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Arden Shakespeare Hamletby Harold Jenkins, Neil TaylorISBN 1904271324 (1-904271-32-4)
Hardcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arden Shakespeare Hamlet'Book summary:The core of the ground-breaking, three text edition, this self-contained, free-standing volume gives readers the Second Quarto text (1604-5) and includes in its Introduction, notes and Appendices all the reader might expect to find in any standard Arden edition. As well as a full, illustrated Introduction to the playÂ's historical, cultural and performance contexts and a thorough survey of critical approaches to the play, an appendix contains the additional passages found only in the 1623 text. "The new Arden Hamlet is a pathbreaking edition, one that promises to change irrevocably our understanding of Shakespeare's greatest play." - Professor James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare Â"Hamlet's latest editors have undertaken a heroic task with great skill and thoroughnesss.Â" - Stanley Wells, The Observer "(The) new Arden Hamlet is quite simply the most comprehensive edition of the play currently available, a status I suspect it will enjoy for many years to come" - The British Theatre Guide "Stunning! There is absolutely no doubt about this being the text to buy if you are studying the play at A Level. And the same stands for those students who will be studying the play at university. This critical edition gives the reader the Second Quarto Text (1604-1605), annotated with intelligence and care, a wealth of historical and cultural references and a survey of different critical approaches to the play." - The Use of English, The English Association [via]
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Art Loverby Carole MasoISBN 0880014105 (0-88001-410-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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At the Threshold: Jewish Meditations on Deathby Michael SwirskyISBN 1568212992 (1-56821-299-2)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classicsby C. S. LewisISBN 0060506083 (0-06-050608-3)
Hardcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics'Book summary:For the first time ever, these seven essential volumes by C. S. Lewis are available in a single edition. This remarkable book presents the classic works Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, A Grief Observed, and Lewis's prophetic examination of universal values, The Abolition of Man. Beautiful and timeless, this is a vital collection by one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Lewis reached a vast audience during his lifetime, and books such as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters continue to be regarded as among the best spiritual writing of all time. With his uncanny grasp of human nature, Lewis offers a refreshing antidote to the modern world's consumerism and moral relativism. This new edition of his most celebrated books highlights Lewis's compassion for humanity and his relevance for the twenty-first century. [via]
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Concern for the Livingby C. PressISBN 0944070604 (0-944070-60-4)
Hardcover, Feldheim Pub
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Confronting the Loss of a Baby: A Personal and Jewish Perspectiveby Yamin LevyISBN 0881256099 (0-88125-609-9)
Hardcover, Ktav Pub Inc
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Death and Bereavement: A Halakhic Guideby Abner WeissISBN 0881251275 (0-88125-127-5)
Softcover, Ktav Pub Inc
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Death Be Not Proudby John GuntherISBN 0881036013 (0-88103-601-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Be Not Proud'Book summary:Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of despair. This deeply moving book is a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy.
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Duino Elegiesby Rainer Maria Rilke, Martyn CrucefixISBN 1904634230 (1-904634-23-0)
Softcover, Enitharmon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Duino Elegies'Book summary:[via]Long dissatisfied with the highly romatical and often obscure translations in English of Rilke's great poem cycle, brother and sister Willam and Mary Crichton determined to work toward a translation that would be as straightforward and transparent, yet as lyrically beautiful as Rilke's German original. Working over the years, the Crichtons have produced a work in English worthy of Rilke's Duino Elegies, written at Duino near Trieste beginning in 1912 and completed in Switzerland in 1922. Rilke considered this one of his greatest achievements.
