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The A.B.C. Murdersby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396086985 (0-396-08698-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Adolescentby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Andrew MacandrewISBN 0393324907 (0-393-32490-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adolescent'Book summary:"Not till J. D. Salinger created Holden Caulfield has there ever been so convincing a portrait of an adolescent."Toronto Daily Star
The fourth of Dostoevsky's five major novels, this is the story of a nineteen-year-old searching for identity amid the disorder of Russian society in the 1870s. Arkady is the illegitimate child of a landowner and the wife of his estate's gardener. He has refused to go to university, instead traveling to St. Petersburg in pursuit of a secret goaland of a relationship with his father. [via] 
Ballad of the Sad Cafeby Carson McCullersISBN 0395079829 (0-395-07982-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Bourne Supremacyby Robert LudlumISBN 0394543963 (0-394-54396-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Castle Rackrentby Maria EdgeworthISBN 0393002888 (0-393-00288-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Cause of Deathby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 0399141464 (0-399-14146-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cause of Death'Book summary:Patricia Cornwell's heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta is back; this time to solve the mystery of the death of an Associated Press reporter who was killed while nosing about in a decommissioned navy yard. Scarpetta's involvement in the case leads her to be targeted for murder herself by a nasty little neo-fascist cult with delusions of grandeur that include a plan to "kill and maim, frighten, brainwash and torture" all who oppose their plan to rule the world. Helping Scarpetta is her niece Lucy, an F.B.I. agent whose computer expertise leads to a heart-stopping journey into cyberspace. [via]
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Centaurby John UpdikeISBN 0394418816 (0-394-41881-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Centaur'Book summary:"A triumph of love and art." THE WASHINGTON POST
In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with his life. Interwoven with the myth of Chiron, the noblest centaur, and his relationship to the Titan Prometheus, "The Centaur" is one of Updike's most brilliant novels.
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The Code of the Woostersby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0394720288 (0-394-72028-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Code of the Woosters'Book summary:P.G.Wodehouse's best-loved creation by far is the master-servant team of Bertie Wooster, the likable nitwit, and Jeeves, his effortlessly superior valet and protector. This unlikely duo is as famous as Holmes and Watson, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and Tracy and Hepburn, but they have their own very special inimitable charm. According to Walter Clemons, Newsweek, "They are at their best in The Code of the Woosters," in which Bertie is rescued from his bumbling escapades time and time again by that gentleman's gentleman: Jeeves. [via]
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Correctionby Thomas BernhardISBN 0394722108 (0-394-72210-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Crow Lakeby Mary LawsonISBN 0385337639 (0-385-33763-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crow Lake'Book summary:Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thinga literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent.
Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural badlands of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occuroffstage.
Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matts protegee, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. And she thinks shes outgrown her siblingsLuke, Matt, and Bowho were once her entire world.
In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually overturning ones expectations right to the very end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable, Crow Lake is a quiet tour de force that will catapult Mary Lawson to the forefront of fiction writers today. [via] -
Cry to Heavenby Anne RiceISBN 0394523512 (0-394-52351-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Curtainby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396071910 (0-396-07191-0)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Curtain'Book summary:Arthritic and immobilized, Hercule Poirot takes up his last case, relying on his old friend Captain Hastings to be his eyes and ears as he hunts down the slipperiest criminal of his career. [via]
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Danny the Champion of the Worldby Roald Dahl, Jill BennettISBN 0394831039 (0-394-83103-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danny the Champion of the World'Book summary:"My father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had." Danny feels very lucky. He adores his life with his father, living in a gypsy caravan, listening to his stories, tending their gas station, puttering around the workshop, and occasionally taking off to fly home-built gas balloons and kites. His father has raised him on his own, ever since Danny's mother died when he was four months old. Life is peaceful and wonderful... until he turns 9 and discovers his father's one vice. Soon Danny finds himself the mastermind behind the most incredible plot ever attempted against nasty Victor Hazell, a wealthy landowner with a bad attitude. Can they pull it off? If so, Danny will truly be the champion of the world. Danny is right up to Roald Dahl's impishly brilliant standards. An intense and beautiful father-son relationship is balanced with sublegal high jinks that will have even the most rigid law-abider rooting them on. Dahl's inimitable way with words leaves the reader simultaneously satisfied and itching for more. (Ages 9 to 13) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Dead Babiesby Martin AmisISBN 0394498259 (0-394-49825-9)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Death Is a Lonely Businessby Ray BradburyISBN 0394547020 (0-394-54702-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Desolation Islandby Patrick O'BrianISBN 039330812X (0-393-30812-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desolation Island'Book summary:"The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four."Stephen Vaughan, Observer
Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spyand a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes... [via] 
Earthly Possessionsby Anne TylerISBN 0394411471 (0-394-41147-1)
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Easy to Killby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396091598 (0-396-09159-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Egoistby George MeredithISBN 0393091716 (0-393-09171-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Egoist'Book summary:This edition of Meredith's satirical novel of manners reprints the text of 1897, which incorporated Meredith's revisions to the first edition of 1879.
