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4 Blondesby Candace BushnellISBN 0451203895 (0-451-20389-5)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: '4 Blondes'Book summary:Candace Bushnell made her reputation as the creator of the HBO special Sex and the City, based on her book of the same name (based in turn on her eros-intensive New York Observer column). In Four Blondes, she returns with a quartet of novellas on her favorite subject--the mating habits of wealthy sex-, status-, and media-obsessed New Yorkers. These are people for whom a million or two does not make one rich, and who consider Louis Vuitton and Prada bare necessities. Janey Wilcox, for example, is a former model who each summer chooses a house in the Hamptons--or, rather, picks up a wealthy man with a pricey rental. With one movie in her past, her "lukewarm celebrity was established and she figured out pretty quickly that it could get her things and keep on getting them, as long as she maintained her standards." Yet even Janey eventually realizes that what she's getting isn't exactly what she wants. Cecelia, on the other hand, has gotten the ultimate prize: a royal husband. Still, she finds herself descending into paranoia as the Manhattan media circus reports her every flaw. Then there's Winnie Diekes, a high-powered magazine columnist whose marriage flounders as she pushes her unambitious husband to write the book that will make him--and her--famous.
Finally, in the most clearly autobiographical story, a writer gives up on the commitment-impaired men of New York and goes to London to find a husband. There she trolls for the typical Englishman--"a guy who had sex with his socks on, possessed a microscopic willy, and came in two minutes." Bushnell is famous for this sort of sexual brashness, and the book is full of her sharp wit, both in and out of the boudoir. She also clearly enjoys her characters and their misadventures, with one exception: the politically correct Winnie, with her distaste for alcohol, night life, and casual sex, inspires an odd sort of authorial contempt. Otherwise, though, Bushnell's ironic takes on the sexual foibles of the rich and famous are mordant, mischievous fun. --Lesley Reed [via]
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All of a Kind Familyby Sydney TaylorISBN 0440400597 (0-440-40059-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All of a Kind Family'Book summary:There's something to be said for a book that makes you wish you'd been part of a poor immigrant family living in New York's upper east side on the eve of World War I. Sydney Taylor's time-honored classic does just that. Life is rich for the five mischievous girls in the family. They find adventure in visiting the library, going to market with Mama, even dusting the front room. Young readers who have never shared a bedroom with four siblings, with no television in sight, will vicariously experience the simple, old-fashioned pleasures of talk, make-believe, and pilfered penny candy. The family's Jewish faith strengthens their ties to each other, while providing still more excitement and opportunity for mischief. Readers unfamiliar with Judaism will learn with the girls during each beautifully depicted holiday. This lively family, subject of four more "all-of-a- kind" books, is full of unique characters, all deftly illustrated by Helen John. Taylor based the stories on her own childhood family, and the true-life quality of her writing gives this classic its page-turning appeal. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shellby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0345476395 (0-345-47639-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Billy Bathgateby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0060975954 (0-06-097595-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Bathgate'Book summary:In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old high-school dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. The product of an East Bronx upbringing by his half-crazy Irish Catholic mother, after his Jewish father left them long ago, Billy is captivated by the world of money, sex, and high society the charismatic Schultz has to offer. But it is also a world of extortion, brutality, and murder, where Billy finds himself involved in a dangerous affair with Schultz's girlfriend. Relive this story through the title character's driving narrative, a child's thoughts and feelings filtered through the sensibilities of an adult, and the result is E.L. Doctorow's most convincing and appealing portrayal of a young boy's life. Converging mythology and history, one of America's most admired authors has captured the romance of gangsters and criminal enterprise that continues to fascinate the American psyche today. [via]
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- Billy Bathgate: ISBN 0061000078 (0-06-100007-8)
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Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Billy Bathgate: ISBN 039457513X (0-394-57513-X)
Hardcover, Random House - Billy Bathgate: ISBN 0060975954 (0-06-097595-4)
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Boys of Summerby Roger KahnISBN 0451134338 (0-451-13433-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Cabinet of Curiositiesby Lincoln Child, Douglas J. PrestonISBN 0446611239 (0-446-61123-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cabinet of Curiosities'Book summary:In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are thirty-six bodies all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago. While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city. The nightmare has begun. Again. [via]
