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100 Malicious Little Mysteriesby Isaac AsimovISBN 0880297697 (0-88029-769-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Brendan LynchISBN 0866119760 (0-86611-976-0)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Eric KincaidISBN 0861129725 (0-86112-972-5)
Hardcover, Byeway Books
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891-92) brings together the first twelve short stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. These follow Holmes's introduction in the first two novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four. [via]More editions of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 088103004X (0-88103-004-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Appleby's Endby John StewartISBN 0837133769 (0-8371-3376-9)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Black Catby Edgar Alan PoeISBN 0874067960 (0-87406-796-0)
Softcover, Lerner Pub Group
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Black Oxenby Elizabeth KnoxISBN 0864734093 (0-86473-409-3)
Hardcover, Victoria University Press
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Blind Obedience: A True Story of Family Loyalty and Murder in South Georgiaby Bill BoydISBN 0865547076 (0-86554-707-6)
Hardcover, Mercer Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blind Obedience: A True Story of Family Loyalty and Murder in South Georgia'Book summary:When three teenage boys stood accused of killing two children in another family in 1905, the three were charged with murder and two faced the hangman's noose. But was it really murder? A judge said no, that the boys had simply obeyed their father's instructions. They were guilty, he said, "only of blind obedience."
The trials of Joe Rawlinsa popular, well-to-do South Georgia farmer, a Baptist preacher and father of fiveand his sones ended a bitter feud that lasted for more than twenty years. Joe Rawlins and W. L. Carter argued over property rights, stray livestock, fishing rights, even each other's character. Rawlins moved twice and each time he thought he had seen the last of his archenemy. But each time, Carter showed up and bought land bordering Rawlins' farm. Was it a coincidence or was Rawlins being pursued? As the acrimony peaked, Rawlins tried to kill Carter, but failed. Then he hired an assassin and sent his own sons to wipe out the entire Carter family. But the only victims of the attempt were two teenage Carter children.
The trials that followed brought a festival atmosphere to Valdosta, Georgia. Excursion trains ferried several thousand people to town for the trial. Joe Rawlins became one of the most quoted condemned men in Georgia history, and the demand for accounts of the trial and subsequent appeals turned the twice-a-week Valdosta Times into a daily newspaper.
Blind Obedience tells how the testimony of Alf Moore, an African-American man, was critical to putting a white man on the gallows, possibly the first time a black man's testimony was taken so seriously. The book also documents a series of appeals by Macon attorney John Randolph Cooper that delayed the hanging of Rawlins for sixteen months, a respite that was unheard of at the time. Even today, the Rawlins case is remembered as the most famous murder case in the history of Lowndes County, as well as one of the most notorious in Southern history. [via]
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Blood From A Stoneby Donna LeonISBN 0871138875 (0-87113-887-5)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood From A Stone'Book summary:Guido Brunetti, the protagonist of Donna Leon's brilliant series about crime in high and low places in Venice, Italy, is back in a smart thriller about a murdered street vendor, one of the illegal immigrants who sell fake fashion accessories outside the tourist mecca's high-priced boutiques while trying to stay one step ahead of the law. Someone had a reason for wanting the nameless African man dead, and the search for the killers and the men who sent them to Brunetti's beloved and beautifully evoked city shortly before Christmas leads the thoughtful, multifaceted and uxorious Commissario to the unfamiliar Venetian milieu where the vu cumpra live. In the cramped, airless room where the Senegalese vendors manage to find shelter, Guido discovers a fortune in so-called "conflict diamonds" hidden among the murdered man's meager belongings. But finding the diamonds' provenance and the killers who were seeking them proves to be an exercise in bureaucratic misdirection. Warned off the case by his boss in the name of "national security," Guido nonetheless persists with his investigation, in the course of which he discovers what--and who--really matters to him. Leon depicts the city she also clearly loves with such skill the reader can almost hear the watter lapping at the edges of the canals and smell the espresso beans roasting in the crisp cold winter air. A tour de force from an author whose reputation for skillful plotting, extraordinary descriptive powers, and complex characters has earned her a loyal base of fans; if you haven't discovered her work before this, Blood from a Stone will only whet your appetite for her extensive backlist of titles featuring Brunetti and his colleagues. --Jane Adams [via]
