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All Souls' Risingby Madison Smartt BellISBN 0517196921 (0-517-19692-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Architecture of Desireby Mary GentleISBN 0451453530 (0-451-45353-0)
Softcover, Signet
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Arrow's Fallby Mercedes LackeyISBN 0613630122 (0-613-63012-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Beach Musicby Pat ConroyISBN 0553381539 (0-553-38153-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beach Music'Book summary:Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of
families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the dark memories that haunt generations, in a story
that spans South Carolina and Rome and reaches back into the unutterable terrors of the Holocaust.
Beach Music is about Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, trying to find peace after the recent trauma of his wife's
suicide. But his solitude is disturbed by the appearance of his sister-in-law, who begs him to return home, and of two school friends asking for his help in
tracking down another classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced. These requests launch Jack on a journey that encompasses the past and the present in both Europe and the American South, and that leads him to shocking--and ultimately liberating--truths.
Told with deep feeling and trademark Conroy humor, Beach Music is powerful and compulsively readable. It is another masterpiece in the legendary
list of classics that his body of work has already become.
PAT CONROY is the author of five previous books: The Boo, The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and
The Prince of Tides, the last four of which were made into feature films. [via]
Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 0451156595 (0-451-15659-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beloved'Book summary:Toni Morrison gently reads her own Pulitzer Prize-winning work in the unabridged version of this riveting tale of ex-slave Sethe and the beloved ghost that haunts her. While Morrison makes occasional odd pauses in her reading, what is lost in smoothness is more than made up for in quiet intensity as the author reads words obviously deeply felt. Her intimate knowledge of the characters and their motivations lends this reading an authority that helps the listener sort out the breaks in time and dialogue in this complex story of a woman coming to terms with her enslaved past and the loss of her husband and baby daughter. (Running time: 12 hours, eight cassettes) --Kimberly Heinrichs [via]
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Softcover, New Amer Library - Beloved: ISBN 045225230X (0-452-25230-X)
Softcover, Plume - Beloved: ISBN 0452261368 (0-452-26136-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Beloved: ISBN 0452264464 (0-452-26446-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Beloved: ISBN 0452280621 (0-452-28062-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Beloved: ISBN 0606040463 (0-606-04046-3)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Beloved: ISBN 0451156595 (0-451-15659-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Berlin: The Downfall 1945by Antony BeevorISBN 0670886955 (0-670-88695-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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The Black Jewels Trilogy: Daughter of the Blood/Heir to the Shadows/Queen of the Darknessby Anne BishopISBN 0451529014 (0-451-52901-4)
Softcover, Roc
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The Book of the Dun Cowby Walter WangerinISBN 0671832174 (0-671-83217-4)
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0553211668 (0-553-21166-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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Candide, Zadig, and Other Storiesby Voltaire, Donald Murdoch Frame, John IversonISBN 0451528093 (0-451-52809-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Candide, Zadig and Selected Storiesby Voltaire, Francoise M. DevoltaireISBN 0451524268 (0-451-52426-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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A Case of Needby Michael CrichtonISBN 0451210638 (0-451-21063-8)
Softcover, Signet
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The Cenci: A Tragedy, in Five Actsby Percy Bysshe ShelleyISBN 0672603985 (0-672-60398-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Chaos Mode: Library Editionby Piers AnthonyISBN 0613133617 (0-613-13361-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Cider House Rulesby John IrvingISBN 0553258001 (0-553-25800-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider House Rules'Book summary:First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted. [via]
A Dangerous Womanby Mary McGarry MorrisISBN 0451182367 (0-451-18236-7)
Softcover, Signet
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Dark Thirtyby Terry KayISBN 0671603051 (0-671-60305-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Devil's Embraceby Catherine CoulterISBN 0451200268 (0-451-20026-8)
Softcover, Signet
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The Dice Manby Luke RhinehartISBN 0671782045 (0-671-78204-5)
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Elskeby Cynthia VoigtISBN 0613733274 (0-613-73327-4)
