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Airframeby Michael CrichtonISBN 0345402871 (0-345-40287-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Airframe'Book summary:Cruising 35,000 feet above the earth, a twin-engine commercial jet encounters an accident that leaves 3 dead, 56 wounded, and the cabin in shambles. What happened? With a multi-billion-dollar company-saving deal on the line, Casey Singleton is sent by her hard-driving boss to uncover the mysterious circumstances that led to the disaster before more people die. But someone doesn't want her to find the truth. Airframe bristles with authentic information, technical jargon, and the command of detail Crichton's readers have come to expect. Check out Amazon.com's Airframe feature and read an excerpt from the book! [via]
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The Americanby Henry James, William SpengemannISBN 0140390820 (0-14-039082-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American'Book summary:During a trip to Europe, Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman, asks the charming Claire de Cintré to be his wife. To his dismay, he receives an icy reception from the heads of her family, who find Newman to be a vulgar example of the American privileged class. Brilliantly combining elements of comedy, tragedy, romance and melodrama, this tale of thwarted desire vividly contrasts nineteenth-century American and European manners. Oxford's edition of The American, which was first published in 1877, is the only one that uses James' revised 1907 text. [via]
Ancient Eveningsby Norman MailerISBN 0316544108 (0-316-54410-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriterby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0140248927 (0-14-024892-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter'Book summary:Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia, now divorced, seeks a new mate who can support her in high style. She finds instead her libidinous nephew, and their affair shocks both famiy and community. [via]
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The Book of Merlynby Terence Hanbury WhiteISBN 029270769X (0-292-70769-X)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Merlyn'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
The Book of Threeby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 0030898218 (0-03-089821-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Buddha of Suburbiaby Hanif KureishiISBN 014013168X (0-14-013168-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Buddha of Suburbia'Book summary:There's quite a bit of activity in Buddha of Suburbia. A bureaucrat becomes a suburban guru who marries a follower with a son who's a punk rocker named Charlie Hero. Consequently, the guru's son is propelled from his bland life into a series of erotic experiences in London. All the while, Hanif Kureishi keeps the tone lively with wry wit. On the description of suburban life: "We were proud of never learning anything except the names of footballers, the personnel of rock groups and the lyrics to 'I Am the Walrus.'" He also bends cultures, classes and genders while blasting the racism of British life in this 1990 Whitbread Prize winner. [via]
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Burrby Gore Vidal, Edgar BoxISBN 0345339215 (0-345-33921-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Brilliantly realized, enormously readable, Gore Vidal's #1 best seller paints a fascinating portrait of Aaron Burr, who lived out his long life partly as a suspected traitor and partly as one of the most heroic and colorful of the founding fathers.
A fictional memoir based on actual facts, BURR describes the early struggles and endless intrigues of the United States. Vidal writes with so much drama and vigor that history comes alive, and the concerns of a new nation read like today's headlines. [via]More editions of Burr:
Call It Sleepby Henry Roth, Hana Wirth-Nesher, Wirth-Nesher, Hana (AFT)ISBN 0312424124 (0-312-42412-4)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Carpe Jugulum: Una Novela Del Mundodiscby Terry PratchettISBN 0061020397 (0-06-102039-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carpe Jugulum: Una Novela Del Mundodisc'Book summary:MASS-MARKET PAPERBACK,BY TERRY PRATCHETT. [via]
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Carrieby Stephen KingISBN 9685957002 (968-5957-00-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Cat and Mouseby Gunter GrassISBN 0156028220 (0-15-602822-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Caves of Steelby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345338200 (0-345-33820-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caves of Steel'Book summary:A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim! [via]
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Ceremonyby Leslie Marmon SilkoISBN 0140086838 (0-14-008683-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ceremony'Book summary:[via]Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution.
Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient stories of his people. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremny that defeats the most virulent of afflictionsdespair.
