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"A" is for Alibiby Sue GraftonISBN 0030590485 (0-03-059048-5)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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Anatomy of a Murderby Robert TraverISBN 0895590093 (0-89559-009-3)
Softcover, Dearborn Trade Pub
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The Apprenticeby Tess GerritsenISBN 1587243229 (1-58724-322-9)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Apprentice'Book summary:Boston detective Jane Rizzoli hasn't completely recovered from the near-death experience at the hands of a serial killer (The Surgeon) that left her scarred and scared, but that doesn't keep her from going after a copycat murderer whose modus operandi is disturbingly familiar. Warren Hoyt may still be behind bars, but Jane thinks there's a connection between him and the man the police call the Dominator, based on the way this new fiend subdues and violates his victims before he kills them. Political interference from an FBI agent who seems to know more about the Dominator than anyone else only intensifies Jane's determination to solve the case. When Hoyt escapes from prison and teams up with his blood brother to take revenge on the policewoman who put him there, the pace of this truly frightening thriller picks up and drives the narrative to its violent conclusion. --Jane Adams [via]
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At Bertram's Hotelby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003638 (0-06-100363-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Bertram's Hotel'Book summary:Volume 66 in the Agatha Christie Collection (1965) Limited edition of 1000 copies worldwide When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. Yet, not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric guest makes his way to the airport on the wrong day... [via]
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Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murderby Steve HodelISBN 0061139610 (0-06-113961-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder'Book summary:For 56 years, the Black Dahlia murder case remained one of the most notorious and high-profile unsolved crimes of the 20th century. Now, Steve Hodel, a 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, believes he has finally solved the case. On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short"The Black Dahlia"was found dead in a vacant lot in Los Angeles, her body horribly mutilated, bisected at the waist, and posed in a bizarre manner. The horrific crime shocked the country and commanded headlines for months as the killer taunted the police with notes and phone calls. Despite the massive manhunt, the murderer was never found.
Hodel began working on the case after he retired from the LAPD when he chanced upon an intriguing piece of evidence that led him on trail that he had no choice but to follow since it pertained directly to him. As he dug deeper, he came to believe that the killer was also responsible for over a dozen other unsolved murders in the Los Angeles area around the same time. He also found copious evidence of corruption at the LAPD, leading him to accuse the department top brass of covering up the Black Dahlia murder in order to conceal a deeper conspiracy involving crooked politicians and gangsters. Despite a lack of physical evidence (which had been destroyed), Hodel is able to connect numerous dots and make a plausible case, complete with lurid tales of wild orgies that were attended by celebrities such as the artist Man Ray, the director John Huston, and a host of other Hollywood elites. He also discloses his killers obsession with the Marquis de Sade and Jack the Ripper and how he modeled his own crimes on their behavior. In particular, there is a disturbing connection between the work of Man Ray and the horrific circumstances of Shorts murder. It is doubtful that this will be the final word on the Black Dahlia murdertoo much myth surrounds it and much of his evidence is circumstantial--but Hodels labyrinthine tale adds much to this intriguing case. --Shawn Carkonen [via]More editions of Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder:
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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Storyby Timothy B. TysonISBN 1400083117 (1-4000-8311-7)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story'Book summary:"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger." Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by a playmate, heralded a ?restorm that would forever transform the tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina.
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased and beat Marrow, then killed him in public as he pleaded for his life.
Like many small Southern towns, Oxford had barely been touched by the civil rights movement. But in the wake of the killing, young African Americans took to the streets. While lawyers battled in the courthouse, the Klan raged in the shadows and black Vietnam veterans torched the town's tobacco warehouses. Tyson's father, the pastor of Oxford's all-white Methodist church, urged the town to come to terms with its bloody racial history. In the end, however, the Tyson family was forced to move away.