William Crichton lives in Toronto; Mary Crichton lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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- Duino Elegies: ISBN 1931243077 (1-931243-07-7)
Softcover, Green Integer Books - Duino Elegies: ISBN 0856358371 (0-85635-837-1)
Softcover, Carcanet Pr - Duino Elegies: ISBN 0865476071 (0-86547-607-1)
Softcover, North Point Pr - Duino Elegies: ISBN 0877738521 (0-87773-852-1)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated - Duino Elegies: ISBN 0865475466 (0-86547-546-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Duino Elegies: ISBN 3856305351 (3-85630-535-1)
Hardcover, Daimon Verlag - Duino Elegies: ISBN 3856305416 (3-85630-541-6)
Hardcover, Daimon Verlag - Duino Elegies: ISBN 1904634230 (1-904634-23-0)
Softcover, Enitharmon Pr
- Duino Elegies: ISBN 1931243077 (1-931243-07-7)
Duino Elegies/Mirando Gray Translatorby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0932576087 (0-932576-08-7)
Softcover, Far Corner Books
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Closeby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0618329706 (0-618-32970-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close'Book summary:Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination.[via]
Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11.
An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.More editions of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close:
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Closeby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0618711651 (0-618-71165-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'Book summary:Jonathan safran foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, everything is illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history.nine-year-old oskar schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of new york. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the world trade center on the morning of september 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey [via]
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Falling Angels : A Novelby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0452283205 (0-452-28320-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Falling Angels: Library Edition'Book summary:Set among the sweeping skirts and social upheavals of Edwardian London, Tracy Chevalier's Falling Angels is a meditation on change, loss, and recovery. Her central characters are two young girls of the same age, whose family plots are situated side-by-side in a cemetery modeled on Highgate. Lavinia Waterhouse is respectably middle-class, devoted, like her conventional, doting mother, to the right way to do things, although suspiciously well- schooled in subjects like funerary sculpture and the English practices of mourning. Her friend Maude Coleman comes from a slightly more privileged and free-thinking background. In contrast with Lavinia's mother, Maude's mother Kitty Coleman is well-educated by the standards of the day, and it has made her restless and irritable. But neither her reading, nor her gardening, nor her affair with the somber, high-thinking governor of the cemetery is enough for Kitty. She comes alive only when she discovers the women's suffrage movement, and her devotion to the cause takes her away from Maude in every sense.
Although the point of view shifts between many characters (with even the Coleman's maid and cook getting their say, sometimes unnecessarily), Falling Angels is essentially the children's story, since it is their lives that are most open to change. The narrative spans exactly the years of Edward VII's reign, from the morning after his mother Queen Victoria's death in January 1901 to his own death in May 1910. Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring) deftly uses the nation's dramatically different mourning for these two monarchs to signal the social transformations of the period. Readers at ease with English history will find Falling Angels an unusually subtle novel, with an emotional range that recalls the best of the Edwardian novelists, E.M. Forster, and his quintessential novel of Edwardian manners, Howard's End. --Regina Marler [via]
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The Good Death Guide: Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Askby Michael DunnISBN 1857035593 (1-85703-559-3)
Softcover, Parkwest Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Death Guide: Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask'Book summary:Death is a practical fact of all our lives and this handbook aims to equip anyone to be less fearful, more dispassionate and better prepared for death and bereavement. This family reference aims to remove much of the mystique surrounding the subject of death and bereavement. It offers information about the facts, processes and the emotional implication of death and includes practical help on making a will, living wills, organ and body donation and funeral planning. It explores the consequences for others of different sorts of death such as the death of a parent or a child, miscarriage, suicide, HIV/Aids and discusses death in a variety of cultures and traditions. It also includes lists of addresses and direction for further information. [via]
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The Good Grief Guide: How to Come Through Bereavement With Hope for the Future and at Peace With the Pastby Michael DunnISBN 1857036417 (1-85703-641-7)
Softcover, Parkwest Pubns
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A Grief Observedby C. S. LewisISBN 0060652381 (0-06-065238-1)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Grief Observed'Book summary:Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 and concerns the death of C. S. Lewis's wife, the American-born poet Joy Davidman. In her introduction to this new edition, Madeleine L'Engle writes: "I am grateful to Lewis for having the courage to yell, to doubt, to kick at God in angry violence. This is a part of a healthy grief which is not often encouraged. It is helpful indeed that C. S. Lewis, who has been such a successful apologist for Christianity, should have the courage to admit doubt about what he has so superbly proclaimed. It gives us permission to admit our own doubts, our own angers and anguishes, and to know that they are part of the soul's growth."
