeling from the Cuban missle crisis, Fail-Safe reflects the apocalyptic attitude that pervaded society during the height of the Cold War, when disaster could have struck at any moment. As more countries develop nuclear capabilities and the potential for new enemies lurks on the horizon, Fail-Safe and its powerful issues continue to respond.
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First Love, Last Ritesby Ian McEwanISBN 0425045013 (0-425-04501-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Giverby Lois LowryISBN 0440237688 (0-440-23768-8)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Giver'Book summary:In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of Brave New World, in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to create a more stable society. Gradually Jonas learns just how costly this ordered and pain-free society can be, and boldly decides he cannot pay the price. [via]
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- The Giver: ISBN 0440219078 (0-440-21907-8)
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The Great Train Robberyby Michael CrichtonISBN 0440130999 (0-440-13099-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Train Robbery'Book summary:"A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive.... [via]
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 0416179207 (0-416-17920-7)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Heidiby Sarah StephenISBN 043922506X (0-439-22506-X)
Softcover, Scholastic, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidi'Book summary:A beautiful retelling of this timeless classic. Heidi is the perfect introduction to classic stories for younger readers.[via]
Heidi, a lively orphan girl, goes to live with her cranky grandfather in a little hut high in the Alps. Soon she is happy and healthy, leading a carefree life with her grandfather, her new friend, Peter, and the goats on the Alm.
But Heidi's happiness is short-lived when she is sent to stay with a rich city family as a companion for a sick girl, Clara. Although she grows fond of the older girl, Heidi is terribly homesick. She eventually returns to the Alps and finds happiness once again in the clean, pure natural mountain setting.More editions of Heidi:
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Holesby Louis SacharISBN 044022859X (0-440-22859-X)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holes'Book summary:"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy." Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and there are no happy campers. In place of what used to be "the largest lake in Texas" is now a dry, flat, sunburned wasteland, pocked with countless identical holes dug by boys improving their character. Stanley Yelnats, of palindromic name and ill-fated pedigree, has landed at Camp Green Lake because it seemed a better option than jail. No matter that his conviction was all a case of mistaken identity, the Yelnats family has become accustomed to a long history of bad luck, thanks to their "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather!" Despite his innocence, Stanley is quickly enmeshed in the Camp Green Lake routine: rising before dawn to dig a hole five feet deep and five feet in diameter; learning how to get along with the Lord of the Flies-styled pack of boys in Group D; and fearing the warden, who paints her fingernails with rattlesnake venom. But when Stanley realizes that the boys may not just be digging to build character--that in fact the warden is seeking something specific--the plot gets as thick as the irony.
It's a strange story, but strangely compelling and lovely too. Louis Sachar uses poker-faced understatement to create a bizarre but believable landscape--a place where Major Major Major Major of Catch-22 would feel right at home. But while there is humor and absurdity here, there is also a deep understanding of friendship and a searing compassion for society's underdogs. As Stanley unknowingly begins to fulfill his destiny--the dual plots coming together to reveal that fate has big plans in store--we can't help but cheer for the good guys, and all the Yelnats everywhere. (Ages 10 and older) --Brangien Davis [via]
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I Am Legendby Richard MathesonISBN 0425040534 (0-425-04053-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Ian Fleming's Goldfingerby Ian FlemingISBN 0425081656 (0-425-08165-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Ian Fleming's Moonrakerby Ian FlemingISBN 0425134938 (0-425-13493-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar WildeISBN 0435229508 (0-435-22950-8)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. This book includes "Lady Windermere's Fan", "Salome", "A Woman of No Importance", "An Ideal Husband", "A Florentine Tragedy" and "The Importance of Being Earnest", which appears in full with the 'Grigsby' scene which originally made up the fourth act. [via]
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The Incredible Journeyby Sheila BurnfordISBN 0440226708 (0-440-22670-8)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Incredible Journey'Book summary:Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness. Separately, they would soon have died. But, together, the three house pets faced starvation, exposure, and wild forest animals to make their way home to the family they love. The Incredible Journey is one of the great children's stories of all time--and has been popular ever since its debut in 1961. [via]
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Invasion of the Body Snatchersby Jack FinneyISBN 0440143179 (0-440-14317-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Invisible Manby H. G. Wells, M. T. AndersonISBN 0439574277 (0-439-57427-7)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:A thrilling science fiction classic, with an introduction by M.T. Anderson.[via]
On a cold day in February, a stranger arrives in the village of Iping. He wears gloves and dark glasses, even inside, and his face is covered in bandages. Soon crimes occur that cannot be explained, and the townspeople realize the unthinkable truth: the strange man is invisible--and he is slowly going mad.
