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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dreamby H. W. BrandsISBN 0385720882 (0-385-72088-2)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream'Book summary:Texas A&M University professor H.W. Brands enhances his reputation as one of America's great popular historians with The Age of Gold, which tells the story of the California gold rush through rollicking narrative and intelligent analysis. "James Marshall's discovery of gold at Coloma [in 1848] turned out to be a seminal event in history, one of those rare moments that divide human existence into before and after," he writes. It launched "the most astonishing mass movement of people since the Crusades" and "helped initiate the modern era of American economic development." Brands describes how thousands of people from all over the world hazarded the journey, faced the scientific challenge of extracting precious metal from the earth, and finally struggled "to sink roots" where so many came merely "to strip the land." This book is something of a departure for Brands, who most recently has written biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt (both of them excellent). Yet he tackles this new topic with confidence, telling dozens of stories about John Fremont, Leland Stanford, and less famous forty-niners. He concludes by describing why these tales have a national and even global importance. The Age of Gold is magnificent in its sweep, and not to be missed by fans of American history. --John Miller [via]
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Alias Graceby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385490445 (0-385-49044-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alias Grace'Book summary:In the astonishing new novel by the author of the bestsellers The Robber Bride, Cat's Eye, and The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood takes us back in time and into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, the wealthy Thomas Kinnear, and of Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence after a stint in Toronto's lunatic asylum, Grace herself claims to have no memory of the murders.
Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story, from her family's difficult passage out of Ireland into Canada, to her time as a maid in Thomas Kinnear's household. As he brings Grace closer and closer to the day she cannot remember, he hears of the turbulent relationship between Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery, and of the alarming behavior of Grace's fellow servant, James McDermott. Jordan is drawn to Grace, but he is also baffled by her. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend, a bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she a victim of circumstances?
Alias Grace is a beautifully crafted work of the imagination that reclaims a profoundly mysterious and disturbing story from the past century. With compassion, an unsentimental lyricism, and her customary narrative virtuosity, Margaret Atwood mines the often convoluted relationships between men and women, and between the affluent and those without position. The result is her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale--in short, vintage Atwood. [via] 
American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sicklesby Thomas KeneallyISBN 0385722257 (0-385-72225-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Familyby Suzannah LessardISBN 0385319428 (0-385-31942-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family'Book summary:In 1906, Suzannah Lessard's great-grandfather, the prominent architect, socialite, and hedonist Stanford White, was sensationally murdered by the husband of a showgirl White had seduced when she was 16. The acquittal of the killer on the grounds of insanity added to the scandalous gossip. In this beautifully written memoir, Lessard, a writer for the New Yorker, recalls growing up on the White family estate on Long Island, where the murder was a taboo subject. She evokes a sense of repressed and dark passion that infected the harmonious landscaping and architecture White had created. She writes of "coldness that may feel like warmth, or violence that presents as lust for life." In this extraordinarily literary nonfiction mystery, Lessard slowly reveals that her family history held more secrets than the murder, and reaches a startling and controversial climax. [via]
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Brighter Than the Sunby Julia QuinnISBN 0380789345 (0-380-78934-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brighter Than the Sun'Book summary:When Charles Wycombe, the dashing and incorrigible Earl of Billington, toppled out of a tree and landed at Ellie's feet, neither suspected that such an inauspicious meeting would lead to marriage. But Charles must find a bride before his thirtieth birthday or he'll lose his fortune. And Ellie needs a husband or her father's odious fiancee will choose one for her. And so they agree to wed, even though their match appears to have been made somewhere botter than heaven... Ellie never dreamed she'd marry a stranger, especially one with such a devastating combination of rakish charm and debonair wit. She tries to keep him at arm's length, at least until she discovers the man beneath the handsome surface. But Charles can be quite persuasive-even tender-when he puts his mind to it, and Ellie finds herself slipping under his seductive spell. And as one kiss leads to another, this unlikely pair discovers that their marriage is not so inconvenient after all...and just might lead to love. [via]
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Caleb Williamsby William Godwin, David McCrackenISBN 0393008614 (0-393-00861-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caleb Williams'Book summary:Deals with the misdeeds of Tyrrel, a tyrannical country squire, who comes into conflict with Falkland, a neighbouring squire of a seemingly more benevolent disposition.