The editor has corrected some errors which escaped Meredith's attention and has provided exceptionally useful notes on the novel.
"Backgrounds" includes Meredith's "Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit."
"The Critical Essays" are by Robert D. Mayo, Richard B. Hudson, Jenni Calder, Gillian Beer, John Goode, Charles J. Hill, Michael Sundell, Virginia Woolf, John Lucas, and Robert M. Adams.
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Egyptianby Mika Toimi WaltariISBN 0399102345 (0-399-10234-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Egyptian'Book summary:First published in the United States in 1949 and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other novel published that year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely forgotten era in the world s history: the Egypt of the 14th century B.C.E., when pharaohs and gods contended with the near-collapse of history s greatest empire. This epic tale encompasses the whole of the then-known world, from Babylon to Crete, from Thebes to Jerusalem, while centering around one unforgettable figure: Sinuhe, a man of mysterious origins who rises from the depths of degradation to become personal physician to Pharaoh Akhnaton.[via]More editions of Egyptian:
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Emily of New Moonby L.M. Montgomery, Priscilla GallowayISBN 0385325061 (0-385-32506-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily of New Moon'Book summary:Anne may be L.M. Montgomery's most famous heroine, but as far as fans of the Emily books are concerned she can't compare with the elfin poet of New Moon. Emily, who was also Montgomery's favourite character, bears a certain resemblance to Anne. Like the spunky, red-headed orphan of Green Gables, 10-year-old Emily Byrd Starr loses both her parents and ends up living with a stern spinster in a remote but beautiful farming community on Prince Edward Island. Also like Anne, her high spirits get her into lots of mischief. But the raven-haired Emily, with her purple eyes and come-hither smile, is a more conventionally romantic heroine than Anne. While Anne of Green Gables is the ugly-duckling tale of a young girl's yearning for love and acceptance, Emily's ethereal looks guarantee her admirers from the beginning.
What Emily wants desperately is to be a writer. As she explains to her teacher, "Why, I have to write--I can't help it by times--I've just got to." In this novel and its two sequels, Emily Climbs and Emily's Quest, Montgomery tells the moving and semi-autobiographical story of Emily's struggle to realize her ambition. The opening chapters of Emily of New Moon, dealing with the death of Emily's consumptive father, are awkward and melodramatic. But few children's novels--Little Women and Harriet the Spy come to mind--offer as fine a portrait of an artistic child's imaginative inner life. Spend some time with Emily and her friends and you'll be a fan, too. (Ages 9 to 12) --Lisa Alward [via]
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The Enormous Roomby e e cummingsISBN 039460427X (0-394-60427-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Floating Dragonby Peter StraubISBN 0399127720 (0-399-12772-0)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Fortune of Warby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393308138 (0-393-30813-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fortune of War'Book summary:"A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat."Times Literary Supplement
Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.
