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4: 50 From Paddingtonby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126936 (1-57912-693-6)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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The Abortionist's Daughter: Library Editionby Elisabeth HydeISBN 0307263665 (0-307-26366-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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All That Remainsby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 0380718332 (0-380-71833-2)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All That Remains'Book summary:Minimal shelf wear to cover. All pages intact and clean. Binding is tight. SHIPS NEXT BUSINESS DAY! [via]
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Along Came a Spiderby James PattersonISBN 0446364193 (0-446-36419-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Along Came a Spider'Book summary:The classic thriller that launched the Alex Cross series, the #1 detective series of the past twenty-five years!
A missing little girl named Maggie Rose . . . a family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. . . . the thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher . . . a psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him - even after he's been captured.
Gary Soneji wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the first female supervisor of the Secret Service who completes one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read.
Alex Cross and Jezzie Flanagan are about to have a forbidden love affair--at the worst possible time for both of them. Because Gary Soneji is playing at the top of his game. The latest of the unspeakable crimes happens in Alex Cross's precinct. It happens under the noses of Jezzie Flanagan's men. Now Alex Cross must face the ultimate test: How do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath? [via] -
An American Tragedyby Theodore DreiserISBN 1417905778 (1-4179-0577-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Tragedy'Book summary:1925. Volume Two of Two. American author, outstanding representative of naturalism, whose novels depict real-life subjects in a harsh light. Dreiser's books were held to be amoral, and he battled throughout his career against censorship and popular taste. An American Tragedy is a novel based on the famous case of Chester Gilette's murder of Grace Brown and is generally considered to be Dreiser's greatest accomplishment. In the novel, Clyde Griffiths, son of unworldly, evangelist parents, escapes from them to what seems to him the vastly more exciting and colorful life of a bellboy in a Kansas City Hotel; he moves to New York State to work in a collar factory, and when his girl friend Roberta becomes pregnant he drowns her, possibly accidentally in the event, though after much anguished premeditation, and is tried and condemned to death. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417905778. [via]
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The Big over Easyby Jasper FfordeISBN 0143037234 (0-14-303723-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Big over Easy'Book summary:[via]Jasper Fforde's bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy. In The Big Over Easy, Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. Meet Inspector Jack Spratt, family man and head of the Nursery Crime Division. He's investigating the murder of ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty, found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Yes, the big egg is down, and all those brittle pieces sitting in the morgue point to foul play.
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Black Noticeby Patricia CornwellISBN 0425175227 (0-425-17522-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Notice'Book summary:It's Christmastime in Richmond, Virginia, but no one seems merry--least of all Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, back for her 10th outing as a crime-solving coroner. Actress Kate Reading also returns, reading her third unabridged audio for Patricia Cornwell's death-drenched series. This one finds Scarpetta still recovering from the murder of her lover and in a generally foul mood as an investigation of a badly decomposed body leads her to INTERPOL, and eventually, Paris. Series regulars Police Detective Pete Marino, recently demoted, and niece Lucy are in equally cantankerous states of mind, resulting in more blue language than Cornwell regulars may be used to. Reading proves she's up to the task, maintaining multiple distinct voices and highlighting the occasional humor in the overwhelmingly dark novel. A London-based stage actress, she captivates the listener without careening into melodrama. (Running time: 12.5 hours, 8 cassettes) --Kimberly Heinrichs [via]
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- Black Notice: ISBN 0425175405 (0-425-17540-5)
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Softcover, Little Brown & Co - Black Notice: ISBN 0375707719 (0-375-70771-9)
Softcover, Random House Large Print - Black Notice: ISBN 0375408452 (0-375-40845-2)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print - Black Notice: ISBN 0399145087 (0-399-14508-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - Black Notice: ISBN 0399145222 (0-399-14522-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - Black Notice: ISBN 0425175227 (0-425-17522-7)
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The Body in the Libraryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0451199871 (0-451-19987-1)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Body in the Library'Book summary:Agatha Christie's genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime.
