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All He Ever Wantedby Anita ShreveISBN 0316010367 (0-316-01036-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All He Ever Wanted'Book summary:Anita Shreve's All He Ever Wanted reads like Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own told from the perspective of the husband. The wife gains a measure of freedom, but how does the repressive, abandoned husband feel about that freedom? Set in the early 1900s in the fictional New England college town of Thrupp, and narrated by the pompous Nicholas Van Tassel, All He Ever Wanted is at once an academic satire, a period novel, and a tale of suspense. Shreve's ability to nimbly hop through genres brings a liveliness to this story of love gone depressingly wrong. Van Tassel is an undistinguished professor of rhetoric at Thrupp College and a confirmed bachelor when he meets--in no less flamy a scenario than a hotel fire--the arresting Miss Etna Bliss. Immediately smitten, he woos and wins her. At least, he persuades her to become his wife. But Van Tassel hasn't really won her. Etna keeps her secrets and her feelings to herself. The extent of her withholding only becomes clear after a couple of kids and a decade or so of marriage. Then we find out that she's been creating a secret haven for herself all along. Van Tassel is in turn revealed--through his own priggish, puffed-up sentences--as something of a monster. The book is cleverly done; watching Etna through Van Tassel's eyes is like looking at beautiful bird from a hungry cat's point of view. But Van Tassel's voice might be too well written; he's pedantic and dull and snarky all at once, and by the end we find that we, like Etna, can't bear his company a minute longer. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Softcover, Little Brown & Co - All He Ever Wanted: ISBN 0316711128 (0-316-71112-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - All He Ever Wanted: ISBN 0316782262 (0-316-78226-2)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - All He Ever Wanted: ISBN 0316010367 (0-316-01036-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
- All He Ever Wanted: ISBN 0316735736 (0-316-73573-6)
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All Soulsby Michael Patrick MacDonaldISBN 034544177X (0-345-44177-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Souls'Book summary:Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world"--the Old Colony projects of South Boston--where 85% of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U.S. In All Souls, MacDonald takes us deep into the secret heart of Southie. With radiant insight, he opens up a contradictory world, where residents are besieged by gangs and crime but refuse to admit any problems, remaining fiercely loyal to their community. MacDonald also introduces us to the unforgettable people who inhabit this proud neighborhood. We meet his mother, Ma MacDonald, an accordion-playing, spiked-heel-wearing, indomitable mother to all; Whitey Bulger, the lord of Southie, gangster and father figure, protector and punisher; and Michael's beloved siblings, nearly half of whom were lost forever to drugs, murder, or suicide. By turns explosive and touching, All Souls ultimately shares a powerful message of hope, renewal, and redemption. [via]
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Amos Fortuneby Elizabeth Yates, Nora Spicer UnwinISBN 0140341587 (0-14-034158-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bag Balm and Duct Tape: Tales of a Vermont Doctorby Beach CongerISBN 0316152587 (0-316-15258-7)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bag Balm and Duct Tape: Tales of a Vermont Doctor'Book summary:When young Dr. Beach Conger accepted a hospital appointment in rural Vermont, it was a mail-order marriage without either party seeing the other.
He envisioned living out the rest of his days splitting wood, healing the sick, and being adored as a kindly country doctor. His new patients figured they had their work cut out for them, breaking in this whippersnapper M.D. from Berkeley, California.
Beach Conger's tale of his training in the art of country doctoring is a joy. Listen in on the hilarious consultations as he finds a cure for vitaminia, induces laconic Vermonters to talk about "private" problems, and even reconstructs the formula for the "Green Pills" his predecessor invented. He especially brings home that most basic consideration -- the need for every doctor to be supervised by a responsible person, i.e., a nurse.
