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Afterlifeby Gary SotoISBN 0152052208 (0-15-205220-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Afterlife'Book summary:Not many authors kill their main character on page two, but when Gary Soto does in The Afterlife the tactic results in a richly textured coming of age story. Chuy is a normal teenage guy, making his way in the barrios of Fresno, California, and hoping to impress a pretty girl. Carefully combing his hair in the restroom at Club Estrella, he only has a few moments to consider his "loverboy" strategy before his young life is (literally) cut short by a knife-wielding stranger who misinterprets a compliment.
Soon Chuy is floating above his bleeding body, embarking on a journey of personal exploration. As he drifts though his hometown (tightening his stomach muscles so as not to get blown off course) he manages to achieve many of the things he didnt when he was alive--recognizing how much he is loved by family and friends, saving a life, punishing a thug, and even falling in love (with a ghost-girl who has committed suicide).
Soto has a knack for particularly apt comparisons ("the sun rose pink as a scar," "laundry hung like the faded flags of defeated nations,"), which brings beauty and clarity to this dangerous world of cholos and cabrones (and if you dont know what those are, theres a glossary in the back). Aside from a couple plot points left dangling, The Afterlife offers a tangibly detailed portrait of a young life worth living. (Ages 13 and older)--Brangien Davis [via]
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The Amityville Horrorby Jay AnsonISBN 0130325996 (0-13-032599-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amityville Horror'Book summary:In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in that house. But the property complete with boathouse and swimming pool and the price were too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family fled in terror. This is the spellbinding, best-selling true story that gripped the nation, the story of a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe. [via]
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The Bad Beginningby Daniel Handler, Brett HelquistISBN 0064407667 (0-06-440766-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bad Beginning'Book summary:Hardcover Publisher: Harper Collins (1999) Language: English Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1" Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds [via]
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The Bad Beginningby Lemony Snicket, Brett HelquistISBN 0061146307 (0-06-114630-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bad Beginning'Book summary:Make no mistake. The Bad Beginning begins badly for the three Baudelaire children, and then gets worse. Their misfortunes begin one gray day on Briny Beach when Mr. Poe tells them that their parents perished in a fire that destroyed their whole house. "It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed," laments the personable (occasionally pedantic) narrator, who tells the story as if his readers are gathered around an armchair on pillows. But of course what follows is dreadful. The children thought it was bad when the well-meaning Poes bought them grotesque-colored clothing that itched. But when they are ushered to the dilapidated doorstep of the miserable, thin, unshaven, shiny-eyed, money-grubbing Count Olaf, they know that they--and their family fortune--are in real trouble. Still, they could never have anticipated how much trouble. While it's true that the events that unfold in Lemony Snicket's novels are bleak, and things never turn out as you'd hope, these delightful, funny, linguistically playful books are reminiscent of Roald Dahl (remember James and the Giant Peach and his horrid spinster aunts), Charles Dickens (the orphaned Pip in Great Expectations without the mysterious benefactor), and Edward Gorey (The Gashlycrumb Tinies). There is no question that young readers will want to read the continuing unlucky adventures of the Baudelaire children in The Reptile Room and The Wide Window. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Bad Beginning Privateby Lemony Snicket, Brett HelquistISBN 0060837462 (0-06-083746-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Bleak Houseby Charles Dickens, Nicola BradburyISBN 0141439726 (0-14-143972-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bleak House'Book summary:Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet. The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield, whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text, brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama. However, to abridge Dickens is, well, a Dickensian task, the results of which make for a story in which the author's convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in what seems to be a fast-forward format. Listeners must pay close attention in order to keep up with the multiple narratives and cast of curious characters, including the memorable Inspector Bucket and Mr. Guppy. Fortunately, the publisher provides a partial list of characters on the inside jacket. (Running time: 3 hours; 2 cassettes) [via]
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Softcover, Penguin USA - Bleak House: ISBN 0140434968 (0-14-043496-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Bleak House: ISBN 0192545035 (0-19-254503-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Bleak House: ISBN 0141439726 (0-14-143972-6)
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Blindsightedby Karin SlaughterISBN 0060759720 (0-06-075972-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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By the Pricking of My Thumbby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003352 (0-06-100335-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes IIby Arthur Conan Doyle, W.W. RobsonISBN 0192123114 (0-19-212311-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Charmed to Death: An Ophelia And Abby Mysteryby Shirley DamsgaardISBN 0060793538 (0-06-079353-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charmed to Death: An Ophelia And Abby Mystery'Book summary:Ophelia Jensen's good witch granny Abigail revels in her paranormal powers. But Ophelia never asked for her bothersome psychic abilities -- especially since they proved worthless when the thirty-something librarian's best friend Brian was murdered by a still-unknown assailant.
