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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Victor Doyno, Justin KaplanISBN 0449912728 (0-449-91272-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0451526503 (0-451-52650-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0451519124 (0-451-51912-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0451523733 (0-451-52373-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0449912728 (0-449-91272-8)
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0451526503 (0-451-52650-3)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, James DickeyISBN 0451522729 (0-451-52272-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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All Quiet on the Western Frontby Erich Maria Remarque, A. W. WheenISBN 0449911497 (0-449-91149-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Quiet on the Western Front'Book summary:Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarques masterpiece of the German experience during World War I.
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . .
This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.
Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another . . . if only he can come out of the war alive.
The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure. The New York Times Book Review [via]More editions of All Quiet on the Western Front:
Andersonvilleby MacKinlay KantorISBN 0452269563 (0-452-26956-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, David MagarshackISBN 0451528611 (0-451-52861-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:A direct and truthful transcript of life in Russia in the early 1800's. [via]
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Armies of the Night: History As a Novel, the Novel As Historyby Norman MailerISBN 0452272793 (0-452-27279-3)
Softcover, Plume
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The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopinby Kate Chopin, Barbara H. SolomonISBN 0451524489 (0-451-52448-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin'Book summary:The Awakening tells of a wife who discovers the strength of her own sexuality and tries to wrench it from the hands of a patriarchal society- and her upper-class Cajun family.This and Chopin's other short stories are standard-setting masterpieces. [via]
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Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & Aby Ayn RandISBN 0451216652 (0-451-21665-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Beowulfby Burton RaffelISBN 0451527402 (0-451-52740-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:The epic poem of war and adventure.
Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language. It was composed in England four centuries before the Norman Conquest. But no one knows exactly when it was composed, or by whom, or why. As a social document this great epic reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death.
* Burton Raffel's modern language translation from the original Old English remains the most celebrated introduction of the poem to students and the general reader alike
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Black Like Me: Library Editionby John Howard GriffinISBN 0451192036 (0-451-19203-6)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Like Me: Library Edition'Book summary:[via]In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity-that in this new millennium still has something important to say to every American.
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Softcover, New Amer Library - Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451163176 (0-451-16317-6)
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Black Sundayby Thomas HarrisISBN 0451204158 (0-451-20415-8)
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The Book of Danielby E. L. DoctorowISBN 0449214303 (0-449-21430-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Capital Crimesby Stuart WoodsISBN 0451211561 (0-451-21156-1)
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Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paineby Thomas PaineISBN 0452009219 (0-452-00921-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Common Sense, the Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writingsby Thomas Paine, Sidney Hook, Jack FruchtmanISBN 0451528891 (0-451-52889-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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Corruption of Bloodby Robert K. TanenbaumISBN 0451181964 (0-451-18196-4)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Corruption of Blood'Book summary:When Congress reopens the investigation into the JFK assassination, Manhattan Assistant D.A. Butch Karp is assigned to the case, but as Karp and his team uncover dramatic new evidence, they become enmeshed in a web of conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of government. Reprint. [via]
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Roger CelestinISBN 0451529707 (0-451-52970-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sidney Monas, James D. Hardy, Leonard J. StantonISBN 0451527232 (0-451-52723-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. [via]
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Dark Ambitionby Allan TopolISBN 0451410645 (0-451-41064-5)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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Daughter of the Bloodby Anne BishopISBN 0451456718 (0-451-45671-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Dave Barry's Greatest Hitsby Dave BarryISBN 0449904067 (0-449-90406-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schoolsby Jonathan KozolISBN 0452262925 (0-452-26292-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools'Book summary:In this National Book Award-winning book, Kozol unflinchingly exposes the disturbing "destruction of hearts and minds in the Boston public school." A new Epilogue assesses the last 20 years of the educational system.[via]More editions of Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools:
- Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools: ISBN 0452257697 (0-452-25769-7)
Softcover, New American Library - Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools: ISBN 0452262925 (0-452-26292-5)
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- Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools: ISBN 0452257697 (0-452-25769-7)
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Don Quixoteby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Edward H. Friedman, Walter StarkieISBN 0451527860 (0-451-52786-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Don Quixoteby Miguel De Cervantes, Walter StarkieISBN 0451528905 (0-451-52890-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote'Book summary:Brimming with humor, rich in idealism and earthy common sense, this highly-esteemed translation and abridgement of the beloved masterpiece will enchant a new generation of readers.[via]
@DonQuixote People say that sleep deprivation, isolation, and too much reading have made me loopy. But I say nay! Nay!!!