"An engaging blend of rustic wisdom and big-city know-how." -- Publishers Weekly [via]More editions of Bag Balm and Duct Tape: Tales of a Vermont Doctor:
The Beans of Egypt, Maineby Carolyn ChuteISBN 0156001888 (0-15-600188-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Bell Jarby Sylvia Plath, Diane W. MiddlebrookISBN 0375404635 (0-375-40463-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bell Jar'Book summary:Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity. [via]
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Best of H.P. Lovecraftby H. P. Lovecraft, Robert BlochISBN 0345350804 (0-345-35080-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Black Creek Crossingby John SaulISBN 0345433327 (0-345-43332-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Blackbird Houseby Alice HoffmanISBN 0345455932 (0-345-45593-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blackbird House'Book summary:With incantatory prose that sweeps over the reader like a dream, (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.
In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet: Violet, a brilliant girl who is in love with books and with a man destined to betray her; Lysander Wynn, attacked by a halibut as big as a horse, certain that his life is ruined until a boarder wearing red boots
arrives to change everything; Maya Cooper, who does not understand the true meaning of the love between her mother and father until it is nearly too late. From the time of the British occupation of Massachusetts to our own modern world, family after familys lives are inexorably changed, not only by the people they love but by the lives they lead inside Blackbird House.
These interconnected narratives are as intelligent as they are haunting, as luminous as they are unusual. Inside Blackbird House more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives. The past both dissipates and remains contained inside the rooms of Blackbird House, where there are terrible secrets, inspired beauty, and, above all else, a spirit of coming home.
From the writer Time has said tells "truths powerful enough to break a readers heart comes a glorious travelogue through time and fate, through loss and love and survival. Welcome to Blackbird House. [via]More editions of Blackbird House:
Burning Margueriteby Elizabeth Inness-BrownISBN 0375726225 (0-375-72622-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the Worldby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0140275010 (0-14-027501-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'Book summary:From the Bestselling Author of Salt and The Basque History of the World
Cod, Mark Kurlanskys third work of nonfiction and winner of the 1999 James Beard Award, is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod, frozen and dried in the frosty air, then broken into pieces and eaten like hardtack. What was the staple of the medieval diet? Cod again, sold salted by the Basques, an enigmatic people with a mysterious, unlimited supply of cod. As we make our way through the centuries of cod history, we also find a delicious legacy of recipes, and the tragic story of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where once their numbers were legendary. In this lovely, thoughtful history, Mark Kurlansky ponders the question: Is the fish that changed the world forever changed by the world's folly?A charming fish tale and a pretty gift for your favorite seafood cook or fishing monomaniac. But in the last analysis, its a bitter ecological fable for our time. Los Angeles TimesEvery once in a while a writer of particular skill takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea and turns out a book of pure delight. Such is the case of Mark Kurlansky and the codfish. David McCulloughOne of the 25 Best Books of the Year. The New York Public Library[via]
Mark Kurlansky is the author of many books including Salt, The Basque History of the World, 1968, and The Big Oyster. His newest book is Birdseye.More editions of Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World:
Cordelia Underwoodby Van ReidISBN 0140280103 (0-14-028010-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Crucibleby Arthur Miller, Gerald Clifford WealesISBN 0140247726 (0-14-024772-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crucible'Book summary:Release Date: October 28, 1976. The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft-and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village. First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witchhunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving but that compels readers to fathom their hearts and consciences in ways that only the greatest theater ever can. "A drama of emotional power and impact" -New York Post [via]
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The Crucible : A Play in Four Actsby Arthur Miller, Richard EyreISBN 014200099X (0-14-200099-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crucible : A Play in Four Acts'Book summary:The Crucible, Arthur Miller's classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, is returning to Broadway. To mark the occasion, Penguin is pleased to offer this beautiful hardcover edition.
