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2nd Chanceby James PattersonISBN 1417619449 (1-4176-1944-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: '2nd Chance'Book summary:2nd Chance reconvenes the Women's Murder Club, four friends (a detective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner) who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles to solve a baffling series of murders in 1st to Die. This time, the murders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all the signs of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of San Francisco's homicide squad. But there's an odd detail she finds even more disturbing: both victims were related to city cops. A symbol glimpsed at both murder scenes leads to a racist hate group, but the taunting killer strikes again and again, leaving deliberate clues and eluding the police ever more cleverly. In the meantime, each of the women has a personal stake at risk--and the killer knows who they are.
2nd Chance speeds along at a Formula One pace through many tight curves, but unlike recent entries in the Alex Cross series, it doesn't sacrifice good characters to a twisted plot. Lindsay's the star, but there's a fine esprit de corps among the four women, who are even better developed here than in the first book. What makes them both convincing and interesting as a criminal-justice juggernaut is their willingness to stick their necks out, even if they suffer for it. If you haven't picked up a James Patterson novel in a while, this is a great time to start anew. --Barrie Trinkle [via]
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"A" is for Alibiby Sue GraftonISBN 0805013342 (0-8050-1334-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: '"A" is for Alibi'Book summary:274 p. 21 cm. First edition, second printing. First in the series. Dust jacket. [via]
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Bernie Wrightson's Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bernie WrightsonISBN 0887331939 (0-88733-193-9)
Softcover, Underwood Books
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Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bernie WrightsonISBN 0887331947 (0-88733-194-7)
Hardcover, Underwood Books
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Black Dahlia Avenger: The True StoryISBN 1559706643 (1-55970-664-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Body of Evidenceby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 0743493915 (0-7434-9391-5)
Softcover, Pocket Star
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Body of Evidence'Book summary:Following POSTMORTEM, a second novel from this author featuring Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Officer, who in this story investigates the murder of a woman but puts her own life in danger in the process. [via]
A Caribbean Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0816145385 (0-8161-4538-5)
Softcover, G.K. Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Caribbean Mystery'Book summary:As Miss Marple sits in the Carribbean sun, pondering how nothing ever happens here, her attention is aroused by an old soldier's story about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he is about to show her an astonsihing photograph, his mind begins to wander, and he doesn't finish the story. [via]
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Cliffscomplete Shelley's Frankensteinby Stephen C. BehrendtISBN 0764587269 (0-7645-8726-9)
Softcover, Cliff Notes
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffscomplete Shelley's Frankenstein'Book summary:In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.[via]CliffsComplete Frankenstein is certainly Mary Shelleys greatest literary achievement and one of the most complex literary works of all time. Unlike most Romantic writers, Mary Shelley seems interested in the dark, self-destructive side of human reality and the human soul.
Discover how Dr. Frankensteins creation impacts everyone he meets and save yourself valuable studying time all at once. Enhance your reading of Frankenstein with these additional features:
- A summary and insightful commentary for each chapter
- Bibliography and historical background on the author, Mary Shelley
- A look at the historical context and structure of the novel
- Discussions on the novels symbols and themes
- A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
- Review questions, a quiz, discussion topics (essay questions), activity ideas
- A ResourceCenter full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites
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Cloud Of Witnessesby Jim Wallis, Joyce HollydayISBN 0883447398 (0-88344-739-8)
Softcover, Orbis Books
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Clouds of Witness: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteryby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0792714350 (0-7927-1435-0)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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Dearly Devoted Dexterby Jeff LindsayISBN 1400095921 (1-4000-9592-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dearly Devoted Dexter'Book summary:Lifes tough for Dexter Morgan. Its not easy being the worlds only serial killer with a conscience, especially when you work for the Miami police. To avoid suspicion, Dexters had to slip deep into his disguise: spending time with his girlfriend and her kids, slowly becoming the worlds first serial killing couch potato. Then a particularly nasty psychopath starts cutting a trail through Miami a killer whose twisted techniques leave even Dexter speechless. When his sister Deborah, a tough-as-nails cop, is drawn into the case, it becomes clear that Dexter will have to do come out of hiding and hunt the monster down. Unless, of course, the killer finds him first. . . [via]
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Deception Pointby Dan BrownISBN 1416524800 (1-4165-2480-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deception Point'Book summary:Penzler Pick, December 2001: In the world of page-turning thrillers, Dan Brown holds a special place in the hearts of many of us. After his first book, Digital Fortress, almost passed me by, he wrote Angels and Demons, which was probably one of the half-dozen most exciting thrillers of last year. It is a pleasure to report that his new book lives up to his reputation as a writer whose research and talent make his stories exciting, believable, and just plain unputdownable.
