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Acid Rowby Minette WaltersISBN 0515135828 (0-515-13582-8)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acid Row'Book summary:A writer of unquestioned talent and power, Minette Walters has electrified readers around the globe with her fiercely compelling and utterly riveting thrillers that have earned her comparisons to Ruth Rendell and P. D. James. In Acid Row, she takes us to a place that is all the more frightening because it is so real.
Acid Row. The name beleaguered inhabitants give their crime-riddled, decaying housing project. It's a no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children, where angry, alienated youths control the streets.
Into this battleground comes Sophie Morrison, a young doctor visiting a patient there-and unaware that she is entering the home of a known pedophile. With reports circulating that a child has disappeared into this bedlam, the vigilantes are out in force. Sophie is trapped at the center of this terrifying siege, wth a man who can and will harm her . . . and the mob is out for blood. [via] 
All Around the Townby Mary Higgins ClarkISBN 1581650620 (1-58165-062-0)
Hardcover, Literary Express
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- All Around the Town: ISBN 0671793489 (0-671-79348-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - All Around the Town: ISBN 0671673653 (0-671-67365-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - All Around the Town: ISBN 0671792334 (0-671-79233-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - All Around the Town: ISBN 1581650620 (1-58165-062-0)
Hardcover, Literary Express
- All Around the Town: ISBN 0671793489 (0-671-79348-9)
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The Annotated Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679727299 (0-679-72729-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Lolita'Book summary:In 1954 Vladimir Nabokov asked one American publisher to consider "a firebomb that I have just finished putting together." The explosive device: Lolita, his morality play about a middle-aged European's obsession with a 12-year-old American girl. Two years later, the New York Times called it "great art." Other reviewers staked a higher moral ground (the editor of the London Sunday Express declaring it "the filthiest book I've ever read"). Since then, the sinuous novel has never ceased to astound. Even Nabokov was astonished by its place in the popular imagination. One biographer writes that "he was quite shocked when a little girl of eight or nine came to his door for candy on Halloween, dressed up by her parents as Lolita." And when it came time to casting the film, Nabokov declared, "Let them find a dwarfess!"
The character Lolita's power now exists almost separately from the endlessly inventive novel. If only it were read as often as it is alluded to. Alfred Appel Jr., editor of the annotated edition, has appended some 900 notes, an exhaustive, good-humored introduction, and a recent preface in which he admits that the "reader familiar with Lolita can approach the apparatus as a separate unit, but the perspicacious student who keeps turning back and forth from text to Notes risks vertigo." No matter. The notes range from translations to the anatomical to the complex textual. Appel is also happy to point out the Great Punster's supposedly unintended word play: he defends the phrase "Beaver Eaters" as "a portmanteau of 'Beefeaters' (the yeoman of the British royal guard) and their beaver hats." [via]
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The Apprenticeby Lewis LibbyISBN 1555972454 (1-55597-245-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Apprentice'Book summary:Setsuo is a young apprentice at a remote mountain inn in turn-of-the-century Japan, who falls in love at first sight of the beautiful Yukiko, one of a roving band of actors who have come to stay. Trapped at the inn by a blizzard is a larger group of strange travelers. Emotionally wrought by his feelings for Yukiko, Setsuo cannot see that he is getting involved in political skulduggery as he tries to fathom the increasingly odd behavior of the guests. The finding of a corpse and a mysterious small box keep the reader guessing too. [via]
Belindaby Anne Rice, Anne RamplingISBN 0425176657 (0-425-17665-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Belindaby Anne RamplingISBN 0877958262 (0-87795-826-2)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Belinda'Book summary:An erotic and controversial tale of seduction and obsession from the best-selling author of Exit to Eden. Belinda is the ultimate fantasy. A golden-haired object of desire, fresh and uninhibited. But to Jeremy Walker, a handsome and famous 44-year old illustrator of children's books, Belinda is a forbidden passion, both beguiling and bewitching. [via]
