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The 42nd Parallelby John DOS PassosISBN 0618056815 (0-618-05681-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Against a Dark Backgroundby Iain M. BanksISBN 0553292250 (0-553-29225-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Assistantby Bernard MalamudISBN 0606037187 (0-606-03718-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Awakeningby Kate ChopinISBN 055321330X (0-553-21330-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses The Awakening , Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and "iridescent." This edition of The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin. "This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art." -- From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson. [via]
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Awayby Jane UrquhartISBN 0670855049 (0-670-85504-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Away'Book summary:An evocative chronicle of the lives, loves, and passions of four generations of women begins near Lake Ontario as Esther O'Malley Robertson reminisces about her family's past, from its origin in Ireland where her great-grandmother had a demon lover. 15,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
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Black and Blueby Anna QuindlenISBN 0613123123 (0-613-12312-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black and Blue'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1998: "The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old," begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. "Frannie, Frannie, Fran"--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen appliances--was a young, energetic nursing student when she met her husband-to-be at a local Brooklyn bar. She was instantly captivated by his dark, brooding looks and magnetic personality, but her fascination soon solidified into a marital prison sentence of incessant abuse and the destruction of her own identity. After an especially horrific beating and rape, Fran realizes that the next attack could be the last. Fearing her son would be left alone with Bobby, she escapes one morning with her child. Fran's salvation comes in the form of Patty Bancroft and Co., a relocation agency for abused women that touts better service than the witness protection program. Armed only with a phone number, a few hundred dollars, and the help of several anonymous volunteers, Fran begins a new life. The agency relocates her to Florida, where she becomes Beth Crenshaw, a recently divorced home-care assistant from Delaware. Fran and her son adapt, meeting challenges with unexpected resilience and resolve until their past returns to haunt them. Quindlen renders the intricacies of spousal abuse with eerie accuracy, taking the reader deep within the realm of dysfunctional human ties. However, her vivid descriptions of abuse, emotional disintegration, and acute loneliness at times numb the reader with their realism. [via]
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Black Dogsby Ian McEwanISBN 0553373676 (0-553-37367-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Book and the Brotherhoodby Iris MurdochISBN 0670819123 (0-670-81912-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Book of Skullsby Robert SilverbergISBN 0553230573 (0-553-23057-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Skulls'Book summary:Seeking the immortality promised in an ancient manuscript, The Book of Skulls, four friends, college roommates, go on a spring break trip to Arizona: Eli, the scholar, who found and translated the book; Timothy, scion of an American dynasty, born and bred to lead; Ned, poet and cynic; and Oliver, the brilliant farm boy obsessed with death.
Somewhere in the desert lies the House of Skulls, where a mystic brotherhood guards the secret of eternal life. There, the four aspirants will present themselvesand a horrific price will be demanded.
For immortality requires sacrifice. Two victims to balance two survivors. One by suicide, one by murder.
Now, beneath the gaze of grinning skulls, the terror begins. . . .
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The Borrowersby Mary Norton, Joe Krush, Beth KrushISBN 0613635817 (0-613-63581-7)
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The Bourne Ultimatumby Robert LudlumISBN 0553287737 (0-553-28773-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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A Certain Justiceby P. D. JamesISBN 0571191649 (0-571-19164-9)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Christineby Stephen KingISBN 0670220264 (0-670-22026-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The City and the Starsby Arthur Charles ClarkeISBN 0553288539 (0-553-28853-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Clouds of Witness: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteryby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0575003561 (0-575-00356-1)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Complete Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553609416 (0-553-60941-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Courtship of Princess Leiaby Dave WolvertonISBN 0553089285 (0-553-08928-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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The Curse of Chalionby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0606297820 (0-606-29782-0)
Hardcover, Tandem Library Books
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Death in Venice and Other Storiesby Thomas MannISBN 0553213334 (0-553-21333-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death in Venice and Other Stories'Book summary:Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, "Death in Venice" tells the story of Gustave Aschenbach, an aging writer who visits Venice. In the decaying city, which is besieged by a cholera epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity."