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Girl in Landscapeby Jonathan LethemISBN 0385485182 (0-385-48518-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Guermantes Wayby Marcel ProustISBN 0394705963 (0-394-70596-3)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Hatchetby Gary PaulsenISBN 0395732611 (0-395-73261-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin School
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hatchet'Book summary:The story of a young boy, the lone survivor of an airplane crash, who struggles to survive in the Canadian wilderness. [via]
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The Heat of the Dayby Elizabeth BowenISBN 0385721285 (0-385-72128-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Homo Faberby Ackermann P. K.ISBN 0395144027 (0-395-14402-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Robert Hollander, Jean HollanderISBN 0385496982 (0-385-49698-2)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inferno'Book summary:"Palma's wonderfully readable translation comes close to perfection. I'm tempted to call it a miracle."X. J. Kennedy
Unlike every known translator before him, Michael Palma re-creates Dante's masterpiece in all its dimensions, without emphasizing some aspects over others, rendering Inferno into contemporary American English while maintaining Dante's original triple rhyme scheme. The result is a translation that can be appreciated for its literal faithfulness and beautiful poetic form, accompanied by facing-page Italian and explanatory notes. "A superb translation; highly recommended."Library Journal "I find Michael Palma's Inferno to be one that I'm having a hard time improving."Lawrence Ferlinghetti "I think highly of Michael Palma's Inferno....Readers will find it admirably clear and readable."Richard Wilbur [via]More editions of The Inferno:
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Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Inferno: ISBN 0385496974 (0-385-49697-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - The Inferno: ISBN 039304341X (0-393-04341-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Inferno: ISBN 0385496982 (0-385-49698-2)
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Jakob Von Guntenby Robert WalserISBN 0394721683 (0-394-72168-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Jennifer Government : A Novelby Max BarryISBN 0385507593 (0-385-50759-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jennifer Government : A Novel'Book summary:In the horrifying, satirical near future of Max Barry's Jennifer Government, American corporations literally rule the world. Everyone takes his employer's name as his last name; once-autonomous nations as far-flung as Australia belong to the USA; and the National Rifle Association is not just a worldwide corporation, it's a hot, publicly traded stock. Hack Nike, a hapless employee seeking advancement, signs a multipage contract and then reads it. He discovers he's agreed to assassinate kids purchasing Nike's new line of athletic shoes, a stealth marketing maneuver designed to increase sales. And the dreaded government agent Jennifer Government is after him.
Like Steve Aylett, Alexander Besher, Douglas Coupland, Paul Di Filippo, Jim Munroe, Jeff Noon, and Chuck Palahniuk, Max Barry is an author of smartass, punky satire for the late capitalist era. It's a hip and happening field; before publication, Jennifer Government (Barry's second novel) was optioned by Stephen Soderbergh and George Clooney's Section 8 Films for a major motion picture. However, the level of literary accomplishment varies wildly among practitioners, from brilliant (Di Filippo and Palahniuk) to amateurish (Besher). This field is so hot, its writers needn't be nearly as accomplished as they'd have to become to break into any other form of fiction.
That said, like many of his fellow turn-of-the-millennium satirists, Barry is uneven. He has a lively imagination and a sharp eye for the absurdities and offenses of hypercorporate capitalism. But, with its sketchy characters and slow dialogue, Jennifer Government will disappoint anyone who believes the cover copy's grandiose claim that this is "a Catch-22 for the New World Order." --Cynthia Ward [via]
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King Ratby James ClavellISBN 0385333765 (0-385-33376-5)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Lafcadio's Adventuresby Andre GideISBN 0394700961 (0-394-70096-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Letting Goby Philip RothISBN 039443305X (0-394-43305-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letting Go'Book summary:Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions conspicuously different from those of today.
Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul's moody, intense wife. Gabe's desire to be connected to the ordered "world of feeling" that he finds in books is first tested vicariously by the anarchy of the Herzes' struggles with responsible adulthood and then by his own eager love affairs. Driven by the desire to live seriously and act generously, Gabe meets an impassable test in the person of Martha Reganhart, a spirited, outspoken, divorced mother of two, a formidable woman who, according to critic James Atlas, is masterfully portrayed with "depth and resonance."
The complex liason between Gabe and Martha and Gabe's moral enthusiasm for the trials of others are at the heart of this tragically comic work.
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Los De Abajoby Mariano Azuela, John Eugene Englekirk, Lawrence Bayard KiddleISBN 0390043648 (0-390-04364-8)
Hardcover, Appleton-Century-Crofts
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The Loserby Thomas Bernhard, Jack DawsonISBN 0394572394 (0-394-57239-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Lost Language Of Cranesby David LeavittISBN 0395877334 (0-395-87733-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Language Of Cranes'Book summary:When Philip falls in love with Eliot, he realizes it's time to come out of the closet to his parents, Owen and Rose. But they are experiencing life changes of their own. Owen spends Sunday afternoons in gay porn theaters, and when he and Rose are forced out of their long-time apartment, they must confront his latent homosexuality and their son's stunning admission. [via]
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The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmonyby Roberto CalassoISBN 0394581547 (0-394-58154-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony'Book summary:Presenting the stories of Zeus and Europa, Theseus and Ariadne, the birth of Athens and the fall of Troy, in all their variants, Calasso also uncovers the distant origins of secrets and tragedy, virginity, and rape. "A perfect work like no other. (Calasso) has re-created . . . the morning of our world."--Gore Vidal. 15 engravings.