Written in longhand in notebooks that Lewis found in his home, A Grief Observed probes the "mad midnight moments" of Lewis's mourning and loss, moments in which he questioned what he had previously believed about life and death, marriage, and even God. Indecision and self-pity assailed Lewis. "We are under the harrow and can't escape," he writes. "I know that the thing I want is exactly the thing I can never get. The old life, the jokes, the drinks, the arguments, the lovemaking, the tiny, heartbreaking commonplace." Writing A Grief Observed as "a defense against total collapse, a safety valve," he came to recognize that "bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love."
Lewis writes his statement of faith with precision, humor, and grace. Yet neither is Lewis reluctant to confess his continuing doubts and his awareness of his own human frailty. This is precisely the quality which suggests that A Grief Observed may become "among the great devotional books of our age."
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- A Grief Observed: ISBN 006065273X (0-06-065273-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - A Grief Observed: ISBN 0060652845 (0-06-065284-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins - A Grief Observed: ISBN 0553274864 (0-553-27486-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books - A Grief Observed: ISBN 0571066240 (0-571-06624-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - A Grief Observed: ISBN 0802724701 (0-8027-2470-1)
Softcover, Walker Large Print - A Grief Observed: ISBN 0816401373 (0-8164-0137-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - A Grief Observed: ISBN 0060652381 (0-06-065238-1)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
- A Grief Observed: ISBN 006065273X (0-06-065273-X)
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, Peter Holland, David M. BevingtonISBN 140220776X (1-4022-0776-X)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:[via]No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Hamlet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.
Each No Fear Shakespeare contains
- The complete text of the original play
- A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language
- A complete list of characters with descriptions
- Plenty of helpful commentary
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- Hamlet: ISBN 1586638440 (1-58663-844-0)
Softcover, Spark Pub Group - Hamlet: ISBN 1853260096 (1-85326-009-6)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited - Hamlet: ISBN 1854596209 (1-85459-620-9)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group - Hamlet: ISBN 1904271332 (1-904271-33-2)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare - Hamlet: ISBN 1411400348 (1-4114-0034-8)
Hardcover, Spark Pub Group - Hamlet: ISBN 0877208018 (0-87720-801-8)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc - Hamlet: ISBN 0881030236 (0-88103-023-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Hamlet: ISBN 8437610974 (84-376-1097-4)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones - Hamlet: ISBN 9706660488 (970-666-048-8)
Softcover, Grupo Editorial Tomo - Hamlet: ISBN 8481301124 (84-8130-112-4)
Softcover, Bibliotex - Hamlet: ISBN 987550629X (987-550-629-X)
Softcover, Longseller S.A. - Hamlet: ISBN 2080707620 (2-08-070762-0)
Hardcover, GF-Flammarion - Hamlet: ISBN 140220776X (1-4022-0776-X)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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Hamletby Harold JenkinsISBN 1903436672 (1-903436-67-2)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of Hamlet provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts. [via]
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Geniusby Dave EggersISBN 1568959095 (1-56895-909-5)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'Book summary:Dave Eggers is a terrifically talented writer; don't hold his cleverness against him. What to make of a book called A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Based on a True Story? For starters, there's a good bit of staggering genius before you even get to the true story, including a preface, a list of "Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of This Book," and a 20-page acknowledgements section complete with special mail-in offer, flow chart of the book's themes, and a lovely pen-and-ink drawing of a stapler (helpfully labeled "Here is a drawing of a stapler:").