"A powerful drama." (Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times) [via]More editions of The Crucible : A Play in Four Acts:
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The Crucible : A Screenplayby Arthur MillerISBN 0140259090 (0-14-025909-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crucible : A Screenplay'Book summary:The masterpiece of American drama is now a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, and Paul Scofield. Set during the witch hunts in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, The Crucible recounts the vengeance, mass hysteria, and collective evil that poisoned this small town. photos, some in color. [via]
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A Dangerous Womanby Mary McGarry MorrisISBN 0140272119 (0-14-027211-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Delusion of Satanby Frances HillISBN 0306811596 (0-306-81159-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trialsby Frances HillISBN 0306807971 (0-306-80797-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials'Book summary:During the bleak winter of 1691 in the rigid Puritan community of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a group of young girls began experiencing violent fits, allegedly tormented by Satan and the witches who worshipped him. From the girls' initial denouncing of a black slave, their accusations soon multiplied; in less than two years nineteen men and women were hanged, one was pressed to death, and over a hundred others were imprisoned and impoverished.This evenhanded and insightful history illuminates this horrifying episode with visceral clarity, from the opportunistic Putnam clan, who fanned the crisis to satisfy personal vendettas and greed, to four-year-old "witch" Dorcas Good, chained to a dank prison wall in darkness till she went mad. By placing the distant period of the Salem witch trials in the larger context of more contemporary eruptions of mass hysteria and intolerance, the author has created a work as thought-provoking as it is emotionally powerful.[via]More editions of A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials:
Economic Liberalisation in South Asiaby R.T. ShandISBN 0333931165 (0-333-93116-5)
Hardcover, Macmillan India
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El Gran Gatsby/the Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. PinasISBN 0307343197 (0-307-34319-7)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Gran Gatsby/the Great Gatsby'Book summary:Un magnífico retrato de heroicidad en un mundo decadente.
Esta es la historia del millonario hecho a sí mismo, Jay Gatsby, a quien sólo le mueve una obsesión: recuperar un amor de juventud. Pero Daisy es hoy una muchacha que forma parte de una sociedad frívola y aburrida de sí misma, una criatura encantadora y también dañina. Un magnífico retrato de heroicidad en un mundo decadente. [via]More editions of El Gran Gatsby/the Great Gatsby:
Emily Dickinson Is Deadby Jane LangtonISBN 0312244347 (0-312-24434-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Emperor of Ocean Parkby Stephen L. CarterISBN 0375712925 (0-375-71292-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emperor of Ocean Park'Book summary:A complex, smart mystery filled with intrigue, drama, and more than a little danger awaits in Stephen L. Carter's engaging debut novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park. After the funeral of his powerful father (a federal judge whose nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court became a public scandal), Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out "the arrangements" his father left behind. Armed with fortitude and familial devotion--though paranoid of his wife's fidelity--Talcott soon finds himself in an investigation that entangles him with a number of questionable Washington, D.C., denizens, including attorneys and government officials, law professors, the FBI, shady underworld figures, chess masters, and friends and family. All the while Talcott tries not to hurt his attorney wife's chance for a judicial nomination--and their fragile marriage--but the closer he comes to unraveling his father's dark secrets, the more dangerous things become.
Clocking in at over 650 pages, the novel could easily have been streamlined; many of Talcott's thoughts are unnecessarily repeated. But Carter's storytelling skills are adept: tension builds, surprises are genuine, clues are not handed out freely. The prose, while somewhat meandering, can be crisp and insightful, as demonstrated in Carter's description of the misguided paths of young attorneys who sacrifice
all on the altar of career... at last arriving... at their cherished career goals, partnerships, professorships, judgeships, whatever kind of ships they dream of sailing, and then looking around at the angry, empty waters and realizing that they have arrived with nothing, absolutely nothing, and wondering what to do with the rest of their wretched lives.
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The Escher Twist: A Homer Kelly Mysteryby Jane LangtonISBN 0142001848 (0-14-200184-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsbyby Nicolas TredellISBN 0231115350 (0-231-11535-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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Farm to Factory: Women's Letters, 1830-1860by Thomas DublinISBN 023108157X (0-231-08157-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Grange Houseby Sarah BlakeISBN 0312280041 (0-312-28004-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0140620184 (0-14-062018-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Gatsby'Book summary:[via]Kathleen Parkinson places this brilliant and bitter satire on the moral failure of the jazz age firmly in the context of F. Scott Fitzgerald's life and times. She explores the intricate patterns of the novel, its chronology, locations, imagery and use of colour, and how these contribute to a seamless interplay of social comedy and symbolic landscape. She devotes a perceptive chapter to F. Scott Fitzgerald's controversial portrayal of women and goes on to discuss how the central characters, Gatsby and Nick Carraway, embody and confront the dualism inherent in the American Dream.