"Tonio Kroger" deals with a homoerotic passion that is transmuted into heterosexual love, the relation between the artist and the confidence man, and the dichotomy between "art" and "life". In "Tristan", Mann explores death and eros, and in "Felix Krull" (a fragment of what would become Mann's last novel), the notion of the artist as con man is taken up directly. "Disorder and Early Sorrow", "A Man and His Dog", "The Blood of the Walsungs", and "Mario and the Magician", Mann's chilling parable of fascism, complete this collection. [via]More editions of Death in Venice and Other Stories:
Death in Venice and Other Talesby Joachim Neugroschel, Thomas MannISBN 0670874248 (0-670-87424-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dissolutionby C. J. SansomISBN 0670032034 (0-670-03203-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dissolution'Book summary:It is the winter of 1537 and England is divided into those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the King and the newly established Church of England. Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's feared vicar-general, crusades against the old Church with savage new laws, rigged trials, and a vast network of informers. Queen Anne Boleyn has been beheaded and monasteries are being dissolved-their treasures pillaged and their lands eyed greedily by courtiers and country gentry. But having put down one people's rebellion, Cromwell fears another might topple the realm. So, when one of his commissioners is murdered in the monastery at Scarnsea on the south coast of England, he enlists his fellow reformer, Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer renowned as "the sharpest hunchback in the courts of England," to head the inquiry.
When Shardlake and his young clerk and protégé, Mark Poer, arrive at Scarnsea, the two are greeted with thinly veiled hostility and suspicion as their investigation quickly uncovers evidence of sexual misconduct, embezzlement, and treason. While the community of brothers is revealed to be far less pious than they would seem, Shardlake himself is shocked to discover truths about Cromwell that undermine his own beliefs and threaten to cost him his faith, and even his life. But when a novice is poisoned and a year-old corpse dredged up from a nearby pond, Shardlake must act quickly to prevent the killer from murdering again
Exciting and elegant, Dissolution is a riveting historical novel and a brilliant debut by a writer who is sure to attract fans of Iain Pears, Ellis Peters, and Umberto Eco. [via]More editions of Dissolution:
Douglas Adams' Starship Titanicby Terry Jones, Douglas AdamsISBN 0609601032 (0-609-60103-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Earthby David BrinISBN 055329024X (0-553-29024-X)
Softcover, Spectra
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth'Book summary:The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War--an epic novel set fifty years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world. "One hell of a novel . . . has what sci-fi readers want these days; intelligence, action, and an epic scale".--Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Line drawings. [via]
The Einstein Intersectionby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 055320310X (0-553-20310-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Emily Climbsby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553262149 (0-553-26214-9)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily Climbs'Book summary:Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if she promises to stop writng! All the same, this is the first step in Emily's climb to success. Once in town, Emily's activities set the Shrewsbury gossips buzzing. But Emily and her friends are confident -- Ilse's a born actress, Teddy's set to be a great artist, and roguish Perry has the makings of a brilliant lawyer. When Emily has her poems published and writes for the town newspaper, success seems to be on its way -- and with it the first whispers of romance. Then Emily is offered a fabulous opportunity, and she must decide if she wants to change her life forever. [via]
The Far Pavilionsby M. M. KayeISBN 0553277359 (0-553-27735-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Fountains of Paradiseby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0553288199 (0-553-28819-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fountains of Paradise'Book summary:In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometers high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean. "An amazing list genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF." - Iain M. Banks "Delightfully written and at times almost unbearably exciting." - Kingsley Amis "His enthusiasm is combined with his considerable literary and myth-making skills ... the result is something special." - Sunday Telegraph "A superbly crafted novel that may be his best." - Tribune [via]
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A Friend of the Earthby T. C. BoyleISBN 0670891770 (0-670-89177-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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From a Buick 8by Stephen KingISBN 0613707397 (0-613-70739-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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G.by John BergerISBN 0670333417 (0-670-33341-7)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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Gathering Blueby Lois LowryISBN 0553494783 (0-553-49478-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gathering Blue'Book summary:Lois Lowry's magnificent novel of the distant future, The Giver, is set in a highly technical and emotionally repressed society. This eagerly awaited companion volume, by contrast, takes place in a village with only the most rudimentary technology, where anger, greed, envy, and casual cruelty make ordinary people's lives short and brutish. This society, like the one portrayed in The Giver, is controlled by merciless authorities with their own complex agendas and secrets. And at the center of both stories there is a young person who is given the responsibility of preserving the memory of the culture--and who finds the vision to transform it.