The Body in the Library
The body of a beautiful blonde is found in the library of Gossington Hall. What the young woman was doing in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead is precisely what Jane Marple means to find out. Amid rumors of scandal, Miss Marple baits a clever trap to catch a ruthless killer. [via]
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- The Body in the Library: ISBN 0061003646 (0-06-100364-6)
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Hardcover, Dodd, Mead - The Body in the Library: ISBN 039915017X (0-399-15017-X)
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- The Body in the Library: ISBN 0061003646 (0-06-100364-6)
The Butcher Boyby Patrick McCabeISBN 0880641479 (0-88064-147-9)
Hardcover, Fromm International Publishing Corporation
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Cards on the Tableby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425105679 (0-425-10567-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Carrieby Stephen KingISBN 8401491029 (84-01-49102-9)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Cause of Deathby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 0425158616 (0-425-15861-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cause of Death'Book summary:Patricia Cornwell's heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta is back; this time to solve the mystery of the death of an Associated Press reporter who was killed while nosing about in a decommissioned navy yard. Scarpetta's involvement in the case leads her to be targeted for murder herself by a nasty little neo-fascist cult with delusions of grandeur that include a plan to "kill and maim, frighten, brainwash and torture" all who oppose their plan to rule the world. Helping Scarpetta is her niece Lucy, an F.B.I. agent whose computer expertise leads to a heart-stopping journey into cyberspace. [via]
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Chronicle of a Death Foretoldby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0394530748 (0-394-53074-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold'Book summary:"EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered."
A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and we are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry. [via]More editions of Chronicle of a Death Foretold:
The Clocks: A Hercule Poirot Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425173917 (0-425-17391-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clocks: A Hercule Poirot Mystery'Book summary:Hercule Poirot, the relentless Belgian detective, investigates when a body is found in Miss Millicent Pebmarsh's sitting room with four strange clocks set at 4:13. [via]
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A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony BurgessISBN 1568495110 (1-56849-511-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Clockwork Orange'Book summary:The only American edition of the cult classic novel.
A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, whose stark terror was captured in Stanley Kubrick's magnificent film of the same title. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him the novel asks, "At what cost?" This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked." [via]More editions of A Clockwork Orange:
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter: A Novelby Jeff LindsayISBN 0307277887 (0-307-27788-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter: A Novel'Book summary:Meet Dexter Morgan. He's a highly respected lab technician specializing in blood spatter for the Miami Dade Police Department. He's a handsome, though reluctant, ladies' man. He's polite, says all the right things, and rarely calls attention to himself. He's also a sociopathic serial killer whose "Dark Passenger" drives him to commit the occasional dismemberment.
Mind you, Dexter's the good guy in this story.
Adopted at the age of four after an unnamed tragedy left him orphaned, Dexter's learned, with help from his pragmatic policeman father, to channel his "gift," killing only those who deal in death themselves. But when a new serial killer starts working in Miami, staging elaborately grisly scenes that are, to Dexter, an obvious attempt at communication from one monster to another, the eponymous protagonist finds himself at a loss. Should he help his policewoman sister Deborah earn a promotion to the Homicide desk by finding the fiend? Or should he locate this new killer himself, so he can express his admiration for the other's "art?" Or is it possible that psycho Dexter himself, admittedly not the most balanced of fellows, is finally going completely insane and committing these messy crimes himself?
Despite his penchant for vivisection, it's hard not to like Dexter as his coldly logical personality struggles to emulate emotions he doesn't feel and to keep up his appearance as a caring, unremarkable human being. Breakout author Jeff Lindsay's plot is tense and absorbing, but it's the voice of Dexter and his reactions to the other characters that will keep readers glued to Darkly Dreaming Dexter, as well as making it one of the most original and highly recommended serial killer stories in a long time. --Benjamin Reese [via]
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The Daughter of Timeby Josephine TeyISBN 089966184X (0-89966-184-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Daughter of Time'Book summary:Josephine Tey is often referred to as the mystery writer for people who don't like mysteries. Her skills at character development and mood setting, and her tendency to focus on themes not usually touched upon by mystery writers, have earned her a vast and appreciative audience. In Daughter of Time, Tey focuses on the legend of Richard III, the evil hunchback of British history accused of murdering his young nephews. While at a London hospital recuperating from a fall, Inspector Alan Grant becomes fascinated by a portrait of King Richard. A student of human faces, Grant cannot believe that the man in the picture would kill his own nephews. With an American researcher's help, Grant delves into his country's history to discover just what kind of man Richard Plantagenet was and who really killed the little princes. [via]
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Dolores Claiborneby Stephen KingISBN 0451177096 (0-451-17709-6)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dolores Claiborne'Book summary:More of a mystery than a horror novel, Dolores Claiborne contains only the briefest glances at the supernatural. The novel presents Stephen King as a writer experimenting with style and narrative, time and perspective. Fans looking for a skin-crawling, page-turning fright or an undead bloodbath will be disappointed, but a patient reader willing to savor King's leisurely study of character and island life will find many rewards. And all of this is not to say that the book is without suspense.
