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  2010: Odyssey Two
  

  by Arthur Clarke

  ISBN 0517485974 (0-517-48597-4)
  Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

  
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  The 25th Hour
  

  by David Benioff

  ISBN 0452282950 (0-452-28295-0)
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA

  
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  The Adventures of Oliver Twist
  

  by Charles Dickens, Steven Connor

  ISBN 046087490X (0-460-87490-X)
  Softcover, Tuttle Pub

  
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  One of a series of classic novels. [via]

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    Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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  Ambush at Corellia
  

  by Roger MacBride Allen

  ISBN 0553298038 (0-553-29803-8)
  Softcover, Bantam Books

  
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  Billy Bathgate
  

  by E.L. Doctorow

  ISBN 0452280028 (0-452-28002-8)
  Softcover, Plume

  
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  • Billy Bathgate: ISBN 0517064561 (0-517-06456-1)
    Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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  The Bourne Ultimatum
  

  by Robert Ludlum

  ISBN 0553287737 (0-553-28773-7)
  Softcover, Bantam Books

  
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  The Bourne Ultimatum [Mass Market Paperback] Robert Ludlum (Author) [via]

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  The Clan of the Cave Bear
  

  by Jean M. Auel

  ISBN 0553250426 (0-553-25042-6)
  Softcover, Bantam Books

  
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  When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.

  Although Jean Auel obviously takes certain liberties with the actions and motivations of all our ancestors, her extensive research into the Ice Age does shine through--especially in the detailed knowledge of plants and natural remedies used by the medicine woman and passed down to Ayla. Mostly, though, this first in the series of four is a wonderful story of survival. Ayla's personal evolution is a compelling and relevant tale. --Sara Nickerson [via]

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  • The Clan of the Cave Bear: ISBN 0553381679 (0-553-38167-9)
    Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
  • The Clan of the Cave Bear: ISBN 0517189186 (0-517-18918-6)
    Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
  • The Clan of the Cave Bear: ISBN 0517542021 (0-517-54202-1)
    Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
  • The Clan of the Cave Bear: ISBN 0553250426 (0-553-25042-6)
    Softcover, Bantam Books
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  The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells
  

  by H. G. Wells

  ISBN 051726188X (0-517-26188-X)
  Hardcover

  
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  Great collection of 7 science fiction novels by H.G. Wells... [via]

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  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  

  by Robert Louis Stevenson

  ISBN 0460017675 (0-460-01767-5)
  Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

  
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  The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.

  This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.

  This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]

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  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 055321277X (0-553-21277-X)
    Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
  • DR. JEKYLL and MR. HYD: ISBN 0553212001 (0-553-21200-1)
    Softcover, Bantam Books
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories: ISBN 0460017675 (0-460-01767-5)
    Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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  El Doctor Zhivago / The Doctor Zhivago
  

  by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

  ISBN 0472717960 (0-472-71796-0)
  Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr

  
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  Fantastic Voyage
  

  by Isaac Asimov

  ISBN 0553275720 (0-553-27572-0)
  Softcover, Bantam Books

  
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  Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic sub through a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in his brain. If they fail, the entire world will be doomed. [via]

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  Fountainhead
  

  by Ayn Rand

  ISBN 0452273331 (0-452-27333-1)
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA

  
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  An early Ayn Rand novel about perseverance and determination . [via]

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  • Fountainhead: ISBN 0452286379 (0-452-28637-9)
    Softcover, Plume
  • Fountainhead: ISBN 0452286751 (0-452-28675-1)
    Hardcover, Plume
  • Fountainhead: ISBN 0452283760 (0-452-28376-0)
    Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
  • Fountainhead: ISBN 0452273331 (0-452-27333-1)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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  The House of Mirth
  

  by Edith Wharton

  ISBN 0486420493 (0-486-42049-3)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.

  One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.

  Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]

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  • The House of Mirth: ISBN 0553213202 (0-553-21320-2)
    Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
  • The House of Mirth: ISBN 0486420493 (0-486-42049-3)
    Softcover, Dover Pubns
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  Jane Austen
  

  by Jane Austen

  ISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
  Hardcover, Grammercy

  
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  Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]

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  Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 1997
  

  by Leonard Maltin, Alvin H. Marill, Bill Warren, Rob Edelman, Mike Clark, Luke Sader, Cathleen Anderson, Spencer Green

  ISBN 0452276810 (0-452-27681-0)
  Softcover, Penguin USA

  
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  Book summary:

  With 300 new movie entries, 1,000 more on videocassette, and laser disc listings, an enlarged index of leading performers and directors, and an updated list of mail-order sources, the 1997 edition of this perennial bestseller continues to be a "must" for every movie buff's bookshelf. The popular reference contains more than 19,000 capsule film reviews, including 300 new entries. Maltin also lists his top 100 films for family viewing. [via]

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  Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 1999
  

  by Leonard Maltin

  ISBN 0452279925 (0-452-27992-5)
  Softcover, Penguin USA

  
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  Widely acclaimed as the biggest, best, and most authoritative book in its field, "Leonard Maltin's 1999 Movie & Video Guide" is the quintessential guidebook to the movies. The author has added some 400 new film entries, bringing the total to more than 19,000, and kept pace with video and laserdisc releases, adding more than 1,000 listings in those categories.

