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Arctic Dreamsby Barry Holstun LopezISBN 055326396X (0-553-26396-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arctic Dreams'Book summary:Based on 15 extended trips to the Canadian far north over a five-year period, Arctic Dreams celebrates the mysteries of what documentarians fondly call "last frontiers." Such places are everywhere in danger of destruction in the interest of ever-elusive economic progress, but Lopez writes no jeremiads. Instead, he aims to foster a kind of learned understanding of wild places, in this case the vast, scarcely knowable northern landscape. Writing of the natural history of the Arctic and its inhabitants--narwhals, polar bears, beluga whales, musk oxen, and caribou among them--Lopez draws powerful lessons from the land and imparts them assuredly and gracefully. Arctic Dreams deservedly won a National Book Award in 1986 when it was first published. [via]
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Awakeningsby Oliver W. SacksISBN 0525483500 (0-525-48350-0)
Softcover, E P Dutton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Awakenings'Book summary:It hardly seems fair that so many great doctors are also great writers. Perhaps it's qualities like sensitivity, craft, and dedication that keep physicians like Oliver Sacks in hospitals all day and at writing desks all night; if nothing else, these qualities shine in books like Awakenings. This powerful set of case histories rises above its pathological foundation to find new literary territory, a medical-spiritual synthesis equally stimulating for the mind and the soul. It's no wonder Hollywood producers chose to turn it into a feature film--anyone can see the universal human struggle against bondage and despair in these pages.
The sleeping-sickness epidemic of 1918 caused hundreds of survivors to slip into a bizarre rigid paralysis with similarities to advanced Parkinson's disease. These patients, only occasionally able to communicate or move, were nearly all institutionalized for life, their ranks increasing every now and then with similarly afflicted men and women. Sacks came to work at a long-term care facility shortly before the first exciting results with L-dopa and Parkinson's in the late 1960s; his patients soon embarked on dramatic, difficult recoveries from up to 50 years of torpor. He documents their spiritual and medical obstacles with great care to portray their individual personalities, long suppressed but finally released. Though many great doctors are also great writers, few can compare with Oliver Sacks for expressing the relation of medicine to the human spirit. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Baa Baa Black Sheepby Gregory BoyingtonISBN 0553263501 (0-553-26350-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Baa, Baa, Black Sheepby Moira KempISBN 0525673318 (0-525-67331-8)
Hardcover, Lodestar Books
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Bastard Out of Carolinaby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0525934251 (0-525-93425-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Bonjour Tristesseby Francoise SaganISBN 0525480404 (0-525-48040-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Brazen Chariots: An Account of tank warefare in the Western Desert, November-December 1941by Major Robert CrispISBN 055324163X (0-553-24163-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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By Appointmentby Sidney Berry HillISBN 0533100143 (0-533-10014-3)
Hardcover, Vantage Press
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Carrying the Fireby Michael CollinsISBN 0553239481 (0-553-23948-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Cat Who Came in from the Coldby Deric LongdenISBN 0552138223 (0-552-13822-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square Books
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A Child's Garden of Versesby Tasha Tudor, Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0528800736 (0-528-80073-6)
Hardcover, Rand McNally
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A Child's Garden of Versesby Robert Louis Stevenson, Jannat MessengerISBN 0525449973 (0-525-44997-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Company Commanderby Charles B. MacDonaldISBN 0553270559 (0-553-27055-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Couplehoodby Paul ReiserISBN 0553096834 (0-553-09683-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Court of Memoryby James McConkeyISBN 0525241477 (0-525-24147-7)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Crazy Saladby Nora EphronISBN 0553143123 (0-553-14312-3)
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0553211757 (0-553-21175-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately benefit humanity? so begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of st. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. Crime and punishment takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil ... A man who cannot escape his own conscience [via]
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Dawn : A Novelby Elie Wiesel, Frances FrenayeISBN 0553225367 (0-553-22536-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dawn : A Novel'Book summary:Two men wait through the night in British-controlled Palestine for dawn--and for death. One is a captured English officer. The other is Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter whose assignment is to kill the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner. Elisha's past is the nightmare memory of Nazi death camps. He is the only surviving member of his family. His future is a cherished dream of life in the promised homeland. But at daybreak his present will become the tortured reality of a principled man ordered to commit cold-blooded murder. Resonant with feeling, Dawn is an unforgettable journey into the human heart--and an eloquent statement about the moral basis of the new Israel." [via]
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Democracy in Americaby Henry Reeve, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0553214640 (0-553-21464-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America--first published in 1835--enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. Philosopher John Stuart Mill called it "among the most remarkable productions of our time." Woodrow Wilson wrote that de Tocqueville's ability to illuminate the actual workings of American democracy was "possibly without rival."