Now, five years later, another friend is gone, killed in almost identical fashion. Even dear old Abby isn't safe, distracted as she is by her fight to prevent a massive, mega-polluting pig-farming operation from invading their small Iowa town. And Ophelia can't count on her snarling, scoffing nemesis, police detective Henry Comacho, to get the job done, so she'll have to take matters into her own hands. Because a common thread to the crimes -- and a possible next victim -- is suddenly becoming troublingly apparent . . . and it's Ophelia Jensen herself!
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Children of the Stormby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0061032484 (0-06-103248-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children of the Storm'Book summary:Return once again with New York Times bestselling Grand Master Elizabeth Peters to a remarkable land of mystery, deception, and danger, where murderous intrigues swirl in the desert wind. . . .
The Great War has ended at last. No longer must archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, the distinguished Egyptologist, fear for the life of their daring son, Ramses, now free from his dangerous wartime obligations to British Intelligence. The advent of a season of joy and peace marks a time of new beginnings in Luxor, with delightful additions to the growing Emerson family and fascinating wonders waiting to be discovered beneath the shifting Egyptian sands.
But in the aftermath of conflict, evil still casts a cold shadow over this violence-scarred land. The theft of valuable antiquities from the home of a friend causes great concern in the Emerson household. Ramses's strange encounter with a woman costumed in the veil and gold crown of a goddess only deepens the mystery. And the brutal death of the suspected thief washes the unsettling affair in blood.
Amelia's investigation sets her on a terrifying collision course with an adversary more fiendish and formidable than any she has ever encountered. And in her zeal to make things right, the indomitable Amelia may be feeding the flames of a devastating firestorm that threatens the fragile lives of the tender and the innocent.
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Close to Homeby Peter RobinsonISBN 0061031097 (0-06-103109-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Close to Home'Book summary:As a teenager in 1965, Chief Inspector Alan Banks was traumatized by the disappearance of his best friend, Graham Marshall. When Graham's decayed bones are discovered 40 years later, those old demons are reawakened. At the same time, Banks is heading a probe into the apparent kidnapping and murder of another troubled teenager, Luke Armitage. The Summer That Never Was, the latest in Peter Robinson's bestselling, Arthur Ellis Award-winning Inspector Banks series (Aftermath, Cold Is the Grave), explores the two cases in parallel, and the reader eagerly waits to discover their possible connection.
Unlike many thriller writers, Robinson doesn't rely on terse prose to fuel the narrative. His smooth style is colourfully descriptive and easy to relax into. Think of it as the equivalent of sipping a pint on the patio of an English pub, one of Banks's favourite occupations. As the suspense builds and the plot takes as many twists and turns as a road through the Yorkshire dales, Robinson is not afraid to detour into further character development, whether it's the tense relationship between Banks and his father or the ongoing grief of his new colleague, D.I. Michelle Hart.