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Blue Shoeby Anne LamottISBN 1573223425 (1-57322-342-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Shoe'Book summary:One of the few progressive Christian writers with a national voice, Anne Lamott's work (Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions) ranges from the meditative to the hilarious. Blue Shoe falls somewhere in the middle of that range. A slow, thoughtful novel, rooted in the domestic routines of child-raising, Blue Shoe follows the newly separated Mattie Ryder as she moves back into her childhood home, recently vacated by her elderly mother, and undertakes the renovation of her entire life. Her best friend Angela has left the San Francisco Bay area to move in with her new lover, Julie. Mattie's ex-husband, Nicky, has settled so quickly into a steady relationship with a young woman named Lee that it is clear they were involved during his marriage to Mattie. Nicky and Mattie's two children are displaying signs of emotional disturbance (Lamott is at her best in describing the quietly weird behavior of young children). And to add to the mix, Mattie's mother is falling into a senile dementia characterized by pleading phone calls and wacky assertions of independence. All Mattie wants is a little more money, a decent boyfriend, and for her philandering father to rise from his grave and solve all her problems. Is that so much to ask? Some of the action in this novel could have been compressed, and the major subplot involving Mattie's father fails to excite, but the strengths of Blue Shoe--humor, unflinching characterization, and keen observation--more than compensate for its weaknesses. --Regina Marler [via]
Capri Fileby Amanda PranteraISBN 0747557918 (0-7475-5791-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Courage to Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform and the Future of the Churchby George WeigelISBN 0465092616 (0-465-09261-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Courage to Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform and the Future of the Church'Book summary:The Catholic Church in America is in a state of crisis. Yet few understand what the crisis really is, why it happened, or how the Church must respond to it. As no other commentator or critic has done, George Weigel situates the current crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance in the context of recent Catholic history. With honesty and critical rigor, he reveals the Church's failure to embrace the true spiritual promise of Vatican II, a failure that has resulted in the gradual but steady surrender to liberal culture that he dubs "Catholic Lite." Drawing upon his unparalleled knowledge of how the Church works, both in America and in Rome, Weigel exposes the patterns of dissent and self-deception that became entrenched in seminaries, among priests, and ultimately among the bishops who failed their flock by thinking like managers instead of apostles. But, Weigel reminds us, in the Biblical world a "crisis" is a time of great opportunity, an invitation to deeper faith. Every great crisis of the Church's past, from the Dark Ages to the Reformation, has resulted in a period of reform that returned the Church-and its priesthood-to its roots. Weigel sets forth an agenda for genuine reform that challenges seminarians, priests, bishops, and the laity to lead more integrally Catholic lives. As he argues so persuasively, the answer to the present crisis will not be found in "Catholic Lite" but in classic Catholicism: a Catholicism that has reclaimed the wisdom of the past in order to face the corruptions of the present and create a strong future.[via]More editions of The Courage to Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform and the Future of the Church:
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A Drink Before the Warby Dennis LehaneISBN 0156029022 (0-15-602902-2)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Drink Before the War'Book summary:Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential Statehouse documents. But finding Jenna proves easy compared to staying alive once they have. The investigation escalates, implicating members of Jenna's family and rival gang leaders, while uncovering extortion, assassination, and child prostitution extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of state government. [via]
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A Drink Before the War/Darkness, Take My Handby Dennis LehaneISBN 006117226X (0-06-117226-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The End of Aliceby A. M. HomesISBN 0684827107 (0-684-82710-7)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The End of Alice'Book summary:The narrator is Chappy, a pedophile who's been locked up in Sing Sing for 23 years for the rape and decapitation of 12-year-old Alice. The tale alternates between Chappy's own story (both outside and inside of prison), and letters he receives from a 19-year-old girl who knows of Alice's fate and wants to start playing with 12-year-old boys. The girl's letters disturb Chappy, bringing his memories vividly to the fore. In prose that is both lyrical and horrifyingly direct, A.M. "Amy" Homes takes us into the minds of the correspondents. Chappy is bright, analytical, and reminiscent of Nabokov in the way he talks about his "Lolita." But the sex is graphic and often bizarre, and the author's tone is chilly, so it's not a book to be picked up lightly. As Daphne Merkin writes in the New York Times, it's a "splashy, not particularly likable book whose best moments are quietly observed and whose underlying themes are more serious than prurient." [via]
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Thingsby J. T. LeroyISBN 1582342113 (1-58234-211-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things'Book summary:The extraordinary stories that brought the author a cult following at the age of sixteen.[via]
Circulated copies of LeRoy's handwritten notebook pages brought early attention to the then unpublished author. In print for the first time, these loosely connected autobiographical stories describe the harrowing experiences of a young boy's life on the run. From the heartbreaking "Meteor," where he struggles for the attention of his wandering mother, to the paranoia of "Coal"-'Whenever things feel out of control I know the black coal is doing it, and I know what to do, my mom taught me'-to living on the streets of San Francisco in "Natoma Street," JT LeRoy's voice is as lyrical and nuanced as the readers of his acclaimed debut novel Sarah have come to expect. Fresh, raw, and absolutely unforgettable, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things is sure to establish LeRoy as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary fiction.More editions of The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things:
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Hoggby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 1573661198 (1-57366-119-8)
Softcover, Fc2/Black Ice Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hogg'Book summary:Acclaimed winner of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature, Samuel R. Delany wrote Hogg three decades ago. Since then it has been one of America's most famous 'unpublishable' novels. The subject matter of Hogg is our culture of sexual violence and degeneration. Delany explores his disturbing protagonist Hogg on his own turf--rape, pederasty, sexual excess--exposing an area of violence and sexual abuse from the inside. As such, it is a brave book.[via] -
How I Learned to Driveby Paula VogelISBN 082221623X (0-8222-1623-X)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How I Learned to Drive'Book summary:The 1950s pop music accompanying Li'l Bit's excursion down memory lane cannot drown out the ghosts of her past. Sweet recollections of driving with her beloved uncle intermingle with lessons about the darker sides of life. Balmy evenings are fraught with danger; seductions happen anywhere. Li'l Bit navigates a narrow path between the demands of family and her own sense of right and wrong. [via]
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Incestby Marquis De SadeISBN 1843910306 (1-84391-030-6)
Softcover, Hesperus Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incest'Book summary:[via]Incest is a chilling tale of sexual experimentation and philosophical exploration carried to its most logicaland devastatingextreme. Marquis de Sades semi-autobiographical protagonist, Monsieur de Franval, is rich, handsome, intelligent, and thoroughly immoral. When he marries a pious woman and fathers a daughter, he is determined to educate his progeny to be free. The ultimate proof of his daughters unfettered liberty? That she become his secret lover. But when the beautiful and accomplished daughter spurns an eligible young bachelor, instead declaring her intention to remain with her father, her naïve and doting mothers suspicions are at last aroused. Confused and distressed by her daughters behavior, Madame de Franval confronts her husbandwith tragic results. A challenging and breathtaking masterpiece, Incest is a sober portrait of catastrophe in the midst of excess.More editions of Incest:
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Junkyby William S. Burroughs, Allen GinsbergISBN 0140043519 (0-14-004351-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Junky'Book summary:[via]Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground. For this definitive 50th-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly re-created the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts. Here for the first time are Burroughs's own unpublished Introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lost" passages and auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others. Harris's comprehensive Introduction reveals the composition history of Junk's text and places its contents against a lively historical background.
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughsby William S. Burroughs, James GrauerholzISBN 0802137784 (0-8021-3778-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs'Book summary:Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, the author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Last Words is a complex portrait of Burroughs at the end of his life, coming to terms with aging and death. While laid out as simple diary entries of the last nine months of his life, Last Words spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction. Classic Burroughs concerns - his rants on U.S. drug policy, his contempt for the state of the human race, his love for his cats - permeate the book. Burroughs breaks into classic "routines" and provides frequent commentary on whatever he is reading - from high literature to low-brow thrillers. Whether occupied with the banalities of life (housekeeping, dealing with doctors) or the glories (shooting a video with U2, opening a museum show of his paintings), the "Old Man" emerges as frequently comical, sometimes meditative, and always engaged-a commentator on the state of the world and the self. Most significantly, Last Words contains some of the most brutally personal prose Burroughs has ever written. His reflections on the deaths of his friends Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary provide a window onto the preparations Burroughs was making for his own death - a quest for absolution marked by a profound sense of guilt and loss. Last Words is unlike anything else in the oeuvre of William S. Burroughs. It is the purest, most personal work ever presented by this writer, and a poignant portrait of the man, his life, and his creative process-one that never quit, even in the shadow of death. [via]
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Light Before Dayby Christopher RiceISBN 1401359892 (1-4013-5989-2)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679723161 (0-679-72316-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita'Book summary:Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.
Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:
She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.
Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguistic jouissance is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of Lolita:
- Lolita: ISBN 0822206838 (0-8222-0683-8)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service - Lolita: ISBN 0297819100 (0-297-81910-0)
Hardcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited - Lolita: ISBN 0679410430 (0-679-41043-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Lolita: ISBN 0425099601 (0-425-09960-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Lolita: ISBN 0676514197 (0-676-51419-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Lolita: ISBN 0882332287 (0-88233-228-7)
Softcover, Ardis - Lolita: ISBN 0517388081 (0-517-38808-1)
Hardcover, Greenwich House - Lolita: ISBN 0783880804 (0-7838-8080-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - Lolita: ISBN 0679723161 (0-679-72316-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Lolita: ISBN 0822206838 (0-8222-0683-8)
Lolitaby Harold BloomISBN 0791009610 (0-7910-0961-0)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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The Lovely Bonesby Alice SeboldISBN 159413023X (1-59413-023-X)
Softcover, Thorndike Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lovely Bones: A Novel'Book summary:On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case.
As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams", where "there were no teachers... We never had to go inside except for art class... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue".
The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow".
Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons, Amazon.com [via]
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- The Lovely Bones: ISBN 1417622342 (1-4176-2234-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Lovely Bones: ISBN 0316166685 (0-316-16668-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company - The Lovely Bones: ISBN 0316168815 (0-316-16881-5)
Softcover, Back Bay Books - The Lovely Bones: ISBN 0316666343 (0-316-66634-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - The Lovely Bones: ISBN 0316170720 (0-316-17072-0)
Softcover, Hachette Book Group USA - The Lovely Bones: ISBN 0606309314 (0-606-30931-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Lovely Bones: A Novel: ISBN 159413023X (1-59413-023-X)
Softcover, Thorndike Press
- The Lovely Bones: ISBN 1417622342 (1-4176-2234-2)
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Mammary Plays: How I Learned to Drive and the Mineola Twinsby Paula Vogel, Paula How Learned to Drive VogelISBN 1559361441 (1-55936-144-1)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mammary Plays: How I Learned to Drive and the Mineola Twins'Book summary:Latest plays by the author of The Baltimore Waltz.[via]More editions of Mammary Plays: How I Learned to Drive and the Mineola Twins:
Mysterious Skinby Scott HeimISBN 0060841699 (0-06-084169-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Priestly Pedophilesby Earl K. WilkinsonISBN 3935508085 (3-935508-08-5)
Softcover, Book of Dreams
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Priestly Pedophiles'Book summary:In 1994, author Earl K. Wilkinson published a book, "People, Priests and Pedophiles," warning the Catholic Church that it had a problem because a number of priests within its ranks were pedophiles. The Church ignored this warning. Nearly ten years later, the Church was rocked to its foundation by the revelations that in the USA, not only were quite a high percentage of priests pedophiles, but they were allowed to continue to abuse children by their bishops covering up their crimes. The Church in the USA has not just suffered from loss of religious credibility, but also financial hardship, as many dioceses are forced into bankruptcy by the amounts of court-awarded compensation to victims of sexual abuse. Clearly, the Church has a problem. Clearly, solutions to this problem can only be achieved by finding and defining the problems. This book sets out to do just that - find and define the problems - in the sincere hope that it will assist the Church hierarchy to effectively eliminate them. "Why are the majority of religious pedophiles Catholic?" Are they? Fact or fiction? This book uses the latest research from many quarters in order to find the truth. "Why near nil cases in the Philippines?" That is a mystery, but explored at length. Maybe you will be shocked by the revelations. "Is celibacy the cause?" The expert views of many knowledgeable people are quoted and facts revealed. Earl K. Wilkinson carefully avoids pointing the finger of blame, but rather sensitively explores this area of shame in a sincere attempt that it will assist the Church, especially in the Philippines, to take the necessary steps to eliminate this evil from its house. A "must read" for every Catholic who cares about their Church. [via]