Tim Tyson's riveting narrative of that fiery summer brings gritty blues truth, soaring gospel vision, and down-home humor to a shocking episode of our history. Like To Kill a Mockingbird, Blood Done Sign My Name is a classic portrait of an unforgettable time and place. [via]More editions of Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story:
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A Caribbean Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003654 (0-06-100365-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Caribbean Mystery'Book summary:Frail Jane Marple, recovering from a bout of pneumonia, is basking in the warm West Indian sunshine. But she isn't as content as she thinks she ought to be. The scenary is beautiful, yet every day seems the same. Then her new acquaintance, Major Palgrave, dies suddenly, and Miss Marple emarks on an investigation of an exotic murder. [via]
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Clouds of Witness: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteryby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0061043532 (0-06-104353-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clouds of Witness: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery'Book summary:The fiancé of Lord Peter's sister, Lady Mary Wimsey, is found dead outside the conservatory of the family's shooting lodge in Yorkshire. Peter and Mary's elder brother, the Duke of Denver, is charged with willful murder and put on trial in the House of Lords.
Clouds of Witness is a 1926 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.
It was adapted for television in 1972, as part of a series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter. [via]More editions of Clouds of Witness: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery:
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Softcover, Harper & Row - Clouds of Witness: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery: ISBN 0060923946 (0-06-092394-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Clouds of Witness: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery: ISBN 0061043532 (0-06-104353-2)
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The Documents in the Caseby Robert Eustace, Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 1560543582 (1-56054-358-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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El Cliente / The Clientby John Grisham, Enric TrempsISBN 840802535X (84-08-02535-X)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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El Halcon Maltesby Dashiell HammettISBN 8420666890 (84-206-6689-0)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0020252706 (0-02-025270-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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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 or the Modern Prometheus With Connectionsby Mary . ShelleyISBN 0030564727 (0-03-056472-7)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0140351078 (0-14-035107-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Gaudy Nightby Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 0061043494 (0-06-104349-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gaudy Night'Book summary:Obscene graffiti, poison pen letters and a disgusting effigy greeted Harriet Vane on her return to Oxford. A graduate of ten years before and now a successful novelist, this should have been a pleasant, nostalgic visit for her. She asks her lover, Lord Peter Wimsey, for help. [via]
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0020198817 (0-02-019881-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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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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Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0020199600 (0-02-019960-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0023381205 (0-02-338120-5)
Softcover, Scribner - The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0020198817 (0-02-019881-7)
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- The Great Gatsby: ISBN 0020198825 (0-02-019882-5)
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Have His Carcaseby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0061043524 (0-06-104352-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Have His Carcase'Book summary:A young woman falls asleep on a deserted beach and wakes to discover the body of a man whose throat has been slashed from ear to ear ...The young woman is the celebrated detective novelist Harriet Vane, once again drawn against her will into a murder investigation in which she herself could be a suspect. Lord Peter Wimsey is only too eager to help her clear her name. 'She combined literary prose with powerful suspense, and it takes a rare talent to achieve that. A truly great storyteller.' Minette Walters [via]
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Hawksmoorby Peter AckroydISBN 0060913908 (0-06-091390-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Kafka On The Shoreby Haruki Murakami, J. Philip Gabriel, Philip GabrielISBN 1400079276 (1-4000-7927-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kafka on the Shore'Book summary:With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come.
This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddleyet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.
Extravagant in its accomplishment, Kafka on the Shore displays one of the worlds truly great storytellers at the height of his powers. [via] -
L A Confidentialby James EllroyISBN 0892962933 (0-89296-293-3)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L A Confidential'Book summary:James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential is film-noir crime fiction akin to Chinatown, Hollywood Babylon, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Jim Thompson. It's about three tortured souls in the 1950s L.A.P.D.: Ed Exley, the clean-cut cop who lives shivering in the shadow of his dad, a legendary cop in the same department; Jack Vincennes, a cop who advises a Police Squad- like TV show and busts movie stars for payoffs from sleazy Hush-Hush magazine; and Bud White, a detective haunted by the sight of his dad murdering his mom.
Ellroy himself was traumatized as a boy by his party-animal mother's murder. (See his memoir My Dark Places for the whole sordid story.) So it is clear that Bud is partly autobiographical. But Exley, whose shiny reputation conceals a dark secret, and Vincennes, who goes showbiz with a vengeance, reflect parts of Ellroy, too.