Charlie Y El Gran Ascensor De Cristal/Charlie and the Great Glass Elevatorby Roald DahlISBN 9681909887 (968-19-0988-7)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Cleaby Lawrence DurrellISBN 9500714485 (950-07-1448-5)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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The Clownby Heinrich Böll, Leila VennewitzISBN 014018726X (0-14-018726-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clown'Book summary:Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he wont marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his lifethe loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies of his mother, who first fought to save Germany from the Jews, then worked for reconciliation
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Heinrich Bölls gripping consideration of how to overcome guilt and live up to idealismhow to find something to believe ingives stirring evidence of why he was such an unwelcome presence in post-War German consciousness . . . and why he was such a necessary one. [via]More editions of The Clown:
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Creationby Gore Vidal, Edgar BoxISBN 0345340205 (0-345-34020-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creation'Book summary:In 445 B.C., Cyrus Spitama, the grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, is the Persian ambassador to the city of Athens. He has a rather caustic appreciation of his situation: "I am blind. But I am not deaf. Because of the incompleteness of my misfortune, I was obliged yesterday to listen for nearly six hours to a self-styled historian whose account of what the Athenians like to call 'the Persian Wars' was nonsense of a sort that were I less old and more privileged, I would have risen to my seat at the Odeon and scandalized all Athens by answering him." Having thus dismissed Herodotus, Cyrus then dictates his life story to his nephew, Democritus, with similar disdain for the Greeks--whom we in the modern world have come to view as the progenitors of civilization, but whom Cyrus considers to be bad-smelling rabble.
Of course, Cyrus Spitama speaks with a very modern, ironic voice supplied to him by Gore Vidal--and the political intrigues in which Cyrus finds himself immersed are likewise familiar territory for fans of Vidal's historical fiction. But the narrator's delightfully wicked observations are the icing on a narrative of truly epic scope--out of his desire to understand the origins of the world, Cyrus undertakes journeys to India, where he encounters disciples of the Buddha, and China, where he engages Confucius in philosophical conversation while the great sage fishes by the riverside. Creation offers insights into classical history laced with scintillating wit and narrative brio. [via]
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Crossing to Safetyby Wallace Earle StegnerISBN 0140112499 (0-14-011249-9)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crossing to Safety'Book summary:It's deceptively simple: two bright young couples meet during the Depression and form an instant and lifelong friendship. "How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these?" Larry Morgan, a successful novelist and the narrator of the story, poses that question many years after he and his wife, Sally, have befriended the vibrant, wealthy, and often troubled Sid and Charity Lang. "Where is the high life, the conspicuous waste, the violence, the kinky sex, the death wish?" It's not here. What is here is just as fascinating, just as compelling, as touching, and as tragic.
Crossing to Safety is about loyalty and survival in its most everyday form--the need to create bonds and the urge to tear them apart. Thirty-four years after their first meeting, when Larry and Sally are called back to the Langs' summer home in Vermont, it's as if for a final showdown. How has this friendship defined them? What is its legacy? Stegner offer answers in those small, perfectly rendered moments that make up lives "as quiet as these"--and as familiar as our own. --Sara Nickerson [via]
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Crossing to Safetyby Wallace StegnerISBN 0140133488 (0-14-013348-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crossing to Safety'Book summary:It's deceptively simple: two bright young couples meet during the Depression and form an instant and lifelong friendship. "How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these?" Larry Morgan, a successful novelist and the narrator of the story, poses that question many years after he and his wife, Sally, have befriended the vibrant, wealthy, and often troubled Sid and Charity Lang. "Where is the high life, the conspicuous waste, the violence, the kinky sex, the death wish?" It's not here. What is here is just as fascinating, just as compelling, as touching, and as tragic.