I am going full-creeper and giving a girl I love a special secret nickname without her even knowing about it.
Ill call her Dulcinea. Get it? Like Dulce del Coochayyyy.
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Don Quixote of LA Manchaby Miguel De CervantesISBN 0451525078 (0-451-52507-8)
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Dragonswordby Gael BaudinoISBN 0451450817 (0-451-45081-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Earth in the Balance : Ecology and the Human Spiritby Al GoreISBN 0452269350 (0-452-26935-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth in the Balance : Ecology and the Human Spirit'Book summary:What's most inspiring about Earth in the Balance is who wrote it. It's a big deal, after all, that a sitting senator was willing to write, "We must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization." And that's not all. In his 1992 book, Al Gore also wrote:
I have become very impatient with my own tendency to put a finger to the political winds and proceed cautiously.... [E]very time I pause to consider whether I have gone too far out on a limb, I look at the new facts [on the environment crisis] that continue to pour in from around the world and conclude that I have not gone far enough.... [T]he time has long since come to take more political risks--and endure more political criticism--by proposing tougher, more effective solutions and fighting hard for their enactments.
And the buzz on the street is that Gore actually wrote those words himself.
When Earth in the Balance first came out, it caused quite a stir--and for good reason. It convincingly makes the case that a crisis of epidemic proportions is nearly upon us and that if the world doesn't get its act together soon and agree to some kind of "Global Marshall Plan" to protect the environment, we're all up a polluted creek without a paddle. Myriad plagues are upon us, but the worst include the loss of biodiversity, the depletion of the ozone layer, the slash-and-burn destruction of rainforests, and the onset of global warming. None of this is new, of course, nor was it new in 1992. But most environmentalists will still get a giddy feeling reading such a call to action as written by a prominent politician.
The book is arranged into three sections: the first describes the plagues; the second looks at how we got ourselves into this mess; and the final chapters present ways out. Gore gets his points across in a serviceable way, though he could have benefited from a firmer editor's hand; at times the analogies are arcane and the pacing is odd--kind of like a Gore speech that climaxes at weird points and then sinks just as the audience is about to clap. Still, at the end you understand what's been said. Gore believes that if we apply some American ingenuity, the twin engines of democracy and capitalism can be rigged to help us stabilize world population growth, spread social justice, boost education levels, create environmentally appropriate technologies, and negotiate international agreements to bring us back from the brink. For example, a worldwide shift to clean, renewable energy sources would create huge economic opportunities for companies large and small to design, build, and maintain solar panels, wind turbines, fuel cells, and other ecofriendly innovations.