Kira, newly orphaned and lame from birth, is taken from the turmoil of the village to live in the grand Council Edifice because of her skill at embroidery. There she is given the task of restoring the historical pictures sewn on the robe worn at the annual Ruin Song Gathering, a solemn day-long performance of the story of their world's past. Down the hall lives Thomas the Carver, a young boy who works on the intricate symbols carved on the Singer's staff, and a tiny girl who is being trained as the next Singer. Over the three artists hovers the menace of authority, seemingly kind but suffocating to their creativity, and the dark secret at the heart of the Ruin Song.
With the help of a cheerful waif called Matt and his little dog, Kira at last finds the way to the plant that will allow her to create the missing color--blue--and, symbolically, to find the courage to shape the future by following her art wherever it may lead. With astonishing originality, Lowry has again created a vivid and unforgettable setting for this thrilling story that raises profound questions about the mystery of art, the importance of memory, and the centrality of love. (Ages 10 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Goodbye Jumboby Louie Anderson, Robert De MichiellISBN 0670837660 (0-670-83766-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goodbye Jumbo'Book summary:The latest self-help guide from the comedian and author of Dear Dad chronicles his struggle to lose weight and gain self-esteem in the face of a lifetime of negative conditioning. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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Greenwitchby Susan CooperISBN 0606007008 (0-606-00700-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greenwitch'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jane's invitation to witness the making of the Greenwitch begins a series of sinister events in which she and her two brothers help the Old Ones recover the grail stolen by the Dark. [via]
Guardians of the Westby David EddingsISBN 0606012451 (0-606-01245-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Honourable Schoolboyby John Le CarréISBN 0553274376 (0-553-27437-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Horse Heavenby Jane SmileyISBN 0571205607 (0-571-20560-7)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsby Maya AngelouISBN 0553279378 (0-553-27937-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'Book summary:In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." [via]
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The Impressionistby Hari KunzruISBN 052594642X (0-525-94642-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Impressionist'Book summary:The antihero of The Impressionist, Hari Kunzru's daringly ambitious first novel, is half English and half Indian. In the Raj of the 1920s, the racial and social divides are enormous, but Pran Nath is able to bridge them, crossing from one side to another in a series of reinventions of his own personality. He begins as the spoiled child of an Indian lawyer, but circumstances thrust him out of his pampered adolescence into the teeming and dangerous life of the streets. After a bewildering period as one of the pawns in Machiavellian political and sexual scheming in the decadent court of a minor Maharajah, he escapes to Bombay. There he is taken up by a half-demented Scottish missionary and his wife, but Pran Nath prefers to slope off to the city's red-light district whenever he can. During a time of riot and bloodshed, the chance of re-creating himself as an English schoolboy destined for public school and Oxford presents itself, and he takes it. But this is not his final transformation.
In certain ways Kunzru is almost too ambitious. There is so much crammed onto the pages of The Impressionist that some of it, almost inevitably, doesn't work as well as it might. However, as the shapeshifting Pran Nath moves from one identity to another, knockabout farce mixes with satire, social comedy with parody. And beneath the comic exuberance and linguistic invention, there is an intelligent and occasionally moving examination of notions of self, identity, and what it means to belong to a class or society. --Nick Rennison, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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In the Time of the Butterfliesby Julia AlvarezISBN 0613023897 (0-613-02389-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Innocentby Ian McEwanISBN 0553550004 (0-553-55000-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Innocent'Book summary:The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.
Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life -- and to lose his unwanted innocence.
