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Angle of Reposeby Wallace StegnerISBN 0606218971 (0-606-21897-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Arm of the Starfishby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0606002901 (0-606-00290-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules VerneISBN 0553213563 (0-553-21356-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:Can Phileas Fogg travel round the world in eighty days? He bets all his money that he can, but he doesn't know that someone wants to stop him. Will he make it back to London in time? [via]
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- Round the World in Eighty Days: ISBN 0582426650 (0-582-42665-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - Around the World in Eighty Days: ISBN 0603030130 (0-603-03013-0)
Hardcover, Dean & Son - Around the World in Eighty Days: ISBN 0553211455 (0-553-21145-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Around the World in Eighty Days: ISBN 0582096715 (0-582-09671-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley - Around the World in Eighty Days: ISBN 059043053X (0-590-43053-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - Around the World in Eighty Days: ISBN 0553213563 (0-553-21356-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
- Round the World in Eighty Days: ISBN 0582426650 (0-582-42665-0)
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Atlas Shruggedby Ayn RandISBN 0525948929 (0-525-94892-9)
Hardcover, E P Dutton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlas Shrugged'Book summary:[via]This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor - and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story." "Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life - from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy - to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction - to the philosopher who becomes a pirate - to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph - to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad - to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels." This is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder - and rebirth - of man's spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events.
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Babel-17by Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0553201565 (0-553-20156-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babel-17'Book summary:The invader's battle code contained a deadly secret.
Babel-17 winner of the Nebula Award for 1966.
A brilliant poet and her colorful crew range the galaxy to solve the riddle of a language that has become a deadly weapon in the hands of the enemy.
This revised Bantam edition (0-553-20156-5) can be considered by the author's choice: "... Bantam Books has kindly allowed me to restore certain typographical complexities ... that Babel-17's initial publisher was unable to include..." -- S.R.Delany
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The Bachman Booksby Stephen KingISBN 0606037225 (0-606-03722-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Black and Blueby Anna QuindlenISBN 0613123123 (0-613-12312-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black and Blue'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1998: "The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old," begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. "Frannie, Frannie, Fran"--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen appliances--was a young, energetic nursing student when she met her husband-to-be at a local Brooklyn bar. She was instantly captivated by his dark, brooding looks and magnetic personality, but her fascination soon solidified into a marital prison sentence of incessant abuse and the destruction of her own identity. After an especially horrific beating and rape, Fran realizes that the next attack could be the last. Fearing her son would be left alone with Bobby, she escapes one morning with her child. Fran's salvation comes in the form of Patty Bancroft and Co., a relocation agency for abused women that touts better service than the witness protection program. Armed only with a phone number, a few hundred dollars, and the help of several anonymous volunteers, Fran begins a new life. The agency relocates her to Florida, where she becomes Beth Crenshaw, a recently divorced home-care assistant from Delaware. Fran and her son adapt, meeting challenges with unexpected resilience and resolve until their past returns to haunt them. Quindlen renders the intricacies of spousal abuse with eerie accuracy, taking the reader deep within the realm of dysfunctional human ties. However, her vivid descriptions of abuse, emotional disintegration, and acute loneliness at times numb the reader with their realism. [via]
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Bostoniansby Henry JamesISBN 0553211536 (0-553-21153-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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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]More editions of Bostonians:
Call for the Deadby John Le CarreISBN 0582535468 (0-582-53546-8)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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Cannery Rowby John SteinbeckISBN 0553278231 (0-553-27823-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cannery Row'Book summary:Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Floods bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist who ministers to sick puppies and unhappy souls, unexpectedly finds true love. Cannery Row is just a few blocks long, but the story it harbors is suffused with warmth, understanding, and a great fund of human values.[via]First published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it isboth the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. John Steinbeck draws on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, and interweaves their stories in this world where only the fittest survivecreating what is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works. In Cannery Row, John Steinbeck returns to the setting of Tortilla Flat to create another evocative portrait of life as it is lived by those who unabashedly put the highest value on the intangibleshuman warmth, camaraderie, and love.
