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The Alienistby Caleb CarrISBN 0613072197 (0-613-07219-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alienist'Book summary:The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels.
The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over.
Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophreniaby Felix Guattari, Gilles DeleuzeISBN 0670129410 (0-670-12941-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Aquamarineby Carol AnshawISBN 0671795864 (0-671-79586-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Arrow's Fallby Mercedes LackeyISBN 0613630122 (0-613-63012-2)
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Arrow's Flightby Mercedes LackeyISBN 0606275495 (0-606-27549-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arrow's Flight'Book summary:THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Continues the story of Talia. Having mastered the powers necessary to a guardian of the kingdom, she faces the final preparation for her initiation as adviser and protector of the Queen. [via]
As Long As the Rivers Flow : The Stories of Nine Native Americansby Paula Gunn Allen, Patricia Clark SmithISBN 0590478699 (0-590-47869-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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Baby Be-Bopby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0606110658 (0-606-11065-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baby Be-Bop'Book summary:Dirk MacDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal storytelling visitations from his dead father and great-grandmother.
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Billy Buddby Herman MelvilleISBN 0671731440 (0-671-73144-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd'Book summary:If Melville had never written "Moby Dick," his place in literature would have been assured by his short fiction. "Billy Budd, Sailor" is his last work and his masterpiece -- a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. In "Bartleby the Scivener," a Wall Street law clerk takes passive resistance to a comic -- and tragic -- extreme. Completing the beautiful collection are: "Benito Cerino, " "The Encantatas, " "The Plaza, " and finally, Melville s chilling science fiction parable, "The Bell Tower." [via]
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Billy Budd, Sailorby Herman Melville, Cyrus R. PatellISBN 0671028332 (0-671-02833-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd, Sailor'Book summary:Billy Budd, Sailor has been called the best short novel ever written. In his brilliantly condensed narrative prose, Herman Melville fashions a legal parable in which reason and intellect prove incapable of preserving innocence in the face of evil. For all those who feel themselves threatened by a hostile and inflexible environment, there is special significance in this haunting story of a handsome sailor who becomes a victim of man's intransigence.
Since its posthumous publication in 1924, Billy Budd has become one of the acknowledged masterpieces of American literature. [via]
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Chronicle Of A Death Foretoldby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0606330402 (0-606-33040-2)
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Coming Out As Sacramentby Chris GlaserISBN 0664257488 (0-664-25748-8)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Country Girl, City Girlby Lisa Jahn-CloughISBN 0618447911 (0-618-44791-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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A Country of Old Menby Joseph HansenISBN 0670838268 (0-670-83826-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Danish Girlby David EbershoffISBN 0670888087 (0-670-88808-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Decay of the Angelby Yukio MishimaISBN 0671553917 (0-671-55391-7)
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Define "Normal"by Julie Anne PetersISBN 061364171X (0-613-64171-X)
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Dupont Circleby Paul Kafka-GibbonsISBN 0618219188 (0-618-21918-8)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Earthly Powersby Anthony BurgessISBN 0671414909 (0-671-41490-9)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Eighty-Sixedby David B. FeinbergISBN 0670823155 (0-670-82315-5)
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Ethan of Athosby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 067165604X (0-671-65604-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan of Athos'Book summary:Our hero is a quiet, upstanding citizen of Athos, an obstetrician in a world in which reproduction is carried out entirely via uterine replicator, without the aid of living women. Problem: the 200-year-old cultures are not providing eggs the way they used to, and attempts to order replacements by mail have failed catastrophically. But when Ethan is sent to find out what happened and acquire more eggs, he finds himself in a morass of Cetagandan covert ops and Jackson Whole politics--and the only person who's around to rescue him is the inimitable--and, disturbingly, female--Elli Quinn, Dendarii rent-a-spy. [via]
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Exterminator!by William S. BurroughsISBN 0670302813 (0-670-30281-3)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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Ferdinandus Taurusby Munro LeafISBN 0613563670 (0-613-56367-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ferdinandus Taurus'Book summary:Once upon a time, there lived in Spain a bull named Ferdinand. While his brothers liked to charge around the field, butt their heads together and to generally act ferocious, Ferdinand liked nothing better than to sit under the cork tree and smell the flowers. He was, you see, a placid and a gentle bull whose only desire in life was to be let alone. And his life would have proceeded very nicely had he not one day placed his considerable rump on a bumblebee on the very same day that five men arrived from Madrid searching for a new star for the corrida.