But on to the true story. At the age of 22, Eggers became both an orphan and a "single mother" when his parents died within five months of one another of unrelated cancers. In the ensuing sibling division of labor, Dave is appointed unofficial guardian of his 8-year-old brother, Christopher. The two live together in semi-squalor, decaying food and sports equipment scattered about, while Eggers worries obsessively about child-welfare authorities, molesting babysitters, and his own health. His child-rearing strategy swings between making his brother's upbringing manically fun and performing bizarre developmental experiments on him. (Case in point: his idea of suitable bedtime reading is John Hersey's Hiroshima.)
The book is also, perhaps less successfully, about being young and hip and out to conquer the world (in an ironic, media-savvy, Gen-X way, naturally). In the early '90s, Eggers was one of the founders of the very funny Might Magazine, and he spends a fair amount of time here on Might, the hipster culture of San Francisco's South Park, and his own efforts to get on to MTV's Real World. This sort of thing doesn't age very well--but then, Eggers knows that. There's no criticism you can come up with that he hasn't put into A.H.W.O.S.G. already. "The book thereafter is kind of uneven," he tells us regarding the contents after page 109, and while that's true, it's still uneven in a way that is funny and heartfelt and interesting.
All this self-consciousness could have become unbearably arch. It's a testament to Eggers's skill as a writer--and to the heartbreaking particulars of his story--that it doesn't. Currently the editor of the footnote-and-marginalia-intensive journal McSweeney's (the last issue featured an entire story by David Foster Wallace printed tinily on its spine), Eggers comes from the most media-saturated generation in history--so much so that he can't feel an emotion without the sense that it's already been felt for him. What may seem like postmodern noodling is really just Eggers writing about pain in the only honest way available to him. Oddly enough, the effect is one of complete sincerity, and--especially in its concluding pages--this memoir as metafiction is affecting beyond all rational explanation. --Mary Park [via]
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Hiroshima Forever: The Ecology of Mourningby Michael PerlmanISBN 1886449147 (1-886449-14-7)
Hardcover, Barrytown/ Station Hill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hiroshima Forever: The Ecology of Mourning'Book summary:Hiroshima Forever insists that our capacity to open to the sorrows of others is paradoxically the only way to heal and protect ourselves. It consists of twelve profoundly thought-provoking essays in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including "The Speaking of Hiroshima," "The Forgetfulness of Group Memory," "The Art of Memory;'Rules for Mourning',""Eyes of Hiroshima," and "The Trees of Hiroshima." [via]
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Hoodby Emma DonoghueISBN 1555834531 (1-55583-453-1)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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A Jewish Book of Comfortby Alan A. KayISBN 0876685890 (0-87668-589-0)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Jewish Meditations on the Meaning of Deathby Chaim Z. RozwaskiISBN 1568210817 (1-56821-081-7)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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The Jewish Mourner's Book of Whyby Alfred J. KolatchISBN 0824603826 (0-8246-0382-6)
Softcover, Jonathan David Pub
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The Jewish Way in Death and Mourningby Maurice LammISBN 0824604229 (0-8246-0422-9)
Softcover, Jonathan David Pub
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Kaddishby Leon WieseltierISBN 0375703624 (0-375-70362-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kaddish'Book summary:Leon Wieseltier's Kaddish is a completely new kind of book. It is not quite philosophy, autobiography, history, or Midrash, but it blends all of these genres into a narrative of Wieseltier's grief during the year following his father's death. Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, is a mostly unobservant Jew whose grief compelled him to observe his religion's rituals of mourning, daily attending synagogue to recite the Kaddish (the traditional Jewish prayers of mourning). He also delved deeply into a vast range of texts describing the history and spiritual significance of these prayers. And he wrote incessantly, describing with force and clarity the process of bringing his mind and heart to bear on the grief that consumed him. Perhaps the best way of describing this moving, illuminating, hopeful, awe-filled book is to quote a stray line from the first page of the book's first chapter: "Out of tears, thoughts." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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LA Chambre Claireby Roland BarthesISBN 207020541X (2-07-020541-X)
Softcover, Midwest European Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Chambre Claire'Book summary:Suite de petits essais de Roland Barthes sur la photographie. [via]
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Living a Year of Kaddishby Ari GoldmanISBN 0805211314 (0-8052-1131-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Longing for Dawn: Inspiration and Consolationby Yaakov Yisrael BaifusISBN 0873067193 (0-87306-719-3)
Hardcover, Feldheim Pub
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The Lovely Bonesby Alice SeboldISBN 159413023X (1-59413-023-X)
Softcover, Thorndike Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lovely Bones: A Novel'Book summary:On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case.