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A Canticle for Leibowitzby Miller, Walter M., Jr.ISBN 0553379267 (0-553-37926-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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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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A Canticle for Leibowitzby Walter M. MillerISBN 0553273817 (0-553-27381-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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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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The Children of Menby P. D. JamesISBN 0571167411 (0-571-16741-1)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children of Men'Book summary:Set in the future, this book portrays an England where human infertility has spread. By 2021 no babies have been born for 25 years - the aged are being driven to despair and suicide, the final generation are beautiful but violent and cruel and the middle-aged are trying to sustain normality. [via]
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Cider House Rulesby John IrvingISBN 0553258001 (0-553-25800-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider House Rules'Book summary:First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted. [via]
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Colour of Magicby Terry PratchettISBN 0552124753 (0-552-12475-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colour of Magic'Book summary:paperback, vg++ [via]
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The Complete Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0553328255 (0-553-32825-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1; Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2. 2 Vols. [via]
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Daniel Derondaby George EliotISBN 0586029990 (0-586-02999-0)
Hardcover, Panther
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Darkness at Noonby Arthur Koestler, Daphne HardyISBN 0553265954 (0-553-26595-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darkness at Noon'Book summary:Darkness At Noon stands as an unequaled fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. Almost unbearably vivid in its depiction of one man's solitary agony, Darkness At Noon asks questions about ends and means that have relevance not only for the past but for the perilous present. It isas the Times Literary Supplement has declared"A remarkable book, a grimly fascinating interpretation of the logic of the Russian Revolution, indeed of all revolutionary dictatorships, and at the same time a tense and subtly intellectualized drama..." [via]
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The Dead Zoneby Stephen KingISBN 0606019170 (0-606-01917-0)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Farthest Shoreby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0553268473 (0-553-26847-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Farthest Shore'Book summary:Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea cycle has become one of the best-loved fantasies of our time. The windswept world of Earthsea is one of the greatest creations in all fantasy literature, frequently compared with J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth or C.S. Lewis' Narnia. The magnificent saga begins with A Wizard Of Earthsea, continues in The Tombs Of Atuan and The Farthest Shore, and concludes with Tehanu --each book a treasure of wisdom, wonder, and literary wizardry. The magic had gone out of the world. All over Earthsea the mages had forgotten their spells, the springs of wizardry were running dry. Ged, Dragonlord and Archmage, set out with Arren, a highborn young prince, to seek the source of the darkness. This is the tale of their harrowing journey beyond the shores of death to heal a wounded land. [via]
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Five Little Peppers and How They Grewby Margaret SidneyISBN 059042520X (0-590-42520-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Flanders Panelby Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0553377868 (0-553-37786-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flanders Panel'Book summary:Julia, a young Madrid art restorer, is pulled into a shadowy world of metaphor when she discovers a long-covered inscription on a Flemish painting: Who killed the knight? Art, chess and murder are intertwined in this elegant, seductive mystery in the manner of The Name of the Rose. [via]
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Foundationby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553293354 (0-553-29335-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation'Book summary:One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon.
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the futurea dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empireboth scientists and scholarsand brings them to
a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.
But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankinds last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slavesor take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction. [via] 
Foundation and Empireby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553293370 (0-553-29337-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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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...?
From the Paperback edition. [via]
Gaudy Nightby Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 0575014091 (0-575-01409-1)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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God Emperor of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0606348158 (0-606-34815-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Gods Themselvesby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553288105 (0-553-28810-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gods Themselves'Book summary:Winner of the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. [via]
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Have His Carcaseby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0575006854 (0-575-00685-4)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Have Space Suit, Will Travel: Library Editionby Robert HeinleinISBN 0606004793 (0-606-00479-3)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Have Space Suit, Will Travel: Library Edition'Book summary:Kip Russell wants nothing more than to go to the moon. But after entering a contest to help realize his dream, he is thrust into a space adventure he could never have imagined--with the most unlikely of friends and enemies. A favorite among Heinlein readers.
"Here is superior science fiction."
The New York Times
"Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world."
Stephen King
"There is no other writer whose work has exhilarated me as often and to such an extent as Heinlein."
Dean Koontz
"One of the most influential writers in American Literature."
The New York Times Book Review
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Headlongby Michael FraynISBN 0571201474 (0-571-20147-4)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Headlong'Book summary:With its sumptuous surfaces and alluring sense of gravitas, classic Dutch painting has fascinated writers for centuries. It's easy to see why. Giant religious representations and gaudy classical scenes already have the weight of literature behind them. But an enigmatic portrait or dimly lit interior seems like a virtual incubator for narrative, and now Michael Frayn joins the Netherlandish fray in Headlong, which features a Bruegel canvas in the starring role.