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The Fall of Berlin 1945by Antony BeevorISBN 0670030414 (0-670-03041-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Lawby Catharine A. MacKinnonISBN 067429873X (0-674-29873-X)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Gibbon's Decline and Fallby Sheri S. TepperISBN 0553573985 (0-553-57398-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gibbon's Decline and Fall'Book summary:Science fiction is a genre traditionally dominated by male fantasy and values, where Terminator-style machismo saves the universe. Sheri S. Tepper writes feminist science fiction. Exit Terminator, enter Sophy. Sophy was a standout in her college class, for all kinds of reasons from looks to brains to spiritual qualities; she was also reticent about her origins. It is only when she disappears that her former classmates begin to discover just how special she was. Woven into Tepper's cosmology is the matriarchal system that once held sway on earth before males usurped that power. It turns out the "Goddess" is alive. [via]
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Go Ask Aliceby AnonymousISBN 0671664581 (0-671-66458-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Go Ask Alice'Book summary:The torture and hell of adolescence has rarely been captured as clearly as it is in this classic diary by an anonymous, addicted teen. Lonely, awkward, and under extreme pressure from her "perfect" parents, "Anonymous" swings madly between optimism and despair. When one of her new friends spikes her drink with LSD, this diarist begins a frightening journey into darkness. The drugs take the edge off her loneliness and self-hate, but they also turn her life into a nightmare of exalting highs and excruciating lows. Although there is still some question as to whether this diary is real or fictional, there is no question that it has made a profound impact on millions of readers during the more than 25 years it has been in print. Despite a few dated references to hippies and some expired slang, Go Ask Alice still offers a jolting chronicle of a teenager's life spinning out of control. [via]
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Gossamer Axeby Gael BaudinoISBN 0451450256 (0-451-45025-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Happy Endings Are All Alikeby Sandra ScoppettoneISBN 0613278682 (0-613-27868-2)
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Hauntedby Carol Joyce OatesISBN 0525936556 (0-525-93655-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Haunted : Tales of the Grotesqueby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452273749 (0-452-27374-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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If I Pay Thee Not in Goldby Piers Anthony, Mercedes LackeyISBN 0671876236 (0-671-87623-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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In My Father's Houseby Dorothy Allred SolomonISBN 0531097633 (0-531-09763-3)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Initiationby Marian HughesISBN 0671876406 (0-671-87640-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Into The Webby Thomas H. CookISBN 0553580922 (0-553-58092-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Love Stormby Susan JohnsonISBN 0553563289 (0-553-56328-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Maiaby Richard AdamsISBN 0451168119 (0-451-16811-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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A Man in Fullby Tom WolfeISBN 0553381334 (0-553-38133-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man in Full'Book summary:Ever since he published his classic 1972 essay "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore," Tom Wolfe has made his fictional preferences loud and clear. For New Journalism's poster boy, minimalism is a wash, not to mention a failure of nerve. The real mission of the American writer is to produce fat novels of social observation--the sort of thing Balzac would be dishing up if he had made it into the Viagra era. Wolfe's manifesto would have had a hubristic ring if he hadn't actually delivered the goods in 1987 with The Bonfire of the Vanities. Now, more than a decade later, he's back with a second novel. Has the Man in White lived up to his own mission?
On many counts, the answer would have to be yes. Like its predecessor, A Man in Full is a big-canvas work, in which a multitude of characters seems to be ascending or (rapidly) descending the greasy pole of social life: "In an era like this one," a character reminds us, "the twentieth century's fin de siècle, position was everything, and it was the hardest thing to get." Wolfe has changed terrain on us, to be sure. Instead of New York, the focus here is Atlanta, Georgia, where the struggle for turf and power is at least slightly patinated with Deep South gentility. The plot revolves around Charlie Croker, an egomaniacal good ol' boy with a crumbling real-estate empire on his hands. But Wolfe is no less attentive to a pair of supporting players: a downwardly mobile family man, Conrad Hensley, and Roger White II, an African American attorney at a white-shoe firm. What ultimately causes these subplots to converge--and threatens to ignite a racial firestorm in Atlanta--is the alleged rape of a society deb by Georgia Tech football star Fareek "The Cannon" Fanon.