For today's readers, de Tocqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His shrewd observations about the "almost royal prerogatives" of the president and the need for virtue in elected officials are particularly prophetic. His profound insights into the great rewards and responsibilities of democratic government are words every American needs to read, contemplate, and remember.
From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system Democracy in America enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. De Toqueville's concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains deeply meaningful. His insights into the great rewards and responsibilities of democratic government are words every American needs to read, contemplate, and remember. [via]More editions of Democracy in America:
The Dogs Who Came to Stayby George Pitcher, Tom GeorgeISBN 0525940502 (0-525-94050-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Education of a Wandering Manby Louis L'AmourISBN 0553057030 (0-553-05703-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Fifty-Minute Hourby Robert LindnerISBN 055320873X (0-553-20873-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 055321201X (0-553-21201-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Franny and Zooeyby J. D. SalingerISBN 0553203487 (0-553-20348-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Franny and Zooey'Book summary:The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill. [via]
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Gabriel Faure: A Musical Lifeby Jean-Michel Nectoux, Roger NicholsISBN 0521235243 (0-521-23524-3)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Gather Together in My Nameby Maya AngelouISBN 0553260669 (0-553-26066-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Hey, Waitress: The USA from the Other Side of the Trayby Alison OwingsISBN 0520242246 (0-520-24224-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hey, Waitress: The USA from the Other Side of the Tray'Book summary:Most of us have sat across the tray from a waitress, but how many of us know what really is going on from her side? Hey, Waitress! aims to tell us. Containing lively, personal portraits of waitresses from many different walks of life, this book is the first of its kind to show the intimate, illuminating, and often shocking behind-the-scenes stories of waitresses' daily shifts and daily lives.[via]
Alison Owings traveled the country--from border to border and coast to coast--to hear firsthand what waitresses think about their lives, their work, and their world. Part journalism and part oral history, Hey, Waitress! introduces an eclectic cast of characters: a ninety-five-year-old Baltimore woman who may have been the oldest living waitress, a Staten Island firebrand laboring at a Pizza Hut, a well-to-do runaway housewife, a Native American proud of her financial independence, a college student loving her diner more than her studies, a Cajun grandmother of twenty-two, and many others.
The book also offers vivid slices of American history. The stories describe the famous sit-in at the Woolworth's counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, which helped spark the civil rights movement; early struggles for waitress unions; and battles against sexually discriminatory hiring in restaurants.