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The Member of the Weddingby Carson McCullersISBN 0395079810 (0-395-07981-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Murder Is Easyby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396080162 (0-396-08016-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Murder With Mirrorsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0396088678 (0-396-08867-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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My Friend Flickaby Mary O'HaraISBN 039700981X (0-397-00981-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Myra Breckinridge ; Myronby Gore Vidal, Edgar BoxISBN 0394553764 (0-394-55376-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Ogreby Michel Tournier, Barbara BrayISBN 0394724070 (0-394-72407-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Optimist's Daughterby Eudora WeltyISBN 0394480171 (0-394-48017-1)
Hardcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Optimist's Daughter'Book summary:The Optimist's Daughter is a compact and inward-looking little novel, a Pulitzer Prize winner that's slight of page yet big of heart. The optimist in question is 71-year-old Judge McKelva, who has come to a New Orleans hospital from Mount Salus, Mississippi, complaining of a "disturbance" in his vision. To his daughter, Laurel, it's as rare for him to admit "self-concern" as it is for him to be sick, and she immediately flies down from Chicago to be by his side. The subsequent operation on the judge's eye goes well, but the recovery does not. He lies still with both eyes heavily bandaged, growing ever more passive until finally--with some help from the shockingly vulgar Fay, his wife of two years--he simply dies. Together Fay and Laurel travel to Mount Salus to bury him, and the novel begins the inward spiral that leads Laurel to the moment when "all she had found had found her," when the "deepest spring in her heart had uncovered itself" and begins to flow again.
Not much actually happens in the rest of the book--Fay's low-rent relatives arrive for the funeral, a bird flies down the chimney and is trapped in the hall--and yet Welty manages to compress the richness of an entire life within its pages. This is a world, after all, in which a set of complex relationships can be conveyed by the phrase "I know his whole family" or by the criticism "When he brought her here to your house, she had very little idea of how to separate an egg." Does such a place exist anymore? It is vanishing even from this novel, and the personification of its vanishing is none other than Fay--petulant, graceless, childish, with neither the passion nor the imagination to love. Welty expends a lot of vindictive energy on Fay and her kin, who must be the most small-minded, mean-mouthed clan since the Snopeses hit Frenchman's Bend. There's more than just class snobbery at work here (though that surely comes into it too). As Welty sees it, they are a special historical tribe who exult in grieving because they have come to be good at it, and who seethe with resentment from the day they are born. They have come "out of all times of trouble, past or future--the great, interrelated family of those who never know the meaning of what has happened to them."
Fay belongs to the future, as she makes clear; it's Laurel who belongs to the past--Welty's own chosen territory. In her fine memoir, One Writer's Beginnings, Welty described the way art could shine a light back "as when your train makes a curve, showing that there has been a mountain of meaning rising behind you on the way you've come." Here, in one of her most autobiographical works, the past joins seamlessly with the present in a masterful evocation of grief, memory, loss, and love. Beautifully written, moving but never mawkish, The Optimist's Daughter is Eudora Welty's greatest achievement--which is high praise indeed. --Mary Park [via]
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Oroonokoby Aphra Behn, Joanna LipkingISBN 0393312054 (0-393-31205-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Oroonoko; Or, the Royal Slaveby Aphra BehnISBN 0393007022 (0-393-00702-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Past Recapturedby Marcel ProustISBN 0394706005 (0-394-70600-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Pebble in the Skyby Isaac AsimovISBN 038541269X (0-385-41269-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Pornoby Irvine WelshISBN 0393324508 (0-393-32450-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Porno'Book summary:Porno, Irvine Welsh's highly entertaining--though completely unnecessary--sequel to his cult classic, Trainspotting, reunites the gang as they pursue another big-payoff scheme. It's been 10 years since Mark Renton walked away with the cash from a drug sale perpetrated by himself and his mates, Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson, Danny "Spud" Murphy, and Francis Begbie. The megalomaniacal Sick Boy has returned to Edinburgh, where stag film producer "Juice" Terry Lawson has given him the idea for a bold new scam: to locally produce a high-end adult film. Lawson introduces Sick Boy to the beautiful and egocentric Nikki Fuller-Smith, a student and aspiring star. Passivity and self-destructive tendencies have left well-meaning junkie Spud poor and alone, while time has only intensified the anger of the psychotic Begbie, who's fresh out of prison, back in Edinburgh, and obsessed with taking revenge on Renton. Sick Boy locates and persuades Renton, a successful club owner in Amsterdam, to help him steal money for his new production company. From the book's multiple points of view, it's soon clear that everyone's running their own scam, making conflicts--and long-awaited confrontations--inevitable.