This classic tale by Munro Leaf, which has enchanted children for over fifty years, is here translated for the first (and certainly the last) time into (mirabile dictu) Latin. It comes with a complete glossary of words, and, of course, with the wonderful, appropriate, and droll drawings from the pen of the inimitable Robert Lawson (for whom the book was originally written). [via]More editions of Ferdinandus Taurus:
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Findingsby Leonard BernsteinISBN 0671429191 (0-671-42919-1)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Findings'Book summary:This brilliant and revealing self-portrait collects Bernstein's private notes, letters, essays, and musical writings to convey, as never before, the incredible energy, talent, and genius of a man who has confirmed the maturity and originality of American music. Over 100 photos. [via]
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The Firebrandby Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julie RubensteinISBN 0671744062 (0-671-74406-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Firebrand'Book summary:Blending archaeological fact and legend, the myths of the gods and the feats of heroes, Marion Zimmer Bradley breathes new life into the classic tale of the Trojan War-reinventing larger-than-life figures as living people engaged in a desperate struggle that dooms both the victors and the vanquished, their fate seen through the eyes of Kassandra-priestess, princess, and passionate woman with the spirit of a warrior. [via]
Foxfireby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0606299947 (0-606-29994-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Ghost Roadby Pat BarkerISBN 0670854891 (0-670-85489-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ghost Road'Book summary:Based on a mix of real and imagined characters and events, this book concentrates on Sarah, a young woman working in a munitions factory, and on Wilfred Owen. The position of women has been a sub-theme throughout the books and here it moves to the forefront. The 1995 Booker Prize winner. [via]
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The Guermantes Wayby Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, Mark TreharneISBN 0670033170 (0-670-03317-0)
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Herman Melville's Billy Buddby MelvilleISBN 067100686X (0-671-00686-X)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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In Cold Bloodby Truman CapoteISBN 0606207201 (0-606-20720-1)
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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flowerby Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, James GrieveISBN 0670032778 (0-670-03277-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower'Book summary:Readers and reviewers in the United Kingdom have hailed the new translations of Proust as a major literary event. Soon to appear in the United States, Swanns Way, along with the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. These superb editionsthe first completely new translation of Prousts novel since the 1920sbring us a more comic and lucid Proust than English readers have previously been able to enjoy.
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrators memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. In it, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. [via]
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Jean Cocteau : The Testament of Orpheusby Lucien Clergue, David LeHardy SweetISBN 0670892580 (0-670-89258-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Joy of Lesbian Sex: A Tender and Liberated Guide to the Pleasures and Problems of a Lesbian Lifestyleby Bertha Harris, Emily L. SisleyISBN 0671240803 (0-671-24080-3)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Joy of Musicby Leonard BernsteinISBN 0671412914 (0-671-41291-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joy of Music'Book summary:(Amadeus). This classic work is perhaps Bernstein's finest collection of conversations on the meaning and wonder of music. This book is a must for all music fans who wish to experience music more fully and deeply through one of the most inspired, and inspiring, music intellects of our time. Employing the creative device of "Imaginary Conversations" in the first section of his book, Bernstein illuminates the importance of the symphony in America, the greatness of Beethoven, and the art of composing. The book also includes a photo section and a third section with the transcripts from his televised Omnibus music series, including "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony," "The World of Jazz," "Introduction to Modern Music," and "What Makes Opera Grand." [via]
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Knowing When to Stop : A Memoirby Ned RoremISBN 0671728725 (0-671-72872-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Les Guerilleresby Monique WittigISBN 0670424633 (0-670-42463-3)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Guerilleres'Book summary:[via]One of the most widely read feminist texts of the twentieth century, and Monique Wittigs most popular novel, Les Guérillères imagines the attack on the language and bodies of men by a tribe of warrior women. Among the womens most powerful weapons in their assault is laughter, but they also threaten literary and linguistic customs of the patriarchal order with bullets. In this breathtakingly rapid novel first published in 1969, Wittig animates a lesbian society that invites all women to join their fight, their circle, and their community. A path-breaking novel about creating and sustaining freedom, the book derives much of its energy from its vaunting of the female body as a resource for literary invention.
