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Admissionsby Nancy LiebermanISBN 0446695890 (0-446-69589-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Admissions'Book summary:For Manhattan's most affluent parents, the Tuesday after Labour Day marks the beginning of the city's most competitive and vicious blood sport: the start of the private school admissions process. But for Helen Drager, mother of Zoe, it shouldn't be such an ordeal. After all, Helen's best friend Sara is an admissions officer at Zoe's current K-8. But Sara's position becomes precarious, and Helen soon finds herself drawn ever deeper into the mounting lunacy generated by the fierce competition. Perhaps her husband, a television producer for the Cooking Network, can give the director of admission at their first-choice school her own cooking show? As the pressure mounts, will Zoe make the cut? Will her parents survive the process? Any can anyone stop the insanity? [via]
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Andy Warhol Diariesby Andy Warhol, Pat HackettISBN 0446514268 (0-446-51426-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andy Warhol Diaries'Book summary:Now in trade paperback, the sensational national bestseller that turns the spotlight on one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. These pages are filled with previously undisclosed facts about the lives and loves of the irch and famous--from royalty to movie and music stars to renowned artists. [via]
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Andy Warhol Diariesby Pat HackettISBN 0446391387 (0-446-39138-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Bachelorby Carly PhillipsISBN 0446610542 (0-446-61054-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bachelor'Book summary:After news of his mother's weak heart summons him home, globetrotting journalist Roman Chandler loses a coin toss with his brothers that determines who will relinquish his bachelor status to give their mother a grandchild. Roman decides to "settle down" without giving up his travel-intensive job, and as one of the most handsome men in town, he can have his pick of the local women--except for Charlotte Bronson, his high school crush. Thoughts of her parents' miserable long-distance marriage keep Charlotte from accepting Roman's proposal, despite the sexual sparks that fly at their every encounter. Mutual attraction eventually proves too powerful to resist, however, but first Roman must win her trust.... [via]
Bad Newsby Donald E. WestlakeISBN 0446610844 (0-446-61084-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The Big Killby Mickey SpillaneISBN 0451165918 (0-451-16591-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Body Loversby Mickey SpillaneISBN 0451137418 (0-451-13741-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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A Body to Die forby Kate WhiteISBN 0446613851 (0-446-61385-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Body to Die for'Book summary:For Bailey, trading Manhattan for a weekend of major pampering at a friend's resort in rural Massachusetts is a no-brainer. But when she stumbles across a mummy-wrapped corpse in one of the spa's treatment rooms, her time-out suddenly morphs into a full-tilt murder investigation. Instead of slathering cellulite away with shea butter, she's uncovering suspects ranging from a spurned lover to a sleazy husband to a shady ring of employees. With a sexy, hard-to-resist homicide cop on the case and by her side, Bailey's soon chasing clues across state lines-and moving into the sights of a vengeful killer who is trying to wrap things up for good. This time, the body in the mud wrap could be her own. [via]
The Book of Danielby E. L. DoctorowISBN 0449214303 (0-449-21430-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Brothers Keepersby Donald E. WestlakeISBN 0446401358 (0-446-40135-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Catspawby Joan D. VingeISBN 0446603724 (0-446-60372-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catspaw'Book summary:In 25th-century New York, embassies of interstellar power brokers rise above the depths of Dickensian underclass. Here a nefarious assassination plot is the most visible element in a vast conspiracy of political manipulation, one that draws a tormented young telepath into its web. [via]
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Chancesby Jackie CollinsISBN 0446357170 (0-446-35717-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chances'Book summary:The book that made Collins one of America's favorite authors sweeps readers from the sophisticated playgrounds of Europe to the glittering gambling palaces of Las Vegas, plunging into the world of the Santangelo crime family. The book introduces street kid Gino Santangelo, who makes it all the way to the top, and his beautiful and daring daughter, Lucky. [via]
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Cop Without a Shieldby Lillian O'DonnellISBN 0449205347 (0-449-20534-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Criminal Conversationby Evan HunterISBN 0446365130 (0-446-36513-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Criminal Conversation'Book summary:Pursuing a secret relationship, lovers Sarah and Andrew are unaware that their trysts are being recorded by a New York City prosecutor who believes that Andrew is at the head of the biggest crime family networks in the country. Reprint. NYT. [via]
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Dance Of Deathby Douglas Preston, Lincoln ChildISBN 0446617091 (0-446-61709-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dance Of Death'Book summary:Two brothers. One, top FBI Agent, Aloysius Pendergast. The other, Diogenes, a brilliant and twisted criminal.