Gore doesn't mince words when describing just how hard it will be to get out of this jam. Real hope is contingent on a swelling up of concern among the public--and fast. A year into the vice presidency, in an interview with writer Bill McKibben, Gore paraphrased a key passage in his book, "The minimum that is scientifically necessary far exceeds the maximum that is politically feasible." Ah, a political out. Some readers will ask of Gore: what has he done since publishing his book to advance the political feasibility of decisive environmental action? --Chip Giller [via]
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Germinalby Emile Zola, Eleanor Hochman, Stanley Hochman, Irving HoweISBN 0451519752 (0-451-51975-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Germinal'Book summary:Zola's 1885 masterpiece of everyday relationships and working life exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. The new film version stars Gerard Depardieu. An Oxford University Press World Classic. [via]
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0451526716 (0-451-52671-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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- Great Expectations: ISBN 0451517598 (0-451-51759-8)
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451523598 (0-451-52359-8)
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0451527321 (0-451-52732-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This masterpiece tells the incredible tale of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon. He is shipwrecked upon the shores of Lilliput, where the residents are only six inches high, then journeys takes him to the land of Brobdingnag, populated by giants, a floating island in the sky, and a land where horses have intelligence and man lives as a beast. His adventures, while read by children as an adventure story, are a devastating satire of society and human foibles. Part travelogue, part realism, part symbolism, Gullivers Travels remains a treasured classic of literature. [via]
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 0451526570 (0-451-52657-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:Featuring a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, the author's two best-known stories tell of encounters with moral depravity in the wilds of the Congo and second selves on a voyage into the Gulf of Siam. Reprint." [via]
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Heir to the Shadowsby Anne BishopISBN 0451456726 (0-451-45672-6)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heir to the Shadows'Book summary:Anne Bishop plunged into dark fantasy with her first book, Daughter of the Blood. She described a world where Blood Witches have always ruled, drawing males to their courts through seductive power. An ambitious High Priestess destroys more powerful females before maturity and has enslaved the strongest males, weakening magic and corrupting natural bonds between men and women. Sexual violence permeates Terreille. Jaenelle, born to be Queen, is vulnerable until adulthood. Though guarded by male Warlord Princes, Jaenelle is violated. Daemon, her destined Consort, rescues her but is convinced he attacked her and goes mad.
In Heir to the Shadows, Jaenelle's vampiric, adoptive father, Saetan, and her foster-family of demons shelter her. To restore her memory and emotional balance, they move to Kaeleer, where Jaenelle befriends the kindred--animals with magical and communicative powers--and gathers a circle of young Queens. She also heals Lucivar, Daemon's half-brother, who offers a brother's love and a warrior's fealty. As she recovers strength and memory, Jaenelle resolves to restore Daemon and cleanse Terreille.
Bishop subverts readers' expectations; the "darkest" powers reside in virtuous characters, demons and vampires are kindly, and Jaenelle's adolescence is more comically normal than horrific. Her vibrant characters and descriptions will keep readers hooked, anxiously awaiting what promises to be a riveting conclusion. --Nona Vero [via]
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Hillary Clinton : The Inside Storyby Judith WarnerISBN 0451198956 (0-451-19895-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Hillary Clinton: The Inside Storyby Judy WarnerISBN 0451178084 (0-451-17808-4)
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In The Presence Of Mine Enemiesby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0451459598 (0-451-45959-8)
Softcover, Roc
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Invisible Manby Ralph EllisonISBN 0451038142 (0-451-03814-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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JFK Assassination: The Facts and the Theoriesby Carl Oglesby, Norman MailerISBN 0451174763 (0-451-17476-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Maiaby Richard AdamsISBN 0451168119 (0-451-16811-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Making of the President, 1964by Theodore Harold WhiteISBN 045161190X (0-451-61190-X)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Moon Is a Harsh Mistressby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0450502805 (0-450-50280-5)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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No Lesser Pleaby Robert K. TanenbaumISBN 0451154967 (0-451-15496-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Notes from Undergroundby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Andrew Robert MacAndrewISBN 0451529553 (0-451-52955-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Notes from Underground White Nights the Dream of a Ridiculous Man and Selections from the House of the Deadby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0451523768 (0-451-52376-8)
