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2nd Chanceby James Patterson, Andrew GrossISBN 060629807X (0-606-29807-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Agatha Christie's Mysterious Affair at Stylesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0646418432 (0-646-41843-2)
Softcover, Deodand Pub
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The Angel of Darknessby Caleb CarrISBN 0679435328 (0-679-43532-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Angel of Darkness'Book summary:In The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew.
It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends--high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime--have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara's aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Their investigation leads the team to a shocking suspect: a woman who appears to the world to be a heroic nurse and a loving mother, but who may in reality be a ruthless murderer of children.
Once again, Caleb Carr proves his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low. As the horror unfolds, Delmonico's still serves up wondrous meals, and a summer trip to the elegant gambling parlors of Saratoga provides precious keys to the murderer's past. At the same time, we go on revealing journeys into Stevie's New York, a place where poor and neglected children--then as now--turn to crime and drugs at shockingly early ages. Peppered throughout are characters taken from real life and rendered with historical vigor, including suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton; painter Albert Pinkham Ryder; and Clarence Darrow, who thunders for the defense in a tense courtroom drama during which the sanctity of American motherhood itself is put on trial. Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel of Darkness is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York. [via]More editions of The Angel of Darkness:
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The Annotated Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard WolfISBN 0517530716 (0-517-53071-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated 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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The Annotated Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679727299 (0-679-72729-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Lolita'Book summary:In 1954 Vladimir Nabokov asked one American publisher to consider "a firebomb that I have just finished putting together." The explosive device: Lolita, his morality play about a middle-aged European's obsession with a 12-year-old American girl. Two years later, the New York Times called it "great art." Other reviewers staked a higher moral ground (the editor of the London Sunday Express declaring it "the filthiest book I've ever read"). Since then, the sinuous novel has never ceased to astound. Even Nabokov was astonished by its place in the popular imagination. One biographer writes that "he was quite shocked when a little girl of eight or nine came to his door for candy on Halloween, dressed up by her parents as Lolita." And when it came time to casting the film, Nabokov declared, "Let them find a dwarfess!"
The character Lolita's power now exists almost separately from the endlessly inventive novel. If only it were read as often as it is alluded to. Alfred Appel Jr., editor of the annotated edition, has appended some 900 notes, an exhaustive, good-humored introduction, and a recent preface in which he admits that the "reader familiar with Lolita can approach the apparatus as a separate unit, but the perspicacious student who keeps turning back and forth from text to Notes risks vertigo." No matter. The notes range from translations to the anatomical to the complex textual. Appel is also happy to point out the Great Punster's supposedly unintended word play: he defends the phrase "Beaver Eaters" as "a portmanteau of 'Beefeaters' (the yeoman of the British royal guard) and their beaver hats." [via]
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At Bertram's Hotelby Agatha ChritieISBN 0451199936 (0-451-19993-6)
Softcover, Signet
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murderby Not AvailableISBN 052594981X (0-525-94981-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Body of Evidenceby Patricia CornwellISBN 0684192403 (0-684-19240-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Body of Evidence'Book summary:This second commanding thriller by the Edgar Award-winning author of Postmortem and featuring forensic sleuth Dr. Kay Scarpetta was a Mystery Guild main selection as well as a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternate in cloth. [via]
A Caribbean Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0451199928 (0-451-19992-8)
Softcover, Signet
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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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Classics of Horror: Dracula/Frankenstein/2 Books in 1by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram StokerISBN 0681411635 (0-681-41163-5)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
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Clouds of Witness: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteryby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0575003561 (0-575-00356-1)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Deception Pointby Dan BrownISBN 0671027387 (0-671-02738-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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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 0679767819 (0-679-76781-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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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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Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clublandby James St. JamesISBN 0684857642 (0-684-85764-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clubland'Book summary:In 1996, New York City drug dealer and "club kid" Angel Melendez was bludgeoned, injected with Drano, dismembered, and tossed into the river. James St. James was there when the killer confessed, but before that, there were the clubs, the parties, the drugs, and the many fabulous (and some not so fabulous) outfits. Disco Bloodbath is "celebutante" St. James's story, equal parts confession and attempt at closure. This is no square-jawed detective's account of the investigation of the crime; St. James is a drug-addled clubster who wears a wedding dress out on the town and invokes Judy Garland as he talks about the scene in which he and Melendez immersed themselves before the murder. His story, despite its gruesome subject matter and frequent, shocking lucidity, has a chatty and anecdotal quality that's compelling, endearing, and unrelentingly human. --Lisa Higgins [via]
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The Essential Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard Wolf, Christopher BingISBN 0452269687 (0-452-26968-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Frankenstein'Book summary:Horror expert Wolf's sublime edition of this literary masterpiece features in-depth and extensive notes on all the novel's most interesting aspects, plus biographical information revealing how Mary Shelley's turbulent personal life influenced her work. Beautifully illustrated with original line drawings. [via]
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The Essential Frankensteinby Robert JamesonISBN 0517069741 (0-517-06974-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Familyby Ed SandersISBN 0451165632 (0-451-16563-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Flanders Panelby Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0553377868 (0-553-37786-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flanders Panel'Book summary:Julia, a young Madrid art restorer, is pulled into a shadowy world of metaphor when she discovers a long-covered inscription on a Flemish painting: Who killed the knight? Art, chess and murder are intertwined in this elegant, seductive mystery in the manner of The Name of the Rose. [via]