Crossing to Safety is about loyalty and survival in its most everyday form--the need to create bonds and the urge to tear them apart. Thirty-four years after their first meeting, when Larry and Sally are called back to the Langs' summer home in Vermont, it's as if for a final showdown. How has this friendship defined them? What is its legacy? Stegner offer answers in those small, perfectly rendered moments that make up lives "as quiet as these"--and as familiar as our own. --Sara Nickerson [via]
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The Dark Tower 4by Stephen KingISBN 0340696621 (0-340-69662-1)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dark Tower 4'Book summary:Frank Muller, the recognized virtuoso of audiobook narration (The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption), takes on Stephen King's Goliath tale of sorcerers, time travelers, and sci-fi love. Totaling more than 27 hours and spanning 18 cassettes, Wizard and Glass requires the listener to love Muller's Hannibal Lecter-like voice--either that or suffer in audio hell for the equivalent of three full working days. While some might find his breathy staccatos irritating at best, others will find his voice the perfect accompaniment to King's creepy characters and nightmarish plots. (Running time: 27 hours, 18 cassettes) [via]
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The Day of the Triffidsby John WyndhamISBN 0345328175 (0-345-32817-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Day of the Triffidsby Pauline Francis, John WyndhamISBN 0237525364 (0-237-52536-4)
Softcover, Evans Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Day of the Triffids'Book summary:The triffids are a monstrous species of stinging plant; they walk, they talk, they dominate the world. The narrator of this novel wakes up in hospital to find that, by missing the end of the world, he has survived to witness a new world. But the new world that awaits him is fantastic and horrific. [via]
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The Dragon Rebornby Robert JordanISBN 0312852487 (0-312-85248-7)
Hardcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dragon Reborn'Book summary:The dragon reborn--the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him--is on the run from his destiny.able to touch the one power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him how--for no man has done it in three thousand years--rand al'thor knows only that he must face the dark one. But how?winter has stopped the war-almost-yet men are dying, calling out for the dragon. But where is he?perrin aybara is in pursuit with moiraine sedai, her warder lan, and the loial the ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, perrin is grappling with another deadly problem--how is her to escape the loss of his own humanity.egwene, elayne and nynaeve are approaching tar valon, where mat will be healed--if he lives until they arrive. But who will tell the amyrlin their news--that the black ajah, long thought only a hideous rumor, is all too real? they cannot know that in tar valon far worse awaits...ahead, for all of them, in the heart of the stone, lies the next great test of the dragon reborn [via]
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Effi Briestby Helen Chambers, Hugh Rorrison, Theordor FontaneISBN 0140447660 (0-14-044766-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Effi Briest'Book summary:In 1919 thomas mann hailed effi briest (1895) as one of "the six most significant novels ever written." set in bismarck's germany, fontane's luminous tale of a socially suitable but emotionally disastrous match between the enchanting seventeen-year-old effi and an austere, workaholic civil servant twice her age, is at once touching and unsettling. Fontane's taut, ironic narrative depicts a world where sexuality and the enjoyment of life are stifled by narrow-mindedness and circumstance. Considered by many to be the pinnacle of the nineteenth-century german novel, effi briest is a tale of adultery that ranks with madame bovary and anna karenina and brilliantly demonstrates the truth of the author's comment and "women's stories are generally far more interesting [via]
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Effi Briestby Theordor FontaneISBN 0140441905 (0-14-044190-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Effi Briest'Book summary:The story of a woman's adultery. The story of Effi and the chinaman's ghost, the forest and dunes that are its setting, the stern Prussian code that makes the climax both terrible and absurd, are unique to Fontane and to German literature. [via]
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Eugenie Grandetby Honore De BalzacISBN 014044050X (0-14-044050-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugenie Grandet'Book summary:'Who is going to marry Eugénie Grandet?'
This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugénie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comédie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugénie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugénie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel.