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Call It Sleepby Henry RothISBN 0374118191 (0-374-11819-1)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Call It Sleep: A Novel'Book summary:When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old author. Only with its paperback publication in 1964 did the novel receive the recognition it deserves. Call It Sleep was the first paperback ever to be reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, and it proceeded to sell millions of copies both in the United States and around the world.[via]More editions of Call It Sleep:
- Call It Sleep: A Novel: ISBN 0374522928 (0-374-52292-8)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - Call It Sleep: ISBN 038001002X (0-380-01002-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Call It Sleep: ISBN 0783815646 (0-7838-1564-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Call It Sleep: A Novel: ISBN 0374118191 (0-374-11819-1)
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- Call It Sleep: A Novel: ISBN 0374522928 (0-374-52292-8)
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Charming Billyby Alice McDermottISBN 038533334X (0-385-33334-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charming Billy'Book summary:Charming Billy is a devastating account of the power of longing and lies, love's tenacity and resignations hold. Even at his funeral party, Billy Lynch's life remains up for debate. This soft-spoken, poetry lover's drinking was as legendary among his Queens', New York, family and friends as was his disappointment in love. But the latter, as his cousin Dennis knows, "was, after all, yet another sweet romance to preserve." After World War II, both young men had spent one sun-swept week on Long Island, renovating a house and falling in with two Irish sisters--nannies to a wealthy family--"marvelling, marvelling still, that this Eden was here, at the other end of the same island on which they had spent their lives." By the end of their idyll, Billy and Eva were engaged, though she was set to return to County Wicklow. Determined to earn enough money to bring her, her family, and if necessary her entire village back to the US, Billy took two jobs, one of which would indenture him for years. But despite the money he sent, Eva never returned, and then was suddenly dead of pneumonia. The true tragedy is that she had simply kept her fare and married someone else--a secret Dennis keeps for the next 30 years as he watches Billy fall into a loveless marriage and the self-administered anaesthesia of alcohol. Alice McDermott's quiet, striking novel is a study of the lies that bind and the weight of familial wishes. She seems far less interested in the shock of revelation than in her characters' power to live through personal disaster. As Dennis's daughter pieces together Billy's real history, she also learns of the accommodations her own family had long made--and discovers that good intentions can be as destructive as the truth they mean to hide. Amazon.com [via]
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City of Lightby Lauren BelferISBN 0385337647 (0-385-33764-7)
Softcover, Delta
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Light'Book summary:City of Light is quite simply electrifying. Not that there's anything simple about this rich novel, which is first and foremost an examination of illusion, invisibility, and power--physical and personal. Set in the spring of 1901, as preparations for the Pan-American Exposition would seem to promise Buffalo, New York, a permanent place in the world, Lauren Belfer's book is narrated by the never-married headmistress of a fashionable girls' school. At 36, Louisa Barrett does her best to free her charges from their societal shackles. "I'm rather ashamed of all the things I've been able to give my students through the subterfuge of training them to be better wives," she says proudly. What Louisa is most concerned about, however, is her 9-year-old goddaughter, Grace Sinclair, who has grown increasingly unstable since her mother's sudden death. Meanwhile, Grace's father is heading up Buffalo's hydroelectric power plans with dangerous zeal--much to the chagrin of local conservationists who oppose any exploitation of Niagara Falls. Will Tom's intensity, which smacks of fanaticism, extend so far as murder?
But this offers only the barest idea of Belfer's complex grid. In 500 fast pages, she creates a fascinating, disquieting world in which nothing is what it seems. As Louisa battles against her instinct for self-preservation, her past--particularly a vile encounter with the corpulent Grover Cleveland--threatens to undermine her carefully created persona and loose her greatest secret. Looking back on the events of 1901 from the safety (and disappointment) of 1909, Louisa is the most astringent and intriguing of narrators. To Lauren Belfer's endless credit, City of Light is panoramic, subtle, and very physical. In her first novel, she makes us feel the rush of water, the thrill of light, the snap, crackle, and pop of social tension, and--alas for Louisa--the despair of tragic inevitability. --Sophie Atherton [via]
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Cosmopolisby Don DelilloISBN 0743244257 (0-7432-4425-7)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmopolis'Book summary:Cosmopolis is Don DeLillo's 13th novel. His reputation as one of the most provocative and innovative of American writers is assured, thanks to such books as Underworld and Americana, but this new outing is as likely to challenge the author's legion of admirers as much as it will exhilarate them--and there's nothing wrong with that.