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Blood Meridianby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0844667935 (0-8446-6793-5)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the Westby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0880010924 (0-88001-092-4)
Softcover, Ecco Press
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Blood Priceby Lucy WangISBN 0855616822 (0-85561-682-2)
Hardcover, William Heinemann Australia
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Blood Trailby Nancy SpringerISBN 0823420639 (0-8234-2063-9)
Softcover, Holiday House
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A Blunt Instrumentby Georgette HeyerISBN 0824023757 (0-8240-2375-7)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis
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Brandenburg Gateby Henry PorterISBN 0871139405 (0-87113-940-5)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Canary Murder Caseby Otto Penzler, S. S. Van DineISBN 0839825544 (0-8398-2554-4)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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The Case of the Gilded Flyby Edmund CrispinISBN 0827703392 (0-8277-0339-2)
Hardcover, London House & Maxwell
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Colorado Kidby Stephen KingISBN 0843955848 (0-8439-5584-8)
Softcover, Leisure Books
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Complete Plays of Christopher Marloweby Christopher Marlowe, Irving RibnerISBN 082900162X (0-8290-0162-X)
Hardcover, Irvington Pub
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre DumasISBN 0866119795 (0-86611-979-5)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
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The Dark Halfby Stephen KingISBN 0833558927 (0-8335-5892-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Detour: A Hollywood Storyby Cheryl Crane, Cliff JahrISBN 0877959382 (0-87795-938-2)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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The Dice Manby Luke RhinehartISBN 0879518642 (0-87951-864-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger vs. the Ugly Americanby Ken BruenISBN 0863223532 (0-86322-353-2)
Softcover, Brandon
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Eight Million Ways to Dieby Lawrence BlockISBN 0877954054 (0-87795-405-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Exit Sherlock Holmesby Robert Lee HallISBN 0867211628 (0-86721-162-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Father Brown Storiesby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0849508673 (0-8495-0867-3)
Hardcover, Arden Library
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Fly On The Wallby Tony HillermanISBN 0824049934 (0-8240-4993-4)
Hardcover, Garland Pub
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Frequent Hearses; A Detective Storyby Edmund Crispin, Robert Bruce MontgomeryISBN 0827702515 (0-8277-0251-5)
Hardcover, Pergamon Pr
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Gideon's Torchby Charles Colson, Ellen Santilli VaughnISBN 0849939771 (0-8499-3977-1)
Softcover, W Pub Group
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Hangover Squareby Patrick HamiltonISBN 0848810384 (0-8488-1038-4)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0837604583 (0-8376-0458-3)
Hardcover, Bentley Pub
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Home Is The Sailorby Day KeeneISBN 084395356X (0-8439-5356-X)
Softcover, Leisure Books
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0848812867 (0-8488-1286-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0874066980 (0-87406-698-0)
Softcover, Lerner Pub Group - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0831745851 (0-8317-4585-1)
Hardcover, Gallery Books - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0865472637 (0-86547-263-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0848812867 (0-8488-1286-7)
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I, Claudiusby Robert GravesISBN 0848805119 (0-8488-0511-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Claudius'Book summary:Having never seen the famous 1970s television series based on Graves' historical novel of ancient Rome and being generally uneducated about matters both ancient and Roman, I wasn't prepared for such an engaging book. But it's a ripping good read, this fictional autobiography set in the Roman Empire's days of glory and decadence. As a history lesson, it's fabulous; as a novel it's also wonderful. Best is Claudius himself, the stutterer who let everyone think he was an idiot (to avoid getting poisoned) but who reveals himself in the narrative to be a wry and likable observer. His story continues in Claudius the God. [via]
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Indian Killerby Sherman AlexieISBN 087113652X (0-87113-652-X)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Indian Killer'Book summary:Native American Sherman Alexie's new novel is a departure in tone from his lyrical and funny earlier work, which include The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Reservation Blues. The main character is an Indian serial killer who incites racial tension by murdering whites in retribution for his people's history. The killer leaves clear signs of his motives by scalping his victims, and leaving feathers as gestures of Indian defiance. The killer is a conflicted creation--raised by loving white parents, but twisted by loss of his identity as an Indian. Alexie layers the story with complications and ancillary characters, from a rabid talk show host, to vengeance seeking whites, to liberals who find their patronizing espousal of Indian causes no longer so easy. [via]