The other star of the novel is youngish art historian Martin Clay (a Hugh Grant character gone to fat), who identifies the lost Bruegel in a tumbledown country home. The picture elicits an immediate shock of recognition:
Already, somewhere in those first few instants, something has begun to stir inside me. In my head, in the pit of my stomach. It's as if the sun's emerging from the clouds, and the world's changing in front of my eyes, from grey to golden. I can feel the warmth of the sunlight spreading over my skin, passing like a wave of beneficence through my entire body.
The sight of this masterwork glimmering through the "grimy pane of time" fires up Martin's customarily dilettantish intellect, and he decides to secure it for the nation--and make himself a fortune--without revealing its true value to the owner. Much double-dealing, bamboozling, and suppressed hysteria ensue as he and the owner try to outfox each other. Yet the heart of the novel is Martin's search for the meaning of the painting that has become his "triumph and torment and downfall." Bouncing from gallery to museum to library, he delivers an extended (and entertaining) lesson on iconography and landscape.As Martin's obsession takes hold, the pace of the novel also accelerates into a breathless rush of action, comic anguish, and scholarly speculation. Not surprisingly, some of Martin's machinations go haywire, which leads to a certain amount of irritating slapstick--shady deals in underground parking lots, art treasures being tipped into the back of a filthy Land Rover, and so forth. But even if he makes his plot work overtime, Frayn is superb in the quest for the meaning of art, not to mention the lure of money and intellectual reputation. And for that alone, Headlong deserves to be called picture perfect. --Eithne Farry [via]
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The Hollow Hillsby Mary StewartISBN 0606189947 (0-606-18994-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hollow Hills'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. First book in the Merlin series. The spellbinding, suspenseful story of how Merlin helped Arthur become King of all Britain. [via]
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsby Maya AngelouISBN 0553279378 (0-553-27937-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'Book summary:In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant." [via]
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Softcover, Ballantine Books - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: ISBN 0553256157 (0-553-25615-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: ISBN 0553279378 (0-553-27937-8)
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Indian Killerby Sherman AlexieISBN 0606253009 (0-606-25300-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 0553213539 (0-553-21353-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:Kindle edition of Wells' classic novel. The story tells the tale of Griffin, a scientist who theorises that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will be invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result. This edition includes an active table of contents. [via]
Itby Stephen KingISBN 0606022341 (0-606-02234-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Jack of Shadowsby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0571101607 (0-571-10160-7)
Hardcover, Faber
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The Jungle Bookby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0582421152 (0-582-42115-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Book'Book summary:A family of wolves takes a little boy into their home in the jungle. The child learns and plays with the other cubs. But can he really live in the jungle? And will the dangerous tiger, Shere Khan, catch him? Rudyard Kipling's much-loved tale of jungle animals with real personalities is popular with readers of all ages. [via]
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The Jungle Books and Just So Storiesby Kipling RudyardISBN 0553211994 (0-553-21199-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Books and Just So Stories'Book summary:First published in 1894 and 1895, The Jungle Books remain some of the most beloved tales of all time. Adored by readers of all ages, these classic stories in two volumes spin the unforgettable story of Mowglia boy raised by a pack of wolvesas he learns indelible lessons about the laws of the jungle as well as the needs of the heart. Through Mowglis journey, readers also meet the tiger Shere Khan, who stalks man and beast alike, the rock python Kaa, who dispenses wisdom, and the aging wolf Akela, who struggles as his leadership of the pack is challenged. Set in India, Kiplings great masterpiece is an allegory for Britains imperialism, filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters. The mythic tale of a boy looking for where he truly belongseither with the man-pack of the village or the wolf-pack of the wildThe Jungle Books touch both our intellect and our emotions, while Kiplings dazzling storytelling makes them the timeless archetype for popular tales to come. [via]
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Justineby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0571203973 (0-571-20397-3)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Justine'Book summary:Set amid the corrupt glamour and multiplying intrigues of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s, the novels of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" (of which this is the first) follow the shifting alliances - sexual, cultural and political - of a group of quite varied characters. [via]
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0553212605 (0-553-21260-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kidnapped'Book summary:After his parents die, young David Balfour goes to live with his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour. Ebenezer is an old man but dangerous. He puts David on a ship to America and a difficult time begins. Can the mysterious stranger on the ship help David? Or is life more dangerous with him than without him? [via]
Life Is Elsewhereby Milan KunderaISBN 0571197779 (0-571-19777-9)
Softcover, Faber & Faber
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Magister Ludiby Hermann HesseISBN 0553262378 (0-553-26237-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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A Man in Fullby Tom WolfeISBN 0553381334 (0-553-38133-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man in Full'Book summary:Ever since he published his classic 1972 essay "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore," Tom Wolfe has made his fictional preferences loud and clear. For New Journalism's poster boy, minimalism is a wash, not to mention a failure of nerve. The real mission of the American writer is to produce fat novels of social observation--the sort of thing Balzac would be dishing up if he had made it into the Viagra era. Wolfe's manifesto would have had a hubristic ring if he hadn't actually delivered the goods in 1987 with The Bonfire of the Vanities. Now, more than a decade later, he's back with a second novel. Has the Man in White lived up to his own mission?