DeLillo's protagonist this time is a well-heeled American, Eric Packer, who sets out one eventful day for a haircut. Gazing through the windows of his white limousine (and availing himself of its state-of-the-art technology), this self-made millionaire takes in the spectacle of financiers being murdered, the funeral of a rapper and some violent anti-globalisation protests. As we come to know DeLillo's anti-hero, we realise that Eric Packer is by no means the most ingratiating of individuals. Cheating on his new wife, he specialises in using people in a cynical and exploitative way. And as this self-serving captain of industry takes an ever-more dangerous journey through a bizarrely rendered New York, it's inevitable that comparisons with Tom Wolfe's classic Bonfire of the Vanities will spring to mind. Resemblances of plot aside, however, the book is a very different animal. Wolfe's narrative had the epic spread of a latter-day War and Peace, whereas DeLillo sharpens and condenses his prose in Cosmopolis to produce an altogether more concise novel.
There are two ways to approach Cosmopolis: as a rudely pointed dissection of the American Dream, or as a surreal, symbolic (and disturbing) road trip. This is not a comforting book, but a bracing and caustic one. --Barry Forshaw [via]
Downtown: My Manhattanby Pete HamillISBN 0316010685 (0-316-01068-5)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Downtown: My Manhattan'Book summary:A rich historical and personal portrait of Manhattan from the bestselling writer who is for many the living embodiment of the city.
Manhattan, the keystone of New York City, is a place of ghosts and buried memory. One can still see remnants of the British colony, the mansions of the robber barons, and the speakeasies of the 1920s. These are the places that have captivated the imaginations of writers for centuries. Now Pete Hamill brings his unique knowledge and deep love of the city to a New York chronicle like no other.
During his 40 years as a newspaperman, Pete Hamill has been getting to know Manhattans neighborhoods and inhabitants intimately, bearing witness to their greatest triumphs and tragedies. From the winding, bohemian streets of Greenwich Village to the seedy alleyways of the meatpacking district and to the weathered cobblestones of South Street Seaport, Hamill peels back the layers of history to reveal the citys past, present, and future.
More than just history or reporting, this is an elegy by a native son who has lived through some of New Yorks most historic moments, and who continues to call this magnificent, haunted city his home. [via]
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Enchanted, Inc.by Shanna SwendsonISBN 0345481259 (0-345-48125-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Ex Machina 3: Fact V. Fictionby Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris, Tom FeisterISBN 1401209882 (1-4012-0988-2)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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Ex Machina,Tag book 2: Tagby Brian K. Vaughan, Tony HarrisISBN 1401206263 (1-4012-0626-3)
Softcover, Wildstorm
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Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slumby Tyler AnbinderISBN 0452283612 (0-452-28361-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum'Book summary:All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. It housed America's most impoverished immigrants-the Irish, Jews, Germans, Italians, and African-Americans. Located in today's Chinatown and Little Italy, Five Points played host to more riots, scams, prostitution, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in America. But it was also crammed full of cheap theaters, dance halls, prizefighting venues, and political arenas that would one day dominate the national scene. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points horrified and enthralled everyone who saw it.
Drawing from letters, diaries, newspapers, bank records, police reports, and archeological digs, award-winning historian Tyler Anbinder has written the first history of this remarkable neighborhood. Beginning with the Irish potato famine influx in 1840 and ending with the rise of Chinatown in the early 20th century, the story of Five Points serves as a microcosm of the American immigrant experience. [via]More editions of Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum:
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Five Points : The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slumby Tyler G. AnbinderISBN 0684859955 (0-684-85995-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Points : The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum'Book summary:Though long ago bulldozed away and remade, the rough-and-tumble lower Manhattan district called Five Points was once considered to be so representative of New York that foreign journalists traveled there to gather horrifying stories for their readers. Wrote a Swedish reporter, "lower than to the Five Points it is not possible for human nature to sink."