L.A. Confidential holds enough plots for two or three books: the cops chase stolen gangland heroin through a landscape littered with not-always-innocent corpses while succumbing to sexy sirens who have been surgically resculpted to resemble movie stars; a vile developer--based (unfairly) on Walt Disney-- schemes to make big bucks off Moochie Mouse; and the cops compete with the crooks to see who can be more corrupt and violent. Ellroy's hardboiled prose is so compressed that some of his rat-a-tat paragraphs are hard to follow. You have to read with attention as intense as hisand that is very intense indeed. But he richly rewards the effort. He may not be as deep and literary as Chandler, but he belongs on the same top-level shelf. [via]
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Life on the Flyby John SchreiberISBN 1599268108 (1-59926-810-8)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on the Fly'Book summary:Broadcast on the evening news: "Hillcrest English teacher and former football star was shot in the back while fly-fishing. David Browning leaves behind a wife and two young children. Authorities have ruled it a hunting accident." Matthew Blake has only o [via]
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Maltese Falconby Dashiell HammettISBN 1883402158 (1-883402-15-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maltese Falcon'Book summary:Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. In The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels (including The Dain Curse and The Glass Key), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the police, risking his reputation when a beautiful woman begs for his help, while knowing that betrayal may deal him a new hand in the next moment.
Spade's partner is murdered on a stakeout; the cops blame him for the killing; a beautiful redhead with a heartbreaking story appears and disappears; grotesque villains demand a payoff he can't provide; and everyone wants a fabulously valuable gold statuette of a falcon, created as tribute for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Who has it? And what will it take to get it back? Spade's solution is as complicated as the motives of the seekers assembled in his hotel room, but the truth can be a cold comfort indeed.
Spade is bigger (and blonder) in the book than in the movie, and his Mephistophelean countenance is by turns seductive and volcanic. Sam knows how to fight, whom to call, how to rifle drawers and secrets without leaving a trace, and just the right way to call a woman "Angel" and convince her that she is. He is the quintessence of intelligent cool, with a wise guy's perfect pitch. If you only know the movie, read the book. If you're riveted by Chinatown or wonder where Robert B. Parker's Spenser gets his comebacks, read the master. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Sideby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061002852 (0-06-100285-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Missing Mom: Library Editionby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0060816228 (0-06-081622-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Murder Must Advertiseby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0061043559 (0-06-104355-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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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]
Mystic Riverby Dennis LehaneISBN 0060185635 (0-06-018563-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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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 WrightISBN 006053348X (0-06-053348-X)
Softcover, Perennial
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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]More editions of Native Son:
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Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Native Son: ISBN 0060808551 (0-06-080855-1)
Softcover, Perennial Library - Native Son: ISBN 0060809779 (0-06-080977-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Native Son: ISBN 0060812494 (0-06-081249-4)
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Nemesisby Agatha ChristieISBN 8427202946 (84-272-0294-6)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Othelloby William Shakespeare, Peter Holland, Barbara GainesISBN 1402201028 (1-4022-0102-8)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, Othello is arguably the most topical and accessible tragedy from Shakespeare's major phase as a dramatist. [via]
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Softcover, Arden Shakespeare - Othello: ISBN 1411400399 (1-4114-0039-9)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Othello: ISBN 0877209227 (0-87720-922-7)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc - Othello: ISBN 0894806114 (0-89480-611-4)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co - Othello: ISBN 8437605369 (84-376-0536-9)
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Othello, the Moor of Veniceby William ShakespeareISBN 0934048169 (0-934048-16-9)
Softcover, Swan Books
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Predatorby Patricia Cornwell, Cristina MartinISBN 8466629114 (84-666-2911-4)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Predator'Book summary:Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowbound Bostonone as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows, until now.[via]More editions of Predator:
Sad Cypress: A Hercule Poirot Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 157912688X (1-57912-688-X)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahliaby John GilmoreISBN 187892317X (1-878923-17-X)
Softcover, Amok Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia'Book summary:The Black Dahlia murder hit post-War Los Angeles like a bombshell and this impenetrable mystery was the haunting crown jewel of LAPDs unsolved murders. Even before her savage death, beautiful 22-year old Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet and nightclub habitu, was known as the Black Dahlia. Since her horrible demise, she has become a magnetic icon in American pop culture, a mythical symbol of noir Hollywood. In this new, expanded edition, John Gilmore plumbs to the dark core of this terrifying story that he argues can never be truly solved and delivers to us the real Elizabeth Short, the girl who became the enigmatic Black Dahlia. He ushers the reader into her world and her life in intimate, searing, explosive, first-hand revelations.
