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The Accidental Touristby Anne TylerISBN 0816140553 (0-8161-4055-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Agyarby Steven BrustISBN 0812515218 (0-8125-1521-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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An American Tragedyby Theodore DreiserISBN 0808509519 (0-8085-0951-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The American Yoga Association's New Yoga Challenge: Powerful Workouts for Flexibility, Strength, Energy, and Inner Discoveryby Alice ChristensenISBN 0809231751 (0-8092-3175-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Around the World in 80 Daysby Jules Verne, George M. Towle, Bruce SterlingISBN 0812968565 (0-8129-6856-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in 80 Days'Book summary:Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Vernes hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of a notorious bank robber. Set from the text of George M. Towles original 1873 translation, this Modern Library Paperback Classic of Vernes adventure novel comes vividly alive, brilliantly reecting on time, space, and one mans struggle to reach beyond the bounds of both science and society. [via]
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules VerneISBN 0812504305 (0-8125-0430-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.[via]
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Auto-Da-Feby Elias CanettiISBN 082640068X (0-8264-0068-X)
Softcover, Continuum
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Auto-Da-Fe'Book summary:Auto Da Fe is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive Sinologist living in Germany between the wars.With masterly precision, Canetti builds up the elements in Kien himself, and his personal relationships, which will lead to his destruction.Between his illiterate and grasping housekeeper, Therese, who has tricked him into marriage, and Benedikt Pfaff, a brutish concierge, Kien is forced out of his apartment which houses his great library and one true passion and into the underworld of the city.In this purgatory he is guided by a chess-playing dwarf of evil propensities, until he is eventually restored to his home.But on his return he is visited by his brother, an eminent psychiatrist who, by an error of diagnosis, precipitates the final crisis& [via]
Babel-17by Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0839823282 (0-8398-2328-2)
Hardcover, Gregg Pr
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The Bachman Booksby Stephen KingISBN 0808565087 (0-8085-6508-7)
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The Beans of Egypt, Maineby Carolyn ChuteISBN 0816139563 (0-8161-3956-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Ben-Hurby Lew Wallace, Blake AllmendingerISBN 0812966244 (0-8129-6624-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ben-Hur'Book summary:One of the most popular American novels of all time, General Lew Wallaces Ben-Hur vividly reimagines the mighty Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity. The saga of Judah Ben-Hurs spiritual journey from slavery to vengeance to redemption is both a vivid historical adventure and a powerful story of one mans religious awakening. As Blake Allmendinger writes in his Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic, Ben-Hur has endured for more than one hundred years because it offers something for everyone. The story of the Jewish hero Ben-Hur, his conflict with the Roman warrior Messala, and his conversion to Christianity at the foot of the Cross, combines adventure, sentimentality, athletic spectacle, and religious devotion. [via]
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The Birth of Venusby Sarah DunantISBN 0812968972 (0-8129-6897-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of Venus'Book summary:The Birth of Venus is all the more fascinating a historical novel for the author's inability to make up her mind what it is about. Is it a novel about the limited choices available to a woman with talent in Renaissance Florence--marriage or the convent? Or is it a novel about the choices you make to survive in a totalitarian society? As Savonarola takes Florence closer and closer to being an ascetic theocracy, Alessandra, her gay brother and his lover whom she has married for mutual protection find themselves in more and more peril. It could also be a detective story--Allesandra is in love with a painter whose religious mania and fascination with the body makes him a plausible suspect for a series of killings and dismemberments. Some historical novels wear their research too heavily--Dunant's is light, fluent and pacy, but her fascination with the possibilities revealed by research leaves her failing to make choices.