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The past through Tomorrowby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0450032000 (0-450-03200-0)
Hardcover, New English Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The past through Tomorrow'Book summary:This is the second half of what was published in the USA as the Past Through Tomorrow, as the American book was divided into two halves for the British hardcover edition(s) [via]
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The People's Choiceby Jeff GreenfieldISBN 0452277051 (0-452-27705-1)
Softcover, Plume
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Plague Yearby Stephanie S. TolanISBN 0449704033 (0-449-70403-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Possessedby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Andrew R. MacAndrew, Marc SlonimISBN 0451524861 (0-451-52486-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Possessed'Book summary:The Possessed (In Russian: 5AK, tr. Besy), also translated as The Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Possessed is an extremely political book, and is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoevsky casts a critical eye on both the left-wing idealists, exposing their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social consequences. This form of intellectual conservativism tied to the Slavophil movement of Dostoevsky's day, is seen to have continued on into its modern manifestation in individuals like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Dostoevsky's novels focusing on the idea that utopias and positivist ideas, in being utilitarian, were unrealistic and unobtainable. The book has five primary ideological characters: Verkhovensky, Shatov, Stavrogin, Stepan Trofimovich, and Kirilov. Through their philosophies, Dostoevsky describes the political chaos seen in 19th-Century Russia. [via]
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Queen of the Darknessby Anne BishopISBN 0451456734 (0-451-45673-4)
Softcover, Roc
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Ragtimeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0452275709 (0-452-27570-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ragtime'Book summary:An account of the interrelated lives of the families of a New Rochelle manufacturer, an immigrant socialist, and a Harlem musician and their involvements with period notables is set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century American history. Reprint. [via]
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Rats and Gargoylesby Mary GentleISBN 0451451732 (0-451-45173-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germanyby William L. ShirerISBN 0449219771 (0-449-21977-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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"One of the most important works of history of our time."
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Runby Douglas E. WinterISBN 0451409809 (0-451-40980-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0451526082 (0-451-52608-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...scholar-like renown still lived in Oxford, was considered by his more fervent admirers as little less than a heavenly-ordained apostle, destined, should he live and labor for the ordinary term of life, to do as great deeds for the now feeble New England Church, as the early Fathers had achieved for the infancy of the Christian faith. About this period, however, the health of Mr. Dimmesdale had evidently' begun to fail. By those best acquainted with his habits, the paleness of the young minister's cheek was accounted for by his too earnest devotion to study, his scrupulous fulfilment of parochial duty, and, more than all, by the fasts and vigils of which he made a frequent practice, in order to keep the grossness of this earthly state from clogging and obscuring his spiritual lamp. Some declared, that, if Mr. Dimmesdale were really going to die, it was cause enough, that the world was not worthy to be any onger trodden by his feet. He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief, that, if Providence should see fit to remove him, it would be because of his own unworthiness to perform its humblest mission here on earth. With all this difference of opinion as to the cause of his decline, there could be no question of the fact. His form grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it; he was often observed, on any slight alarm or other sudden accident, to put his hand over his heart, with first a flush and then a paleness, indicative of pain. Such was the young clergyman's condition, and so imminent the prospect that his dawning light would be extinguished, all untimely, when Koger Chillingworth made his advent to the town. His first entry on the scene, few people... [via]
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A Song for Arbonneby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0451458974 (0-451-45897-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Song for Arbonne'Book summary:A peaceful, gentle, and passionate kingdom named Arbonne is invaded by ruthless northern warriors, and Arbonne's goddess and Arbonne's people must band together to fight the invaders. Reprint. PW. [via]