An undying hatred between them.
Now, a perfect crime.
And the ultimate challenged: Stop me if you can.
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Dark Chant in a Crimson Keyby George C. ChesbroISBN 0446403334 (0-446-40333-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Day of Atonementby Faye KellermanISBN 044900323X (0-449-00323-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Dead Evenby Brad MeltzerISBN 0446607339 (0-446-60733-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Even'Book summary:Sara Tate starts her job as a New York City assistant district attorney the day before massive budget cuts. To keep her job, she grabs a case slated for one of the DA office's hot shots, thinking it will be the kind of showpiece that'll make her a hero. The next day, she learns that the defense attorney on the case is her husband, Jared Lynch. To make matters worse, what appeared to be a simple breaking and entering is beginning to look more like a murder.
Someone is pitting Sara and Jared against each other and both are being threatened: win the case or your spouse dies. Sara and Jared have struggled and suffered more than your ordinary young lawyers and their desperation to protect one another and their life together is almost palpable. But the more they fight to win the case, the more they put each other's lives in jeopardy.
Dead Even is truly gripping. Brad Meltzer has created characters that are realistic enough to be believable, but quirky enough to be captivating. The lawyers are especially determined and the criminals are especially sinister. Even more impressive than his characters is his don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-something plot, which grabs you on page one and doesn't let go until you close the cover. When reading Dead Even, you may find yourself holding your breath as you furiously turn the pages. It's a legal thriller that gives Grisham's books a run for their money. -- Mara Friedman [via]
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The Deepby Mickey SpillaneISBN 0451137035 (0-451-13703-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Die Again, Macreadyby Jack LivingstonISBN 0451140117 (0-451-14011-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia A True Story by FBI Agentby Joseph D. Pistone, Richard WoodleyISBN 0451157494 (0-451-15749-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia A True Story by FBI Agent'Book summary:In Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone tells the story of working so deep undercover in the Mafia that the truth of his identity became blurry even for him. For six years, Pistone posed as jewel thief Donnie Brasco in order to pull off one of the most audacious sting operations ever. Because any small detail could blow his cover, Pistone adjusted his personality and habits to earn the trust of Mafia soldiers, connected guys, captains, and godfathers. He was so successful that many FBI surveillance teams assumed that he was yet another Mafia guy. This memoir paints a vivid portrait of the underworld of wise guys by revealing their code of honor, their treacherous dealings, their relationships with their wives and mistresses, and their lavish money habits. The suspense in Pistone's story builds as he unfurls his experience of life on the edge of good and evil and on the verge of death. [via]
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Exposureby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0446670235 (0-446-67023-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exposure'Book summary:In luminous, provocative prose, Harrison tells the harrowing story of a woman poised on the edge of a psychological nightmare. As a child, Ann was her photographer father's muse, and his controversial photographs of her shocked the world. Now, years later, a museum retrospective causes her controlled existence to unravel. [via]
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The Father's Day Murderby Lee HarrisISBN 0449004414 (0-449-00441-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Fear of Flyingby Erica JongISBN 0451158512 (0-451-15851-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear of Flying'Book summary:As the reader follows the adventures and misadventures of Isadora, the heroine, on her unceasing quest for the zipless erotic dalliance she will be blasted by the revelation of certain home truths which both men and women had been traditionally unwilling to acknowledge openly. [via]
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A Field of Darknessby Cornelia ReadISBN 0446699497 (0-446-69949-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Firestarterby Stephen KingISBN 0451099648 (0-451-09964-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Fool on the Hillby Matt RuffISBN 0446357723 (0-446-35772-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fool on the Hill'Book summary:It is a literary event when a genuinely new fictional voice comes along. When that voice achieves its newness not through a certain formal facility but through the freshness of its vision, there is truly something to celebrate. Matt Ruff was only twenty-two when Fool on the Hill was first published, but with his novel he gave us a story that won over readers of every persuasion. Not your usual first effort, Fool on the Hill is a full-blown epic of life and death, good and evil, magic and love.[via]
Think of the imaginative daring of Mark Helprins Winters Tale. The zany popism of Tom Robbinss Another Roadside Attraction. The gnomish fantasies of J.R. Tolkien. Think of these and you begin to get some idea of one of the most remarkable first novels to come along in years.