The Birth of Venus is a highly intelligent novel kept from incoherence mostly by the intensely imagined Alessandra, through whose eyes we see the tragic end of a key moment in human culture and whose lively sensibility constantly sparks ideas about art and her time. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Bostoniansby Henry James, Pierre A. Walker, A. S. ByattISBN 0812969960 (0-8129-6996-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bostonians'Book summary:From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women." She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, a veteran of the Civil War who holds rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions? A struggle to possess her, body and soul, develops between Olive and Basil.The exploitation of Verena's unregenerate innocence reflects a society whose moral and cultural values are failing to survive the new dawn of liberalism and democracy. When it was first published in 1886, The Bostonians was not welcomed by Henry James's fellow countrymen, who failed to appreciate its delicacy and wit. But over a century later, this book is widely regarded as James's finest American fiction and perhaps his comic masterpiece.[via]-
A Canticle for Leibowitzby Walter M. MillerISBN 0808520938 (0-8085-2093-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'Book summary:Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As 1984 cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959's A Canticle for Leibowitz warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. Following a cloister of monks in their Utah abbey over some six or seven hundred years, the funny but bleak Canticle tackles the sociological and religious implications of the cyclical rise and fall of civilization, questioning whether humanity can hope for more than repeating its own history. Divided into three sections--Fiat Homo (Let There Be Man), Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light), and Fiat Voluntas Tua (Thy Will Be Done)--Canticle is steeped in Catholicism and Latin, exploring the fascinating, seemingly capricious process of how and why a person is canonized. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Chesapeakeby James A. MichenerISBN 0812970438 (0-8129-7043-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chesapeake'Book summary:"Michener's most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope."
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"Brilliantly written."
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Once again James A. Michener brings history to life with this 400-year saga of America's great bay and its Eastern Shore. Following Edmund Steed and his remarkable family, who parallel the settling and forming of the nation, CHESAPEAKE sweeps readers from the unspoiled world of the Native Americans to the voyages of Captain John Smith, the Revolutionary War, and right up to modern times.
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Children of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0808520946 (0-8085-2094-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children of Dune'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. On the planet of Aurakis, men, nature, and time attend the messianic and evolutionary growth of Leto and his twin sister Ghanima, children and successors of the mighty Muad'Dib. [via]
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The Cider House Rules: Here in St. Cloud'sby John Irving, Peter ParnellISBN 0822217252 (0-8222-1725-2)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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Darkness at Noonby Arthur KoestlerISBN 0808576364 (0-8085-7636-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Dead Zoneby Stephen KingISBN 0816156689 (0-8161-5668-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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A Dream of Red Mansionsby Hsueh-Chin Tsao, O Kao, Hsin-chu HuangISBN 0835125297 (0-8351-2529-7)
Hardcover, Purple Bamboo Pub
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Dream of the Red Chamberby Chan Tsao, Florence McHugh, Isabel McHughISBN 0837181135 (0-8371-8113-5)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Dune Messiahby Frank HerbertISBN 0808520733 (0-8085-2073-3)
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The Farthest Shoreby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0816144346 (0-8161-4434-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Five Little Peppers and How They Grewby Margaret SidneyISBN 0816728879 (0-8167-2887-9)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Foundation and Empireby Isaac AsimovISBN 0808520792 (0-8085-2079-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation and Empire'Book summary:Although small and seemingly helpless, the Foundation had managed to survive against the greed of its neighboring warlords. But could it stand against the mighty power of the Empire, who had created a mutant man with the strength of a dozen battlefleets...? [via]
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Gaudy Nightby Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 081613040X (0-8161-3040-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Ginger Manby James Patrick DonleavyISBN 083921037X (0-8392-1037-X)
Hardcover, Astor-Honor Inc
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The Godfatherby Mario PuzoISBN 0816138753 (0-8161-3875-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Headlongby Michael FraynISBN 0805062858 (0-8050-6285-8)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Hollow Hillsby Mary StewartISBN 0816133395 (0-8161-3339-5)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsby Maya AngelouISBN 0808510576 (0-8085-1057-6)