The Invisible Man is a dangerous enemy who must be stopped. But if no one can see him, how can he be caught? 
Island of Dr Moreauby H. G. WellsISBN 0425044076 (0-425-04407-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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James Clavell's King Ratby James ClavellISBN 0440043921 (0-440-04392-1)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Clavell's King Rat'Book summary:The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are human courage, unblinking understanding of human weaknesses, and total willingness to exploit every opportunity to enlarge his power and corrupt or destroy anyone who stands in his path. [via]
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King Henry Vby William Shakespeare, J. H. WalterISBN 0416473407 (0-416-47340-7)
Hardcover, Routledge Kegan & Paul
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King Ratby James ClavellISBN 0440145465 (0-440-14546-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Man Who Fell to Earthby Walter TevisISBN 0440352819 (0-440-35281-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Manifest Destinyby Barry LongyearISBN 0425045307 (0-425-04530-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manifest Destiny'Book summary:Manifest Destiny-Humankind's early reach for the stars:"The Jaren," five young backland aliens enlist to do war with the humans. "Enemy Mine," (the story that became the motion picture). "Savage Planet," a teacher lifts an entire world, and himself out of the dark. "USE Force," a young man enlists to search for himself and instead finds his destiny. [via]
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Marathon Manby William GoldmanISBN 0440155029 (0-440-15502-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Memoirs of an Invisible Manby Harry F. SaintISBN 0440201225 (0-440-20122-5)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of an Invisible Man'Book summary:Memoirs Of An Invisible Man, by Saint, H.F.. 1st ptg. 4 1/4 x 7. [via]
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William ShakespeareISBN 0415026997 (0-415-02699-7)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:An illustrated, abridged verison of the Shakespeare comedy with background information and explanatory stage directions. [via]
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- A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0416179401 (0-416-17940-1)
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Hardcover, Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0434619825 (0-434-61982-5)
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Much Ado About Nothingby William Shakespeare, A.R. HumphreysISBN 0415027004 (0-415-02700-4)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado About Nothing'Book summary:Like Love's Labour's Lost, Much Ado about Nothing shows Shakespeare moving into a more complex and darker terrain through his exploration of an apparently harmless comical romance. The play revolves around the adventures of the two gallants Claudio and Benedick at the court of Sicily. Claudio falls in love with the governor's daughter Hero, and is eager for his more misanthropic friend Benedick to also find love. Benedick is introduced to the fiery, independent Beatrice, and sparks soon fly as they banter with each other in a more wittier version of Kate and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew. Beatrice has some wonderful ripostes to marriage asking why should a woman marry "a clod of wayward marl", whilst Benedick grumbles that "She speaks poniards and every word stabs". Meanwhile, the jealous Don John convinces Claudio that Hero has in fact been unfaithful to him. When Claudio rejects Hero on their wedding day, she faints and is taken for dead. In the hectic final scenes the play moves towards reconciliation between Claudio and Hero, and the tentative admission of the love between Benedick and Beatrice. Famously filmed by Kenneth Branagh in the Tuscan countryside with a cast that included Keanu Reeves, Much Ado about Nothing remains one of Shakespeare's most successful comedies. --Jerry Brotton. [via]
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Murder Is Announcedby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425129624 (0-425-12962-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder Is Announced'Book summary:The townspeople expect a fun game of "whodunnit" after they receive strange invitations that clearly spell out the time and place of a murder, but when a real corpse is introduced into the "game" it becomes time to bring in the best player of all--Miss Jane Marple. Reissue. [via]
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Murder on the Orient Expressby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425173755 (0-425-17375-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder on the Orient Express'Book summary:The bestselling mystery writer of all time. The greatest detective of the century. The romance of the Orient Express. The murder and the mystery that has shocked--and stumped--readers for the past six decades. This is Murder on the Orient Express.
"Christie keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end."-- Times Literary Supplement (from the original 1934 review) [via]More editions of Murder on the Orient Express:
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Never Cry Wolfby Farley MowatISBN 0440362997 (0-440-36299-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Never Cry Wolf'Book summary:In the summer of 1948, young biologist and budding writer Farley Mowat, "infatuated with the study of animate nature," joined the Dominion Wildlife Service and, after enduring a few bureaucratic mishaps, was assigned to study a population of wolves in the subarctic highlands of southern Nunavut and northern Manitoba. Those wolves and their kin, Mowat's superiors believed, had decimated the once huge population of large mammals in the region, so that, as one worried official put it, "more and more of our fellow citizens are coming back from more and more hunts with less and less deer."