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Running With Scissors: A Memoirby Augusten BurroughsISBN 1417666943 (1-4176-6694-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Running With Scissors'Book summary:There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs's harrowing and highly entertaining memoir, Running with Scissors, that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped, glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. "I knew I could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctor's office," he writes, "And it certainly wouldn't be dirty after I polished it with Windex for three hours." There were certainly numerous chips in the childhood Burroughs describes: an alcoholic father, an unstable mother who gives him up for adoption to her therapist, and an adolescence spent as part of the therapist's eccentric extended family, gobbling prescription meds and fooling around with both an old electroshock machine and a pedophile who lives in a shed out back. But just as he dreamed of doing with that old table, Burroughs employs a vigorous program of decoration and fervent polishing to a life that many would have simply thrown in a landfill. Despite her abandonment, he never gives up on his increasingly unbalanced mother. And rather than despair about his lot, he glamorizes it: planning a "beauty empire" and performing an a capella version of "You Light Up My Life" at a local mental ward. Burroughs's perspective achieves a crucial balance for a memoir: emotional but not self-involved, observant but not clinical, funny but not deliberately comic. And it's ultimately a feel-good story: as he steers through a challenging childhood, there's always a sense that Burroughs's survivor mentality will guide him through and that the coffee table will be salvaged after all. --John Moe [via]
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- Running With Scissors: A Memoir: ISBN 1417684186 (1-4176-8418-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Running With Scissors: A Memoir: ISBN 031242227X (0-312-42227-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - Running With Scissors: A Memoir: ISBN 0312425414 (0-312-42541-4)
Softcover, Picador USA - Running With Scissors: ISBN 0312938853 (0-312-93885-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - Running With Scissors: A Memoir: ISBN 0312283709 (0-312-28370-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - Running with Scissors: A Memoir: ISBN 0312355645 (0-312-35564-5)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press - Running With Scissors: ISBN 1417666943 (1-4176-6694-3)
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- Running With Scissors: A Memoir: ISBN 1417684186 (1-4176-8418-6)
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Salem Fallsby Jodi PicoultISBN 0743418719 (0-7434-1871-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salem Falls'Book summary:When Jack St. Bride arrives by chance in the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls, he decides to reinvent himself. Tall, blond, and handsome, Jack was once a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school -- until a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation and robbed him of his reputation. Now, working for minimum wage washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-Or-Diner, Jack buries his past, content to become the mysterious stranger who has appeared out of the blue. Yet planting roots in Salem Falls may prove fateful for Jack.
Amid the white-painted centuries-old churches, a quartet of bored, privileged teenage girls have formed a coven that is crossing the line between amusement and malicious intent. Quick to notice the attractive new employee at Addie's diner, the girls turn Jack's world upside down with a shattering allegation that causes history to repeat itself.