Eugénie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age. [via]-
The Exorcistby William Peter BlattyISBN 0061007226 (0-06-100722-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Exorcist'Book summary:When originally published in 1971, The Exorcist became not only a bestselling literary phenomenon, but one of the most frightening and controversial novels ever written. (When the author adapted his book to the screen two years later, it then became one of the most terrifying movies ever made.) Blatty fictionalized the true story of a child's demonic possession in the 1940s. The deceptively simple story focuses on Regan, the 11-year-old daughter of a movie actress residing in Washington, D.C.; the child apparently is possessed by an ancient demon. It's up to a small group of overwhelmed yet determined humans to somehow rescue Regan from this unspeakable fate. Purposefully raw and profane, this novel still has the extraordinary ability to literally shock us into forgetting that it is "just a story." The Exorcist remains a truly unforgettable reading experience. Blatty published a sequel, Legion, in 1983. --Stanley Wiater [via]
The Expedition of Humphry Clinkerby Tobias Smollett, Angus RossISBN 0140430210 (0-14-043021-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker'Book summary:1929. Smollett was a man of letters in the fullest sense. Trained as a physician, he was not only a novelist but also a playwright, poet, journalist, historian, travel writer, critic, translator, and editor. A novel in epistolary form about a group of travelers who visit places in England and Scotland and provide through their satirical and witty letters a vivid and detailed picture of the contemporary social and political scene. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinkerby Paul-Gabriel Bouce, Tobias Smollett, Lewis M. KnappISBN 0192835947 (0-19-283594-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Gold Bug Variationsby Richard PowersISBN 0060975008 (0-06-097500-8)
Softcover, Perennial
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The Great Train Robberyby Michael CrichtonISBN 0060502304 (0-06-050230-4)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Train Robbery'Book summary:"A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive.... [via] -
The Heart of the Matterby Graham GreeneISBN 0140283323 (0-14-028332-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of the Matter'Book summary:[via]Graham Greene's masterpiece The Heart of the Matter tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his role as assistant police commissioner and by severe responsibility to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity.
When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds vital passion again yielding to pity, integrity giving way to deceit and dishonora vortex leading directly to murder. As Scobie's world crumbles, his personal crisis makes for a novel that is suspenseful, fascinating, and, finally, tragic.
Originally published in 1948, The Heart of the Matter is the unforgettable portrait of one man, flawed yet heroic, destroyed and redeemed by a terrible conflict of passion and faith.
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Henderson the Rain Kingby Saul BellowISBN 0140072691 (0-14-007269-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henderson the Rain King'Book summary:Bellow's glorious, spirited story of an eccentric American millionaire who finds a home of sorts in deepest Africa. [via]
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The Hollowbridge Heroes: A Cautionary Tale for Our Timeby Benjamin FielderISBN 0340696613 (0-340-69661-3)
Hardcover, Leaseline Design
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hollowbridge Heroes: A Cautionary Tale for Our Time'Book summary:Frank Muller, the recognized virtuoso of audiobook narration (The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption), takes on Stephen King's Goliath tale of sorcerers, time travelers, and sci-fi love. Totaling more than 27 hours and spanning 18 cassettes, Wizard and Glass requires the listener to love Muller's Hannibal Lecter-like voice--either that or suffer in audio hell for the equivalent of three full working days. While some might find his breathy staccatos irritating at best, others will find his voice the perfect accompaniment to King's creepy characters and nightmarish plots. (Running time: 27 hours, 18 cassettes) [via]
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Los Limites De La Fundacionby Isaac AsimovISBN 8497594347 (84-9759-434-7)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Main Streetby Sinclair LewisISBN 0140189017 (0-14-018901-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Main Street'Book summary:In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. The first popular bestseller to attack conventional ideas about marriage, gender roles, and small town life, Main Street established Lewis as a major American novelist.[via] -
Mantissaby John FowlesISBN 0316290270 (0-316-29027-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mantissa'Book summary:In Mantissa (1982), a novelist awakes in the hospital with amnesia -- and comes to believe that a beautiful female doctor is, in fact, his muse. [via]
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Many Watersby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0312368577 (0-312-36857-7)
Softcover, Feiwel & Friends
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Many Waters'Book summary:We've all done it. In the frigid depths of winter we've wished we could be magically transported to someplace warm and sunny. But most people don't have genius parents who just happen to be working on a scientific experiment with time travel at the moment of our wish. Sandy and Dennys Murry, the "normal" boys in a family of geniuses, suddenly find themselves trudging through a blazing-hot desert, seeking a far-off oasis for shade. Their desperate wandering brings them face-to-face with history--biblical history. Soon they're feeling right at home with Noah and his family. Even so, the urgent question is, how will Sandy and Dennys get back to their own place and time before the floods--the many waters--come? As they begin to cross the invisible border into adulthood, the twins must confront their ability to resist temptation and embrace integrity.