The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening -- a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed. [via]
Islands in the Streamby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0553250078 (0-553-25007-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Jo's Boysby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0553214497 (0-553-21449-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jo's Boys'Book summary:Best known for the novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, surprising, and bittersweet conclusion in Jos Boys. Beginning ten years after Little Men, Jos Boys revisits Plumfield, the New England school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo remains at the center of the tale, surrounded by her boysincluding rebellious Dan, sailor Emil, and promising musician Natas they experience shipwreck and storm, disappointment and even murder.
Popular for over a century, Alcotts series still holds universal appeal with its powerful and affectionate depiction of familythe haven where the prodigal can always return, adversity is shared, and our dreams of being cherished, despite our flaws, come true. In this edition of Jos Boys, readers once again experience a treasured classic by one of Americas best-loved writers. [via] 
The King of Elfland's Daughterby Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett DunsanyISBN 0613218639 (0-613-21863-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Kristin Lavransdatterby Sigrid UndsetISBN 0553240366 (0-553-24036-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Lady and the Unicornby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0525947671 (0-525-94767-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady and the Unicorn'Book summary:If you think you wouldn't raise your skirts for a rakish legend about the purifying powers of a unicorn's horn, then maybe you aren't a 15th-century serving girl under the sway of a velvet-tongued court painter of ill repute. In keeping with her bestselling Girl with a Pearl Earring, and its Edwardian-era follow-up, Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier's tale of artistic creation and late-medieval amours, The Lady and the Unicorn is a subtle study in social power, and the conflicts between love and duty. Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous Lady and the Unicorn cycle, now in Paris's Musee National du Moyen-Age Thermes de Cluny). While Nicolas is measuring the walls, he meets a beautiful girl who turns out to be Jean Le Viste's daughter. Their passion is impossible for their world--so forbidden, given their class differences, that its only avenue of expression turns out to be those magnificent tapestries. The historical evidence on which this story is based is slight enough to allow the full play of Chevalier's imagination in this cleverly woven tale. --Regina Marler [via]
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Lady of Avalonby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0670857831 (0-670-85783-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Land of Ozby L. Frank Baum, John R. NeillISBN 0528871889 (0-528-87188-9)
Softcover, Rand McNally
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The Last Manby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Marge PiercyISBN 0553214365 (0-553-21436-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Lightby M. John HarrisonISBN 0553382950 (0-553-38295-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Lions Of Al-rassanby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 067085896X (0-670-85896-X)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lions Of Al-rassan'Book summary:Set in a medieval world suggestive of Moorish Spain (but never to be confused with the real thing), Guy Gavriel Kay's The Lions of Al-Rassan draws us into the historical muddle that is Al-Rassan, a land made up of city states ruled by Asharite kings, and the home of three distinctive religious faiths--Asharite, Jaddite, and Kindath. Kay focuses his story on two rivals: Rodrigo Belmonte, captain of the finest cavalry company in the Jaddite kingdoms, and Ammar ibn Khairan, poet, assassin, and former adviser to the self-styled Lion of Al-Rassan, King Amalik of Cartada. When Amalik betrays Ammar, Ammar ups the odds by joining forces with the king's son and successor, who exiles Ammar from Cartada.
The exiled adviser, in turn, travels to the court of King Badir of Ragosa, where he finds an instant connection with Rodrigo, a connection that is at the very heart of Kay's novel. Rodrigo and Ammar are also drawn together by Jehane bet Ishak, a Kindath physician who is friend, companion, healer, and lover to each of the two men at one time or another. The Lions of Al-Rassan is a big, juicy fantasy novel of the kind that we've come to expect from Kay, drawing brilliantly on history, but always on Kay's own uniquely imaginative terms. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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The Man in the Iron Maskby Alexandre DumasISBN 0603030211 (0-603-03021-1)
Hardcover, Dean & Son
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Manhattan Transferby John DOS PassosISBN 0618381864 (0-618-38186-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manhattan Transfer'Book summary:Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles the lives of characters struggling to become a part of modernity before they are destroyed by it.[via]
More than seventy-five years after its first publication, Manhattan Transfer still stands as "a novel of the very first importance" (Sinclair Lewis). It is a masterpeice of modern fiction and a lasting tribute to the dual-edged nature of the American dream.More editions of Manhattan Transfer:
The Mask of Apolloby Mary RenaultISBN 0553242806 (0-553-24280-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Matildaby Roald DahlISBN 0606104844 (0-606-10484-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matilda'Book summary:Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Mrs. ("The") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.