A superb and accessible means of breaking down stereotypes, this book reveals American waitresses in all their complexity and individuality, and will surely change the way we order, tip, and, most of all, behave in restaurants.More editions of Hey, Waitress: The USA from the Other Side of the Tray:
The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhoodby Eugenie FraserISBN 0552128333 (0-552-12833-3)
Softcover, Transworld Pub
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Hunger of Memory: An Autobiographyby Richard RodriguezISBN 0553231936 (0-553-23193-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguezby Richard RodriguezISBN 0553272934 (0-553-27293-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at Mitby Pepper WhiteISBN 0525933476 (0-525-93347-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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In Love and Warby Jim Stockdale, Sybil StockdaleISBN 0553253166 (0-553-25316-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Inside the Company : CIA Diaryby Philip AgeeISBN 055326012X (0-553-26012-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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John Glenn Set : A Memoirby John Glenn, Nick TaylorISBN 0553110748 (0-553-11074-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American Westby Edward AbbeyISBN 052513753X (0-525-13753-X)
Softcover, Dutton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West'Book summary:"I am not a naturalist. I never was and never will be a naturalist." So Ed Abbey opens The Journey Home, a collection of essays that turns every page or two to some aspect of the natural history of the desert West. Abbey had recently been compared to Henry Thoreau as a writer who had made a home both literary and real in the wild, and he was having none of it: he wanted to be thought of as a novelist and environmental activist, not as the author of gentle essays on self-sufficiency and the turn of the seasons. The Journey Home is thus full of politically charged, often enraged essays on such matters as urban growth ("The Blob Comes to Arizona"), the gentrification of the small-town West ("Telluride Blues--A Hatchet Job"), and wilderness preservation ("Let Us Now Praise Mountain Lions"). He raised a few hackles with this book, but he also found many devoted readers, fans who wanted and got an update of and rejoinder to Abbey's Desert Solitaire. Agree with him or not, you can't fault Abbey for his honest self-assessment: "I am--really am--an extremist," he wrote, "one who lives and loves by choice far out on the very verge of things, on the edge of the abyss, where this world falls into the depths of the other. That's the way I like it." --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamlined Babyby Tom WolfeISBN 055314443X (0-553-14443-X)
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La Vagabondeby Sidonie-Gabrielle ColetteISBN 0553214233 (0-553-21423-3)
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The Life of Belliniby John RosselliISBN 0521467810 (0-521-46781-0)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Life of Mahlerby Peter FranklinISBN 0521467616 (0-521-46761-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Lives of a Cell : Notes of a Biology Watcherby Lewis ThomasISBN 0553275801 (0-553-27580-1)
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The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search For The Truth Of Her Father's Murderby RACHEL HOWARDISBN 0525948627 (0-525-94862-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave FlaubertISBN 0553213415 (0-553-21341-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madame Bovary'Book summary:This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering corruption and downfall. A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. Who is Madame Bovary? Flaubert's answer to this question was superb: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." Acclaimed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1857, the work catapulted Flaubert to the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. This volume, with its fine translation by Lowell Bair, a perceptive introduction by Leo Bersani, and a complete supplement of essays and critical comments, is the indispensable Madame Bovary. [via]
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A Mathematician's Apologyby G. H. HardyISBN 0521427061 (0-521-42706-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Mathematician's Apology'Book summary:A Mathematician's Apology is a profoundly sad book, the memoir of a man who has reached the end of his ambition, who can no longer effectively practice the art that has consumed him since he was a boy. But at the same time, it is a joyful celebration of the subject--and a stern lecture to those who would sully it by dilettantism or attempts to make it merely useful. "The mathematician's patterns," G.H. Hardy declares, "like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics."
Hardy was, in his own words, "for a short time the fifth best pure mathematician in the world" and knew full well that "no mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game." In a long biographical foreword to Apology, C.P. Snow (now best known for The Two Cultures) offers invaluable background and a context for his friend's occasionally brusque tone: "His life remained the life of a brilliant young man until he was old; so did his spirit: his games, his interests, kept the lightness of a young don's. And, like many men who keep a young man's interests into their sixties, his last years were the darker for it." Reading Snow's recollections of Hardy's Cambridge University years only makes Apology more poignant. Hardy was popular, a terrific conversationalist, and a notoriously good cricket player.
When summer came, it was taken for granted that we should meet at the cricket ground.... He used to walk round the cinderpath with a long, loping, clumping-footed stride (he was a slight spare man, physically active even in his late fifties, still playing real tennis), head down, hair, tie, sweaters, papers all flowing, a figure that caught everyone's eyes. "There goes a Greek poet, I'll be bound," once said some cheerful farmer as Hardy passed the score-board.