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Less Than Zeroby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0671543296 (0-671-54329-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Less Than Zero'Book summary:Clay comes home to L.A. for Christmas vacation and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs. Morally barren, ethically bereft and tinged with implicit violence, "Less Than Zero" is a shocking coming-of-age novel about the casual nihilism that comes with youth and money. "An extraordinarily accomplished first novel." - "New Yorker." "One of the most disturbing novels I've read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." - Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times." "The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation." - "USA Today." "Remarkable. A killer - sexy, sassy, sad." - "Village Voice." [via]
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Lilith's Broodby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0613279417 (0-613-27941-7)
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Literary Theory: An Anthologyby Michael Ryan, Julie RivkinISBN 0631200290 (0-631-20029-0)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literary Theory: An Anthology'Book summary:Literary Theory: An Anthology is a unique combination of the classic statements in criticism and the new theories that have revolutionized literary study in the past several decades.
- Provides a major collection of primary theoretical texts.
- Shows how theoretical discourses have evolved.
- Helps students to understand how to work with theory.
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Little Birdsby Anais NinISBN 0671680110 (0-671-68011-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Birds'Book summary:Few women writers dare celebrate the sexual experience as fully as Anais Nin. Taking off where Delta of Venus left off, Little Birds explores passion in all its forms. Evocative, compelling and superbly erotic, this is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. HC: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich. [via]
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Little Simon ABCby Mik BrownISBN 0671450379 (0-671-45037-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Lyre of Orpheusby Robertson DaviesISBN 067082416X (0-670-82416-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lyre of Orpheus'Book summary:A magnificent, new novel from a masterful writer--the conclusion to the trilogy that began with The Rebel Angels and continued in the bestselling What's Bred in the Bone. [via]
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A Million Little Piecesby James FreyISBN 060634604X (0-606-34604-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Million Little Pieces'Book summary:News from Doubleday & Anchor Books
The controversy over James Frey's A Million Little Pieces has caused serious concern at Doubleday and Anchor Books. Recent interpretations of our previous statement notwithstanding, it is not the policy or stance of this company that it doesnt matter whether a book sold as nonfiction is true. A nonfiction book should adhere to the facts as the author knows them.It is, however, Doubleday and Anchor's policy to stand with our authors when accusations are initially leveled against their work, and we continue to believe this is right and proper. A publisher's relationship with an author is based to an extent on trust. Mr. Frey's repeated representations of the book's accuracy, throughout publication and promotion, assured us that everything in it was true to his recollections. When the Smoking Gun report appeared, our first response, given that we were still learning the facts of the matter, was to support our author. Since then, we have questioned him about the allegations and have sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished.
We bear a responsibility for what we publish, and apologize to the reading public for any unintentional confusion surrounding the publication of A Million Little Pieces.
Note: The following editorial reviews were written before the recent revelations by James Frey and the publisher.
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The electrifying opening of James Frey's debut memoir, A Million Little Pieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states, without ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he starts to use again, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox confronting "The Fury" head on:I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.
One of the more harrowing sections is when Frey submits to major dental surgery without the benefit of anesthesia or painkillers (he fights the mind-blowing waves of "bayonet" pain by digging his fingers into two old tennis balls until his nails crack). His fellow patients include a damaged crack addict with whom Frey wades into an ill-fated relationship, a federal judge, a former championship boxer, and a mobster (who, upon his release, throws a hilarious surf-and-turf bacchanal, complete with pay-per-view boxing). In the book's epilogue, when Frey ticks off a terse update on everyone, you can almost hear the Jim Carroll Band's brutal survivor's lament "People Who Died" kicking in on the soundtrack of the inevitable film adaptation.