In the world of Fool on the Hill dogs and cats can talk, a subculture of sprites lives in the shadows and underfoot (if youre the sensitive type, or drunk enough, you might see them cavorting across the lawn), and the Bohemians, a group of Harley- and horseback-riding students dedicated to all things unconventional, hold all-night revels for the glory of their cause.
Then there is Stephen Titus George, the novels youthful hero, who somehow finds himself the main player in a story that began well over a century ago. George is a mild-mannered flier of kites, a sometimes writer of bestselling fiction, and would-be knight looking for a maiden. George will find his girl and the century-old story will provide the proverbial dragon whose slaying will sanctify their love. But it will not be a sword that fells the foe but the transforming power of the imagination.More editions of Fool on the Hill:
The Fourth Wallby Beth SaulnierISBN 0446609986 (0-446-60998-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Free Loveby Annette MeyersISBN 0446609218 (0-446-60921-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Love'Book summary:In 1920s Greenwich Village, poet Olivia Brown revels in the freedom of her neighborhood, where artists, actors, and writers gather and romance isn't played by any rules. Olivia does as she likes, dresses as she likes, and loves as she likes -- until the night she trips over a the body of a dead woman. Olivia then finds herself on the trail of a killer bent on a most personal revenge. [via]
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The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men and "The New York Times"by Nan RobertsonISBN 0449907937 (0-449-90793-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Girls Turn Wivesby Norma KleinISBN 0449206416 (0-449-20641-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Gold Coastby Nelson DemilleISBN 0446360856 (0-446-36085-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gold Coast'Book summary:Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men are destined for an explosive collision: John Sutter, Wall Street lawyer, holding fast to a fading aristocratic legacy; and Frank Bellarosa, the Mafia don who seizes his piece of the staid and unprepared Gold Coast like a latter-day barbarian chief and draws Sutter and his regally beautiful wife, Susan, into his violent world. Told from Sutter's sardonic and often hilarious point of view, and laced with sexual passion and suspense, The Gold Coast is Nelson DeMille's captivating story of friendship and seduction, love and betrayal. [via]
The Good Policemanby Jerome CharynISBN 0446400122 (0-446-40012-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The Gunslingerby Stephen KingISBN 0451160525 (0-451-16052-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gunslinger'Book summary:In very good condition. [via]
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The Heartbreakerby Carly PhilipsISBN 0446610569 (0-446-61056-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Horse Heavenby Jane SmileyISBN 0449005410 (0-449-00541-0)
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Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Cluelessby Susan Jane GilmanISBN 0446679496 (0-446-67949-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless'Book summary:From the author of "Kiss My Tiara" comes a funny and poignant collection of true stories about women coming of age that for once isn't about finding a date. [via]
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If Looks Could Killby Kate WhiteISBN 044661257X (0-446-61257-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If Looks Could Kill'Book summary:From the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and author of Why Good Girls Dont Get Ahead but Gutsy Girls Do comes a debut novel about a true crime writer for New Yorks hottest womens magazine. Bailey Weggins, a clever writer for a leading womens magazine, Gloss, is dragged into a murder investigation by her editor-in-chief and boss from hell, Cat Jones. Cat is a woman who gets what she wants from her employees, so when she discovers that her nanny has been murdered she insists Bailey find the killer before the police do. Was the chocolate that poisoned the nanny meant for Cat, known for her love of truffles? But then, the beautiful, duplicitous nanny has an enemy list all her own. The investigation takes Bailey from the streets of New York City to the swankiest Connecticut suburbs and Bucks County retreats, and everyone is a suspect, including the catty editors at Gloss. Bailey proves that she is the original gutsy girl when she outwits the clever killer. [via]
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John Constantine Hellblazer: Original Sinsby Jamie Delano, John Ridgeway, Alfredo Alcala, DC Comics StaffISBN 0446394297 (0-446-39429-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Constantine Hellblazer: Original Sins'Book summary:Before Garth Ennis took John Constantine and gave him a new, rougher attitude and language filled with four-letter words, writer Jamie Delano brought an eerie, haunted life to the character. Some people think these stories are dry and less than exciting, but I find them to be filled with incredible atmosphere, smart British-working-class political sensibilities, and just the right amount of levity you'd expect from an insouciant, somewhat amoral occult-dabbler. [via]