When Tyrrel knocks Falkland down in public and Tyrrel is later found murdered, suspicion falls on Falkland. [via]More editions of Caleb Williams:
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Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850by Linda ColleyISBN 0385721463 (0-385-72146-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850'Book summary:In this path-breaking book Linda Colley reappraises the rise of the biggest empire in global history. Excavating the lives of some of the multitudes of Britons held captive in the lands their own rulers sought to conquer, Colley also offers an intimate understanding of the peoples and cultures of the Mediterranean, North America, India, and Afghanistan.
Here are harrowing, sometimes poignant stories by soldiers and sailors and their womenfolk, by traders and con men and by white as well as black slaves. By exploring these forgotten captives and their captors Colley reveals how Britains emerging empire was often tentative and subject to profound insecurities and limitations. She evokes how British empire was experienced by the mass of poor whites who created it. She shows how imperial racism coexisted with cross-cultural collaborations, and how the gulf between Protestantism and Islam, which some have viewed as central to this empire, was often smaller than expected. Brilliantly written and richly illustrated, Captives is an invitation to think again about a piece of history too often viewed in the same old way. It is also a powerful contribution to current debates about the meanings, persistence, and drawbacks of empire. [via]More editions of Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850:
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The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Mindsby Jonathan D. SpenceISBN 0393027473 (0-393-02747-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds'Book summary:Distinguished Yale historian Jonathan D. Spence examines the influence that China has long exercised on the Western imagination. Drawing on literary, historical, and travel writing from the 14th century to the present, he shows how the fabulations of medieval writers such as Marco Polo gave way to more factually minded reports from business travelers and diplomats. This then turned again to the exoticism of poets such as Ezra Pound and Charles Baudelaire, and in our time, returned to the realism of writers such as Pearl S. Buck and Edgar Snow. Spence's tour of these various ways of perceiving China yields a vigorous and interesting book that is of a piece with his many other studies of Chinese history. --Gregory MacNamee [via]
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Children of Grace: The Nez Perce War of 1877by Bruce HamptonISBN 0380724871 (0-380-72487-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children of Grace: The Nez Perce War of 1877'Book summary:As friends of the white American, the Nez Perce Indians aided the exhausted explorers Lewis and Clark in 1805, only to be repeatedly misled by white treaties over the next seventy years. In 1877, a handful of renegade warriors struck back by massacring eighteen settlers in Idaho, setting off one of the bloddiest and most tragic Indian wars of the century.
This is the story of the dramatic 1200 mile chase through Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, in which some 800 Nez Perce men, women and children attempted to fight their way to freedom in Canada.
Having personally retraced the entire war route. Bruce Hampton evokes flesh-and-blood characters from both sides of the war with such immediacy that readers can almost feel the ground tremble under thousands of hooves and hear the anguished cries of the women and children who fell to U.S. army bullets. [via]
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Children of the City: At Work and at Playby David NasawISBN 0385171641 (0-385-17164-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children of the City: At Work and at Play'Book summary:The turn of the century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished--and until now unexamined--primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams.
Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant protrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young. [via]More editions of Children of the City: At Work and at Play:
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City of Lightby Lauren BelferISBN 0385337647 (0-385-33764-7)
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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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Cloud Of Sparrowsby Takashi MatsuokaISBN 0385338503 (0-385-33850-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cloud Of Sparrows'Book summary:Following in the substantial footsteps of filmmaker Akiro Kurosawa and Shogun author James Clavell is Takashi Matsuoka, whose action-packed debut novel, Cloud of Sparrows, unfolds as the age of the samurai warrior starts to wane. The year is 1861, and Lord Genji of Akaoka, last in line of the Okamichi clan, welcomes missionaries Emily, Matthew, and Zephaniah to Japan. Cut off from the West for more than 2,000 years, Japan is as completely unprepared for these outsiders as the missionaries are for geishas and honor killings. Genji, his geisha love Heiko, and the missionaries suddenly find themselves in the middle of several nefarious plots to overthrow the Okamichi leader from as far away as the shogun's palace and as close as Genji's own henchmen. Genji and his visitors journey together across treacherous terrain to seek refuge at the faraway Cloud of Sparrows palace. Although it's a rip-roaring yarn full of ambushes, swordfights, cross-cultural friction, love, and prophetic visions, the book does read a bit like a screenplay, cutting quickly from one scene to another. But the frequent shifts in the story's tempo succeed in making the novel all the more vivid, allowing simultaneous action and contemplation to deepen the story and its inhabitants. --Emily Russin [via]
The Complete Fairy Tales and Storiesby H. C. Andersen, Erik Christian HaugaardISBN 0385019017 (0-385-01901-7)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkinby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Gillon R. AitkenISBN 0393004651 (0-393-00465-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Complete Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0385045913 (0-385-04591-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Country of the Pointed Firsby Sarah Orne JewettISBN 0385092148 (0-385-09214-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Cultivation of Hatredby Peter GayISBN 0393033988 (0-393-03398-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cultivation of Hatred'Book summary:The bestselling author of Freud: A Life for Our Time now presents a remarkable journey through middle-class Victorian culture. The 19th century restrained aggressive behavior until ultimately, their aggressions exploded in WWI. [via]
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Dancing at Midnightby Julia QuinnISBN 0380780755 (0-380-78075-5)
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Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracyby David CannadineISBN 0385421036 (0-385-42103-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Duke and Iby Julia QuinnISBN 0380800829 (0-380-80082-9)
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Early Textsby Karl Marx, David McLellanISBN 0389040568 (0-389-04056-8)
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The Far Side of the Worldby Patrick O'BrianISBN 039303710X (0-393-03710-X)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Far Side of the World'Book summary:The inspiration for the major new motion picture starring Russell Crowe.
The war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Stephen Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Disaster in various guises awaits them in the Great South Sea and in the far reaches of the Pacific: typhoons, castaways, shipwrecks, murder, and criminal insanity. [via]More editions of The Far Side of the World:
Flatlandby Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 0389015318 (0-389-01531-8)
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The Fortune of Warby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393037061 (0-393-03706-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fortune of War'Book summary:"A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat."Times Literary Supplement
Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.
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Frederick Douglassby William S. McFeelyISBN 0393028232 (0-393-02823-2)
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The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860by Suzanne LebsockISBN 0393017389 (0-393-01738-9)
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From Castlereagh to Gladstone, Eighteen Fifteen Toeighteen Eighty Fiveby BealesISBN 0393003671 (0-393-00367-1)
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The Gamblerby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0393000443 (0-393-00044-3)
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Good Earthby Pearl S. BuckISBN 0381980332 (0-381-98033-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Earth'Book summary:The story begins on the wedding day of farmer Wang Lung and follows his simple, often one-sided view of the Chinese culture, times, and his connection with the land. The land is a recurring theme throughout the novel, seemingly nurtured by the apparent protagonists, rejected and ruined by the antagonists. The author uses the House of Hwang, a nearby house of nobles, to contrast and predict their rise and fall. As the House of Hwang meets its slow and desperate end, Wang Lung rises.