In his wide-ranging reconstruction of Five Points's few square blocks, historian Tyler Anbinder shows that that journalist was not far off the mark. "Dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of its residents lived in windowless, teeming apartments that were unfit for habitation," he writes. Alcoholism, violence, and prostitution were commonplace. Poverty was epidemic, and living conditions were so intolerable that the reforming sociologist Jacob Riis used the area as a case study for the wretched excesses of urban life. A corrupt city government kept the police at bay, making the neighborhood safe for a succession of crime lords but woefully dangerous for residents--most of whom, in time, would be newcomers from Ireland, Italy, Russia, and other faraway lands, as well as African Americans newly arrived from the South. "Locked into the lowest-paying occupations," as Anbinder writes, they labored, saved, and eventually moved on, making room for the next wave of immigrants.
Five Points is gone, though a few of its streets remain, marking the edge of Chinatown. Anbinder's careful study brings it back to life. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Four Blondesby Candace BushnellISBN 080213825X (0-8021-3825-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Blondes'Book summary:Candace Bushnell made her reputation as the creator of the HBO special Sex and the City, based on her book of the same name (based in turn on her eros-intensive New York Observer column). In Four Blondes, she returns with a quartet of novellas on her favorite subject--the mating habits of wealthy sex-, status-, and media-obsessed New Yorkers. These are people for whom a million or two does not make one rich, and who consider Louis Vuitton and Prada bare necessities. Janey Wilcox, for example, is a former model who each summer chooses a house in the Hamptons--or, rather, picks up a wealthy man with a pricey rental. With one movie in her past, her "lukewarm celebrity was established and she figured out pretty quickly that it could get her things and keep on getting them, as long as she maintained her standards." Yet even Janey eventually realizes that what she's getting isn't exactly what she wants. Cecelia, on the other hand, has gotten the ultimate prize: a royal husband. Still, she finds herself descending into paranoia as the Manhattan media circus reports her every flaw. Then there's Winnie Diekes, a high-powered magazine columnist whose marriage flounders as she pushes her unambitious husband to write the book that will make him--and her--famous.
Finally, in the most clearly autobiographical story, a writer gives up on the commitment-impaired men of New York and goes to London to find a husband. There she trolls for the typical Englishman--"a guy who had sex with his socks on, possessed a microscopic willy, and came in two minutes." Bushnell is famous for this sort of sexual brashness, and the book is full of her sharp wit, both in and out of the boudoir. She also clearly enjoys her characters and their misadventures, with one exception: the politically correct Winnie, with her distaste for alcohol, night life, and casual sex, inspires an odd sort of authorial contempt. Otherwise, though, Bushnell's ironic takes on the sexual foibles of the rich and famous are mordant, mischievous fun. --Lesley Reed [via]
Grand Central Winterby Caverly Stringer, Lee StringerISBN 1888363576 (1-888363-57-6)
Hardcover, Seven Stories Pr
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Grand Central Winterby Lee StringerISBN 0671036548 (0-671-03654-8)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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The Jew of New Yorkby Ben KatchorISBN 0375700978 (0-375-70097-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jew of New York'Book summary:Whether chronicling the metropolitan peregrinations of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, or weaving together history and fantasy in 19th- century New York, Ben Katchor's comics, filled with scratchy figures moving through gray-washed streets, feel like the relics of a half- forgotten dream. The Jew of New York takes an obscure historical footnote--an attempt in 1825 to establish a Jewish homeland in upstate New York--and spins it into an intricate tale of a rapidly developing city and its diverse inhabitants, from one-legged actresses, to wandering Jews, to masked anti-Semites. The plot wanders from place to place, never predictable, but always fascinating. The result is a like a story by Paul Auster, rewritten by Charles Dickens, as Katchor gradually draws the reader into his bizarre but precisely imagined world. Weird conspiracies, religious fanaticism, and a plan to carbonate Lake Erie are just three of the threads which Katchor weaves together, creating a version of 1830's New York that captures the spirit of the times in a way that history cannot. The reader is never quite sure what is true, yet this powerfully imagined work is irresistibly compelling. Katchor's disturbing, deeply layered historical palimpsest transforms his collection of misfit characters and the city that they inhabit into something rich and strange. [via]