The most satisfying and disturbing conclusion to the Black Dahlia case. After reading Severed, I feel like I truly know Elizabeth Short and her killer. -- David Lynch
The most uncanny evocation of LA during and after the war... His portrait of Elizabeth Short as a strange, unknowable somnambulist sleepwalking through that unique junction of time and space is permanently haunting. -- Gary Indiana [via]
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Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murderby John GilmoreISBN 1878923102 (1-878923-10-2)
Softcover, Amok Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder'Book summary:The Black Dahlia murder hit post-War Los Angeles like a bombshell . . . an impenetrable mysterythe haunting crown jewel of LAPDs unsolved murders. Even before her savage death, beautiful 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet and nightclub habitué, was known as the Black Dahlianow a magnetic icon in American pop culture, an almost mythical symbol of noir Hollywood. In this expanded edition, John Gilmore plumbs the dark core of this terrifying story that he argues can never be truly solved. Here is the real Elizabeth Shortthe enigmatic Black Dahlia. Kindle edition includes exclusive new photos.
The best book on the Black Dahlia in fact, the only reliable book. Colin Wilson
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Shakespeare's Othelloby Harold BloomISBN 1594480761 (1-59448-076-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Othello'Book summary:The exciting new series that began in Fall 2004 with Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Henry IV continues...
"Negative charisma is an odd endowment; Iago represents it uniquely in Shakespeare, and most literary incarnations of it since owe much to Iago." - Harold Bloom
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Sleeping Murderby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003808 (0-06-100380-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sleeping Murder'Book summary:Volume 77 in The Agatha Christie Collection (1976). Limited edition of 1000 copies worldwide. Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs...In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a 'perfect' crime committed many years before. [via]
So Long, See You Tomorrowby William MaxwellISBN 1860464181 (1-86046-418-1)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Sparkling Cyanideby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003794 (0-06-100379-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sparkling Cyanide'Book summary:Agatha Christie's genius for detective fiction isunparalleled. Her worldwide popularity isphenomenal, her characters engaging, her plotsspellbinding. No one knows the human heart-orthe dark passions that can stop it-better thanAgatha Christie. She is truly the one and onlyQueen of Crime.Sparlkling Cyanide
"Rosemary that's for remembrance" Six people are thinkingabout beautiful Rosemary Barton, who died nearly a yearbefore. There's the loving sister, the long-suffering husband, thedevoted secretary, the lovers, and the betrayed wife. None ofthem can forget Rosemary But did one of them murder her? [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 1419151053 (1-4191-5105-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess Of The D'urbervilles'Book summary:[via]Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Highly controversial because of its frank look at the sexual hypocrisy of Victorian society, Thomas Hardys Tess of the DUrbervilles was nonetheless a great commercial success when it appeared in 1891. It is now considered one of the finest novels in English.
Using richly poetic language to frame a shattering narrative of love, seduction, betrayal, and murder, Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy dUrbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec dUrberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies in infancy. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer Tess love and salvation, but he rejects heron their wedding nightafter learning of her past. Emotionally bereft, financially impoverished, and victimized by the self-righteous rigidity of English social morality, Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act.
With its compassionate portrait of a young rural woman, powerful criticism of social convention, and disarming consideration of the role of destiny in human life, Tess of the DUrbervilles is one of the most moving and memorable of Hardys novels.David Galef has published nine books: the novels Flesh and Turning Japanese; two children's books, The Little Red Bicycle and Tracks; two translations of Japanese proverbs, Even Monkeys Fall from Trees and Even a Stone Buddha Can Talk; a work of literary criticism, The Supporting Cast; an edited anthology of essays called Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading; and, most recently, the short-story collection Laugh Track. In addition, he has written more than seventy short stories for magazines ranging from the British Punch to the Czech Prague Revue, the Canadian Prism International, and the American Shenandoah. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Newsday, the Village Voice, Twentieth Century Literature, The Columbia History of the British Novel, and many other places. He is a professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where he also administers the M.F.A. program in creative writing.
