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The Accidental Touristby Anne TylerISBN 0425092917 (0-425-09291-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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After the Lost War: A Narrativeby Andrew HudginsISBN 0395457130 (0-395-45713-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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All's Well That Ends Wellby William ShakespeareISBN 0415026792 (0-415-02679-2)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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The Ambassadorsby Henry James, Leon EdelISBN 0395051371 (0-395-05137-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Americanby Henry JamesISBN 0395051630 (0-395-05163-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Angels All over Townby Luanne RiceISBN 0425097749 (0-425-09774-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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An Artist of the Floating Worldby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0399131191 (0-399-13119-1)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Artist of the Floating World'Book summary:In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the night life who became a propagandist for Japanese imperialism during the war. But the war is over. Japan lost, Ono's wife and son have been killed, and many young people blame the imperialists for leading the country to disaster. What's left for Ono? Ishiguro's treatment of this story earned a 1986 Whitbread Prize. [via]
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Before You Say "I Do": Important Questions for Couples to Ask Before Marriageby Todd OutcaltISBN 0399523758 (0-399-52375-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Best American Short Stories, 1999by Amy Tan, Katrina KenisonISBN 039592684X (0-395-92684-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories, 1999'Book summary:A great story gets its hooks into you right from the start; you know you're in the hands of a good writer when the very first sentence transports you wholly into another world. "Mother preferred Zulu servants." "It must be, Ruth thought, that she was going to die in the spring." "Who would have thought that a war of such proportions would bother to turn in its fury against the fools of Chelm?"
The 21 fictions featured in The Best American Short Stories 1999 have very little in common--but whether they're about ranchers or commuters, romantic seekers or New Age pilgrims, what they do share is a sense of urgency. In each of them, there's a kind of voice that announces its need to be heard. "I'm not a bad guy," pleads the narrator of "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars," and even though he cheats on his girlfriend, by the end of Junot Díaz's story you might be tempted to agree anyway. (Especially considering the charming way he turns Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener into a verb--as in, "A lot of the time she Bartlebys me, says, 'No, I'd rather not.'") "Real Estate," by that master of bittersweet comedy Lorrie Moore, starts by repeating "Ha! Ha! Ha!" for two solid pages but becomes a rueful take on marriage, house-hunting, and even death: "The body, hauling sadnesses, pursued the soul, hobbled after. The body was like a sweet dim dog trotting lamely toward the gate as you tried slowly to drive off, out the long driveway. Take me, take me too, barked the dog."
Other standouts in this collection include Alice Munro's "Save the Reaper," a kind of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" where no one is killed or saved; Rick Bass's haunting evocation of winter in the north country, "The Hermit's Story"; and Tim Gautreax's "The Piano Tuner," about a manic-depressive Creole princess playing cocktail piano in a motel lounge. (This is one tale that truly does end with a bang, not a whimper.) Taken together, they are ample evidence that the American short story is alive, well, and eminently able to--in the words of guest editor Amy Tan--"help us live interesting lives." --Chloe Byrne [via]
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Bob the Gamblerby Frederick BarthelmeISBN 039592474X (0-395-92474-X)
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The Book of Useless Information: An Official Publication of the Useless Information Societyby Noel BothamISBN 0399532692 (0-399-53269-2)
Softcover, Perigee
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Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn WaughISBN 0412501007 (0-412-50100-7)
Hardcover, Chapman & Hall
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Bygonesby Lavyrle SpencerISBN 0399137149 (0-399-13714-9)
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditchby Jean Lee Latham, John O'Hara CosgraveISBN 0395137136 (0-395-13713-6)
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Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriageby Mary SoamesISBN 0395275970 (0-395-27597-0)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Closerby Patrick MarberISBN 0413709507 (0-413-70950-7)
Hardcover, Methuen Drama
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre DumasISBN 0396082556 (0-396-08255-6)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:For nineteen-year-old Edmond Dantes, life is sweet. Soon to be captain of his own sip, he is also about to be married to his true love, Mercedes. But suddenly everything turns sour. On the joyous day of his wedding he is arrested and--without a fair trial--condemned to solitary confinement in the miserable Chateau d'If! The charges? Faked! Edmond has been framed by a handful of powerful enemies. But why?[via]
While locked away, Edmond learns from another prisoner of a secret treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmond concocts a daring and audacious plan: escape and find the treasure! But it is years later--long after Edmond has transformed himself into the Count of Monte Cristo--that his plan for revenge begins to unfold.