As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams", where "there were no teachers... We never had to go inside except for art class... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue".
The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow".
Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons, Amazon.com [via]
Mourning in Halachahby GolgbergISBN 0899061710 (0-89906-171-0)
Hardcover, Mesorah Pubns Ltd
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Necropolis: London and Its Deadby Catharine ArnoldISBN 1416502483 (1-4165-0248-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Necropolis: London and Its Dead'Book summary:[via]London is a city literally built upon its dead: the Houses of Parliament sit on the edge of a former plague pit, and subway tunnels were driven through forgotten catacombs thick with bones. Utilizing archaeology, anthropology, anecdote, and history, this gloriously macabre tour explores the presence of death in Londoners' lives and the changes in burial rites through two millennia of English history. The citys greatest disastersincluding the Great Fire and the Black Plagueare analyzed in regards to their massive impacts on the living and the dead, while the resting places of several thousand Londoners are highlighted as a means of examining population growth and city development. Implicitly entwined with the passing of generations is the transformation of an entire population; death effects how and where future generations live. From Roman burial ceremonies to the more recent passing of Princess Diana, this unique history leaves no headstone unturned.
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The Next Placeby Warren HansonISBN 0931674328 (0-931674-32-8)
Hardcover, Waldman House Pr
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The Origin of German Tragic Dramaby Walter Benjamin, John OsbourneISBN 1859844138 (1-85984-413-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of German Tragic Drama'Book summary:In this text, the author offers a theoretical introduction to the nature of the baroque art of the 16th and 17th centuries, concentrating on the "Trauerspiel". He also comments on the engravings of Durer and the theatre of Calderon and Shakepeare. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. [via]
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Paulaby Isabel AllendeISBN 8401423635 (84-01-42363-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paula'Book summary:Paula es el libro más conmovedor, más personal y más íntimo de Isabel Allende. Junto al lecho en que moría su hija Paula, la gran narradora chilena escribió la historia de su familia y de si misma con el propósito de regalársela a Paula cuando ésta superara la enfermedad. [via]
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The Pilot's Wifeby Anita ShreveISBN 1568951469 (1-56895-146-9)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilot's Wife'Book summary:With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve now offers a skillfully crafted exploration of the long reach of tragedy in The Pilot's Wife. News of Jack Lyons's fatal crash sends his wife into shock and emotional numbness:
Kathryn wished she could manage a coma. Instead, it seemed that quite the opposite had happened: She felt herself to be inside of a private weather system, one in which she was continuously tossed and buffeted by bits of news and information, sometimes chilled by thoughts of what lay immediately ahead, thawed by the kindness of others ... frequently drenched by memories that seemed to have no regard for circumstance or place, and then subjected to the nearly intolerable heat of reporters, photographers and curious on-lookers. It was a weather system with no logic, she had decided, no pattern, no progression, no form.
The situation becomes even more dire when the plane's black box is recovered, pinning responsibility for the crash on Jack. In an attempt to clear his name, Kathryn searches for any and all clues to the hours before the flight. Yet each discovery forces her to realize that she didn't know her husband of 16 years at all. Shreve's complex and highly convincing treatment of Kathryn's dilemma, coupled with intriguing minor characters and an expertly paced plot, makes The Pilot's Wife really take off. [via] -
A Prayer for Owen Meanyby John Irving, Diane PodnarISBN 1560774142 (1-56077-414-2)
Softcover, Center for Learning
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The Seaby John BanvilleISBN 1400097029 (1-4000-9702-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sea'Book summary:Incandescent prose. Beautifully textured characterisation. Transparent narratives. The adjectives to describe the writing of John Banville are all affirmative, and The Sea is a ringing affirmation of all his best qualities. His publishers are claiming that this novel by the Booker-shortlisted author is his finest yet, and while that claim may have an element of hyperbole, there is no denying that this perfectly balanced book is among the writers most accomplished work.