  Additional features include:
  -- Updated and expanded indexes of leading performers and directors, listing their films reviewed in the book
  -- Updated mail-order sources for purchase/rental of videocassettes and laser discs
  -- Write-ups on every vintage film series, from Charlie Chart to Tarzan
  -- Notes on widescreen films that are best seen in letter-box format
  -- Leonard Maltin's selections of the 100 best films for family viewing

  After 28 years in publication, "Leonard Maltin's 1999 Movie & Video Guide" continues to be the leading film guide on the market. More than four million copies have been sold. [via]

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  Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2000
  

  by Leonard Maltin

  ISBN 0452281237 (0-452-28123-7)
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA

  
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  Through the years, Leonard Maltin has become one of the leading authorities on American film. The latest edition of his overwhelmingly popular movie and video guide includes:
  -- Capsule reviews of more than 20,000 films, including more than 300 new entries
  -- Easy-to-read symbols indicating more than 14,000 listings of films available on video, 8,000 listings of films available on laser disc, and more than 1,000 available DVDs
  -- An updated list of mail-order sources for renting and buying videocassettes and discs
  -- A special feature for the year 2000 -- Leonard Maltin's own list of the twentieth century's 100 "must see" movies. [via]

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  Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2001
  

  by Leonard Maltin, Cathleen Anderson

  ISBN 0452281873 (0-452-28187-3)
  Softcover, Penguin USA

  
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  From Leonard Maltin, one of the leading authorities on American film, comes the latest edition of his enormously popular movie and video guide. Key features of this 2001 edition include:
  -- Reviews of more than 20,000 films -- 300 new entries
  -- Easy-to-read symbols indicating more than 15,000 films available on video -- including 1,000 new entries
  -- Over 8,000 listings of films available on laser disc -- and more than 2,000 available on DVD
  -- A revised index of leading actors and actresses
  -- An updated list of mail-order sources for renting and buying videocassettes and discs
  -- Maltin's exclusive list of the best family films of all time ... and much, much more. [via]

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  Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2002
  

  by Leonard Maltin

  ISBN 0452282837 (0-452-28283-7)
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA

  
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  Book summary:

  This guide offers more than 19,000 capsule movie reviews, with over 300 new entries. The listings include videocassette, laserdisc and DVD films, and provide official motion picture code ratings. The guide also includes reviews of little-known sleepers, foreign films, rarities and camp classics, vintage movie series from Charlie Chan to Tarzan and a list of the all-time best family films. [via]

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  Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2003
  

  by Leonard Maltin

  ISBN 0452283299 (0-452-28329-9)
  Softcover, Penguin USA

  
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  With over 19,000 reviews, including more than 14,000 video entries and 13,000 DVD and laserdisc listings, this work, by the film critic of television's "Entertainment Tonight", aims to be one of the most complete and up-to-date reference works on the subject. Features include: an up-to-date list of mail-order sources for buying renting videocassettes and discs; an index of leading performers; official motion picture code ratings; exact running times - a guide for taping and for discovering which movies have been edited; and reviews of little-known sleepers, foreign films, rarities and camp classics. [via]

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  Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2004
  

  by Leonard Maltin, Alvin H. Marill, Bill Warren, Casey St. Charnez, Rob Edelman, Mike Clark, Luke Sader, Cathleen Anderson, Spencer Green, Michael Scheinfeld, Jerryhj Beck

  ISBN 0452284783 (0-452-28478-3)
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA

  
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  Leonard Maltin is a film critic and resident film buff on USA television's "Entertainment Tonight". This guide presents his insightful criticism and provides an up-to-date listing of movies. It contains more than 18,000 reviews, including over 300 new entries, with over 13,000 video and 8000 DVD and laserdisc listings. It also includes an updated index of leading performers and a list of 50 films you "really ought to see". [via]

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  Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2005
  

  by Leonard Maltin

  ISBN 0452285925 (0-452-28592-5)
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA

  
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  More than 18,000 capsule movie reviews, with more than 300 new entries. [via]

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  Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2006
  

  by Leonard Maltin

  ISBN 0452286999 (0-452-28699-9)
  Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

  
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  Entertainment, Pop Culture, Cinema [via]

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  Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2007
  

  by Leonard Maltin, Luke Sader, Cathleen Anderson

  ISBN 0452287561 (0-452-28756-1)
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA

  
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  Les Liaisons Dangereuses
  

  by Choderlos De Laclos, Ernest Christopher Dowson

  ISBN 048645245X (0-486-45245-X)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  Book summary:

  A series of intimate letters chronicles the amorous adventures of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont  rivals who use their bodies as weapons in the war of the sexes. Set in the final days of the ancien régime, the novel paints a revealing portrait of aristocratic decadence.