In Many Waters, Madeleine L'Engle continues the Murry family saga, which includes A Wrinkle in Time; A Wind in the Door; and A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which won the American Book Award. L'Engle's mystical mix of science fiction and fantasy, time and space travel, history, morals, religion, and culture once again urges her many adoring readers to stretch their minds and hearts to understand why the world is the way it is. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Mosquito Coastby Paul TherouxISBN 0140060898 (0-14-006089-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mosquito Coast'Book summary:"The Mosquito Coast" - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness. "Stunning...exciting, intelligent, meticulously realised, artful". (Victoria Glendinning, "Sunday Times"). "An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror". (Christopher Wordsworth, "Guardian"). "Magnificently stimulating and exciting". (Anthony Burgess). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, "My Other Life", "The Collected Stories", "My Secret History", "The Lower River", "The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro", "A Dead Hand", "Millroy the Magician", "The Elephanta Suite", "Saint Jack", "The Consul's File", "The Family Arsenal", and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic "The Great Railway Bazaar" are available from Penguin. [via]
The Mysteries Of Pittsburghby Michael ChabonISBN 0060790598 (0-06-079059-8)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh'Book summary:The acclaimed New York Times bestseller. [via]
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Nice Workby David LodgeISBN 0140133968 (0-14-013396-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nice Work'Book summary:"A funny, intelligent, superbly paced social comedy." -- The New York Times Vic Wilcox, a self-made man and managing director of an engineering firm. has little regard for academics, and even less for feminists. So when Robyn Penrose, a trendy leftist teacher, is assigned to "shadow" Vic under a goverment program created to foster mutual understanding between town and gown, the hilarious collusion of lifestyles and ideologies that ensues seems unlikely to foster anything besides mutual antipathy. But in the course of a bumpy year, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds--and about themselves. [via]
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North and Southby Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Patricia InghamISBN 0140434240 (0-14-043424-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North and South'Book summary:This novel is a study of the contrast between the values and habits of rural southern England and industrial northern England. The heroine, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a parson whose religious doubts force him to resign his Hampshire living and to move with his family to a northern city. [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - North and South: ISBN 0192553402 (0-19-255340-2)
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North and Southby Angus Easson, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sally ShuttleworthISBN 0192831941 (0-19-283194-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North and South'Book summary:Mary Gaskell's North and South examines the nature of social authority and obedience and provides an insightful description of the role of middle class women in nineteenth century society. Through the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skillfully explores issues of class and gender, as Margaret's sympathy for the town mill workers conflicts with her growing attraction to the mill owner, John Thornton. This new and revised expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate. [via]
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The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of thby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0192123297 (0-19-212329-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th'Book summary:Any fan of detective fiction knows that there is no substitute in all of literature for a few hours of reading pleasure at 221 B Baker Street. The tobacco in the persian slipper, the piles of monographs and newspaper clippings covering the floor and table, the unanswered correspondence affixed to the mantle with a dagger. What will the next visitor or urgent message bring? Perhaps a request from a mysterious stranger to help prevent "A Scandal in Bohemia." Perhaps Watson will tell us the story, discretely leaving out certain names, of how he and Holmes had to step outside the law to protect a certain royal personage from a blackmailer in "The Case of Charles Augustus Milverton." Or, for a very unusual treat, perhaps Holmes himself, in quiet retirement in Sussex, will tell a tale in his own words as in "The Lion's Mane."
In the more than a century since the publication of the first tale featuring Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle's characters and stories have inspired countless films, plays, pastiches, literary tributes, and tens of thousands of imitations. Now, Oxford is proud to announce The Oxford Sherlock Holmes, the complete works gathered together in nine handsomely bound, meticulously edited volumes. The books themselves are beautiful, and the entire set comes in an attractive display box, perfect for gift-giving.