Ladies And Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, And The Battle For The Soul Of A Cityby Jonathan MahlerISBN 0374175284 (0-374-17528-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Lonely Planet New York Cityby Robert Reid, Ginger Adams Otis, Beth GreenfieldISBN 1740597982 (1-74059-798-2)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Might As Well Be Deadby Rex StoutISBN 0553763032 (0-553-76303-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Monk Swimmingby Malachy McCourtISBN 1568956711 (1-56895-671-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monk Swimming'Book summary:Slapped with a libel suit after an appearance on a talk show, Malachy McCourt crows, "If they could only see me now in the slums of Limerick, a big shot, sued for a million. Bejesus, isn't America a great and wonderful country?" His older brother Frank's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Angela's Ashes, took its somber tone from the bleak atmosphere of those slums, while Malachy's boisterous recollections are fueled by his zestful appreciation for the opportunities and oddities of his native land. He and Frank were born in Brooklyn, moved with their parents to Ireland as children, then returned to the States as adults. This book covers the decade 1952-63, when Malachy roistered across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, but spent most of his time in New York City. There his ready wit and quick tongue won him an acting job with the Irish Players, a semiregular stint on the Tonight show hosted by Jack Paar, and friendships with some well-heeled, well-born types who shared his fondness for saloon life and bankrolled him in an East Side saloon that may have been the first singles bar. He chronicles those events--and many others--with back-slapping bonhomie. Although McCourt acknowledges the personal demons that pursued him from his poverty-stricken childhood and destroyed his first marriage, this is on the whole an exuberant autobiography that pays tribute to the joys of a freewheeling life. [via]
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punkby Andre Malraux, Gillian McCainISBN 0802142648 (0-8021-4264-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk'Book summary:Though Britain's notorious Sex Pistols shoved punk rock into the face of mainstream America, the movement was already brewing in the U.S. in the 1960s with bands like the Velvet Underground and Iggy and the Stooges. Through hundreds of interviews with forgotten bands as well as the ones that made names for themselves--including Blondie and the Ramones--Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain chronicle punk rock history through the people who really lived it. Please Kill Me is a thrash down memory lane for those hip to punk's early years and an enlightening history lesson for youngsters interested in the origins of modern "alternative" music. [via]
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punkby Gillian McCain, Legs McNeilISBN 0802115888 (0-8021-1588-8)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Parkby Marie WinnISBN 0679758461 (0-679-75846-1)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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Red-Tails in Love : PALE MALE's STORY--A True Wildlife Drama in Central Parkby Marie WinnISBN 0679439978 (0-679-43997-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Seven Complete Nero Wolfe Novelsby Rex StoutISBN 051703753X (0-517-03753-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Sister Carrieby Theodore Dreiser, Neda M. Westlake, James L. W. WestISBN 0140188282 (0-14-018828-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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- Sister Carrie: ISBN 0192835742 (0-19-283574-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Sister Carrie: ISBN 0375753214 (0-375-75321-4)
Softcover, Modern Library - Sister Carrie: ISBN 0393927733 (0-393-92773-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Sister Carrie: ISBN 0451527607 (0-451-52760-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Sister Carrie: ISBN 003009075X (0-03-009075-X)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub - Sister Carrie: ISBN 0140390022 (0-14-039002-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Sister Carrie: ISBN 0192827421 (0-19-282742-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Sister Carrie: ISBN 0393099490 (0-393-09949-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Sister Carrie: ISBN 0393960420 (0-393-96042-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Sister Carrie: ISBN 0395051347 (0-395-05134-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - Sister Carrie: ISBN 0451522737 (0-451-52273-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Sister Carrie: ISBN 038548724X (0-385-48724-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - Sister Carrie: ISBN 0393043258 (0-393-04325-8)
Hardcover, Norton - Sister Carrie: ISBN 0140188282 (0-14-018828-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Sister Carrie: ISBN 0192835742 (0-19-283574-2)
The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattanby Steven GainesISBN 0316154555 (0-316-15455-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sky's the Limit: Passion And Property in Manhattan'Book summary:Steven Gaines trains his sharp eye on rich people behaving badly. The arena is Manhattan luxury property and the outlandish displays of ego, outrageous behaviour, blood feuds, status hunger and conspicuous consumption that dominate that world. THE SKY'S THE LIMIT reveals the apartment-swapping adventures of many celebrities - from Jerry Seinfeld to Barbra Streisand, from Tommy Hilfiger to Gloria Vanderbilt - whose adventures in promiscuous apartment swapping and renovating are told with typical Gaines verve and style. And Gaines digs much deeper to tell us the fascinating story of how boxes stacked on boxes came to be seen as the ultimate in status for the rich. He explores the development of the cooperative apartment, originally conceived as a way to house the poor. He introduces us to a fascinating, diverse cast of carriage trade brokers, whose most important task is to get their anxious clients past the dreaded co-op board. And he gives us finely etched portraits of a few of the discreet, elderly society ladies who are the real arbiters of who gets into the so-called Good Buildings. [via]