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The Innocence of Father Brownby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0824023595 (0-8240-2359-5)
Hardcover, Garland Pub
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Itby Stephen KingISBN 0833509454 (0-8335-0945-4)
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, Joyce Carol OatesISBN 088103214X (0-88103-214-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:"Jane Eyre," Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane Eyre's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, "Jane Eyre" has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. "Jane Eyre" lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect. "At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë." -Virginia Woolf [via]
The Judge and His Hangman/the Quarryby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0879234377 (0-87923-437-7)
Softcover, D.R. Godine
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LA Donna Detroitby Jon A. JacksonISBN 0871138107 (0-87113-810-7)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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The Lady in the Lakeby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0824023587 (0-8240-2358-7)
Hardcover, Garland Pub
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Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulzby Jerzy Ficowski, Walter ArndtISBN 0880641185 (0-88064-118-5)
Softcover, Fromm Intl
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A Little White Deathby John LawtonISBN 0871139324 (0-87113-932-4)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesarsby C. Suetonius TranquillusISBN 0879280956 (0-87928-095-6)
Hardcover, Maurice Filler
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Mby Anton KaesISBN 0851703704 (0-85170-370-4)
Softcover, British Film Inst
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The Man With the Getaway Faceby Richard StarkISBN 0839827075 (0-8398-2707-5)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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The Messengerby Donald TysonISBN 0875428363 (0-87542-836-3)
Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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Mostly Murderby Sydney SmithISBN 0880293063 (0-88029-306-3)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mostly Murder'Book summary:This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. [via]
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Moving Toyshopby Edmund CrispinISBN 0848801040 (0-8488-0104-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Murder: A Tale of Modern American Lifeby Sara L. KnoxISBN 0822320665 (0-8223-2066-5)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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The Murder of Napoleonby David Hapgood, Ben WeiderISBN 0865530351 (0-86553-035-1)
Hardcover, Congdon & Lattes
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Murder Trialsby Marcus Tullius CiceroISBN 0880290757 (0-88029-075-7)
Hardcover, Marboro Books
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My Traitor's Heartby Rian MalanISBN 087113229X (0-87113-229-X)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Naked by the Window: The Fatal Marriage of Carl Andre and Ana Mendietaby Robert KatzISBN 0871133547 (0-87113-354-7)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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The Ninjaby Eric LustbaderISBN 0871313146 (0-87131-314-6)
Hardcover, M Evans & Co
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Not the End of the Worldby Christopher BrookmyreISBN 0871137879 (0-87113-787-9)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Not the End of the World'Book summary:Christopher Brookmyre's critically acclaimed, award-winning comic thrillers are a sensation in his native Britain. The Times (London) has praised his writing for being "perpetually in-your-face: sassy, irreverent, and stylish" with "a high-octane sense of the absurd," and the Literary Review has raved that his books are "very violent, very funny ... comedy with a political edge, which you take gleefully in one gulp." Now he has his much-anticipated American debut with Not the End of the World, a fast and furious novel set in Los Angeles at the near side of the millennium, at a point when the world is about to spin out of control -- and maybe out of existence. When an oceanic research vessel is discovered with all of its crew vanished, it sets off a chain of events that pulls Sergeant Larry Freeman of the L.A.P.D. out of the ho-hum assignment of overseeing the security for a B-movie film festival and headlong into a frenzied race to stop a terrorist plot. Along the way he must contend with aging porn stars, rabid evangelical Christians, and a mysterious Glaswegian photographer with an unknown agenda, all in a full-throttled -- and ultimately hysterical -- race against time. [via]