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The Last Good Dayby Peter BlaunerISBN 0446614270 (0-446-61427-0)
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The Light in the Forestby Conrad RichterISBN 0449704378 (0-449-70437-8)
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Little Womenby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0448172569 (0-448-17256-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Timeless in its evocation of idealized family life and robustly enduring, Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of all time. Originally written as a "girls" story, its appeal transcends the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. For this is a beguiling story of happiness and hope, of the joys of companionship, domestic harmony and infinite mother love, all seen through the life of the March family. But which of the four March sisters to love best? For every reader must have their favorite. Independent, tomboyish Jo; delicate, loving Beth; pretty, kind Meg, or precocious and beautiful Amy, the baby of the family? Little Women was an instant success when first published in 1868, and followed only a year later by the sequel, Little Wives.[via]More editions of Little Women:
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Hardcover, Price Stern Sloan - Little Women: ISBN 0448110199 (0-448-11019-9)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley - Little Women: ISBN 0448023644 (0-448-02364-4)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap - Little Women: ISBN 0448054663 (0-448-05466-3)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap - Little Women: ISBN 0448172569 (0-448-17256-9)
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Lives of the Monster Dogsby Kirsten BakisISBN 0446674168 (0-446-67416-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives of the Monster Dogs'Book summary:A postmodern Mary Shelley, taking the parable of Frankenstein's monster several giant steps farther, might have written this fable of a novel about a tragic race of monster dogs--in this case, genetically and biomechanically engineered dogs (of several major breeds). Created by a German mad scientist in the 19th century, the monster dogs possess human intelligence, speak human language, have prosthetic humanlike hands and walk upright on hind legs. The dogs' descendants arrive in New York City in the year 2008, still acting like Victorian-era aristocrats. Most important, the monster dogs suffer humanlike frailties and, ultimately, real suffering more serious and affecting than the subject matter might at first glance suggest. [via]
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Maggieby Stephen CraneISBN 0449300242 (0-449-30024-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maggie'Book summary:Stephen Crane's first novel is the tale of a pretty young slum girl driven to brutal excesses by poverty and loneliness. It was considered so sexually frank and realistic, that the book had to be privately printed at first. It and GEORGE'S MOTHER, the shorter novel that follows in this edition, were eventually hailed as the first genuine expressions of Naturalism in American letters and established their creator as the American apostle of an artistic revolution which was to alter the shape and destiny of civilization itself. [via]
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The Manhattan Hunt Clubby John SaulISBN 0449006522 (0-449-00652-2)
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Marry Me: A Romanceby John UpdikeISBN 0449912159 (0-449-91215-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marry Me: A Romance'Book summary:Updike's eighth novel, subtitled "A Romance" because, he says, "People don't act like that any more," centers on the love affair of a married couple in the Connecticut of 1962. Unfortunately, this is a couple whose members are married to other people. Suburban infidelity is familiar territory by now, but nobody knows it as well as Updike, and the book is written with the author's characteristic poetic sensibility and sly wit. [via]
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The Midwifeby Gay CourterISBN 0451156234 (0-451-15623-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Murder Me Nowby Annette MeyersISBN 0446678910 (0-446-67891-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder Me Now'Book summary:Olivia Brown (Oliver to her friends)--bohemian poet, advocate of women's rights and free love, and connoisseur of bootleg gin--has the unpleasant habit of stumbling across dead bodies. When she finds Fordy and Kate Vaudes' demure nanny, Adelle, hanging from a tree during a country house weekend, Olivia is sure suicide is the wrong assumption. After all, why would Adelle hang herself with a man's leather belt?
