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1919by John DOS PassosISBN 0618056823 (0-618-05682-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: '1919'Book summary:With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America" (Forum), lauded on publication of the first volume not only for its scope, but also for its groundbreaking style. Again, employing a host of experimental devices that would inspire a whole new generation of writers to follow, Dos Passos captures the many textures, flavors, and background noises of modern life with a cinematic touch and unparalleled nerve.[via]
1919 opens to find America and the world at war, and Dos Passos's characters, many of whom we met in the first volume, are thrown into the snarl. We follow the daughter of a Chicago minister, a wide-eyed Texas girl, a young poet, a radical Jew, and we glimpse Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Unknown Soldier.More editions of 1919:
1st to Dieby James PattersonISBN 0606277749 (0-606-27774-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: '1st to Die'Book summary:The Women's Murder Club pits four San Francisco women professionals against a serial killer who's stalking and murdering newlyweds in bestselling author James Patterson's newest thriller. Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector who's just gotten some very bad news. She deals with it by immersing herself in her newest case and soliciting the personal as well as professional support of her closest friend, who happens to be the city's medical examiner. The two women, along with an ambitious and sympathetic reporter and an assistant DA, form an unlikely alliance, pooling their information and bypassing the chain of command in an engaging, suspenseful story whose gruesome setup is vintage Patterson.
"What is the worst thing anyone has ever done?" the killer muses to himself early in the narrative. "Am I capable of doing it? Do I have what it takes?" Answering his own question, he embarks on a murderous spree that takes him from the bridal suite in a Nob Hill hotel to a honeymoon destination in the Napa Valley and thence to a wedding reception at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. Dispatching his victims on the happiest day of their lives, he purposefully leaves enough clues for his distaff trackers to discover his identity and put him behind bars. But just when the women think they've got the case all wrapped up, the killer turns the tables on them in a bloody denouement that even the most discerning reader won't see coming. Patterson, author of the popular Alex Cross mysteries, promises future adventures for the Women's Murder Club, which may give him an opportunity to develop his heroines' characters more completely and win new fans among those who prefer their detectives in high heels and lipstick. --Jane Adams [via]
3001by Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 060618984X (0-606-18984-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Across Five Aprilsby Irene HuntISBN 0613953908 (0-613-95390-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Across Five Aprils'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Each succeeding spring brings a young Illinois boy closer to manhood as he faces the harsh realities of the American Civil War. [via]
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Across the Nightingale Floorby Lian HearnISBN 0606280049 (0-606-28004-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0595014682 (0-595-01468-2)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:This classic selection brings together twelve of the original stories serialized in the Strand Magazine in the early 1890s. Thrilling adventures such as "A Scandal in Bohemia" catapulted the keen-witted Holmes to fame and continue to make him the most beloved sleuth of all time. [via]
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All the Weyrs of Pernby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0606283757 (0-606-28375-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Another City, Not My Ownby Dominick DunneISBN 0609601008 (0-609-60100-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitzby Rohinton MistryISBN 057120421X (0-571-20421-X)
Softcover, Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz'Book summary:Set during the 1990s in an overcrowded and politically corrupt Bombay, Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters depicts a family being torn apart by lies, love, and its unresolved demons of the past. Nariman Vakeel is an aging patriarch whose advancing Parkinson's disease and its related complications threaten to destroy his large Parsi family. When Nariman breaks his ankle and becomes bedridden, his two stepchildren turn his care over to their half-sister, Roxanne, who lives in a two-room flat with her husband and two sons. What follows is each character's reaction to this situation, from Roxanne's husband's struggle to provide for his family without neglecting his conscience to their sons' coming of age in an era of uncertainty. Expertly interspersed between these dilemmas are Nariman's tortured remembrances of a forbidden love and its inescapable consequences ("no matter where you go in the world, there is only one story: of youth, and loss, and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different").