The rage-fueled memoir is kept in check by Frey's cool, minimalist style. Like his steady mantra, "I am an Alcoholic and I am a drug Addict and I am a Criminal," Frey's use of repetition takes on a crisp, lyrical quality which lends itself to the surreal experience. The book could have benefited from being a bit leaner. Nearly 400 pages is a long time to spend under Frey's influence, and the stylistic acrobatics (no quotation marks, random capitalization, left-aligned text, wild paragraph breaks) may seem too self-conscious for some readers, but beyond the literary fireworks lurks a fierce debut. --Brad Thomas Parsons
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Lew Sayre SchwartzISBN 0618265724 (0-618-26572-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Herman Melville's peerless allegorical masterpiece is the epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who swears vengeance on the mammoth white whale that has crippled him. Often considered to be the Great American Novel, Moby-Dick is at once a starkly realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure, and a searing drama of heroic courage, moral conflict, and mad obsession. It is world-renowned as the greatest sea story ever told.
Moby-Dick, widely misunderstood in its own time, has since become an indubitable classic of American literature. [via]
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Softcover, Pocket Books - Moby Dick/Moby Dick: ISBN 0606160175 (0-606-16017-5)
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Moise Wld Reason Dby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0671219820 (0-671-21982-0)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Monarch Notes on Plato's the Republic and Selected Dialoguesby Leo RauchISBN 0671005057 (0-671-00505-7)
Hardcover, Peterson's
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Monarch Notes on Shakespeare's Sonnetsby Unicio J. VioliISBN 0671006533 (0-671-00653-3)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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Monarch Notes on Williams' Street-Car Named Desireby Gilbert RathbunISBN 0671007017 (0-671-00701-7)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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My Father and Myselfby J. R. AckerleyISBN 0671656759 (0-671-65675-9)
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My Year of Meatsby Ruth L. OzekiISBN 0670879045 (0-670-87904-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Year of Meats'Book summary:At first glance, a novel that promises to expose the unethical practices of the American meat industry may not be at the top of your reading list, but Ruth Ozeki's debut, My Year of Meats is well worth a second look. Like the author, the novel's protagonist, Jane Takagi-Little, is a Japanese-American documentary filmmaker; like Ozeki, who was once commissioned by a beef lobbying group to make television shows for the Japanese market, Jane is invited to work on a Japanese television show meant to encourage beef consumption via the not-so-subliminal suggestion that prime rib equals a perfect family:
TO: AMERICAN RESEARCH STAFF
FROM: Tokyo Office
DATE: January 5, 1991
RE: My American Wife!...
Here is list of IMPORTANT THINGS for My American Wife!
DESIRABLE THINGS:
1. Attractiveness, wholesomeness, warm personality
2. Delicious meat recipe (NOTE: Pork and other meats is second class meats, so please remember this easy motto: "Pork is Possible, but Beef is Best!")
3. Attractive, docile husband
4. Attractive, obedient children
5. Attractive, wholesome lifestyle
6. Attractive, clean house...
UNDESIRABLE THINGS:
1. Physical imperfections
2. Obesity
3. Squalor
4. Second class peoples
The series, My American Wife!, initally seems like a dream come true for Jane as she criss-crosses the United States filming a different American family each week for her Japanese audience. Naturally, the emphasis is on meat, and Ozeki has fun with out-there recipes such as rump roast in coke and beef fudge; but as Jane becomes more familiar with her subject, she becomes increasingly aware of the beef industry's widespread practice of using synthetic estrogens on their cattle and determines to sabotage the program.
Cut to Tokyo where Akiko Ueno struggles through the dull misery of life with her brutish husband, who happens to be in charge of the show's advertising. After seeing one of Jane's subversive episodes about a vegetarian lesbian couple, Akiko gets in touch and the two women plot to expose the meat industry's hazardous practices. Romance, humor, intrigue, and even a message--My Year of Meats has it all. This is a book that even a vegetarian would love. [via]
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Naked in the Promised Landby Lillian FadermanISBN 0618128751 (0-618-12875-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Womenby Boston Women's Health Book CollectiveISBN 0671791761 (0-671-79176-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Not Wanted on the Voyageby Timothy FindleyISBN 0670803057 (0-670-80305-7)
Hardcover, Viking
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On Certaintyby Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret AnscombeISBN 0631169407 (0-631-16940-7)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Passion of Michael Foucaultby James MillerISBN 0671695509 (0-671-69550-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Peterby Kate WalkerISBN 0618111301 (0-618-11130-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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A Place I'Ve Never Beenby David LeavittISBN 0670821969 (0-670-82196-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Quilt: Stories from the Names Projectby Cindy RuskinISBN 0671665979 (0-671-66597-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Quilt: Stories from the Names Project'Book summary:May,1988 oversized hardcover, full number line, 0671665979. The NAMES Project encouraged quilting as a memorial to AIDS victims. Details the construction by sometimes unlikely quilters with a story to tell and the project's nationwide tour of 25 cities, culminating on The Mall in Washington, D.C. [via]
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Recollections of My Life As a Woman: The New York Yearsby Diane Di PrimaISBN 0670851663 (0-670-85166-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Recollections of My Life As a Woman: The New York Years'Book summary:An evocative, gritty memoir by the leading woman writer of the Beat Generation.