Disguised as the wealthy count, Edmond returns to his native land to find his enemies--and make them pay!More editions of Count of Monte Cristo:
The Divideby Nicholas EvansISBN 0399152067 (0-399-15206-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Enchanterby Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0399132112 (0-399-13211-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850by Leonore Davidoff, Catherine HallISBN 0415290643 (0-415-29064-3)
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Family Romance: A Love Storyby John LanchesterISBN 0399153004 (0-399-15300-4)
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A Handful of Dustby Evelyn WaughISBN 0412505703 (0-412-50570-3)
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How to Win and Hold a Husbandby Dorothy DixISBN 0405060866 (0-405-06086-6)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Hunter's Moonby Randy Wayne WhiteISBN 0399153705 (0-399-15370-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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I, Claudiusby Robert GravesISBN 0413370704 (0-413-37070-4)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen
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Interpreter of Maladies: Library Editionby Jhumpa Lahiri, Janet SilverISBN 039592720X (0-395-92720-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition'Book summary:Mr. Kapasi, the protagonist of Jhumpa Lahiri's title story, would certainly have his work cut out for him if he were forced to interpret the maladies of all the characters in this eloquent debut collection. Take, for example, Shoba and Shukumar, the young couple in "A Temporary Matter" whose marriage is crumbling in the wake of a stillborn child. Or Miranda in "Sexy," who is involved in a hopeless affair with a married man. But Mr. Kapasi has problems enough of his own; in addition to his regular job working as an interpreter for a doctor who does not speak his patients' language, he also drives tourists to local sites of interest. His fare on this particular day is Mr. and Mrs. Das--first-generation Americans of Indian descent--and their children. During the course of the afternoon, Mr. Kapasi becomes enamored of Mrs. Das and then becomes her unwilling confidant when she reads too much into his profession. "I told you because of your talents," she informs him after divulging a startling secret.
I'm tired of feeling so terrible all the time. Eight years, Mr. Kapasi, I've been in pain eight years. I was hoping you could help me feel better; say the right thing. Suggest some kind of remedy.
Of course, Mr. Kapasi has no cure for what ails Mrs. Das--or himself. Lahiri's subtle, bittersweet ending is characteristic of the collection as a whole. Some of these nine tales are set in India, others in the United States, and most concern characters of Indian heritage. Yet the situations Lahiri's people face, from unhappy marriages to civil war, transcend ethnicity. As the narrator of the last story, "The Third and Final Continent," comments: "There are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept." In that single line Jhumpa Lahiri sums up a universal experience, one that applies to all who have grown up, left home, fallen in or out of love, and, above all, experienced what it means to be a foreigner, even within one's own family. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Interpreter of Maladies: Library Edition:
Joseph Andrewsby Henry FieldingISBN 0395051576 (0-395-05157-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Joseph Andrewsby Stephen CopleyISBN 0416412408 (0-416-41240-8)
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Joseph Andrews and Shamelaby Henry FieldingISBN 0395051509 (0-395-05150-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Joy Luck Clubby Amy TanISBN 0399134204 (0-399-13420-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joy Luck Club'Book summary:Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery. [via]
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The Kitchen God's Wifeby Amy TanISBN 0399135782 (0-399-13578-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kitchen God's Wife'Book summary:Tan follows up the success of The Joy Luck Club with this moving story of two women who have kept each other's secrets for 40 years. 12 cassettes. [via]
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The Lady, Her Lover and Her Lordby T. D. JakesISBN 0399144145 (0-399-14414-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady, Her Lover and Her Lord'Book summary:T.D. Jakes's insights and expressions are balm for every woman's soul. As he explains so compassionately, we have lost sight of "the lady," and it is a loss that continues to buffet women and misdirect men. Jakes eschews condemnation and exposes the lies that have cloaked women in sorrow, helping women to stand in the beauty, strength, and confidence God intended.