Family Matters is a compelling, emotional, and persuasive testimony to the importance of memories in every family's history. In a poetic style rich with detail, Mistry creates a world where fate dances with free will, and the results are often more familiar than anyone would ever care to admit. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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Assassin's Apprenticeby Robin HobbISBN 055357339X (0-553-57339-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Assassin's Apprentice'Book summary:As Fitz, an outcast and the bastard son of Prince Chivalry, grows to manhood, a legacy of magical skill and other mysterious talents propels him into the role of protector of the kingdom, if his initial perilous mission does not destroy him first. A first novel. [via]
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Ballad of the Sad Cafeby Carson McCullersISBN 0618565868 (0-618-56586-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ballad of the Sad Cafe'Book summary:A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullerss best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Café. A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose café serves as the towns gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes Wunderkind, McCullerss first published story written when she was only seventeen about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist. Newly reset and available for the first time in a handsome trade paperback edition, The Ballad of the Sad Café is a brilliant study of love and longing from one of the Souths finest writers.[via] 
Beekeeper's Apprenticeby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553381520 (0-553-38152-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beekeeper's Apprentice'Book summary:In 1915, long since retired from his observations of criminal humanity, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. Never did he think to meet an intellect to match his ownuntil his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a very modern fifteen-year-old whose mental acuity is equaled only by her audacity, tenacity, and penchant for trousers and cloth caps.
Under Holmess tutelage, Russell hones her talent for deduction, disguises, and danger: in the chilling case of a landowners mysterious fever and in a kidnapping in the wilds of Wales. But her ultimate challenge is yet to come. Soon the two sleuths are on the trail of a murderer whose machinations scatter meaningless clues&but whose objective is quite unequivocal: to end Russell and Holmess partnershipand their lives. [via]
The Beekeeper's Apprentice : Or, on the Segregation of the Queenby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553571656 (0-553-57165-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Billy Budd, SailorISBN 0582342996 (0-582-34299-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Billy Budd, Sailorby Herman Melville, Cyrus R. PatellISBN 0671028332 (0-671-02833-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd, Sailor'Book summary:Billy Budd, Sailor has been called the best short novel ever written. In his brilliantly condensed narrative prose, Herman Melville fashions a legal parable in which reason and intellect prove incapable of preserving innocence in the face of evil. For all those who feel themselves threatened by a hostile and inflexible environment, there is special significance in this haunting story of a handsome sailor who becomes a victim of man's intransigence.
Since its posthumous publication in 1924, Billy Budd has become one of the acknowledged masterpieces of American literature. [via]
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Blue Marsby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553573357 (0-553-57335-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Mars'Book summary:The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge, initiating a possible interplanetary conflict, as well as political strife between the Reds, who wish to preserve the planet in its desert state, and the Green "terraformers". The ultimate fate of Earth, as well as the possibility of new explorations into the solar system, stand in the balance. [via]
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Bug Jack Barronby Norman SpinradISBN 0553297953 (0-553-29795-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Carpenter's Gothicby William GaddisISBN 0670697931 (0-670-69793-1)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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City Of The Beastsby Isabel AllendeISBN 0606306749 (0-606-30674-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City Of The Beasts'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When 15-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians. [via]
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Claw of the Conciliatorby Gene WolfeISBN 0671474251 (0-671-47425-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Claw of the Conciliator'Book summary:"Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wonderful ways. Severian is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and now journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est." [via]
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The Code of the Woostersby P.G. WodehouseISBN 067120307X (0-671-20307-X)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Code of the Woosters'Book summary:A Jeeves and Wooster novel When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn't expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there - nor to be instructed by her to steal some silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the baleful nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Bertie's tasks. He has to restore true love to both Madeline and Gussie and to the Revd 'Stinker' Pinker and Stiffy Byng - and confound the insane ambitions of would-be Dictator Roderick Spode and his Black Shorts. It's a situation that only Jeeves can unravel. Writing at the very height of his powers, in The Code of the Woosters, P.G. Wodehouse delivers what might be the most delightfully funny book ever committed to paper. [via]
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Darkness at Sethanonby Raymond E. FeistISBN 0613292200 (0-613-29220-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkness at Sethanon'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The final battle between order and chaos is about to begin in the city of Sethanon. Pug, the master magician, must undertake a perilous quest to the dawn of time to grapple with an ancient enemy for the fate of a thousand worlds. [via]
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Death Is a Lonely Businessby Ray BradburyISBN 0553354620 (0-553-35462-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Door into Summerby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0613134672 (0-613-13467-2)
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Dragonsingerby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0606015019 (0-606-01501-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Easy to Killby Agatha ChristieISBN 0553350552 (0-553-35055-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Ella Enchantedby Gail Carson LevineISBN 0613076915 (0-613-07691-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ella Enchanted'Book summary:Every child longs for the day when he or she will be free from meddling parents and bossy grownups. For young Ella, the heroine of Gail Carson Levine's Newbury Honor-winning debut novel, this is more than a fanciful wish; it could be a matter of life or death. Placed under the spell of a blundering fairy, she has no choice but to go through life obeying each and every order--no matter what the consequences may be. "If you commanded me to cut off my own head, I'd have to do it."