The time is now and President Zachary Herney is facing a very tough reelection. His opponent, Senator Sedgwick Sexton, is a powerful man with powerful friends and a mission: to reduce NASA's spending and move space exploration into the private sector. He has numerous supporters, including many beyond the businesses who will profit from this because of the embarrassment of 1996, when the Clinton administration was informed by NASA that proof existed of life on other planets. That information turned out to be premature, if not incorrect. (This story is true; I repeat, Dan Brown's research is very, very good.) The embattled president is assured that a rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice will prove to have far-reaching implications on America's space program. The find, however, needs to be verified.
Enter Rachel Sexton, a gister for the National Reconnaissance Office. Gisters reduce complex reports into single-page briefs, and in this case the president needs that confirmation before he broadcasts to the nation, probably ensuring his reelection. It's tricky because Rachel is the daughter of his opponent. Rachel is thrilled to be on the team traveling to the Arctic circle. She is a realist about her father's politics and has little respect for his stand on NASA, but Senator Sexton cannot help but have a problem with her involvement.
Adventure, romance, murder, skullduggery, and nail-biting tension ensue. By the end of Deception Point, the reader will be much better informed about how our space program works and how our politicians react to new information. Bring on the next Dan Brown thriller! --Otto Penzler [via]
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The Demolished Manby Alfred BesterISBN 0824014022 (0-8240-1402-2)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Demolished Man'Book summary:In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn't been heard of in 70 years: murder. That's the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a 10-year death struggle with rival D'Courtney Enterprises. Terrorized in his dreams by The Man With No Face and driven to the edge after D'Courtney refuses a merger offer, Reich murders his rival and bribes a high-ranking telepath to help him cover his tracks. But while police prefect Lincoln Powell knows Reich is guilty, his telepath's knowledge is a far cry from admissible evidence. [via]
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The Essential Frankensteinby Leonard Wolf, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Christopher H. BingISBN 0743498062 (0-7434-9806-2)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Frankenstein'Book summary:Here is the complete original text of Mary Shelley's classic 1816 novel, fully annotated with thousands of fascinating facts and legends. Includes: background on the Romantic spirit that infuses the novel; commentary by leading contemporary writers; a selected filmography of major Frankenstein films; and dozens of illustrations. [via]
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anthony S. AbbottISBN 0812034155 (0-8120-3415-5)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby'Book summary:A guide to reading "The Great Gatsby" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]
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The Familyby Ed SandersISBN 1560253967 (1-56025-396-7)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1561561428 (1-56156-142-8)
Softcover, Kidsbooks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 1566191416 (1-56619-141-6)
Softcover, Dorset Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 1561563099 (1-56156-309-9)
Hardcover, Kidsbooks - Frankenstein: ISBN 1566190916 (1-56619-091-6)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Frankenstein: ISBN 0743487583 (0-7434-8758-3)
Softcover, Pocket Classics - Frankenstein: ISBN 0794500900 (0-7945-0090-0)
Softcover, Edc Pub - Frankenstein: ISBN 0812504577 (0-8125-0457-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 0812551508 (0-8125-5150-8)
Softcover, Tor Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 0883017040 (0-88301-704-0)
Softcover, Xs Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 076660828X (0-7666-0828-X)
Hardcover, Modern Pub - Frankenstein: ISBN 0791093034 (0-7910-9303-4)
Hardcover, Facts on File - Frankenstein: ISBN 0809595168 (0-8095-9516-8)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 0872261972 (0-87226-197-2)
Hardcover, Peter Bedrick Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 0899666930 (0-89966-693-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 074325578X (0-7432-5578-X)
Softcover, Kaplan - Frankenstein: ISBN 0804900191 (0-8049-0019-1)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Frankenstein: ISBN 0811468224 (0-8114-6822-4)
Softcover, Steck-Vaughn Co - Frankenstein: ISBN 0883010976 (0-88301-097-6)
Softcover, Ags Pub - Frankenstein: ISBN 0893754013 (0-89375-401-3)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - Frankenstein: ISBN 0866119817 (0-86611-981-7)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co - Frankenstein: ISBN 0894718827 (0-89471-882-7)
Hardcover, Courage Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 1561561428 (1-56156-142-8)
Softcover, Kidsbooks
- Frankenstein: ISBN 1566191416 (1-56619-141-6)
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Frankensteinby Deanna McFadden, Jamel AkibISBN 140272666X (1-4027-2666-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:[via]Mary Shelleys tragic story of a scientist who created a monster is perhaps even more compelling and meaningful today than when it was written nearly two centuries ago. From the bits and pieces of dead bodies, and the power of electricity, the brilliant Victor Frankenstein fashions a new form of lifeonly to discover, too late, the irreparable damage he has caused.