Bishop Jakes, church founder, pastor, and author of numerous books, including the bestselling Woman, Thou Art Loosed!, structures this book in three parts. In the first, he gently takes the hand of every woman who has been ill-used, crippled in the innermost being, and shows her what is truly beautiful about the feminine. In part two, he opens the door for communication between husband and wife, lover and friend. Part three brings alive the passion of the Lord for women, this most exquisite of His creations.
Much has been lost. Weep with Bishop Jakes over the pain to which women have succumbed. But loss is not forever. In fact, any woman reading this book will likely feel something emerge within her, something long forgotten but something that rings of truth. --Ann Weinheimer [via]
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Late Love: The Joys of Marriage After Fiftyby Eileen SimpsonISBN 0395755336 (0-395-75533-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Late Love: The Joys of Marriage After Fifty'Book summary:We all expect to live longer than ever before. But what awaits us in the land-beyond-fifty? Will passion and lust simply disappear in those "sunset years"? Will the joy of sex, one of the driving forces of our younger days, be diluted into what is euphemistically called "the comfort of companionship"? In this narrative, richly punctuated with examples from literature and biography, Eileen Simpson takes a realistic look at love and marriage in later life. Based on numerous interviews with people over the age of fifty-five (some are in their sixties and seventies) who fall in love and marry, she analyzes the choices these men and women make. They reveal how they met, how they expressed their love and sexual feelings, how they set up their households, the reactions of their grown children to the new spouses, and difficulties the partners faced in their new life. [via]
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Les Liaisons Dangereusesby Choderlos De Laclos, Richard AldingtonISBN 041509447X (0-415-09447-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'Book summary:Au petit jeu du libertinage, l'adorable Valmont et la délicieuse Madame de Merteuil se livrent à une compétition amicale et néanmoins acharnée : c'est à celui qui aura le plus de succès galants, et le moins de scrupules. Peu importent les sentiments, seule la jouissance compte. Les conquêtes se succèdent de part et d'autre, jusqu'à ce que Valmont rencontre la vertu incarnée : la présidente de Tourvel. Elle est belle, douce, mariée et chaste : en un mot, intouchable. Voilà une proie de choix pour Valmont : saura-t-il relever ce défi sans tomber dans les pièges de l'amour ? De lettre en lettre, les héros dévoilent leurs aventures, échangent leurs impressions et nous entraînent dans un tourbillon de plaisirs qui semble n'avoir pas de fin.
Ce sulfureux roman a longtemps été censuré, ce qui ne l'a pas empêché de fasciner des générations de lecteurs et, plus près de nous, de captiver bon nombre de cinéastes : Les Liaisons Dangereuses de Stephen Frears mais aussi les adaptations de Roger Vadim, et de Milos Forman. --Karla Manuele [via]
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Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0425099601 (0-425-09960-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Long for This World: A Novelby Michael ByersISBN 039589171X (0-395-89171-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebookby Conor McCarthyISBN 0415307465 (0-415-30746-5)
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The Man in the Brown Suitby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425067866 (0-425-06786-6)
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The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas HardyISBN 0395051584 (0-395-05158-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Merchant of Veniceby William ShakespeareISBN 0415027519 (0-415-02751-9)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?" Shylock's impassioned plea in the middle of The Merchant of Venice is one of its most dramatic moments. After the Holocaust, the play has become a battleground for those who argue that the play represents Shakespeare's ultimate statement against ignorance and anti-Semitism in favour of a liberal vision of tolerance and multiculturalism. Other critics have pointed out that the play is, after all, a comedy that ultimately pokes fun at a 16th-century Jew. In fact, the bare outline of the plot suggests that the play is far more complex than either of these characterisations. Bassanio, a feckless young Venetian, asks his wealthy friend, the merchant Antonio, for money to finance a trip to woo the beautiful Portia in Belmont. Reluctant to refuse his friend (to whom he professes intense love), Antonio borrows the money from the Jewish moneylender. If he reneges on the deal, Shylock jokingly demands a pound of his flesh. When all Antonio's ships are lost at sea, Shylock calls in his debt, and the love and laughter of the first scenes of the play threaten to give way to death and tragedy. The final climactic courtroom scene, complete with a cross-dressed Portia, a knife-wielding Shylock, and the debate on "the quality of mercy" is one of the great dramatic moments in Shakespeare. The controversial subject matter of the play ensures that it continues to repel, divide but also fascinate its many audiences. --Jerry Brotton [via]
The Mineral Palaceby Heidi JulavitsISBN 0399146229 (0-399-14622-9)
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Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth Iby Susan DoranISBN 0415119693 (0-415-11969-3)
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Doran's detailed examination of the different suits is based on extensive archival research across Europe. Rather than focusing on Elizabeth's personality and image, she views the question within a wider political and religious context. She shows how the question of Elizabeth's marriage was divisive for England, affecting both political life and international relations, and provoking popular propaganda in the form of plays, poetry and paintings.