Of course, a detailed plot summary would be about as long as your average minimalist novel. Suffice it to say that A Man in Full is packed with the sort of splendid set pieces we've come to expect from Wolfe. A quail hunt on Charlie's 29,000-acre plantation, a stuffed-shirt evening at the symphony, a politically loaded press conference--the author assembles these scenes with contagious delight. The book is also very, very funny. The law firms, like upper-crust powerhouse Fogg Nackers Rendering & Lean, are straight out of Dickens, and Wolfe brings even his minor characters, like professional hick Opey McCorkle, to vivid life:
In true Opey McCorkle fashion he had turned up for dinner wearing a plaid shirt, a plaid necktie, red felt suspenders, and a big old leather belt that went around his potbelly like something could hitch up a mule with, but for now he had cut off his usual torrent of orotund rhetoric mixed with Baker Countyisms.
Readers in search of a kinder, gentler Wolfe may well be disappointed. Retaining the satirist's (necessary) superiority to his subject, he tends to lose his edge precisely when he's trying to move us. Still, when it comes to maximalist portraiture of the American scene--and to sheer, sentence-by-sentence amusement--1998 looks to be the year of the Wolfe, indeed. --James Marcus [via] 
A Man in Full Pt. 1 : A Novelby Tom WolfeISBN 0553580930 (0-553-58093-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Many-Colored Landby Julian MayISBN 0449900711 (0-449-90071-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur GoldenISBN 0606222049 (0-606-22204-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Monarch Notes on Faulkner's Absalom, Absalomby Elizabeth C. PhillipsISBN 0671006649 (0-671-00664-9)
Hardcover, Peterson's
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The Monk: A Longman Cultural Editionby Matthew LewisISBN 0486432149 (0-486-43214-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Monk: A Longman Cultural Edition'Book summary:[via]A spellbinding Gothic novel, The Monk is Matthew Lewis' most famous work. First published in 1796 and set in a sinister Capuchin monastery in Madrid, this violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest focuses on a monk's struggle to maintain his monastic vows in the face of temptation and sexual obsession.More editions of The Monk: A Longman Cultural Edition:
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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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Perks of Being a Wallflowerby Stephen ChboskyISBN 0671027344 (0-671-02734-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perks of Being a Wallflower'Book summary:What is most notable about this funny, touching, memorable first novel from Stephen Chbosky is the resounding accuracy with which the author captures the voice of a boy teetering on the brink of adulthood. Charlie is a freshman. And while's he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower--shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years, if not very savvy in the social arts. We learn about Charlie through the letters he writes to someone of undisclosed name, age, and gender, a stylistic technique that adds to the heart-wrenching earnestness saturating this teen's story. Charlie encounters the same struggles that many kids face in high school--how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, family tensions, a first relationship, exploring sexuality, experimenting with drugs--but he must also deal with his best friend's recent suicide. Charlie's letters take on the intimate feel of a journal as he shares his day-to-day thoughts and feelings:
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.