The story unfolds in one continuous chapter, told in the first person by the cranky, 65-year-old housekeeper, Dolores, who is explaining to police officers and a stenographer how and why she killed her husband, Joe, 30 years ago. At the same time, in her rambling monologue, she insists that she did not kill her longtime employer, Vera Donovan--notwithstanding what the residents of Little Tall Island may be whispering. Joe was a drinker, and, as Dolores gradually argues, he deserved to die for the horrifying crimes he committed against his family. But Vera, despite her cantankerous disposition as a lady governing her decaying estate with her precise rules about even the most mundane household chore ("Six pins! Remember to use six pins! Don't you let the wind blow my good sheets down to the corner of the yard!"), was a good woman--or at least not an evil one. She was the woman who hired the young Dolores and kept her on even after Dolores got pregnant again. Dolores cleaned and cared for her even as the old matron faded into senility.
Dolores Claiborne is a rich novel that recalls the regionalist writing of the turn of the century. It is a fine place for a skeptical newcomer--put off by King's reputation for outright terror--to start. And for fans, it is a book that offers new insights into an author who's an old favorite. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
El Retrato De Dorian Gray / The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 8449410541 (84-494-1054-1)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Softcover, Imaginador - El Retrato De Dorian Gray / The Picture of Dorian Gray: ISBN 958046216X (958-04-6216-X)
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Evil Under the Sun: A Hercule Poirot Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126286 (1-57912-628-6)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evil Under the Sun: A Hercule Poirot Mystery'Book summary:Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of England, Evil Under the Sun is one of Agatha Christies most intriguing mysteries. When a gorgeous young bride is brutally strangled to death on the beach, only Hercule Poirot can sift through the secrets that shroud each of the guests and unravel the macabre mystery at this playground by the sea. [via]
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Five Complete Hercule Poirot Novelsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0517309769 (0-517-30976-9)
Hardcover
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Complete Hercule Poirot Novels'Book summary:Agatha Christie-Five Complete Hercule Poirot Novels in one hardback. Published by Avenel-1980 Edition. Novels included; Thirteen at Dinner/Murder on The Orient Express/The ABC Murders/Cards on the Table/ Death on the Nile. This old book is in very good condition. Collectible & Rare. [via]
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From Potter's Fieldby Patricia CornwellISBN 0425154092 (0-425-15409-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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From Potter's Fieldby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 0425204693 (0-425-20469-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Potter's Field'Book summary:Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Kay Scarpetta immediately recognizes the grisly work of Temple Gault, a bold and brilliant killer from her past. Now she must hunt down a psychopath whose string of horrible murders is leading inexorably to his ultimate prey: Scarpetta herself. Even with the help of the FBI, Scarpetta knows the endgame is hers alone to play -- and it will be played on Gault's home turf, the subway tunnels beneath New York City. [via]
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An Instance of the Fingerpostby Iain PearsISBN 0425167720 (0-425-16772-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'Book summary:An Instance of the Fingerpost is that rarest of all possible literary beasts--a mystery powered as much by ideas as by suspects, autopsies, and smoking guns. Hefty, intricately plotted, and intellectually ambitious, Fingerpost has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and, for once, the comparison is apt.
The year is 1663, and the setting is Oxford, England, during the height of Restoration political intrigue. When Dr. Robert Grove is found dead in his Oxford room, hands clenched and face frozen in a rictus of pain, all the signs point to poison. Rashomon-like, the narrative circles around Grove's murder as four different characters give their version of events: Marco da Cola, a visiting Italian physician--or so he would like the reader to believe; Jack Prestcott, the son of a traitor who fled the country to avoid execution; Dr. John Wallis, a mathematician and cryptographer with a predilection for conspiracy theories; and Anthony Wood, a mild-mannered Oxford antiquarian whose tale proves to be the book's "instance of the fingerpost." (The quote comes from the philosopher Bacon, who, while asserting that all evidence is ultimately fallible, allows for "one instance of a fingerpost that points in one direction only, and allows of no other possibility.")