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Frankensteinby Harold BloomISBN 0791078825 (0-7910-7882-5)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Frankensteinby Mary . ShelleyISBN 1562548980 (1-56254-898-0)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation as it destroys everything Victor loves is a powerful story of love friendship and horror. Grades: 4 - 12. Level(s): Intermediate Middle School High School. Author: Mary Shelly. Binding: Paperback. Publishing Date: Jan 2005. Number of Pages: 61. Language: English. [via]
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Frankenstein (Original 1818 Text)by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1551113082 (1-55111-308-2)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein (Original 1818 Text)'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Clear Print)by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1406821683 (1-4068-2168-3)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Clear Print)'Book summary:This clear print title is set in Tiresias 13pt font for easy reading [via]
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0914061070 (0-914061-07-0)
Softcover, Orchises Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Gaudy Nightby Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 081613040X (0-8161-3040-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 1551113945 (1-55111-394-5)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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- Great Gatsby: ISBN 1417656638 (1-4176-5663-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0743273567 (0-7432-7356-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0891906797 (0-89190-679-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0783812221 (0-7838-1222-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0881030708 (0-88103-070-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0910457050 (0-910457-05-0)
Hardcover, Arion Press - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 091097232X (0-910972-32-X)
Hardcover, Microcard Editions Books - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 1551113945 (1-55111-394-5)
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- Great Gatsby: ISBN 1417656638 (1-4176-5663-8)
Have His Carcaseby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0792715888 (0-7927-1588-8)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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Judgment in Deathby J. D. RobbISBN 0783893353 (0-7838-9335-3)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Judgment in Death'Book summary:In an uptown strip joint, a cop is found bludgeoned to death. The weapons a baseball bat. The motives a mystery. Its a case of serious overkill that pushes Eve Dallas straight into overdrive. Her investigation uncovers a private club thats more than a hot spot. Purgatorys a last chance for atonement where everyone is judged. Where your most intimate fate depends on your most intimate sins. And where one cops hidden secrets are about to plunge innocent souls into vice-ridden damnation& [via]
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Lolitaby Vladimir Nabokov, Edward AlbeeISBN 0822206838 (0-8222-0683-8)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita'Book summary:Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.
Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:
She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.
Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguistic jouissance is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido. --Simon Leake [via] 
Lolitaby Harold BloomISBN 0791009610 (0-7910-0961-0)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Mary Shelley's Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0877547467 (0-87754-746-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'Book summary:Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein is remembered as a novel valuable in itself and prophetic of an intellectual world to come. It is seen as depicting a Prometheanism that is still with us. In this text noted critics examine subjects surrounding the novel such as creation as catastrophe, Frankenstein as the negative Oedipus, and a piece by Joyce Carol Oates on Frankenstein?s fallen angel.
The title, Mary Wollsonecraft Shelleys Frankenstein, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Mary Wollsonecraft Shelleys Frankenstein through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Mary Wollsonecraft Shelley, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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Mary Wollstonecraft Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0939766752 (0-939766-75-2)
Softcover, Marvel Enterprises
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The Mirror Crack'Dby Agatha ChristieISBN 0785799036 (0-7857-9903-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Monday Mourningby Kathy ReichsISBN 0743453018 (0-7434-5301-8)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monday Mourning'Book summary:A New York Times Bestselling Author
Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist, has come to Montreal to testify as an expert witness at a murder trial. She should be going over her notes, but instead she's in the basement of a pizza parlor investigating the skeletonized remains of three young women. Thought by homicide detective Luc Claudel to be historic, Tempe's examination proves them to be very recent murders. [via]
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The Moving Finger: A Miss Marple Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0785748768 (0-7857-4876-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moving Finger: A Miss Marple Mystery'Book summary:The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village's quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit suicide. The vicar, the doctor, the servantsall are on the verge of accusing one another when help arrives from an unexpected quarter. The vicar's houseguest happens to be none other than Jane Marple.