Robinson, raised in Yorkshire but based in Toronto, has sometimes been compared to Ian Rankin, who actually contributes a quote on this book's dust jacket. The two share an ability to evoke time and place with real eloquence, and each writer loves to mix in musical references to help define their characters. Robinson does this very freely here, and with real accuracy. From '60s crooner Val Doonican through dead cult heroes Nick Drake and Ian Curtis to current singer-songwriters Nick Lowe and David Gray (two of Banks's faves), he never misses a beat. Similarly, his cultural references to the England of both the mid-'60s and the present day are spot-on. The Summer That Never Was is the 13th Inspector Banks novel, but there's nothing unlucky about it. Any lover of well-written detective thrillers will feel fortunate to encounter it. --Kerry Doole [via]
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The Comediansby Graham GreeneISBN 0143039199 (0-14-303919-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedians'Book summary:One of Graham Greene's most chilling and prophetic novels, The Comedians is set in a Haiti ruled by Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Just as The Quiet American offered a preview of the coming horrors of American involvement in Vietnam, this novel presages the chaos in Haiti. Classic Graham Greene. [via]
Crazy in Alabamaby M. ChildressISBN 0099283875 (0-09-928387-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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A Dead Man in Deptfordby Anthony BurgessISBN 0091779774 (0-09-177977-4)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dead Man in Deptford'Book summary:Set in Elizabethan England, Burgess's first novel for four years centres on the life of Christopher Marlowe, who was killed in suspicious circumstances in a tavern brawl in Deptford 400 years ago. It portrays a theatre genius riven by sexual and political conflicts. By the author of "Any Old Iron". [via]
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Dead Man's Follyby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003670 (0-06-100367-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Man's Folly'Book summary:Well-known mystery writer Ariadne Oliver organizes a Murder Hunt as the main event at the Fete held on the grounds of Nasse House. Every detail is arranged -- and the stage is set for murder. Suspecting that something isn't quite right Ariadne Oliver telephones her old friend, Hercule Poirot, for help. [via]
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The Death of Ivan Ilyichby Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary EdmondsISBN 0140445080 (0-14-044508-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'Book summary:The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a masterly meditation on life and death, recounting the physical decline and spiritual awakening of a worldly, successful man who is faced with his own mortality. Only in his last agonizing moments does Ivan Ilyich finally confront his true nature, and gain the forgiveness of his wife and son for his cruelty towards them. [via]
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Destination Unknownby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003816 (0-06-100381-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Doctored Evidence: A Commissario Brunetti Novelby Donna LeonISBN 0143035630 (0-14-303563-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Don't Look Backby Karin Fossum, Felicity DavidISBN 0156031361 (0-15-603136-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Look Back'Book summary:Meet Inspector Sejer: smart and enigmatic, tough but fair. At the foot of the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small, idyllic village, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town's tranquility is shattered forever. Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so terribly wrong? Doggedly, yet subtly, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town's seemingly perfect façade.[via]
Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable. They evoke a world that is at once profoundly disturbing and terrifyingly familiar.
Edge of Evilby J.A. JanceISBN 0060828412 (0-06-082841-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Endgameby Nancy GardenISBN 0152054162 (0-15-205416-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Famous Trialsby Harry Hodge, James H. HodgeISBN 0140069240 (0-14-006924-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Famous Trials'Book summary:Recounts the stories of nine trials involving murder and treason, and includes the stories of some unjustly convicted individuals [via]
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Fatherlandby Robert HarrisISBN 0061006629 (0-06-100662-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fatherland'Book summary:Twenty years after the Nazis win World War II, as all of Germany's trans-European empire plans for Hitler's seventy-fifth birthday celebration, the body of a Nazi washes up on the shore of the Rhine and Xavier March must investigate. Reprint. [via]
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Feet of Clayby Terry PratchettISBN 0061057649 (0-06-105764-9)
Softcover, Harper Prism
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feet of Clay'Book summary:MASS/MARKET PAPERBACK,BY TERRY PRATCHETT. [via]
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The Five Red Herringsby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 006104363X (0-06-104363-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Five Red Herrings'Book summary:Lord Peter Wimsey could imagine the artist stepping back, the stagger, the fall, down to where the pointed rocks grinned like teeth. But was it an accident - or murder? Six members of the close-knit Galloway artists' colony do not regret Campbell's death. Five of them are red herrings. '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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The Forgotten: A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus Novelby Faye KellermanISBN 0066209587 (0-06-620958-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forgotten: A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus Novel'Book summary:L.A. homicide detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, his Orthodox Jewish wife, return in a new entry in this popular series. Faye Kellerman can be counted on to deliver emotional complexity along with suspense, and in The Forgotten it comes from the relationship between Peter and Jacob, Rina's troubled teenage son. Jacob has a personal connection to the event that sets off this intricately plotted novel, the defacing of Rina's synagogue by one of his classmates. Ernesto Golding can't explain why he vandalized the synagogue, but when he and his therapists are murdered months after the incident, Peter realizes that something the teenager told him when admitting his guilt may hold the key to the killings: Ernesto's belief that his grandfather may have been a Nazi who posed as a Jew to escape to South America after the war. Investigating Ernesto's story gives Rina a strand of the plot to tease out; meanwhile, Peter concentrates on another motive for the therapist murders that involves computer fraud, the College Board exams, and the high cost exacted by parents who pressure their teenagers to succeed.