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Walter James MillerISBN 0451527712 (0-451-52771-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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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 0460875280 (0-460-87528-0)
Softcover, Everyman - Frankenstein: ISBN 0486282112 (0-486-28211-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Frankenstein: ISBN 0486415627 (0-486-41562-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Frankenstein: ISBN 0520201795 (0-520-20179-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 0521587026 (0-521-58702-6)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press - Frankenstein: ISBN 0553212478 (0-553-21247-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Frankenstein: ISBN 0582426987 (0-582-42698-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - Frankenstein: ISBN 0671531506 (0-671-53150-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Frankenstein: ISBN 0679409998 (0-679-40999-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 0451183770 (0-451-18377-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Frankenstein: ISBN 0460871498 (0-460-87149-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Frankenstein: ISBN 0590486179 (0-590-48617-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - Frankenstein: ISBN 0670878014 (0-670-87801-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Frankenstein: ISBN 0671804138 (0-671-80413-8)
Softcover, Pocket Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 0679749543 (0-679-74954-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Frankenstein: ISBN 0517118807 (0-517-11880-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Frankenstein: ISBN 0517668424 (0-517-66842-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Frankenstein: ISBN 0520052811 (0-520-05281-1)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 0606215913 (0-606-21591-3)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Frankenstein: ISBN 0670878006 (0-670-87800-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Frankenstein: ISBN 0721408133 (0-7214-0813-3)
Hardcover, Ladybird Books Ltd - Frankenstein: ISBN 0451527712 (0-451-52771-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
- Frankenstein: ISBN 0460875280 (0-460-87528-0)
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0451523369 (0-451-52336-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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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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- Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0520089421 (0-520-08942-1)
Softcover, Texas Bookman - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0448409666 (0-448-40966-6)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0520053176 (0-520-05317-6)
Hardcover, University of California Press - Frankenstein Or, the Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0606006931 (0-606-00693-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0672514575 (0-672-51457-5)
Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill Co - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0679427899 (0-679-42789-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Frankenstein : Or, the Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0679600590 (0-679-60059-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0451523369 (0-451-52336-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
- Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0520089421 (0-520-08942-1)
Frankenstein, Stage 3by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, John Turvey, Per DahlbergISBN 0582541549 (0-582-54154-9)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Frankenstein/Dracula/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram StokerISBN 0451523636 (0-451-52363-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein/Dracula/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:Three horror classicswith an introduction by Stephen King[via]
Some of literatures most popular and enduring horror icons in one indispensable tome.
@NotoriousDOC Just did a bit-torrent-style grave robbery. My new man will be an artful collage. Also, good conversation starter.
Its alive! Id better beat it over the head repeatedly with a fire extinguisher.
So sometimes you build something, and it gets away. Theyre gonna can me at the university if they find out about this.
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Gaudy Nightby Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 0575014091 (0-575-01409-1)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hana SambrookISBN 0582823102 (0-582-82310-2)
Softcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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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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- The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0684801523 (0-684-80152-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0521402301 (0-521-40230-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0684830426 (0-684-83042-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0521485479 (0-521-48547-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0582275156 (0-582-27515-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0684717603 (0-684-71760-3)
Softcover, Collier Books - Great Gatsby: ISBN 060634117X (0-606-34117-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0684101548 (0-684-10154-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 068416325X (0-684-16325-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0684196476 (0-684-19647-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0582823102 (0-582-82310-2)
Softcover, Pearson Education, Limited
- The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0684801523 (0-684-80152-3)
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The Great Gatsbyby Hoffman, Frederick John, EdISBN 0684412845 (0-684-41284-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:An assortment of articles treating issues surrounding the Great Gatsby. Part I - From This Side of Paradise to Great Gatsby, Part II, The Great Gatsby and its world, Part III, The Great Gatsby, and Part IV, The Permanence of the Great Gatsby. Includes a bibliography. [via]
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Have His Carcaseby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0575006854 (0-575-00685-4)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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A Is for Alibiby Sue GraftonISBN 0553279912 (0-553-27991-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Is for Alibi'Book summary:Laurence Fife was a slick divorce lawyer and slippery ladies' man. Until someone killed him. The jury believed that it was his pretty young wife Nikki, so they sent her to prison for eight years. Now, Nikki's out on parole and Kinsey Miihone's in for trouble. Nikki hires Kinsey to discover who really killed her husband. But the trail is eight years cold, and at the end is a chilling twist even Kinsey doesn't suspect -- a second eight-year-old murder and a brand new corpse. [via]
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LA Tabla De Flandes/the Chess Masterby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 0679760903 (0-679-76090-3)
Softcover, Aims Intl Books Corp
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Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679723161 (0-679-72316-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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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] 
The Mirror Crack'Dby Agatha ChristieISBN 0451199898 (0-451-19989-8)
Softcover, Signet
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Monarch Great Gatsbyby Stanley CoopermanISBN 0671006673 (0-671-00667-3)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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Monday Mourning : A Novelby Kathy ReichsISBN 0743233476 (0-7432-3347-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monday Mourning : A Novel'Book summary:A riveting new Temperance Brennan forensic thriller from Kathy Reichs, the internationally acclaimed forensic anthropologist and "New York Times" bestselling author...
Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for both North Carolina and Quebec, has come from Charlotte to Montreal during the bleak days of December to testify as an expert witness at a murder trial.
She should be going over her notes, but instead she's digging in the basement of a pizza parlor. Not fun. Freezing cold. Crawling rats. And now, the skeletonized remains of three young women. How did they get there? When did they die?
Homicide detective Luc Claudel, never Tempe's greatest fan, believes the bones are historic. Not his case, not his concern. The pizza parlor owner found nineteenth-century buttons in the cellar with the skeletons. Claudel takes them as an indicator of the bones' antiquity.
But something doesn't make sense. Tempe examines the bones in her lab and establishes approximate age with Carbon 14. Further study of tooth enamel tells her where the women were born. If she's right, Claudel has three recent murders on his hands. Definitely his case.
Detective Andrew Ryan, meanwhile, is acting mysteriously. What are those private phone calls he takes in the other room, and why does he suddenly disappear just when Tempe is beginning to hope he might be a permanent part of her life? Looks like more lonely nights for Tempe and Birdie, her cat.
As Tempe searches for answers in both her personal and professional lives, she finds herself drawn deep into a web of evil from which there may be no escape. Women have disappeared, never to return....Tempe may be next.
With its powerful mix ofnail-biting suspense and cutting-edge forensic science, "Monday Mourning" is the best yet from this superbly gifted, megastar author who, as "New York Newsday" says, is "the real thing."
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Murder in Retrospectby Agatha ChristieISBN 0553350382 (0-553-35038-2)
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The Mysterious Affair at Stylesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0486296954 (0-486-29695-4)
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Mystic Riverby Dennis LehaneISBN 0593044762 (0-593-04476-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mystic River'Book summary:Dennis Lehane's Mystic River takes the material of the ordinary police procedural thriller and shapes it into heart-break. As boys, Jimmy, Dave and Sean were friends, until one day Dave was abducted by two men pretending to be cops, and was never quite the same again. As men, Dave is a damaged fantasist, safe in a quietly happy marriage; Jimmy a retired criminal making a good respectable living for the sake of his children; and Sean is the homicide cop who finds himself investigating the murder of Jimmy's eldest daughter Katie. This is not just a book about what becomes of the children who grow into adults; it is about what happens to a neighbourhood when the rules change, when an old established working-class district acquires gentrified espresso bars at one end and the beats of the city's most dangerous whores at the other. It is also a book about the tragedy of all sudden violent deaths; we never forget our sense of Katie as she was, dancing on the last night of her life--she is never just the corpse here, never just the object of mourning and investigation. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Native Sonby Wright, Paul GreenISBN 0573612919 (0-573-61291-9)
Softcover, S. French
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The story of Bigger Thomas, a black youth seeking his identity in the white world. This adpatation was originally produced by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
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The Questby Pam BinderISBN 0671774514 (0-671-77451-4)
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Readings on Native Sonby Richard Wright, Hayley R. MitchellISBN 0737703202 (0-7377-0320-2)
Hardcover, Greenhaven Pr
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Sleeping Murderby Agatha ChristieISBN 0451200195 (0-451-20019-5)
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A Time to Killby John GrishamISBN 0582364108 (0-582-36410-8)
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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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Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Placesby Peter NabokovISBN 0670034320 (0-670-03432-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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For thousands of years Native Americans have told stories about the powers of revered landscapes and sought spiritual direction at mysterious locations in their homelands. In Where the Lightning Strikes, Peter Nabokov offers sixteen "biographies of place" that dramatize the rich diversity of Indian cultures and their religious systems across North America. From the mountains of Maine to Tennessees Tellico Valley, from the Black Hills of South Dakota to Rainbow Canyon in Arizona to the high country of northwestern California, each chapter explores a host of relationships between Indian cultures and their environments and describes the myths, legends, practices, and rituals that sustained them.Based on years of research and personal experience, Where the Lightning Strikes reveals a range of holy lands containing beneficial as well as malevolent forces and reminds us of the stubborn persistence of Indian beliefs in the sacredness of the American earth. [via]
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