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Mrs. Mikeby Benedict Freedman, Nancy FreedmanISBN 0425103285 (0-425-10328-5)
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Much Ado About Nothingby William Shakespeare, A.R. HumphreysISBN 0415027004 (0-415-02700-4)
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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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Nickel Mountain: A Pastoral Novelby John Champlin GardnerISBN 0394743938 (0-394-74393-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nickel Mountain: A Pastoral Novel'Book summary:[via]One mans search for personal grace in a town plagued by misfortuneHenry Soames runs a diner in an eccentric rural community in the Catskills. He is anxious and overweight, and at age forty-two, suffers from poor health. When Callie Wells, Soamess seventeen-year-old employee, is impregnated by a local boy on his way to college, it becomes apparent that both are in need of a little help. After an unsuccessful attempt to find Callie a husband, Henry accepts the role. But soon after the improbable marriage commences, strange events occur in the small town, and Henrys pursuit of personal salvation begins.Written by the author of October Light and The Sunlight Dialogues, Nickel Mountain is a wonderfully conceived narrative about one mans search for fulfillment in a lonely world.This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.More editions of Nickel Mountain: A Pastoral Novel:
The Painted Veilby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 040507820X (0-405-07820-X)
Hardcover, Arno Press
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Picture Perfectby Jodi PicoultISBN 0425154114 (0-425-15411-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picture Perfect'Book summary:Falling madly in love and beginning what she believed would be the perfect marriage with Hollywood leading man Alex Rivers, renowned anthropologist Cassie Barret is heartbroken when their fairy-tale romance falls apart. Reprint. LJ. AB. [via]
The Queen Who Couldn't Bake Gingerbreadby Dorothy Van Woerkom, Paul GaldoneISBN 0394830334 (0-394-83033-4)
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Rain or Shineby Cyra McFaddenISBN 0394748794 (0-394-74879-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Rekindling Desire: A Step-By-Step Program to Help Low-Sex and No-Sex Marriagesby Barry W. McCarthy, Emily J. McCarthyISBN 0415935512 (0-415-93551-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rekindling Desire: A Step-By-Step Program to Help Low-Sex and No-Sex Marriages'Book summary:Is sex more work than play in your marriage? Do you schedule it in like a dentist appointment? Do you make love once a month, twice at the most?
If you answered yes to these questions, you are among the forty million Americans trapped in a low-sex or no-sex marriage.
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Now there is help from nationally acclaimed sex and marital experts Barry and Emily McCarthy, who for years have helped couples break down the barriers that have developed between them, and rebuild closeness and longing. Their groundbreaking ten-step program is designed to get sex and intimacy back into these marriages and revitalize relationships. Crafted by years of clinical practice, Rekindling Desire first shows couples how to root out the "poisons" that inhibit sexual desire: shame, guilt, anger, passivity, as well as medical side effects and physical dysfunctions. With sensitivity and tact, the McCarthys then lay out concrete techniques and effective strategies that help couples increase sexual awareness, confront inhibitions, revitalize desire, and integrate intimacy and eroticism.