In this rich and passionate memoir, influential poet Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Only by heroic effort was she able to break away from her intense Brooklyn Italian family to follow through on the lifelong commitment to poetry she made in high school. Immersed in the proto-Beat world of Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, she emerged as a major force, not only establishing herself as a poet, but also coediting the influential literary newsletter, The Floating Bear, and cofounding The Poet's Theatre.
Recollections of My Life as a Woman chronicles the intense, creative cauldron of those years as the Beat movement emerged on both coasts, and the country accelerated into the sixties. Poetry, painting, dance, and theater flowed into one another, and well-known figures from all those worlds-including Merce Cunningham, Frank O'Hara, Audre Lorde, Trisha Brown, and Franz Kline-move through her story. Di Prima was a deliberate single parent at a time when that was unheard of, and her relationships and sexuality were as revolutionary as her writing. This is a powerful and unique remembering of how one woman's life revealed itself to her. [via]More editions of Recollections of My Life As a Woman: The New York Years:
The Rules of Attractionby Bret Easton EllisISBN 067162234X (0-671-62234-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rules of Attraction'Book summary:Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan eighties, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the futureor even the presentwho become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturing and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives. Lauren changes boyfriends every time she changes majors and still pines for Victor, who split for Europe months ago, and she might or might not be writing anonymous love letters to ambivalent, hard-drinking Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren, even if he ends up in bed with half the campus and with Paul, Laurens ex, who is forthrightly bisexual and whose passion masks a shrewd pragmatism. They waste time getting wasted and race from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Dressed to Get Screwed parties to drinks at the End of the World. The Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance. [via]
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S/Zby Roland BarthesISBN 0631176071 (0-631-17607-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'S/Z'Book summary:S/Z is the linguistic distillation of Barthes's system of semiology, a science of signs and symbols, in which Balzac's novella, Sarrasine, is dissected semantically to uncover layers of hidden meaning. [via]
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Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Readerby Jennifer RobertsonISBN 0631233008 (0-631-23300-8)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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A Seahorse Yearby Stacey D'ErasmoISBN 0618618872 (0-618-61887-2)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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The Selected Letters of Virgil Thomsonby Tim Page, Vanessa Weeks PageISBN 0671688693 (0-671-68869-3)
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby William Shakespeare, Louis B. Wright, Virginia A. LamarISBN 0671669265 (0-671-66926-5)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems'Book summary:This new edition focuses on the Sonnets as poetry - sometimes strikingly individual poems, but often subtly interlinked in thematic, imagistic and other groupings. Gwynne Evans and Anthony Hecht also address the many questions that cast a veil of mystery over the genesis of the Sonnets: to what extent are they autobiographical? What is the nature of the 'love', strongly expressed, between the 'poet', the 'youth' and the 'Dark Lady'? Can they, apart from the poet, be identified? Who is the 'rival poet'? When were the Sonnets written and in what order? What were the circumstances surrounding their publication? [via]
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Singing from the Wellby Reinaldo ArenasISBN 0670808059 (0-670-80805-9)
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The Sonnetsby William ShakespeareISBN 0613175239 (0-613-17523-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sonnets'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Discusses Shakespeare's life, world, and work, and includes the sonnets, textual notes, and literary criticism. [via]
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The Spellby Alan HollinghurstISBN 0670883565 (0-670-88356-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Story of Ferdinandby Munro LeafISBN 0670674249 (0-670-67424-9)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Story of Ferdinand'Book summary:What else can be said about the fabulous Ferdinand? Published more than 50 years ago (and one of the bestselling children's books of all time), this simple story of peace and contentment has withstood the test of many generations. Ferdinand is a little bull who much prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree-- just smelling the flowers--to jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. This cow is no coward--he simply has his pacifist priorities clear. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow, until the day he meets with the wrong end of a bee. In a show of bovine irony, the one day Ferdinand is most definitely not sitting quietly under the cork tree (due to a frightful sting), is the selfsame day that five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid.