However, as the weather turns disastrous for farming, Wang Lung's family has to flee to the city to scrape out a meager living. Upon returning home, the family fares better. Wang Lung eventually becomes a prosperous man, his rise contrasting with the downfall of the Hwang family, who lose their connection to the land. At the end of the novel, when Wang Lung is an old man, he overhears his sons plotting to sell some of the land, thus showing the end of the cycle of wealth and downfall. [via]
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Grant: A Biographyby William S. McFeelyISBN 0393013723 (0-393-01372-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grant: A Biography'Book summary:"Combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages....Biography at its best." Marcus Cunliffe, The New York Times Book Review; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885). "A moving and convincing portrait....profound understanding of the man as well as his period and his country." C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books "Clearsightedness, along with McFeely's unfailing intelligence and his existential sympathy...informs his entire biography." Justin Kaplan, The New Republic Illustrations [via]More editions of Grant: A Biography:
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Grimm's Tales for Young and Oldby Ralph ManheimISBN 0385189508 (0-385-18950-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Tales for Young and Old'Book summary:Ralph Manheim, the highly acclaimed and prize-winning translator, has rediscovered in the original German editions of the Grimms' works the unadorned, direct rhythm of the oral form in which they were first recorded. [via]
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Grimm's Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Storiesby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Ralph ManheimISBN 0385110057 (0-385-11005-7)
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H.M.S Surprise: Library Editionby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393037037 (0-393-03703-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'H.M.S Surprise: Library Edition'Book summary:"Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it."Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Press
Third in the series of Aubrey/Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could make him rich beyond his wildest dream: the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the China Fleet... [via]More editions of H.M.S Surprise: Library Edition:
Hans Andersenby H. C. Andersen, Michael Foreman, Erik Christian HaugaardISBN 0385133642 (0-385-13364-2)
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Hans Christian Andersen the Complete Fairy Tales and Storiesby H. C. Andersen, Virginia HavilandISBN 0385189516 (0-385-18951-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Christian Andersen the Complete Fairy Tales and Stories'Book summary:Translated by Erik Hougaard, this is the only version available in trade paperback that presents the fairy tales exactly as Andersen collected them in the original Danish edition in 1874. His notes accompany the text. [via]
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Henry James, Les Annees Dramatiquesby Leon EdelISBN 0380391074 (0-380-39107-4)
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An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Clevelandby H. Paul JeffersISBN 0380805715 (0-380-80571-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Honest President : The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland'Book summary:Grover Cleveland is known primarily as the only president to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms. But his record as a staunch reformer is equally impressive: from fighting powerful bosses in both political parties and vetoing bills he considered raids on the Treasury to resisting American imperialism and robber barons alike. And when he became embroiled in scandal -- from fathering a child out of wedlock to (legally) evading the Civil War -- he faced his past truthfully and confronted his demons directly.
In graceful and enduring prose, H. Paul Jeffers gives us the first full look at a president whose moral timber and courageous administrations have more to say to today's politicians than perhaps that of any other leader in American history. [via]
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How to Marry a Marquisby Julia QuinnISBN 0380800810 (0-380-80081-0)
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The Interpretation of Dreamsby Sigmund FreudISBN 0380010003 (0-380-01000-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Interpretation of Dreams'Book summary:Freud's Revolutionary Theory This ground-breaking work, which Freud considered his most valuable, forever changed the way we think. Now, in this definitive and bestselling translation by James Strachey, Freud's timeless exploration of the unconscious through the dream world is clearly and precisely rendered. Including dozens of case histories and detailed analyses of actual dreams, The Interpretation of Dreams remains an invaluable tool in helping us all discover the truth about ourselves. [via]
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The Ionian Missionby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393037088 (0-393-03708-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ionian Mission'Book summary:Aubrey and Maturin return to the choppy Mediterranean waters where they first served together, enforcing the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon. Then the two companions are sent to the Greek Islands, where another series of maritime cliff-hangers awaits them. O'Brian performs his peculiar narrative magic as adeptly as ever, putting (as The Observer would have it) the "spark of character into the sawdust of time." [via]
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Ironfireby David BallISBN 0385338066 (0-385-33806-6)
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Kim and Her Crazy Ideasby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0385073615 (0-385-07361-5)
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The Lambs of Londonby Peter AckroydISBN 0385514611 (0-385-51461-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Letter of Marqueby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393028747 (0-393-02874-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letter of Marque'Book summary:"Fine stuff...[The Letter of Marque] leaves the devotee of naval fiction eager for sequels."Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship's surgeon to mask his discreet activities on behalf of British Intelligence, has bought for Aubrey his former ship the Surprise to command as a privateer, more politely termed a letter of marque. Together they sail on a desperate mission against the French, which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from the private hell of his disgrace. [via]More editions of The Letter of Marque:
The Letters of John Clareby John ClareISBN 0389010219 (0-389-01021-9)
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Lord Jimby Joseph ConradISBN 0385042655 (0-385-04265-5)
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Maggie, a Girl of the Streetsby Stephen Crane, Thomas A. GullasonISBN 0393012220 (0-393-01222-0)
Hardcover, Norton
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The Mauritius Commandby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393037045 (0-393-03704-5)
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Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a commanduntil Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Réunion. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captainsLord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny.