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  • Les Liaisons Dangereuses: ISBN 0553213725 (0-553-21372-5)
    Softcover, Bantam Books
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  A Little Princess
  

  by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert Blaisdell, Thea Kliros

  ISBN 0486291715 (0-486-29171-5)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  When Sara's privileged status at her boarding school comes to an abrupt end, the former favorite finds herself penniless and at the mercy of a vindictive headmistress. This Victorian-era tale's use of imagination and generosity to make the best of life and losses remains a source of inspiration and enchantment.

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  • A Little Princess: ISBN 0486414469 (0-486-41446-9)
    Softcover, Dover Pubns
  • A Little Princess: ISBN 053116991X (0-531-16991-X)
    Hardcover, Franklin Watts
  • A Little Princess: ISBN 0553212036 (0-553-21203-6)
    Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
  • A Little Princess: ISBN 0517014807 (0-517-01480-7)
    Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
  • A Little Princess: ISBN 0486291715 (0-486-29171-5)
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  Macbeth
  

  by William Shakespeare, John F. Andrews

  ISBN 046087182X (0-460-87182-X)
  Softcover, Everyman

  
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  Dark and bloody drama of ambition, guilt, and revenge centers on an ambitious Scottish nobleman who murders the king in order to succeed to the throne. Tortured by his conscience and fearful of discovery, he becomes fatally enmeshed in a web of treachery and deceit that spells his doom. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

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  • Macbeth: ISBN 0486278026 (0-486-27802-6)
    Softcover, Dover Pubns
  • Macbeth: ISBN 052129455X (0-521-29455-X)
    Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
  • Macbeth: ISBN 0521606861 (0-521-60686-1)
    Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
  • Macbeth: ISBN 0553212982 (0-553-21298-2)
    Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
  • Macbeth: ISBN 0521094860 (0-521-09486-0)
    Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
  • Macbeth: ISBN 0521426219 (0-521-42621-9)
    Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
  • Macbeth: ISBN 046087182X (0-460-87182-X)
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  Mansfield Park
  

  by Jane Austen

  ISBN 0486415856 (0-486-41585-6)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  Book summary:

  Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.

  Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]

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  • Mansfield Park: ISBN 0521827655 (0-521-82765-5)
    Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
  • Mansfield Park: ISBN 046087294X (0-460-87294-X)
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  A Midsummer Night's Dream
  

  by William Shakespeare

  ISBN 048627067X (0-486-27067-X)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  A new section of the Introduction to this updated edition considers important professional theater productions and the large output of scholarly criticism on the play which have appeared in recent years. The Reading List has been revised and augmented to reflect the scope of the revised edition. First Edition Hb (1985): 0-521-22194-3 First Edition Pb (1985): 0-521-29389-8 [via]

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    Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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    Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0521618711 (0-521-61871-1)
    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 046087246X (0-460-87246-X)
    Softcover, Everymans Library
  • 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 0517054493 (0-517-05449-3)
    Hardcover, David R Godine Pub
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0521445604 (0-521-44560-4)
    Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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  A Midsummer Night's Dream
  

  by Linda Buckle, Paul Kelley

  ISBN 0521409047 (0-521-40904-7)
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

  
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  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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  My Antonia
  

  by Willa Cather

  ISBN 0486282406 (0-486-28240-6)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  "The best thing I've done is My Antonia ," recalled Willa Cather. "I feel I've made a contribution to American letters with that book." Ántonia Shimerda returns to Black Hawk, Nebraska, to make a fresh start after eloping with a railway conductor following the tragic death of her father. Accustomed to living in a sod house and toiling alongside the men in the fields, she is unprepared for the lecherous reaction her lush sensuality provokes when she moves to the city. Despite betrayal and crushing opposition, Ántonia steadfastly pursues her quest for happiness-a moving struggle that mirrors the quiet drama of the American landscape. [via]

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    Softcover, Tuttle Pub
  • My Antonia: ISBN 0486282406 (0-486-28240-6)
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  Oliver Twist
  

  by Charles Dickens

  ISBN 0486424537 (0-486-42453-7)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  Classic American Literature, Literary Studies [via]