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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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In Search of Lost Timeby Marcel ProustISBN 0812969642 (0-8129-6964-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Innocent Bloodby P. D. JamesISBN 0816131805 (0-8161-3180-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 0812504674 (0-8125-0467-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:A gripping and entertaining tale of terror and suspense as well as a potent Faustian allegory of hubris and science run amok, The Invisible Man endures as one of the signature stories in the literature of science fiction. A brilliant scientist uncovers the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and the power he unleashes cause him to spiral into intrigue, madness, and murder. The inspiration for countless imitations and film adaptations, The Invisible Man is as remarkable and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. As Arthur C. Clarke points out in his Introduction, The interest of the story . . . lies not in its scientific concepts, but in the brilliantly worked out development of the theme of invisibility. If one could be invisible, then what? [via]
Itby Stephen KingISBN 0833509454 (0-8335-0945-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Jungle Bookby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0812504690 (0-8125-0469-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C. - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0805239065 (0-8052-3906-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0816728682 (0-8167-2868-2)
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0812504739 (0-8125-0473-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kidnapped/Complete and Unabridged'Book summary:If you ever read this tale, you will likely ask yourself more questions than I should care to answer: as for instance how the Appin murder has come to fall in the year 1751, how the Torran rocks have crept so near to Earraid, or why the printed trial is silent as to all that touches David Balfour. These are nuts beyond my ability to crack. But if you tried me on the point of Alan's guilt or innocence, I think I could defend the reading of the text. To this day you will find the tradition of Appin clear in Alan's favor. If you inquire, you may even hear that the descendants of "the other man" who fired the shot are in the country to this day. But that other man's name, inquire as you please, you shall not hear; for the Highlander values a secret for itself and for the congenial exercise of keeping it I might go on for long to justify one point and own another indefensible; it is more honest to confess at once how little I am touched by the desire of accuracy. This is no furniture for the scholar's library, but a book for the winter evening school-room when the tasks are over and the hour for bed draws near; and honest Alan, who was a grim old fire-eater in his day has in this new avatar no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid, carry him awhile into the Highlands and the last century, and pack him to bed with some engaging images to mingle with his dreams. [via]
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyby Charles Dickens, Michael SlaterISBN 0812211359 (0-8122-1135-9)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'Book summary:The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is closely modelled on the eighteenth-century novels that Charles Dickens loved as a child, such as Robinson Crusoe, in which the fortunes of a hero shape the plot. The likeable young Nicholas, left penniless on the death of his father, sets off in search of better prospects. His meandering route to happiness includes work as a teacher at Dotheboys Hall, where the brutal Wackford Squeers ill-treats his impoverished pupils, and a spell as an actor with the absurdly melodramatic Crummles troupe.Nicholas's many adventures give Dickens the freedom to follow the eccentricities of a vivid gallery of characters, exploring themes of class, love, and self-awareness with exuberant comedy and biting satire.[via]More editions of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby:
The Man in the High Castleby Philip K. DickISBN 0839824769 (0-8398-2476-9)
Hardcover, Gregg Pr
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmareby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0836205944 (0-8362-0594-4)
Hardcover, Sheed and Ward
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare'Book summary:In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon."
But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare:
The Mauritius Commandby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0812824768 (0-8128-2476-8)
Hardcover, Stein & Day Pub
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Metamorphosisby Franz Kafka, Charles DizenzoISBN 0822207516 (0-8222-0751-6)
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The Moon Is Downby John SteinbeckISBN 0822215993 (0-8222-1599-3)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moon Is Down'Book summary:Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americas greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersand to the many who revisit them again and again. [via]
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The Naturalby Bernard MalamudISBN 0809435942 (0-8094-3594-2)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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Nicholas Nickleby: Library Editionby Charles DickensISBN 0809594536 (0-8095-9453-6)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nicholas Nickleby: Library Edition'Book summary:Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each titleoffering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.[via]
This edition of Nicholas Nickleby includes a Foreword and Biographical Note.