Max Morden has reached a crossroads in his life, and is trying hard to deal with several disturbing things. A recent loss is still taking its toll on him, and a trauma in his past is similarly proving hard to deal with. He decides that he will return to a town on the coast at which he spent a memorable holiday when a boy. His memory of that time devolves on the charismatic Grace family, particularly the seductive twins Myles and Chloe. In a very short time, Max found himself drawn into a strange relationship with them, and pursuant events left their mark on him for the rest of his life. But will he be able to exorcise those memories of the past?
The fashion in which John Banville draws the reader into this hypnotic and disturbing world is non pareil, and the very complex relationships between his brilliantly delineated cast of characters are orchestrated with a masters skill. As in such books as Shroud and The Book of Evidence, the author eschews the obvious at all times, and the narrative is delivered with subtlety and understatement. The genuine moments of drama, when they do occur, are commensurately more powerful. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Shell Shakerby Leanne HoweISBN 1879960613 (1-879960-61-3)
Softcover, Aunt Lute Books
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The Shipping Newsby Annie ProulxISBN 1568950691 (1-56895-069-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shipping News'Book summary:In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's not brilliant or witty or talented, and he's not the kind of person who typically assumes the central position in a novel. But Proulx creates a simple and compelling tale of Quoyle's psychological and spiritual growth. Along the way, we get to look in on the maritime beauty of what is probably a disappearing way of life. [via]
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Stayby Nicola GriffithISBN 140003230X (1-4000-3230-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stay'Book summary:Devastated by her lover's death in a slaying that was her fault, Aud Torvingen has sequestered herself in an isolated Appalachian cabin she's painstakingly rebuilding. Grief is Aud's only companion--a grief so acutely and powerfully evoked that it's almost another character in this brilliant and multifaceted novel. Reluctantly drawn back to the world by her oldest friend, whose fiancée has gone missing, Aud agrees to investigate, and quickly tracks the missing Tammy Foster to a Soho loft. She also finds Geordie Karp, the psychopath who turned Tammy into a sexual and psychological slave and has already chosen his next victim, a 12-year-old girl who's been smuggled into the country and sold to Karp.
Stopping Karp, a task for which Aud is uniquely suited, tests her strength and her sanity; by transforming her grief into vengeance, she's forced to come to terms with the violence and brutality that are as central to her character as tenderness, sensuality, and vulnerability. Tautly plotted and pulsating with energy, this is a novel that won't let go, alternately searing and shocking as well as soaring with lyrical prose that's close to poetry in places. Aud, Nicola Griffith's complex protagonist who made her first appearance in The Blue Place, is never less than compelling in this stunning sequel. --Jane Adams [via]
Suicide in Rabbinic Literatureby Sidney GoldsteinISBN 088125147X (0-88125-147-X)
Hardcover, Ktav Pub Inc
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The Thirteenth Taleby Diane SetterfieldISBN 158547892X (1-58547-892-X)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thirteenth Tale'Book summary:Settle down to enjoy a rousing good ghost story with Diane Setterfield's debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale. Setterfield has rejuvenated the genre with this closely plotted, clever foray into a world of secrets, confused identities, lies, and half-truths. She never cheats by pulling a rabbit out of a hat; this atmospheric story hangs together perfectly.
There are two heroines here: Vida Winter, a famous author, whose life story is coming to an end, and Margaret Lea, a young, unworldly, bookish girl who is a bookseller in her father's shop. Vida has been confounding her biographers and fans for years by giving everybody a different version of her life, each time swearing it's the truth. Because of a biography that Margaret has written about brothers, Vida chooses Margaret to tell her story, all of it, for the first time. At their initial meeting, the conversation begins:
"You have given nineteen different versions of your life story to journalists in the last two years alone."