Kellerman skillfully keeps the dramatic tension going as she pulls all the pieces of her complex plot together. But what makes this novel her best yet is her acutely revealing portrait of Jacob, struggling with the existential angst of adolescence as he attempts to reconcile his devotion to Judaism with the temptations of contemporary life, from drugs to sex. She brilliantly limns his search for identity, intimacy, and independence even as he redefines his relationship to Peter and Rina, in a scenario that resounds with psychological truth. The Forgotten is a terrific addition to the Kellerman oeuvre. While she's always been an exceptional illustrator of the emotional life of the family, this time she writes with an expertise that may owe something to professional insights of her husband, author Jonathan Kellerman, who's also a child psychologist. --Jane Adams [via]
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In the Lake of the Woodsby Tim O'BrienISBN 0140250948 (0-14-025094-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Lake of the Woods'Book summary:Tim O'Brien has been writing about Vietnam in one way or another ever since he served there as an infantryman in the late 1960s. His earliest work on the subject, If I Die in a Combat Zone, was an intensely personal memoir of his own tour of duty; his books since then have featured many of the same elements of fear, boredom, and moral ambiguity but in a fictional setting. In 1994 O'Brien wrote In the Lake of the Woods, a novel that, while imbued with the troubled spirit of Vietnam, takes place entirely after the war and in the United States. The main character, John Wade, is a man in crisis: after spending years building a successful political career, he finds his future derailed during a bid for the U.S. Senate by revelations about his past as a soldier in Vietnam. The election lost by a landslide, John and his wife, Kathy, retreat to a small cabin on the shores of a Minnesota lake--from which Kathy mysteriously disappears.
Was she murdered? Did she run away? Instead of answering these questions, O'Brien raises even more as he slowly reveals past lives and long-hidden secrets. Included in this third-person narrative are "interviews" with the couple's friends and family as well as footnoted excerpts from a mix of fictionalized newspaper reports on the case and real reports pertaining to historical events--a mélange that lends the novel an eerie sense of verisimilitude. If Kathy's disappearance is at the heart of this work, then John's involvement in a My Lai-type massacre in Vietnam is its core, and O'Brien uses it to demonstrate how wars don't necessarily end when governments say they do. In the Lake of the Woods may not be true, but it feels true--and for Tim O'Brien, that's true enough. --Alix Wilber [via]
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In the Miso Soupby Ryu Murakami, Ralph F. McCarthyISBN 014303569X (0-14-303569-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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In the Teeth of the Evidenceby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0060808381 (0-06-080838-1)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Teeth of the Evidence'Book summary:A fleeting killer's green mustache. A corpse clutching a note with misplaced vowels. A telephone with the unmistakable ring of death. A hopeful heir's dreams of fortune done in when nature beats him to the punch. A playwright's unwatered-down honor that is thicker than blood.