When his father dies suddenly, Nicholas Nickleby must decide on his future. Unfortunately, Nicholas has very few prospects...and even less money! Luckily, his Uncle Ralph has pulled some strings at a school called Dotheboys Hall and Nicholas is hired on as a teacher. However, the naive and kindhearted Nicholas discovers that the headmaster, a sniveling worm by the name of Wackford Squeers, is a blackhearted, malicious bully who treat the boys in his care abominably. He'd like to leave, but then his uncle will cut off all support for his mother and sister. Should Nicholas tough it out? Or will he seek his fortune elsewhere?More editions of Nicholas Nickleby: Library Edition:
The Nine Tailorsby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0816130361 (0-8161-3036-1)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Patriot Gamesby Tom ClancyISBN 0816143838 (0-8161-4383-8)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Princess Brideby William GoldmanISBN 0808586998 (0-8085-8699-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess Bride'Book summary:The Princess Bride is a true fantasy classic. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern's original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. Morgenstern's mostly complimentary views of the text. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. Goldman feels is a story that has everything: "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles."
Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.
Is The Princess Bride a critique of classics like Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers, that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you'll put it on your "keeper" shelf. --Nona Vero [via]
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The Reiversby William Faulkner, Michael Millgate, Noel Polk, Blotner, Thomas McHaneyISBN 0824068343 (0-8240-6834-3)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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Revengeby Stephen FryISBN 0812968190 (0-8129-6819-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revenge'Book summary:This brilliant recasting of the classic story The Count of Monte Cristo centers on Ned Maddstone, a happy, charismatic, Oxford-bound seventeen-year-old whose rosy future is virtually pre-ordained. Handsome, confident, and talented, newly in love with bright, beautiful Portia, his father an influential MP, Ned leads a charmed life. But privilege makes him an easy target for envy, and in the course of one day Neds destiny is forever altered. A promise made to a dying teacher combined with a prank devised by a jealous classmate mutates bewilderingly into a case of mistaken arrest and incarceration. Ned finds himself a political prisoner in a nightmarish exile that lasts years, until a fellow inmate reawakens Neds intellect and resurrects his will to live. The chilling consequences of Neds recovery are felt worldwide. [via]
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Rite of Passageby Alexei PanshinISBN 0839823363 (0-8398-2336-3)
Hardcover, Gregg Pr
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A River Runs Through Itby Norman MacLeanISBN 0816157359 (0-8161-5735-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A River Runs Through It'Book summary:Beginning with the memorable line, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing," Maclean paints an evocative portrait of the sons of a small-town Montana minister, two brothers headed in very different directions. Fly-fishing for trout is one thing that unites father and sons, and, in the end, it is the language of the river that provides understanding and acceptance in the most difficult of times.
A River Runs Through It is arguably the best piece of fly-fishing literature ever written, and the paperback edition includes two great non-fly fishing stories. [via]
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby Orczy, Anne PerryISBN 0812966112 (0-8129-6611-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'Book summary:The French nobility are living in terror; one by one they are sent to the guillotine. Revenge at last for the years of callousness and cruelty suffered by the people of France. There is no escape; the city walls of Paris are guarded day and night. And yet a few achieve the impossible, disappearing without a trace in Paris, only to re-emerge in the safety of England. Rumours abound of a group of young English gentleman of unparalleled daring. Under their anonymous leader they save scores of aristocrats from terrible deaths. And each time a note is put mockingly into the hands of the merciless tribunal chairman, Citoyen Tinville. On it is the stamp of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Tinville will do or pay anything to see the Englishmen dead but they seem to evade capture with almost devilish ease. But with the cunning and ruthless spy master, Chauvelin, on his trail, the Scarlet Pimpernel must make no slip for he has everything to lose. [via]
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. LewisISBN 0805420401 (0-8054-2040-1)
Softcover, B & H Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Screwtape Letters'Book summary:This adaptation of C.S. Lewis's biting satire received a 1999 Grammy nomination for best spoken-word performance, and it's easy to see why--the story fits the format perfectly. It's relatively brief (the unabridged reading takes a mere four hours), and contains only one character--the demon Screwtape, who writes letters to his novice nephew Wormwood, instructing him on how to best tempt his "patient" (a wayward soul on earth) into the bosom of "our Lord below."