An exciting new way to spark and sustain desire, Rekindling Desire confronts the secrecy and stigma of low-sex and no-sex marriages, teaching couples how to enjoy a fulfilling, life-long sexual partnership.More editions of Rekindling Desire: A Step-By-Step Program to Help Low-Sex and No-Sex Marriages:
Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Brian GibbonsISBN 0416178502 (0-416-17850-2)
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0395051428 (0-395-05142-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...scholar-like renown still lived in Oxford, was considered by his more fervent admirers as little less than a heavenly-ordained apostle, destined, should he live and labor for the ordinary term of life, to do as great deeds for the now feeble New England Church, as the early Fathers had achieved for the infancy of the Christian faith. About this period, however, the health of Mr. Dimmesdale had evidently' begun to fail. By those best acquainted with his habits, the paleness of the young minister's cheek was accounted for by his too earnest devotion to study, his scrupulous fulfilment of parochial duty, and, more than all, by the fasts and vigils of which he made a frequent practice, in order to keep the grossness of this earthly state from clogging and obscuring his spiritual lamp. Some declared, that, if Mr. Dimmesdale were really going to die, it was cause enough, that the world was not worthy to be any onger trodden by his feet. He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief, that, if Providence should see fit to remove him, it would be because of his own unworthiness to perform its humblest mission here on earth. With all this difference of opinion as to the cause of his decline, there could be no question of the fact. His form grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it; he was often observed, on any slight alarm or other sudden accident, to put his hand over his heart, with first a flush and then a paleness, indicative of pain. Such was the young clergyman's condition, and so imminent the prospect that his dawning light would be extinguished, all untimely, when Koger Chillingworth made his advent to the town. His first entry on the scene, few people... [via]
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Scarlet Letter and Other Tales of the Puritansby Hawthorne LevinISBN 0395051533 (0-395-05153-3)
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Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desireby Morris B. KaplanISBN 041590515X (0-415-90515-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire'Book summary:Sexual Justice defends a robust a robust conception of lesbian and gay rights, emphasizing protection against discrimination and recognition of queer relationships and families. Synthesizing materials from law, philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature, Kaplan argues that sexual desire is central to the pursuit of happiness: equal citizenship requires individual freedom to shape oneself through a variety of intimate associations. [via]
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Shabanu: Daughter of the Windby Suzanne Fisher StaplesISBN 0394848152 (0-394-84815-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shabanu : Daughter of the Wind'Book summary:"This first novel is, on several counts, one of the most exciting YA books to appear recently. Staples is so steeped in her story and its Pakistani setting that the use of a first-person voice for a desert child rings authentic--the voice is clear, consistent, and convincing. Shabanu and her sister are to marry brothers as soon as they all come of age. But she will eventually lose her betrothed and be promised to a wealthy landowner to settle a feud. The richness and tragedy of a whole culture are reflected in the fate of this girl's family. Through an involving plot Staples has given readers insight into lives totally different from their own, but into emotions resoundingly familiar."--(starred) Bulletin, Center for Children's Books. [via]
Smart Womenby Judy BlumeISBN 0399128409 (0-399-12840-9)
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Speaking of Marriage: Irreverent Thoughts on Matrimonyby Tina Reed, Robert ReedISBN 0399519416 (0-399-51941-6)
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Summerby Edith WhartonISBN 0403002591 (0-403-00259-1)
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0395051444 (0-395-05144-4)
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Time Enough for Loveby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0399111514 (0-399-11151-4)
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Tin Drumby Gunter GrassISBN 0394745604 (0-394-74560-4)
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 039577537X (0-395-77537-X)
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Travels of Babarby Jean De BrunhoffISBN 0394805763 (0-394-80576-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels of Babar'Book summary:Babar and Queen Celeste have just been married in this early story from the most famous of elephantine chronicles. They depart for their honeymoon in a hot-air balloon, and at first all seems wonderful as they glide over a charming coastal town that might be St. Tropez before the advent of tourism. Alas, a storm takes them out to sea and then dumps them on a desert island. The fierce, spear-carrying "savages" who subsequently attack them will remind you that this book was written and illustrated in 1934: they are as far from politically correct as you can get. And the war between the elephants and the rhinoceroses, which ends the story, is also problematic for a modern audience. But the travels and adventures in between show all the excitement and charm that has made the Babar series an enduring hit. (Ages 2 to 6) --Richard Farr [via]
Undoing Genderby Judith ButlerISBN 0415969239 (0-415-96923-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Undoing Gender'Book summary:Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to "do" one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies "undoing" dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the "New Gender Politics" that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory. [via]
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The Village Bride of Beverly Hillsby Kavita DaswaniISBN 0399152148 (0-399-15214-8)
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 0395111501 (0-395-11150-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Visionby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0425098605 (0-425-09860-5)
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We Are All Fine Hereby Mary GutersonISBN 039915230X (0-399-15230-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Are All Fine Here'Book summary:A thoroughly irresistible debut novel about a discontented woman (married, with a teenage son, and fast approaching middle age) who dallies in her past-with startling, humorous, and bittersweet consequences.