Like The Name of the Rose, this is one whodunit in which the principal mystery is the nature of truth itself. Along the way, Pears displays a keen eye for period details as diverse as the early days of medicine, the convoluted politics of the English Civil War, and the newfangled fashion for wigs. Yet Pears never loses sight of his characters, who manage to be both utterly authentic denizens of the 17th century and utterly authentic human beings. As a mystery, An Instance of the Fingerpost is entertainment of the most intelligent sort; as a novel of ideas, it proves equally satisfying. [via]
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Murder at the Vicarageby Agatha ChristieISBN 1417617659 (1-4176-1765-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder at the Vicarage'Book summary:Murder at the Vicarage marks the debut of Agatha Christies unflappable and much beloved female detective, Miss Jane Marple. With her gift for sniffing out the malevolent side of human nature, Miss Marple is led on her first case to a crime scene at the local vicarage. Colonel Protheroe, the magistrate whom everyone in town hates, has been shot through the head. No one heard the shot. There are no leads. Yet, everyone surrounding the vicarage seems to have a reason to want the Colonel dead. It is a race against the clock as Miss Marple sets out on the twisted trail of the mysterious killer without so much as a bit of help from the local police. [via]
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Murder in Mesopotamiaby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425103633 (0-425-10363-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder in Mesopotamia'Book summary:In this classic Poirot story, the diminutive Belgian digs for clues to a triple murder at an archaeological site. [via]
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Murder Is Announcedby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126294 (1-57912-629-4)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder Is Announced'Book summary:You are cordially invited to a murder. A personal ad in the newspaper inviting strangers to participate in an evening of murder mystery fun and games at the home of Letitia Blacklock is an invitation that Miss Jane Marple cannot pass up. A good thing, too, because when the lights are dimmed real gunshots ring out, killing a young boy. Now its time for a new, much more serious game of whodunit. [via]
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The Mystery of the Blue Trainby Agatha ChristieISBN 0425130266 (0-425-13026-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Of Mice and Menby John SteinbeckISBN 1555047807 (1-55504-780-7)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Mice and Men'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The Ribald men yearn for land of their own. [via]
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One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in Americaby Keith BoykinISBN 0385479832 (0-385-47983-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America'Book summary:In the aftermath of the historic 1993 March on Washington for gay and lesbian rights, Keith Boykin, in One More River to Cross, clarifies the relationship between blacks and gays in America by portraying the "common ground" lives of those who are both black and gay.
Against a backdrop of civil rights and the black experience in America, Boykin interviews Baptist ministers, gay political leaders, and other black gays and lesbians on issues of faith, family, discrimination, and visibility to determine what differences--real and imagined--separate the two communities. Boykin points to evidence of African and precolonial same-sex behavior, as well as figures like James Baldwin and Bayard Rustin, to dispel the myth that homosexuality is a "white thang," while his research suggests that blacks are less homophobic than whites, despite the rhetoric of rap and religion. With stories from his own experience as well as that of other black gays and lesbians, Boykin targets gay racism and black homophobia and suggests that conservative forces have substituted the common language of racism for homophobia in order to prevent a potentially powerful coalition of blacks and gays.
By portraying what it means to be black and gay, One More River to Cross offers an extraordinary window into a community that challenges this country's acceptance of its minorities, both racial and sexual. [via]More editions of One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America:
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 1406502472 (1-4065-0247-2)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Plays, Prose Writings & Poemsby Oscar WildeISBN 1857150422 (1-85715-042-2)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plays, Prose Writings & Poems'Book summary:Famed as a wit and bon viveur, Oscar Wilde lived up to his reputation. This selection of plays, poems and prose writings, introduced by Terry Eagleton, includes "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Lady Windermere's Fan", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Critic as an Artist", Apologia", "The Soul of a Man Under Socialism", "Letter to Robert Ross", "Requiescat" and "The Ballad of Reading Goal". Terry Eagleton is the author of "Criticism and Ideology", "Marxism and Literary Criticsm" and "Literary Theory: An Introduction". [via]
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The Shiningby Stephen KingISBN 1417618256 (1-4176-1825-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shining'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, but his five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them. [via]
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Size 12 Is Not Fat: A Heather Wells Mysteryby Meg CabotISBN 1585477796 (1-58547-779-6)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Size 12 Is Not Fat: A Heather Wells Mystery'Book summary:Heather Wells Rocks!
Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two -- and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges. That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
The cops and the college president are ready to chalk the death off as an accident, the result of reckless youthful mischief. But Heather knows teenage girls . . . and girls do not elevator surf. Yet no one wants to listen -- not the police, her colleagues, or the P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives -- even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary and subtly sinister ways. So Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective!
But her new job comes with few benefits, no cheering crowds, and lots of liabilities, some of them potentially fatal. And nothing ticks off a killer more than a portly ex-pop star who's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong . . .
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Skinny Dipby Carl HiaasenISBN 1587248271 (1-58724-827-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skinny Dip'Book summary:Charles "Chaz" Perrone fancies himself a take-charge kind of guy. So when this "biologist by default" suspects that his curvaceous wife, Joey, has stumbled onto a profitable pollution scam he's running on behalf of Florida agribusiness mogul Red Hammernut, he sets out right away to solve the problem--by heaving Joey off the deck of a luxury cruise liner and into the Atlantic Ocean, far from Key West. But--whoops!--Joey, a former swimming champ, doesn't drown. Instead, as Carl Hiaasen tells in his 10th adult novel, Skinny Dip, she makes her way back to shore, thanks both to a wayward bale of Jamaican marijuana and lonerish ex-cop Mick Stranahan (Skin Tight, 1989), and then launches a bogus blackmail campaign that's guaranteed to drive her lazy, libidinous hubby into a self-protective frenzy.
You've got to hand it to Hiaasen: He's perfected a formula for crisply written, satirical crime fiction that makes the best use of imaginatively repulsive villains, as well as less thoroughly venal scoundrels and victims who ultimately overcome their antagonists, all while stumping for the preservation of Florida's environment, particularly the Everglades. In Skinny Dip, we find Chaz (who'd rather be golfing than puttering around the "hot, buggy, funky-smelling and treacherous" reaches of nature) falsifying water samples to help Hammernut turn the 'Glades into "Gods septic tank." That scheme, though, is endangered not just by Joey's sudden disappearance, but by the suspicions of a python-loving police detective and Chaz's own outstanding inability to tame his Viagra-enhanced tumescence. Even by assigning Chaz a baby-sitter--the hulking, hirsute, and painkiller-addicted Tool--Hammernut can't keep his pet biologist out of trouble. As Joey and Stranahan unfold their revenge plot, and Tool's conscience grows in competition with Chaz's ego, the reader can only marvel at the extent of the train wreck ahead.
As much fun as Hiaasen has delivering Chaz his climactic comeuppance, what's missing from Skinny Dip is a more complex, more credible development of Mick Stranahan's character and the relationship he builds with the much younger Joey Perrone. Like Erin Grant, from Strip Tease, Joey has far more going for her than her bra-cup size; but "hero" Stranahan is of far less interest here than any of his fellow players. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
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Special Topics in Calamity Physicsby Marisha PesslISBN 0143112120 (0-14-311212-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Special Topics in Calamity Physics'Book summary:?Dazzling,? (People) ?Exuberant,? (Vogue) ?marvelously entertaining,? (The Dallas Morning News) Marisha Pessl?s mesmerizing debut has critics raving and heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in American fiction. At the center of this ?cracking good read?4 is clever, deadpan Blue van Meer, who has a head full of literary, philosophical, scientific, and cinematic knowledge. But she could use some friends. Upon entering the elite St. Gallway school, she finds some?a clique of eccentrics known as the Bluebloods. One drowning and one hanging later, Blue finds herself puzzling out a byzantine murder mystery. Nabokov meets Donna Tartt (then invites the rest of the Western Canon to the party) in this novel?with ?visual aids? drawn by the author?that has won over readers of all ages. [via]
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Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937by John Steinbeck, Robert Demott, Elaine A. SteinbeckISBN 1883011019 (1-883011-01-9)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937'Book summary:For the first time in one volume, the early California writings of one of America's greatest novelists have been collected, including the seminal works, Tortilla Flat and Of Mice and Men, tracing his early growth and evolution. 20,000 first printing. [via]
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UN Gato En El Palomarby Agatha ChristieISBN 8427202644 (84-272-0264-4)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc
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Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Deathby D. B. C. PierreISBN 0156029987 (0-15-602998-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death'Book summary:If there's any justice, it is only a matter of time before the work of the curiously-named D B C Pierre becomes essential for anyone interested in cutting-edge writing today. Vernon God Little is a book that has a totally individual (and very quirky) identity, from a writer with a finger on the pulse of contemporary society (particularly its less comfortable aspects). Pierre is also a satirical writer in the vein of such talents as Terry Southern, and there is a manic quality to his work that makes the experience of reading him both disorienting and exhilarating. As a first novel, this is a remarkable achievement.