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Murder Must Advertiseby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0816130450 (0-8161-3045-0)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder Must Advertise'Book summary:When advertising executive Victor Dean dies from a fall down the stairs at Pym's Publicity, Lord Peter Wimsey is asked to investigate. It seems that, before he died, Dean had begun a letter to Mr. Pym suggesting some very unethical dealings at the posh London ad agency. Wimsey goes undercover and discovers that Dean was part of the fast crowd at Pym's, a group taken to partying and doing drugs. Wimsey and his brother-in-law, Chief-Inspector Parker, rush to discover who is running London's cocaine trade and how Pym's fits into the picture--all before Wimsey's cover is blown. [via]
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The Mysterious Affair at Stylesby Agatha ChristieISBN 142180901X (1-4218-0901-X)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles'Book summary:In this mesmerizing classic of detective fiction by world-renowned mystery author Agatha Christie, the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot makes his unforgettableand legendarydebut.
Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorpe, and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary, just outside Essex. Among those basking in the shadow of doubt are the heiresss fawning new husband, her two aimless stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital dispensary. And though the identity of the culprit will prove as shocking as the crime, nothing gets past the calm logic and cool head of Hercule Poirot.
The key to the success of this style of detective novel lies in how the author deals with both the clues and the red herrings, and it has to be said that no one bettered Agatha Christie at this game.
Elizabeth George
Future scholars of the simon-pure detective novel will hold that its greatest practitioner . . . has been Agatha Christie.
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Native Sonby WrightISBN 156849694X (1-56849-694-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Native Son'Book summary:Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to arrest, prison, or death, driven by despair, frustration, poverty, and incomprehension. As a young black man in the Chicago of the '30s, he has no way out of the walls of poverty and racism that surround him, and after he murders a young white woman in a moment of panic, these walls begin to close in. There is no help for him--not from his hapless family; not from liberal do-gooders or from his well-meaning yet naive friend Jan; certainly not from the police, prosecutors, or judges. Bigger is debased, aggressive, dangerous, and a violent criminal. As such, he has no claim upon our compassion or sympathy. And yet...
A more compelling story than Native Son has not been written in the 20th century by an American writer. That is not to say that Richard Wright created a novel free of flaws, but that he wrote the first novel that successfully told the most painful and unvarnished truth about American social and class relations. As Irving Howe asserted in 1963, "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. It made impossible a repetition of the old lies [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture."
Other books had focused on the experience of growing up black in America--including Wright's own highly successful Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of five stories that focused on the victimization of blacks who transgressed the code of racial segregation. But they suffered from what he saw as a kind of lyrical idealism, setting up sympathetic black characters in oppressive situations and evoking the reader's pity. In Native Son, Wright was aiming at something more. In Bigger, he created a character so damaged by racism and poverty, with dreams so perverted, and with human sensibilities so eroded, that he has no claim on the reader's compassion:
"I didn't want to kill," Bigger shouted. "But what I killed for, I am! It must've been pretty deep in me to make me kill! I must have felt it awful hard to murder.... What I killed for must've been good!" Bigger's voice was full of frenzied anguish. "It must have been good! When a man kills, it's for something... I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em. It's the truth..."
Wright's genius was that, in preventing us from feeling pity for Bigger, he forced us to confront the hopelessness, misery, and injustice of the society that gave birth to him. --Andrew Himes [via] -
One, Two, Buckle My Shoeby Agatha ChristieISBN 0785748857 (0-7857-4885-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One, Two, Buckle My Shoe'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of Dr. Morley, an amiable old dentist. [via]
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Party Monster: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clublandby James St. JamesISBN 0743259823 (0-7432-5982-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Patriotic Murdersby Agatha ChristieISBN 0816145857 (0-8161-4585-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Peril at End Houseby Agatha ChristieISBN 0816145881 (0-8161-4588-1)
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The Queen of Everythingby Deb CalettiISBN 0743436849 (0-7434-3684-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Remembered Deathby Agatha ChristieISBN 0816145989 (0-8161-4598-9)
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Richard Wright's Native Sonby Harold BloomISBN 1555460550 (1-55546-055-0)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Richard Wright's Native Son'Book summary:Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to arrest, prison, or death, driven by despair, frustration, poverty, and incomprehension. As a young black man in the Chicago of the '30s, he has no way out of the walls of poverty and racism that surround him, and after he murders a young white woman in a moment of panic, these walls begin to close in. There is no help for him--not from his hapless family; not from liberal do-gooders or from his well-meaning yet naive friend Jan; certainly not from the police, prosecutors, or judges. Bigger is debased, aggressive, dangerous, and a violent criminal. As such, he has no claim upon our compassion or sympathy. And yet...