She [Vida] shrugged. "It's my profession. I'm a storyteller."
"I am a biographer, I work with facts."
The game is afoot and Margaret must spend some time sorting out whether or not Vida is actually ready to tell the whole truth. There is more here of Margaret discovering than of Vida cooperating wholeheartedly, but that is part of Vida's plan. The transformative power of truth informs the lives of both women by story's end, and The Thirteenth Tale is finally and convincingly told. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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To Comfort the Bereaved: A Guide for Mourners and Those Who Visit Themby Aaron LevineISBN 1568211090 (1-56821-109-0)
Hardcover, Bravo, Limited
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To Walk in God's Ways: Jewish Pastoral Perspectives on Illness and Bereavementby Joseph S. OzarowskiISBN 1568213883 (1-56821-388-3)
Hardcover, Bravo, Limited
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William ShakespeareISBN 1421813459 (1-4218-1345-9)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'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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Walking With Ghosts: Poemsby Qwo-li DriskillISBN 1844711137 (1-84471-113-7)
Softcover, Salt Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walking With Ghosts: Poems'Book summary:Written from a contemporary Cherokee, Queer and mixed-race experience, these poems confront a legacy of land-theft, genocide, and forced removal, and resist ongoing attacks on both Indigenous and Gay/ Lesbian/ Bisexual /Transgender communities. Tender, startling, confrontational and erotic, this book honors the dead and brings the survivors back home. [via]
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Why?: Reflections on the Loss of a Loved Oneby Charles Wengrov, Yitzchak VorstISBN 0873065255 (0-87306-525-5)
Softcover, Feldheim Pub
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Wisdom of Dying: Practices for Livingby N. Michael MurphyISBN 1862045798 (1-86204-579-8)
Hardcover, Element Books Ltd
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The Year of Magical Thinkingby Joan DidionISBN 1400078431 (1-4000-7843-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Year of Magical Thinking'Book summary:From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage-and a life, in good times and bad-that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later-the night before New Year's Eve-the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." [via]
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Desde Mi Cieloby Alise CebollISBN 1400059453 (1-4000-5945-3)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desde Mi Cielo'Book summary:From her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by a murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously,we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished. Sebold creates a heaven that's calm and comforting, a place whose residents can have whatever they enjoyed when they were alive and then some.
But Susie isn't ready to release her hold on life just yet, and she intensely watches her family and friends as they struggle to cope with a reality in which she is no longer a part. [via]More editions of Desde Mi Cielo:
Desde Mi Cielo/from My Skyby Alice SeboldISBN 9685960356 (968-5960-35-6)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Elegias De Duino Los / Sonetos a Orfeo / Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheusby Rainer M¬ RilkeISBN 843760687X (84-376-0687-X)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Las Olasby Virginia WolfISBN 8472238962 (84-7223-896-2)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Las Olas'Book summary:Desde 1931, año de su publicación, Las olas ha sido considerada una de las obras capitales del siglo XX, tanto por la original belleza de su prosa como por la perfección de su revolucionaria técnica narrativa. [via]
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Oracion Por Owen / A Prayer for Owen Meanyby John IrvingISBN 8472231267 (84-7223-126-7)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Paulaby Not AvailableISBN 849759388X (84-9759-388-X)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paula'Book summary:Paula es el libro más conmovedor, más personal y más íntimo de Isabel Allende. Junto al lecho en que moría su hija Paula, la gran narradora chilena escribió la historia de su familia y de si misma con el propósito de regalársela a Paula cuando ésta superara la enfermedad. [via]
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De Elegieen Van Duino 1912/1922: Een Duits-Nederlandse Uitgave Van De Duineser Elegienby Rainer Maria Rilke, W. J. M. BronzwaerISBN 9026304056 (90-263-0405-6)
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