On many counts, the answer would have to be yes. Like its predecessor, A Man in Full is a big-canvas work, in which a multitude of characters seems to be ascending or (rapidly) descending the greasy pole of social life: "In an era like this one," a character reminds us, "the twentieth century's fin de siècle, position was everything, and it was the hardest thing to get." Wolfe has changed terrain on us, to be sure. Instead of New York, the focus here is Atlanta, Georgia, where the struggle for turf and power is at least slightly patinated with Deep South gentility. The plot revolves around Charlie Croker, an egomaniacal good ol' boy with a crumbling real-estate empire on his hands. But Wolfe is no less attentive to a pair of supporting players: a downwardly mobile family man, Conrad Hensley, and Roger White II, an African American attorney at a white-shoe firm. What ultimately causes these subplots to converge--and threatens to ignite a racial firestorm in Atlanta--is the alleged rape of a society deb by Georgia Tech football star Fareek "The Cannon" Fanon.
Of course, a detailed plot summary would be about as long as your average minimalist novel. Suffice it to say that A Man in Full is packed with the sort of splendid set pieces we've come to expect from Wolfe. A quail hunt on Charlie's 29,000-acre plantation, a stuffed-shirt evening at the symphony, a politically loaded press conference--the author assembles these scenes with contagious delight. The book is also very, very funny. The law firms, like upper-crust powerhouse Fogg Nackers Rendering & Lean, are straight out of Dickens, and Wolfe brings even his minor characters, like professional hick Opey McCorkle, to vivid life:
In true Opey McCorkle fashion he had turned up for dinner wearing a plaid shirt, a plaid necktie, red felt suspenders, and a big old leather belt that went around his potbelly like something could hitch up a mule with, but for now he had cut off his usual torrent of orotund rhetoric mixed with Baker Countyisms.
Readers in search of a kinder, gentler Wolfe may well be disappointed. Retaining the satirist's (necessary) superiority to his subject, he tends to lose his edge precisely when he's trying to move us. Still, when it comes to maximalist portraiture of the American scene--and to sheer, sentence-by-sentence amusement--1998 looks to be the year of the Wolfe, indeed. --James Marcus [via] 
A Man in Full Pt. 1 : A Novelby Tom WolfeISBN 0553580930 (0-553-58093-0)
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The Man in the High Castleby Philip K. DickISBN 0575019581 (0-575-01958-1)
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Metamorphosisby Franz KafkaISBN 0553213695 (0-553-21369-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metamorphosis'Book summary:"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequecy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the mosst widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man." [via]
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The Metamorphosis: Including Selections from Kafka's Letters and Diaries and Critical Essaysby Franz Kafka, Stanley CorngoldISBN 055321196X (0-553-21196-X)
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The Moonstoneby Wilkie CollinsISBN 0553211560 (0-553-21156-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moonstone'Book summary:T.S. Eliot called `The Moonstone the first and greatest English detective novel. The novel is worthy of such praise.
The story begins with a brief prologue describing how the famous yellow diamond was captured during a military campaign in India by a British officer in 1799. The action moves quickly to 1848 England, where, according to the British officers will, the diamond has been given to one of the soldiers young relatives, Rachel Verinder. Yet only hours after the diamond arrives at the Verinder estate, it disappears. Was it stolen by a relative? A servant? And who are these three Indian men who keep hanging around the estate?