Welsh's brutally honest prose and gallery of likeable ne'er-do-wells are in full display here, but the novel feels somewhat superfluous. Porno adds little insight into the characters or events of Trainspotting and fails to match its invention or sense of purpose. However, the author's obvious affection for these characters and dedication to authentically rendered dialogue and setting elevate Porno above mere slapdash reworking. As the novel builds momentum, Welsh wonderfully communicates the intense bravado driving his reckless characters. During such moments of vitality and humor, Porno is superficial but undeniably charming. --Ross Doll [via]
The Praise Singerby Mary RenaultISBN 0394751027 (0-394-75102-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Princess of Clevesby Marie-Madeleine De LafayetteISBN 0393963330 (0-393-96333-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Professor's Houseby Willa CatherISBN 0394719131 (0-394-71913-1)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Professor's House'Book summary:A study in emotional dislocation and renewal--Professor Godfrey St. Peter, a man in his 50's, has achieved what would seem to be remarkable success. When called on to move to a more comfortable home, something in him rebels. [via]
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Ratner's Starby Don DelilloISBN 0394400836 (0-394-40083-6)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Reading in the Darkby Seamus DeaneISBN 0394574400 (0-394-57440-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Ruby in the Smokeby Philip PullmanISBN 0394895894 (0-394-89589-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ruby in the Smoke'Book summary:"Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a man." Philip Pullman begins his Sally Lockhart trilogy with a bang in The Ruby in the Smoke--a fast-paced, finely crafted thriller set in a rogue- and scalawag-ridden Victorian London. His 16-year-old heroine has no time for the usual trials of adolescence: her father has been murdered, and she needs to find out how and why. But everywhere she turns, she encounters new scoundrels and secrets. Why do the mere words "seven blessings" cause one man to keel over and die at their utterance? Who has possession of the rare, stolen ruby? And what does the opium trade have to do with it?
As our determined and intelligent sleuth sets her mind to unraveling these dark mysteries, she learns how embroiled she is in the whole affair. As riveting and witty as the sensational "penny dreadfuls" of Victorian England (but thousands of times better written), Pullman's trilogy (including The Shadow in the North and The Tiger in the Well) will have readers on the edges of their seats. Ruby is an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. (Ages 12 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Running in the Familyby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0393016374 (0-393-01637-4)
Hardcover, W.W. Norton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Running in the Family'Book summary:Picture The Great Gatsby with heat, tea plantations, and even more gin and you've got part of Michael Ondaatje's 1982 Running in the Family. Set in Ondaatje's native Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Running begins with the champagne shenanigans of competitively romantic upper-class youths swept up in that first global trend, the Jazz Age: "They all went swimming again with just the modesty of the night. An arm touched a face. A foot touched a stomach. They could have almost drowned or fallen in love." The main characters to emerge from this frolicking set of dancers and drinkers are Ondaatje's parents, and it is upon them that the book turns from moonlit serenades to financial and emotional ruin.
Part travelogue, part family memoir (complete with photographs), part collection of poems, Running is also a poignant autobiography/biography that reimagines the alcoholism of Ondaatje's father Mervyn and the eventual (inevitable?) divorce of his parents. In telling these tall tales, Ondaatje is affectionate and insightful toward a father who was clearly difficult to accommodate in life. Driving intoxicated over a rickety wooden bridge no one else would trust in any condition, Mervyn turns to young Michael to wink and claim, "God loves a drunk."