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Minxby Julia QuinnISBN 0380785625 (0-380-78562-5)
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And it takes a rogue to tame her...William Dunford, London2s most elusive bachelor, is stunned to learn that he2s inherited property, a title...and a ward bent on making his first visit his last. Henry is determined to continue running the Cornwall estate without help from the handsome new lord, but Dunford is just as sure he can change things...starting with his wild young ward. But turning Henry into a lady makes her not only the darling of the town, but an irresistible attraction to the man who thought he could never be tempted.
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Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in Englishby Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan GubarISBN 0393019403 (0-393-01940-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English'Book summary:Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of womens writing in English.
Now, the much-anticipated Third Edition responds to the wealth of writing by women across the globe with the inclusion of 61 new authors (219 in all) whose diverse works span six centuries. A more flexible two-volume format and a versatile new companion reader make the Third Edition an even better teaching tool.
"As diversity itself has shaped the evolution of feminist criticism, from its early preoccupation with women's shared experiences to its more recent absorption in the complex issues and assumptions informing English-language texts by women writers of diverse geographical, cultural, racial, sexual, religious, and class origins and influences, so diversity has shaped the revisions of this anthology." From the Preface [via]More editions of Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English:
Nory Ryan's Songby Patricia Reilly Giff, Wendy LambISBN 0385321414 (0-385-32141-4)
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Nutmeg of Consolationby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393030326 (0-393-03032-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nutmeg of Consolation'Book summary:"[The series shows] a joy in language that jumps from every page....You're in for a wonderful voyage."Cutler Durkee, People
Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift vessel burns, and they are truly marooned. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the whimsy and ingenuity of Patrick O'Brianor Stephen Maturincould devise.
In command now of a new ship, the Nutmeg, Aubrey pursues his interrupted mission. The dreadful penal colony in New South Wales, harrowingly described, is the backdrop to a diplomatic crisis provoked by Maturin's Irish temper, and to a near-fatal encounter with the wildlife of the Australian outback. [via]More editions of Nutmeg of Consolation:
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An Offer from a Gentlemanby Julia QuinnISBN 0380815583 (0-380-81558-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Offer from a Gentleman'Book summary:Miss Sophie Beckett is the illegitimate daughter of the Earl of Penwood in Julia Quinn's An Offer from a Gentleman. Raised in his home, Sophie has a tolerable existence until the Earl marries and her life takes a distinct turn for the worse. Sophie's new stepmother hates her, and when the Earl passes away, she relegates Sophie to the role of servant. Sophie's days are pure drudgery until one night when her fellow servants conspire to help her attend a masquerade ball.