Eden Riegel (As the World Turns, Les Miserables) uses her youthful, energetic voice to lead the listener into a familiar world of fairy godmothers, wicked stepsisters, and handsome princes. But this imaginative retelling of the Cinderella story comes with a welcome twist. Instead of a demure heroine patiently awaiting a prince who will carry her off, this Ella is a feisty ball of fire with the courage and ambition to take matters into her own hands.
Riegel narrates in a youthful, energetic tone that is perfectly suited to Ella's character. Her voice adds charm and immediacy to a wonderful story already rich with excitement, adventure, romance, and mystery. (Running time: 5.5 hours, 4 cassettes) --George Laney [via]
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Emilyby L. M. MontgomeryISBN 0553333089 (0-553-33308-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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Enigmaby Robert HarrisISBN 0613022181 (0-613-02218-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enigma'Book summary:A gripping World War II mystery novel with a cryptographic twist, Enigma's hero is Tom Jericho, a brilliant British mathematician working as a member of the team struggling to crack the Nazi Enigma code. Jericho's own struggles include nerve-wracking mental labor, the mysterious disappearance of a former girlfriend, the suspicions of his co-workers within the paranoid high-security project, and the certainty that someone close to him, perhaps the missing girl, is a Nazi spy. The plot is pure fiction but the historical background, Alan Turing's famous wartime computing project that cracked the German U-boat communications code, is real and accurately portrayed. Enigma is convincingly plotted, forcefully written, and filled with well drawn characters; in short, it's everything a good technomystery should be. [via]
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F Is for Fugitiveby Sue GraftonISBN 0553284789 (0-553-28478-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'F Is for Fugitive'Book summary:Everyone knew the kind of girl Jean Timberlake was -- ask anybody in the sleepy surf town of Floral Beach and they'd say Jean was wild, looking for trouble. But she certainly wasn't looking for murder. She was found dead on the beach seventeen years ago, and a rowdy ex-boyfriend named Bailey Fowler was convicted of her murder and imprisoned -- and then Bailey escaped. Now private eye Kinsey Millhone steps into a case that should have never been closed, in a town where there's no such thing as a private investigation. [via]
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A Fairly Honourable Defeatby Iris MurdochISBN 0670305332 (0-670-30533-2)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Feersum Endjinnby Iain M. BanksISBN 0553374591 (0-553-37459-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feersum Endjinn'Book summary:In a future where the ancients have long since departed Earth for the stars, those left behind live complacent lives filled with technological marvels they no longer understand. Then a cosmic threat known as the Encroachment begins a devastating ice age on Earth, and it sets in motion a series of events that will bring together a cast of original characters who must struggle through war, political intrigues and age-old mysteries to save the world. (B 4worned, 1 oph Banx' carrokters theenx en funetic inglish, which makes for some tough reading but also some innovative prose.) [via]
Foeby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0670813982 (0-670-81398-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Forestby Edward RutherfurdISBN 0609603825 (0-609-60382-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forest'Book summary:With such novels as Sarum and Russka, Edward Rutherfurd has laid claim to James Michener's longtime turf: the immensely researched, meticulously detailed epic of place, in which the characters tend to play second fiddle to the setting. The Forest is the most ambitious example yet of Rutherfurd's art. This time the location is that bosky patch of English real estate known as the New Forest. Other writers have tackled the area before. But The Forest is surely the definitive chronicle, with all the local stories, legends, and apocrypha woven into an irresistible narrative--think of Thomas Hardy's power and drama filtered through a very modern sensibility.