Beautifully designed, boasting an introduction by a Doyle authority, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and notes, all carefully researched and assembled, this magnificent set will enhance the reading pleasure of readers new to Doyle's work and veterans of Holmsian arcana. A goldmine of reading pleasure, The Oxford Sherlock Holmes is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in crime fiction. [via]More editions of The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th:
Pamelaby Samuel RichardsonISBN 0140431403 (0-14-043140-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pamela'Book summary:One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists," even eclipsing the sensational factional politics of the day. Preached for its morality, and denounced as pornography in disguise, it vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of her predatory master to seduce her. Written in the voice of its low-born heroine, Pamela is not only a work of pioneering psychological complexity, but also a compelling and provocative study of power and its abuse.
Based on the original text of 1740, from which Richardson later retreated in a series of defensive revisions, this edition makes available the version of Pamela that aroused such widespread controversy on its first appearance. [via]
The Play of Hadrian VIIby Frederick Rolfe, Peter LukeISBN 0233961038 (0-233-96103-8)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Quincunxby Charles PalliserISBN 0345371135 (0-345-37113-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quincunx'Book summary:"The Quincunx" is an epic Dickensian-like mystery novel set in 19th century England, and concerns the varying fortunes of young John Huffam and his mother. A thrilling complex plot is made more intriguing by the unreliable narrator of the book - how much can we believe of what he says? First published in 1989, "The Quincunx" was a surprise bestseller and began a trend for pastiche Victorian novels. It remains one of the best. [via]
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Ravelsteinby Saul BellowISBN 0141001763 (0-14-100176-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ravelstein'Book summary:Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Saul Bellow confined himself to shorter fictions. Not that this old master ever dabbled in minimalism: novellas such as The Actual and The Bellarosa Connection are bursting at the seams with wit, plot, and the intellectual equivalent of high fiber. Still, Bellow's readers wondered if he would ever pull another full-sized novel from his hat. With Ravelstein, the author has done just that--and he proves that even in his ninth decade, he can pin a character to the page more vividly, and more permanently, than just about anybody on the planet.
Character is very much the issue in Ravelstein, whose eponymous subject is a thinly disguised version of Bellow's boon companion, the late Allan Bloom. Like Bloom, Abe Ravelstein has spent much of his career at the University of Chicago, fighting a rearguard action against the creeping boobism and vulgarity of American life. What's more, he's written a surprise bestseller (a ringer, of course, for The Closing of the American Mind), which has made him into a millionaire. And finally, he's dying--has died of AIDS, in fact, six years before the opening of the novel. What we're reading, then, is a faux memoir by his best friend and anointed Boswell, a Bellovian body-double named Chick:
Ravelstein was willing to lay it all out for me. Now why did he bother to tell me such things, this large Jewish man from Dayton, Ohio? Because it very urgently needed to be said. He was HIV-positive, he was dying of complications from it. Weakened, he became the host of an endless list of infections. Still, he insisted on telling me over and over again what love was--the neediness, the awareness of incompleteness, the longing for wholeness, and how the pains of Eros were joined to the most ecstatic pleasures.
Ravelstein is a little thin in the plot department--or more accurately, it has an anti-plot, which consists of Chick's inability to write his memoir. But seldom has a case of writer's block been so supremely productive. The narrator dredges up anecdote after anecdote about his subject, assembling a composite portrait: "In approaching a man like Ravelstein, a piecemeal method is perhaps best." We see this very worldly philosopher teaching, kvetching, eating, drinking, and dying, the last in melancholic increments. His death, and Chick's own brush with what Henry James called "the distinguished thing," give much of the novel a kind of black-crepe coloration. But fortunately, Bellow shares Ravelstein's "Nietzschean view, favorable to comedy and bandstands," and there can't be many eulogies as funny as this one.As always, the author is lavish with physical detail, bringing not only his star but a large gallery of minor players to rude and resounding life ("Rahkmiel was a non-benevolent Santa Claus, a dangerous person, ruddy, with a red-eyed scowl and a face in which the anger muscles were highly developed"). His sympathies are also stretched in some interesting directions by his homosexual protagonist. Bellow hasn't, to be sure, transformed himself into an affirmative-action novelist. But his famously capacious view of human nature has been enriched by this additional wrinkle: "In art you become familiar with due process. You can't simply write people off or send them to hell." A world-class portrait, a piercing intimation of mortality, Ravelstein is truly that other distinguished thing: a great novel. --James Marcus [via]
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Resurrectionby Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary EdmondsISBN 0140441840 (0-14-044184-0)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Ringworldby Larry NivenISBN 0345333926 (0-345-33392-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ringworld'Book summary:Ringworld is the most stunning artifact in known space - an artificial world with 3 million times Earth's surface area. [via]
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The Robots of Dawnby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345315715 (0-345-31571-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Robots of Dawn'Book summary:A puzzling case of roboticide sends New York Detective Elijah Baley on an intense search for a murderer. Armed with his own instincts, his quirky logic, and the immutable Three Laws of Robotics, Baley is determined to solve the case. But can anything prepare a simple Earthman for the psychological complexities of a world where a beautiful woman can easily have fallen in love with an all-too-human robot...?