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So You Want to Be a Wizardby Diane DuaneISBN 061336077X (0-613-36077-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'So You Want to Be a Wizard'Book summary:Ages 10 & up. In the spirit of Madeleine L'Engle's classic A Wrinkle in Time, this is a fascinating and powerfully involving story about two lonely kids who are inadvertently caught up in the never-ending battle between good and evil. The problems of everyday adolescent life and the mysteries of magic are perfectly blended, along with plenty of humor and suspense. In a starred review, School Library Journal wrote, "well-structured and believable... this fantasy should have wide appeal." Horn Book wrote, "a splendid, unusual fantasy... an outstanding, original work." [via]
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- So You Want to Be a Wizard: ISBN 0440406382 (0-440-40638-2)
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Softcover, Bantam Books - So You Want to Be a Wizard: ISBN 0385293054 (0-385-29305-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - So You Want to Be a Wizard: ISBN 061336077X (0-613-36077-X)
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Sophie's Choiceby William StyronISBN 0224017578 (0-224-01757-8)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophie's Choice'Book summary:Set in Brooklyn in 1947, this is the story of Sophie, a Polish Catholic immigrant who is haunted by her memories of the concentration camp in wartime Europe, and the terrible choice she was forced to make. [via]
Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New Yorkby Randy KennedyISBN 0312324340 (0-312-32434-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Three Junesby Julia GlassISBN 0385721420 (0-385-72142-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Junes'Book summary:Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. In June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece and is compelled to relive the secret
sorrows of his marriage. Six years later, Pauls death reunites his sons at Tealing, their idyllic childhood home, where Fenno, the eldest, faces a choice that puts him at the center of his familys future. A lovable, slightly repressed gay man, Fenno leads the life of an aloof expatriate in the West Village, running a shop filled with books and birdwatching gear. He believes himself safe from all emotional entanglementsuntil a worldly neighbor presents him with an extraordinary gift and a seductive photographer makes him an unwitting subject. Each man draws Fenno into territories of the heart he has never braved before, leading him toward an almost unbearable loss that will reveal to him the nature of love.
Love in its limitless formsbetween husband and wife, between lovers, between people and animals, between parents and childrenis the force that moves these characters lives, which collide again, in yet another June, over a Long Island dinner table. This time it is Fenno who meets and captivates Fern, the same woman who captivated his father in Greece ten years before. Now pregnant with a son of her own, Fern, like Fenno and Paul before him, must make peace with her past to embrace her future. Elegantly detailed yet full of emotional suspense, often as comic as it is sad, Three Junes is a glorious triptych about how we learn to live, and live fully, beyond incurable grief and betrayals of the hearthow family ties, both those were born into and those we make, can offer us redemption and joy. [via]-
Washington Squareby Henry JamesISBN 0192835181 (0-19-283518-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Washington Square'Book summary:Washington Square follows the coming-of-age of its plain-faced, kindhearted heroine, Catherine Sloper. Much to her fathers vexation, a handsome opportunist named Morris Townsend woos the long-suffering heiress, intent on claiming her fortune. When Catherine stubbornly refuses to call off her engagement, Dr. Sloper forces Catherine to choose between her inheritance and the only man she will ever truly love. Cynthia Ozick, in her Introduction to what she calls Henry Jamess most American fiction, writes that every line, every paragraph, every chapter [of Washington Square] is a fleet-footed light brigade, an engine of irony. Precise and understated, this charming novel endures as a matchless study of New York in the mid-nineteenth century. [via]
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- Washington Square: ISBN 0375761225 (0-375-76122-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Washington Square: ISBN 0451524993 (0-451-52499-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Washington Square: ISBN 0451528719 (0-451-52871-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Washington Square: ISBN 0140432264 (0-14-043226-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Washington Square: ISBN 019281611X (0-19-281611-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Washington Square: ISBN 0451519906 (0-451-51990-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Washington Square: ISBN 0435121383 (0-435-12138-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann Educational - Washington Square: ISBN 0192835181 (0-19-283518-1)