Back in Greenwich Village, Oliver and her housemate, private detective Harry Melville, plunge into an investigation that takes them from Oliver's gently gin- soaked literary world to an array of nefarious dens of iniquity. Adelle, it turns out, was Adeline Zimmerman, former Pinkerton detective; Daisy, one of the guests at that country weekend, was Adeline's sister; and both Zimmerman women were having an affair with Lester Nolan, the corrupt cop ("a wax model of a hero in human clothing") who's doing the commissioner a favor by looking into the murder. What (or whom) was Adeline investigating? What has caused the sudden tension between Fordy and Kate? And who, really, is Celia, the beautiful photographer who drifts in and out of Oliver's life like a bewitching muse?
As Olivia tries to trace a path through Village society (where everyone knows everyone else, and serial alliances and misalliances are so common that "It was like putting a light to a single match in a row of matches and watching one catch fire, then another, and another until the whole parcel was ablaze"), she finds herself rubbing elbows with an assortment of picturesque characters, from mobsters to authors. One of these charming individuals is a deadly threat--but which?
The novel is refreshingly free of glaring anachronisms, and author Annette Meyers has obviously done her research on Village literary life in the '20s. But Meyers is no Fitzgerald, nor even a Michael Cunningham. Though the novel preens itself a trifle ostentatiously on its periodicity, tending toward heavy-handed references to the Great War, it fails to capture the poignantly fragile glamour of the era, with its heady whirlwind of flappers, expatriate authors, and jazz and its haunting legacy of trench warfare, poison gas, and dislocated modernity. As long as it doesn't try too hard, however, the Olivia Brown series is a perfectly pleasant diversion, as amusing as--and less rigorous than--the Charleston. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slaveby Frederick DouglassISBN 0451161882 (0-451-16188-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave'Book summary:Frederick Douglass was born into bondage and sold repeatedly in the slave markets of the South. Because he secretly taught himself to read and write, we possess one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Written over 100 years ago, this classic goes far to explain why American still suffers from the great injustices of the past. [via]
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New York by Knightby Esther FriesnerISBN 0451144961 (0-451-14496-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The New York City Cab Driver's Joke Bookby Jim PietschISBN 0446604879 (0-446-60487-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New York City Cab Driver's Joke Book'Book summary:The Cab is Yellow, But the Jokes are Blue Did you hear the one about the first thing a blonde does in the morning? How about the nervous lady and the French horn player? Jim Pietsch may drive a clean cab, but his customers love to tell him dirty jokes. Now the wildly popular author of The New York City Cab Driver's Joke Book (Volumes 1 and 2) offers over 400 of Gotham's naughtiest rib-ticklers about the hot and the bothered, the cheaters and the cheated, and all things that go bump-and-grind in the night. The targets are endless: straights and gays, hoochies and husbands, cops and coeds, gullible hicks and, of course, city slickers. So if you're ready for a wild ride, buckle up, because The New York City Cab Driver's Book of Dirty Jokes will have you laughing a blue streak! [via]
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The Night Inspectorby Frederick BuschISBN 0449006158 (0-449-00615-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night Inspector'Book summary:In his fiction, at least, Frederick Busch is no stranger to the Victorian era: his 1978 novel The Mutual Friend was a meticulous reconstruction of the Dickensian universe, right down to the last wisp of pea-soup fog. In The Night Inspector, he ventures an equally deep immersion in the past. This time, however, Busch takes us to post-Civil-War Manhattan, where a disfigured veteran named William Bartholomew rages against the Gilded Age--even as he demands remuneration for his own losses.
And what exactly has the narrator lost? As we learn in a sequence of flashbacks, Bartholomew served as a Union sniper, picking off stray Confederate soldiers in an extended bout of psychological warfare. Eventually, though, he received a taste of his own medicine, when a enemy bullet destroyed most of his face. Outfitted with an eerie papier-mâché mask, Bartholomew tends to shock postwar observers into silence:
I imagine I understand their reaction: the bright white mask, its profound deadness, the living eyes beneath--within--the holes, the sketched brows and gashed mouth, airholes embellished, a painting of a nose.... Nevertheless. I won this on your behalf, I am tempted to cry, or pretend to. The specie of the nation, the coin of the realm, our dyspeptic economy, the glister and gauge of American gold: I was hired to wear it!