Suddenly nothing in Salem Falls is as it seems: a safe haven turns dangerous, an innocent girl meets evil face-to-face, a dishwasher with a Ph.D. is revealed to be an ex-con. Now Addie, desperate for answers, must look into her heart -- and into Jack's lies and shadowy secrets -- for evidence that will condemn or redeem the man she has come to love. [via]
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Secret Life: An Autobiographyby Michael RyanISBN 0679767762 (0-679-76776-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Life : An Autobiography'Book summary:A candid but dispassionate memoir presents the experiences of a man who came of age in the 1950s and endured a lifelong struggle as a molested child, son of an alcoholic, and sexual deviant. 40,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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Touchedby Scott CampbellISBN 0553378228 (0-553-37822-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Placesby Peter NabokovISBN 0670034320 (0-670-03432-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places'Book summary:From the author of Native American Testimony comes a revelatory new look at the hallowed, diverse, and threatened landscapes of the American Indian
For thousands of years Native Americans have told stories about the powers of revered landscapes and sought spiritual direction at mysterious locations in their homelands. In Where the Lightning Strikes, Peter Nabokov offers sixteen "biographies of place" that dramatize the rich diversity of Indian cultures and their religious systems across North America. From the mountains of Maine to Tennessees Tellico Valley, from the Black Hills of South Dakota to Rainbow Canyon in Arizona to the high country of northwestern California, each chapter explores a host of relationships between Indian cultures and their environments and describes the myths, legends, practices, and rituals that sustained them.Based on years of research and personal experience, Where the Lightning Strikes reveals a range of holy lands containing beneficial as well as malevolent forces and reminds us of the stubborn persistence of Indian beliefs in the sacredness of the American earth. [via]
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White Oleanderby Janet FitchISBN 1410400816 (1-4104-0081-6)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Oleander'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1999: Astrid Magnussen, the teenage narrator of Janet Fitch's engrossing first novel, White Oleander, has a mother who is as sharp as a new knife. An uncompromising poet, Ingrid despises weakness and self-pity, telling her daughter that they are descendants of Vikings, savages who fought fiercely to survive. And when one of Ingrid's boyfriends abandons her, she illustrates her point, killing the man with the poison of oleander flowers. This leads to a life sentence in prison, leaving Astrid to teach herself the art of survival in a string of Los Angeles foster homes.
As Astrid bumps from trailer park to tract house to Hollywood bungalow, White Oleander uncoils her existential anxieties. "Who was I, really?" she asks. "I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was telling that day. There were so many missing pieces." Fitch adroitly leads Astrid down a path of sorting out her past and identity. In the process, this girl develops a wire-tight inner strength, gains her mother's white-blonde beauty, and achieves some measure of control over their relationship. Even from prison, Ingrid tries to mold her daughter. Foiling her, Astrid learns about tenderness from one foster mother and how to stand up for herself from another. Like the weather in Los Angeles--the winds of the Santa Anas, the scorching heat--Astrid's teenage life is intense. Fitch's novel deftly displays that, and also makes Astrid's life meaningful. --Katherine Anderson [via]
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Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - White Oleander: ISBN 0316569321 (0-316-56932-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - White Oleander: ISBN 1410400816 (1-4104-0081-6)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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The Winds of Changeby Martha GrimesISBN 0451216962 (0-451-21696-2)
Softcover, Signet
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Desde Mi Cieloby Alise CebollISBN 1400059453 (1-4000-5945-3)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desde Mi Cielo'Book summary:From her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by a murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously,we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished. Sebold creates a heaven that's calm and comforting, a place whose residents can have whatever they enjoyed when they were alive and then some.
But Susie isn't ready to release her hold on life just yet, and she intensely watches her family and friends as they struggle to cope with a reality in which she is no longer a part. [via]More editions of Desde Mi Cielo:
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Desde Mi Cielo / The Lovely Bonesby Aurora Echevarria, Alice SeboldISBN 0307209431 (0-307-20943-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desde Mi Cielo / The Lovely Bones'Book summary:From her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by a murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously,we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished. Sebold creates a heaven that's calm and comforting, a place whose residents can have whatever they enjoyed when they were alive and then some.
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Desde Mi Cielo/from My Skyby Alice SeboldISBN 9685960356 (968-5960-35-6)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Lolitaby Vladimir Nabokov, Enrique TejedorISBN 8433920383 (84-339-2038-3)
Hardcover, Anagrama Editorial S. A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita'Book summary:Esta es la historia de la obsesion de Humbert Humbert, un profesor cuarenton, por la doceañera Lolita. Es una extraordinaria novela de amor en la que intervienen dos componentes explosivos: la atraccion "perversa" por las ninfulas y el incesto. Narrada con autoironia y lirismo desenfrenado, es tambien un retrato acido y visionario de los Estados Unidos, de los horrores suburbanos y de la cultura del plastico y del motel. [via]
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Laurier Blancby Janet FitchISBN 2253152897 (2-253-15289-7)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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