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salemby Maryse Conde, Richard PhilcoxISBN 0345384202 (0-345-38420-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem'Book summary:"Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contemporary American society and its ingrained racism and sexism."
THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
At the age of seven, Tituba watched as her mother was hanged for daring to wound a plantation owner who tried to rape her. She was raised from then on by Mama Yaya, a gifted woman who shared with her the secrets of healing and magic. But it was Tituba's love of the slave John Indian that led her from safety into slavery, and the bitter, vengeful religion practiced by the good citizens of Salem, Massachusetts. Though protected by the spirits, Tituba could not escape the lies and accusations of that hysterical time.
As history and fantasy merge, Maryse Conde, acclaimed author of TREE OF LIFE and SEGU, creates the richly imagined life of a fascinating woman. [via]More editions of I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem:
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The Ice Stormby Rick MoodyISBN 0316706000 (0-316-70600-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ice Storm'Book summary:A family romance set in the 1970s follows the Hoods as they skid out of control in suburban Connecticut and as Watergate unfolds and troops head home from Vietnam. By the author of Garden State. 22,500 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
Island Boyby Barbara CooneyISBN 0140507566 (0-14-050756-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Late George Apleyby John MarquandISBN 0316735671 (0-316-73567-1)
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Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Harold BloomISBN 014303927X (0-14-303927-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, he abandoned the rules of traditional poetry - breaking the standard metred line, discarding the obligatory rhyming scheme, and using the vernacular. Emily Dickinson condemned his sexual and physiological allusions as 'disgraceful', but Emerson saw the book as the 'most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed'. A century later it is his judgement of this autobiographical vision of the vigour of the American nation that has proved the more enduring. This is the most up-to-date edition for student use, with full critical apparatus. [via]
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Life Among the Savagesby Shirley JacksonISBN 0140267670 (0-14-026767-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Among the Savages'Book summary:Can this be the author of such chilling tales as The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House? An ordinary housewife stuck in a big, shabby house with three marvelous, demanding children and a charming husband who takes detached interest in the chaos they generate? Yes, it's Shirley Jackson all right: the precision of her observations and prose is familiar, even if her humor is something of a surprise. Not until Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions in 1993 would another woman write with such honesty about the maddening multitude of trivial, essential chores that constitute a mother's life. But Jackson nailed it first, 40 years earlier, in her hilarious chronicle of life in a small Vermont town, where getting the kids to school on time requires the combined gifts of a drill sergeant and a lady's maid. The saga of her son's bumpy adjustment to kindergarten, frequently anthologized as Charles, is justly famous, but Jackson's account of the Department Store Trip from Hell (two kids, two toy guns, one doll carriage and doll, mayhem in revolving doors and escalators) is even funnier. Although her memoirs are as merciless as her ghost stories, you may not notice because you're laughing so hard. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Little Menby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140367136 (0-14-036713-6)
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Little Men Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boysby Louisa May Alcott, Ann M. Magagna, Louis JambourISBN 0316030945 (0-316-03094-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Luck Runs Outby Charlotte MacLeodISBN 0380541718 (0-380-54171-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Make Way for Ducklingsby Robert McCloskeyISBN 0140564349 (0-14-056434-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Make Way for Ducklings'Book summary:It's not easy for duck parents to find a safe place to bring up their ducklings, but during a rest stop in Boston's Public Garden, Mr. and Mrs. Mallard think they just might have found the perfect spot--no foxes or turtles in sight, plenty of peanuts from pleasant passers-by, and the benevolent instincts of a kindly police officer to boot. Young readers will love the mother duck's proud, loving protection of her wee webbed ones, and those with fond memories of Boston will enjoy familiar locales, from Beacon Hill to Louisburg Square, and over the Charles River--often from a duck's-eye view. Robert McCloskey, creator of Blueberries for Sal, never fails to elicit happy story-time giggles from youngsters, and his soft, brown-toned, Caldecott-winning illustrations make this gentle world come alive. (Ages 3 to 8) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Manitou And Providence: Indians, Europeans, And the Making of New England, 1500-1643by Neal SalisburyISBN 0195034546 (0-19-503454-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Marchby Geraldine BrooksISBN 0143036661 (0-14-303666-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'March'Book summary:[via]From Louisa May Alcotts beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With"pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brookss place as a renowned author of historical fiction.