Running marks the commencement of Ondaatje's growing interest in migration (does running run in the family?). The expatriate characters of Ondaatje's later novels are here presaged by a generation of Ceylonese steaming off to England for education and an enduring love of cricket. Salman Rushdie knows that "the past is a country from which we are all migrants." In Running in the Family, Ondaatje reaches back, inwards, and abroad to map that most treasured and troubled of places, the human heart. --Darryl Whetter [via]
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The Shadow in the Northby Philip PullmanISBN 0394825993 (0-394-82599-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shadow in the North'Book summary:The year is 1878, and Sally Lockhart has started her own financial consulting business. When a client loses a fortune in the unexpected collapse of a British shipping firm, Sally is determined to find out why. But as she comes closer to learning the identity of the firm's elusive owner, she discovers that her questions are far from simple --and that the answers could cost her her life.
"Fraud, fire, and bloody murder pursue Sally Lockhart in a fine sequel to The Ruby in the Smoke. Sally, now 22, is in business as a financial consultant. When she and her friends challenge corrupt financial interests, they find themselves in a web of intrigue that stretches from fetid slums of the poor to the corporate offices of the richest man in Europe. Sally's detective work reveals the connections between corrupt power and broken lives. The action is fast, scenes are tight and dramatic, the language is vivid, and the wealth of minor characters are sharply individualized. An immensely entertaining thriller."--(starred) Booklist. Reading level: 6.7. [via]More editions of The Shadow in the North:
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The Soloistby Mark SalzmanISBN 0394570103 (0-394-57010-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Soloist'Book summary:As a child, Renne showed promise of becoming one of the world's greatest cellists. Now, years later, his life suddenly is altered by two events: he becomes a juror in a murder trial for the brutal killing of a Buddhist monk, and he takes on as a pupil a Korean boy whose brilliant musicianship reminds him of his own past.
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The Sorrow of Belgiumby Hugo ClausISBN 0394562631 (0-394-56263-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Spaceby James A. MichenerISBN 0394505557 (0-394-50555-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Space'Book summary:In his dramatic and compelling way of bringing history to life, Michener now tells the thrilling story a a 20th-century space development. 2 cassettes. [via]
Spartinaby John CaseyISBN 0394500989 (0-394-50098-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Stayby Nicola GriffithISBN 0385503008 (0-385-50300-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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A Taste for Deathby P. D. JamesISBN 039455583X (0-394-55583-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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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]
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Texasby James A. MichenerISBN 0394541545 (0-394-54154-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Texas'Book summary:A History of Texas from the early 1500's written in a combination of both fact and fiction. The skills of Michener are well applied to make the history of Texas entertaining and grounded in the facts. [via]
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The Thirteen Gun Saluteby Patrick O'BrianISBN 039330907X (0-393-30907-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thirteen Gun Salute'Book summary:"In length the series is unique; in qualityand there is not a weak link in the chainit cannot but be ranked with the best of twentieth century historical novels."T. J. Binyon, Independent
Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (a false accusation), he has earned reinstatement through his daring exploits as a privateer, brilliantly chronicled in The Letter of Marque. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturinhis friend, ship's surgeon, and sometimes intelligence agenton a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes which would put English merchant shipping at risk.
The journey of the Diane encompasses a great and satisfying diversity of adventures. Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans; a killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reef; and in the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a classic duel of intelligence agents unfolds: the French envoys, well entrenched in the Sultan's good graces, against the savage cunning of Stephen Maturin. [via] 
Thunderheadby Mary O'HaraISBN 0397000073 (0-397-00007-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Time Enough for Loveby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0399111514 (0-399-11151-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Trying to Save the Piggy Sneedby JohnISBN 0394280105 (0-394-28010-5)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Washington, D. C.by Gore VidalISBN 0394406893 (0-394-40689-3)
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Welcome to the Monkey Houseby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0385333501 (0-385-33350-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Welcome to the Monkey House'Book summary:Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonneguts shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonneguts audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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Women of Sand and Myrrhby Hanna Al-Shaykh, Catherine CobhamISBN 0385423586 (0-385-42358-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women of Sand and Myrrh'Book summary:A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab worlds leading woman novelist, about four women coping with the insular, oppressive society of an unnamed desert state. [via]
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