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Something Happenedby Joseph HellerISBN 0345313526 (0-345-31352-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Something Happened'Book summary:Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened.
Something Happened is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controversial second novel satirizing business life and American culture. The story is told as if the reader was overhearing the patter of Bob Slocum's brain -- recording what is going on at the office, as well as his fantasies and memories that complete the story of his life. The result is a novel as original and memorable as his Catch-22. [via]
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Sphereby Michael CrichtonISBN 0345353145 (0-345-35314-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sphere'Book summary:Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton is possibly the best science teacher for the masses since H.G. Wells, and Sphere, his thriller about a mysterious spherical spaceship at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, is classic Crichton. A group of not-very-complex characters (portrayed in the film by Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, and Queen Latifah) assemble to solve a cleverly designed roller coaster of a mystery while attempting (with mixed success) to avoid sudden death and expounding (much more successfully) on the latest, coolest scientific ideas, including the existence of black holes. Somehow, Crichton manages to convey the complicated stuff in utterly simplistic prose, making him, as his old pal Steven Spielberg puts it, "the high priest of high concept." Yet there is more to Crichton than science and big-ticket show biz. He is also, as any reader of his startling memoir Travels knows, a bit of a mystic--he is entirely open to notions spouted by spoon-bending psychics that most science writers would scorn. Sphere is not only a gratifying sci-fi suspense tale; it also reflects Crichton's keen interest in the unexplained powers of the human mind. When something passes through a black hole in Crichton's fiction, a lesson is learned. The book also contains another profound lesson: when you're staring down a giant squid with an eyeball the size of a dinner plate, don't blink first. [via]
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The Things They Carriedby Tim O'BrienISBN 014014773X (0-14-014773-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Things They Carried'Book summary:"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."
A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyby John Le CarreISBN 0340188790 (0-340-18879-0)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'Book summary:From the author of THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY, SMILEY'S PEOPLE and THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, a tale of espionage in which George Smiley embarks on a mission to catch a Soviet mole who has been operating for some thirty years. [via]
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To Have and Have Notby Earnest HeminwayISBN 0020518803 (0-02-051880-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Have and Have Not'Book summary:First things first: readers coming to To Have and Have Not after seeing the Bogart/Bacall film should be forewarned that about the only thing the two have in common is the title. The movie concerns a brave fishing-boat captain in World War II-era Martinique who aids the French Resistance, battles the Nazis, and gets the girl in the end. The novel concerns a broke fishing-boat captain who agrees to carry contraband between Cuba and Florida in order to feed his wife and daughters. Of the two, the novel is by far the darker, more complex work.
The first time we meet Harry Morgan, he is sitting in a Havana bar watching a gun battle raging out in the street. After seeing a Cuban get his head blown off with a Luger, Morgan reacts with typical Hemingway understatement: "I took a quick one out of the first bottle I saw open and I couldn't tell you yet what it was. The whole thing made me feel pretty bad." Still feeling bad, Harry heads out in his boat on a charter fishing expedition for which he is later stiffed by the client. With not even enough money to fill his gas tanks, he is forced to agree to smuggle some illegal Chinese for the mysterious Mr. Sing. From there it's just a small step to carrying liquor--a disastrous run that ends when Harry loses an arm and his boat. Once Harry gets mixed up in the brewing Cuban revolution, however, even those losses seem small compared to what's at stake now: his very life.