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Mollie Peer : Or the Underground Adventures of the Moosepath Leagueby Van ReidISBN 0140291857 (0-14-029185-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Monkeysby Susan MinotISBN 0375708367 (0-375-70836-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monkeys'Book summary:NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this luminous story of family life--the first novel by Susan Minot, author of the highly acclaimed Evening --the seven Vincent children follow their Catholic mother to Mass and spend Thanksgiving with their father's aging parents who come from a world of New England priviledge. As they grow older, they meet with the perplexing lives of adults. Susan Minot writes with delicacy and a tremendous gift for the details that decorate domestic life, and when tragedy strikes she beautifully mines the children's tenderness for each other, and their aching guardianship of what they have. [via]
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Our Town: A Play in Three Actsby Thornton Niven WilderISBN 0380005573 (0-380-00557-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Our Vanishing Landscapeby Eric SloaneISBN 0345332164 (0-345-33216-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Peabody Sisters of Salemby Louise Hall TharpISBN 0316839191 (0-316-83919-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Pilot's Wifeby Anita ShreveISBN 0316601950 (0-316-60195-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilot's Wife'Book summary:With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve now offers a skillfully crafted exploration of the long reach of tragedy in The Pilot's Wife. News of Jack Lyons's fatal crash sends his wife into shock and emotional numbness: "Kathryn wished she could manage a coma. Instead, it seemed that quite the opposite had happened: She felt herself to be inside of a private weather system, one in which she was continuously tossed and buffeted by bits of news and information, sometimes chilled by thoughts of what lay immediately ahead, thawed by the kindness of others ... frequently drenched by memories that seemed to have no regard for circumstance or place, and then subjected to the nearly intolerable heat of reporters, photographers and curious on-lookers. It was a weather system with no logic, she had decided, no pattern, no progression, no form." The situation becomes even more dire when the plane's black box is recovered, pinning responsibility for the crash on Jack. In an attempt to clear his name, Kathryn searches for any and all clues to the hours before the flight. Yet each discovery forces her to realize that she didn't know her husband of 16 years at all. Shreve's complex and highly convincing treatment of Kathryn's dilemma, coupled with intriguing minor characters and an expertly paced plot, makes The Pilot's Wife really take off. [via]
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Selected Poems: Robert Frostby Robert Frost, Adrian BarlowISBN 0198320027 (0-19-832002-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems: Robert Frost'Book summary:This selection of Frost's poetry contains forty poems spanning his early and mature collections including choices from "A Boy's Will", "North of Boston", "West-Running Brook", "A Further Range", and "In the Clearing". This edition has comprehensive notes on the poems and an Approaches section offering commentary and activities on key themes and techniques within the poetry, such as Frost's pastoral imagery, his friendship with Edward Thomas, and his narrative and lyric voices. [via]
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Signal & Noiseby John GriesemerISBN 0312423349 (0-312-42334-9)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Simple Gifts: Lessons in Living from a Shaker Villageby June SpriggISBN 0375704329 (0-375-70432-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Something the Cat Dragged Inby Charlotte MacLeodISBN 0380690969 (0-380-69096-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938by R.A. ScottiISBN 0316832111 (0-316-83211-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938'Book summary:It was the Perfect Storm. But instead of raging far out in the Atlantic, the Great Hurricane of 1938 left a wake of death and destruction across seven states. It battered J. P. Morgan's Long Island estate, wiped out beach communities from Watch Hill to Newport, flooded the Connecticut Valley, and flattened Vermont's prized maples.Traveling at record speeds, the storm raced up the Atlantic Coast, reaching New York and New England ahead of hurricane warnings and striking with such ferocity that seismographs in Alaska picked up the impact. Winds, clocked at 186 mph, stripped cars of their paint. Walls of water 50 feet high swept homes and entire families out to sea. Sandwiched between the Great Depression and World War II, the storm had a profound impact upon a generation. 'The day of the biggest wind has just passed,' the newswires read the next day, 'and a great part of the most picturesque America, as old as the Pilgrims, has gone beyond recall or replacement.' Drawing upon newspaper accounts, the personal testimony of survivors, forecasters, and archival footage, SUDDEN SEA recounts that terrifying day in gripping detail. Scotti describes the unlikely alignment of meteorological conditions that conspired to bring a tropical cyclone to the Northeast. A masterful storyteller, Scotti follows the trajectory of that awful wind-and recovers for posterity the lost stories of those whose lives, families, and communities were destroyed by the Hurricane of 1938. [via]