Opening with the assassination of King William II in 1099, the book covers nearly a millennium's worth of history. Rutherfurd creates generation after generation of adroitly realized characters, the best of whom defy our generic expectations: the canny Brother Adam, for example, is that rarest of literary creatures, a virtuous man who doesn't end up being simply bland and anodyne. Rutherfurd may be at his best when dealing with big-canvas events like the bloody Monmouth Rebellion of 1685. But he's no slouch at detailing more microcosmic conflicts, like this head-butting contest between two buck deer:
Her buck had hit firmer ground and his feet suddenly got a purchase on the grass. His hindquarters shivering, he dug in. She saw the shoulders rise and his neck bear down. And now the interloper was slipping on the wet leaves. Slowly, cautiously, their antlers locked, the two straining bucks began to turn. Now they were both on grass. Suddenly the interloper disengaged. He gave his head a twist. The jagged spike was aiming at the buck's eye.
Bestial behavior? Perhaps. Yet the level of human folly and brutality scattered throughout The Forest makes the foregoing passage resemble an outtake from Bambi--and gives this sylvan saga a very memorable edge. --Barry Forshaw [via]More editions of The Forest:
A Fringe of Leavesby Patrick WhiteISBN 0670330736 (0-670-33073-6)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishingby Melissa BankISBN 067088300X (0-670-88300-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing'Book summary:Jane Rosenal, the narrator of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is wise beyond her years. Not that that's saying much--since none of her elders, with the exception of her father, is particularly wise. At the age of 14, Jane watches her brother and his new girlfriend, searching for clues for how to fall in love, but by the end of the summer she's trying to figure out how not to fail in love. At twice that age, Jane quickly internalizes How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, even though that retro manual is ruining her chances at happiness. In the intervening years, Melissa Bank's heroine struggles at love and work. The former often seems indistinguishable from the latter, and her experiences in book publishing inspire little in the way of affection. As Jane announces in "The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine": "I'd been a rising star at H----- until Mimi Howlett, the new executive editor, decided I was just the lights of an airplane."
Bank's first collection has a beautiful, true arc, and all the sophistication and control her heroine could ever desire. In "The Floating House," Jane and her boyfriend, Jamie, visit his ex-girlfriend in St. Croix, and right from the start she can't stop mimicking her beautiful competitor, in a notably idiotic fashion. "I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive," she realizes--one of several thousand of Bank's ruefully funny phrases. But even as Jane clowns around, desperately trying to keep up appearances, she is so hyperaware it hurts. Again and again, the author explores the dichotomy between life as it happens and the rehearsed anecdote, the preferred outcome. In The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, even suburban quiet has "nothing to do with peace." Bank's much-anticipated debut merits all its buzz and, more to the point, transcends it. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Guermantes Wayby Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, Mark TreharneISBN 0670033170 (0-670-03317-0)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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Hammer of Edenby Ken FollettISBN 0613216679 (0-613-21667-9)
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Hatchetby Gary PaulsenISBN 0590389246 (0-590-38924-6)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hatchet'Book summary:A complete guide to teaching Hatchet. Includes an author biography, background information, summaries, thought-provoking discussion questions, as well as creative, cross-curricular activities and reproducibles that motivate students. [via]
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Herman Melville's Billy Buddby MelvilleISBN 067100686X (0-671-00686-X)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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An Imaginative Experienceby Mary WesleyISBN 0593035771 (0-593-03577-1)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Julie of the Wolvesby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0590134701 (0-590-13470-1)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julie of the Wolves'Book summary:Winner of the Newbery MedalLost on the TundraTo her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. When the village is no longer safe for her, Miyax runs away. But she soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass to guide her.Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, and she grows to love them as though they were family. With their help, and drawing on her father's teachings, Miyax struggles day by clay to survive. But the time comes when she must leave the wilderness and choose between the old ways and the new. Which will she choose? For she is not Miyax of the Eskimos - but Julie of the Wolves.Faced with the prospect of a disagreeable arranged marriage or a journey across the barren Alaskan tundra, 13-year-old Miyax chooses the tundra. She finds herself caught between the traditional Eskimo ways and the modern ways of the whites. Miyax, or Julie as her pen pal Amy calls her, sets out alone to visit Amy in San Francisco, a world far away from Eskimo culture and the frozen land of Alaska.During her long and arduous journey, Miyax comes to appreciate the value of her Eskimo heritage, learns about herself, and wins the friendship of a pack of wolves. After learning the language of the wolves and slowly earning their trust, Julie becomes a member of the pack.Since its first publication, Julie of The Wolves, winner of the 1973 Newbery Medal, has found its way into the hearts of millions of readers. [via]
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Kane & Abelby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 067125121X (0-671-25121-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kane & Abel'Book summary:They had only one thing in common...William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant - two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune. The marvellous story, spanning 60 years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save - and finally destroy - each other. [via]
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L A Confidentialby James EllroyISBN 0582364736 (0-582-36473-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L A Confidential'Book summary:James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential is film-noir crime fiction akin to Chinatown, Hollywood Babylon, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Jim Thompson. It's about three tortured souls in the 1950s L.A.P.D.: Ed Exley, the clean-cut cop who lives shivering in the shadow of his dad, a legendary cop in the same department; Jack Vincennes, a cop who advises a Police Squad- like TV show and busts movie stars for payoffs from sleazy Hush-Hush magazine; and Bud White, a detective haunted by the sight of his dad murdering his mom.
Ellroy himself was traumatized as a boy by his party-animal mother's murder. (See his memoir My Dark Places for the whole sordid story.) So it is clear that Bud is partly autobiographical. But Exley, whose shiny reputation conceals a dark secret, and Vincennes, who goes showbiz with a vengeance, reflect parts of Ellroy, too.
L.A. Confidential holds enough plots for two or three books: the cops chase stolen gangland heroin through a landscape littered with not-always-innocent corpses while succumbing to sexy sirens who have been surgically resculpted to resemble movie stars; a vile developer--based (unfairly) on Walt Disney-- schemes to make big bucks off Moochie Mouse; and the cops compete with the crooks to see who can be more corrupt and violent. Ellroy's hardboiled prose is so compressed that some of his rat-a-tat paragraphs are hard to follow. You have to read with attention as intense as hisand that is very intense indeed. But he richly rewards the effort. He may not be as deep and literary as Chandler, but he belongs on the same top-level shelf. [via]
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Last of the Breedby Louis L'AmourISBN 0553280422 (0-553-28042-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Last Picture Showby Larry McMurtryISBN 0671676040 (0-671-67604-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Picture Show'Book summary:In The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry introduced characters who would show up again in later novels, Texasville and Duane's Depressed. This first volume of the trilogy drops the reader into the one-stoplight town of Thalia, Texas, where Duane Moore, his buddy Sonny, and his girlfriend Jacy are all stumbling along the rocky road to adulthood. Duane wants nothing more than to marry Jacy; Sonny wants what Duane has; and Jacy wants to get the hell out of Thalia any way she can. This is not a novel of big ideas or defining moments; over the course of a year Duane and Jacy make up and break up, Sonny begins an affair with his high-school football coach's wife, and the only movie house in town closes its doors forever. Yet it is out of these small-town experiences--a nude swimming party in Wichita, a failed sexual encounter during a senior trip, a botched elopement, an enlistment--that McMurtry builds his tale and reveals his characters' hearts. No epiphanies here, just a lot of hard-won experience that leaves none of his protagonists particularly wiser, though they're all a little sadder by the end. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Lost Language of Cranesby David LeavittISBN 055334465X (0-553-34465-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Member of the Weddingby Carson McCullersISBN 0618492399 (0-618-49239-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Member of the Wedding'Book summary:Twelve-year-old Frankie Adams, longing at once for escape and belonging, takes her role as "member of the wedding" to mean that when her older brother marries she will join the happy couple in their new life together. But Frankie is unlucky in love; her mother is dead, and Frankie narrowly escapes being raped by a drunken soldier during a farewell tour of the town. Worst of all, "member of the wedding" doesn't mean what she thinks. A gorgeous, brief coming-of-age novel. [via]