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Oedipus Tyrannusby Sophocles, Paul Woodruff, Peter MeineckISBN 0872204928 (0-87220-492-8)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Old Flamesby John LawtonISBN 0871138646 (0-87113-864-6)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old Flames'Book summary:Old Flames is a riveting spy novel sparked by historical events, with a twisting, turning plot that The Sunday Times (London) declares "a strange, thoughtful, quiet, intelligent spellbinder of a book, penetrating the very heart of betrayal." It is April 1956 at the height of the Cold War: Khrushchev and Bulganin, leaders of the Soviet Union, are in Britain on an official visit. Chief Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard, son of a distinguished Russian emigre, is assigned to be Khrushchev's bodyguard and to spy on him. Soon after, a Royal Navy diver is found dead and mutilated beyond recognition in Portsmouth Harbor. What was he doing under the hull of Khrushchev's ship, and who sent him there? Is the corpse that of Arnold Cockerell, a furniture salesman with a mysterious source of income and a bizarre fetish for scuba gear, or did Cockerell fake his own death to escape an unknown nemesis? To find the answers, Inspector Troy must venture into the heart of the M16. He encounters the trifling bureaucrats of Scotland Yard, fellow officers who may be sleeping with the enemy, and seductive identical twins. Meanwhile cold-blooded killings have started to follow him wherever he goes. Is it possible that the executioner is a fellow policeman-or, worse still, an old friend? In a world where secret codes lead to hidden Swiss bank accounts and an entire nation struggles to makes sense of itself in the wake of war, can anyone be trusted? Brilliantly evoking the atmosphere of the Cold War and London in the 1950s, Old Flames is a thrilling adventure of intrigue and suspense. [via]
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The Outsidersby S. E. Hinton, Christopher SergelISBN 0871292777 (0-87129-277-7)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Outsiders'Book summary:According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser. This classic, written by S. E. Hinton when she was 16 years old, is as profound today as it was when it was first published in 1967. [via]
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Passingby Nella LarsenISBN 0837115418 (0-8371-1541-8)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Passing'Book summary:The heroine of Passing takes an elevator from the infernal August Chicago streets to the breezy rooftop of the heavenly Drayton Hotel, "wafted upward on a magic carpet to another world, pleasant, quiet, and strangely remote from the sizzling one that she had left below." Irene is black, but like her author, the Danish-African American Nella Larsen (a star of the 1920s to mid-1930s Harlem Renaissance and the first black woman to win a Guggenheim creative-writing award), she can "pass" in white society. Yet one woman in the tea room, "fair and golden, like a sunlit day," keeps staring at her, and eventually introduces herself as Irene's childhood friend Clare, who left their hometown 12 years before when her father died. Clare's father had been born "on the left hand"--he was the product of a legal marriage between a white man and a black woman and therefore cut off from his inheritance. So she was raised penniless by white racist relatives, and now she passes as white. Even Clare's violent white husband is in the dark about her past, though he teases her about her tan and affectionately calls her "Nig." He laughingly explains: "When we were first married, she was white as--as--well as white as a lily. But I declare she's getting darker and darker." As Larsen makes clear, Passing can also mean dying, and Clare is in peril of losing her identity and her life.
The tale is simple on the surface--a few adventures in Chicago and New York's high life, with lots of real people and race-mixing events described (explicated by Thadious M. Davis's helpful introduction and footnotes). But underneath, it seethes with rage, guilt, sex, and complex deceptions. Irene fears losing her black husband to Clare, who seems increasingly predatory. Or is this all in Irene's mind? And is everyone wearing a mask? Larsen's book is a scary hall of mirrors, a murder mystery that can't resolve itself. It sticks with you. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Peace Like a Riverby Leif EngerISBN 087113795X (0-87113-795-X)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peace Like a River'Book summary:To the list of great American child narrators that includes Huck Finn and Scout Finch, let us now add Reuben "Rube" Land, the asthmatic 11-year-old boy at the center of Leif Enger's remarkable first novel, Peace Like a River. Rube recalls the events of his childhood, in small-town Minnesota circa 1962, in a voice that perfectly captures the poetic, verbal stoicism of the northern Great Plains. "Here's what I saw," Rube warns his readers. "Here's how it went. Make of it what you will." And Rube sees plenty.