`The Moonstone is told from the point of view of several characters. The first portion of the tale is told by Gabriel Betteredge, house steward of the Verinder estate, who has been working for the family practically his entire life. Betteredges account holds the readers interest as he introduces the main players and the crime itself. The next account, by distant Verinder relative Miss Clack, is humorous and somewhat important. But after Miss Clacks account, things really take off at breakneck speed.
Readers who latch onto the T.S. Eliot quote expecting a modern detective tale will be sorely disappointed. You arent going to see anything resembling Jeffrey Deaver, James Patterson, Sue Grafton, or even Mary Higgins Clark. You also wont see Mickey Spillane, Dashiel Hammett, or Raymond Chandler. Nor will you see Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, or Martha Grimes. You wont even see Arthur Conan Doyle. But you WILL see the novel that influenced them all.
Youll also see something else. Something that modern mystery/detective writers have for the most part lost. Characters. Oh sure, modern writers have characters, but for the most part, the reader only learns enough about the character to forward the plot. In our time, plot is King. When `The Moonstone was published (1868), [via]
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Nicholas Nicklebyby Charles Dickens, Edgar JohnsonISBN 0553212656 (0-553-21265-6)
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The Nine Tailorsby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0575014083 (0-575-01408-3)
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The Pearlby John SteinbeckISBN 0553262610 (0-553-26261-0)
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In this short book illuminated by a deep understanding and love of humanity, John Steinbeck retells an old Mexican folk tale: the story of the great pearl, how it was found, and how it was lost. For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to the tragedy.For Steinbeck, Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems. Originally published in 1947, The Pearl shows why Steinbecks style has made him one of the most beloved American writers: it is a simple story of simple people, recounted with the warmth and sincerity and unrivaled craftsmanship Steinbeck brings to his writing. It is tragedy in the great tradition, beautifully conveying not despair but hope for mankind.
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The Pelican Briefby Robin Waterfield, John GrishamISBN 0582417961 (0-582-41796-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pelican Brief'Book summary:John Grisham's head was full of movies when he wrote The Pelican Brief, which is such a brisk page-turner you could use it to dry your hair. He had Julia Roberts in mind for the heroine, Darby Shaw, a brilliant Tulane law student who comes up with an ingenious theory to explain the baffling assassinations of two Supreme Court justices in one day. They were shot and strangled by ace international terrorist Khamel, who loves the film Three Days of the Condor, but government gumshoes don't get what connects the deaths. Silly government guys! They died so the conservative president, who just wants to be left alone to play golf, will appoint new, conservative justices who will help out a case involving an industrialist who is the enemy of pelicans and other living things. It's all spelled out for them in Darby's brief. She likes to do legal feats to impress her boyfriend, her boyish law prof Thomas (who, like Grisham, prefers to shave at most once a week, and is cool, smart, and antiauthoritarian). The prof likes to paint her toes red, in homage to Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham. (Sarandon also starred in the film version of Grisham's The Client.)
But when Thomas gets splattered by a car bomb meant for Darby, she escapes the hospital and hooks up with a Washington Post reporter, Gray Grantham, who sleuths like the guys in All the President's Men.
Grisham wishes he hadn't written The Pelican Brief quite so quickly (his first novel, A Time to Kill, went through dozens of drafts), but Pelican's very breathlessness contributes to its dreamy, cinematic chase-o-rama atmosphere. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0553212540 (0-553-21254-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Round the World in Eighty Daysby Penguin, H. E. PalmerISBN 0582427207 (0-582-42720-7)
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 0553214020 (0-553-21402-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'Book summary:very good//near new copy--ships quick-nan56 [via]
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. LewisISBN 0553214438 (0-553-21443-8)
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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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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozenby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0553212419 (0-553-21241-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen'Book summary:Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Novels and Stories
Volume I
Since his first appearance in Beetons Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyles classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmess adventures in crime!
Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmess famous seven percent solution and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery.