Her life changes irrevocably when she meets handsome Benedict Bridgerton and falls head-over-heels in love. Benedict is equally smitten but when the clock strikes 12, his beautiful mystery lady runs from him leaving only her glove in his hand. He searches London for her but she seems to have vanished. What Benedict doesn't know is that Sophie's stepmother has discovered her outing and thrown Sophie out of their London townhouse. Sophie leaves London and it isn't until three years later that Benedict and Sophie's paths cross once again when he saves her from the unwanted attentions of a drunken lord. Sophie recognises Benedict immediately but much to her dismay, he doesn't know her in her maid's dress. Soon, however, Benedict falls in love with Sophie all over again. Both struggle with their feelings for each other, their unwillingness to compromise their principles and the seemingly insurmountable wall separating a member of the nobility and a servant. To add to their difficulties, Sophie's vindictive stepmother discovers her presence in London and sets out to make her life even more miserable...
Quinn brings a fresh approach to this charming retelling of the Cinderella story enhancing the tale with a strong Regency setting and the warm trappings of Benedict Bridgerton's large family. Quinn has a reputation for witty dialogue and endearing characters and she delivers both in this delightful novel.--Lois Faye Dyer, Amazon.com [via]
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The Old Regime and the French Revolutionby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0385092601 (0-385-09260-1)
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Oscar Wilde's London: A Scrapbook of Vices and Virtues, 1880-1900by J. Edward Chamberlin, Wolf Von Eckardt, Sander L. GilmanISBN 0385097034 (0-385-09703-4)
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The Outlandish Companionby Diana GabaldonISBN 0385257392 (0-385-25739-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Outlandish Companion'Book summary:For nine years, four books, and nearly 4,000 pages, Diana Gabaldon has entranced readers with her talent for historical authenticity, dramatic plot lines, and strong characters in the Outlander series. Her superb writing has earned a loyal audience, but after a million and a half words, even the most fervent of fans may have a difficult time trying to recall the exact details of the secondary characters, let alone the obscure ones. Thankfully, Gabaldon's The Outlandish Companion is here to help.
Part crib notes and part trivia guide, this essential handbook includes synopses of the first four novels, a character guide, notes on plot development and research, answers to frequently asked questions, and teasers for the upcoming novels--there're even horoscope charts of the central characters, a list of fan Web sites, and choice recipes for the truly devoted.
Readers looking for a fix of Gabaldon's humorous voice or insight into her writing processes and characters will certainly be more than satisfied, but those looking for the next installment of Jamie and Claire's adventures will have to wait for The Fiery Cross, the fifth book in this bestselling series, expected sometime in late 1999 to early 2000. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien [via]
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poeby Daniel HoffmanISBN 0380414597 (0-380-41459-7)
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Polk's Folly : An American Family Historyby William R. PolkISBN 0385491506 (0-385-49150-6)
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Polk's Folly: An American Family Historyby William Roe PolkISBN 0385491514 (0-385-49151-4)
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The Presentby Johanna LindseyISBN 0380804387 (0-380-80438-7)
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James HoggISBN 0393005151 (0-393-00515-1)
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0380641135 (0-380-64113-5)
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Romancing Mister Bridgertonby Julia QuinnISBN 0380820846 (0-380-82084-6)
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Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russiasby W. Bruce LincolnISBN 0385279086 (0-385-27908-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias'Book summary:For three centuries--beginning with the accession of Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov in 1613--the Romanov Dynasty ruled Russia. Its reign ended with the execution of Nicholas II and Alexandra in the early 20th century. Noted Russian scholar W. Bruce Lincoln has brilliantly portrayed the achievement, significance and high drama of the Dynasty as no previous book has done. His use of rare archival materials has allowed him to present a portrait of the Romanovs based on their own writings and those of the men and women who knew them. [via]
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The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912by Thomas PakenhamISBN 0380719991 (0-380-71999-1)