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Middle Passageby Charles JohnsonISBN 0606300007 (0-606-30000-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Murder With Mirrorsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0553350277 (0-553-35027-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder With Mirrors'Book summary:Murder With Mirrors (The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) [Apr 01, 1985] Christie, Agatha [via]
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Observatory Mansions : A Novelby Edward CareyISBN 0609606808 (0-609-60680-8)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Oh, Play That Thingby Roddy DoyleISBN 0670033618 (0-670-03361-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Orient Expressby Graham GreeneISBN 0670528412 (0-670-52841-2)
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Paradise Newsby David LodgeISBN 0670842281 (0-670-84228-1)
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Passageby Connie WillisISBN 0553580515 (0-553-58051-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Passage'Book summary:Most of us would rather not spend a lot of time contemplating death, but the characters in Connie Willis's novel Passage make a living at it. Joanna Lander is a medical researcher specializing in Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and how the brain constructs them. Her partner in this endeavor is Richard Wright, a single-minded scientist who induces NDEs in healthy people by injecting a compound that tricks the brain into thinking it's dying. Joanna and Richard team up and try to find test subjects whose ability to report their experiences objectively hasn't been wrecked by reading the books of pop-psychologist and hospital gadabout Maurice Mandrake. Mandrake has gained fame and fortune by convincing people that they can expect light, warmth, and welcoming loved ones once they die. Joanna and Richard try to quantify NDEs in more scientific terms, a frustrating exercise to say the least.
The brain cells started to die within moments of death. By the end of four to six minutes the damage was irreversible, and people brought back from death after that didn't talk about tunnels and life reviews. They didn't talk at all.... But if the dying were facing annihilation, why didn't they say, "It's over!" or, "I'm shutting down"?... Why did they say, "It's beautiful over there," and, "I'm coming, Mother!"
When Joanna decides to become a test subject and see an NDE firsthand, she discovers that death is both more and less than she expected. Telling anything at all about her experience would be spoiling the book's suspenseful buildup, but readers are in for some shocks as Willis reveals the secrets and mysteries of the afterlife. Unfortunately, several running gags--the maze-like complexity of the hospital, Mandrake's oily sales pitch, and a tiresomely talkative World War II veteran--go on a little too long and threaten the pace of the story near the middle. But don't stop reading! We expect a lot from Connie Willis because she's so good, and Passage's payoff is incredible--the ending will leave you breathless, and more than a little haunted. Passage masterfully blends tragedy, humor, and fear in an unforgettable meditation on humanity and death. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Pebble in the Skyby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553293427 (0-553-29342-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pebble in the Sky'Book summary:[via]One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire.Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil--so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty.Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.This is young Isaac Asimov's first novel, full of wonders and ideas, the book that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Foundation series. This is Golden Age SF at its finest.More editions of Pebble in the Sky:
Pilgrimby Timothy FindleyISBN 0571202683 (0-571-20268-3)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Plain Truthby Jodi PicoultISBN 0606217967 (0-606-21796-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plain Truth'Book summary:The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide - and, for the first time in her high profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. Delving deep into the world of those who live 'plain', Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. As she unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within - to confront her own fears and desires when a man from her past comes back into her life. [via]