Mowat found his wolves, followed them, learned their ways, and in a very real sense became part of the pack. As he did so, suffering plenty of misadventures along the way (and performing odd experiments that involved, among other things, subsisting on a lupine diet of field mice, for which he includes a recipe or two), he concluded that human hunters, and not wolves, were the cause of the ungulates' decline. The news, he writes, was not well received in Ottawa and Winnipeg. "I received no reply," he writes, "unless the fact that the Provincial Government raised the bounty on wolves to twenty dollars some weeks afterwards could be considered a reply."
Never Cry Wolf was first published in 1963, a time when the welfare of Canis lupus was far from most readers' minds. Attitudes have changed, and Mowat's book now has many companions, books that pay honour to wolves and urge their protection. A close-up look at the lives of wolves in their native domain, it still stands at the head of that well-stocked library. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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New Art: Some Recent New Zealand Sculpture A Past Object of Artby Jim Allen, Wystan CurnowISBN 0424000938 (0-424-00093-8)
Hardcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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One True Thingby Anna QuindlenISBN 044022103X (0-440-22103-X)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Othelloby William ShakespeareISBN 0415027012 (0-415-02701-2)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:This edition of "Othello" aims to shed light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. The professional malpractices of the publisher of the Quarto, as described in documents in the Public Record Office, and the professional zeal of the Folio scribe, who wished to tidy and correct Shakespeare's manuscript, introduced many plausible but post-Shakespearean readings into the text, which call into question a number of our assumptions about the play. As well as investigating the implications of these findings about the early texts, the editor offers a wider background to the play, discussing major critical issues, the play in performance and the relationship between reading and seeing it, and topics such as its date, sources, the famous conundrum of "double time", and its "greatness" compared with "Hamlet" and "King Lear". Commentary notes assist the reader's understanding of the text in detail; many are concerned with the contemporary resonsanaces of its language. [via]
Phantomsby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0425181103 (0-425-18110-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phantoms'Book summary:The lights are on in Snowfield, California, a cozy ski village nestled in the Sierra Madres, but nobody seems to be home. When Dr. Jenny Paige returns to the small town, she finds tables set for dinner, meals being prepared, and music playing in living rooms, but there's no trace of the people who put the water on to boil or set an extra place for company at the dinner table. As she explores the town, Paige finds friends and neighbors felled by a mysterious force--the bodies show no visible signs of violence or disease, and no known plague kills victims before the ice in their dinner drinks has time to melt. But the deep quiet that surrounds her offers few clues about the fate of the town's inhabitants. Dean Koontz's Phantoms strikes fear in readers from the very beginning. The mystery deepens, paving the way for a chilling journey toward the truth. If you plan to catch the film version, starring Ben Affleck and Peter O'Toole, remember that you'll be experiencing this terrifying story in a dark theater. So bring an arm to grab! [via]
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- The Phantom: ISBN 0425057771 (0-425-05777-1)
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Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Phantoms: ISBN 0425162028 (0-425-16202-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Phantoms: ISBN 0425181103 (0-425-18110-3)
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- The Phantom: ISBN 0425057771 (0-425-05777-1)
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Porterhouse Blueby Tom SharpeISBN 0436458020 (0-436-45802-0)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Porterhouse Blue'Book summary:A reissue of a classic comic novel, presenting a Rabelaisian portrait of a college and the ancient traditions of the university, set in Porterhouse College, world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, and its academic mediocrity. [via]
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The Power of Oneby Bryce CourtenayISBN 0440239133 (0-440-23913-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Editionby Muriel SparkISBN 0440371155 (0-440-37115-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Prizzi's Honorby Richard CondonISBN 042509507X (0-425-09507-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Rainbird Patternby Victor CanningISBN 0434107735 (0-434-10773-5)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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Red Dragonby Thomas HarrisISBN 0440206154 (0-440-20615-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Ripley's Gameby Patricia HighsmithISBN 0434335142 (0-434-33514-2)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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The Sentinelby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0425061833 (0-425-06183-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Shell Seekersby Rosamunde PilcherISBN 0440202043 (0-440-20204-3)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shell Seekers'Book summary:#1 New York Times Bestseller
"The Shell Seekers is a deeply satisfying story, written with love and confidence."