She warms up with some practical jokes aimed at her hapless parents, but the true test comes when she rallies in defense of her teacher, the sweet Miss Honey, against the diabolical Trunchbull. There is never any doubt that Matilda will carry the day. Even so, this wonderful story is far from predictable--the big surprise comes when Matilda discovers a new, mysterious facet of her mental dexterity. Roald Dahl, while keeping the plot moving imaginatively, also has an unerring ear for emotional truth. The reader cares about Matilda because in addition to all her other gifts, she has real feelings. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Matildaby Quentin Blake, Roald DahlISBN 0670824399 (0-670-82439-9)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matilda'Book summary:Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Mrs. ("The") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.
She warms up with some practical jokes aimed at her hapless parents, but the true test comes when she rallies in defense of her teacher, the sweet Miss Honey, against the diabolical Trunchbull. There is never any doubt that Matilda will carry the day. Even so, this wonderful story is far from predictable--the big surprise comes when Matilda discovers a new, mysterious facet of her mental dexterity. Roald Dahl, while keeping the plot moving imaginatively, also has an unerring ear for emotional truth. The reader cares about Matilda because in addition to all her other gifts, she has real feelings. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Murder in Retrospectby Agatha ChristieISBN 0553350382 (0-553-35038-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder in Retrospect'Book summary:Take one dead lothario; add his jealous wife accused of his murder; toss in a devoted daughter who wants to clear her mother's name, and you get one of the greatest challenges of Hercule Poirot's career. [via]
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Murther & Walking Spiritsby Robertson DaviesISBN 0670841897 (0-670-84189-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Mystic Riverby Dennis LehaneISBN 0593044762 (0-593-04476-2)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mystic River'Book summary:Dennis Lehane's Mystic River takes the material of the ordinary police procedural thriller and shapes it into heart-break. As boys, Jimmy, Dave and Sean were friends, until one day Dave was abducted by two men pretending to be cops, and was never quite the same again. As men, Dave is a damaged fantasist, safe in a quietly happy marriage; Jimmy a retired criminal making a good respectable living for the sake of his children; and Sean is the homicide cop who finds himself investigating the murder of Jimmy's eldest daughter Katie. This is not just a book about what becomes of the children who grow into adults; it is about what happens to a neighbourhood when the rules change, when an old established working-class district acquires gentrified espresso bars at one end and the beats of the city's most dangerous whores at the other. It is also a book about the tragedy of all sudden violent deaths; we never forget our sense of Katie as she was, dancing on the last night of her life--she is never just the corpse here, never just the object of mourning and investigation. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Night Trainby Martin AmisISBN 0609601288 (0-609-60128-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Over Sea, Under Stoneby Susan CooperISBN 0613300823 (0-613-30082-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Over Sea, Under Stone'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur. The children become entrapped in the eternal battle between the forces of the Light and [via]
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Parable of the Talentsby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0606218548 (0-606-21854-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Pawn of Prophecy: The Belgariad Book 1by David EddingsISBN 0606306935 (0-606-30693-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Poor Mouthby Flann O'BrienISBN 0670564419 (0-670-56441-9)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Private Partsby Howard SternISBN 0671009443 (0-671-00944-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Private Parts'Book summary:The #1 bestseller and fastest selling autobiography of all time, "Private Parts, " will be released on March 14 as a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures and Rysher Entertainment. This is the event Stern's millions of fans have been waiting for. Yes, The King of All Media is back, letting it all hang out in his outrageous new movie. And here is the book that tracks the odyssey. In "Private Parts" Stern spills his life story, from his dysfunctional beginnings to his unlikely, turbulent rise to super stardom. In the process, he shares his views on everything from foreign policy to fatherhood and Madonna to masturbation, with lots of lesbians in between. No matter whose side you're on -- Cher's "I hate him. He's just a creep, " or Stallone's "I love him. I really love him" -- Stern's brutally frank "Don't ask, I'll tell" tome spares no group or institution.