Obviously, the book wasn't written with former Monty Python John Cleese in mind, but it's hard to imagine a better Screwtape. Cleese's voice provides the perfect vehicle for Lewis's dry, razor-edged wit. His uncanny comic timing and ability to milk each phrase for maximum effect betray an infectious enthusiasm for the story. It's clear that he's having a great time reading, and it's impossible not to laugh along with him. This inspired pairing of two of the 20th century's greatest wits makes for a meditation on the dark side of spiritual guidance that's as relevant and funny today as it was in Lewis's war-torn England. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --Andrew Neiland [via]
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The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toastby C. S. LewisISBN 0809436590 (0-8094-3659-0)
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The Shiningby Stephen KingISBN 0816156859 (0-8161-5685-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shining'Book summary:Danny is only five years old, but he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of an old hotel, his visions grow out of control. Cut off by blizzards, the hotel seems to develop an evil force, and who are the mysterious guests in the supposedly empty hotel? [via]
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Smiley's Peopleby John Le CarreISBN 0816130906 (0-8161-3090-6)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Sons And Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0809593823 (0-8095-9382-3)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons and Lovers'Book summary:"They're my houses, those two," said the mother-in-law. "And not clear either. It's as much as I can do to keep the mortgage interest paid." Gertrude sat white and silent. She was her father now. -- "Then we ought to be paying you rent," she said coldly. -- "Walter is paying me rent," replied the mother. -- "And what rent?" asked Gertrude. -- "Six and six a week," retorted the mother. It was more than the house was worth. Gertrude held her head erect, looked straight before her. -- "It is lucky to be you," said the elder woman, bitingly, "to have a husband as takes all the worry of the money, and leaves you a free hand." The young wife was silent. She said very little to her husband, but her manner had changed towards him. Something in her proud, honorable soul had crystallized out hard as rock. [via]
Strong Poisonby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0816130426 (0-8161-3042-6)
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Studs Loniganby James T. FarrellISBN 0814907911 (0-8149-0791-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Sulaby Toni MorrisonISBN 0833555405 (0-8335-5540-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sula'Book summary:Toni Morrison's highly acclaimed novel Sula is as gripping on audiotape as it is on paper. The Nobel Prize-winning writer narrates the unabridged version of the book in a rich, soothing voice that mesmerizes listeners with its relaxed and methodical cadence. Sula revolves around the relationship between two little girls growing up in a poor, black neighbourhood nestled high in the hilltops. "The Bottom", as the barrio came to be known, is brimming with eccentric residents but sadly deprived of human warmth (the town actually takes pride in celebrating National Suicide Day). However, out of this bitter, abrasive environment grows a beautiful friendship between Sula and Nel. Their shared secrets and dreams blossom through childhood, but their special bond suffers after the two separate. Sula leaves the Bottom to conquer the unknown cities of America, while Nel becomes a homebody, settling down as a wife and mother. When Sula returns to her hometown, she feels like a stranger; she repels everyone, even the only true friend she ever knew. Morrison's vocal range evokes an extraordinary atmosphere of survival in a harsh and unforgiving world. [via]
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Thinnerby Richard Bachman, Stephen King AkaISBN 0816140219 (0-8161-4021-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thinner'Book summary:After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wasting malady and must undertake a nightmarish journey to confront the forces of death. Movie tie-in. Book available. [via]
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Thinnerby Stephen KingISBN 0808565648 (0-8085-6564-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thinner'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wasting malady and must undertake a nightmarish journey to confront the forces of death. [via]
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre DumasISBN 0822211408 (0-8222-1140-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel'Book summary:Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each titleoffering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.[via]
This edition of The Three Musketeers includes a Biographical Note by Stephen Brust.