Also included are Holmess feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling The Adventure of the Speckled Band, the baffling riddle of The Musgrave Ritual, and the ingeniously plotted The Five Orange Pips, tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time. [via]More editions of Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen:
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Shogunby James ClavellISBN 061301328X (0-613-01328-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shogun'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A narrative of conflicting cultures, loyalties, motivations, and traditions in early 17th-century Japan, involving the power-hungry Lord Toranaga, the Lady Mariko, and the ambitious Englishman, Blackthorne. [via]
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Smiley's People : A Novelby John Le CarréISBN 0553264877 (0-553-26487-7)
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Snowby Orhan Pamuk, Maureen FreelyISBN 057121830X (0-571-21830-X)
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Sons and Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0553211927 (0-553-21192-7)
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The Spy Who Came in from the Coldby John Le CarreISBN 0553264427 (0-553-26442-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'Book summary:It would be an international crime to reveal too much of the jeweled clockwork plot of Le Carré's first masterpiece, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. But we are at liberty to disclose that Graham Greene called it the "finest spy story ever written," and that the taut tale concerns Alec Leamas, a British agent in early Cold War Berlin. Leamas is responsible for keeping the double agents under his care undercover and alive, but East Germans start killing them, so he gets called back to London by Control, his spy master. Yet instead of giving Leamas the boot, Control gives him a scary assignment: play the part of a disgraced agent, a sodden failure everybody whispers about. Control sends him back out into the cold--deep into Communist territory to checkmate the bad-guy spies on the other side. The political chessboard is black and white, but in human terms the vicinity of the Berlin Wall is a moral no-man's land, a gray abyss patrolled by pawns.
Le Carré beats most spy writers for two reasons. First, he knows what he's talking about, since he raced around working for British Intelligence while the Wall went up. He's familiar with spycraft's fascinations, but also with the fact that it leaves ideals shaken and emotions stirred. Second, his literary tone has deep autobiographical roots. Spying is about betrayal, and Le Carré was abandoned by his mother and betrayed by his father, a notorious con man. (They figure heavily in his novels Single & Single and A Perfect Spy.) In a world of lies, Le Carré writes the bitter truth: it's every man for himself. And may the best mask win. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Stars, Like Dustby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553293435 (0-553-29343-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stars, Like Dust'Book summary:A story of galactic intrigue and adventure, this is the second novel of the Galactic Empire, the period between our own time and the universe of Asimov's "Foundation" series. Mankind has conquered space and moved toward the starry heart of the galaxy. [via]
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Startide Risingby David BrinISBN 055327418X (0-553-27418-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Startide Rising'Book summary:David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind?
The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed in the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history. Below, a handful of her human and dolphin crew battles armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard her secret--the fate of the Progenitors, the fabled First Race who seeded wisdom throughout the stars. [via]More editions of Startide Rising:
Sulaby Toni MorrisonISBN 055320517X (0-553-20517-X)
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The Thief's Journalby Jean GenetISBN 0571103804 (0-571-10380-4)
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Thinnerby Stephen KingISBN 0606007768 (0-606-00776-8)
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The Thirty-Nine Steps: Level 4by John BuchanISBN 0582416418 (0-582-41641-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thirty-Nine Steps: Level 4'Book summary:"Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]
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The Three Musketeersby Alexandre DumasISBN 0553212176 (0-553-21217-6)
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre DumasISBN 0553213377 (0-553-21337-7)
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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:Product Details Paperback Publisher: Bantam Classics (1984) Language: English ISBN-10: 0553213377 ISBN-13: 978-0553213379 ASIN: B006U1RHYA Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 4.2 x 6.9 inches Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces [via]
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The Tombs of Atuanby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0553239031 (0-553-23903-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tombs of Atuan'Book summary:Often compared to Tolkien's Middle-earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu) tell the whole Earthsea cycle--a tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who becomes a wizard's apprentice after the wizard reveals Sparrowhawk's true name. The boy comes to realize that his fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible. Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world. Teens, especially, will be inspired by the way Le Guin allows her characters to evolve and grow into their own powers.
In this second book of Le Guin's Earthsea series, readers will meet Tenar, a priestess to the "Nameless Ones" who guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan. Only Tenar knows the passageways of this dark labyrinth, and only she can lead the young wizard Sparrowhawk, who stumbles into its maze, to the greatest treasure of all. Will she? [via]
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Vby Thomas PynchonISBN 0553246860 (0-553-24686-0)
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 0553212435 (0-553-21243-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette: Library Edition'Book summary:With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquetter. This first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journeya journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature. [via]
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War and Remembranceby Herman WoukISBN 0606125671 (0-606-12567-1)
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When Harlie Was Oneby David GerroldISBN 0553264656 (0-553-26465-6)
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Ojos de Fuegoby Stephen KingISBN 0609810871 (0-609-81087-1)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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