G.H. Hardy's elegant 1940 memoir has provided generations of mathematicians with pithy quotes and examples for their office walls, and plenty of inspiration to either be great or find something else to do. He is a worthy mentor, a man who understood deeply and profoundly the rewards and losses of true devotion. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Max Perkins, Editor of Geniusby A. Scott BergISBN 0525154272 (0-525-15427-2)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Memoirs of War, 1914-15by Marc BlochISBN 0521379806 (0-521-37980-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Memoirs of War, 1914-1915by Marc Leopold Benjamin BlochISBN 0521371317 (0-521-37131-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, R. A. FoakesISBN 0521532477 (0-521-53247-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeare's more romantic and enchanting plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale with confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena escape parental control and the "sharp Athenian law" of their elders by eloping into the forest outside the city. Unfortunately they stumble into civil war in fairyland, where King Oberon and Queen Titania fight over possession of a beautiful young Indian "changeling" boy. The appearance of the "rude mechanicals", a group of Athenian workers, including the weaver Nick Bottom, compounds the confusion. Chaos, confusion and "shaping fantasies" reign before the final settlement of the play, but underneath all the hilarity many critics have discerned more ambivalent attitudes towards coercive parental control, bestial sexuality and the destructive power of desire. These approaches in no way detract from the exquisite lyricism of many sections of the play, but make it a more complex and effective comedy than has often been appreciated. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0553213008 (0-553-21300-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0521293898 (0-521-29389-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0521787289 (0-521-78728-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0521445604 (0-521-44560-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0521532477 (0-521-53247-7)
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby Linda Buckle, Paul KelleyISBN 0521409047 (0-521-40904-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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News from Nowhere or an Epoch of Rest: Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romanceby William Morris, Krishan KumarISBN 0521422337 (0-521-42233-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Out on a Limbby Shirley MacLaineISBN 0553273701 (0-553-27370-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out on a Limb'Book summary:Her most controversial book is one you will never forget. An outspoken thinker, a celebrated actress, a truly independent woman, Shirley MacLaine goes beyond her previous two bestsellers to take us on an intimate yet powerful journey into her personal life and inner self. An intense, clandestine love affair with a prominent politician sparks Shirley MacLaine's quest of self-discovery. From Stockholm to Hawaii to the mountain vastness of Peru, from disbelief to radiant affirmation, she at last discovers the roots of her very existence. . . and the infinite possibilities of life. Shirley MacLaine opens her heart to explore the meaning of a great and enduring passion with her lover Gerry; the mystery of her soul's connection with her best friend David; the tantalizing secrets behind a great actor's inspiration with the late Peter Sellers. And through it all, Shirley MacLaine's courage and candor new doors, new insights, new revelations-and a luminous new world she invites us all to share. [via]
Painted Birdby Jerzy KosinskiISBN 0553265202 (0-553-26520-2)
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Pascal's Penseesby Blaise PascalISBN 0525470182 (0-525-47018-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hallby William L. RiordonISBN 0525471189 (0-525-47118-9)
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Popski's Private Armyby Vladimer PeniakoffISBN 0553271709 (0-553-27170-9)
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James JoyceISBN 0553214047 (0-553-21404-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man'Book summary:Perhaps Joyce's most personal work, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature's most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus. Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, Joyce evokes Stephen's youth, from his impressionable years as the youngest student at the Clongowed Wood school to the deep religious conflict he experiences at a day school in Dublin, and finally to his college studies where he challenges the conventions of his upbringing and his understanding of faith and intellectual freedom. James Joyce's highly autobiographical novel was first published in the United States in 1916 to immediate acclaim. Ezra Pound accurately predicted that Joyce's book would "remain a permanent part of English literature," while H.G. Wells dubbed it "by far the most important living and convincing picture that exists of an Irish Catholic upbringing." A remarkably rich study of a developing young mind, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man made an indelible mark on literature and confirmed Joyce's reputation as one of the world's greatest and lasting writers. [via]