In each case, the murder baffles the local authorities. For his Lordship and the spirited salesman-sleuth Montague Egg, a corpse is an intriguing invitation to unravel the postmortem puzzles of fascinating falsehoods, mysterious motives and diabolical demises. [via]
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Journal of the Dead: A Story of Friendship and Murder in the New Mexico Desertby Jason KerstenISBN 0060959223 (0-06-095922-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Lady Audley's Secretby Mary E. Braddon, Jenny Bourne TaylorISBN 0140435840 (0-14-043584-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Audley's Secret'Book summary:Lady Audleys Secret epitomized the scandalous and irresistible "sensation" fiction of the period and established Braddon as the doyenne of the genre. Lady Audley, a beautiful woman with a mysterious past, serves as a commentary on the rise of the middle class and the consumer culture, and her fate reflects the publics fascination with psychological theories about the nature of identity and the definition of madness.[via] -
Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Storiesby Roald DahlISBN 0146000552 (0-14-600055-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories'Book summary:These five short stories offer a selection of Dahl's adult writing. "Parson's Pleasure" is a country tale, "A Piece of Cake", a wartime reminiscence, "Lamb to the Slaughter" a story of vengeful murder, and the remaining two, set in London, are on favourite themes of greed and snobbery. [via]
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Lily Whiteby Susan IsaacsISBN 0061093092 (0-06-109309-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Lord Peter Views the Bodyby Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 006080839X (0-06-080839-X)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Peter Views the Body'Book summary:In this delightful collection of Wimsey exploits, Dorothy L. Sayers reveals a gruesome, grotesque but absolutely bewitching side rarely shown in Lord Peter's full-length adventures.
Lord Peter views the body in 12 tantalizing and bizarre ways in this outsanding collection. He deals with such marvels as the man with copper fingers, Uncle Meleager's missing will, the cat in the bag, the foosteps that ran, the stolen stomach, the man without a face...and with such clues as cyanide, jewels, a roast chicken and a classic crossword puzzle.
Love Lies Bleedingby Edmund CrispinISBN 0140009744 (0-14-000974-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Maisie Dobbsby Jacqueline WinspearISBN 0142004332 (0-14-200433-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maisie Dobbs'Book summary:[via]Hailed by NPRs Fresh Air as part Testament of Youth, part Dorothy Sayers, and part Upstairs, Downstairs, this astonishing debut has already won fans from coast to coast and is poised to add Maisie Dobbs to the ranks of literatures favorite sleuths.
Maisie Dobbs isnt just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligenceand the patronage of her benevolent employersshe works her way into college at Cambridge. When World War I breaks out, Maisie goes to the front as a nurse. It is there that she learns that coincidences are meaningful and the truth elusive. After the War, Maisie sets up on her own as a private investigator. But her very first assignment, seemingly an ordinary infidelity case, soon reveals a much deeper, darker web of secrets, which will force Maisie to revisit the horrors of the Great War and the love she left behind.
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Malice Aforethoughtby Francis IlesISBN 0060805153 (0-06-080515-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Malice Aforethought/Pbn P532by IlesISBN 0060805323 (0-06-080532-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Mousetrap and Other Playsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003743 (0-06-100374-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Mrs. McGinty's Deadby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003751 (0-06-100375-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs. McGinty's Dead'Book summary:After an old woman's boarder is found guilty of her murder and sentenced to death, a retired police officer comes to Hercule Poirot and admits that he thinks the convicted man is innocent. Reprint. [via]
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The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Killby David M. BussISBN 0143037056 (0-14-303705-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Nightby Elie WieselISBN 0134374940 (0-13-437494-0)
Hardcover, Pearson Prentice Hall
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Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens, Philip HorneISBN 0140435220 (0-14-043522-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'Book summary:The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable charactersthe arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.[via]More editions of Oliver Twist:
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The Oresteiaby Aeschylus, Robert FaglesISBN 0140443339 (0-14-044333-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oresteia'Book summary:In the Oresteia-the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity- Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, it's spirit of struggle and regeneration is eternal. [via]
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The Oresteian Trilogyby AeschylusISBN 0140440674 (0-14-044067-4)
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Poisoning a houses life
With darkness, treachery and strife (47Aeschylus (525c.456 BC) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the heros discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wifes infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestras crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. The Eumenides then follows Orestes as he is hounded to Athens by the Furies law of vengeance and depicts Athene replacing the bloody cycle of revenge with a system of civil justice. Written in the years after the Battle of Marathon, The Oresteian Trilogy affirmed the deliverance of democratic Athens not only from Persian conquest, but also from its own barbaric past.