Giant Porthos; elegant Aramis; mysterious, haunted Athos: they are fearless, loyal and unstoppable. They're also rogues, seducers and swindlers. But when thousands will die in a war fought over lost love, and lethal royal intrigues are daily events, people don't just need heroes-They need legends.
Armed only with quick wits and a lightning sword, young D'Artagnan just wants to serve with the King's Musketeers. He soon finds himself saving his queen from the subtle, deadly traps of her enemy, Cardinal Richelieu, and Richelieu's agent, the sadistic, beautiful monster Milady. Now Porthos, Aramis and Athos must keep the boy and his lover from being crushed in an international clash of political titans....
But can even the Three Musketeers help D'Artagnan save himself from the insane hatred of Milady's revenge?More editions of The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel:
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Tombs of Atuanby Ursula K. Le Guin, Gail GarratyISBN 0816144303 (0-8161-4430-3)
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 0809589885 (0-8095-8988-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette: Library Edition'Book summary:When I was a girl I went to Bretton about twice a year, and well I liked the visit. The house and its inmates specially suited me. The large peaceful rooms, the well-arranged furniture, the clear wide windows, the balcony outside, looking down on a fine antique street, where Sundays and holidays seemed always to abide -- so quiet was its atmosphere, so clean its pavement -- these things pleased me well. One child in a household of grown people is usually made very much of, and in a quiet way I was a good deal taken notice of by Mrs. Bretton, who had been left a widow, with one son, before I knew her; her husband, a physician, having died while she was yet a young and handsome woman. . . . [via]
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The Wapshot Chronicleby John CheeverISBN 0809437333 (0-8094-3733-3)
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A Widow for One Year: A Novelby John IrvingISBN 0812968573 (0-8129-6857-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Widow for One Year: A Novel'Book summary:John Irving fans will not be startled to find that A Widow for One Year is a sprawling farce-tragedy crawling with characters who are writers. In the opening scene, 4-year-old Ruth Cole walks in on her melancholy mother, Marion, who is in flagrante with 16-year-old Eddie, the driver for drunken Ted (Ruth's dad and Marion's estranged, womanizing husband).
Eddie spends the rest of his life obsessively writing novels like Sixty Times, his roman à clef about his 60 seductions by Marion. Ted is a failed novelist who gets rich and famous writing creepy children's stories based on tales he tells Ruth (such as The Mouse Crawling Between the Walls). Marion abandons Ruth, Ted, and Eddie and becomes a successful pseudonymous novelist. And Ruth becomes the most richly celebrated writer of them all because of her early training by Ted, who not only told her stories, but also helped her craft narratives to explain their home's many photographs of her brothers, who died in a gory car wreck the year before she was born. Grief over the boys is why Ruth's mother does not dare to love her.
Ruth, Irving's first female main character, works brilliantly, first as an imaginative, almost Salingeresque child coming to terms with her bewildering family, then as a grownup striving to understand her mother's motives--or at least to track her down. Ted is a mordantly funny caricature, interestingly sinister and plausibly self-justifying when most inexcusable. Eddie is a lovable schlemiel, yet not too sentimentally drawn. And what set pieces Irving can write! The story of the boys' death is horrific and effective in dramatizing the character of Ted, who narrates it. Ted's attempted murder by a spurned lover is as hilarious as the VW-down-the-marble-stairway scene in A Prayer for Owen Meany (which has been adapted by Disney Studios), though not quite on a par with the celebrated "Pension Grillparzer" episode in The World According to Garp (reissued in a 20th anniversary edition by Modern Library).
Irving has the effrontery to get away with practically any scene that comes into his head--Ruth winds up an eyewitness to a hooker's murder in Amsterdam, a Dutch detective starts tracking her down (just as Ruth is hunting Marion), and the multiple plot strands all converge in a finale that neatly echoes the opening scene. It's all done with the outrageously coincidental yet minutely realistic brio of Charles Dickens, with a sad, self-conscious jokiness like that of Irving's mentor, Kurt Vonnegut. --Tim Appelo [via]
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