Teenager Vernon Gregory Little's life has been changed by the Columbine-style slaughter of a group of students at his high school. Soon his hole-in-the-wall town is blanketed under a media siege, and Vernon finds himself blamed for the killing (rather than the real culprit, a friend of Vernon's). Eulalio Ledesma is his particular nemesis, manipulating things so that Vernon becomes the fulcrum for the bizarre and vengeful impulses of the townspeople of Martirio. After a truly surrealistic set of events, Vernon finds himself heading for a fateful assignation in Mexico with the delectable Taylor Figueros (everyone in the book has names as odd as the author's).
By setting his novel in the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas, Pierre ensures that his narrative is going to be some distance from naturalistic writing. And as a scalpel-like satirical incision into the mores of contemporary America, reality TV and media hysteria, Vernon God Little often reads like a fractured modern-day take on such novels as John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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We Need to Talk about Kevinby Lionel ShriverISBN 1582432678 (1-58243-267-8)
Hardcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Need to Talk about Kevin'Book summary:A stunning examination of how tragedy affects a town, a marriage, and a family, for readers of Rosellen Brown's Before and After and Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World . That neither nature nor nurture bears exclusive responsibility for a child's character is self-evident. But such generalizations provide cold comfort when it's your own son who's just opened fire on his fellow students and whose class photograph--with its unseemly grin--is blown up on the national news. The question of who's to blame for teenage atrocity tortures our narrator, Eva Khatchadourian. Two years ago, her son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through a series of letters. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about both motherhood in general and Kevin in particular. How much is her fault? We Need to Talk About Kevin offers no pat explanations for why so many white, well-to-do adolescents--whether in Pearl, Paducah, Springfield, or Littleton--have gone nihilistically off the rails while growing up in suburban comfort. Instead, Lionel Shriver tells a compelling, absorbing, and resonant story while framing these horrifying tableaux of teenage carnage as metaphors for the larger tragedy--the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose. [via]
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The Westing Gameby Ellen RaskinISBN 0140386645 (0-14-038664-5)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Westing Game'Book summary:[via]When an eccentric millionaire dies mysteriously, sixteen very unlikely people are gathered together for the reading of the will...and what a will it is!
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Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - The Westing Game: ISBN 0525471375 (0-525-47137-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - The Westing Game: ISBN 014034991X (0-14-034991-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Westing Game: ISBN 0380679914 (0-380-67991-4)
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Maldad Bajo El Solby Agatha ChristieISBN 8427285396 (84-272-8539-6)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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El Ratrato De Dorian Greyby Oscar WildeISBN 8408017810 (84-08-01781-0)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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El Retrato De Dorian Gray / The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 849531178X (84-95311-78-X)
Softcover, Jorge a Mestas Ediciones
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Se Anuncia Un Asesinato/a Murder Is Announcedby Agatha ChristieISBN 8478713158 (84-7871-315-8)
Softcover, Rba Publicaciones Editores revistas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Se Anuncia Un Asesinato/a Murder Is Announced'Book summary:When an ad appears in the gazette announcing a murder to take place on Friday at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m., the locals show up, assuming it's a murder mystery party, only to get shot at and then become witnesses to the real murder of a boy no one knows. Fortunately, Miss Marple arrives and unravels this tangled skein before too many of them get bumped off. Miss Jane Marple doesn't look like your average detective. Quite frankly, she doesn't look like a detective at all. But looks can be deceiving, for the mild-mannered spinster sleuth is as adept at solving murders that baffle Scotland Yard as she is at unravelling village secrets.
Description in Spanish: En el periódico de Chipping Cleghorn se publica una noticia sorprendente que deja atónitos a los pacíficos vecinos del pueblo: "El viernes, a las seis y media, alguien morirá asesinado en casa de Letittia Blacklock.