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens, Wilson, A. N. (AFT), Frederick BuschISBN 0451530578 (0-451-53057-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tale of Two Cities'Book summary:Written at a point of crisis in his life, A Tale of Two Cities is the embodiment of Dickens' own passions and fears: the revolution which engulfs the characters symbolizes his own psychological revolution, and the three main characters become projections of Dickens himself. [via]
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN 0451530578 (0-451-53057-8)
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The Underdogsby Mariano Azuela, E. MunguiaISBN 0451526252 (0-451-52625-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Underdogs'Book summary:To save his family, Demetrio Maci+a7as, a peace-loving, naive Indian, becomes swept up in the mounting revolution against the tyranny of dictator Porfirio Diaz, as he rises to become a general in the army of Pancho Villa. Reissue. [via]
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Walden Or, Life in the Woods and "on the Duty of Civil Disobedience"by Henry David ThoreauISBN 0451527070 (0-451-52707-0)
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War and Peaceby Leo Tolstoy, Ann DunniganISBN 0451521161 (0-451-52116-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War and Peace'Book summary:Details the invasion of Russia by Napoleon and his army. [via]
Washington: The Indispensable Manby James Thomas FlexnerISBN 0451628381 (0-451-62838-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Washington: The Indispensable Man'Book summary:'The Washington on these pages is no marble statue or picture on a dollar bill. He is a youth forced to earn his way in the wilderness to gain entry to a world of privilege. A young war hero secretly brooding over the costly error of his inexperience. A great and complex man is described in this biography.' [via]
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Woman in Sexist Societyby GornickISBN 0451624599 (0-451-62459-9)
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Regina BarrecaISBN 0451530292 (0-451-53029-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Worlds That Weren'tby Harry Turtledove, Walter Jon Williams, S. M. Stirling, Mary GentleISBN 0451458869 (0-451-45886-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Worlds That Weren't'Book summary:Alternate history is the branch of speculative fiction that explores what might have happened if history had taken a different turn. The obvious changes, like the Nazis winning World War II, have filled innumerable novels. Fortunately, the anthology Worlds That Weren't avoids the obvious with its four fine new novellas from four superior authors: Harry Turtledove, S.M. Stirling, Mary Gentle, and Walter Jon Williams.
The collection opens with "The Daimon," written by Harry Turtledove, AH's best-known practitioner. In Turtledove's turning point, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates chooses to accompany General Alkibiades to war instead of remaining in Athens, and sets Alkibiades on a triumphant, terrible new course.
Set in the British India-dominated alternate history of The Peshawar Lancers, S.M. Stirling's novella is a rousing old-fashioned adventure. "Shikari in Galveston" follows a hunting safari through a regressed American frontier that might have given even Daniel Boone pause.
A prequel to her Book of Ash tetralogy, Mary Gentle's novella "The Logistics of Carthage" concerns Christian warriors serving pagan Turks in a North Africa conquered by Visigoths instead of Vandals, and is the strongest story in Worlds That Weren't.
The collection concludes with "The Last Ride of German Freddie," in which Nebula Award winner Walter Jon Williams considers what might have happened if the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had taken himself and his superman theories to the Wild West. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Worlds That Weren'tby Walter Jon Williams, S. M. Stirling, Mary Gentle, Harry TurtledoveISBN 0451460545 (0-451-46054-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Worlds That Weren't'Book summary:Alternate history is the branch of speculative fiction that explores what might have happened if history had taken a different turn. The obvious changes, like the Nazis winning World War II, have filled innumerable novels. Fortunately, the anthology Worlds That Weren't avoids the obvious with its four fine new novellas from four superior authors: Harry Turtledove, S.M. Stirling, Mary Gentle, and Walter Jon Williams.
The collection opens with "The Daimon," written by Harry Turtledove, AH's best-known practitioner. In Turtledove's turning point, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates chooses to accompany General Alkibiades to war instead of remaining in Athens, and sets Alkibiades on a triumphant, terrible new course.
Set in the British India-dominated alternate history of The Peshawar Lancers, S.M. Stirling's novella is a rousing old-fashioned adventure. "Shikari in Galveston" follows a hunting safari through a regressed American frontier that might have given even Daniel Boone pause.
A prequel to her Book of Ash tetralogy, Mary Gentle's novella "The Logistics of Carthage" concerns Christian warriors serving pagan Turks in a North Africa conquered by Visigoths instead of Vandals, and is the strongest story in Worlds That Weren't.
The collection concludes with "The Last Ride of German Freddie," in which Nebula Award winner Walter Jon Williams considers what might have happened if the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had taken himself and his superman theories to the Wild West. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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