Maeve Binchy, The New York Times Book Review
The Shell Seekers, the classic novel by acclaimed writer Rosamunde Pilcher, is now available in hardcover once more. This epic romance has sold over 3.5 million copies to date; her other bestsellers include Winter Solstice, Wild Mountain Thyme, and Coming Home.
Set in London and Cornwall from World War II to present, The Shell Seekers tells the story of the Keeling family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. The family centers around Penelope, and it is her love, courage, and sense of values that determine the course of all their lives, Deftly shifting back and forth in time, each chapter centers on one of the principal players in the family's history. the unifying thread is an oil painting entitled "The Shell Seekers," done by Penelope's father. It is this painting that symbolizes to Penelope the ties between the generations. But it is the fate of this painting that just may tear the family apart.
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Shilohby Phyllis Reynolds NaylorISBN 0440219914 (0-440-21991-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shiloh'Book summary:When 11-year-old Marty Preston chances upon a mistreated beagle pup in his hometown of Friendly, West Virginia, he is not prepared for the ethical questions he has to face. Should he return the dog to its owner, only to have the animal abused again? Should he tell his parents? Should he steal food to help the poor creature? Marty's efforts to cope with these questions provides the moral backbone for this story, which is presented in a language and manner that will be understood by third- and fourth-grade readers. The heart and beauty of this 1992 Newbery Medal winner lies in lessons children will take away with them. [via]
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Skipping Christmasby John GrishamISBN 0440242576 (0-440-24257-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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A Slipping Down Lifeby Anne Tyler ModarressiISBN 0425103625 (0-425-10362-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Some Came Runningby James JonesISBN 0440182611 (0-440-18261-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Sum of All Fearsby Tom ClancyISBN 0425184226 (0-425-18422-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sum of All Fears'Book summary:Once again, Tom Clancy manages to add new twists to the alternate U.S. history he initiated in The Hunt for Red October. In The Sum of All Fears, the centre of conflict is that perpetual hot spot, the Middle East, where a nuclear weapon falls into the hands of terrorists just as peace finally seems possible. Clancy realistically paints an almost unthinkable scenario--the bomb is planted on American soil in the midst of an escalation in tension with the Soviet Union; the terrorists hope to rekindle cold war animosity and prevent reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.
Despite such a dramatic story line, Clancy doesn't neglect the individuals who drive his tale. Jack Ryan's problems are as much domestic as they are part of the international crisis that is the ostensible narrative: National Security Director Elizabeth Elliot has the president's ear, and she has convinced him that Ryan's ethics are questionable. She hints at marital infidelity and an insider-trading scandal. Of course, both accusations are false, but her arguments have enough evidence behind them (some photographs of an innocent embrace with a friend for example) to cause a strain in the Ryans' marriage and a flurry of media attention. While "Mr Clark" tracks the terrorists, he also provides some needed intelligence to heal the Ryan family.
The Sum of All Fears is the stuff of nightmares but contains enough verisimilitude to terrify sober minds. Ryan has developed into a complex protagonist, just as Clancy's writing has matured. Ryan is plagued by stress and self-doubts that test even his dauntless moral compass and make him a more interesting subject for readers' attention. Those fascinated by military hardware, from nuclear submarines to atomic weapons, will find almost enough here to start their own army. And Clancy's understanding of international politics seems chillingly correct. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Brian MorrisISBN 0416475809 (0-416-47580-9)
Hardcover, Chapman & Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:From the Royal Shakespeare Company -- a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's controversial comedy of the war between the sexes THIS EDITION INCLUDES: * An illuminating introduction to The Taming of the Shrew by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate * The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page * A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play * An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre * A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productions The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of The Taming of the Shrew in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with two leading directors and an actress - Gregory Doran, Phyllida Lloyd and Michelle Gomez -- so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death. Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare plays offer an accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century. [via]
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The Taming of the Shrewby MorrisISBN 0415027039 (0-415-02703-9)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Thief Lordby Cornelia FunkeISBN 043942089X (0-439-42089-X)
Softcover, Chicken House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thief Lord'Book summary:Imagine a Dickens story with a Venetian setting, and you'll have a good sense of Cornelia Funke's prizewinning novel The Thief Lord, first published in Germany in 2000. This suspenseful tale begins in a detective's office in Venice, as the entirely unpleasant Hartliebs request Victor Getz's services to search for two boys, Prosper and Bo, the sons of Esther Hartlieb's recently deceased sister. Twelve-year-old Prosper and 5-year-old Bo ran away when their aunt decided she wanted to adopt Bo, but not his brother. Refusing to split up, they escaped to Venice, a city their mother had always described reverently, in great detail. Right away they hook up with a long-haired runaway named Hornet and various other ruffians who hole up in an abandoned movie theater and worship the elusive Thief Lord, a young boy named Scipio who steals jewels from fancy Venetian homes so his new friends can get the warm clothes they need. Of course, the plot thickens when the owner of the pawn shop asks if the Thief Lord will carry out a special mission for a wealthy client: to steal a broken wooden wing that is the key to completing an age-old, magical merry-go-round. This winning cast of characters--especially the softhearted detective with his two pet turtles--will win the hearts of readers young and old, and the adventures are as labyrinthine and magical as the streets of Venice itself. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
Thin Red Lineby James JonesISBN 044033411X (0-440-33411-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Thunderballby Ian FlemingISBN 0425086348 (0-425-08634-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Time Machineby H. G. Wells, Melvin BurgessISBN 0439436540 (0-439-43654-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Time Machine'Book summary:One of the most thrilling science-fiction adventures of all time, now with an introduction by Melvin Burgess[via]
The Time Traveller has ridden his machine hundreds of years into the future. Buildings, cities, and civilizations rise and fall before his eyes. He is welcomed to 802701 by the frail and simple Eloi.