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Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge: Mid-Cambridgeby Not AvailableISBN 0262530120 (0-262-53012-0)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge: Northwest Cambridgeby Not AvailableISBN 0262530325 (0-262-53032-5)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Storiesby H. P. LovecraftISBN 0142180033 (0-14-218003-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories'Book summary:Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early 1920s. This new Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition brings together a dozen of the master's tales-from his early short stories "Under the Pyramids" (originally ghostwritten for Harry Houdini) and "The Music of Erich Zann" (which Lovecraft ranked second among his own favorites) through his more fully developed works, "The Dunwich Horror," The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and At the Mountains of Madness.[via]
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories presents the definitive corrected texts of these works, along with Lovecraft critic and biographer S. T. Joshi's illuminating introduction and notes to each story.More editions of The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories:
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Used and Rare : Travels in the Book Worldby Lawrence Goldstone, Nancy GoldstoneISBN 0312156820 (0-312-15682-0)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Used and Rare : Travels in the Book World'Book summary:After years of competitive extravagance at birthday time, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone decided to limit themselves to $20 each, which is how they came to be in possession of a $10 definitive translation of War and Peace, complete with maps of the major battles and fold-out color illustrations. It is also how they eventually came to be the owners of a $650 edition of Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit. Used and Rare, the Goldstones' tale of the journey from point A to point B, is a joyful celebration of their love of books. Rare-book dealers are a quirky lot; while one might invite you to caress an Adventures of Tom Sawyer worth thousands, another might turn you away altogether for no apparent reason. The Goldstones' enthusiasm is infectious, and, besides offering a lesson in used-book parlance, the pair remind us that for every book there are at least two stories: the one between the covers, and the one beyond the covers. [via]
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Used and Rare: Travels in the Book Worldby Nancy Goldstone, Lawrence GoldstoneISBN 0312187688 (0-312-18768-8)
Softcover, Griffin
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The Vanished Childby Sarah SmithISBN 0345381645 (0-345-38164-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vanished Child'Book summary:New England, 1887. A millionaire is brutally murdered. The only witness, his young grandchild, mysteriously disappears . . . Eighteen years later, in Switzerland, a man with no memory is "recognized" as Richard Knight, the missing child. Thus begins a masterpiece of historical suspense, as one man's obsession leads him toward a shattering truth--and to a killer, still at large. . . .
"Stunning . . . Tells a grim tale of murder and duplicity in stately prose that subtly enhances the psychological horrors."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Has all the ingredients of a juicy novel: greed, suspicion, love, madness and amnesia. Sarah Smith pulls it all together with a rare talent for telling a complex story in beautifully simple language."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"[A] deliciously intriguing tale. . . An artful literary puzzler featuring the kind of thick period detail and narrative intricacy mastered by Charles Dickens. . . This one belongs on the permanent shelf."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer [via]-
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Malcolm CowleyISBN 0140421998 (0-14-042199-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass'Book summary:"I celebrate myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass."
So begins Leaves of Grass, the first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially American poem in all our national literature.
The publication of Leaves of Grass in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it--the unusual jacket and title page, the exuberant preface, the twelve free-flowing, untitled poems embracing every realm of experience--was new. The 1855 edition broke new ground in its relaxed style, which prefigured free verse; in its sexual candor; in its images of racial bonding and democratic togetherness; and in the intensity of its affirmation of the sanctity of the physical world.