With the help of a teacher who recognizes his wisdom and intuition, and his two friends, seniors Samantha and Patrick, Charlie mostly manages to avoid the depression he feels creeping up like kudzu. When it all becomes too much, after a shocking realization about his beloved late Aunt Helen, Charlie retreats from reality for awhile. But he makes it back in due time, ready to face his sophomore year and all that it may bring. Charlie, sincerely searching for that feeling of "being infinite," is a kindred spirit to the generation that's been slapped with the label X. --Brangien Davis [via]More editions of Perks of Being a Wallflower:
Piano Playersby Anthony BurgessISBN 0671637924 (0-671-63792-4)
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The Playground of the Godsby Cathy Cash SpellmanISBN 0595161472 (0-595-16147-2)
Softcover, Universal Publishers
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Pornography: Men Possessing Womenby Andrea DworkinISBN 0452267935 (0-452-26793-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders Who They Are, How They Operate, and How We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Childrenby Anna SalterISBN 0465071732 (0-465-07173-2)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Prizeby Irving WallaceISBN 0451137590 (0-451-13759-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Rape of Nankingby Iris ChangISBN 0613180771 (0-613-18077-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rape of Nanking'Book summary:China has endured much hardship in its history, as Iris Chang shows in her ably researched The Rape of Nanking, a book that recounts the horrible events in that eastern Chinese city under Japanese occupation in the late 1930s. Nanking, she writes, served as a kind of laboratory in which Japanese soldiers were taught to slaughter unarmed, unresisting civilians, as they would later do throughout Asia. Likening their victims to insects and animals, the Japanese commanders orchestrated a campaign in which several hundred thousand--no one is sure just how many--Chinese soldiers and noncombatants alike were killed. Chang turns up an unlikely hero in German businessman John Rabe, a devoted member of the Nazi party who importuned Adolf Hitler to intervene and stop the slaughter, and who personally saved the lives of countless residents of Nanking. She also suggests that the Japanese government pay reparations and apologize for its army's horrific acts of 60 years ago. [via]
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The Rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War IIby Iris ChangISBN 0465068359 (0-465-06835-9)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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The Rebel Brideby Catherine CoulterISBN 0451218000 (0-451-21800-0)
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Red Dragonby Thomas HarrisISBN 0525945563 (0-525-94556-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Dragon'Book summary:Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas's Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs. As in Silence, the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist Lecter for clues to catching a killer on the loose.
The sleuth, Will Graham, actually quit the FBI after nearly getting killed by Lecter while nabbing him, but fear isn't what bugs him about crime busting. It's just too creepy to get inside a killer's twisted mind. But he comes back to stop a madman who's been butchering entire families. The FBI needs Graham's insight, and Graham needs Lecter's genius. But Lecter is a clever fiend, and he manipulates both Graham and the killer at large from his cell.
That killer, Francis Dolarhyde, works in a film lab, where he picks his victims by studying their home movies. He's obsessed with William Blake's bizarre painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, believing there's a red dragon within him, the personification of his demonic drives. Flashbacks to Dolarhyde's terrifying childhood and superb stream-of-consciousness prose get us right there inside his head. When Dolarhyde does weird things, we understand why. We sympathize when the voice of the cruel dead grandma who raised and crazed him urges him to mayhem--she's way scarier than that old bat in Psycho. When he falls in love with a blind girl at the lab, we hope he doesn't give in to Grandma's violent advice.
This book is awesomely detailed, ingeniously plotted, judiciously gory, and fantastically imagined. If you haven't read it, you've never had the creeps. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Ritual Bathby Faye KellermanISBN 0449213730 (0-449-21373-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The quiet, ordered world of a yeshiva in the California hills is shattered when a woman is brutally raped as she returns from the mikvah, the bathhouse where women perform their cleansing ritual. Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD has never heard anything like it. And although most of the community refuses to talk to him, Rina Lazarus, the only witness, does, steering him through the maze of confusing religious laws that thwart his investigation at every turn. As the trail grows cold, Decker's only getting closer to Rina and not to the rapist--or is he? Maybe Rina wa the intended victim all along. And the rapist may not stop with rape the next time... [via]More editions of The Ritual Bath:
Rosemary's Babyby Ira LevinISBN 0451194004 (0-451-19400-4)
Softcover, Signet
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Saint of Circumstance : The Untold Story Behind the Alex Kelly Rape Case: Growing up Rich and Out of Controlby Sheila WellerISBN 0671014374 (0-671-01437-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Second Rape: Society's Continued Betrayal of the Victimby Lee Madigan, Nancy C. GambleISBN 0669271896 (0-669-27189-6)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Secrets of the Heartby Mary BaloghISBN 0451152891 (0-451-15289-1)
Softcover, Signet
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Sex in the Forbidden Zoneby Peter RutterISBN 0449147274 (0-449-14727-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Sins of the Fathersby Eileen Franklin, William WrightISBN 0449219992 (0-449-21999-2)
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Spitting Imageby Shutta CrumISBN 0618234772 (0-618-23477-2)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spitting Image'Book summary:Twelve-year-old Jessie K. Bovey has a lot to worry about. She doesnt know who her father is; her old biddy of a grandmother keeps interfering in her life; her best friend, Robert, desperately needs new glasses that his family cant afford; and mean Dickie Whitten teases Robert until Jessie has no choice but to punch him out.[via]
When some New York City reporters show up in Beulah County to research a story about the War on Poverty, Jessie sees a way to solve one of her problems. She can charge money for showing the reporters around town so they can take pictures of the local color and use it to help pay for Roberts glasses. But her plan backfires spectacularly, and Jessie learns some big lessonsand some big secrets as well.