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Queen of Sorceryby David EddingsISBN 0613293290 (0-613-29329-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Riven Rockby T. C. BoyleISBN 0670878812 (0-670-87881-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The River Whyby David James DuncanISBN 0553344862 (0-553-34486-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The River Why'Book summary:Since its publication by Sierra Club Books more than two decades ago, The River Why has become a classic, standing with Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It as our era's most widely read fiction about fly-fishing. This captivating and exuberant tale is told by Gus Orviston, an irreverent young fly fisherman and one of the most appealing heroes in contemporary American fiction. Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus decides to strike out on his own, taking refuge in a remote riverbank cabin to pursue his own fly-fishing passion with unrelenting zeal. But instead of finding fishing bliss, Gus becomes increasingly troubled by the degradation of the natural world around him and by the spiritual barrenness of his own life. His desolation drives him on a reluctant quest for self-discovery and meaning -- ultimately fruitful beyond his wildest dreams. Stylistically adept and ambitious in scope, The River Why is a touching and powerful novel by an important voice in American fiction. In a new Afterword written for this twentieth-anniversary edition, David James Duncan reflects on the genesis of his book and on the surprising link between fishing and wisdom. [via]
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Sacred Gamesby Vikram ChandraISBN 0670999229 (0-670-99922-9)
Hardcover, Penguin, Viking
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Shadows of the Empireby Steve PerryISBN 0553574132 (0-553-57413-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadows of the Empire'Book summary:Shadows of the Empire illuminates the shadowy outlines of a criminal conspiracy that exists in the background of the events in the movies, ruled by a character new to us. Prince Xizor is a mastermind of evil who dares to oppose one of the best-known fictional villains of all time: Darth Vader. The story involves all the featured Star Wars movie characters, plus Emperor Palpatine and, of course, Lord Vader himself. [via]
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Short Novels of John Steinbeckby John SteinbeckISBN 0670641383 (0-670-64138-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Short Novels of John Steinbeck'Book summary:Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels-Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row, and The Pearl. From Steinbeck's tale of commitment, loneliness, and hope in Of Mice and Men, to his tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in Cannery Row, to The Pearl's examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck created stories that were realistic, rugged, and imbued with energy and resilience. [via]
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Single and Singleby John Le CarréISBN 0671027972 (0-671-02797-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Single and Single'Book summary:On a Turkish hillside, ex-Communist mobsters shatter the skull of a corrupt English lawyer. In a sleepy English village, the authorities ask a lonely children's magician how come £5,000,030 sterling just got anonymously deposited in his baby daughter's bank account. With machine-like logic and soulful literary magic, John le Carré links these two events in Single & Single, a stay-up-all-night thriller.
The magician is Oliver Single, the tormented son of Tiger Single, a rogue banker the Financial Times calls "the knight errant of Gorbachev's New East." In fact, Tiger is sinking his fangs into that crucial one-tenth of world trade free of pesky regulations--illegal drugs--and secretly selling donated disaster-relief blood. Mum's the word in Tiger's mob: as the lawyer's executioner notes, "Is not convenient to hear that American capitalists are bleeding poor nations literally."
Oliver comes in from the cold to help spymaster Brock track Tiger down. That £30 sterling signified Judas's silver, but Oliver yearns to save Tiger's life, too. Le Carré wizardly juggles dozens of characters in a zigzag, globetrotting plot. You-are-there realism, narrative drive, pitch-perfect dialog--why can't movies be this good? Like lightning, le Carré's metaphors both dazzle and blazingly illuminate the world.
Ex-spy le Carré was there when the Berlin Wall went up, and his spy craft is legendarily realistic. His female spy/love interest is less so--the opposite of a femme fatale, she might be termed a "deus sex machina." But the book's crucial father-son relationship is quite real, because, like the irresistible villain of A Perfect Spy, Tiger is based on le Carré's own con-man dad. The cold war is over, but le Carré is hot. And he will endure. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Star Warsby Steve PerryISBN 0614967716 (0-614-96771-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Story Of Lucy Gaultby William TrevorISBN 0670031542 (0-670-03154-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Swordspointby Ellen KushnerISBN 0553585495 (0-553-58549-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swordspoint'Book summary:The classic forerunner to The Fall of the Kings now with three bonus stories.
Hailed by critics as a bravura performance (Locus) and witty, sharp-eyed, [and] full of interesting people (Newsday), this classic melodrama of manners, filled with remarkable plot twists and unexpected humor, takes fantasy to an unprecedented level of elegant writing and scintillating wit. Award-winning author Ellen Kushner has created a world of unforgettable characters whose political ambitions, passionate love affairs, and age-old rivalries collide with deadly results.