La curiosidad es mayor que el miedo y las personas más relevantes de la población se dan cita en la casa a la hora anunciada. Una vez allí comprueban que la noticia del periódico era fidedigna, a la hora indicada se produce un asesinato. Afortunadamente, Miss Marple, de visita en la villa, se encarga de resolver el macabro asunto con su peculiar estilo. [via]
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Telonby Agatha ChristieISBN 8427202970 (84-272-0297-0)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Un Gato En El Palomar/Cat Among the Pigeonsby Agatha ChristieISBN 8478713425 (84-7871-342-5)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Un Gato En El Palomar/Cat Among the Pigeons'Book summary:In a palace in Ramat, a prince entrusts a package of jewels to his pilot, in the hope that he can smuggle them to England. The pilot, in turn, hides them in his sisters baggage. But before the packet reaches its destination the prince and the pilot are both dead. Then Joan, the pilots sister, travels to England with her daughter Jennifer where she will be attending boarding school. Description in Spanish: En el sultanato de Ramat se ha producido una grave insurrección: el príncipe Alí Yusuf confía las fabulosas joyas de la familia a su piloto Bob Rawlison, quien las esconde en el equipaje de su hermana Joan. Poco después el príncipe y su piloto mueren en un accidente de aviación. Joan viaja a Inglaterra con su hija Jennifer a la que interna en un distinguido colegio de señoritas. Allí, entre las palomas se ha escondido un gato asesino, al que sólo la sagacidad de Hercule Poirot podrá cortar sus uñas afiladas. [via]
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Velocidad/ Velocityby Dean R. KoontzISBN 9870404502 (987-04-0450-2)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Brandherdby Patricia Cornwell, Karin KerstenISBN 3442439035 (3-442-43903-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brandherd'Book summary:Die Erwartungen sind verständlicherweise sehr hoch, schließlich gilt sie als "erfolgreichste Thrillerautorin der Welt", hat Preise eingeheimst im In- und Ausland: Patricia Cornwell hat Stil, Biss und Engagement, auch in ihrem neuen Buch. Vertraute Personen, altbekannte Freundschaften, wer mehr als einen Krimi dieser Autorin gelesen hat, der fühlt sich irgendwie gleich zu Hause. Da ist Dr. Kay Scarpetta, die Chefin der Gerichtsmedizin in Virginia, ihr Lebensgefährte, FBI-Agent Wesley und ihre Nichte Lucy, Computerspezialistin.
Mit einem Drohbrief der vor Jahren überführten psychopathischen Killerin Carrie startet das Spannungskarussell. Parallel ein mysteriöser Brandanschlag auf das Anwesen des "Medienmoguls" Sparkes, in den Brandtrümmern die Leiche einer jungen Frau. Die Ermittlungen laufen auf Hochtouren, die Hiobsbotschaft lässt nicht auf sich warten: Carrie ist aus der Psychiatrie ausgebrochen. "Ich hab so ein Gefühl, dass wir von ihr diesmal weit Schlimmeres zu erwarten haben," mutmaßt Kay Scarpetta und sie soll recht behalten.
Patricia Cornwell, die einmal Tennisprofi werden wollte, dann aber doch in der Gerichtsmedizin arbeitete und sich mit Polizeireportagen einen Namen machte, recherchiert penibel und äußerst detailliert. Da wird aus beachtlichem Fundus beruflicher Erfahrungen geschöpft, da hat alles Hand und Fuß, stellenweise liest sich der Thriller wie ein Tatsachenbericht aus der Gerichtsmedizin. Das ist weder unspannend noch nervenschonend, aber: für zart besaitete Seelen, für Liebhaber des eher psychologisch raffinierten, feineren Krimis ist der neue Roman eher nichts. Denn hier geht es zur Sache, deutlich, direkt, schonungslos. "Der untere Teil des Gesichts bestand aus verbrannten, kalkweißen Knochen... und bröckeligen Zähnen. Von den Ohren war das meiste weg, doch von den Augen aufwärts war das Fleisch gekocht..."
Scarpetta, eine abgebrühte Frau, manchmal knallhart und doch -- Gott sei Dank -- mit menschlichen Regungen. Nach mehrfachen Auftritten in vorherigen Romanen hat sie angenehm an Profil gewonnen. "Ich muss zugeben, dass es mein größter Wunsch ... ist, sie tot zu sehen", sagt die Gerichtsmedizinerin über Carrie und weiß, dass sie in äußerster Lebensgefahr ist. --Barbara Wegmann [via]
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