Hemingway tells most of this story in the third person, but, significantly, he brackets the whole with a section at the beginning told from Harry's perspective and a short, heart-wrenching chapter at the end narrated by his wife, Marie. In between there is adventure, danger, betrayal, and death, but this novel begins and ends with the tough and tender portrait of a man who plays the cards that are dealt him with courage and dignity, long after hope is gone. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Triffidsby John Wyndham, Patrick NobesISBN 0091134617 (0-09-113461-7)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Trinityby Leon UrisISBN 0060827882 (0-06-082788-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trinity'Book summary:The "terrible beauty" that is Ireland comes alive in this mighty epic that re-creates that Emerald's Isle's fierce struggle for independence. Trinity is a saga of glories and defeats, triumphs and tragedies, lived by a young Catholic rebel and the beautiful and valiant Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join him. Leon Uris has painted a masterful portrait of a beleaguered people divided by religion and wealth--impoverished Catholic peasants pitted against a Protestant aristocracy wielding power over life and death. [via]
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Vossby Patrick WhiteISBN 0140186239 (0-14-018623-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voss'Book summary:Set in 19th-century Australia, this is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a young orphan. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for one another. [via]
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The Water-Method Manby John IrvingISBN 0345367421 (0-345-36742-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Water-Method Man'Book summary:The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first....
"Three or four times as funny as most novels."
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Where Angels Fear to Treadby E. M. Forster, Oliver Stallybrass, Ruth PadelISBN 0141441453 (0-14-144145-3)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where Angels Fear to Tread'Book summary:A wonderful story of questioning, disillusionment, and conversion, Where Angels Fear to Tread tells the story of a prim English family's encounter with the foreign land of Italy. When attractive, impulsive English widow Lilia marries Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior, her snobbish former in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval. But their expedition to face the uncouth foreigner takes an unexpected turn when they return to Italy under tragic circumstances intending to rescue Lilia and Gino's baby.[via]More editions of Where Angels Fear to Tread:
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El Cardenal Del Kremlinby Tom ClancyISBN 9500415615 (950-04-1561-5)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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La Chica Que Amaba a Tom Gordon / the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordonby Stephen KingISBN 9871138946 (987-1138-94-6)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Chica Que Amaba a Tom Gordon / the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon'Book summary:"El mundo tenia dienter y podia morderte en cualquer momento. Trissha McFarland to descubrio cuando tenia nueve anos. A las diez de una manana de principios de junio estaba sentada en el asiento trasero del Dodge Caravan de su madre, vestida con una sudadera azul de los Res Sox (la que llevaba 36 Gordon estampado en la espalda), y jugaba con su muneca. A las diez y media se había perdido en el bosque. A las once intentaba contener su terror, no pensar. Esto va en serio, esto va muy en serio. Intentaba no pensar que, en ocasiones, cuando la gente se perdía en el bosque salia gravemente danada. A veces incluso moría," --- from book's back cover [via]
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De Amor Y De Sombra / Of Love and Shadowsby Isabel AllendeISBN 006095129X (0-06-095129-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'De Amor Y De Sombra / Of Love and Shadows'Book summary:Desarrollada en un país latinamericano sin nombre que vive bajo el dominio de una dictadura militar, la segunda, hipnotizante, novela de Allende cuenta la historia de una mujer y un hombre que están destinados, bajo las circunstancias más espeluzantes, a compartir un amor excepcional. Irene Beltrán es fruto de la clase alta, una bien intencionada, aunque algo ingenua, reportera en una revista para mujeres. Francisco Leal, hijo de exiliados españoles, es un fotógrafo partidario de la resistencia clandestina. Durante el curso de un trabajo rutinario, esta pareja descubre, literalmente, un crimen que resulta en desafío -- y provocación -- al terrorismo oficial del gobierno, y que también pone en grave peligro sus vidas.
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Cinque Quartri D'Aranciaby Joanne HarrisISBN 8811685508 (88-11-68550-8)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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