Philip Vellacotts verse translation makes this eternal dramatic masterpiece accessible for the modern reader. In his introduction, he examines the historical context and the literary style of the plays.
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Our Mutual Friendby Charles Dickens, Adrian PooleISBN 0140434976 (0-14-043497-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Harmon's death is the catalyst for everything else that happens in the novel. It seems the fortune was left to the young man on the condition that he marry a girl he'd never met, Bella Wilfer. His death, however, brings a new heir onto the scene, Nicodemus Boffin, the kind-hearted but low-born assistant to Harmon's father. Boffin and his wife adopt young Bella, who is determined to marry money, and also hire a mysterious young secretary, John Rokesmith, who takes an uncommon interest in their ward. Not content with just one plot, Dickens throws in a secondary love story featuring the riverman's daughter, Lizzie Hexam; a dissolute young upper-class lawyer, Eugene Wrayburn; and his rival, the headmaster Bradley Headstone. Dark as the novel is, Dickens is careful to leaven it with secondary characters who are as funny as they are menacing--blackmailing Silas Wegg and his accomplice Mr. Venus, the avaricious Lammles, and self-centered Charlie Hexam. Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickens's most satisfying novels, and a fitting denouement to his prolific career. --Alix Wilber [via]
The Oxford Murdersby Guillermo Martinez, Sonia SotoISBN 014303796X (0-14-303796-X)
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The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of thby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0192123297 (0-19-212329-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th'Book summary:Any fan of detective fiction knows that there is no substitute in all of literature for a few hours of reading pleasure at 221 B Baker Street. The tobacco in the persian slipper, the piles of monographs and newspaper clippings covering the floor and table, the unanswered correspondence affixed to the mantle with a dagger. What will the next visitor or urgent message bring? Perhaps a request from a mysterious stranger to help prevent "A Scandal in Bohemia." Perhaps Watson will tell us the story, discretely leaving out certain names, of how he and Holmes had to step outside the law to protect a certain royal personage from a blackmailer in "The Case of Charles Augustus Milverton." Or, for a very unusual treat, perhaps Holmes himself, in quiet retirement in Sussex, will tell a tale in his own words as in "The Lion's Mane."
In the more than a century since the publication of the first tale featuring Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle's characters and stories have inspired countless films, plays, pastiches, literary tributes, and tens of thousands of imitations. Now, Oxford is proud to announce The Oxford Sherlock Holmes, the complete works gathered together in nine handsomely bound, meticulously edited volumes. The books themselves are beautiful, and the entire set comes in an attractive display box, perfect for gift-giving.
Beautifully designed, boasting an introduction by a Doyle authority, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and notes, all carefully researched and assembled, this magnificent set will enhance the reading pleasure of readers new to Doyle's work and veterans of Holmsian arcana. A goldmine of reading pleasure, The Oxford Sherlock Holmes is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in crime fiction. [via]More editions of The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th:
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Passenger to Frankfurtby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003786 (0-06-100378-6)
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Perfect Murder, Perfect Townby Lawrence SchillerISBN 006095342X (0-06-095342-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Australia
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Postern of Fateby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061002763 (0-06-100276-3)
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Red and the Blackby Stendhal, Roger GardISBN 0140447644 (0-14-044764-4)
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Red Kayakby Priscilla CummingsISBN 0142405736 (0-14-240573-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Kayak'Book summary:[via]Brady loves life on the Chesapeake Bay with his friends J.T. and Digger. But developers and rich families are moving into the area, and while Brady befriends some of them, like the DiAngelos, his parents and friends are bitter about the changes. Tragedy strikes when the DiAngelos kayak overturns in the bay, and Brady wonders if it was more than an accident. Soon, Brady discovers the terrible truth behind the kayaks sinking, and it will change the lives of those he loves forever. Priscilla Cummings deftly weaves a suspenseful tale of three teenagers caught in a wicked web of deception.