Studded throughout with Howard's favorite photos, pickings from the Hate-Mailbag and illustrations, this is the original, in-your-face manifesto complete with movie art that will once again have fans storming the bookstores...and everyone else running for cover. [via]
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Rainbow Valleyby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0553269216 (0-553-26921-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Road to Wellvilleby T. C. BoyleISBN 0670843342 (0-670-84334-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Secret Adversaryby Agatha ChristieISBN 055326477X (0-553-26477-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Adversary'Book summary:Agatha Christie's first Tommy and Tuppence audiobook is a thrill-packed novel of international intrigue and murder with all the Christie hallmarks of suspense and ingenuity. Tommy and Tuppence, two young people short of money and restless for excitement, embark on a daring business scheme - Young Adventurers Ltd. Their advertisement says they are 'willing to do anything, go anywhere'. But their first assignment, for the sinister Mr Whittington, plunges them into more danger than they ever imagined! Read by Hugh Fraser. [via]
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Seventh Sonby Orson Scott CardISBN 0613130340 (0-613-13034-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seventh Son'Book summary:From the author of Enders Game, an unforgettable story about young Alvin Maker: the seventh son of a seventh son. Born into an alternative frontier America where life is hard and folk magic is real, Alvin is gifted with the power. He must learn to use his gift wisely. But dark forces are arrayed against Alvin, and only a young girl with second sight can protect him.[via]More editions of Seventh Son:
Slow Manby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0670034592 (0-670-03459-2)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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Star Warsby Dave WolvertonISBN 0553569376 (0-553-56937-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Tax Inspectorby Peter CareyISBN 0571162975 (0-571-16297-5)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Third Manby Graham Greene, Carol ReedISBN 0571126340 (0-571-12634-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Tiganaby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0670833673 (0-670-83367-3)
Hardcover, Viking
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Timbuktu: A Novelby Paul AusterISBN 0571203299 (0-571-20329-9)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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An Unsuitable Job for a Womanby P. D. JamesISBN 0571101615 (0-571-10161-5)
Hardcover, Faber
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The Valley of the Dollsby Jacqueline SusannISBN 0553242865 (0-553-24286-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Veniss Undergroundby Jeff VandermeerISBN 0553383566 (0-553-38356-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Veniss Underground'Book summary:In his debut novel, literary alchemist Jeff VanderMeer takes us on an unforgettable journey, a triumph of the imagination that reveals the magical and mysterious city of Veniss through three intertwined voices. First, Nicholas, a would-be Living Artist, seeks to escape his demons in the shadowy undergroundbut in doing so makes a deal with the devil himself. In her fevered search for him, his twin sister, Nicola, spins her own unusual and hypnotic tale as she discovers the hidden secrets of the city. And finally, haunted by Nicolas sudden, mysterious disappearance and gripped by despair, Shadrach, Nicolas lover, embarks on a mythic journey to the nightmarish levels deep beneath the surface of the city to bring his love back to light. There he will find wonders beyond imagining&and horrors greater than the heart can bear.
By turns beautiful, horrifying, delicate, and powerful, Veniss Underground explores the limits of love, memory, and obsession in a landscape that defies the boundaries of the imagination. This special edition includes the short stories The Sea, Mendeho, and Moonlight ; Detectives and Cadavers ; and A Heart for Lucretia and the novella Balzacs War, offering a complete tour of the fantastic world of Veniss. [via]More editions of Veniss Underground:
The Wanting Seedby Anthony BurgessISBN 0600205991 (0-600-20599-1)
Hardcover, Hamlyn Pub. Group
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What a Carve Up!by Jonathan CoeISBN 0670853631 (0-670-85363-1)
Softcover, Viking
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Poirot En Egipto/Death on the Nileby Agatha ChristieISBN 0613636414 (0-613-63641-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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