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Hardcover, Everyman's Library - Tess of the D'Urbervilles: ISBN 0881036129 (0-88103-612-9)
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The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Veniceby William ShakespeareISBN 1406821047 (1-4068-2104-7)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice'Book summary:If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances. [via]
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyleby Avi, Ruth E. MurrayISBN 1560545925 (1-56054-592-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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La Casa Torcida/the Crooked Houseby Agatha ChristieISBN 8478713131 (84-7871-313-1)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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La Confidentialby Carlos Gardini, Not AvailableISBN 8466617795 (84-666-1779-5)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Confidential'Book summary:In the tradition of Raymond Chandler's crime fiction comes this story of three tortured souls in the 1950s LAPD: a clean-cut cop who lives shivering in the shadow of his dad, his colleague who busts movie stars for payoffs from a sleazy magazine; and a detective haunted by the sight of his mother's murder. Intensity mounts as the novel's various plots intertwine more and more tightly, yet the narrative never veers too far from its core theme of cops competing with crooks to see who can be more corrupt and violent.[via]More editions of La Confidential:
El Informe Pelicano / The Pelican Briefby John Grisham, Enric TrempsISBN 8408053655 (84-08-05365-5)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Matar Es Facil/murder Is Easyby Agatha ChristieISBN 8478714014 (84-7871-401-4)
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Elefanten Vergessen Nicht/Elephants Can Rememberby Agatha ChristieISBN 3502514135 (3-502-51413-5)
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Lasst Knochen Sprechenby Kathy ReichsISBN 3442355907 (3-442-35590-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lasst Knochen Sprechen'Book summary:Kathy Reichs' forensische Anthropologin Temperance Brennan wird außerhalb ihrer Routinetätigkeiten stets dann zu Rate gezogen, wenn Opfer von Gewaltverbrechen nun beim besten Willen nicht mehr zu identifizieren sind. Und wenn der Leser dann den sicheren Eindruck gewinnt, dass die Heldin vor diversen Knochenhaufen und Gewebefetzen kapitulieren muss, kriegt sie doch wieder die Kurve.
Die couragierte Brennan hat sich diesen zuweilen recht unappetitlichen Job selbst zuzuschreiben, war ihr doch vor Jahren ihre rein archäologische Arbeit ein wenig fad geworden. Auch in ihrem neuen Fall steht die "Knochenbeschwörerin" zunächst vor einem schier unlösbaren Problem. Ein kleines Mädchen wurde unschuldiges Opfer eines Bandenkampfes von kriminellen Bikern. Zwei Mitglieder einer Biker-Gang wurden außerdem von rivalisierenden Genossen in die Luft gejagt -- an Tempe Brennan liegt es nun, die Teile korrekt zu sortieren. Doch damit beginnen erst die dramatischen Ermittlungen in einem Krieg verfeindeter Motorradgangs, die um die Kontrolle des Drogenhandels in Montreal kämpfen. Zudem ist Brennan nervlich stark angekratzt. Ihr Freund Ryan, selbst Polizist, scheint ins kriminelle Milieu abgedriftet zu sein und wurde bereits von der Arbeit suspendiert. Ihre zugeteilten Kollegen Claudel und Quickwater scheinen sie alles andere als ernst zu nehmen. Richtig haarig wird es dann, als Tempes Neffe Kit, auf Besuch in Montreal und selbst Motorradfan, in den Dunstkreis der Biker und damit in höchste Lebensgefahr gerät. Die Anthropologin sieht sich zum Handeln außerhalb ihres Labors gezwungen.
Kathy Reichs schlägt in ihrem neuen Roman zunächst eine ruhige Gangart an, vermag jedoch Spannung und Tempo bis zu einem fulminanten Showdown stetig zu steigern. Dabei werden die meisten Leser über die zuweilen arg akademisch anmutenden Dialoge und die Selbstverständlichkeit, mit der wieder einmal eine Ermittlerin persönlich in einen Fall involviert ist, wohlwollend hinweglesen. --Ulrich Deurer [via]
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Mortelles Decisionsby Kathy ReichsISBN 2266129627 (2-266-12962-7)
Softcover, Presses Pocket
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