In the winter of his 11th year, two schoolyard bullies break into the Lands' house, and Rube's big brother Davy guns them down with a Winchester. Shortly after his arrest, Davy breaks out of jail and goes on the lam. Swede is Rube's younger sister, a precocious writer who crafts rhymed epics of romantic Western outlawry. Shortly after Davy's escape, Rube, Swede, and their father, a widowed school custodian, hit the road too, swerving this way and that across Minnesota and North Dakota, determined to find their lost outlaw Davy. In the end it's not Rube who haunts the reader's imagination, it's his father, torn between love for his outlaw son and the duty to do the right, honest thing. Enger finds something quietly heroic in the bred-in-the-bone Minnesota decency of America's heartland. Peace Like a River opens up a new chapter in Midwestern literature. --Claire Dederer [via]
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The Playerby Michael TolkinISBN 0871132281 (0-87113-228-1)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Player'Book summary:From Library Journal Plagued by a disappointed writer's string of anonymously ominous postcards, Griffin Mill, a powerful Hollywood movie studio executive, commits a senseless murder and then takes up with his victim's girlfriend. Tolkin, himself a screenwriter, squishes this meagre story into his lead character's brain, where it becomes a minor league Dostoevskian psychological adventure, with the interesting subtext that a production executive's success leads not only to guilt and paranoia but to existential murder. Tolkin's bemused view of Hollywood is curt and bloodless yet hardly original, but he does have a keen perception of its various battle strategies. There's a happy ending, which the Hays Office wouldn't have liked, but Hollywood in the 1980s just might. David Bartholomew, NYPL Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. [via]
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The Poems of Francois Villonby Galway KinnellISBN 0874512360 (0-87451-236-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems of Francois Villon'Book summary:This bilingual edition of the 15th-century poet's work incorporates recent scholarship. [via]
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Poems of Francois Villon : The Legacy, the Testament and Other Poemsby Francois VillonISBN 085646323X (0-85646-323-X)
Softcover, Anvil Press Poetry, Limited
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Prick Up Your Earsby John LahrISBN 0879100575 (0-87910-057-5)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James HoggISBN 0862413400 (0-86241-340-0)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner'Book summary:Written in 1824, James Hogg's masterpiece is a brilliant portrayal of the power of evil. Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The reader, while recognising the stranger as the Devil, is prevented by the subtlety of the novel's structure from finally deciding whether, for all his vividness and wit, he is more than a figment of the imagination. This is the only complete edition of Hogg's Confessions, since it was first published. All subsequent editions, until now, have altered the text or omitted both the engraved Frontispiece and the (fictional) Dedication. In his notes to the Canongate edition, David Groves discusses the significance of both, in terms of the novels structures and ironies. [via]
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The Raspby Philip MacDonaldISBN 0881840947 (0-88184-094-7)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Rosary Murdersby William X. KienzleISBN 0836261011 (0-8362-6101-1)
Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rosary Murders'Book summary:Priests and nuns are his targets. A plain black rosary entwined between the fingers of each victim is his calling card. The police don't have a clue, but Father Koesler sees a pattern -- a consuming religious obsession that can drive one man to serial murder. And to an unexpected and terrifying encounter inside the Father's own confessional. [via]
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Siam, Or, The Woman Who Shot a Manby Lily TuckISBN 0879517239 (0-87951-723-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sign of Fourby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 087460219X (0-87460-219-X)
Softcover, Lion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sign of Four'Book summary:Large Thin Hardcover without dustjacket as issued. 56 pages. Adapted by Richard Widdows with Color Illustrations throughout. One inset photograph. There are color illustrations on nearly every page and lists the illustrator as copyrighted by Burbank Films. [via]
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Sophoclesby Richard C. JebbISBN 0862920027 (0-86292-002-7)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophocles'Book summary:This is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb. Each volume contains a foreword by P.E. Easterling, concerned with Jebb and his contribution to Sophoclean scholarship; there follows an introduction by a noted Sophoclean scholar dealing with Jebbs treatment of the individual play and its value for--and contrast with--subsequent interpretations, for which a select bibliography is included. [via]
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0862411211 (0-86241-121-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him. Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Dr Jekyll? [via]
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A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0831785136 (0-8317-8513-6)
Hardcover, Galley Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Study in Scarlet'Book summary:Arthur Conan Doyle's Study in Scarlet is the first published story involving the legendary Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world's best-known detective, and the first narrative by Holmes's Boswell, the unassuming Dr. Watson, a military surgeon lately returned from the Afghan War. Watson needs a flat-mate and a diversion. Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great literary collaboration begins.