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The Reptile Roomby Lemony Snicket, Brett HelquistISBN 0061146315 (0-06-114631-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reptile Room'Book summary:The Reptile Room begins where Lemony Snicket's The Bad Beginning ends... on the road with the three orphaned Baudelaire children as they are whisked away from the evil Count Olaf to face "an unknown fate with some unknown relative." But who is this Dr. Montgomery, their late father's cousin's wife's brother? "Would Dr. Montgomery be a kind person? they wondered. Would he at least be better than Count Olaf? Could he possibly be worse?" He certainly is not worse, and in fact when the Baudelaire children discover that he makes coconut cream cakes, circles the globe looking for snakes to study, and even plans to take them with him on his scientific expedition to Peru, the kids can't believe their luck. And, if you have read the first book in this Series of Unfortunate Events, you won't believe their luck either. Despite the misadventures that befall these interesting, intelligent, resourceful orphans, you can trust that the engaging narrator will make their story--suspenseful and alarming as it is--a true delight. The Wide Window is next, and more are on their way. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squadby Stacy HornISBN 0143037293 (0-14-303729-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad'Book summary:An unflinching look at New Yorks most enigmatic crimes and the cops who make it their job to solve them
Between 1985 and 2004, a staggering 8,894 unsolved murders were committed in New York City. Here is the first-ever inside look at the elite NYPD squad that cracks the "unsolvable" cases. Drawing on her unique access to the Cold Case Squad, Stacy Horn follows three tough, indefatigable cops as they sift through the clues to four puzzling murders, from the 1951 strangling of a young wife to a 1996 drug hit that claimed the lives of the parents of three children. As gripping as anything on TVand much, much more authenticThe Restless Sleep is a completely addictive behind-the-scenes account of the people who offer a final resolution for the unavenged. [via]More editions of The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad:
Scaredy Catby Mark BillinghamISBN 0061032204 (0-06-103220-4)
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Scarlet and Blackby StendhalISBN 0140440305 (0-14-044030-5)
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Skinwalkersby Tony HillermanISBN 0061000175 (0-06-100017-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skinwalkers'Book summary:Three shotgun blasts explode into the trailer of Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. But Chee survives to join partner Lt. Joe Leaphorn in a frightening investigation that takes them into a dark world of ritual, witchcraft, and blood -- all tied to the elusive and evil "skinwalker." Brimming with Navajo lore and sizzling suspense, Skinwalkers brings Chee and Leaphorn, Hillerman's bestselling detective team, together for the first time. [via]
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Sleep, Pale Sisterby Joanne HarrisISBN 0060787112 (0-06-078711-2)
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Third Girlby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003824 (0-06-100382-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Third Girl'Book summary:A desperate woman seeks the aid of Hercule Poirot in a matter of life and death. A near-lethal dose of poison, a blood-stained knife, a revolver, and a family who aren't what they seem all figure in an extraordinary case that takes the celebrated Belgian detective from a village estate to the bohemian streets of London. [via]
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Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Storyby Gary IndianaISBN 0060931124 (0-06-093112-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Through a Glass, Darklyby Donna LeonISBN 0143038060 (0-14-303806-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Through a Glass, Darkly'Book summary:The latest case in Donna Leon's bestselling Brunetti mystery series-"one of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever" (The Washington Post) The Philadelphia Inquirer called Leon's incomparable creation Commissario Guido Brunetti "the most humane sleuth since Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret." It's no wonder then that Leon's legion of fans continues to grow with each new book that's published. In Through a Glass, Darkly, Brunetti investigates the murder of a night watchman, whose body is found in front of a blazing furnace at Giovanni De Cal's glass factory along with an annotated copy of Dante's Inferno. Did the cantankerous De Cal kill him? Will Brunetti make the connection between the work of literature and the murderer in time? [via]
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Thud!: A Novel of Discworldby Terry PratchettISBN 0060815310 (0-06-081531-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thud!: A Novel of Discworld'Book summary:Once, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each species still views the other with simmering animosity. Lately, the influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest among Ankh-Morpork's more diminutive citizensa volatile situation made far worse when the pint-size provocateur is discovered bashed to death . . . with a troll club lying conveniently nearby.
Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch is aware of the importance of solving the Hamcrusher homicide without delay. (Vimes's second most-pressing responsibility, in fact, next to always being home at six p.m. sharp to read Where's My Cow? to Sam, Jr.) But more than one corpse is waiting for Vimes in the eerie, summoning darkness of a labyrinthine mine network being secretly excavated beneath Ankh-Morpork's streets. And the deadly puzzle is pulling him deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fearand perhaps all the way to Koom Valley itself.
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The Unicorn's Secret : A Murder in the Age of Aquariusby Steven LevyISBN 0139378308 (0-13-937830-8)
Hardcover, Pearson Education Canada
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Uniform Justiceby Donna LeonISBN 0142004227 (0-14-200422-7)
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When Dad Killed Momby Julius LesterISBN 0152046984 (0-15-204698-4)
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With No One As Witnessby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0060759402 (0-06-075940-2)
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Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Petersonby Amber FreyISBN 0060834137 (0-06-083413-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Witness: For The Prosecution Of Scott Peterson'Book summary:1 corinthians 10:13, niv
"No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it."Amber Frey's life was full of blessings: an exciting new business, a beautiful home, and most of all, her infant daughter, Ayiana. But Amber had been through some unhappy relationships, and she longed for a true and loving partner. In November 2002, she went on a blind date with Scott Peterson. He was handsome, charming, thoughtful, and romantic. Best of all, he was single and ready to settle down . . . or so he said.
Their connection was immediate. Over the next few weeks, Amber and Scott grew closer and closer. Scott won her over with his warmth, humor, and intelligence, and he even won the heart of little Ayiana. Before long, he began to speak of the beautiful future the three of them were destined to share as a family.
Soon enough, however, Amber began to suspect that Scott Peterson might not be the man he claimed to be. On December 9, he broke down in tears and told her that he had been married, but had "lost" his wife. This was weeks before Laci Peterson, eight months pregnant at the time, was even reported missing. Scott Peterson hadn't lost her, but clearly he was planning to.
Suddenly a relationship that seemed full of promise was turning into Amber's worst nightmare.
Amber launched an investigation of her own. The moment she was able to confirm her worst suspicions, she contacted the Modesto Police Department, in northern California, and offered to do whatever she could to help. She began secretly taping her conversations with Scott, pressing him for information but never letting on that she had heard the news of Laci's disappearance. Those conversations became the basis for the prosecution's case against Scott Peterson for the murder of his wife and unborn child.
Amber's whole world was turned upside down in the process. She lost her privacy, as every detail of her life was scrutinized by the media, who couldn't seem to get enough of this tragic, heart-wrenching story. But she soldiered on, looking deep inside herself and drawing strength from her faith.
Witness is the chilling story of how a young woman became ensnared in Scott Peterson's web of lies, then risked everything to seek justice for Laci Peterson and her unborn child, Conner. It is also a story of forgiveness and faith, and of one woman's struggle to live with an open and honest heart. [via]
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The Woman in Whiteby Wilkie Collins, Trevor NunnISBN 0141020318 (0-14-102031-8)
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