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The Search for Modern Chinaby Jonathan D. SpenceISBN 0393027082 (0-393-02708-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Search for Modern China'Book summary:Covering more than four centuries of epic history with unsurpassed learning, imagination, and passion, Spence tells a story of vast struggle, of exhilarating dreams and crushed lives, and above all of the sheer capacity of the human spirit to endure. Professor of history at Yale University and author of numerous works on China, Spence shows the reader a world struggling to remake itself and establish harmony in light of recent events. 136 pages of full-color illustrations and black-and-white photographs. [via]
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The Second Jungle Bookby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0385074832 (0-385-07483-2)
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Six Plays of Strindbergby August StrindbergISBN 0385092725 (0-385-09272-5)
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The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular Warby David GatesISBN 0393022811 (0-393-02281-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War'Book summary:By July 1807 Napoleon dominated most of Europe, the only gap in his continental system was the Iberian Peninsula. This text provides a history of the savage war which Napoleon considered insignificant, yet which ended in defeat for the French. [via]
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The Spectacle of Empire: Style, Effect and the Pax Britannicaby Jan MorrisISBN 0385181167 (0-385-18116-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Splendidby Julia QuinnISBN 0380780747 (0-380-78074-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Splendid'Book summary:Based on the phenomenal growth of Quinn2s popularity, and her four-week stint on the New York Times bestseller list with Romancing Mr Bridgerton, it2s the perfect time to revisit Ms Quinn2s 2splendid2 storytelling.
American heiress Emma Dunster has always been fun-loving and independent with no wish to settle into marriage. She plans to enjoy her Season in London in more unconventional ways than husband-hunting. But this time Emma2s high-jinks lead her into dangerous temptation...
Alexander Ridgely, the Duke of Ashbourne, is a notorious rake who carefully avoids the risk of love...until he plants one reckless kiss on the sensuous lips of this high-spirited innocent...and condemns himself to delicious torment. Little does he know that his passion has touched the very soul of the lovely enchantress...and committed them both to a lifetime of splendid ecstasy.
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The Surgeon's Mateby Patrick O'BrianISBN 039303707X (0-393-03707-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Surgeon's Mate'Book summary:"Vividly detailed 19th-century settings and dramatic tension punctuated with flashes of wry humor make O'Brian's nautical adventure a splendid treat."Publishers Weekly
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as tense, and as unexpected in its culmination, as anything Patrick O'Brian has written.
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The Thirteen Gun Saluteby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393029743 (0-393-02974-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thirteen Gun Salute'Book summary:"In length the series is unique; in qualityand there is not a weak link in the chainit cannot but be ranked with the best of twentieth century historical novels."T. J. Binyon, Independent
Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (a false accusation), he has earned reinstatement through his daring exploits as a privateer, brilliantly chronicled in The Letter of Marque. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturinhis friend, ship's surgeon, and sometimes intelligence agenton a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes which would put English merchant shipping at risk.
The journey of the Diane encompasses a great and satisfying diversity of adventures. Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans; a killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reef; and in the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a classic duel of intelligence agents unfolds: the French envoys, well entrenched in the Sultan's good graces, against the savage cunning of Stephen Maturin. [via]More editions of The Thirteen Gun Salute:
To Catch an Heiressby Julia QuinnISBN 0380789353 (0-380-78935-3)
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyleby Avi, Ruth E. MurrayISBN 0380714752 (0-380-71475-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle'Book summary:A vicious captain, a mutinous crew --
and a young girl caught in the middleNot every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however: If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.
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The Trueloveby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393031098 (0-393-03109-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Truelove'Book summary:The fifteenth installment in Patrick O'Brian's widely claimed series of Aubrey/Maturin novels is in equal parts mystery, adventure, and psychological drama.
A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over and indeed strongly attracted to this woman who will not speak of her past. But only Aubrey's friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, can fathom Clarissa's secrets: her crime, her personality, and a clue identifying a highly placed English spy in the pay of Napoleon's intelligence service.