Watson and Holmes move to a now-famous address, 221B Baker Street, where Watson is introduced to Holmes's eccentricities as well as his uncanny ability to deduce information about his fellow beings. Somewhat shaken by Holmes's egotism, Watson is nonetheless dazzled by his seemingly magical ability to provide detailed information about a man glimpsed once under the streetlamp across the road.
Then murder. Facing a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a mysterious phrase drawn in blood on the wall, and the buffoons of Scotland Yard--Lestrade and Gregson--Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally baffles his faithful Watson. Later, Holmes explains: "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.... There are few people who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result." Holmes is in that elite group.
Conan Doyle quickly learned that it was Holmes's deductions that were of most interest to his readers. The lengthy flashback, while a convention of popular fiction, simply distracted from readers' real focus. It is when Holmes and Watson gather before the coal fire and Holmes sums up the deductions that led him to the successful apprehension of the criminal that we are most captivated. Subsequent Holmes stories--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes--rightly plunge the twosome directly into the middle of a baffling crime, piling mystery upon mystery until Holmes's denouement once more leaves the dazzled Watson murmuring, "You are wonderful, Holmes!" Generations of readers agree. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
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Thornappleby Chris HuntISBN 085449104X (0-85449-104-X)
Softcover, Heretic Books
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Tiger Eyesby Judy BlumeISBN 0878881859 (0-87888-185-9)
Hardcover, Bradbury Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tiger Eyes'Book summary:Resettled in the "Bomb City" with her mother and brother, Davey Wexler recovers from the shock of her father's death during a holdup of his 7-Eleven store in Atlantic City. [via]
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Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Toby BluthISBN 0824980972 (0-8249-8097-2)
Hardcover, Ideals Childrens Books
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Trent's Last Caseby E.C. BentleyISBN 0824023536 (0-8240-2353-6)
Hardcover, Garland Pub
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Under Siegeby Stephen CoontsISBN 0831791829 (0-8317-9182-9)
Hardcover, Pocket Books
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Unsolved: Classic True Murder Casesby Richard Glyn JonesISBN 087226047X (0-87226-047-X)
Hardcover, Peter Bedrick Books
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A Violent Lifeby Pier Paolo PasoliniISBN 0856355917 (0-85635-591-7)
Hardcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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The Walter Syndromeby Richard NeelyISBN 0841500614 (0-8415-0061-4)
Hardcover, McCall Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Walter Syndrome'Book summary:A psychotic killer has the city in a grip of terror. And, although readers will think they know who the killer is and why he kills, the climax is so shocking, "there's (only) one chance in a thousand you'll guess the ending" (Chicago Sun-Times). Neely is also the author of The Plastic Nightmare, which was recently made into the movie Shattered. [via]
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Wieland & "Memoirs of Carwinby Charles Brockden Brown, S.W. Reid, Sydney J. KrauseISBN 087338220X (0-87338-220-X)
Softcover, Kent State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wieland & "Memoirs of Carwin'Book summary:This first volume in Kent State University's Bicentennial Edition of the Novels and Related Works of Charles Brockden Brown presents critical texts of Brown's first published novel, Wieland, and of the fragment, "Carwin," which he began in 1798 as a companion-piece to his novel. The texts are based on the first printings: the book edition of Wieland printed by T. and J. Swords in New York and published there by Hocquet Caritat in 1798, and the installments of "Carwin" that appeared in the Literary Magazine in Philadelphia in 1803, 1804, and 1805.
The Historical Essay by Alexander Cowie, which follows the texts, discusses the facts surrounding the composition, publication, and reception of both works and their place in America's literary history, and the Textual Essay by S.W. Reid discusses the copy-texts for the present edition, the transmission of the texts, and the editorial decisions that have been based on these considerations. Also appended are photographs of the notebook pages containing Brown's "Outline" of Wieland, along with our transcription of it. Moreover, as the first in a series of volumes, this volume offers, as well, a note on the principles and procedures guiding the editing of all works in the Bicentennial Edition. [via]
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Winter's Endby John RickardsISBN 0843954477 (0-8439-5447-7)
Softcover, Dorchester Publishing Company, Incorporated
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You Must Know Everythingby Isaac BabelISBN 0881840270 (0-88184-027-0)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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