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  • Oliver Twist: ISBN 0517606119 (0-517-60611-9)
    Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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  The Postman
  

  by David Brin

  ISBN 0553278746 (0-553-27874-6)
  Softcover, Bantam Books

  
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  Gordon Krantz survived the Doomwar only to spend years crossing a post-apocalypse United States looking for something or someone he could believe in again. Ironically, when he's inadvertently forced to assume the made-up role of a "Restored United States" postal inspector, he becomes the very thing he's been seeking: a symbol of hope and rebirth for a desperate nation. Gordon goes through the motions of establishing a new postal route in the Pacific Northwest, uniting secluded towns and enclaves that are starved for communication with the rest of the world. And even though inside he feels like a fraud, eventually he will have to stand up for the new society he's helping to build or see it destroyed by fanatic survivalists. This classic reprint is not one of David Brin's best books, but the moving story he presents overcomes mediocre writing and contrived plots. [via]

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  • The Postman: ISBN 0553051075 (0-553-05107-5)
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  Ragtime
  

  by E.L. Doctorow

  ISBN 0452279070 (0-452-27907-0)
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA

  
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  An account of the interrelated lives of the families of a New Rochelle manufacturer, an immigrant socialist, and a Harlem musician and their involvements with period notables is set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century American history. Reprint. [via]

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  • Ragtime: ISBN 0553010409 (0-553-01040-9)
    Hardcover, Bantam Books
  • Ragtime: ISBN 0452279070 (0-452-27907-0)
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  Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
  

  by Robert Rodriguez

  ISBN 0525937943 (0-525-93794-3)
  Hardcover, Penguin USA

  
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  Room With a View
  

  by Foester. E.M.

  ISBN 0486284670 (0-486-28467-0)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England.
  
  A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson-who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist-Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion.
  
  The enduring delight of this tale of romantic intrigue is rooted in Forster's colorful characters, including outrageous spinsters, pompous clergymen, and outspoken patriots. Written in 1908, A Room with a View is one of E. M. Forster's earliest and most celebrated works. [via]

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  Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream
  

  by Arthur Rackham

  ISBN 0486428338 (0-486-42833-8)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  Shakespeare's romantic comedy takes on a new and vivid life with these brilliant images by one of the 20th century's leading illustrators. This faithful reprint rivals the limited and first editions of 1908. Includes the complete text of the play, along with 40 full-color and numerous black-and-white illustrations. [via]

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  Sometimes a Great Notion
  

  by Ken Kesey

  ISBN 0553238310 (0-553-23831-0)
  Softcover, Bantam Books

  
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  Sophie's Choice
  

  by William Styron

  ISBN 0553277499 (0-553-27749-9)
  Softcover, Bantam Books

  
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  Star Wars
  

  by Kathy Tyers

  ISBN 0553568728 (0-553-56872-8)
  Softcover, Bantam Books

  
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  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  

  by Robert Louis Stevenson

  ISBN 0486266885 (0-486-26688-5)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.

  This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.

  This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]

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    Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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  Terminator 2
  

  by Randall Frakes

  ISBN 0553291696 (0-553-29169-6)
  Softcover, Bantam Books

  
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  Thinner
  

  by Richard Bachman

  ISBN 0453004687 (0-453-00468-7)
  Hardcover, New Amer Library

  
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  Thinner' - the old gypsy man barely whispers the word. Billy feels the touch of a withered hand on his cheek. 'Thinner' - the word, the old man's curse, has lodged in Billy's mind like a fattening worm, eating at his flesh, at his reason. And with his despair, comes violence [via]

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  The Thorn Birds
  

  by Colleen McCullough

  ISBN 0517201658 (0-517-20165-8)
  Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

  
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  To Sir, With Love
  

  by Edward Ricardo Braithwaite

  ISBN 0515105198 (0-515-10519-8)
  Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

  
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  Truce at Bakura
  

  by Kathleen M. Tyers

  ISBN 0517154803 (0-517-15480-3)
  Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

  
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  The Truce at Bakura
  

  by Kathy Tyers

  ISBN 0553095412 (0-553-09541-2)
  Hardcover, Bantam Books

  
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  Book summary:

  Based on the original "Star Wars" saga, this novel is set in the fateful days following the events in "Return of the Jedi". It plants a seed of hope for peace, sees the formation of a timeless love and stands witness to a Jedi's undying sacrifice to defend humanity against an alien nemesis. [via]

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  Waiting To Exhale
  

  by Terry McMillan

  ISBN 0453007775 (0-453-00777-5)
  Hardcover, Penguin/Highbridge

  
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  The War of the Worlds
  

  by H. G. Wells

  ISBN 0460873032 (0-460-87303-2)
  Softcover, Everyman

  
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  This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."

  Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]

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    Softcover, Dover Pubns
  • The War of the Worlds: ISBN 0486419371 (0-486-41937-1)
    Softcover, Dover Pubns
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    Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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    Softcover, Everyman