In a thrilling finale, Patrick O'Brian delivers all the excitement his many readers expect: Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise impose a brutal pax Britannica upon the islanders in a pitched battle against a band of headhunting cannibals. [via]More editions of The Truelove:
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faithby Jon KrakauerISBN 0385509510 (0-385-50951-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith'Book summary:In 1984, Ron and Dan Lafferty murdered the wife and infant daughter of their younger brother Allen. The crimes were noteworthy not merely for their brutality but for the brothers' claim that they were acting on direct orders from God. In Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer tells the story of the killers and their crime but also explores the shadowy world of Mormon fundamentalism from which the two emerged. The Mormon Church was founded, in part, on the idea that true believers could speak directly with God. But while the mainstream church attempted to be more palatable to the general public by rejecting the controversial tenet of polygamy, fundamentalist splinter groups saw this as apostasy and took to the hills to live what they believed to be a righteous life. When their beliefs are challenged or their patriarchal, cult-like order defied, these still- active groups, according to Krakauer, are capable of fighting back with tremendous violence. While Krak! auer's research into the history of the church is admirably extensive, the real power of the book comes from present- day information, notably jailhouse interviews with Dan Lafferty. Far from being the brooding maniac one might expect, Lafferty is chillingly coherent, still insisting that his motive was merely to obey God's command. Krakauer's accounts of the actual murders are graphic and disturbing, but such detail makes the brothers' claim of divine instruction all the more horrifying. In an age where Westerners have trouble comprehending what drives Islamic fundamentalists to kill, Jon Krakauer advises us to look within America's own borders. --John Moe [via]
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Vampiresby Alan RyanISBN 0385185626 (0-385-18562-6)
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The Viscount Who Loved Meby Julia QuinnISBN 0380815575 (0-380-81557-5)
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White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812by Winthrop D. JordanISBN 039300841X (0-393-00841-X)
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The Wine-Dark Seaby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393035581 (0-393-03558-1)
Hardcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wine-Dark Sea'Book summary:The sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O'Brian's first bestseller in the United States.
At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination.
Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.
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Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0385487347 (0-385-48734-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women in Love'Book summary:With an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
foreword by the author
Commentary by Carl van Doren, Rebecca West,
Aldous Huxley, and Henry Miller
It is . . . the world of the poets and the preponderance of the poet in [Lawrence] that is the key to his work. He magnified and deepened experience in the manner of a poet," wrote Anaïs Nin in 1934.
Privately printed in 1920 and published commercially in 1921, Women in Love is the novel Lawrence himself considered his masterpiece. Set in the English Midlands, the novel traces the lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and the men with whom they fall in love. All four yearn for fufillment in their romantic lives, yet struggle in a world that is increasingly violent and destructive. Commenting on the novel, which was composed in the midst of the First World War in 1916, Lawrence wrote, "The bitterness of the war may be taken for granted in the characters." Rich in symbolism and lyrical prose, Women in Love is a complex meditation on the meaning of love in the modern world.
To the critic Alfred Kazin, "No other writer of [Lawrence's] imaginative standing has in our time written books that are so open to life."
D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930), the son of a coal miner and a lace worker, completed his formal studies at University College, Nottingham, in 1908 and began teaching at a boys' school. By 1912, he had abandoned teaching to write full-time. His novels include The White Peacock (1911), The Trespasser (1912), Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), The Plumed Serpent (1926), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), which was banned as pornographic in England until 1960.
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Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Parisby Michael AllinISBN 0385334117 (0-385-33411-7)
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Michael Allin intertwines natural history with a brutal chapter in the history of civilization, augmenting the clarity of both. This story of one docile animal contrasts sharply with those of the human profiteers, warmongers, and interlopers who ultimately decide her fate. But Zarafa's otherworldly charm also helps us to understand the intrigue that led Napoleon to bring not only his troops, but a small army of European intellectuals to study all aspects of Egyptian culture and history, in the invasion that sets up her story. --Lauran Cole Warner [via]
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