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Quiero Escribir Pero Me Sale Epumaby Gustavo SainzISBN 0553060848 (0-553-06084-8)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Rascalby Sterling North, John SchoenherrISBN 0525188398 (0-525-18839-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Playerby Robert RodriguezISBN 0525937943 (0-525-93794-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Remembrance of Swings Pastby Ron LucianoISBN 0553052624 (0-553-05262-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Ring of Bright Waterby Gavin MaxwellISBN 052547174X (0-525-47174-X)
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Rita Will : Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouserby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553099736 (0-553-09973-6)
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Robert Kennedy in His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Yearsby Robert F. KennedyISBN 0553053167 (0-553-05316-7)
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Root of Bitternessby Nancy F. CottISBN 0525473289 (0-525-47328-9)
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The Savage God: A Study of Suicideby A. AlvarezISBN 055320906X (0-553-20906-X)
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"Suicide," writes the notes English poet and critic A. Alvarez, "has permeated Western culture like a dye that cannot be washed out." Although the aims of this compelling, compassionate work are broadly cultural and literary, the narrative is rooted in personal experience: it begins with a long memoir of Sylvia Plath, and ends with an account of the author's own suicide attempt. Within this dramatic framework, Alvarez launches his enquiry into the final taboo of human behavior, and traces changing attitudes towards suicide from the perspective of literature. He follows the black thread leading from Dante through Donne and the romantic agony, to the Savage God at the heart of modern literature. [via]More editions of The Savage God: A Study of Suicide:
Say Good Night, Gracie!: The Story of Burns and Allenby Susan Sackett, Cheryl BlytheISBN 0525243860 (0-525-24386-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Scoundrel Timeby Lillian HellmanISBN 055323689X (0-553-23689-X)
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Scribble, Scribbleby Nora EphronISBN 0553122754 (0-553-12275-4)
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Sein Languageby Jerry SeinfeldISBN 0553096060 (0-553-09606-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sein Language'Book summary:Seinlanguage could easily be subtitled The World According to Jerry. First published in 1993, when Seinfeld the sitcom was establishing itself as the funniest half-hour on television, this is a collection of Jerry's musings on everything from relationships to shushing in movie theatres. Observational comedy may have reached epidemic proportions recently, but Jerry Seinfeld was, and is, the master of his domain.
"I will never understand why they cook on TV. I can't smell it. Can't eat it. Can't taste it. The end of the show they hold it up to the camera, 'Well, here it is. You can't have any. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.'"
Eons hence, scholars may ponder the mysteries of this book in the same way that they now ponder the fragments of Heraclitus. Until then, Seinlanguage will continue to provide guaranteed chuckles in a neat and tidy package. Kind of like Jerry himself. --Simon Leake [via]
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Siddharthaby Hermann HesseISBN 0553208845 (0-553-20884-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Siddhartha'Book summary:In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gautama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. Born the son of a Brahman, Siddhartha was blessed in appearance, intelligence, and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual gains until he was just like all the other "child people," dragged around by his desires. Like Hesse's other creations of struggling young men, Siddhartha has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism. His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating nor reciting, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader's ear down to hear answers from the river. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby George EliotISBN 055321229X (0-553-21229-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others: A Book About Men, and Hence About Women, and Love and Dreamsby Merle ShainISBN 055327452X (0-553-27452-X)
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The Story of an African Farmby Olive SchreinerISBN 0553214128 (0-553-21412-8)
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Strike Twoby David Fisher, Ron LucianoISBN 055324549X (0-553-24549-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strike Two'Book summary:Non fiction in english by Bantam books. Paperback edition of April 1985. Chapter one, Was it my voice. I asked. I was sitting across a cluttered desk from NBC Sports Executive Producer Mike Weisman. [via]
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Strike Twoby Ron Luciano, David FisherISBN 0553050494 (0-553-05049-4)