A more compelling story than Native Son has not been written in the 20th century by an American writer. That is not to say that Richard Wright created a novel free of flaws, but that he wrote the first novel that successfully told the most painful and unvarnished truth about American social and class relations. As Irving Howe asserted in 1963, "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. It made impossible a repetition of the old lies [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture."
Other books had focused on the experience of growing up black in America--including Wright's own highly successful Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of five stories that focused on the victimization of blacks who transgressed the code of racial segregation. But they suffered from what he saw as a kind of lyrical idealism, setting up sympathetic black characters in oppressive situations and evoking the reader's pity. In Native Son, Wright was aiming at something more. In Bigger, he created a character so damaged by racism and poverty, with dreams so perverted, and with human sensibilities so eroded, that he has no claim on the reader's compassion:
"I didn't want to kill," Bigger shouted. "But what I killed for, I am! It must've been pretty deep in me to make me kill! I must have felt it awful hard to murder.... What I killed for must've been good!" Bigger's voice was full of frenzied anguish. "It must have been good! When a man kills, it's for something... I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em. It's the truth..."
Wright's genius was that, in preventing us from feeling pity for Bigger, he forced us to confront the hopelessness, misery, and injustice of the society that gave birth to him. --Andrew Himes [via]More editions of Richard Wright's Native Son:
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A Time to Killby John GrishamISBN 0922066035 (0-922066-03-5)
Hardcover, Fleming H Revell Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Time to Kill'Book summary:This addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who kills the white druggies who raped his child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is John Grisham's first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it for three years and every detail shines like pebbles at the bottom of a swift, sunlit stream. Grisham is a born legal storyteller and his dialogue is pitch perfect.
The plot turns with jeweled precision. Carl Lee Hailey gets an M-16 from the Chicago hoodlum he'd saved at Da Nang, wastes the rapists on the courthouse steps, then turns to attorney Jake Brigance, who needs a conspicuous win to boost his career. Folks want to give Carl Lee a second medal, but how can they ignore premeditated execution? The town is split, revealing its social structure. Blacks note that a white man shooting a black rapist would be acquitted; the KKK starts a new Clanton chapter; the NAACP, the ambitious local reverend, a snobby, Harvard-infested big local firm, and others try to outmaneuver Jake and his brilliant, disbarred drunk of an ex-law partner. Jake hits the books and the bottle himself. Crosses burn, people die, crowds chant "Free Carl Lee!" and "Fry Carl Lee!" in the antiphony of America's classical tragedy. Because he's lived in Oxford, Mississippi, Grisham gets compared to Faulkner, but he's really got the lean style and fierce folk moralism of John Steinbeck. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Turning Angelby Greg IlesISBN 141653556X (1-4165-3556-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Twelfth Cardby Jeffery DeaverISBN 0743491564 (0-7434-9156-4)
Softcover, Pocket Star
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Twelfth Card'Book summary:Unlocking a cold case with explosive implications for the future of civil rights, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protégé, Amelia Sachs, must outguess a killer who has targeted a high school girl from Harlem who is digging into the past of one of her ancestors, a former slave. What buried secrets from 140 years ago could have an assassin out for innocent blood? And what chilling message is hidden in his calling card, the hanged man of the tarot deck? Rhyme must anticipate the next strike or become history -- in the bestseller that proves "there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver" (San Jose Mercury News).
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La Sombra Del Viento/ the Shadow of the Windby Carlos Ruiz ZafonISBN 0974872407 (0-9748724-0-7)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Sombra Del Viento/ the Shadow of the Wind'Book summary:Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí encuentra La Sombra del Viento, un libro maldito que cambiará el rumbo de su vida y le arrastrará a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. Ambientada en la enigmática Barcelona de principios del siglo XX, este misterio literario mezcla técnicas de relato de intriga, de novela histórica y de comedia de costumbres, pero es, sobre todo, una tragedia histórica de amor cuyo eco se proyecta a través del tiempo. Con gran fuerza narrativa, el autor entrelaza tramas y enigmas a modo de muñecas rusas en un inolvidable relato sobre los secretos del corazón y el embrujo de los libros, manteniendo la intriga hasta la última página. [via]
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