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On the treacherous streets of Riverside, a man lives and dies by the sword. Even the nobles on the Hill turn to duels to settle their disputes. Within this elite, dangerous world, Richard St. Vier is the undisputed master, as skilled as he is ruthless--until a death by the sword is met with outrage instead of awe, and the city discovers that the line between hero and villain can be altered in the blink of an eye. [via]More editions of Swordspoint:
A Taste for Deathby P. D. JamesISBN 0571145701 (0-571-14570-1)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Taste for Death'Book summary:Two bodies, their throats cut, lie in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington. One is an alcoholic tramp; the other, Sir Paul Berowne, is a baronet and a recently resigned Minister of the Crown. Adam Dalgliesh, arrives to begin his investigation, one that will expose the darker recesses of the Berowne family history. [via]
Texasvilleby Larry McMurtryISBN 0671625330 (0-671-62533-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Thief Lordby Cornelia FunkeISBN 0606292446 (0-606-29244-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thief Lord'Book summary:Imagine a Dickens story with a Venetian setting, and you'll have a good sense of Cornelia Funke's prizewinning novel The Thief Lord, first published in Germany in 2000. This suspenseful tale begins in a detective's office in Venice, as the entirely unpleasant Hartliebs request Victor Getz's services to search for two boys, Prosper and Bo, the sons of Esther Hartlieb's recently deceased sister. Twelve-year-old Prosper and 5-year-old Bo ran away when their aunt decided she wanted to adopt Bo, but not his brother. Refusing to split up, they escaped to Venice, a city their mother had always described reverently, in great detail. Right away they hook up with a long-haired runaway named Hornet and various other ruffians who hole up in an abandoned movie theater and worship the elusive Thief Lord, a young boy named Scipio who steals jewels from fancy Venetian homes so his new friends can get the warm clothes they need. Of course, the plot thickens when the owner of the pawn shop asks if the Thief Lord will carry out a special mission for a wealthy client: to steal a broken wooden wing that is the key to completing an age-old, magical merry-go-round. This winning cast of characters--especially the softhearted detective with his two pet turtles--will win the hearts of readers young and old, and the adventures are as labyrinthine and magical as the streets of Venice itself. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Thief's Journalby Jean GenetISBN 0571103804 (0-571-10380-4)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thief's Journal'Book summary:Genet's fictionalized and distant account of his rambles through France, Czechoslavakia, Germany and elsewhere in the '30s and '40s, covering his time in prison, his relationships with men such as the one-armed Stilitano, along with erotic accounts of his lovers during the period, and interspersed with meditation and daydreams. [via]
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Thinnerby Stephen KingISBN 0606007768 (0-606-00776-8)
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Two Girls, Fat and Thinby Mary GaitskillISBN 0553550047 (0-553-55004-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Unnatural Deathby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 057500357X (0-575-00357-X)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Utzby Bruce ChatwinISBN 0670824976 (0-670-82497-6)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utz'Book summary:Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of Kaspar Utz, an enigmatic collector of Meissen porcelain living in Cold War Czechoslovakia. Although Utz is allowed to leave the country each year, and considers defecting each time, he always returns to his Czech home, a prisoner of the Communist state and of his precious collection.[via]More editions of Utz:
Vinegar Hillby A. Manette AnsayISBN 0613274237 (0-613-27423-7)
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Voice of Our Shadowby Jonathan CarrollISBN 067049240X (0-670-49240-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Walden IIby Peter RuppertISBN 0671009737 (0-671-00973-7)
Hardcover, Peterson's
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The Women of Brewster Placeby Gloria NaylorISBN 0613176146 (0-613-17614-6)
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The Years of Rice and Saltby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553580078 (0-553-58007-8)
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La Ciudad de Las Bestias/City Of The Beastsby Isabel AllendeISBN 060630696X (0-606-30696-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Ciudad de Las Bestias/City Of The Beasts'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians. [via]
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