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To Bear Any Burden: The Vietnam War and Its Aftermath in the Words of Forty-Seven Americans and Southeast Asiansby Al SantoliISBN 0525243275 (0-525-24327-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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To See You Again : A True Story of Love in a Time of Warby Betty Schimmel, Joyce GabrielISBN 052594480X (0-525-94480-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Treetops: A Family Memoirby Susan CheeverISBN 0553072250 (0-553-07225-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Treetops: A Family Memoir'Book summary:In this compelling companion volume to her acclaimed memoir Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever once again gives readers a revealing look into her famous family, whose secrets and eccentricities parallel their genius and successes. Set against the backdrop of Treetops, the New Hampshire family retreat where the Cheevers still summer, and going back several generations, this powerful remembrance focuses on Susan Cheever's mother's family, and includes portraits of her great-grandfather, Thomas Watson, who invented the telephone with Alexander Graham Bell, and her grandfather Milton Winternitz, a brilliant doctor who built Yale Medical School. And of course there is her beloved and talented father John Cheever, the accomplished author who became one of the most well-known writers of the century, often using his family as material. Perhaps most riveting about Susan Cheever's second biographical masterpiece is its exploration of the lives of the Cheever women. At once a unique family portrait and the tale of every family, Treetops draws us effortlessly into a fascinating yet endearingly familiar world. [via]
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The Umpire Strikes Backby David Fisher, Ron LucianoISBN 0553248464 (0-553-24846-4)
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Up Frontby Bill MauldinISBN 0553231049 (0-553-23104-9)
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"The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to "throw his ass in jail" to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, "Up Front," to the pages of Stars and Stripes. "Up Front" featured the wise-cracking Willie and Joe, whose stooped shoulders, mud-soaked uniforms, and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect bore eloquent witness to the world of combat and the men who livedand diedin it. This taut, lushly illustrated biographythe first of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldinis illustrated with more than ninety classic Mauldin cartoons and rare photographs. It traces the improbable career and tumultuous private life of a charismatic genius who rose to fame on his motto: "If it's big, hit it." 92 illustrations [via]More editions of Up Front:
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Walking on Walnutsby Nancy G. RingISBN 0553096648 (0-553-09664-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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War As I Knew Itby George S. Patton, Paul D. HarkinsISBN 0553259911 (0-553-25991-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War As I Knew It'Book summary:Adored by many, loathed by some, General George S. Patton, Jr., was one of the most brilliant military strategists in history. War As I Knew It is the personal and candid account of his celebrated, relentless crusade across western Europe during World War II. First published in 1947, this absorbing narrative draws on Patton's vivid memories of battle and his detailed diaries, from the moment the Third Army exploded onto the Brittany Peninsula to the final Allied casualty report. The result is not only a grueling, human account of daily combat and heroic feats - including a riveting look at the Battle of the Bulge - but a valuable chronicle of the strategies and fiery personality of a legendary warrior. Patton's letters from earlier military campaigns in North Africa and Sicily, complemented by a powerful retrospective of his guiding philosophies, further reveal a man of uncompromising will and uncommon character, which made "Georgie" a household name in mid-century America. With a new introduction.[via]More editions of War As I Knew It:
The Will of Heaven: A Story of One Vietnamese and the End of His Worldby Ngoc Ngan Nguyen, E. E. RicheyISBN 0525030611 (0-525-03061-1)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood AndersonISBN 055321439X (0-553-21439-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:Published in 1919, Winesburg, Ohio is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a work in which he achieved the goal to which he believed all true writers should aspire: to see and feel "all of life within." In a perfectly imagined world, an archetypal small American town, he reveals the hidden passions that turn ordinary lives into unforgettable ones. Unified by the recurring presence of young George Willard, and played out against the backdrop of Winesburg, Anderson's loosely connected chapters, or stories, coalesce into a powerful novel.In such tales as "Hands," the portrayal of a rural berry picker still haunted by the accusations of homosexuality that ended his teaching career, Anderson's vision is as acute today as it was over eighty-five years ago. His intuitive ability to home in on examples of timeless, human conflicts-a workingman deciding if he should marry the woman who is to bear his child, an unhappy housewife who seeks love from the town's doctor, an unmarried high school teacher sexually attracted to a pupil-makes this book not only immensely readable but also deeply meaningful. An important influence on Faulkner, Hemingway, and others who were drawn to Anderson's innovative format and psychological insights, Winesburg, Ohio deserves a place among the front ranks of our nation's finest literary achievements. [via]
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Woodswomanby Anne LabastilleISBN 0525237151 (0-525-23715-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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