Ferdinand's day in the arena gives readers not only an education in the historical tradition of bullfighting, but also a lesson in nonviolent tranquility. Robert Lawson's black-and-white drawings are evocative and detailed, with especially sweet renditions of Ferdinand, the serene bull hero. The Story of Ferdinand closes with one of the happiest endings in the history of happy endings--readers of all ages will drift off to a peaceful sleep, dreaming of sweet-smelling flowers and contented cows. [via]
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Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in Americaby Mel WhiteISBN 0671884077 (0-671-88407-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Streetcar Named Desire: Opera in 3 Acts (Piano, Vocal Score)by Andre PrevinISBN 0634004670 (0-634-00467-0)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Summer Peopleby Marge PiercyISBN 0671678566 (0-671-67856-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summer People'Book summary:Dinah, Willie, and Susan have long outlived the scandal associated with their ten-year-old menage-a-trois. Dinah, an avante-garde compler, treasures her independence. Yet it takes Willie's kindness and Susan's fire to sustain her. Willie is a left-wing sculptor in a right-wing age. And Susan, his wife, is a fabric designer who craves glamour, wealth, and the attentions of the summer people who visit Cape Cod every year. Then one summer, the balance shifts. Passions are tested, honesty forsaken, and the trio must face the changes brought by their beautiful visitors . . . [via]
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Summer Sistersby Judy BlumeISBN 0613175409 (0-613-17540-9)
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Swann's Wayby Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, Lydia DavisISBN 067003245X (0-670-03245-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way'Book summary:Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest single work of the twentieth century. Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the original French. Now Viking makes Proust's masterpiece accessible to a whole new generation, beginning with Lydia Davis's new translation of the first volume, Swann's Way.
Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood-a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the famous taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel Swann's Love, an incomparable study of sexual jealousy, which becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. The first volume of the book that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age-satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition-Swann's Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past re-created through memory. [via]More editions of Swann's Way:
The Third Life of Grange Copelandby Alice WalkerISBN 0671745883 (0-671-74588-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Life of Grange Copeland'Book summary:Alice Walker's first book recounts the lives of three generations growing up in Georgia, where the author herself grew up. Grange Copeland is a black tenant farmer who is forced to leave his land and family in search of a better future. He heads North but discovers that the racism and poverty he experienced in the South are, in fact, everywhere. When he returns to Georgia years later he finds that his son Brownfield has been imprisoned for the murder of his wife. But hope comes in the form of the third generation as the guardian of the couple's youngest daughter, Grange Copeland, who glimpses a chance of both spiritual and social freedom. [via]
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Tim and Peteby James Robert BakerISBN 0671791842 (0-671-79184-2)
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Twelfth Nightby William ShakespeareISBN 061318212X (0-613-18212-X)
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The Uncle from Romeby Joseph CaldwellISBN 0670840580 (0-670-84058-0)
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Walt Whitmanby Walt WhitmanISBN 0670010782 (0-670-01078-2)
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Weetzie Batby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0613371712 (0-613-37171-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Weetzie Bat'Book summary:Fifteen years ago Francesca Lia Block made a dazzling entrance into the literary scene with what would become one of the most talked-about books of the decade: Weetzie Bat. This poetic roller coaster swoop has a sleek new design to match its new sister and brother books, Goat Girls and Beautiful Boys. Rediscover the magic of Weetzie Bat, Ms. Blocks sophisticated, slinkster-cool love song to L.A.the book that shattered the standard, captivated readers of all generations, and made Francesca Lia Block one of the most heralded authors of the last decade.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?by Edward AlbeeISBN 0671827154 (0-671-82715-4)
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Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Starby William J. MannISBN 0670871559 (0-670-87155-9)
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The Word Is Out: Daily Reflections on the Bible for Lesbians and Gay Menby Chris GlaserISBN 0664258204 (0-664-25820-4)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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