Julia has been married to Jim for fifteen years, but she has never really stopped thinking about the man who came before: Ray, the love of her life. Pushing forty, trapped in a job she doesn't care for, growing ever more distant from her son, and fed up with her husband's flirtation with a much younger coworker, Julia accompanies Ray to a wedding of friends and has a quick tryst in the bathroom. Several weeks later, she learns she's pregnant, and because she's also recently slept with Jim-a rare event of late-she can't be quite certain of the baby's paternity.
How Julia deals with this knotty problem (and with her prickly mother, her childless sister, her best friend, her husband's family, not to mention all the men in her life) is the core of this laugh-out-loud and wholly recognizable, unforgettable, and intelligent swift gulp of a novel-which also delivers unexpected heart. [via]More editions of We Are All Fine Here:
We Can Work It Out: How to Solve Conflicts, Save Your Marriage, and Strengthen Your Love for Each Otherby Clifford Notarius, Howard MarkmanISBN 0399521372 (0-399-52137-2)
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What Dreams May Comeby Richard MathesonISBN 0425042022 (0-425-04202-2)
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What to Do When He Won't Change: Getting What You Need from the Man You Loveby Dan KileyISBN 0399133240 (0-399-13324-0)
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Why Did I Marry You Anyway: Good Sense and Good Humor in the First Year...and Afterby Arlene MatthewsISBN 0395441781 (0-395-44178-1)
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The Wishbonesby Tom PerrottaISBN 0425163148 (0-425-16314-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wishbones'Book summary:Tom Perrotta's first novel, The Wishbones, is all about that much-maligned class of 30-ish men who still live at home with their parents, guys who make furtive love to their girlfriends--if they have them at all--in the basement rec room or the back seat of a car. But Dave Raymond, the protagonist of The Wishbones, doesn't waste his time on Star Trek reruns or computer games; he spends his weekends playing in a wedding band called The Wishbones, using the rapidly receding dream of rock stardom as an excuse to put off growing up. The sudden death of a fellow musician sends Dave into something of a tailspin, however, and in a moment of weakness, he proposes to his longtime girlfriend, Julie. The engagement has hardly been announced when Dave meets Gretchen, a bridesmaid at one of the weddings at which The Wishbones play, and before long he's having serious doubts about his own marital plans.
Everybody knows someone like Dave, but a real-life puer aeternus is rarely as entertaining as Perrotta's fictional one. Perrotta wisely surrounds his sad-sack protagonist with an array of entertaining supporting characters, from a joint-smoking priest to one of Dave's band-mates whose life work is a musical based on Kennedy's assassination. By the time The Wishbones winds down to its well-deserved end, readers will be wishing for a second novel from Tom Perrotta soon. [via]
A Woman of Destinyby Orson Scott CardISBN 042506476X (0-425-06476-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Women in Athenian Law and Lifeby Roger JustISBN 0415058414 (0-415-05841-4)
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