This Anniversary Edition captures the typeface, design and layout of the original edition supervised by Whitman himself. Today's readers get a sense of the "ur-text" of Leaves of Grass, the first version of this historic volume, before Whitman made many revisions of both format and style. The volume also boasts an afterword by Whitman authority David Reynolds, in which he discusses the 1855 edition in its social and cultural contexts: its background, its reception, and its contributions to literary history. There is also an appendix containing the early responses to the volume, including Emerson's letter, Whitman's three self-reviews, and the twenty other known reviews published in various newspapers and magazines.
This special volume will be a must-have keepsake for fans of Whitman and lovers of American poetry. [via]More editions of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass:
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Riversby Henry David Thoreau, H. Daniel PeckISBN 0140434429 (0-14-043442-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers'Book summary:A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, an account of a boat trip Thoreau took in 1839, is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Alternating between observation and reflection, Thoreau interweaves day-by-day descriptions of natural phenomenon, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and philosophy, the Native American and Puritan histories of New England, the Bhagavad-Gita, the imperfections of Christianity, and many other subjects.
An invaluable companion to Walden, it stands alone as one of the most remarkable literary achievements of the nineteenth century. [via]
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A Widow for One Year: A Novelby John IrvingISBN 0345424719 (0-345-42471-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Widow for One Year: A Novel'Book summary:John Irving fans will not be startled to find that A Widow for One Year is a sprawling farce-tragedy crawling with characters who are writers. In the opening scene, 4-year-old Ruth Cole walks in on her melancholy mother, Marion, who is in flagrante with 16-year-old Eddie, the driver for drunken Ted (Ruth's dad and Marion's estranged, womanizing husband).
Eddie spends the rest of his life obsessively writing novels like Sixty Times, his roman à clef about his 60 seductions by Marion. Ted is a failed novelist who gets rich and famous writing creepy children's stories based on tales he tells Ruth (such as The Mouse Crawling Between the Walls). Marion abandons Ruth, Ted, and Eddie and becomes a successful pseudonymous novelist. And Ruth becomes the most richly celebrated writer of them all because of her early training by Ted, who not only told her stories, but also helped her craft narratives to explain their home's many photographs of her brothers, who died in a gory car wreck the year before she was born. Grief over the boys is why Ruth's mother does not dare to love her.
Ruth, Irving's first female main character, works brilliantly, first as an imaginative, almost Salingeresque child coming to terms with her bewildering family, then as a grownup striving to understand her mother's motives--or at least to track her down. Ted is a mordantly funny caricature, interestingly sinister and plausibly self-justifying when most inexcusable. Eddie is a lovable schlemiel, yet not too sentimentally drawn. And what set pieces Irving can write! The story of the boys' death is horrific and effective in dramatizing the character of Ted, who narrates it. Ted's attempted murder by a spurned lover is as hilarious as the VW-down-the-marble-stairway scene in A Prayer for Owen Meany (which has been adapted by Disney Studios), though not quite on a par with the celebrated "Pension Grillparzer" episode in The World According to Garp (reissued in a 20th anniversary edition by Modern Library).
Irving has the effrontery to get away with practically any scene that comes into his head--Ruth winds up an eyewitness to a hooker's murder in Amsterdam, a Dutch detective starts tracking her down (just as Ruth is hunting Marion), and the multiple plot strands all converge in a finale that neatly echoes the opening scene. It's all done with the outrageously coincidental yet minutely realistic brio of Charles Dickens, with a sad, self-conscious jokiness like that of Irving's mentor, Kurt Vonnegut. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Withdrawing Roomby Charlotte MacLeodISBN 0380564734 (0-380-56473-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Wrack and Runeby Charlotte MacLeodISBN 0380619113 (0-380-61911-3)
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Abran Paso a Los Patitos / Make Way for Ducklingsby Robert McCloskey, Osvaldo Blanco, De Osvaldo BlancoISBN 014056182X (0-14-056182-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abran Paso a Los Patitos / Make Way for Ducklings'Book summary:Provides the Spanish version of the classic Caldecott Medal-winning tale about the Mallard family, a mother duck and her young ducklings, as they make their way through Boston. [via]
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