A small Kentucky town and its quirky inhabitants are vividly evoked in Shutta Crums warm, atmospheric coming-of-age story, which handles multiple serious themes with a light touch.More editions of Spitting Image:
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The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Editionby Stephen KingISBN 0451169530 (0-451-16953-0)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition'Book summary:In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster [via]
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A Stranger in the Family: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and Unconditional Loveby Steven Naifeh, Gregory White SmithISBN 0451406222 (0-451-40622-2)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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The Tortilla Curtainby T. C. BoyleISBN 0670856045 (0-670-85604-5)
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Unfinished Murder : The Capture of a Serial Rapistby James NeffISBN 0671731866 (0-671-73186-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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When Rabbit Howlsby Truddi ChaseISBN 0515103292 (0-515-10329-2)
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Where the Heart Isby Billie LettsISBN 0613175921 (0-613-17592-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Heart Is'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, December 1998: A funny thing happens to Novalee Nation on her way to Bakersfield, California. Her ne'er-do-well boyfriend, Willie Jack Pickens, abandons her in an Oklahoma Wal-Mart and takes off on his own, leaving her with just 10 dollars and the clothes on her back. Not that hard luck is anything new to Novalee, who is "seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty-seven pounds overweight--and superstitious about sevens.... For most people, sevens were lucky. But not for her," Billie Letts writes. "She'd had a bad history with them, starting with her seventh birthday, the day Momma Nell ran away with a baseball umpire named Fred..."
Still, finding herself alone and penniless in Sequoyah, Oklahoma is enough to make even someone as inured to ill fortune as Novalee want to give up and die. Fortunately, the Wal-Mart parking lot is the Sequoyah equivalent of a town square, and within hours Novalee has met three people who will change her life: Sister Thelma Husband, a kindly eccentric; Benny Goodluck, a young Native American boy; and Moses Whitecotton, an elderly African American photographer. For the next two months, Novalee surreptitiously makes her home in the Wal-Mart, sleeping there at night, exploring the town by day. When she goes into labor and delivers her baby there, however, Novalee learns that sometimes it's not so bad to depend on the kindness of strangers--especially if one of them happens to be Sam Walton, the superchain's founder.
Where the Heart Is oddly mixes heart-warming vignettes and surprising, brutal violence. Novalee's story is juxtaposed with occasional chapters chronicling Willy Jack's downward spiral into prison, disappointment, and degradation. And even in Sequoyah, sudden storms, domestic violence, kidnapping, and deadly fires punctuate Novalee's progress from homeless, unwed teen mom to successful, happy member of the community. This is not a subtle book; there's never any doubt that our heroine will make a home for herself and her baby or that Willy Jack will get what he deserves for abandoning them. Still, Billie Letts has created several memorable characters, and there's always room for another novel that celebrates the life-affirming qualities of reading, the importance of education, and the power of love to change lives. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Without Consentby Frances FyfieldISBN 0670876828 (0-670-87682-8)
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The Women of Brewster Placeby Gloria NaylorISBN 0451822021 (0-451-82202-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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You Must Be Dreamingby Barbara NoelISBN 0671741535 (0-671-74153-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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LA Casa En Mango Street/the House on Mango Streetby Sandra Cisneros, Elena PoniatowskaISBN 0613046889 (0-613-04688-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Casa En Mango Street/the House on Mango Street'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, but she tries to rise above the hopelessness. [via]
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