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Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattanby Phillip LopateISBN 0385497148 (0-385-49714-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Waterworksby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0812978196 (0-8129-7819-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waterworks'Book summary:While looking into the disappearance of a missing freelance book reviewer, McIlvaine, a reporter, finds himself roaming around the underground world of 1890s New York City, where he discovers a strange doctor who can keep the rich alive through macabre methods. Reprint. NYT. " [via]
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- The Waterworks: ISBN 0451185633 (0-451-18563-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - The Waterworks: ISBN 0452275490 (0-452-27549-0)
Softcover, Plume - The Waterworks: ISBN 0394587545 (0-394-58754-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Waterworks: ISBN 0812978196 (0-8129-7819-6)
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What I Lovedby Siri HustvedtISBN 0312421192 (0-312-42119-2)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What I Loved'Book summary:What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement between his family and Bill's--an intricate constellation of attachments that includes the two men, their wives, Erica and Violet, and their sons, Matthew and Mark.[via]
The families live in the same New York apartment building, rent a house together in the summers and keep up a lively exchange of ideas about life and art, but the bonds between them are tested, first by sudden tragedy, and then by a monstrous duplicity that slowly comes to the surface. A beautifully written novel that combines the intimacy of a family saga with the suspense of a thriller, What I Loved is a deeply moving story about art, love, loss, and betrayal. -
The Wonder Spotby Melissa BankISBN 0670034118 (0-670-03411-8)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonder Spot'Book summary:Six years after her amazingly successful debut, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Melissa Bank rewards her fans for their patience with The Wonder Spot, a refreshingly honest interpretation of one young woman's journey into adulthood. As we follow heroine Sophie Applebaum through a comfortable, yet awkward childhood in suburban Pennsylvania to the challenges of finding love and a career in midtown Manhattan, The Wonder Spot is never guilty of the self-indulgent traps set by other members of the Chick Lit genre Bank helped launch.
We first meet the Applebaum clan on their way to cousin Rebecca's bat mitzvah in Chappaqua, New York, where Sophie ends up sneaking cigarettes in the woods with a handsome eighth grader one year her senior. Yet even this minor rebellion is more charming than anything else; as with most of her future transgressions, Sophie is less the instigator than the innocent witness. Defining moments in Sophie's life are revealed through her relationships: an almost mythical college roommate named Venice; her charismatic yet capricious older brother; her brilliant younger brother; her unpenetrable father; and her hilarious grandmother, who takes it upon herself to save her "Sophila" from "impending spinsterhood." Of course no real journey into young womanhood is complete without a series of committment phobic, potentially deliquent, overly nice men whose appearances seem less about love than about demonstrating our heroine's inability to ever truly be comfortable with herself. As Sophie observes during a seventh grade skating party, "I felt sure that everyone was looking at me and then realized that no one was, and i experienced the distinct shame of each."
Undeniably clever, occasionally hilarious, and often poignant, The Wonder Spot is captivating enough for readers to forgive Sophie's indecisive, self-destructive tendancies and simply bask in her sincerity. --Gisele Toueg
Wonder Woman: An Amazon.com Interview with Melissa Bank 
Melissa Bank's bestselling 1999 debut, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, took readers by storm and heralded the wave of Chick Lit to follow in its wake. Bank is back with her new book, The Wonder Spot, a series of interconnected stories chronicling the bittersweet misadventures of middle-child Sophie Applebaum, from adolescence to adulthood. Amazon.com senior editor Brad Thomas Parsons exchanged e-mail with Bank to talk about writer's block, Curtis Sittenfeld's very public take-down in the Sunday Times, and the dreaded "c" word--Chick Lit.
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World's Fairby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0452275725 (0-452-27572-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hardcover, Random House - World's Fair: ISBN 0452275725 (0-452-27572-5)
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The Young Unicornsby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374387788 (0-374-38778-8)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Young Unicorns'Book summary:They had been standing around the lamp, looking at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected to hear a sepulchral voice behind them.[via]
"You called me?"
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The Young Unicorns: The Austin Family Chronicles, Book 3by Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0440999197 (0-440-99919-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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