Bartholomew has, it should be obvious, a formidable mastery of rhetoric. It's appropriate, then, that he should hook up with that supreme exponent of the American baroque, Herman Melville--who at this point is a burnt-out customs inspector (and candidate for some Victorian 12-step plan). Together these outcasts embark upon a plan to rescue a group of black children from their Florida servitude. This caper--along with Bartholomew's attachment to a gold-hearted, elaborately tattooed prostitute--allows the novel to veer in the direction of the penny dreadful. Yet Busch's mastery of period detail, and of the very shape of century-old syntax, remains extraordinary on every page. And true to its title, The Night Inspector is a superb investigation of darkness--in both the physical and psychological sense. "I was reckless," the narrator insists, "and born with great vision though not, alas, of the interior, spiritual sort." By the end of the novel, most readers will decide that he's undersold himself. --Bob Brandeis [via]More editions of The Night Inspector:
Night Secretsby Thomas H. CookISBN 0446361771 (0-446-36177-1)
Softcover, Little, Brown & Company (Canada)
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The Ninjaby Eric LustbaderISBN 0449209164 (0-449-20916-4)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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This is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can't forget and the one he can't control and between a past he can't escape and a destiny he can't avoid.
A sprawling erotic thriller that swings from postwar Japan to present-day New York in a relentless saga of violence and terror elaborately designed for the most savage vengeance of all... [via]More editions of The Ninja:
Nocturneby Ed McBainISBN 0446605387 (0-446-60538-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Notebook Girlsby Julia Baskin, Lindsey Newman, Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, Courtney ToombsISBN 0446578622 (0-446-57862-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Oliver Wiswellby Kenneth RobertsISBN 0449211932 (0-449-21193-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Passionsby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0449240673 (0-449-24067-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Playboyby Carly PhillipsISBN 0446610550 (0-446-61055-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Prince of the Cityby Robert DaleyISBN 0446365696 (0-446-36569-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jacksonby Judy OppenheimerISBN 0449904059 (0-449-90405-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heavenby Rick MoodyISBN 0446672408 (0-446-67240-8)
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-- a frenzied undergraduate who confesses his delusions in a term paper
-- a hip young media personality whose film treatment reveals a pathological self-obsession
-- an investigator whose deposition reveals his own increasingly sordid attempts to spy on his wife
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A stunning literary achievement, these daring, surprising, energetic stories -- masterpieces of language, structure, and momentum -- will entertain and astound from beginning to end.
"Consistently inventive...a wicked eye for detail". -- The New York Times Book Review
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School's Out - Foreverby James PattersonISBN 0446618896 (0-446-61889-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Snakeby Mickey SpillaneISBN 0451137159 (0-451-13715-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Social Crimesby Jane Stanton HitchcockISBN 0446616729 (0-446-61672-9)
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Stirring It Up!by Diane Muldrow, Barbara PollakISBN 0448428156 (0-448-42815-6)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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Stregaby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0451151798 (0-451-15179-8)
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Stupid and Contagiousby Caprice CraneISBN 0446695726 (0-446-69572-6)
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Sybilby Flora Rheta SchreiberISBN 0446359408 (0-446-35940-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Tales from Margaritaville : Fictional Facts and Factual Fictionsby Jimmy BuffettISBN 0449222489 (0-449-22248-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Torch Song Trilogyby Harvey FiersteinISBN 0451151305 (0-451-15130-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Turning Stones: My Days and Nights With Children at Riskby Marc ParentISBN 0449912353 (0-449-91235-3)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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The Twisted Thingby Mickey SpillaneISBN 0451137132 (0-451-13713-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Wild Fire: Library Editionby Nelson DemilleISBN 044657967X (0-446-57967-X)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Without Feathersby Woody AllenISBN 0446890359 (0-446-89035-9)
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A Wonder Bookby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 044805485X (0-448-05485-X)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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A Wreath for the Brideby Lillian O'DonnellISBN 0449218678 (0-449-21867-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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