The future seems safe--until the Time Traveller encounters the shadowy, carnivorous Morlocks, inhabitants of the Underworld. The Morlocks terrorize the Eloi, hunt the Time Traveller, and capture the Time Machine.
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A Time to Killby John GrishamISBN 0440211727 (0-440-21172-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Time to Kill'Book summary:This addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who kills the white druggies who raped his child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is John Grisham's first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it for three years and every detail shines like pebbles at the bottom of a swift, sunlit stream. Grisham is a born legal storyteller and his dialogue is pitch perfect.
The plot turns with jeweled precision. Carl Lee Hailey gets an M-16 from the Chicago hoodlum he'd saved at Da Nang, wastes the rapists on the courthouse steps, then turns to attorney Jake Brigance, who needs a conspicuous win to boost his career. Folks want to give Carl Lee a second medal, but how can they ignore premeditated execution? The town is split, revealing its social structure. Blacks note that a white man shooting a black rapist would be acquitted; the KKK starts a new Clanton chapter; the NAACP, the ambitious local reverend, a snobby, Harvard-infested big local firm, and others try to outmaneuver Jake and his brilliant, disbarred drunk of an ex-law partner. Jake hits the books and the bottle himself. Crosses burn, people die, crowds chant "Free Carl Lee!" and "Fry Carl Lee!" in the antiphony of America's classical tragedy. Because he's lived in Oxford, Mississippi, Grisham gets compared to Faulkner, but he's really got the lean style and fierce folk moralism of John Steinbeck. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William ShakespeareISBN 0424000946 (0-424-00094-6)
Softcover, Sydney Univ Pr
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True Crimeby Andrew KlavanISBN 0440224039 (0-440-22403-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittleby Hugh LoftingISBN 0440228336 (0-440-22833-6)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Waterlandby Graham SwiftISBN 0434753300 (0-434-75330-0)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waterland'Book summary:Shortlisted for the Booker, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize [via]
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The Waveby Morton RhueISBN 044009822X (0-440-09822-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Welcome to the Monkey Houseby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440194784 (0-440-19478-4)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Welcome to the Monkey House'Book summary:Welcome To The Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnueguts shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. [via]
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Where the Red Fern Growsby Wilson RawlsISBN 044022814X (0-440-22814-X)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Red Fern Grows'Book summary:Author Wilson Rawls spent his boyhood much like the character of this book, Billy Colman, roaming the Ozarks of northeastern Oklahoma with his bluetick hound. A straightforward, shoot-from-the-hip storyteller with a searingly honest voice, Rawls is well-loved for this powerful 1961 classic and the award-winning novel Summer of the Monkeys. In Where the Red Fern Grows, Billy and his precious coonhound pups romp relentlessly through the Ozarks, trying to "tree" the elusive raccoon. In time, the inseparable trio wins the coveted gold cup in the annual coon-hunt contest, captures the wily ghost coon, and bravely fights with a mountain lion. When the victory over the mountain lion turns to tragedy, Billy grieves, but learns the beautiful old Native American legend of the sacred red fern that grows over the graves of his dogs. This unforgettable classic belongs on every child's bookshelf. (Ages 9 and up) [via]
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LA Invasionby K. A. ApplegateISBN 0439056020 (0-439-05602-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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